Whether it is the Marquis of Linhuai or the Duke of Wei serving as the commander of the Nanjing garrison, to be honest, Gao Pragmatic doesn't care at all. Because of the three giants of Nanjing, the real manager of the Nanjing Military Department, on behalf of the emperor to supervise the officials in Nanjing, is the eunuch of Nanjing, as for the Nanjing garrison, in fact, most of the time it is just a name. After all, the nobles under the rule of Nanjing are only worse than the nobles in Beijing, and there is absolutely no better, which can be seen by looking at the performance of the guards in Nanjing and the surrounding areas when the Japanese invaders were raging, and there is no need to have any hope for their combat effectiveness.

For example, Liu Xian was guarding Wolf Mountain at that time, and he belonged to the Sichuan guest army directly in charge of Nanjing, and he needed to rely on Nanjing's coordination and scheduling, logistics and supply, etc., so the Nanjing garrison was also his superior in name, and if he deducted his supplies, he would also be very uncomfortable. What's even more is like Xu Pengju, who directly complained to the Nanjing Military Department, saying that he did not listen to the dispatch and did evil, etc., generally speaking, the Nanjing Military Department will give the Nanjing garrison this face - after all, he is a superior and his own colleague, right?

But the usual "function" of the Nanjing garrison lord is only here, unless Gao Shishi suddenly wants to go to the southern enclosure now, which involves the area under the jurisdiction of the guard, then the Nanjing garrison lord has the power to coordinate and even make decisions, otherwise he has no place to use others - since there is no use value, of course he will not care.

However, since Li Zongcheng leaned forward on behalf of Li Yangong, Gao Pragmatic would not pretend to be a clear and high rejection, and put on a posture that my third uncle was completely official, and whoever was the Nanjing garrison would consider the overall situation.

Don't say profit, only say righteousness? That's a brain problem, and it's definitely not his high-level demeanor.

The demeanor of the high attendant is that there is no benefit, and the creation of benefits must be sought.

What benefits can the Nanjing garrison lord create?

Well, it seems that short-term benefits are really hard to find, but long-term benefits can be well planned. For example, the enclosure just mentioned - Nanjing, or more broadly the southeastern provinces - Wei occupies a lot of land, of course, there are a lot of fields, but more of them are actually some messy "rotten land". Those lands in the hands of a group of Qiu Eight Masters can't create any value or benefit at all, not to mention that these Qiu Eight Masters are now not soldiers, farmers are not farmers, workers are not workers, and craftsmen are not craftsmen, they are simply a group of four dislikes.

But in reality? Many of these so-called rotten lands are extremely valuable in the eyes of Gao Pragmatic.

To give two of the simplest examples: a mine and a seaport.

There are mines in many parts of the area, some of which have been or have been developed for a long time, and many more have not been developed at all. Even if the part of it is developed, the degree of development is extreme, and in the eyes of Gao Shiyu, there is only one word to describe that level of development: sparse.

You can know with your toes that this group of guards does not know how to do business, and the direct reason for mining is only to meet the needs of the guards in the early years - such as opening iron mines and smelting iron to make weapons and armor. Later, after the guards became worse and worse, there was no interest in weapons and equipment, and many mines were abandoned, and individual mines with better transportation and mining conditions were dug up by them and sold directly for money to create profits for the guards -- of course, whether it was to create profits for the guards collectively or for some of the officers of the guards, that is really too lazy to say.

This kind of piecemeal low-level mining, in the eyes of Gao Pragmatism, is completely tyrannical. As a small cadre who was in charge of the economy of a place in later generations, although he has a very low management level in modern society, he can't stand his thinking hundreds of years ahead, and he always has a deep understanding of terms such as "location advantage", "core products", "system engineering" and "industrial chain".

If he had enough power and wealth, he would have been able to turn the vicinity of Ma'anshan into a steel center, a fashionable and high-end clothing and cloth export industry in places like Suzhou, a shipbuilding industry and an international trade port in Songjiang, and so on.

But at the moment, doing these things is just a luxury - it sounds like long-term planning, and there are no such conditions to support him to actually operate.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the north and south capital system, and Nanjing was the capital of stay, and even theoretically speaking, it should be regarded as the official capital. This is also one of the reasons why after Chongzhen was hanged on the coal mountain, many Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty refused to die in Beijing, but went to Nanjing to be martyred.

Nanjing Liudu, with a full set of imperial institutions in addition to the emperor himself and the cabinet, the imperial palace and the six ministries, the Imperial Procuratorate, etc., have been retained and actually used (of course, the imperial palace is only in a low-level maintenance state because there is no emperor).

The reason why it is always said that the three giants of Nanjing is because of the characteristic garrison system of Nanjing, which is actually divided into internal garrison and external garrison and counselor maintenance.

The inner garrison is the Nanjing town guard eunuch, which is served by the lieutenant official, and the most famous Nanjing town guard eunuch is Zheng He.

There is one person outside the garrison, and one person is coordinated with the garrison, all of whom are military ministers.

And the civil servant must be the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and add "counselor service".

According to this initial setting, the status of the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, who was only the "Counselor Aircraft", was originally the lowest, but like Beijing, after the status of Wenchen was promoted, the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu of the Counselor Aircraft Service became the most powerful person.

The external garrison and the coordinated garrison are usually the responsibility of the lords - speaking of which, it can be explained why as soon as Xu Pengju had an accident, Li Yangong, the eldest son of the Marquis of Linhuai, hurriedly came to Beijing.

As early as the last years of Jiajing, Xu Pengju was the garrison outside Nanjing, and the coordinated garrison was Li Tingzhu, Marquis of Linhuai. In April of the 39th year of Jiajing, because of the Nanjing Zhenwu Battalion mutiny, the Nanjing Big Three (actually four people) were all punished: Xu Pengju, the outer garrison, encouraged him to serve, cooperated with the garrison Li Tingzhu to stay idle, Zhang Weizhishi, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and He Shou, the internal garrison, was demoted to three levels and requisitioned.

This time, the most unlucky was Zhang Wei, who was directly ordered to retire; followed by He Shou, the eunuch who guarded the town, not to mention being demoted three levels in a row, was recalled to the Beijing Palace and lost his power; The so-called "idleness", the full name is "crown belt idleness", which means that the official position is retained, but he can only stay at home and reflect, and he is not allowed to take charge of things, which is probably equivalent to suspension and reflection in later generations; The lightest punishment was Xu Pengju, not to mention continuing to serve, but also being encouraged.

Presumably at that time, Li Tingzhu was very dissatisfied with Xu Pengju in his heart - the incident in Zhenwuying, Xu Pengju's performance was very bad, and he was ridiculed as a straw bag by the mutineers, but in the end, his Li Tingzhu's punishment was above Xu Pengju. Gao pragmatically pondered, Li Tingzhu may think that the imperial court is more tolerant of the position of Nanjing garrison, after all, although the lord is no longer of much use, but after all, he represents the face of the imperial court.

The causal relationship has been figured out, but how to get the biggest benefit from this, Gao Pragmatic was confined to his own status for a while, and he never came up with a clue, so he had to make up his mind in the end: Let's see what Li Zongcheng plans to do after seeing him.