Chapter 036: Preparations Before Departure
Handling things such as patrolling and guarding are all going through the process, and with Wang Guoguang, the left capital of Yushi, taking care of it, it is naturally everything from the side, not to mention the officials, so there is no need to mention it.
But no matter how fast it is, the process is at least a success. And the queen of heaven estimates that Gao Pragmatic still can't go, because the big seal of the Guangxi patrol has not yet returned, the former patrol press Hu You is a dutiful son, knowing that after the death of his mother, he went directly to hang the crown, and all related things such as the big seal of the defense should be sent back to Beijing from Guangxi Kuaima.
There are no trains and planes in these years, and the time taken from Guangxi to Beijing is different according to different stagecoach express delivery grades, and according to the estimates of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Officials, the big seal that symbolizes the identity of the high-level Guangxi patrol according to the imperial history will arrive in Beijing, and it is estimated that there will be ten days and half a month. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic plans to use this half month to arrange some things.
Seeing Xinzhai must be arranged quickly, after Liu Wei left, Ma Fang and Liu Xian both paid for the elderly and were hired by Gao Pragmatic to be consultants, but the two of them were nominally consultants in this area of firearms design needs, but in fact they were mainly responsible for helping Gao Pragmatic sort out the armed family, so they did not live near Jingshi to see Xinzhai, but went to Kaiping.
Originally, Liu Xian took Liu Xin away at the beginning, but it happened that he took her back to Beijing in the past two days. Liu Xian told Gao Pragmatic that because Jinghua's pharmacy began to need a large number of high-quality notoginseng as the main material for Baibao Life Extension, and only Panax notoginseng in the southwest had the best medicinal effect, so he planned to let Liu Xin go to the southwest and contact his old department to see if he could find a stable source of goods.
Gao Pragmatic couldn't understand Liu Xian's thinking, and it was okay for Liu Xin to follow Liu Ling back to Beijing before, after all, there is such a big brother here, and safety must be guaranteed. But now that Liu Wei has gone to Yunnan, will it be too big to let Liu Xin and a big girl go to the southwest at this time, this is your own daughter
But Liu Xian was very relieved, patted his chest and assured Gao pragmatically, saying that Liu Xin was naturally not her brother's opponent in terms of martial arts, but ordinary two or three junior colonels in the army would definitely not be able to take her, and she had been with her for a long time and was familiar with military affairs.
In terms of command alone, it means that we should ignore Liu Ling's personal martial arts and the psychological advantages that this martial arts brings to his subordinates. But even so, it can be seen that Liu Xian's confidence in his daughter, he is a person who has fought all his life, and he should not be blind on this issue.
Although Gao Pragmatic thought this was a bit incredible at first, but after thinking about it, the anti-Japanese heroine Mrs. Washi and the loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu are not also female generals, which shows that they have a strong ability to lead troops, mainly in their brains, and they don't have to be like Ma Fang and Liu Ling, so they have to go up to the battlefield in person.
Moreover, Liu Xian also told Gao Pragmatic that he would bring the two hundred families around him to Liu Xin, after all, he now has the guards of the Gao family by his side, and there will be no safety problems.
Liu Xian meant that Liu Xin could go on the road with Gao Pragmatic, go to Yuezhou Mansion or Changde Mansion in Huguang and then separate, Gao Pragmatic went south to Guangxi, and Liu Xin entered Sichuan in the west.
There is no problem with the route arrangement, but the best Sanqi in Gao Pragmatic's impression should be from Yunnan, Liu Xian let Liu Xin enter Sichuan, and it seems that there is some fate for fish.
He told Liu Xian about this, and Liu Xian said that he also knew that Yun Panax notoginseng had the best medicinal effect, but his old department was mainly in Sichuan, and although Liu Wei had already gone to Yunnan, he had not been in office for a long time, and he did not necessarily have the ability to get a large number of Panax notoginseng.
Gao Pragmatic thought about it, although Gao Dang also had people in Yunnan, it didn't seem good to trouble people for some medicinal materials, so he recognized Liu Xian's reason. Yun Sanqi's question, it's not too late to wait for Liu Wei to gain a firm foothold over there.
After negotiating this matter, Gao Pragmatic began to arrange the industrial problems near Jingshi. However, he does not need to arrange many things at present, the production of various factories and mines has entered the formalization, and the Ming Dynasty has not fought any big battles, whether it is iron or coal, the demand is relatively stable, and there is no need to make much adjustment.
Tianjin Port and the like are similar, they are all done step by step, at most a little bit of small repairs and expansions, Gao Mengnan and Shuai Jiamo can decide, there is no need to trouble him Gao Pragmatic, the shopkeeper.
Even the Jinghua Shipyard in Laizhou, Shandong Province, has nothing to worry about now. At present, they are still producing flat-bottomed sand boats, which are very experienced in the production of ships in Shandong, and there is no need to worry about high pragmatism. And the culet-bottomed sea ships are still in the stage of technical reserves, including suitable timber is also being stored, so there is no big move to be made.
Not to mention Jinghua soap and the like, this is a highly pragmatic old industry, how can he worry about it more.
However, the Jinghua Musket Factory and the Jinghua Artillery Factory need to explain a little mainly to let Gao Jiongduo contact Wu Dui, Wu Dui is not only an important person of the Gao Party and the secretary of the Ministry of War, but also an important figure in the next step of the Gao Party, and the business of the two arsenals must also need a little help from him, a soldier, at least not to be overshadowed.
It is worth mentioning one point in the military industry and private industry, that is, in addition to the Jinghua Musket Factory and the Jinghua Artillery Factory, there is also a Wang Weapons Factory in Daming, and the actual owner is Wang Qian, the son of Wang Chonggu. Wang Qian is a Jinshi in the fifth year of Wanli, and is now the director of the Ministry of Industry, and his weapons factory is of course the same as Gao Pragmatic, which is controlled by the children of the family.
However, the source of iron in his family's arsenal is Gao Pragmatic's Kaiping Three Factories, and it focuses on the manufacture of cold weapons and armor, and there is no direct competition with Gao Pragmatic in business for the time being.
In addition, I heard that the Ma family in Shaanxi also intended to get involved, but Ma Ziqiang had only been dead for two years, and they hadn't decided yet.
In this way, although Gao Pragmatic has many industries in Beijing, most of them are already on the right track, and he hardly needs to interfere too much, so Gao Pragmatic also put his mind at ease and began the final "house to house" is actually to visit the ministers of the Gao Party in Beijing, and by the way, I would like to invite the Jinshi who are in the same department and successfully stayed in Beijing this year to get together.
In addition, I have to visit a group of teachers back then, who are actually Zhu Yijun's Japanese lecturers in the past ten years from the prince to the emperor. Although there are people in this group of people who are from the Shixue Party, the Xinxue Party, and those who do not have a clear political inclination, no matter what, the etiquette still has to be in place, and those who really don't have time to visit one by one also send letters to express their apologies.
The funniest thing is that Gao Shishi actually "earned" a sum of money before leaving, almost as long as the officials who had a relationship with him, whether it was a teacher, a colleague, the same year, or even Zhu Yingzhen and other nobles who had business connections, they all sent him as many Cheng Yi, of which less than ten taels and more than one hundred taels.
In the end, Cao Ke gave him a calculation, and Cheng Yi, who received a total of more than 7,000 taels of silver, really surprised Gao Shishi himself, I know a lot of people