In Gao Gong's view, whether Gao Pragmatic is leading or guiding, the ultimate goal is the same: to prompt Anda to propose tribute.
But Gao Pangshi knew that in fact, when An Da raised the issue of tribute, he didn’t need to do it himself, because that’s what he had done in history - what he had been thinking about for the past thirty years was to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and war would only bring peace to the world.
It was his last resort.
What an irony.
However, Gao Pragmatic still felt that he had to go to the border in person, not for the tribute itself, but just to carve his own name in the subsequent Anda tribute incident.
He understood his current situation very well, or in other words, from the very beginning when he planned to approach the prince, he knew what situation he would face: Mu Xiu Yu Lin.
This is a very dangerous word, because it is always accompanied by "the wind will destroy it".
Think about it, it has only been a little more than half a year since Gao Pragmatic came to Beijing from Xinzheng with Gao Gong, but the things he has done are not small:
When he first came here, he had to rely on his third uncle for food and accommodation. Then he got a "blood relative allowance" from his uncle's family and a villa with seemingly large land but limited income, but it was real estate.
The funds on hand are very limited.
However, thanks to a sudden encounter, he seized the opportunity to surrender the Bailixia smuggling group known as the Thieves, and immediately obtained a relatively sufficient starting capital. Then, he relied on this capital to expand the scale of smuggling,
While launching Jinghua Soap. In this way, relying on the smuggler Ma's close relationship with the so-called "high-gong direct lineage" border troops in the three towns of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi, relying on the profits of the soap to win over the top dignitaries in the capital, and incidentally started with the remaining profits
Buying up coal fields and iron ore mines near Kaiping and Luanzhou.
Although his focus is now tilted toward officialdom, Sanshenyuan has already produced a batch of foot-operated molds for making briquettes and matching coal stoves. It is just because of the recent high pragmatic funds that have been tilted to other aspects, resulting in
The coal mine at Sanshenyuan is only trial mining so far, with limited production capacity, so it has not been put into the Beijing market for the time being. But in any case, the preparations for the honeycomb coal are basically in place, and only the final capital investment is needed to expand the scale of coal mine production.
Even if it's done. As for sales, Gao Pragmatic has nothing to worry about. The combustion efficiency of honeycomb briquettes is far better than that of wood and old-fashioned briquettes. With the huge market of Jingshi, it is already scary, not to mention that he can also find a way to provide it to the frontier army -
-This thing is more cost-effective than burning firewood, and the extremely poor frontier soldiers will definitely not refuse it.
As long as the next Anda tribute is successfully promoted, Gao Pragmatic will definitely have the largest share in Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi's three towns, Mashi, due to its first-mover advantage and its relationship with Bahannaji. It is basically just a matter of waiting.
The rhythm of counting money. Of course, there is still a little trouble here. Once the horse market opens, Shanxi businessmen will definitely enter in large numbers, and the three alliances of Wang Chonggu, Zhang Siwei, and Ma Ziqiang will definitely not let it go.
My uncle must have a negotiation to divide the circle of interests.
He will not give up the interests that are close to him for no reason just because his uncle has given him support in starting up. Zhang Siwei will also not order his own business to avoid Gao Jingshi's management just because Gao Jingshi is his nephew - because
What they represent is not just themselves, they have a large group of people under their command who depend on them for their livelihood!
It’s not that we don’t talk about family ties anymore, but just because we have to talk about family ties, the scope of interests must be discussed early, so as not to hurt feelings in the end. The old saying that brothers will settle accounts is not unreasonable.
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However, his performance in the shopping mall, which is really obvious and can be seen by everyone, is actually only Jinghua Soap. But even if it is only Jinghua Soap, it is enough to shock Gao Pragmatic's ability to make money:
Of course, the two "Forbidden City special editions" of "Yu Gong" and "Guose" are not for sale, let's not mention them for now. "Guoshi" and "Tianxiang" are simplified versions of the first two special editions, and each piece is sold
The price is one tael. In the past two months, the sales of "Guo Shi" had always been better, but in the past three or four months, the sales of "Tian Xiang" suddenly exploded, and now it has reached more than three times that of "Guo Shi". The two types of soaps have given
The gross profit brought by Gao Jingshi is as high as nearly 70,000 taels of silver, and this is after excluding the bonus portion of the nobles. Why did the brothers Zhu Xizhong and Zhang Rong support Gao Jingshi at the imperial meeting? Money can communicate with the gods.
Every time Gao pragmatically saw their salivating expressions when they accepted the dividends, he couldn't help but think, if I didn't have the status of "Gao Gong's nephew", I'm afraid these distinguished father-in-laws and marquises would
You've already had a meeting to figure out how to seize this industry, right?
This is just a show-off in the shopping mall. What makes many people even more troubled is his performance in the political arena:
At the earliest time, when Gao Gong returned to Beijing and brought him to appear in front of the officials who greeted him, everyone just thought that because Gao Gong was old and childless, he might be planning to train his nephew as a successor.
But because Gao Pragmatic is too young, no one really takes it seriously - even if you are as smart as Yang Tinghe and Yang Shen, you will still have to be on the gold list in your twenties. Even if you are smarter, we can
Accept it, after all, the teenage Jinshi Master of the Ming Dynasty could indeed find a long list, but after all, that was almost ten years later, so why worry now?
However, what people never expected was that due to the emperor's whim, the "Prince's Playmate" incident occurred, and then it developed to the need to find a Prince's companion - as expected, this crown was taken away by Gao Pangshi.
Well, the prince's companion is the prince's companion. After all, he is not a formal official. No matter how good your relationship with the prince is, you can't stand it. The prince is still young and his status is noble, but he has no real power. Your Gao family
Children still have to wait until they pass the Jinshi exam in the future before they can truly enter the official career and play a role in the political arena.
Who would have known that accidents happen every year, and this year there are so many. If the prince is studying, just study. Suddenly there is a system of "watching the government". Every day, a memorial and the cabinet vote for the memorial need to be submitted to the prince for reading, although in name the prince is just
"Observe the government and study", but he is not a dead person. Since he wants to "learn" after seeing it, he must speak up. The emperor has always been particularly concerned about the prince's studies, and also attaches great importance to the prince's evaluation after "observing the government".
As a result, although the prince did not "participate in politics", he actually had a certain influence on government affairs.
If that's the case, it actually doesn't matter. In addition to the memorial itself and the draft, the memorial that the prince received also included the "red approval". It was approved by the ceremonial supervisor in accordance with the emperor's will. Even if the prince expresses his opinion, it will not matter.
Maybe he is clearly opposed to it. However, the surprise is that Gao Pragmatic is too easy to sway the prince's thinking, and he is also unexpectedly eloquent, so that the Chief of Ceremonies, who has always regarded himself as a "Confucian eunuch" and is quite conceited about his talents
The first eunuch, Feng Bao, the admiral of the East Factory, all suffered a big loss in front of this kid!
At this time, officials in Beijing and even local officials could not help but start to pay attention to this "little pavilion elder".
The word "Mu Xiu Yu Lin" means "high pragmatism" has been fully established in both politics and business!
