Helping Cen Ling keep this matter secret, Gao Pragmatic finally agreed, although he still had a lot of doubts in his heart about whether Mo Chao was the murderer who poisoned Zhang Ren, but in this situation, it is better to have a suspect than not even to be sure of the suspect.

As for whether the internal merits of Sicheng are straight, Gao Pragmatic generally believes what Cen Ling said, at least one, they did send Cen Yunhan to Guilin, and such a big and important proton was handed over, if there is no problem behind it, it would be too much to say.

But believe in it, believe in it, whether you want to help, or how to help, there is no need to worry about this for the time being. Gao pragmatic does things, and there is only one basic point of great conscience, that is, whether it is good for the continuation of the Han dynasty, and at other times, his conscience is far less important than reason.

The so-called reason, to put it bluntly, is about interests. The only difference from ordinary people is that Gao pragmatic talks about interests and is basically not talking about money now, at least in today's Guangxi, he doesn't feel that anyone deserves to talk to him about money.

Don't look at the name of "Sibo Tian Yang, Liangguang Cen Huang" is loud, but the name of the person is not rich, if you want to talk about money, the Wei Guogong family in Nanjing may be able to beat their four major Tusi families, so there is a top egg?

Putting aside the two families in Guizhou, let's just talk about the Cen and Huang families, according to what Huang Zhiting handed him over, if these two families can unite and reckless of the consequences, they can pull out 100,000 wolf soldiers in two months at most, and they are all mountain elites who can fight, which the fuck can be compared to the Duke of Wei?

However, if you talk about money...... The imperial court's annual tribute request for Siming Mansion was only 795 taels of silver, and the requirement for Sicheng Prefecture was 1,040 taels, even if this was an indicator that did not count other "native products", it could also be seen that the two of them were embarrassed in terms of silver.

Even if the annual endowment of the Cen and Huang families is added together, it is nothing to talk about in the eyes of Gao Pragmatic. Even exaggerating, Gao pragmatically suspects that if the Guangxi Tusi are all added together, the tribute paid in a year may be more than 10,000 taels - at most 20,000.

Twenty thousand taels, hehe...... Tianjin Port does not count the income of the fleet, just sitting in the port area to collect rent, two months can almost 30,000 taels, remove various expenses, there is a little redundancy, a month of 10,000 taels of net profit is not a problem at all.

20,000 taels of silver is nothing more than a transaction of Tianjin Port to sit on the land and collect rent for two months.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic would not consider scraping silver on Tusi as a benefit at all, and the most valuable capital on Tusi is actually two things: land and wolf soldiers.

The land is of little use for birds, at least for Gao Pragmatic, not to mention that Gao Pragmatic basically doesn't know what advantageous minerals there are in Guixi and Guinan, even if he remembers that he is not interested in mining, because first, safety cannot be guaranteed, and secondly, the traffic is not very convenient.

Relatively speaking, Guinan, where the Huang family is located, is a little better, if you really want to have any advantageous products, you can take the Mingjiang River to Qinzhou, and then transport it to Guangzhou by sea, which can be connected with the pragmatic Guangzhou private port. However, he couldn't guarantee that the Huang family would cooperate with him honestly, so there was no need to think about it for the time being.

As for the Cen family's land in western Guangxi, although it can also be connected to Qinzhou or even directly to Guangzhou through the Zuojiang-Pearl River water system, it has nothing to do with Gao Pragmatic, and he is not crossing the Chengcen Tusi, so he can't help them make money.

From this point of view, where the Cen clan may be useful to Gao Pragmatism, only the wolf soldiers remain. But the strength of the wolf soldier is to fight, he is pragmatic and does not rebel, what can the wolf soldier help him?

Therefore, the patrol system still has its advantages, and people like Gao Shipra, who are involved in a wide range of industries, are stunned to find a foothold that can reach an alliance of interests with the local government in Guangxi.

Ahh......h Coalition of interests? Foothold?

Gao Shishi, who had just sent Cen Ling away, suddenly slapped his forehead and said to himself: "How can I forget all the means I am best at!" Although Tusi was not very obedient, it was because the Ming Dynasty was only a source of orthodoxy for Tusi, and Tusi itself not only could not get benefits from the Ming Dynasty, but had to put in a sum of money every year, and even had to deal with the imperial court's requisition at any time. To this extent, Tusi is not only the younger brother of Daming, but also has to help Daming work, and even takes money to pay tribute...... So he is obedient just because he can't beat the 'big brother', and he is disobedient just because the 'big brother' wants too much? ”

Gao pragmatic thoughts suddenly came alive, and secretly wondered: So, can I rely on interests to win over, and even have a certain degree of control over toast?

It's easy to woo them, but they're poor anyway, and I'm not short of money...... But just giving money has a fart control? Unless they can control their economic lifeline.

But in terms of the current productivity of Liangjiang Tusi, their economic lifeline is nothing more than farming, and most of them are mountain fields.

So, how about creating a new economic lifeline for them, making this lifeline even more important than farming, and then controlling this lifeline?

Theoretically it should be feasible, but the key question is what kind of "new lifeline" can replace farming and be able to control it......

The so-called control economy, in this era, is nothing more than two ideas: control of production or control of circulation.

Uh, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to control production, if the toast doesn't listen to the call, thousands or even tens of thousands of wolf soldiers will press over and control the production of a fart? Even if you are like the "base areas" in the north, it is probably not very easy to set up a mine protection team and a factory protection team.

After all, in the north, the objects to be guarded against by these mine protection teams and factory protection teams are mainly bandits, rogues, ringing horses, etc., and they are not official soldiers, even if a large mining area or a large factory area, there are one or two thousand mine protection teams and factory protection teams are enough, but if they are replaced by Tusi wolf soldiers, there are tens of thousands of people who are ruthless, and I am afraid that it is not the mine protection team that can withstand it.

From this point of view, we can only consider starting from controlling circulation.

Guixi or Guinan, the characteristics are mountainous, if the circulation depends on people to carry the horse, the tofu can be turned into meat prices, unless you open the soap factory yourself, otherwise how can you guarantee profits? Without profits, what new lifeline is there to talk about? But the soap factory can't be opened in Guangxi, with Guangxi's consumption power, how many pieces of soap can be sold? Even if it wants to be opened, it can only be opened to Guangzhou.

Therefore, in terms of Guangxi's geographical environment, the premise of the so-called control of circulation must be the control of water trade routes. Because the characteristics of Guangxi's water system are very clear, that is, except for a few rivers that flow north to Huguang in Guilin, almost all of the rest flow eastward.

To the east, there are two ideas, one is to go to Guangdong no matter where you come from, and finally take the Pearl River to Guangdong. Another idea is to go to Qinzhou first and then turn to the sea.

The problem of walking the Pearl River can be put aside for a while, as long as there is money, just get a large fleet to "compete with the people", he is pragmatic and not an emperor, but he is not afraid of others saying that he is competing with the people. Besides, the people who can say this are all in the same category as him.

This is to control the circulation by controlling the transportation capacity, in fact, there is another way, that is, as long as the Xunzhou Mansion, the convergence point of the two rivers on the left and right sides of Guangxi, then the river leading to Guangdong by waterway will be locked.

It's just that this needs the support of the official, and it is not a problem for Gao Pragmatic to do patrol in Guangxi, but the patrol press generally does not last long, and it is not easy to say after he leaves, so although this method is hardcore, the priority is after controlling the fleet.

The real problem lies with Qinzhou. Qinzhou was under the rule of the Lianzhou Prefecture, and the entire Lianzhou Prefecture was administratively under Guangdong rather than Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty, which means that the highly pragmatic Guangxi Inspectorate could not control Qinzhou. And at the same time, for this reason, Guangxi is now a serious inland province.

Directly changing the Lianzhou Mansion to Guangxi is the best way to deal with it, and Gao Pragmatic certainly thought of this for the first time. However, this matter is a little troublesome, even if it is a high-level pragmatic energy in the upper echelons of the imperial court, whether it can be done or not is between the two.

In fact, in the Yuan Dynasty, Lianzhou was returned to Guangxi, and the Ming Dynasty also continued this administrative division when it first opened the country, but the good times did not last long, and the Japanese were prosperous, and the coastal areas were restless in the Hongwu Dynasty.

At this time, since there were only two coastal parts of Guangxi, Lianzhou and Qinzhou, the imperial court downgraded Qinzhou and assigned it to Lianzhou, and then packaged Lianzhou as a whole and assigned it to Guangdong - the reason is that the Guangdong naval division is strong, and after being assigned to Guangdong, it can unify the command of the defense and suppression of the Japanese pirates.

Since then, Guangxi has said goodbye to the sea.

However, the situation after the Lianzhou Mansion was assigned to Guangdong was not good, because this place is the "extreme west of Guangdong" for Guangdong, and it is a separate piece, which is not an enclave but an enclave, and has not been taken very seriously.

This has caused Lianzhou not only to be backward in economic development, but also to have a smaller and smaller population, and the coastal defense is not very reliable, and it is still invaded when it should be invaded by the Japanese - although the Guangdong Navy Division is relatively strong, does he ignore the "core interests" near Guangzhou, but always come to your Lianzhou?

Therefore, there are not no voices in the imperial court calling for the reassignment of the Lianzhou Mansion to Guangxi. But there are two reasons why this voice has not become mainstream.

The first reason is that Lianzhou produces salt and pearls, which is known as "Jinshan Zhuhai, the South Library of the Son of Heaven". The imperial court set up the "Guangdong Haibei Salt Course Lifting Division" and the "Deputy Envoy of Zhuchi, the Governor of Lei Lian for the Rectification of the Patrol Sea Road" in Lianzhou Mansion, of which the Salt Lifting Division has jurisdiction over 15 salt farms, of which three belong to Lianzhou Mansion.

This means that if Lianzhou were to be transferred back to Guangxi, not only would the corresponding administrative settings have to be changed, but it would also encroach on the interests of Guangdong—well, mainly the interests of Guangdong officials.

However, the problem of the pearl pond is more likely to be solved by high pragmatism. Because pearl diving is a very dangerous profession, pearl people often have deaths and injuries in pearl diving, and some times that are not suitable for pearl diving, because of the needs of the imperial court and forced pearl diving, it is even more dead and injured. Therefore, it has already attracted the attention of local officials many times, and the Shangshu Imperial Court has asked for rectification - of course, the local officials mainly asked the imperial court to abolish the "guarding the Zhuchi Internal Officials", and suggested that the military should be in charge of both, and the reason is self-evident. Now that there is a "deputy envoy to patrol the sea lane, Admiral Lei Lian and Zhuchi", it can be seen that the civilian officials are still more powerful.

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