After Gao Fu was transferred, Gao Guoyan could no longer stay in Sanshenyuan. It was best to be transferred back to the capital to centrally manage various financial matters of the three major factories in Kaiping and Qianxi, as well as Sanshenyuan, Bailixia and other parts of the capital.
As a result, Sanshenyuan could only promote Shen Li'an, the former manager of Shensiyuan, to take charge of the soap factory. Although the Jingxi Coal Mine is much smaller than the Kaiping Coal Mine, it is responsible for providing the briquettes needed by the capital. It is also a profitable industry and can be handed over to Peng Shaocong, the former steward of Shenxingyuan.
Peng Shaocong used to be mainly responsible for the Sanshenyuan militia, but now Gao Pragmatic has gathered the "military power", and Gao Mo and Gao Jue are the chief and deputy commanders of the Jia Ding Guards, Peng Shaocong can be completely liberated.
Gao Yi and Gao Jiong are currently in charge of weapons research, but after the private military industry is completed, they will definitely not be able to just engage in research, but must also engage in production, so they will also consider moving to Kaiping and rely on Jinghua Iron and Steel to control the weapons. Start a weapons factory.
Gao Yi can still continue to be in charge of research and development, but Gao Jiong must switch to production, otherwise it will be impossible if no one is responsible for the production.
With such a hasty calculation, the talent pool at hand is suddenly full. If he then enters other industries or opens up business elsewhere, he will be in the dilemma of having no one available, which would be embarrassing.
But the Gao family can't find suitable talents to supplement them for a while - if it is ten years later, it will be easier, because there are several Gao and pragmatic brothers alone. Historically, the academic level of these boys was only average, and they were all students. The only difference was that some were tribute students, some were Linshan students, and some were ordinary students. Anyway, they didn't even mix into one, so they could all be arranged. Take responsibility for a part of your own industry.
The problem is that now, there is no pick-up.
Several of his uncles, Gao Jie, Gao Duo and Gao Cai, all had only one son. The third uncle, Gao Gong, had no children at all.
Counting on the fingers: the eldest uncle Gao Jie's son Gao Wuzi is a dandy, unable to hold himself up, so let's not talk about it; the second uncle's only son Gao Guoyan is already working under him, and is equivalent to the financial director of all the industries in the capital; Wu Bo Gaocai's only son, Gao Wuben, was about to enter the imperial court in Beijing, so it was impossible for him to come and mess with him. After these three, he is the most pragmatic...
No, I’m missing someone, my uncle’s adopted son Gao Mengnan!
Judging from Gao Mengnan's behavior when he had a conflict with Gao Wuzi that day, he was actually dissatisfied with Gao Wuzi, but because of his status, he had to defend Gao Wuzi. But overall, his attitude towards himself is pretty good, and during the time he came back, he learned from his mother and younger siblings that this person is quite stable.
In addition, before his uncle took office, Gao Mengnan obtained the status of supervisor in Nanjing. The status of the supervisors is roughly equivalent to that of the students. Of course, since the Imperial College in the north and the south have varying degrees of corruption, everyone knows that the standard of the supervisors is inadequate. However, Gao Pragmatic feels that no matter how high the qualifications are, logically speaking, the cultural quality should be low. passable.
After all, he is just looking for people to manage his own industry, and he is not asking them to take the imperial examination. Whether the eight-part essay is good or not has nothing to do with whether they can manage the industry.
Then, Gao Mengnan can still consider using it - of course, the premise is that he is willing to come.
Gao Pragmatic was slightly myopic in his previous life. In this life, he paid great attention to protecting his eyesight. He usually didn't read after dark, so he went to see Gao Mengnan at night.
Gao Mengnan was quite surprised by Gao Pragmatic's visit, and had always been somewhat suspicious of Gao Pragmatic's intention. However, Gao Pragmatic was very friendly to his attitude and did not dwell on the unpleasantness of that day. Instead, he actively avoided talking about Gao Wuzi.
Gao Pragmatic's conversational skills were pretty good, and the topic quickly moved to his uncle Gao Jie, and then he naturally talked about the old things when Gao Jie was in Nanjing, and then through those old things, Gao Mengnan was excited to talk.
After talking for more than an hour, Gao Qingshi had a general understanding of Gao Mengnan.
Of course, a short conversation cannot provide a deep understanding of a person's talents, but Gao Pragmatic found out from the conversation that Gao Mengnan is indeed a cautious person. He neither exaggerates nor is timid when speaking. He is just truthful about some of his past experiences. statements, rarely even adding their own opinions.
Apart from that, he is not very shy about mentioning his biological father. His biological father was from Dinghai County, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He was born into a family of Dinghai Guardsmen. He originally served in the Zhejiang Navy. Later, he was transferred around to fight against Japanese pirates. Finally, for some reason, he ended up under the command of Gao Jie, the admiral of Cao Jiang. Die in battle.
According to Gao Mengnan, when he was a child, he also stayed on the ship with his biological father for two or three years - military households are all hereditary, and the naval division is different from the land division. If a person has never been to the sea, he will definitely not be able to directly To become a member of the Navy, many children from Navy households were taken on board ships from an early age to become familiar with ships and hydrology.
For Gao Pragmatic, this was an unexpected surprise.
In his long-term plan, he will definitely push Ming Dynasty to "move towards the blue ocean" in the future, but his own understanding of the ocean is all based on books and the Internet, which is the kind of level where he has knowledge reserves but no practical experience. And in this life, he has never been able to compete with the ocean. He was born in an inland province like Henan, and no one around him has even seen the sea. Therefore, he has been worried that when he goes to the ocean in the future, he will not have anyone available. All have to be recruited on a temporary basis.
Things are different now. There is no living person in Gao Mengnan's family, and he is the adopted son of his uncle. He even changed his surname. Since he knows something about the ocean, no matter how deep his understanding is, he is at least a useful person. .
Of course, Gao Pragmatic has no ability to go directly to the blue ocean at the moment, let alone the blue ocean, even the yellow ocean is difficult. However, this does not prevent him from implementing his consistent strategy - laying the groundwork first.
Originally, he planned to ask Gao Mengnan to be a deputy to Cao Gan first, so as to prevent Cao Gan from being responsible for too many businesses after the tribute was completed, resulting in excessive concentration of power. But now that this happened, Gao Pragmatic immediately changed his plan and took out another plan that he had prepared for a long time but did not intend to implement it so quickly, and asked Gao Mengnan to start slowly.
The plan is to buy land in Tianjin to build a port. And not only Tianjin, but also Laoting County south of Kaiping will build a port to be used as a shipping base for Jinghua Steel products in the future.
Needless to say, the value of Tianjin Port. He had already suggested to Gao Gong that water transport should be replaced by sea transport. Although Gao Gong said that it could not be implemented for the time being due to the political stability, Gao Pragmatic was not in a hurry - water transport was not possible, and private freight transport could not be managed by the court. Bar?
The Yellow River burst its banks one after another and flooded several counties. It was a scam for goods south of the Yangtze River to take the canal. Gao Pragmatic had long wanted to switch to the sea route!
Now that I finally have someone to use, how can I waste it?
