Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 355: Enemy or Friend
Gao Cai's judgment on the Fan family was very accurate. After receiving the news that the Xinzheng Gao family intended to acquire the Fan family's iron mines, the Fan family did not hesitate to send the most promising son of the family, Fan Shouji, to set off the next day after hearing the news. Go straight to Xinzheng for a detailed discussion.

Fan Shouji, courtesy name Jieru, a native of Weichuan Guxian, was born in the 23rd year of Jiajing and was promoted in the fourth year of Longqing. He was 26 years old at the time, not too early, but not too late, but before that, he had already failed three times in the provincial examination.

Of course, Fan Shouji came here not just because he wanted to discuss business - the current head of the Fan family is Fan Shouji's eldest brother, Fan Shoujie, and Fan Shoujie is in charge of all business matters.But Fan Shouji is usually only responsible for studying and taking exams, and strives to become an official.

These were all told by Gao Cai to Gao Pragmatic, and it can be seen from this that Fan Shouji came to Xinzheng to discuss business is definitely not the main reason.

What else could be the reason?Naturally, he made friends with the Gao family.Gao Yushi's nickname of "Xiaoge Lao" may not have spread to Henan, but he was taken to the capital by Gao Gong last year, and he was carefully trained by his side, and now he is the prince's companion who is less than ten years old. , is enough to make someone feel Gao Gong's intention.

The eunuchs in power are all because of their close relationship with the emperor, while the civil servants in power are a little more complicated, but the emperor's support is indispensable.The prince, the crown prince of the country, Gao Yushi has been with the prince for a long time since he was less than ten years old. Once he is named on the gold list in the future, there is no need to doubt his future when the prince succeeds to the throne.

After all, the Fan family is also powerful, so how could they not have such vision?The key for Haoqiang to be promoted to an aristocratic family is whether there are any children from the clan who can become officials. Therefore, Fan Shouji came here to discuss the ownership of the iron mines, but in fact he came here in the name of the township party to see if there is any chance to attach himself to Gao Qiang. Family.

However, whether to accept the attachment of the Fan family, Gao Yushi feels that it remains to be seen.

In fact, when Gao Yushi returned to Gaolaozhuang from Gaocai, he carefully recalled the information related to Fan Shouji, but after thinking about it, he only remembered a little bit: this person had presided over more than one event in the original history. In the first Jiangnan Township Examination, he also served as the Minister of the Ministry of War, and finally the Prime Minister Qin Tianjian.In addition, he seems to have improved the calendar during his tenure as Qintian Supervisor.It should be said that this person should be a capable official.

But Gao Yushi's deepest impression on Fan Shouji is that he seemed to be a staunch opponent of Zhang Juzheng in history, especially Fan Shouji strongly opposed Zhang Juzheng's land policy.

Gao Yushi still doesn't know the reason for Fan Shouji's objection. In other words, he doesn't know whether Fan Shouji is against Zhang Juzheng's Qing Zhang Tianmu, or against Zhang Juzheng's indiscriminate and indiscriminate promotion of a whip across the country.

If he is against Qingzhang Tianmu, then Gao Wushi thinks that he will definitely disagree with Fan Shouji in the future, because Gao Wushi is well aware of the dangers of Yintian; but if he just opposes the indiscriminate promotion of a whip method, then he is somewhat like-minded with himself mean.

According to Gao Yushi's past life experience, the policy of "one size fits all across the country" is not necessarily a bad policy, but it is definitely not the best policy, because the country is so big and the actual situation in each region is different. How can there be so many "one size fits all" policies?

Among other things, at least history has proved that a whipping method is effective in Jiangnan, but it was forcibly promoted in Shaanxi, and finally came up with King Chuang.

The prosperity of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty was only a short step away from entering a capitalist society. One whip law completely abolished the tax in kind and only collected silver. For the Jiangnan area, it is a system that is extremely suitable for its social productivity, and of course it is a good policy.

However, Shaanxi was barren, and when the natural disasters were not particularly serious in the early Wanli period, they could barely hold on. By the end of Wanli period or even in the next few decades, natural disasters became more and more year after year, and the common people could not even pay their taxes in kind. , The imperial court also asked them to hand over silver, so that these ordinary people would have to be exploited by the government and local tyrants in the process of exchanging silver for silver.

Therefore, Gao Yushi has always believed that Zhang Juzheng's reform should be viewed separately, and some parts are feasible, especially the part of the policy inherited from Gao Gong.Most of those policies are mild reforms. Although the effect is not strong at first glance, as long as they are implemented persistently, it is like giving a weak person who has been ill for a long time a medicine that strengthens the foundation and nourishes the yuan. With the passage of time, the spirit of this frail patient can slowly recover.

But Zhang Juzheng didn't know why, if he took a few doses of strong medicine for a disease that obviously needed slow medicine, the result would definitely be nothing but deficiency.

In a year of good weather and good weather, Daming can still resist with the remaining prestige of 200 years of orthodoxy, and even has a flashback performance. However, once the situation changes suddenly and natural disasters occur everywhere, this seemingly strong body collapses all at once.

The reason is that Gao Yushi always feels that Zhang Juzheng may be unwilling to let Gao Gong focus on the front, and he wholeheartedly wants to surpass Gao Gong's reforms and Gao Gong's political achievements.

After all, according to a large number of records of this era, people at that time especially liked to compare Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible for Zhang Juzheng to say that he has no desire to win.But Gao Gong was defeated by his conspiracy. As the winner of the political struggle, how could he be willing to lose to Gao Gong in terms of political achievements?

This is urgent!
But Zhang Juzheng may have forgotten that governing a big country is like cooking a small fish.

For things like cooking fresh food, if you use too much force, it will rot, and if you fire too hard, it will become mushy!
Therefore, Gao Yushi has never advocated the use of strong medicine in a period like Long Wan. He believes that reforms at this time can only be moderate and tonic, and strive to spend three to fifty years to gradually improve Daming's "physique" and bring it back to life.This idea is similar to the reason why Taizong of the Red Dynasty asked to put aside arguments and focus on the economy.

The economy is like a person's physical foundation. In the face of sudden weather changes, a person with a good physical foundation can ignore it because he has a strong immune system and will not get sick at all.But another person with a weak body may catch a cold because of it, and the cold may cause a fever, and the fever may cause complications, and if there are too many complications, he may die directly.

The difference is that huge.

In the history of Daming, the natural disasters during the Little Ice Age were similar to changing weather and cooling. If Daming’s health was good, there were actually many solutions. However, Daming’s health was already very poor at this time, and after Zhang Juzheng’s untimely doses Not only did the essence of physical weakness fail to be strengthened much, but it also overdrawn a lot of vitality, so the result was doomed: a chain of complications occurred one after another, and in the end he could only become terminally ill without medicine.

Unless it is now the reign of Chongzhen, and the situation is that Liaodong is completely lost, and even the city of Beijing is attacked by soldiers from time to time, or even the situation in Nanming, where only half of the country is left, and the rule is in jeopardy, then we can consider a dose of strong medicine. Simply fight poison with poison and fight with the back, maybe you will succeed in extreme prosperity and rebirth.

So in the final analysis, whether Fan Shouji will be an enemy or a friend in the future, high pragmatism needs to be observed.

(End of this chapter)