Maybe it was to take office earlier, maybe it was to avoid urging marriage, in short, Gao Pragmatic only stayed in Xinzheng for two days.

On the first day, he met with his brothers and sisters, and then went into the county seat to visit his fifth uncle. On the second day, he sat at home and waited for Xinzheng Zhixian to come to visit and discuss some public and private affairs with him.

The official eunuch family is like this in the locality, especially the official eunuchs like the Gao family, and the ancestral shrine of the family is still for a Wenzheng public tablet

You must know that although Gao Pragmatic is the same as him in the seventh grade, but the difference between the gold content of the two seven grades is more than ten times that between the county magistrate and the patrol

What's more, Gao Pragmatic has become the head of the family who is not the head of the family in Xinzheng Gao, and if he does not have the approval of the Gao family in Xinzheng County, it is estimated that he will have to roll up and leave next month.

But Gao Pragmatic didn't have anything to do with him, this magistrate was born in the same jinshi, and the bigwigs of any faction didn't take a fancy to him, and then I didn't know whether he spent money or what way he went, and he got a real shortage, and he did a term as the magistrate of the county. Then the exam results were good, and he was promoted to a middle county to continue to be a magistrate, and it happened to be arranged in Xinzheng.

Since he arrived in Xinzheng, there was no other way but to hug the thighs of the Gao family, so the county magistrate, who was close to 300 fellow jinshi, basically regarded himself as a subordinate of the Gao family, and his mind was to serve the Gao family's two major industries, Xinzheng Coal Mine and Jinghua porcelain.

Needless to say, Xinzheng Coal Mine, Jinghua porcelain is actually the main production area in Yuzhou, but after this Zhang Zhixian took office, he wasted a lot of effort to say that his pragmatic mother Zhang, in Xinzheng also opened a kiln, the same is to hang the brand of Jinghua porcelain, the production of Jun porcelain non-high-end products Jun porcelain itself is the top product, Xinzheng's so-called non-high-end, in fact, put on the market is also high-end goods.

As a result, a lot of achievements have been made in the past six months, the gross profit is more than 7,000 taels of silver, and the net profit is more than 5,000 taels, so that Zhang's is quite satisfied, you must know that the tax paid by Xinzheng County in a year is only more than 1,700 taels.

What can Gao Shishi say, he can only praise Zhang Zhixian, write a note and hand it to him, and say to him, "Wu Fangbo, the political envoy of Henan's right cloth, is my senior brother, you can take my hand note to meet you." ”

Uncle Fang is an elegant name for the political envoy. This political envoy is actually Wu Wenjia, who has been given the right political participation in Zhejiang Province, the left political participation in Henan, and the Guizhou Provincial Envoy and then transferred to the right political envoy of Henan.

He is the Wu Zhangke who listened to Gao Shishi's instructions and drove Zhang Juzheng, who returned to Beijing from Tianshou Mountain overnight to save Feng Bao, and blocked him outside the city gate overnight. ** In the past few years, it has been promoted from the seventh grade to the second grade, of course, although the rank of the political envoy is high, but in fact, it depends on the face of the governor and the governor, but that is another problem.

Of course, for Zhang Zhixian, it is a blessing of luck to be able to go to the provincial right political envoy because he saw Gao Pragmatic, but he heard that Wu Fangbo should be promoted to the provincial political envoy after the examination is completed, which is the number one in Henan.

After beating Zhang Zhixian, who was very grateful, Gao Shishi and Liu Xin and his party went on the road.

In Henan, with the Gao family's Fuxi Nuwa snake body flag and Jinghua's "double sword holding book" flag, not to mention that ordinary people look at it from a distance with a look of envy and respectful to give way, even mountain bandits and road tyrants will walk around.

This is not only the prestige of the Gao family, but also the prestige that the Gao family has accumulated step by step in the land of Henan for several generations, as well as the popularity gained by Gao Shishi's shelter of Wei Hui's displaced people.

Therefore, from Xinzheng to Yuzhou, and then through Xiangcheng, Yexian, Yuzhou until Nanyang, the road is unimpeded. However, if you go down any further, after Xinye County, you will enter the territory of Huguang Land and Xiangyang Prefecture.

Xiangyang can be said to be a good place since ancient times, and it is also an important military town, but in the Ming Dynasty, this place is relatively worse than in ancient times because it is a little close to Yunyang, the famous "source of chaos".

Gao Pragmatic also reminded his family to be careful, especially when he didn't bring Gao Ming with him this time, he didn't dare to be careless.

Gao Heng's boss is not small, he married Gao Pragmatic's maid to admire the moon last year, and this year his son was born, so Gao Pragmatic gave him half of his vacation to stay in Beijing. His duty is to oversee all the armed men, and in case of a major accident, he can also call on the factory protection team and mine protection team of any factory and mine near Gyeonggi, which is now quite a bit of a commander-in-chief of the armed forces in the Jinghua system.

Gao Pragmatic brought out the leader of the family this time is called Gao Zhang, who is an orphan among the Wei Hui refugees, changed his surname to the Gao family, and his qualifications are not old, but he performed very well when he was trained in Jizhen, Qi Jiguang commented that he said, "Although the flexibility is slightly insufficient, it is as stable as Mount Tai, and it can lead the Chinese army to guard."

Qi Junshen's vision is high and pragmatic, so he naturally has no doubts at all, so this time he handed over the "Chinese army guard" to him. However, considering that he didn't have much actual combat experience after all, Gao Pragmatic still reminded him a few times after entering the Huguang realm, especially the Xiangyang Prefecture boundary close to Yunyang.

But Liu Xin was very relaxed, she Lao Tzu handed over the housekeeper's cronies to her to take the hand, but she didn't care, and she didn't even say a few words to the family. In addition to chatting with Gao Pragmatic every day, he also used the advantages of the geography teacher to introduce Gao Pragmatic to the local topography, mineral resources, climate change and other things whenever he passed by.

It's a pity that Gao Pragmatic felt that the minerals he had at hand were enough, so he basically didn't listen to it.

Liu Xin was not angry, and still talked to herself, as if she could finally find someone to talk about her full stomach, which made Gao pragmatic a little funny and a little pitiful at the same time.

As she herself said, the profession of her previous life is not very useful in this era, unless she is a man, there is more or less chance that she can use it.

Speaking of which, her level of geographical knowledge is in Daming, which is really incomparable to Xu Xiake, but she can't show it, and it's worse than Huaicai, no wonder she said that she didn't want to cross at all that day.

Gao pragmatic saw her like this, and comforted her, saying, "There will be a time when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea."

As a result, Liu Xin just rolled her eyes and replied, "You should come to this kind of thing in Ji Canghai, I am not interested in such a dangerous thing as breaking the wind and waves, it is better to let me have a green hat, a green coat, and a slanting wind and drizzle." ”

Gao pragmatic listened, and had to smile bitterly.

In life, sometimes I am really forced to be helpless, and I can only be Buddha.

I walked forward for two more days, until I got out of the realm of Xiangyang Mansion and did not encounter any danger, and then I passed through the situation of the Hindu Left-behind Division in the same safety and arrived at Jingzhou Mansion.

Gao Pragmatic planned to settle down in Jingzhou for a day and go to Zhang Juzheng's house to visit Don't look at Zhang Juzheng was brought down by him, in fact, because only a few people know the inside story, the outside world has never blamed the Gao family's uncle and nephew. Moreover, at that time, Zhang Juzheng was returning to his hometown from Beijing, and because he was not allowed to use the post station, he finally sent Gao Shishi to personally send his family to escort him back to Jingzhou.

What made Gao pragmatic even more relieved later was that Zhang Jingxiu, the eldest of the Zhang family, and Zhang Maoxiu, the third eldest of the Zhang family, who went to participate in the Gengchen imperial examination this year, actually seemed to have no idea about the reason for their father's fall that year.

After all, in the eyes of the outside world, Zhang Juzheng was a close friend of Gao Gong, although in the last period of time, the two seemed to have a little discord, but after all, they did not tear their faces publicly, nor did they roll up their sleeves to beat each other, Gao Gong even went away because of Zhang Juzheng's death, and it can be seen that the two of them really sympathize with each other.

When he arrived in Jingzhou on this day, Gao Pragmatic handed a prayer post to the Zhang family and went to worship Zhang Juzheng as a junior.

Maybe because Gao Pragmatic is an atheist and is very slow in some aspects, he didn't feel anything uncomfortable about Zhang Juzheng's grave anyway, so he paid his respects very calmly.

However, the brothers of the Zhang family, the eldest and the second and third are all Jinshi, and they are all currently in Beijing.

So in the end, it became an old acquaintance Zhang Jianxiu, who was very pragmatic, this old man was not very good, and because Zhang Juzheng returned to his hometown after losing his official position, he did not get Enyin, so he is still in his hometown, and he is not the same as the commander of Enyin Jinyi Guard in history. However, this is not necessarily a bad thing, at least it will not be dismissed after two or three years.

Although Zhang Jianxiu is not good, he is very hospitable, and he has to stay in his house for a few days, saying that he wants to "ask for scriptures".

Gao pragmatic said that he was going to take up his post, and it was inconvenient to stay on official business, so it was better to come back to bother him when he returned to Beijing next year.

Zhang Jianxiu still resolutely grabbed him, and said, "Seek the truth, you don't know, it is the time of the autumn flood of the great river recently, the Huya landscape bandits have plundered hundreds of miles, coming and going without a trace, Zhou Guan, the deputy envoy of Jingnan military garrison, has a headache now, this Jingzhou City is still guarded by Jingqu, and it is not easy to say anything when you go out of the city." ”

Observation is the elegant name of the Ming Dynasty for the Tao of Soldiers, which comes from the observation envoy of the Tang Dynasty, which corresponds to the level of "Dao".

The two main figures related to the military in Jingzhou City are the "Deputy Military Envoy of the Rectification of Shigui and Other Places in Jingnan Road" and the "Jingqu Garrison", among which the Jingqu garrison is theoretically responsible for not only guarding the Jingzhou capital city, but in fact, the main task is to defend Jingzhou City, and the military affairs of several prefectures outside the city are generally directly managed by the military garrison road.

Gao Pragmatic was a little surprised, there were still water bandits here in Huguang who could make a soldier feel a headache

At this time, Liu Xin suddenly interjected, and said, "Huya Mountain Water Bandits, Huya Mountain, that place is into the Xiajiang Pass, opposite to Jingmen Mountain across the river, if the water bandits master these two mountains, I want to enter the Sichuan from the Yangtze River, but it will be troublesome." ”

Gao Xian glanced at her in amazement, and said in his heart, no wonder Liu Xian thinks that she can be in charge of the army, it seems that this geography is still useful if she learns it well.