Chapter 288 Economics and Party Struggle (3) What’s the motivation?
It is not unusual for Gao Pragmatic to mention southern Xinjiang and Japan when he talks about "collaborating with foreign countries". What surprised Gao Pragmatic was that the first crime Li Bingbei accused him of for "collaborating with foreign countries" was actually Tongtumote.
I have specifically said before that from a legal perspective, the current Tumut should be called the "Da Ming Jin Kingdom", which is equivalent to one of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, people have written the word "Da Ming" on the "country name"
, then in theory the nature of this vassal country is very intimate and should not be regarded as a "foreign country".
However, Li Bingbei obviously didn't care about this and kept emphasizing its "foreign" nature. This certainly made sense, because only in this way could he pin the charge of foreign affairs on Gao Pragmatic.
Li Bingbei believed that although Tumote nominally submitted to the Ming Dynasty, his "king" King Shunyi needed to be canonized by the Ming Dynasty, and his main generals also needed to obtain official positions from the Ming Dynasty, but in fact this was nothing more than a cover-up, because the Ming Dynasty did not exercise any control over him.
Effective jurisdiction - except for the nominal power to appoint officials, no actual financial power or military power is in the hands.
As for how to explain that Tumut has always been very cooperative with the imperial court's request for them to accompany the expedition in these years, Li Bingbei naturally has something to say. He believes that this is a manifestation of high pragmatism and "communication with foreign countries".
Li Bingbei made an accusation here that cannot be falsified: any time Tumut went to war as required by the imperial court, it was a highly pragmatic order - even if it was an order issued to Tumut in the name of an imperial edict, it was essentially a
Gao Jingshi's decision in court, the imperial edict only endorsed his wishes.
So Li Bingbei made a conclusion for Gao Jingshi: From the beginning, the tribute payment was Gao Jingshi's conspiracy to connect with foreign countries and support the bandits' self-respect. It was Gao Jingshi who used his special relationship with Tumut to persuade the imperial court to allow trade.
Strengthening Tumote, and gaining Tumote's trust and gratitude at the same time, prompting Tumote to be willing to obey his instructions.
Li Bingbei believed that once such an interest alliance was formed, once something happened on the grassland, the court would have to rely on Gao Pragmatism, and whenever someone in the court opposed Gao Pragmatism, Gao Pragmatism would in turn allow Tumote to cause trouble in the grassland, forcing him to
The court was unable to severely punish him... This cycle continued, and this alliance became a knot in the court's throat.
I have to say that if this is really the case, it will be really difficult for the Ming Dynasty court: if you move the soil, there will be opposition from important ministers like Gao Jingshi in the court, and Gao Jingshi is not alone. Behind him are a large number of officials from the entire practical school.
, a cough can make the capital tremble three times.
If you act pragmatically, Tumut gathers 100,000 cavalry at the border to hold the customs and complain, does your court want to reconsider it? Of course, there is another point here that Li Bingbei has not said: the imperial army on the border of Ming and Tu can be used to declare the great war.
The three towns are the main ones, and the three towns of Xuanda... Everyone knows that there is a family of Xuanda generals, and they all call themselves "the little lackey so-and-so" in front of Gao Pangshi.
So in other words, the worst situation is probably this: something happened to Gao Jingshi in the middle of the court, and the court wanted to take action against him, so Tumote immediately mobilized 100,000 cavalry to hold the customs for "Mrs. Gao"
"Teacher" complained of injustice.
At this time, General Xuanda was cooperating with the performance, and he would find any reason to suffer defeat and make way out, or even be too lazy to perform, saying that the Tatar cavalry took advantage of my unpreparedness, sneaked through the pass, and was now rushing towards the capital.
Went... How did the imperial court feel and how did it respond?
Oh, yes, the imperial court also has the Imperial Guards, the invincible Imperial Guards. As long as the Imperial Guards are there, the capital can be secure.
However, if you look at the leaders of the Imperial Guard, you will find that there is a big problem: the commander of the Imperial Guard is Ma Gui, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard is Li Rumei, and the chief of staff of the Imperial Guard is Cao Yu...
Ah, this...if Gao Yuanfu is about to be attacked by the imperial court, it's hard to say how much loyalty these people have left!
Seeing this, Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but feel a little funny. You said the matter was so urgent, so why did you send this memorandum to the cabinet so boldly, maybe because you were afraid that I wouldn't see it? What if I am really as you described me?
In such a way, after seeing your memorial, shouldn’t I stop working on it and just take action directly to avoid having long nights and dreams?
It’s not like you don’t have the means to secretly write some secret information to the emperor. It’s been a long time since I, Gao, have withdrawn from the Jinyiwei. At least I have no way to get involved with the local Jinyiwei. If you really want to have a secret report to the emperor, shouldn’t you go directly to the Jinyiwei?
Just fine?
Okay, even if you are worried that Wang Zhizhen, the current leader of Jinyiwei, is a distant relative of mine, and you think it is still unreliable to find Jinyiwei, that doesn’t matter—the imperial envoy guarding the local eunuch in Zhejiang is waiting for you. You, Zhejiang Shaoning Bingbeidao, can always contact this person.
Human, right?
However, Li Bingbei didn't find anyone, and directly went to Shu to impeach the leader of the dynasty, and he said it so seriously. It can be seen that the problem is not that the matter is really serious, but that the matter needs to be said so seriously.
As the chief minister of the dynasty, and it is extremely rare for a civil servant to be granted a title, if the matter is too small, it will definitely be of no use. The emperor will only issue strict orders to those who spread rumors and slander, and even punish them severely.
What will happen to Gao Yuanfu? Maybe he will have to comfort him again and again.
But thinking about this, Gao Pragmatic thought that there must be a black hand behind Li Bingbei. He couldn't be the mastermind - just a Bingbei said, what did the bear-hearted leopard dare to directly impeach the chief minister of the dynasty? More
What's more, he is still a soldier from Zhejiang.
Eh? Zhejiang’s military preparation road?
Jiangnan Chaebol? Shen Yiguan?
The base camp of the Jiangnan Chaebol is Zhejiang, and its extended sphere of influence is in Yingtian, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, and Shen Yiguan is also from Yinxian County, Zhejiang... Could this be the Jiangnan Chaebol or Shen Yiguan's instigation? Or, simply they are together, too
Is it the entire Jiangnan chaebol group that has declared war on me?
But why? Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but think about it.
The Jiangnan Chaebol has always been very dissatisfied with the "Practical School Jingnan Xungui Interest Group" headed by Gao Pragmatic. Of course Gao Pragmatic has known this for a long time. However, dissatisfaction does not mean that he will declare war directly on the table. This is unreasonable.
, because the success rate is not high, but it is easy to cause bad things.
Looking back now, when Shen Shixing was the first assistant and Wang Xijue was assisting, it was a better time for the Jiangnan Chaebol Group to declare war on Gao Pragmatism. After all, the strength gap between the Reality School and the Heart School was not considered at that time.
It's huge, and the biggest gap is just in the high-pragmatic Holy Family.
However, the Xinxue School at that time actually had its own advantages. For example, scholars from the South Ranking had a psychological advantage over those from the North Ranking (it is well known that the Southern Ranking is more difficult to pass than the Northern Ranking), and in reality they tended to be more united, and it was easy to form a unified voice and create
At that time, the momentum of "the whole dynasty was reversed".
In addition, the base of scholars in the Jiangnan area is much larger than that in the north, and the degree of concentration is very high. In Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, not only are there many Jinshi masters, but also candidates and scholars are everywhere, as numerous as dogs. As long as these people are mobilized,
The last Ten Thousand People's Book and so on - all of them were "people" with titles and honors - so even the emperor must have felt the pressure.
However, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue did not choose to break up with Gao Pragmatic directly. In the end, they were implicated because of the desperation of some extreme factions inside, and they both ended up in office. Looking back now, it seems that they wasted their last chance to suppress Gao Pragmatic.
But is this really the case? Not necessarily.
There is a famous saying in later generations: Where there is oppression, there is resistance. In fact, the stronger the "oppression", the greater the power of resistance. The rise and growth of Gao Pragmatism is obviously an increasingly powerful "oppression" for the Jiangnan chaebol.
", so their resistance is getting stronger and stronger. There is a development process here, and it was not as strong as it is now at the beginning.
In other words, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue did not choose to break up with Gao Pragmatism. Essentially, the Jiangnan Chaebol had not yet formed a unified decision to break up with Gao Pragmatism.
On the other hand, the fact that Ning Shao and Li Shuyuan are now impeaching Gao pragmatism may mean that the Jiangnan chaebol have made a unified decision, or at least it should be said that most of the Jiangnan chaebol have decided to fight Gao pragmatism.
It's time to play.
This is the point of Gao Pragmatic's doubts: Why did the Gangnam Chaebol suddenly decide to break up with me? I don't seem to have taken any violent measures to suppress them recently?
The leaders of any family that can survive as a "chaebol" for several generations are obviously not fools. Even if one or several families may accidentally have young heads who act impulsively and regardless of the consequences, since they can form
The unified decision of the Jiangnan chaebol will definitely not be led by a few middle school boys.
Therefore, a high pragmatic judgement, there must be a huge conflict in the fundamental interests of the two major interest groups of the North and the South behind this. The conflict is irreconcilable and cannot even be delayed! Otherwise, the Jiangnan Chaebol is obviously at a disadvantage at the official level, and it is only because of this that they are out of their minds.
Attacking Gao Yuanfu at this time - the winning rate is really not high!
But just as Gao Pingshi wondered, he asked himself that he had not been busy at all suppressing the Jiangnan Chaebol since he took over as chief minister, so why did the Jiangnan Chaebol suddenly seem to have been touched?
Gao Pragmatic thought hard, is it because Jinghua Infrastructure promotes sewer projects? It doesn't make sense. The Jiangnan Chaebol doesn't do this work. It can't be because Jinghua Infrastructure needs local government money to carry out this project. As a result, the local government went to Jiangnan Chaebol to make trouble.
Have you gone?
This is simply impossible. This is not to say that local yamen will not seek help from plutocrats. This kind of thing is not uncommon, but Chinese officialdom has long formed a tacit understanding on this matter - landlords and wealthy businessmen will generally give some, and
The local government will not slaughter people like pigs.
More often than not, the situation at that time was like a line that was ridiculed by many people in later generations and should be inscribed on the World Heritage List: "The gentry donates first, and the common people donate later. After the matter is completed, the gentry's money is returned in full, and the common people's money is divided into 30 and 70."
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Therefore, even if the matter of Jinghua Infrastructure really caused trouble that Gao was pragmatic and unclear about, he could at least be sure that the Jiangnan Chaebol would not suffer serious damage to its interests as a result - as long as the system was not in place, the unlucky president would
They are ordinary people.
If this is not the case, then what else would make the Gangnam Chaebol so decisive, regardless of the consequences?
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