It’s close in recent years.
If he had been in Yanjing in previous years, Gao Pingshi would have even put on a fox-cropped cloak by now. However, now in Nanning, he is still wearing spring and autumn clothes, with a singlet and an outer jacket. The two suits are just right.
According to his physical sense, it is estimated that the temperature in Nanning at this time is about 15 degrees Celsius, which is almost the most suitable temperature for human beings. The climate is really pleasant and the mood is comfortable.
Of course, the good mood is not just because of the temperature, the most important reason is because the Nanning conference was successfully concluded.
Simply put, this is a conference of unity, a conference of victory, and a conference that builds on the past and opens up the future. After the meeting, Gao Pragmatic deeply realized that such a meeting must be regularized, institutionalized, and standardized, and strive to further make due contributions to the harmonious society of Ming imperialism.
Hey, a bunch of words? But it doesn't matter, the general idea is similar.
Generally speaking, Gao Pingshi basically achieved what he wanted at this meeting. With his strong financial resources and brilliant entrepreneurial experience, he completely overawed the country bumpkins in western and southern Guangxi, making them satisfied and frightened, and they fell to their knees one after another. Under the huge magic power of gold and silver.
At this meeting, Gao pragmatically proposed several industrial plans that he had planned long ago, and proposed raw material purchase quotas to the toasts at relatively favorable prices. Including but not limited to various types of wood, tung oil, crude sugar, etc., star anise, rosin, and various medicinal materials, which are relatively produced in western and southern Guangxi, are also added.
Gao Mengnan proposed the latter goods to Gao Pragmatic because the sales of these goods in Guangdong are very good. Although medicinal materials are also produced in Guangdong, medicinal materials from Yunnan and Guangxi have always been very popular, not to mention that Guangdong also distributes them to other provinces. , so we don’t have to worry about sufficient supply at all. The more abundant the better.
Of course Gao Pragmatic listened to his advice. Anyway, he wanted to control the transportation and sales channels. It would not hurt him to sell more goods. On the contrary, the more goods he got, the more lifeline he would be able to strangle the chieftains, especially when they After getting used to this kind of income, no one can bear it if it suddenly decreases.
Of course there is no problem for people who are used to walking on small roads to take the big roads, but if people who are used to walking on the big roads suddenly take the small roads, no one will feel better.
For the chieftains who had never seen big money, the purchase amount proposed by Gao Pingshi was completely astronomical. Many of them had never thought that the money for selling wood could be calculated in thousands or ten thousand taels—— In their eyes, this is nothing more than sending people up the mountain to cut down and carry them down. As for the cost, the big thing is to provide food for the lumberjacks and give them a small reward of three to five taels of silver every month. They don't even give silver or copper coins. Whether it's homespun or homespun, you can throw away anything.
Although the people at the high press have set very clear standards, such as what age the wood must be, how thick and long it must be, and how long it must not be bent, etc.
But those requests are nothing to the chieftains - I can't say anything else in Guangxi, but don't you have as much wood as you need? Eight mountains, one water and one farmland, 80% of which are mountains, you're kidding ?
There is also the tung tree produced by the tung tree, which has always been abundant in Guangxi, both wild and cultivated. However, in the past, people used this to subsidize expenses, but they didn’t take it seriously. They often soak these precious tung oils in other places casually, just to make those things stronger.
For example, it is understandable that they soaked bamboo spears, but it is unreasonable to soak javelins. So what if you don’t soak them in tung oil? They only need the spearhead to be made of iron and be able to break armor. What does it matter if the pole is a little harder or softer?
You know, bamboo is the fastest growing, and there are a lot of bamboo mountains in Guangxi. It is more than enough to make any number of disposable bamboo javelins. You actually use tung oil to soak this, it is too extravagant!
In highly pragmatic terms, this is a typical case of overcapacity. Why don't you let me help you digest it... Where is the difficulty in selling tung oil? At the beginning of this big shipbuilding plan, I can consume as much tung oil as you have. If I can’t use it, I can still sell it. This is a global commodity. In the Age of Discovery, are you afraid that tung oil will not be easy to sell? It’s true that it’s hard for Europeans to buy it.
And Gao Pragmatic is really not afraid of selling tung oil to Europeans. Could it be that if I sell tung oil to them, they can send their main fleet to East Asia to fight against the Ming Dynasty? Don't be kidding, Europe is now in a state of chaos. The Thirty Years' War, the Dutch War of Independence, the Anglo-Spanish War, etc. have all been squeezed into the past few decades. It is impossible for the main fleets of the European naval powers to be dispatched overseas.
Maybe if I sell some tung oil, they can fight more fiercely...
Therefore, when Gao Jingshi mentioned the purchase of tung oil, the chieftains were also very interested, especially since Gao Jingshi could control the unified waterway transportation, and no one dared to ask him to collect additional taxes. Therefore, the profits were guaranteed, and they were given accordingly. A relatively favorable purchase price was offered, and all parties were rushing to report the quantity and request supply.
As for the crude sugar, the competition is not so fierce - the Huang family and several branches have almost wrapped up the crude sugar!
This is not because of pragmatic bias, but because the core sphere of influence of the Huang family is almost Chongzuo City in later generations, and Chongzuo City is known as the Sugar Capital of China. Just one statistic tells you how powerful it is: its sugar production in one city accounts for one-fifth of the country's total.
Therefore, the Huang family accepted the profits from the crude sugar without hesitation. If the Cen family had not had more tung trees, the two families would have staged a full-scale martial arts show at the venue.
In terms of timber, both sides have a lot of mountains, but the Cen family occupies a larger area, and the quota allocated to them by Gao pragmatism is slightly larger than that of the Huang family. As for the exact profit ratio between the two parties, it is difficult to say now, because the prices of various types of wood are not consistent. For example, the prices of fir and pine cannot be the same.
A striking feature of this conference is that Gao Pragmatic clearly takes care of the Cen and Huang families in terms of profit distribution, and among the two families, he also clearly takes care of the main family.
He even gave Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling a power that sounded insignificant but was actually very critical, that is, Jinghua only approached them to receive goods. In other words: Cen Ling is equivalent to "Jinghua Guixi's general supply agent", and Huang Zhiting is equivalent to "Jinghua Guinan's general supply agent".
Other toast supplies must be passed through the hands of Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling before they can be transferred to Jinghua.
This is obviously not about Gao Pragmatic creating opportunities for his subordinates to be lazy, but the purpose of supporting their two families is to enhance the prestige of their two families and make them truly capable of controlling their entire clan.
And all of this is so that they can call on the chieftains within their sphere of influence to send troops to serve Gaoyantai in the near future.
Having accomplished so many big things at once, Gao Pragmatic certainly felt comfortable.
Now that everything is ready, all we need is the east wind, and there is only one reason left to launch a chieftain war against Annan instead of a national war.
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