Before Gao Pangshi officially "went to work", he did go to Ji Town, but he didn't go directly to Ji Town, but went a little further, directly to Yongping Mansion.
In later generations, Yongping Prefecture included most of Tangshan and Qinhuangdao, and was governed in Lulong County. However, the real number one official in Yongping Prefecture was neither the Yongping prefect nor the Lulong County Magistrate, but the deputy envoy for rectifying Yongping Road's sea, water and military equipment, referred to as the deputy envoy of Yongping military preparations, also known as the deputy envoy of Jizhou military preparations.
The current deputy envoy of Yongping Military Preparation is Wu Dui - the only disciple of the Gao family who dared to take the risk when Gao Gong was forced to retire.
Of course Gao Pragmatic will go to Yongping to see him, so there is no need to say more.
Wu Dui is forty-six years old this year, which is nearly forty years older than Gao Pragmatic. However, he has recently heard the news that Enxiang's nephew is another prodigy of the Ming Dynasty. For Gao Pragmatic's special purpose Jian Ba also knew very well about the fact that he was studying with the prince, so he didn't dare to make excuses when they met. He followed the etiquette of meeting brothers and gave him enough face.
Gao pragmatically came to see him. The main purpose was to buy land - not to buy fertile land, but to encircle a large area of wasteland, tidal flats and ownerless mountains that are useless now. This is easy to say, and it is not too big. Trouble. Especially for the tidal flats, the imperial government had a policy many years ago. Coastal residents have moved inland several times, so the population is now very small.
It doesn't matter if it's barren mountains or wasteland. Jizhou is a famous military town. In order to avoid being beaten at every turn, households live in relatively concentrated areas. Most of the areas designated by Gao Pragmatic look like this. place. In accordance with the habitual mentality of local officials in the Ming Dynasty who basically paid no attention to land other than fertile land, Wu Dui patted his chest and assured that it would be no problem to sell these waste lands to Gao Pragmatic, and the price would be easy to negotiate.
The real trouble lies in the fact that Gao Pingshi has taken a fancy to Kaiping Town, the seat of Kaiping Zhongtunwei.
But when Wu Dui frowned and said that this place was the administrative center of the military garrison and there would be a lot of trouble in the procedures to buy it, Gao, the pragmatic junior brother who had always been very humble and easy to talk to him, Suddenly he became difficult to talk to. He insisted that he must buy the land, and for this reason he did not hesitate to propose, "I will build a new city for the Wei at my own expense".
Wu Dui was shocked when he heard this, and then urged Gao Jingshi not to do this... well, don't spend money randomly like this.
Kaiping Zhongtun Health Office is also called Kaiping Town and nicknamed Sanmenzhuang. In the Qin Dynasty, it belonged to Youbeiping County. In the Han Dynasty, Shicheng County was established here. Later, it was renamed Haiyang County. After the Jin Dynasty, it belonged to Liaoxi County. After the Five Dynasties, Emperor Shi Jingtang of the Jin Dynasty ceded land to the Khitan (later Liao Kingdom), which belonged to Pingzhou, and "built Luanzhou with captured households".
It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with Yushan Mountain at the top and Yuhe River at the bottom. It successively governed Yifeng County, Macheng County and Shicheng County. In the first year of Long Live Tongtian (the first year of Wu Zetian's proclaimed emperor, 696), it was changed to Shicheng County. Yifeng County, "originally Huangluocheng, belonged to Liaoxi County in the Han Dynasty. It was abandoned for a long time. In the late Tang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties, it entered Khitan. During the reign of Emperor Shizong of Liao Dynasty, the county was established with 4,000 households."
In the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1403), Kaiping Zhongtunwei first moved from Daning Shaling to Zhending (now Zhengding, Hebei Province), and then moved north to Shicheng Waste County in the third year of Yongle. As a result, Shicheng County was There were heavy troops stationed there and it became an important town. It has since been called Kaiping Town for 170 years.
Kaiping was originally a low-rise small earthen city in the early days. In the second year of Chenghua, Li Gong, the censor of Youdu of the Duchayuan, reported to the emperor that he was quasi-emperor. Duan Ji, the general judge of Yongping Prefecture, and Chen Xu, deputy Qianhu of Zhongyi Zhongwei, presided over the reconstruction. It only took half a year to build a new city wall with a circumference of 4,639 feet and a height of two feet and three feet. The south gate was opened to improve the situation; the east and west gates were built to connect to each other, and water channels were dredged and bridges built. , excavation of the moat. The city wall has gate towers in the east, west and south, but there is only a gate in the north, so Kaiping is commonly known as "Sanmenzhuang". In addition, there is a suspension bridge outside the south gate, which was later changed to a stone bridge and was named "Puguang Bridge".
It stands to reason that Kaiping Town is not that big, and the cost of building a city in the Ming Dynasty is quite low. Even if you build a new city according to the original size, it will cost no more than fifty thousand taels of silver. But the problem is that if you build a small city for others, It's not just about building the city, but you also have to build houses, move, etc. There are a lot of troubles and a lot of money to spend.
What's more, since Kaiping Town is a military town, although he, the Deputy Military Envoy, is in charge of both the military and civilians, it is impossible for him to decide the relocation of Kaiping Town at his level. This kind of thing must be agreed by the governor of Jiliao, the governor of Shuntian and the general of Jizhen, and then go to the court to apply for relocation, and the court will approve it. What's more, Kaiping Zhongtunwei itself is organized under the Wandu Division, which is also related to the nobles of the capital. With such mutual involvement, if this matter is to be done, no matter how pragmatic it is to buy more wasteland and mountains than to approve it. It's a hundred times harder.
But Gao Pragmatic still seemed unwilling to give up and insisted on going to Kaiping to check it out in person. Wu Dui didn't want to care about it, but he was afraid that Gao Pingshi would cause trouble for his family, so he had no choice but to accompany him on the trip himself.
Gao Pangshi then conducted an on-site inspection and found that Kaiping City, which was planned and built during the Chenghua period, had four streets intersecting in a cross shape, and the intersection of the cross streets was the center of the city. It is also the highest point of the city and is commonly known as "Pavilion" by the locals. The southeast, northwest and northwest of the pavilion are respectively called East, West, South and North Streets. There are nine villages, eighteen alleys, nine bridges and four gardens inside and outside the city.
The area is indeed small, and the value of those low-rise old mud houses is probably not very high. Even if it is true according to what Gao Pragmatic said, the relocation costs will all be paid for by himself, which can be done within one hundred thousand taels.
However, the troubles Wu Dui mentioned are indeed troubles. After all, moving a guard station has become a national event. The trouble with Kaiping Zhongtun Guards lies in its organization and affiliation. In future generations, this situation will belong to multiple leaders. ——Every level above must agree before things can be done.
The current governor of Jiliao is Tan Lun, but he is about to be promoted to the capital. The next person to take over is the current governor of Yingtian, Liu Yingjie. He is the same year as Zhang Juzheng, but according to Gao's pragmatic view, he is a candidate who can be won over. Now "Gao Dang" I am getting closer to him. The candidate to take over as governor of Shuntian is most likely Yang Zhao, and if nothing unexpected happens, Wu Dui will be promoted to governor of Xuanfu.
Gao pragmatic thought for a moment that Wu Dui would stay in Jiliao and serve as governor of Shuntian, but he couldn't do it after a second thought, because if he didn't go to Xuanfu, I wouldn't be able to get the credit for the next tribute, so Not only do you want to be the governor of Xuanfu, it is best to do it a few months earlier than in history.
Yang Zhao is the current official responsible for the rectification of Xifeng West Road, Jizhou, and is also known as Miyun Political Consultant. I’m not very familiar with this man, Gao Jingjing. I just remember that he is from Shaanxi. He was a Jinshi in the 35th year of Jiajing. He was one subject earlier than Wu Dui, so he has more qualifications. This may be because historically he took over as governor of Shuntian, while Wu Dui only The reason why he got the governor of Xuanfu.
However, he is neither Gao Dang nor Zhang Dang. Currently, he does not have a clear cabinet-level backer in the government. Generally speaking, it is not impossible to win over him. There is also a prerequisite here, that is, Zhang Juzheng is not the same year as Zhang Juzheng. In addition to his disciples, he likes to hire people from the south. But Gao Gong is different. Although he takes more care of his peers and disciples, he is relatively not particular about the distinction between north and south. He even doesn't care much about fellow villagers in Henan. On the contrary, he cares about Shanxi. People were cared for a little bit - this may be because the Jin party is an ally.
