The procuratorate of Liuzhou City has been heavily guarded in the past few days, and there are two groups of guards, the outer layer is the guard soldiers brought from Guilin, and the inner layer is the Gao family. Regardless of the guards, the high-ranking family members here are all northern men brought from Gyeonggi, all of them are tall and big, everyone speaks northern official dialect, and it is impossible to fake it, so no matter how anyone inquires about the news of this procuratorate, there is not much to see with their own eyes.

Any news that the outside world can get is spread from a few bigwigs who have seen Gao Pragmatic that day, in fact, it is not spread, and the people who can get the news are limited, and almost all of them are the leading figures in the Guangxi region, especially the Tusi of the left and right rivers in western Guangxi.

The meeting between Cen Qigongzi and Miss Huang, there are very few people who know the situation, and it can even be said that the news that they came to the Jinghu Courtyard in Longtan Town, south of Liuzhou City, is limited to a very small range, and the outside world does not know about it at all.

The high pragmatic news in Liuzhou City is actually very closed, but this is also a matter of no way, originally he did not expect that he would come to Guangxi to do a patrol one day, and his intelligence agency is not too early, at present, it is mainly based on Gyeonggi, Xuanda, Jizhen, in Shanxi, Henan, Shandong is also distributed, and then Nanzhili is slowly strengthening, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangzhou are relying on Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou three major ports in the gradual development, but on the whole it is still in its infancy, in the province is too late to expand, Where can we take care of Guangxi

And because he went south this time to do patrols, generally speaking, it was only for one year, so he didn't bring Gao Mo with him, there were only Gao Zhang and Cao Ke around him, Gao Zhang only led troops, and he didn't understand intelligence. Cao Ke is the person he cultivated, but he still temporarily helped him take care of Guangxi's intelligence affairs, and because Guangxi has no foundation, the progress is very small.

"Master, now we are mainly unavailable in Guangxi, and the main reason why no one is available is that there is no support point." Cao Ke analyzed, "The reason why we know everything in Gyeonggi is not only because of the support of Cheng Guogong and others, but also because Jinghua has a huge industry in Gyeonggi, and there are countless people who directly or indirectly serve the master, so not only is it easy to select the right person to do intelligence, but also find someone to inquire about the news, and people can't help but give face." ”

"But in Guangxi, we don't have this advantage, because Jinghua doesn't have any industry in Guangxi Province. So far, Jinghua has no direct partners in Guangxi, and even if it sells some cement, it is only through a small amount of transshipment from Huguang, which is a resale made by Huguang businessmen, and has nothing to do with Jinghua itself. ”

Gao pragmatic nodded, but immediately said, "What you said is true, but the problem is, does Jinghua have to invest in Guangxi, we don't have any strong support points in the entire south, and we can only rely on the three southern ports to slowly develop, and the Guangzhou port, which is the closest to Guangxi, has only been in its hands for almost a year, and it is still in the stable stage, how much support can it be expected to give Guangxi"

"Maybe we can consider letting the Jinghua Trading Company open up the Southwest Trade Road" Cao Ke is worthy of being Cao Gan's son, since the Guangzhou Port can't give support, he immediately thought of the Jinghua Trading Company that his Lao Tzu is responsible for.

"There is no doubt that the Southwest Trade Road can be opened." Gao pragmatic nodded, but said, "The problem is time, I can probably stay in Guangxi for a year, is one year enough to open up the southwest trade route, I think it is difficult, it can even be said that even if your father can do this within a year, but after a year, I will go back to Beijing to resume my life, this trade route is at most to add another source of income to Jinghua, which is not helpful to our current affairs." ”

Cao Ke scratched his head and hesitated, "Then directly invest in mining or building factories"

"What mines to open, what factories to build, and what markets to rely on to make profits" Gao Pragmatic rolled his eyes, "Beijing is densely populated, there are many rich people, and the people are relatively wealthy, so I can rely on soap and honeycomb coal to start a business." And because there is an important town near Jingshi, I can open a coal mine and an iron factory in Kaiping nearby, and build a musket and artillery factory to grab the military market, but what about Guangxi."

Gao Pragmatic sighed, "Even if I dig mines, smelt iron, and even build firearms, but the redress of Jiubian and Jingying has not yet been completed, and the imperial court is not interested in changing the clothes of Guangxi officials and soldiers now, I can't sell it to those toasts, Guangxi wolf soldiers are not afraid of death, I will change their firearms again, if Guangxi is reversed in the future, I will go to see the emperor."

This truth is very obvious, Gao Pragmatic can understand Cao Ke as soon as he says that those toasts are not Jinghua's family members, once the force is strong, the ghost knows if something will happen, and this responsibility is indeed unbearable.

However, Cao Ke didn't know that Gao Pragmatic was not very worried about giving the toast firearms, and the toasts would really be invincible, because firearms were not as good as cold weapons, and they could not be used all the time when they got their hands.

Jinghua's firearms must be matched with the ammunition produced by Jinghua, such as the Longqing II musket, the caliber of which is a unique design of Jinghua, and in order to match this caliber, the projectile is also a special supply of Jinghua, and at the same time, in order to ensure that the design power is achieved, it is also necessary to use gunpowder and customized paper shells produced by Jinghua.

All in all, after buying the Jinghua Longqing II musket, the future gunpowder, projectiles, customized paper shells and other supporting combat parts will have to be purchased from Jinghua, just like the later generations of automobile 4S shops sometimes do not make money by selling cars at all, but by maintenance and repair, as long as they do not lose money, they will make money.

So in other words, even if the toasts really bought Jinghua's firearms, do they have the ability to rebel with these firearms, in fact, Jinghua will know from the shipping list that you haven't bought enough ammunition, and you can rebel just by taking those burning sticks, so you might as well use the previous big knives and spears

In fact, the main focus of Gao Pragmatism is that there is no profit from doing this, and the strength of these Tusi may not be bad, but their strength does not lie in how much gold and silver they have, but in the people under their rule. These natives are both numerous and honest and obedient, but they are not afraid of death when they start a battle, so the toasts have their current status and influence.

Without gold and silver, it is not attractive to Gao Pragmatic, no matter how good the local people are, he doesn't plan to come to Guangxi to play as a toast, what's the use

Of course, there is no gold or silver, and it is fine if there are good goods of equal value, but it seems that these toasts do not have any particularly advantageous goods to exchange, so it does not seem like a good idea to do business with them.

It's just that in this way, Gao Pragmatic's most effective means of control is impossible to use, and the interest alliance that he relied on in Beijing to fight across the horizon and the horizon can't be used in Guangxi, which really gives Boss Gao a headache.

For these toasts, if they don't press it, they may not be honest and obedient, but if they are ruthless, it is easy to have an accident, and the most important thing is that once an accident happens, Guangxi's own military strength may not be able to handle it.

The "internal strength" is not enough, the interests cannot be obtained, and after thinking about it pragmatically, it seems that there is only one way left, that is, to use the internal contradictions between the toasts to make things wrong and make a fuss.

In fact, he has not been idle these days, and has been learning about the intelligence of the Guangxi toasts through various channels, and directly expanding the intelligence business is only one aspect, and other things such as querying various historical documents and current official documents can also allow him to make some understanding of the historical origins and current situation between the Guangxi toasts.

Through these materials, he found an interesting phenomenon that although the Cen and Huang families are strong, they are not invulnerable, they also have interest factions within them, and they are not all monolithic, and the Cen and Huang families also have to face the joint confrontation of other weaker Tusi

This may also be an opportunity.