If the "deputy envoy of the sub-patrol sea route to rectify Lei Lian and Admiral Zhuchi" is transferred from Guangdong to Guangxi, of course, this will be a certain loss to the Guangdong officialdom, but on the whole it is not a big problem -- even if a deputy envoy wants to bribe, there are only so many people who are worthy of his bribe, and the impact is not great, and the pressure faced by this is high and pragmatic and can still be firmly carried.

The key is still the problem of the salt farm, when the Lianzhou government was under the management of Guangdong, Guangxi basically had to rely on the supply of Guangdong, and in the past ten years or so when the rebellion in Guangxi continued, successive governors of Liangguang had ordered that "cheap salt should be transported to Xunzhou, Guilin and other places for trafficking, so as to benefit military supplies", it can be seen that Lianzhou is not only rich in salt, but also one of the means for the governors of Liangguang to show their authority.

Not to mention that there will be a chain of interests in the salt farm, this is a salt farm, how many people can the Guangdong officials share in the profits?

Therefore, Gao Shishi can be sure that if he proposes to return Lianzhou to Guangxi, he will definitely have contradictions with Guangdong officialdom, and even directly conflict with the governors of Guangxi and Guangzhou. Coupled with the problem of guarding against the Japanese invaders mentioned earlier, the imperial court was finally unwilling to do so, and Gao Pragmatic did not dare to pack the ticket.

But whether it works or not, it is best to do it while the teacher is still in place, otherwise even if the uncle takes over as the first assistant, there will be more concerns about moving Lianzhou, after all, the Zhang family itself is a family of big salt merchants, and it may be said that if you rashly move the salt profits of Guangdong. Although it is an uncle-nephew relationship, this kind of thing should be paid attention to.

As a junior, it doesn't matter if you occasionally bring a little trouble to your elders, but you have to avoid big troubles as much as possible. Although my uncle is very close, he is not a father after all, and he can shelter you from the wind and rain, but he has no obligation to block the knife for you.

On the contrary, it is not a big problem for Mr. Guo Puguo to do this, because he has nothing to do with the word salt profit, and Gao pragmatic action is not that he wants to reach out to make salt profit, which avoids being attacked by some from the perspective of personal interests, and becomes a simple government issue, which is much easier to handle - Gao Gong faced a lot of resistance when he reformed than this, and he didn't see him retreat, didn't he?

Then, for the time being, the problem of Lianzhou, which is actually mainly the port of Qinzhou, can be put aside.

Gao pragmatic then began to think about where to start to improve the dependence of the toasts on the "new lifeline".

The first thing that must be determined is what industry can replace farming and become the new lifeblood of the toasts.

The so-called lifeblood is, to put it mildly, the main fiscal revenue.

Very wonderful, this is a problem of developing the local economy, and it can be regarded as entering the field that Gao Pragmatic is best at - the local cadres of the Red Dynasty in that era when he traveled through it, and the most critical task was not to "take economic construction as the center"? Finally, the professional counterpart.

The development of industry and commerce is certainly a project that Gao pragmatic is good at, but the development of industry, in terms of the actual development of the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, under the premise of ensuring public security, there must also be three basic elements: convenient transportation, large population, and abundant resources.

There is no need to worry about whether public security is guaranteed, at least these three elements, at this time, the western and southern Guizhou regions are almost not satisfied, at least not completely, then I can only say sorry.

Commerce must depend on industry or agriculture, and since industry has no hope, it can only count on agriculture.

Farming is already an exclusion, so there is no need to think about it, so all that remains is the development of cash crops.

Daming's cash crops, of course, the most famous are sericulture and tea, but because of its fame, it has long had a good production area.

If according to the memory of Gao Pragmatism's later generations, Guangxi because of its abundant water, light, and heat resources, so its agricultural development seems to have a relatively large advantage in fruits, what bananas, pineapples, lychees, longans, etc., are among the best in the country, but this is meaningless to Gao Pragmatism's current plan - there is no means of preservation, no rapid transportation, and even no ability to make canned food, what is the use of producing so many fruits?

Ordinary fruits are meaningless, but there is one "fruit" that is suitable for western and southern Guixi, where there are many dry lands, and that is sugarcane.

The main role of sugarcane is, of course, not to gnaw directly, but to make sugar. There was a sugar factory in the county where Gao pragmatic worked before the crossing, and Gao pragmatic accompanied the leaders to inspect several times, although he went to inspect because the factory was not profitable and faced bankruptcy, but the county had been trying to save it at that time, so Gao pragmatic also had a little shallow knowledge reserve in sugar production.

This knowledge reserve is a sound in later generations, but at least it is more advanced than the current Ming Dynasty's "cow pull stone roller" pressing method, and he has a simple purification and crystallization method, which better ensures that layered production and underwriting benefits.

For example, the toasts are responsible for arranging the local people to plant sugarcane and collect it, and then they rely on the ancient "cow-pulled stone roller" pressing method to make soil sugar, at this time, Gao pragmatic came forward to make a unified purchase, using soil sugar as raw material to refine refined sugar products such as white sugar, rock sugar, etc., and finally Gao pragmatic was responsible for underwriting.

The biggest advantage of this is that the more local sugar the toasts produce, the higher their dependence on high pragmatism - otherwise they can't digest it themselves, causing a huge waste of manpower, not to mention not to mention the due benefits.

On the contrary, as long as Gao Pragmatic does not oversqueeze them, with the natural advantages of Guixi and Guinan, planting sugarcane will definitely be able to obtain much higher returns than farming.

Gao Pragmatic has read some materials from the Republic of China in the past, and he knows that in 1929, the import volume of sugar in the Republic of China reached the peak of 740 million kilograms, which was worth 100 million taels of silver at that time, ranking second in the country's imported goods. Therefore, since the 30s, 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 tried to enrich their economic strength and consolidate and expand their political position by establishing a sugar industry, so they vigorously supported and established a mechanized sugar industry. In later generations, the sugar industry in Liangguang was also a strong industry in the country.

The advantage of developing a sugar industry is that it may lead to higher incomes for the toasts, but it will also strengthen their control over the toasts, because at that time, they will lose a lot of money if they offend themselves.

What's more, this source of wealth cannot be eaten by Tusi's own family, and he must also share some of the soil for his subordinates. Then on the other hand, as long as you cut off the purchase of Tutang, it is not only Tusi's own interests that will be damaged, but even the people under his hands will follow the loss - this will shake the rule! Can you think about the consequences?

Therefore, the sugar industry is very suitable for promotion to toasts, this sugar-coated cannonball, Gao pragmatic is not afraid that they will not eat it.

But the sugar industry alone is not enough, because in addition to the dry land that can grow sugarcane, Guangxi also has more forest resources, known as "eight mountains, one water and one field", and Guixi and Guinan are typical mountainous areas, and the plain areas are quite limited, so forestry can also be used in a nutshell.

There are two directions for the utilization of forest resources, one is the type of economic forest, such as Camellia oleifera and tung tree. Gao pragmatic is more interested in the oil tung tree, because the impression of China's oil tung oil even in later generations is an important industrial oil plant, tung oil is one of China's foreign trade hard goods, this thing is impermeable, not breathable, not transmitted, acid and alkali resistance, corrosion resistance, cold and heat resistance, even in the current Ming also has a very important use, that is, shipbuilding, this is the high pragmatic value of it.

It's just that the problem is that in this regard, it is inconvenient for the necks of the toasts, and they can only regard Guixi and Guinan as a tung oil producer, which greatly reduces his interest, and he has to list the alternatives for the time being.

Another direction of use is more straightforward: wood.

Of course, Gao Pragmatic has no interest in developing the furniture industry - this year, the country's tree resources are relatively rich, even if the north and south are not short of wood for making furniture, so the main idea of Gao Pragmatic is to put on marine wood.

There are many types of wood used in ancient Chinese shipbuilding, which are generally made from local materials, and the best of the best. And according to the different characteristics and properties of wood, it is used in different parts of the ship. Gao pragmatic originally didn't know much about these, but he paved the way early, almost ten years ago began to search for shipbuilding talents, a few years ago opened the first Jinghua shipyard in Shandong, and then gradually understood the Ming shipbuilding wood at this time.

At present, the types of wood commonly used in Daming shipbuilding are fir, pine, cypress, teak, elm, red wood, camphor wood, nanmu, catalpa, catalpa, oak, cypress, etc., and the various wood suitable for ship parts are not the same.

The old craftsman of the Jinghua Shipyard under his command once told him: "All wood-colored masts are made of straight cedar wood, and if the length is insufficient, they are connected, and their surface iron hoops are surrounded inch by inch." The front of the ship's windows are hollow in the middle of the road so that the masts of the trees can be built. Where the mast in the tree, combined with several giant boats to bear, its long cable is not tied to the table. Beams and fangs are made of nanmu, oak, camphor, elm, and locust wood, among which camphor wood is harvested in spring and summer, and it is powdery for a long time, so it needs to be paid attention to. The pallet is not limited to any wood, and the local material can be used. rudder rod with elm, nut, oak; Door closing sticks with Zhou wood, hammer wood; The oars are made of fir, cypress, and catalpa...... That's pretty much it. ”

The old craftsman was a native of the north, so he did not mention the most famous teak of later generations. Another craftsman told Gao that the timber used for Ming shipbuilding is not so meticulous at present, especially in the north, where pine or fir is generally used, and occasionally cypress is used. Usually double or triple planks are used for the side and bottom panels of the ship, and tung oil and lime hatches are used to prevent water leakage. Each ship is generally divided into more than ten cabins, even if one or two cabins leak, it will not cause the whole ship to sink.

Pine, cedar, cypress these three kinds of wood, the resources of Daming are still very rich, Guangxi is especially not lacking. According to his previous journey from Liuzhou to Siming, it seems that there are a lot of pine trees. Pine is also a good wood, since ancient times it is said that "thousands of years of sea pine, 10,000 years of dry maple".

It means that pine is not afraid of moisture, and maple is not too dry. The "seabed" means that there is a lot of water, that is, a humid environment, such as floating on the sea all year round. Pine wood is not afraid of water because it contains pine resin.

Therefore, you can't just think about teak when you mention shipbuilding, teak is good, but it doesn't mean that you can only use teak for shipbuilding, and it doesn't mean that teak is suitable for all parts of shipbuilding.

The advantage of teak is that its expansion and contraction is one of the least among all woods, so it can resist the erosion of marine and terrestrial animals, and does not corrode iron, and because of the small shrinkage, it is not easy to leak. Because of its high corrosion resistance, low deformation in various climates, and ease of construction, teak wood is suitable for shipbuilding, especially ship decks, oars, and masts. If the whole ship is made of teak, first, the cost is amazing, and second, it is unnecessary.

Therefore, although it is not clear whether Guangxi has teak or not, he is not in a hurry, because Guangxi's forest resources are now sufficient. In the purchase of timber in the hands of the toast, Gao pragmatic is not worried about the uncontrollable embarrassment of buying tung oil, because at present, except for him Gao, I am afraid that no one will have such a large-scale plan to buy shipbuilding wood, so if he does not buy it, the toasts will have nowhere to sell.

Of course, then again, if you can handle Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar and other places in the future, Gao Pragmatic also likes teak......

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