Canonization is a manifestation of the emperor's authority and an important manifestation of the Chinese tribute system. In principle, accepting canonization means becoming a vassal state, a lower-level political power subordinate to the "Chinese Empire" under this power system. From a Western perspective, it is a "protected country", a "vassal country" and the like.
However, in fact, although Japan in the original history often accepted Chinese canonization, especially during the Muromachi shogunate period, the shogun often accepted the canonization of the "King of Japan", but later academic circles also have something to say - the person who was canonized by China was the Japanese shogunate who conquered the barbarians. The shogun is not the Japanese emperor himself, so it can only be said that the shogun surrendered to two monarchs at the same time: the Chinese emperor and the Japanese emperor.
So here comes the question: The Emperor of Japan is the nominal supreme ruler of Japan! Therefore, even if the shogun accepts China's canonization, it does not mean that Japan is a vassal state of China, which is different from any other country under the tributary system.
Gao Xiangpang is aware of this problem and is determined to solve it. It's just that he has always been a reformist. He pays attention to one step at a time, splitting a big problem into several small problems, and then solving them one by one, and slowly completing it like boiling a frog in warm water, so as to avoid jumping over the wall and causing trouble to himself. Unnecessary losses or even failure.
To put it bluntly, Gao's pragmatic plan for Japan was to let Japan fight a civil war first. Kyoka appeared at the critical moment and powerfully subdued the two factions whose strength was compromised. Then Tokugawa Ieyasu adopted Gao Yan as his adopted son, established him as the governor of the family, and promoted him to become the leader of the Tokugawa family. The second general of the Shogunate to conquer barbarians (Note: When Takashi was appointed governor of the Tokugawa family, Ieyasu himself served as shogun, just like Oda Nobunaga had already given up the governor to Oda Nobutada before the incident at Honnōji Temple.), this is the plan. first step.
The second step is to wait until Gao Yan reaches adulthood. If Ieyasu is not dead, he will step down as a general and live in seclusion. If he is dead, Gao Yan will succeed him as a general in advance. Then, let Gao Yan reform Japan's power system, completely weaken the emperor and the court, and finally use the The emperor system was abolished in the name of the Great Emperor. Of course, if Ieyasu is willing to cooperate, this step can also be divided into a few more steps and let Ieyasu do it slowly... In short, Gao is pragmatic and is not in a hurry.
The third step can be carried out in parallel with the second step or slightly later. That is, start moving towns to the daimyo in Japan, and move some of the daimyo to southern Xinjiang, Nanyang and even India, completely disrupting the branches. Let them gather together, submerge their national character, which is not strong in itself, and classify them as naturalized Han people, completely Hanized. Of course, during this process, Japan’s domestic “Chineseization project” is also continuing to advance.
At this point, the highly pragmatic Japanese plan has been roughly completed, and the remaining work will be left to future generations - although the "Chinese" approach is invincible, it takes time after all, and cannot be completed in one generation, no matter how fast it is, It has to take two or three generations, right? Gao Jingshi did not dare to expect that he could live a hundred years, and asked himself that he would not live until that time... One generation does its own thing. On these issues, it would be good if he could be King Wen. The work of King Wu and Duke Zhou should still be left to Let your children and grandchildren do it.
Having finished talking about the military movements in Gyeongsang Province, Gao Pragmatic thought that today's conversation had come to an end. He was considering whether he should take the initiative to leave, but Zhu Yijun changed the subject and said, "I heard that the spring plowing in Nanyang Imperial Village has already begun. The first issue has been launched... I know you are very busy recently, but I still want to ask you if you are concerned about this?"
"How dare I not pay attention to the emperor's affairs?" Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "The land required for the 80,000 hectares of imperial estate that I promised has been allocated, and we try our best to follow the principle of both fertility and concentration. It is very suitable. Establish a centralized imperial village. Liu Bingbi must have already reported this, so I won’t go into details.
However, as I said before, these lands are raw lands and need to be reclaimed and constructed step by step. I have no right or ability to interfere with the specific employment issues in this process. The help I can provide is mainly in terms of transportation, that is, transporting the manpower, equipment and equipment prepared by Liu Bingbi to nearby ports at a low price, and also providing some safety guarantees..."
"Well, Liu Ping said this. Although the local rebellion has been put down, there has been a lack of education for a long time. Some barbarians always want to steal or rob various materials that arrive at the local reclamation imperial village. It is the servant you sent Cleaning up the surrounding bandits allowed the development of Huangzhuang to proceed smoothly... Well done, I am very pleased."
The emperor only commented on the last sentence of Gao Jingshi, which meant that he knew the previous ones and had no objection. He only needed to praise the last sentence - because although Gao Jingshi said "low-price transportation" earlier, But this is the proper meaning of the title, and Zhu Yijun does not need to praise it deliberately.
There is a tacit understanding: at that time, the Seven Voyages to the Western Seas were exclusively owned by the royal family. Later, opposition from the ministers arose, and now it is impossible for the royal family to end it personally. So let Gao Pragmatic, his own minister, be the actual "general scooper" of the Ming Dynasty maritime merchants. "Hanzi" became the best choice in the eyes of the emperor.
Correspondingly, of course, being highly pragmatic must reciprocate on some issues, and low-cost transportation is just one of the inconspicuous small projects. In fact, the Tianjia also holds shares and dividends in Jinghua's maritime trade activities, and it is not concentrated in the hands of the emperor himself - the emperor is indeed the major shareholder, but in the name of the internal transportation company, and other Tianjia Family members also hold more or less certain shares.
For example, the queen mothers of the two palaces can receive dividends of about 15,000 to 20,000 taels of silver every year, and the queen is also average, not to mention Princess Yongning. Zhu Yijun knew that Princess Yongning had given Gao Pragmatic her private money back then. Later, she made a lot of money from money. Now, he no longer knows how much she can get every year - it will definitely be indispensable anyway.
The most courageous thing about Gao Pragmatic is that not only people who have a good relationship with him can participate in his maritime trade business, but even those with a bad relationship, he still talks about business and never politicizes business issues - such as Zheng Guifei Even though she was beaten hard by the civil servant group led by Gao Pragmatic this time, she still lost not a cent of the Jinghua Shipping Dividends she held.
The same goes for the princes. Regardless of Zhu Changluo, Zhu Changxun, or even the other princes, as long as they invest in Jinghua Maritime Trading, the amount of money they will receive every year is a lot, and whether they want cash or banknotes from the Federal Reserve, or continue to invest in Jinghua to increase their shareholding Proportion, high pragmatism are never compromised, and business reputation is full of success.
But having said that, no one is too interested in continuing to invest in Jinghua to increase its shareholding ratio - it is not that the profits given by Jinghua have dropped, but that the stock price is rising day by day, and now tens of thousands of taels of silver are invested, let alone hundreds of dollars. One share (one percent) or one thousand shares (one thousandth) are not necessarily equal, so people are too lazy to invest more, as long as they continue to pay dividends.
Zhu Yijun had heard a rumor before, which was circulated among the nobles in Beijing, saying that some kind of "equity exchange" might be set up in the future, where all shares could be traded. However, Zhu Yijun later asked Gao pragmatically, and Gao pragmatically told him that the matter was far from complete.
According to Gao's pragmatic statement, there are still many things to be done before that, such as establishing a "company law" and establishing a "modern enterprise system". Zhu Yijun was confused by what he heard and felt that there was no drama for a while, so he didn't continue to ask questions.
Back to business. After listening to the emperor's words, Gao Pangshi smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty, according to the data provided to me by Nanyang, the new fields reclaimed by Huangzhuang this year are about 10,000 hectares, and the progress is basically in line with expectations. However, I am not the only one this year. Various disasters occurred in the Ming Dynasty, and there were also troubles in Nanyang. For example, before the beginning of summer (here refers to the beginning of summer in the Ming Dynasty, which is a concept of time, and there is no such thing in Nanyang), a series of storms and hurricanes also occurred in various places in Nanyang, which caused harm to Huangzhuang. Certain impact.
Fortunately, Nanyang rice can be harvested at least twice a year (Note: I checked and found that rice in Indonesia can be harvested three times a year. In this era, only the climate and other innate conditions are available. In fact, most of the technical levels are not. Modern times can do it a year. Three crops are the embodiment of technological progress.) Therefore, although production reduction is inevitable, the degree of production reduction is not particularly serious and is still within the acceptable range. "
Zhu Yijun has become numb to hearing words such as "disaster" and "disaster" in recent years, especially in recent days. Now that he heard that Nanyang Imperial Village was also hit by a disaster, he couldn't help but feel a little confused and sighed: "What on earth is this?" What’s wrong? Is it true that I have raised too many troops in recent years and hurt Tianhe, so God sent so many disasters to warn me?”
It’s none of your business. Will it affect the Little Ice Age if you fight or not?
Gao Pragmatic was a little helpless, but he still had to answer this question along the lines of "the theory of telepathy between heaven and man", because essentially one of the purposes of "the theory of telepathy between heaven and man" was to limit the unlimited expansion of imperial power.
"Your Majesty, what you said is wrong. Since ancient times, wars have been divided into good and evil. We, the Ming Dynasty, have indeed raised a lot of troops in recent years, but every time our divisions are famous, they are not just greedy. How can we say that there is a fault? As for killing... Since I have no fault in fighting, What is the sin of killing?
Annan Zheng Ni had evil intentions and provoked the vassal. Our army's execution is the way of heaven. Those soldiers are rebellious, why not kill them?
The remnants of the Meng Yuan Dynasty did not want to repent and often joined the bandits. Our army's pursuit of destruction is the way of heaven. Those soldiers are rebellious, why not kill them?
Burmese thieves refused to accept the king's rule and invaded the land and abused the people. Our army's pursuit of destruction is the way of heaven. Those soldiers are rebellious, why not kill them?
Kuai worships the traitorous general, becomes powerful and independent, kills officials and becomes independent. Our army's pursuit of destruction is the way of heaven. Those soldiers are rebellious, why not kill them?
Yang Ni in Bozhou, the Dongchuang Incident happened, and he rebelled out of fear of the power. Our army's pursuit of destruction is the way of heaven. Those soldiers are rebellious, why not kill them?
The Japanese invaded the west, overthrew our vassal state, and peeked into China. Our army's pursuit of destruction is the way of heaven. Those soldiers are rebellious, why not kill them?
For such a rebellious person, it is destined to die in battle! If someone is defeated and captured, or if he is lucky enough to escape with his life, it is already a great blessing from God. For the rest of his life, he should eat fast, chant Buddha's name, chant and worship God to express his gratitude. This can reduce his sins. Otherwise, if the anger of our Emperor and the Son of Heaven is unleashed again, how can these evil beasts be able to withstand it! "
Zhu Yijun nodded frequently at first, but was really surprised when he heard Gao Pragmatic's last paragraph. He looked at Gao Pragmatic in surprise and said, "Rixin, you have been... very murderous lately." After a pause. After a pause, he added in an explanation: "Are you worried about too many things recently? I saw those guys who failed to deal with the disaster last time. You were also trying to scare the monkeys..."
Gao Pangshi was also stunned by the emperor's words. He frowned and said in thought: "These people should be killed. However, what the emperor said may be reasonable. It seems that I have been easily murderous towards these traitors and mediocre ministers recently... I think so. It is really difficult to be the first assistant committee member. There are so many things and there are troubles everywhere. However, there are only three people left in the cabinet, and the only people in Beijing are Chen and Zhou Ge.
Your Majesty, I think we should increase the number of cabinet members. Otherwise, if things continue like this, I am afraid that I will have to sentence a few of them severely before long... Besides, this is still a small matter. If I act too aggressively due to these reasons, it will be a real disaster. "
When Gao Pragmatic said this, Zhu Yijun seemed a little surprised and asked tentatively: "Do you really want to add more cabinet members? I think that although you are a little angry, you are thoughtful and handle things appropriately. It doesn't look like you can't handle the current situation."
At this point, he stretched out his hand to interrupt Gao Yingshi, who was about to speak, and continued: "In my opinion, you are just too worried about various affairs because you were the first assistant, and you even had to do everything yourself. That's why you are in trouble now.
Let's do it this way, let's take it for half a year, and wait and see in another six months. If you still feel that a few more people need to share the responsibilities, then let's talk about it then, okay? "
Gao pragmatic originally wanted to insist on adding more cabinet members, but seeing Zhu Yijun's sincere face, he could only sigh and nodded: "Since the emperor insists, then I... obey the order."
"That's right!" Seeing Gao Pragmatic's acceptance, Zhu Yijun suddenly laughed and said, "Speaking of the Nanyang typhoon disaster, tell me... is there any solution to this typhoon disaster?"
Well, when it comes to internal income, the emperor is indeed particularly concerned about it.
Gao Pingshi took a deep breath, calmed down, and said: "Southern Ocean is a land of archipelagos, and wind disasters are unavoidable. How can I 'solve' them if I am no ordinary person? However, although there is no solution, there are some ways to deal with it. If the policy can be implemented, it can probably alleviate some unnecessary troubles."
"Let me try." Zhu Yijun said immediately.
"No matter what kind of disaster, the worst thing is that it leads to inequality..."
"Ah?" Zhu Yijun said in surprise: "Didn't it lead to no harvest?"
"Your Majesty, please don't be anxious, sir... Let's make a hypothesis: There are three palaces nearby. The second palace suffers a disaster and the harvest is cut off, while the first palace has a good harvest. May I ask, Your Majesty, what will happen next?"
Zhu Yijun was startled for a moment, and then thought deeply: "The hungry people in the two disaster-stricken palaces may have to eat in the disaster-free palace..." At this point, the emperor's face changed, and he said in a deep voice: "Then this palace will also be in chaos. ”
"The emperor is wise." Gao pragmatically nodded and said: "The Master said: 'Those who have a country and a family will not worry about inequality but poverty, and will not worry about poverty but insecurity. There will be no poverty in all, harmony will not be widowed, and there will be no inclination.' Therefore , if the second government is hit by a disaster and the Linfu is safe, the victims of the second government will inevitably bring disaster to the Linfu. This is not a moral thing that can be taught, it is human nature."
"Then what is the countermeasure you mentioned?"
"Joint guarantee and mutual assistance." Gao pragmatically said: "Consider each Huangzhuang as a whole, only count the final output, and store it in one place, or the general warehouse. Then, leave enough to feed the Huangzhuang tenants for a year. And the grain that can be sold, the rest will be turned over to the internal funds. If a disaster occurs somewhere, the general treasury will allocate relief. In this way, even if a disaster occurs in a certain year and the harvest is completely destroyed, the foundation of the imperial village will not be shaken, nor will it breed rebels and bandits."
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