When Li Chengliang made the decision to go east to Liaoyang to congratulate Gao Pragmatic on his new appointment, Gao Pragmatic himself was also writing a recital, but his recital was not to continue to beat Li Chengliang, or play some other conspiracy, this time he was talking about the right thing.

The first part, to put it simply, is to promote his previous revitalization plan in southern Liaoning to the whole of Liaoning, and the overall idea is to "adapt measures to local conditions".

Since he himself had already served as the governor of Liaodong, the biggest thing in "industry" was to start the Anshan iron ore mine plan, and since the iron ore was about to be excavated, the supporting Liaoyang Iron Works, as well as the Liaoyang branch of the Jinghua Musket Factory and the Jinghua Artillery Factory, should of course also be put on the agenda.

Iron ore mining, iron factories are civil affairs, as long as the land is bought, Jinghua itself can decide, itself is not necessary to report to the imperial court, but because of the production of muskets and artillery in Liaoyang, this can not but be reported for the record, after all, the Ming Dynasty's military industry and private according to the arrangement of the high arch in that year, is to be jointly supervised by the Ministry of War and the relevant bureaus of the Imperial Horse Prison.

In this era, Anshan was just a horse post (called Anshan Horse Post in the post station system of the Ming Dynasty), and there was a small town at the level of an ordinary town, with a total of more than 3,000 households and more than 10,000 people.

It is not dilapidated, but it is certainly not prosperous, if it is placed in the inland provinces, it is probably a lower county, and even in the lower county it is a "poor county" - so it is very cheap to buy land in Anshan, not to mention that almost all of the mountains bought in Jinghua are even more typical ownerless wasteland, and the local health office can decide.

Now that I have bought several large pieces of land, Gao Pragmatic has become Liaofu himself, so when will he not mine at this time?

However, it is a little troublesome to set up a factory in Liaoyang, because Liaoyang City has already been built, and Jinghua has to open an iron factory, a musket factory and an artillery factory in Liaoyang, a total of three factories, covering an area that is relatively large compared to this era, so the old Liaoyang City can not accommodate it.

There are only two ways to think of this, one is that Jinghua himself will build three factories outside the city, connect them together, and then build a small city by himself, which can be nominally calculated according to the fort.

The second is the expansion of Liaoyang City funded by the imperial court, including the three factories of Jinghua, and integrating with the old city of Liaoyang.

Both approaches have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage of building a fort dock by yourself is that the production is not interfered with by the outside world, and it is not afraid of leaking production secrets, but it can also defend independently, and it does not need the approval of the imperial court.

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 can reach Liaoyang City, and there are a lot of troops, adding up to at least three or four thousand people.

In this way, coupled with his own Fu Biao, he has six or seven thousand families in Liaoyang, even if Tumen has another brainstorm, he can ensure that Liaoyang City is foolproof.

But the disadvantages are not without it, for example, think long-term: in case Liaoyang is overwhelmed by the enemy army in the future, it is difficult to decide whether the three factories outside the city will defend in situ or withdraw to the city of Liaoyang.

Of course, it is theoretically safest to withdraw to the city, 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 and steel-making furnaces that are difficult to transfer.

What's more, these more than 10,000 workers, plus their families, are also in great trouble after entering Liaoyang City, which has never been expanded.

However, it does not seem to be particularly reliable to choose to defend on the spot without retreating to the city, although this is an iron factory, a gun and a cannon factory, and it sounds like as long as there are people to defend, there is no fear of not having a strong defense or even counterattack ability.

But Liaoyang is not Kaiping, Gao Pragmatic cannot put his largest and strongest "comprehensive industrial base" in Daming in the corner of Liaodong, so the scale of this side is obviously smaller than Kaiping, if the other party can really be called a "big army", as long as you are willing to spend some effort and pay some price, you can still take it. Qiankun Audiobook.com

A large number of craftsmen were captured by the enemy, which must have happened, so Gao Pragmatic did not dare to bet on this "future", he would rather go more steadily: directly ask the imperial court to expand Liaoyang City.

The imperial court expanded Liaoyang City, and Gao Pragmatic could also rely on his status as the governor to personally make construction plans for the expanded new urban area, arrange the three factories in one place, and even allocate some additional vacant land for other projects that may need to be completed in the future.

However, there is one of the biggest troubles in the expansion of the imperial court, that is, the imperial court is now very poor, although the expansion of a new city alone, the money spent is actually only one or two thousand taels of silver, but the Ming Dynasty fought a little more last year, if it were not for the savings of the Gao Gong and Guo Pu eras, I am afraid that Yin would have to eat grain, so that the imperial court agreed to spend this money, the problem is not to persuade Zhu Yijun, but to persuade the heart school.

Not long ago, the Heart School was also pitted by Zhang Siwei, and made a little concession on the issue of commercial taxes, and now Gao Pragmatic has to spend the court's money, they must not like it - although Jinghua has caught up with Nanzhili in paying taxes in a year, but the Heart School obviously will not consider it from this perspective.

They won't 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 being spent by Gao Pragmatic. Therefore, Gao pragmatic had to carefully analyze the importance of building an arsenal in Liaoyang City, and elevate it to the level of "Liaoyang will never fall".

It seems that not all high-sounding words are just spectacle, sometimes the words are high-sounding, but they just have to do it.

There is no doubt that the Liaoyang-Anshan heavy industry circle is the focus of this recital, but there is another thing that needs to be mentioned.

Gao Pragmatic suggested that the imperial court should set up three or four new positions in Liaodong, if it was three, it would be: Jin Fu Counselor General, Jinzhou Haiphong Tongzhi, and Huanggudao Qianzong; If there are four, there will be no separate guards for the Jinfu generals, but one guerrilla general in Jinzhou and one in Fuzhou.

Gao Pragmatic's proposal is obviously to strengthen the position of southern Liaoning, and it is conceivable that as soon as the Heart School sees this proposal, the first thought must be "Gao Pragmatic wants to promote the lineage".

It is true that the promotion of the descendants can be regarded as one of the purposes of high pragmatism, but it is indeed not the main purpose.

The reason for the high pragmatism to strengthen the status of the two prefectures of Jin and Fu is that under the jurisdiction of Ma Siqing of Liaodong Yuan and the deputy envoy of Jin Fu Haigai's military garrison, there is only one Haigai general, and the two states of Jin and Fu are too weak and need to be strengthened and strengthened.

In particular, Jinzhou, this place is roughly the Dalian of later generations, and the area under its jurisdiction, including the famous military port Lushunkou that became famous in the world in the late years of the Tatar Qing Dynasty, is completely necessary to vigorously operate.

The Ming Dynasty itself has no maritime enemies worth mentioning around Liaodong, but not having it now does not mean that it will not be in the future, at least nine years later, Jinzhou will definitely occupy an important position in the highly pragmatic plan - a transfer station for military supplies.

This problem does not need to be discussed in detail, because in the original history, Li Rusong won the first war and then lost the first war, and finally only fought a stalemate in a dominant position, and the main problem was in logistics: North Korea itself was defeated by Japan, and it was impossible to collect the grain and grass needed by the army, which led to the need for the Ming army to transport materials by itself, but the materials of the Ming army were transported by land, so that it was the Yalu River and the mountainous areas of northern Korea.

In view of this, Gao Pragmatic had already thought that in the future, when the Renchen Rebellion occurred, once the Ming Dynasty sent troops to intervene as in the original history, the main material supply should be by sea, and the route was from the two "starting stations" of Tianjin Port and Yingkou Port, and then transited at the Lushun Port in Jinzhou, and finally sent to North Korea.

After sending it to North Korea, it is very easy to settle down, and it can be sent to Pyongyang in the early stage, because although Pyongyang is not on the seaside, it is connected to the sea by the Taedong River, and it is not far from the sea; In the medium term, it can be sent to Seoul (now Seoul), for example, Incheon, which is famous for the US military in the west of Seoul, is a good place to unload; As for the later period, it depends on the advance line of the Ming army at that time, and all in all, it is not a big problem, at least ten times stronger than taking the land route.

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