Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 667 The First Fire
Grand Tutor, Grand Master of Zhongjidian and Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Guo Pu, was on duty in the cabinet today. As soon as he entered the duty room, he said to Xiao Liang, the editor of the Imperial Academy who had recently joined Zhiwenyuan Pavilion: "Is there any truth-seeking today? Shut up? Let me have a look."

Xiao Liangyou himself was the same year as Gao Yushi. After compiling the "Da Ming Hui Dian" together, he is now considered a good friend. Of course, he knows the teacher-student relationship between Guo Pu and Gao Yushi. The last time he went to the book, he had long expected that Guo Pu would pay attention to it personally, so as soon as Guo Pu opened his mouth, he bowed slightly and said, "Yuanfu, the truth-seeking book is already on your desk."

Guo Pu nodded in satisfaction, walked to the case and sat down, picked up the high-level practical essay and read it.

The title of this essay is "To Alleviate the Poverty of the People, Please Allocate Lianzhou Prefecture to the Chief Secretary of Guangxi". Of course, the title is very high, and the content is also very aboveboard. It is completely consistent with the policy theory that he was able to become the "Six Champions".

That is to say, the key to the chaos in Guangxi lies in poverty.Just like what he said in his policy theory: The great trouble in the world today is poverty: officials who are poor will be arrogant, people who are poor will steal, soldiers who are poor will make trouble, and a country that is poor will be weak... The so-called poverty, for ordinary people, is not enough for self-sufficiency , its trade (trade) is not enough for one's own use, and if the source is investigated, it is nothing more than insufficient production and unsmooth transactions.

For this reason, if you want the officials not to be greedy, you must first increase their salaries; if you want to prevent the common people from stealing, you must first enrich their income; if you want to prevent the soldiers from making trouble, you must first pay for them; if you want to prevent the country from being weak, you must first enrich the treasury.

And his essay is also based on this idea, and proposes: "The poverty of Guangxi is not due to the limited power of the land alone, nor the shortage of manpower alone, but because there are no ones who can process and sell the products in the place."

So Gao Wushi put forward a bunch of projects to help Guangxi "processing and selling", and grandiosely stated in the essay that Jinghua is willing to lead the establishment of two major sugar and shipbuilding factories in Guangxi, and vigorously cultivate local tung tree planting and tung oil trade.

The only trouble is that Guangxi does not have an outlet to the sea. Even if these goods can be produced, they have to go through Lianzhou in Guangdong.

Gao Wu made it clear in his essay that for Jinghua and even other businessmen in the future, there is no difference between paying taxes to Guangxi or Guangdong. If you want to be self-reliant, but your people don’t have enough granaries, how can you know etiquette and keep your duty?”

All in all, he raised the question of whether Lianzhou Prefecture can be included in Guangxi to the level of whether Guangxi province can have long-term stability.

Of course, related issues such as the provision of the squadron were also mentioned in passing to prove it.

As for the possible "disadvantages", Gao Yushi mentioned the issue of preventing Japanese pirates, but he didn't talk much. Guard."

This sentence is quite interesting, as if to say that Lianzhou is not taken seriously at the moment. Even though the Guangdong Navy is quite powerful, the Japanese pirates come and go freely because they have no interests.In the future, since a series of industries have been established, the interests of the Guangxi region are closely related to them. In order to protect these interests, it is of course impossible to turn a blind eye to the threat of Japanese pirates.

If Guo Pu were to evaluate it, it would be high-minded and upright. The whole prose is not only righteous, but also very practical, deeply adhering to the spirit of practical learning.

Guo Pu took a closer look to see if there was anything inconsistent with the regulations, but he was just worrying too much. Gao Yushi had just finished compiling the "Da Ming Hui Dian", and he was very clear about some places that should be avoided and paid attention to. How could he make mistakes?
Guo Ge then gave a [-]-word reply: "What the member said is ignorant, the statement is clear, and the consideration is proper, please allow him."

Shujin, Zhu Yijun heard that Gao Wushi handed in the first memorial after he took office, and thought that he had discovered some corrupt officials during the inspection, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be such a memorial, and he couldn't help feeling a little bit Surprised.

Although the jurisdiction of the inspector censor has been expanded to almost limitless, on the whole, it should still be based on supervision. These local administrative affairs should usually be in charge of the governor.

Zhu Yijun was a little surprised at first, but after reading it carefully, he had to admit that Gao Yushi's memorial did not exceed his authority.Supervising the work of the censor, regardless of whether he is arresting corrupt officials or investigating rebellion, in the final analysis, it is to maintain local peace and order.And his essay, although the main focus is on finances, but the ultimate goal is still to maintain local peace and stability, and it can even be said that it is for long-term peace and stability.

Zhu Yijun has always been very reassured about Gao's pragmatic ability. Although he vaguely felt that there might be some opposition to this matter, he inherited a good habit of his father, Emperor Longqing: no doubt in employing people.Now that the cabinet's draft proposal is also in agreement, he no longer thinks about it anymore, and writes: "Lianzhou used to belong to Guangdong because of the Japanese pirates, which was not the case in the Song Dynasty. But now the Japanese pirates are embarrassed, and Lianzhou belongs to Guangdong." Guangxi is a long-term strategy, and it can be done. If there is a secretary, it can be quickly negotiated and clearly defined, and the divisions are clear, and I will report to me.”

Changing the administrative ownership of a place of government is not something that can be done casually. The Six Ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion must make corresponding adjustments. The relevant administrative procedures, yellow book and fish scale atlas, etc. There are a lot of miscellaneous things such as the transfer of archives and materials.

Therefore, after the imperial decree, all the ministries are secretly unlucky, and many officials privately seek advice from their old backers.

Gao Dang is naturally easy to say, they must sing the praises of Gao Pragmatic's first fire when he takes office, while the Xinxue faction has remained silent for the time being.

In fact, Shen Shixing is a little distressed now. Originally, according to his thinking, there is no need to compete with the Gao Party for "this small matter". Although Gao Yushi is young and low-ranking, he is a very special person. Under such circumstances, it is not cost-effective to fight with Gao Yushi for this matter.

The current situation is that Guo Pu obviously has the intention to retire, and although Zhang Siwei is not very old, he is not in good health. In this case, why not wait for them to retire before making a fuss with Gao Dang?

However, the trouble is that Liu Yaohui is a typical high-ranking minister of the party who learns from the heart. With his achievements in quelling the Eight Villages Rebellion, not to mention coming to Yanjing, at least he has a good chance to be the Secretary of the Ministry of War in Nanjing. He is actually the number one minister in Nanjing.Now that Gao Wushi was targeting Liu Yaohui across the board, Shen Shixing had to consider Liu Yaohui's reaction.

So Shen Shixing decided to wait, wait to see Liu Yaohui's reaction after receiving the news, and then decide whether to object or acquiesce.

Since no one jumped out to sing the opposite right away, the imperial decree will naturally start to be implemented, and at the same time, the Gao family's related industries have also begun to move.

In Kaiping, the three major factories began to adjust their production capacity and urgently supplied a large amount of refined iron to Jinghua Cannon Factory and Jinghua Gun Factory. The two arsenals began to work overtime on the pretext that the Jinghua security team needed to go south to Guangxi to protect the upcoming sugar factory and shipyard. Longqing Type [-] musket, Bingzi Type [-] light gun (tiger crouching gun), and Gengchen Type [-] heavy gun (Red Clothes Cannon Jinghua Version).

By the way, they also transferred a deal to Wang Chonggu's grandson, Wang Qian, to manufacture a large number of refined iron spearheads.The Wang family has also started to engage in private military industry now, but it is mainly engaged in the business of cold weapons and armor, so this time Jinghua's iron spear business is directly handed over to the Wang family.

Wang Chonggu was Zhang Siwei's uncle. It stands to reason that Wang Qian and Gao Yushi were cousins, but in terms of Ming's habits, this "cousin" was a bit far away.But both of them are high-ranking members and relatives, so they have to communicate with each other on weekdays, especially the iron used by the Wang family is the source of goods provided by Jinghua, so the Wang family has earned a processing fee from it.

At the same time, Jinghua's armed forces were also urgently mobilized. A total of 4000 people were mobilized in batches from Jinghua Trading Company, Kaiping, Henan Weihui and other places to Laizhou, Shandong (the base of Jinghua Shipyard). Laizhou is undergoing final training and is ready to be transferred to Guangxi by sea after all weapons and equipment are fully equipped.

Among them, Liu Xian is only responsible for the training. After the training, he will return to Kaiping to prepare the second batch of personnel, while Gao Yu will lead the team to Guangxi to prepare for the battle.

Although the number of troops mobilized this time is only [-], there are more than [-] armed or quasi-armed personnel ( As far as the Jinghua system of the mine protection team and factory protection team is concerned, it is probably less than one-fifth of the deployment, and even with the subsequent second batch, it is only one-quarter of the strength, but this is a "thousand-mile expedition" ", a lot of things have to take that into consideration.

At the very least, the first thing they do after they arrive in Guangxi is to adapt to the climate, which alone will take at least two or three months.

Because of these random things, Liu Xian, who has the most combat experience in the south, rushed to Laizhou to teach his experience.

In addition to preparations for military force, the Jinghua Shipyard in Laizhou is busy deploying personnel. Many shipbuilders need to go to Guangxi with the fleet. Although Guangzhou has recruited a lot of people, it is impossible to recruit enough for a while, and it still needs the north. support.

Recruiting personnel for the sugar refinery is even more troublesome. This is a highly pragmatic and temporary decision. There is no such type of talent pool in the north, so we have to quickly recruit people everywhere, and recruit people in Weihui and Xinzheng at the same time.

With so many people recruited, there must always be enough food. The local food production in Guangxi is unreliable. You have to go to Guangdong to buy it, or you have to buy it from Huguang.Although theoretically Gao Wu has a better business network in Huguang, it is inconvenient to transfer grain from Huguang to Guangxi - there are many mountains and the waterway is upstream, so this matter has to be put on hold temporarily, and Jinghua is only preparing to eat on the road in the north. The grain is enough, and the rest is bought by Gao Mengnan near Guangzhou and shipped to Qinzhou.

There are also some other miscellaneous preparations, so there is no need to go into details one by one. In short, the whole Jinghua has taken action for it. The effect of the ten-year foundation laying of Gao Pragmatism depends on this wave.

Everyone in Jinghua knew this very well, so they couldn't help but not be nervous--the master personally watched whether he did a good job this time, and his future future depended entirely on it.

(End of this chapter)