There were very few holidays in the Ming Dynasty, so the next day of Chongyang, those who should be on duty and those who should be on duty returned to their normal working conditions. Of course, there are also people who are still immersed in the joy of Chongyang.

For example, Pan Sheng was quite happy when he came to the cabinet today. Chongyang, he is a respected old man, of course, he has been treated the best in the family, and the filial sons and grandchildren have all taken his knees, coaxed him into a smile, and his good mood has not dissipated until now.

Throughout the day of Chongyang, he received good news.

First, he received a letter from Pan Yi from his hometown in Zhejiang, telling him that several private port berths in Zhejiang had been obtained, and 16 sea ships from Suzhou and Songjiang had also arrived at their home, and the trade in Zhejiang could already be carried out.

The remaining eleven seagoing ships remained in Songjiang Mansion, because the Xu family had transferred the private port share contract from Liu Shouyou's house to the Pan family, and now these ships could dock at the Xu family's private port, and in the future, they would also use this anchorage to start going to sea.

If there's anything missing in this message, it's probably that there aren't enough boats. However, Pan Yi was optimistic about this, and according to his claim, the Zhejiang maritime merchants planned to unite the big businessmen with shipyards under their names and build a Zhejiang merchant shipyard to compete with the Jinghua shipyard, and they would be happy to offer the Pan family a preferential price for the purchase of ships at that time.

Pan Sheng is cautious about this news. The reason is that in the shopping mall, he was a little frightened by Gao Pragmatic.

Who is Gao Pragmatism? He is the person who founded Jinghua at the age of eight and created Jinghua Group, the business overlord of the Ming Dynasty, in just over ten years!

Compete with him in business? This statement simply makes people tremble and want to go first!

When Pan Sheng read the letter and saw this, his long eyebrows trembled twice, his face was angry, and he blurted out and scolded: "Pan Yi, this fool, the old man has emphasized it to him again and again when he replied to the letter last time, don't provoke Gao Qiuzhen!" ”

Everyone in the family was taken aback by Pan Sheng, and was about to step forward to ask why, but Pan Sheng had already continued to scold: "If the old man was not forced to do so, how could he go to the tiger's mouth to extract his teeth and provoke the Gao Party?" The old man is afraid that after a hundred years, you juniors will be killed by the Zhejiang Merchants Alliance! ”

A cadre immediately stepped forward to ask why, Pan Sheng angrily threw the letter in his hand and said, "Let's see for yourself...... Zhejiang merchant shipyard? What do they compare with Jinghua to build sea ships? Even if the old man doesn't know how to build ships, he wants to ask them: Who is in the hands of the best, most and cheapest shipbuilding timber in the Ming Dynasty? ”

In fact, the Pan family doesn't know much about shipbuilding, but this time, because the Zhejiang Merchants Alliance forced their old man to stand in line with the school, they also learned about the various trades of maritime merchants by the way, and just had a little understanding of the shipbuilding industry.

Seriously, the Ming Dynasty is not very short of wood now, and no one can monopolize ordinary shipbuilding wood, even Jinghua.

But what Pan Sheng asked just now is not unreasonable, the reason is that although everyone can get ordinary wood, first, shipbuilding is not a kind of wood for the whole ship, it needs to use many kinds of wood in different parts, and some parts of the wood used are very different, the "best" wood such as teak, beech, oak, etc., is really controlled by Jinghua most of the time.

This kind of control is not a single control output, but the control of the whole industry chain including transportation, storage (to be shaded), etc., which leads to a greatly reduced choice of other shipyards in some key timber - you either buy Jinghua high-quality, high-quantity and stable and fair price; Either go to the small timber merchants, but they usually have a single supply, insufficient supply capacity, and the quality is sometimes good and bad, and the price fluctuates greatly with the market fluctuations.

Although the strength of the Zhejiang Merchants Alliance is not small, but the "alliance" is such a thing, the internal benefit distribution must be a hundred times more troublesome than Jinghua, even if they can make a joint Zhejiang shipyard, it is impossible to snatch the entire industrial chain with Jinghua.

If you can't do this, you can't have an advantage in manufacturing costs.

This is just the manufacturing piece, and when it comes to going to sea, it is even more complicated. Because Jinghua is the overlord of the Ming maritime trade route, sailing in the open sea, if you don't have the flag of Jinghua or simply follow Jinghua's fleet, you may be plundered by pirates one day.

Of course, the Zheshang Alliance is very powerful, and it can also be equipped with its own armed forces, which is no problem. The problem is that you can't get around Jinghua with force - swords, guns, swords, halberds are okay, but where else can you get guns?

Now even three-year-old children know that the best guns in Daming come from Jinghua Musket Factory and Jinghua Artillery Factory, although the price is a little expensive, but the product quality of Jinghua these two factories is absolutely second to none in the world, on the whole, buying Jinghua's guns is definitely more cost-effective than buying other homes.

While you are engaged in shipyards and armed merchant fleets to compete with Jinghua, you are looking for Jinghua to buy guns and guns? The owner of Jinghua is only Gao Pragmatic, and he will sell it to you when he is crazy!

After Pan Sheng made a fire, everyone gradually recovered from the previous ecstasy.

That's right, although I made a fortune this time, I took the money and took it, but I still can't fall too deep. The Pan family was not originally a maritime merchant family, and it was just a matter of honestly making a fortune with this money, and it would be too unwise to be tied to the same rope as a grasshopper with the Zheshang Group.

After all, their opponent is Jinghua, who is highly pragmatic.

So Pan Sheng dictated, and his son wrote a reply, and soon wrote a reply to his hometown in Zhejiang, strictly ordering Pan Yi not to participate in any affairs of Zhejiang Shipyard, and to keep a low profile in ordinary times, especially not to have any form of conflict with Jinghua Ningbo Private Port.

Next, Pan Sheng's mood gradually improved - as long as he didn't anger Jinghua and Gao Pragmatic, the Pan family would have earned hundreds of thousands of taels for nothing this time! Can you be in a bad mood?

As for whether it will anger Gao Pragmatic at the court level, Pan Sheng thinks that it will not, because he has been more cautious and tactful this time, and with Gao Pragmatic ability, he will definitely be able to find out that he is forced to do so.

In this case, even if Gao Pragmatic is dissatisfied, he should not directly target himself - my old man has only been good for two or three years, so you don't need to target me.

As for the beginning of next year, Wang Xijue will end Ding Wei...... Hehe, by then, the old man has already left, Gao Pragmatic, this kid has such a reputation, he can't kill me as a Zhishi minister, right?

You have spent more than ten years to accumulate a good reputation, just for me, an old man who has already handed over power and stepped down, suddenly don't want it?

I have to say that Pan Sheng's wishful thinking is really good, if there is no high-level power lord at yesterday's Chongyang Conference, Xu Guo really doesn't plan to do anything to Pan Sheng, then it will completely fulfill Pan Ge Lao's wishes.

It's just that what Pan Sheng didn't expect was that as soon as he arrived at the cabinet today, there would be a "political observer" who came to his room for "apprenticeship" and hurriedly came to tell him, saying that Pan Ge, you have been impeached!

Pan Sheng's smile froze on his face, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Who impeached the old man?" So what's going on? ”

"Zhejiang Provincial Inspector Yu Shi Xiao Liangyu and the official department gave Wang Tingyu an edict in the matter, and these two people are at the same time discussing the impeachment of the old you of the Pavilion today. As for what happened...... "The Guan Zheng Jinshi was a little hesitant.

Pan Sheng knew at a glance that there were no good words - of course, there were no good words for impeachment. So he took a deep breath, nodded, and said in a deep voice: "I know, do you have a copy of the bullet seal, can you send it to the old man here?" ”

"Yes, it's already on the old case."

"Okay, you go and get busy, the old man will go and see it himself."

When Pan Sheng arrived at his duty room, sat down and picked up two copies of the bullet seal, he knew that something was wrong.

"The minister Zhejiang Provincial Supervision Imperial History Xiao Liangyu, impeached the university scholar Pan Sheng: Today, there is a university scholar Pan Sheng, Tsinghua University has been defiled for a long time, and he does not smell the bright festival, and he can donate honestly and shamefully, but he is willing to say and flatter. At the beginning, it was the book of the Ministry of Rites, and the filthy traces were obvious, and the first emperor often reprimanded it. Its resurgence is also, public opinion is evil, and the emperor reprimands it. It is too much for Peter to take on the palace protection with his contemptible husband and travel to the forest. Naizi holds up the position of foresight, and the duty of thinking is given at once. The ministers are afraid that the greedy and greedy people will have the actions of peeping at the emperor. Please dismiss the pedestrians, choose the elderly, and rule the ...... with peace and brightness."

Pan Sheng picked up Wang Ting's bullet and looked at it, what he said was much the same, and he didn't talk about other things, but just lashed out at his "temperance", and at most said a few words about the old things that Mu Zong had criticized him before.

To be honest, the reason why the first emperor criticized him had nothing to do with the current situation, at that time, he just criticized Gao Gong a few words according to Xu Jie's meaning when Xu Jie's was in power, and his words were not heavy, and there was some ambiguity. And Emperor Longqing's so-called "rebuke" is just to think that Gao Gong is mainly a confession, and by the way, he warned Pan Sheng not to listen to the wind or rain, and he had to say that it was "reprimand", which was actually a bit elevated.

However, since these are two bullets, it is normal to raise Longqing's words at that time, Pan Sheng has been an old fritter in officialdom for decades, and he is experienced enough, so he will not care too much about this kind of words.

Even to be honest, he didn't really care about what these two bullets impeached him specifically.

It was these two people he cared about.

Xiao Liangyu and Wang Tingyu are of course not important people in Pan Sheng's eyes, theoretically Pan Sheng is still the chief examiner of their subject (not the main examiner, the main task of the main exam is to mark the papers, and Pan Sheng is in charge of the invigilator in that subject), it is not an exaggeration to say that it is their half of the teacher, and the status of the two sides is extremely different.

What Pan Sheng cared about was the person behind the two of them.

Xiao Liangyu's brother is Xiao Liangyou, and Wang Tingyu's brother is Wang Tingyu, and the officialdom background of Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingyu, the two Hanlin Academy, is very clear to the officials of the Beijing Division - Gao Shi, the head of the three tripods in the same year, is also pragmatic.

Xiao Liangyu and Wang Tingyu made a move, which is basically equivalent to Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingyu's shot, and the two of them are basically equivalent to Gao Shiji's shot.

Gao Pragmatic actually really shot!

In September, the prelude belongs to the third autumn, but the weather has not yet turned cool, but at this moment, Pan Sheng suddenly felt a chill behind him, as if a cold air rose from his feet and reached the top of his head through his back.

The dignified Pan Ge Lao was so shocked by the words "high pragmatism" that came out of his heart that he shivered on the spot, and his mind was blank for a while.

After a long while, Pan Sheng's back suddenly collapsed, and he sat down on the Taishi chair, closed his eyes, and sat still like a dead man.

He couldn't understand why Gao Pragmatic suddenly made a move? This shouldn't have much impact on him.

Even he still has some conspiracy theories that even if Wang Xijue is successfully recalled and really replaces his position in the cabinet, this is not necessarily a bad thing for Gao Pragmatic.

Why? Because once the situation in the cabinet becomes like that, the pressure on Xu Guo will increase.

Xu Guo's pressure in the cabinet was great, so he had to rely more on the political resources left to him by the three chief assistants that Gao Pragmatic had received.

Theoretically speaking, during the period when Gao Pragmatic himself was not qualified to join the cabinet, the higher Xu Guo's dependence on him, the more his position within the Pragmatic School would be consolidated.

Isn't this a good thing for high pragmatism?

Pan Sheng closed his eyes and pondered: What's wrong? What went wrong? Could it be that he is highly pragmatic and he has not figured out the key?

But it shouldn't be. Judging from Gao Shishi's previous performances, it is impossible for him not to see through the truth, which Pan Sheng can affirm.

So why did Gao Pragmatic want to do this?

After thinking about it for a long time, Pan Sheng suddenly opened his eyes and exclaimed in a low voice: "Oops! Gao Pragmatic, this kid didn't take Xu Guo in his eyes at all, he was afraid that he didn't even take Shen Shixing seriously! This kid has always regarded himself as the leader of the Shixue Party, and all he cares about is continuing the reforms of Gao Suqing and Guo Dongye! The old man miscalculated this chess move! ”

Pan Ge Lao's face suddenly became extremely ugly, and the so-called "face like earth" is probably a true portrayal of him at the moment.

But now, it's too late to say anything.

He knows Gao Pragmatic this person, although he is usually willing to discuss many things, but if he chooses not to discuss and act directly, then there will be no chance of bridging.

It is precisely because he is cautious that once he makes a move, it must be a decision after careful consideration, and it must be that he thinks that the contradiction is irreconcilable, and there is no chance to turn around.

Pan Ge Lao's face finally showed a lonely wry smile, and then he sighed and muttered to himself: "Thousands of calculations, but I didn't count in his eyes, I'm just a monkey...... Alas. ”

After Pan Sheng sighed this, he shook his head slightly, no longer frowning, but calming down. He didn't call anyone in, but spread out a blank book himself, put it away, and then began to study the ink.

After a while, Pan Sheng raised his head and wrote on the song, "Minister Pan Sheng was told to defend himself and asked for resignation due to illness".

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