Chapter 282 Difficulties inside and outside the palace (Yuan San)
Liu Xin's words made Gao Pragmatic speechless for a moment, and he couldn't answer for a long time.
Gao Pragmatic is indeed a principled person, but being principled does not mean being stubborn, nor does it mean that he is so paranoid that he does not accept reality. He knows that although Liu Xin's words are just an inference, this inference is reasonable. If it is true
With this development, the final results are not exactly the same, at least they are quite similar.
What worries Gao pragmatism the most about this inference is that if one day his descendants go north to crusade against the Ming Dynasty, the chaos they may cause will be far greater than if they rebelled now. This also means that the killings will inevitably be even worse, which will bring great harm to the Chinese nation.
causing greater losses.
The reason is very simple. Even if he is very pragmatic and does rebel one day, because he himself is extremely unhappy to see the war in China continue to cause trouble, he will definitely find ways to use the gentlest but fastest method to complete the reform, and this is exactly
Ways to minimize civil war losses.
However, what if all this was not completed by his high pragmatism? Just as Liu Xin hypothesized, this matter will eventually be completed by a certain generation of his grandchildren. Will they have high pragmatism and concern for their compatriots?
Obviously not, because they, who have become the ruling family of Southern Xinjiang by then, should have been born and raised in Southern Xinjiang, and their yearning for the "Central Plains" was only brought about by the knowledge conveyed in the book. At the same time, they
The most urgent idea for the Central Plains is to use the power at hand to seize it by force - to regain the land of our ancestors.
Therefore, war may be inevitable.
At this moment, Gao Pragmatic suddenly felt a little sad. Sometimes the ancestral system may not necessarily limit what the children and grandchildren will do, just as many of the ancestral systems set by Zhu Yuanzhang have actually been destroyed long ago.
When children and grandchildren face problems that cannot be solved and find that they can be solved by breaking the ancestral system, many people will often strongly push them to break the constraints of these ancestral systems.
Speaking of which, isn’t this also true of what he has been preaching over the years, “Following the will of the ancestors rather than following the system of the ancestors”?
In the final analysis, the key still depends on whether it is more cost-effective to follow the ancestral system or to abolish the ancestral system. After all, the root of everything lies in interests.
As for Liu Xin's hypothesis just now, he said that if he continues to explain in the name of the ancestral system in the future and stipulates that the system of southern Xinjiang is to give equal emphasis to workers, farmers, commerce, students, and soldiers, he can change the situation of the Ming Dynasty where the civil servants are dominated by one family...
It can only be said that Liu Xin has made rapid progress on political issues, but there is still room for improvement.
Gao Pragmatic knew very well that it was impossible to achieve this effect with just one ancestral rule, but it was indeed possible to achieve such a goal through more clever methods.
How to do it? In short, it is necessary to cultivate an interest group among the workers, farmers, businessmen, students, and soldiers, and at the same time give them a forum at the court or government level where everyone can sit down and discuss
On the platform, the descendants of the Gao family act as referees and final decision-makers, trying to find the greatest common denominator among the conflicts between several major classes and achieve mutual compromise between various interest groups.
This is not just a dream, but it is feasible.
Some people may say that these parties are said to be several major strata, but in fact the number of people is very different, and the power in their hands is also unequal. It may be difficult for some of them to find representative figures to participate in upper-level politics. How can they sit down and talk?
?
In fact, it is not the case. There are relatively mature methods for future generations to refer to. For example, "workers" can form a national industrial association, "farmers" can form a national agricultural association, "business" can form a national business association, and "study" can form a national school.
Associations, "soldiers" can...well, "soldiers" are special, so they can't form associations. This force must be directly controlled by the Gao family.
Wouldn't it be enough to set up national associations at all levels, and then set up a system to allow them to elect or vote within them, and finally select a group of people who represent their interests to participate in the above-mentioned platform? As for these national associations,
How many years the association will be in office is a trivial matter and should be determined by comprehensively considering the actual situation at the time.
Next is the issue of strength. Generally speaking, the "soldier" is definitely the most threatening. After all, no one can withstand its rampage. In addition, it is the basic base that must be directly controlled by the Gao family, so its basic interests
It will definitely be guaranteed.
"Soldiers" are the army. If the interests of the army can be basically protected, it means that the violent foundation of national rule will not be shaken, at least it will not happen like the situation in the late Ming Dynasty in original history.
What was the original situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty? Let’s just talk about the military: First, the military in various places suffered a large salary reduction, and then there was a large-scale arrears of wages. And it was not just a small amount, but a large-scale and long-term arrears of wages.
For example, since the Liao pay increase that started in the 46th year of Wanli could not fundamentally solve the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, the millions of arrears in pay caused by the embezzlement of military pay by Wei eunuchs in the seventh year of the Apocalypse cannot be made up. Therefore,
When he arrived at Chongzhen, in order to solve the financial crisis, the holy king adopted two methods: first, to reduce the military pay of ordinary soldiers; second, to send more troops to civilians.
The additions of the Chongzhen Dynasty mainly included the increase of Liao pay and the additional suppression and training of pay. Due to limited space, we will omit it for the time being. We will focus on how Chongzhen passed on the financial crisis caused by the millions of Zhu Ming royal family to ordinary soldiers. Since
Starting from the first year of Chongzhen's reign, Chongzhen issued an order to reduce the military pay of all frontier armies.
For example: Dongjiang's salary quota was cut from 1 million taels to 240,000 taels, which triggered Mao Wenlong's two convicts; Ji, Mi, and Yong Sanxie eliminated the new army, triggering a mutiny by the Ji army in March of the second year of Chongzhen. This was the second time after Chongzhen came to power.
After the Jizhou Mutiny, the annual fee of Guan Ning Jin Denggin was reduced from more than 6 million to 4.8 million. Due to Yuan Chonghuan's proper handling of this situation and the relatively large military base of the Liaodong Army, a second mutiny did not occur. It is fortunate that there was no second mutiny.
Let’s just take the Jimiyong Sanxie incident of phasing out troops and reducing pay as an example. Due to the shortage of money and food at that time, Chongzhen ordered all towns to eliminate troops. Wang Yingzhi, the governor of Shuntian, aimed at reducing troops in Jimiyong and reduced pay by 500,000. The result was
Mutiny. Chongzhen imprisoned Wang Yingzhi, beheaded him as a scapegoat, replaced him with Wang Yuanya, and continued to reduce the army and pay.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "The Records of Wen and Jian in the Mountains" has a detailed record of this: "The imperial court was worried about paying high wages, so it blamed the towns for purging and eliminating them. The king of Shunfu obeyed the internal decree and made the first speech to clear up the nuclear power.
The salary was 500,000. The soldiers from the Santun camp made a noise and went down to the beacon tower to ask for the salary. Fu Zhixuan was determined. Yingzhi was imprisoned and was replaced by Wang Yuanya. Tian Yuanya was suppressed in Fushun. The main reduction of the salary was discussed as before, and the amount was reduced and the sum was reduced.
Wu, all the sharp whistles at each pass have been lost."
It should be said that this document uses concise language to describe the reasons and process of the reduction of troops and pay cuts in the Three Associations of Ji Mi and Yong. However, since "The Record of Hearing and Seeing in the Mountains" was written in the Nanming Dynasty, it is not a memoir of the person involved. I want to understand the entire Ji Miyong.
For the causes and consequences of the three-rate disarmament incident, we still need to check the original documents from the late Ming Dynasty.
In fact, according to the "Records of Ming Xi Zong", the idea of disbanding Ji Miyong's new army did not come up after Chongzhen came to power. It was proposed by the Ministry of Household Affairs at the end of December in the fifth year of Tianqi. The Minister of Household Affairs at that time was Li Qiyuan.
But Wang Zhichen, the governor of Jiliao at the time, made it clear that this was a bad idea.
Wang Zhichen, the general, reprimanded the Hubu plan with a face. What he meant was that Jimen was a very critical point, so it was fine not to increase the number of troops, and it was completely nonsense to withdraw the new troops with combat effectiveness.
.
Due to the opposition of the officials of the Liaodong Economic Strategy King, the disarmament plan of Ji Mi Yong San Xie in the fifth year of Tianqi was abandoned.
However, after Chongzhen came to power, Ji Miyong Sanxie's disarmament plan was implemented. This time, there were also people who opposed it. The opponent was the new governor Yuan Chonghuan. However, the objections were invalid.
Chongzhen wanted to save money and could not hear any objections, so he vetoed Yuan Chonghuan's plan to increase troops in Ji Miyong. "Du Zhi Memorial" included "Deng Reply to Fangguanyuan Ji Mi Yong Sanxie Bing Shu" and the six volumes of the New Rating Department "
There is a clear record in the "Regulations on the Regulations of Soldiers, Horses, Money, and Food in Each Town" written by Fudu Shi.
There are many records, so I won’t excerpt them here. In short, the original documents record very clearly the causes of Ji Miyong’s disarmament, and those responsible for the reduction of Ji Miyong’s recruits were the Governor (General Ji Liao) and the Governor (Zunhua Governor). They were
Complied with Chongzhen's imperial edict.
Considering that "Dengda Fangguanyuan Ji Miyong Sanxie Bingshu" was written in July of the second year of Chongzhen, the "governor" here is Liu Ce, and the "fu" is Wang Yuanya, which is consistent with the records in "Mountain Hearing and Seeing Records"
The coincidence is not an isolated evidence.
There are a total of 106,000 Ji Miyong Sanxie soldiers. The annual fee for these nearly 110,000 troops is 910,000 yuan. What Chongzhen ordered to lay off were 33,300 recruits among the 106,000 Ji troops.
After laying off more than 30,000 recruits, the annual fee of Ji Miyong Sanxie was reduced from 910,000 to 750,000.
Moreover, not only the annual fee for the Ji Army in the second year of Chongzhen was calculated and allocated based on 750,000, but the annual fee for the first year of Chongzhen was also settled based on the new amount revised in the second year. In other words, the 750,000 in the second year of Chongzhen will be deducted from Chongzhen
In the first year, the so-called extra 160,000 yuan was received, but only 590,000 yuan was received.
Is this all over? No. For Ji Miyong, cutting the annual salary from 910,000 to 750,000 is just the first step. There is also the issue of placement of the 33,300 soldiers who were cut.
The Ministry of War asked Yuan Chonghuan to claim 18,000 of the soldiers, but Yuan Chonghuan was only willing to accept 12,000. What happened? By continuing to check the original documents, it turned out that Guan Ning's annual fee was only 4.8 million, and he was already stretched thin.
After Ji Miyong eliminated recruits, 12,190 eliminated recruits were indeed placed in the Guan Ning establishment by Yuan Chonghuan, and Yuan Chonghuan paid them out of the Guan Ning quota of 4.8 million. This incident also led to Bi Ziyan's suspicion.
It is said that your 4.8 million yuan is already stretched thin. If you accept another 7,810 people from the Western Association, you will have to increase the salary by 130,000 to 140,000 yuan.
Therefore, Bi Ziyan discussed with Liu Ce that Yuan Chonghuan should no longer be burdened with the 7,810 people stationed in the Tashi Association. The reply from Chongzhen's imperial edict was that the placement of the 7,810 people in the Tashi Association should be left to the governor (i.e.
Liu Ce and Wang Yuanya) went to discuss.
Therefore, the result of the disarmament of Ji Miyong's 33,300 new soldiers was that 12,000 of them were paid by Liao Town and stayed in Jimen to continue serving, and 7,810 of them were paid by Ji Town and stayed in Xixie to continue serving.
Although 12,000 of Ji Miyong's new army were still in Jimen, they were paid out of Guan Ning's 4.8 million quota and became part of Guan Ning's 160,000 army. Therefore, the Jimi Yong disarmament process had been clearly explained, and Chongzhen laid off the troops.
The cost of 33,300 soldiers was reduced, but only 13,300 soldiers were actually laid off because 20,000 of them were taken over by Guan Ning and Ji Miyong themselves.
Therefore, in the second year of Chongzhen, Ji Miyong's soldiers and pay should actually be like this: the number of soldiers was reduced from 105,968 to 105,968-33,300 7810 = 80,478 soldiers. The soldier's pay was reduced from 910,000 to 590,000.
As we all know, Ji Mi Yong eliminated troops and cut wages, causing an unprecedented tragedy, which directly affected the war situation in the late Ming Dynasty. This was the consequence of the shaking of the military's foundation for national violence.
The reason why Gao Pragmatic believes that the military interests of Southern Xinjiang must be directly represented by the Gao family can of course be said to be based on the security of rule, but is it not also because of the fact that Southern Xinjiang will not follow the old path of the late Ming Dynasty in history?
As for other classes, it is often difficult to separate the industrial and business families. Especially before "big industrialization", many businessmen were originally owners of large and small factories. However, these two families can still be forcibly separated.
The way is to distinguish them by "production type" or "trade type". If they are both producing and trading, then they should be allowed to choose, or the "anti-monopoly law" should be launched in advance to force them to choose the main business.
In short, by then, except for Jinghua, which may exist as a "state-owned enterprise" to some extent, the other chaebols that may be suspected of monopoly will be disbanded in advance, and they will also be allowed to specialize in a certain direction instead of pursuing full industry coverage -
-Then it can only be done by Jinghua as a state-owned enterprise. Otherwise, wouldn’t you become an independent kingdom, the same as Jinghua now?
The current Jinghua is a completely independent kingdom, with commerce, industry, agriculture, and the military. If it is as Liu Xin envisions, in the future Jinghua will establish an independent country, or take a step back to establish the Southern Xinjiang Protectorate.
So first the army must be separated from it.
The point about "having agriculture" here may not be obvious to readers, but some readers may remember that when Gao Pragmatic first captured Annan, Jinghua gave himself the Red River Delta. It was generally similar after that, and he won a certain
After the land is destroyed, a group of die-hards will inevitably be eliminated, and the land they leave behind will naturally be taken over by Beijing.
This is true for southern Xinjiang, and it is more convenient for the islands in Southeast Asia, including Luzon. There are many unowned wastelands there, which are actually suitable for development. Jinghua takes all these lands according to the orders.
Then, through a large number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, Jinghua transferred part of the land to them based on the provisions of the "Naturalized Household Registration System" and the "Colonization Law", and began to collect taxes after the tax holiday ended. This is what is mentioned above.
agriculture".
Of course, it's more than that. Jinghua still has a large amount of land in its hands - perhaps it should be said to be a massive amount - which is directly leased to local people as landlords for farming. Jinghua only needs to collect the rent.
Oh, by the way, the 80,000 hectares of land previously "tributed" to the emperor also came from here, and... 80,000 hectares of land does not account for a high proportion of the total land held by Jinghua.
All in all, Jinghua - or Gao Pragmatic - is the largest landowner in southern Xinjiang, and there is absolutely no "one".
Of course, if one day Southern Xinjiang will establish a state or become a protectorate, many assets of "Jinghua" will be confiscated.
In Gao's pragmatic plan, Jinghua will be divided into two. In principle, the part related to the national economy and people's livelihood will directly become "state-owned assets", while the remaining part will become the private assets of the Gao family, which may also be called "state-owned assets".
"Crown Asset".
That’s a long way off. In short, if Southern Xinjiang is established or becomes a protectorate in the future, the Gao family will definitely move from Xinzheng to Dingnan. In the future, the Gao family will gradually “localize in Southern Xinjiang”, but the family memory of the Gao family will always remain.
Remember that they are from the Central Plains, which arouses their yearning for the Central Plains and their intention to obtain the "ancestral land".
The yearning for the "land of ancestors" may be, as Liu Xin said, one of the underlying thoughts of the Chinese people.
In this way, once the Ming Dynasty is weak, even if Gao Pragmatic sets the ancestral system and requires future generations not to invade the Ming Dynasty, it is probably useless. The ministers of the Gao family who also have ambitions to go north will find a way to overturn the agreement and find "
Reasonable reasons led to the decision to move north.
----------
Thanks to book friend "Cao Mianzi" for your reward and support, thank you!
Thanks to book friends "First Login", "Cao Mianzi", "malyvu", and "That Cat" for their monthly support, thank you!
ps: I originally promised to update this chapter last night, but I fell asleep while checking the information in the middle of typing. I'm very sorry. No, I took the time to finish it in the morning and posted it. It can be regarded as yesterday's supplementary update.