Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1735 Aid Korea and Anti-Japanese ([-]) Double-edged Sword

Zhu Yijun's words were quite serious, but he had a good grasp of the situation, because he didn't just believe the statement in Gao Yushi's hand, but first expressed that he would send the factory guard to check it out.

Not only is Gao Pragmatism not annoyed by this kind of behavior, but he appreciates it very much, because in his point of view, talking about evidence means respecting facts, which is the major premise of doing things. Quixote fighting the windmill.

"If you understand the problem of the chicken and the monkey, you will find that the seriousness of this matter has become more prominent." Gao Wushi said, "This means that the imperial court has been manipulated by the plutocratic forces to some extent—or at least infiltrated." .

Your Majesty, if the senior officials at the cabinet and ministerial levels have been seriously influenced by the chaebol, and even do not report when the chaebol makes actions that endanger national security, pretend to be deaf and dumb, and even take the initiative to cover up for the chaebol and deceive Sheng Cong , how serious will the consequences be? "

Zhu Yijun frowned deeply, and the royal tribute bamboo leaves in his hand seemed to be no longer fragrant, and he held the wine glass without moving for a long time.After a long time, he asked: "Practically speaking, why do you think this Jiangnan chaebol is always dishonest? Taizu imposed heavy taxes on Suzhou when the country was founded. As a result, the wealth of Suzhou is still the most wealthy in the world, and the wealth spread from Suzhou to most of the world On the contrary, the power of the Jiangnan business gang has continued to grow, and in the end it became what you call the chaebol.

Once this chaebol is formed, it will be even more dishonest.In the past, I didn't understand why Jiangnan officials insisted that the sea ban should not be opened, while northern officials, such as Ling Bowen and Zheng Gao, agreed to open the sea. Only later did I realize the complexity of this.

The Jiangnan chaebol demanded a sea ban in the early years, but they were dissatisfied that the imperial fleet was all done by the Tian family, and almost all the income from the tribute trade belonged to the Tian family. They had almost nothing, so they were naturally jealous and naturally opposed.

Later, when the sea was banned, they began to smuggle. They relied on the ban to ban their competitors, but they made a lot of money one by one. Naturally, they were even more reluctant to open the sea.So this led to the Japanese pirates, who have been in chaos along the coast for decades, far surpassing the real Japanese who fought in small troubles when the country was founded.

Overwhelmed by the left and right, the imperial court finally tempered a few elite soldiers in the war, selected a few talented people, and put down the Japanese pirates' rebellion.At this time, someone finally stood up and said that the intensification of the Japanese pirate rebellion was not caused by other things, but was actually caused by the sea ban. As a result, the court disputes continued until Wen Zhenggong made a final decision and tried to use Zhangzhou Yuegang to open the sea for trade.

And you also joined it very quickly, and persuaded Wen Zhenggong to add more ports after Yuegang opened the sea and received actual results.As a result, in just a few years, the Japanese pirates disappeared, and the proportion of customs tax revenue in the imperial court increased year by year.Finally, the imperial court was gradually able to accumulate surplus, rectify border affairs, lift the feudal ban, and conquer the Northern Yuan Dynasty, until now.

However, these Jiangnan chaebols are still dishonest, and even did such a thing!If they dare to instigate the Cao army today, will they dare to instigate the guards, squads, frontiers, and even the imperial guards tomorrow! When Zhu Yijun said this, he slammed the table with his right hand, and then drank the wine in the glass in his left hand in one gulp, with an undisguised anger and evil spirit in his eyes.

It seems that the investigation belongs to the investigation, but he has already believed in his heart that the Jiangnan chaebol will never escape the involvement in the Cao Jun riot.The so-called investigation is nothing more than to firmly control the criminal evidence in the hands.

However, regarding the emperor's question, that is, "why the Jiangnan chaebols are always dishonest", Gao Wushi was a little hesitant to give him a detailed explanation.Hearing what the emperor said, he seemed to think that the locals in Jiangnan were inherently evil, which was obviously nonsense.

The ancients said that the granary knows the etiquette with its facts. This sentence is correct, but it is not complete.In fact, human society is essentially an economic society, and human beings naturally become economic animals, and all behaviors cannot escape the influence of economic laws.If people in a certain area have some kind of commonality, it cannot be caused by some genetics, but must be related to the position of the local area in the whole big market.

This relationship is very interesting, just like there is a saying in later generations called the division of labor within the world trade system, that is, the position of a country in the world economic chain.

Anyone with a little economic knowledge knows the "smile curve", that is, a curve in the shape of a smiling mouth, with both ends facing up. In the industrial chain, the added value is more reflected in the two ends, that is, design (R&D) and sales. , while the added value of manufacturing in the middle link is the lowest.

Although the current Ming Dynasty refers to the embryonic stage of capitalism, we can probably apply this smile curve.After applying it, you will find that at least before Jinghua rose in the north, the Jiangnan region was so powerful that it was shocking:

In the entire industrial chain, it controls the design and development (intellectual property rights) with the highest profit margin and the market sales at the other end, and it even controls the production!

Do you think which industries were controlled in the Jiangnan area of ​​Ming Dynasty at that time?To count, there are silk (including other kinds of textiles such as brocade, satin, yarn, silk, cotton, etc.), porcelain, tea, paper, ships, sugar, salt...except for not growing food, what else does it do to make money? , and almost reached the top.Even if Jiangnan is not the best place for wine making, it has a lot of famous wines.

what is this?This TM is the strongest in the entire industry chain, completely leaving others nowhere to go!It means that in the Ming Dynasty, I will take care of other things in Jiangnan. You only need to grow some food, raise some pigs and sheep, and provide us with good food and drink.

Can this be no problem?For future generations, this means that there is extremely, extremely, extremely serious regional development imbalance in Ming Dynasty!

In this case, even if the Jiangnan people thought they were just doing their own thing, in the eyes of other people, even the emperor, it would naturally become: "How old are you?" [Note: Internet Steal: Why is it always you? ]
Gao Wushi thought for a while, organized his language a little bit, and said: "This matter is a long story, I wonder if the emperor has noticed that before the early Tang Dynasty, all the games in the Chinese dynasties were distinguished by surname, and each time they played They are all from a big family.

For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, Lu Zhi and Lu Ze, Lu Lu, Lu Chan, and Lu Tai; Dou Yifang and Dou Changjun, Dou Guangguo, and Dou Ying; Wei Zifu and Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Huo Guang... But after the Song Dynasty, the game between surnames , but gradually turned into a battle between regions. "

Zhu Yijun was startled when he heard that, and subconsciously responded, "Oh?"

Gao Yushi knew at a glance that Zhu Yijun hadn't thought about this situation carefully, and of course it was more likely that he hadn't noticed it at all, so he said: "For example, the dispute between the new party and the old party at the end of the Song Dynasty is not a dispute of ideas at all in my view. , but a game between southerners and northerners. If you check the resumes of the people, you will find that the old party bosses are all from the north and inland provinces, while the new party bosses are almost all from the southeast coast. .

For example, among the leaders of the old party, Han Qi was from Hebei, Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo were from Shanxi, Fu Bi was from Henan, and Ouyang Xiu was from Sichuan.In Wang Anshi's new party, almost all the bigwigs are from the south. Wang Anshi and Zeng Bu are from Jiangxi, and Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dun, Cai Que, and Cai Jing are all from Fujian.

Even the encirclement and suppression of the new party in the later period became an alliance of various provinces.For example, the Shuo Party (Shanxi) represented by Sima Guang, the Luo Party (Henan) represented by Ercheng, and the Shu Party (Sichuan) represented by Sansu.The emperor thinks about it, is what the minister said true? "

"Yes." Zhu Yijun nodded in agreement, but immediately asked, "But why?"

Gao Wushi sighed, and said: "This is because from the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, the germination of capital developed rapidly, and plutocrats representing their own interests formed within each province, and the politicians on the stage were nothing more than agents of the interests of various places. It is rare for father and son to inherit the situation again.

Under plutocratic politics, all localities choose agents from the DPRK and China to help them implement economic policies, and the game of agents is also a game of interests.

This situation is easy to explain from an economic point of view. For example, Wang Anshi’s reform suffered a huge backlash. The essence is that the southerners pursued policies that were beneficial to the south but not conducive to the north and inland. Naturally, they encountered collective encirclement and suppression by the north and inland provinces. . "

Regarding this matter, Gao Yushi once understood the difficulty of Wang Anshi's reform in this way when he was working in his previous life: a southerner engaged in a one-size-fits-all national layoff.This measure may be fine in the south, because the south at that time was full of self-employed and private business owners, but if the north at that time was all big state-owned enterprises and there were no private enterprises at all, what would be the result?Obviously, he will definitely be scolded by the northerners.

However, even with such an explanation, Zhu Yijun still maintained a certain ability of independent thinking, and after thinking carefully for a while, he asked: "Pragmatically, according to what you mean, before and after the Tang Dynasty, the general trend in the world was that the elites were very powerful. But in the Song Dynasty, the plutocrats became very powerful... If so, I would like to ask, how did this change come about?"

"That's a good question, the emperor's question can be traced back to the source." Gao Wushi first praised, and then said: "The transformation from a wealthy family to a wealthy family is determined by many reasons, two of which are particularly interesting: One is the imperial examination system that was fully implemented in the Song Dynasty, and the other is the principle of 'not killing scholar-bureaucrats' initiated by the Song Dynasty."

When Gao Wushi mentioned the imperial examination system, Zhu Yijun did not have any big reaction, but when he said "not killing scholar-bureaucrats", Zhu Yijun was very surprised, and said with a surprised face: "It is not right not to kill scholar-bureaucrats?"

"It's not a question of right or wrong." Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "Before the Song Dynasty, officials and landlords had no personal and property security, so they could only rely on the powerful enough to compete with the imperial power to keep their lives safe." Self and property safety. However, with the preferential treatment of scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty, the landlord class quickly lifted its shackles and formed an independent political force.

Similarly, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the past has made it possible for talents to advance upwards only by attaching to the powerful, while ordinary people are tightly framed on the land and have no chance of upward promotion at all.However, the full spread of the imperial examination system allowed the landlord class to quickly have a ladder to directly participate in politics.

Therefore, the reform of the political field in the Northern Song Dynasty actually allowed the imperial examination system to "liberate productivity" in the economic field, allowing ordinary people, especially the landlord class, to gain a higher level of advancement, and not killing scholar-bureaucrats is equivalent to "protecting private property." ', allowing people to operate with peace of mind and not have to rely on others - such as powerful people. "

"Are you saying this is not good?" Zhu Yijun was obviously a little puzzled, because his thinking was much more limited than high-level practicality anyway, so the first thing he thought of after hearing this was: Didn't your family also pass the imperial examination?Why would you object?

"Your Majesty, please listen to me and finish my speech." Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "I often say that the economic base determines the superstructure, and after the rise of the landlord class, there is also an imbalance of power between them.

Uh, the minister explained to the emperor why the north has been getting colder and colder in recent decades, the emperor remembers it? "

"I remember, you said something... about cycles, the Little Ice Age, rainfall lines, etc." Zhu Yijun nodded.

"That's right. In fact, this problem also existed in the Northern Song Dynasty. Of course, it was not as serious and obvious as it is today." Gao Wushi explained: "As the rainfall line moved southward and the temperature dropped in the Northern Song Dynasty, the population and economy in the Jiangnan area rose rapidly. This was the birth of the new party represented by Wang Anshi.

After these interest groups are formed, they will inevitably seek the court's policies to favor them, so they will form fierce policy conflicts with those economically backward areas in the north and west, and as the gap in economic development further widens, it will gradually become unavoidable. reconcile contradictions. "

Although Gao Wushi asked the emperor to listen to him, the emperor couldn't bear it anymore, and interrupted with his hand: "Isn't this still a bad thing?"

Gao Yushi was a little helpless, but fortunately he had a special status in front of the emperor, so he simply became self-willed at this time, spread his hands, and said angrily: "The imperial court collected almost 170 million taels of silver from the southern ports last year. The emperor thinks this is also a bad thing. What? If I say that with the current level of prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River, as long as the court manages it properly, it is absolutely possible to collect tens of millions more every year without affecting the stability of the region, does the emperor think this is a bad thing?"

"Uh... this must be a good thing." Zhu Yijun resentfully said.Glancing again, he noticed Gao Wushi's unhappy face, quickly poured him a glass of Qiulubai with an apologetic smile, and then raised his own glass: "I was rude just now, please don't take offense at Wushi, please continue talking."

The emperor took the initiative to admit his mistake, so Gao Yushi stopped acting and explained: "So this kind of chaebol itself is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they will promote the rapid development of the economy. Unbalanced development has rapidly intensified contradictions."

When it comes to double-edged swords, Zhu Yijun's experience can play a role, and he suddenly said: "Oh, that is to say, I need to find a balance between their two... two performances, and strive for as much as possible. Give full play to their role in promoting economic development, while at the same time minimize their impact on intensifying conflicts, is that what you mean?"

Of course, that is what I meant. Your way of thinking was instilled by me over the years, so what could be wrong?

"Of course." Gao Wushi really affirmed.

Zhu Yijun breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately frowned again: "But where should we start? I... I heard this suddenly, and I really have no idea!"
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