Gao Pragmatism, who always pays attention to the principle of maximizing interests, will certainly not just give him the soap agency rights for the entire Liaodong just because Xuecheng entertained him at the dinner. This is a complete act of giving money. The reason why he suddenly extended an olive branch to Xuecheng had a clear purpose.
First of all, Xuecheng is the younger brother of Xue Qian, the acting Zhang Yangwuhou Yin. Historically, Xue Qian was not officially named Yangwuhou until his death. However, after his death, his son Xue Yuan was awarded the title of Eight Classics. The imperial court recognized that Xi Jue was the Marquis of Yangwu, so in the future this Xuecheng would be the uncle of Marquis Yangwu - so there would be no problem in treating him as the representative of the Marquis Yangwu Mansion.
Secondly, once the Yangwuhou family gets the soap agency rights in Liaodong, the other noble families will definitely be dissatisfied with the small amount of dividends they can only share in the capital every year, while the Yangwuhou family, which is not the top noble family, will get more. There are so many, so they will definitely ask for agency rights from other provinces or regions, so that they will have to move closer to high pragmatism.
Gao Pragmatic has so much money-making stuff on hand that only he knows it, and he won't mind the second-hand benefits brought by the agency right to share profits with them. After all, his goal is to establish a core industrial circle by himself and let Xungui Group, Civil Service The group and even the royal clan group formed a chain of interests centered on his industrial system, which comprehensively drove the Ming elite group to change their thinking and embark on the path of reform. Therefore, it can be predicted that under the highly pragmatic "profit concession", the two parties can hit it off immediately, and their interests can only become closer step by step.
This highly pragmatic approach, in fact, people with a little bit of brains will know in later generations. This is what is called making the cake bigger first, and then I, the core main force in making the cake, will distribute it to everyone. If you want to share more, then You have to listen to me more than others. The only variable here is actually the royal family, especially the emperor himself - in theory, he is supreme and can not listen to your allocation and force him to divide it.
However, Gao Qingshi felt that when that time came, he would have something to think of. Because the emperor wants to distribute it himself, he must take the lion's share, but except for himself, the interests of everyone else are equivalently affected. In this way, Gao Pragmatic can use the idea of "subjects of the world" to force the emperor to take back this An idea that might endanger the foundation of rule, and finally the two sides reached a compromise. As long as such a good show is staged, Gao Pragmatic's status as superior to the ministers will be determined - but I don't know what year or month this happened, so take your time.
Thirdly, after all, Gao Pragmatic's own funds on hand are still very limited at the moment, and his time is very tight, so it is impossible for him to invest the money he earned from selling soap in the capital into developing the national soap market. Otherwise, he would probably just be a Ming soap king for the rest of his life.
He must use his money to build new industries and develop new financial resources as quickly as possible. In this kind of building and development, the production technology involved will only become higher and higher, and the scale of the industry will only become larger and larger. , then correspondingly, more and more investment will be required. If nothing unexpected happens, his industry should be snowballing and getting bigger, and at the same time, his investment will be snowballing and growing.
Then, this requires him to take the initiative to give up some non-core interests after innovating a certain industry, and introduce more investors to partner with him to share risks and benefits. As long as he still controls the core resources of this industry, other partners can only "closely unite around the interest group with high pragmatism as the core" and willingly open up business routes for him and protect him from wind and rain.
I don’t know how this kid attended the party school refresher course in his previous life. He didn’t learn much about the noble idea of serving the people. He only learned so much about weaving a web of interests. Really, a Buddha can only save people who are destined to him.
After handing over the shipment of soap from Liaodong to Gu Cheng, he couldn't still sell it at the retail price. After Gao pragmatically finished eating, he signaled to Gu Cheng to break up. Gu Cheng was more anxious than Gao Yingshi, so he reluctantly insisted on sending Qi Jiguang to rest in person, and then nonchalantly asked Gao Yingshi to go to the study for a secret discussion.
The two people discussed carefully in the study room for two hours. It was not until 3:30 pm (around 10:30 pm) that Gao Pragmatic could no longer hold on and was about to fall asleep, so they reluctantly negotiated all the details.
I won’t mention too detailed clauses. Generally speaking, the most important ones are that Gao pragmatically provides soap to Gu Cheng at 90% of the soap’s retail price in the capital. Gu Cheng guarantees that the Yangwu Marquis Mansion will use its greatest efforts to open up the Liaodong trade route, Liaodong If there is any resistance to this, Gao Jingshi will be responsible for handling the matter for civil servants, and the Marquis of Yangwu will be responsible for handling matters for military ministers or nobles. At the same time, Gu Cheng needs to ensure that his shipping price is not lower than the retail price of Jingshi soap, otherwise Gao Pragmatic has the right to terminate the supply at any time.
Gu Cheng didn't pay much attention to other scattered aspects, and he didn't understand Gao Pragmatic's convoluted explanations. After a rough look, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it, so he signed and signed on behalf of the Marquis of Yangwu Mansion - of course this was still fine. It needs to be sent to Xue Qian to be stamped with the seal of Marquis Yangwu before it is complete.
And Gao Pangshi, a bad guy who studied law at the university in his previous life, certainly doesn't mind inserting some "secret doors" that seem harmless to humans and animals, but are actually extremely sinister. If the Hou Mansion wants to go back on its word, the secret doors here will change from a beautiful place full of flowers to a desperate situation filled with thorns.
"Zengguang Xianwen" puts it well: You must not have the intention to harm others, and you must have the intention to guard against others. After all, being highly pragmatic cannot guarantee that you will not be in crisis in the future. If some of your partners see that the situation is not good, they will give up and want to leave you alone to survive. If you don't have any counterattack, Means, how to obtain it? Haven't you ever heard the saying, "With wine and meat, there are many brothers, but in times of crisis you never see anyone"? If you are highly pragmatic and don't regard yourself as that kind of pedantic gentleman, how can you let others "deceive you"?
After the matter was discussed, the satisfied Commander Xue almost treated Gao Jingshi as the God of Wealth. He personally arranged for Gao Jingshi to live in the best villa in Kaiping, and even brought Gao Jingshi's escorts and servants. A late-night dinner with wine and meat was served, and then accommodation was arranged in the Gao pragmatic courtyard. At the same time, he was worried that they would get drunk and cause trouble, so he personally ordered two hundred "elite soldiers" and asked them to guard the surrounding courtyard all night.
To put it in his words: Even a cat named Chun is not allowed to appear around the courtyard and disturb Gao Shidu's rest! Otherwise, I will use the whip myself and whip you useless snacks to death!
