Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1049 Planning ahead
When Li Chengliang made the decision to go east to Liaoyang to congratulate Gao Yushi on his new post, Gao Yushi himself was also writing a memorial, but his memorial was not intended to continue beating Li Chengliang, or to play any other conspiracy. This time he was talking about business. .

This memorial is divided into two parts. The first part, to put it simply, is to extend his previous revitalization plan in southern Liaoning to the whole of Liaoning. The overall idea is to "adapt measures to local conditions".

Since he himself has served as the governor of Liaodong, the biggest thing in terms of "industry" is to start the Anshan iron mine plan. Of course, the Liaoyang branch of the factory should also be put on the agenda.

Digging iron mines and setting up iron factories are private affairs. As long as the land is bought, Jinghua can make a decision on its own. It does not need to report to the imperial court. However, since the supporting production of muskets and artillery will be carried out in Liaoyang, this has to be reported. For the record, after all, according to Gao Gong's arrangement in the past, Daming's private military industry is under the joint supervision of the Ministry of War and the relevant bureaus of the Yumajian.

In this era, Anshan was nothing more than a horse station (it was called Anshan Horse Station in the post station system of the Ming Dynasty). There was a small town at the level of an ordinary town, with a total of more than 3000 households and more than 1 people.

It’s not dilapidated, but it’s definitely not prosperous. If you put it in the inland provinces, it’s probably like a lower county, and even the lower counties are “poor counties”—so it’s very cheap to buy land in Anshan, not to mention Jinghua Almost all the ones bought are mountains, which is a typical unowned wasteland, and the local guard can decide.

Now I have bought a few large pieces of land, and Gao Yushi himself has become a Liao Fu. When is it not mining at this time?
However, setting up a factory in Liaoyang is a bit troublesome, because Liaoyang City has already been built, and Jinghua will open three factories in Liaoyang: iron factory, gun factory and artillery factory. Compared with this era, the occupied area is relatively large. , so the old Liaoyang City could not accommodate it.

There are only two ways to think about this. One is that Jinghua builds three factories outside the city and connects them together, and then builds a small town by itself, which can be counted as Baowu in name.

The second is that the imperial court funded the expansion of Liaoyang City to include the three factories of Jinghua and integrate them with the old city of Liaoyang.

These two approaches each have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage of building a fort by yourself is that the production will not be disturbed by the outside world, and you will not be afraid of leaking production secrets, and you can defend independently, and you don't need the approval of the court, Jinghua can do it yourself.

In addition, with these three factories, Gao Wushi will have three more "factory protection teams", which means that the armed forces directly under him can reach Liaoyang City, and there are a lot of troops, at least three to 4000 people in total.

In addition to his own bid, he has six or seven thousand family members in Liaoyang. Even if the Tumen have another brainstorm, he can ensure that Liaoyang City is foolproof.

But there are also disadvantages. For example, if you think about it in the long term: in case Liaoyang is overwhelmed by the enemy's army in the future, it will be difficult to decide whether the three factories "forts" outside the city should defend in situ or withdraw to Liaoyang city.

Withdrawing to the city is of course the safest in theory, but after the three factories are fully completed, it is estimated that there will be more than 1 workers and a large number of production tools, including iron-making furnaces and steel-making furnaces that are difficult to transfer. In the event of a military disaster, it is not possible to withdraw to Liaoyang with a single order.

What's more, the more than 1 workers and their families, after entering the unexpanded Liaoyang City, how to resettle them is also a big trouble.

However, instead of withdrawing to the city and choosing to defend on the spot, it seems that it is not particularly reliable. Although there is an iron factory and a gun and cannon factory here, it sounds like as long as someone defends, there is no fear of not having strong defense or even counterattack capabilities.

But Liaoyang is not Kaiping after all. It is impossible for Gao Yushi to put his largest and strongest "comprehensive industrial base" in the Ming Dynasty in a corner of Liaodong, so the scale here is obviously smaller than that of Kaiping. ", as long as you are willing to put in some effort and pay some price, you can always win it.

A large number of craftsmen were captured by the enemy, which would definitely lead to trouble, so Gao Wushi did not dare to bet on this "future", he would rather go more steadily: directly ask the imperial court to expand Liaoyang City.

When the imperial court expanded Liaoyang City, Gao Wushi was able to use his status as governor to personally plan the construction of the expanded new urban area, arrange three factories in one place, and even allocate some extra vacant land for other projects that may need to be completed in the future .

However, the biggest problem with the expansion of the imperial court is that the imperial court is very poor now. Although it only costs 2 taels of silver to expand a new city, Daming fought a lot of battles last year. The savings of Guo Pu's era, I am afraid that he will have to live on his own food, and the problem of getting the court to agree to spend this money is not to persuade Zhu Yijun, but to convince the school of mind.

Not long ago, the School of Mind was tricked by Zhang Siwei and made a little concession on the issue of commercial taxation. Now that they are highly pragmatic and spend money from the court, they must not like it—although Jinghua pays taxes a year. It's time to catch up with Nanzhili, but the Xin School obviously doesn't think about it from this perspective.

They don't even think that the money is spent for the long-term development of Liaoyang and the long-term stability of Liaodong, they only think it is a high-level and practical spend.Therefore, Gao Wushi had to carefully analyze the importance of building an arsenal in Liaoyang City in the memorial, and elevate it to the level of "Liaoyang will never fall".

It seems that not all the high-sounding words are just for the occasion, and sometimes the words are high-sounding, but they just have to do it.

There is no doubt that the Liaoyang-Anshan heavy industry circle is the focus of this memorial, but there is another matter that needs to be mentioned.

Gao Yushi suggested that the court set up three or four new positions in Liaodong. If there were three, they would be: Shoujin Fushenjiang, Jinzhou Haiphong Tongzhi, and Huanggudao Qianzong; if there were four, then no. Instead of defending Jinfu and participating generals, a guerrilla general was set up in Jinzhou and Fuzhou respectively.

This proposal by Gao Yushi is obviously to strengthen the status of Liaonan. It is conceivable that when the Xin School saw this proposal, the first thought must be "Gao Yushi wants to promote the direct line".

The promotion of direct descendants can indeed be regarded as one of the high-level practical purposes, but it is indeed not the main purpose.

Gao Pragmatism strengthened the status of the two prefectures of Jinfu because Liaodong Yuanma Siqing and deputy envoy of Jinfu Haigai had only one general in charge of Haigai, and the two prefectures of Jinfu were too weak and needed to be strengthened.

Especially Jinzhou, this place is basically the Dalian of later generations, and the area under its jurisdiction, including the famous military port Lushunkou that became famous all over the world in the late Qing Dynasty, it is absolutely necessary to vigorously manage it.

Daming itself has no maritime enemies worth mentioning around Liaodong, but the absence of them now does not mean that there will be none in the future. At least nine years later, Jinzhou will definitely occupy an important position in the highly pragmatic plan-the transfer station for Japanese military supplies.

This question does not need to be discussed in detail, because in the original history, Li Rusong won the first battle of North Korea and then lost it. In the end, there was only a stalemate in a dominant position. The food and grass needed by the army caused the Ming army to transport supplies by itself, but the supplies of the Ming army were transported by land. In this way, it was the Yalu River and the mountainous area in northern North Korea. Li Rusong's head is as big as a bucket.

In view of this, Gao Wushi had long thought that during the Japanese invasion in Imchen, once the Ming Dynasty sent troops to intervene as in the original history, the main material supply should be by sea, and the route would be from Tianjin Port and Yingkou Port. Depart from the "Starting Station", transfer at Lushunkou in Jinzhou, and finally send to North Korea.

The destination after sending to North Korea is very easy. In the early stage, it can be sent to Pyongyang, because although Pyongyang is not near the sea, it is connected to the sea by the Daedong River, and it is not far from the mouth of the sea; in the mid-term, it can be sent to Seoul (now Seoul), for example. In the west of Seoul, Incheon, which is famous for the U.S. military, is a good unloading place; as for the later stage, it depends on the advancing line of the Ming army at that time. All in all, the problem is not big, at least ten times better than going by land. .
-
Thanks to the book friend "Atai Le's Old West" for the reward and support, thank you!
(End of this chapter)