The commercial war in Jiangsu and Zhejiang broke out suddenly, and the turmoil in Beijing has roughly passed, at least the apparent harmony has been restored.

Wang Jiaping was relatively calm about his unexpected entry into the cabinet, and still adhered to the principle of being a man and an official. Even though he had learned from his own channels that Gao Pragmatic was promoting his entry into the cabinet this time, he did not run over to thank Gao Pragmatic.

Gao Pragmatic didn't bother to care, anyway, he had long known that Wang Jiaping was a screwed person, and being able to take Pan Sheng's position and enter the cabinet was a compromise in itself.

Besides, Gao Pragmatic is not in a hurry, Wang Jiaping is a Shanxi person, even if he behaves impartially in the cabinet, he will not be truly recognized by the Heart School. Besides, except for a few people at the top, the officials of the Heart School can't talk about how much overall strategic thinking there is, and they will inexplicably target Wang Jiaping, and Wang Jiaping will know who can be relied on at that time.

Of course, Wang Jiaping himself also knows that the current court is a dispute between the two factions of practical learning and mental learning, and he is afraid that a helpless empty cabinet will not play a big role, plus he has just entered the cabinet, and many "businesses" still need a familiar process, so he has not taken the lead much, and can only be regarded as a tool for raising his hand for the time being.

As for Shen Shixing's side, perhaps this incident gave him some shocks, and Yuanfu, who had not been in power for a long time, also put away the mentality of fishing in troubled waters some time ago, and began to become cautious, and would symbolically ask Zhang Xueyan and Wu Dui for their opinions when dealing with things in the cabinet.

On the whole, the imperial court has passed the chaotic period brought about by Zhang Siwei's sudden worries and is back on track.

For a while, everyone calmed down, but Gao Pragmatic was no different from the past - he neither suddenly disappeared, nor did he deliberately show his face in a high-profile manner, but adhered to his usual style: low-key and high-profile work.

As the assistant director of the military department of the Beijing camp, of course, high-profile things can only be related to the Beijing camp.

In the next two or three months, Gao pragmatic mainly did two major things. First, a very new organization has been established in Beijing: "Jingying Production and Construction Corps"; Second, the Janissaries have preliminarily completed the scheduled establishment.

It is ashamed to say that Gao Shishi, the "founder of the Praetorian Guard", actually started to be the shopkeeper again, from recruitment to settlement, from settlement to training, he lost everything to Qi Jiguang, the first commander of the Praetorian Guard. As for himself, he is just "playing the ground" - well, simply put, responsible for providing money.

Of course, this money is definitely not Gao Pragmatic himself, he is responsible for helping the Praetorian Guard get money.

There are two ways to make money, one is to find a "boss" to ask for it, and the other is to earn it yourself.

But Gao pragmatic decided to take a two-pronged approach.

In fact, the military department itself is the "top" of the Praetorian Guard and even the Beijing camp, but the money of the military department is allocated from the household department, because in the final analysis, this money mainly has to be negotiated with the household department.

According to the general understanding, the household department is one of the base camps of the real school, and Shen Li, the secretary of the household department, is a highly pragmatic senior brother, and it should be easier to do this kind of thing if you ask for money.

But in fact, this money is not easy to ask.

The truth that the butt decides the head makes sense everywhere, although Shen Li is one of the important ministers from the Shixue School, but since he has become the head of the household, it is impossible not to consider the yamen he masters. Although the economic pressure brought about by the battle of Yunnan and Burma this year has been eliminated by Gao Shishi with the treasure money of the Yunnan War and other means, the current income and expenditure situation of the imperial court is still very tight.

At this time, the military department suddenly asked for money, and of course he had to be cautious as the head of the household department, and I couldn't listen to your arrangement unconditionally just because you were the recognized "future leader" within my school-if I made a big mistake here, the responsibility would still be borne by me Shen, and I couldn't fall at the last hurdle before entering the cabinet.

Even if I gave Gao Pragmatic enough face, and got Gao Pragmatic's assurance that if the household department was really in trouble, I would never stand idly by, but Shen Li only took out 120,000 taels of silver in the end, and the first batch of only 80,000 taels was in place - this money was used to replace weapons and equipment for the Praetorian Guard.

Jingying's arsenal actually sounds pretty good, after all, all kinds of outfits have lined up Jingying very high before, but it sounds like one thing, and the real situation is another.

After personally inspecting the arsenal of the Beijing camp, Gao Shishi learned that in addition to the weapons and equipment that had been directly purchased from Jinghua and transferred to the Beijing camp in recent years, they were still "still usable," and the previous armaments were simply laughable.

There wasn't much wrong with the numbers, at least barely enough to settle the score, but the level of maintenance was jaw-dropping—some of the armor was so rotten that it fell to the ground with a piece of armor in hand.

As for the maintenance level of weapons, it is about the same, for example, at least 40,000 Yanling waist knives personally inspected by Gao Pragmatic are so rusted that there is a huge question mark over whether they can chop wood.

How can this kind of thing be used by the Praetorian Guard? Therefore, almost all of this basic equipment has to be repurchased. As a result, even if the Praetorian Guard was not given many spare weapons and equipment for the time being, the replacement of only 60,000 people would cost almost 300,000 taels.

300,000 taels will definitely not be available now, so Gao Pragmatic had no choice but to spend a little money on his own, and Shangshu told Zhu Yijun that the Ministry of War planned to take a batch of arms from the Jinghua Musket Factory and the Jinghua Artillery Factory on credit first, and pay it off in two or three years, and Jinghua would not charge interest this time.

Zhu Yijun was quite moved, and approved it on the same day, who expected that the Ming Dynasty's officials were afraid that they would be ignored, so they actually jumped out at once four or five science and Taoist officials to impeach Gao Shipra, saying that he was doing this for personal gain.

According to them, the armament of the Beijing camp is the best in the world, and even if the newly trained Praetorian Guard is sufficient, after all, the Praetorian Guard is only 60,000 people, and with the armament of more than 400,000 people in the past, how can it not be enough? Why do I need to buy again? Therefore, Gao Shi must have done something to attract business for Jinghua's military industry.

To accuse a civil official and important minister who has made major military achievements, it stands to reason that conclusive evidence is needed, but the officials of the Ming Dynasty do not need it, because they "hear about it", and they only need to say that they have "heard" that the Beijing camp is fully armed, and the actual situation or something...... That's not their business.

Gao pragmatic had no choice but to resign, and at the same time asked the emperor to send someone to investigate thoroughly, and by the way, he locked himself in Jianxinzhai and "ignored things".

Zhu Yijun's attitude towards Gao Pragmatic is much better than that of Pan Sheng, and he became angry on the spot after receiving Gao Pragmatic's resignation - "Shang Zhen is angry, Yu Wenhua Palace, summon all the scholars to come, reprimand the road to indulge, slander the important ministers, and deserve punishment." Gu Nian ancestors have a system, and now the right to send them and others to the neck, all of them are demoted to three levels of foreign appointment. If there are any more people who don't know how to converge, no matter what position they live in, they will all flow three thousand miles. ”

Zhu Yijun's anger was a bit big, especially a few words that seemed murderous, "the crime should be punished", "the right to send his head and others to the neck", "no matter what position he lives in, they all flow 3,000 miles".

Recall that this seems to be the harshest warning to the way of speech since the current succession to the throne.

At the same time, Zhu Yijun also ordered Wen Yan to comfort Gao Pragmatic, and after first praising Gao Pragmatic's chase, he asked him to "look at things immediately".

But Gao Pragmatic still had to act according to the usual script of the Ming Dynasty, so he continued to go up to the emperor to investigate thoroughly, and at the same time continued to stay at home to "study and introspect".

Zhu Yijun had no choice, so he had to continue to cooperate with the performance, and once again issued an order to warm his words of encouragement, and once again asked him to "look at things immediately, and don't live up to my heartfelt hopes." ”

At the same time, Liang Menglong was asked to write in the name of the Ministry of War, "playing white slips" to allocate guns and artillery to the two major military factories in Beijing and China to supplement the needs of the Praetorian Guards (under the requirements of Gao Pragmatism, the degree of firearms of the Praetorian Guards was quite high). At the same time, he used real money to buy a batch of new armor, cotton armor and other items from the Wang family's arsenal, which was barely enough for the current needs of the Praetorian Guard.

In this way, the problem of the armament of the Praetorian Guard was initially solved, but the money for raising troops was gone, so Gao Shishi started the idea of the Beijing camp again.

For these nobles who have managed the Beijing camp for generations, Gao Pragmatic now has a deep understanding. These people basically have no intention of making meritorious deeds - because their achievements are useless, and the achievements of their ancestors have already determined their current status, and they should surpass the achievements of their ancestors, so ...... It's too embarrassing.

Because they do not have the heart to make meritorious contributions, and at the same time do not dare to really seize power so as not to be besieged by civil officials, their habits are actually very easy to understand: to ensure that their status is noble and at the same time to be able to get financial benefits, that is their greatest expectation.

Gao pragmatic has the ability to help them with this, and at the same time solve the trouble of insufficient salaries for the Praetorian Guard.

The "Jingying Production and Construction Corps" is one such product.

Of course, this name is Gao Pragmatic and directly copied the establishment of a certain region of the Red Dynasty, and the nature of its work is similar to that of the Red Dynasty and slightly simpler. The main task of this "Jingying Production and Construction Corps" is, of course, production and construction, but more commonly speaking, it is to make money.

Gao pragmatic and Zhu Yingzhen discussed many times, and finally decided to give full play to the existing advantages and use the advantages of "people and land" in Beijing to make money. Specific to the short-term approach, it is inevitable to cooperate with Jinghua.

Because the Beijing camp itself belongs to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Yanjing manages many military camps around the Jingshi and all kinds of land allocated to the military at the beginning of the country, it has capital in its hands.

It's just that because this group of nobles also knew a few acres of land, the Beijing camp also guarded the gold mountain to beg for food. In fact, there is a lot of land belonging to the Gyeonggi District Health Centers, and according to Gao Shishi's vague memory, many of them are also very useful.

However, it is useful to be useful, and it is impossible for Gao Pragmatism to buy all the land and dig it himself, and there is a cost problem in this. For example, in all kinds of limestone, marble, white marble and other production areas, Gao Pragmatic is not very interested in buying land directly.

But for Jinghua infrastructure, the importance of these origins is very prominent, and now the task at hand of Jinghua infrastructure is also very heavy, especially in Siam is vigorously building Dingnan City, for the infrastructure of raw materials is very large, Jinghua infrastructure has several times suggested that Gao pragmatic expansion of the system in the Jinghua system of the establishment of the scale, intends to personally organize the output of raw materials.

However, after thinking about it pragmatically, he felt that the business scope of Jinghua was now too wide, and if he even had to do these materials by himself, I am afraid that it would not be many years before Jinghua's various employees added up to more than one million, which was too terrifying, and it was easy to arouse the vigilance of the imperial court - especially the officials who had nothing to do.

Therefore, when it is time to let go, we must know how to let go, and the output of these basic materials can be handed over to a more reliable partner to do, just like he asked the toasts in Guangxi and Annam to provide wood.

Jinghua does not need to be completely controlled, only needs to control its logistics links, so the upstream suppliers have to pay attention to Jinghua's attitude in order not to overstock the goods, and the downstream sellers in order not to be cut off from the source of goods.

That's it.

What's more, when it comes to infrastructure, in addition to logistics, Jinghua is more important to master the processing business - for example, all kinds of limestone, except for Jinghua to be useful in the past, other people buy this thing purely because there is more silver and no place to spend, and they can't produce all kinds of cement, fluxes, refractories and the like.

Therefore, there are very broad prospects for cooperation between Jinghua and Jingying, which has mastered the land and people.

Therefore, the Jingying Production and Construction Corps first set up a mining department, and most of the military households who had nothing to do in the past got "employment opportunities" and began to enter the mining industry after simple training in Jinghua Mining.

However, Gao Pragmatic was frightened by the blood-sucking characteristics of this group of nobles, and specially negotiated a basic salary standard with them to ensure that they would not treat military households as slaves.

Gao pragmatic even gave them a collective "lesson", specially explained to them the problem of "production enthusiasm", and used Jinghua itself as an example to illustrate the benefits of "more work and more rewards", rather than engaging in slave relations - that thing will only restrict the liberation of productive forces.

Perhaps it was Gao Pragmatic's eloquence, or perhaps Gao Pragmatic's example convinced them, his lesson really convinced the nobles to set a very benevolent principle of "more work and more reward" in their opinion: seventy percent of the production income of all military households will go to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and their subordinate guards, and thirty percent will belong to themselves.

However, it was obvious that these vampires still had to play some tricks, so it was stipulated that the thirty percent of the income they received could not be sold by themselves, but had to be calculated by the Wei and then discounted to silver.

Of course, Gao Pragmatic knows that there are ghosts here, for example, if the guard deliberately suppresses the price, the military households will be exploited, but he really can't control it so widely, so he can only comfort himself: at least in this way, they can still get more paid for their efforts, which is much better than helping these nobles in vain.

Since these practices of Gao Pragmatic had little to do with the imperial court itself, and the management of military households was under the responsibility of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies at the beginning of the country, they did not cause much repercussions in the court.

However, Gao Shishi himself knows that the impact of this incident is far greater than it seems.

In fact, he could even say that his actions had fundamentally changed the nature of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, which meant that the reform of the Classics and Scholars had entered a new stage.

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