Chapter 106 Savage Growth
In the second half of Hongwu's twenty-fourth year, He Xi seemed not to have seen the light of day in the past few months.
These are the busiest months for He Xi. It is true that Yang Shiqi complained about the people below, but the biggest headache is He Xi herself.
The entire Beijing area is growing wildly like a wild horse running wild.
He Xi didn't know if these little murderers were the first serial murder cases in history. It didn't mean that there had been no such murder cases in the Ming Dynasty before. The problem was that most murder cases didn't need to be so sophisticated at all. Without fingerprint technology, In the past, murderers did not have to think about whether to wear gloves. Before DNA technology, murderers did not have to think about cleaning up their biological information. Before there were surveillance cameras, murderers did not have to think about avoiding cameras.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was no need for such a sophisticated murder plan, it was superfluous. Generally speaking, either use force to kill someone. That means killing people in front of everyone. But when the higher authorities came to check, no one dared to say anything. Or, after killing a person, he walked away. If he was ambitious, he would write down the name of the murderer. Either the body was destroyed and no traces were left. Anyway, there was no body, so there was really no evidence of death.
But this kind of person who repeatedly commits crimes under the eyes of the imperial court, hides his identity and kills people, hides it, and makes the government unable to do anything next time.
Before He Xi, I had never heard of it.
Of course, He Xi felt that it was very possible that the report was not reported at all.
After all, what can you do if you want to have a 100% detection rate? That is to report the cases that have been solved, and treat the cases that have not been solved as never happening. Doesn’t that mean the case detection rate is 100%?
However, these murderers did not expect that after they made a breakthrough in criminal methods, they would fall into the new gadget of banks.
They just regarded the bank as an ordinary bank pawn shop, and never thought that the operating principle behind it was completely different. Of course, for people who just save money, banks a few hundred years from now are essentially no different from the banks where you can save money in this era.
But banks are He Xi's most important eyes on Beijing's economic situation.
Just one year later.
There are more than 100 construction companies that have undertaken Beijing projects for the Ming Dynasty, and most of them have backends. The largest one is the Puzhou Society, which has undertaken projects worth millions of dollars. Together with other trading companies, it has undertaken almost two-thirds of the entire Beijing project.
Of course, there are not problems here.
On the contrary, there are quite a few problems.
Those who cut corners, subcontract at different levels, deduct wages from migrant workers, and use violent means to suppress competitors in order to monopolize the market. They bribed officials from the Planning Department and the Banking Department, colluding with both internal and external parties.
Wait.
There are all kinds of methods that He Xi can imagine and cannot imagine.
What's more, King Lu sent people directly to He Xi to get a share of the pie. He seemed to want to get through to He Xi, the person in charge. Just do it.
Apart from making He Xi laugh, it naturally had no effect.
Although there is nothing new under the sun, it can be said that these things happened all the time in the Ming Dynasty. It's just that He Xi has changed the rules of the game, and these old gameplay methods have extended new changes in the new environment. It's not difficult to handle.
After all, He Xi's status rests here. There are only a few people in the entire Ming Dynasty who need to be given face by He Xi. And those few people will not end up personally. For example, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who made He Xi lose face. Does Zhu Yuanzhang need these three melons and two dates?
But the problem is, He Xi knows that future officials will not have such a strong background as him.
What he needs is to set rules rather than forcefully suppress them. Set a standard that any official in the future can implement in most cases. rather than pursuing an ideal society.
Pure white and flawless.
This gave He Xi a feeling that the longer he stayed in the officialdom, the darker his thoughts would become.
For, the line between good and evil becomes blurred.
It seems that I am becoming the person I hate the most.
Do whatever it takes to succeed. But the question is, is it okay not to succeed?
Wang Anshi was the leading scholar among the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasties. The new learning he founded was also very popular at the time. But after that, the world was dominated by Neo-Confucianism, and whoever had heard of Wang Anshi's knowledge was nothing more than some old paper.
With Wang Anshi's lessons learned, would He Xi dare not succeed?
If he had not succeeded, hundreds of years later, he would have become the basis for some civilian science in later generations to prove that China actually had some scientific arguments, dig out his theory from the pile of old papers, compare it with the West, and prove the advancement of ancient China.
But is it useful?
Is this what He Xi wants?
If you want to succeed, you have to follow the secular rules, and the secular rules are never black and white, but gray. If you want to farm, you have to fertilize, deal with dung, and do big things. If you want to be clean and not tainted by the secular world, It's simply impossible.
At least the social rules of the Ming Dynasty are like this. If you want to be clean and spotless, the best way is to do nothing.
Therefore, He Xi could only ask Yang Zhen to come forward, gather these people with backstage, and set the rules. He gave these families some preferential treatment, such as priority in business, priority in supply, etc. But at the same time, in other aspects, such as quality and treatment of migrant workers, the requirements remain unchanged at all.
And He Xi communicates directly with their backend.
The nobles of the Ming Dynasty were of relatively high quality.
The beauty of a gentleman will be cut down in five lifetimes. Why the fifth generation? Because in the fifth life, the family elders at that time had no longer seen the person who founded the foundation. Generally speaking, the founders of the family are always the best. Even if the second generation is not talented, they will be a sensible person under the guidance of their father's words and deeds. The third generation, under the education of their parents, will not be confused, but the shadow of their parents will not be much in this era. After that, it depends on how long Cuncui will rest on his laurels.
Therefore, today's nobles are nothing more than their ability. If most of them are sensible people, they will know how to weigh the pros and cons.
First of all, they know that money is not the most important thing in this society. The most important right, they want not just money, but clean money. The money is within the rules, not the money gained from violating laws and disciplines. After all, everyone has seen how Zhu Yuanzhang dealt with those nobles who violated laws and disciplines.
Therefore, they actually cherish their feathers very much and don't want the people below to mess around and ruin their reputation.
This is different from overseas.
As long as all overseas matters are dealt with, they should be completely eliminated. It will not spread to Ming Dynasty. And this is Beijing. Although it is the companion capital, it is also the capital. I don’t know how many informants there are.
Secondly, it’s He Xi.
He Xi's position as a leader of the reform was obvious to many people, but for the nobles, their stance on the reform was unclear. Although some people have lost interests in the land, they have also lost interests within the family.
Fortunately, the nobles have not yet been finalized. It should be noted that after several generations, the noble family became more feudal than other families because of the inheritance of the title. The head of the family, that is, the person who inherited the title, was in charge of the family's life and death. The internal struggles of each family's title could be written in a book.
It's better than any palace fighting drama.
But no matter what, they all know that the greatest power of nobles is not money or title, but the army and influence in the army. Just like Wei Guogong Xu Da, his health has been in poor health since a big hole was dug in his back, and his arms have even been stretched out recently. Not to mention fighting. But so what, as long as the Duke of Wei is here, Xu Da will be the one that all the armies in the world dare not look up to.
If the reform does not change the law, as long as the army is not mobilized, there is no inevitable conflict between them and He Xi, so why do they have to offend others?
What's more, He Xi has already stepped down.
Naturally, hello, me, and everyone.
But He Xi knew that in this win-win or multiple-win situation, one party must lose. No matter how the interests are divided, it cannot satisfy everyone. Everyone wins, and those who can only say that they lose have no right to speak out.
He Ximing knew that he actually supported the rampant power of elite capital. There is even an unspoken rule that without a certain official position and title in the family, it is impossible to expand the business to a certain extent.
However, He Xi had no choice.
Even if you want to change the world, the first thing you have to do is adapt.
