Gao Pragmatic has always had some doubts about Zhu Yijun's decision to beat Li Chengliang, because in the original history, Zhu Yijun may be regarded as Li Chengliang's biggest backer, until Li Chengliang made several major mistakes in a row 20 years before Wanli, from the past consecutive battles and victories to consecutive defeats, and the General Administration Department was full of notes to impeach Li Chengliang, and Zhu Yijun asked Li Chengliang to step down from the post of Liaodong General Military Officer, but still allowed him to "return to Beijing with Ning Yuanbo".

This shows that in the original history, Zhu Yijun maintained great tolerance for Li Chengliang, so Gao Pragmatic never thought through why Zhu Yijun in this plane insisted so much on beating Li Chengliang.

The most reasonable speculation is probably because of the emergence of the biggest variable of high pragmatism.

Due to the existence of high pragmatism, Gao Gong did not step down, so not only the reforms made by Zhang Juzheng in history, but also the initiator of Gao Gong, the initiator of the Longwan reform, have also done it, and Zhang Juzheng did not insist on doing things, such as opening the sea, Gao Gong also continued to be implemented, and gradually strengthened.

This made the Ming Dynasty's finances obviously much stronger than in the original history, and it could have more spare power to strengthen the army except for Li Chengliang's troops in Liaodong.

In other words, the Li Jiajun in the original history may be the most reliable army in Zhu Yijun's mind, so Li Chengliang's position must not be easily shaken, but now this Ming Dynasty is different, although the Li Jiajun in Liaodong is still not weak, but Jizhen, Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi and other towns are not weak!

At the same time, Li Chengliang in history due to the national policy bonus of the "West Huaidong System", his record - especially the number of kills - can be said to be the best in the Ming Dynasty, and even Qi Jiguang can only bow to the advantage.

And in this plane, the high-level and pragmatic battle of Monan is clearly in front of the pearl and jade. In just one battle of the Monan War, whether it is in terms of the impact on the overall situation of the country or the number of kills, Li Chengliang's ten-year achievements in Zhenliao have been compared, so it is very likely that his status in Zhu Yijun's mind is far from the height of the original history.

Since the importance is not so prominent, then his own problems have also surfaced.

This may be the fundamental reason why Zhu Yijun not only dared to beat Li Chengliang in this position, but also insisted on beating Li Chengliang.

What Gao Pragmatic is struggling with now is that he can't be sure what Zhu Yijun wants to do about Li Chengliang's problem, whether he is simply beating and making Li Chengliang become regular and honest, or he still has to completely solve the problem of Li Jiajun's tail in Liaodong from the root.

If it's the former, it's easier to do. Gao Pragmatic, as the emperor's number one favorite minister, is also a civil servant with the two buff bonuses of "Six Champions" and "Annan Dingbei", and he has full prestige and ability to press Li Chengliang in Liaodong, and he is not afraid that Li Chengliang will be able to turn over his Five Finger Mountain.

But if it's the second type, it's more troublesome. Because it is necessary to completely solve the problem of the Li family's army, that is, it is equivalent to negating the armed family system to a certain extent, and this impact is not only in Liaodong, but also in the whole country, and it can be said that the whole country will be affected by it, and the generals in all parts of the country may be in danger because of this.

To put it mildly, how many generals don't rely on their families now? Qi Jiguang didn't have a family to say, but since the Zhejiang army under his command had long been called the Qi family army, how big was the difference between it and the family? It's nothing more than that Qi Jiguang can't come up with the money to support these Zhejiang troops, so the expenses of the Zhejiang army are basically from the accounts of the imperial court, and nominally they are still the "recruiting army" of the imperial court.

But in fact, if Qi Jiguang is suddenly replaced now, it is really hard to say whether others can command this army like an arm. Fortunately, the historical experience is there, and after Qi Jiguang himself died, the imperial court was able to command this army.

Of course, this in itself is also Qi Jiguang's wish, because one of the main purposes of his training is that no matter which commander comes over, the combat effectiveness of this army itself should not decline significantly, which is an important point that distinguishes Qi's army from other family troops at this time.

However, it doesn't make much sense for a Qi family army to do this, and it doesn't make much sense for Qi Jiguang to agree with the abolition of the armed family system alone - besides, with Qi Jiguang's sleek style of being a man and an official, he probably won't directly agree.

According to Gao Shishi's understanding of Qi Jiguang, his style of being a man and an official is very similar to his style of fighting: first make himself invincible, and then think about defeating the enemy. In terms of being a person and an official, it is not to offend too many people first, just do your own things well, so as not to die before you get out of school.

But if Qi Jiguang didn't dare to express his support, would he be very pragmatic and dare to ignore the interests of the national generals?

Of course, civil officials are very awesome, but a person who singles out the national military generals, this kind of thing is highly pragmatic or not sensitive, and he himself is not this style - this style is a bit like the high arch of the year, "only a little self-sufficient, negative and domineering".

Moreover, Gao Pragmatic is still worried about two things: First, if the armed family system is to be abolished, what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of armed family members under his command? [Note: This includes the Annam section and the Jinghua North and South Ocean Fleet.] ]

Second, if the armed family system is abolished, what will happen to a large number of generals in Xuanda Shanxi and other towns around the Shixue School? Although they are now obedient to the Shixue School, if Gao Pragmatic insists on cutting off their roots as "generals", I'm afraid that few of these people will still be able to mix with him Gao Pragmatic, right?

So now Gao Pragmatic is most worried that Zhu Yijun is young and vigorous, too bold, regardless of the entire Li Jiajun to open the knife, it will be a big trouble, and once the military generals inside and outside the court are fully unstable, Gao Pragmatic is worried that he may be involved.

Because of such a big stone hanging in his heart, on the way back to Liaoyang from Shenyang, Gao Pragmatic seemed very silent, and he looked sad all the way.

When he arrived at the confluence of the Liao River and the Taizi River, that is, Chang'an Fort, where Cao Yan had suffered a defeat three years ago, Huang Zhiting finally couldn't help but ask: "Gao Lang planned to kill the two chieftains of Ye He, and the Sacred Heart was happy, and this time he was promoted to Young Sima...... Why is it so depressed? ”

Gao Pragmatic was thinking hard about how to master the "degree" of beating Li Chengliang, but Leng Buding was stunned by Huang Zhiting's question, and then shook his head and smiled: "Why did you talk about such a crepe thing?" Besides, my so-called young Sima is not a real job, but just a name, so I can't be real. ”

Huang Zhiting said: "Whether it's a real job or a name, after all, you have been promoted again, isn't it a good thing?" ”

Gao pragmatic smiled bitterly, sighed, and said, "You don't know the meaning of the emperor adding this young Sima to me......"

"What...... Huang Zhiting paused, and added: "Well, if it doesn't involve the secrets of the imperial court, you might as well talk about it, although I can't help much, but it's better to say it than to hold it in your heart." ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "If you want to talk about confidentiality, it is indeed very confidential, but this secret has nothing to do with you, and it is not something that cannot be said." ”

Huang Zhiting didn't speak, just blinked, waiting for his next step.

Gao Pragmatic sighed again, and then said with a wry smile: "When the emperor first took power, I was worried that he was too bold, underestimated the difficulty of the matter, and threw me a matter that might cause big trouble, this matter ...... If one doesn't get it right, I might be a scapegoat. ”

Huang Zhiting's face suddenly changed, and she asked urgently, "What is so difficult to do?" Can it be pushed off? ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head: "It can't be pushed, and this matter itself is not a 'difficult' or 'easy' problem, but it is difficult to determine how far it should be done." ”

"What is it that makes things so difficult?" Huang Zhiting couldn't help but ask.

Gao pragmatically said: "The emperor feels that there are too many small movements behind the back of the Liaodong General Army, Ning Yuanbo Li Chengliang, and hopes that I will knock him." ”

Huang Zhiting was stunned when she heard this, and then said in surprise: "The general army of Liaodong is also a military general, it is not easy for you, the master of Futai, to beat him?" When you were in Guangxi, you were just a patrol, but no matter the Han generals and local generals, who would dare to disobey your orders? ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "Guangxi and Liaodong cannot be simply compared, one is that Guangxi is located in southern Xinjiang, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and my patrol represents the emperor, and the generals of Guangxi naturally dare not disobey my orders." Second, the Guangxi Han army and the wolf soldiers were mixed, and the liuguan and the Tusi were on one side, but no matter which side they were, they had to obey the representative of the imperial power.

The situation in Liaodong is different, there are no Tusi wolf soldiers here, only the Han army, and the biggest difference between the Han army in Liaodong and the Han army in Guangxi is that the real main force of the Han army in Liaodong is not the guard, but the general's family Ding...... Do you know how many soldiers and horses there are in Liaodong, and how many percent of them are accounted for? ”

Of course, Huang Zhiting didn't know, so she could only shake her head.

Gao pragmatic said: "The number of registered soldiers and horses in Liaodong is 183,427, of which 57,613 people belong to the families of generals at all levels, including the 3,263 people belonging to my Fuyuan...... In other words, even if there is no vacancy in Liaodong's soldiers and horses, more than 30% of them are generals. ”

Huang Zhiting was stunned at first, and then exclaimed: "But as far as I know, there are a large number of vacancies and fake dings in various health centers at the moment, so doesn't it mean that half of the soldiers in Liaodong may be family members?" ”

"Eight or nine is not far from ten." Gao Pragmatic sighed: "And I also want to tell you that among these family members, there are more than 37,000 people directly under Ning Yuanbo Li Chengliang, plus he has been in Liao for many years, and many foreign local generals and guerrillas have some people who are actually his 'loaned' family members, according to the verification of the Jinghua Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is roughly estimated that the actual total number of Li Chengliang's family members should be at least 42,000 or more." ”

Huang Zhiting exclaimed: "The emperor is worried that Li Chengliang has different intentions, so he asked you to get rid of this person?" That...... You can't force him back, right? ”

"That's not like — oh, I mean Li Chengliang doesn't have such a different heart." Gao pragmatic waved his hand and said: "The emperor's suspicion of Li Chengliang lies in the fact that this person is too selfish and lawless, in order to support these families, he not only exaggerates the war report, but also usually eats empty salaries, and takes advantage of the opportunity of the new Kuandian Six Forts to grasp the real power of the horse market in Kuandian, plus he was born in Tieling, so he also has a strong influence in the Kaiyuan horse market......

It can be said that in the Liaodong horse market, especially in the private market, Li Chengliang's share of profits alone is probably more than 30%, but the imperial court not only can't collect a few dollars, but also throws tens of thousands of taels of silver here every year, and it is always in a state of discount. ”

Huang Zhiting had just accompanied Gao Shishi to inspect Kaiyuan, and he also had a little understanding of Kaiyuan Horse Market, and was surprised when he heard this: "I don't understand, how did he control such a large share of the private market in Liaodong?" And why did the imperial court lose money instead? I remember you once mentioned that the imperial court is now in Xuanda and other places in the horse market, although the official capital is limited, but it can still earn more than 200,000 taels a year? ”

Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "The reason why the imperial court in Xuanda Malaysia City can earn so much is because I will not evade taxes, but take the lead in paying taxes in full - I, Jinghua, occupy more than sixty percent or nearly seventy percent of the share of Xuanda Malaysia City and private market transactions, so as long as I pay taxes in full, the imperial court will already make a steady profit." ”

Huang Zhiting was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said with some pain: "Doesn't that mean that Jinghua has to pay more than 100,000 taels of taxes every year in Xuanda and other places?" ”

Gao pragmatic but disappreciatively: "What, distressed?" Don't feel distressed, the tax rate of the imperial court is very low, the Jinghua Trading Company has more than one million taels of income in the north every year, and the tax paid by Xuanda here is less than half of the gross profit, even if it is said that the net profit is less than one percent, I don't have to pick this money like Li Chengliang and others. ”

Huang Zhiting glanced at him and said, "I don't understand your business experience, no one in other people's families thinks that they make too much, they are afraid of making less." Let's just talk about this Li Chengliang, do you think he will think like you? ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "It's far away, I can't compare with him, I have more ways to make money, can he compare with me in terms of money?" Apparently not. But there are more than 40,000 people under his command who point to him to eat, and these more than 40,000 people do not do other livelihoods, but only serve as soldiers to eat food. ”

"Then your ......" Huang Zhiting said, suddenly came to his senses, and suddenly said: "Oh, your family doesn't cost you too much money, at least there is a big man on Annan's side who helped you raise an army of 80,000, and the usual task of the Two Oceans Fleet is mainly sea trade, not only will it not lose money, but it should also have a large amount of money...... In this way, you have a lot of money to make money. ”

Gao Pragmatic knew that Huang Zhiting was actually not finished, for example, in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, Qiding was usually attached to the name of Jinghua Trading Company, not only helping Jinghua to escort the goods at home, but also doing the "dart" business of other merchants, not to mention how much money he made, at least he could generally maintain no loss;

As for Buding, in addition to the fact that the family guards were changed to Fubiao (Fubiao has been allocated by the imperial court, this money is given according to the standards of the imperial court, although it is not enough, but there are not many high-level pragmatic subsidies), the other members of the mine protection team and the factory protection team are themselves factory and mine workers, and they are not completely out of production armed families, Jinghua only needs to pay them a small amount of money similar to an allowance, and the cost is not large.

The only "loss-making" aspect is weapons and equipment, but the high pragmatism is heavier firearms, and the firearms are produced by Jinghua itself, and the cost compression space is not small.

In this way, although there are many highly pragmatic families and the treatment is good, it is much cheaper than Li Chengliang to raise soldiers.

There is only one problem, once a highly pragmatic family member loses money in a war, he will lose more money, after all, the court's standard of reward silver is much lower than Jinghua's own standard, which is also an important factor for high pragmatism to fight for stability.

Huang Zhiting also felt that he was far away at this time, so he turned the topic back and asked: "You mentioned the horse market and the private market just now, do you want to say that there is a problem with the origin of these shares occupied by Li Chengliang, and the number is very large, so it makes the emperor unhappy?" ”

Gao pragmatic said: "The emperor is not only unhappy about this aspect, of course, this must be one of the more important aspects...... Don't think that the emperor is coveting the money that Li Chengliang got, then your understanding is too superficial. In fact, what the emperor cares about is that Li Chengliang's ability to raise troops on his own is too strong, and his strength in Liaodong is too concentrated, so it will seriously affect the imperial court's control over Liaodong, which is the main reason why the emperor asked me to beat Li Chengliang. ”

Huang Zhiting suddenly realized something at this time, let out a long "oh", and asked: "In other words, the emperor not only wants to borrow Li Chengliang's military strength to defend Liaodong Anjing, but also does not want Li Chengliang and his subordinates to get out of the control of the imperial court, especially in terms of money?" ”

Gao pragmatically nodded and said, "It's about the same." ”

Huang Zhiting asked: "Then what do you mean now, presumably you want to think of ways to make Li Chengliang lose this source of wealth?" ”

Gao pragmatic laughed: "It's really three days, you should be impressed." The emperor was worried that Li Chengliang's tail would not fall, and I walked from Shenyang to Chang'an Fort before I came up with this plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, but I didn't expect it to be broken by Zhiting, amazing, amazing. ”

Huang Zhiting was overjoyed in her heart, but immediately gave him a blank look, and pouted slightly: "I know you are making me happy, if you hadn't analyzed so much for me before, where would I have thought of this?" ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "That's not what I said, after all, I just guided your train of thought, and after all, you guessed what I meant." ”

Huang Zhiting was happy in her heart, but she couldn't keep talking about this matter, so she asked rhetorically: "Then how do you plan to make him lose this source of wealth?" ”

Gao Pragmatic raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Didn't I just inspect Kaiyuan Horse Market?" The governor of the governor, after the patrol, he will naturally have to caress ...... There are some small traders in Kaiyuan Horse Market who have been oppressed by local tyrants, and the headquarters will naturally appease them; There are some unjust places in the horse market and the private market, and of course the ministry and the institute must correct them, don't you say? ”

Huang Zhiting pursed her lips and smiled: "Yes, yes, you Gao Futai said yes, who dares to say no in Liaodong!" ”

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