Gao Cai's judgment of the Fan family was very accurate, after receiving the news that the Xinzheng Gao family intended to acquire the Fan family's iron ore, the Fan family did not hesitate to send Fan Shouji, the most promising son of the clan, to set off the next day after learning the news, and went straight to Xinzheng for a detailed discussion.

Fan Shouji, the word Confucian, Weichuan Guxian, Jiajing was born in the twenty-third year, and Longqing was raised in the fourth year, at the age of twenty-six, not early, but not particularly late, but before that, he had lost three times in the township test.

Fan Shouji came this time, of course, not just because he wanted to talk about business - their Fan family is currently in charge of Fan Shouji's eldest brother Fan Shoujie, and Fan Shoujie is in charge of business matters. And Fan Shouji is usually only responsible for reading exams and striving to be an official.

These are all told by Gao Cai to Gao Pragmatic, and it can be seen that Fan Shouji came to Xinzheng to talk about business is definitely not the main reason.

So what else could be the reason? Naturally, he is good friends with the Gao family. Gao Pragmatic's nickname of "Little Pavilion Elder" may not have yet reached Henan, but he was taken to Beijing by Gao Gong last year, put it around him and carefully trained him, and now he has become a prince who is less than ten years old to read.

The eunuchs in power are all because of their close relationship with the emperor, while the civil officials in power are a little more complicated, but they are also indispensable to the emperor's support. The crown prince, the prince of the country, Gao Pragmatic has been with the prince for a long time before he is ten years old, once he will be named on the gold list in the future, and when the prince succeeds to the throne, there is no need to doubt his future.

The Fan family is also a strong place, how can this vision not be? And Haoqiang wants to be promoted to a family, the key is whether there are children in the clan who can become officials, so Fan Shouji came here to discuss the ownership of iron ore, but in fact, he came in the name of the township party to see if there was a chance to attach to the Gao family.

However, whether to accept the attachment of the Fan family, Gao Pragmatic felt that it remained to be seen.

In fact, when Gao Pragmatic returned to Gao Laozhuang from Gao Cai, he carefully recalled the information related to Fan Shouji, but after thinking about it, he only remembered a little scratch: in the original history, this person had presided over more than one Jiangnan Township Test, and also served as a waiter in the military department, and finally the prime minister Qin Tianjian. In addition, he seems to have improved the calendar during his tenure as the Celestial Supervisor. It should be said that this person should be a competent official.

But what impressed Gao Shishi most about Fan Shouji was that this person seemed to be a hardcore opponent of Zhang Juzheng in history, especially against Zhang Juzheng's land policy.

Gao Shishi did not know the reason for Fan Shouji's opposition at the moment, in other words, he did not know whether Fan Shouji was against Zhang Juzheng's Qingzhang Tianmu, or against Zhang Juzheng's indiscriminate promotion of a whip law across the country.

If he is against Qingzhang Tianmu, then Gao Pragmatic thinks that he will definitely disagree with Fan Shouji in the future, because Gao Pragmatic knows the harm of hidden fields; But if he is only against indiscriminately advancing a whip, it is a bit like-minded with himself.

According to the experience of Gao Pragmatic's previous life, the policy of "one size fits all" is not necessarily a bad policy, but it will certainly not be 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?

Not to mention anything else, at least history has proved that a whip law is effective in Jiangnan, and when it is forcibly promoted in Shaanxi, it finally makes the king of Chuang.

The wealth of the south of the Ming Dynasty is only one step away from entering the capitalist society, and a whip law to completely abolish taxes in kind and only levy silver is a system that is extremely suitable for the social productive forces of the Jiangnan region, and of course it is a good policy.

However, Shaanxi is barren, when the natural disasters in the early Wanli period were not particularly serious, they could barely hold on, and when the last years of Wanli and even the next few decades, the natural disasters were better than a year, and the people could not even pay taxes in kind, and the imperial court also asked them to pay silver, so that these ordinary people would be exploited by the government and local tyrants from the process of exchanging silver for silver.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic has always believed that some of Zhang Juzheng's reforms should be viewed separately, especially the part of the policy inherited from Gao Gong. Most of those policies belong to mild improvements, although the effect is not drastic at first glance, but as long as it is persistently implemented, it is like giving a weak person who has been ill for a long time to take medicine that strengthens the foundation and peiyuan, although it is not a medicine to eliminate the disease, and the results are immediate, but with the passage of time, the spirit of this weak patient can slowly recover.

But Zhang Juzheng didn't know for what reason, he smashed the disease that obviously needed to use slow medicine, and a few doses of fierce medicine, and the result would definitely be nothing.

In the year when the wind and rain were smooth, Daming could still resist hard by relying on the afterglow of two hundred years of orthodoxy, and even had a return-to-light performance, but once the wind and clouds changed suddenly and natural disasters arose, this seemingly strong body collapsed suddenly.

The reason for this is that Gao Pragmatic always felt that Zhang Juzheng might not be willing to let Gao Gong specialize in beauty, and was bent on surpassing Gao Gong's reform and Gao Gong's political achievements.

After all, according to a large number of records of this era, the people of the time were particularly fond of comparing Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng. Under such circumstances, Zhang Juzheng wanted to say in his heart that it was almost impossible to say that he did not have the heart to win. But Gao Gong is the person who was defeated by his conspiracy, and as the victor of the political struggle, how can he, as the victor of the political struggle, be willing to lose to Gao Gong in terms of political achievements?

This is in a hurry!

But Zhang Juzheng may have forgotten that governing a big country is like cooking small fresh.

Cooking Xiaoxian is a thing, if you use too much force, it will rot, and if you use too much firepower, it will be mushy!

Therefore, Gao pragmatic has always not advocated taking drastic medicine in this period of Longwan, and he believes that the reform at this time can only be a gentle tonic, and strive to spend thirty or fifty years to gradually improve the "physique" of the Ming Dynasty and restore its vitality. This line of thinking is the same as the truth of Taizong of the Red Dynasty who asked to put aside the argument and grasp the economy.

The economy is like a person's physical foundation, and in the face of sudden weather changes, a person with a good physical foundation can not care about it, because he has strong immunity and will not get sick at all. But another person with a weak body may catch a cold because of this, and a cold may cause a fever, and a fever may cause complications.

That's the difference.

In history, the natural disasters of the Xiaoice River period are similar to changing the sky and getting cold, if Daming's physical foundation is good, in fact, there are many solutions, but Daming's physical foundation at this time is already very poor, and after Zhang Juzheng's several doses of untimely fierce medicine, not only did the nature of physical weakness not strengthen much, but also overdrew a lot of vitality, so the result was doomed: one ring after another complications occurred, and finally could only be ill without a doctor.

Unless it is now the Chongzhen period, the situation facing is that Liaodong is completely lost, and even the city of Beijing is approached by soldiers from time to time, and even simply the situation of the Southern Ming Dynasty, only half of the country is left to survive, and the rule is in jeopardy.

So in the final analysis, Fan Shouji is a friend or foe in the future, and Gao Pragmatic still needs to be observed.