Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1298
Perhaps Xu Wenbi was really unable to hold on to her body, so she only talked about this matter with Gao Wushi, then left the Shangshu Mansion and went back to the mansion to rest.

However, Zhu Yingzhen and others stayed, and first chatted with Gao Wushi about the recent operation of the Production and Construction Corps.

The pragmatic and pragmatic Beijing-battalion reform is quite interesting. Its biggest feature has already been mentioned, that is, the real combat unit of the Praetorian Guards is separated from the "logistics department" of the Production and Construction Corps.

There is nothing to say about the Guards. The emperor has the highest command power, command power, and the right to appoint and remove all personnel, but these powers are usually "delegated" to the military and political servants of the Ministry of War. Military power.The real command power is still reserved in the hands of the commander of the Praetorian Guards, but the commander of the Praetorian Guards can only command, but does not have the right to transfer troops - the power to transfer troops is the power to command the troops.

At the same time, another important guarantee for the loyalty of this army is the separation of logistics to the Production and Construction Corps.

The so-called logistics is not only the supply of military rations, but also other materials such as barracks and camping tents, including clothing, armor, quilts and other materials, are all provided by the Production and Construction Corps.Moreover, the main consumables, such as military rations, are usually only required by the Praetorian Guards for half a month, and excess is not allowed.This is similar to Gao pragmatic's method of controlling the garrison troops in southern Beijing.

These are the military supplies, in addition to ordnance.The armory warehouse of the Praetorian Guards adopts the "imitation tiger symbol system", that is, the warehouse key is divided into two parts, and the warehouse management personnel of the Praetorian Guard and the Production and Construction Corps each hold half. Only when both keys are unlocked, the warehouse can be opened smoothly.

In the usual training of the Praetorian Guards, there are regulations on the distribution of weapons, of which four-fifths are cold weapons and one-fifth are firearms.Why are there fewer firearms?The reason is to prevent changes, but this does not meet the requirements of high pragmatism and increasing the proportion of firearms, so the firearms training of the Praetorian Guards adopts a rotation training system-there are so many things, everyone trains in turns, and replaces people without changing guns.

Of course, not changing guns is just an argument. In fact, it is still necessary to change guns. It’s just that after this batch has been beaten, it must be handed over to the Production and Construction Corps in exchange for another batch to use.

Of course, there are many details. For example, the Praetorian Guards must check carefully every time they receive ordnance, otherwise the training damage will be recorded; the same is true for the production and construction corps. Every gun must be carefully checked. Otherwise, once it is not counted in person, the next time it is given to the Praetorian Guards, they will not accept it if they find that it is wrong, then the account will be charged to the production and construction corps.

Since the two sides do not have a real relationship between superiors and subordinates, they will of course keep an eye on each other for their own interests. In this way, they have achieved high and pragmatic expectations and formed the "mutual supervision" that he hopes.

In this era, the driving force of interests is obviously a hundred times greater than the so-called "responsibility" and "honor". Gao pragmatism would rather let them supervise each other because of their interests, and do not expect them to realize the responsibility of the country and the righteousness of the nation.

The production and construction corps is under the control of Xungui, and Xungui itself is an extension of the imperial power. Any appointment or dismissal of the Five Armies Governor's Office is of course also determined by the emperor, so the emperor is the real source of power for them.

The Emperor gave them power, and they returned loyalty, and they also returned money—that is, those offered to the Praetorian Guards.

However, Gao Wushi, as the "Associate Manager of the Jingying Rongzheng" at that time, certainly could not forget himself, so the Rongzheng Shilang supervised the production and construction corps on behalf of the emperor.

The word "supervision" is interesting, especially in Daming.

The governor supervises the officials of one place and gradually became a territory of the same place; the admiral of the East Factory supervises Jin Yiwei and gradually became Jin Yiwei's boss.

The Rongzheng Shilang supervises the production and construction corps, and of course he actually became the "leader" of the production and construction corps.In this way, coupled with the fact that the Rongzheng Shilang has various powers exercised on behalf of the emperor by the commander of the Imperial Guard, the two parts of the Jingying are actually in the hands of the Rongzheng Shilang.

However, the Rongzheng Shilang was only a civil official, and his position was appointed and removed by the emperor. Like other imperial decrees, this appointment and removal required the appendix of the cabinet and six divisions, so the civil official group also held important power.

Why is there so little opposition within the civil service group for such a big deal?This is the reason - the Civil Service Group is the beneficiary. Through this restructuring, the Civil Service Group has completely overtaken the Wuchen Group, including the Xungui Group.

But there are two things that are very strange: First, Gao pragmatism does not agree with the model of "literary and military as a dog". Why did he do this?
The second is why Xungui and Wuchen Group did not object.

The first question is actually not that complicated, and there are only two reasons: First, Gao Wushi did this because he knew that the civil service group could not think that he was an "anti-bones boy", and he must insist on showing that he was always in Only when the civil service group makes profits can the road of officialdom go on.

Second, although the Rongzheng Shilang has such great power, it actually varies from person to person.In other words, with his high-level tasks and responsibilities, the Rongzheng Shilang can completely override the heads of the Imperial Guard and the Production and Construction Corps, saying that the east is the east, and the west is the west.But once the person is changed, it is difficult to say whether the soldier in uniform can still do this.

What's the reason?One is that the saints are different, and the other is that they have different control over the nobles.There is absolutely no need to explain the Holy Family, and there is no need to explain too much about the control of Xungui: the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance is one thing, and the production and construction corps's many transactions and Jinghua are constantly involved on the other.

This is the influence of Gao pragmatism on the Production and Construction Corps, and he actually has an influence on the Praetorian Guard. The officers of the Praetorian Guard start from Qi Jiguang, the commander, and go down to the battalion level. ?
No matter how powerful the next Rongzheng Shilang is, he can directly ignore the existence of high pragmatism, slaughter the Guards from top to bottom, and then replace him with his own people?

If there is no replacement, the influence of Gao pragmatism will still be there, because he is not returning to his hometown as an official.

On the whole, the highly pragmatic Beijing-Yingying reform only left a small "back door", that is, according to his current practice, the Production and Construction Corps itself has achieved basic financial independence, and this independence is independent from the imperial court. financial system.

Gao pragmatism was not a saint either, and he also had his own interests: at that time, he needed the production and construction corps to be financially independent and not be influenced by the Ministry of Households—because being influenced by the Ministry of Households was also influenced by the cabinet, and the chief assistant of the cabinet was Shen Shixing after all.

However, Gao Wushi did not expect that he would actually come to be the minister of households, so some things had to change a little bit.For example, it is necessary to take this financial power back into the hands of the Ministry of Households now.

This thing was quite troublesome at first, but now it is a blessing in disguise - the honorable people took the initiative to come to the door.

Because they were worried that the emperor would be blinded by Shi Xing, a guy who turned out to be an anti-bone boy, the nobles were afraid that their interests would be damaged, so they took the initiative to tell them what they knew, and hoped that Gao pragmatically would rescue them.

The opportunity is here.

After listening to Zhu Yingzhen and others sighing and worrying, Gao Wushi said solemnly, "Your concerns are justified, the mausoleum work is nothing like the others, but no one of the officials of the Ming Dynasty dares to push things aside on this matter. "

Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong and the others looked at each other, and said carefully, "But be honest, this system was decided by you..."

Gao Wushi spread his hands: "That's no way, no matter how big my younger brother's face is, it can't be bigger than the emperor. What's more, my Gao family has been deeply favored by the emperor. If the emperor's birthday palace is really in need, even if the younger brother himself pays the donation. , but also to give full support, not to mention the set system is a little exception?"

"Yes, yes, the truth is of course. If necessary, one of us is one of us, and we are willing to share the emperor's worries..." Zhu Yingzhen said, paused, and said embarrassingly: "But the production and construction corps If the use opens this hole, the future will be difficult to handle."

Gao Wushi took a look at him, suddenly smiled, and said, "I heard that the Production and Construction Corps made more than 10 taels last month?"

Zhu Yingzhen knew that Gao Wushi could check the accounts before, so naturally he didn't dare to hide it, and said with a dry smile, "Yes... last month's total profit was 11 taels."

Gao Wushi smiled: "According to this calculation, the annual profit of the Production and Construction Corps is more than 130 million taels. No wonder you are afraid that you will return to the situation where you may be beaten at any time in the future."

Therefore, it is very important to liberate the productive forces. According to the previous method, the Beijing camp was "exploited" by the imperial court, and secondly, the honorable people were privately enriched by the military registration and military camps under their own control.On the one hand, everyone must maintain the old garbage system, on the other hand, they dare not put it on the table to make a big deal, and the people below have no enthusiasm for production, which naturally leads to inefficiency at all levels and extremely low returns.

Now this is somewhat similar to the implementation of the share dividend system at the top of the Production and Construction Corps, and the implementation of the "joint production contract system" at the grassroots level. There is motivation from top to bottom, and everyone is trying to increase production and income. Naturally, the sesame blossoms are growing steadily.

At such a time, the nobles suddenly realize that the good days may come to an end, so who can bear it?Cutting off people's fortunes is like killing one's parents, not to mention such a large amount of money?It is really unbearable and unbearable!

However, at this time, Zhu Yingzhen misunderstood Gao pragmatism. After hearing what he said, Zhu Yingzhen immediately exchanged glances with Zhang Yuangong and the others, and then accompanied him with a smile: "This is actually all your credit for seeking the truth. Some people are different, gratitude is written in the heart... So we have discussed it, and you should have a share of this money. "

Gao Wushi was stunned for a moment, only to know that this group of people was planning to take a dividend to bribe him to help deal with this trouble, and he couldn't help but laugh and cry.

To be honest, although he, Jinghua, is also in a period of financial stress, he is really not going to be bought by this little money - so what if the Production and Construction Corps earns 40 a year, there are so many of them, how can they give themselves How many points?If Ding Potian gave him one-tenth, then it would only be [-] to [-] a year.

10,000+ taels is not a small amount of money anywhere, but in front of Jinghua’s owner, Gao Wushi, it is really just that.

For example, let's say that Jinghua planned to build a three-tier battleship plan recently but has temporarily stopped the plan. What is the standard and price of the three-tier battleship?

The three-level sail battleship set by Jinghua internally has a design displacement of 1600 tons (3200 materials), adopts the specification of two-layer deck guns, has 72 guns of various types, and has a total crew of 460 people. The cost of a single ship is as high as 24 taels of silver. [Note: This cost is the same as the previous article, which is obtained by referring to the cost of the Royal Navy's wooden sailing warships in the same period, and reducing it to a certain extent according to the cost advantages of Jinghua in this book.As for why the British Royal Navy is always used as a reference, it is because only their records are the clearest and relatively easy to check. 】

Although Jinghua's previous construction plan was only three ships, and the plan was temporarily suspended, but that is not the key point, the key point is the total cost - 24 taels for a single ship!

This kind of battleship, which is completely built for combat, has such a terrifying ability to swallow gold, so the navy is really not something that a weak country can afford.With such a large trading volume of Jinghua, once the finances are tight, the construction has to be suspended, which can explain the problem.

But having said that, Jinghua had such a plan before, and it can be seen that Gao pragmatic will definitely not care about the "small income" of more than [-] taels of silver every year.

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "I have good intentions, but it's not necessary." Then he reached out to stop Zhu Yingzhen who was about to speak, and comforted: "Actually, although this matter is difficult, it's a coincidence that the younger brother has gone to the Ministry of Household, but there is a way. You can use it, just…”

"Just what?" All the nobles sat up straight, leaned forward slightly, asked these four words in unison, and then waited for Gao's pragmatic answer.

Gao Wushi smiled slightly: "I just don't know if you can believe it, little brother."

"What's this called?" Zhu Yingzhen looked surprised: "If we can't even trust you, who else can we trust? Jibu Yinuo is only a thousand pieces of gold, and your promise...that's 30 taels!"

Zhang Yuangong also nodded again and again, and said with great certainty: "You don't need to ask this kind of thing, the person we can trust most in this world is you Gao Qiuzhen, let's not talk about the friendship of more than ten years, just talk about the things we have done with you over the years. Business, when have you ever made us suffer? If you don’t understand the reasoning, I will look at this person and even if you are helpless.”

Gao Wushi glanced around at the rest of Xungui again. If there was anything they didn't understand, they naturally expressed that they were completely trustworthy. Our trust in you Gao Qiuzhen is more certain than trust in your own father.

Seeing this, Gao Pengshi nodded, his face became solemn, and said: "This method is that the financial income of the Production and Construction Corps is first handed over to the Ministry of Households, and then the Ministry of Households returns to the Corps according to the needs of the Corps and the Imperial Guard. In this way, I can have a reason to push back the request of the Ministry of Industry for you. In other words, if this is the case, if the Ministry of Industry wants to use the Corps, it must first pass the level of my Ministry of Household-Even if the emperor wants to use it, he must first Come and talk to me."

Nobles can oppose the emperor, they can only do what the emperor says, but the civil servants are different, and it is not uncommon for the civil servants to push back the emperor's intentions.

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