Siming Mansion does not have a post station of the imperial court, and Gao Pragmatic does not plan to walk all the way when he goes back this time, so he first goes north to Jiangzhou, and then slightly turns northwest and walks dozens of miles to Taiping Mansion.

Taiping Mansion is a magical place, and the magic of this mansion lies in the fact that except for the prefect himself, all the other officials are local officials, and the states and counties under its jurisdiction are also Tusi.

These toasts are the most powerful and powerful in the Huang family. The second is the Zhao family, second only to the Huang family, but the Zhao family's main energy has been put on the Si'en Mansion, and in the Taiping Mansion, they even plan to give up Longzhou to obtain the support of the Huang family. Judging from this approach, it seems that the Zhao clan has the intention to avoid the pressure of the Huang clan and develop eastward.

However, these are not Gao pragmatic's current concerns, for the problem of Guangxi Tusi, he already has a package of solutions, and it is a solution that kills multiple birds with one stone, at this time to worry about a certain prefecture, a certain state or something, not only meaningless, but also redundant.

Therefore, he didn't even have the heart to inspect Taiping Mansion, so he went straight to Zuojiang Water Station to get on the boat, preparing to take the waterway to Nanning Mansion first, and then turn to the horse post, passing through Wuyuan County, Binzhou and then to Qianjiang County. When you arrive in Qianjiang County, you can change back to Shuiyi, go to Laibin County, Xiangzhou, Luorong County, and then to Liuzhou, which is only twenty or thirty miles away.

Since he arrived in the south, he found that the water post is much more comfortable than the horse post, as long as he does not get seasick, it can be said that it is fast, stable and easy, so now wherever he can take the water post, he is resolutely not to take the horse post.

The Taiping Mansion can not be inspected, but Zuojiang needs to know about it, because according to his vision, in the future, in order to control the Tusi of Guixi and Guinan, the most important support for the upstream section of the commercial network is Zuojiang and Youjiang.

According to his inquiries to the boat boss, the Zuojiang River is obviously the largest tributary of the Yujiang River, an upstream tributary of the Xijiang River system. It was called Jinnan Water and Jinren Water earlier, and originated in the Kulong Mountains at the junction of Annan and Guangxi. The upper reaches are called Qiqiu River in the territory of Annam, also called Li River, and it is called Pinghe River after entering the territory of Daming in Pingerguan. After flowing to Longzhou, there is a tributary Shuikou River that joins in, and then it is called Zuojiang River below.

The Zuojiang River flows east to Longzhou, and the section from Longzhou to Shangjin is also called Lijiang. It flows through Jiangzhou, and a large tributary, the Heishui River, joins from the left side. The main river flows to Nanning and joins the Youjiang River in the Tianzhou section of the Yujiang River, which is the traditional starting point of the Yujiang River section and the Yujiang Yongjiang section.

According to Gao Shipra's observation all the way, from the beginning of the Taiping Mansion, the channel of the Zuojiang River is not too wide, and there are some shoals, but as long as the hydrological situation of the main river is understood, there is no problem with navigation - he refers to the inland river transport vessels, and the requirement is the level that can transport giant trees.

It is easy to say that it can transport giant trees, which means that this waterway can be used all the time, because the Zuojiang River and the Mingjiang River are also connected, which means that Simingfu and Simingzhou can be connected by water trade routes through the Mingjiang River to the Zuojiang waterway.

The highly pragmatic business network plan can be regarded as a basic support point - after all, it is impossible for him to let people carry those giant trees from the deep mountains and old forests of the 100,000 mountains all the way to Qinzhou and even Guangzhou.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic is also worried too much, the main channel of the Zuojiang River can run large ships in the future, how can there be inland river ships in this year that can't run? You must know that after the reform and opening up in later generations, there are often freighters who transport some local products such as dragon's beard grass, jute, jute, soybeans, red melon seeds, etc. to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and other places. It can only be said that his understanding of Guangxi in his previous life was really insufficient.

Gao pragmatic asked the boat boss if there were any bandits and water bandits on the river, and the boat boss said: "The old man doesn't know, this piece is full of toast, those wolf soldiers are mountain bandits compared to any mountain bandits, and they are like monkeys when they go up the mountain, and no mountain bandit can stand up." As for the water bandits, don't mention it, the water bandits can't sleep in the water all year round, they have to have a nest on the shore, but who are they the opponents of the wolf soldiers on the shore? Therefore, there are no bandits and bandits along the way, but after entering Nanning, it is impossible to say, the official army is okay to fight the toast, and the bandits are really unreliable......"

Gao Pragmatic was speechless for a while, and the area governed by Tusi was better in public order than the area governed by the imperial court. As for the fact that the official army can fight toast, Gao Pragmatic knows it very well in his heart, that is because the official army is tens of thousands to fight thousands, or more than 100,000 to 100,000 to 10,000 or 20,000.

Fortunately, the Cen and Huang families restrained each other......

All the way to Nanning Mansion safely, Gao Pragmatic still concealed his identity - in fact, he couldn't hide it, he didn't even have an official robe, he didn't say that he was a master of Taiwan, who would believe it? So I found an inn to stay in temporarily.

Nanning Mansion is a Liuguan land, and its strength is not weak, and the city is also guarded by Nanning Guard, which is also not weak, so Gao Shishi feels much more relieved as soon as he enters the city.

It stands to reason that he is in Guinan Tusi's territory, followed by the wolf soldiers sent by Huang Zhiting, in fact, there is really no need to be afraid of anything, Guinan is the basic territory of the Huang family, and if you don't give Huang Zhiting face, I am afraid that I will not be able to find a few. But people are like this, he thinks he is a court official, and he always feels a little less dependent in his heart when he stays in the Tusi jurisdiction.

Now that he arrived at Nanning Mansion, which shocked Guinan, he was much more relieved, and he didn't want the wolf soldiers to guard, so he generously gave the wolf soldiers half a day off, and each of them gave three dollars of silver, and let them go out to drink by themselves.

The reward of three taels of silver is probably the lowest reward given by Gao Pragmatic in the past ten years, but there is no way, Huang Zhiting only gave him fifty taels of silver for "travel expenses", and he spent three taels on the reward this time, which is not stingy...... To say that stinginess is also Huang Zhiting's stinginess.

However, Gao pragmatically estimated that Huang Zhiting may not really have much cash on hand, after all, even the imperial court knows about the poverty of Tusi, they are typical of having manpower and material resources, but they have no financial resources.

After the wolf soldiers left, Gao Pragmatic pondered how to control the toast in the room alone.

Now the general direction is to think about it, but the details are not at all, and the details are about to begin, so he can't afford to procrastinate anymore - the reason why he took the opportunity to ask to return to Liuzhou this time is also because of this reason. He must quickly get in touch with his own people and give instructions to his specific subordinates for the arrangements for all the preparatory work.

In addition, it is necessary to start war reserves, such as muskets, artillery, gunpowder, and projectiles, which are essential, and at the same time food must also be stored - he does not believe that the materials stored by the Cen and Huang families are enough to fight a war to destroy the country, even if the other party is only half of Annan, unless the Cen and Huang families have long wanted to rebel, but judging from the current situation, they do not have this mind, nor do they have this ability.

Therefore, these material reserves have to be prepared in advance by themselves, and when the time comes, they will ...... Of course, there will be no free support, and there will definitely be an exchange of benefits. The key is that the preparation of these things is not to be carried out directly with a pragmatic order, but also to carry out some cover, at least not to hoard these things near Gyeonggi, otherwise if it is reported by someone with a heart, even if Zhu Yijun does not believe it, he is afraid that he will have to peel off his skin, so he can only hoard in Guangzhou.

Fortunately, the port of Guangzhou has been expanding, and it must be able to vacate a lot of warehouses.

However, when he thought of the port of Guangzhou, he began to have a headache about where to build his first shipyard in the south, Guangzhou is the largest city in South China, and it is also a port city, obviously with the advantage of talent and human resources; Qinzhou, which is close to the Tusi jurisdiction and close to the 100,000 mountains, will definitely have an advantage in terms of materials...... It's hard to determine.

Just as I was thinking, there was a knock on the door.