Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1022 Governor of Liaodong ([-] in [-])
Nurhachi took the first step in his rise, which should be regarded as a major event worthy of attention in the original history of Gao Yushi's previous life. When Gao Yushi just crossed over, if he faced such a situation, he would surely Quite nervous.

However, the current Gao Pragmatism is not nervous, and he is even a little too lazy to deal with it.

Traveling through more than ten years now, Gao’s pragmatic mentality has changed a lot. Some things that were considered very important in the past seem less serious now.

After all, whether it is severe or not depends on comparing it with one's own strength.

When he just crossed over, although he insisted in his heart that as long as Daming took care of internal problems, he didn’t have to be afraid of mere Jurchens, but after all, all kinds of novels, film and television dramas in his previous life, and even some bricks who didn’t know where their butts were sitting were all right. During the Nurhachi period, the Jurchen's fighting power was boasted endlessly, as if it was really "the Jurchen is not satisfied with ten thousand, and is invincible".

However, with the in-depth understanding of this era, coupled with the gradual strengthening of its own strength, especially the smooth progress of the reform of Daming itself, the oppressive feeling brought by the name "Nurhaci" to Gao Pragmatism slowly began to decline, and even Basically gone.

He no longer feels that Nurhachi still has the same opportunity as in the past, and can develop to the point where he is capable of threatening Daming.

To put it bluntly, if Toyotomi Hideyoshi hadn't caused trouble, how could Nurhachi have any chance?
But for Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s problem, Gao Wuzhen is not very panic now-monkeys are very powerful in Japan. In history, he was even able to maintain a Japanese invasion army far surpassing the Ming army’s aid troops to fight across the sea in Korea. He also easily defeated North Korea and fought against the Ming army for several years.

However, that Ming army was a Ming army without his high pragmatic buff bonus, and behind it was a Ming army without a high pragmatic bonus.

As for the Ming Dynasty, it is very difficult to maintain [-] troops in North Korea - this can be seen from the fact that Li Rusong chose to take the initiative to retreat strategically when he had the advantage - Li Rusong is not a good person to deal with, if it is not for the logistics There are serious problems with security, and with his character, he will definitely choose to fight directly.

This shows how bad the Ming financial system was in the original history, and how poor the war mobilization and support capabilities were.

But the current Daming is not the Ming that is strong outside but capable in the middle. The current Daming’s annual fiscal revenue has reached twice that of the original history. bad thing.

After all, although the cost has increased, a lot of it is spent on army construction and support, including ordnance replacement, army salary increase, side wall construction and other aspects;

In terms of tax exemption, in fact, after Gao Gong presided over Longqing Kaihai, Zhu Yijun reduced the agricultural tax in some impoverished and disaster-stricken areas in recent years due to the substantial increase in port tax revenue. Reducing civil dissatisfaction is good for the stability of Ming Dynasty's domestic political situation.

To change the vocabulary of later generations, the tax reduction and exemption is equivalent to "maintaining stability".

Under this situation, as long as you keep an eye on some Nurhachi in the next few years and prevent him from finding opportunities to fight this or that, basically you don't have to worry too much.If the Imjin Japanese Invasion still inevitably breaks out, that's okay, Gao Pragmatism has more poisonous ideas.

As for whether these ideas can be implemented smoothly, Gao Yushi thinks it is not a big problem, because judging from Zhu Yijun's plan, if there is no accident, he will definitely be the governor of Liaodong in the next few years, and there will be opportunities to deal with Nurhachi's problems at that time. The prevention of the Imjin Japanese Invasion can also be prepared in advance.

Not long after Gao Wushi shifted the focus of his work back to the construction of the Southern Liaoning University, new news suddenly came from Beijing—a series of personnel changes:
Wang Guoguang became an official when he was old, Zhang Xueyan, Minister of the Household Department, was changed to be the censor of Zuodu, Wei Xuezeng, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was changed to be the Minister of Household Department, and then Liang Menglong, governor of Ji and Liao, made great contributions in the battle of southern Liaoning (although he was highly pragmatic, but the governor must have leadership), transferred back to Beijing, and served as Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Since Liang Menglong made contributions to the Liang army, Zhou Yong and Zhou Fujun also made contributions, so Zhou Yong took advantage of the opportunity to be promoted to governor of Jiliao.

These are all changes of one radish and one hole, which is not uncommon, and the transferred ministers are all enough in terms of seniority.

However, the following appointments were more horrifying: being promoted to Shandong as an inspector, rectifying Jinfuhaigai and other military preparations and farming, and Liaodong Yuanma Siqing Gao Wushi was the censor of the capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the governor of Liaodong District praised military affairs .

Governor of Liaodong?

High pragmatic?
Wait a moment!He has only been appointed as Jin Fuhai Gai Bingbei for a few months, so he will be directly promoted to governor?Participating in politics is not necessary?The chief envoy also skipped all the stuff?
Not to mention that everyone in Liaodong official circles was stunned for a while, even Gao Yushi himself was stunned: Didn't you agree to take your time?I haven't made any achievements here in southern Liaoning, so why did I get promoted directly to governor?How did this imperial decree persuade the cabinet to attach it and approve it through the six departments?

What happened to Kyori?
Two hours later, the messenger sent by Zhang Siwei finally arrived late because of an accident on the road, and rushed to the military constitutional office in Gaizhou, letting Gao Wushi know the inside story.

To put it simply, the School of Reality and the School of Heart engaged in another round of fighting in the cabinet, and finally reached some "consensus", including:
University scholar Pan Sheng resigned from his part-time post as Minister of Rites to concentrate on cabinet affairs; Xu Xuemo (native of Nanzhili Suzhou) of the Mind School served as Minister of Rites; Zhao Jin of the Mind School (native of Yuyao, Zhejiang) served as Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing (the first real power in Nanjing).

The promotions of Xu Xuemo and Zhao Jin were used in exchange for the previous transfers and promotions of the Real School.

In addition, there are also some lower-level officials from the two factions who have been transferred and promoted, as well as the retirement of some senior officials.

Zhang Siwei's letter was a bit long, and Gao Wushi compared it carefully for a while, and he seemed to be at a disadvantage in the Hurrying Real School, so he couldn't help frowning.

No, the debate in the cabinet should not be a disadvantage for the Real School. Is there anything else going on here?

But he thought about it, but he really couldn't figure it out. Judging from the current situation, except for Pan Sheng, Pan Ge, who gave up his part-time Minister of Rites, which is the only loss of the neutral faction, the rest are the two factions of practical learning and mental learning. fighting between.But this year's two consecutive victories were all achieved by himself. The Real School should clearly have the upper hand. Why should they suffer?

Could it be that simply because my promotion was a little too much, it caused a strong reaction from the Heart School, and then my uncle made concessions in order to ensure the stability of the cabinet?

But this is unreasonable. Before he came to Liaodong, he was a Japanese official, and his ranking in the Hanlin Academy and Zhan Shifu was quite high. Leaving aside his age, his official qualifications are actually not It's not bad, and with the addition of the six champions, it stands to reason that even if he stays in Beijing for a few more years, it's not uncommon for him to be transferred to a certain department's servant.

And now he, Ma Siqing of Liaodong Yuan, has already entered the third rank, and he is also high enough to be a governor. How did this cause the Real School to make concessions?
People like Gao Yushi who like to calculate everything clearly and plainly, once they encounter such incomprehensible problems, they are easy to get stuck in their minds, and they can't even eat well.

It wasn't until the next day that another piece of news from the mansion came that it finally cleared up his confusion.

Wei Xuezeng, the new secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, asked Nanzhili to try out a commercial tax increase project, which was divided into two categories: shop business tax and commercial transit tax, which were divided into [-] sub-categories.

Although Gao Pragmatically looked at the detailed rules, he found that the tax rate is actually quite low, probably lower than the ratio he suggested to Gao Gong more than ten years ago—for example, shop sales tax, which is divided into luxury and precious goods, ordinary department stores, There are three major categories of people's livelihood security, which are respectively "five for every hundred", "three for every hundred", and "one for every hundred" (5%, 3%, 1%), which are obviously very low tax rate.

As for merchants, the proportion of tax collection is roughly the same.

Theoretically speaking, this tax rate is too low in modern society, and it is not high in different "historical dynasties". Especially compared with the commercial tax of the Song Dynasty, it is not much different from no tax.

But at this moment, after all, it is the Ming Dynasty, and it was the Ming Dynasty that almost did not collect commercial taxes before Gao Gong's reform. This move is of great significance and has an even greater impact.

The invisible "consortia" behind many civil servants in the Ming Dynasty are about to start paying taxes!

Because the cabinet approved it!
In order to resist the political advantages and public opinion trends brought to the Practical School after Gao Pragmatic's several victories, and to ensure that their side can still compete with the Practical School in the court, the officials of the Mind School finally took a small step back this time. It is allowed to start trial collection of commercial tax in Nanzhili!

After more than ten years of reform, after three chief assistants of the Practical School, the reform has finally advanced to the "deep water area"!
Although the business tax is low, the specific amount of money is not important, what matters is whether it is levied or not, and whether it can be levied.

Don't look at the leaders of the School of Mind who talk about their hearts with their hands, but they need material conditions to talk about their hearts with their hands. Are they so poor as Hai Rui that they still have the time to give lectures and travel with others to understand life?Ren Hai Rui grows vegetables at home when he has free time!

Therefore, almost all the bigwigs of the Heart School in the south have accumulated wealth, large or small, even some bigwigs who were originally from humble backgrounds didn’t have enough accumulation, and there are benefactors behind them.

Now they have to collect taxes, which is tantamount to cutting their own flesh. Can the meaning be compared with that of Kaihai?

At the time of opening the sea, it only affected some big families that were law-abiding on the surface, but in fact secretly smuggled into the sea. In analogy, it was equivalent to an "individual attack", but now it is a comprehensive attack to collect business taxes!

Gao Wuzhen can now understand why the Real School actually gave in to the Heart School in court when they were so proud this year—you are going to cut off their flesh, why can't you give someone a sweet date to eat first?
The fault is not that Gao Pragmatic has made two great achievements in Annan and Dingbei, and now he has overwhelmed Li Chengliang, the new ally of the school of thought in the battle of southern Liaoning. It's hard to say that tax matters are on the agenda!

Presumably the life of Shen Ge, Yu Ge and others at this moment is not easy, right?You can imagine how much internal pressure they are facing.

However, it is enough for Gao Pragmatic to be clear about this matter, and he does not plan to intervene for the time being. After all, this is the credit of his uncle Zhang Siwei. Let the uncle take full credit for this credit.

As for his high pragmatism, since the decree to serve as governor of Liaodong has been issued, he will naturally do what he should do... such as refusing.

Uh, although this seems very hypocritical, but it still has to be done.

Gao Wushi immediately wrote a memorial and sent it to the capital, and it was still written in the name of Liaodong Yuanma Siqing. As for the content, it was nothing more than a humble remark of lack of talent and lack of knowledge, and the main purpose was to express that he was not in love with power. The meaning of the elders.

It's also a well-worn formula used by officials who think their appointments may be controversial.

Not long after this memorial was uploaded, the imperial court’s reply came, which was divided into two parts, one part was the imperial edict, and the other part was the cabinet’s writing.

The part of the oracle is relatively simple. It is to look back from more than ten years ago, and talk about the high-level pragmatic achievements in the past ten years, all the way to the battle in southern Liaoning that just passed. Not allowed", and demanded high pragmatism, "You should be more loyal and diligent, and take up the post immediately, don't let me down."

By the way, "Give 40 taels of silver eight treasures, 20 taels of silver leaves, two pieces of royal tribute duan inkstones, and there is a difference in seasonal vegetables from Changchun Palace."

Other rewards are fine, but this "seasonal vegetables from Changchun Palace" made Gao Wushi very stunned.

It is common for the emperor to reward cabinet ministers, ministers, and Japanese officials with seasonal vegetables. Gao Yu was often rewarded when he was in Beijing, but it was only rewarded to officials in Beijing, and most of these seasonal vegetables were also purchased. The emperor gave it to express his concern, nothing unusual.

But why is Changchun Palace still producing seasonal vegetables now?This is one of the West Six Palaces. I remember that it was still empty when I left Beijing. What's the situation now? Who ran there to grow vegetables?Besides, vegetables were sent from the capital to Liaodong at this time...can they still be eaten?
I really didn't understand this high-level operation, but thinking about it, it shouldn't be a big problem. Maybe Zhu Yijun said something when he gave the order to the Supervisor of Rituals, and the Supervisor of Rituals did not dare to change the holy will, so it was like this If you make a mistake, you will make a mistake.

He put this matter aside and began to think about when he would take up his post... This matter was done in a hurry, and Gao Yushi himself did not expect to be appointed as the new governor so soon, so he needed to sort out his thoughts.

However, he is not in a hurry to take office, someone is in a hurry to take office and passed by him.

Just when Gao Wushi was temporarily in the mansion thinking hard about his administration measures after taking up his new post, a family member came to report that Zhou Zhijun had returned to Miyun to take up his new post, and was passing through Gaizhou, so he came to visit.

Gao Wushi's heart moved, and he ordered, "Where is Zhijun now?"

"About ten miles northeast of the city."

Gao Wushi nodded, and said: "Open the east gate, set up the guard of honor, and wait for Benfu to take a bath and change clothes, and he will be here immediately."
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