Do the kings of Zhou and Lu dare to follow Gao Jingshi?
The answer is definitely no. At least when it comes to deducting their one-year salary and "payment", these two princes must not dare to do anything, let alone be more pragmatic. The jump here is still specific-probably Said: Show me some kind of rebellion?
rebel?
There are only about 500 guards in the palaces of these two princes, and their skills are as good as those of "Inland Guardsmen". What are they using to rebel? Don't be too pragmatic to take a second look at this. Even if the local commander-in-chief fails, there is no need to come forward. The military preparations in the jurisdiction can easily handle it with a single order.
Therefore, as long as these two people are not old people who eat arsenic and are impatient with life, they will definitely not dare to jump and can only endure it.
As for the dignified prince being bullied by officials...well, isn't that a common thing? This is not an ordinary official, this is a ministry! It is the most prosperous Gaobu Hall of the Holy Family!
How did Zhang Juzheng's family bully the King of Liao? Is something wrong? No shit! In the original history, if Zhang Juzheng had not been liquidated by Zhu Yijun after his death, the affairs of the King of Liao would not have even made a splash. In this life, Zhang Juzheng still defeated the King of Liao, and since Gao Gong was in power, Gao pragmatically advocated letting Zhang Juzheng go. As a result, no one is trying to overturn the case of the King of Liao.
Of course, the King of Liao himself was not unjust, and he deserved to die. It's just that Zhang Juzheng made a fortune from it by building a magnificent palace as his own residence. This was a pure profit - Gao Pragmatic also visited Zhang's Mansion on his way south to Guangxi, and that mansion was the former Liao Prince's Mansion.
Speaking of this old man from the King of Liao, it is really dumbfounding. He has not done anything serious for decades. From the age of four to forty, he has nothing to pursue except playing.
When he was a child, he liked to play and played to death with Zhang Juzheng's grandfather. Later, when I got older, I still played. Since my family had money, I could play whatever I wanted!
However, the time has come to finish playing.
Zhang Juzheng has never forgotten the scene where his grandfather was tortured to death thirty years ago. A gentleman takes revenge, let alone ten years. For Zhang Juzheng, even thirty years is not too late.
It was only the second year of Longqing's reign at that time. Gao Gong was still living at home and had not recovered. Zhang Juzheng was only ranked third in the cabinet at that time, but he was more than enough to deal with the King of Liao.
So under his suggestion, soon the Huguang censor and various imperial censors suddenly rose up and jointly impeached the King of Liao. The King of Liao had been playing for so many years, and it was naturally not difficult to find various crimes, so a bunch of black materials were reported to the emperor.
Although Mu Zonglongqing had never been very friendly towards the vassal king, he was still his brother after all. Hearing that this man was unreasonable, he had to check it out anyway, so he sent Hong Chaoxuan, the Minister of Punishment, to investigate the matter.
Zhang Juzheng originally wanted to instruct the Hong Dynasty to accuse the Liao king of a lot of crimes, including conspiracy. However, Hong Chaoxuan refused to suggest that Zhang Juzheng had framed the King of Liao for "rebellion" and sternly refused to sign the case of being punished and imprisoned. He investigated based on the facts, and finally returned to life with the conclusion that "the revolution is true, but the rebellion is unfounded" and "the law can be rectified, but the country cannot be eliminated." This incident angered Zhang Juzheng, who later took advantage of the opportunity of the Beijing inspection to dismiss Hong Chao from office and return home - this is just a passing mention.
Since I mentioned this sentence in passing, let me just mention it in passing: the Huguang patrol officer when the Liao King case broke out was none other than Gao Guangxian, the governor of the three sides when the Northwest Rebellion broke out.
Gao Guangxian was relatively close to Gao Gong at that time, but Gao Gong was being forced to retreat by Xu Jie and was living in his hometown of Xinzheng. Gao Guangxian was just a patrol censor and had no other backers in the court. Considering that Zhang Juzheng had always been a close friend of Gao Gong, he followed his orders.
By the way, there are some details about Hong Chaoxuan's refusal to attach himself to Zhang Juzheng. At that time, Hong Chaoxuan was the chief envoy, and there was also a deputy envoy named Shi Duchen. The two people went to Jiangling together for verification, and this Shi Duchen was Zhang Juzheng's person.
Shi Duchen came to Jiangling and forged a letter between King Zhu Xian of Liao and Hong Chaoxuan, hoping to blackmail Zhu Xian. Zhu Xian had never suffered such injustice in his life, so he directly chose to resist.
However, this prince's way of resisting was a bit special. He raised a big white flag and wrote a letter of "Unjust Litigation". When Shi Duchen saw this, he didn't know whether he really didn't see it clearly or he didn't see it clearly on purpose. Anyway, he exclaimed on the spot: "The King of Liao has rebelled!" So he led 500 people and surrounded the palace.
A dandy son of the King of Liao did not really intend to rebel, so naturally he could only be captured on the spot. There is nothing to say about this process.
After returning to the court, Shi Duchen followed Zhang Juzheng's instructions and wanted to prosecute Zhu Xian for treason, but Hong Chaoxuan firmly opposed it. As mentioned just now. Due to Hong Chaoxuan's persistence, King Zhu Xian of Liao escaped death and was deposed as a commoner and imprisoned in Fengyang.
As mentioned before, what happened to King Liao was partly because Zhang Juzheng wanted to take revenge, and secondly, he was interested in the palace of Prince Liao. However, King Liao himself was not unjust, and there were many conclusive evidences of the crime of this gangster.
This guy can arrest and kill a drunkard on the street at will; any woman he likes will be raped regardless of his status; he can have incest with the women of his clan; he can build palaces and temples without permission, etc. In short, he deserves to die.
However, the problem is that although King Liao is considered a scum even among the princes, princes who are better than him are actually not much better.
The current reigning King of Zhou is called Zhu Suqin. He usually has no bad reputation, nor does he have a good reputation. According to Gao Pragmatic's consistent understanding, this kind of prince just has no one to check, and if he does, he will definitely have a dirty butt.
Prince Lu does have a good reputation, but to be honest, Prince Lu's palace has been in Shandong for two hundred years, with thousands of shops connected by streets. It would be better for him to give up a few hundred acres of land to the poor and give up his own family income to poor relatives from the same clan. It doesn’t matter if you go and get it, what does it matter? Who knows what was done behind the scenes?
If there is anything special about him, it is probably because he will give himself a reputation as a wise king, so as not to be remembered by the court and suffer any unreasonable disaster. Again, Gao Pragmatic believed that all the palaces were safe without checking, and the whole army would be wiped out once checked.
After firmly "settling" the affairs of King Zhou and King Lu, Gao pragmatically talked about the most important business today.
"You two must have heard the news last night. The governors of the five prefectures joined hands to visit the humble house at night." Gao pragmatically smiled: "They plan to send some money to the Ministry of Household Affairs."
Almost all the nobles from the Jingnan Department visited Gao Pragmatic, who had resigned as Minister of Rongzheng. This was the biggest news last night. As Minister of Household Affairs, Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili had certainly heard about it. After all, if you can't get such big news in time, it won't be easy to get around in the capital. However, Gao Pragmatic's words shocked them.
At present, the most mainstream speculation in Beijing about this matter is that the nobles in Beijing are afraid of losing their backers, and they probably want to persuade Gao Pragmatic to stay in office. Of course, this is very difficult, but there is a way to change things.
For example, if Gao Pragmatic, as his predecessor, recommends an official from the Practical School who can completely "follow the rules and follow the rules" to take up this position, it is a reasonable and accommodating strategy, and it is extremely feasible.
Who knew that Gao Pragmatic didn't mention this at all, but instead said that Jingying wanted to send money to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
This is strange. It is normal for the Ministry of Household Affairs to send money to Jingying. How can there be any reason for Jingying to send money to the Ministry of Household Affairs? Even though the Beijing camp has been restructured and the Production and Construction Corps is almost financially independent, at least their salaries are still paid by the Ministry of Household Affairs. Why is it their turn to send money to the Ministry of Household Affairs?
Cheng Wen couldn't help but ask: "What does Situ mean by this? How long has it been since the capital camp was divided into two parts? Will the Production and Construction Corps be able to feed back the imperial court?"
Oh, you really know how to think about it, how can you help the imperial court? Take a look at those nobles. Do they have such patriotic sentiments?
"That's not true." Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said, "It's just that I told them last night that they would hand over the financial affairs of the Production and Construction Corps to the Ministry of Household Affairs for unified management."
Not to mention Cheng Wen, even Hu Zhili stared wide-eyed and asked in disbelief: "Did the nobles agree?"
Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "It is moved with emotion and learned with reason. It is natural for the honorable nobles to rest with the country. Their annual gross profit is probably more than 1.3 million taels, excluding the Imperial Guards." Between the expenses and their own expenses, I estimate that there will be three to five million taels left, which will be able to do the best."
Cheng Wen was surprised: "There are so many?"
Hu Zhili had another surprise. He asked, "Even so, can they agree to hand over this remaining silver to the Ministry of Accounts for use?"
Gao Pragmatic smiled: "It's not surprising that there are so many. The Production and Construction Corps has a large amount of real estate under the name of the five prefectures. In the past, these fields were military camps, and the excess idle land was of little use.
Nowadays, the Production and Construction Corps has a lot of cooperation with Jinghua, and some of them have been developed. Some of the mountains produce minerals and wood, and some of them are close to the city or in good locations, and they are used to build resting places on the Jianguan traffic artery, etc. Various developments such as these are being carried out.
Moreover, after being transformed into the Production and Construction Corps, the previous military settlement methods have changed. The method they are currently using is the idea provided by the Honbu Tang, which is called the 'Household Responsibility Contracting System'..."
Hu Zhili immediately asked: "What is this method? Can Da Situ explain it in detail?"
As a grassroots cadre back then, Gao Pragmatic was certainly familiar with this method. The household contract responsibility system is a form of agricultural production responsibility system in which farmers use the family as a unit to contract land and other production materials and production tasks to collective economic organizations - villages and groups in Hongchao, and health and institutes in the Production and Construction Corps.
The land is easy to understand, and the "other means of production" are the agricultural tools owned by the guards. According to the previous system, these farm tools belonged to the guards and did not belong to the military households, so now they are also "contracted".
However, since Gao pragmatically does not believe in the ethics of grassroots health stations, the contracting of these things is now directly free of charge. Military households do not have to spend money on this, and they only have to compensate when farm tools are damaged.
This compensation is also very interesting. Gao Pragmatic was afraid that the grassroots health stations would harm the military households, so they were not allowed to collect money, only farm tools as compensation. He also considered that some unscrupulous people might use these unqualified farm tools to cause trouble for military households, so he did it without stopping and simply stipulated that as long as the farm tools were new farm tools produced by Jinghua and had a sales receipt produced by Jinghua, In this case, the production and construction corps grass-roots guard station shall not reject the application, and will report the violation to the corps.
Reporting to the Corps will definitely not end well. Everyone knows this, because no one can escape the influence of the word "Jinghua" here - you dare to even refuse to accept things from Jinghua? It's against you!
Did you know that the high-level nobles of the Corps also receive dividends from these farm tools? Is your old man's head retired with the country like theirs?
This system was implemented by the later Red Dynasty. It may be difficult to fully implement it in the Ming Dynasty, because the local landlords and the scholars behind them will definitely not agree, and it may cause a lot of trouble - shaken The level at which the imperial court was founded.
However, this system is completely feasible within the scope of "military settlements". Why? Because the land in the military camps was allocated to the guards by Zhu Yuanzhang two hundred years ago, the Jingying itself was also a "collective big landowner" who controlled a large number of military camps in the name of the Fifth Army Governor's Office.
Since it is a collective, and in theory this is the emperor's land, it is easy to handle, because it is not privately owned, and the court can do this today and do that tomorrow. Gao Pragmatic made this change on behalf of the imperial court. Since the emperor agreed, no one had anything to say.
Besides, as the emperor's former de facto "white glove", the nobles also agreed, so what else could they say?
As in the Red Dynasty, in the post-restructured military settlements, military households, as a relatively independent economic entity in agricultural production, contracted and operated the collective land of the production and construction corps, as well as other means of production. The general practice was to divide the land according to population or labor The proportion is allocated to farmers for management, consistent with the Hong Dynasty, and then they can produce and operate independently in accordance with the provisions of the contract.
As for its operating income, except for the part that is turned over to the Production and Construction Corps collective according to the contract and the land tax paid. This land tax is different from ordinary land tax and is relatively very low, the remaining part belongs to the military households. As the contracting party, the Production and Construction Corps collectively provides production services to farmers, in addition to carrying out necessary coordination and management and operating certain side businesses, that is, providing agricultural tools, seeds, etc., and occasionally repairs under high pragmatic requirements. Repair water conservancy facilities.
After listening to Gao Pragmatic's explanation, Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili clapped their hands and applauded. Hu Zhili said with emotion: "Situ is indeed the golden touch. Xiaguan's family was also a farmer in the past. If a landlord is willing to give such good conditions, how can anyone not take care of the more than ten acres of land carefully? No wonder this Beijing camp army The village had so much land in the past, but it actually lost a lot when reporting every year, and needed financial support from the Ministry of Household Affairs at every turn. At first, the official thought it was just because the guard station was too greedy, but now that I think about it, I'm afraid it's not just the greed, but also the military households. They won't do it at all! You can get so much from working hard, and you can get so much from cheating and cheating. Who else would be willing to do it?"
Cheng Wen's family is in a good situation. He has no such experience, but he still pondered and asked: "Is the portion taken by the Production and Construction Corps based on a fixed proportion or a fixed amount? What if there is a famine?" "
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