Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1600 Inside (Part [-])
The timing of the high-practical Shangshu was chosen very well, and the time was two days before the Longevity Festival.

Why is the first two days a good time?Because the Wanshou Festival in the Ming Dynasty is one of the "three major festivals" that are important together with "New Year's Day" and the winter solstice, the national holiday of Wanshou Day is three days - the day before and the day after the emperor's holy day (birthday) are holidays of.

In other words, as long as the cabinet and the emperor did not complete the bill drafting and imperial approval process after Gao Pragmatic’s Shangshu, whether the “Great Post Book” can be accepted by the court will have to be postponed until after the festival.

The three days of the Wanshou Festival were actually specially reserved by Gao Yushi for the court to carefully examine the content of this booklet.Of course, they may not be so thoughtful on the first day of the holy festival, because there will be a big pilgrimage on that day.

Here we must first clarify the definition of the early dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. The dynasty of the Ming Dynasty is divided into three types, namely the Great Dynasty, the Shuowang Dynasty and the Chang Dynasty.

The Shuowang Dynasty is held on the first and fifteenth day of each month. Its nature is like a big dynasty. It is also held in the Huangji Hall (formerly Fengtian Hall, renamed by Jiajing), but it is only for court celebrations and does not discuss political affairs.

The Chang Dynasty is often referred to as the Early Dynasty. The Early Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty actually included the Noon Dynasty and even the Late Dynasty, but the Late Dynasty was not normalized, so there is no need to explain it.Just talking about the Chang Dynasty, it was actually held at Fengtianmen (renamed Huangjimen during Jiajing, which is now the Taihe Gate of the Forbidden City). This is a "challenge" that handles political affairs seriously.

The Dachao held special court meetings only on Zhengdan, Winter Solstice, and Wanshou Festival. The nature of the meeting was that all officials congratulated the emperor.

By the way, in April of the 36th year of Jiajing (1557), the three main halls were burned down again by thunder and fire, and the spread spread wider, making Wenlou (now Tiren Pavilion), Wulou (now Hongyi Pavilion), Fengtianmen (now Hongyi Pavilion) Taihe Gate), Zuoshun Gate (now Xiehe Gate), Youshun Gate (now Xihe Gate) and the left and right corridors outside the Meridian Gate were also burned.Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing had to set up court at Duanmen and ordered the reconstruction of the damaged buildings. The reconstruction was completed in September of the 41st year of Jiajing (1562).

However, this reconstruction has greatly reduced the size of the original three halls, resulting in an imbalance between the building and the three-story platform.The reason for this situation should most likely be that the imperial court had a serious financial deficit due to the southern Japanese and northern captives. I don’t know what kind of mentality it was. After the reconstruction was completed, Jiajing changed the name of the three halls.

The reduced Fengtian Hall was renamed "Huangji Hall" by Emperor Jiajing, the Huagai Hall was renamed "Zhongji Hall", and the Jinshen Hall was renamed "Jianji Hall".Obviously, in addition to the Huangji Hall, which represents the imperial power, the other two halls of the three major halls have a great scholar named after him: the first assistant will be the "Zhongji Hall Great Bachelor" from now on, and the second assistant will be fixed as "Jianji Temple University Bachelor".

The Longevity Festival is still one day away, and the ministers and workers are relatively free, so they can take care of their personal affairs.However, there are actually not many officials who are really free to do their private affairs. Officials who are a little bit higher and have entered the core of power or the edge of the core are very busy on this day. They are all busy discussing in tandem what position they should take after the Longevity Festival. Let's face the "Renovation Station Book" presented by Gao Situ this time.

First, let’s talk about the School of Reality’s own side.Originally, Gao Yushi’s essay was to a large extent to cut his own flesh in Jinghua to cooperate with the reform of the imperial court. In theory, everyone should praise it, but the reality did not go so smoothly. Reservations.

Why?Of course it is also because of interests.

Jinghua is a giant-level business group. Its main body is of course the highly pragmatic "wholly-owned" Jinghua itself, but what is usually called "Jinghua" actually blurs a concept. Jinghua and Jinghua in a broad sense.

In a narrow sense, Jinghua is the Jinghua wholly-owned by Gao Pragmatism, including various industries under its name, such as various mines, iron factories, shipyards, cement factories, ports, fleets, porcelain factories, tussah silk factories, saltworks and even trading companies. A large number of industrial and commercial entities, such as banks, logistics, etc., can even include the "advisory group" with Jinghua's characteristics-the Supreme Emperor's institutions in various countries in southern Xinjiang.

The main characteristic of these entities is that the highly pragmatic decision is the final decision. In theory, he can make any decision without asking anyone else.In the words of later generations, it is because he personally holds 100% of the shares in these entities, so his decision is equivalent to the decision of the entire shareholders' meeting.

But in addition to Jinghua in the narrow sense, there is also Jinghua in the broad sense.What is Jinghua in a broad sense?For example, although the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance is an "alliance" organization, there is no doubt that it is highly pragmatic and has the final say under normal circumstances. This organization has always been regarded as the "Jinghua Department".

But is it true that the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance can be dealt with by Gao Pragmatic?Of course not, because there are other "shareholders" and "proxy shareholders" in this alliance. These people all have their own interests in mind. All decision-making needs to consider their interests.

The reason is very simple. If Gao Wushi can't persuade them with his benefits, it shouldn't be the Maritime Trade Alliance that went to Luzon last year, but Jinghua itself alone.

Why not look back at last year's Luzon expedition and see how much the major shareholders in the Maritime Trade Alliance other than Jinghua contributed.

At that time, the nobles of the Jingnan family included the Duke of the Three Kingdoms, the Thirteen Marquis (including the Marquis of his relatives), and the 21st Uncle (including his relatives, but not including Li Chengliang).Gao Pragmatism persuaded them, so that when they dispatched troops to Luzon, the nobles contributed a total of 96 armed transport ships, with a total of more than 2600 shipboard artillery pieces, including 768 long and heavy artillery pieces on the No. [-].

How big is this power?Gao Wushi dares to say that, after excluding extreme situations like the "Kamikaze" in the past, even if dozens of Japanese naval forces are all tied together today, normally speaking, they cannot beat this "noble fleet".

And this can also be compared. Jinghua itself dispatched the main force of the Beiyang Fleet at that time. Its core was a three-tier sail battleship, two-tier four sail cruisers, and 49 armed transport ships were dispatched as planned, and finally additional new launches were dispatched. The two experimental high-speed reconnaissance ships "Left Hussar" and "Right Hussar" have not yet entered service.

With the strength of Jinghua, if the seven pure warships are not counted, the armed transport ships dispatched by it are only half of the "Honorary Fleet".

Seeing the whole picture at a glance, the scale of stakeholders attached to the main body of Jinghua is already very large, not only in the commercial fleet, but also in other industries?

Let’s just talk about some of the aspects mentioned in the "Renewal Post Book" this time. The most affected industry by Gao Yushi’s proposal is Jinghua’s own logistics system, but Jinghua’s logistics system is not independent.

Although most of the fleet and horse fleet belong to Jinghua, as I said before, as a private commercial enterprise, Jinghua has to consider the cost, and the density of its logistics nodes in different regions is not the same.

For example, in Shaanxi, Jinghua's cavalry set up four major nodes in Xi'an, Hanzhong, Lintao, and Qingyang, but Yan'an, Pingliang, Gongchang, and Fengxiang did not.

So what should Yan'an Prefecture do if it wants to carry out logistics?Among the officials of the Real School of local origin, some cooperated with Jinghua and undertook the business of transporting materials from Yan'an Mansion to Qingyang Mansion and Xi'an Mansion. Part of Jinghua's "supply chain".

Yan'an Prefecture is just an example, and the situation in other places is basically similar.

In addition, Jinghua still has a relatively strong position due to its strong foundation in the north and relatively weak partners. However, the "cooperation" in the south, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is more detailed and not as strong as in the north.

For example, Jinghua and Wu Dui’s family, who were born in Shanyin, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, also cooperate in logistics. In this cooperation, Jinghua’s own business scope is even lower——Jinghua has only established three prefectures in Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Wenzhou in Zhejiang. The first-level logistics node, the rest of the business is "outsourced" to the Wu family in Shanyin, and the Wu family "subcontracts" the areas that they do not directly cover the business to some officials of the Zhejiang Real School.

In this way, around the giant ship Jinghua, there was already a large group of people eating meat and drinking soup.Although the reform of the imperial post station does not mean that Jinghua's logistics business will not have to be done, but it is always certain that the interests will be affected.

As part of the "Great Jinghua" system in a broad sense, if Jinghua earns less, they will naturally earn less, so of course they will not be so happy about Gao Yushi's "Renovation Post Book" this time.

When the reform changes to the point of starting to use the knife on oneself, there is no doubt that it means entering the "deep water area". This is the most testing time for reform decision makers.After all, it is easy to perform surgery on others, but difficult to perform surgery on yourself.

Gao Yushi welcomed Wu Dui's visit today.This Gao Gongmen student, who had just been promoted from a Bachelor of Wuyingdian to a Bachelor of Wenhuadian not long ago, did not hide his worries in front of his "brother" and junior brother Gao Yushi.

In Gao Yushi's study room in the Rixin Building, the two parties sat down separately. Wu Dui and Gao Yushi first exchanged a few words, and then cut to the point, saying: "Brother Qiuzhen, you also know that although I am a civil servant, Nian is a border minister outside, and handles military affairs inside. He is really straight-hearted. I will not go around with you too much. I am here mainly to ask you about the logistics business related to Jinghua after the reform of the post station. What to do about it."

Before Gao Pragmatic could answer, Wu Dui raised his concerns first: "You know the situation in Zhejiang, and there are not many officials from our School of Reality. You used Jinghua's various transactions as a lead to attach them around Jinghua. , so that the entire Zhejiang Real School has been twisted into one rope, and has the strength to compete with the Xinxue party members-at least it will not be continuously eroded and suppressed, which is very good.

But as soon as the "Renewal Station Book" was published, many people found Brother Yu, saying that such innovation was a good thing for the court, but it was a disaster for them.Money is vulgar, but reading also costs money.

The children of each family need to spend money to cultivate, so as to ensure that our power in the court will gradually increase, or at least not tend to become weak.But in terms of logistics, the main income comes from freight. If you restructure the delivery office this time, the court station will probably rely on cost advantages to snatch market share from them, causing them serious losses, and this will Affecting the successor of our real school..."

Gao Wushi sighed softly, nodded and said, "My little brother understands the truth of this."

Wu Dui waited for a while, seeing that Gao Wushi finished his sentence and there was no more text, he couldn't help but secretly frowned, and said helplessly, "Please, please don't misunderstand brother Yu, in fact, since the dog joined Jinghua, brother Yu didn't think much about money. In the logistics business in Zhejiang, Brother Yu earns a few thousand taels a year, or even more than ten thousand taels, so what? Brother Yu will not be poor if he earns less money.

Brother Yu is really worried that your actions will shake the foundation.Think about it, since Mr. Xin Zhai (Zhang Xueyan) returned home, only Brother Yu and Gan Ji (Zi Liang Menglong) in the cabinet are sure to support you, but Brother Yu has held the position of Mr. Xin Zhai. It only ranked third, and it was still just a group assistant.

Ganji has just entered the cabinet, and he is ranked last.The fault is not because we are both members of the real school, and now I am afraid that I can only be an old man who raises his hands. How can I compare with Shen and Wang?

However, the strength of practical learning cannot be compared with the prosperity of practical learning officials in the world. We were originally not as strong and large-scale in the south as the foundation of mental learning. Will you turn to others?
Not to mention that they switched to Xinxue, even if they switched to Xu Weizhen (Xu Guo), it would be a big bad thing for you to seek the truth.Now that Xu Weizhen and Shen Longjiang (Shen Li) are very close, and Shen Longjiang is the chief constitution (Zuodu Yushi), if they take this opportunity to win over a large number of rising stars, even if you can successfully enter the cabinet to assist the government in the future, you will still be in trouble How many people can use it?Therefore, in my humble opinion, the post station reform needs to be cautious. "

Gao Wushi nodded again, and said: "Brother is worried that the south has always been the weakness of our real school, and it has been poorly managed for many years. It is a major mistake if someone picks the peaches because of the inn reform. .”

He paused, and then said: "However, when it comes to business, I have some personal opinions. I also want to take this opportunity to communicate with the senior brother and get some advice from the senior brother."

"Seeking the truth, I'm just kidding, Brother Yu can't give you advice on business matters." Wu Dui repeatedly waved his hands to show that he didn't dare to take it, and then said: "But if you have anything to say, you should ask some colleagues from Zhejiang through Brother Yu Convey, although Brother Yu is not talented, he is still willing to contribute some spare energy."

"Brother is too modest." Gao Wushi smiled, and cut to the point, said: "Brother, you know, the root reason why I am willing to make such a cut of flesh this time is not that the reform of the post station can only be done according to the "Great Post Book" These methods are used to do it, but there are other reasons?"
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