Taifu, Zhongji Temple scholar and secretary of the Ministry of Officials Guo Pu is on duty in the cabinet today, and as soon as he entered the duty room, he said to Xiao Liangyou, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, who had recently entered the Zhiwenyuan Pavilion: "Is there a truth-seeking sparse today?" Show me. ”

Xiao Liangyou himself is Gao Pragmatic in the same year, after compiling the "Daming Huidian" together, now he is already a friend, of course he knows the teacher-student relationship between Guo Pu and Gao Pragmatic, for the first time after Gao Pragmatic arrived as the Guangxi Patrol, he had long expected that Guo Pu would pay attention to it personally, so as soon as Guo Pu spoke, he bowed slightly and said: "Yuanfu, the truth-seeking Shuwen has been placed on your desk." ”

Guo Pu nodded with satisfaction, walked to the desk and sat down, picked up the pragmatic Shuwen and looked at it.

The title of this essay is of course very high, and the content is also very open, but the gist of his essay is very interesting, and the ideas in it are almost exactly the same as the one in which he became the "champion of the six heads".

That is to say, the key to Guangxi's chaos lies in poverty. Just as he said in his strategy: Today's great trouble lies in poverty: if the officials are poor, the people will be poor, the people will be poor, the army will be poor, and the country will be weak...... The so-called poverty, as far as the small people are concerned, their production is not enough for themselves, and they are easy to be insufficient for their own use.

Because of this, if you want the officials not to be greedy, you must first add to them; If you want the small people not to steal, you should first get rich; If you want to keep the soldiers from making trouble, you must first pay for them; If you want the country not to be weak, you must first enrich its treasury.

And his essay is also based on this idea, proposing: "Guangxi's poverty is not due to the limited land resources and the lack of manpower, but because of the products of the land, there are no people who can process and sell them." ”

So Gao pragmatic put forward a bunch of projects to help Guangxi "processing and selling", and said in the article that Jinghua is willing to take the lead in establishing two major factories of sugar refining and shipbuilding in Guangxi, and vigorously cultivate local tung oil planting and tung oil trade.

The only trouble is that Guangxi has no access to the sea, and even if these goods can be produced, they will have to pass through Lianzhou in Guangdong.

Gao Pragmatic made it clear in the text that for Jinghua and even other businessmen in the future, there is no difference between paying taxes to Guangxi or Guangdong, but "Guangdong is always rich, Guangxi is always poor, then the western province has long admired the supply of the eastern province, and there is no way to stand on its own, and its people are insufficient, so how can they know etiquette and keep their duties?" ”

All in all, he raised whether or not Lianzhou Mansion could be included in Guangxi to the level of whether Guangxi Province could maintain long-term peace and stability.

Of course, in passing, issues such as the supply of the squad army are also mentioned in passing, so as to support this.

As for the possible "disadvantages", Gao Pragmatic mentioned the issue of guarding against Japanese invaders, but he did not talk much about it, and its main meaning was hidden in one sentence: "Since the industry is prosperous and the local area is benefiting, it will be strictly guarded against." ”

This sentence is quite interesting, as if to say that Lianzhou is not valued at the moment, even if the Guangdong Navy Division is quite powerful, but because there is no interest, the Japanese come and go freely. In the future, since a series of industries have been established, Guangxi localities have a vital interest in them, and in order to protect these interests, it is certainly impossible to turn a blind eye to the threat of the Japanese invaders.

If Guo Pu is allowed to evaluate, it is a high intention, a correct argument, and the whole article is not only righteous and awe-inspiring, but also very practical, and deeply adheres to the spiritual essence of learning.

Guo Pu took a closer look to see if there were any irregularities, but he was too worried, Gao Pragmatic had just finished compiling the "Daming Huidian", and he was very clear about some places that should be avoided and paid attention to, how could he make mistakes?

Guo Ge Lao then replied with sixteen words: "The officer is negligent, the statement is clear, and the consideration is appropriate, so he can be allowed to ask." ”

Slipping in, Zhu Yijun heard that Gao Pragmatic handed over the first note after taking office, and thought that he had found some corrupt officials and corrupt officials impeached during the inspection, but who knew that it was such a sparse text when he took it over, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Although the jurisdiction of the Imperial Governor has long been expanded to almost no boundary, on the whole, it should still be dominated by supervision, and these local administrative affairs should usually be the governor's responsibility.

Zhu Yijun was a little surprised at first, but after looking at it carefully, he had to admit that Gao Pragmatic's performance was not overstepping his authority. Supervising the work of the imperial history, whether it is to arrest corrupt officials or investigate rebellion, in the final analysis, it is to maintain the local peace. And although the main focus of his essay is finance, the ultimate goal is still to maintain local peace, and it can even be said that it is for long-term peace and stability.

Zhu Yijun has always been very relieved of his pragmatic ability, although he vaguely felt that there would be opposition to this matter, but he inherited a good habit of his father, Emperor Longqing: employing people without suspicion. Now that the cabinet's vote is also agreed, he doesn't think about it anymore, and Zhu criticizes: "Lianzhou used to belong to Guangdong, but it was because of the Japanese Kou, and the former Song Dynasty was not like this. However, now that the Japanese are embarrassed, it is a long-term policy for Lianzhou to return to Guangxi, and it can be carried out. There is a company that can quickly agree clearly, understand the zoning, and report to me. ”

The change of administrative ownership in the land of a government is not a matter of casual remarks, and the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even the five military governors' offices and other yamen must make corresponding adjustments, and the relevant administrative procedures, the transfer of archival materials such as the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Atlas, etc., are a lot of miscellaneous matters.

Therefore, according to the holy decree, all ministries are secretly unlucky, and many officials privately ask their respective cabinet elders for advice.

On the side of the Gao Party, it is naturally easy to say that the first fire of the new officials who are pragmatic and pragmatic will definitely cooperate in singing praises, while the Xinxue faction has remained silent for the time being.

In fact, Shen Shixing is a little distressed now, originally according to his thoughts, he can't compete with Gao Dang for "this little thing", don't look at Gao Pragmatic's young age and low rank, but he is a very special person, in the current situation, it is very uneconomical to pinch Gao Pragmatic for this little thing.

The current situation is that Guo Pu has obviously retreated, and although Zhang Siwei is not very old, his health is not good, so why not wait for them to retire and then go to make a plan with Gao Dang?

However, the trouble is that Liu Yaoyu is a typical important minister of the Xinxue Party, with his achievements in quelling the Bazhai Rebellion, not to mention coming to Yanjing, at least he has a good chance to serve as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, which is actually the first important minister in Nanjing. Now that Gao Shixing has cut it all at Liu Yaoxue, Shen Shixing has to consider Liu Yaoxue's reaction.

So Shen Shixing decided to wait, wait to see Liu Yaoyu's reaction after receiving the news, and then decide whether to oppose or acquiesce.

Since no one immediately jumped out to disagree, the holy decree naturally began to be implemented, and at the same time, the Gao family's related industries also began to move.

In Kaiping, the three major factories began to adjust their production capacity and urgently supplied large quantities of refined iron to the Jinghua Artillery Factory and the Jinghua Musket Factory, while the two arsenals began to work overtime to manufacture Longqing Type 2 muskets, Bingzi Type 1 light artillery, and Gengchen Type 1 heavy artillery under the pretext that the Jinghua Security Corps needed to go south to Guangxi to protect the sugar mills and shipyards that were about to be built.

By the way, they also changed hands and handed over a deal to Wang Chonggu's grandson, Wang Qian, to make a large number of fine iron spearheads. The Wang family has now also begun to engage in the private military industry, but it is mainly engaged in the cold weapons and armor business, so this time Jinghua's iron spearhead business was directly handed over to the Wang family.

Wang Chonggu is Zhang Siwei's uncle, it stands to reason that Wang Qian and Gao Pragmatic are cousins, but from the habits of the Ming Dynasty, this "table" is a bit far. But the two families are both high parties and have relatives, so they are naturally indispensable on weekdays, especially the iron used by the Wang family is still the source of goods provided by Jinghua, and the Wang family has earned a processing fee in it.

At the same time, Jinghua's armed forces were also urgently mobilized, and a full 4,000 people were transferred in batches from Jinghua Trading Company, Kaiping, Henan Weihui, and other places to Laizhou, Shandong.

Among them, Liu Xian is only responsible for the whole training, and after the whole training, he will return to Kaiping to prepare the second batch of personnel, while Gao Ming will lead the team to Guangxi to prepare for the battle.

Although the number of men and horses transferred this time is no more, no less than 4,000, for the Jinghua system, which has more than 20,000 armed or quasi-armed personnel in Gyeonggi, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, it is probably less than one-fifth of the strength, and even the strength of the second batch is only one-quarter, but this is a "10,000-mile expedition", and many things have to be considered.

At the very least, the first thing they do when they arrive in Guangxi is to adapt to the climate, which alone will take at least two or three months.

Because of these incidents, Liu Xian, who had the most experience in fighting in the south, personally rushed to Laizhou to impart his experience.

In addition to the preparations for the armed forces, the Jinghua shipyard in Laizhou was busy deploying personnel, and many shipbuilders needed to rush to Guangxi with the fleet.

The recruitment of personnel in the sugar refinery is even more troublesome, this is a temporary decision of high pragmatism, and there is no talent reserve of this type in the north, so it has to be recruited quickly, and at the same time recruit people in Weihui and Xinzheng.

After recruiting so many people, there must always be enough grain, and Guangxi's local grain production is unreliable, so you either have to go to Guangdong to buy it or buy it from Huguang. Although Gao pragmatic had a better business network in Huguang in theory, it was more inconvenient to transfer grain from Huguang to Guangxi - there were many mountainous areas, and the waterways were countercurrent, so the matter had to be put aside for the time being, and Jinghua only prepared the grain to be eaten on the road in the north, and the rest was bought by Gao Mengnan near Guangzhou and transported to Qinzhou.

There are some other preparations, but there is no need to repeat them one by one, in short, the entire Jinghua has taken action for it, and the effect of laying the foundation of the ten years of high pragmatism depends on this wave.

Jinghua is very clear about this, so they can't help but be nervous - whether they did a good job this time, the master is personally staring at it, and the future can be all in this move.