Therefore, the first wealth-raising product he wants to launch must meet the following conditions:
First of all, the production cost cannot be too high. Otherwise, if he wants to directly open a shipyard and take advantage of the "Longqing Open Sea" to engage in overseas trade, this cost is obviously not something he can afford with the thousand taels of silver on hand. This is
It was decided that his first money-making product could only be a "gadget".
Secondly, the product should have a certain technical content but not be very eye-catching. Otherwise, it will be too easy to imitate and it will not be able to maintain profits. If it is too eye-catching, it will attract excessive attention from the outside world.
Thirdly, the audience of this product cannot be too narrow, otherwise even if this gadget can rely on technological monopoly and sell for a relatively considerable price, it will be difficult to promote because the audience is too small. As a time traveler in the commercial era, Gao
Pragmatism knows that the total profits of industrial products without economies of scale are difficult to ensure the rapid development and growth of their own companies - wasn't Rolls-Royce also acquired by BMW? Didn't Ferrari also have a parent company called Fiat? Could it be Rolls-Royce?
Are the brands of Royce and Ferrari not valuable? Obviously not, but the audience is too small and the product is not of sufficient magnitude, so they cannot compare with brands with a wider audience. This is why Porsche was forced to launch amidst a lot of doubts.
It's the same thing with Cayenne - as a company, it needs to generate profits.
Again, it is best for this product to be covered from the upper class down. Because once the upper class recognizes the product, it can greatly increase the added value of the product and drive the middle class to use it, thus forming a trend.
So that its profits can continue to increase over time.
Finally, to launch this product, it is best to have a partner. This partner must be able to largely dispel the desire of some people with ulterior motives to covet the profits gained from its technology monopoly and marketing.
The problem of which products to produce is easier to solve - as for time travellers, under the technical conditions or the technical conditions that can be created, there are various high, middle and low-end products that can be produced. They have been written about in so many novels. Just pick a few.
It’s not very difficult to remember one yourself.
Even if this first product has to meet the requirements of cost, technology, audience and other aspects, it is not too difficult for Gao Pragmatic. For example, Chuan Chuan's favorite soap can meet these conditions. Of course, it is best to
It is made directly into soap. After all, it is intended to cover the upper class society downwards. Although it is very practical to make a soap for washing clothes, it is far inferior to making it for use by royal nobles, high-ranking officials and their families.
The soap comes in great style.
However, when it comes to partners, you need to think carefully about being pragmatic.
Theoretically speaking, with Gao Wushi's current special status, if Gao Gong can be persuaded to nod, then it should be the most convenient and safe way to recruit a group of "Gao Party" elements to cooperate in setting up a factory. However, Gao Wushi does not want to be involved in the first product.
The "Gao Party" was mentioned above - Gao pragmatic felt that before he passed the Jinshi examination and entered the officialdom, his first purpose was to break up the trio of Gao Gao who would be defeated two years later, so as to create conditions for Gao Gong to continue to rule during the Wanli period.
Gao Dang... To be honest, as long as Gao Gong is in office, Gao Dang will always exist, and there is no need to rush to combine interests now. On the contrary, if Gao Gong falls, Gao Dang and so on will be the star.
A life that is scattered in the clouds.
If the skin is gone, how will the hair be attached?
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic hopes that through this first product, he can complete his initial plan to make money and at the same time play a certain role in breaking up the Gao trio.
Among the top three, Zhang Juzheng does not need to consider winning over. This is totally useless. Although the political struggle does not need to be filled with smoke, the level of life and death is even greater than war, so Zhang Juzheng cannot be "used for me." Besides, although many so-called experts in later generations
The professor tried his best to tout it, saying that his reforms largely extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for decades, but in fact, his reforms did not touch the deeper levels at all, so they were not thorough. This is also known by later generations, saying that it was
Reforms are actually improvements at most. Even Gao Pragmatic has great doubts about Zhang Juzheng's actual role in the Longwan Reform and the effectiveness of the reform.
For example, the abolition of the shift system for craftsmen was started as early as the eighth year of the Jiajing reign, and it obviously had nothing to do with Zhang Juzheng. The first reform of the work system started in the tenth year of the Jiajing reign, and by the Longqing reign it had become "visual".
"Fields are traps" and "the rich reduce their capital to the end" (source: "Records of Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty"). It can be seen that the effect of the Yitiao method has already appeared. Therefore, on the whole, the main achievement of the Yitiao method reform is not Zhang Juzheng's.
, even the high arch can only be said to be the continued advancement of the correct line inherited from the predecessors.
So what did Zhang Juzheng do? Well, he forcibly promoted a method throughout the country, instead of depending on the situation in each place like during the Jiajing and Longqing years. Is this an achievement? I'm afraid not necessarily. For developed industry and commerce, land annexation
As for the more serious southern regions, which are suitable for the reform of one line of law, it has been reformed during the Jiajing and Longqing years. However, the areas promoted by Zhang Juzheng are precisely the northern and Sichuan areas where land annexation is not serious and industry and commerce are not developed. In fact, it is not suitable for this reform.
Region.
In addition, Zhang Juzheng also promoted the forced expropriation of silver. One of Jiajing's legal reforms has always been to maintain the payment of grain instead of silver, because this can prevent the peasants from being repeatedly exploited by the government, merchants and landlords. However, Zhang Juzheng's forcible expropriation of silver not only increased the
Officials have room to squeeze money from the landless population - because if they pay grain, the landless population will have no harvest, it will be much more difficult for officials to cheat - and it also gives the government, business and landlords the opportunity to make a fortune twice a year.
Zhang Juzheng also instituted the examination method. This examination method generally means that no matter how you collect taxes or from whom, as long as you can collect it, your performance will be considered qualified. Otherwise, it will be lazy and lazy administration.
You may have to lose your hat or exchange your big hat for a small one. Moreover, this method of passing the examination has been passed down. During the Chongzhen period, the bureaucrats tortured the landless farmers in Shaanxi, which was basically inheriting Zhang Juzheng's legacy - as a result, Shaanxi passed the examination
The result is that he passed the exam and became Chuang Wang.
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Zhang Juzheng also re-measured the land across the country, but what was the result of the measurement? Anyway, the tax-paying private land in the Longqing period was more than 7 million hectares, and the tax-paying private land in the Wanli decade was still more than 7 million hectares.
Finally, Zhang Juzheng actually provided the soil for the emergence and existence of the Donglin Party. Official and business interest networks such as the Donglin Party can easily breed under the conditions of Zhang Juzheng's rejection of dissidents and the suppression of public opinion. Gu Xiancheng and Li Sancai were both during Zhang Juzheng's time.
Zhang Juzheng's so-called reforms, which gained bureaucratic power, were actually unfavorable to the poor farmers and probably did more harm than good to the dynasty. However, they were most beneficial to the group of officials and businessmen represented by the Donglin Party. Therefore, in the early years of the Apocalypse, Donglin
As soon as the party came to power, it immediately suppressed the rebellion by Zhang Juzheng.
Donglin Party or something like that, even if some of them are very popular, Gao Pragmatic, as a young cadre trained by our party in the Red Dynasty, has always been disdainful of people who only care about personal integrity and not the interests of the country - if you
It’s fine if you’re an ordinary citizen and can’t “sacrifice your family for the sake of everyone.” But as a senior official of the country, you don’t even have this awareness. What use does the country want from you? Correspondingly, even the Red Dynasty also had corruption problems.
But looking back, when the Red Dynasty was fighting floods and rescue operations, was there a danger that "the masses evacuated first, and party members came in first"? Did it mean that "the secretary retreated, and party members were not allowed to retreat unless the secretary retreated"? At least as Gao Pragmatic did at that time.
The secretary of a high-ranking county official always follows the secretary on the front line of flood control in critical moments, and cannot go down the embankment for three or four days.
Rights should always correspond to responsibilities.
Of course, the real results of Zhang Juzheng's reforms must be affirmed by Gao Pragmatism: no matter whether the means are clever or not, at least the rats in the treasury will not starve to death.
Although Gao Pragmatic has always felt that the Ming Dynasty's tax system had huge and complicated problems, in the final analysis, continuing to ask farmers to collect taxes is definitely a stupid way to quench thirst. Only by expanding tax sources, especially commercial taxes, tariffs, and even industrial taxes, can we
It’s right.
In the end, Zhang Juzheng's reform was still only about finding ways to deal with agricultural taxes, and in fact there was a situation of compulsory collection of monetary agricultural taxes. In Gao Pragmatic's view, it can only be regarded as a mixed success at best: it certainly contributed to the longevity of the Ming Dynasty.
, but he also continued to overdraw the bottom of the people's hearts in the court, and after him, the Ming Dynasty went further and further along this wrong path, and became more and more hopeless.
Therefore, in comparison, Gao Pragmatic believes that Gao Gong will not do worse than Zhang Juzheng if he continues to be in power. If he has the opportunity to take power in the future, although it is extremely difficult to collect commercial taxes, he is still confident that he can at least do better than Zhang Juzheng.
Better. In this case, I have to ask you, Mr. Zhang, to move your butt and cool down.
The only ones left are Feng Bao and Li Guifei. The only two people Gao Pingshi can find a way to break up.
Feng Bao is said to be relatively easy to deal with. As for eunuchs, even if they like to decorate their appearance with culture, their love for money should not be able to escape. Feng Bao was not so impenetrable in history, right? Therefore, as long as he operates
If done properly, there is still hope to win him over.
The difficulty lies in Concubine Li. The current Concubine Li is not the Empress Dowager Li who represented the imperial power to a great extent after the death of Emperor Longqing. At this time, she lives deep in the palace. Even though Gao Pragmatic is a child, the palace officials are not
Go to the back garden of the Gao family wherever you want. Last time you had such a good opportunity to enter the palace, didn’t you see this person?
Besides, so what if she sees her? Should she tell her: Oh, my lady, I have a sure-profit deal here, and the profits are extremely huge. Do you want to buy some stocks too?
It is simply the Tang Dynasty. Even if they want to buy shares, according to the tradition of Chinese dynasties, the head of their family should come and join them - that is Emperor Longqing, and it is not Concubine Li Guifei's turn.
Gao Pragmatic thought about it, and still felt that it was difficult to open up to Concubine Li. But after all, he was a person who had been in politics in later generations, and he knew the truth that "if the leader can't handle it, he has to handle the people around him."
Are the "leaders" surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs? It doesn't matter, Feng Bao will find a way to deal with it first, and then - deal with Concubine Li's family!
Although Concubine Li lives deep in the palace, she still has a family, and history books record her father, Li Wei, who had countless namesakes in later generations.
The later Earl was originally just a mason in the countryside of Tongzhou. When his hometown was hit by an insect infestation, Li Wei couldn't survive in the countryside, so he took his daughter to the capital as a refugee. After a few months, he found that he was living in the capital. It was so difficult that he was about to starve to death on the streets, so he had no choice but to send his daughter to Prince Yu's Mansion to be a maid.
I have to say that this was the most correct decision Li Wei made in his life, because from then on, a broad road lay in front of him.