Daming Yuanfu

At the same moment when Gao Yushi and the eldest princess of Yongning were warm, the Shen University scholar's mansion was desolate.The warm wind in the early spring seems to be unable to blow into this mansion. Everyone in the mansion is tense, doing their own work carefully.Most of them are packing all kinds of luggage, and it looks like they are preparing for their master to go out with great fanfare.

Shen Yiguan himself stood in the courtyard of the backyard with his hands behind his back, facing a osmanthus tree in the center of the nursery, and said casually: "I can't see the fragrant golden osmanthus this year. Speaking of which, the old man really likes this tree. .”

Qian Menggao, who was beside him, sighed softly, and said vigorously, "Master, don't worry. Although Gao Rixin took the lead this time, the master has at least kept his capital. The real loser is not the master." .”

Shen Yiguan was noncommittal, but asked indifferently: "Really?"

"Why not?" Qian Menggao frowned, and said, "Under this accident, it was Wang An who died in the end, Wang Duianan who resigned, and Concubine Zheng who was demoted... For you, Master, this time But what is there to lose?"

Shen Yiguan snorted softly, and said: "The old man's layout in the palace is completely ruined, so he had to go to Gao Rixin to beg for peace. He thought that he could just hide in Shandong, but he was not satisfied, so he kicked the old man again. Kicked to Nanjing... You say this is not considered a loss?"

Qian Menggao shook his head and said: "It is true that from the perspective of the situation, the master is indeed a bit embarrassed this time, but with the wisdom of the master, how can he not know that the worst situation in the officialdom is never whether he is embarrassed or not, but whether things have lost their turning point. .”

Seeing that Shen Yiguan didn't answer right away, he paused and said, "Master, look, after Gao Rixin came to power, there is no one in the court who can match him, so in terms of his style, he will definitely not follow the rules. It is bound to introduce some reform measures.

But Master, although his past reforms have indeed proved to be quite meaningful in the end, but such things as reform... Heh, the first reform must be easy to reform, and the one that has been delayed until now, must be The kind that has a huge impact.

Any reform will inevitably offend some people. For this, we can analyze his past reforms to see who he offended in the first place, and who he may offend if new measures are introduced now. "

Shen Yiguan became interested in Qian Menggao's words this time, nodded and said, "Well, let's try it out."

Qian Menggao took a deep breath, then pondered for a while, and said: "Students will use the following examples to illustrate: First, private military industry. The reform of private military industry seems to have a huge impact, but if we analyze it carefully, we will find that Gao Rixin mainly offended the eunuch and the local guard in this matter.

The eunuchs originally controlled the Ordnance Bureau and other yamen, which were the main manufacturing yamen of the court's ordnance—especially firearms-related ordnance at that time.Once Gao Rixin's private military industry was launched, he offended them first.

The second is the local guards. They were originally able to produce all kinds of ordnance, but once the private military industry came out, their ordnance was still allowed to be produced, but because of the high price and low quality, they lost buyers all of a sudden. Within a year, they quit this industry one after another, and at most they produced some low-end parts that did not make much money, such as bows, arrows, stirrups, and so on.

But in the promotion process of this reform, Gao's uncle and nephew hardly encountered any resistance, why?Because the eunuchs, who were supposed to be the most powerful opponents, were completely powerless at that time to oppose Gao Gaoxuan, who was indistinguishable from the holy family. The late emperor had complete trust in Gao Gaoxuan, and did not give the eunuchs any chance to use eye medicine.

As for the local guards, if they could unite as one, they might be able to cause Gao Gaoxuan a little bit of trouble, but unfortunately they couldn't do it at all.That being the case, Gao Gaoxuan was the chief assistant and concurrently a heavenly official, so naturally no one else would touch him because of this matter, so the matter went on like this. "

Shen Yiguan nodded and said, "What's next?"

"The next step is to open the sea." Qian Menggao's face darkened, and he said: "This incident originally had the most intense repercussions. After all, how many...how many families in the south of the Yangtze River have been ruined by this incident. But at the beginning of the high school Xuanyi only After setting up a pilot project in Yuegang, everyone felt that they could bear it, so they chose to sit on the sidelines and wait for it to fail. Unexpectedly, the rapid rise of Jinghua Maritime Trade soon gave Gao Gaoxuan the confidence to open up private ports.

This move was so powerful that Jiangnan Maritime Merchants had no choice but to follow suit.Originally they could unite and not go to Yuegang, but there are more and more ships in Jinghua, especially after Gao Rixin united with Jingshi Xungui, the fleet has grown rapidly like a snowball, and Dayou can rely on their own strength alone. Can eat the whole shipping market.

At the same time, Gao Gaoxuan began to vigorously suppress smuggling.In this way, if the Jiangnan maritime merchants still refuse to cooperate, then they will face the increasing anti-smuggling attack while facing the danger of being robbed of the shipping market, how can they persist?
Therefore, in the matter of opening the sea, the uncle and nephew of the Gao family offended the Jiangnan maritime merchants and related people, but because they won the honors and enriched the treasury at the same time, it was formed that they had the support of the emperor and the support of the honor. In the end, the reform was carried out because of your patronage. "

Shen always gets angry when he hears this, but he knows that now is not the time to be angry, so he can only take a deep breath, suppress his anger, and say in a deep voice, "That's right, you shouldn't just sit back and watch this matter... ...But it's too late to say anything now."

Qian Menggao then continued: "Then there is the reform of post roads. At the beginning, few people were optimistic about this matter, because no matter how you look at it, this job should not be able to be done well, but Gao Rixin has really done it. The student After careful calculation, I finally understood how he did this difficult thing.”

Shen Yiguan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Tell me about it."

"Students are hindsight, but Gao Rixin did predict everything before he did it." Qian Menggao said, "Master, why did everyone think that the inn was impossible at first? Because There seems to be a contradiction that cannot be resolved at all, that is, the imperial court must ensure that the post station is fully controlled, and there will be no problems in key events such as delivering news and transporting personnel, but the expenditure is too large, and the entire post station system costs the court a lot of money every year , but the cost cannot be recovered at all.

The reason why Gao Rixin’s reform of post roads was successful was that he actually handed over the daily operation of the post stations to the post stations themselves. At the same time, the post station is required to be responsible for the transportation of official letters and personnel.

In terms of the transportation that the post stations are required to be responsible for, Gao Rixin also set different quotas according to the size of each post station. Within the quota, the post stations must provide services for free; outside the quota, the imperial court will allocate funds to pay.In this way, the post station not only cannot lose money, but even if it is managed properly, it can still make money. Naturally, some people are willing to "contract" the post station, and the reform can be successful.

However, this matter is not entirely a good thing, because in order to ensure that the quota he set will not be exceeded everywhere, Gao Rixin has imposed the strictest restrictions on the use of post stations by officials.

For example, before the reform of post roads, people with identities like students did not need to spend a penny from their hometown to the capital, and they could even eat and drink along the way.Some post stations even prepare a gift for the students. Although it is not worth much, it can make the students feel happy.

But after the reform of the post road, don't talk about gifts, and it will even cost two or thirty taels of silver along the way.In this way, although the post road reform is good for the Ministry of Households and the so-called "contractors" of the post station, it is only bad for the officials.Therefore, the students dared to say that the officials of the imperial court were more or less dissatisfied with Gao Rixin for this reason-even including the officials of their real school.Of course, this point of dissatisfaction is limited in the end, especially when Gao Rixin is in power, it is impossible for officials to yell at him because of this. "

"Frozen three feet is not a day's cold, as long as you are dissatisfied, it will be fine." Shen Yiguan snorted softly, and said: "As the saying goes, 'the world is the same force when the time comes, and the hero is not free when transported', if Gao Rixin It has been so smooth, the resentment of Baiguan is indeed useless, but as long as he has the tendency to lose his holy family in the future, these dissatisfaction that was originally silent under the iceberg will definitely explode, and then... hum."

Qian Menggao nodded, but did not continue this topic, but said: "The fourth important reform is the restructuring of the Beijing camp. This time... how should I put it, it seems to have a major impact, but it is actually the simplest one. , and at the same time, Gao Rixin was under the least pressure."

"Oh?" Shen Yiguan asked, "How can you see that?"

"Because the Jingnan nobles who should be dissatisfied with this matter have actually worn the same pants as Gao Rixin for many years." Qian Menggao sighed: "And sometimes even students have to admire Gao Rixin This person, he managed to not offend anyone during the reform of the Beijing camp, it is simply amazing."

Shen Yiguan frowned slightly, but still held his temper and asked, "Really?"

"Yes." Qian Menggao said affirmatively: "Master, you said, the reform of the Beijing camp has never been done well in the past?"

Shen ***: "Who doesn't know this? Those nobles only know how to make money from it, and the emperor must protect them. Under such a premise, who can manage this capital well?"

"That's it." Qian Menggao said: "Let's look at Gao Rixin's method: Aren't the nobles of Jingnan only focused on making money? Well, I will change you to a Beijing-run production and construction corps, so that you can do it in a legitimate way." Money—Is the problem of nobles making money through the Beijing camp solved?

Then, he assigned tens of thousands of people to be responsible for combat and guarding the capital, called the imperial guards.This army does not need the imperial court to allocate funds, let the Production and Construction Corps support them-just gave Xungui a legal way to make money, let them pay a little money to raise soldiers, Xungui can't be completely iron cocks, right?
So after he made such a change, the Beijing camp was divided into functions. The nobles can earn money, as long as they pay some taxes; Gui, completely controlled the imperial guards, the number one army in the world-is everyone happy? "

Shen Yiguan was silent for a moment, then frowned and said, "Is there really no harm at all?"

"Everything in the world is impossible to have no harm at all. The reform of Gao Rixin is the same, but the impact of it was not visible at the time." Qian Menggao sneered, and said: "The reform of the Beijing Camp was established In other hands, many of the jobs of the Production and Construction Corps were obtained from the hands of the Ministry of Industry, but this is still a small matter, and the real big thing is the Imperial Guard.

The Imperial Guard Army is known as the number one army in the world, but it is not controlled separately like the previous three battalions, but is concentrated in the hands of the commander of the Imperial Guard Army.Although it is said that the commander of the imperial guards himself only has the right to command the troops, and he cannot be transferred unless he has obtained the tiger talisman in the palace. What do you mean?

When the emperor still has trust in Gao Rixin, this is naturally nothing, but once the emperor has doubts about Gao Rixin, it will be a big problem-whether the No. [-] army in the world guarding the capital can be trusted , the importance of this issue is self-evident, how can the emperor remain indifferent? "

Shen Yiguan nodded, but pointed out sharply: "What you said is reasonable, but the premise of these words is still the trust of the emperor. In other words, as long as the emperor believes that Gao Rixin has no second thoughts, then these problems will not matter." Existence. Only when the emperor starts to doubt him, this problem will be highlighted, even shocking."

"It's natural, but it's not complete." Qian Menggao sneered: "Whether the emperor believes it is important, but sometimes it may not be impossible to think of ways to make the emperor have to doubt Gao Rixin."

"Oh, what's your opinion?" Shen Yiguan asked.

Qian Menggao shook his head first, and then said: "The student has not thought about it for the time being, but if there is such a day when the conditions are suitable, then we can make a hypothesis: if there is an abnormality in the palace on a certain day, the outer court does not know what happened in the palace. What happened, and the gate of the palace was closed, and foreign officials were not allowed to visit, so what will Gao Rixin do at this time?

Will he order the imperial guards to enter the city, or even if he does not enter the city, as long as he orders the imperial guards to stand guard, if there is no abnormality in the palace afterwards, what will the emperor think about him being able to order the imperial guards? idea? "

Shen Yiguan suddenly opened his eyes wide, then rolled them wildly, and said in his mouth: "Hiss... don't tell me, if such a situation can really happen, Gao Rixin may have a hard time not ordering the Imperial Guards, because the capital's three major The armed forces are nothing more than the Imperial Guards, Jinyiwei and Jingjun, and he can't get involved in the latter two. Then, in that case, he can only effectively deal with possible changes in the palace if he immediately controls the Imperial Guards..."
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My mother, aunt, and aunt were frightened and angry, and severely ordered the relevant personnel of the hospital, causing a lot of trouble.The men in the family first learned about the real-time situation of the grandfather, and found that it had not caused irreversible serious consequences, so they persuaded them first.At first, the nurse who made the mistake was too frightened to come to work, and the hospital also vowed that it would be severely punished.But I think at least it was not intentional, and the worst result did not actually happen in the end, so the family discussed it and expressed tolerance. The nurse bought some nutritional supplements and came to apologize, and we accepted it.

In short, I won't go into too much detail, so as not to waste everyone's time.Anyway, it was such a thing, the whole family was very nervous, and I really couldn't concentrate on thinking about the plot under this situation, so the update had to be delayed, I am very sorry.Wait a few days to see if the situation improves, I will adjust my mood as soon as possible and return to normal updates.Sorry again.