Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 954 Gaizhou takes office
[Anti-piracy has been withdrawn]

Gaizhou, as early as the Han Dynasty, was an important town in Liaodong where merchants gathered, and it was named Gaizhou in the Jin Dynasty.In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Gaizhou was changed to Gaizhouwei, and a new city in Gaizhou was built in the following year. This new city is now the summer and autumn residence of Ma Siqing in Liaodong Yuan (spring and winter in Haizhou).

Gaizhou is located in the south of Liaodong, and the Liaodong Peninsula is located in the middle of the northwest. It is the junction of the Liaohe Plain and the hills of southern Liaoning.

And if we simply focus on the current period of the Ming Dynasty, then the area of ​​Gaizhou is still the throat that divides Liaoxi and Liaodong—because at this time the Liaohe Hetao area is still in the hands of the Mongols. In the hands of the fried flower department of Duoyan Sanbu.

Yuanma Temple in Liaodong was originally an institution for horse administration, so the setting is relatively simple. There are "one Zhengqing, two Shaoqing, four temple ministers, and one master book", of which Yuanma Siqing is the chief official and the third rank; Shaoqing is the fourth rank, in charge of Zuosi affairs; the temple prime minister is the sixth rank, respectively supervising the horse breeding matters of the sixth supervisor and 24 Yuan under the jurisdiction of Yuanma Temple in Liaodong;

However, as I said before, this job of raising horses is basically abolished now, and Yuanma Siqing himself rarely spends time on raising horses, and has become the chief military and political officer in southern Liaoning, so among these subordinates Zhongru Shaoqing, although the rank is not low, he is already a magistrate elsewhere, but his actual status in southern Liaoning is very average.

There are only two really important people in southern Liaoning, one is Yuanma Siqing - the main authority comes from the part-time job of the deputy envoy of military equipment;

The currently serving sea cover general is named Kong Dongru, a native of Liaohaiwei. He took up his post in the seventh year of Wanli. (Wufeng Note: According to "Records of Shenzong".)
What does this mean?It means that he is from Li Chengliang.

why?
First of all, he is from Liaohaiwei. Although Liaohaiwei has the word "sea", it is actually located in Kaiyuan, the northernmost city in Liaodong. Kaiyuan has two guards: Sanwanwei and Liaohaiwei.To the south of Liaohaiwei is Tielingwei, the hometown and foundation of Li Chengliang.

After Li Chengliang made his fortune, the first thing he did to expand his power was to control the Sanwanwei and Liaohaiwei in the north of Tielingwei, because in this way, his "sphere of influence" in the northeastern part of Liaodong was formed. This was many years ago. .

Since Kong Dongru was able to get to where he is today with his background in Liao Haiwei, it is almost impossible without Li Chengliang's nod or even recommendation.

Secondly, his former position was the Zuoying guerrilla in Guangning, which was not an easy position. In fact, he ranked first among the most critical guerrillas under the Liaodong General Army-the Liaodong General Army is now stationed in Guangning.

Li Chengliang has managed the Liaodong Army almost into the "Li Family Army" over the years. Can the most important guerrilla under his command not be a confidant?
Besides, if it wasn't for his cronies, would he be able to release Haigai, the number one military general in southern Liaoning?dream.

This Confucian Confucian and General Confucian General Confucianism probably got Li Chengliang's orders, and he was very affectionate to Gao Yushi, but he never had a heart-to-heart relationship.Although he personally led more than a thousand soldiers and horses to the Niangniang Palace—that is, Yingkou to welcome Gao Yushi to Gaizhou, but along the way he just praised Gao Yushi indiscriminately and didn't say anything serious.

Touting this kind of thing, Gao Pragmatism has seen a lot, Kong Dongru's touting does not seem to have any new ideas, it is nothing more than a set of martial arts, meritorious deeds, Gao Guan has long been immune.

So Gao Yushi took the initiative to change the topic. On the road from Yingkou to Gaizhou, Gao Yushi mainly asked some questions about the terrain, traffic and economic conditions of Gaizhou and even Haizhou.

The landform of Gaizhou is characterized by "six mountains, three waters and one field". In terms of grain output in this era, farming alone cannot support people, and it is not convenient to cultivate fields in Gaizhou, because there are too many saline-alkali lands, and it is barely open. For the land, there is not much food to grow-the later Hongchao solved this problem. As for now, it is impossible to even think about it, and high-level pragmatics do not have such professional agricultural technology.

Therefore, Gaizhou's economy mainly uses its geographical location as an intermediate station-the middle location of Liaodong and Liaoxi, which is exactly what it does.

Other than that, it depends on the water.

There are two kinds of water, one is the Liaohe River, the Daqing River and other rivers; the other is the sea, and Gaizhou is adjacent to Liaodong Bay in the west.

Rivers such as the Liao River were not very useful in the first place. After all, the people of Liaodong preferred land transportation.

Yingkou Port is backed by Jinghua, a commercial giant, and has business partners with huge resources, so its annual throughput is increasing rapidly and steadily.

Like other ports, goods need not only be transported to the port, but must be transported to various places, which requires convenient transportation.

In fact, with the location of Yingkou, even if you go by land, you can easily radiate the two wings of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and the same is true for Liaonan.But if we only talk about going to Liaodong (east of the Liaohe River), then rivers such as the Liaohe River and Taizi River are very useful.

Jinghua quickly discovered the business opportunity - of course, this is because Jinghua has been doing this kind of thing for a long time, so it quickly established river transportation. From the beginning, there were a dozen inland water transport ships, and now there are more than a hundred large and small inland water transport ships. As many as they have, they have completely controlled the inland waterway transportation business in Liaodong.

Although the inland river vessels are far smaller than sea-going vessels, with so many vessels, Jinghua’s own goods are obviously abundant and surplus. It is natural that the local transportation methods in Liaodong have been changed to be able to operate like this.

After all, in this era, water transportation is definitely cheaper than land transportation. The only trouble is that Liaodong is too cold. When the cold winter comes and the river freezes, it will be difficult to handle. Even these ships have to leave early and sail into special river ports for storage. Affect Jinghua's transportation efficiency and profit-making efficiency.

Gao Wushi already knew these things before he came here. Kong Dongru's general talk made Gao Wushi not very interested, so he simply changed the topic and asked: "How many soldiers are there in Haigai now, and how many people can use them?" ? Horses... oh, I won’t ask you about this.”

Although Kong Dongru is a member of Li Chengliang, he obviously also knows the background of high pragmatism. This is not the former Yuanma Siqing that Li Chengliang can handle easily, so he can't take it lightly.

So when Gao Wushi asked, he quickly said, "Hai Gai has more than [-] soldiers."

Gao Wushi was taken aback, and immediately asked, "How much?"

"More than forty thousand." Kong Dongru said humbly but firmly.

At this moment, Gao Wushi gradually came back to his senses, put away his astonishment, coughed lightly, and asked again: "So, is it usable?"

"Two thousand and six hundred people." Kong Dongru said honestly without practicing Tai Chi.

Gao Wushi was stunned!
What happened to you in Liaodong?An important place in one of the important towns on the nine borders, how can the proportion of this army be inferior to that of Guangxi?

Kong Dongru may have seen Gao Yushi's astonishment, and said earnestly: "Gao Observation, to be honest, Liaonan Haigai has fewer soldiers, so there are too many soldiers to use. The last general said the two thousand six hundred In the usable army, none of them are soldiers from southern Liaoning, they are all servants brought by the last general from Guangning." He said, his eyes couldn't help showing a hint of arrogance.

Oh, now I understand.

Gao Wu said sincerely: "Combined with the guards at Jinfuhaigai in southern Liaoning, there are about 4 soldiers on the list, but in the eyes of Li Chengliang's beloved general, they are all trash and can't fight at all. It can't be regarded as "worthy", the only ones who are really "worthy" are the servants he brought with him.

The so-called Sui Ren family members are the personal descendants of the generals. The reason why they are called "Sui Ren" means that these people do not belong to the place, but belong to the staff. If the general is transferred to other places, these family members will also be taken away with him.

With [-] followers, this Kong Dongru has some strength. How come I have no impression of such a character?

(End of this chapter)