In the next two days, Huang Zhiting began to seize the time to discuss with the big businessmen in Liaodong about the purchase of ginseng, deer antler velvet and other precious Chinese medicinal materials and the sale of Annan rice.

Gao Pragmatic is also very busy here, except for the planned development of "heavy industry" in Liaodong, it seems that he only needs to copy the Kaiping model, and the problems in agriculture can simply make him worry about it.

At this moment, he really realized the greatness of the old Mr. Yuan in later generations, and now the unit yield of the entire country in Daming is high in the world, but unfortunately under various natural disasters, it is still not enough, and in Liaodong, just using "not enough" to describe it is really too much understatement.

I didn't know when I was not a governor, but after becoming a governor, Gao Pragmatic specially called a group of financial talents brought out by Gao Guoyan to do calculations, only to find that the annual grain shortage in Liaodong was as high as more than 53 million catties, and in addition to the salt in Liaodong that could be exchanged for a part from the mainland, the final gap was still about 40 million catties.

40 million catties, that is, 20 million kilograms, equivalent to 20,000 tons, it doesn't seem to be a big number after converting into tons.

However, the actual population of Liaodong may be only four million, and these four million miles are not all Han Chinese, according to the official rough estimate of the Ming Dynasty - it is only a rough estimate - the Han people account for "seventeen", that is, seventy percent, that is, less than three million.

Based on the calculation of 3 million, the gap of 40 million catties is equivalent to more than 13 catties of food shortage per person per year, which is indeed not much, but there is a very key question here - do you think people in this era can eat rice at every meal?

Of course, Gao pragmatic can, but the civilians of Liaodong can have this treatment, which is a typical failure to wake up.

The food eaten by the ordinary people in Liaodong is really complicated, all kinds of coarse grains have been calculated, wild vegetables are also good, and all kinds of poisonous and immortal grass, roots, and bark are all dishes on the plate. As for hunting, this thing is not a joke, it must be very enduring, and it is not a drought and flood harvest project, you can only look at your face.

Fishing is of course an option, but it also requires skills, tools, and even fishing isn't that simple – you might as well do a little more if you have the spare time! However, since the productivity of Liaodong is not high, it is obvious that the price of silver is expensive, and a short-term worker in Beijing can do more than two taels of silver every month, which is almost halved in Liaodong, which is the gap.

As for eating rice at every meal, it means that the family either has a good ancestor and a solid family background, or at least there must be a master in the family, and it is difficult for Xiucai to do it - Li Chengliang was a Xiucai in his early years, but he was so poor that he couldn't even go to Beijing to go through the formalities to inherit his father's position, which is the proof.

Therefore, in this case, the average food shortage of the population in eastern Liaoning is still more than 13 catties, which is very unscientific.

Gao pragmatic calculated the number of acres and the average yield per mu, but the final result was always not the same, and there was obviously a big omission between the two.

This omission can only be that a few people occupy too much land, and these fields are still concealed through donations, tricks, and other means.

It's really hell, no wonder there were so many hidden fields found in Shandong when the fields were cleared before, and now it seems that there is still a problem with the Qingzhang fields in Shandong, at least the military tuntian must not have been investigated.

And Liaodong is a "military area", and the officials and ministers generally do not have any interest in buying a large family business in Liaodong, at most, the officials from their ancestral home in Liaodong will make a fortune from it.

Gao Pragmatic can imagine with his toes, I am afraid that the people who really eat meat and drink blood in it are all military generals, and many officers and generals must have a large number of hidden fields under their names, as for the largest of them, then there is no need to think about it, it must be the Li Chengliang family.

The world is as black as a crow, and Li Chengliang can't be blamed for being greedy for this, this is highly pragmatic and clear, but now the situation in Liaodong is only a lot better from the outside, and if there is such a mess inside, something will happen sooner or later.

In the future, if the "corn plan" is done well, of course, some problems can be solved, but that is a symptom rather than a root cause, and if we want to cure the root cause, we must think about it from the system.

It is difficult to say how much land Li Chengliang occupied, how much of it was encroachment on military land, how much of it was "illegally gained," and how much of it was still in the gray area.

But in Gao Pragmatic's view, those in the gray area that he can tolerate for the time being, encroaching on military land and outright illegal gains, then he will definitely not be able to bear it, these things must be changed during his tenure, even if his tenure is not enough, he can't do it thoroughly, he must explore a way.

In the past two days, most of his energy has been devoted to thinking about the problems of acres and grain.

The remainder is devoted to Annan's support for the war in Burma.

In fact, with Annan's support for the war against Burma, Annan himself can handle most of it. Nearly two years have passed, and the Jinghua military industry departments on Annan's side have become a little bit of a look, and the output of Hejing iron ore has also kept up.

To make gunpowder, you must first have sulfur and saltpeter, and the geographical level of high pragmatism is limited, I don't know where these two brothers dig in Annan, and they didn't ask Liu Xin the previous time, so Annan has no ability to produce gunpowder at all now.

At present, the main production area of sulfur in the Ming Dynasty is Sichuan, and there is also a part of Gansu, and the control of gunpowder in the Ming court is still relatively strict, and Gao Shishi does not intend to violate the ban, so the gunpowder exported to Annan is relatively limited.

Of course, this in itself is also in line with Gao Pragmatism's idea of controlling Annan - it is impossible for it to have the ability to produce and use firearms in a single way, otherwise, this problem will not be unsolvable with Gao Pragmatism's status.

The imperial court wants to coax it, and Annan wants to control it, so Gao Pragmatic thought of another way: to develop the island of Taiwan.

Although Taiwan is now a desert island and its resources are not abundant, it is still relatively reliable in terms of sulfur reserves, and the sulfur in the northern volcanic area is at least high enough to be used for hundreds of years.

He told Huang Zhiting before that the amount of food needed in Taiwan may increase year by year, and it is for this reason that after all, there must be people to develop Taiwan, and the more immigrants, the greater the food gap - these people will definitely not be able to achieve food self-sufficiency in the first place.

Sulfur is done, and saltpeter. The saltpeter production area of Daming is very close to the sulfur production area, especially Sichuan, which is the main force, and the other is the Longxi region, which is the origin of excavated nitrate ore.

In addition to mining, the rest is the "dirty way": boiling nitrate from the toilet. Of course, the Ming Dynasty has not been reduced to the point where King Charles I of England ordered that all toilets in the country be owned by the state, so this kind of boiling of the Ming Dynasty is basically a civil act - of course, the guard also does it, but the court generally does not say this directly.

Gao Pragmatism has been looking for the source of "overseas nitrate mines", and it turned out that he really found it - in Tumut.

Specifically, it is even more coincidental that several large saltpeter mining areas are in the area under the control of Hannaji's old nest west outpost, and the Alxa Left Banner of Inner Mongolia in later generations.

The western outpost area of Hannaji is actually a very large area, how big is it...... Probably starting from Bayannur in Inner Mongolia in later generations, and then all the Inner Mongolia regions to the west, all the way to the Gansu border of the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that there are 200,000 square kilometers, which is larger than Liaodong.

Of course, these places are vast and sparsely populated, and there was no use for Hannaji in the first place, and he, as a lord, had never even been there.

When the people of Jinghua found saltpeter over there, they easily discussed the development plan with Hannaji.

The development plan is very generous, and Hannaji leased the three major saltpeter producing areas of Jilong Tonggu, Bayindala, and Tunyanchi to Jinghua at a price of 3,000 taels of silver per year in the dual name of Chechen Khan and Xishaotaiji.

That's right, three thousand taels, packed. The only condition is that the salt Jinghua of Hetun Salt Pond cannot move him, and can only dig saltpeter.

It doesn't matter, he is pragmatic and there is no shortage of salt, he has his own Yingkou salt farm, his uncle has Changlu salt farm, if he waits a few more years to do a good job in the reconstruction and expansion of Yingkou salt farm, he may be the world's largest salt merchant.

At that time, the status of the Gao and Zhang families in the salt industry, I dare not say that there are two thirds of the world, at least one of the world's thirds is definitely no problem, so Hetun Yanchi let Hannaji keep it for himself - anyway, the Mongolians can't even refine, they will only sell raw salt, there is no technical content at all, and the output is average.

The level of control of the Ming court over the economy is actually very general, only the Ming Dynasty produces within its own territory, and does not care about it outside the country, so the output of these three major saltpeter mines can completely bypass the supervision, as long as you pay three percent of the tax, it will be over - this number was set when Gao Gong was in power, and the vast majority of the commercial taxes that have been levied in the country are now this standard.

In this way, Annan's battle was fought a little early, although the saltpeter problem has been solved for the most part, but the sulfur side is still not a word, so now if Annan needs to start a war against Burma, the sulfur problem can only be thought of from Japan.

Jinghua and Japan now have trade - the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance does this, so it is not impossible to buy sulfur from Japan, and because Japan is in the volcanic belt, there is not only a lot of sulfur, but also the quality is very good, and the price is relatively reasonable.

But trade with Japan is now relatively unstable, because Japan is now in a mess – a major event happened last year: the Honnoji Incident.

Needless to say, the Honnoji Revolution was probably the most famous and influential coup d'état in Japanese history, and it can even be said that it completely changed the course of Japan.

However, Gao Pragmatic didn't have time to lament Oda Nobunaga's death, and he didn't even worry about Toyotomi Hideyoshi - it was useless to worry, it was not enough, and he couldn't find a reason to interfere, and Daming himself still had a lot of trouble to solve.

The key is that after the change of Honnoji Temple, Japan's Warring States is about to come to an end, but this "end" is also a particularly chaotic period, so he is mainly afraid that the purchase of sulfur will have problems, so that in the past two days, he has continuously instructed the Beiyang Maritime Trade to increase the purchase of sulfur, and even has a posture of ignoring the cost.

At the same time, he also ordered Gao Qi to shift the focus of the development of Taiwan Island from the southwest area of Taiwan to the Taipei area, focusing on the search for natural sulfur mines--the high level of pragmatism is placed there, and he only knows the approximate location of the sulfur mines in northern Taiwan, which is very broad and inaccurate, so he can only send people to find it.

After doing these things, he calculated the time, and felt that even if Annan wanted to send troops, it would have at least three months of preparation time, in other words, Liu Ling's current task was still very heavy.

The key is that Gao Pragmatic always feels that Liu Wei's troops are a little too weak, this guy's own family is less than 3,000, and the only thing that makes Gao Pragmatic feel a little relieved is that Liu Ling's battle seems to be relatively smooth in history.

I don't know why, though.

Gao Pragmatic suspected that this was because when he was commanding the battle, he was used to the trick of suppressing people with power, and he was not used to Liu Wei's style of playing with elite soldiers to break through and then win in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that Gao Pragmatic has insufficient understanding of the specific combat process of the Ming-Burma War - this is no way, the documents of the Chinese dynasties and dynasties are extremely crude records of specific battles, and many times it is obviously a very important victory battle, and the historical records may be two or three words: defeated, broken, defeated, broken, etc., and the specific how to fight is not mentioned at all, it's just fucked.

Qi Jiguang said that the ancient art of war emphasized strategy rather than the "basic method" of training and using troops, and it really hit the nail on the head.

However, although Liu Wei won the battle in history, and Gao Pragmatic had deliberately strengthened the armament of Liu Ling's department before, he himself was a "dumb battle" after all, so after thinking about it, he still wrote a letter to Liu Wei and Cao Gan.

The letter to Liu Wei told him that if there was a shortage of logistics or even armaments, he would go to the southwest branch of Jinghua Trading Company to solve it, and he would give them an order to fully cooperate; Of course, the letter to Cao Gan was to tell him about this and let him inform the Southwest Branch, after all, Jinghua Trading Company was in charge of him, and Gao Pragmatic didn't want to skip the command at every turn - Chang Gong's Yin Jian was not far away, and Gao Pragmatic didn't plan to learn from him to do logistics.

After all these things have been done, it is already the third day, and the things on Huang Zhiting's side are almost done, Gao Shishi is thinking about holding a practice banquet for her, and sending her back to Annan first.

Unexpectedly, an accident happened.

Early in the morning of this day, Han Guang, the eunuch guarding the town, hurried to the Fuyuan to ask to see Gao Pragmatic, and after seeing Gao Pragmatic, he went straight to the topic with one sentence: "High School Cheng, the emperor is urgently calling, please return to Beijing immediately!" ”

"Now?" Gao pragmatic was stunned for a moment: "In what name should I go back to Beijing?" ”

Han Guang smiled bitterly: "This emperor didn't say it...... Chen Gong means that it is enough to say that the debriefing is enough. ”

Gao Pragmatic felt even more incredible, and just wanted to say, "But I've just taken up my new job", who knows what Han Guang remembered again, and patted his head hard: "Oh, look at my memory!" The emperor also said, please bring Deputy Envoy Huang with you. ”

"Deputy Envoy Huang? Which Deputy Huang envoy? "Gao Pragmatism is simply confused, Liaodong now has two deputy envoys Huang, one is Huang Zhiting, the deputy envoy of the Annan tribute, and the other is a soldier, also surnamed Huang, and his own post is the deputy envoy of Shandong, who can also be called a deputy envoy.

But Han Guang seemed to forget the deputy envoy behind him, and said directly: "Naturally, it's your mansion, who else can it be?" ”

The corners of Gao Shishi's mouth twitched, and he said in his heart: Can you, the "man", be more particular about speaking, what do you call me the one in the house? I'm going to be a dog, but I haven't had time for anything bad...... Ahem, nothing was done, nothing was done!

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PS: Today's biological clock seems to be messed up.,This chapter has to be sent early.,I guess I can't bear it at night and have to fall asleep......