After sending the letter to Nurhachi to Baiyulou to be kept on file and sent to Liaodong, Gao Pragmatic did not have any free time. He first dealt with several groups of officials who sent people to inquire about the news, took a short break after lunch, and went to Wuyuan again in the afternoon.
The Military Governor's Mansion discussed matters with Zhu Yingzhen and others.
The daily life of a court official is often like this. He picks out a few important things from a lot of things to take charge of. Gao Pragmatic's current situation is of course a little more complicated than that of ordinary officials, but in the final analysis, his job is to be the Minister of Rongzheng, so the Imperial Guards
The two projects with the Production and Construction Corps are his most basic tasks, and they are projects that "cannot afford to miss".
Coming to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion today was not his own idea, but a request from the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. It is said that it is a troublesome matter that "if Gao Gongbao fails to come, the Five Governments will be helpless."
Okay, a good leader should be able to help his subordinates solve big problems that they can't solve by themselves. Gao Pragmatic has this awareness.
Yang Bing, the uncle of Zhangwu, who was honored as the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, had no airs. He personally welcomed the assistant governor of Jingying Rongzheng, Gao Pingshi, at the gate of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion. Gao pragmatically said a few polite words with a smile.
, so Shi Shiran entered the main gate of the Zhongfu like a master.
People who are not familiar with the special system of the Ming Dynasty may find it difficult to understand why the second-in-command is more tough than the first-in-command, and who is the governor and who is the associate councilor.
Yang Bing obviously has no such doubts. He is fully aware of his status - he is just a mascot. Where can he get the real responsibility? Not to mention that Gao Pragmatic, the "Associate Manager", has at least ten times more power than him, even if he is from the Five Prefectures
Several other governors-general, such as Xu Wenbi, Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and others, no matter who stood up and spoke out, they were much better than him.
You want to ask why?
Hey, he is the Duke of the country, and the other two are also Marquises. Naturally, they can talk better than his uncle! This is an era where the achievements of the ancestors determine the status of the descendants. You have to accept it, and you have to accept it.
Clothes.
If you really can't accept it, go and take the imperial examination! If you have the ability to win laurels and be the best in the Toad Palace like Gao Pragmatic, then you can change it, but whether this path is suitable for nobles is another matter. I haven't heard of it anyway.
Which noble family has a Jinshi master or even a top scholar Wenquxing?
Yang Bing welcomed Gao Pragmatic outside the White Tiger Hall. Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and others were already waiting at the door. When Gao Pragmatic came in, they all smiled and came over to salute.
But at this time, Gao Jingshi couldn't let them salute first. After all, the Duke of the country was at the top of the nobility, so he still had to show the proper etiquette, so Gao Jingshi was the first to raise his hands and bow: "You two princes, princes, and uncles"
Lord, I’m pragmatic and I’m late for something, so I beg you for help.”
Today, Dingguo Duke Xu Wenbi is not here, and Zhu Yingzhen has the highest status, so he quickly responded on behalf of everyone: "Hey, what are you talking about, Gong Bao? It turns out that we have something to trouble Gong Bao, and it is us who should say 'Wan Qi Hai Han'."
Besides, Gong Bao must be very busy these days, so I would be very grateful if you could take the time to come."
Huh? There's something wrong with Zhu Yingzhen's speaking style today. He usually looks very close to me and speaks and acts very naturally. Why is he so polite today?
Gao Pragmatic was moved in his heart, but after thinking about what they said before, he was relieved. In short, he first listened to what they said about the trouble and then looked at it.
"Your Majesty, you are so polite..." Gao Wushi changed the subject and said, "But we are really busy these days, and we are not outsiders, so don't waste time being polite and go in and talk about business."
Zhu Yingzhen and others looked at each other and quickly invited Gao pragmatism into the White Tiger Festival Hall.
At this point, Gao Jingshi could no longer "look like a master". He still had to have the rules that the imperial court should have. So Yang Bing, the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, Zhangwu Bo, took the seat of honor without hesitation, and Gao Jingshi took the seat.
On the second seat next to him, the other four governors sat on both sides.
However, Uncle Zhangwu first explained to Gao Pragmatic: "Ding Guo Gong has been in poor health recently and has been recuperating in a hospital on the outskirts of Beijing. Therefore, he cannot come today. He asked me to apologize to Gao Gongbao..."
Gao Pragmatic nodded: "I know about Duke Ding's situation. I sent someone to deliver some medicine a few days ago. There is no need to say more about this matter. I only hope that Duke Ding will recover as soon as possible."
Xu Wenbi's physical condition has not been very good. It is not a serious illness, but he has some congenital asthma, and it is easy to cause it every time he changes to a new environment.
Chinese medicine is very pragmatic about this situation and I didn’t pay much attention to it. However, based on his previous life thinking, it is probably that this person’s respiratory tract is more likely to be allergic, and an allergy will trigger asthma, leading to problems such as difficulty breathing. In this case, as long as
If you raise your cat well, it will not cause death. However, you should try to avoid running around. It is best to stay in a familiar environment to isolate allergens.
It is estimated that the imperial doctor of the Imperial Hospital and the famous doctors hired by his family should have told him these precautions, so he rarely moves around recently. If it is not an extremely important matter, he will not show up in person, and if it is not possible, he will send a representative. For example, he also showed up today
The representative present was Xu Xigao, whom Gao Pragmatic was very familiar with - he was the eldest grandson of Xu Wenbi. However, because he had neither a title nor a formal position, he could only accompany him at the last table.
After finishing the gossip, Gao Pingshi looked around at all the nobles and asked: "Okay, if you have any trouble, let's talk about it."
Well, it's very pragmatic to get straight to the point.
However, everyone here is old acquaintances with Gao Pragmatic, and they are very familiar with this style, so they don't feel awkward at all.
Several people looked at each other, and Zhu Yingzhen spoke as the representative: "Well, the Production and Construction Corps has been gradually on the road, but now there is a trouble... To be honest, you know that the location of the Emperor's longevity palace has been decided, right?
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"I know, what's wrong?" Gao Pragmatic was a little confused.
It is normal for an emperor to build a longevity palace early, especially when Zhu Yijun experienced the dilemma of having no place to bury his father, Emperor Mu Zong, after his death, so he built the longevity palace very early, as if he started planning it when he was twenty years old. Now
The delay in starting construction for so long was already due to the continuous war. Now that the war has finally stopped for a while, the matter was immediately put on the agenda of the courtiers - the courtiers also felt that the situation like Mu Zong was not good, so they
The ministers could not keep it off their faces.
And speaking of it, Mu Zong was also grateful that his father Emperor Jiajing had built a longevity palace in Tianshou Mountain for his father Emperor Xingxian, but in the end Emperor Xingxian's tomb was not moved from Hubei, so the longevity palace remained empty.
Afterwards, Mu Zong passed away, and no one in the court dared to come up with random ideas. It was too late to build a new longevity palace, so Gao Gong finally decided to use this longevity palace.
So, the grandson moved into the longevity palace originally prepared by his father for his grandfather.
This... I'm afraid only Gao Gong dared to take this decision. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, a court that emphasized ancestral system, few important ministers dared to say that they wanted to "update laws to keep up with the times."
Zhu Yingzhen coughed dryly and hesitantly said: "Well, it stands to reason that for the Emperor to build the Longevity Palace, the Beijing camp should contribute some efforts. But to be honest, you once said when the Production and Construction Corps was established
However, from now on, we cannot always let the imperial court use these people in vain. The money that should be paid must always be paid, otherwise the production and construction corps will be different from the Beijing camp in the past..."
Oh, that's what happened.
When Zhu Yingzhen mentioned this, Gao Jingshi guessed what was going on. The emperor must have needed people to build the Longevity Palace, and the Ministry of Industry directly issued a transfer order according to the past "tradition" to recruit craftsmen from the Beijing camp to repair the Longevity Palace.
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Some people may ask: The Ministry of Industry is not the Ministry of War, so why should it mobilize people from the Beijing camp to do things?
If we want to expand on this situation, it is quite complicated, but we can put it simply. Probably because the previous Beijing camp had no status anyway, it was often transferred by the court to do construction projects and all kinds of chores.
The high-end ones are like building imperial mausoleums, the low-end ones are like digging out cesspits, the important ones are like building city walls, and the secondary ones are like paving roads. Anyway, Jingying has done everything.
But it doesn't mean anything if you have done it. The key is that it was miserable for two reasons.
In order to mobilize them at the beginning, the Ministry of Industry first needed to ask the emperor for instructions, and then the emperor issued an order to the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War issued a transfer order, and then the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion would mobilize troops to do things. Later, there may be too many such things, such as clearing the sewers in the capital.
They had to ask the emperor for instructions, which of course the emperor found annoying, so gradually these procedures were simplified, and orders could be issued directly from the Ministry of Works, and a default rule was gradually formed.
The second point is that when the Ministry of Industry asks the Beijing camp to do projects, most of the time they do not pay wages. Because according to everyone's understanding, your Beijing camp already has military pay, and now it is idle to do the project itself.
This is also a task given to you by the imperial court. Why do you need to get another sum of money?
This makes the Beijing camp very unlucky, because although the imperial court pays the Beijing camp, which is true, most of the salary is not of the nature of "salary". In theory, it is for changing clothes, maintaining ordnance, and maintaining the military camp.
Mainly facilities, etc. As for military pay, which is a real salary, it is actually very small. The reason is that there is a large amount of land in the Beijing camp, and these lands are used to raise soldiers according to Zhu Yuanzhang's idea.
As for whether these lands are currently supporting soldiers or nobles, or even supporting a large number of hereditary officers, I'm sorry, but the court does not ask this...
So every time the Beijing camp is transferred to start a big project, the unlucky ones are the people below. Not only do they not get paid most of the time, they even have to bring their own dry food to work. Only occasionally does the workload of the project be too heavy, or the delivery time of the project
When the situation is very tight and you need to work shifts, the imperial court will "discretionally" give you a little salary as a subsidy - at this discretion, if you can get half of the normal salary on the market, then people in the Beijing camp can burn incense to celebrate.
But this situation was broken after Gao Pragmatic established the Production and Construction Corps, because according to Gao Pragmatic's regulations, no matter what work the Production and Construction Corps does, it must consider the issue of profit - at least you cannot lose money.
This has caused some trouble, although Zhu Yingzhen and others don't actually care about the Ministry of Industry calling the Production and Construction Corps, because they have long been accustomed to it, and to be honest, it is not they, the nobles, who are unlucky.
But things are different now. The nature of the Production and Construction Corps is different from that of the Beijing Camp in the past. It now needs to pay accounts! Gao Pragmatic stipulates that the Production and Construction Corps must implement a set of revenue and expenditure management processes similar to those in the Jinghua system. This
The accounts had to be handed over to the Ministry of War for review and approval—of course, in fact, they were handed over to him, the Assistant Manager of Jingying Rongzheng, for review and approval.
In this way, the Ministry of Industry directly called people from the Production and Construction Corps to Xiu Shou Palace. The biggest trouble was with Gao Pragmatic. Without his approval, Zhu Yingzhen and the others would not dare to release him, otherwise the accounts would not be reconciled.
Gao Pragmatic dares to let them pay for themselves.
Everything else was easy to talk about. How could I bear to pay for it myself? So Zhu Yingzhen and the others discussed and discussed, but in the end they had no choice but to report the problem to Gao Pragmatic.
We really can't figure it out, so it's better for the Ministry of War to file a lawsuit with the Ministry of Industry.
Originally, after Zhu Yingzhen explained the matter hesitantly, he was a little worried that Gao Pragmatic would not directly intervene, because the style of civil servants has always been like this: I only hand over the tasks, and if you military ministers can't do it well, it's because of your own incompetence.
However, Gao Pragmatic's reaction was beyond the expectations of the nobles. Gao Pragmatic not only did not shirk, but nodded repeatedly and praised: "Good! You can strictly adhere to the system regulations of the Production and Construction Corps. This is very good. The headquarters is very grateful.
Glad."
Although Gao Pangshi had a smile on his face, because he did not call himself "I" this time, but replaced him with "the main department", which means that he is now talking about business as the assistant manager of the military affairs of the capital, so the nobles also
They all sat up straight subconsciously, as if they were listening respectfully to the instructions.
However, everyone is still unsure: although praise is good, it is worthless. The key is to be pragmatic and willing to directly help solve the problem.
Of course, the highly pragmatic people who know the stinky virtues of the nobles will not disappoint them. He just pondered for a moment and then said with a smile: "You may think that this matter only requires the headquarters to negotiate with the Ministry of Works, but this
This idea is totally wrong. The key to this matter does not lie with the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of War."
All the dignitaries were stunned, and Zhang Yuangong interrupted: "Where is that?" Then he added as if asking a question of his own: "Are you looking for the cabinet?"
Gao Pragmatic shook his head: "The cabinet will definitely report it, but the most important thing is the emperor."
Everyone looked suddenly enlightened, and heard Gao Pragmatic add: "Originally, the transfer of people from the Beijing camp to start major construction projects required the emperor's approval, and this time the Ministry of Industry was mobilized for the purpose of repairing the Longevity Palace... As long as the emperor understands that the Production and Construction Corps
If we are willing to support the restructuring of the Production and Construction Corps, then this matter will naturally turn around, and we may even change the past process and establish a new set of methods."
Zhangwu Bo Yang Bing didn't want to speak at first, but after Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong looked at him, he had to stand up and ask about sensitive topics. He coughed dryly and asked awkwardly: "What Gongbao said is certainly reasonable. But this matter
...Well, after all, it is a longevity palace built for the emperor, so logically speaking, we should..."
Shit, that's not what you're thinking about, and that's also not what you want to ask.
Gao Pragmatic interrupted directly: "Uncle, do you want to ask: The Production and Construction Corps actually had to collect cash before they started construction of the Emperor's longevity palace. Will the Emperor be angry because of this?"
"Uh..." Yang Bing hesitated for a moment, then said with an embarrassed smile: "Well, Gong Bao really... really has a sharp eye."
Gao Pingshi smiled and said calmly: "You can rest assured that since the new system was decided by the Honbu Hall, the responsibility of convincing the emperor should naturally be shouldered by the Honbu Hall."
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