No matter what difficulties you encounter, you should first clarify your thoughts and prioritize, and then focus on the key points to make targeted arrangements. This is a habit Gao Pragmatic learned and developed at work in his previous life. Therefore, the most important thing at the moment is to ensure that Gao Gong does not fall at the turn of Long and Wan, and that the chief assistant and chief minister of life can continue to work safely; the second is to raise Wang, at least in the official circles of the capital, the scholars, and even the royal family. Among them, it leaves a good impression on people as a young talent with talents that can be put to great use; and finally, it builds its own industrial team to pave the way for the future development and transformation of Ming Dynasty.
To put it bluntly, the first step is to stabilize his family's position in the Ming Dynasty's political arena. This is a matter of life and death. Of course, this may be a bit serious. After all, Zhang Juzheng did not want to kill Gao Gong in history, but just ended it. his political life. However, if this matter is not handled well, then at least Zhang Juzheng will not be able to do anything during the ten years of high pragmatism and can only lurk in obedience. Although from Gao Jingshi's age, lurking for ten years doesn't seem like a big deal, but he knows that the future of Ming Dynasty will be one bad thing after another. It's best not to waste time if you can. After all, in Gao Jingshi's view Zhang Juzheng's reforms in those ten years were not as beautiful as many people in later generations thought. He did not solve many problems very well at all. What is remarkable is that he became a paper framer like Li Hongzhang.
The second step, to put it bluntly, is to prepare in advance for being named on the gold list and entering the political arena in the future. The advantages of an official family are not just the visible benefits such as economic resources and educational resources. The biggest resource that cannot be seen but can be enjoyed is actually the connections. Gao Pragmatic himself was in politics in his previous life. Although his position was lower, the principle is the same - there are people above you to support and care for you, there are people around you to help and cooperate, and there are people below you to cheer for, and if you still can't get something decent done, then you are really a bad person. It can only be said that his ability is too poor. Gao Pragmatic was a secretary in his previous life, and he usually did a lot of pre-arrangement and checking for omissions and filling in vacancies. Such arrangements in advance have become a habit for a long time, and it is not surprising at all.
The third step is long-term planning, which of course also means immediate benefits - without industry, where will the capital come from to make friends? In this world, of course there will still be some good people who simply see that your child is doing well and will help you with a little help when it is convenient. But that is obviously not enough. More people will only come out to agree with you and praise you after you succeed. Not to mention that if you have no friendship with others, how can you do it if something goes wrong? Do you expect people to risk their lives to save you just out of morality? It was too naive. Gao Pragmatic never dared to hope for this. There is a saying that it is easier to add icing on the cake than to give help when times are in need. If you want someone to risk everything to help you when times are right, you must make people feel that doing so will be of great benefit to them! Or if he didn't send this charcoal, he would be in big trouble himself! If these two points can be achieved, then there is no need to worry, there will definitely be people who risk their lives to save you. But how to achieve it? First of all, you have to be rich and you have to be able to manage such a large network of people!
Of course there are such things as connections, regardless of money, but first of all, they are unstable. Do you think that after you die, some friend of your uncle or uncle or a friend you know from your daily life of reciting poems and painting will help you out of morality? If this matter is quite troublesome for you, what if people don’t want to involve you in it? What if people think that your uncles and uncles are no longer around and their favor has faded away? What if someone is just a coward? What if people are simply afraid of trouble? There is no way to determine whether these are present or not, so we can’t rely on them at all.
The only ones you can count on are those who have interests connected with you. It doesn't matter if I can get a lot of benefits from you after helping you, or if I don't help you, I will lose a lot of benefits. These connections are the connections that will basically not fall apart at critical moments. Why? Haven’t you heard that “blocking someone’s way of making money is like killing your parents”? Killing your parents is a life-and-death feud!
Therefore, if you want to do well in the officialdom, it is imperative that you have money - it does not mean that you have to give bribes and give money to others, but it is human nature to welcome and send gifts and reciprocate with courtesy, right? In your daily interactions with people, you are generous and never put your friends at a disadvantage. Even if people don't like you, who wouldn't want to make friends with you? If you are smarter, for example, if you have a business that your friend thinks is pretty good, and you invest some spare money in it, you will indeed make money every time. When you make money, you will always pay him dividends on time and in quantity. Can people not like you? How can people not trust you? Can people tolerate anything happening to you?
That's the benefit of having a stake.
Therefore, if you want to have a wide network of people, in addition to making more like-minded people, you must also have a foundation, capital, industry, and ways to make money.
The soap industry is a start-up industry determined by Gao Pragmatism. This business was of course a typical emerging industry when it was established in the Ming Dynasty. One of the main advantages of emerging industries is that competition is small and profits are high. The disadvantage is that promotion is sometimes troublesome.
But Gao Pragmatism is not afraid of difficulties in promotion.
People these days are relatively honest in business, and the popular thinking is still at the level of "the smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley". If a certain company's superior products want to be promoted, they basically rely on word of mouth. To be honest, this kind of primitive promotion level is simply too weak for Gao Pragmatic, a veteran who has been in the business society for many years.
Of course, since it is a start-up industry, it must be an instant success, which puts forward requirements for the product itself - although Gao Pragmatic believes that he can make a seven-point good product into a very good one and make people believe it, but if the product It’s very good in itself, wouldn’t that be even better? Don't be afraid even if it blows to the sky.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic is still very concerned about the progress of soap manufacturing. His soap was the so-called handmade soap in later generations. Of course, it was a little rougher than some refined handmade soaps in later generations. But no matter how rough it was, the manufacturing process was basically the same, and the saponification reaction had to wait. So he spent more than ten days in Gaofu and a few of his subordinates before he finally managed to spare more than a dozen yuan.
Since the fragrance of soap is no different from that of perfume, there is no distinction between top notes, middle notes, and base notes. Soap fragrance is basically a mixed fragrance that is finalized at once. However, mixing and styling also requires a prominent main fragrance, and the fixatives and essential oils used in the fragrance will have a certain impact on the saponification reaction. Therefore, after dozens of tests, although these dozens of soaps have been made, they still need to wait for more than ten days for the saponification reaction to complete naturally before they can be used. However, although it cannot be used yet, it can already be smelled. He currently has limited space and limited manpower, so the first batch of trial products does not have many styles. There are only two scents in total: mint and laurel. Originally, according to Gao's pragmatic plan, the first batch of trial products should also include jasmine flavor, but it is winter after all, and the major pharmacies in the capital do not have much jasmine in stock. Even if they do, it is dry jasmine, so it cannot be used for refining. For essential oils, I had to place a modest order first and wait until the jasmine flowers bloom in half a year. Fortunately, mint and laurel are raw materials commonly used by people in the Ming Dynasty to make sachets. Otherwise, Gao Pragmatic would have had to change his mind and make sulfur soap first.
