Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 660
Siming Mansion did not have a post station for the imperial court, and Gao Wushi did not plan to walk the whole way back this time, so he first went north to Jiangzhou, then turned slightly northwest and walked for dozens of miles to Taiping Mansion.

Taiping Mansion is a magical place. The magic of this mansion is that except for the magistrate himself, all other officials are native officials, and the states and counties under its jurisdiction are also chieftains.

Among these chieftains, the Huang family is the most powerful and the most powerful.The second is the Zhao family, second only to the Huang family, but Zhao's current main energy has been put on the side of the Si'en Mansion, and the Taiping Mansion has even planned to give up Longzhou to obtain Huang's support.Judging from this approach, the Zhao family seems to be determined to avoid Huang's pressure and develop eastward.

However, these are not matters that Gao Wuzhen cares about now. He already has a package solution for the chieftain problem in Guangxi, and it is a solution that kills multiple birds with one stone. Not only pointless, but superfluous.

Therefore, he didn't even bother to inspect the Taiping Mansion. He went straight to the Zuojiang Water Station and boarded the boat. He planned to take the waterway to Nanning Mansion first, then transfer to the Horse Station, pass through Wuyuan County, Binzhou, and then Qianjiang County.When you arrive in Qianjiang County, you can change back to Shuiyi, go to Laibin County, Xiangzhou, Luorong County, and then Liuzhou is only [-] or [-] miles away.

Since arriving in the south, he has found that taking the water station is much more comfortable than taking the horse station. As long as he does not get seasick, it is fast, stable and easy. Therefore, wherever he can use the water station now, he is determined not to take the horse station. .

Taiping Mansion does not need to inspect, but Zuojiang needs to find out, because according to his vision, the most important upstream part of the commercial network built to control the chieftains in western Guangxi and southern Guangxi will be Zuojiang and Youjiang.

According to his inquiries with the boat boss, the Zuojiang River is obviously the largest tributary of the Yujiang River, an upper tributary of the Xijiang River System.It was called Jinnanshui and Jinyuanshui earlier, and originated from Kulong Mountain at the junction of Annan and Guangxi.The upstream is called Qiqiong River in Annan, also called Lixi, and it is called Pinger River after it enters Daming in Pingerguan.After flowing to Longzhou, there is a tributary, Shuikou River, which flows into it, and then it is called Zuojiang River.

The Zuojiang River flows eastward to Longzhou, and the section from Longzhou to Shangjin is also called Lijiang.Flowing through Jiangzhou, another large tributary, the Heishui River, flows in from the left.The main river flows to Nanning and joins the Youjiang River in the Tianzhou section of the Yujiang River, which is the traditional starting point of the Yujiang section and the Yujiang Yongjiang section. (Wufeng Note: Tianzhou is the later Baise, the Baise of the Baise Uprising.)
According to Gao Wushi's observations along the way, the Zuojiang River is not too wide since he boarded the boat in Taiping Mansion, and there are also some shallows, but as long as he understands the hydrology of the main river, there is no problem in navigating. Navigation refers to inland river transport vessels, which are required to be able to transport giant logs.

It is easy to say that it can transport giant trees, which means that this waterway can be used all the time, because Zuojiang and Mingjiang are also connected, which means that Siming Mansion and Siming Prefecture can connect to the Zuojiang waterway through Mingjiang.

The highly pragmatic business network plan has a basic support point - after all, it is impossible for him to let people carry those giant trees from the deep mountains and old forests of the [-] mountains all the way to Qinzhou or even Guangzhou.

In fact, high pragmatism is also worrying too much. The main channel of the Zuojiang River can run large ships in later generations. How can inland river ships not be able to run these days?We must know that after the reform and opening up in later generations, some local specialties such as asparagus, jute, kenaf, soybeans, red melon seeds, etc. are often transported by freighters to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and other places.It can only be said that his understanding of Guangxi in his previous life was really insufficient.

Gao Wushi then asked the boat boss if there were any bandits and water bandits on the river, and the boat boss said, "I don't know, this area is full of chieftains, and those wolf soldiers are more bandits than any bandits. They went up the mountain and followed monkeys." It seems that no bandits can stand. As for the water bandits, they can't sleep in the water all the year round, they must have a nest on the shore, but how can they be the opponents of the wolf soldiers on the shore? So there are no bandits and water bandits on this road, but after entering Nanning, it is not certain that the government and army can fight chieftains, but it is really unreliable to suppress bandits..."

Gao Wushi was speechless for a while, and the law and order in the area governed by the chieftain was actually better than the area governed by the imperial officials.As for the officers and soldiers being able to fight chieftains, Gao Yushi knew very well that it was because the officers and soldiers would fight tens of thousands against thousands, or more than one hundred thousand against ten or twenty thousand.

Fortunately, the Cen and Huang families restrained each other...

Arriving in Nanning Mansion safely, Gao Yushi still concealed his identity—in fact, he couldn't help concealing it. He didn't have a big seal or even an official robe. Who would believe him if he said that he was a master of Taiwan?So I found an inn to stay temporarily.

Nanning Mansion is a low-level official land, and its strength is not weak. The city is also guarded by Nanning Guards who are also not weak, so Gao Wushi feels more at ease when he enters the city.

It stands to reason that he is in the territory of the chieftain in southern Guangxi, and there are wolf soldiers sent by Huang Zhiting to follow him. In fact, there is nothing to be afraid of. Southern Guangxi is the basic territory of the Huang family. I am afraid that there will be few who do not give Huang Zhiting face.But people are like this. He thinks he is an official of the court, and he always feels a little less dependent when he stays in the chieftain's jurisdiction.

Now that he was in Nanning Mansion, which frightened southern Guangxi, he felt much more at ease, and he didn't want the wolf soldiers guarding him. go out for a drink.

The reward of three taels of silver is probably the lowest reward given by Gao Yushi in the past ten years, but there is no way out, Huang Zhiting only gave him 50 taels of "travel expenses", and he spent only three taels of rewards this time. Not stingy anymore... If you say stingy, Huang Zhiting is stingy.

However, Gao Pragmatically estimated that Huang Zhiting might not have much cash on hand. After all, even the imperial court knew how poor the chieftains were. They typically had manpower and material resources, but no financial resources.

After the wolf soldiers left, Gao Wushi was alone in the room thinking about how to control the chieftain.

Now that the general direction has been thought out, the detailed rules are not yet complete, and the detailed arrangements will start soon, so he can't help procrastinating-this time he took the opportunity to ask to return to Liuzhou, which is also for this reason.He had to get in touch with his own people as soon as possible, and hand over the arrangements for various preparations to his specific subordinates.

In addition, war reserves must be started, such as muskets, artillery, gunpowder, and bullets, which are indispensable. At the same time, food reserves must also be stored-he does not believe that the materials stored by the Cen and Huang families are enough to fight a battle. In the war between the two countries, even if the opponent is only half of Annan, unless the Cen and Huang families have wanted to rebel a long time ago, it is almost the same, but judging from the current situation, they have no such intentions, nor do they have the ability.

Therefore, these material reserves have to be prepared in advance in a highly pragmatic way. At that time... Of course, there will be no free support, and there must be an exchange of benefits.The key is that the preparations for these things can’t be carried out directly with a high-level pragmatic order, and some cover is needed. At least you can’t hoard these things near Gyeonggi, or if someone reports it, even if Zhu Yijun doesn’t believe it, I’m afraid I’ll have to Delaminated skin, so if you want to stock up, you can only stock up in Guangzhou.

Fortunately, Guangzhou Port has been expanding, and there must be a lot of warehouses to be vacated.

But when he thought of Guangzhou Port, he began to have a headache where to build his first shipyard in the south. Guangzhou is the largest city in South China and a port city. It obviously has the advantages of talents and human resources; and Qinzhou is close to Tusi. The area under its jurisdiction is close to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, so it will definitely have an advantage in materials... It's hard to decide.

Just as he was thinking, someone knocked on the door suddenly.

(End of this chapter)