Things like patrolling, customs, and defense all follow procedures. With Wang Guoguang, the censor of Zuodu, taking care of everything, it is natural that everything will be followed, not to mention the staff, so there is no need to mention it more.
But no matter how fast it is, the process will at least be successful. Moreover, the queen estimates that Gao Pragmatic still cannot leave, because the big seal of the Guangxi patrol has not returned yet. The former patrol secretary Hu You is a filial son. After knowing that his mother passed away, he left directly with his crown, and should be guarded against the big seal and other related matters. Everything had to be sent back to the capital by fast horse from Guangxi.
There are no trains or planes these days, and the time it takes to get from Guangxi to the capital varies according to the level of express delivery. According to the estimates of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the big seal that symbolizes the high pragmatism of Guangxi's censor status It is estimated that it will take ten days and a half to reach the capital. So Gao Pragmatic plans to use this half month to arrange some things.
Jian Xinzhai must make arrangements quickly. After Liu Wei left, Ma Fang and Liu Xian both retired to work and were hired by Gao Pragmatic as consultants. However, they were nominally consultants on firearm design needs, but in fact He was mainly responsible for helping Gao Pragmatic organize the armed servants, so he did not live in Jian Xinzhai near the capital, but went to Kaiping.
Originally, Liu Xian took Liu Xin away at first, but it happened that he took her back to the capital in the past two days. Liu Xian told Gao Pragmatic that because Jinghua's drug store began to require a large amount of high-quality Panax notoginseng as the main ingredient of Baibao Xuanming Powder, and only the Panax notoginseng in the southwest was the most effective, he planned to let Liu Xin take a trip to the southwest. Contact your old department to see if you can find a stable supply.
Gao Pragmatic couldn't understand Liu Xian's thinking. It was okay for Liu Xin to follow Liu Wei back to Beijing before. After all, with such a big brother here, safety would definitely be ensured. But now that everyone from Liu Yao has gone to Yunnan, wouldn’t it be too much to ask Liu Xin, a big girl, to travel to the southwest? This is your own daughter.
But Liu Xian was very relieved. He patted his chest and assured Gao Pragmatically that Liu Xin was no match for her brother in terms of martial arts, but two or three military junior high schools and junior high schools would definitely not be able to defeat her. Moreover, she had been with him for a long time and was familiar with the military. If we were talking about command alone, I'm afraid Liu Wei would be even inferior to his sister.
To talk about command alone means to ignore Liu Wei's personal martial prowess and the psychological advantage this martial prowess brings to his subordinates. But even so, it can be seen that Liu Xian has confidence in his daughter. He is a person who has been fighting for his whole life, so he should not make mistakes on this issue.
Although Gao Pragmatic thought this was a bit unbelievable at first, he then thought about it. The anti-Japanese heroine Mrs. Wa and the loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu were also female generals. It can be seen that the ability to lead troops mainly lies in the brain, and it does not have to be followed by everyone. Fierce brothers like Ma Fang and Liu Wei had to go up and kill the generals in person.
Moreover, Liu Xian also told Gao Pragmatic that he would bring the two hundred servants around him to Liu Xin. After all, he now has the Gao family's guard servants around him, so there will be no safety problems.
What Liu Xian meant was that Liu Xin and Gao Xinshi could go on the road together, go to Yuezhou Prefecture or Changde Prefecture in Huguang, and then separate. Gao Xinshi would go south to Guangxi, and Liu Xinxi would enter Sichuan.
There is no problem with the route arrangement, but in Gao Pragmatic's impression, the best Panax notoginseng should come from Yunnan. Liu Xian asked Liu Xin to go to Sichuan, which seemed to be a fish in the woods.
He told this to Liu Xian. Liu Xian said that he also knew that Yun Sanqi was the most effective medicine, but his old troops were mainly in Sichuan. Although Liu Wei had gone to Yunnan, he had not seen anything like this not long after he took office. The ability to get a lot of Panax notoginseng.
Gao pragmatic thought for a while. Although Gao Dang had people in Yunnan, it seemed not good to bother them about some medicinal materials, so he agreed with Liu Xian's reason. As for Yun Sanqi's problem, it won't be too late to wait until Liu Wei has established a foothold there.
After the matter was settled, Gao Pragmatic began to arrange industrial issues near the capital. However, he found that there were not many things that he needed to arrange at the moment. The production of all factories and mines had been on track. The Ming Dynasty was not fighting any major wars. The demand for iron or coal was relatively stable, and there was no need to do much. Adjustment.
Things like Tianjin Port are similar. They just follow the steps. At most, there are some minor repairs and expansions. Gao Mengnan and Shuai Jiamo can decide, and there is no need to trouble Gao Pragmatic, the hands-off boss.
Even Jinghua Shipyard in Laizhou, Shandong Province has nothing to worry about now. They are currently still producing flat-bottomed sand boats. This is a type of ship that Shandong has a lot of production experience in and does not require high pragmatic concerns. As for the sharp-bottomed sea-going ships, they are still in the technical reserve stage, including suitable wood being stored, so they can't make any big moves.
Not to mention Jinghua soap and the like, these are all old and pragmatic industries, how could he have to worry too much.
However, the Jinghua Musket Factory and the Jinghua Artillery Factory need to explain a little bit, mainly to get Gao Jiongduo and Wu Dui in contact. Wu Dui is not only an important figure in the Gao Party and Minister of the Ministry of War, but also an important figure in the next step of the Gao Party, the business of the two arsenals. He definitely needs some help from his own soldier, at least not to be tricked.
One thing worth mentioning in the private military industry is that in addition to the Jinghua Musket Factory and the Jinghua Artillery Factory, the Ming Dynasty now has another Wang weapons factory. The actual owner is Wang Qian, the son of Wang Chonggu. Wang Qian was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Wanli and is now the head of the Ministry of Industry. Of course, like Gao Pragmatic, his weapons factory is controlled by his son.
However, the source of iron for his family's arsenal comes from the three major Kaiping factories of Gao Jingshi, and it specializes in the manufacture of cold weapons and armor. There is no direct business competition with Gao Jingshi for the time being.
In addition, I heard that the Ma family of Shaanxi also wanted to get involved, but Ma Ziqiang had only died two years ago, so they had not made a decision yet.
After this calculation, although Gao Jingshi had many properties in the capital, most of them were on the right track and hardly needed his intervention. So Gao Jingshi felt relieved and started his final "house-to-house visit", which was actually a visit. The high-ranking ministers in Beijing would also like to invite the Jinshi scholars who studied in the same field this year and successfully stayed in Beijing to gather together.
In addition, you also have to visit a group of his teachers who were actually Zhu Yijun's Japanese lecturers in the past ten years from the prince to the emperor. Although this group of people included people from the Practical Learning Party, the Heart Learning Party, and people with no clear political affiliation, no matter what, etiquette must be in place. Those who really didn't have time to visit one by one would send letters to express their apologies.
The funniest thing is that before Gao Pangshi left, he actually "earned" a sum of money from almost all officials who had a relationship with him, whether they were teachers, colleagues, the same year, or even Zhu Yingzhen. The nobles and nobles who had business connections all sent him varying amounts of Cheng Yi, ranging from ten taels to as much as a hundred taels.
In the end, Cao Ke did the math for him and found that Cheng Yi had received a total of more than 7,000 taels of silver. This really surprised Gao Pragmatic himself. I know a lot of people.
