To be honest, Gao Pragmatic doesn't care at all whether it is the Marquis of Linhuai or Duke Wei who serves as the garrison minister of Nanjing. Because the three giants in Nanjing, the Minister of War of Nanjing who is really in charge, and the one who supervises the officials in Nanjing on behalf of the emperor are the garrison eunuchs of Nanjing. As for the
In fact, most of the time, the honorable ministers who guarded Nanjing were just in name. After all, the honorable ministers under Nanjing were only worse than the honorable ministers in Beijing. This point can be seen when the Japanese pirates were raging in Nanjing and surrounding areas.
You can tell by the performance of the soldiers, there is no need to have the slightest hope in their combat effectiveness.
Of course, Nanjing's garrison ministers were not only able to manage a few garrison soldiers. They actually had certain ability to restrict the "guest troops". For example, when Liu Xian was guarding Langshan at that time, he was directly in charge of the Sichuan guest troops in Nanjing.
He needs to rely on Nanjing for coordination, logistics, supplies, etc., so the Nanjing garrison officials are also his superiors in name. If his supplies are deducted, he will feel very uncomfortable. What's even worse is that like Xu Pengju, he directly reports to the Nanjing War Department.
Generally speaking, the Nanjing Ministry of War will give this face to the Nanjing garrison officer - after all, he is his superior and his colleague, right?
But the usual "function" of the Nanjing garrison ministers only ends here. Unless Gao Wuzhi suddenly wants to go to the south to encircle the area, which involves the area under the jurisdiction of the garrison, then the Nanjing garrison ministers have the power to coordinate
Even the final decision, otherwise he has no use for others - since there is no use value, of course he won't care.
However, since Li Zongcheng approached eagerly on behalf of Li Yanggong, Gao Pragmatic would not pretend to be aloof and turn away the door, pretending that my third uncle's work was strictly business, and whoever served as a distinguished garrison minister in Nanjing would be followed by the imperial court.
Think about the overall situation.
Not talking about benefits, only talking about righteousness? That is a mental problem, and it is definitely not his demeanor as a high-ranking scholar.
Gao Shidu's style is that if there is no profit, we must strive for it if we create benefits.
What benefits can the Nanjing garrison ministers create?
Well, it seems that short-term benefits are really hard to find, but long-term benefits can be carefully planned. For example, the enclosure just mentioned - Nanjing, or more broadly speaking, the southeastern provinces - the health center occupies a lot of land.
Of course there are a lot of fields, but most of them are actually "bad lands". Those lands will not create any value or benefit at all in the hands of a group of Qiu Ba uncles, let alone the fact that these Qiu Ba uncles are now fighting
Without soldiers, farmers without farmers, workers without craftsmen, and craftsmen without craftsmen, they are simply a bunch of different people.
But what about in reality? Many of these so-called bad lands are extremely valuable in the eyes of a highly pragmatic person.
Take two of the simplest examples: mines and seaports.
There are mines in many places under the jurisdiction of the Wei Province. Some of these mines have been or have been developed for a long time, while many of them have not been developed at all. Even the developed parts are extremely developed. In Gao Shi
From a reading perspective, there is only one word to describe that level of development: sloppy.
You can tell with your toes that these guardsmen don't know how to do business. The direct reason for mining in the early years was just to meet the needs of the guards for armaments - such as opening iron mines and smelting iron to make weapons and armor. Later,
After the guards became worse and worse, there was no interest in developing weapons and equipment, and many mines were abandoned. Some mines with better transportation and mining conditions were mined and sold directly for money, creating revenue for the guards.
——Of course, it is too lazy to say whether it creates benefits for the garrison as a whole or for some officers of the garrison.
This kind of piecemeal, low-level mining, in Gao Pragmatic's view, is a complete waste of natural resources. As a small cadre who was in charge of the economy of a place in later generations, although he has a very low management level in modern society, he can't help but think a few steps ahead.
For a hundred years, I have always had a deep understanding of terms such as "location advantage", "core product", "system engineering" and "industrial chain".
If he had enough power and wealth, he could turn Ma'anshan into a steel center in later generations, develop fashionable high-end clothing and fabric export industries in places like Suzhou, develop shipbuilding industries and international trade ports in Songjiang, and so on.
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But at the moment, these things are just extravagant hopes - it's better known as long-term planning, but there are no such conditions to support his actual operation.
The Ming Dynasty implemented a two-capital system in the north and the south. Nanjing was the remaining capital, and even in theory, it should be regarded as the official capital. This is one of the reasons why many civil servants of the Ming Dynasty refused to die in Beijing after the Chongzhen Meishan hanging. Instead, they went to Nanjing to die.
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The Nanjing capital has a complete set of court institutions except the emperor himself and the cabinet. The imperial palace, six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, etc. have always been preserved and actually used (of course, since there is no emperor, the imperial palace is only in a low-level state of maintenance).
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The reason why we always talk about the three giants in Nanjing is because of the characteristic garrison system of Nanjing as the capital, which is actually divided into internal garrison, external garrison and counselor maintenance.
The inner garrison is the eunuch who guards Nanjing, and is appointed by a middle official. The most famous eunuch who guards Nanjing is Zheng He.
There is one person guarding the outside, and one person guarding the outside, and one person guarding the outside, all of them are military ministers.
As for the civil servant, he must be the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, and add "Counsellor of Machinery Affairs".
According to this initial setting, the Nanjing Minister of War, who was only the "Counselor for Machinery Affairs", originally had the lowest status. However, just like Beijing, after the status of civil servants was improved, the Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, who was the Counselor for Machinery Affairs, became the most powerful person.
As usual, the external garrison and the coordinated garrison are all performed by honorable ministers. Speaking of this, we can explain why Li Yangong, the eldest son of the Marquis of Linhuai, came to the capital in a hurry as soon as something happened to Xu Pengju.
As early as the last year of Jiajing, Xu Pengju was the garrison outside Nanjing, and the co-garrison was Linhuai Marquis Li Tingzhu. In April of the 39th year of Jiajing, due to the mutiny in Nanjing Zhenwu Camp, the three giants (actually four) of Nanjing were all affected.
Punishment: Xu Peng, the external garrison, was promoted to serve, Li Tingzhu, the co-garrison, stayed idle, Zhang Hao, the Minister of War in Nanjing, was promoted to official position, and He Shou, the internal garrison, was demoted to the third level and returned.
This time, the most unlucky person was Zhang Hao, who was directly ordered to retire; secondly, the guard eunuch He Shou was demoted three levels in a row, recalled to the Beijing Palace, and lost his power; and then there was the assistant guard Li Tingzhu, who was so-called "lived idle"
, the full name is "Guandai Xianzhu", which means that the official position will not be removed, but he can only stay at home to reflect, and is not allowed to take care of things. In later generations, it is probably equivalent to suspension from office for self-reflection; the person who was punished the lightest was Xu Pengju, who continued to serve.
Not to mention, I was encouraged a lot.
Presumably at that time, Li Tingzhu was very dissatisfied with Xu Pengju - in the incident at Zhenwu Camp, Xu Pengju's performance was very poor and he was ridiculed as a straw bag by the mutinous soldiers. In the end, Li Tingzhu's punishment was worse than Xu Pengju's. Gao Pragmatism
Thinking about it, Li Tingzhu may think that the imperial court is more tolerant of the post of Nanjing garrison minister. After all, although the honorary minister is no longer of much use, he still represents the face of the imperial court. Therefore, when Xu Peng was involved this time, Li Tingzhu immediately jumped out. After all, in
In Nanjing, he is the closest to the garrison ministers.
The cause and effect relationship was figured out, but how to get the maximum benefit from this? Gao Pragmatic was limited by his insufficient status for a while and could not figure it out. In the end, he had to settle on one idea: see Li Zongcheng first.
What are you going to do after killing yourself?
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