Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 769 Gao Sitang is a great reward!
The highly pragmatic life of Annan's "Supreme Emperor" was not easy and comfortable at all. Since his term of Guangxi patrol censor had less than five months left, his time in Annan was even more tense.

He estimated that he could stay in Annan for another two months at most, and he would have to go back to Guangxi in the last bit of time—he still had to do his job as a police patrol, but he couldn't ignore it.

Although now Guangxi has dispatched some personnel of the procuratorate to Shenglong urgently in line with the principle of "patrol inspectors are always running around", and some official documents that need to be approved and ruled by the inspector censor are directly sent to Shenglong without saying a word. Long Song, but after all, Annan has been "independent" for so many years, and the post road system built in the Yongle period has long since disappeared. These official documents are now mostly sent to Qinzhou to the sea, and then sent to Gao Yushi via the Red River. It is more troublesome and not too much Safety.

The trouble is easy to understand, but why is it not safe?

Readers with a good memory probably still remember that when Gao Jing’s fleet was dispatched to the south, Gao Jing had a conversation with Boss Hu and Boss Li on the Xinzheng, and mentioned the issue of pirates near Halong Bay.

As the real power of the Mo family regime was replaced by the Jinghua Group, the Anbang Xuanfu Division now became the site actually controlled by Huang Zhiting, and the south of the Li River was the Haiyang Xuanfu Division, which was directly controlled by Gao Yuyu Jinghua.

In this way, the pirates whose lair is located in Halong Bay to the north of the mouth of the Li River cannot sit still.

Originally, they had a "tacit understanding" with the local officials of the Mo Dynasty: because Halong Bay is a large area, the hydrology and geography are very complicated, there are so many islands, and the Mo's navy has to maintain pressure on Zheng's, so there is no time to go. Fight these pirates and let them build a pirate paradise here.

But Jinghua is different, because of the high emphasis on pragmatism, Jinghua's consistent attitude towards pirates is very clear: "Those who follow me will prosper, and those who oppose me will perish"-you can surrender if you want, I will strictly clean up and adapt it, basically it is still It can give you a way to survive; but if you want to continue to dominate the waterway of my Jinghua, you have to first ask my big cannon ship in Jinghua to agree!
The pirates in Annan are certainly not as powerful as the pirates in Ming Dynasty. They are so courageous that they dare to attack Spain, which runs all over the world. However, they still have a certain confidence near Halong Bay-the geographical advantage of this place is too obvious. , the giant cannon of the big ship drilled in, not only inconvenient to mobilize, but also easy to be stunned.

You know, this place is known as one of the "New Seven Natural Wonders of the World" in later generations. There are more than 1500 rocky islands and earthen islands in this sea area of ​​​​only about 3000 square kilometers. The old pirates who have been fighting for many years basically cannot get out once they come in.

And the pirates here, as long as they attack a little east from Halong Bay, they can cut off the waterway from Qinzhou to Haiphong or the mouth of the Red River, and even block the waterway from Guangzhou.

This is so disgusting, Gao Wushi felt that it was stuck in his throat, and he had already ordered Gao Jing to find a way to solve this trouble.

However, Gao Wushi also knows that if he thinks of a way, he must think of a way. As a profit-making business group, Jinghua's fleet operations can't do "at all costs", that is a harbinger of death.

Therefore, if Gao Jing is not more than [-]% sure, he would rather not make a move than make a blind move. Otherwise, if the loss is too great, his position will not be guaranteed.

The pirates in Halong Bay were like thorns in their throats, which made Gao Yushi very unhappy, but he soon received good news from another place. Compared with the entanglement in Halong Bay, that place was as happy as "pulling a thorn".

The joint fleet of Jinghua and Maritime Merchants in the private port of Quanzhou defeated the alliance of more than ten pirates near the Fujian Sea in one fell swoop!
Gao Sitang, director of the private port, clearly reported the victory. In this battle, the Quanzhou United Fleet destroyed and captured 130 pirate ships, 260 pirates, 490 women, and 370 children. It is useless to kill pirates. !

On its own side, a total of 39 sea-going ships were lost, including five of Jinghua's standard armed transport ships.

Gao Sitang euphemistically said that he suggested subsidizing the losses of the maritime merchants in Fujian Province as appropriate. After all, they would suffer heavy losses only when they fought with the pirates with real knives and real guns in Jinghua.

Discretionary subsidies can of course be considered, and even must be seriously considered, because this is a matter of "jianghu status". If it happens once, it is estimated that people will be distracted all of a sudden?

If the hearts of the people are scattered, it will be difficult to lead the team.If there are similar incidents in the future, if Jinghua wants to drag him out to kill people, he will only agree if he is stupid!Even if he dared not go because of Jinghua's power, he would have to procrastinate before the battle and hide if he could, or if he ran away, the impact would be bad.

However, when it comes to subsidies, Gao Wushi dare not spend a lot of money now, because there are so many points that need to spend money at once, he has to consider the issue of "cash flow", so he finally gave "Cash subsidies for half the price of its lost ships", plus a series of preferential policies.

These preferential policies include "interest-free loans for building new ships", "Jinghua Shipyard is given priority in starting construction", "Guangxi high-quality wood is given priority at cost price", "Quanzhou Port is exempted from port tax for three years", etc.

Of course, the exemption from port tax is linked to the loss of ships. For example, if a boss goes out with the Jinghua Fleet to conquest three ships and loses one, then he has the privilege of owning one ship for three years without port tax. Not all the ships of the boss are exempted.

But at the same time, this exemption is calculated after the construction of the new ship is completed and put into use.

As for some other discounts, such as the right of first refusal for all kinds of goods of Jinghua Group, etc., I will not list them one by one.

All in all, although Gao Pragmatism only subsidizes half of the cost of ship loss, the total value of these discounts is actually higher for maritime merchants, and Gao Pragmatism can also avoid spending too much cash at once. It can be regarded as a win-win situation.

What made Gao Yushi even more satisfied in this battle was not only that the vicinity of the Fujian Sea, which had never been peaceful, was almost wiped out in one fell swoop, but that Gao Sitang got sweet potatoes and corn in the pirate's lair.

This credit alone is worth all the losses!

Gao Wushi, who received the good news, saw this sentence at that time, and suddenly got up, patted the table and praised loudly: "Good, good, good! Gao Sitang is rewarded, and he is rewarded!"

Then wrote a personal reply letter, first greatly praised Gao Sitang, the Quanzhou Fleet and the Quanzhou maritime merchants, and then emphasized again that the seeds of these two crops must be properly kept and immediately choose a place for trial planting.

Gao Yushi also took the trouble to explain to Gao Sitang that, such as trial planting methods, there must be different types of planting methods, and never use the same method to plant them. Not only to avoid all planting to death at once, but also to see which planting method according to different planting methods. which method is most appropriate, etc.

In the end, although Gao Sitang himself was embarrassed to say it, Gao Wushi was very "on the road" and changed Gao Sitang's name to "Gao Qi" in the letter, and said that he would inform Jinghua internally.

In addition, Gao Wushi also ordered Gao Sitang—well, he should be called Gao Qi now—to immediately arrange a ship to send a batch to Annan.

It is hard to say whether these things will be popularized in Daming soon, but the promotion in Annan will definitely be fast, because Annan is the one who is highly pragmatic and has the final say!

If there is any regret for being highly pragmatic this time, it is probably that the three high-yield crops are still short of potatoes.This is indeed a pity, because although the high-level practical agricultural knowledge is much worse than other aspects, he remembers one thing very clearly: Tsarist Russia once vigorously promoted potato planting, and there was even a very common potato planting in a certain period of time. Punishment-distribution of Siberian potatoes.

It can be seen that potatoes must be a cold-resistant and high-yield crop, and the Little Ice Age in Daming was the most serious damage to the north. Now this thing is very much needed! ——
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