Chapter 188: Governor Liaodong (2-in-1)
Nurhachi took the first step to rise, which should be regarded as a very noteworthy event in the original history of Gao Pragmatic's previous life, and at the time when Gao Pragmatic had just crossed over, if he faced such a situation, he must have been quite nervous.
However, the current Gao pragmatic is not nervous, and he is even a little too lazy to deal with it.
After more than ten years now, the pragmatic mentality has changed a lot, and some things that were considered very important in the past now seem to be less serious.
After all, whether it is severe or not depends on the comparison with its own strength.
When he just crossed over, although he also insisted in his heart that as long as Daming did a good job in internal problems, he didn't have to be afraid of the Jurchens, but after all, in his previous life, all kinds of film and television dramas, and even some brick families who didn't know where to sit in the ass were all blowing about the Jurchen combat power in the Nurhachi period, as if it was really "the Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible", so in the high pragmatic heart at that time, he was still a little frightened by Nurhachi.
However, with the in-depth understanding of this era, coupled with the gradual strengthening of its own strength, especially the smooth progress of the reform of the Ming Dynasty itself, the sense of oppression brought by the name "Nurhachi" to Gao Pragmatic slowly began to decline, and even basically disappeared.
He no longer felt that Nurhachi still had the same opportunity as in the original history, and could develop to the point where he had the ability to threaten the Ming Dynasty.
To put it mildly, if it weren't for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to make trouble, how could Nurhachi have any chance?
But Toyotomi Hideyoshi's problem, Gao Shishi is not very panicked now - the monkey is very powerful in Japan, and in history he was even able to maintain a Japanese invading army far more than the Ming army to aid Korea to start a war across the sea in Korea, and easily defeated North Korea and fought with the Ming army for several years.
However, that Ming army is the Ming army that does not have his high pragmatic crossing BUFF bonus, and behind it is also the Ming army without a high pragmatic bonus.
And that Ming Dynasty, it is very difficult to maintain 70,000 troops in North Korea - this can be seen from Li Rusong's choice to take the initiative to carry out a strategic retreat under the condition of dominance - Li Rusong is not a good person, if it were not for the serious problem of logistics support, with his character, he would definitely choose to fight directly.
This shows how bad the Ming financial system in the original history was, and how poor the war mobilization and support capabilities were.
But the current Ming Dynasty, but not the Ming Dynasty, the current Ming Dynasty, the annual fiscal revenue has reached twice the original history, although the expenses have also increased, and the tax exemption is not more, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.
After all, although the expenditure has increased, a lot of it has been spent on army construction and support, including ordnance redress, army salary increase, side wall construction and other aspects;
In terms of tax exemption, in fact, after Gao Gong presided over the opening of Longqing to the sea, due to the substantial increase in port taxes, Zhu Yijun has reduced the agricultural tax in some poor and disaster-stricken areas in recent years, and these agricultural taxes have been reduced in turn, which is good for the stability of the domestic political situation in the Ming Dynasty.
In other words, this tax reduction is equivalent to "maintaining stability".
In this situation, as long as you keep an eye on Nurhachi a little bit in the next few years and don't let him find an opportunity to fight this and that, basically you don't have to worry too much. If the Renchen Rebellion is still inevitably going to break out, it doesn't matter, Gao Pragmatic has more poisonous ideas.
As for whether these ideas can be implemented smoothly, Gao Pragmatic feels that it is not a big problem, because according to Zhu Yijun's plan, if nothing happens, he will definitely be able to become the governor of Liaodong in the next few years, and then there will be an opportunity to deal with the problem of Nurhachi, and he can also prepare in advance for the prevention of the Renchen rebellion.
Not long after Gao Pragmatic shifted the focus of his work back to the construction of southern Liaoning, new news suddenly came from Beijing - a series of personnel changes:
Wang Guoguang is old and wise, Zhang Xueyan, the secretary of the household department, was reappointed as the imperial history of the left capital, Wei Xuezeng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was reappointed as the secretary of the household department, and then Liang Menglong, the governor of Jiliao, was transferred to Beijing because of the merit of the battle of southern Liaoning (although it was a high-level pragmatic fight, but the governor must have the merit of leadership), transferred back to Beijing, and served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.
Since Liang Menglong Liang Zhijun is meritorious, Zhou Yong and Zhou Fujun are of course meritorious, so Zhou Yong was promoted to the governor of Jiliao.
This is all a change of a turnip and a pit, which is not uncommon, and the ministers who have been transferred are all sufficient according to their qualifications.
However, the next appointment was more terrifying: the promotion of the Shandong Provincial Inspectorate, the rectification of Jin Fuhaigai and other military preparations Tuntian and other matters, and the Liaodong Yuan Ma Siqing Gao Shishi as the right of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the governor of Liaodong local praise and military affairs.
Governor of Liaodong?
Highly pragmatic?
Wait a minute! He has only been in charge of Jin Fuhai for a few months, so he will be directly promoted to governor? Don't have to do it to participate in politics? The political envoys and everything were directly skipped?
Not to mention that the officialdom in Liaodong was stunned for a while, and even Gao Pragmatic himself was stunned: Didn't you say that you should take your time? I haven't made any achievements here in southern Liaoning, so why did I go straight to governor? How did this decree persuade the Cabinet to approve the passage through the Six Sections?
What the hell happened to Kyori?
Two hours later, the messenger sent by Zhang Siwei finally arrived late because of an accident on the road, and rushed to the military and constitutional yamen in Gaizhou, so that Gao Shishi knew the inside story.
To put it simply, the Practical School and the Heart School engaged in another round of fighting in the cabinet, and finally reached some "consensus", including:
Pan Sheng, a university scholar, resigned from the Ministry of Rites and worked part-time to concentrate on cabinet affairs; Xu Xuemo of the Heart School (originally from Suzhou, Zhili, Nan) served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites; Zhao Jin of the Xin School (originally from Yuyao, Zhejiang) served as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department (the first real power in Nanjing).
The promotions of Xu Xuemo and Zhao Jin were used in exchange for those previous transfers and promotions on the side of the Shixue School.
In addition, there are also some lower-ranking officials of the two factions who have been transferred and promoted, as well as some problems with the appointment of some older officials.
Zhang Siwei's letter was a bit long, Gao Pragmatic carefully compared it for a long time, and it seemed that the practical school was still at a loss, and he couldn't help frowning.
No, the cabinet controversy shouldn't be the loss of the real school, is there anything else going on here?
But he thought about it, but he really couldn't understand it, according to the current situation, except for Pan Sheng and Pan Ge Lao, who gave up the concurrently serving Ministry of Rites, which was the only loss of the neutral faction, the rest were all battles between the two factions of Shixue and Xinxue. However, this year's two consecutive big victories were won by themselves, and the real school should obviously have the upper hand, so why should it suffer instead?
Could it be that just because his promotion was a bit excessive, it caused a strong backlash from the Heart School, and then the uncle made concessions in order to ensure the stability of the cabinet?
But this doesn't make sense, he was a Japanese lecturer before he came to Liaodong, and his rankings in the Hanlin Academy and Zhan Shifu are also quite high, aside from age, his officialdom qualifications are actually not bad, plus the bonus of the six champions, it stands to reason that even if he stays in Beijing for a few more years, it is not uncommon to be transferred to a certain department.
And he is now the Liaodong Yuan Ma Siqing himself has already entered the third grade, and he is also at a high enough level to become a governor, how can it lead to the concessions of the real school?
A person like Gao Pragmatism who likes to calculate everything clearly and clearly, once he encounters this kind of incomprehensible problem, he is easy to tie a knot in his mind, and he can't even eat.
It wasn't until the next day that another piece of news came that he was relieved.
Wei Xue, the new secretary of the household department, once asked Yu Nanzhili to try out the commercial tax levy project, which is divided into two categories: shop business tax and business transit tax, and is divided into 15 sub-categories.
Although Gao pragmatic read the detailed rules and found that this tax is actually quite low, probably lower than the proportion he suggested to Gao Gong more than ten years ago - for example, the shop business tax is divided into three categories of luxury valuables, ordinary department stores, and people's livelihood security according to different categories, and is taxed (5%, 3%, and 1%) with "5% of 100", "3 of 100", and "1% of 100", which is obviously a very low tax rate.
In terms of business, the proportion of tax is about the same.
Theoretically speaking, this tax rate is too low in modern society, and it is not high in different "dynasties", especially compared with the commercial tax of the Song Dynasty, which is not much different from not collecting.
But at this moment, after all, it is the Ming Dynasty, and it is the Ming Dynasty that almost did not collect commercial taxes before the Gaogong reform, and this move is of great significance and even more significant.
The invisible "consortium" behind many civil officials in the Ming Dynasty is actually about to start paying taxes!
Because the Cabinet approved!
In order to resist the political advantages and public opinion trends brought to the real school by Gao Shishi after several big victories, and to ensure that their side can still compete with the real school in the court, the officials of the Xin School finally gave in a small step this time and allowed to start a trial commercial tax in Nanzhili!
After more than ten years of reform, after three first assistants of the Shixue School, the reform has finally been promoted to the "deep water area"!
Although this commercial tax is levied, it is not important how much silver is collected, what matters is whether it is levied or not, and whether it can be levied.
Don't look at the bigwigs of the heart school talking about their hearts one by one, but talking about their hearts and minds requires material conditions, and they are so poor that they have the time to give lectures and travel with people to understand life? When Hairui has spare time, he grows vegetables at home!
Therefore, almost all of the bigwigs of the southern school of heart have a large or small accumulation of wealth behind them, and even a few bigwigs who originally came from humble backgrounds have not accumulated enough, and there are also funders behind them.
Now they have to collect taxes, which is equivalent to cutting meat on themselves, can the meaning be compared to opening the sea?
At the time of opening the sea, it only affected some big families who were law-abiding on the surface, but actually smuggled in secret, which was equivalent to an "individual attack" by analogy, and now this hand of collecting business taxes is a comprehensive crackdown!
Gao Pragmatism can now understand why the Shixue School actually gave in to the Heart School in the court when it was so proud this year-you have to cut other people's meat, can't you give someone a sweet date to eat first?
The fault is not that Gao Pragmatic has made two great achievements in Annan and Dingbei, and now he has suppressed Li Chengliang, the new ally of the Xinxue School, in the battle of Southern Liaoning, and has led the Shixue School to have an all-round advantage above the court, it is difficult to say when the matter of Nanzhili's commercial taxation will be put on the agenda!
Presumably, at this moment, the life of Shen Ge Lao, Yu Ge Lao and others is not very easy, right? One can imagine how much internal pressure they are facing.
However, Gao Shishi is clear about this matter, and he doesn't plan to interfere for the time being, after all, this is the credit of his uncle Zhang Siwei, and it can even be said that Zhang Siwei is the first time he has really made a big deal in governing the country after he became the first assistant, and this credit will be good for the uncle to take it steadily.
As for his pragmatism, since the edict to serve as the governor of Liaodong has been issued, he naturally has to do what he should do...... For example, it is not enough to excuse yourself.
Well, this seems hypocritical, but it still has to be done.
Gao Pragmatic immediately wrote a note to send to Beijing, and it was still written in the name of Ma Siqing in Liaodong Yuan, as for the content, it is nothing more than a kind of humble speech that is shallow and unworthy, mainly to show that he is not a person who admires the powerful.
It's also an old routine often used by officials who ask themselves about potentially controversial appointments.
Not long after this recital, the reply of the imperial court came, divided into two parts, one part of the oracle and the other part of the letter of the cabinet.
The part of the oracle is relatively simple, that is, it began to review more than ten years ago, and said the credit of Gao Pragmatic in the past ten years, all the way to the battle of southern Liaoning, and then the emperor said in a very positive tone, "Please not allow", and asked Gao Pragmatic "Qing Yi should be more loyal and diligent, go to the post immediately, and do not lose hope." ”
By the way, "give forty taels of silver eight treasures, twenty taels of silver leaves, two sides of the imperial tribute and inkstone, and there is a difference in vegetables when Changchun Palace comes out." ”
Other rewards are also enough, this "Changchun Palace is out of the season" makes Gao Pragmatic very stunned.
The emperor rewarded the ministers, the ministry and the Japanese officials with vegetables, which is a common thing, Gao Pragmatic was often given when he was in Beijing, but that was only rewarded to the officials in Beijing, and most of these vegetables were also purchased, and the emperor gave it to express his care, nothing unusual.
But why is Changchun Palace still producing seasonal vegetables now? This is one of the six palaces in the west, I remember that when I left Beijing, it was still empty, what is the situation now, who went there to grow vegetables? Moreover, at this time, vegetables were sent from Jingshi to Liaodong...... Can you still eat it?
I really didn't understand this operation, but thinking about it, it shouldn't be a big problem, maybe Zhu Yijun said that he was slapping his mouth when he gave the celebrant an edict, and the celebrant didn't dare to change the holy will, so he made the mistake like this.
He put the matter aside and began to wonder when he was going to work...... This matter was a bit rushed, and Gao Pragmatic himself didn't expect that he would take up the post of new governor so soon, and he needed to sort out his thoughts.
However, he was not in a hurry to take office, someone was in a hurry to take office and passed by him.
Just when Gao Shishi was temporarily thinking hard about the administrative measures after he took up his new post, a family member came to report, saying that Zhou Zhijun had returned to Miyun to take up his new post, passed by Gaizhou, and came to visit.
Gao Shishi's heart moved, and he ordered: "Where is the army now?" ”
"About more than ten miles northeast of the city."
Gao pragmatic nodded and said, "Open the east gate, set up the guard of honor, and wait for Benfu to bathe and change clothes, and you will be there immediately." ”
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