Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1170
There were very few holidays in the Ming Dynasty, so on the second day of Chongyang Festival, those who should be on duty and who should be on duty all returned to normal working conditions.Of course, some people are still immersed in the joy of the Double Ninth Festival.

For example, Pan Sheng was quite happy when he came to the cabinet today.As for Chongyang, he is a respectable old man, of course he received the best treatment from his family, the filial sons and virtuous grandchildren all welcomed him and coaxed him to smile, and the good mood has not dissipated until today.

On the day of Chongyang Festival, all he received was good news.

First, I got a letter from Pan Yi from his hometown in Zhejiang, telling him that several private berths in Zhejiang had been obtained, and that sixteen sea-going ships sent to their family from Suzhou and Songjiang had also arrived. can get started.

The remaining eleven sea-going ships remained in Songjiang Mansion because the Xu family had obtained the private port share contract transferred from Liu Shouyou's home to their Pan family. Now these ships can berth at Xujia private port, and In the future, it will also be used as an anchorage to start sea business.

If there is any shortcoming in this news, it is probably that there are not enough ships.However, Pan Yi is optimistic about this. According to him, the Zhejiang maritime merchants intend to unite the big merchants with shipyards under their name to build a Zhejiang merchant shipyard to compete with the Jinghua Shipyard. At that time, they will be happy to provide the Pan family with A great boat price.

Pan Sheng took a cautious attitude towards this news.The reason is that in the shopping mall, he was a little apprehensive towards Gao Yushi.

Who is Gao Yushi?He was the one who founded Jinghua at the age of eight, and created the Jinghua Group, the business overlord of the Ming Dynasty, in just over ten years!
Compete with him commercially?This statement simply makes people fight with each other and almost want to go first!
When Pan Sheng read the letter and saw this place, his long eyebrows twitched twice, his face was angry, and he blurted out scolding: "Pan Yi is a fool, the old man has already emphasized it to him when he replied last time. Now, don't provoke Gao Qiuzhen!"

The whole family was taken aback by Pan Sheng, and was about to step forward to ask why, but Pan Sheng continued to scold: "If I hadn't had to, how could I pull my teeth out of the tiger's mouth and make the high party think about it? I am afraid that after a hundred years, You juniors were killed by the Zheshang Alliance!"

A group of people immediately stepped forward to ask why, Pan Cheng threw the letter in his hand angrily, and said, "Look for yourself...Zheshang Shipyard? What do they compare with Jinghua to build seagoing ships? Even if I don't know how to build ships, I still want to ask them a question." : Who is in control of the best, most, and cheapest shipbuilding timber in the Ming Dynasty?"

In fact, the Pan family doesn't know much about shipbuilding, but this time because of the Zheshang Alliance forcing their old man to stand in line with the school, they also learned about the various businesses of maritime merchants. They have just learned about the shipbuilding industry A little fur to understand.

Seriously speaking, the Ming Dynasty is not very short of wood now. In fact, no one can monopolize the ordinary shipbuilding wood, not even Jinghua.

But what Pan Sheng asked just now is not unreasonable. The reason is that although ordinary wood can be obtained by everyone, shipbuilding is not a kind of wood used for the whole ship. It needs many kinds of wood to be used in different parts. The quality of wood used in some parts varies greatly, and the "best" wood such as teak, beech, oak, etc., is really controlled by Jinghua.

This kind of control is not a single control of output, but the control of the entire industry chain including transportation, storage (to be dried in the shade), etc., which has greatly reduced the choice of other shipyards in some key wood materials - you can either buy Jinghua has high quality and high quantity with stable and reasonable prices; or you can go to those small wood merchants, but they usually have a single source of goods and insufficient supply capacity, and the quality is good and bad, and the price fluctuates greatly with market fluctuations.

Although the strength of the Zheshang Alliance is not small, the internal benefit distribution of the "alliance" must be a hundred times more troublesome than that of Jinghua. Even if they can create a united Zheshang Shipyard, it is impossible to compete with Jinghua for the entire industrial chain .

Since this cannot be done, it is impossible to have an advantage in manufacturing costs.

This is just the manufacturing of this piece. If it comes to going to sea, it will be more complicated.Because Jinghua is the overlord of Daming's maritime trade, if you sail in the outer seas, if you don't have Jinghua's flag or simply go with Jinghua's fleet, you may be robbed by pirates one day.

Of course, the Zheshang Alliance is very powerful, and it can also deploy its own force, which is no problem.The problem is that you can't get around Jinghua even if you are equipped with force--swords, guns, swords and halberds are fine, but where else can you get guns?

Now even a three-year-old child knows that the best guns in Ming Dynasty come from Jinghua Gun Factory and Jinghua Cannon Factory. Although the price is a bit expensive, the quality of the products of these two factories is definitely second to none in the world. On the whole, buying Jinghua's guns is definitely more cost-effective than buying other guns.

While you are building a shipyard and an armed merchant fleet to compete with Jinghua, you are looking for Jinghua to buy guns and cannons?The only owner of Jinghua is Gao Yushi, he will only sell it to you if he is crazy!

After Pan Sheng got angry, everyone gradually recovered from the previous ecstasy.

That's right, although this time it was a blessing in disguise and made a fortune, but the money was taken as soon as it was taken, but the family still couldn't fall into too deep.The Pan family wasn't originally a family of maritime merchants, so with this money, it's nothing more than making a fortune honestly. It would be too unwise to be tied to the same rope as the Zheshang Group and become grasshoppers.

After all, their opponent is Jinghua, who is highly pragmatic.

So Pan Sheng dictated, his son took the pen, and quickly wrote a reply letter to his hometown in Zhejiang, strictly ordering Pan Yi not to participate in any affairs of the Zhejiang Shipyard, and to keep a low profile in his daily activities, especially not to have any form of relationship with Jinghua Ningbo Private Port. conflict.

Afterwards, Pan Sheng's mood gradually improved—as long as Jinghua and Gao Shishi were not angered, the Pan family would have earned a few hundred thousand taels for nothing this time!Can you be in a bad mood?

As for whether Gao Yushi will be angered at the court level, Pan Sheng thinks it will not, because he has acted more cautiously and tactfully this time, and with Gao Yushi's ability, he will definitely be able to find out that he has no choice but to do so. .

That being the case, even if Gao Wushi was dissatisfied, he probably wouldn't point the finger directly at himself—my old man has only two or three years to do, so you don't need to target me.

As for Wang Xijue's end of Ding You at the beginning of next year... Hehe, by that time, the old man will have retired from his official position. Gao Yushi has such a high reputation, so he can't kill me, a senior official, right?

It took you more than ten years of careful planning to accumulate a good reputation, just because of me, an old man who has already handed over power and stepped down, suddenly let go of it?

I have to say that Pan Sheng's wishful thinking was really good. If yesterday's Chongyang Conference did not have a high-ranking leader, Xu Guo really didn't plan to do anything to Pan Sheng, then it would have completely fulfilled Pan Ge's wishes.

But what Pan Sheng didn't expect was that as soon as he arrived at the cabinet today, a "political scholar" who was on duty as an "apprentice" came to report in a hurry, saying that Mr. Pan Ge, you have been impeached!

Pan Sheng's smile froze on his face, he was stunned for a moment, and asked quickly: "Who impeached this old man? What's the matter?"

"Xiao Liangyu, the supervisory censor of Zhejiang Province, and Wang Tingyu from the official department, these two people are discussing the impeachment of you at the same time today. As for why..." The Jinshi Guanzheng was a little hesitant.

Pan Sheng knew at a glance that there was nothing good to say - of course, there was nothing good to say about impeachment.So he took a deep breath, nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Got it, do you have a copy of the bullets, and have you sent it to the old man?"

"Yes, it's already placed on the elder Ge's case."

"Okay, you go and get busy, the old man will go and see for himself."

When Pan Sheng arrived at his room, sat down and picked up two copies of the bullets, he knew something was wrong.

"Minister Xiao Liangyu, the supervisory censor of Zhejiang Province, impeached the great scholar Pan Sheng: Today there is a great scholar Pan Sheng, who has been in Tsinghua University for a long time and has no reputation for bright festivals. He can donate with integrity and shame, but he is sweet and flattering. He was originally a minister of the Ministry of Rites. , The filth is obvious, and the first emperor often denounced it. Its resurgence is also public opinion, and the emperor denounced it. It is too much for Peter to pretend to be a palace guard and travel in the forest. Here is a place to look forward to and discuss it. The position is given once in the dynasty. The minister is afraid that those who are greedy for glory and competition will have a glimpse of the emperor's actions. Please stop the pedestrians and choose seniors, so as to bring peace and prosperity..."

Pan Sheng picked up Wang Tingyu's bullet and looked at it again. He said the same thing, and didn't talk about other things. He just slammed his "morality", and at most he said a few things about Mu Zong's criticism of him before.

To be honest, the reason why the late emperor criticized him has nothing to do with the current situation. At that time, when Xu Jie was in power, he just criticized Gao Gong according to Xu Jie's meaning, and the words were not serious, with some ambiguous meanings.And Emperor Longqing's so-called "rebuke it" was just thinking that Gao Gong's defense was the main thing, and by the way warned Pan Sheng not to listen to the wind and rain.

However, since these are two bullets, it is normal to exaggerate Long Qing's words at that time. Pan Sheng has been a veteran in the officialdom for decades, and he has enough experience to not pay too much attention to such words.

Even to be honest, he didn't really care what the two bullets specifically impeached him.

He cares about these two people.

Xiao Liangyu and Wang Tingyu are of course not important figures in Pan Sheng's eyes. In theory, Pan Sheng is still the chief examiner of their subject (not the chief examiner, the main task of the chief examiner is to mark the papers, and Pan Sheng is the chief examiner in that subject. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are half of their teachers, and the status of the two parties is extremely different.

What Pan Sheng cared about was the person behind the two of them.

Xiao Liangyu's elder brother is Xiao Liangyou, and Wang Tingyu's elder brother is Wang Tingzhuan, and the official backgrounds of Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingzhuan, the two Imperial Academy editors, are very clear to all officials in the capital—they were the first of the Three Tripods in the same year. The first is also the high pragmatism.

The action of Xiao Liangyu and Wang Tingyu is basically equivalent to the action of Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingzhuan, and the action of the two of them is basically equivalent to the action of Gao Pragmatic.

Gao Pragmatism actually made a move!

It was September, which was the third autumn, but the weather had not turned cold yet, but at this moment, Pan Cheng suddenly felt a chill behind his back, as if a cold air rose from his feet, and went straight to the top of his head through his back.

The dignified Elder Pan Ge was so startled by the words "highly pragmatic" that popped up from the bottom of his heart that he shivered on the spot, his mind went blank for a moment.

After a while, Pan Cheng's back suddenly collapsed, and he slumped on the grand teacher's chair, closed his eyes, and sat motionless like a dead person.

He couldn't figure it out, why did Gao Wushi suddenly make a move?This matter shouldn't have a big impact on him.

He even had some conspiracy theories that even if Wang Xijue was successfully recalled and replaced his position in the cabinet, it would not necessarily be a bad thing for Gao Yushi.

Why?Because once the situation in the cabinet becomes like that, the pressure on Xu Guo will increase.

Xu Guo was under a lot of pressure in the cabinet, so he had to rely more on the political resources left to him by the three chief assistants Gao Yushi received.

Theoretically speaking, when Gao Yushi himself was not qualified to join the cabinet, the more Xu Guo relied on him, the stronger Gao Yushi's position within the Pragmatic School would be.

Isn't this a good thing for high pragmatism?
Pan Sheng closed his eyes and thought hard: What's wrong?What went wrong?Could it be that he had a high opinion of Gao Pragmatism, and he didn't understand the key?
However, this shouldn't be the case.Judging from Gao Yushi's previous performances, it is impossible for him not to see through the truth, which Pan Sheng can be sure of.

Then why did Gao Wushi make a move on this?

After thinking about it for a long while, Pan Cheng suddenly opened his eyes, and exclaimed in a low voice: "Oops! This kid Gao Wushi doesn't take Xu Guo seriously at all. He's afraid he doesn't even take Shen Shihang seriously! This kid really From the beginning to the end, he regarded himself as the leader of the real school party, and all he cared about was continuing the reforms of Gao Suqing and Guo Dongye! This old man has miscalculated!"

Pan Gelao's complexion suddenly became extremely ugly. The so-called "face ashen" is probably his true portrayal at this moment.

But by now, it was too late to say anything.

He is very clear about Gao Yushi. Although he is willing to discuss many things, if he chooses not to discuss and directly makes a move, there will be no chance of healing.

Just because he is cautious, once he makes a move, it must be a decision after careful consideration. It must be that he thinks that the contradiction is irreconcilable and there is no chance to turn it around.

A lonely wry smile finally appeared on Elder Pan Ge's face, and then he sighed and muttered to himself: "Thousands of calculations are not counted in his eyes, my majestic old man is nothing more than a monkey... …Ugh."

After Pan Cheng sighed, he shook his head slightly, no longer frowning, but calmed down.He didn't ask anyone to come in, but he spread out a blank memorabilia and put it away, and then started to grind ink.

A moment later, Pan Sheng raised his head and wrote on the memorandum, "Minister Pan Sheng defended himself and resigned due to illness, begging for bones and bones" in large characters.
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