Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1098 Follow-up
Gao Yushi didn't know whether Princess Yongning had expected it long ago, or whether she thought it would happen.The situation in Liaodong and the capital is very different. That place is a "military area", and even the administrative system is different from the two capitals and the thirteen provinces. The school is built there. If there is any unexpected situation, it can only be reported directly to the governor or the governor. The local soldiers prepared.

If it is built in Liaoyang, you can only go to the governor directly if you have an accident; if you build it in other places, you have to go to the military directly if you have an accident. If these two guys don’t want to take care of it, the matter will be stuck there——You are a girl’s school , looking for the commander of the local guard station to do things, even if he is kind enough to help, but the real good and bad under his hands are very mixed, don't you worry?
Gao Yushi had three phases in his foreign office. He was an inspector, a soldier, and a governor. He had always been a senior officer of the guard. But that doesn't mean the discipline of the soldiers in the guards is good. "Bandits pass like a comb, soldiers pass like a grate" is the best explanation for the military discipline of the guards.

In a girls' school, the students are all young girls. I'm afraid that even if she is fine, she might be targeted by the guards and force her to "help" if she doesn't need help.

Therefore, when Gao Wu was serving as Liaodong Yuan Ma Siqing and Jin Fuhai Gai's deputy envoy for military preparations in southern Liaoning, when he ordered the establishment of the "Zhasi Women Workers Battalion" in the name of the military constitutional government office, he came up with a very shocking security measure.

According to his regulations, the military constitutional yamen was responsible for the safety and security of the women’s workers’ battalion of the tussah, ensuring that there were only women in the camp. At that time, Gao Bingxian himself was not allowed to enter.

Moreover, any male who is allowed to enter the female worker camp must always be under the supervision of the female worker guards sent by the female worker camp, and must not run around at will, and offenders will be severely punished.The severity of the punishment ranges from 152 floggings to beheading for public display.There is even a unique punishment called "eye killing" - gouging out both eyes. [Note: See "One Small Step, One Giant Leap" in Chapter [-] of this volume. ]
All these regulations are not only out of concern for the current situation of this era, but also a declaration of helplessness. Otherwise, it is easy to be criticized.Besides, if something really happened, Gao Wushi also felt that he was sorry for those murdered women, so he had to think carefully in advance and take it seriously.

Fortunately, there was no pastoral women's rights at this time, and Gao would not be accused of discriminating against women because of such "special attention". In fact, after Gao Bingxian's policy was introduced at that time, the female workers were very grateful to him.

Gao Wushi explained the situation to Princess Yongning, including the situation of the Tussi women's labor camp. He also told her about it.

Princess Yongning was very happy after hearing this, and thought that this arrangement was reasonable, and said that the school should be built in Liaoyang, which can be regarded as a pilot project. If it is implemented properly, it will be considered to continue to build in other places in the future.

Proper implementation means adapting measures to local conditions. In addition to "basic subjects" such as female reds, women's schools in Liaodong can focus on the part of the tussah silk industry that is suitable for women to study, so that they will not worry about their livelihood in the future.In the future, the promotion of women's schools will also be arranged according to local conditions. This can be investigated slowly, and there is no need to worry.

The word "pilot" has become more and more common since Gao Pragmatism appeared in Daming.Since the Gao Gong era, various "pilot projects" were often launched, and now even people like Princess Yongning know that whenever there are new measures, it is best to "pilot projects" first.

Even if this matter is settled first, Princess Yongning expressed her interest in Gao Yushi's two battles in Annan and Dingbei, and insisted that Gao Yushi tell her the first-hand situation.

In fact, Gao Wushi felt that it was meaningless to tell these things to a widowed princess in the palace, but he couldn't help it. Although the princess didn't have much power, but the status was there, he couldn't refuse, so he could only tell stories on orders. .

According to what Princess Yongning said, before she wanted to hear these "stories", she had to be relayed by her emperor's brother. Now that the emperor has taken charge of the government himself, he is getting busier and has no chance to tell her again.Since it is a coincidence today, it is obviously more interesting to listen to the person's self-report.

In the two wars between Annan and Dingbei, in fact, the real "war story" is not the focus, but the focus is behind it. They are two battles in which "politics is greater than military affairs".To be more pragmatic, it will naturally not be the style of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It will always be "killing a general in a diagonal stab", but will explain in detail the thinking before making each decision, focusing on "why".

It may be the first time for Princess Yongning to hear such a clear analysis of the enemy's thoughts, but the self-report of the battle experience is almost in the state of "Oh...so that's the case". Afterwards, he admired Gao Yushi so much, he said excitedly: "There are rumors that the high school prime minister, both civil and military, beheaded Zheng Song with his own hands, and captured Xin Ai with three tricks. So it's not the case at all! But, I see Winning with strategies like this is actually more powerful than doing it yourself, I really deserve to be my Ming Dynasty's "True Leader for 200 Years", Brother Huang's words are very reasonable."

Gao Wushi was a little stunned: "How can there be rumors that I personally beheaded Zheng Song and captured Xin Ai? This is really... too outrageous."

Seeing his astonishment, Princess Yongning couldn't help but covered her mouth and said with a smile: "I don't know, the tea doctors in the capital can talk about Gao Gaocheng as if you are Xingjun descending to earth."

Gao Yushi could only respond with a wry smile.

Seeing that it was getting late, he was afraid that the widowed and lonely eldest princess would find some reason to delay his time, so he got up and left.

As expected, Princess Yongning seemed a bit unfulfilled, but Gao Yushi had already left, and she couldn't force her to stay, so she just said, please check the high school Cheng after returning to see how much money you have left in Jinghua before, is it enough to run the school? , If it is not enough, I can think of another way.

Gao Wushi really doesn't know about this matter now. She doesn't know how much her charity fund is now, nor how much it will cost to set up a girls' school in Liaoyang. I have to go back and calculate slowly, so I didn't say much, just agreed to go back Send someone to understand and calculate, and report back when you figure it out.

It was already late when they left the palace, and the guards of the palace had even begun to prepare to lock them down.Gao Wushi saw that it was already this time, and seeing Xin Zhai was too late, he simply went to the residence by the seaside of Shicha.In fact, this mansion is his official residence in Beijing. There is a plaque of Gaofu hanging on the outside, and the area inside is not small, no worse than Zhang Juzheng's Zhang Dashi's mansion back then.

Back at the mansion, it's time for dinner again, but there is no need to talk about eating at my own mansion, just explain it.

But before the food was served, Gao Mo came first.

Gao Mo usually lives here, and the headquarters of Jinghua's Ministry of Internal Affairs is actually here, which fully proves that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the East Factory of Jinghua.

Gao Mo came to report on the situation in the south, and handed Gao Wushi a letter.

Gao Wushi opened the letter, and inside was a long letter with six or seven pages densely written in small letters.

"The expedition fleet first fought a small battle with the Spanish treasure fleet, and then they joined forces to bully the Portuguese, forcing the Portuguese governor of Malacca to allow them to stay in Malacca to replenish, and even... invited the Portuguese to visit their' Combined Fleet'?"

Gao Wushi couldn't help laughing when he saw it, and shook his head and said, "If I were the governor of Malacca, I'm afraid I have to write a letter to Philip II immediately to sue. After all, we are all courtiers of the same king. What about you Castilians? Turn your elbows out?"

Since Gao Mo is also an intelligence officer, he is of course quite aware of these discords within the Spanish-Portuguese Empire. Hearing this, he chuckled and said, "It's just a different dream. Although Philip II's stay in Portugal can't be said to be a bad country, it's also true. It is true that there are many opponents. Especially the Portuguese colonists that these masters said, they only want to take advantage of Spain, relying on this big tree, but they are unwilling to give up some of their benefits. How can the Spanish fleet treat them well? His complexion? Not firing a few shots at Malacca is enough to give Philip II, His Majesty, enough face."

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "No matter what, the ending is good. With the attitude of the Spaniards, the Portuguese side probably wouldn't dare to have any bad ideas about the return of the expeditionary fleet."

Gao Mo also thought so, but out of duty, he still reminded: "Master, please also note that the letter mentioned that the Portuguese have a lot of interest in Burma, not only some colonists have already set their sights on Burma, such as that man named De guy, and the scale of Portuguese mercenaries in Burma is far larger than we previously estimated."

Gao Wushi nodded and said, "The Portuguese mercenaries in Burma actually exceed a thousand, which is indeed far more than I expected... As far as I know, there are only 800 to [-] regular Spanish soldiers left in Luzon. "

This is a fact. The Philippine Governor's Palace in Spain really relies on those 800 to [-] people to maintain its rule. Of course, this only counts the army, not the navy fleet.But even so, it is enough to show that the cost of Western colonists to maintain colonial rule is actually relatively low, because a comparison shows that the highly pragmatic development of Taiwan, which is almost a "land of no man", does not use more than this few people.

Of course, the development speed and governance model of the two sides are not comparable.The Spaniards only ruled in the Philippines, and they were not even interested in "colonization". They didn't have any immigration plans at all. They just stood on the heads of those tribal kings and regarded themselves as conquerors, just needing to rule.

However, Gao Yushi's development of Taiwan is mainly based on immigration. As long as the local natives don't step out to get in the way, Gao Yushi doesn't bother to take care of it at all.

This also leads to one of the biggest differences, which is the ruling population.

It has been 1543 years since R. López de Villalobo arrived in Luzon in 40 and named the place the Philippines after the then Crown Prince Philip of Castile (later Philip II) , but at that time it could only be regarded as a discovery, and it was still too early to rule.

It was not until 1565 that Legazpi's army occupied Cebu Island in the Philippines that Spain began to conquer the Philippines.It was not until the occupation of Manila in 1571 and successive occupation of most of the Philippine land that colonial rule was officially established.

In fact, the Spaniards have not yet fully occupied and ruled the entire Philippines, they can only be regarded as "declaring the entire territory", and the total number of Castilians living in the Philippines is less than [-]—including the [-] soldiers.

This number of people is not even as many as the sailors on the Treasure Fleet.

But Gao Pragmatism in Taiwan is a different style.After the collapse of the Fujian Sea pirate coalition forces, in only about two years, Gao Yushi immigrated more than 5 people to Taiwan through Jinghua!

Geographically speaking, Tainan, Taichung, and Taipei are in full bloom. At the beginning, Tainan, which has the best geography and surrounding environment, has the largest number of people, followed by the vicinity of Taichung, the hometown known as "Xiaogang", and the development of Taipei is slower.

Later, Gao Wushi began to prepare for the war, using Taiwan's sulfur mines as a backup for Japan's sulfur, so he increased immigration to Taipei, and the number of immigrants gradually caught up, surpassing Taichung, and almost catching up with Tainan, reaching a population of 2.

2 people in the inland are worthless—in the year when the high-level pragmatic examinees were recruited, there were at least hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled from Shandong to Henan, maybe even over a million, anyway, statistics There is no real number, but it is a lot anyway.

However, in comparison, the population of Daming is not the same as that of the Philippines, and the city size of Daming is far from comparable to that of the Philippines.

Today, Manila is the seat of the Philippine Governor's Mansion, and there are only more than 3 people in the entire city.Even so, in the eyes of the Spaniards, it is already quite good, because at this time in Europe, even the developed Milan area has an urban population of just over 5.

A city with 5 people is nothing in Daming?Suzhou has a population of more than one million, with at least two to three million urban residents alone.

Of course, Suzhou is rich in the world, and it seems a bit invincible to compare it with it, but even Xinzheng County, the hometown of high pragmatism, has more than 2 people in the county. This mere middle county of Ming Dynasty is about to catch up with Manila. up.

So looking at it this way, it can also be said that Gao Yushi spent two years building two middle counties and one lower county in Taiwan through simple immigration methods.

And the key point is that he did not do this on behalf of the national power, but only by Jinghua, to be precise, Jinghua Quanzhou Port and the corresponding fleet.

Ye Xianggao and Li Tingji told Gao Wushi that there were rumors of people being trafficked in Jinghua among the people in Fujian, and this was the source—of course, it was stigmatized, and the specific situation is still under investigation.

"Zhiting is doing well." Gao Wushi said: "I just told her that the interests of Spain and Portugal were in conflict and it was not easy to reconcile them, but I didn't tell her clearly what to do. Now I think her handling is pretty good, but the matter she promised is a little bit troublesome..."

He pondered for a while, and said: "Prepare paper and pen, I will write a letter to Zhang Zhijun first, learn about the situation in Macau, and see if I can pass it on to the Spaniards."
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