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 paying tribute, he didn’t need to go there at all, because that’s what he had done in history - what he had been thinking about for the past thirty years was paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and war was the only way to go. 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 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. Funds on hand are limited.
However, thanks to a sudden encounter, he seized the opportunity to surrender the Bailixia smuggling group known as the Thieves, and immediately obtained relatively sufficient starting funds. Then, he relied on the funds to expand the scale of smuggling and launch Jinghua soap. In this way, relying on the smuggler Ma's close relationship with the border troops in the so-called "high-gong direct lineage" of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi towns, he relied on the soap profits to win over the top dignitaries in the capital, and by the way, he used the remaining profits to start buying up Kaiping, Coal fields and iron mines near 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 briquettes are basically in place. All that is left is the final capital investment to expand the scale of coal mine production. As for sales, Gao Pragmatic has no worries. 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 border army - this thing It’s more cost-effective than burning firewood, and the extremely poor frontier army will definitely not refuse.
As long as the next Anda tribute is successfully promoted, Gao Pragmatic will definitely have the largest share in Ma Shi, the three towns of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi due to its first-mover advantage and its relationship with Bahannaji. Then it will basically be just a matter of waiting. The rhythm of counting money is gone. Of course, there is still a little trouble here, that is, once the horse market opens, Shanxi businessmen will definitely enter in large numbers, and the alliance of Wang Chonggu, Zhang Siwei, and Ma Ziqiang will definitely not let it go. When the time comes, he and his uncle will definitely have to carry out the A negotiation to divide circles 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 rely 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. .
However, among his performance in the shopping mall, the only one that is really obvious and visible to everyone is Jinghua Soap. But even if it’s just Jinghua Soap, it’s enough to shock Gao Pragmatic’s ability to make money:
Of course, the two "Forbidden City Special Editions", "Yu Gong" and "National Color", are not for sale, so let's not mention them for now. "Guoshi" and "Tianxiang" are simplified versions of the first two special editions, each priced at one tael. In the past two months, the sales of "Guo Shi" had always been better, but in the next three or four months, the sales of "Tian Xiang" suddenly exploded, and now have reached more than three times that of "Guo Shi". The two types of soaps have brought great benefits to Gao Pragmatic The gross profit was as high as nearly 70,000 taels of silver, excluding the honorable dividends - why did brothers Zhu Xizhong and Zhang Rong support Gao Pragmatism at the imperial meeting? Money can help you.
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 always 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 disturbed 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 was too young, no one took him seriously - even if you were as precocious as Yang Tinghe and Yang Shen, you would still have to be in your twenties to be on the gold list. Even if you are smarter, we can accept it. After all, the teenage Jinshi Master of the Ming Dynasty can 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 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. You 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 knew that accidents happen every year, but this year there are especially many. When the prince studies, just study. Suddenly there is a system of "observation of government". Every day, a memorial and the cabinet vote of the memorial need to be submitted to the prince for reading. Although in name the prince only "observes the government and studies", he is not dead. , after reading it, since he wants to "study", he must speak, and the emperor has always been particularly concerned about the prince's studies, and also attaches great importance to the prince's evaluation after "observing politics", which led to the fact that although the prince does not "participate in politics", But it actually has a certain impact on government affairs.
If that's all, 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. May expressly object. However, the surprise is that Gao Pragmatic is too easy to lead the prince's thinking, and this guy is unexpectedly eloquent, so that the Chief of Ceremonies, who has always regarded himself as a "Confucian eunuch" and is quite conceited about his talents, first writes The eunuch and Dongchang Admiral Feng Bao 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!
what to do? Waiting for the wind to destroy it?
