Chapter 141 Although Zhou was an old state, his destiny was restored (Part 1)
Do King Zhou and King Lu dare to follow Gao Jingshi?
The answer is definitely no, at least when it comes to deducting their one-year salary and "payment", these two princes must not dare to do anything, let alone be more pragmatic. The jump here is still specific-probably
Said: Show me some kind of rebellion?
rebel?
There are only about 500 guards in the palaces of these two princes, and their level is as good as the "Inland Guard Soldiers". What kind of rebellion are they using? Don't call these people pragmatic and don't bother to take a second look. Even if the locals
The commander-in-chief doesn't even have to show up, as the soldiers in the area can easily handle it with just one order.
Therefore, as long as these two people are not old people who eat arsenic and are impatient with life, they will definitely not dare to jump and can only endure it.
As for the dignified prince being bullied by officials...well, isn't that a common thing? This is not an ordinary official, this is a ministry! It is the Gaobutang with the most prosperous holy family!
How did Zhang Juzheng’s family bully the King of Liao? Is it a problem? Nothing! In the original history, if Zhang Juzheng hadn’t been liquidated by Zhu Yijun after his death, the affairs of the King of Liao would not have even made a splash. In this life, Zhang Juzheng still defeated the King of Liao
, and because Gao Gong was in power, Gao Pragmatic advocated letting Zhang Juzheng go. As a result, no one is trying to overturn the case of the King of Liao.
Of course, the King of Liao himself was not unjust, and he deserved his death. It was just that Zhang Juzheng earned a magnificent palace as his own residence. This was a pure profit - Gao Pragmatic also visited Guangxi on his way south.
Zhang Mansion, that mansion was the former Liao Prince's Mansion.
Speaking of this brother of the King of Liao, it is really dumbfounding. He has not done anything serious for decades. From the age of four to forty, he has nothing to pursue except playing.
When he was a child, he loved to play and beat Zhang Juzheng's grandfather to death. Later, when he got older, he still played because his family had money, so he could play as he liked!
However, the time has come to finish playing.
All this time, Zhang Juzheng has never forgotten the scene where his grandfather was tortured to death thirty years ago. A gentleman's revenge, let alone ten years, is not too late for Zhang Juzheng.
It was only the second year of Longqing's reign, and Gao Gong was still living at home and had not yet risen. Zhang Juzheng was only third in the cabinet at that time, but it was more than enough to deal with the King of Liao.
So under his suggestion, soon the censors of the Huguang Patrol and various court censors suddenly rose up and jointly impeached the King of Liao. The King of Liao had been playing for so many years, and it was naturally not difficult to find various accusations, so all of a sudden
The pile of black materials was reported to the emperor.
Although Mu Zonglongqing didn't always like the vassal king very much, he was still his brother after all. Hearing that this man was unreasonable, he had to check it out anyway, so he sent Hong Chaoxuan, the Minister of Punishment, to investigate the matter.
Zhang Juzheng originally wanted to instruct Hong Chaoxuan to charge the King of Liao with a lot of charges, including treason. However, Hong Chaoxuan refused to accept that Zhang Juzheng was framed by the King of Liao, and took the idea of "treason" and sternly refused to be imprisoned in the case.
He signed it. He investigated the facts and finally returned to life with the conclusion that "the revolution is true, but the rebellion is unfounded" and "the law can be rectified, but the country cannot be eliminated." This incident angered Zhang Juzheng, who later took advantage of the opportunity of the Beijing inspection.
The Hong Dynasty dismissed his official position and returned home - this is just mentioned in passing.
Since I mentioned this in passing, let me just mention it in passing: the Hu-Guang patrol officer when the Liao King case broke out was none other than Gao Guangxian, the Trilateral Governor-General when the Northwest Rebellion broke out.
Gao Guangxian was relatively close to Gao Gong at that time, but Gao Gong was being forced to retreat by Xu Jie at that time and was living in his hometown of Xinzheng. Gao Guangxian was just a patrol censor and had no other backers in the court. Considering that Zhang Juzheng had always been Gao Gong
A close friend, so he listened to his instructions.
By the way, there are some details about Hong Chaoxuan's refusal to attach himself to Zhang Juzheng. At that time, Hong Chaoxuan was the envoy, and there was also a deputy envoy named Shi Duchen. The two went to Jiangling together for verification, and this Shi Duchen was Zhang Juzheng's person.
Shi Duchen came to Jiangling and forged a letter between King Zhu Xian of Liao and Hong Chaoxuan, hoping to blackmail Zhu Xian. Zhu Xian had never suffered such grievances in his life, so he directly chose to resist.
However, this prince's way of resisting was a bit special. He put up a big white flag and wrote a letter of "Unjust Litigation". When Shi Duchen saw this, he didn't know whether he really didn't see it clearly or deliberately, but he exclaimed on the spot: "Liao
The king has rebelled!" So he led five hundred people and surrounded the palace.
A dandy son of the King of Liao did not really intend to rebel, so naturally he could only be captured on the spot. There is nothing to say about this process.
After returning to the court, Shi Duchen followed Zhang Juzheng's instructions and wanted to prosecute Zhu Xian? for treason, but Hong Chaoxuan firmly opposed it. As mentioned just now. Due to Hong Chaoxuan's persistence, King Zhu Xian of Liao escaped death and was deposed as a commoner.
Yu Fengyang.
As I said before, what happened to the Liao King was partly because Zhang Juzheng wanted to take revenge, and secondly because he had set his sights on the Liao Prince's palace. However, the Liao King himself was not unjust, and there were many conclusive evidences of the crimes of this young man.
This guy can arrest and kill anyone on the street (a drunkard); he can kill any woman he likes, regardless of her status; he can have incest with the women of his clan; he can build palaces and temples without permission, etc. In short, he deserves to die.
However, the problem is that although the King of Liao is considered a scum even among the princes, the princes who are better than him are actually not much better.
The current reigning King of Zhou is called Zhu Suqin. He usually has no bad reputation, nor does he have a good reputation. According to Gao Pragmatic's consistent understanding, this kind of prince just has no one to check, and if he does, he will definitely have a dirty butt.
Prince Lu does have a good reputation, but to be honest, Prince Lu's palace has been in Shandong for two hundred years, connected by streets and thousands of stores. He might as well give up hundreds of acres of land to farmland and give it to the poor, but give up his little family fortune and let poor relatives from the same clan
It doesn’t matter if you go and get it, what does it matter? Who knows what is going on behind the scenes?
If there is anything special about him, it is probably because he will give himself the title of a good king, so as not to be remembered by the court and suffer any unnecessary disasters. Again, Gao Pragmatic believes that all these princes' palaces are in peace without investigation.
, the whole army was wiped out in one investigation.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After firmly "settling" the affairs of King Zhou and King Lu, Gao pragmatically talked about the most important business today.
"You two must have heard the news last night. The governors of the five prefectures joined hands to visit the humble house at night." Gao pragmatically smiled: "They plan to send some money to the Ministry of Household Affairs."
Almost all the nobles from the Jingnan Department visited Gao Pragmatic, who had resigned as Minister of Rongzheng. This was the biggest news last night. As Minister of Household Affairs, Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili had certainly heard about it. After all, even such
If big news cannot be obtained in time, it will not be easy to get around in the capital. However, Gao Pragmatic's words made them stunned.
At present, the most mainstream speculation in Beijing about this matter is that the nobles in Beijing are afraid of losing their backers, and they probably want to persuade Gao Pragmatic to stay in office. Of course, this is very difficult, but there is a way around it.
For example, if Gao Pragmatic, as his predecessor, recommends an official from the Practical School who can completely "follow the rules and follow the rules" to take up this position, it is a reasonable and accommodating strategy, and it is extremely feasible.
Who knew that Gao Pragmatic didn't mention this at all, but instead said that Jingying wanted to send money to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
This is strange. It is normal for the Ministry of Household Affairs to send money to the Beijing Camp. How can there be any reason for the Beijing Camp to send money to the Household Bureau? Even though the Beijing Camp has been reorganized and the Production and Construction Corps is almost financially independent, at least their
The salary is still issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs, so why is it their turn to send money to the Ministry of Household Affairs?
Cheng Wen couldn't help but ask: "What does Situ mean by this? How long will it take for the Beijing camp to be divided into two parts? Will the Production and Construction Corps be able to feed back the imperial court?"
Oh, you are quite good at thinking about repaying the imperial court? Look at those nobles, do they have such patriotic sentiments?
"That's not true." Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said, "It's just that I told them last night that they would hand over the financial affairs of the Production and Construction Corps to the Ministry of Household Affairs for unified management."
Not to mention Cheng Wen, even Hu Zhili stared wide-eyed and asked in disbelief: "Did the nobles agree?"
Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "It is moved with emotion and learned with reason. It is natural for the nobles to rest with the country. Their annual gross profit is probably more than 1.3 million taels, excluding the Imperial Guards.
Between the expenses and their own expenses, I estimate that there will still be three to five million taels left, which will be enough to do the best."
Cheng Wen was surprised: "There are so many?"
Hu Zhili had another surprise. He asked: "Even so, can they agree to hand over the remaining silver to the Ministry of Accounts for use?"
Gao Pragmatic smiled: "It's not surprising that there are so many. The Production and Construction Corps has a large amount of real estate owned by the five prefectures before. In the past, these fields were all military camps, and the excess idle land was of little use.
Nowadays, the Production and Construction Corps has a lot of cooperation with Jinghua, and some of them have been developed. Some of the mountains produce minerals and wood, and some of them are close to the city or in good locations, and they are used to build Jianguan (a resting place on the main transportation road).
Various developments such as this are being carried out.
Moreover, after being transformed into the Production and Construction Corps, the previous methods of military settlement have changed. The method they are currently using is the idea provided by the headquarters, which is called the ‘Family Responsibility Contracting System’...”
Hu Zhili immediately asked: "What is this method? Can Da Situ explain it in detail?"
This method is certainly familiar to Gao Pragmatic, who was a grassroots cadre back then. The household contract responsibility system is that farmers take the family as a unit to contract with collective economic organizations - the Red Dynasty is the village, the production and construction corps is the health institute -
The form of agricultural production responsibility system for land and other production means and production tasks.
Land is easy to understand, and the "other means of production" are the farm tools owned by the guards. According to the previous system, these farm tools belonged to the guards and did not belong to the military households, so now they are also "contracted".
However, since Gao Pragmatic does not believe in the ethics of grassroots health stations, the contracting of these things is now directly free of charge. Military households do not have to spend money for it, and they only have to compensate when farm tools are damaged.
This compensation is also very interesting. Gao Pragmatic was afraid that the grassroots health stations would harm military households, so they were not allowed to collect money, only farm tools as compensation. He also considered that some unscrupulous people might use these unqualified farm tools to embarrass the military.
Therefore, they did not stop doing anything, and simply stipulated that as long as the farm tools are new ones produced by Jinghua and there are sales receipts produced by Jinghua, the grassroots guards of the Production and Construction Corps are not allowed to refuse them, and any violations will be reported to the Corps.
Reporting it to the Corps will definitely not end well. Everyone knows this, because no one can escape the influence of the word "Jinghua" here - you dare to even refuse to accept things from Jinghua? You've turned against me!
Do you know that the high-ranking nobles of the Corps can also get dividends from these farm tools? Is your old man’s head retired from the country like them?
This system was implemented by the later Red Dynasty. It may be difficult to fully implement it in the Ming Dynasty, because the local landlords and the scholars behind them will definitely not agree, and it may cause a lot of trouble - shaken
The level at which the imperial court was founded.
However, this system is completely feasible within the scope of the "juntun". Why? Because the land in the Juntun was allocated to the garrison by Zhu Yuanzhang two hundred years ago, and the Beijing Camp itself is also controlled in the name of the Fifth Army Governor's Office
They were "collective big landowners" who owned a large number of military camps.
Since it is a collective, and theoretically this is the emperor's land, it is easy to handle, because it is not privately owned. The court can do this today and do that tomorrow. Gao Pragmatic made this change on behalf of the court. Since the emperor agreed,
No one had anything to say.
Besides, as the emperor's former de facto "white glove", the nobles also agreed, so what else could they say?
As in the Red Dynasty, in the restructured military settlements, military households, as a relatively independent economic entity in agricultural production, contracted and operated the collective land of the production and construction corps, as well as other production materials (the general practice was to divide the land by population or person).
The labor ratio is allocated to farmers for management, which is consistent with the Hong Dynasty), and then production and management can be carried out independently in accordance with the provisions of the contract.
As for its operating income, except for the part that is handed over to the Production and Construction Corps collective and the land tax (this land tax is different from ordinary land tax and relatively very low) according to the contract, the remaining part belongs to the military households. The Production and Construction Corps collective acts as
In addition to carrying out necessary coordination and management and operating certain side businesses, the contracting party mainly provides production services to farmers - that is, providing agricultural tools, seeds, etc., and occasionally repairs water conservancy facilities under high pragmatic requirements.
After listening to Gao Pragmatic's explanation, Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili clapped their hands and applauded. Hu Zhili said with emotion: "Situ is indeed the golden touch. Xiaguan's family was also a farmer in the past. If a landlord is willing to give such good conditions, how could he be careless?
Serving those dozen acres of land? No wonder this Jingying military camp used to have so much land, but it actually lost a lot when reporting every year, and needed financial support from the Ministry of Revenue at every turn. Originally, the lower official thought it was just because the guard station was too greedy.
Now that I think about it, I'm afraid it's not just greed, but also the fact that the military households are simply unwilling to do it! You can get so much from hard work, and you can get so much from cheating and cheating, who else would be willing to do it?"
Cheng Wen's family is in a good situation. He has no such experience, but he still pondered and asked: "Is the portion taken by the Production and Construction Corps based on a fixed proportion or a fixed amount? What if there is a famine?"
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