When Li Chengliang made the decision to go east to Liaoyang to congratulate Gao Jingshi on taking office, Gao Jingshi himself was also writing a memorial. However, his memorial was not to continue to beat Li Chengliang or to engage in other conspiracies. This time he was talking about business. .
This memorial is divided into two parts. The first part, to put it simply, is to extend his previous revitalization plan in southern Liaoning to the entire Liaoning. The overall idea is to "adapt measures to local conditions."
Since he himself has served as the governor of Liaodong, the biggest "industrial" thing is to launch the Anshan iron ore project. Since the iron ore is to be excavated, the supporting Liaoyang Iron Works, as well as the Jinghua Musket Factory and Jinghua Artillery Of course, the Liaoyang branch of the factory must also be put on the agenda.
Digging iron ore and setting up an iron factory are all private matters. As long as the land is bought, Jinghua can make the decision by itself. It does not need to be reported to the court. However, since the supporting production of muskets and artillery is to be carried out in Liaoyang, it has to be reported. After all, the Ming Dynasty's private military industry was under the joint supervision of the relevant bureaus of the Ministry of War and the Royal Horse Supervisor according to Gao Gong's arrangement.
At this time, Anshan was just a horse post station (it was called Anshan Horse Post Station in the Ming Dynasty post station system). It was a small town on the level of an ordinary town, with more than 3,000 households and more than 10,000 people in the area.
It is not dilapidated, but it is definitely not prosperous. If placed in the inland provinces, it would probably be regarded as a lower county. Even lower counties are "poor counties" - so buying land in Anshan is very cheap, not to mention Jinghua Most of the ones bought are mountains, which are typical ownerless wastelands, and the local health office can decide.
Now that I have bought several large pieces of land, Gao Pragmatic himself has become Liao Fu. How long will it take him not to mine now?
It is a little troublesome to set up a factory in Liaoyang, because the city of Liaoyang has already been built, and Jinghua wants to open three factories in Liaoyang: an iron factory, a musket factory, and an artillery factory. The area is relatively large compared to this era. , so the old Liaoyang City could not accommodate it.
There are only two ways to think about it. One is that Jinghua builds three factories outside the city and connects them together, and then builds a small city on its own, which can be calculated as Baowu in name.
Second, the imperial court funded the expansion of Liaoyang City to include the three Jinghua factories and integrate them with the old city of Liaoyang.
Each of these two methods has its own advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage of building a fort on your own is that production is not subject to outside interference, and you are not afraid of leaking production secrets, but you can also defend yourself independently, and it does not require the approval of the court. Jinghua can do it on his own initiative.
In addition, with these three factories, Gao Pragmatic will have three more "factory protection teams", which is equivalent to the armed forces directly under him that can approach Liaoyang City, and there are many troops. The total must be at least three to four thousand people. .
In this way, coupled with his own support, he has six to seven thousand servants in Liaoyang. Even if Tumen comes back again because of his brain disorder, he can ensure that Liaoyang City is foolproof.
But there are also disadvantages. For example, if you think about it in the longer term: if Liaoyang is pressed by the enemy army in the future, it will be difficult to decide whether the No. 3 Factory "Fortress" outside the city should defend in place or withdraw into Liaoyang City.
Of course, retreating to the city is the safest in theory, but after the three factories are fully completed, it is expected that there will be more than 10,000 workers and a large number of production tools, including iron-making furnaces, steel-making furnaces and other items that are difficult to move. When there is a military disaster, it is not possible to withdraw to Liaoyang with just one order.
What's more, how to relocate these more than 10,000 workers and their families after entering the unexpanded Liaoyang City will be a big problem.
However, choosing to defend on the spot instead of retreating to the city does not seem to be particularly reliable. Although this is an iron factory and a gun and artillery factory, it sounds like as long as there are people defending, there is no need to worry about not having strong defense or even counterattack capabilities.
But after all, Liaoyang is not Kaiping. It is impossible for Gao Pragmatic to place his largest and most powerful "comprehensive industrial base" in the Ming Dynasty in a corner of Liaodong. Therefore, the scale here is obviously smaller than that of Kaiping. If the other party can really be called a "big army" "As long as you are willing to put in some effort and pay some price, you can still win. Qiankun Tingshu.com
A large number of craftsmen were captured by the enemy, which would definitely cause trouble, so Gao Pragmatic did not dare to bet on this "future". He would rather take a more stable approach: directly ask the court to expand Liaoyang City.
When the imperial court expanded Liaoyang City, Gao Pragmatic was able to use his status as governor to personally make construction plans for the expanded new city, arrange three factories in one place, and even allocate some additional open space for other projects that may need to be completed in the future. .
However, the biggest trouble with the expansion of the imperial court is that the imperial court is now very poor. Although the cost of expanding a new city is only one to twenty thousand taels of silver, the Ming Dynasty fought a lot of wars last year. If it weren't for Gao Gong, The savings from Guo Pu's era would have to be eaten by Yin. To get the court to agree to spend this money, the problem was not to convince Zhu Yijun, but to convince the Xin School.
Not long ago, the Xin School was tricked by Zhang Siwei and made some concessions on the business tax issue. Now that being pragmatic has to cost the court money, they must not be happy - although Jinghua pays taxes every year. It has caught up with Nanzhili, but the Xin School obviously will not consider it from this perspective.
They will not even think that this money is spent for the long-term development of Liaoyang and the long-term stability of Liaodong, but will only think that it is spent pragmatically. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic had to carefully analyze the importance of building an arsenal in Liaoyang City in his memorial, and elevated it to the level of "Liaoyang will never fall".
It seems that not all high-sounding words are just stage words. Sometimes speaking high-sounding words is just something you have to do.
There is no doubt that the Liaoyang-Anshan heavy industry circle is the focus of this memorial, but there is another thing that needs to be mentioned at some point.
Gao pragmatically suggested that the imperial court should establish three or four new positions in Liaodong. If there are three, they are: Jin Fushou General, Jinzhou Coastal Defense Tongzhi, and Huanggudao Qianzong; if there are four, there will be no new positions. Instead of guarding Jin and Fuzhou generals, one guerrilla general was stationed in Jinzhou and Fuzhou respectively.
Gao Jingshi's proposal is obviously to strengthen the status of Liaonan. It is conceivable that when the Xin School saw this proposal, the first thought must be "Gao Jingshi wants to promote direct descendants."
Promoting direct descendants can indeed be regarded as one of the most pragmatic purposes, but it is not the main purpose.
Gao pragmatically strengthened the status of the two states of Jin and Fu because the minister of Yuan Masi in Liaodong and the deputy envoy of military preparations in Jin and Fu Haigai had only one general, Haigai, and the two states of Jin and Fu were too weak and needed to be strengthened.
Especially Jinzhou, which is roughly the Dalian of later generations, and the area under its jurisdiction, including the famous military port Lushunkou that became famous around the world in the late Qing Dynasty, is completely necessary to vigorously operate it.
The Ming Dynasty itself did not have any maritime enemies worth mentioning around Liaodong, but the existence of them now does not mean that there will not be them in the future. At least nine years later, Jinzhou will definitely occupy an important position in the highly pragmatic plan - a Japanese military supplies transfer station.
This issue does not need to be demonstrated in detail, because in the original history, Li Rusong and Korea won the first battle and then lost, and in the end they only had a dominant stalemate. The main problem lies in logistics: Korea itself was defeated by Japan and could not recruit troops at all. The grain and grass needed by the army led to the Ming army needing to transport supplies themselves. However, the Ming army's supplies were transported by land. In this way, they had to go to the Yalu River and the mountainous areas of northern Korea. In addition, they had to guard against Japanese raids. Naturally, Li Rusong's head was as big as a bucket.
In view of this, Gao Pragmatic has long thought that during the Japanese Rebellion in the future, once the Ming Dynasty sends troops to intervene as it did in the original history, the main supply of materials should be by sea. The routes are from Tianjin Port and Yingkou Port. It departs from the "Starting Station", transfers at Lushunkou in Jinzhou, and is finally sent to North Korea.
The place to stay after being sent to North Korea is easy to decide. In the early stage, you can send it to Pyongyang, because although Pyongyang is not on the seaside, it is connected to the sea by the Datong River, and it is not far from the entrance to the sea. In the mid-term, you can send it to Seoul (now Seoul), for example Incheon, which is famous for the US military to the west of Seoul, is a good unloading place. As for the later stage, it depends on the Ming army’s advance line at that time. All in all, the problem is not big, and it is at least ten times better than taking the land route. .
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