Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1955 Return of the Dynasty to Japan (Wei [-]) Governor of Tianjin
Although there are many highly pragmatic officials on the wharf, they are quite different from other places. There is no strict distinction between civil and military, which is very local.To some extent, this may also be one of the reasons why Gao Yushi always has a preference for Tianjin.

The reason why it is said that the lack of strict distinction between civil and military is very characteristic of Tianjin. This starts with the relatively unique regional administrative district of Tianjin Wei in the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called regional administrative region is a type of administrative region in which urban and rural areas are not divided, and "urban and rural areas are governed together".In the long period of feudal society in China, the small peasant economy was the main economic form, so most of the countries implemented the policy of "emphasizing agriculture and despising business" for the needs of ruling.

As a result, industry and commerce were mainly concentrated in towns, and regional administrative regions that “combined urban and rural governance” became an effective administrative division method for the state to control cities and towns.

Scholars of later generations tend to believe that there were only towns but no cities in China’s feudal society. It was not until “the city was established as an administrative system in the early 20th century” that towns were fully included in the network of “urban-rural integration”.

Cities and towns in regional administrative regions have no independence in administrative divisions, and their status is not prominent.The population in a regional administrative area is mainly agricultural population, which is scattered.The degree of non-agriculturalization and aggregation of the population is very low, and the productivity is characterized by a planar distribution.The commodity economy is often underdeveloped, and the regional economy is characterized by a steady-state structure.

Of course, feudal society also had "urban and rural divisions," but this was purely in terms of economics and geography.From the point of view of administrative divisions, which are the superstructure of the country, it is still the way of "combined urban and rural governance", that is, regional administrative divisions.

Those towns and even smaller towns still have the basic elements and essential characteristics of an independent administrative region, and of course it is possible to set up special management agencies and administrative regions.Until the Ming Dynasty, although urban development was quite prosperous, it was also an appendage of regional divisions.

Specific to Tianjin, its regional administrative district is derived from the military administrative district—Tianjinwei.If you look at the Ming and Qing dynasties in the original history, you will find that the establishment and development of Tianjin's regional administrative region is the inevitable result of the lowering of economic, political and cultural status, but it has completed the transformation from a military castle to an administrative division. , and also laid the foundation for the transition from a regional administrative district to an urban administrative district in modern Tianjin.

The rapid development of administrative divisions can reflect the importance of Tianjin, so it obtained development opportunities and space comparable to other cities in those two dynasties, especially in the late Qing Dynasty.Of course, the late Qing Dynasty is too far away, that's all.

Tianjin was originally an important transit station for water transportation, and it was also the gateway to defend Beijing. Therefore, before the middle of Ming Dynasty, Tianjin was developed due to water transportation, and administrative affairs became less and less. However, the military castle—Tianjinwei, its management system is complicated. It is also comprehensive, and it is obviously able to complete the increasingly complex tasks of water transportation well.

At the turn of the Long-Wan period, Di Gong opened up the road to open sea and trade with fewer ports on the basis of low-level practical suggestions, and also before the "pilot" of Yuegang had a small success.Low Pragmatism himself firstly built and operated Tianjin Port as a key project of Jinghua Maritime Trade.

For a long time before that, Tianjin Port gradually became one of Xiaoming's most important small ports. Only a small amount of export trade took this place as a hub, and domestic water transportation was also changed to sea transportation, which was sent from southern provinces to Tianjin Port. Transshipment to Beijing [Note: Before water transportation was changed to sea transportation, the small canal was used as a private commercial route, and customs and taxes were still set up, which instead became the key point of commercial taxation].

As a result, there will be fewer and fewer administrative affairs in Tianjin Port, and the originally complex militarized management organization of Tianjin Wei will be more and more unable to undertake related tasks.Therefore, reform has become a top priority.

As a result, driven by low pragmatism, the Ming court ended the establishment of civil government offices in Tianjin, and the coexistence of civil and military government offices appeared. The military-style regionalization of Tianjin became less and less distinctive, and the transition from military management to administrative management was inevitable.

In fact, after the Hongzhi Dynasty, the number of government offices set up in Tianjin was mostly military, which shows that the military color was very strong, and the establishment of the former civilian government offices was soon terminated.However, in the Wanli Dynasty before the opening of Tianjin Port, the number of civilian government offices suddenly stopped increasing, and soon surpassed that of military government offices.

Among them, the eight most important newly established yamen should be the "Tianjin Branch of the Customs Department of the Customs Administration of the Ministry of Households", the "Tianjin Audit Branch of the Audit Office of the Ministry of Households", and the Tianjin Procuratorate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate-related issues of the Procuratorate Gao Yushi explained it during his tenure as the Guangxi patrol censor, so I will repeat it here.

In short, although there are few new civilian yamen in Tianjin, none of the eight most important new yamen are directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs. It can be seen that the improvement of Tianjin's status is closely related to the degree of economic development, and the degree of pragmatic participation is low. It can be said to be very low.

Although the following yamen are important, the most important thing is the processing function of specific affairs.From a macro point of view, the improvement of Tianjin's administrative status should be discussed from the setting of "high-ranking officials".

Under the original history, Tianjin’s transformation from a military-type administrative region to a regional-type administrative region has experienced the above several stages: purely military fortress (Yongle to Chenghua years) – military-type administrative regions dominated, and regional-type administrative regions appeared ( Hongzhi to the mid-Wanli period)—the development of the regional administrative area (the middle Wanli period to the eighth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty)—the formal establishment of the regional administrative area (the eighth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty).That is the small process from the emergence, development and establishment of the regional administrative region of Tianjin.

The first is the beginning of the regional administrative region——the establishment of Tianjin Road Rectification Deputy Envoy.There are no Tianjin Guards, Tianjin Right Guards, or Tianjin Left Guards in Tianjin City.The eight guards and their officials have always fought for power and profit, and they shirk and argue when things happen.

The main reason is that the ranks of the chiefs are the same, and the eight people are in the same city, but they are all subordinates to each other, which makes the management of the Tianjin Acropolis so good that "there is no shortage of money, and it is possible to deal with it suddenly."

As Tianjin is an important water transportation center and transit center of "Mi Er Shen Jing", the chaotic management of the eight guards will inevitably cause some kind of out-of-control phenomenon in Tianjin Acropolis. The lowest authority must stop paying attention and start to solve that problem.

In the eighth year of Hongzhi (1490), Bai Ang, the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment at that time, proposed to the court: "Hongzhi [-] should be discussed with court officials. ".

The imperial court accepted the suggestion and repaired the Acropolis in the seventh year of Hongzhi. "From the moat to the trail in the east, to Wangqianhuzhuang in the south, to the Xiaozhikou trail in the west, and to Majiakou in the north. It is ten miles long from north to south, and four miles wide from east to west. , The army and the people started planting, and received grain according to the number, which was formerly owned by Haozuo. In the seventh year of Hongzhi, the city was built, and it was restored. Every year, the reeds were collected and the grains were collected for a total of two hundred and fifty taels of silver. make bricks".

It can be seen that the deputy envoy of Tianjin Road has no military or administrative duties.Prior to this, the management power of Tianjin City had been unified, and the military and civilians were also divided, depriving the Eight Guards of their small administrative power.

It should be said that the establishment of the Deputy Envoy of Tianjin Road Rectification marked the end of the transition of Tianjin city from a military management system to an administrative management system, that is, the transition from military divisions to regional divisions.

Secondly, the step-back development of regional administrative districts—the establishment of Tianjin governor.The origin and current situation of the governor have not been explained in detail in this book, so there is little to say, here we only talk about the emergence of the "Tianjin Governor".

Tianjin originally had no governor, because it seems that there is no need to set up a governor in Tianjin.However, before Japan launched the war of aggression against Korea, the Ming court was slow to decide to aid Korea to fight against the Japanese, so it was necessary to solve the problem of sharp increase in frontline pressure that would inevitably be brought about by sending troops.

Therefore, before Gao Pragmatically determined the principle that the main frontier service should be provided by Haixia (meaning that the land is transported), and before I got the approval of the emperor, I slowly put forward the suggestion of setting up a governor in Tianjin accordingly.

The process of getting that proposal approved was not simple, and there was not much difficulty in it. However, since the end of the Korean War, the imperial court has adjusted two times in a few years since the end of the Korean War. Second-rate.

In the first stage, in the 77th year of Wanli, the governor of Tianjin was separated from the governor of Baoding, specializing in coastal defense, but with land jurisdiction.The main task at that time was to provide Li Rusong us with supplies for undersea transport, which were basically transported to the western coast of the Korean peninsula.

Before, due to the signing of the armistice agreement, a small number of people in the imperial court thought that since this post was specially designed for the war, now that the war is over, it should naturally be "dismissed immediately after the end of the war", so they dismissed the governor of Tianjin.

Gao Pragmatism raised a little bit of praise at the time, but I can say that the armistice agreement is just a piece of scrap paper, so the reason I said can only be "if the small army is withdrawn, it is certain that the Japanese have committed crimes again." The meaning of the celestial barrier, so it is too late to abolish it."As a result, the foothold of that statement was considered too conservative, so it was not adopted.

The seventh stage, of course, is before the Korean war resumes.At that time, "at the time of restoration, Hejian Mansion under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Baoding, seven counties of Wuqing and Baodi under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Shuntian, Luanzhou and Leting County of Yongping Prefecture and the coastal islands were their jurisdictions", and the local government was in charge. Little power, and no land jurisdiction.

To put it mildly, there is no eighth stage in the original history. government.

The current governor of Tianjin has a shrinking jurisdiction, so he is only in charge of Tianjin Wei itself, and does not have Hejian Prefecture, Wuqing, Baodi, Luanzhou, Laoting, eight counties, and coastal islands.

Speaking of that, the reason why low pragmatism generally pays attention to Tianjin and "has no affection" for Tianjin has gradually surfaced-Luanzhou is now under the jurisdiction of the governor of Tianjin.

Is there anything ordinary in Luanzhou?Of course not, Kaiping Industrial Zone, which still maintains the name of the smallest systematic industrial base under Jinghua Group, is in Luanzhou!In other words, the current direct supervisor of Kaiping Industrial Zone is the governor of Tianjin.

For such an important position, low pragmatism will definitely let others get involved. You must appoint a "person of your own" to worry about it.Therefore, the future governor of Tianjin is someone else, and it is my protégé——Ye Xianggao.

In fact, the most important reason is that Tang Xiongjie is not happy about the news that he is about to be the governor of Tianjin, but rather has some resistance.

That is to say that the position of the dignified governor is all placed in Ye Xianggao's eyes, but that I have mixed my qualifications under the position of the most noble academic officer in the Imperial Academy. Very smooth.

According to the previous rules, I only need a recommendation from my teacher in the future, and at worst I can directly include the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and if I am lucky, I can even directly include the Minister of the Ministry of Rites.If there are some delicate timings - such as the new emperor's ascension to the throne, he may be able to join the cabinet and assist the government in eight months under the position of Minister of Rites.

To be honest, that path was smoother than my mentor's official career!Don't underestimate the frighteningly young age when I entered the cabinet, but I entered the cabinet based entirely on "merit". It was a wave of reforms, small victories one after another, paving the way with relatively prominent achievements, and weak actions. I went to the cabinet by myself.

Ye Xianggao is very vague. That kind of situation has never existed since ancient times. Although I, Ye, am incompetent if I ask myself, it is better than getting my own mentor. .

An abnormal person is eager to be an official, and he has many things to do. It is best to get into the cabinet with wind and waves. In that life, being a minister will be considered complete.However, my teacher Gao is the same as an official. This is because there are fewer things and smaller things, because for Teacher Gao, fewer things mean fewer opportunities to make meritorious service, and smaller things mean meritorious service. smaller.

That spirit, that demeanor, which serious official dares to compare with me?Is there such a thing as a person looking for trouble?

That’s right, being pragmatic is just that my ability to do meritorious service is unsurpassed, and I’ve always been able to persuade others, and that time my reason for persuading Ye Xianggao was particularly amazing—to be honest, Ye Xianggao was really shocked when he heard it. Almost closed the chin.

Low pragmatically speaks very straightforwardly, and his tone is normal and firm.I said, when I become the chief assistant, I will change the rules for Xiaoming's officialdom: the current cabinet assistant ministers will have no experience in local or eight-level grassroots work, so there will be no Hanlin, Qinggui, and everything It is a "strange phenomenon" that he directly enters the cabinet to assist the government.

As soon as Low Pragmatic's words came out, Ye Xianggao immediately thought of the famous saying in "Han Feizi Xianxue": "The prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must start from the army."

Obviously, my mentor must have held that position, and judging from the way he spoke at the time, what my mentor said was definitely not a joke, and he would definitely put it into practice.

Ye Xianggao was a student of Gao Yushi's youth, and in recent years he occasionally "passed on the art" as a teacher for Gao Yuan's brothers, so I am not quite confident about Gao Yushi's expression and demeanor.

Since the mentor said that, Tang Xiongjie would certainly believe it.In fact, it is because I believe that almost all the words said in those years of low pragmatism have been realized, or are being pushed back smoothly.Considering my current age, meritorious service, and unique status comparable to others in the eyes of the emperor, since the low pragmatism says it will be changed, it will definitely be changed in the future.

Hanlin Qinggui's way of soaring to the sky may really be broken in the future, and since the teacher deliberately disclosed the news to himself in advance, it is suspected to be deliberately cultivated!On top of that kind of opportunity, if I still grasp it, it would be really stupid and attainable.

Therefore, Ye Xianggao took the initiative to recommend himself at that time, expressing his willingness to be the "Governor of Tianjin" who did not even have a piece of land under his jurisdiction.Ye Xianggao took up the post again before this post was dismissed and reinstated. Until today, I have led the appearance at Jinghua Main Wharf of Tianjin Port to welcome the triumphant debriefing of my mentor.
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PS: Seeing the news from the front desk of the author's mobile phone, some readers pointed out that the part of Peng Xin's ancient part mentioned in yesterday's chapter overlaps with that in the following article.It is true after you checked it. I am very sorry. The so-called 1K owed yesterday is now withdrawn. I will find a chance to make it up later.

In addition, I also talk about the reason for this situation: you do not have a special folder, and there will be some plots that are not recorded in the outline and will be written in the sequel.That is, some relatively independent people and things, when you are temporarily uninspired, you will delay writing them here, and you can use them directly when you need them.

As a result, when I wrote about Peng Xingu yesterday, I forgot to use it, so I used it again... very embarrassing.But, in fact, how should I put it, after writing for a long time, I sometimes forget the following text. That phenomenon is really common, anyway, I am very sorry.

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