Faced with the emperor's inquiry, Gao pragmatically chose the most normal answer for a father: "Quuzi has always been troubled when he was young. He has only studied beside me for many years, but has never acted personally. Originally, I sent Quanzi to the south to increase his knowledge and know how to deal with things. However, he did not know how to control it, which led to a tragedy.
Your Majesty, although this mistake was his fault, the source lies with me. If the emperor determines that this action is against the benevolence of the heaven, I am afraid that the barbarians from all over the world will be resentful, and I am willing to bear all the blame. "After that, Gao Pingshi stood up and left the table, prostrated himself on the ground, looking like he was waiting for resignation.
His reaction made it difficult for Zhu Yijun to deal with it. The dignified chief minister of the cabinet just pleads guilty for a so-called tragedy caused by his son that did not happen in the country. This is a big deal.
When Zhu Yijun met Gao Jingxing, he usually turned away the servants. At this time, there was no one to greet him, so he could only stand up in person, walked over to hold up Gao Jingxing's arms and said, "Why are you making such a fuss? I just mentioned it casually, and I didn't see anything." I am reprimanding you. What crime is there in loving you? Please get up quickly."
Although he called himself "Zhen" when he said this, and also changed "Rixin" to "Aiqing", it was obvious that he did not completely follow the meaning of monarch and minister. There was still an obvious friendship between childhood classmates.
Gao pragmatic didn't stand up in a hurry, but he sighed first and said: "Even if the emperor is not surprised, this move still hurts the peace of the world. He must not be punished, let alone learn a lesson. Last night, I summoned Nan In Xinjiang, the servant Gao Jing who led the matter has been dismissed from his post and recalled to the capital for questioning.
Quanzimu still has a task ahead of him and cannot give up halfway, so he has been ordered to be beaten by his teacher on behalf of his ministers, and he will be punished after the task is completed. I wonder what the emperor thinks? If the emperor thinks that such a lesson is not enough, he should be punished more severely. "
"You get up first." Zhu Yijun raised his arms vigorously, insisting that Gao Jingshi get up first. Gao Jingshi had no choice but to get up, his face still very serious.
Zhu Yijun's face was a little surprised. He looked at Gao Pangshi seriously and said, "Rixin, I really just said it casually. For such a little thing, you even sent someone to beat him. Isn't this a bit too much?" Zhu Yijun After saying this, he paused and reminded: "He is the eldest son, and now he is not only in the army, but also the most respected person in southern Xinjiang."
So what, are you still afraid that he will be able to rebel? Gao pragmatic came up with this idea subconsciously.
But after thinking about it, Gao Pragmatic immediately understood. After all, he is an emperor, a person who is naturally wary of his own son. Perhaps in the emperor's mind, the eldest son was the one most likely to rebel - as he said: "he is in the army" and has the "most respected position". At this time, the eldest son has both strength and status, and is indeed the most capable person of rebellion.
But the emperor was obviously overly worried. As an emperor, there are no restrictions on imperial power. Therefore, theoretically, if the emperor himself is far away from the center of power, and the eldest son has the army in hand and has the most respected position in the fundamental land, then as long as the emperor himself is cut off from this territory, It is natural to replace him with the emperor.
This is different from the prince's supervision of the country during the Yujia's personal expedition, because the emperor's personal expedition brought the most elite main army in the country. Even if the prince wanted to make some changes, the courtiers were not stupid, and of course no one Willing to follow.
But in the eyes of the emperor at this moment, Gao Pragmatic himself was too far away from southern Xinjiang, and was beyond his reach anyway. However, there are at least 200,000 troops in southern Xinjiang, and Gao Yuan's biological mother Huang Zhiting has been in charge for many years in the past. Aren't there Huang Zhiting's cronies everywhere in southern Xinjiang?
Under such circumstances, if Gao Yuan raises a flag to rebel, Huang Zhiting's cronies will naturally be his cronies. Your father, who is thousands of miles away, has nothing to do with it! At this time, you, Gao Rixin, don't have to be so straightforward about punishing your son. You even let his "monitor" go to his army to carry out beatings... This is too dangerous.
Gao pragmatic guessed the emperor's thoughts and knew the problem with his thinking. There are no restrictions on the imperial power, but Gao Wusheng is not the emperor now. Even if the Southern Xinjiang system is almost an independent country, without that name, there will be no sacred blessing.
Therefore, in the eyes of the civil and military forces in Southern Xinjiang, no matter what their actual status or power is, they are all clan members or servants of the Gao family in the final analysis. All the rules in Southern Xinjiang are based on patriarchal family rules. On the next level of this legal system, there is also the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty as the "top cover".
This means that everyone in Southern Xinjiang will still subconsciously believe that if someone in Southern Xinjiang opposes Gao Pragmatic, the head of the family, the Ming Dynasty court will regard it as illegal. If someone commits a crime or bullies the master with a slave, he will be punished by the court! Not to mention that the head of the family was also the chief minister of the imperial court and the emperor's childhood classmate.
In addition, the emperor had no idea how Gao Pragmatic built the power structure of southern Xinjiang. He did not know that Southern Xinjiang seemed to be an independent kingdom, but in fact the core of all power operations lay in Gao Pragmatism. Almost all major events were indispensable for Gao Pragmatism.
The system in Southern Xinjiang seems to be independent, but in fact it is inseparable from Jinghua's industrial support in Daming, and some industries in Southern Xinjiang are also inseparable from the market in Daming.
For example, the grain output in southern Xinjiang is soaring year by year. If there is no grain black hole like the Ming Dynasty in the Little Ice Age to consume, it will immediately fall into the situation of "low grain and hurting farmers". And because of the huge amount, once this situation occurs, it will definitely It will immediately cause great price fluctuations.
Most of the food actually exported in southern Xinjiang comes from two sources: one is the vast fertile land directly controlled by Beijing, and the other is the fertile land controlled by the original aristocratic groups of the major kingdoms (including monk groups). In other words, once this happens, the old aristocratic group and Nanjiang Jinghua themselves will be the biggest losers. If the former's interests are severely damaged, it may lead to rebellion, and if the latter's interests are severely damaged, it will turn against the previous rebel.
When it comes to interests, everyone will be very clear-headed, so no one will dare to covet the high and pragmatic position, because no one can solve this contradiction.
Similarly, some of the output of the Ming Dynasty must be relied on in southern Xinjiang. For example, without the silk, porcelain, and tea of the Ming Dynasty, how could Southern Xinjiang maintain such a huge foreign trade today?
Although some porcelain was produced in southern Xinjiang, some tea was grown, and there was even a little silk industry in Annan, but its scale and quality were far less large and high-end than those in the Ming Dynasty. Let's put it this way, excluding some of the new "industrial industries" that were established after Gao Shishi's time travel, the industries that still account for the majority of foreign trade are actually still in the Ming Dynasty, and they are the absolute majority.
If these outputs of the Ming Dynasty are excluded, there are only two items left in southern Xinjiang's own foreign trade: spices and tropical hardwoods. However, selling spices and tropical hardwoods to India is not very profitable, because India itself also has good output, and at least it has to be sold to West Asia (the Middle East) to be profitable, and the real profit maker is Europe.
In short, if new industrial products are not included, the result of losing the Ming Dynasty's material supply is that southern Xinjiang's foreign trade will drop by about two-thirds. By then, Southern Xinjiang will not even be able to maintain the existing Nanyang Fleet. Although the nearly 300,000-strong army will not starve to death because of the abundant food, they may not have the money to maintain the current high level of firearms - firearms are very expensive. .
This is still the underlying logic of the economic operation of southern Xinjiang, but it does not take into account the internal and external checks and balances that Gao Jingshi deliberately created in various systems, and does not take into account Gao Jingshi's unshakable prestige within the Jinghua system...
Therefore, there is nothing that the emperor is worried about. The emperor's worry actually proved one thing: Jinyiwei's work in southern Xinjiang was very superficial. They might have found out a lot of things that could be seen on the surface, but because there was no expert who was proficient in intelligence summary and analysis, They simply failed to provide the emperor with truly high-value intelligence conclusions.
Think about how Gao Pragmatic criticized Gao Qi last night - the so-called intelligence secretary not only requires you to summarize intelligence, but also requires you to analyze all kinds of intelligence clearly and figure out the logic behind all kinds of intelligence. Otherwise, you, the secretary, will not do your job well and will be criticized.
The current Jin Yiwei obviously does not have such ability, or Wang Zhizhen was deliberately vague. In short, the information Zhu Yijun received should be obvious. [Note: Wang Zhizhen, Zuo Dudu was in charge of the security affairs. As mentioned above, he is the grandson of Wang Chonggu, and Wang Chonggu is Zhang Siwei's uncle. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic and Wang Zhizhen are distant relatives of the same generation, and they call each other cousins. ]
Regardless of whether Wang Zhizhen deliberately let the water go, for Gao Pragmatic, it is obviously a good thing that the emperor knows something about southern Xinjiang but does not know it deeply - if he knows nothing, the emperor will definitely be uneasy; if he knows very well, the emperor will be even more Will be uneasy. Now, maybe it's pretty good.
Now Gao Pragmatic has to make a statement to the emperor, not only to explain the necessity of punishment, but also to appease the emperor - there will be no changes in southern Xinjiang. But thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic suddenly felt something in his heart: Why was the emperor worried about changes in southern Xinjiang? It stands to reason that the strength of Southern Xinjiang has aroused some doubts of the emperor a few years ago. According to normal thinking, if he loses control of Southern Xinjiang, wouldn't it be a good thing for the emperor?
Is it because of the 80,000 hectares of land in Sumatra?
Gao pragmatically thought about it, and suddenly realized that this was really possible. Although the emperor nominally controls the world and the entire Ming Dynasty belongs to him, this is only in name after all.
In fact, with his constant persuasion many years ago, Zhu Yijun had sold almost all of the large imperial estates near Gyeonggi that originally belonged to the emperor through redemption by the tenants of the estates. In other words, the emperor's internal funds lost one of the largest sources in the past two hundred years, and were replaced by many Jinghua shares - including many mines including the Ming Dynasty Federal Reserve and Jinghua Salt Fields (Liaonan), and even Shares of varying sizes have also been quietly bought in some other industries.
This means that, in addition to the part of the internal funds that were originally allocated to the imperial court's financial system - such as gold, flowers and silver, the emperor's internal funds are now highly related to the highly pragmatically controlled Jinghua system. Outside the Ming Dynasty, the emperor recently had a new and huge investment, which was the Nanyang Imperial Manor with 80,000 hectares of fertile land.
For the emperor, Nanyang Imperial Villa was not only a huge new source of income, but also had a unique attribute: it was not within the scope of the emperor's direct rule, but had to be protected indirectly by high pragmatism.
In other words, if Gao Pragmatic cannot control Nanyang, the emperor's 80,000 hectares of fertile land will be in danger, and it can even be said that it will be lost.
As mentioned before, in the Ming Dynasty, one hectare of land was one hundred acres, and eighty thousand hectares was eight million acres. Just saying this seems to lack reference. Let’s compare it: in the ninth year of Zhengde, which was probably the peak of the imperial estate in the Ming Dynasty, “the imperial estate in Jinei occupied 37,595 hectares and 46 acres” - the total area of the imperial estate near the capital. The area is less than 40,000 hectares, and it needs to be noted that this is still the peak, and it does not last long.
For comparison, in the original history of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial village was 1.859 million acres, less than 20,000 hectares. This less than 20,000 hectares of land can bring Qianlong an annual income of about 150,000 taels every year.
If the "exchange rate between the two dynasties" is not taken into account, and the crudest calculation is made, the 80,000 hectares of imperial estate given to Zhu Yijun by Gao pragmatic means also giving 600,000 taels of silver to the emperor every year. In fact, the value of silver at this time was much higher than that of the Qianlong Dynasty in history.
Anyway, 600,000 taels of domestic money every year is a huge amount of money. Here are a few simple figures: In the original history, the Wanli Emperor's largest internal revenue was the gold and silver from the imperial court, which was about one million taels a year, but the funds were basically earmarked for the expenses of the concubines, eunuchs and maidens, including Rewards, usually without balance;
The second is the so-called exorbitant tax collection by the eunuchs of the mining tax, which averages about 500,000 taels per year; the third is "auxiliary work". For example, the three main halls were struck by lightning and need to be rebuilt, and the amount is apportioned to the whole country. This amount is not accurate, and it is also a special fund, and there will be no balance; There is another kind called "light money", which is a discounted replacement of some royal taxes in kind. It is spent on other palace expenses. Basically, it is used as much as it is collected, and there is no balance. Finally, it is the income of the emperor's house and the emperor's shop. This does not fluctuate much, so it is considered The "flowing water" that the emperor could freely control. There are also some other categories, which are basically small amounts, so I won’t mention them here.
Looking at it this way, why did the Wanli Dynasty in history collect "mineral taxes" so violently? Because the emperor felt that there was too little money at his disposal, especially when you consider that the Ministry of Revenue almost refused to give money during the three major Wanli campaigns - in fact, there was really no money, so the emperor had to provide money for the war every time. Then Wanli's crazy "income generation" has found the root cause.
But things are different now. With Gao Pragmatic's support, Zhu Yijun's "living water" is getting more and more abundant, and this time the 80,000-hectare Imperial Estate has suddenly brought in a huge annual income of 600,000 taels per year. How could he not care? ? How could you not be nervous?
After thinking about this, Gao Pragmatic suddenly felt confident, and said with a slight smile: "The emperor is overly worried. Although the dog is young and incapable of doing things, most of them are surrounded by experienced servants arranged by the minister, who can always persuade him."
This was a bit ambiguous. Gao Pragmatic knew that the emperor would definitely understand the mistake, but this was the kind of mistake he wanted. Sure enough, Zhu Yijun felt much more at ease after hearing this. He breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "If that's the case, then it doesn't matter."
After a pause, he seemed to feel that he was a little shy just now, so he took the initiative to change the topic and said: "By the way, now I suddenly have to spend an extra three million taels in Hami. How do you plan to deal with this money?"
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