After sending the letter to Nurhachi to Baiyulou to be kept on file and sent to Liaodong, Gao Pragmatic did not have any free time. He first dealt with several groups of officials who sent people to inquire about the news. After lunch, he took a short nap and then went to Wuji again in the afternoon. The Military Governor's Mansion discussed matters with Zhu Yingzhen and others.
The daily life of court officials is often like this. They pick out a few important things from a lot of things and focus on them. Gao Pragmatic's current situation is of course a little more complicated than that of ordinary officials, but in the final analysis, his job is to be the Minister of Rongzheng, so the Imperial Guard and the Production and Construction Corps are his most basic tasks, and they are "nothing can be missed." s project.
Coming to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion today was not his own idea, but a request from the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. It was said that it was a troublesome matter that "if Gao Gongbao fails to come, the Five Governments will be helpless."
Okay, a good leader should be able to help his subordinates solve big problems that they can't solve by themselves. Gao Pragmatic has this awareness.
Yang Bing, the uncle of Zhangwu, who was the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, had no airs. He personally welcomed the assistant governor of Jingying Rongzheng, Gao Pingshi, at the gate of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion. Gao pragmatically said a few polite words with a smile. , so Shi Shiran entered the gate of the Zhongfu like a master.
People who are not familiar with the special system of the Ming Dynasty may find it difficult to understand why the second-in-command is more tough than the first-in-command, and who is the governor and who is the associate councilor.
Yang Bing obviously has no such doubts. He is fully aware of his status - he is just a mascot. Where can he be the real steward? Not to mention that the actual power of Gao Pangshi, the "Associate", was at least ten times greater than his. Even the other governors of the Five Prefectures, such as Xu Wenbi, Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and others, no matter who stood up and spoke out, they could do much better than him.
You want to ask why?
Hey, he is the Duke of the country, and there are two other marquises, so naturally they can talk better than his uncle! This is an era in which the achievements of ancestors determine the status of descendants. You have to accept it whether you accept it or not.
If you really can't accept it, go take the imperial examination! If you have the ability and Gao Pragmatic to win the first place in the Toad Palace, then you can change it, but whether this path is suitable for nobles is another matter. Anyway, I have never heard of any noble family having a master of Jinshi or even the number one scholar. Wenquxing's.
Yang Bing welcomed Gao pragmatically outside the White Tiger Hall. Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong were already at the door. Seeing Gao pragmatically come in, they all smiled and came over to salute.
But at this time, Gao Jingshi couldn't let them salute first. After all, the Duke of the country was at the top of the nobility, so he still had to show the proper etiquette, so Gao Jingshi was the first to raise his hands and bow: "You two princes, princes, and uncles Master, I’m pragmatic and I’m late for something, so I beg for help.”
Today, Dingguo Duke Xu Wenbi is not here, and Zhu Yingzhen has the highest status, so he quickly responded on behalf of everyone: "Hey, what did the palace guard say? It turns out that I have trouble to trouble the palace guard, and it is us who should say 'wanqihaihan'." Besides, Gong Bao must have been very busy these days, so I would be very grateful to be able to take the time to come."
Huh? Zhu Yingzhen's style of speaking today is a bit off. He usually looks very close to me and speaks and acts very naturally. Why is he so polite today?
Gao Pragmatic was moved in his heart, but after thinking about what they said before, he was relieved. In short, he first listened to what they said about the trouble and then looked at it.
"Your Majesty, you are so polite..." Gao Wuzhen changed his tone and said, "But we are really busy these days. We are not outsiders, so don't waste time being polite and go in and talk about business."
Zhu Yingzhen and others looked at each other and quickly invited Gao Pragmatic into the White Tiger Festival Hall.
At this point, Gao Pragmatic can no longer "look like a master", he still has to have the rules that the court should have. So Yang Bing, the governor-general of Jingying Rongzheng, Zhangwu Bo, sat on the chief seat without hesitation, Gao Pragmatic sat on the second seat next to him, and the other four governors sat on both sides.
However, Uncle Zhangwu first explained to Gao Pangshi: "Dong Guo Ding has been in poor health recently and has been recuperating in a hospital on the outskirts of Beijing. Therefore, he cannot come today. He asked me to apologize to Gao Gongbao..."
Gao pragmatically nodded: "I know about Duke Ding's situation. I sent someone to deliver some medicine a few days ago. There is no need to say more about this matter. I only hope that Duke Ding will recover as soon as possible."
Xu Wenbi's physical condition has not been very good. It is not a serious illness, but he has some congenital asthma, and it is easy to cause it every time he changes to a new environment.
Chinese medicine practitioners were very pragmatic about this situation and didn't pay much attention to it. However, based on his previous life thinking, it was probably that this person was prone to respiratory allergies, and allergies would trigger asthma, leading to problems such as difficulty breathing. This kind of situation will not lead to death as long as you raise it well. However, you should try to avoid running around. It is best to stay in a familiar environment and isolate allergens.
It is estimated that the imperial doctor of the Imperial Hospital and the famous doctors hired by his family should have told him these precautions, so he rarely moves around recently. If it is not an extremely important matter, he will not show up in person. If it is not possible, he will send a representative. For example, his representative is present today, Xu Xigao, who Gao Pragmatic is very familiar with - he is Xu Wenbi's eldest grandson. However, because he has neither a title nor a formal position, he can only accompany him at the last table.
After finishing the gossip, Gao Pingshi looked around at all the nobles and asked: "Okay, if you have any trouble, let's talk about it."
Well, it's very pragmatic to get straight to the point.
However, everyone here is old acquaintances with Gao Pragmatic, and they are familiar with this style, so they don't feel awkward at all.
Several people looked at each other, and Zhu Yingzhen spoke as the representative: "That's right, the Production and Construction Corps has been gradually on the road, but there is a trouble now... To be honest, you know that the location of the Emperor's longevity palace has been decided, right? ?”
"I know, what's wrong?" Gao Pragmatic was a little confused.
It is normal for an emperor to build a longevity palace early, especially when Zhu Yijun experienced the dilemma of having no place to bury his father, Emperor Mu Zong, after his death, so he built a longevity palace very early, as if he started planning it when he was twenty years old. The delay in starting construction for so long is already due to the continuous war. Now that we have finally stopped fighting for the time being, the matter was immediately put on the agenda by the courtiers - the courtiers also felt that the situation like Mu Zong was not good, and they could not bear it in their faces as courtiers.
And speaking of it, Mu Zong was also grateful that his father Emperor Jiajing had built a longevity palace in Tianshou Mountain for his father Emperor Xingxian, but in the end Emperor Xingxian’s tomb was not moved from Hubei, so the longevity palace remained empty. With. After Mu Zong passed away, no one in the court dared to make any random ideas, and it was too late to build a new longevity palace. In the end, Gao Gong made the final decision - use this longevity palace.
So, the grandson moved into the longevity palace originally prepared by his father for his grandfather.
This... I'm afraid only Gao Gong dared to take this decision. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, which was very ancestral, there were not many important officials who dared to say that they wanted to "update the law to keep up with the times."
Zhu Yingzhen coughed dryly and hesitantly said: "Well, it stands to reason that for things like the Emperor's longevity palace, it is natural for the Beijing camp to contribute some efforts. But to be honest, you once said when the Production and Construction Corps was established However, from now on, we cannot always let the imperial court use these people in vain. The money that should be paid must always be paid, otherwise the production and construction corps will be different from the Beijing camp in the past..." Good Chinese, right?
Oh, that’s what happened.
When Zhu Yingzhen mentioned this, Gao Yingshi guessed what was going on. It must be that the emperor needed people to build the Longevity Palace, and the Ministry of Industry directly followed the past "tradition" and issued an order to recruit craftsmen from the Beijing camp to repair the Longevity Palace.
Some people may ask: The Ministry of Industry is not the Ministry of War, so why should it mobilize people from the Beijing camp to do things?
If this situation were to be expanded upon, it would be quite complicated, but it can be described simply. Probably because the previous Beijing Camp had little status anyway, it was often transferred by the court to do construction projects. There were all kinds of chores, such as high-end ones such as building imperial mausoleums, low-end ones such as digging out cesspits, and important ones such as building city walls. The secondary ones are like paving roads. Anyway, Jingying has done everything.
But having done it doesn't mean anything. The key is that it was miserable for two reasons.
To mobilize them at the beginning, the Ministry of Works first needed to ask the emperor for instructions, and then the emperor issued an order to the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War issued a transfer order, and then the Fifth Army Governor's Office would mobilize the troops. Later, there may have been too many such things, such as dredging the sewers in the capital, and the emperor was required to ask for instructions. Of course, the emperor also found it annoying, so gradually these procedures were simplified, and the orders were directly issued by the Ministry of Industry, and gradually formed Default rules.
The second point is that when the Ministry of Industry lets Beijing Ying do projects, most of the time they don’t pay for the work. Because according to everyone's understanding, you have military pay in the Beijing camp, and now you are idle. Doing the project itself is a task given to you by the court. Why do you need another sum of money?
This makes the Beijing Camp very unlucky, because although the imperial court pays the Beijing Camp, which is true, most of the salary is not of the nature of "salary". In theory, it is used to change clothes, maintain ordnance, and maintain the military camp. Mainly facilities. As for military pay, which is a real salary, it is actually very small. The reason is that there is a large amount of land in the Beijing camp, and these lands are used to raise troops according to Zhu Yuanzhang's idea.
As for whether these lands are currently supporting soldiers or nobles, or even supporting a large number of hereditary officers, I'm sorry, but the court does not ask this...
So every time the Beijing camp was transferred to start major construction projects, the unlucky ones were the people below. Not only do they not get paid most of the time, they even have to bring their own dry food to work. Only occasionally when the workload of the project is too heavy, or when the time to deliver the project is very tight and they need to work in shifts, the court will "discretionally" give them some wages as a reward. Subsidy - This is discretionary. If there is half of the normal wages on the market, then people in the Beijing camp can burn incense to celebrate.
But this situation was broken after Gao Pragmatic established the Production and Construction Corps, because according to Gao Pragmatic's regulations, no matter what work the Production and Construction Corps does, it must consider the issue of profit - at least you cannot lose money.
This is a bit troublesome, although Zhu Yingzhen and others don't actually care about the Ministry of Industry calling the Production and Construction Corps, because they have long been used to it, and to be honest, it is not them, the nobles, who are unlucky.
But things are different now. The nature of the Production and Construction Corps is different from that of the Beijing Camp in the past. It now needs to give an account! Gao Pragmatic stipulates that the Production and Construction Corps must implement a set of revenue and expenditure management processes similar to those in the Jinghua system. This account must be handed over to the Ministry of War for review and approval—of course, it is actually handed over to him, the associate director of the Jingying Rongzheng. Review and approval.
In this way, the Ministry of Industry directly called people from the Production and Construction Corps to Xiu Shou Palace. The biggest trouble was with Gao Pragmatic. Without his approval, Zhu Yingzhen and the others would not dare to release him, otherwise the accounts would not be reconciled. Gao Pragmatic dares to let them pay for themselves.
Everything else is easy to say, how can I bear to pay for it myself? So Zhu Yingzhen and the others discussed and discussed, but in the end they could only report the problem to Gao Pragmatic.
We really can't figure it out, so it's better for the Ministry of War to file a lawsuit with the Ministry of Industry.
Originally, after Zhu Yingzhen hesitantly explained the matter, he was a little worried that Gao Pragmatic would not directly intervene, because the style of civil servants has always been like this: I only hand over the tasks, and if you military ministers can't do it well, it's because of your own incompetence.
However, Gao Pragmatic's reaction was beyond the expectations of the nobles. Not only did Gao Pragmatic not shirk, but he nodded repeatedly and praised: "Good! You can strictly adhere to the system regulations of the Production and Construction Corps. This is very good. I am very proud of this." Glad.”
Although Gao Pangshi had a smile on his face, because he did not call himself "I" this time, but replaced him with "the main department", which means that he is now talking about business as the assistant manager of the military affairs of the capital, so the nobles also They all sat up straight subconsciously, as if they were listening respectfully to the instructions.
However, everyone is still unsure: although praise is good, it is worthless. The key is whether Gao Pragmatic is willing to directly help solve the problem.
Of course, the highly pragmatic people who knew the stinky virtues of the nobles would not disappoint them. He just pondered for a moment and then said with a smile: "You may think that this matter only requires the headquarters to negotiate with the Ministry of Works, but this This idea is totally wrong. The key to this matter does not lie with the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of War."
All the nobles were stunned, and Zhang Yuangong interrupted: "Where is that?" Then he added as if asking a question of his own: "Are you looking for the cabinet?"
Gao Pragmatic shook his head: "The cabinet will definitely report it, but the most important thing is the emperor."
Everyone looked suddenly enlightened, and heard Gao Pragmatic add: "Originally, the transfer of people from the Beijing camp to start major construction projects required the approval of the emperor, and this time the Ministry of Industry was mobilized for the purpose of repairing the Longevity Palace... As long as the emperor understands that the Production and Construction Corps If we are willing to support the restructuring of the Production and Construction Corps, then this matter will naturally turn around, and we may even change the past process and establish a new set of methods."
Uncle Zhangwu Yang Bing didn't want to speak at first, but after Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong looked at him, he had to stand up and ask about sensitive topics. He coughed dryly and asked awkwardly: "What Gongbao said is certainly reasonable. But this matter ...Well, after all, it is a longevity palace built for the emperor, so logically speaking, we should..."
Shit, that’s not what you’re thinking about, and that’s also not what you want to ask.
Gao Pragmatic interrupted directly: "Uncle, do you want to ask: The Production and Construction Corps actually has to collect money before they can start construction of the Emperor's longevity palace. Will the Emperor be angry because of this?"
"Uh..." Yang Bing hesitated for a moment, then said with an embarrassed smile: "Well, Gong Bao really... really has a sharp eye."
Gao Pingshi smiled and said calmly: "You can rest assured that since the new system was decided by the Honbu Hall, the responsibility of convincing the emperor should naturally be shouldered by the Honbu Hall."
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