Qi Jiguang's simple picture is really simple. But Gao Pangshi still quickly saw that the line he drew at the top of the paper was the Great Wall defense line of the Ming Dynasty, and the several circles of different sizes drawn south of that line included Jizhou, Some cities including Yongping Prefecture.
Suddenly, Qi Jiguang drew a line from the circle in Jizhou City and went all the way to the right through several small circles to Yongping Mansion, and then continued to the right from Yongping Mansion to Shanhaiguan. [Wufeng’s note: I personally recommend a set of maps here, which is a series of maps of the Ming Dynasty drawn by an online name: "Ningnan Zuohou". This set of maps is classified in detail, including the Dusi Station map, and the entire Ming Dynasty administrative map series. Very detailed, I personally like it very much. ]
At this time, Gao Pragmatic suddenly discovered that Kaiping Town was not on this line. Its location was a little lower than this line. Geographically speaking, it was probably dozens of miles south.
Qi Jiguang saw the surprise in Gao Pangshi's eyes, and then smiled with satisfaction: "Has Shidu Gao figured it out? From Jizhou to Shanhaiguan, in terms of the shortest distance, this road only needs to pass through Yutian County, Fengrun County, Yongping Prefecture, Funing County, and Kaiping Town is located a little southeast of Fengrun County... But the problem lies here. The distance between Fengrun County and Yongping Prefecture is the farthest between the counties on this road. station, and Kaiping is not on this line!"
Gao Pragmatic immediately added: "In other words, it is necessary to build a new county or military town between Fengrun County and Yongping Prefecture. Because Kaiping is not at this best fitting point, it can be moved to the northeast as a whole. Dozens of miles!”
Qi Jiguang laughed with satisfaction and said: "Yes, Gao Shidu has a sharp gaze - according to my estimate, we need to move the defense about seventy miles northeast."
Of course Qi Jiguang had not measured the distance, but his "estimate" was very accurate, because the line he just mentioned was almost a section of the route that the Beijing-Harbin Expressway passed through in later generations, and Kaiping was the part of Tangshan in later generations. From Kaiping to The Beijing-Harbin Expressway is about halfway between Fengrun County and Luanhe County, probably less than thirty-seven kilometers, which is about seventy miles according to Qi Jiguang.
It seems that the reason why he is so famous is that he is really capable. Not to mention training and fighting, if he is familiar with his defense zone to this extent, shouldn't he be victorious in every battle?
Gao pragmatically stared at the "best position" and his mind was spinning: How can we get the Kaiping Central Guards to move their defense there?
Qi Jiguang laughed at this time: "Gao Shidu, stop reading."
Gao pragmatic was stunned for a moment and looked at Qi Jiguang with an inquiring look.
"Let Qi handle this matter." Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "However, I also hope that when the time comes, Gao Ge will speak out for Qi in court."
Gao Pragmatic suddenly understood. Qingqing Qi Jiguang had long felt that the location of Kaiping Town was not good enough, and he might have hoped that it would be moved to the northeast to make up for the missing point on the Yifeng Post Road. However, the court did not have any spare money, so it worked hard to do this. The court would probably refuse.
But things are different now. Gao Pragmatic took the initiative to buy land near Kaiping. Since Kaiping is full of military farmland, although most of it is cheap wasteland, there are still some fields after all. In this way, Qi Jiguang, as the commander-in-chief of Jizhou, can The imperial court said it would be better to sell the military garrison land here, and the money from the sale of the land would be used to move the garrison in Kaipingzhong and plug the only loophole in this post road.
The biggest advantage of his method is that it is obviously the same thing. The imperial court proactively sells military garrison land for relocation and is highly pragmatic and forcibly buys military garrison land for mining. Obviously the former is a normal operation, while the latter may be a disaster for the world. Sideways glance.
Qi Jiguang killed two birds with one stone, wonderful!
According to his method, he just shifted the initiative. As a result, not only was there no turmoil in the country, but also the construction of transportation channels and defensive strongholds along the post road was done. Gao pragmatically wanted to buy Kaiping to mine and set up a factory. It’s done!
This is not killing two birds with one stone, this is killing three birds with one stone!
Gao pragmatic asked decisively: "What Governor Qi means is that you ask the imperial court for permission to move the Kaiping Zhongtun garrison?"
"Of course." Qi Jiguang nodded.
Gao pragmatic thought for a while and then asked: "How do you say the cost? Did you just say that I want to buy land from the beginning?"
Qi Jiguang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't it possible?"
Gao Pingshi pondered: "It's not that it works or it doesn't work, it's just that in this way, the cooperation between our two sides...will it be too obvious? At the meeting of the government and the government, if someone wants to make a fuss here..."
Qi Jiguang was surprised and thought to himself: Is this really a child under ten years old? Why do you have to think about your retreat first in everything, which is quite similar to what is said in military books: "Before you anticipate victory, anticipate defeat"? Could this be the Gao family’s family background and officialdom experience? However, Mr. Gao Ge doesn’t seem to be that way!
Of course, Gao Gong was a Jinshi, a Hanlin scholar, and later an imperial master. For him, as long as Long Qing was in power, there was no need to expect defeat. But what about being highly pragmatic? In his previous life, he was just a little secretary. In government agencies, his ability to survive was to observe people's emotions and act reliably. This has become a habit.
In this life, he is the only person who knows that Long Qing's birthday is not long, and he is also the only person who knows that Gao Gong is "faithed" at the turn of Long and Wan. Although he will try his best to help Gao Gong survive this disaster, in case of failure, What's up? Of course, you have to wipe the bottom of your butt clean first, otherwise are you going to wait for Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao to come and sort things out? Even if Zhang Juzheng still wants to show off his face, he would not have to put the entire Gao family to death. However, in history, Feng Bao had always brought up the case of Minister Wang in order to frame Gao Gong, who had already retired from office. This "master" was really You don’t have any shame at all! Can you be too pragmatic and not be careful?
"Then, what does Yi Gao Shidu mean?" Qi Jiguang originally thought that if Gao Gong agreed, this matter would basically be easy to handle. Zhang Juzheng was actually easy to talk to, so he wrote him a letter and told him about the military situation. If he told the truth, he probably wouldn't object - Qi Jiguang believed in Zhang Juzheng on this point. It's just that Gao Jingshi doesn't want to bear the rumors now, so Qi Jiguang has no good solution. After all, he himself is always surrounded by rumors. If he has the ability to solve this rumor problem, why is it like this?
Gao pragmatic thought for a while, suddenly smiled and said: "There is a way."
Qi Jiguang looked at him in surprise and asked, "What's the plan?"
Gao Jingshi narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the scenery outside the tower, and said slowly: "Auction."
"Auction?" Qi Jiguang was stunned for a moment: "What is an auction?"
