Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1185 Li Wenjin's Advice
After Gao Wushi left Prince Lu's mansion, His Royal Highness Prince Lu couldn't sit still.He wandered around the study for quite a while, but still felt he couldn't make up his mind, so he simply invited several of his teachers over, and asked them about the suggestion Gao Gongbao gave to see if it was feasible.

The gentlemen assigned to His Royal Highness King Lu are naturally well-educated, but they specialize in art, and if they talk about financial management...the topic is a bit out of line.

But that doesn't matter, the gentlemen are all masters of the problem, and they are very good at shifting the focus of the article. Therefore, from controlling the long history to the trial of the principal and deputy, they did not work hard on making money, which King Lu is most concerned about. His Royal Highness Lu Wang analyzed the benefits of "giving up King Jing's inheritance" in terms of reputation.

It's just that they analyzed and analyzed, and they thought that His Royal Highness Lu Wang could get the title of Great Ming Xianwang by giving up King Jing's legacy, but His Royal Highness Lu didn't care about the wise king or not. It is the "get" mentioned by Gao Pragmatism.

Will that little broken island really become a cornucopia in the future?

His Royal Highness King Lu really couldn't see it, and he really didn't have much confidence.

If he had to say yes, it would be better to say that he has high pragmatic vision and confidence in Jinghua's ability.

Gao Pragmatism's reputation as "Dianshi Chengjin" is not a joke. When he hasn't lost his hand in more than ten years, anyone who changes his business proposals has to think carefully, even if his proposal sounds completely out of date. Talking about the same, that is no exception.

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree.What is a title?This is called a title.

It’s like in later generations, even if a high-level pragmatist couldn’t understand how time can go backwards, but Einstein said it was possible, he had to wonder if his own level was too far behind, so he couldn’t understand it, and Not to look back and suspect that Einstein was talking nonsense.

There must be a basis for rebelling against authority. Some people’s authority in certain aspects is already so high that it is close to mythology. Why are you ashamed to object before you understand?

Lu Wang's current mentality is probably like this. He really can't see any "money prospects" in that small broken island with only a few thousand people, but he dare not question Gao Pragmatic's statement casually. They talked about him one by one, which drove him crazy.

Finally, when the gentlemen had finished speaking, King Lu heaved a sigh of relief, and said: "I understand what you gentlemen mean, let's discuss this matter here today, gentlemen, let's go to rest, and I will take care of myself again." Think about it."

As soon as they left, Zhu Yichun stood up immediately, quietly called someone to come over and whispered a conversation, and then rummaged through the palace, trying to find a map of Guangdong.

It's a pity that Kanyu maps were not popular books in the "feudal era". Except that there were many Kanyu maps in Jinghua under the banner of "Shangdaotu", ordinary people would not dare to collect such things, and even Luwang's in Beijing Not even in his mansion.

After searching for a long time but failing to find it, Zhu Yichun gave up and just stared at the hourglass for news.

After a while, the previous man came back and brought back another man dressed as an eunuch.

For a prince of a kingdom without a kingdom, Zhu Yiliu should be able to treat any eunuch as a slave. However, this visitor is obviously an exception, because Zhu Yiliu got up to meet him as soon as he saw him, and even took the initiative to beat him. hello.

"Uncle Yao came just in time. I want to enter the palace right away, but the palace gate has already been closed... I have to ask Uncle Yao for help."

It turned out that the person who came was none other than Li Wenjin, the youngest brother of Empress Dowager Li.

As I said before, great eunuchs like Li Wenjin don’t have to live in the palace, almost all of them have foreign houses, and people like Li Wenjin, who are addicted to money, are no exception, so just now Zhu Yiliu sent someone to his foreign house Zhai asked him to come and help.

Daming’s palace rules have always been very strict. Although Zhu Yiliu became a vassal if he had no country, but because he is married and studying in the court, in principle, he can no longer go to the palace at will, not to mention it is still a night when the palace gates have long been locked.Although Zhu Yiliu was favored, he didn't dare to joke about things like palace ban.

You must know that in order to protect the safety of the palace, the Ming court had many guards inside and outside the imperial city, and the access control was strict. The guards of the imperial city alone were guarded by [-] guards including the standard bearer, Jin Wu, and Habayashi.

Every day in the imperial city, there is one person on duty for each of the governors and swordsmen, and one person for each of the thousands of households. To receive the No. 17 token of Shenzi, stay on duty inside and order the sergeants of each branch.Later, the capital governor's mansion was changed, and the five mansions were ordered to be Shuhou and Bo, with one person on duty every night.There are hundreds of generals sitting on the left and right sides of the inner imperial city, and 20 people take turns to watch each watch.The four gates are set up with eight shift officials, who alternately patrol and check, and each shift officer stamps the seal on the inspection book.

In other words, as long as His Royal Highness King Lu appears near the palace gate at this time, the news will spread throughout the capital tomorrow morning. How can it be possible for these nobles and nobles to keep it secret?Even if they don't tell it themselves, the people around them can't keep it secret.

How about sneaking in?Hmm... This is a dream. The quality of the personnel guarding the palace may have dropped a lot compared to the beginning of the country, but the system of guarding the palace city has not been abolished.

There are forty guard duty rooms around the wall of Miyagi and Tongzi River, each room is guarded by ten sergeants day and night, and there are 28 copper bells around as warning signals.Every time there is an initial change, a copper bell is issued from the first duty room outside the right gate of Que, and the soldiers on duty ring the copper bell to pass to the second duty room, and the power is transmitted to the first duty room outside the left gate of Que. Early in the morning, the copper bell was sent to the first duty room at Queyou Gate to repeat the bell.

There are also 72 guard duty rooms around the outside of the imperial city, each room is also guarded by ten soldiers, and 78 copper bells are set up. Every night, the copper bells are issued from the first duty room at the right gate of Chang'an and passed to the left gate of Chang'an. end.In addition, patrol inspectors were sent every night around Miyagi to check the soldiers on duty.

The origin of this system should have started in February of the 17th year of Yongle, when Chengzu Zhu Di ordered the Ministry of Industry to cast the four gate bronze symbols of the imperial city and the night watch bronze medal, and in March of the same year cast the Miyagi night watch bronze medal.The characters "Cheng", "East", "West" and "North" were respectively cast on the copper talisman of the imperial city, each representing the name of its city gate.At night, the inspector holds the left half, and the guard holds the right half. When the guard meets the inspector to check, the copper talisman matches and engages.

These strict security rules and regulations stipulate that no replacement is allowed when on duty, no unauthorized departure from duty, no dispersal of the team, no interfering with officials, military and civilian affairs, no asking for property, etc.The current execution situation may not be comparable to that of Chengzu's period, but after all, the framework is still there, and it is impossible to sneak in without the bronze talisman in hand.

Not only is the security outside the palace heavily guarded, but the inside of the palace is also heavily guarded.Before Gao Yushi came up with the imperial guards, there were 40 Jinyiwei Dahan generals, 500 military avant-garde officers with swords, 16 red helmet generals, and 3000 general commanders who served as the emperor's personal bodyguards. There are five hundred and two generals in Mingjia, two general commanders, eight generals of the Han Dynasty, 180 fork and knife guards in the fifth army camp, eight general commanders, no fixed number of Xunwei scattered cavalry, standard bearers and other guards with sword officers 300 people, a total of more than [-] people.

At that time, there were six guards in command, one of whom was in charge of the generals of the Han Dynasty, the scattered riders, and the avant-garde soldiers of the government army with knives; General A.

As I said just now, the guards are served by relatives such as Duke, Marquis, Bo, Consort Duwei and so on.On weekdays, there are hundreds of generals on duty, who wait outside the Meridian Gate day and night, and watch shifts at night.All the forks and knives of the five military battalions are on duty in the imperial city.The guards in charge implement a shift system, one every day, and the general in charge of Jinyiwei and the fork knife hand are on duty every day.When the palace holds important events, the guards will deploy guards according to the custom.

After Gao Wushi carried out the reform of the Beijing camp this time, the imperial guards became the only field force in the Beijing camp, while the Production and Construction Corps was in charge of logistics and other matters, so the guards of the palace seemed awkward.

In the end, after discussing with the nobles and asking for instructions from Zhu Yijun, another imperial confinement system was created, that is, the personnel who were originally in charge of the imperial confinement continued to serve, and the subsequent vacancies were still recruited from the guards of the Beijing camp. However, these people need to go to the Beijing North Camp of the Imperial Guards to participate in a three-month special training before they "take up the post", so as to prevent those selected after the Beijing Camp is changed to the Production and Construction Corps from being able to use knives at all.

Of course, since the reform of the Imperial Guard has just begun, these guards have not been replaced yet, and they are still the same group of people.

However, although the rules are strict, any rules will definitely become loose or even deformed after 200 years of implementation. Of course, the same is true of the palace ban rules. Therefore, although King Lu dared not go to the palace at night, it is not impossible to think about it, such as Ask Li Wenjin to take him in, then it's okay.

Needless to say, Li Wenjin is special. He is not only a eunuch, but also the younger brother of the empress dowager and the emperor's uncle. It is well known that he usually does not go to other places except the Palace of Compassion and Peace.Since he entered the palace at night, he must go to the Cining Palace to meet the Empress Dowager Cisheng, so even if he brought Zhu Yiliu in, others would only think that it was the Empress Dowager who summoned King Lu, so of course it was all right.

It has to be said that although Li Wenjin is greedy for money, as a barren uncle, he is still very good to the children of his sister, Queen Mother Li.Zhu Yiliu was going to enter the palace this evening, Li Wenjin immediately agreed, took his nephew into his carriage, and headed all the way to the palace.

On the way, he asked Zhu Yiliu why he entered the palace at night. Zhu Yiliu trusted him very much, so he directly told Li Wenjin what Gao Wushi had just told him, and asked Li Wenjin his opinion on this matter by the way.

Originally, Zhu Yixuan thought that Uncle Yao should be very entangled and cautious when he heard about such a difficult problem, but who knew that Li Wenjin's reaction was so fast that he thought he had heard it wrong.

Li Wenjin replied almost without thinking: "What else is there to think about? If Gao Qiuzhen thinks he can make money, he must be able to make money. There is no need to have any doubts about this."

Zhu Yixuan froze for a moment, and was about to remind him that the "little broken island" had only a few thousand people, but who knew that Li Wenjin hadn't finished speaking yet.

Only to hear Li Wenjin continue: "The only question that needs to be clarified is why Gao Qiuzhen did this—I mean, is there any bad consequence in it?"

Zhu Yiliu said in astonishment, "What do you mean by Uncle Yao's words?"

Li Wenjin looked at his nephew, shook his head slightly and said: "In terms of business, no one in the world can compare with Gao Qiuzheng, especially his vision, which is even more unmatched. I think you should be the same for this." agreed.

But you have to know that Gao Qiuzhen doesn’t really think of business as important.Looking at his behavior style over the years can be found.I am afraid that he did business only to prove that their family's theory of practical learning is indeed helpful to the world. "

Zhu Yili hesitated and said, "Then this..."

"This is the key." Li Wenjin thought about it: "He asked you to resign from King Jing's inheritance, and then pointed out a way to make money for you, which seems to be very beneficial to you, but to him. What's the benefit? Or, how can he prove that this is good for Daming?"

Zhu Yixuan frowned and said: "It's nothing more than the current rhetoric of the Ministry of Household Affairs. There are too many imaginary numbers in King Jing's legacy. Pursuing them one by one will cause public resentment... Humph."

Li Wenjin rolled his eyes: "Is Gao Qiuzhen the Secretary of the Household Department now?"

"Uh, no, he's the Minister of Military Affairs." Zhu Yiliu obviously didn't understand what his uncle meant.

"Since he's not the Minister of the Household Department, the troubles of the Household Department are none of his business? You don't think that Shen Li is a member of the Real School, and he has to help with everything if he seeks truth? I heard that the last time the imperial guards were paid As for the problem, Shen Li can't talk about how to help him."

Zhu Yiliu was at a loss for words for a while, and then he said after a while: "But after all, he is the descendant of the real learning sect and the nephew of Duke Gao Wenzheng. Shen Li can ignore it, but he can't ignore unity at all, right?"

Li Wenjin snorted softly: "Your Highness is still too young, there is a reason you have to understand: icing on the cake is not as good as giving charcoal in the snow. Even if Shen Li can't solve the matter of Wang Jing's inheritance, Gao Qiuzhen doesn't need to help now——When Shen Li really He messed up his errand, wouldn't it be good for him to act again? Shouldn't Shen Li be more grateful to Dade? Wouldn't his position of Gao Qiuzhen be more stable?"

Huh?It seems to be the truth.

Zhu Yixuan couldn't help scratching his head.

Li Wenjin saw him and knew that he had accepted what he said, so he pondered and said: "That's why I said, the most important thing now is what Gao Qiuzhen wants—since that small island is very desolate now, and Guangdong and Guangxi Governor Zhang Ren is an old colleague of Gao Qiuzhen, so if he wants to buy this island, I think it should be extremely easy. In this case, he just wants to lure you to make a fortune...Why?"

Zhu Yiliu felt a little dissatisfied: What is this called?I am King Lu, I am the most beloved son of the Empress Dowager, the emperor's younger brother, the leader of all feudal clans, and all feudal clans watch over me!

But Li Wenjin obviously didn't pay attention to his expression, but narrowed his eyes slightly, and suddenly said: "There is only one possibility, and that is that he needs your signboard, Your Highness."
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