In the winter of the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty could no longer support the huge imperial expenses, the disaster victims were everywhere, the hundred officials there were crying, and there was a household official silently writing "Public Security Evacuation"...
As the ruling Qing faction, in the face of the jiajing emperor's accusations, it was necessary to sort out the existing financial situation, so Gao Hanwen and his wife were invited to the Yu king's palace.
It is thus doomed that Gao Hanwen is the next Shen Yishi...
One
Gao Hanwen came from a family in southern Jiangsu, with a good family, read poetry from an early age, and successfully passed the imperial examination and obtained the position of editor of the Hanlin Academy. Later, he put forward the principle of "solving the dilemma by reforming and giving relief to the government", and was sent by Yan Shifan to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, to serve as the prefect.
In fact, Hu Zongxian's later evaluation of him was completely correct:
"First, you should not come out to be an official, and your talents should only be poetic and elegant. Second, since he has won the imperial examination, he should write a book in the Hanlin Academy, and should not argue about national policy in vain! ”
At this point, Gao Hanwen's emotional intelligence is much worse than That of Hai Rui, and he is too rigid in his handling of things, and he is sold and helps others count money.
At the beginning, Zheng Bichang and He Maocai just got the information that he understood the rhythm of music, and with a little trick, they played a "fairy jump" for him. Because he was so stupid, even Yunniang couldn't look at it, and even the kind reminder could not move.
For Gao Hanwen's smooth sailing, people who come all the way often have a strong bookish anger. And he is a complete idealist, the officialdom he understands is not the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, and if he implements the plan he wants, it is not clear how he died. Just like when Yan Shifan gave him the four treasures of the study room, do you think that Yan Shifan really admired him as a person and let him write?
Of course not, Yan Shifan himself said:
"This pen is not for you to write!"
Of course, this pen is not what Yan Shifan said to let him write a good report, but used to win gao Hanwen over and make him a scapegoat, which is explained by Hu Zongxian's words:
"The books of the saints are for others to see, and it is useless to use them to do things!"
Therefore, from the moment he left the capital, Gao Hanwen was completely ignorant, until he returned to the capital, to get out of prison, and then to appear as a cotton merchant, he was always confused.
Two
Gao Hanwen is also an idealist, and it can be said that he is always concerned about the affairs of the government, and he is also looking for a solution to such a thing as the emptiness of the national treasury. As a result, he had resigned from business and was the first to propose the policy of producing Songjiang cotton cloth, and sent the plan to Zhang Juzheng.
Zhang Juzheng also mentioned when he informed Yu Wang:
"In fact, this idea was proposed by Gao Hanwen when he wrote a letter to his subjects."
Yu Wang immediately became alert that he had put forward the policy of "changing and relieving oneself with relief and solving the dilemma" in the first place, which had made Zhejiang a mess, and would he repeat the same mistakes this time?
Zhang Juzheng's answer was that at this time and another time, it was because the Yan Party controlled the government, and now there is a change, of course, it will not.
At the beginning, it was "changing rice into mulberry", and now it is "changing the planting of cotton fields"; at the beginning, it was the first assistant of Yan Song's cabinet, Yan Shifan was in charge of the Ministry of Works, Hu Zongxian was in charge of the localities, and now he is the first assistant of Xu Jie's cabinet, Xu Bian is in charge of the Ministry of Works, and Xu Jie's younger brother is in charge of the cotton fields; shen Yishi was originally in charge of the silk weaving workshop, and now it is Gao Hanwen who runs the cotton weaving workshop...
The Ming Dynasty is still the Great Ming Dynasty, and gao Hanwen's ending will inevitably repeat shen Yishi's mistakes.
In fact, not only can we analyze it, as Gao Hanwen's wife, that is, Yunniang has already seen through it, and even she wants to intercede with Princess Yu:
The woman pleaded with niangniang to make love to the prince and not to let him run the cotton industry with the government and the imperial court. The water of the imperial court and the government is deeper than the sea, and the waves are bigger than the sea, and the husband of the woman does not have this skill, he cannot drive this boat, he cannot cross this sea. ”
In the face of Princess Yu's questioning, Yunniang mentioned a person, this person is Shen Yishi:
"In terms of cunning, strategies against the imperial court and the officialdom, and means of reaching heaven, the husbands of the people's wives are less than one-tenth of Shen Yishi.""
So we have to go back to the previous plot, why is Shen Yishi destined to be a tragic character, in addition to burning himself to death, does he have a way to break the situation?
Three
The answer to this question, Yan Song can provide us with, when he first ordered the raid on Shen Yishi, he said:
"It has always been the farmers who have rebelled, and I have never heard that businessmen can make trouble."
Why is that?
In fact, it is very simple, because Shen Yishi is a businessman, fattened, raised, and cut him for a reason:
"If you profligacy from top to bottom, you will plunder the people, and when the people are about to change, you will plunder them from the merchants."
And Shen Yishi's self-immolation of the bones of the eye is just the imminent civil unrest, and he simply cannot escape the wheel of fate.
This is also why Shen Yishi, as the richest man in Zhejiang and a big silk boss, has an official uniform in mind, even if this official uniform is not granted by the government, even if this official position is virtual and is not recognized by the imperial court.
In the "Yongzheng Dynasty", before the Yongzheng Emperor took the throne, he painstakingly won Ren Bo'an's "Hundred Officials' Narrative", why didn't he keep it, but he had to burn it?
According to his attitude of jealousy and hatred, wouldn't it have been more deterrent to take out all these unscrupulous officials and kill him?
This actually contains a deep strategy, and it is also Prince Yong's move that laid the foundation for the fall of Prince Yinrong and his ascension to power.
Because this thing was of no use to him at all, power itself was a deterrent, not a book that recorded the crimes of so-and-so, and it was obvious that Prince Yinrong did not want to understand.
Also unable to understand is Shen Yishi, counting on him to record how much money various officials have taken to save their lives, that is, whimsical.
Shen Yishi is not a fool, the situation is very clear, he also understands that changing rice to mulberry landing in Zhejiang is a fight between the gods and immortals, and it is difficult for him to retreat.
He was still quite smart, and the unintelligent Ma Ningyuan, Li Xuan, Chang Boxi, and Zhang Zhiliang became the first batch of substitute ghosts.
Four
After the balance of forces between the two sides was reached, Boss Shen understood that his fate was hanging:
Therefore, when Zheng Bichang and He Maocai fooled themselves into buying grain under the brand of the manufacturing bureau and going to be a substitute ghost, he woke up and came to recruit Chen Cang.
He thought that he had drained his family property to relieve the disaster, which could move the Jiajing Emperor and save his own life.
When Lao Zhu founded the Ming Dynasty, he once dealt with Shen Wansan, the richest man in Jiangnan, on the charge of chaotic government, can you Shen Yishi run away?
Later, the conversation between Shen Yishi and Yang Jinshui did not move his heart, all of them were sincere words, and they also woke up Yang Jinshui. Although Yang Jinshui is still painting cakes for Shen Yishi, as long as we hide from this level, I will definitely help you talk to the old ancestor and get an official and a half-job. But Shen Yishi had no chance to enjoy it, and at the last moment of his life, he still handed over the account book and took his full responsibility as a chip in exchange for Yunniang's new life.
If Shen Yishi's failure is because his patron is Yang Jinshui, Yang Jinshui himself is difficult to protect, naturally he cannot protect Shen Yishi. Then the later Gao Hanwen, whose patron was already the grand Princess Yu, that is, the empress dowager during the Wanli period.
It is a pity that it was not filmed in the second "Daming Dynasty 1587", if it was filmed, the scenes of Gao Hanwen and Yunniang would certainly not be less.
However, if Princess Yu wanted to exchange the power in her hands for benefits, she must not open her mouth, and she cleverly placed her brother next to Gao Hanwen. The lip service is to let Gao Hanwen teach him to do business, but in fact, he is an undercover agent with both blood sucking and surveillance functions. Do you know that the status of merchants at that time was so low, as the younger brother of the future empress and empress dowager, and the uncle of the Ming Dynasty, he demoted himself to do business?
Do you believe?
Gao Hanwen's Songjiang cotton cloth and Shen Yishi's silk workshop are the same in essence, and they are both the products of power and money exchange. On the surface, gao Hanwen offered silver and silver, and the imperial power gave him the green light, but in fact this exchange was not equal.
When there is peace, everything is easy to say, but what if the mountain falls? What if the Ming Dynasty suddenly needed a lot of money?
Zhang Ju is in the play with Princess Yu's eyebrows, admiring each other, and later he can sit on the first assistant and can not help Princess Yu's strength. But the Wanli Emperor was not a confused emperor, he listened to Zhang Juzheng when he was a child, and when he had his own opinions, he was not still liquidated.
Zhang Juzheng has been liquidated, what power does Empress Li have to speak of, let alone Gao Hanwen?
At the beginning of the Three Great Marches of the Wanli Calendar, the first to bear the brunt was Gao Hanwen, he did not take the knife, who was stabbed?
Therefore, if Gao Hanwen wants not to become Shen Yishi, there is only one way, that is, to make full use of the moment when Princess Yu was in power, vigorously develop maritime trade, and do not go ashore, maybe he can become the second Zheng Chenggong.