Daming Yuanfu

In the final analysis, Gao Pragmatic can only guarantee that he will not harm the public and enrich his own private life, because this is not his ambition and it is unnecessary. There is endless money to be made, not to mention that he is already rich enough. Now he really has little interest in making money. He wants to do something more "ideal".

However, he doesn't mean that the people under his command don't either. Although many industries in various departments of Jinghua are almost in a monopoly market or close to a monopoly market, Jinghua is too huge, so many departments are facing competition. These departments want to "achieve results", and even if they dare not break the law directly, they sometimes take sidesteps.

For them, the thing is this: The master has indeed issued many prohibitions to us, and usually we do not dare to violate them, but this does not mean that we do not dare to use any "means".

For example, people from Jinghua Infrastructure may say to a local official: "My father said that this product will greatly improve urban sanitation and can significantly reduce the probability of people contracting malaria, cholera and other diseases. Nowadays, disasters are everywhere, and the final result after the disaster is It is easy for these epidemics to occur. If the government (county) can repair the sewers in time, it will definitely have an exemplary effect. When my husband learns about it, he will definitely be very happy..."

With Gao Pragmatic's current power, prestige and holy family, there is no need to ask what will these government officials and county officials do after hearing such a promotion? Anyway, the money spent was the money of the court and the yamen, not their own money. If Gao Yuanfu really cared about this matter, of course he should cultivate it as early as possible.

Taking a step back, even if Yuan Fu doesn't really care about it, it doesn't matter. At least don't make it so that everyone else has practiced it, but I haven't practiced it here. That would be too "showy in the forest". I'm just waiting for the next step. It means "the wind will destroy it". Why bother! How can I, who has small arms and thin legs, be able to defeat Gao Yuanfu? Fix it, fix it, fix it quickly.

Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic really had a headache. The fourth-rank officials under the prime minister sometimes don't have to engage in any blatant activities at all. They only need to mention "my master" in a few sentences in the chat. Most of them will choose to "know the elegant meaning after listening to the string song", and It is possible that someone higher than him is completely unaware of this matter.

Even in the era of rule of law, these problems of human society will inevitably remain, and it is even more impossible for Gao Pragmatism to cut it off now - no matter how he cuts it, will Jinghua still have the surname Gao?

Since my surname is Gao, why don't I just end the marriage? If I can't afford to offend myself, I will definitely choose to follow the crowd - others have also practiced, so I will follow suit, so as not to be targeted by Yuan Fu, who will die without knowing how. of.

Faced with the "favoritism" issue, Gao Pragmatic was not afraid of the previous accusations. For example, regarding the private port issue, who dared to make such a large investment at that time? Only he is pragmatic and knows that after the sea is opened, Ming's goods can be dumped abroad, and the port will definitely make a lot of money. And after he took down several ports that were most suitable for becoming bigger and stronger, it was no longer possible for other people to build new private ports that could surpass these already established large ports.

Another example is the issue of Jinghua Trading Co.'s monopoly on the horse market. He was pragmatic because he entered early, invested heavily, and had many allies. If anyone else wants to enter this industry, they must first face Jinghua Trading Company and the Jingnan Xungui Group that is allied with it. How many people in Ming Dynasty are qualified and capable? And the key is, this is not illegal!

Let’s talk about the Liaonan Saltworks... Gao Pragmatic didn’t want to read more about this accusation. The Liaonan Salt Farm is indeed flying my flag of being pragmatic, but the emperor is also the major shareholder. You, Li Bingbei, have not done your investigation carefully enough. I’m going to sweat it for you!

Now it seems that the sewer project is still relatively unstable. The only way to save it now is to focus on "necessity". After all, this matter itself is not a bad thing.

Gao pragmatic sighed and continued to look at the third crime: Charming.

Sure enough, it's still the same old thing. To sum up, since he gained power through pragmatism, for more than 20 years he has only been able to "offer criticisms and remonstrances to please the emperor, and use words of advice to hide the wisdom of others." Everything he does is just like the standard of a treacherous jester.

This article was nothing new, and it would not have a substantial impact on Gao Jingshi. It might even make the emperor furious, so Gao Jingshi glanced at it and didn't bother to care.

The fourth count is dereliction of duty. This one is also very pragmatic and quite unexpected - if even I were derelict in my duties in the Ming Dynasty, not a single official in the world would be able to remain in office, at least not more than I can count on one hand.

With confusion and curiosity, Gao pragmatically read on. It turned out to be okay if I didn’t watch it, but I was so angry that I rolled my eyes after watching it. Li Bingbei accused Gao Jingshi of dereliction of duty, not specifically saying that Gao Jingshi should have taken charge of something but failed to manage it well, but that "since he entered the cabinet, disasters have continued; when he became the first assistant, there have been many strange signs." Therefore, he believed that Gao Jingshi Pragmatism is "the source of trouble for the world and the danger of overthrowing the country!"

Yes, I am not suitable to be the chief assistant. I am so bad that even God is alarmed, right? But if you want to "response to heaven and man", you have to follow the basic method! Only the "Emperor" can sense this thing. I'm just a chief assistant, and I can't handle such a serious crime. If we can overcome the Little Ice Age by changing the first assistant, I, Gao, will never refuse. I will hang up my title and go into seclusion today, and I will never break my promise.

Let’s look at the fifth count: “violence.” Gao Pragmatic is also quite puzzled, why am I so violent? You can't say that I suppressed the Kuaibai Rebellion. Is this considered tyranny? What's the matter, you know General Wilson across the ocean hundreds of years later, and you plan to label me as "violating the principle of national self-determination" in advance?

Gao pragmatic continued to read, and almost laughed angrily - You said that I am tyrannical not because my chief assistant has made the people's lives miserable, but because I have made the officials miserable?

It turns out that Li Bingbei's accusation of Gao Jingshi's "tyranny" was because since Gao Jingshi entered the cabinet, especially after Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue became officials, the "examination method" that was formed during the Gao Gong period has become more and more strict day by day. This has made officials everywhere miserable.

Especially after Gao Pragmatic became the first assistant, although it was not long, the pressure on officials has doubled. The examination method's provisions on officials' work indicators are becoming more and more clear and demanding. Regardless of stability maintenance, economy, disaster relief, scholarship... in all aspects, the imperial court now has very clear assessment standards. The worst thing is that since Gao Pangshi became the first assistant, the court has forcibly implemented a "bad policy" that had been mentioned for a while but was not actually implemented-the last elimination system.

In Li Bingbei's opinion, this system is really the most evil government in the world! The officials of the Ming Dynasty were all born in Shilin and were among the best scholars in the world. They were awarded the rank of herdsmen only after ten years of hard work. What outstanding talents they were! You actually want to make the examination method so that every indicator has a score, and then eliminate those who rank at the bottom based on the score? If this is not tyranny, then what is tyranny? The massacre of the city is not as brutal as yours!

Gao Pragmatic was dumbfounded. Yes, yes, this is simply too cruel. After studying for ten or twenty years, an official who passed the inhumane imperial examination is actually not an iron rice bowl. Does this Ming Dynasty still have royal laws?

However, there are at least tens of thousands of officials in the world, and no more than ten people are eliminated every year. You can't accept this. What's wrong with your self-confidence? This is like being in the bottom ten of the city's unified examination. The school really can't stand it anymore. It's not too much to persuade you to quit, right?

What's more, I didn't just dismiss them directly based on the final score of the exam, I also gave these people the right to appeal. If your local situation is indeed special, write a written complaint and report it to the court. The Ministry of Civil Affairs will review it, and then submit it to the cabinet for review. Finally, the cabinet will report it to the emperor for approval.

All these triple insurances ensure that you will not be wronged, so what else can you do? Is this also violent? Okay, okay, as long as there is an iron rice bowl that is unstable, it will be me, the chief assistant, who is tyrannical and makes the official life miserable, okay?

Gao pragmatic rolled his eyes, skipped this article and continued reading. This time it was "provoking a war". Gao Pragmatic took a serious look, and Li Bingbei's main accusation was actually not so much "provoking war" but accusing Gao Pragmatic of being "warlike". The connotation of such accusation lies in saying that Gao Pragmatism is warlike, and then implicitly implying that Gao Pragmatism deliberately led the court to launch a war to gain military exploits for himself.

In the final analysis, Li Bingbei was saying that the reason why Gao Pragmatic led troops to fight many times over the years was because he deliberately lured the court into launching wars, in order to accumulate merit and climb up the ranks - he even got a title for it. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic put his own interests above the interests of the court, and did not hesitate to "wither all bones" in order to seize greater power. Therefore, it is a heinous crime!

If Gao Pragmatic had to say it himself, he felt that Li Bingbei's accusation was much smarter than some of the previous accusations. At least he was not stupid enough to question that his military exploits over the years were all fake. He chose to question the legitimacy of the war, which was much more reliable than questioning the authenticity of military exploits anyway.

However, Gao Pragmatic is sure that this is still useless. The military achievements in these years can basically be divided into two situations: one is to respond passively, including counterinsurgency and counterattack, and the other is to take the initiative.

There is nothing to say about the former. No one can say that they are wrong in wars such as the suppression of the Kuaibai Rebellion and the Yang Yinglong Rebellion. The anti-Japanese war in the Yuan Dynasty was also impeccable in theory - North Korea was a loyal vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and the godson was beaten to the point of paralysis. He cried outside the door of the Ming Dynasty, his father, every day, begging his godfather for help. Dad can't just keep pretending to be dead and ignore it, right? Doesn’t China want to lose face?

Li Bingbei obviously knew this, so the examples he gave were all pragmatic and proactive ones - except for the Northern Expedition to Chahar. After all, eliminating the residual Yuan was politically correct in the Ming Dynasty, and this was a slide that could not be touched.

In Li Bingbei's view, the Battle of Monan should not be fought because it was the Mongols' own business. It was a good thing for them to fight each other to the death, and the Ming Dynasty could just sit back and reap the benefits;

There is no need to fight the Battle of Southern Liaoning, just repel the Tumen and speculate on flowers. Launching a counterattack is a waste of money and food, and it is true that the Tumen were not wiped out in one battle at that time;

It was unnecessary to stir up trouble in Liaodong (referring to Gao Pragmatic who forced Nurhachi to kill his father-in-law and settle a grudge with Ye He), because it showed that the Ming Dynasty was not aboveboard enough, would make the "vassals" nervous, and would damage the court's reputation for benevolence and kindness;

There is no need to fight a big war in Yunnan and Burma, because the wild land is useless, and the expedition of troops will be a waste of national power. As for the benefits that the Ming Dynasty obtained through post-war treaties, Li Bingbei believed that they were ill-gotten gains. Moreover, although he had gained money, how could the Ming Dynasty soldiers be buried in a foreign land? As for the emperor's words when he was victorious at the Imperial Ancestral Temple, that only by conquering Burma in the First World War could the border be stabilized and soldiers and civilians not be killed one after another, Li Bingbei seems to have forgotten this;

The most cruel thing is that Li Bingbei even criticized the Western Expedition. He believed that the imperial court should not "spend tens of millions" for the barren land of the Western Regions. This was simply a waste of national power and achieved nothing - taking the Western Regions was useless in his opinion, and would only make the imperial court continue to struggle. Throw money into the Western Region.

Not only that, he also accused Gao Jingshi of employing people in the Western Expedition. In his opinion, even if the Western Expedition was to be fought, the Northern Army should be used instead of the Southern Army. The reason why Gao Pragmatic did this was purely to use the "private person" Liu Wei. As for the Northern Army, according to his summary, almost all of them were highly pragmatic "private individuals". Sorry, Li Bingbei didn't seem to see it.

In a word, if Fan Gao is pragmatic and takes charge of the battle, it is all "conspiracy to seize power". He is doing it for his own selfish interests and ignoring the interests of the world. It is a crime worthy of death.

Gao Pragmatic could only shake his head after reading it. If you can convince the emperor with this, I will kill you at will.

Looking further, the next charge is "raising bandits." This one is also very interesting. It probably means that since you are so pragmatic and have launched a war regardless of the interests of all people in the world, then you should simply get rid of the problem, whether it is the Mongols, the Jurchens, including Myanmar... you Just wipe them all out, why would you leave a tail every time?

If you haven't finished killing them, then you must be raising bandits, and raising bandits must be out of self-respect. Keep these people, and you will stir up trouble on the border when needed, and then the court will have to continue to use you... You are blackmailing the court! The sin deserves death!

Gao Pragmatic became irritated and thought to himself, are you really stupid or did you do this on purpose? Will the Mongols kill them all, or the Jurchens? As for Myanmar, where can’t we hide in the deep mountains and old forests? You actually expect to kill them all?

If we really do these things, not to mention humanitarianism, after all, it is not popular these days, but at least we are carrying cannons to the mountains to kill mosquitoes. Who knows how much it will cost and how many years it will take!

Skip and look at the last crime: access to foreign countries.

Gao Pragmatic was moved in his heart and looked at the details. Sure enough, this time it was not only about southern Xinjiang, but also Japan.
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PS: So what...don't be so sensitive about the "ending". There are so many words in total, so obviously the "ending" can't be shortened.