Gao Guoyan calculated and said: "I agree that it cost a lot of money. More than 1.4 million taels of silver. If this were placed twenty years ago, it would be 30% of the annual income of the Ministry of Household Affairs, which is enough to make a fortune.

Officials across the country receive a full year's salary.

Such a large amount of money, and they transferred it so intensively from Jiangnan to the capital, shows that it is urgently needed. Judging from the time, this money basically started to be transferred from various places in Jiangnan to the capital a month ago... Everyone, one month

When was it before? That was the time when the emperor ordered Rixin to return to Beijing to report on his duties. I absolutely believe that there is no connection between the two.

Just now Rixin said again that Li Wenjin regards wealth as his life. As long as he is given enough money, he dares to do anything. In this way, these two things can be connected...

Let me see if we can first conclude that after the emperor ordered Rixin to return to Beijing to report on his duties, those people immediately determined that buying Li Wenjin must be done. Of course, they also knew that this would require a large amount of funds, so they

With this change in funds?”

Gao Guoyan's statement was quickly recognized by everyone. After all, although this is just the tip of the iceberg of the whole thing, it can also be regarded as the first step in peeling off the cocoon. Only when the first step is determined, the subsequent derivation can continue.

proceed without risking inferring new errors based on erroneous conclusions.

The first step of inference was completed, and everyone continued to make inferences. Liu Xin said: "Just now, Madam mentioned that these people may plan to use a two-pronged approach, but this may arouse the emperor's suspicion. I think this point must be based on the current dilemma of the Heart School.

Only by judgment can we draw more accurate conclusions.

As we just mentioned, the Xin School has gradually declined over the years due to the increasing contributions made by the master. Not only has its voice in the court been reduced year by year, but its appeal among the people, especially among scholars, has also become less attractive than before.

Under such circumstances, it is self-evident how those noble families who have studied mind learning for generations will regard practical learning and the master. There is no way out in the dispute over orthodoxy. If you retreat, it will disappear in the world, and generations of inheritance will become a joke! Forgive me!

Let me put it bluntly, such hatred can be described as irreconcilable.

They once thought that they could compete for orthodoxy through normal competition. Looking back at the early days of Shen Changzhou's reign, although the master had already made achievements at that time, his official position was not high and his qualifications were limited. Therefore, although the Xin School was hostile to the Woshi School at that time, what he did was not

Whatever you do, you still maintain the bottom line.

I remember that when the two factions were competing for military glory, Shen Changzhou and others placed their hopes on Li Chengliang, intending to win over Li Chengliang as a direct general of the Xin School to compete with the Wo Shi School. When Li Chengliang finally resigned as Liao Commander due to the defeat of Jianzhou, he returned to the capital

When he took care of himself as Uncle Ning Yuan, the battle ended with the defeat of the Heart School.

After that, the Xin School began to waver, but at that time, the master continued to work hard and continued to promote various practical reforms. From the establishment of vassal bans to the large household department, all the wealth and power in the world was in his hands. From then on, the treasury was increasing day by day, and the armaments were renewed.

As a result, the victory over the Yuan Dynasty was achieved, and the emperor was able to comfort his second ancestors in the Ancestral Temple.

After this, Shen and Wang were even more unable to fight against the master. Shen Changzhou himself had no fighting spirit. Although Wang Taicang was unwilling to fail, he could not stir up big troubles and could only make some petty actions.

Even because they were unable to reverse the decline, someone within the Xin School sect walked away alone, staged a fake Japanese pirate attack, and intensified the mutiny of the Cao army. After this incident was exposed, although Shen and Wang were not investigated in detail due to their qualifications as the emperor's teacher,

But he could only quietly step down and withdraw from the center of the imperial court.

However, their retirement was so unexpected that Zhao and Shen, who succeeded them, were not qualified candidates for ministers in the eyes of the world: one was considered incompetent, and the other was generally recognized as having a bad reputation. The Xin School was now in the cabinet.

In this process, he lost the ability to compete with the Practical School.

Let me ask, if you were Zhao Zhigao or Shen Yiguan, what else could you do to reverse this obviously huge decline?

The methods of struggle that were previously tacitly approved in the officialdom had been tried many times by their predecessors, but proved to be ineffective, and they were no match for the master. So now it is their turn, and they can still rely on those 'reasonable' methods.

To act by means?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Liu Xin’s words hit the nail on the head. Although the process she mentioned was highly pragmatic and like killing all the way to win in a row, because now she needs to lead

Going into the thoughts of the important officials of the Heart School to deduce their actions made everyone feel extremely depressed. At the same time, they also realized how much pressure the high pragmatism has put on the Heart School over the years.

As a result, the scene was very gloomy and heavy for a moment, and everyone knew what this meant - the Heart School had nothing to lose at this point, and it would naturally become extremely dangerous, and any sinister means could be used.

"Haha, it sounds like it's my fault." Gao pragmatically smiled and said something that seemed to be an unintentional joke to lighten the atmosphere.

However, no one laughed. Instead, Huang Zhiting said with some worry: "Xinxue has its foundation after all. If they really think that they have been forced to a dead end and start a trapped beast fight, this will not be a good thing for the master.

.I thought... Why don’t we just strike first and plan a good plan to kill all the top leaders and important families of the Xin School to avoid future troubles!"

After all, she is the decisive "Her Majesty the Baroness"! When Huang Zhiting faced this situation, his first reaction was not to ease the conflict, not to make a political compromise, but to do nothing without stopping, and directly launch a big wave, completely

Destroy your opponent.

However, this time, without waiting for others to express their opinions, Gao Pragmatic directly vetoed: "Absolutely not allowed."

Huang Zhiting asked: "Why not?"

Gao pragmatic shook his head, sighed again, and said: "If the Xin School is completely destroyed, then our school will really be the only one in the court and no one can control it. Madam, how do you think the emperor will feel about this?

?”

"At least so far, the emperor has unparalleled trust in me..."

"So what?" Before Huang Zhiting finished speaking, Gao Pragmatic shook his head again and said seriously: "I am me, and the Shi School is the Shi School. Even if the emperor has unparalleled trust in me, he will never do it in his life.

They suspect that I am disloyal, but so what? I will eventually become an official one day, and as long as the Real School can make the government run smoothly, it can be passed down from generation to generation.

But the problem is that the most worrying thing for a king is that there is only one voice in the court, because if this happens, then if this voice suddenly feels that it does not need the emperor to be superior, then is it necessary for the emperor to exist?

"

Huang Zhiting stopped talking and just sighed deeply.

Liu Xin said: "Having said that, if I want to show goodwill to Zhao Zhigao, Shen Yiguan and others under the current situation, I think it is already too late...I am afraid that their plan is already on the line.

hair."

As if he was lost in thought as usual, the fingers of Gao Pragmatic's right hand began to tap the armrest rhythmically, but he did not make any statement.

"I have something I don't know whether to say or not." Gao Mo suddenly said.

Gao pragmatic still attaches great importance to Gao Mo, an old man who has been with him for nearly thirty years. Hearing this, he stopped thinking and nodded: "Uncle Mo, please speak."

"The old slave has been in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs these years, and he is used to seeing vicious and vicious people, so I just thought of a possibility..." Gao Mo frowned deeply and said slowly: "Madam just now said, if those people really

A two-pronged approach is needed, and the emperor’s wisdom will definitely lead to suspicion, and I deeply believe this.

So, is it possible that those people don’t just want a two-pronged approach, but are determined to ‘three-pronged approach’?”

"Hiss—" Everyone present gasped in unison. This idea is really amazing. What is a "three-pronged approach"? What is the third "pronged approach"?

Regicide?

Regicide!

Not to mention other people, even Gao Pragmatism, who had long been accustomed to maintaining a "prime ministerial demeanor" and being able to maintain an "unchangeable expression even if the mountain collapsed" under various circumstances, changed his expression.

He was indeed deeply shocked, and the first reaction in his heart was: Grass mud horses, these people are really crazy enough to dare to kill the king, right?

But immediately his reason told him: This is so damn possible!

Why is it possible? Because as long as "regicide" is regarded as a part of the Heart School's plan, then the entire plan, which originally seemed to have huge flaws, will suddenly make sense!

Take a look at this “three-pronged approach”:

The first step: Let the emperor's legitimate son die young. So the crown prince's canonization ceremony is out of the question, and the Ming Dynasty once again entered the situation where the king has no legitimate son. At this time, the only adult prince is the emperor's eldest son. If something unexpected happens, then he is theoretically the best

Candidate for the throne - after all, as the saying goes, "the country is the leader of the country".

The second step is to ask Gao Jingshi to resign and Ding You. The reason why the emperor has been dragging on the dispute over the country for so many years, in the eyes of the outside world, is that the most critical reason is that Gao Jingshi, the leader of the Pragmatic School, has always insisted on waiting for the birth of the empress.

The emperor's legitimate son.

"Now" the emperor's legitimate son "gained and lost again." If Gao Pragmatic is still in the court, given his current prestige and possible successor status as chief minister, if he still insists on establishing the legitimate son, the struggle over the country will continue.

The stalemate continues.

But what if Gao pragmatism suddenly has no choice but to return to his hometown of Xinzheng, Dingyou Shouzhi? Without Gao pragmatism as the absolute core, which elder of the pragmatism school can unify the thoughts of the entire faction?

No, because the real elder of the Pragmatic School second only to Gao Pragmatic is actually Liang Menglong, and it is well known in the world that Liang Menglong is about to become an official. Liang Menglong is followed by Zhou Yong, but Zhou Yong, the elder of the Pavilion, is regarded by many people

He was picked up, and his prestige, let alone being higher than that of the pragmatic school, is much lower than that of Liang Menglong. It is impossible to unify the thoughts of the pragmatic school.

At this point, we need to review one thing: when Gao Pragmatic did not clearly state that he must establish a direct lineage, there were many people within the Practical School who agreed to establish a direct heir! So now that Gao Pragmatic and Liang Menglong are no longer in the court, the members of the Practical School

The only person with the highest status on the surface is Zhou Yong, whose prestige is almost as bad as Zhao Zhigao. Can this kind of thinking be expected to continue to be unified? Obviously not!

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Therefore, the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Changluo will definitely be recommended by almost all the civil and military officials of the dynasty or at least tacitly agree to become the prince. At this time, the emperor left the dynasty due to his high pragmatism and became a

He was left alone and helpless. In order to revive Mingzhu's good reputation, he might not be able to survive alone, so he could only be forced to agree to make the emperor's eldest son the crown prince.

So now the matter has reached the third stage: regicide! Once the eldest son of the emperor becomes the prince, the war over the country can be declared over. However, the plan of the Xin School cannot be suspended, because Gao Pragmatic is just going to Dingyou to maintain the system, and it is not forever.

If he uses it, he will return to the court again in twenty-one months.

Gao pragmatic's prestige and strength are obvious. As long as the emperor is still the Wanli emperor when he returns to the dynasty, he will be the same as Gao Gong when he returned to the dynasty. He will never be moved to the position of junior assistant according to "convention".

It is very likely that he will be in power when he comes back.

If this is the case, even if the eldest son of the emperor becomes the prince, it is not safe at all - well, everyone knows that His Royal Highness the prince has been in poor health since childhood. If he dies before the emperor, it will be God's will!

Besides, since the Empress is capable of giving birth, what if she gives birth to another legitimate son at this time? Then the possibility of an accident to His Royal Highness has skyrocketed!

Therefore, the Xin School must allow His Highness the Crown Prince to sit directly on the dragon throne during the twenty-one months of Gao Pragmatic Ding You's rule! In other words, the regicide will take place during these twenty-one months!

As long as the regicide is completed, all the troubles will be solved. The new king is supported by the Xinxue school to turn the tide. Gao pragmatism, the unparalleled sacred scroll in the world, is gone forever, and the new king must use "one of his own" after he succeeds to the throne.

Enriching the cabinet and inner court...

In this case, wouldn't it be possible to immediately "pop up the court" and the previously arrogant Practical School be suddenly knocked into dust?

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