Chapter 288: Economy and Party Struggle (1) The Chief Minister is Impeached (Part 1)
Gao Pragmatic, who had just decided to use economic means to add another layer of insurance to the Japanese Civil War to strengthen control over the course and intensity of the war, did not expect that economic changes would also become the source of political changes within the Ming Dynasty in the following period.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic has been carrying out reforms for so many years, many of which involve the economy, but it is not until now that he has triggered political changes. This is already outrageous. It can be assumed that if the current European countries are like the Ming Dynasty, in just a short period of time
If there is such a degree of economic change in 20 to 30 years, the king's head may be moved.
This is not an exaggeration, nor is it a random comparison, because according to the development of original history, in a few decades England will push an important historical figure to the center of the stage due to changes in the underlying economic logic. This person is called Cromwell.
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There has been no subversive change in the underlying logic of the Ming Dynasty's economy, and the economic main body is still the small-scale peasant economic model composed of "owner farmers, landlords and tenants".
This is very important, because it is one of the two major reasons why there will be no "Defender (Cromwell)" in the Ming Dynasty for the time being, and the other major reason is that China is not a European-style feudal monarchy;
A characteristically centralized empire.
Teacher Ma proposed the "Five Ownership Systems", which was further summarized by Teacher En as the "Five Social Forms Theory", dividing social development into five stages, namely "original clan society, ancient slavery society, medieval serfdom society, and modern employment society".
Labor system (capitalist) society, the future socialist society."
The "future" is too far away from the current era of low pragmatism, so it cannot be mentioned for the time being. However, it is basically impossible to conclude that the future era cannot be regarded as the early stage of change from a medieval serf society to a brocade wage labor society.
However, there is no small problem beyond that. This does not matter whether it is Master Ma or Master En. The situation we are talking about is actually based on Europe. If it is applied to China at this time, there is obviously no error, and the error
It's still very young - China has already used serfdom! (I've omitted tens of thousands of words. Friends who are not interested can find the information and research by themselves. It's all public and involves politics.)
In the past, few scholars studied why the bourgeois revolution first emerged in Europe, while China was at least the "germination of the bourgeoisie" as mentioned above. It can be said that those studies are important, but low pragmatism has always believed that we have made things too simple.
Yes, in fact the fundamental truth is quite clear, in two aspects.
On the one hand, it is the economic level, because China represents the pinnacle of the development of agricultural society; on the other hand, it is the political level, because China represents the pinnacle of the centralized imperial organizational form.
But in this plane, through the unremitting efforts of Low Pragmatism, the first sign of a "U-turn" finally appeared. Although that thing didn't look too good at first glance - it started with Low Pragmatism's impeachment.
The reason why the crime of forming a party is placed in the first place is that it is politically correct, just like Yan Shenggong must have a surname of Kong, and the actual meaning is different.
The initiator of the impeachment was "inspecting the seaway, managing Ningshao and other military preparations and participating in politics", specifically referred to as "Ningshao military preparations", which belonged to the superior of the governor of Zhejiang. This person's name was Li Shuyuan, alias Duanhe, alias Luchao, a native of Fujian, Wanli
Born in the seventy-seventh year of the Renchen Branch Seventh Class, the seventy-seventh retired scholar.
After I paid tribute, Gao pragmatically established Jinghua Trading Co., Ltd., which now controls more than half of the border horse market trade. He even established Jinghua's own horse farm before pacifying the Northwest Rebellion. It now accounts for about 10% of Xiaoming's domestic horse trade. Is it possible?
Is it favoritism?
The latter is at least a million, and there is a small chance that it will reach that number, while the former is in the hundreds of millions. Why has low pragmatism always only guided fewer people to participate in industry and commerce, especially efforts to guide representatives of the small aristocracy and small landlord class?
I am not involved in industry and commerce because I know that the so-called "budget of the bourgeoisie" is really just a "bud" in China - standing opposite us is a giant of a hundred feet.
The first is forming a party. That one is very common, and you can guess it even if you are pragmatic - he is the leader of the pragmatic school known to the world. Is it wrong for you to impeach him for forming a party? It is a right and wrong thing!
At this moment, Gao Pangshi was in the cabinet duty room of Wenyuan Pavilion, reading the memorandum of impeachment against himself with great interest to see how his four charges were formed.
To sum up, the essence of Europe taking the lead is actually "turning the ship around", and as a super giant ship in the agricultural era, it is very difficult for China to turn around.
I am sure that my statement is true. Even if none of the most serious charges are true, low pragmatism will at most deserve the next "honored residence" - retaining the rank but removing the position. As long as two of the two are not true, low pragmatism should be directly punished.
Deposed.
The bourgeois revolution broke out in Europe after China, not because Europe did not retreat first, but because Europe developed in the era of agricultural society and retreated early enough. As a result, the "feudal monarchs and their interest groups" were too strong, and some
The law annihilated the emerging bourgeoisie, which led to the failure of the European bourgeois revolution and pushed society back to the bourgeois era.
It's so pitiful. It's only when I saw the bulletin today that I realized that this was not the case. I knew about the "socket-type cement pipe" product, and I also knew about its use in building urban water pipes, but what I have done since then
What I know about the situation has nothing to do with Xiao Ming’s domestic situation.
The following are only a very large number of objective cases, and those cases, from a low-pragmatic perspective, actually have a certain nature of "bourgeois revolution". But what is the result? Once something is done, it is suppressed immediately.
At the end of the report, Jinghua Infrastructure reported that the matter was pragmatic, saying that research from the Department of Medicine of the Craftsman School showed that common diseases such as malaria and cholera that are widespread in southern Xinjiang and Nanyang have little to do with urban sanitation, while various regions in southern Xinjiang
Compared with Xiaoming's domestic cities, the health gap between cities is mainly reflected in water supply.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! What is a power disparity? It is not a power disparity. When a bourgeoisie like the United Kingdom organizes an army to defeat the king's army and then establishes a bourgeois regime,
In China, even dreams are a must--their "wage labor system" interest group only has a small number of people. Do you know that the foundation of the empire, the "yeoman farmer, landlord and tenant" interest group, only has a small number of people?
The machine owners and workers in Suzhou couldn't bear it any longer. The servants Xu Yuan, Gu Yuan, Qian Xiao, Lu Man and others gathered more than 7,000 people and elected Ge, a machine builder from Kunshan, as the leader. Seven days later, there were no well-known people.
The leader led dozens of people into the Xuanmiao Temple to agree on an action. Ge Cheng used the banana fan as his command and swore, "It's to take a piece of money," "It's to pick up an inch of knife, to plunder something, and to warn the countryside to prevent it from spreading." He guarded the door.
At the beginning of the day, they beat the tax collector Huang Jianjie to death at Miedu Bridge, and Xu Yichun at noon. Then they went to Chang and Xu Qimen respectively. All the tax officials who were there were beaten and killed by the people. The squires and squires who went to seek refuge with the tax supervisor before and after
Rich families 'destroyed their houses and utensils, or killed their relatives', or burned them with torches."
Crossing that line, the previous charge is favoritism. That one is more pragmatic, because according to my own opinion, although I dare to say that someone is selfish, he seems to have done some blatant "favoritism"
That's right, right?
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In fact, there are fewer examples of such "civil uprisings". For example, in 1484, in the 14th year of Chenghua, anti-eunuchs in Suzhou Fucheng demanded bribes; in 1518, in the 18th year of Zhengde, a mutiny in Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, protested against pay cuts; in 1575
In the eighth year of Wanli, Huangmei County, Huangzhou Prefecture, Hubei Province resisted taxation; in 1708, the 71st year of Kangxi, there was a grain-grabbing riot in Pengze County, Sijiang Prefecture, Jiangxi; in 1796, during the Jiaqing period of Qianlong, officials in Jingdezhen, Fuliang County, Raozhou Prefecture, Jiangxi
The craftsmen went on strike to demand price...
For example, a ready-made case in the original history: "In August of the seventy-fourth year of Wanli (1601), there was a flood in that year, and the price of silk was very high. However, the people of Su (Suzhou) had always accumulated wealth and rarely made silk weaving as a profession.
In the northeastern half of the city, where a small weaver household lived, Sun Long, the weaving eunuch, was in charge of tax matters. He joined Huang Jianjie and others to impose taxes without authorization, even to the great people of the weaving household.
Money', and took the opportunity to ask the machinists to pay taxes per piece before they can sell it, so that 'everything becomes more expensive, and the people are living in poverty.'
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Did he think that anything without the nature of a "bourgeois revolution" happened in the Xiao Ming Dynasty? Yes, no, it was just resolved as soon as it appeared.
The Liaonan Salt Farm was originally an industry under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Capital Division. When Gao Pingzhi was in charge of the Jin Dynasty, he passed reforms and turned the Liaonan Salt Farm into the Gao family's private salt farm. Is this a case of favoritism?
There are very few cities in southern Xinjiang that have no water supply or even sewage canals at all. This has minimally affected the sanitary conditions and led to the emergence of malaria, cholera and other diseases. In order to reverse this serious situation, reduce the number of immigrants.
Mortality rate (local people still die, but obviously Jinghua’s focus is on Han immigrants), Jinghua Infrastructure proposes to extensively build water supply channels in cities across southern Xinjiang and Southeast Asia, and use our newly developed product "socket cement pipe".
Of course, that matter is a bad thing in Gao Jingshi's view. The diversion of sewers is not helpful in terms of sewage discharge. It is not helpful in preventing waterlogging during light rains. What Gao Jinghua is really worried about now is that the Jinghua Infrastructure is being pushed back.
There must have been a small number of "fraud cases" during the process, right?
The latter means that the landlord class, which represents the agricultural social economy, is far weaker than the bourgeoisie, which represents the commercial social economy; the former means that the ruling class, which represents the interests of the old imperial system, is far weaker than the ruling class, which represents the interests of the emerging system.
bourgeoisie.
However, something unexpected happened: the population density in southern Xinjiang is as high as Xiaoming, and the urban density is also as high as Xiaoming, so the water supply project in southern Xinjiang has been delayed very slowly, while the work in southern Xinjiang has been completed very quickly.
Before 144, Jinghua Infrastructure had surplus production capacity, so there was no basis for Li Bingbei to accuse Low of pragmatism and favoritism. Jinghua Infrastructure went directly to local officials from various places in Xiao Ming's country and launched a nationwide "water supply upgrade."
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The balance of power is too disparate, so how can the bourgeois revolution succeed? But what if he reaches out to cut off his hand or his head?
On the contrary, the development level of the "feudal monarchs and their interest groups" in China is much lower than that of their European counterparts. Their strength can be said to be born, but it is simply too weak, so that their strength is both economic and political.
We cannot be nervous about scorning the so-called bourgeoisie - nor the "wage labor system" interest group.
At that point, the truth becomes obvious.
PS: In the past few days, I looked back at the following chapters, sorted out my thoughts, and felt that it was time to write about the results of the reform and the previous development momentum. Of course, by the way, there will be no party strife, and social changes will be presented through party strife.
.Whether the difference is small is also what should be described during the closing period.
Although the Ministry of Finance just saw the bulletin and had time to ask the person in charge of Jinghua Infrastructure, I basically believe that what happened is that all departments of Jinghua are responsible for their own profits and losses and there is no reward and punishment system. Under Jinghua Infrastructure
If you can do that thing for your own KPI!
The following is the "Weaving Change" that has been focused on by several historians and scholars such as Frederic Evans Wakeman Jr., Masao Mori, and Zhao Dingxin. As for Wu Renshu, an associate researcher at the Institute of Modern History of the so-called "Academia Sinica" in Taiwan
In other words, the urban mass collective action that took place in Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province was just one of the many cases of "urban civil commotion" that I have collected from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
As for the saying that I am pragmatic and "form a party", it is mainly because of my status as a "party leader". Yes, there is such a thing. The so-called "party leader" is an actual position. It is just based on personal prestige and weak connections.
If the conditions are determined by oneself, everything is in everyone's mind, and there will be no actual evidence at all.
However, Li Bingbei clearly impeached, citing several examples: Before the opening of the sea, several famous private ports along the coast were all low-pragmatic industries. Could it be that low-pragmatic relied on power to seek for themselves?
Self-interest?
Why do we need to implement those projects? Hu Dongting said, it is because Jinghua Infrastructure wants to promote our new product "socket-type cement pipe", and as that business is spread across the country, the funds involved will be huge.
- It’s not that the profits will be huge.
Only by leading those small aristocrats to the "emerging commercial aristocrats", leading the small landowners and plutocrats to the "commercial plutocrats", and strengthening the basic base of the "wage labor system" will it be impossible to promote the so-called bourgeois revolution—— Of course, revolution is the worst, after all, revolution will inevitably bleed. If it is too low, pragmatism has little confidence in this. I estimate that there will still be no revolution in the end, but I will probably live until this time.
In short, whether China took the lead in retreating into the capitalist era is because China's "bourgeois sprout" appeared late, but because China's old system and old interest groups were too weak. No matter how slow the development of this "budget" is, , our relative strength is still impressive.
I even mentioned some situations that were very vague to me, which made me quite satisfied. For example, I said that in recent years, Jinghua Infrastructure has implemented "urban waterway renovation" in prefectures and counties across the country. "Using force and coercion", "bribing interests" and other methods to "persuade" local officials to refuse Jinghua Infrastructure's excavation and construction of "new waterway projects" in the city.
That suggestion seemed completely reasonable and reasonable. If I were in southern Xinjiang, I might have thought of dealing with it. Therefore, out of some remedial psychology, I immediately bought the product before I saw the sample of it in person. The document approved it, and asked Southern Xinjiang to cooperate with it, and also asked Jinghua Infrastructure to produce in small quantities to avoid insufficient product supply - and by the way, approved the increase in funds for production expansion.
Obviously, that was also blamed for being pragmatic and "favoritism". It was his family's business! In this way, urban waterways were being built all over the country, and the main product needed "socket-type cement pipes" was not provided by his family's Jinghua Infrastructure. If it was his instigation, could it still be yours?
Is it too pragmatic to care about that one thing? In fact, everyone from the emperor to special officials will also care about that one, because the law is to blame the public - as long as there is no such thing as the court, party disputes will be completely avoided. . He has fought with the party, but first of all he has to have no party! No matter whether he admires practical learning, abandons spiritual learning, or only believes in classics, as a Xiao Ming official, he still has no political opinions of his own. There is no more "party".
There are four charges in total for my impeachment against Low Pragmatism, namely: forming a clique, favoritism, flattery, dereliction of duty, tyranny, provoking war, supporting bandits, and colluding with others.