The eleventh year of Wanli is the year of Guiwei. According to the system, "Chen, Xu, Chou, Wei" is the year of "waicha", which is the year when local officials from all over the country come to Beijing for pilgrimage and undergo assessment.
To perform Hajj, you need to enter Beijing at the end of the previous year, provide your own resources, and are not allowed to use inns (that is, they are not free). However, the court will reimburse expenses according to the official level. After arriving in Beijing, you can find a temple or other place to stay while waiting for inspection. During this period, you are not allowed to disturb the people.
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Although the governor Gao Pangshi is a local official, he does not belong to the local official system in nature, because as mentioned before, the governor is a dispatcher, and his job is to serve as the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the capital, which is of the nature of a capital official, so he has to participate.
The inspection is a Beijing inspection rather than an external inspection.
Besides, even if he is really a local official, he will not need to inspect it for the time being because he has just taken office. Therefore, he will stay in Liaoyang for the New Year this year and does not need to and cannot return to Beijing.
But if he stayed in Liaoyang, he would be very busy, because most of his officials had gone to the capital for pilgrimage, and he had never brought his family with him, so he had nothing to do if he stayed in Liaoyang.
When officials go to perform Hajj, when the official officials leave, the second official stays, and when the second official leaves, the main official stays, so as not to have no one to take care of government affairs. This is just a traditional Chinese tradition. No one does anything around the New Year, and those who should have a holiday are given a holiday.
The group year is gone.
Gao Pragmatic could only spend the New Year in Fuyuan with his family members.
There are not many servants left. Only the servants whose hometown is near Xinzheng stayed. The rest were given leave. Those who should go back to the capital for the New Year went back to the capital. Those in Liaodong also went back to their respective homes and stayed in Fuyuan.
Almost all of them are Henan Township Party members.
In this era where there are obvious hierarchies among people, no matter how "approachable" Gao Pragmatic is, it is impossible to really get along with the servants. He can only order more red envelopes, add meals and wine to the servants, and
Then he prepared some fireworks in Fuyuan, and on the night of New Year's Eve, he ordered his servants to set up a stage at the entrance of Fuyuan to set off fireworks for the people of Liaoyang City to watch.
After doing this, he stayed in the Fuyuan by himself and waited for the servants to come to pay their New Year's greetings. He handed out red envelopes until his hands were weak. After finishing these, he would definitely have passed the time and entered the stage of watching the New Year.
At this time, keeping up with the New Year's Eve was different from that in later generations. You could not finish keeping up the New Year's Eve in one day. You had to wait until dawn. However, you were very pragmatic and had nothing to do. You could only ask people to find some files and check them slowly. It was really a matter of working hard for the country and it was a busy year.
By the end of the year.
This was truly the loneliest year since he time traveled, so much so that he even laughed at himself: "If all the officials in the world are like me, why worry about the Ming Dynasty not being revived?"
That's what he said, but it was obviously impossible, so he still started to think about a rare question: Should I get married? Otherwise... it would be better to take a concubine. Look at how miserable this year has been.
In his previous life, how could he have considered getting married when he was just in his early twenties? But the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty after all, especially he is a special case among special cases. He is already a dignified governor, but he is still single.
, simply weird.
After finally making it to the third day of the lunar new year, Gao Pingshi finally had a bit of a New Year feeling here, because the left-behind officials in Liaoyang began to come to pay him New Year's greetings. Starting from the guard eunuch Han Guang and the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaoyang Cao Yu, the Liaoyang officials began to organize the officials according to their rank and position.
Come and pay New Year greetings.
When paying New Year's greetings, there is no official business involved. He is pragmatic and does not put on any airs. He just chats with the officials who come to visit him, arranges a banquet and has fun with everyone.
This kind of day went on for several days, and he started to be idle again - by this time, the holiday granted by the court was supposed to have ended, but in fact, he had not really entered the working state. He was doing some exercises for himself in Fuyuan and watching for two hours.
Even if the files landed ashore in one day, and I returned to the backyard to look at Jinghua's files, I would still be bored.
Until the twelfth day of the first lunar month, news came from Yingkou Port in Gaizhou that Annan's deputy envoy for pilgrimage and Haidong garrison envoy Huang Zhiting had landed in Yingkou and were taking Beijing's inland river ships to Liaoyang.
The main reason Huang Zhiting went north this time was to pay tribute to the emperor on behalf of Annan, so she spent this year in the capital and participated in several activities held by the Ministry of Rites before she escaped and boarded a ship from Tianjin Port to Yingkou by sea.
, step into Liaodong.
Due to the freeze, the inland rivers at the end of the year were not open to navigation, so it took another three days to arrive at Liaoyang during the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
Since Huang Zhiting was the deputy envoy of Annan's pilgrimage, Gao pragmatically went to the city gate in person to greet him.
In the wind and snow, Gao Pingshi stood under the big umbrella and couldn't help but smile when he saw Huang Zhiting dressed in a thick fox-cropped cloak and a sea dragon hat and getting out of the car so handsomely.
He had stayed in the north long enough and was not afraid of the cold, so he headed towards Huang Zhiting first.
Huang Zhiting is from Guangxi. When she came back to the north this year, she was too cold to go out when she was in the capital. It was even worse when she arrived in Liaodong. She was fine in the carriage specially made for Gao Pragmatic by Beijing. She felt like her face was freezing as soon as she got off the carriage.
Stiff.
It was just that the person in front of her, although he had already become the governor, was still the same as when he was in Guangxi. He didn't talk about any etiquette and took the initiative to greet her. This made her feel warm in her heart.
I wanted to step forward, but I couldn't move; I wanted to speak, but I couldn't make a sound. Huang Zhiting's whole body seemed to be frozen by the cold wind in Liaodong, and only a pair of shining eyes were wetted by the mist in an instant.
Gao pragmatic stepped forward to hold her arms and whispered: "I said it's cold in Liaodong. Look how cold you are."
Originally, Huang Zhiting had been dressed warmly enough, and she was not actually cold. However, she was startled by Gao Pingshi's action, and she became a little awkward when speaking. She actually stuttered: "I, I want to come... you are not afraid, they are watching
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Gao pragmatic laughed: "So what if you look at it? Either my servant or your subordinate. Besides, what did the emperor tell you? Did he say that he would marry you?"
Huang Zhiting's face turned red, she lowered her head and shook her head: "The emperor met me and said that he knew about you and me..., but he didn't say that, he only said a lot of good things to praise you. I said I wanted to come to Liaodong and
You talked about Annan buying salt and selling grain, and he agreed, so I came."
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Gao Pingshi slowly frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's talk about it when we go back."
Huang Zhiting nodded, hesitating whether she should go back to her car. Unexpectedly, Gao Pragmatic not only led her to the car and opened the curtain for her, but even followed Huang Zhiting in after she got in the car.
Although she and Gao Pangshi had been much more intimate than this, the situation at that time was completely different. Huang Zhiting suddenly froze. There was a copper stove in the carriage and it was almost as warm as spring, but she was a little nervous.
tremble.
Gao pragmatically gave instructions to go back to Fuyuan, then closed the car curtain, looked at Huang Zhiting with interest, and suddenly smiled: "What, I turned into a monster in Liaodong?"
Huang Zhiting took a deep breath, tried to relax, and then said: "No, I'm just... afraid of affecting your reputation."
Gao Pingshi felt warm in his heart, but he smiled and said: "Don't worry, my reputation is not affected by these things now."
"Is it because 'An Nan Ding Bei'?" Huang Zhiting asked.
"That's right." Gao Pingshi smiled: "However, even if there is no 'Annan Dingbei', I don't intend to hide anything or deliberately keep a distance."
"Why?"
Gao Pingshi smiled and said, "I'm afraid you'll have random thoughts."
Huang Zhiting's face was red and she didn't dare to look at him. She lowered her head and said, "What do I have to think about?"
Gao Jingshi slightly squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "It's hard to say. Sheriff Huang has even given up on Haidong and traveled thousands of miles to see me. If I see anything wrong, wouldn't Sheriff Huang doubt whether I have moved?
No longer in love?"
Huang Zhiting was greatly embarrassed and spat: "I don't..." Before she could finish her words, something suddenly occurred to her. She raised her head and said seriously: "By the way, I heard about Princess Yongning in Beijing."
Gao Pragmatic was startled and asked, "What happened to Liang Bangrui?"
"Yeah." Huang Zhiting nodded.
"Then what?" Gao pragmatically asked.
Huang Zhiting said: "Then the eldest princess summoned me."
"The eldest princess summoned you?" Gao Pingshi said in astonishment: "In what name? What did you say?"
Huang Zhiting shook her head and said: "It is said that the eldest princess summoned me when she heard that Deputy Envoy Annan was a woman. She didn't say anything during the period. She just asked questions. She just talked about some casual things and let me out. It didn't take more than a minute.
Time for burning incense.”
Gao Pragmatic was a little confused and frowned and started thinking.
Huang Zhiting hesitated for a moment and whispered: "The eldest princess seems to... care about you very much."
"Oh, I helped her." Gao pragmatically said calmly.
Huang Zhiting looked at him for a while, nodded and said: "I know."
Gao Pragmatic smiled bitterly and sighed: "You don't believe it?"
"No." Huang Zhiting shook her head and said, "I just think that Her Royal Highness, the eldest princess... is actually quite pitiful."
"Yes, but there is nothing we can do about it. Not even the emperor can do anything about it."
Huang Zhiting said: "Her Royal Highness the Princess lives in Changchun Palace now. I heard that in addition to the ancient green lantern Buddha, some vegetables are also planted in Changchun Palace every day."
Gao Pingshi was stunned and said secretly: Changchun Palace? Planting vegetables? The vegetables given by the emperor last time seemed to be from Changchun Palace...
Huang Zhiting saw Gao Pragmatic in a daze and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"Oh, I was wondering, where will you stay tonight?" Gao pragmatically laughed.
Huang Zhiting blushed all of a sudden, but said: "I'm looking for an inn."
"Oh? Then I'm afraid you will be disappointed. Not many inns are open now." Gao Pragmatic said with a smile: "Liaodong is different from other places. Although the leather goods business is easy to do in winter, it is all before and after the new year.
Until the beginning of spring, few people go out to do business, and the innkeepers are happy to have a few more days of rest, so I think you should just follow me back to Fuyuan."
Huang Zhiting could tell from Gao Pragmatic's face that he was deliberately teasing her, so she suppressed her shyness and said calmly: "That's good. Although it's cold in Liaodong, it won't freeze me in Fuyuan, right?
?”
"Of course not." Gao pragmatically said, "I'm very warm."
Huang Zhiting blushed all of a sudden and said angrily: "Why...you talk nonsense when there are no outsiders."
"Eh? You like me talking nonsense in front of outsiders?"
Huang Zhiting was so angry that she stretched out her hand to pinch him. Gao Pingshi smiled and dodged it, saying: "Hey, hey, a gentleman talks but doesn't use his hands. He has something to say, and he has something to say. Don't use your hands or feet, in case someone finds out.
, I thought...well."
"Uh-huh!" Huang Zhiting said angrily: "I just know how to tease people."
Gao pragmatic smiled, and then sighed: "You don't know, since I returned to Beijing, I have to pretend to be young and mature all day long. If I continue like this, sooner or later I will turn into a little old man."
Huang Zhiting was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood, nodded with deep understanding, and said: "I understand your mood. I was the same in Annan. I kept a straight face all day long and spoke coldly to everyone.
I want to laugh, but there is nothing worth laughing about. Only...only when I see your news, can I be quietly happy for a while."
Gao pragmatic sat closer to her and put his arms around her waist. Huang Zhiting stiffened but did not refuse. After a while, she moved slightly closer to him.
Gao Pragmatic seemed to remember something and asked: "Why just 'a while'?"
"What?"
"I mean, why are you just happy 'for a while' after seeing my news?"
Huang Zhiting smiled softly: "Are you still going to giggle all the time? Do you think I am very idle?"
"Oh? Are you busy?" Gao Pragmatic really didn't pay much attention to Huang Zhiting's problems.
"Maybe not as busy as you, but still very busy." Huang Zhiting said: "The Haidong area will first be restructured according to your naturalized household registration system, and then with the help of Jinghua, we will start looking for minerals everywhere, and then select the site for mining, and then
The scale of production still had to be determined based on the coal consumption in various places. It was not until around August last year that these things gradually got on track.
In addition, during the process of moving towns, some disputes often arise, especially land distribution and conflicting folk customs, which lead to frequent frictions between the native people in southwestern Guangxi and the Annan people, and sometimes large-scale armed fights between the two sides occur.
, it’s not that easy to handle anyway.
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There are nearly 40,000 pirates, including their families and the unlucky ones who were captured by the pirates and forced into slavery."
Only then did Gao Pragmatic realize that Annan did not settle down immediately after he left. A lot of the cleaning work was done by those who stayed behind. He nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."
"That's not the case, I have to do something, otherwise..." She didn't say otherwise, but suddenly remembered another thing, and said: "By the way, Liu Yao has become an official, did you know?
Now Zhang Ren is the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi."
Gao pragmatically knew that this happened two months ago, so he nodded: "Has there been any change?"
Huang Zhiting said: "There is not much else, but after Zhang Ren took office to control the army, Foshan sent people to Haidong to order coal mines, and the quantity was quite large."
Gao Qingshi was slightly surprised and asked: "Foshan used to be famous for producing refined iron, which was usually made from charcoal. Why are they now using coal instead? Have they made a technological breakthrough?"
"That's not necessarily true. As far as I know, it's because the Jinghua Iron Works in Ha Hua Province (Ha Tinh) was put into operation. Foshan's fine iron industry was hit hard, so it may now rely more on civilian iron production. Civilian iron does not need too much
Refined iron means you don’t have to use charcoal.”
Gao Pragmatic couldn't tell whether this was a good thing or a bad thing at the moment. Although Jinghua exclusively mastered the technology of producing steel from coal, it seemed that if regions like Foshan, Guangdong, which had adopted "high-end refined iron" for a long time, were forced to switch to producing ordinary iron products,
It is not a good thing for Daming's overall steel production. Even if Jinghua's fine steel manufacturing can represent Daming's high-end steel products, the quality of this matter needs to be carefully evaluated.
As for the benefits, it's probably that there is a big buyer for Haidong's coal.
While we were talking, Fuyuan arrived.
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