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"Colleagues, who can tell me that such a huge amount of money suddenly poured into the capital... What are these people going to do?"
As soon as Wang Jiaping said this, Gao Pingshi finally understood the reason for his behavior just now.
Not bad. After all, it was Mr. Yuanfu. Regardless of everything else, at least the political sensitivity was still online. As soon as I heard that a huge amount of money suddenly came to Beijing, I immediately realized that some people would take action.
Moreover, Gao Pragmatic suddenly understood why Wang Jiaping had the intention to provoke himself and Zhao Zhigao to fight just now. This was because Wang Jiaping actually just felt that it was wrong to have so much money suddenly coming to Beijing, but he did not know who had the money. Really fucking.
Yes, Wang Jiaping did know that the money was closely related to some local people in Lianghuai, but since the money was transferred from the Jinghua banking system to the capital, Wang Yuanfu, who did not know the inside story, could only maintain a certain degree of suspicion on both parties.
Hmm... This shows that Wang Jiaping is indeed a neutral faction. In essence, he does not stand on the side of any school of practical learning or spiritual learning. His starting point should be relatively simple, he just does not want chaos in the capital.
"Seeking stability" is the normal thinking of any court or government. As the chief minister of the court, Wang Jiaping naturally also hopes for stability, let alone before he is about to resign.
Before retirement, everyone wants to have a good career. Who among the officials of the past and present is an exception?
However, Gao Pragmatic immediately realized that he seemed to have an extra ally for the time being. Since Wang Jiaping also seeks stability, and he is actually seeking stability now, why not join hands with Wang Yuanfu to deal with the conspirator? Gao pragmatically thought and glanced at Shen Yiguan from the corner of his eye.
Shen Yiguan's face was indeed as dark as water, but he only looked very serious and did not show any panic, which somewhat surprised Gao Pragmatic.
"The general ledger of Jinghua Bank did find that a large amount of funds were transferred from the Jiangnan area to the capital." Gao Pragmatic simply confirmed Wang Jiaping's words.
"Oh?" Wang Jiaping saw that Gao Pingshi admitted that it was true, so he asked: "Since Rixin knows about this, don't you think there is something wrong in it?"
"I think so, of course." Gao Pingshi smiled and said, "But at the time I thought it was some new investment avenue in the capital. After my brother Guoyan found out about it, he even came to see me and asked me if The imperial court intends to build large-scale construction projects in the south of the Yangtze River, or to restart water transportation...
Afterwards, some people from the Sea Trade Alliance came to me to understand the situation, but they held another view. They thought something had happened in the family of a major shareholder in the Sea Trade Alliance, so that some chaebols in Jiangnan wanted to acquire his properties... They came to me, hoping that I would take the lead in providing peer-to-peer lending to this major shareholder. To avoid being bought into by outsiders. "
Gao Jingshi's words were mixed with truth and falsehood. Some people in the Sea Trade Alliance did suspect that Jiangnan Chaebol was trying to acquire the alliance's shares, but Gao Jingshi mentioned this mainly to cover up the first half of what he said.
When Gao Guoyan came to see him, he obviously didn't suspect that the imperial court was planning to build large-scale construction projects in the south of the Yangtze River, or to restart water transportation. You know, Gao Guoyan is not only the president of Jinghua Bank, he also serves as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to the governor of the central bank of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent - even though he has no official position in the court at all.
Of course, the basis of all this is that Gao Pragmatic has always been the Minister of Household Affairs, and the Ming Dynasty did not have a real central bank at all. But in any case, the president of the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve must know enough about a series of economic-related affairs of the imperial court. Therefore, if the imperial court really wants to carry out large-scale construction projects in Jiangnan and restart water transportation, Gao Guoyan cannot not know about it.
What Gao Pragmatic said was obviously trying to influence Shen Yiguang's judgment of the situation. It didn't matter whether it was successful or not. Anyway, it was a matter of whether it was possible or not. Wouldn't it be great if it really worked?
But when Gao Pragmatic said this, Wang Jiaping was a little confused at first, and he hesitated: "So...is this a thing?"
Of course Wang Jiaping also knew that there was no movement from the imperial court. What he was referring to was that no one in the Sea Trade Alliance was really short of money and had to sell off its property, right?
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "The Sea Trade Alliance has communicated internally and confirmed that no shareholder is in financial stress."
Just fine, Wang Jiaping immediately regained his confidence and frowned: "That means the purpose of this large sum of money is still unclear." As he spoke, his eyes began to scan the faces of Zhao Zhigao and Shen Yiguan. .
Zhao Zhigao looked closely and seemed to have recovered from his son's impeachment. As for the large sums of money entering Beijing, he didn't seem to care.
At this time, it was finally Shen Yiguan's turn to sit still. He knew that he could not be as calm as Zhao Zhigao - after all, Zhao Zhigao had little to do with this matter, and he, Shen... cough.
"Shen has heard a little bit about Nanyin entering Beijing. However, Yuan Fu's guess seems to be in the wrong direction." Shen said apologetically to Wang Jiaping with a consistent smile.
Wang Jiaping raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Really? Then I need to ask Brother Jiaomen, why are the families in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly transferring such a large sum of money to the capital?"
"I would like to ask Yuan Fu, about two months ago, what major matter was the court discussing? Ah, or should I say, what major matter was being disputed?"
Shen Guan always said that he meant "ask Yuan Fu", but he obviously did not really intend to wait for Wang Jiaping to answer it in person, so he asked and answered the question himself, and continued: "At that time, Ri Xingong indicated to the court that North Korea intended to annex, and at the same time he also stated He personally agrees with this."
Wang Jiaping didn't expect that he would get involved in this, so he frowned and asked, "What about that?"
"So what? Haha, then many people began to speculate whether the imperial court would agree with Mr. Ri Xingong's opinion in the end!" Shen Yiguan smiled and said: "If the imperial court does not agree, then it will be business as usual, and there is nothing to say. But Yuan Fu might as well think about it, once the court agrees, what will it mean to the families of wealthy merchants?"
Wang Jiaping is a Shanxi native. It stands to reason that Shanxi people of this era are very business-minded. Unfortunately, this does not apply to Wang Jiaping - he is a supporter of traditional Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, has no interest in doing business, and has a poor way of thinking. Obviously not commercial.
As a result, he didn't understand Shen Yiguan's hint at all - although for a person like Gao Pragmatic and Shen Yiguan, this was almost clear.
Seeing Wang Jiaping silent, Shen Yiguan was also speechless. Fortunately, Gao Pingshi didn't know what he was thinking at this time, so he smiled and explained to Wang Yuanfu: "Yuanfu lived a noble life, how could he care about such a merchant's heart... Yuanfu, Jiaomen Gong must have said, those people Once they think that the imperial court will agree to the annexation of North Korea, they will suddenly have North Korea as a new market to bring their various businesses to North Korea."
"Oh, bring business to North Korea..." Wang Jiaping nodded, but then asked blankly: "But, what does this have to do with them transferring money to the capital?"
Not to mention Shen Yiguan, even Gao Pragmatic was dumbfounded. It can only be said that Wang Jiaping really does not look at issues from the perspective of a businessman at all.
In a country like Ming Dynasty, what kind of businessmen can become big and strong? The answer is actually very simple. Just look at Gao Pragmatism and you will know - the integration of government and business.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic's identity is a bit special. His family is originally from a family of officials, and his family background is practical learning. He emphasizes doing practical things for the world and producing practical results. Therefore, when he said in his early years that he wanted to start his own business to promote economic development, although most people did not Take it seriously, but in fact it’s useless even if someone does take it seriously.
As long as you criticize him, people from the Practical School will definitely jump out to debate the classics with you, but the debate on the classics will never have a final conclusion in the Ming Dynasty - a joke, if it is so easy to conclude, how did Wang Xue transfer Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism to So much so that he almost exited the stage of history during the Jialongwan era?
If it is so easy to conclude, how did people like Li Zhi not have their families exterminated by the imperial court, and not be drowned by everyone in the world? Instead, he could live to be over seventy years old before dying?
Oh, by the way, Li Zhi was born in the sixth year of Jiajing. According to history, he died in the 30th year of Wanli, which was 1602 AD - in other words, he is still alive and kicking now.
Therefore, the highly pragmatic approach to integrating government and business has its unique advantages. It is said that practice leads to true knowledge.
However, although the integration of officials and businessmen requires some "prerequisite skills", collusion between officials and businessmen is not so particular. It was not only popular in the Ming Dynasty, but in fact throughout the entire history of China.
It can even be said that collusion between officials and businessmen was originally a necessary means for businessmen to achieve great success under the characteristics of a unified dynasty and a big government like ancient China.
As we all know, even without high pragmatism, the Ming Dynasty still adhered to the national policy of "emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce", but in fact the Ming Dynasty's commodity economy developed quite well, and even later history books always say that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, The so-called sprouts of capitalism appeared several times in the Jiangnan area.
However, for the "germination of capitalism" to appear, the premise must be that the merchant class has sufficient say in politics. In other words, in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, collusion between officials and businessmen was already very common.
In fact, is it more than just collusion between government and businessmen? In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, businessmen had got rid of their previous "low status" and gained the power to "enter politics upon examination", which was something that had never been seen in the early and middle Ming Dynasty.
Even to a certain extent, the rise of merchants affected the humanistic thought in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, causing a number of students to no longer follow Confucianism but to go into business for the sake of huge profits. This further contributed to the formation of merchants and residents for all people, leading to such Local business groups such as Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants appeared on a large scale.
Since in a unique feudal system like China, one must have political backing in order to achieve great success in business, this in turn certainly makes many capable businessmen no longer willing to just do business. They need to break class barriers, integrate into the political arena in large numbers, and use the power of the political power to create greater benefits for themselves.
The reason why the idea of officialdom in China has endured for thousands of years is because the power in the hands of officials is a monopoly resource that can be used to trade with businessmen.
There is a very popular TV series in later generations called "Ming Dynasty 1566", which tells the story of a genius businessman in his glory days. The great silk merchant of the generation, Shen Yishi, developed his skills in the whirlpool of business and political struggles. He strategized and won thousands of miles. He traveled between official circles, shopping malls, and love affairs like a fish in water, with ease and ease, showing his glory for the moment.
In China's long feudal society, "being an official" has always been closely related to "getting rich". This can be explained by economics: emperors were unable to manage the country by themselves or as a family, and they had to find a justifiable reason to rule the country, so they had to quote an attractive market price. In order to attract "professional managers" from all over the world.
Officials are the emperor's professional managers. However, when officials serve the emperor's interests, they themselves also need someone to serve their own interests, so they also need professional managers - then they need businessmen.
This can actually explain why collusion between officials and businessmen must occur: businessmen need officials to give them political endorsement, and then expand their business territories and achieve greater undertakings; officials need businessmen to directly obtain benefits for themselves, and then find ways to "invest" to become bigger businesses. become an official, or keep the money to enjoy it and leave it to future generations, so as to maintain the glory of the family forever.
In fact, the consequence of collusion between officials and businessmen is very simple, which is to turn the private property of the royal family into the private property of the government. In essence, it is to change social wealth from "state-owned" by one family to "official-owned" by thousands of families.
In this sense, whether the court disputes or officialdom disputes in China's feudal society can be said to be a struggle between the ownership and management rights of the country. In order to stabilize their own empire, Chinese emperors resolutely deprived wealthy businessmen of social status, and at the same time used various methods to confiscate the homes of officials. Isn’t this the political wisdom of the emperors?
I'm going too far, but let's get back to it. After North Korea is included, how can we obtain this new market as soon as possible? Are you rushing to North Korea to start a new career? It's not that you can't do it, but people who do it often do it just because they don't have a better way to do it.
What's a better way? Of course I was thinking of something in the capital.
Since North Korea is attached, the imperial court's order has become the highest order in the area. The assets that were originally "state-owned" by North Korea were all decided by the Ming court after they were annexed. Certain businesses in North Korea that were not easily accessible to outsiders will have to be reviewed by the court from now on - maybe which industries will be opened up in the future?
As for who it is open to, it is naturally the court that has the final say. Therefore, it is much smarter to send the silver to the capital first, no matter how it is managed up and down or whatever, than to transport the silver to North Korea.
Shen Guangyuan understands this "truth", Gao Pragmatic also understands it, and Wang Jiaping may not understand it originally, but he has only rarely dealt with businessmen, so he didn't think of it for a moment.
However, regardless of whether Wang Jiaping wanted to understand this or not, Gao Pragmatic knew very well that Shen Yiguan's words just now were actually the same as his previous words, which were just smoke bombs.
Unfortunately, this smoke bomb had its effect.
After Wang Jiaping understood this, he immediately said pragmatically to Gao: "Rixin, you must pay attention to this matter. You must not allow anyone to ruin the reputation of the imperial court in North Korea through such means, otherwise it will definitely have extremely serious consequences for the long-term peace and stability of North Korea in the future. Please remember the bad influence.”
When Gao Pragmatic heard this, he knew that although Wang Jiaping was a public-spirited person, if he wanted to be an ally with him... it was better to forget it.
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