Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1696 Cut Yuan (Fifty) Power
Gao Wushi didn't end in person, but quietly listened to their argument.Until the end Li Rusong's face was ashen, and the rest of the guerrillas still reported to the regiment to warm up and formed a joint camp, and they were still relentless. Then they said indifferently: "After the meal, the rest is extended to an hour, and then continue to chase, who is against it?"

He looked around, but there was no answer at first, then Ye Bangrong stood up and cupped his fists and said: "The last general takes orders." As soon as he moved, the other seven guerrillas also got up immediately, and said in unison: "The last general takes orders."

Gao Yushi didn't even lift his eyelids, but the eyes of the eight guerrillas all looked at Li Rusong.Although Li Rusong was arrogant, he felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles at this moment. He took a look at Gao Pragmatic, who was looking at the Kanyu map with his head down, and stood up, clasped his fists and said, "The last general takes orders."

"Hmm." Gao Wushi still didn't look up, but waved his hands instead, and said, "Go down first and check the heads again, and deal with them well, so that the hall can ask for credit for you."

"promise!"

"As ordered."

All the generals took orders and filed back.When the last person exited the account, the secretaries of Jinghua who had been sitting on the sidelines looked at each other and began to comment.

This time, Gao Qishi's nephew and intelligence secretary, Gao Qi, was the first to speak. He pondered and said, "Fifth Uncle, Li Yangcheng is really a bit rebellious. Do you need to consider beating him?"

At this time, there were no outsiders, Gao Yushi stopped looking at the map, leaned his head on the back of the Taishi chair, closed his eyes and did not speak.

There are a total of six secretaries that Gao Wushi brought with him this time: Commercial Secretary Cao Ke, Military Secretary Ruan Fuyuan, Financial Secretary Gao Wuzhong, Intelligence Secretary Gao Qi, and trainee secretaries Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo, totaling six people.

Among them, Cao Ke and Ruan Fuyuan are both students of Gao Yushi. One is the son of Cao Gan and the other is the son of Ruan Huang; He is Gao Yushi's nephew and the second son of his cousin Gao Wuben; Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo are Gao Yushi's concubine brothers, and they are not in charge of the Jinghua Secretariat, so they are collectively called trainee secretaries.

Gao Qi, as an intelligence secretary, usually studied under Gao Mo, and one of the most important tasks of Gao Mo, the six-room slave in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was to ensure the loyalty and integrity of the Jinghua system. Relationships are very important.

Under such circumstances, as a young man, Gao Qi was naturally deeply affected, so he was quite dissatisfied with Li Rusong's attitude.In fact, he didn't notice much here, that is, the reason why the other eight generals accepted Gao Pragmatic's order without reservation was because the status gap between the guerrilla generals and Meng Yuan Jinglue was too great.

As for the commander-in-chief, relatively speaking, the gap is much smaller - of course, Li Rusong may still be the most proud of all the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, and this is also a key factor affecting his attitude.

However, even if Gao Qi noticed this, he might not care much.You seem to be a town commander, but it depends on the occasion and the target. It’s fine if you are a little domineering in your own territory in Liaodong. Are there any domineering ones like you now?Don't you see that Ma Zongrong and Cao Zongrong are also famous generals with great military exploits, which one is not respectful in front of my fifth uncle?Even a famous commander like Commander Qi would not hesitate to hear my fifth uncle's military order, so you... are worthy?
But at this time Gao Wushi did not respond, which made the secretaries wonder about his intentions.

Gao Wuzhong, Gao Wushi's younger brother and financial secretary, thought for a while and said, "Brother, just now Li Rubai and I met outside the tent and chatted for a while. Li Rubai mentioned that his brother had promised nearly 10 taels of silver this time around. The heavy reward, plus some additional expenses, so far the Li family army probably spent nearly 20 taels more for this battle."

Gao Wushi reacted a bit this time, but he still didn't open his eyes, and just said, "Say something straight."

"Yes, big brother." Gao Wuzhong said: "My little brother thinks that although the Li family's army has a strong foundation, according to the information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at least 4% of his family's property is in the land in various places in Liaodong, and the proportion of commerce and manufacturing will not exceed [-]%. Forty percent. Considering that the Li family army has about [-] elite family members alone, although the imperial court will be responsible for most of the expenses, the rest is still very expensive...

Therefore, my younger brother thought that with Li Rusong's extravagant spending, the Li family in Tieling might be under a lot of financial pressure.This may also be one of the reasons why Li Rusong is eager to get more military exploits. After all, with more military exploits, it is possible to earn back the 20 rewards, or at least part of them, so as to avoid not being rewarded in the future and losing money. The morale of the army. "

Gao Wuzhong's words didn't have any obvious inclinations, to some extent, he even seemed to be looking for reasons for Li Rusong's impatience.But thinking about it carefully, it seems that his intention cannot be understood so simply. After all, it can also be understood as implying that Li Jiajun is currently in a financial crisis that can be used.

As soon as he heard this, Cao Ke, the business secretary, said, "Teacher, Tieling Li's financial resources have been a little tight these past few years. The students know this very well."

Gao Yushi still kept his eyes closed, and just said a simple "oh", with a hint of rhetorical question in his tone.

Cao Ke immediately said: "It's like this. The Li family in Tieling originally quietly controlled several horse markets on the border, most of them conspired with some of their Li family's generals, and the Li family's income in it was generally [-]% to [-]%. They also involved a lot of buying and selling, from food to agricultural tools, from cloth to silk, from ginseng to furs, and even...from salt and iron to gunpowder."

Gao Wushi finally opened his eyes this time, glanced at him, and asked, "What happened next?"

"Later, most of the business was taken away by the Jinghua Trading Company or the Maritime Trade Alliance. For example, Yanba, since the construction of the Liaonan Salt Field and its gradual expansion, it has almost monopolized the Liaodong Salt Industry in a few years, and the surrounding areas such as North Korea and Jianzhou , Hercynian, Nenghorqin, and even the savages (Jurchen), Beishan, etc., all turned to obtain salt from the Liaonan Salt Field through various channels.

There is nothing to say about farm tools. Since Kaiping's ironware entered the Liaodong market, the small local blacksmith shops in Liaodong have almost no way to survive.The price of good quality is too high, and the quality of low price is outrageous. Soon many closed down, which seriously affected the purchase channels of Tieling Li's.

Later, we built new coal mines and iron factories in Liaodong, absorbing most of these bankrupt blacksmiths, which is equivalent to blocking the purchase channel of the Li family from the source.Up to now, according to the students' understanding, there are only two blacksmith shops in Guangning, and the maintenance and repair of some armor and weapons in the Li family is already a little bit powerless.

Food is considered to be the core industry that the Li family is still barely supporting, but even so, the situation is not optimistic.This is mainly because of the impact of corn, many poor people in Liaodong began to switch to corn, and so did the Jurchens—after all, it was cheap.

In addition, although the promotion speed of drought-tolerant rice is not as fast as originally expected, it is mainly because the cultivated varieties are still not stable enough.We have sent people to strictly follow up on this. Many experienced farmers have said that it may take more than ten to twenty years to see the results of this kind of thing, that is, the variety stabilizes.

Our secretariat predicts that when the drought-resistant rice varieties become stable, Liaodong’s grain production may usher in a major increase—of course, the premise is that more plains can be opened up and some places can be replanted.In this regard, we even inspected some places in Yehe, Hada, and even Wula, and found that their current territories have a lot of land suitable for growing rice.

All these situations are bad news for Li Jiajun.In addition, the area east of the Liaohe River is now basically controlled by Jinghua. The Li family's army lost several important horse markets, which almost interrupted their trade with North Korea and Jurchen, and greatly reduced their family's financial resources... In this way, Li Yangcheng's eagerness to get more military exploits is not only due to his personality, but also most likely forced by the situation. "

Cao Ke said so much at once, but the final conclusion he reached was more inclined to explain Li Rusong than Gao Wuzhong's speech, which immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of Gao Wushi's younger brother Gao Wuruo.

Gao Wuruo frowned and said, "The Tieling Li family has eyes but no eyes, doesn't know the general trend, and so far is still working for the group of hypocrites who are doing nothing for the country and the people of the Heart School. Shouxin, do you mean that you are complaining for them?"

This statement is a bit heavy, and it has been exalted, Cao Ke definitely can't put this hat on, and quickly waved his hands and said: "Master Liu, the teacher treats the students with kindness and kindness, how can the students stand for others regardless of the enemy?

What the students mean is that Li Yangcheng is in a mess internally now, but he has no means in these matters, so he will appear aggressive in the military affairs he is familiar with, and what about us... Well, the students think that we can actually start from Other parties tried to force him to submit. "

When Gao Wushi heard this, he suddenly remembered some things he had learned in the party school, such as the three levels of power: coercion, control, and influence.

Some Western scholars in later generations like to study these things, and the more generally accepted sayings like to divide power into these three levels. Although the expression methods or words are somewhat different, the general idea is the same, that is, the above three "levels".

The so-called coercion is to require the other party to obey through a violent means.For example, in the government, it is achieved through violent means such as the army and organizations.However, in the systems of administrative, military, and even corporate organizations, the position itself has a kind of coerciveness. Therefore, when the subordinates disagree with the superiors, in order to implement their own guidelines, the superiors will use this power to force the subordinates to follow the guidelines. Act on your own mind.

Control is not the same as coercion, and violent institutions are only a means of control.In addition, through the establishment of laws and regulations, administrative management, and the use of high-tech technology for supervision, designated people or groups of people can be delineated within a certain range, and in the administration, military, and even enterprises, the scope of control naturally exceeds simple authority , but extended to the content of laws and regulations, rules and regulations, through the monitoring of the entire administrative or business process, so as to achieve overall performance.

Influence is through external factors, causing itself to generate a driving force, so as to act in accordance with the behavior of the influencer.In politics, it is often manifested in positive beautification through the use of the media's propaganda role, and through various or authoritative demonstrations, or actions such as closeness to the people and hard work, to actively demonstrate the personality charm of leaders.In specific administration, military affairs or enterprises, the influence comes more from the culture of the country, the army or the enterprise and the charisma of personality of a certain leader in the position.

To put it simply, the basic level of power is coercion, that is, violence forces subordinates to obey; the higher level is control, which makes subordinates less obedient, but the root cause is not much different, just the violent nature of coercion It is not so obvious; the highest level is influence, that is, by changing the understanding and even ideology of the subordinates, the subordinates feel that they should obey, so they actively obey the leadership of the superior.

From this point of view, when it comes to how to deal with Li Rusong or Tieling Li, some of my secretaries are still at the first level, and some of them have entered the second level.

The first level is typical violent coercion. For example, my Jinghua strength crushes your Li family. If you dare not follow me, I will kill you in minutes.

Of course, this "destruction" does not necessarily mean that Jinghua directly used force to kill Li's family from top to bottom.In fact, what is implied here is that Gao Wu has enough influence in front of the emperor, and he has enough power in the court to promote various means to send the Li family into the eighteenth level of hell—anyway, if you don’t agree with me, I will die .

Obviously this kind of thinking is very backward. How can politics be so simple?Either-or does exist in politics, but politics is an art of compromise. If you take advantage of the moment and "kill" those who disobey you, it will only make everyone feel insecure. Except for a handful of your direct descendants, everyone else has become your enemy.If things go on like this, no one can bear it.

The second level is a bit smarter. For example, what Cao Ke alluded to just now means not to touch Li Rusong at the political and military levels, but to do it on the economic basis that Li Jiajun relies on.The Li family army essentially existed as a private army. Although the imperial court paid for most of the basic expenses, these expenses could not really satisfy this kind of private army with the nature of a servant. The Li family still needed to invest a lot of money in it themselves.

In this case, once the Li family lost their source of income, they would not be able to maintain this investment, and the Li family's army could only drift away with the wind.But the Li family is not a fool, if there are signs of exhaustion of financial resources, they will definitely change their ways in order to survive, so they can only turn around and beg Jinghua to let them go.In this way, it is natural to complete the control of the Li family, at least they will definitely be able to force them to leave the Heart School.

However, for Gao Yushi, this method is still too tough, and for an upright man like Li Rusong, it is really not a clever method.

For Li Rusong, the best way is to convince him.
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