Gao Pragmatic chose an excellent time to go up and down, and the time was two days before the Longevity Festival.
Why are the first two days a good time? Because the Wanshou Festival of the Ming Dynasty is one of the "three major festivals" along with "New Year's Day" and the Winter Solstice, the Wanshou Festival is a national holiday for three days - the day before and the day after the Emperor's Holy Day (birthday) are both holidays. of.
In other words, as long as the cabinet and the emperor did not complete the drafting and imperial approval process after the Gao pragmatic review, whether the "Innovation Station Review" can be accepted by the court will have to be rejected until after the holiday.
These three days of Wanshou Festival were actually reserved by Gao pragmatism for the court to carefully examine the contents of this book. Of course, you may not be so concerned about it on Holy Days because there is a big pilgrimage on that day.
Here we must first clarify the definition of the early dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. The dynasties of the Ming Dynasty were divided into three types, namely the Great Dynasty, the Shuowang Dynasty and the Chang Dynasty.
The Shuowang Dynasty is held on the first and fifteenth day of each month. Its nature is like that of a major Dynasty. It is also held in the Huangji Hall (formerly Fengtian Hall, renamed from Jiajing), but it is only for greetings and does not discuss political affairs.
The Chang Dynasty is often referred to as the Morning Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the Morning Dynasty actually included the Noon Dynasty and even the Late Dynasty. However, because the Late Dynasty was not normalized, no further explanation is needed. Talking about the Chang Dynasty, it was actually held at Fengtian Gate (renamed Huangji Gate during the Jiajing period, which is now the Taihe Gate of the Forbidden City). This is a "dynasty" that handles political affairs seriously.
The Great Dynasty only holds special court meetings on Zhengdan, Winter Solstice, and Wanshou Festivals. Its nature is for hundreds of officials to congratulate the emperor. It is ceremonial and generally large in scale, but usually does not deal with government affairs.
By the way, in April of the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing (1557), the three main halls were burned down again by thunder and fire, and spread more widely, making Wenlou (today's Tiren Pavilion), Wulou (today's Hongyi Pavilion), and Fengtianmen (Today's Taihe Gate), Zuoshun Gate (today's Xiehe Gate), Youshun Gate (today's Xihe Gate) and the left and right corridors outside the Meridian Gate were also burned down. After the incident, Emperor Jiajing had to set up court at Duanmen and ordered the reconstruction of the damaged buildings. The reconstruction was completed in September of the 41st year of Jiajing (1562).
However, this reconstruction greatly reduced the size of the original three halls, resulting in an imbalance in the proportion between the building and the three-story platform. The reason for this situation is most likely that the imperial court suffered a serious financial deficit due to the Southern Japanese and Northern captives at that time. I don’t know what the mentality was. After the reconstruction was completed, Jiajing changed the names of the three main halls.
After the reduction, Emperor Jiajing ordered that the Fengtian Hall be renamed "Huangji Hall", Huagai Hall be renamed "Zhongji Hall", and Jinshen Hall be renamed "Jianji Hall". Obviously, in addition to the Huangji Hall, which represents the imperial power, the other two halls of the three halls have a bachelor named after him: from then on, the first assistant is the "Grand Scholar of Zhongji Hall", while the second assistant is fixed as "Grand Bachelor of Jianji Palace".
The Wanshou Festival is only one day away, so the ministers and workers are relatively free and can do some personal things. However, there are not many officials who are really free to engage in private matters. Officials who have reached a higher level and have entered the core or fringe of power are very busy on this day. They are all busy discussing in series what position they should take after the Longevity Festival. Let’s face the "Innovation Station" written by Gao Situ this time.
Let’s talk about the Real School’s own side first. Originally, Gao pragmatism's essay was to a large extent to cut off his own flesh and blood in order to cooperate with the imperial reform. In theory, everyone should express their praise. However, the reality is not so smooth. Many officials of the pragmatism school are skeptical about this. Take it with a grain of salt.
Why is this? Of course it's also because of profit.
Jinghua is a giant-level business group. Its main body is of course the highly pragmatic and "wholly owned" Jinghua itself. However, what is usually called "Jinghua" actually blurs the concept, that is, Jinghua at this moment is actually divided into narrow sense. Jinghua and Jinghua in a broad sense.
In the narrow sense, Jinghua is the Jinghua that is wholly owned by Gao pragmatism, including various industries under its name, such as various mines, ironworks, shipyards, cement plants, ports, fleets, porcelain factories, tussah silk factories, salt fields and even trading companies. A large number of industrial and commercial entities such as banks, logistics, etc. can even include the "advisory group" with Beijing characteristics - the Supreme Emperor's institutions of various countries in southern Xinjiang.
The main characteristic of these entities is that their highly pragmatic decisions are final. In theory, they do not need to consult anyone else when making any decision. In the words of later generations, because he personally holds 100% of the shares in these entities, his decision is equivalent to the decision of the entire shareholders' meeting.
But in addition to Jinghua in the narrow sense, there is also Jinghua in the broad sense. What is Jinghua in the broad sense? For example, although the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance is an "alliance" organization, there is no doubt that under normal circumstances it is still pragmatic and has the final say. This organization has always been regarded as the "Beijing-China faction".
But is the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance really just something Gao Pragmatic can do with him? Of course not, because there are other "shareholders" and "acting shareholders" in this alliance. These people all have their own interests to consider. Even if Gao Pragmatic has the decision-making power, he cannot completely ignore their ideas. Many of them have their own interests to consider. All decisions must take their interests into consideration.
The reason is very simple. If Gao Pragmatic could not convince them with interests, the one who made the expedition to Luzon last year should not have been the Maritime Trade Alliance but Jinghua itself.
It’s better to look back at last year’s Luzon expedition and see how much contribution the major shareholders in the Maritime Trade Alliance, other than Jinghua, contributed.
At that time, the nobles of the Jingnan family included the Duke of the Three Kingdoms, the Thirteenth Marquis (including his maternal relatives), and the Twenty-first Uncle (including his maternal relatives, but not including Li Chengliang). Gao Pragmatic convinced them, so during the expedition to Luzon, the nobles contributed a total of 96 armed transport ships, with a total of more than 2,600 ship-borne artillery pieces, including 768 No. 2 long heavy guns.
How powerful is this? Gao Pingshi dared to say this. After excluding extreme situations like the "Kamikaze" back then, even if dozens of Japanese naval forces were tied together today, they would not be able to defeat this "honorable fleet" under normal circumstances.
And this can also be compared. Jinghua itself dispatched the main force of the Beiyang Fleet at that time, the core of which was a three-level sailing battleship, two-level four sailing cruisers, and 49 armed transport ships were dispatched as planned. Finally, additional newly launched ships were dispatched. Two experimental high-speed reconnaissance ships, the "Left Hussar" and the "Right Hussars", have been in service for a short time.
Given the strength of Jinghua, if the seven pure warships are not included, the armed transport ships dispatched by it are only about half of the "Honorable Fleet".
A glimpse of one spot reveals the whole leopard. Nowadays, the scale of the stakeholders attached to the main body of Jinghua is already very large. This is not only true for the commercial fleet, but also for other industries.
Let's talk about some of the aspects mentioned in this "Innovation Station Review". The biggest industry affected by Gao Pragmatic's proposals is Jinghua's own logistics system, but Jinghua's logistics system is not a one-man operation.
Although the vast majority of the fleet and cavalry belong to Jinghua, as mentioned before, as a private commercial enterprise, Jinghua has to consider costs, and the density of its logistics nodes in various regions is not the same.
For example, in Shaanxi, Jinghua's cavalry has four major nodes in Xi'an, Hanzhong, Lintao, and Qingyang, but not in Yan'an, Pingliang, Gongchang, and Fengxiang.
So what should Yan'an Prefecture do if it wants to carry out logistics? Some of the local officials from the Practical School cooperated with Jinghua and undertook the business of transporting supplies from Yan'an Prefecture to Qingyang Prefecture and Xi'an Prefecture, the two major nodes of Jinghua Prefecture, becoming nominal partners, that is, actually becoming Become part of Jinghua’s “supply chain”.
Yan'an Prefecture is just an example, and the situation in other places is basically similar.
In addition, Jinghua has a relatively strong position due to its relatively strong foundation in the north and relatively weak partners. However, its "cooperation" in the south, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is more detailed and not as strong as in the north.
For example, Jinghua and the Wu Dui family, who were born in Shanyin, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, also cooperate in logistics. In this cooperation, the scope of business handled by Jinghua itself is even lower - Jinghua has only established three offices in Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou in Zhejiang. As a first-level logistics node, the rest of the business was "outsourced" to the Wu family in Shanyin, and the Wu family "subcontracted" the areas it did not directly cover to some officials from the Zhejiang Real School.
In this way, around the giant ship Jinghua, there was already a large group of people eating meat and drinking soup. Although the reform of the Imperial Post Station does not mean that Jinghua's logistics business will no longer be possible, it is certain that the interests will be affected.
As part of the "Greater Jinghua" system in a broad sense, if Jinghua earns less, they will naturally earn less, so of course they will not be so happy about the "Innovation Station" proposed by Gao pragmatic this time.
When reform begins to affect oneself, there is no doubt that it means entering the "deep water zone". This is the time when reform policymakers are most tested. After all, it is easy to operate on others, but difficult to operate on yourself.
Gao pragmatic received a visit from Wu Dui today. This Gao Gong disciple, who had recently been promoted from Wuyingdian Grand Bachelor to Wenhua Hall Grand Bachelor, did not hide his worries in front of his "eldest brother" and junior brother Gao Pingshi.
In Gao Jingshi's study room on the Rixin Building, the two parties were seated separately. Wu Dui and Gao Jingshi exchanged a few words of greetings first, and then got to the point and said, "Brother Qiuzhen, you also know that although I am a civil servant, I am a professional I have been a minister of the Xinjiang territory for many years, and I am responsible for military affairs at home. I am really a straight person. I will not talk to you about some things. The main reason I am here is to ask you about the logistics business related to Jinghua after the reform of the post station. What to do."
Without waiting for Gao's pragmatic answer, Wu Dui first raised his concerns: "You know the situation in Zhejiang. There are not many officials from our school of thought. You used various transactions in Jinghua as a lead to attach them to Jinghua." , which made the entire Zhejiang Practical School become a unified force and have the strength to compete with the Xinxue Party disciples - at least it will not be continuously eroded and suppressed, which is good.
But as soon as "Innovation Station Shu" was published, many people came to Brother Yu and said that such innovation might be a good thing for the court, but it would be a disaster for them. Although money is vulgar, studying also costs money.
The children of each family need to spend money to train them, so as to ensure that our power in the court gradually increases, or at least does not become weak. But in the field of logistics, the main income comes from freight. Once you restructure the delivery company, Chaoting Station will most likely rely on cost advantages to seize market share from them, causing them serious losses, and this will Affecting the successor force of our real school..."
Gao Pingshi sighed softly, nodded and said: "Of course I understand this truth."
Wu Dui waited for a while, and when he saw that Gao Pingshi had finished his sentence, he couldn't help but frown secretly, and said helplessly: "Please be honest, don't misunderstand Brother Yu. In fact, Brother Yu has not valued money since Quanzi joined Beijing." . In the logistics business in Zhejiang, Brother Yu earns several thousand taels, or even more than ten thousand taels a year. So what? Brother Yu will not be poor even if he earns less money.
Brother Yu is really worried that your actions may shake the foundation. Think about it, since Duke Xinzhai (Zhang Xueyan) returned home, only Brother Yu and Ganji (characterized by Liang Menglong) in the cabinet are sure to support you. However, although Brother Yu has taken over the position of Duke Xinzhai, he is still in the cabinet. He only ranked third, still just a group assistant.
Ganji had just entered the cabinet and was ranked at the bottom. It's not because we are both members of the Practical School. Now I'm afraid I can only be an old man raising my hands. How can I be compared with Shen and Wang Ergong?
However, the strength of practical learning cannot be compared with the prosperity of practical learning officials in the world. We in the south do not have as strong a foundation and large scale as mental learning. If this reform of the post station shakes our foundation, who knows whether these officials will Will you turn to others?
Not to mention that they should change their studies, even if they change to Xu Weizhen (Xu Guo), it would probably be a big bad thing for you, Qiuzhen. Now Xu Weizhen is very close to Shen Longjiang (Shen Li), and Shen Longjiang is the Zongxian (Censor of Zuodu). If they take this opportunity to attract a large number of rising stars, even if you can successfully join the cabinet in the future, but in your hands How many people can use it? Therefore, in my humble opinion, the reform of the post station needs to be done with caution. "
Gao pragmatic nodded again and said: "Senior brother is worried that the south has always been the weak spot of our school of thought. It has been in a miserable state for many years. If someone picks the peaches because of the reform of the post station, it will be a serious mistake. .”
He paused and then said: "But when it comes to buying and selling, I have some personal opinions. I also want to take this opportunity to communicate with my senior brother and get some advice from him."
"Qiu Zhen is joking. Brother Yu can't give you any advice on business matters." Wu Dui waved his hands repeatedly, indicating that he was not taking it seriously, and then said: "But if Qiu Zhen has anything to say, he should go through Brother Yu to some colleagues from Zhejiang." Convey, although Brother Yu is not talented, he is still willing to contribute some spare time."
"Senior brother, you are too modest." Gao pragmatic smiled, and cut to the point, saying: "Senior brother, do you know that the fundamental reason why I am willing to do such a cruel thing this time is actually not that the reform of the post station can only be carried out according to the "Reformation of the Post Station" Are there any other reasons for doing this in these ways?”
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