Then, if the "local government" proposes to move to Kaiping Town, there will be a question mark when you go to Yang Zhao, but Gao Pragmatic feels that if only Yang Zhao disagrees, although there is trouble, it can be overcome.

The next thing to be done is Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Jizhou. Gao Pragmatic thinks this problem is not big, because Qi Jiguang is not a literati, and he has always "been an official and a man", as long as he can convince Sanbo Gao Gong, Gao Gong revealed that he wants to move to Kaiping Town, Qi Jiguang is basically unlikely to come forward to oppose it, as long as the place where Kaiping Town migrated is handed over to Qi Jiguang to designate.

Why did you leave it to Qi Jiguang to designate this new migration point? Because he is a real military strategist, the position to which Kaiping Town is most beneficial for military defense must be the most clear to him, as long as he takes care of this, he should not have too many opinions - anyway, he doesn't want him to pay.

If Qi Jiguang nodded here, then only Wanquan Dusi would be left. In fact, Wanquan Dusi has almost existed in name only, this ring of Dusi starting from Shanxi, along the Beijing Division to Shanhaiguan, was originally specially set out as a defensive belt for the Gongwei Beijing Division, in fact, across the Xuanda (including Shanxi), Jiliao two major governors.

However, as we all know, the commanders of the capital are basically hereditary, and many of its high-ranking officials, such as commanders, are nobles. Due to its proximity to the capital division, Wanquan Dusi is also a concentration of nobles. The power of the nobles has long declined greatly, needless to say, the current major metropolitan divisions have long since lost their prestige, and basically local officials don't take the metropolitan divisions seriously - even the county commanders from Jinshi dare to ignore the commanders, that is, the county orders that raise people to fill the vacancies, and may also give the capital divisions a face.

However, when it comes to the relocation of a health center, I have to ask the opinion of the capital division. If it's somewhere else, it's okay, ignore the capital division, it doesn't dare to say anything, after all, the status of the capital division is special, there are too many nobles, and the involvement with the lords and nobles of the Jingnan department is also deep, and it will inevitably look a little ugly if you ignore it completely.

Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic has already paved the way for this, and now the bigwigs of the Jingnan Department have become a ...... with him Well, good friends who share dividends together, it's basically not difficult to get them to nod their heads on this matter, after all, they don't need to pay a copper plate for the money they have to spend on migration. It's really not good, Gao Pragmatic will give them a little extra time, that's it.

After Gao Pragmatic figured out these situations, he didn't explain them to Wu Dui, because Wu Dui didn't know what Gao Pragmatic was buying these waste lands for.

Wu Dui only knew that the pragmatic maternal uncle's family was the Puzhou Zhang family, which almost monopolized the Changlu Salt Farm, and the area of these wastelands and rotten land was not small, and the radius was not hundreds of miles, but the price was rotten and cheap - less than 10,000 taels.

Of course, 10,000 taels is a lot of money, and a central government in the northern region can't pay the tax silver equivalent to 10,000 taels of silver in a year. But the size of the amount depends on who it is, if this money is pragmatic and plans to ask his uncle for it, Wu Dui estimates that it may not be a big deal, just a New Year's money for his nephew......

But Gao Pragmatic insisted on taking Kaiping Town, Wu Dui really couldn't figure it out, even farming in this broken place was not very good, the output has been low, and it seems that there are only a few small coal mines horizontally and vertically. However, coal is cheap and has few uses, so it can only be burned for heating, and if you want to transport it to Beijing to sell, the cost will go up again, and you can't sell local coal in western Beijing. If Gao Shishi insisted on taking the plot of land in Qian'an, Wu Dui could still understand, after all, there was a gold mine over there, but Wu Dui really couldn't think of anything that had to be won on this rotten land in Kaiping.

Of course, he couldn't understand why Gao pragmatic had to win Kaiping, because Kailuan was one of the cradles of China's industry in history, and this area not only has huge coal reserves, but also has a large proportion of coking coal, and there are also considerable reserves of iron ore.

There is coking coal, there is iron ore, if Gao Pragmatic can't come up with a "new steel city" that is at least much more advanced than the current one, he will still be a ghost?

Originally, he still had to lag a lot further behind the development plan of Kaiping, but after getting the contribution of Bailixia by mistake, he found that this plan could be laid out a little earlier, because ...... I have money in my hands.

Of course, this thing is not something that can be done, talents, technology, relocation, new construction, etc., all cost money, all need time, Gao pragmatic has a lot of things to do at hand, and the soap factory has not yet fed, so it is still necessary to come step by step.

But in any case, it is still necessary to take the land first, open a coal field, an iron mine, and then start researching and exploring iron and steelmaking. It is nothing more than to control the scale a little smaller, so as not to spread the shelves too big at the beginning, and make it the same as Zhang Zhidong back then.

After inspecting Kaiping, Gao Pragmatic still stayed and did not leave, now Wu Dui was a little dissatisfied, he was a soldier and prepared for the road, and he already belonged to the reserve candidate for the governor, how could he have the time to accompany this "little junior brother" to wander around in this broken place? Gao Pragmatic also saw what he meant, took the initiative to thank him, and asked him to go to his business and not have to waste time here with him.

Wu Dui was originally afraid that Gao Pragmatic would have a safety accident in his jurisdiction, so he couldn't explain to Gao Gong, but after looking at Gao Pragmatic's large group of armed men—this time he brought a full 200 Baili Gorge riders—Wu Dui was relieved again, so he said goodbye and left.

Gao pragmatically sent away his cheap senior brother, still not in a hurry, every day he took people around Kaiping, chatting with the locals when he had nothing to do, of course, he asked about things related to coal mines, iron ore and other products, and Gao Mo, who accompanied him throughout the whole process, couldn't figure out how much land his eldest young master wanted to buy and how much ore he wanted to dig.

In his opinion, although there are more and more private mines in Daming, in addition to the precious metals such as gold, silver and copper, other mines do not seem to be very profitable, and the risk is still big - the mine is strictly managed, the miners are easy to make trouble, and once the miners make trouble, the matter is not small, so the trouble is very big; But if you don't manage it strictly, the comparison between input and output will be less visible, and the profit will be low, and sometimes it can even lose money.

In particular, he never understood why his eldest young master was interested in coal mines, this thing was really very, very worthless, and he decided to dig coal in western Beijing, so it could be said that there was a densely populated giant city like Jingshi that could be consumed, but what was the use of digging coal in Kaiping? In this Kaiping Town, even the military households and civilian households, and even the merchants and prostitutes, I don't know if there are enough for 15,000 households, and the total population does not exceed 50,000 people. Not only are there few people, but they are also so poor that they are clanging, and there are barren mountains and forests everywhere, and it costs almost nothing to chop firewood for burning, and how many families are willing to burn coal? Isn't it all necessary to smash the pit in your hands to die when digging coal here?

He now thinks that he is also a confidant, and he didn't dare not persuade his master, so he raised this question, Gao Shishi just laughed after hearing it, and replied: "Kaiping coal, I am reluctant to use it for heating, you don't have to worry about this." After saying that, he took them to inspect the waterway of the steep river.

Such busyness until a person rushed to Kaiping.

And this person is Qi Jiguang, the chief military officer of Jizhou.