Zhu Yuanzhang's broken system, Gao Pragmatic has not been able to change it at present, but since the problem is mainly in money, Gao Pragmatic feels that this is a professional counterpart - the characteristic of this press is to be good at solving the problem of money!

In fact, Guangxi has always been notoriously thin and poor, and it is difficult to support a large number of troops. Very early on, an official said: "If the sea is called barren land and many things, then it will be better than the western part of Guangdong", and there are three main reasons for this:

First, the land is sparsely populated and does not have the basic conditions for developing the agricultural economy. The so-called "severe gullies are staggered, the water veins are not grown, and there is no arable land; Gu Jing is lonely, the singing dog is not heard, and there are no people to cultivate. For the county nine, not the southeast one or two counties; There are seven out of seventy people who are in the city, which is not enough to be one or two big cities in the southeast."

Second, traffic congestion is not conducive to economic development. "Ten thousand mountains are wrong, the road is far away, the three rivers are sandwiched, the boat is difficult, the road is robbed today, and the road is congested; Tomorrow's report on the robbery of the river will be difficult."

Third, the frequency of fighting continues to further deteriorate local finances. "Somewhere there is a discussion of carving, and there is a lot of people who need military salaries...... The so-called deacon, the use must not be insufficient, the endowment must not be added but not added, the use must not be insufficient but not sufficient, for the western Guangdong fundraiser since ancient times."

Comparatively speaking, the economic strength of Guangdong and Huguang is significantly stronger than that of Guangxi, taking the number of cultivated land in the three places in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi and the summer tax and autumn grain as an example, Guangxi's land is about 90,000 hectares, 3,380 stones of summer wheat, and 436987 stone of autumn grain; Huguang field soil is about 210,000 hectares, summer wheat 130,910 stones, autumn grain 2036995 stones; Guangdong's land is about 260,000 hectares, 6,007 stones of summer wheat and 1018337 stones of autumn grain.

And this is still the data of the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, and after the high arch Qingzhang Tianmu, this gap is even greater.

For example, after Huguang Qingzhang, the acres of land increased by 550,000 hectares, more than tripled!

Although Guangdong is not so exaggerated, it has also increased by more than 90,000 hectares, which is equivalent to an increase in Guangxi!

But how much did Guangxi increase after Qingzhang? 769 hectares......

You read that right, Guangxi's Qingzheng acres have only increased by less than 800 hectares, which is almost negligible.

This is a hardware gap, and it's a huge gap! [No wind note: The above data is from "Ming Shilu". ]

The fields in Huguang are as high as nearly 800,000 hectares, which is 9 times that of Guangxi.

Although the fields in Guangdong are only more than 350,000 hectares, they are also four times that of Guangxi, and Guangdong's commerce and handicraft industry are far more developed than Guangxi, especially after the opening of the sea, the "import and export tax" of Guangzhou port alone exceeds 100,000 taels a year.

The reason why Liu Yaoyu is willing to use Guangdong's money to subsidize Guangxi is precisely because Guangdong's financial revenue has increased year by year, and now it is not bad for that money, so he, the governor of Liangguang who is also the governor of Guangdong, is also happy to be a favor and show his generosity.

However, as the old saying goes, if you take people with short hands and eat people with soft mouths, Guangxi has taken Guangdong's money, and the governor of Guangxi has become less confident to speak on his own territory. Whether to set up liuguan or local officials in the Bazhai area was obviously an administrative affair of Guangxi Province, but now Liu Yaozhi can just intervene, isn't this one of the manifestations?

Therefore, if Guangxi wants to speak hard, it must first take off this poor hat. Don't say anything to compare with Huguang and Guangdong, but at least you have to be self-sufficient!

The symptom is good to prescribe medicine, and now that the symptom has been found, Gao Pragmatic as a Guangxi Patrol, in the case that the governor is seriously ill and basically cannot be a director, he must consider the problem of how to take medicine.

Sending Jiang Xin and Ni Zhonghua away, Gao Pragmatic began to enter "industrial thinking".

When he was in Siming Mansion before, Gao Pragmatic only considered how to control the Tusi of western and southern Guizhou through economic means, and did not consider the problem from the perspective of the economic development of the entire Guangxi, but now he must give Guangxi a comprehensive consideration.

In terms of agriculture, especially in terms of grain, there seems to be no good way for the time being, there are no potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, the three high-yield crops, Gao pragmatic can at most think of the methods commonly used in agricultural production in later generations, such as "intercropping", "intercropping", and "rotation", but this will require a large number of people to teach, and secondly, it will require the vigorous publicity and cooperation of local officials, including Tusi, it is estimated that even if Gao pragmatic is determined to do it, it will be three years before he sees serious results.

So this matter can't be rushed, after all, agricultural development is like practicing internal skills in martial arts, and the effect can not be seen overnight, so you can only take it slowly, and the traverser can't pull out the seedlings to help it grow.

So, what about industry? Or is it a handicraft?

With the existing conditions in Guangxi, can it engage in any large-scale industry or large-scale handicraft industry? It seems to be quite difficult, mainly because Guangxi has no big iron ore worth mentioning in the impression of high pragmatism.

There are a few coal mines, but they are magically distributed: in addition to Nanning and the northwest of Liuzhou, which are in the hands of the imperial court, there are three major coal mines in Guangxi, one near the Ming River, which is the territory of the Huang family; One is near Tianzhou, which is the territory of the Cen family; There is an even better piece, which is the Bazhai area......

In the northwest of Liuzhou, the current traffic is very inconvenient, so there is no need to consider it directly; Cen and Huang take out the Bazhai area, don't think about it for the time being, otherwise it will not be easy to control; As a result, the only coal mine that can be considered is the Nanning coalfield in later generations.

The question is, if there is no iron ore, what can I do digging coal in these days? Even if the north doesn't make iron, it can still be used for heating, but Guangxi is a province with an average annual temperature of 20 degrees, and most areas can hardly feel the winter, and even the coldest Guilin is not so cold.

However, judging from the direction of world economic development, in the next 300 years, all industries will look at textiles in light industry, and coal and iron in heavy industry...... It's lame.

So is it okay to engage in textiles first? It's not that it can't be done, Guangxi is still suitable for planting mulberry, that is, there are conditions for raising silkworms, but the silk industry is an intensive industry, and it is also very technical (weaving, embroidery and other skills), I don't know how many years it will take to train skilled workers in this area? And the current population of Guangxi is sparse, and it is too late to grow food, so let's wait for sericulture.

Sericulture is not good, what about cotton weaving? Oh, no, China's cotton production in later generations is characterized by a Xinjiang beating the whole country, as for Guangxi, I don't know whether to grow cotton or not......

No, I have a problem with this idea, I can't think about what can make money first, and then apply it to Guangxi's head to consider, I have to think the other way: what advantages does Guangxi have that I can use now.

Well, Guangxi's mineral resources should be dominated by non-ferrous metals, which is too complicated to remember, as if aluminum and tin are more famous.

Aluminum doesn't need to be considered, a pragmatic liberal arts student, can know a little bit of ironmaking and steelmaking knowledge is thanks to the blessing of "big steelmaking" in those years, how can he know to engage in aluminum? He didn't know what the aluminium mine looked like. What's more, he vaguely remembered that electrolytic aluminum seemed to be very power-hungry...... Good bye.

The mining and use of tin ore has been mastered since ancient times, and it has a key role in the manufacture of bronze.

Even in the current Wanli Eighth Year, bronze is a very valuable strategic material, because it is the material for casting cannons. Even if it is Jinghua Artillery Factory, the cannon is now cast with bronze, because although Gao Pragmatic knows the "iron mold casting cannon" this magic skill, but after all, it is only the cannon mold technology, not the real material technology, Gao Pragmatic or Jinghua can't make a steel casting cannon now.

Besides, in the future, there is a great use for high-level cast guns is to be used at sea, and the requirements for steel cannons at sea are even higher, especially for rust resistance, and bronze cannons have many advantages in this regard.

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