Maybe it was to take office earlier, maybe to avoid the pressure to get married, but in short, Gao pragmatically only stayed in Xinzheng for two days.
On the first day, he met his brothers and sisters, and then went into the county town to visit his fifth uncle. On the second day, I sat at home waiting for the magistrate of Xinzheng County to come to visit me and discussed some public and private matters with him.
This is the case for officials and aristocratic families in the local area, especially those like the Gao family who have been officials for many generations. Their ancestral temple still has a memorial tablet for Wen Zhenggong. When the magistrate of Xinzheng County learned that Gao Pragmatic returned home, how could he not come to pay his respects?
You know, although Gao Pragmatic is the same seventh-grade as him, the gold content of the two seventh-grade magistrate and patrol magistrate is more than ten times different.
What's more, Gao Pragmatic, the sixth number one scholar in Xinzheng, has become the head of the family but not the head of the family. If he, the magistrate of Xinzheng County, does not have the approval of the Gao family, he will probably have to pack up and leave next month. In this case, he should hurry up after learning the news. Come and meet Gao Pragmatic is the proper meaning of the question.
However, Gao pragmatic didn't put up any airs with him. The county magistrate was born with the same Jinshi background. At first, no big boss from any faction took a fancy to him. But later, I don't know whether he spent money or found some way to get a solid position. In the absence of a vacancy, he served as county magistrate. After doing well in the exams, he was promoted to a middle county and continued to be a county magistrate. By chance, he was assigned to Xinzheng.
Now that we have arrived in Xinzheng, we have no other choice but to cling to the lap of the Gao family. Therefore, this magistrate, who has close to 300 Jinshi scholars, basically regards himself as a subordinate of the Gao family, and his only thought is to serve the two major members of the Gao family. Industry Xinzheng Coal Mine and Jinghua Porcelain Services.
Needless to say about the Xinzheng Coal Mine, the main production area of Jinghua Porcelain was originally in Yuzhou. However, after Zhang Zhixian took office, he spent a lot of effort to persuade Gao Pragmatic's mother Zhang to open a kiln in Xinzheng, also with Jinghua. The porcelain brand produces Junci's non-high-end products. Junci itself is a top-end product. The so-called non-high-end products from Xinzheng are actually high-end products on the market.
As a result, considerable achievements have been made in the past six months. The gross profit has exceeded 7,000 taels, and the net profit has exceeded 5,000 taels. This makes Zhang very satisfied. After all, the tax paid by Xinzheng County in a year is only more than 1,700 taels. , is it amazing to compare? It can be seen that in terms of making money alone, farming really has no future.
What could Gao pragmatically say? He couldn't help but praise Zhang Zhixian. He wrote a handwritten note and handed it to him, saying to him, "Henan Right Chief Minister Wu Fangbo is my senior brother. You can take my handwritten note to pay homage."
Fang Bo is an elegant name for the chief envoy. This Chief Envoy is actually Wu Wenjia. He graduated from the Engineering Department and served as Zhejiang Right Political Envoy, Henan Left Political Envoy, Guizhou Inspector and then transferred to Henan Right Chief Envoy. It was a preference among Gao Gong's disciples, but Not a particularly good one.
He was also the Wu Zhangke who listened to Gao Pingshi's instructions and drove Zhang Juzheng back to the capital from Tianshou Mountain overnight to rescue Feng Bao and blocked him outside the city gate all night. ** years have passed, and it has been promoted from the seventh rank to the second rank. Of course, although the rank of the chief envoy is high, it actually depends on the face of the governor and the governor, but that is another problem.
Of course, for Zhang Zhixian, being able to curry favor with the right-hand chief envoy of the province just because he saw Gao's pragmatic side is simply a blessing from heaven. But he heard that Wu Fangbo should be directly promoted to the left-hand chief envoy of the province after passing the exam. But he is the top leader of the general government in Henan.
After driving away Zhang Zhixian, who had thanked him so much for his kindness, Gao pragmatically and Liu Xin and their entourage set out on the road.
In Henan, with the Gao family's Fuxi Nuwa people's snake-body flag and Jinghua's "Two Swords Holding a Book" flag, not to mention the ordinary people who look at it from a distance with envious faces and give way respectfully, even the bandits and road tyrants will do it. Go around.
This is not only the prestige exerted by the servants of the Gao family, but also the prestige accumulated step by step by generations of the Gao family in their hometown of Henan, and the popularity gained by Gao Pragmatic when he took in the Wei Hui refugees.
Therefore, the journey from Xinzheng to Yuzhou, then through Xiangcheng, Ye County, Yuzhou to Nanyang is smooth and smooth. But if you go further and pass Xinye County, you will enter the boundary of Huguang and Xiangyang Prefecture.
Xiangyang can be said to be a good place and a strong military town since ancient times. However, during the Ming Dynasty, because this place was close to Yunyang, the famous "source of chaos", the public security was relatively worse than in ancient times.
Gao pragmatic also reminded his servants to be more careful, especially since he didn't take Gao Jue with him when he went out this time, so he didn't dare to be careless.
The eldest brother Gao Jue is quite old. Last year he married Gao Jingshi's maid Shang Yue. This year his son was born, so Gao Jingshi gave him half of his leave to stay in Beijing. His responsibility is to take charge of all armed servants. In case of major accidents, he can also call on the factory and mine protection teams of any factories and mines near Gyeonggi. In the Jinghua system, he is now somewhat of a commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
The leader Gao pragmatic brought out to lead the servants this time was called Gao Zhang. He was an orphan among Weihui refugees. He changed his surname and joined the Gao family. He was not very senior in the first place, but he performed very well when he was trained in Jizhen. Qi Jiguang commented He said, "Although the flexibility is slightly insufficient, it is as solid as Mount Tai and can be used to lead the Chinese army's personal guards."
There is no doubt that Qi Junshen has a high and pragmatic vision, so this time he handed over the "Chinese Army Personal Guard" to him. However, considering that he did not have much actual combat experience after all, Gao Jingzhi reminded him several times after entering the boundaries of Huguang, especially the boundaries of Xiangyang Prefecture close to Yunyang.
Liu Xin, on the other hand, was very relaxed. Her father gave her the care of his trusted servants, but she didn't care and didn't even say a few words to them. In addition to rushing around every day, I chatted with Gao Yingshi. I also used my advantage as a geography teacher to introduce the local topography, mineral resources, climate change and other things to Gao Yingshi every time I passed by.
It's a pity that Gao Qingshi felt that the mineral resources he had on hand were enough, so he basically didn't listen to it.
Liu Xin wasn't angry at all, she was still talking to herself, as if she could finally find someone to talk to about her full knowledge, which made Gao Pingshi a little funny and at the same time a little pitiful for her.
As she said herself, her previous life's major was of little use in this era. Unless she was a man, there was a chance that she could use it.
Speaking of which, her level of geographical knowledge was even worse than that of Xu Xiake in the Ming Dynasty. She was unable to put her talents to use, which was worse than being unappreciated. No wonder she said that day that she didn't want to travel at all.
Seeing her like this, Gao Pingshi comforted her and said, "There will be times when the wind and waves break, and you can hang your sails and sail across the sea."
In the end, Liu Xin just rolled her eyes and replied, "It's up to you to do this kind of thing like Jicanghai. I'm not interested in something as dangerous as long winds and waves. It's better for me to have a green hat, a green coir raincoat, and a drizzle in the slanting wind." There’s no need to return.”
After hearing this, Gao Pragmatic had no choice but to smile bitterly.
In life, sometimes we are forced to have no choice but to practice Buddhism.
They walked forward for another two days until they left the Xiangyang Prefecture without encountering any danger. Then they passed through the Xingdu Remaining Division's territory safely and arrived at Jingzhou Prefecture.
Gao Jingshi planned to stay in Jingzhou for a day and visit Zhang Juzheng's home. Although Zhang Juzheng was brought down by him, in fact, because only a few people knew the inside story, the outside world never blamed Gao's uncle and nephew. Moreover, at that time, Zhang Juzheng left Beijing and returned to his hometown. Since he was not allowed to use the inn, Gao pragmatically sent his servants to escort him back to Jingzhou.
What made Gao pragmatically relieved later was that the eldest Zhang Jingxiu and the third Zhang Maoxiu of the Zhang family who took part in the Gengchen imperial examination this year actually seemed to have no idea about the cause of their father's death that year.
This forced Gao Pangshi to pay homage to Zhang Juzheng when passing through Jingzhou. After all, in the eyes of the outside world, Zhang Juzheng was Gao Gong's close friend back then. Although in the last period of time, the two seemed to have a little disagreement, but After all, there was no public quarrel, nor did they roll up their sleeves and fight each other. Gao Gong even became emotionally agitated because of Zhang Juzheng's death, which shows that the two of them really cherish each other.
When he arrived in Jingzhou that day, Gao pragmatically handed a greeting card to the Zhang family and went to pay homage to Zhang Juzheng as a junior.
Perhaps because Gao Pragmatic was an atheist and very slow in some aspects, he didn't feel anything uncomfortable about Zhang Juzheng's grave anyway, so he paid homage to it calmly.
However, the Zhang family brothers, the eldest, second and third are all Jinshi, and they are all currently in the capital.
So in the end, the person who received Gao Jianxiu was his old acquaintance Zhang Jianxiu. This guy was not very good, and because Zhang Juzheng had lost his official position and returned to his hometown, he did not get Enyin, so he is still in his hometown without Enyin Jinyiwei like in history. Commander. But this may not be a bad thing, at least he won't be fired from his job in two or three years.
Although Zhang Jianxiu was not good at it, he was very hospitable and insisted on staying with Gao Jianxiu for a few days, saying that he wanted to "ask for advice on the scriptures."
Gao pragmatic said that he was going to take office and it was inconvenient to stay because of his official duties, so it would be better to bother him when he returns to Beijing next year.
However, Zhang Jianxiu still held him firmly and said, "Seeking truth, you don't know something. It's the autumn flood of the river recently. Bandits in the Huya Mountains have been plundering for hundreds of miles, coming and going without a trace. Jingnan Military Preparation Deputy Envoy Zhou Observed Now We all have a headache. After all, Jingzhou City is still guarded by Jing Qu, but it’s hard to say anything after we leave the city.”
Observation is the elegant name for military preparation in the Ming Dynasty. It comes from the observation envoy in the Tang Dynasty, which corresponds to the "Tao" level.
The two main figures related to the military in Jingzhou City are the "deputy envoy for patrolling the Jingnan Road to rectify and return the troops" and "Jingqu Garrison". Although Jingqu Garrison is theoretically responsible for more than just guarding the capital of Jingzhou, , but in fact, the main task is generally to guard Jingzhou City, and the military affairs of several prefectures outside the city are generally directly managed by Bingbeidao.
Gao Pragmatic was a little surprised that there were actually water bandits here in Huguang that could give even the entire army a headache.
At this time, Liu Xin suddenly interjected and said, "The water bandits in Huya Mountain are at the entrance to the Xiajiang Pass, across the river from Jingmen Mountain. If the water bandits take control of these two mountains, it will be troublesome for me to enter Sichuan from the Yangtze River." ”
Gao Pragmatic glanced at her in astonishment, thinking that no wonder Liu Xian thought she could command an army. It seemed that geography was useful.
