The meeting between Gao Pangshi and Liang Menglong lasted for an hour, neither short nor long, and no one else heard about it.
After a lunch, Gao pragmatic said goodbye to Liang Menglong and set off for Kaiping.
Kaiping has the largest "industrial base" in the Ming Dynasty. It was originally often referred to as the three major factories in Kaiping. In fact, today, Kaiping is more than just the three major factories.
Coal mines, iron mines, iron plants, cement plants, and two major arsenals all have Kaiping as their headquarters. For this reason, Gao Pragmatic even built a seaport at the mouth of the Luan River to specifically serve Kaiping's external transportation. The scale of Kaiping's industry was so huge that in the Ming Dynasty of this era, it could be said that it was the largest in the country, with no other semicolon.
Since Kaipingwei moved away under the joint control of Gao Jingshi and Qi Jiguang, after more than ten years of development and management, today's Kaiping City can almost be said to have changed its surname to Gao.
According to a statistical report given to Gao Jingshi by his cousin Gao Guoyan, who has been responsible for the financial audit of Jinghua Group, "seven out of ten" Kaiping City is already owned by Gao Jingshi. Local people sometimes even call Kaiping City 'Gaojia City' Or 'Longwen City'.
This made Gao Pragmatic a little wary. Although he rarely came to Kaiping in person, Kaiping was only about two hundred miles away from the capital. Now Zhu Yijun didn't doubt him. What could he do? Even, what about the emperors after Zhu Yijun?
So this time, Gao Pragmatic took advantage of the opportunity and came to Kaiping City to take a look, so as to determine whether he would dilute the Kaiping land he controlled or introduce other nobles or officials to open and build factories.
Such worries are by no means unnecessary. Unless Gao Pragmatic can really become a civil official in the future like Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, the heartless Dukes of the Kingdom, then there is no need to worry - because once he is granted the title of Duke, even if The power is basically limited to his own generation. As a rule, it is unlikely that descendants will become officials after they ascend the throne. Oh... to be precise, they will not pass the scientific examination to become civil servants.
Just like the descendants of Wang Shouren, even the hereditary uncle Xin Xin became the commander-in-chief of water transportation.
Of course, the civil official title was probably just a casual remark made by the two buddies, which was considered auspicious words. It was already very impressive to be granted the title of hereditary uncle like Wang Shouren.
Gao Pragmatic, who was wearing a python robe and jade belt, came to Kaiping. Gao Rui was already waiting outside the city with a large group of people.
Gao Rui is Gao Xiaozhuang, Gao Pragmatic's number one confidant who stayed in Kaiping. When Gao Pragmatic saw the formation of Gao Rui to greet him, he understood why the locals called Kaiping "Gaojiacheng".
Because Kaiping was originally a guard post and was under military control. After the Kaiping Zhongtun Guards were moved, Kaiping City was not reorganized. In other words, Kaiping itself had no official direct jurisdiction. Its superior unit was Luanzhou, which is fifty miles east of Kaiping. about.
In other words, the entire Kaiping City is managed by the Gao family on their own. As long as the governor of Luanzhou does not interfere, this place will be Gao's pragmatic private land.
Damn...dangerous.
Kaiping City is not an ordinary city. It is not only an industrial base, but also a "troop training" place for the Gao family's servants. At least 30,000 Gao family servants come here for rotation training every year, and almost half of them are cavalry. If we look at things from this perspective alone, if someone in the court wants to frame him, we can even say that Gao Jingqing conspired to prepare a 30,000-strong army two hundred miles east of the capital, which could break into Yanjing at any time.
Gao Pragmatic was afraid for a while. Fortunately, Admiral Dongchang was my ally, otherwise this matter might have caused trouble at some point.
In fact, it is fortunate that it is still the early year of Wanli, and because of the high pragmatism, the party struggle in the court is not particularly fierce compared to the early year of Wanli in the original history, and there is no "either/or" situation. At this point, the dispute between the Practical School and the Heart School is still roughly entangled in the implementation of national policies, and has not evolved into frequent personal attacks.
Because of this situation, the Xinxue School would not go so far as to slander Gao Pragmatic for his intention to rebel. After all, the idea that civil servants should not rebel would still have to continue to intensify and brainwash the emperor...
If you jump out to accuse Gao Pragmatic of intending to rebel, then this statement will be self-defeating, and once this statement is shattered, the consequences may be subversive - oh, it turns out that civil servants can also rebel, so it seems that civil servants and supervisors can It is also unreliable, and the civilian army is even more unreliable. Otherwise, we should use nobles and military ministers.
No civil servant in the world dares to bear the consequences. If you do this, it is not sure whether Gao Pragmatic can be killed, but it is estimated that it will be easy to kill yourself. If you say this, you are a public enemy of civil servants. Do you still have any class stance? Already?
It’s not that Gao Pragmatic doesn’t know this. He relied on this when he dared to do this before. But now it seems that he still feels that his dominant position in Kaiping is too conspicuous. It is indeed necessary to find someone to share the burden, such as the Sea Trade Alliance. They can come to attract some firepower, and if they come, Gao Pragmatic doesn't have to worry about Kaiping City losing control.
After listening to Gao Rui, Gao Yi and others' brief reports on the development of Kaiping City, Gao Pragmatic revealed a little bit about diluting his control over Kaiping City.
Several of Gao Jingjing's cronies seemed a little unhappy, but they also knew that Gao Jingjing's worries were not unreasonable. Jinghua's control over Kaiping City was too prominent now. This was indeed a very dangerous thing in the Ming Dynasty, everyone. The son reluctantly accepted this statement.
However, Gao Rui still expressed the hope that the introduced nobles can obey the management system that Jinghua has implemented in Kaiping for more than ten years and not bring over those little tricks in Jingli. Otherwise, I am afraid there will be some unexpected troubles. and disputes.
Gao Pragmatic agreed to this matter. The management system of Kaiping City was originally based on the program he designed. The actual "administrative agency" is a "Management Committee", and he appointed Gao Rui and others as the directors of the Management Committee. , deputy director and other positions.
But at the same time, there is also a "Supervisory Committee". The members of this committee are more interesting. They are "publicly elected", and members of the management committee are not allowed to stand for election. They are elected by the workers of each factory and mine. Usually, Not responsible for management, only responsible for supervision.
The Supervisory Committee has the power to supervise and report. Supervision does not require explanation. Reporting is to Gao Mo and Gao Guoyan. If they do not accept the request or are procrastinating, they can even report directly to Gao Pragmatic himself. At the same time, Gao Pragmatic will also call in from time to time. They go and report to themselves on supervision.
The reason why Kaiping City has developed smoothly and there have been no major internal cases is that this system must have played a big role.
After the summons was over, Gao Pingshi took his people out of the city and went to visit the two veteran generals Ma Fang and Liu Xian at Jia Ding's camp outside the city. I want to talk about "Da Ming Yuan Fu" with more like-minded people, follow "Youdu Literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find close friends~
