Chapter 401 Yu Second Young Master’s Angel Investment (1) (5k5, please vote for me)
Ming Ting’s situation in Shandong is also “a little bit” complicated.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has a governor to control all the troops in Shandong. This governor of Shandong is also an old friend of Emperor Longqing.
Chen Yiqin, he is the 21st Jinshi of Jiajing. He was selected as a good scholar and later served as an official in Prince Yu's Mansion.
A lecturer is different from an attendant bachelor like Gao Gong. Gao Gong is equivalent to Emperor Longqing's class teacher, while a lecturer is a teacher of a certain subject. Although he can also be regarded as the emperor's teacher, he is not as close as Gao Gong.
However, Longqing had no foundation and not many of its own people could be used. Therefore, Chen Yiqin, an old man from Qiandi, quickly rose to prominence in the new dynasty and was appointed to the Shandong front line as the governor of Shandong.
But although they were governors, the governors of the Ming Dynasty sounded very powerful. In fact, the governors of the Ming Dynasty were "the general can oversee, but the general cannot oversee."
The most important reason is that the governor of the Ming Dynasty only had military power and no civil power or personnel power.
Governor, this is an invention of Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, and originated from the military governor-general.
For example, Huan Wen, a powerful minister in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, had the highest official position of "Commander of the Military Affairs of the Four Prefectures in Jingliang". This was equivalent to being the military envoy of the four prefectures in the Tang Dynasty. He not only controlled the military and civil affairs of the four prefectures, but also appointed and dismissed officials in the four prefectures. Depends on words.
Of course, the Ming court at least absorbed the previous lessons, so the governor only had military power and no civilian power.
This is why Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang Province, seemed to have a very high official position, but the Japanese pirate leader Wang Zhi who he ordered to Zhao'an was killed by Zhejiang patrol officer Wang Bengu, but Hu Zongxian had nothing to do with Wang Bengu.
As soon as Yan Song fell, Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang Province who held the military power of the two provinces, only needed a few royal guards to capture the capital.
Soldiers alone do not have the power of civilian government and personnel. How much role the governor can play depends most on his personal ability and the strength of his backing.
Chen Yiqin has always been a Qingliu. Even though his backstage is the emperor, his own abilities are only the same. He, the governor of Shandong, has become the "general governor".
The "rebels" in Shandong were in chaos, and the military guards obeyed Chen Yiqin's orders.
The biggest thorn in the side is the three-town new army in Jeju City.
After Li Chengliang served as the mountain commander of the Capital Military Academy, he proposed the idea of "training new military personnel."
Li Chengliang wrote to the court, believing that the reason why the Ming army had suffered repeated defeats was because of the rigid military system of the old guard. Military generals were hereditary. Many generals were old and incompetent, but they held high positions because of the legacy of their ancestors.
Among the Ming army, there are many older soldiers who are still serving. These soldiers cannot even hold weapons when going into battle, let alone fight.
Li Chengliang believed that all officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's new army should be young people under the age of thirty. He formally proposed to the court the idea of "rejuvenating officers."
Regarding this point, Gao Gong, the assistant cabinet minister, also expressed support for Li Chengliang.
As a result, young officers have become more supportive of Li Chengliang. It is obvious that these young officers are the biggest beneficiaries of the "rejuvenation of officers".
Li Chengliang was the largest military leader in the Ming court, while Yang Bo, the chief minister of the cabinet, was in charge, and Gao Gong was the head of the civil servants.
In these days, Li Chengliang also quickly gained the favor of Emperor Longqing through constant visits to the palace to meet the saints.
Something both men supported, the resolution was quickly passed.
But what happened next caused Gao Gong and Li Chengliang to have another dispute.
Li Chengliang's name suddenly appeared on the recommendation list of the commanders of the three towns of the new army of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Chengliang naturally pretended not to know, saying that he did not want to be the commander of the three towns at all.
But anyone with a discerning eye knows that a group of border town military generals has emerged in the Ming court, and the military generals are pushing Li Chengliang to a higher position.
Naturally, Gao Gong was not used to the general's attacks. He immediately organized the Yanguan under his control to start a counterattack, and entered the palace many times to confront Emperor Longqing about the harm of the military general's dictatorship.
Emperor Longqing was also a little hesitant.
On the one hand, the offensive in the southeast is fierce, and it is really not possible for civilians to lead the troops.
On the other hand, the exclusive power of military generals is much more terrifying than that of powerful ministers. Suppressing noble generals is also the ancestral method of the Ming Dynasty.
Just when Emperor Longqing was hesitant, Li Chengliang chose to give in.
The reason is also very simple. The new army of the Ming Dynasty requires a lot of money for training and combat, and now the Ming Dynasty's money bag is in the hands of the Ministry of Revenue controlled by Gao Gong.
The last three towns were controlled by Wang Bengu, who had previously served as a patrol officer in Zhejiang.
Wang Bengu was transferred back to the capital for his meritorious service before Su Ze entered Zhejiang.
Wang Bengu was a member of the Qingliu Party and was an upright man. He killed Wang Zhi regardless of Hu Zongxian's objections. This was also due to the struggle between the Yan Party and the Qingliu Party.
Later, the new southeastern army captured the capital. Wang Bengu did not follow the emperor to hunt west, but hid in the capital.
After Longqing returned to the capital, Wang Bengu's resume was rich enough and he had participated in the military in Zhejiang. Coupled with his Qingliu status, he was quickly reused.
Wang Bengu is one of the few talents in the Qingliu who understands military affairs, and he has a character that hates evil. He was a Jinshi in the 23rd year of Jiajing, and his qualifications are definitely sufficient. He also served as a pioneer of the Qingliu and dealt with Hu Zongxian in Zhejiang for many years. He was considered a member of the Ming court. He is the official who best understands the "travesty in the southeast".
Wang Bengu was recommended by Gao Gong and appointed as the commander of the three towns, taking charge of the new army of the three towns of the Ming Dynasty.
However, Li Chengliang was not without benefits. He successfully recruited his son Li Rusong into the new army and became the co-chairman of the Second Association of the First Town.
Even his godson Li Ruzhen became the standard battalion commander of the First Town and the Second Association, and he was a genuine member of the Ming Dynasty Hundreds!
Wang Bengu's personality was stubborn and impulsive. His experience in local work meant that he could not deal with Chen Yiqin, the governor who had been serving as a Qingliu official in the capital.
The highest civil affairs official in Shandong was Han Ji, the governor of Shandong sent by the imperial court.
Theoretically, the highest local chief executive is the chief envoy, while the governor is only a supervisor who inspects the local area.
However, as the Ming Dynasty spokesmen became more and more powerful, the position of governor became permanent and began to override the chief envoy in terms of authority.
Han Ji was Gao Gong's favorite disciple. He was promoted from Huke to Shizhong. Because of his merits in organizing the arsenal, he was directly promoted to Yuanwailang of the Ministry of Industry. He was then sent to Shandong as governor.
Han Ji is only in his thirties now, and he is naturally very high-spirited when he is proud of his officialdom. He is even more enthusiastic about Chen Yiqin, the governor of Shandong.
As for regiment training such as He Shouzhong's self-recruited local warriors, their supplies still relied on the government at all levels in Shandong. After Han Ji took office, he quickly took control of these regiment training weapons.
The current situation in Shandong is “a mess”.
The governor of Shandong, Han Ji, was a junior official and was overbearing. He still had an official style in Shandong's officialdom. He always reprimanded subordinate officials and wrote to the court to request removal whenever he made mistakes.
Gao Gong, on the other hand, supported Han Ji in the court and dismissed all the officials he nominated for removal, giving Han Ji a leg up in Shandong.
As a result, Shandong officials were in a panic. They were afraid of Han Ji, but they also hated him deeply in their hearts.
Chen Yiqin, the nominal governor of Shandong, could not control anyone but the guardsmen in Shandong.
Wang Bengu, the commander of the three towns of the New Army of the Ming Dynasty, stationed troops in Jezhou Prefecture and resolutely carried out a clearing of the country in southern Shandong, driving all the people to other prefectures and counties.
Now Han Ji naturally quit his job, and these people who had been forcibly removed from the countryside became refugees, affecting local public security and affecting Han Ji's political achievements.
Han Ji wrote a letter to impeach Wang Bengu, and Wang Bengu impeached Han Ji in turn.
Chen Yiqin wrote a letter to impeach the two of them, and they in turn wrote a letter to impeach Chen Yiqin.
Now I can no longer fix the high arch that sits in the court hall.
Chen Yiqin, Wang Bengu and Han Ji were all Qingliu in the past, and they united as one when fighting against the strict party.
Why did they fight even more fiercely when he was in power and Yan Song stepped down?
Gao Gong could only suppress the fight between the three of them with kindness and power, but the whole of Shandong still seemed to be sitting on a powder keg.
Especially those refugees who were forced to leave their homes and homes.
At that time, when carrying out the task of clearing the country, Wang Bengu promised to compensate them with the same area of land.
But after they destroyed the villages and land and left their hometown with the overall interests of the imperial court in mind, Han Ji, who was in charge of Shandong's civil affairs, naturally quit.
Why should I, Han Ji, fulfill the promise you Wang Bengu made?
Shandong has been developed since the Zhou Dynasty, so there is still unowned land.
How can so many refugees be resettled? How can the gentry in other prefectures and counties in Shandong agree to give up land?
These refugees either sold themselves and became tenants of other landowners.
Or they can only continue to go north and seek life elsewhere.
That is to say, the gentry in Shandong was very powerful, so these refugees could not cause trouble.
Yi Sun-shin and his party thus bypassed Jeju City and continued heading north along the Grand Canal.
Along the way, Kinoshita Tokichiro used his fishing and hunting skills to find things.
Coupled with the fact that the Southeast Army's individual soldiers were well equipped with supplies and some small items were sold off, the group managed to survive.
The team of fifteen people stopped and walked along the way, and Yi Sun-shin saw the same scene as he had in North Korea.
The rich are surrounded by vast streets, while the poor have no place to stand.
It was in sharp contrast to the folk scene that Yi Sun-shin saw when he just arrived in the southeast.
Yi Sun-shin became increasingly silent and his mood became more and more depressed.
On the contrary, Kinoshita Tokichiro's mood is getting better and better. He often learns to speak Chinese with other Han team members and learns to read and write Chinese characters from Yi Sun-shin. The group of people came to a swamp, and Yi Sun-shin looked at the mountains not far away. There must be no village in this kind of place.
Then Yi Sun-shin ordered everyone to light a fire and cook.
Everyone gathered around the bonfire. Yi Sun-shin was holding a wooden bowl and looking at the swaying light of the fire, still feeling very depressed.
"Li Jun, what's wrong with you? Are you homesick?"
There are two foreigners in the team, Yi Sun-shin and Kinoshita Tokichiro, and their relationship is naturally close.
And Kinoshita Tokichiro's funny actions actually made everyone laugh. When Yi Sun-shin was feeling depressed, he looked at him and felt that he was in a better mood.
"Kinoshita-kun, I came to the southeast originally because I wanted to learn how to save the country, assist my king in rectifying the imperial court, and clear up the current problems." Kinoshita
Tokichiro gave a thumbs up and said: "Great ambition! In this case, why should Mr. Li be so downcast? Shouldn't we cheer up?"
Yi Sun-shin said in a low voice: "But now look at the state of the Ming court. The emperor has been changed and loyal ministers have been replaced, but the Ming court is still like this and has not gotten better at all." Yi Sun-shin
said The education he received since childhood was to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and the leader of North Korea was weak. Yi Sun-shin's idea has always been that as long as there are wise ministers to assist the leader, North Korea will get better.
The problem in North Korea today is that a bunch of insects are fighting in the court, so North Korea is declining more and more.
But after arriving in the southeast, Yi Sun-shin came into contact with new ideas and thought more deeply about the problem.
As he entered the Ming Dynasty by mistake this time, Yi Sun-shin began to waver in the loyalty education he had received since childhood.
In Ming Dynasty, even the emperor was changed!
The assistant minister of the cabinet was also replaced by Gao Gong, a famous minister who was always upright and honest, and was praised by even the governor of Su.
But even so, Mingting's situation still hasn't gotten better, and has even gotten worse.
Of course, this was also because the Ming court was at war with Southeast, but what Yi Sunchen saw and heard made him realize that even without Southeast, Ming Dynasty would have been as bad as North Korea.
What about your ambitions?
Yi Sun-shin fell into confusion as his life creed collapsed.
Originally, Yi Sun-shin was just talking, and he didn't expect Kinoshita Tokichiro, a semi-illiterate, to say anything useful.
But Kinoshita Tokichiro said: "Isn't this the same situation as our country?" "The
Japanese king and the Manchu minister are just insects, and they never want to organize the country." "In
the end, we, the Wu family, have to stand up, so that the country can have hope. ."
"So I want to study in the southeast and return to Japan to assist Lord Nobunaga in the future and realize his ambition of 'powering the world'!"
Yi Sun-shin asked: "Isn't your Japanese king known as the Eternal Lineage? Do you want to abolish it? Japanese king?"
Kinoshita Tokichiro said: "It doesn't matter, as long as Lord Nobunaga becomes the shogun." "
Besides, a king is not necessary. You see, there is no emperor in the southeast. Isn't life better than that in the north?"
Yi Sun-shin looked at Kinoshita Tokichiro in surprise, but he did not expect that this monkey could say such a thing.
But Kinoshita Tokichiro's words suddenly made him realize, yes, why do you have to think about assisting the leader of North Korea?
Yi Sun-shin felt suddenly enlightened, and he suddenly had the idea that "when he thinks of rebellion, he suddenly feels that the world is wider."
He looked at Kinoshita Tokichiro and suddenly said:
"Is the Lord Nobunaga you said really worthy of your following?"
Kinoshita Tokichiro raised his head and said: "Of course! Lord Nobunaga is second only to the Governor of Su! Yes! The person I want to follow all my life!"
Yi Sun-shin suddenly asked jokingly: "If Lord Nobunaga is gone, will you be willing to follow his descendants? Your Japanese country also has a system of retainers for generations, right?" Kinoshita Tokichiro was stunned
.
He thought of his lord's sons. Although Master Nobutada had some talents, his personality charm could not be compared with that of Nobunaga.
Moreover, the young master has no kindness towards him, so should he still be loyal to them?
Kinoshita Tokichiro's monkey face showed a frown, and Yi Sun-shin's depressed mood was swept away, and he stood up and said:
"I think the terrain of that mountain is dangerous. We can go up the mountain and observe it for a while."
Kinoshita Tokichiro pulled out his thoughts, nodded and said, "This mountain is adjacent to the water. Although it is a bit desolate, it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. It's a good place."
Yi Sunsin said: "We brought sweet potato seedlings and grain seeds. We can also recruit refugees here and grow some food before continuing north." Yi Sunshin and
Kinoshita Tokichiro did not know that the mountain in front of them had A name well-known in the rebel world - Liang Shanbo.
At the same time, Yu Zongyuan, the second young master, who was in Hangzhou, had just finished a banquet with his friends. He was sitting in a rickshaw returning to his mansion in Hangzhou.
As Su Ze's angel investor and a Southeast veteran who had already invested in the angel round, Yu Zongyuan has a transcendent status in Southeast.
Not to mention that he and Su Ze got married very early, at the beginning of Su Ze's career, Second Young Master Yu invested in his own shop for Su Ze to start a business.
Later, Yu Zongyuan won the military examination and was arranged by Su Ze to work under Hu Zongxian, succeeding Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang as the commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang New Army, which is the predecessor of Lin Deyang's third brigade today.
After the Southeast Uprising, the Second Young Master Yu also made the first contribution to the Zhejiang Uprising, although he only played soy sauce in name.
The key is that although the second young master is not good at fighting and being an official, he really dares to invest!
After Su Zedong's uprising in the Southeast, the Second Young Master Yu immediately donated all his family property to fund the Southeast New Army.
In both public and private matters, Su Ze naturally did not treat this old friend badly.
However, this second young master had served in the army and knew that he was not destined to be an official. Otherwise, how could he have such a close relationship with Su Ze and not see that Su Ze was going to rebel?
Self-awareness is also one of Yu Ergongzi's strengths.
It's impossible to fight a war, and it's impossible to be an official. You know, if you don't have the ability.
Therefore, even though Su Ze begged to stay, the Second Young Master Yu still had to be given the position of a hero, just as he and Hu Zongxian had been before.
But Yu Zongyuan still insisted on resigning, and Su Ze could only agree to him.
This further gave Mr. Yu a reputation for being upright and upright.
After Yu Zongyuan resigned, he came to settle in Hangzhou.
All the money he invested in Southeast in his early years was doubled back to him by Su Ze.
Yu Zongyuan also knew that he was not good at doing business, but with such a large amount of money in hand, someone always came to his door.
Yu Ergongzi returned to his old job as an angel investor.
I don’t know if it’s because he was born with good luck, or if Mr. Yu really has an investment vision.
He first invested in a whaling company in Hangzhou, which was followed by explosive growth in the soap and whale oil industries.
There is a huge demand for daily necessities such as soap. Currently, the only ones that can provide large amounts of fat to make soap are whales.
Whale oil lamps have entered thousands of households, and whale oil is burned every day. This is also a long-term business.
Finally, after the Southeast Workshop began to use steel gears, craftsmen discovered the lubricating effect of whale oil, which allowed the whaling company to make a lot of money.
The second young master Yu made a lot of money, but he was reluctant to take the dividends. Now that he had money, he became worried again.
The reason is the case of Yuan Wencai from Suzhou Prefecture who escaped with insurance money.
Because of this case, the Southeast Governor's Office tightened financial controls.
As for the signs of financial overheating that have emerged in the Southeast, Su Ze also personally wrote an article criticizing "financial overheating."
Isn’t the biggest money-playing person in Hangzhou himself?
Yu Zongyuan is now in his thirties and is no longer the naive person he used to be.
He thought about the fate of many founding heroes in the play, and also thought about his own huge wealth, and felt a sense of crisis that "the cunning rabbit will die and the lackey will be cooked".
Today Yu Zongyuan just watched a new play about Liu Bang. It tells the story of Xiao He deliberately slandering himself and ruining his reputation in order to reassure Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty.
The second young master was so blessed that he thought of a way to lose money and defile himself!
As soon as Mr. Yu returned home, someone looking for investment came to visit him.
The person who came was an experimental assistant named Lin An who worked for Eunuch Hu.
Lin An was also sent to Eunuch Hu by the Second Young Master when he was in Nanping that year.
After Eunuch Hu succeeded in making matches in the laboratory, Lin An, who was quite business-minded, asked Eunuch Hu to teach him the matchmaking technology by offering his technology as a shareholding and dividends.
After getting the technology, Lin An found Mr. Yu. He anxiously brought a plan and prepared to explain to Mr. Yu how profitable matches would be.
But after Lin An met with Yu Zongyuan and talked for a long time, Yu Zongyuan, who had never cooked to start a fire, was completely unaware of the convenience of matches.
Yu Zongyuan looked at Lin An and said, "Does your match factory have a big investment?"
(End of Chapter)