Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1179
The commercial war in Jiangsu and Zhejiang suddenly broke out, but the turmoil in the capital has generally passed, at least the superficial harmony has been restored.

Wang Jiaping was relatively calm about his accidental entry into the cabinet, and still insisted on the principle of being a man and an official.Even though he had already learned from his own channels that Gao Yushi was behind this entry into the cabinet, he did not run over to thank Gao Yushi.

Gao Pragmatism didn't bother to care about it, anyway, he already knew that Wang Jiaping was a crooked person, and being able to take Pan Sheng's position into the cabinet was itself the result of a compromise.

Besides, there is no need to worry about high pragmatism. Wang Jiaping is a native of Shanxi. Even if he behaves impartially in the cabinet, he will not be truly recognized by the School of Mind.What's more, apart from the top few members of the Mind School officials, they don't have much overall strategic thinking. Maybe they will target Wang Jiaping inexplicably. At that time, Wang Jiaping will know who to rely on.

Of course, Wang Jiaping himself also knows that the current court is a dispute between the two factions of practical learning and mental learning. His empty cabinet with no one to rely on will not be of much use. In addition, he has just joined the cabinet, and many "business "It still needs a process of familiarization, so it didn't show up much, and it can only be regarded as a tool for raising hands for the time being.

As for Shen Shihang, perhaps this incident shocked him a bit. This Yuanfu who came to power not long ago also put away his mentality of fishing in troubled waters a while ago, and began to become more careful. He would also symbolically handle matters in the cabinet Seek more opinions from Zhang Xueyan and Wu Dui.

On the whole, the imperial court has passed the chaotic period brought about by Zhang Siwei's sudden Ding You, and is back on track.

For a while, everyone fell silent, except that Gao Pragmatism was the same as in the past—he neither suddenly disappeared, nor did he deliberately show his face everywhere in a high-profile way, but adhered to his usual style: behave in a low-key manner and do things in a high-key manner.

As Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War, who is in charge of the military affairs of the Beijing camp, of course, he can only do high-profile things related to the Beijing camp.

In the next two to three months, Gao Yushi mainly did two major things.One is that the Beijing Camp established a very fresh organization: the "Beijing Production and Construction Corps"; the other is that the Imperial Guard has initially completed its planned establishment.

Ashamed to say, Gao Yushi, the "creator of the Imperial Guard", once again became the hands-off shopkeeper. From recruiting to placement, from placement to training, he left everything to Qi Jiguang, the first commander of the Imperial Guard.As for himself, he was just a "helper"—well, in short, he was responsible for providing money.

Of course, the money was definitely not paid by Gao Yushi himself, he was responsible for helping the Imperial Guard get the money.

There are two ways to get money, one is to ask for it from the "superior", and the other is to earn it yourself.

But Gao Pragmatic decided to do both.

The so-called asking the higher-ups, in fact, the Ministry of War itself is the "superior" of the imperial guards and even the Beijing camp, but the money of the Ministry of War is allocated from the Ministry of Households, so in the final analysis, the money mainly has to go to the Ministry of Households.

According to the general understanding, the Ministry of Accounting is one of the strongholds of the Practical School, and Shen Li, Minister of the Ministry of Accounting, is a highly pragmatic brother. It should be easier to ask for money.

But in fact, this money is not easy to ask for.

The truth that the butt determines the head makes sense everywhere. Although Shen Li is one of the important ministers from the Real School, since he is the Minister of the Household Department, it is impossible not to think about the yamen he controls.Although the economic pressure brought about by the Yunnan-Burma War this year has been largely eliminated by high-practice and practical means such as treasure banknotes for the Yunnan War, the current revenue and expenditure situation of the imperial court is still very tight.

At this time, the Ministry of War suddenly asked for money. As the Minister of the Ministry of Households, he must be cautious. You can’t listen to your arrangements unconditionally just because you are the "future leader" recognized by my real school. It was I, Shen, who was responsible for it. I can't fall on the last hurdle before entering the cabinet.

Even though I gave Gao Pragmatic enough face and got Gao Pragmatic's assurance that if something happened to the Ministry of Accounts, I, Gao Pragmatic, would never stand idly by, but in the end, Shen Li only took out 12 taels of silver, and only 8 of the first batch were in place. Ten thousand taels-this money is used to replace weapons and equipment for the Imperial Guard.

Jingying's arsenal actually sounds pretty good. After all, the various outfits put Jingying at the top of the list, but it sounds one thing, and the real situation is another.

After Gao Wushi personally inspected the arsenal of the Beijing camp, he found out that, except for the weapons and equipment directly purchased from Jinghua and allocated to the Beijing camp in recent years, which were still "usable", the previous armaments were simply dumbfounding.

There is nothing wrong with the number of them, at least barely enough for people to settle accounts, but the level of maintenance is really jaw-dropping-some armors are so rotten that they are so rotten that they fall all over the place with a single hand.

As for the level of maintenance of the weapons, that's about the same. For example, the at least [-] Yanling waist knives that Gao Yushi personally inspected were so rusted that there was a huge question mark about whether they could chop firewood.

How could such a high-practical thing be willing to use it for the imperial guards?So almost all of these basic equipment have to be repurchased.As a result, once the accounts were settled, even if the Imperial Guards were not given much spare weapons and equipment for the time being, the replacement of only 6 people would cost almost 30 taels.

The 30 taels is definitely not available now, so Gao Wushi had to spend it himself. Shangshu told Zhu Yijun that the Ministry of War planned to take a batch of arms from Jinghua Gun Factory and Jinghua Artillery Factory on credit first, and pay in two or three years. No interest charged this time.

Zhu Yijun was quite moved, and approved it on the same day. Unexpectedly, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were afraid that they would be ignored, and four or five officials of the Ming Dynasty suddenly jumped out to impeach Gao Yushi, saying that he did this for personal gain.

According to them, the military equipment of the Beijing camp is the best in the world. Even the newly trained imperial guards are enough. After all, the imperial guards are only 6 people, and the military equipment of more than 40 people in the past is used to arm a mere 6 people. Man, how could it not be enough?How could it be necessary to buy again?Therefore, Gao Wushi must have made a move here. He was trying to attract business for Jinghua's military industry.

It stands to reason that conclusive evidence is needed to accuse a civil official who has made great military achievements in this way, but the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not need it, because they "heard about things", they only needed to say that they "heard" that the Beijing camp was well equipped That's fine, the actual situation or something... that's out of their control.

Gao Yushi had no choice but to resign, and at the same time asked the emperor to send personnel to conduct a thorough investigation, and by the way, shut himself up in Jianxinzhai and "disregarded the matter".

Zhu Yijun's attitude towards Gao Yushi is much better than that of Pan Sheng. After receiving Gao Yushi's resignation, he became angry on the spot-"Shang Zhennu, Yu Wenhua Palace, summon all the great scholars, and reprimand Lu Indulgence, slandering important ministers, the crime should be punished. Gu Nian's ancestors have rules, and now they have the right to send their heads on the neck, and they will all be demoted to third-level foreign posts. If there are any people who don't know how to restrain themselves, no matter what position they currently hold, they will all be third-class thousands of miles."

Zhu Yijun's anger got a little big, especially the words he used seemed to be murderous, "the crime should be punished", "the power is placed on the head of the others", "no matter what position you are in now, you will travel three thousand miles" .

Thinking back, this seems to be the sternest warning against speech since Imakami took the throne.

At the same time, Zhu Yijun also issued an order to comfort Gao Yushi with gentle words, and asked him to "see things right away" after praising Gao Yushi for his great success.

However, Gao Yushi still had to act according to the customary script of the Ming Dynasty, so he continued to go to the sparse to ask the emperor to investigate thoroughly, and at the same time continued to stay at home to "study and introspect".

Zhu Yijun had no choice but to continue to cooperate with the performance, once again issued an order to comfort him, and once again asked him to "see things immediately, and don't disappoint my sincere expectations."

Now that the play is in place, Gao Yushi officially returned to the Ministry of War to "see things". At the same time, he asked Liang Menglong to write in the name of the Minister of the Ministry of War to "make a white note" to allocate guns and artillery to the two major military factories in Jinghua to make up for the needs of the imperial guards (in the case of Gao Yushi) At the request of the Praetorian Guard, the degree of weaponization of the Praetorian Guard is quite high).At the same time, they used real money to buy a batch of new armor, cotton armor, etc. from the Wang family's arsenal, which barely met the current needs of the imperial guards.

In this way, the issue of the Imperial Guard's armaments was preliminarily resolved, but the money for raising soldiers was lost, so Gao Wushi came up with the idea of ​​the Beijing camp again.

Gao Wushi now has a deep understanding of the group of nobles who have managed the Beijing camp for generations.This group of people basically don't have any intention of making contributions - because it is useless for them to make contributions. The achievements of their ancestors have already determined their current status, and if they want to surpass the achievements of their ancestors, that...is too embarrassing.

Because they have no desire to make contributions, and at the same time dare not really seize power to avoid being besieged by civil servants, their habits are actually easy to figure out: ensuring their noble status while being able to reap financial benefits is their biggest priority. look forward to.

Gao Yushi has the ability to help them with this favor, and at the same time solve the problem of insufficient salary for the Imperial Guard.

The "Beijing Production and Construction Corps" is such a product.

Of course, the name Gao Yushi directly copied the establishment of a certain area in the Hong Dynasty, and the nature of his work was similar to that of the Hong Dynasty, but a little simpler.The main task of this "Beijing Production and Construction Corps" is of course production and construction, but more generally speaking, it is to make money.

Gao Wushi and Zhu Yingzhen discussed it many times, and finally decided to make use of the existing advantages and make use of the advantage of "people have land" in the Beijing camp to make money.Specific to the short-term approach, it is still unavoidable to cooperate with Jinghua.

Since the Jingying itself belongs to the Dudufu of the Five Armies, and the Dudufu of the Five Armies in Yanjing manages many military settlements around the capital and various lands assigned to the military at the beginning of the country, it has capital in its hands.

It's just that because these nobles only knew a few acres of land, Jingying also guarded Jinshan to beg for food.In fact, there are quite a lot of land belonging to the guards in the Gyeonggi area, and according to Gao Yushi's vague memory, many of them are also very useful.

But usefulness is useful. It is impossible for Gao Pragmatism to buy all the land and dig it himself. There is a cost issue.For example, in production areas of various types of limestone, marble, and white marble, high pragmatism is not very interested in buying land directly.

But for Jinghua Infrastructure, the importance of these production areas is very prominent. Now Jinghua Infrastructure has a heavy task at hand, especially Siam is vigorously building Dingnan City, which consumes a lot of infrastructure raw materials. Jinghua Infrastructure has already He suggested several times that Gao Pragmatic expand the scale of the system's establishment within the Jinghua system, and planned to organize the output of raw materials in person.

However, after thinking about it pragmatically, Gao feels that Jinghua’s business scope is too wide now. If you have to handle these materials by yourself, it will not take many years. The total number of employees in Jinghua must exceed one million, which is too scary , It is also easy to arouse the vigilance of the court-especially the officials who have nothing to do.

So when it’s time to let go, you must know how to let go. Jinghua can completely hand over the output of these basic materials to more reliable partners, just like he asked chieftains to provide wood in Guangxi and Annan.

Jinghua does not need complete control, but only needs to control its logistics links, so upstream suppliers have to pay attention to Jinghua's attitude in order not to backlog goods and downstream sellers in order not to be cut off from supply.

That's it.

What's more, when it comes to infrastructure, besides logistics, it is more important for Jinghua to master the processing business. For example, all kinds of limestone, except for Jinghua's use, other people buy this stuff because they have too much money and no place to spend it. , They can't produce all kinds of cement, flux, refractory materials and the like.

Therefore, Jinghua and Jingying, which has mastered the land and people, have very broad prospects for cooperation.

Therefore, the Jingying Production and Construction Corps first set up a mining department. Most of the military households who had nothing to do during the slack season got "job opportunities" and started to enter the mining industry after simple training at Jinghua Mining.

However, Gao Wushi was frightened by the blood-sucking characteristics of this group of nobles, and deliberately negotiated a basic salary standard with them to ensure that they would not use military households as slaves.

Gao Yushi even "taught a class" for them collectively, specifically explaining to them the issue of "production enthusiasm", and used Jinghua itself as an example to illustrate the benefits of "more work, more pay" instead of engaging in slavery-then Gadgets will only hinder the liberation of productivity.

Perhaps it was because of Gao's pragmatic eloquence, or perhaps because of Gao's practical words to convince them, his class really convinced the nobles to set a very benevolent "more pay for more work" in their opinion. "Principle: [-]% of the production income of all military households goes to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion and their affiliated guards, and [-]% goes to themselves.

However, obviously these vampires still have to play tricks, so it was stipulated that the [-]% of the income they got could not be sold by themselves, but had to be calculated by the guard, and then discounted to Yin.

Of course, Gao Wushi knew that there was a ghost here, for example, if the guards deliberately lowered the price, the military households would be exploited, but he really couldn't control it that much, so he could only comfort himself: at least in this way, they can always Relying on hard work to get more rewards is much better than doing things for these nobles for nothing.

These highly pragmatic practices had little to do with the imperial court itself, and the management of military households was under the responsibility of the five armies' governor's office at the beginning of the country, so they did not arouse much repercussions in the court.

However, Gao Yushi knew that the impact of this incident was far greater than it seemed.

In fact, he can even say that these practices of his have fundamentally changed the nature of the five-army governor's office, which means that the reform of economics and practice has entered a new stage.
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