Daming Yuanfu

A political incident involving many high-ranking or former high-ranking officials in the government and the opposition, and there are not many simple "rich merchants and landlords" involved, and most of the people who follow them are the Shilin family, so this incident cannot be done. Does not arouse high pragmatic heights anymore.

Gao Wushi knew that the occurrence of such a phenomenon itself meant that the government was out of order, and a certain contradiction had intensified to an appalling level.

The government is out of order. These four words really shouldn't appear in today's Ming Dynasty. After all, even the opponents of the Real School admit that the current world is "Wanli Zhongxing".

Take a look at this Wanli Dynasty:

Externally, it is invincible, sealing Mengyou, restoring Annan, defeating Burma, expelling Canyuan, pacifying Liaodong, expelling Japanese pirates, and accepting North Korea.
Internally, it rectified the system, set up customs, Shuyi Road, reorganized military industry, trained banned troops, cleared acres of land, collected business taxes, and opened vassal bans.

In such a flourishing age of ZTE, how could there be "government disorder"?It doesn't make sense at all.

However, the facts are in front of our eyes, at least it is obvious that Jiangnan Shilin is extremely dissatisfied with the current government, which makes Gao Yushi think that he must find out the reason before he can prescribe the right medicine.

Then the first big question is in front of us: Why are Jiangnan scholars so dissatisfied with the current government?

According to Gao Yushi's past thinking, he has always had a great dislike for the so-called Jiangnan chaebol, and he believes that although there were many reasons for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in the original history, the refusal of the Jiangnan chaebol group to contribute a little to the country must be one of the important reasons .

Gu Yanwu said in "Rizhilu": "The one who protects the world, the humbleness of the common man, and the responsibility!" Later in the late Qing Dynasty, Liang Qichao summarized it into the more famous eight words: "The rise and fall of the world, the common man has the responsibility!" responsibility".

Gao Wushi fully agrees with this point of view, so he has always been full of disdain for the so-called "Jiangnan chaebol in the late Ming Dynasty" and the "Jiangnan chaebol agent" Donglin Party that everyone called out for a while, and at the same time he was extremely vigilant.

For this reason, the Jinghua Group, which was built by Gao Yushi, and even the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, which can be regarded as the northern commercial alliance, have always been quite repulsive to the wealthy merchants and landlords in the Jiangnan area.

In politics, Gao Yushi adopted the method of "I will pay the tax myself to set an example, and then require you to pay the tax." After spending at least ten years, Gao Yu finally began to promote the collection of commercial taxes in the Jiangnan area. The financially distressed court created a huge source of revenue, which in turn was used to implement other reforms, with impressive results.

But obviously, Gao Yushi never considered what the "Jiangnan chaebols" thought about it from the beginning to the end.Whether they agree or disagree, or follow the crowd and remain indifferent, are not within the scope of high-level pragmatic considerations—I only need to collect taxes, and you can think whatever you like.

In terms of business, the Maritime Trade Alliance also disdains the "Jiangnan Chaebol Group" to the extent that the Maritime Trade Union has never accepted any investment from a wealthy Jiangnan businessman. After that, enjoy the escort of the Sea Trade Alliance. …

To put it simply, there is a clear distinction between the two sides, and the Maritime Trade Alliance only earns some income from the escort business at most, and resolutely does not "collaborate" with wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River.

In contrast, the Maritime Trade Alliance is willing to accept Nanjing's founding family as a shareholder, but it does not give "original shares", and does not give the alliance the decision-making power obtained in accordance with the original share ratio, and the corresponding dividend is one cent There is a lot of silver.

[Note: Do not create a modern joint-stock system here.The decision-making power of the Maritime Trade Alliance is all obtained according to the "original shareholding ratio", but due to the high pragmatism and the absolute control of the original shareholding ratio, it actually monopolizes the decision-making power.However, nobles also accounted for about [-]%, so although they did not have decision-making power, they still had a strong voice. ]
In this way, the interests of the Maritime Trade Alliance are self-contained, and the rich merchants in the south of the Yangtze River will not get a penny, but they have to pay the escort money of the Maritime Trade Alliance, which will make them very dissatisfied.

At the same time, in terms of foreign trade and management, due to the internal division of labor or distribution in the Maritime Trade Alliance, there will be no involutional competition internally, but it can be unified externally—for example, for the rich merchants in Jiangnan, which makes the rich merchants in Jiangnan The business of Li Lan was much more difficult than that of the Maritime Trade Alliance, and Li Lan was also suppressed at a relatively low level, causing dissatisfaction again.

At this time, the maritime trade alliance system and the non-maritime trade alliance system naturally formed two different circles, and they didn't see each other right, and conflicts arose.

However, this is where things get weird. It stands to reason that since the non-sea trade alliances are all hostile to the sea trade alliance, why is it that the forces that may be engaging in some kind of conspiracy this time are only the Shilin family and not the simple wealthy merchant family? ?
It is true that most of the Shilin families in this era are relatively rich. Even if it is a family that has just appeared as a master of Jinshi, or even a lower family that is only a master of Juren, it can get rich quickly.

However, from the perspective of "joining hands to fight against the Maritime Trade Alliance", it seems that whether there is a Jinshi or Juren master in the family should not affect this common goal, right?
So, what is the reason why the simple wealthy business family did not participate in this operation?Conversely, you can also ask: Why does the wealthy Shilin family have to jump out and sing against him, the leader of the maritime trade alliance, who is highly pragmatic?
After pondering for a moment, Gao Yushi thought that the reason for such a situation must be because although the interests of the wealthy businessmen of Shihlin and ordinary wealthy businessmen have something in common, they must also have differences.

Perhaps in the current situation, ordinary wealthy businessmen think that although their interests have been affected, considering that the strength of the Sea Trade Alliance cannot be shaken by them, and the danger of confronting it is too great, if the worst result occurs, they will not I couldn't bear it, so I finally chose to give up—of course, I may just choose to wait and see temporarily, and I don't know what will happen in the future.

But the Shilin wealthy family is different, their interests have been seriously affected, and at the same time they think that they still have the power to resist politically, so they dare to stand up to challenge, and at the same time, they may also hope to set an example for those ordinary wealthy businessmen, It is beneficial to win the support of the latter.

This is the way of thinking. Those who haven’t resisted don’t mean they don’t want to resist, but they are powerless and worried about being liquidated if they fail. Those who resist jump out to resist, and at the same time hope to inspire more people to join the resistance with this action. …

Then, the question has entered the next stage: What is the reason why these wealthy scholars think that they must resist?
This incident was obviously caused by the birth of the emperor's son, so there is no need to ask the direct cause, it is the birth of the emperor's son.The changes brought about by the birth of the emperor's son undoubtedly mean that the battle between the country and the country is about to come to an end.As long as he has the status of the first son, as long as he does not die young, he will definitely become His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Once the canonization is completed, the country will be decided.

and then?Then Xinxue's initial investment in Zhu Changluo, the eldest son of the emperor, was in vain, and because of the high-practical insistence, the real school, which always chose to wait for the empress to give birth, kept the clouds open to see the moon, and became the basic board of His Royal Highness in one fell swoop. .

Yes, all of this is true, but... so what?
That's right, assuming things develop in this direction, the above high probabilities will become a reality.However, as the last question was asked: so what?
The prince is the crown prince, but the prince has no real power.Although the Ming Dynasty did not have the habit of abolishing the prince, whether the prince can finally become the emperor depends on who can survive the father and son—isn’t Zhu Yuanzhang better than Zhu Biao?
[Note: Zhu Jianshen is an exception to the question of abolishing the prince.He was originally the prince of Yingzong. After his father was captured by Wala, Emperor Jing succeeded him. He was only two or three years old.Two years later, Emperor Jing had a son. He was only four or five years old, and he was deposed. There was only Wan Zhener by his side to take care of him.

Later, Yingzong returned to the court, but he was under house arrest, and he could not be controlled. He was still very dangerous. He was not established again until Yingzong was restored.To put it simply, he was the only prince who had been deposed in the Ming Dynasty. ]
When it comes to longevity, there is another problem here: when today's son succeeds to the throne, but now he is only thirty-six, and if the investment in His Royal Highness is to be rewarded, it must be after today's Shanglong Yubintian. ... Do you know how long that was?
当然，后世经常有人调侃明朝皇帝的寿命偏短，这倒也是个事实：朱元章活了71岁、惠宗朱允炆失踪、成祖朱棣活了65岁、仁宗朱高炽活了48岁、宣宗朱瞻基活了38岁、英宗朱祁镇活了38岁、代宗朱祁玉活了30岁、宪宗朱见深活了41岁、孝宗朱右樘活了36岁、武宗朱厚照活了31岁、世宗朱厚熜活了60岁、穆宗朱载坖活了36岁、神宗朱翊钧活了58岁、光宗朱常洛活了39岁、熹宗朱由校活了23岁、思宗朱由检活了34岁。

It can be seen that most emperors of the Ming Dynasty only lived to be 40 or 50 years old, and only Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Chengzu Zhu Di, Sejong Zhu Houcong and Shenzong Zhu Yijun were over [-] years old.

除去失踪的朱允炆和上吊的朱由检，其余十四位皇帝的平均寿命只有43.8岁。而后世有好事之人就拿鞑清的历代皇帝做对比，发现太祖努尔哈赤活了68岁、太宗皇太极活了52岁、世祖福临活了24岁、圣祖玄烨活了69岁、世宗胤禛活了58岁、高宗弘历活了89岁、仁宗颙琰活了61岁、宣宗旻宁活了69岁，文宗奕詝活了31岁、穆宗载淳载淳活了19岁、德宗载湉活了38岁、溥仪活了61岁。

So except for Shunzhi Emperor Fulin, Xianfeng Emperor Yijia, Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun and Guangxu Emperor Zaitan who did not live to 40 years old, the other eight emperors were all over 50 years old, and the average life expectancy of the twelve emperors reached 53.25 years old. …

Some people say that this is because the Forbidden City was newly built in the Ming Dynasty, and the red walls were all cinnabar red, and the main component of cinnabar is poisonous mercury sulfide. The Ming Dynasty emperors lived in such an environment every day, which was not conducive to their health. , so many died young.In the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City had been built for hundreds of years, and there was no harm to the human body, so emperors generally lived longer.

This may be the reason, but there is one more thing to see, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di are considered long-lived, and the short life of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty began with Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi is a big fat man who likes to be quiet and hates to move, is obese, and has limited mobility. He has always been weak. Many analysts in later generations believe that he is caused by illness.Therefore, it is very likely that he passed on certain genetic diseases to his descendants, which caused many emperors to die young.

不过不管怎么说，实际上明朝皇帝的平均寿命在中国历代皇朝中并不算短，这个很容易考证对比，盘点一下中国其他正统王朝皇帝的平均寿命就会发现：秦朝37岁、西汉39岁、东汉29岁、西晋37岁、隋朝43岁(算上了隋恭帝杨侑)、唐朝44岁、北宋47岁、南宋47岁、元朝33岁。

Good guy, not counting the Qing Dynasty after the Ming Dynasty, the only emperors whose average life expectancy exceeded the Ming Dynasty were the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.It can be seen that although everyone wants to be the emperor, this dragon chair may also be poisonous...

Closer to home, although the average life expectancy of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty was not high, the people of the Ming Dynasty did not have a strong feeling on this point, especially after Emperor Jiajing lived to be 60 years old, no one inside or outside the court felt that "the emperor did not live long" It is an inevitable phenomenon. Although everyone seldom thinks about it, they still tacitly agree that it has more to do with the emperor's living habits.

Both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were emperors on horseback, with excellent health, so it is not surprising that they lived for a long time.Starting from Zhu Gaochi, seven emperors in a row only lived to be 40 or [-] years old. They were supposed to fall into the cycle of short life, but Emperor Jiajing broke the "conventional".

Although everyone will not agree that Jiajing lived a long time because of "cultivating the Tao", it is generally believed that he played tricks well, delegated power and spent a lot of time regardless of mundane things, avoiding many troubles.

The first emperor Longqing was privately thought by many people to be lustful, but now he is more like his imperial grandfather Jiajing - he only cares about big things and delegates authority over small things.So, why bet that he will die young today?If the emperor does not die early today, then the succession of the crown prince will be far away.

A "bad thing" that is far away, is it the turn of the elders and officials who are currently in court to worry?Is it the turn of the former ministers who have retired to be anxious?Obviously not!
After thinking about it, Gao Yushi felt that this matter did not make sense, and felt that the whole matter was revealing a strange feeling.

A group of Shilin families, a certain "official family", if they don't say that they must do things in accordance with morality, at least they must be logical and in line with interests. How could they do such an unreasonable thing?What's more, if this matter is not done well, there will be huge political risks, and even moral risks?

There must be a mystery that I have not grasped, and I must discover it as soon as possible, otherwise there will be serious troubles!

With a heavy heart, Gao Yushi rarely left work early and left the household department, and asked the bearers to take him back to his home.As soon as he returned to the mansion, he called Huang Zhiting, Liu Xin, Gao Mo, Gao Guoyan, Gao Qi and others, and prepared to have a proper meeting.
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