Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 914 Letter from Huang Zhiting
The third incident was caused by Huang Zhiting's letter.

In the Jinghua system, no matter who writes a letter to Gao Yushi to report something, he needs to indicate the category on the cover, which is a bit like an imperial memorial.

But Huang Zhiting is theoretically not a subordinate within the Jinghua system. Her letter to Gao Yushi has a very clean cover, which reads, "Huang Zhiting, the guardian of Haidong, presents a letter to Mr. Gao Yushi to personally enlighten Taiwan."

If it wasn't for Huang Zhiting's special status, this letter would look arrogant, even a little arrogant.

Although Haidong's guardian envoy is Annan's official position, Annan is now an "internal vassal", and this guard envoy is also a military officer. Proper real power faction, but in terms of status, it is really not worth mentioning in front of high pragmatism.

Especially after the Battle of Monan, when the several generals who had been commanded by high pragmatism wrote to him, they would inevitably call themselves lackeys. The letter of thanks to Gao Yushi also called himself "Li, the young lackey of Mu En's sect".

Although Huang Zhiting has a strange order, she is a full-time military officer after all, and she is not as good as a general soldier in terms of rank, so it is an advantage to be able to call herself like these general soldiers.

Of course, when Huang Zhiting sent this letter, she probably didn't know Gao Wu's great achievements in Monan.

Judging from the high standards of pragmatism and writing, Huang Zhiting's letter was written in a "scattered" way, with serious problems in structure, and it seemed that the priority and focus were not clear.Of course, he can still understand. Firstly, Huang Zhiting's literary level is limited, and he must be incomparable with those Jinshi who are higher than him in the same year. Second, Huang Zhiting treats him not as an official, but as a lover. What, naturally more casual.

There are several things mentioned in this letter, and the long section at the beginning is about the relocation and resettlement work of the Anbang Propaganda Department. Generally speaking, there is only one sentence: everything is under control.They were all advancing according to the direction that Gao Yushi had planned for her before, and nothing unexpected happened.

Next, Huang Zhiting mentioned one thing, she wanted to come to the capital to pay tribute on behalf of the Annan Metropolitan Commander.

Of course, the Annan Metropolitan Commander needs to pay tribute to the emperor. There is no need to explain this, but the problem is that according to the custom, the tribute minister should be a famous civil official from Annan, and Huang Zhiting will not be able to do it anyway.

You must know that she is not only a military officer, but also a foreign official. Her actual status in Annan is no different from that of Jiedushi in the late Tang Dynasty.

But Gao Wushi knew as soon as he saw this statement that Huang Zhiting was obviously a drunkard who didn't care about drinking, but cared about the mountains and rivers.

She wanted to come to the capital, not to pay tribute, but definitely because she wanted to meet her.A woman in love is really all about love.

Originally, it didn’t matter if this matter was agreed to. Anyway, after Gao Wushi came up with the "Jinghua Sixteen Articles", the Annan Metropolitan Government Office was just a nominal yamen. In the final analysis, everything is up to the high pragmatism. Whether the civil servants are the tribute envoy or the military officer is the tribute envoy depends entirely on whether the high pragmatism is willing or not.

Besides, Huang Zhiting only said that she wanted to come to pay tribute, but she didn't say that she had to be the chief envoy. Isn't it justifiable to arrange her to be the deputy envoy to be responsible for the safety of the entourage?

However, if she is allowed to come to Beijing now, there seems to be a problem with the timing.

If Annan came to pay tribute this year, he would have only one name, which would be Longevity Festival—Zhu Yijun's birthday.

Zhu Yijun is three months younger than Gao Yushi, and his birthday is in August. Now that he is notifying Annan to pay tribute to the Longevity Festival, it is very likely that Annan will be too late to go by land.

The Ming court stipulated that Annan's tribute could only go through Zhennan Pass and enter China through Guangxi.

Of course, this problem is actually not a big one. If Gao Yushi is willing to speak up, Zhu Yijun can definitely use the "special case" as an excuse to relax the restrictions, and let An Nangong envoy directly take the Jinghua ship, take the sea all the way to Tianjin Port and enter Beijing .That's about a month away.

But regardless of whether it is three months or one month, Gao Wushi feels that there is a problem, because today he has already discussed with Zhu Yijun, and he is going to fill the vacancy in Liaodong. In the big cake that Gao Wushi drew for him, he was so focused on planning for Tumed, how could he have the time to take care of the resignation of the little Fengjiang from southern Liaoning?So it was dragged down.

But now that Gao Yushi is going to Liaodong to gain qualifications, he must strike while the iron is hot, and send him there as soon as possible while taking advantage of his great achievements in the Battle of Monan. This will be enough to cause a sensation and deter Li Chengliang.

Therefore, Gao Wushi reckoned that he would be leaving for Liaodong in a short time, and Huang Zhiting would be even more depressed when he entered Beijing but couldn't see him.Women in love are inherently sensitive, but don't misunderstand that Gao Yushi is avoiding her, it will be unbeautiful instead.

Even if Gao Wushi told her the reason, it didn't make much sense. Huang Zhiting might be able to come to Beijing in the name of paying tribute, but why would she suddenly go to Liaodong after paying tribute?
So it's better not to go to Beijing, if you have to meet, you might as well think of another idea and go directly to Liaodong.

Annan and Liaodong seemed to be unable to think of any connection, but high pragmatism is high pragmatism after all. After thinking for a while, he really came up with a reason for him.

Salt trade.

Theoretically speaking, Annan has a good foundation for salt production, but that is only a theory. In fact, Vietnam’s salt production was very low until the later generation Gao Shishi crossed. When China’s raw salt production reached about 6000 million tons, Vietnam’s Salt production barely exceeded 150 million tons.

Even if China still has a small amount of mineral salt production, even if only sea salt is counted, China has a crushing advantage over Vietnam.If an average value is taken by the length of the coastline, China is still more than ten times that of Vietnam.

Therefore, the current Annan is actually short of salt.

Gao Wuzhen has not yet started drying salt in Liaodong, but considering the manpower, material and financial resources he can control, this matter itself is not difficult to handle. It can almost be said that as soon as he takes office, he can start doing it immediately, and there is no need to wait. Next year, this year will be able to produce salt.

But Liaodong must be short of food. Although the land in Liaodong is fertile, Li Chengliang's defense method is to wait for the Mongols to come in before counterattacking and chasing them instead of repelling them quickly like Qi Jiguang. Still frequently harassed and looted.

Being harassed and looted definitely made the people unable to be content with production, which aggravated the shortage of food, so that the imperial court often needed to transfer food from Shandong to Liaodong.

Coupled with the fact that Liaodong is still very unlucky this year, with floods and wind disasters, the reduction in grain production has been firmly established.

It’s actually pretty good now. Historically, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court needed much more food to support Liaodong.

In any case, Liaodong is short of grain and Vietnam is rich in grain. Liaodong will soon be able to produce salt alone while Vietnam is short of salt.

The only question is, is it still a good deal after shipping costs are added in.

Of course, it would be even better if it was cost-effective. In the future, Vietnam's food can even be used in the north of Daming.

Hmm...then let's try it out.

(End of this chapter)