The Procuratorate of Liuzhou City has been heavily guarded in the past few days. There are two groups of guards. The outer layer is the guardsmen brought from Guilin, and the inner layer is the Gao family's servants. Let's ignore the guardsmen for now, here are the Gaojia soldiers.
The servants are all northern men brought from Gyeonggi Province. They are all tall and powerful, and they all speak northern Mandarin. It is impossible to fake it. Therefore, no matter how many people inquire about the news about the Procuratorate, not many people can see it with their own eyes.
Seen.
Any news that the outside world can get is spread from a few big guys who met Gao Pragmatic that day - in fact, it is not spread. The number of people who can get some information is limited, and almost all of them are in Guangxi.
The prominent figures in the territory who can be named, especially the chieftains from Youjiang River in western Guangxi.
Very few people knew about the meeting between Mr. Cen Qi and Miss Huang. It can even be said that the news that they came to Jinghu Villa in Longtan Town, south of Liuzhou City, was limited to a very small range, and the outside world could not know about it at all.
Know.
The pragmatic news in Liuzhou City is actually very limited, but there is nothing that can be done about it. Originally, he did not expect that one day he would come to Guangxi to work as a patrol officer, and it was not too early to set up his intelligence agency. At present,
Mainly in Gyeonggi, Xuanda and Jizhen, it is also distributed in Shanxi, Henan and Shandong. Then South Zhili is slowly strengthening. Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangzhou are gradually developing relying on the three major ports of Ningbo, Quanzhou and Guangzhou.
, but overall it is still in its infancy, and it is too late to expand in this province. How can it take care of Guangxi?
Since he was on patrol south this time, which was generally only for one year, he didn't take Gao Mo with him. He only had Gao Zhang and Cao Ke with him. Gao Zhang only knew how to lead troops, but he didn't know much about intelligence.
Cao Ke was actually someone he trained, but he was still young and temporarily helped him handle the intelligence affairs in Guangxi. Because there was no foundation in Guangxi, there was little progress.
"Master, the main reason why we have no one in Guangxi now is that we don't have a support point." Cao Ke analyzed: "Why do we know everything in Gyeonggi? It's not just because Cheng Guogong (
The support of Zhu Yingzhen (who has ascended the throne (mentioned above)) and others is also due to the fact that Jinghua has a huge industry in Gyeonggi, and there are countless people serving the master directly or indirectly, so it is not only easy to select the right people to provide intelligence, but also
When you ask someone for information, they have to give you face."
"But in Guangxi, we don't have this advantage, because Jinghua doesn't have any industry in Guangxi. So far, Jinghua doesn't have any direct partners in Guangxi. Even if it sells some cement, it's only through a small amount of transshipment from Huguang.
, is a resale transaction made by Huguang businessmen and has nothing to do with Jinghua itself."
Gao Pragmatic nodded, but immediately said: "What you said is correct, but the question is, is it necessary for Jinghua to invest in Guangxi? We don't have any strong support in the entire south. At present, we can only rely on the three southern states.
The port is developing slowly, and the Guangzhou Port, which is closest to Guangxi, has only been acquired for about a year and is still in the stabilization stage. How much support can it be expected to provide to Guangxi?"
"Perhaps we can consider letting Jinghua Trading Co., Ltd. open up the southwest trade route?" Cao Ke is worthy of being Cao Gan's son. Since Guangzhou Port could not provide support, he immediately thought of Jinghua Trading Co., Ltd., which his father was in charge of.
"There is no doubt that the Southwest Trade Road can be opened up." Gao Pragmatic nodded, but then said: "The problem is time. I can only stay in Guangxi for about one year. Is one year enough to open up the Southwest Trade Road? I
It’s hard to see. It can even be said that even if your father can do this within a year, I will return to Beijing to resume my duties after a year. This trade route will at most add another source of income to Jinghua.
It won’t be of any help to our current situation.”
Cao Ke scratched his head and said hesitantly: "Then... directly invest in mining or building a factory?"
"What mine to open? What factory to build? What market to rely on to make profits?" Gao Pragmatic rolled his eyes: "The capital is densely populated, has many wealthy people, and the people are relatively wealthy, so I could start my business with soap and briquettes.
And because the capital is close to the important town of Jiubian, I can open coal mines, iron factories, and build musket and artillery factories in Kaiping nearby to seize the military industry market... But what about Guangxi?"
Gao pragmatic sighed: "Even if I dig mines, smelt iron, and even make firearms, to whom will I sell them? The replacement of Jiubian and Jingying has not been completed. It is impossible for the imperial court to be interested in changing the uniforms of Guangxi officers and soldiers now."
I can't just sell it to those chieftains, right? Guangxi's wolf soldiers are already fearless of death. If I change their firearms for them, if Guangxi rebels in the future, will I raise my head to see the emperor?"
This truth is very obvious. Cao Ke can understand it when Gao Pragmatic talks about it. Those chieftains are not Jinghua's servants. Once the force is strong, who knows what will happen, and it is indeed unbearable to bear this responsibility.
However, Cao Ke didn't know that Gao Pragmatic was actually not very worried about giving firearms to the chieftains, and the chieftains would really be invincible, because firearms are not as good as cold weapons, and they cannot be used all the time once they are in hand.
Jinghua's firearms must be matched with ammunition produced by Jinghua, such as the Longqing II musket. Its caliber is Jinghua's unique design. In order to match this caliber, the projectiles are also specially supplied by Jinghua. At the same time, in order to ensure that the design power is achieved, Jinghua must also use
Supporting production of gunpowder and customized paper cases.
In a word, if you buy the Jinghua Longqing II musket, you will have to buy all the supporting combat parts such as gunpowder, projectiles, custom paper cases, etc. from Jinghua in the future - this is just like the car 4S stores in later generations that sometimes do not make money by selling cars at all.
, but just like making money from maintenance and repairs, you will make a profit as long as you don't lose money by selling a car.
So in other words, even if the chieftains really bought Jinghua's firearms, whether they would be able to use these firearms to rebel would be known by Jinghua just by looking at the delivery list - you didn't even buy enough ammunition, you just took those fire sticks
You can rebel? Then you might as well just use the swords and spears from before!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In fact, Gao Pragmatic’s main focus is that there is no profit in doing this. These chieftains may not be bad in terms of strength, but their strength does not lie in how much gold and silver they have.
, but the native people under their rule. These native people are numerous, honest and obedient, but they are not afraid of death when fighting, so the chieftains have their current status and influence.
Without gold and silver, it would not be attractive to Gao Pragmatic. No matter how good the local people are, he doesn't plan to come to Guangxi to be a chieftain, so what's the use?
Of course, if there is no gold or silver, it would be fine if there are good goods of equal value, but it seems that these toasts don't have any particularly advantageous goods to exchange, so doing business with them doesn't seem to be a good idea.
But in this way, Gao Pragmatic's most effective control method cannot be used. The interest alliance method that he relied on in the capital can not be used in Guangxi, which really gives Boss Gao a headache.
For these chieftains, if they are not suppressed, they may not be honest and obedient, but if they are suppressed too hard, it is easy to cause trouble, and the most important thing is that once an accident occurs, Guangxi's own military strength may not be able to handle it... This is a real dilemma.
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The "internal strength" is not enough to rely on, and the benefits cannot be obtained. After much pragmatic thinking, it seems that there is only one way left, and that is to use the internal conflicts among the chieftains to cause trouble...not to make a fuss.
In fact, he has not been idle these days. He has been understanding the information of the Guangxi chieftains through various channels. Directly expanding the intelligence business is only one aspect. Others, such as querying various historical documents and current official documents, can also allow him to learn about the Guangxi chieftains.
We have some understanding of the historical origins between them and the current situation.
Through this information, he discovered an interesting phenomenon: although the Cen and Huang families are strong, they are not invulnerable. They also have interest factions within them, and they are not all monolithic. The Cen and Huang families also face other weaker parties.
