Gao Pragmatic chose an excellent time to do the dredging, and the time was two days before the Longevity Festival.
Why are the first two days a good time? Because the Wanshou Festival of the Ming Dynasty is one of the "three major festivals" along with "New Year's Day" and the Winter Solstice. The Wanshou Festival is a three-day holiday across the country - before the Emperor's Holy Day (birthday)
One day and the day after are both holidays.
In other words, as long as the cabinet and the emperor did not complete the drafting and imperial approval process after the Gao pragmatic review, then whether the "Innovation Station Review" can be accepted by the court will have to be rejected until after the holiday.
During the three days of the Longevity Festival, Gao pragmatically reserved it for the court to carefully examine the content of this book. Of course, he might not have thought so much on the holy day because there was a royal court on that day.
Here we must first clarify the definition of the early dynasties of the Ming Dynasty. The dynasties of the Ming Dynasty were divided into three types, namely the Great Dynasty, the Shuowang Dynasty and the Chang Dynasty.
The Shuowang Dynasty is held on the first and fifteenth day of each month. Its nature is like that of a major imperial court, and it is also held in the Huangji Hall (formerly Fengtian Hall, renamed from Jiajing), but it is only for greetings and does not discuss political affairs.
The Chang Dynasty is often referred to as the Morning Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the morning Dynasty actually included the Noon Dynasty and even the Late Dynasty. However, because the Late Dynasty was not normalized, there is no need to explain more. Speaking of the Chang Dynasty, it was actually held at Fengtianmen.
(It was renamed Huangji Gate during the Jiajing Period, which is now Taihe Gate in the Forbidden City). This is a "chao" that handles political affairs seriously.
The Great Dynasty only holds special court meetings on Zhengdan, Winter Solstice, and Wanshou Festivals. Its nature is for hundreds of officials to congratulate the emperor. It is ceremonial, and the scale is generally large, but it usually does not deal with government affairs.
By the way, in April of the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing (1557), the three main halls were burned down again by thunder and fire, and spread more widely, including Wenlou (today's Tiren Pavilion), Wulou (today's Hongyi Pavilion), and Fengtianmen.
(today's Taihe Gate), Zuoshun Gate (today's Xiehe Gate), Youshun Gate (today's Xihe Gate) and the left and right corridors outside the Meridian Gate were also burned down. Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing had to set up court at Duanmen and ordered
The damaged buildings were rebuilt and the renovation was completed in September of the 41st year of Jiajing reign (1562).
However, this reconstruction greatly reduced the size of the original three halls, resulting in an imbalance in the proportion of the building and the three-story platform. The reason for this situation is most likely that the imperial court was in a financial deficit due to the Southern Japanese and Northern invaders.
Seriously, but I don’t know what kind of mentality it was out of, after the reconstruction was completed, Jiajing changed the names of the three main halls.
After the downsizing of Fengtian Hall, Emperor Jiajing ordered that it be renamed "Huangji Hall", Huagai Hall was renamed "Zhongji Hall", and Jinshen Hall was renamed "Jianji Hall". Obviously, in addition to Huangji Hall, which represents the imperial power,
, the other two major halls of the three halls have a bachelor named after them: the first assistant will be the "Grand Scholar of Zhongji Hall" from now on, while the second assistant will be fixed as "Grand Scholar of Jianji Hall".
The Wanshou Festival is only one day away, so ministers and ministers are relatively free and can do some private things. But there are not many officials who are really free to do private things. They should go up a level and enter the core or the periphery of power.
The officials were very busy on this day. They were all busy discussing in series what stance they should take to face the "Revolutionary Station" that Gao Situ gave after the Wanshou Festival.
Let’s talk about the school of pragmatism first. Originally, Gao pragmatism’s short essay was to a large extent to cut off the flesh of Jinghua to cooperate with the imperial reform. In theory, everyone should express their praise, but the reality is not that smooth.
Many officials of the Practical School have reservations about this.
Why is this? Of course it is also because of interests.
Jinghua is a giant-level business group. Its main body is of course the highly pragmatic and "wholly owned" Jinghua itself. However, what is usually called "Jinghua" actually blurs a concept, that is, Jinghua at this moment is actually divided into narrow sense.
Jinghua and Jinghua in a broad sense.
In the narrow sense, Jinghua is the Jinghua that is fully owned by Gao pragmatism, including various industries under its name, such as various mines, ironworks, shipyards, cement plants, ports, fleets, porcelain factories, tussah silk factories, salt fields and even trading companies.
, banks, logistics and a large number of industrial and commercial entities, and even include the "advisory group" with Beijing characteristics - the Supreme Emperor's institutions of various countries in southern Xinjiang.
The main characteristic of these entities is that they make highly pragmatic decisions that are final. In theory, he does not need to ask anyone else to make any decision. In the words of later generations, because he personally holds 100% of the shares in these entities, he
The decision is equivalent to the decision of the entire shareholders' meeting.
But in addition to Jinghua in the narrow sense, there is also Jinghua in the broad sense. What is Jinghua in the broad sense? For example, although the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance is an "alliance" organization, there is no doubt that in general, pragmatism still has the final say.
, this organization has always been regarded as the "Beijing Group".
But can the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance really be left to Gao Pragmatic to do whatever he wants? Of course not, because there are other "shareholders" and "acting shareholders" in this alliance, and these people all have their own interests to consider.
Yes, even if a highly pragmatic person has decision-making power, it is impossible to completely ignore their ideas. Many decisions need to take their interests into consideration.
The reason is very simple. If Gao Pragmatic could not convince them with interests, the one who went to Luzon last year should not have been the Maritime Trade Alliance but Jinghua itself.
Let's look back at last year's Luzon expedition and see how much contribution the major shareholders in the Maritime Trade Alliance, other than Jinghua, contributed.
At that time, the nobles of the Jingnan family included the Dukes of the Three Kingdoms, the Thirteenth Marquis (including relatives who were granted the title of Marquis), and the Twenty-first Uncle (including relatives, but not including Li Chengliang). Gao Pingshi persuaded them, so he sent troops to Luzon that time.
, the nobles contributed a total of 96 armed transport ships, with a total of more than 2,600 ship-borne artillery pieces, including 768 No. 2 long heavy guns.
How powerful is this power? Gao Pingshi dares to say this. After excluding extreme situations like the "Kamikaze" back then, even if dozens of Japanese naval forces are tied together today, they normally cannot defeat this "holy force".
Your fleet".
And this can also be compared. Jinghua itself dispatched the main force of the Beiyang Fleet at that time, the core of which was a three-level sailing battleship, two levels of four sailing cruisers, and 49 armed transport ships were dispatched as planned. Finally, additional newly launched ships were dispatched.
Two experimental high-speed reconnaissance ships "Left Hussars" and "Right Hussars" have recently been put into service.
Given the strength of Jinghua, if the seven pure warships are not included, the armed transport ships dispatched by it are only about half of the "Honorable Fleet".
A glimpse of one spot reveals the whole leopard. Nowadays, the scale of the stakeholders attached to the main body of Jinghua is already very large. This is not only true for the commercial fleet, but also for other industries.
Let's talk about some of the aspects mentioned in this "Innovation Station Review". The biggest industry affected by Gao Pragmatic's proposals is Jinghua's own logistics system, but Jinghua's logistics system is not a one-man operation.
Although the vast majority of the fleet and cavalry belong to Jinghua, as mentioned before, as a private commercial enterprise, Jinghua has to consider costs, and the density of its logistics nodes in various regions is not the same.
For example, in Shaanxi, Jinghua's cavalry set up four major nodes in Xi'an Prefecture, Hanzhong Prefecture, Lintao Prefecture, and Qingyang Prefecture, but it did not set up Yan'an Prefecture, Pingliang Prefecture, Gongchang Prefecture, and Fengxiang Prefecture.
So what should we do if Yan'an Prefecture wants to carry out logistics? Some officials from the local real school have cooperated with Jinghua and undertook the business of transporting materials from Yan'an Prefecture to Qingyang Prefecture and Xi'an Prefecture, two major nodes of Jinghua Prefecture.
Becoming a nominal partner means actually becoming part of Jinghua's "supply chain".
Yan'an Prefecture is just an example, and the situation in other places is basically similar.
In addition, because Jinghua has a relatively strong foundation in the north and relatively weak partners, it still has a relatively strong position. However, the "cooperation" in the south, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is more detailed and not as strong as in the north.
For example, Jinghua and the Wu Dui family, who were born in Shanyin, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, also cooperate in logistics. In this cooperation, the scope of business handled by Jinghua itself is even lower - Jinghua has only established three offices in Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou in Zhejiang.
As a first-level logistics node, the rest of the business was "outsourced" to the Wu family in Shanyin, and the Wu family "subcontracted" the areas it did not directly cover to some officials from the Zhejiang Shixue School.
In this way, around the giant ship Jinghua, there was already a large group of people eating meat and drinking soup. Although the reform of the imperial station does not mean that Jinghua's logistics business will no longer be possible, the interests will always be affected.
definitely.
As part of the "Greater Jinghua" system in a broad sense, if Jinghua earns less, they will naturally earn less, so of course they will not be so happy about the "Innovation Station" proposed by Gao pragmatic this time.
When the reform changes to the point where you start to operate on yourself, there is no doubt that it means entering the "deep water zone". This is the time when reform decision-makers are most tested. After all, it is easy to operate on others, but difficult to operate on yourself.
Gao pragmatic received a visit from Wu Dui today. This Gao Gong disciple, who had just been promoted from a bachelor of Wuying Palace to a bachelor of Wenhua Palace, did not hide his worries in front of his "eldest brother" and junior brother Gao Jingshi
.
In Gao Jingshi's study room on the Rixin Building, the two parties were seated separately. Wu Dui and Gao Jingshi exchanged a few greetings first, and then got to the point and said: "Brother Qiu Zhen, you also know that although I am a civil servant, I am a professional
I have been a minister of Xinjiang for many years, and I am responsible for military affairs at home. I am really a straight person. I will not talk to you about some things. I mainly want to ask you about the logistics business related to Jinghua after the reform of the post station.
What to do."
Without waiting for Gao's pragmatic answer, Wu Dui first raised his concerns: "You know the situation in Zhejiang. There are not many officials from our school of thought. You used various transactions in Jinghua as a lead to attach them to Jinghua."
, so that the entire Zhejiang Real School became a unified force and had the strength to compete with the Xinxue Party members - at least it will not be continuously eroded and suppressed, which is good.
But as soon as "Innovation Station Shu" was published, many people came to Brother Yu and said that such innovation might be a good thing for the court, but it was a disaster for them. Money and silk are indeed vulgar, but studying also costs money.
The children of each family need to spend money to train, so as to ensure that our power in the court will gradually increase, or at least not become weak. But in the logistics area, the main income comes from freight. You are here
Once the Fanjiang Delivery Station is restructured, the Imperial Post Station will most likely rely on its cost advantage to seize market share from them, causing them serious losses, and this will affect the successor force of the Wushi School..."
Gao Pingshi sighed softly, nodded and said: "Of course I understand this truth."
Wu Dui waited for a while, and when he saw that Gao Pingshi had finished his sentence, he couldn't help but frown secretly, and said helplessly: "Please tell the truth, don't misunderstand Brother Yu. In fact, Brother Yu has not valued money since Quanzi joined Beijing."
In the logistics business in Zhejiang, Brother Yu earns several thousand taels, or even more than 10,000 taels a year, so what? Brother Yu will not be poor even if he earns less money.
Brother Yu is really worried that your approach may shake the foundation. Think about it, since Duke Xinzhai (Zhang Xueyan) returned home, only Brother Yu and Ganji (characterized by Liang Menglong) in the cabinet are sure to be able to support
Yours, but even though Brother Yu has taken over the position of Lord Shinsai, he is only ranked third in the cabinet and is still just a group assistant.
Ganji has just joined the cabinet, and he is ranked at the bottom. It is not because we are both members of the practical school. Now I am afraid that I can only be a senior cabinet minister. How can I compare with Shen and Wang Ergong?
However, the strength of practical learning cannot be compared with the prosperity of practical learning officials in the world. We in the south are not as strong as the foundation of spiritual learning and the scale is huge. If this reform of the post station has shaken our foundation, who knows whether these officials will
Will you turn to others?
Not to mention that they changed their studies, even if they switched to Xu Weizhen (Xu Guo), it would be a big bad thing for you, Qiuzhen. Now Xu Weizhen is very close to Shen Longjiang (Shen Li), and Shen Longjiang is
General Xian (Censor of Zuodu), if they take this opportunity to recruit a large number of rising stars, even if you can successfully join the cabinet to assist the government in the future, how many people will be available to you? Therefore, in my humble opinion, this post is
Reforms still need to be done with caution.”
Gao pragmatic nodded again and said: "Senior brother is worried that the south has always been the weak spot of our school of thought. It has been in a miserable state for many years. If someone picks the peach because of the reform of the post station, it will be a serious mistake.
.”
He paused and then said: "However, when it comes to buying and selling, I have some personal opinions, and I would like to take this opportunity to communicate with my senior brother and get some advice from him."
"Qiu Zhen is joking, brother Yu can't give you any advice on business matters." Wu Dui waved his hands repeatedly, indicating that he was not taking it seriously, and then said: "But if Qiu Zhen has anything to say, he should go through brother Yu to some colleagues from Zhejiang.
Convey, although Brother Yu is not talented, he is still willing to contribute some spare time."
"Senior brother, you are too modest." Gao pragmatic smiled, and cut to the point, saying: "Senior brother, do you know that the fundamental reason why I am willing to do such a cruel thing this time is actually not that the reform of the post station can only be carried out according to the "Reformation of the Post Station"
Are there any other reasons for doing this in these ways?"
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