Faced with the emperor's inquiry, Gao pragmatically chose the most normal answer for a father: "Quuzi has always been troubled when he was young. He has only studied beside me for many years, but has never been in charge of the affairs himself. Originally, I sent Quanzi to the south to increase his knowledge and know how to deal with things.
However, he did not know how to control it, resulting in a tragedy.
Your Majesty, although this mistake was his fault, the source lies with me. If your Majesty determines that this action is against the benevolence of the heaven, I am afraid that barbarians from all over the world will be resentful, and I am willing to accept all the blame." After saying this, Gao Pragmatic stood up, left the table, and bowed down.
On the ground, he looked like he was waiting for his resignation.
His reaction made it difficult for Zhu Yijun to deal with it. For a dignified chief minister of the cabinet to plead guilty for a so-called tragedy caused by his son that did not happen in the country, this matter was over.
When Zhu Yijun met Gao Jingxing, he often turned away the servants. At this time, there was no one to greet him, so he could only stand up in person, walked over to hold up Gao Jingxing's arms and said: "Why are you making such a fuss? I just mentioned it casually, and I didn't see it.
I have to punish you. What's wrong with loving you? Please get up quickly."
Although he called himself "Zhen" when he said this, and also changed "Rixin" to "Aiqing", it was obvious that he did not completely follow the meaning of monarch and minister. There was still an obvious friendship between childhood classmates.
Gao pragmatic didn't stand up in a hurry, but he sighed first and said: "Even if the emperor is not surprised, this move still hurts the peace of the world. He must not be punished, let alone learn a lesson. Last night, I summoned Nan
In Xinjiang, the servant Gao Jing who led the matter has been dismissed from his post and recalled to the capital for questioning.
Quanzimu still has a task ahead of him and cannot give up halfway. Therefore, he has been ordered to be beaten by his master and punished after the incident. I wonder what the emperor thinks? If the emperor thinks that such a lesson is not enough, I should increase the punishment.
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"You get up first." Zhu Yijun raised his arms vigorously, insisting that Gao Yingshi get up first. Gao Yingshi had no choice but to get up, his face still very serious.
Zhu Yijun's face was a little surprised. He looked at Gao Pangshi seriously and said, "Rixin, I really just said it casually. For such a little thing, you even sent someone to beat him. Isn't this a bit too much?" Zhu Yijun
After saying this, he paused and reminded: "He is the eldest son, and he is not only in the army, but also the most respected person in southern Xinjiang."
So what, are you still afraid that he will be able to rebel? Gao Pragmatic came up with this idea subconsciously.
But after thinking about it, Gao Pragmatic immediately understood. After all, the emperor is a person who is naturally wary of his own sons. Maybe in the emperor's mind, the eldest son is the most likely person to rebel - as he said
He said: "He is in the army" and has "the most respected position". At this time, the eldest son has both strength and status, and is indeed the most capable person of rebellion.
However, the emperor was obviously over-concerned. As an emperor, there is no restriction on imperial power. So theoretically, if the emperor himself is far away from the center of power, and the eldest son has the army at his disposal and has the most respected position on earth, then as long as the emperor himself is cut off
The connection with this territory can naturally be replaced by the emperor.
This is different from the prince's supervision of the country when the emperor personally conquered the country, because the emperor led the country's most elite army. Even if the prince wanted to make some changes, the courtiers were not stupid. Of course, no one
Willing to follow.
But in the eyes of the emperor at this moment, Gao Pragmatic himself was too far away from southern Xinjiang, and was beyond his reach anyway. However, there were at least 200,000 troops in southern Xinjiang, and in the past many years, Gao Yuan's biological mother Huang Zhiting had been there.
If you are in charge, aren't there Huang Zhiting's cronies everywhere in southern Xinjiang?
Under such circumstances, if Gao Yuan raises a flag to rebel, Huang Zhiting's cronies will naturally be his cronies. Your father, who is thousands of miles away, has nothing to do with it! At this time, you, Gao Rixin, don't have to be so straightforward about punishing your son.
, and even let his "monster" go to his army to carry out beatings... This is too dangerous.
Gao Wuzhi guessed the emperor's thoughts and knew what the problem with his thinking was. There was no restriction on imperial power, but he, Gao Wuzhi, was not the emperor now. Even though the southern Xinjiang system was almost an independent country, there was no such thing as that
There is no such sacred blessing in name.
Therefore, in the eyes of the civil and military forces in Nanjiang, no matter what their actual status or power, they are all clan members or servants of the Gao family in the final analysis. All the rules in Nanjiang are based on the patriarchal family rules. In this evolution of the legal family rules
On the upper level, there is the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty as the "top cover".
This means that everyone in Southern Xinjiang will still subconsciously believe that if someone in Southern Xinjiang opposes Gao Pragmatic, the head of the family, the Ming Dynasty court will regard it as illegal. If someone commits a crime or uses a slave to bully the master, he will be punished by the court!
Not to mention that the head of the family was also the chief minister of the imperial court and the emperor's childhood classmate.
In addition, the emperor did not know how Gao Jingshi created the power system structure of Southern Xinjiang. He did not know that Southern Xinjiang seemed to be an independent kingdom, but in fact the core of all power operations was Gao Jingshi, and almost all
If you want to take action on major matters, you cannot lack high pragmatism.
The system in Southern Xinjiang seems to be independent, but in fact it is inseparable from the industrial support of Jinghua in the Ming Dynasty, and some industries in Southern Xinjiang are also inseparable from the market in the Ming Dynasty.
For example, the grain output in southern Xinjiang is soaring year by year. If there is no grain black hole in the Ming Dynasty in the Little Ice Age to consume, it will immediately fall into the situation of "low grain and hurting farmers". And because of the huge amount, once this situation occurs, it will definitely
It will immediately cause huge price fluctuations.
Most of the food actually exported in southern Xinjiang comes from two sources: one is the vast fertile land directly controlled by Beijing, and the other is the fertile land controlled by the original aristocratic groups of the major kingdoms (including monk groups). In other words, once this happens,
In this case, the old aristocratic group and Nanjiang Jinghua themselves are the biggest losers. The former's interests are severely damaged and may lead to rebellion, and the latter's interests are severely damaged and they will oppose the previous rebel.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When it comes to interests, everyone will be very clear-headed, so no one will dare to covet the position of Gao Pragmatic, because no one can solve this contradiction.
Similarly, some of the output of the Ming Dynasty must be relied on by Southern Xinjiang. For example, without the silk, porcelain, and tea of the Ming Dynasty, how can Southern Xinjiang maintain such a huge foreign trade today?
Although some porcelain has been produced in southern Xinjiang, some tea has been grown, and some silk industry has even been established in Annan, its scale and grade are far less large and high-end than those in the Ming Dynasty. Let’s put it this way, after excluding the high-pragmatic time travel, the new
In addition to some "industrial industries" in the Ming Dynasty, the industries that still account for the majority of foreign trade are actually still in the Ming Dynasty, and they are the absolute majority.
If these outputs of the Ming Dynasty are excluded, there are only two items left in Southern Xinjiang's own foreign trade: spices and tropical hardwoods. However, selling spices and tropical hardwoods to India is not profitable, because India itself also has good output, at least
You have to sell it to West Asia (the Middle East) to be profitable, and the real profit maker is Europe.
In short, if new industrial products are not included, the result of losing the Ming Dynasty's material supply is that Southern Xinjiang's foreign trade will drop by about two-thirds. By then, Southern Xinjiang will not even be able to maintain the existing Nanyang Fleet.
I have enough to avoid starving to death, but I’m afraid I don’t have the money to maintain the current high level of firearms--firearms are very expensive.
This is still the underlying logic of the economic operation of southern Xinjiang, but it does not take into account the internal and external checks and balances that Gao pragmatically created deliberately in various systems, and does not take into account Gao pragmatically's own unshakable prestige within the Beijing system...
Therefore, there is no such thing as the emperor's worries. The emperor's worries actually prove one thing: Jinyiwei's work in southern Xinjiang is very superficial. They may have found out many things that can be seen on the surface, but because
There was no expert who was proficient in intelligence summary and analysis, so they were unable to provide the emperor with truly high-value intelligence conclusions.
Think about how Gao Pragmatic criticized Gao Qi last night - the so-called intelligence secretary not only requires you to summarize intelligence, but also requires you to analyze various intelligence clearly and figure out the logic behind various intelligence. Otherwise, you, the secretary
If you don't do it right, you will be criticized.
The current Jin Yiwei obviously does not have such ability, or Wang Zhizhen was deliberately vague. In short, the information Zhu Yijun received should be obvious. [Note: Wang Zhizhen, Zuo Dudu is in charge of the guards. As mentioned above, he is the grandson of Wang Chonggu.
generation, and Wang Chonggu is Zhang Siwei's uncle, so Gao Pragmatic and Wang Zhizhen are distant relatives of the same generation, and they call each other cousins.]
Regardless of whether Wang Zhizhen deliberately let the water go, for Gao Pragmatic, it is obviously a good thing that the emperor knows some things about southern Xinjiang but does not know them deeply - if he knows nothing, the emperor will definitely be uneasy; if he knows very well, the emperor will be even more
I'll feel uneasy. Maybe it's pretty good now.
Now Gao pragmatically had to make a statement to the emperor, not only to explain the necessity of punishment, but also to appease the emperor - there would be no changes in southern Xinjiang. But thinking of this, Gao pragmatically suddenly felt something in his heart: Why would the emperor be worried about changes in southern Xinjiang?
It stands to reason that the strength of Southern Xinjiang has aroused some doubts of the emperor a few years ago. According to normal thinking, if he loses control of Southern Xinjiang, wouldn't it be a good thing for the emperor?
Is it because of the 80,000 hectares of fields in Sumatra?
Gao Pragmatic's thoughts turned around and he suddenly realized that this was really possible. Although the emperor nominally ruled the world and the entire Ming Dynasty belonged to him, this was only in name after all.
In fact, with his constant persuasion many years ago, Zhu Yijun had sold almost all of the large imperial estates near the capital that originally belonged to the emperor through redemption by the tenants of the imperial estates. In other words, the emperor's internal funds had lost the past two years.
The largest source of profits in the past century has been replaced by many Jinghua shares - many mines including Ming Fed and Jinghua Saltworks (Liaonan), and even small and large shares have been quietly bought in some other industries.
Different shares.
This means that, in addition to the part of the internal funds that were originally allocated to the imperial court's financial system - such as gold, flowers and silver, the emperor's internal funds are now highly related to the Jinghua system, which is highly pragmatically controlled. Outside the Ming Dynasty, the emperor has recently owned
A new and huge investment is the Nanyang Imperial Village with 80,000 hectares of fertile land.
For the emperor, Nanyang Imperial Villa was not only a huge new source of income, but also had a unique attribute: it was not within the scope of the emperor's direct rule, but had to be protected indirectly through high pragmatism.
In other words, if Gao Pragmatic cannot control Nanyang, the emperor's 80,000 hectares of fertile land will be in danger, and it can even be said that it will be lost.
As mentioned before, one hectare of land in the Ming Dynasty was one hundred acres, and 80,000 hectares was eight million acres. Just saying this seems to lack reference. Let’s compare: In the ninth year of Masanori, which was probably the peak of the Ming Dynasty’s imperial estate, “Kinei Imperial Estate occupied land.”
"Thirty-seven thousand five hundred and ninety-five hectares and forty-six acres" - the total area of the imperial village near the capital is less than 40,000 hectares, and it needs to be noted that this is still at its peak, and it will not last long.
For comparison, in the original history of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial estate was 1.859 million acres, less than 20,000 hectares. These less than 20,000 hectares of land could bring Qianlong an annual income of about 150,000 taels every year.
If we do not consider the "exchange rate between the two dynasties" and do the crudest calculation, the 80,000 hectares of imperial estate given to Zhu Yijun by Gao pragmatic means that he will give 600,000 taels of silver to the emperor every year. In fact, the value of silver at this time is
Much higher than that of the Qianlong Dynasty in history.
No matter how you put it, 600,000 taels per year is a huge sum of money. Here are a few simple figures: In the original history, the largest input of the Wanli Emperor's internal funds was the gold and silver given by the imperial court.
About one million taels, but the basic funds are earmarked for the expenses of concubines, eunuchs and maids, including rewards, and there is usually no balance;
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The second is the so-called exorbitant collection of mining tax eunuchs, which averages about 500,000 taels per year; the third is the "helping workers". For example, the three main halls were struck by lightning and needed to be rebuilt, and the distribution was apportioned to the whole country.
, this is not accurate, it is also earmarked, and there will be no balance; there is another kind called "light money", which is a discounted replacement of some royal taxes in kind, and is spent on other expenses of the palace, basically what is collected is used, and there is no balance; finally, there is
The income from Huangzhuang and Huangpu has little fluctuation, and can be regarded as "living water" that the emperor can freely control. There are other categories, which are basically small amounts of money, and will not be mentioned here.
Looking at it this way, why did the Wanli Dynasty in history collect "mining taxes" so violently? Because the emperor felt that the money at his disposal was too little, especially if you consider that the Ministry of Revenue almost refused to give money during the three major levies of Wanli - in fact
There was indeed no money, so the emperor had to provide money for wars every time. Then Wanli's crazy "income generation" found the root cause.
But things are different now. With Gao Pragmatic's support, Zhu Yijun's "living water" is getting more and more abundant, and this time the 80,000-hectare Imperial Estate has suddenly brought in a huge annual income of 600,000 taels per year. How could he not care?
?How could you not be nervous?
After thinking about this, Gao Pingshi suddenly felt confident. He smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. Although the dog is young and incapable of doing things, most of them are surrounded by experienced servants arranged by the minister, who can always give some advice."
This was a bit ambiguous. Gao Pingshi knew that the emperor would definitely understand his mistake, but this was the kind of mistake he wanted. As expected, Zhu Yijun felt more at ease after hearing this. He breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "If that's the case, then
It’s okay.”
After a pause, he seemed to feel that he was a little timid just now, so he took the initiative to change the topic and said: "By the way, now I suddenly have to spend an extra three million taels in the direction of Hami. How do you plan to deal with this money?"
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