Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1741, the heights are too cold

"It's not easy to be the chief assistant of the cabinet."

Liu Jin opened his eyes and sighed softly.

There are emperors on the top who need to be well assisted, and the emperor should be assured that he will not feel that you have different intentions. There are also a large number of officials below, all of whom are staring at themselves and their positions.

It can be said that since ancient times, this position has not been so easy to do, and those who can make a difference in this position and make some contributions are the real talents.

People like Shang Yang from the Qin State, Wang Anshi from the Song Dynasty, and Zhang Juzheng from the Ming Dynasty are all truly good people. Of course, good people often don't end well.

The fate of Shang Yang being torn apart by a car, Wang Anshi being demoted and framed, Zhang Juzheng's family being copied and beheaded, and graves being exhumed and corpses whipped can be said to be very miserable.

The very important reason is that if one wants to do something like this, one must reform and change the existing situation, and this will inevitably mobilize the interests of a large number of dignitaries.

Once you lose power or trust, the end will be miserable, and the emperor usually doesn't mind using one of your heads to appease the anger of the powerful.

Although many times, the emperor knows that you have actually done a lot of good things, and your reform measures have indeed made the country stronger, but you still have to kill. Emperors have been very skilled at killing donkeys and crossing rivers and demolishing bridges since ancient times. .

Taking the Ming Dynasty as an example, Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to let a courtier like Liu Bowen go. He threw it away like a rag after using it, and he didn't want to ruin his reputation, so he found a competitor to kill Liu Bowen.

It can be said that many times, when you have achieved this position, even if you are calm and trembling, as if you are facing an abyss and walking on thin ice, you are still on the cusp, and if you are not careful, you may die without a burial, and you will also bring your family.

When something needs to be done, it's harder, and often it doesn't end well.

Now I am sitting in this position.

Liu Jin didn't think that he would be stronger than Zhang Juzheng, Wang Anshi, Shang Yang, etc. He was a traveler who knew a little more things, but he was far behind them in many aspects such as human sophistication, tactics and so on. Too far.

The reason why I have been able to get to the present is entirely because I knew from the beginning that I would bind my interests with the emperor, prince, and nobles.

Many of the industries established are all run in partnership with the big guys. At the same time, the most important point in solving the Ming problem is to plunder wealth and resources from outside.

To solve the financial difficulties of the Ming Dynasty and the emptiness of the national treasury, it was at the beginning to use foreign wars, and won the wars one after another, allowing the Japanese, Siam, Malacca, Luzon, etc. to cede land for compensation and rob wealth.

Then it is to develop foreign trade and colonial plunder, and at the same time pay attention to technology, relying on the development and germination of capitalism to make the wealth cake of Ming and Ming bigger and stronger.

Rather than re-measure the land like Zhang Juzheng, and implement a method of whipping, there is a fundamental difference between the two.

Liu Jin's method is to make the cake bigger and stronger. Originally, Daming only had a wealth of 100, but after Liu Jin's method, it skyrocketed to 1000 or 10000. With the nourishment of huge wealth, a lot of benefits can be obtained from top to bottom and bonuses.

Zhang Juzheng's method is to redistribute the cake. The wealth is still the same as 100. It just cuts off part of the wealth belonging to the landlords, gentry and dignitaries and returns it to the court, so that the court has money to do some things. As for the common people It was still the same, and it even became more difficult.

This is the fundamental difference between the two.

Liu Jin knew this very well, so he never dared to mention the re-measurement of the land and the matter of requiring the gentry to pay for the grain.

Because once such a policy is adopted, Liu Jin will stand on the opposite side of everyone. There is no way to engage in business taxation, and the gentry and businessmen in Jiangnan have already been offended to death.

If it weren't for the successive attacks on the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, how could Liu Jin succeed, and he might not even know how to die.

Many things have to be done step by step, slowly, step by step.

The same is true for new learning. At the beginning, it was strongly opposed and resisted by Confucianism. Later, it was promised again that new learners were not allowed to take the imperial examination to become an official.

But even now, Confucians are still hostile and hostile to new learning.

Generally speaking, this position is really not easy to sit in, and it is not something ordinary people can do.

If you want to make a difference, it will be even more difficult. The key is to think about your own fate.

Now Liu Jin is actually most worried about Emperor Hongzhi killing the donkey.

I have worked so hard to do a lot of things for Emperor Hongzhi and the Ming Dynasty.

Don't get it to the end. Emperor Hongzhi felt that his tail was too big or useless, so he killed it directly.

This is not Liu Jin's unreasonable worries, but where the countless bloody lessons of the past dynasties are placed.

What's more, Liu Jin still has extremely huge wealth and property under Liu Jin's command, and he is known as the God of Wealth because the property and wealth under Liu Jin's command are too huge.

It is impossible for such a huge wealth not to be coveted.

That is to say, I took Emperor Hongzhi and the prince to do this industry together. Their shares are more than their own, and they make more money than themselves, so they can still be pretty good so far.

However, who knows what will happen in the future.

Thinking about myself all these years, I have been able to lead the army to fight, and I am the head of civil servants, and I have married a nobleman. In other dynasties, I don’t know how many times I might have died already.

It can be considered that Emperor Hongzhi was big enough, generous and benevolent enough. If it were Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Jin himself would have slipped away, and Zhu Yuanzhang was too suspicious.

But now Liu Jin feels that it is time for him to start planning for his future.

But don't get it to a bad end in the end, then it's really making wedding dresses for others.

Don't underestimate human nature, the emperor is also human, and the emperor is often more ruthless.

I am in a high position and have huge wealth.

If you want to deal with yourself at that time, it is enough to install a corruption and bribery casually. Even if everyone knows that you have no corruption and bribery at all, and knows that you have nothing to do, but your wealth is too huge, not to mention the crime you want to add. There is nothing wrong with it.

Whether to deal with you or not depends entirely on the mood of the emperor sometimes. This may be the sadness of being a courtier, and it is also why many ministers clearly know the problems and shortcomings of the government, but they can't see, hear, or listen to them. I don't want to deal with these things anymore.

Smart people are not absent, there have been many smart people in all dynasties.

It's just that everyone knows that if they do these things, their end will be miserable, so it's better to live their little life honestly and peacefully.

As for the prosperity of the country, the turmoil of the country, and even the change of dynasties, changing surnames and so on, these things are not as important as one's own life, but the rise and fall of one's own family.

This Ming Dynasty is surnamed Zhu, but not only the surname Zhu, but also thousands of people.

When he really reached this position, Liu Jin really admired people like Shang Yang, Wang Anshi, and Zhang Juzheng. Don't they know?

Of course I know, but I still have to do it, to display my ideals and aspirations, even if it will end badly for me, even if it will hurt my family, but I still do it.

But Liu Jin felt that he could not be as great as them.

I was able to break the situation because I knew there was huge wealth and endless fertile land outside of Da Ming. As long as Da Ming was able to expand abroad, it would be able to continuously plunder a lot of wealth and bring back a lot of land. Daming's financial difficulties, conflicts between people and land brought about by land annexation, and many other problems.

It is only because Liu Jin knows the benefits of industrial and capitalist development, and knows the importance of increasing productivity, which can create more wealth.

That's why I was able to slowly have everything that Daming has now, and be able to live until now.

Putting myself in the shoes of Zhang Juzheng, if I were in Zhang Juzheng's position, I am afraid that I would not have the courage to devote myself to the reform like him.

Fortunately, Liu Jin left himself a retreat from the very beginning.

I also did business with the emperor and the prince, so that they were full, and they were intertwined with the nobles. The interests were deeply involved, and it also led the rapid development of emerging capitalism and colonialism, and emerging forces together.

I also tasted overseas colonies and vassal states. Many colonies have Liu Jin's shares, and the South African colony is the retreat place for Liu Jin and Zhang Mao.

From the very beginning, Liu Jin arranged for himself a way out and planned everything.

"The route to take in the future is to be tough on the outside and be tolerant on the inside."

"One generation does what one generation does. Some things are left to future generations to do. There is no need to do everything by yourself."

"Da Ming is still that Ming, and this piece of land is still that piece of land."

Liu Jin had just been the chief assistant of the cabinet at that time, but he had already thought about many things in the future, even his own future life.

It's so cold at the top!

PS: Do you think it makes sense?
(End of this chapter)