Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1309

In fact, Shen Shixing did not fully agree with Yuan Zongdao's remarks.

If Yuan Zongdao really followed Yuan Zongdao's intentions, he would be waiting for Gao Yushi to implement the New Deal. During the implementation of Gao Yushi's New Deal, as long as there were no serious problems, he could only stand by and watch.

Not to mention how furious the benefactors behind the Mind School would be in the face of this situation, even Shen Yuanfu himself couldn't stand it.After all, there are not only differences in interests between the School of Mind and the School of Reality, but also competition in ethics.

Ren Gao is pragmatic?how is this possible!

Shen Shihang knew in his heart that although many of the things that Gao Wushi did were considered "excessive" at first glance, he was capable of doing things properly every time.Many things that were thought to be troublesome were inexplicably calmed down in his hands. Even if there were some who refused to be honest, Gao Pragmatism could always suppress them with lightning speed and eliminate the crisis invisible.

Although Shi Shixing refuses to admit that this is the right way for the school of pragmatism, he has to admit that the ability of high-level practical affairs is indeed outstanding and extraordinary.Such a person can easily clean up the mess that has become a big trouble, how dare Shen Shixing let him "play freely"?
What if his New Deal is done like so many things before?Can this consequentialist school afford it?

Although Shen Shixing doesn't even know what the "Xinzheng New Deal" is now, he knows that Gao Yushi will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity, but he dare not bet on the future of the entire Heart School like this.

In fact, the more high-ranking a person is, the less he dares to put all his eggs in one basket, because the responsibility he has to bear is not just his own success or failure, he is now shouldering the future of the entire Heart School.

In his view, the foundation of high pragmatism lies in the north. The north was originally unable to compete with the south in business. The reason why it appears to be evenly matched now is because of Jinghua.Looking at this situation from another angle, that is, the northern business is headed by Jinghua.

Shen Shixing is a typical old-fashioned bureaucrat. His thinking on financial issues is just old-fashioned. He can't "do addition". Therefore, in his opinion, Daming's commercial interests are so much. Take less.It is obviously impossible for Shen Shihang to understand the idea of ​​liberating and developing productivity, or opening up new business routes and building new business districts.

So in his view, no matter what kind of New Deal Gao Yushi wants to implement, and no matter how he shouts slogans, in the final analysis, he is exploiting southern businessmen and fattening northern businessmen.

In a word: never credible, never feasible!

However, Yuan Zongdao's remarks still reminded Shen Shixing in another aspect, that is, high pragmatism will not only push the New Deal, but will definitely launch it as soon as possible.

Yuan Zongdao didn't mention this point in what he said just now, but Shen Shixing suddenly thought of it when he heard him mention "Uncle Xinzheng".

Gao Wuzhen is now the lord of the department. According to the consistent tradition of the past dynasties, he can be referred to as "Gao Xinzheng". Only then did I realize that Gao Yushi was already "Gao Xinzheng"—of course, in order to distinguish him, he would probably be called "Little Gao Xinzheng".

Both uncle and nephew are "Gao Xinzheng", and Gao Gong has now been finalized, and his posthumous posthumous title is Wenzheng. So at this moment, how will the people of the world view Gao Yushi?Naturally, it depends on whether he can inherit Gao Gong's will and continue the glory for the Xinzheng Gao family.

If we narrow down the scope of "People of the World" and only talk about officials of the Real School, what kind of mentality will they have when facing Gao Pragmatism, or what kind of expectations do they have for him?
The answer is obvious. Many years ago, the Pragmatic School had already regarded Gao Yushi as Gao Gong's "first in line successor" - although the official position of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty could not be inherited, but because Gao Yushi's "education" was sufficient. He is hard-pressed, and he has already become a "Chuxiang" (Hanlin) before he reaches the weak crown. Naturally, the real school is waiting to see the day when he completely "takes over" Gaogong.

But Gao Gong's "rod" is not only the position of chief assistant, but more importantly, his spirit of reform. It is precisely because of this spirit and ideal that the Gao Party can emerge, and the Practical School can become a real political party. strength.

As a "legacy successor", Gao Wushi himself must be well aware of this, so Shen Shixing judged that after Gao Wushi became the "minister of the ministry" in charge of one aspect of government affairs, he would definitely—and must show it as soon as possible He inherited the side of Gao Gong's legacy, forceful and even iron-fisted reforms.

This time, he might put away the gentle and refined style of the past, change his old habit of being able to "make a difference" in all kinds of things, and become more radical and more like Gao Gong!
This is like in the imperial edict of Emperor Daxing, who always said that the prince who is about to succeed to the throne "deeply bows to me".

Not just recognition, but also conferring "orthodoxy".

Of course Gao Gong was not the emperor, and he left very suddenly. Obviously, there would be no will, so as the "legitimacy" needed to inherit the power of the entire Real School, Gao Yushi had to rely on his bloodline for the rest. Get it yourself.

The simplest and most effective means of obtaining this kind is nothing more than another kind of "deep Xiaozhen bow"-acting in exactly the same way as Gao Gong.

Only in this way, the Practical School will regard him as the "Second Gao Gong", and the officials of the Practical School who are not familiar with him will unconsciously become close to him, and at the same time respect him more-this is the so-called "Yu Wei".

With the prestige of Gao Gong in the past, once his remaining prestige is added to the high pragmatism, it may even have an impact on some neutral officials.

Gao Wushi's temper was a little too good back then. Except for the incident where Princess Yongning was cheated into getting married, he never took the initiative to seek trouble with anyone in the past unless the incident directly caused him trouble. It will turn a big matter into a small matter, and it will appear unusually magnanimous.

Gao Gong is not the case, his style is: You will be finished if you directly offend me, but even if you just block my way... sorry, you will also be finished.

The nickname "Gaobeard" is not only because Gao Gong has a big beard, but also because "beard" is another name for a bandit. "Gaobeard" means that although he is the prime minister, he acts a bit domineering Bandits.

After his recovery, he served as a cabinet minister concurrently as a heavenly official. In his first year in office, he handled nearly three major corruption cases every month on average, and brought 160 officials to justice within a year (historical facts).

Refer to the number of officials in the Ming court (the Ming Dynasty belonged to the "small government" structure), which means that during the ten years he was in power (in this book), the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, from the center to the local area, was almost completely ruled by him Pass.

Of course, as the top politician of the Ariake Dynasty, although Gao Gong, who was determined to suppress corruption, had a tough temper, his methods were not simple and rude.During this "barbaric crackdown", Gao Gong also used three "gentle" tricks, each of which was calm, but the corrupt officials all over the country couldn't help crying.

These three methods are: build files for officials across the country, assume responsibility for recommending officials, and never let go of recovering stolen goods.The establishment of official archives has been mentioned before, so I won’t expand here. Let’s take the last two as an example to see where Gao Gong’s “survival power” comes from.

In the mid-to-late period of Jiajing, when corruption intensified, the atmosphere in officialdom that could be compared with selling officials and nobles was the trend of indiscriminate behavior.It has basically become the norm for superiors to recommend subordinates and officials to recommend each other.

Of course, this is not a white recommendation. Every time an official is recommended, there are countless transactions behind it.Whoever is employed in an official position is all about interests, so who cares about serving the country and the people?Especially the post of censor who was once known as the "anti-corruption artifact", these censors who are known as impeachment and lawlessness, the evaluation and selection of officials are often like a playful family-a large number of mediocre and lazy officials have successively ascended to key positions.

Why is there such an unhealthy trend?According to Gao Gong's lament in Zhangquan Inscription, the key is that the cost of crime is too low.

For example, the three-year assessment is basically muddled. Even if the elected officials make mistakes, it will become nonsense after checking and checking, and in the end it will become irresponsible.

Although the loser is unlucky and punished, the recommender has already received the benefits, and he will not be held accountable anyway, so he will continue to recommend cheating products.

Gao Gong, who was heartbroken, finally gritted his teeth and said the countermeasure in the memorial for the fourth year of Longqing: as the person who proposed, the test failed, and the leader sits together! (historical facts)
That is to say, in the future, as long as an official makes a mistake, the person who recommended him will be held accountable regardless of his position.As for the amount of responsibility, it depends on the size of the mistakes made by the officials and the extent of the impact.You said there is no way to check?I have 180 volumes of "books" in my hand, and I can check the promotion history of officials!Your recommendation is wrong, what should be done immediately, what should be caught immediately.

Not long after these ruthless words, Gao Gong proved with practical actions that there is no limit to this matter: Wu Shilai, the censor of Youqian capital in Nanjing, became unlucky.This person recommends more than 50 people every year, but there are several cheaters.As a result, Gao Gong immediately struck out and demoted Wu Shilai.

With such an important person coming forward to speak out, the unhealthy trend of abuse was stopped immediately.In the original history, many of the famous officials in the later Wanli years came to prominence in the fourth to sixth years of Longqing. It was not without reason, and the reason came from this zero-tolerance system.

However, compared with "indiscriminate use", corruption was still the cost of crime at that time.

Although it is explained that in the early days, Taizu used severe punishments to punish corruption, but by the time of Jiajing, this incident had already become a thing of the past.On the contrary, "Those who are greedy for coolness, routine for the people" have actually become the law.

That is to say, if ordinary officials make mistakes of corruption, as long as the relationship is strong enough, the worst is nothing more than cutting their jobs for the people, and they will not even move their family property.

It's that amazing!But in this way, even if the official is sacked and returns home, at least he can be a rich man leisurely.With such a "lenient" policy, why aren't officials open to it?

And this is something that Gao Gong has always hated. Before he became the chief assistant of the cabinet, he scolded him on various occasions.When he took office as the chief minister of the cabinet, he stopped scolding, but quietly changed a rule: corrupt people still ask questions to recover stolen goods.

As soon as this order came out, there was an uproar in the court.Even a fierce man like Gao Gong was scolded by the officials for a while.But Gao Gong, who was under a lot of pressure, started from each case in front of him, and each case followed this hard rule.

The accounts don't match?I don't know where the money is going to go?sent it up?Wherever it is sent, it will be chased, and if it cannot be chased, it will be picked from your home.Regardless of whether you are a small state official, a feudal official, or even a hereditary prince, as long as you break the law, you will do this!
Just look at the first year after Gao Gong took office, there were Sichuan inspector censor Wang Tingzhan, Baoding governor Zhu Daqi and other high-ranking officials who ran into Gao Gong's "muzzle" one after another. Not a lot.

Spending time, drinking money, losing money in business, and finally can't pay back?It doesn't matter, Gao Gong said, the compensation will be paid year by year, the father can't pay the son, the son can't pay the grandson, anyway until the principal and interest are paid out.

Do you want to be a rich man after corruption?Be your mother's spring and autumn dream!
It is precisely because Gao Gong is so vigorous, so "dominant", and so "unconventional", that he has a strong style of work. He has not increased his family's land for decades, and the officials of the Manchu Dynasty can only look at him anxiously.

That's how prestige is born.

If many people are afraid of Gao Gongshi because his background is too big and his family is too grand, then more people are afraid of Gao Gong because Gao Gong's methods are too hard and his actions are too extreme.

But now Shen Shixing was reminded by Yuan Zongdao's words that Gao Wuzhen was very likely to change his style and become the second Gao Gong. He was surprised and then overjoyed.

Surprisingly, since Gao Yushi wants to learn from Gao Gong, and he is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the suppression of southern businessmen must be extremely strong; the joy is that Gao Gong only dealt with officials in the past. There is a limit, and if Gao Yushi suppresses the entire southern businessman, then the power against him will be even greater.

As a funder, it is of course a loss if the officials I invested in were taken down, but this is still acceptable, because I will choose another target to reinvest, and the lost money is "the wool comes from the sheep" anyway. , Just transfer and graft.

But if the highly pragmatic attack directly involves the donors themselves, or even picks up their wool in turn, how can this be tolerated?Even if you spend a lot of money to build momentum, you must suppress this matter, and you must restore the old system!

Shen Shixing was suddenly delighted. Maybe under the pressure of the high-practical new policy, the entire Nanbang officials would become a school of mind, fighting against the high-party and practical schools who planned to pluck their wool.

Once things get serious and the world is in chaos, it will eventually affect the "great cause" in the emperor's mind.In this way, can the highly pragmatic holy family be maintained?
Shen Shixing even thought that Gao Gong had "offended" so many people when he was in power. Even if those people were defeated, his teachers, contemporaries, disciples, in-laws, etc. would not necessarily all be defeated. Could it be that these people Didn't accumulate resentment towards Gao Gong?Wouldn't these grievances be transferred to Gao Yushi, the "legacy heir"?

In the past, the high-practical holy family was too long. These people may not dare to reveal anything, but as the saying goes, when the wall is broken, everyone pushes it, and when the drum is broken, thousands of people beat it. Enmity?
Shen Shixing predicts that Gao Yushi will definitely show the three fires of his new official appointment in the near future, and this fire must be very prosperous.But judging from the emperor's respect for his holy family, he probably couldn't win the emperor's support in the dispute, and the fire would still burn in the end.

But it doesn't matter, now Shen Yuanfu figured it out.When the fire burns down, it will burn down. I don't have to be too entangled, as long as I always express my opposition.

As long as he, as the chief assistant, has always expressed his opposition clearly in the court, the officials who have been hurt by the fire of Gao Yushi and the big businessmen behind him will continue to gather under his banner and become Shen Yuanfu's subordinates. With a strong backing, the school of pragmatism and high pragmatism will never die!
The current situation is Yuan Zongdao persuading Shen Shixing to wait for Gao Yushi to make mistakes and reveal his flaws, but Shen Shixing disagrees. He thinks Gao Yushi can make moves, but he can't do nothing, but should show his flag and make himself Become the only savior in the minds of the entire southern businessmen and even the officials of Nanbang!

Shen Shixing narrowed his eyes slightly, and muttered to himself in a low voice: "The letter is to make ten thousand people go first, come out, and carry the water on their backs. Zhao Jun laughed when he saw it."

Yuan Zongdao didn't hear it very clearly, and asked, "What did Yuan Fu say?"

Shen Shixing glanced at him, then suddenly smiled, and said, "My cabinet said that Bo Xiu is really a prime minister, easy to do, easy to do."

Yuan Zongdao's heart became hot, and he became humble in a rare way, and bowed his hands: "Yuanfu loves you wrongly, and the students are ashamed."

Shen Shixing smiled slightly, but said nothing, but thought to himself: Wrong love?hehe……
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