If "Deputy Envoy Zhuchi, Deputy Envoy of Admiral Lei Lian and Admiral Lei Lian for patrolling sea routes" is transferred from Guangdong to Guangxi, there will of course be some losses to the Guangdong officialdom, but overall it will not be a big problem - even if a deputy envoy has to pay bribes,
There are only a few people worthy of his bribery, and the impact is not big. The pressure faced is high and pragmatic, but he can still handle it with confidence.
The key is still the issue of salt works. When Lianzhou Prefecture was under the management of Guangdong, Guangxi basically relied on Guangdong for all the salt it needed. In the past decade or so when rebellions continued in Guangxi, successive governors of Guangdong and Guangxi had ordered "shipping salt with low prices".
"Arrived in Xunzhou, Guilin and other places for trafficking to increase military supplies." This shows that Lianzhou is not only rich in salt profits, but also one of the means for the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to show his authority (Wu Feng's note: the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi must also serve as the governor of Guangdong at this time).
Not to mention that there is a chain of interests in the salt farm. This is a salt farm. How many people can Guangdong officials share in the profits?
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic can be sure that the proposal to transfer Lianzhou back to Guangxi will definitely cause conflicts with Guangdong officials, and even directly conflict with the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi. Coupled with the previously mentioned issue of preventing Japanese pirates (pirates), the imperial court finally agreed
If you are unwilling to do this, Gao Pragmatic will not dare to guarantee it.
But regardless of whether it works or not, it is best to do it quickly while the teacher is still here. Otherwise, even if the uncle takes over as the first assistant, he will have more worries about moving to Lianzhou. After all, the Zhang family itself is one of the big salt merchants.
Family, if you rashly touch the salt and profits of Guangdong, you may be criticized. Even though the relationship is uncle-nephew, you should be careful about this kind of thing.
As a younger generation, it doesn't matter if you occasionally cause a little trouble to your elders, but major troubles must be avoided as much as possible. Although your uncle is very close, he is not your biological father after all. He can protect you from wind and rain, but he has no obligation to protect you from knives.
On the contrary, it is not a big problem for Teacher Guo Puguo to handle this matter, because he has no personal connection with the word salt and profit, and Gao's pragmatic move is not that he wants to fish for salt and profit himself, which avoids being criticized by someone.
It would be much easier to deal with these attacks from the perspective of personal interests and turn it into a purely government issue. The resistance Gao Gong faced during his reforms was much greater than this, and he didn't back down, right?
Then, we can put aside the issue of Lianzhou—actually, mainly Qinzhou Port—for the time being.
Gao Pragmatic then began to think about where to start to increase the chieftains' dependence on the "new lifeline".
The first thing to determine is what industry can replace farming and become the new lifeblood of the chieftains.
The so-called lifeblood, to put it crudely, is the main financial income.
Very wonderful, this is a question of developing the local economy, and it can be regarded as entering the field that Gao Pragmatic is best at - when he traveled back in time to the local cadres of the Red Dynasty, the most critical work task was to "center on economic construction"? Finally, wasn't it?
Professionally matched.
Although the development of industry and commerce is a project that Gao Pragmatic is good at, but in terms of the actual development situation of Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, under the premise of ensuring public security, three basic elements must be met: Convenient transportation
, with a large population and abundant resources.
There is no need to worry about whether public security is guaranteed or not. At least these three elements are almost not satisfied in the western and southern Guangxi areas at this time, at least not completely, so I can only say sorry.
Business must rely on industry or agriculture. Since industry has no hope, it can only rely on agriculture.
Farming is already an excluded item and does not need to be considered. Then all that is left is to develop cash crops.
The most famous economic crops of the Ming Dynasty are of course sericulture and tea, but because of their fame, they have already had good production areas. If Gao Pragmatic came to western Guangxi and southern Guangxi to develop these two fields, it would be the same as digging coal from Shanxi to Kaiping.
Selling is pure brainwashing.
According to the memories of later generations of Gao Pragmatic, Guangxi has abundant water, light, and heat resources, so its agricultural development seems to have greater advantages in fruits. Bananas, pineapples, lychees, longans, etc. are among the best in the country. However,
This makes no sense to Gaowu's current plans - without means of preservation, fast transportation, or even the ability to can, what's the use of producing so much fruit?
Ordinary fruits are meaningless, but there is one "fruit" that is very suitable for western and southern Guangxi, where there are many dry lands, and that is sugar cane.
Of course, the main function of sugarcane is not to chew it directly, but to make sugar. There was a sugar factory in the county where Gao pragmatically worked before crossing over. Gao pragmatically accompanied the leader on several inspections, although the reason for the inspection at that time was because the factory was not performing well and was facing closure.
, but at that time the county had been thinking of ways to save it, so Gao Pragmatic had a somewhat shallow knowledge base in sugar production.
This bit of knowledge reserve will only be heard in future generations, but it is at least more advanced than the Ming Dynasty's "ox-pulled stone reel" pressing method, and it has simple purification and crystallization methods, which can better ensure layered production and underwriting profits.
Good.
For example, the chieftains were responsible for arranging for the local people to plant sugar cane and collect it, and then they made local sugar by themselves using the ancient "ox-pulled stone puller" method. At this time, Gao Pragmatic came forward to purchase and refine the local sugar into refined sugar products.
Such as white sugar, rock sugar, etc. Finally, Gao Pragmatic is responsible for underwriting.
The biggest advantage here is that the more local sugar the toasts produce, the more dependent they are on high pragmatism - otherwise they will not be able to digest it themselves, resulting in a huge waste of manpower and not being able to get what they deserve.
income.
On the contrary, as long as Gao Pragmatic does not over-squeeze them, with the natural advantages of western and southern Guangxi, sugarcane planting will definitely yield much higher returns than farming.
Gao Pangshi had read some information about the Republic of China period in the past. He knew that in 1929, the sugar import volume of the Republic of China reached its peak of 740 million kilograms. At that time, it was worth 100 million taels of silver, ranking second in the country's imported goods. So starting from the 1930s
, the Republic of China began to restrict the arbitrary import of foreign sugar to protect the development of the domestic sugar industry.
At that time, the warlords in Guangdong attempted to enrich their economic strength and consolidate and expand their political status by establishing a sugar industry, so they strongly supported it and established a mechanized sugar industry. In later generations, the sugar industry in Guangdong and Guangxi was also a strong industry in the country.
The advantage of developing the sugar industry is that although it may increase the income of the chieftains, it will actually strengthen their control over the chieftains, because by then, if they offend themselves, they will lose a large source of wealth.
What’s more important is that this source of wealth cannot be absorbed by Tusi’s own family, and some of it will definitely be given to his subordinates Tumu. On the other hand, as long as he cuts off the purchase of Tusu, Tusi’s family will not be the only ones whose interests are harmed.
, even the people under his command will suffer losses - this will shake the rule! Can't you think carefully about the consequences?
Therefore, the sugar industry is very suitable to promote to toasts. This sugar-coated cannonball is highly pragmatic and not afraid that they will not eat it.
But the sugar industry alone is not enough, because in addition to dry land where sugar cane can be grown, Guangxi also has more forest resources. It is known as "eight mountains, one water and one field". Western Guangxi and Southern Guangxi are typical mountainous and plain areas.
It is quite limited, so the forestry industry can also find ways to make use of it.
There are two directions for the utilization of forest resources. One is the economic forest type, such as camellia oleifera tree, tung oil tree, etc. Gao Pragmatic is more interested in tung tree because he has the impression that Chinese tung trees will be important even in later generations.
Industrial oil plants, tung oil is one of China's hard goods for foreign trade. It is impermeable to water, air, and electricity. It is resistant to acid and alkali, anti-corrosion, and resistant to cold and heat. Even in the Ming Dynasty, it has a very important purpose, which is
Shipbuilding, this is where Gao pragmatism attaches great importance to it.
The only problem is that being pragmatic in this aspect is inconvenient for the toasts. He can only regard western and southern Guangxi as a tung oil producing area, which greatly reduces his interest. For the time being, he has to consider alternatives.
Another direction of use is more straightforward: wood.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic has no interest in developing the furniture industry - these days, the country is rich in tree resources, and even the northern and southern Zhili provinces are not short of wood for furniture manufacturing, so Gao Pragmatic's main idea is to focus on marine timber.
There were many types of wood used in shipbuilding in ancient China. They were generally sourced locally and selected from the best. They were used in different parts of the ship according to the different characteristics and properties of the wood. Gao Pragmatic didn't know much about these things at first, but he laid the groundwork.
Early on, we began to search for shipbuilding talents almost ten years ago. The first Jinghua Shipyard was opened in Shandong a few years ago. At this time, we gradually learned about the wood used for shipbuilding in the Ming Dynasty.
At present, the types of wood commonly used in Ming Dynasty shipbuilding include fir, pine, cypress, teak, elm, red wood, camphor, nanmu, catalpa wood, catalpa wood, eucalyptus, cypress, etc., but various types of wood are suitable for different parts of the ship.
An old craftsman from Jinghua Shipyard under him once told him: "All wooden masts are made of straight fir trees, and if they are not long enough, they are connected, and the iron hoops are surrounded inch by inch. There are hollow gaps in front of the ship windows to facilitate the tree masts. Every tree
The topmast is carried by several large boats combined, and its long cables are tied to the surface. The beams and rafters are made of nanmu, oak wood, camphor wood, elm wood, and locust wood. Among them, camphor wood is cut down in spring and summer, and it will be eaten by powder for a long time.
It should be noted that the pallets are not limited to any wood, just use local materials. The rudder stock is made of elm, cypress, or cypress wood; the closing rod is made of walnut or walnut wood; the oar is made of fir, cypress, or catalpa wood... That's roughly it.
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This old craftsman was from the north, so he did not mention the most famous teak wood in later generations. Another craftsman told Gao Pragmatic that the wood used for shipbuilding in the Ming Dynasty is actually not that detailed at present, especially in the north, where pine or fir are generally used.
, and occasionally cypress wood is used. Usually, double or triple wooden boards are used on the side and bottom plates of the ship, and tung oil and lime are used for the cabin seams to prevent water leakage. Each ship is generally divided into more than ten cabins. Even if one or two cabins leak, it will
Without causing the whole ship to sink.
The three types of wood, pine, fir and cypress, are still very abundant in Ming Dynasty, especially in Guangxi. According to his previous journey from Liuzhou to Siming, it seems that there are particularly many pine trees. Pine wood is also a good wood. It has been said since ancient times that "
Undersea pines have grown for thousands of years, and maples have dried for thousands of years."
It means that pine wood is not afraid of moisture, and maple wood is not afraid of dryness. The "seabed" means a lot of water, which is a humid environment, such as floating on the sea all year round. Because pine wood contains rosin, it is not afraid of water.
Therefore, when it comes to shipbuilding, we cannot just think of teak. Teak is good, but it does not mean that only teak can be used in shipbuilding, nor does it mean that teak is suitable for all parts of shipbuilding.
The advantage of teak is that its expansion and shrinkage is one of the least among all woods, so it can resist erosion by sea and land animals and will not corrode iron. At the same time, because of its small shrinkage rate, it is not easy to leak. Because teak is highly resistant to corrosion, it is
It is not easy to deform in various climates and is easy to construct, so it is suitable for shipbuilding, especially ship decks, oars, and masts. If the entire ship is made of teak, firstly, it is expensive, and secondly, it is unnecessary.
Therefore, although Gao Jingshi is not sure whether there is teak in Guangxi, he is not in a hurry because the forest resources in Guangxi are now sufficient. When buying wood from Tusi, Gao Jingshi is not worried about the uncontrollable embarrassment of buying tung oil.
, because as of now, apart from him, Mr. Gao, probably no one has plans to buy shipbuilding wood on such a large scale, so if he doesn't buy it, the chieftains will have nowhere to sell it.
Of course, then again, if we can manage places like Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar in the future, Gao Pragmatic will also like teak...
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