Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 385
In the fifth year of Longqing, on May 22, the tribute of I Da was a complete success.The border officials reported back to the imperial court, saying that I had made an oath of alliance on April [-]th in front of the leaders of the right-wing Mongolian tribes and hundreds of thousands of tribesmen.

So the Great Heavenly Envoy took the emperor's imperial edict, granted Ida the title of King of Shunyi, and changed the name of the city where he lived to Guihua;

I replied that all the ministries received the edict very respectfully, and sent envoys to pay tribute to the horses, and took over the rest of Zhao's party to offer the Ming Dynasty.Emperor Jia Qicheng, bestow gold coins.He also collected admiration for the ancients and the courtiers' proposals, gave the king's seal, gave food, and added rewards, but the tribute envoys did not listen to entering Beijing.

Hetao Jineng also asked for his order as promised.Because the matter is in Shaanxi, the cabinet ordered Governor Wang Zhigao to discuss the Shangshu.Wang Zhigao hoped to issue an imperial edict to Ji Neng, asking him not to offend the frontier for a year or two before granting tribute.

Chonggu Fu Shangshu said: "I answer, Ji Neng is uncle and nephew, and the head and the tail correspond. Now accept his uncle and let his nephew, imprison his head and stretch his arms. I answer, I will call Jineng's people to go to the east of the city to announce , big; traders can’t give it, but Ji Neng corrects me and disturbs Shaanxi, and the worries of the four towns are great.”

Long Qing thinks it is reasonable, if you can seal I Da, you can seal Ji Neng, anyway, a sheep is driven, and a group of sheep is also driven.So he was also given the same knowledge as the governor of Ji Neng.

At the end of the matter, Wang Chonggu summoned traders and listened to orders to trade.Cloth, silk, millet, and leather came from Jianghuai and Huguang Fufu, and they were taxed as rewards.The ministers, big and small, are given gold silk by the officials, and there are several horses at the age of each year.Chonggu is still old, and he is still in Hongcibao, proclaiming the mighty virtue.No one dares to make a fuss when all the tribes worship.

Since then, the border has been peaceful, starting from Yan and Yong in the east, and reaching the seven towns of Jiayu in the west. The army and the people enjoy their work in thousands of miles, and there is no need for soldiers and leather, and seven out of ten annual expenses are saved.The emperor issued an edict, and Wang Chonggu entered the crown prince Taibao.

Now that the matter of paying tribute has been fully decided, the emperor is ready to reward all the officials, from the central hub to the three towns of Xuanda, almost everyone who has previously agreed to pay tribute will have a share.

But at this time, Li Chunfang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, went to the hospital again, begging for rest due to illness.Longqing immediately sent an imperial physician to visit him. After the diagnosis and treatment, the imperial physician reported back to the emperor, saying: "Yuanfu's qi is stagnant, his cough and shortness of breath are uncertain, and he really needs to be taken care of."

In fact, as early as February this year, Li Chunfang went to the hospital to "beg for rest with illness", but the emperor refused and sent an imperial physician to see her.

In April, Wang Zhen and others commented that Li Chunfang "asked for relatives and elders to go away, and if he was neglected, he would end it. Because of fate, he was changed to an official for his younger brother, and he was unreasonable. He also said that his father was disorderly at home, and Chunfang could not resign. "

The emperor was "furious" after seeing it, and said sharply: "Zhen and others spoke recklessly and slandered his ministers, which is a crime of losing the country's dignity."

Judging from what Wang Zhen said, "ask for relatives and elders, and stop if you are estranged", it means that in March of the third year, Chunfang begged to leave with Ershu. At this time, Gao Gong had not yet returned the cabinet. Yes, it was only later that Li Chunfang made a secret effort to let Zhao Zhenji enter the cabinet to fight Zhang Juzheng, but Zhang Juzheng was not a good opponent, and he quickly restored Gao Gong, which made Li Chunfang and Zhao Zhenji lose in the end.

In fact, the reason why Li Chunfang asked to leave was indeed forced by the situation. One was because Zhao Zhenji killed himself, and Li Chunfang lost his allies; A major achievement that is simply unmatched in a few years.

According to the records in the history books: "The high-level decision made the decision to Dinggong City, and merged the seven towns into one, and the annual provincial side fee is more than one million yuan. Recruiting An Guoheng to come out and make it right, to level the barbarians in Guangdong and Guangxi. For a while, he was generous and direct, and he was successful. However, Xinghua was overwhelmed, so he resigned, and took the top spot."

In other words, Li Chunfang, who had lost all her allies, compared his achievements with Gao Gong's political achievements. She couldn't continue to be the chief assistant with the cheek, so she had to resign. Depressed sick.

In this way, it would be easy for Long Qing.Of course, on the face of it, Emperor Longqing still acted as if he had no choice but to issue an imperial edict on May 24 to agree to Li Chunfang's resignation, and temporarily added a pillar country to Li Chunfang-this is a historical fact. No.

On May 25, Li Chunfang left Beijing to return to Xinghua. Gao Gong led a large number of officials from the cabinet and various ministries to send Li Chunfang back to his hometown.

On May 26, Emperor Longqing officially issued an imperial edict to reward the officials:

Gaogong Jiazhu Kingdom, Jin Shaoshi, Zhongjidian University Bachelor;
Zhang Juzheng is still a young Fu, concurrently the Grand Master of the Prince of Jin Dynasty, and the Grand Master of Jianji Hall;
Yin Shidan, Jin Shaobao, Bachelor of Wuyingdian University;
……

As for Gao Yushi, he was an exception. He had already received the reward several days in advance, and this time there was nothing wrong with him.

Therefore, he is taking advantage of his spare time when everyone in the court is busy receiving rewards to deal with his own affairs.

For example, meeting Gao Guoyan, Gao Xiaozhuang, Gao Mo, Cao Gan, Wei Ximin and others who came to the capital ahead of time and have been waiting to report to him on the progress of their work in the past six months.

However, these business matters are very complicated, so there is no need to detail them one by one. In short, Gao Wushi first understood the situation in the past six months, and based on these situations, combined with the plans that had been set before, he re-determined a new plan for them. Task.

There is no need for Gao Guoyan to say anything, he still continues to do a good job in financial supervision, and by the way, he began to experiment with the "financial budget" approach that Gao Yushi once mentioned to him.

After Gao Xiaozhuang was transferred to Kaiping, in the past six months, he has basically laid the groundwork and started small-scale steelmaking and iron making. However, due to the fact that the ordnance private business has not been done properly, even if the refined steel products are manufactured, there is nowhere to sell them, so for the time being Mainly iron smelting.

The task Gao Yushi gave him was to prefabricate the gun barrel in advance. As for the products of iron smelting, they can be mainly used as agricultural tools first, and the problem of sales is easy to deal with-the agricultural tools that the soldiers in the Guangwei Station need to change every year are astronomical, not to mention there are folk?Gao Yushi asked Gao Xiaozhuang to be responsible for the expansion of private business. As for the guard, we will talk about it after he communicates with the group of nobles.

Gao Mo's side is mainly in charge of the armed servants. According to Gao's pragmatic plan, the cavalry and Buding are now divided into several parts, so as not to gather too many people together.At present, all the high-level and pragmatic cavalry members add up to more than [-]. It is reasonable to say that it is a big burden. Fortunately, these cavalry themselves are also generating profits——Cao Gan’s Jinghua caravan travels mainly rely on cavalry guards .

That's not to mention, Gao Mo has even reached an agreement with some big merchants in the north according to Gao Wushi's confession before leaving Beijing. When they need to transfer a large amount of materials, especially valuable materials, they can invite the riders of the Jinghua Caravan guard.As for the price...it's not cheap, but fortunately, Gao's cavalry is well-known and rampant on the grassland, so these big businessmen are willing to spend this money.In this way, not only did the rider not become a burden, but he still had a surplus.

But Buding is different. Gao Mo told Gao Yushi with some concern that at present, the Buding under Gao Yude, except for the most elite about 2000 people, are sometimes hired by those big businessmen as guards to travel with the caravan. The remaining 6000 people are in the state of "only losing money and not making money". At present, these people may spend 21 taels of silver a year!

Gao Wushi was also stunned, and asked, "Why are there so many people?"

(End of this chapter)