The bronze cannon still has a long service life, at least at sea for many years, so tin ore is indeed useful. But the embarrassing thing is that there are a lot of tin ore in Guangdong, and now the output is very large, the tin ore used by the Jinghua Artillery Factory is Guangdong goods, high quality and cheap and easy to transport, there is no need to find a new place of origin.

Gao pragmatic and helpless found that the idea of relying on the mineral resources of the province to develop Guangxi's industry was basically dead.

But it doesn't matter, this is not enough to make Gao pragmatic despair, because minerals are not good, and the deep processing industry of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry products can also be considered.

After thinking about it, in addition to planting sugarcane for sugar production, Gao Pragmatic still focused on the word "forest". Guangxi, which is backed by mountains, wants to get rid of poverty and become rich in this era, and the best way is to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains.

This has been thought about before, no need to think about it anymore, the goal is all kinds of marine wood and tung oil, plus sugar, basically should be able to upgrade Guangxi's economy by one or two grades - after all, the foundation is poor, these three major industries are upgraded, and the effect is immediate.

It's just that in this way, one thing is even more urgent: the Lianzhou Mansion must be taken back to Guangxi as soon as possible!

Without the harbor at hand, none of the above is a problem, or at least an extra trouble. What's more, because timber utilization has now been identified as one of the three major industries to upgrade Guangxi, Jinghua's second shipyard can only be set in Lianzhoufu.

Without further ado, Gao Pragmatic didn't have the heart to consider the views of Guangdong officials, so he directly called Cao Ke to help him prepare paper and pencils, first wrote a note, and then wrote a dozen letters, and then explained to Cao Ke that these letters must be delivered one step ahead of Songshu.

Cao Ke said: "This is easy to do, you are a Guangxi patrol, the letters you send can be sent by urgent delivery shop, and the small ones can be sent out in advance, and the music can be sent two days later." ”

Gao Shi ordered him to do it, and after a while, Cao Ke hurriedly ran back, Gao Shi was a little confused, Cao Ke had already stepped forward to report: "Master, the second master of Xinzheng Dafang is here." ”

Gao was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that he was talking about Gao Mengnan. Gao Mengnan was the son of a subordinate of Uncle Gao Jie, whose father died at the hands of the Japanese and had no relatives in the family, and was adopted as a righteous son by Gao Jie.

Later, after Gao Pragmatic returned to his hometown, he found that he was a relatively stable person, so he asked him to be in charge of Tianjin Port affairs with Shuai Jiamo, and he did a very good job, so before Gao Pragmatic went south, he was sent to Guangzhou Port to preside over the work of Guangzhou.

Unexpectedly, not long after he arrived in Guangzhou, he actually came to see him in person, and it seemed that he had something important to report.

In these years, the status of the adopted son is still relatively high, and Gao Pragmatic also calls him a second brother, so he immediately went out and welcomed him in person.

Gao Mengnan is almost twenty years older than Gao Pragmatism, and he is five in his Chinese New Year's Eve, which is a man's golden age, and he saw Gao Pragmatism personally come out to greet him, and he didn't even dare to say it, and then joined hands with Gao Pragmatism.

Needless to say, the two went to the pragmatic study and began to talk about business.

Gao Mengnan said: "Truth-seeking, admit that you can afford it, let the foolish brother be in charge of the affairs of Guangzhou, I shouldn't have come to ask you about everything, but the situation in Guangzhou is a little different from Tianjin, and the foolish brother really doesn't dare to specialize in many things...... Alas, the foolish brother had no choice but to come in person. ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "Brother is now a patrol press after all, it is difficult to stay in one place for a long time, maybe after a while, I will have to go to Nanning or even other places...... Okay, let's not talk about that, what's the matter with the second brother, it's time to talk about it now. ”

Gao Mengnan also knew that Gao pragmatic style of handling his own industrial affairs had always disliked nonsense, so he said directly: "At present, the situation in Guangzhou Port is generally not bad, but there are several problems that need to be solved urgently. ”

Gao pragmatically nodded and did not speak.

Gao Mengnan said: "First of all, the local officials in Guangdong seem to be quite dissatisfied with us, often inexplicably set up some trouble, originally according to your confession, the foolish brother is also willing to do a little bit of something, but it seems that the effect is not great, even if they don't look for trouble in person, but they will not help us speak, resulting in many times some things are not easy to do." ”

Gao Pragmatic frowned slightly and asked, "For example?" ”

"For example, buying land" Gao Mengnan sighed and said: "Our Guangzhou private port was originally considered the official port of Guangzhou, to be honest, the location is very good, but it is too cramped, so according to the plan and Jinghua's habits, it is definitely necessary to buy nearby coastal land for expansion, but these things are not very smooth." ”

Gao asked pragmatically: "The locals are xenophobic? ”

Gao Mengnan complained: "If you want to talk about xenophobia, the locals are fine, not very xenophobic, but they are very shrewd and know that we will definitely buy their land, and they will start the price one by one, far less honest than the people in Tianjin, Kaiping, and Laizhou." ”

Gao pragmatic laughed, this evaluation is very pertinent, but it is also reasonable, even in later generations, Cantonese people are also known for their shrewdness, this is actually not a derogatory term, people who grew up in a prosperous commercial place, those who are not shrewd have long died of poverty.

So he laughed: "In the new environment, we will inevitably face a new situation, as long as the problem is not due to the xenophobia of the locals, it is not a big problem." Guangdong officials don't like us, this is actually reasonable, after all, when Guangzhou Port was the official port, they were able to share some benefits in it, and now in our hands, they dare not come so clearly about many things, as for your aspects......

On the one hand, we still have to deal with it, and on the other hand, we must also beat and beat some stubborn people, and we don't have to be afraid of them, as long as we don't do illegal business, there is nothing that the local officials in Guangdong can do to be pragmatic. ”

With this, Gao Mengnan was much more relieved, he was just afraid of causing trouble for Gao Pragmatic.

However, after Gao Mengnan answered, he couldn't help but ask: "There should also be people in the Gao family in Guangdong, do you want them to help at some moments?" ”

Gao Shishi pondered for a while, shook his head and said: "Don't want it for the time being, although Liu Yaozhi hasn't met me yet, I'm afraid it's difficult to talk about it, he is currently the governor of Liangguang, maybe he still has our idea, don't give someone a handle at this time." As for the affairs of Guangdong officialdom...... Don't hide it from the second brother, I'm afraid that the brother's side will offend them again soon, and things may be more complicated at that time.

But don't worry too much, I've written to my teacher and uncle and asked them to watch and adjust. ”

Since Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei have been mentioned, Gao Mengnan is no longer entangled in this matter, but the topic has changed, and said: "Regarding the matter of collecting shipbuilding talents, it is relatively smooth at present, and there are many related craftsmen in Guangdong, but a lot of them belong to craftsmen, and this matter is not easy to handle......

Gao pragmatic said simply: "Don't consider using officialdom to solve this matter, there will be hidden dangers, let's be direct and throw money." Let the local officials figure it out, and they have a lot of tools to deal with these problems...... Don't be afraid to spend money, what I lack now is not money, but time. ”

Gao Mengnan was a little surprised and asked, "Why are you suddenly in such a hurry, is there anything wrong?" ”

Gao Shishi sighed and said: "Jinghua's shipyard in the south, I don't plan to put it in Guangzhou, I have to move to Lianzhou Mansion, specifically it should be in Qinzhou." ”

Gao Mengnan was surprised: "Is Qinzhou better than Guangzhou?" I heard that Lianzhou is sparsely populated, and there are still a lot of servants and even Yao people in the local area, it is very barren, and there are probably a lot of troubles in public security......"

Gao pragmatic said: "You can talk to the second brother about this matter, but the second brother should pay attention to confidentiality." ”

At that moment, he briefly told Gao Mengnan about his Guangxi development plan.

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