There was no court inn in Siming Mansion, and Gao Pingshi didn't plan to walk the whole way back this time, so he first went north to Jiangzhou, then turned slightly northwest and walked a few dozen miles to Taiping Mansion.
Taiping Prefecture is a magical place. The magical thing about this prefecture is that except for the prefect himself, who is a local official, all other officials are local officials, and the states and counties under its jurisdiction are also chieftains.
Among these chieftains, the Huang family has the largest number and the strongest strength. The second one is the Zhao family, second only to the Huang family. However, the Zhao family has currently focused its main energy on the Sien Mansion, and has even planned to go to the Taiping Mansion.
Give up Longzhou to gain Huang's support. Judging from this approach, Zhao seems to be determined to avoid Huang's pressure and develop eastward.
But these are not what Gao Wuzhen is concerned about now. He already has a package solution to the problem of Guangxi chieftains, and it is a solution that achieves multiple goals with one stone. At this time, he will worry about a certain prefecture, a certain state, etc.
Not only is it pointless, it's also unnecessary.
Therefore, he didn't even think about inspecting Taiping Prefecture, and went straight to the Zuojiang Water Station to get on the boat. He planned to take the waterway to Nanning Prefecture first, then transfer to the horse station, pass through Wuyuan County, Binzhou and then Qianjiang County. When he arrived in Qianjiang County, he
You can change back to Shuiyi and walk to Bin County, Xiangzhou, Luorong County, and then to Liuzhou, which is only twenty or thirty miles away.
Since arriving in the south, he has found that traveling by water is much more comfortable than traveling by horse. As long as you don't get seasick, it is fast, stable and easy. Therefore, wherever he can travel by water, he will definitely not use horse coaching.
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The Taiping Prefecture does not need to inspect, but Zuo Jiang needs to know more about it, because according to his vision, the most important support for the upstream section of the commercial network built to control the chieftains in western and southern Guangxi is Zuojiang and Youjiang.
According to his inquiries from the ship's boss, the Zuojiang River is obviously the largest tributary of the Yujiang River, an upstream tributary of the Xijiang River system. It was called Jinnan Water or Jinyuan Water earlier and originated from Kulong Mountain at the junction of Annan and Guangxi. The upper reaches are a wonder in Annan.
Qionghe River, also called Lixi River, was called Pingerhe River after entering the Ming Dynasty at Pingerguan. After flowing to Longzhou, it was joined by Shuikou River, a tributary, and it was called Zuojiang River after that.
The Zuojiang River flows eastward to Longzhou, and the section from Longzhou to Shangjin is also called Lijiang. It flows through Jiangzhou, and a large tributary, the Heishui River, joins from the left. The main river flows to Nanning and joins the Youjiang River in the Tianzhou section of the Yujiang River, which is
Traditionally, it is the starting point of the Yujiang River Section and the Yujiang Yongjiang Section. (Wufeng’s note: Tianzhou was later Baise, the Baise of the Baise Uprising.)
According to Gao Pangshi's observations along the way, starting from the time when he boarded the boat in Taiping Prefecture, the Zuojiang River is not too wide, and there are some shoals. However, as long as the hydrology of the main river is understood, there is no problem in navigation - he here
Navigation refers to inland waterway transport vessels, which are required to be able to transport giant trees.
It's easy to say that it can transport giant trees, which means that this waterway can always be used, because the Zuojiang River and the Mingjiang River are also connected, which means that both Siming Prefecture and Siming Prefecture can carry out water trade routes through the Mingjiang River to the Zuojiang Channel.
Gao's pragmatic business network plan has basic support - after all, he can't let people carry those giant trees from the deep mountains and old forests of Shiwanda Mountain all the way to Qinzhou or even Guangzhou.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic was overly worried. The main channel of the Zuojiang River could be used by large ships in later generations. How could the inland river ships of these days not be able to do so? You must know that after the reform and opening up in later generations, freighters often carried some local products here.
For example, asparagus, jute, kenaf, soybeans, red melon seeds, etc. were shipped to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and other places. It can only be said that his understanding of Guangxi in his previous life was really insufficient.
Gao pragmatically asked the boat boss if there were any bandits or water bandits on the river. The boat boss said: "I don't know, this area is full of chieftains. Those wolf soldiers are more bandits than any other bandits. They went up the mountain to follow the monkeys."
It seems that no mountain bandit can stand up. As for the water bandits, don't mention them. Water bandits can't sleep in the water all year round. They have to have a nest on the shore, but how can they be the opponent of the wolf soldiers on the shore?
So there are no mountain bandits or water bandits along this way, but once we enter Nanning, we can’t tell for sure. It’s okay for the officers and soldiers to fight the chieftains, but it’s really unreliable to suppress the bandits..."
Gao Pragmatic was speechless for a while. In areas governed by co-chieftains, public security was actually better than in areas governed by official officials from the imperial court. As for the officers and soldiers being able to fight against the chieftains, Gao Pragmatic knew very well. That was because the officers and soldiers could fight tens of thousands at a time.
Thousands, or more than 100,000 against 10,000 or 20,000. If you still lose, Tusi will have to turn it into a back-end.
Fortunately, the Cen and Huang families check each other...
It was a safe journey to Nanning Mansion, but Gao Pingshi still concealed his identity - in fact, he had no choice but to hide it. He didn't have a customs seal or even an official robe. Who would believe him if he said he was a master of Yintai? So he found an inn to stay temporarily.
Nanning Prefecture is a migrant officialdom, and its strength is not weak. The city of Nanning is also guarded by Nanning Guards who are also not weak in strength, so Gao Pragmatic felt much more at ease as soon as he entered the city.
It stands to reason that he is in Guinan Tusi's territory, and he is followed by the wolf soldiers sent by Huang Zhiting. In fact, there is really nothing to fear. Guinan is the basic territory of the Huang family, and there are probably not many people who will not give Huang Zhiting face.
But people are like this. He considers himself a court official, and when he stays in the chieftain's jurisdiction, he always feels that he lacks a little bit of support.
Now that he had arrived at Nanning Mansion, which shocked Guinan, he felt much more at ease. He did not want the wolf soldiers to guard him. He generously gave the wolf soldiers a half-day holiday, and rewarded each of them with three coins, leaving them to their own devices.
Go out and drink.
The reward of three taels of silver was probably the lowest reward given by Gao Pragmatic in the past ten years, but there was nothing that could be done. Huang Zhiting only gave him 50 taels of silver for "travel expenses". He only spent three taels of reward this time.
, I am no longer stingy... If I want to say stingy, it is Huang Zhiting who is stingy.
However, Gao Pragmatic estimates that Huang Zhiting may not really have much cash on hand. After all, even the court knows how poor the chieftains are. They typically have manpower and material resources, but no financial resources.
After the wolf soldiers left, Gao Pragmatic was alone in his room thinking about how to control the chieftain.
Now the general direction has been thought out, but the details are not yet available, and the detailed arrangements are about to start, so he can't afford to delay any longer - this time he took the opportunity to ask to return to Liuzhou for this reason. He must hurry up and make arrangements with Liuzhou.
Contact your own people and hand over the arrangements for various preparations to specific subordinates.
In addition, war reserves must be started, such as muskets, artillery, gunpowder, and projectiles, which are indispensable. At the same time, food must be stored - he does not believe that the supplies stored by the Cen and Huang families are enough to fight a war.
In the war between the two countries, even if the opponent is only half the size of Annan, it will not work, unless the Cen and Huang families have long wanted to rebel, but judging from the current situation, they do not have this intention, nor do they have the ability.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic has to prepare these material reserves in advance. When the time comes... of course there will be no free support, and there will definitely be an exchange of interests. The key is that the preparation of these things cannot be carried out directly by Gao Pragmatic's order, but also
Make some cover, at least not hoard these things near Gyeonggi Province, otherwise if someone is reporting them, even if Zhu Yijun doesn't believe it, he is afraid that he will have to peel off his skin, so if he wants to hoard, he can only hoard in Guangzhou.
Fortunately, Guangzhou Port has been expanding, and there must be a lot of room for warehouses.
But when he thought about Guangzhou Port, he started to have a headache again about where to build his first shipyard in the south. Guangzhou is the largest city in South China and a port city, so it obviously has the advantages of talents and human resources; and Qinzhou is close to Tusi
If the jurisdiction is close to Shiwanda Mountain, it will definitely have an advantage in terms of materials... It's hard to decide.
Just as I was thinking about it, someone suddenly knocked on the door.