Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 139 Everything is Ready (Part [-])
Of course, even if Liu Ting is close to Gao Yushi, it is not really a refuge at the moment. Gao Yushi will not need Liu Ting in the short term. Only when you reach a certain position can you say these things.

What Gao Yushi really cares about right now and is already doing to cultivate power is actually the inconspicuous "buying and selling".His business plan is very large, and the soap business he is doing now is just a small gadget that is not worth mentioning, and it was only used as a means of earning the first pot of gold at that time.But now because of the accidental harvest of Bailixia, a hen that can already lay golden eggs, Gao Wushi plans to advance some plans slightly.

Of course, returning ahead of schedule does not mean that we should go to the shipyard to build sea-going ships now.Meals need to be eaten one bite at a time, and things like shipbuilding are still far away. A hundred years later, the cost of building a main battleship by the British is converted into several 10 taels of silver. Tolerable.

Gao Yushi plans to do coal business now.This business is not at all eye-catching in Daming, because the transportation is inconvenient these days, the profit of coal trading is very meager, and the market is mediocre—it’s just a fire for poor people who can’t afford charcoal in winter, and they don’t even have to cook. suitable.

why?Just think about some of the relatively backward villages in the previous life, and you will know that those rural people would rather go out to chop firewood and cook without using coal. "It's enough to cut it, the cost is basically zero, and it can save money; second, the coal fuel these days is very primitive, the combustion efficiency is very low, and the waste is huge. Still not a great deal.

In the current capital, the poorest people cut their own firewood and burned it; those with better conditions bought coal to save money;

Looking at it this way, it is very clear that there are actually not many people who burn coal seriously.Without a market, not many people are willing to do this business, and profits are naturally difficult to come by, so it is inconspicuous.

Therefore, Gao Wushi felt that the business could be done with the surplus money that Bailixia could currently provide.

However, high pragmatism will naturally not go to great lengths to engage in coal just for this reason.Coal has many roles in later generations, but at present the development level is too low, so it is useless in many aspects, but there is one very key point that is the root of his insistence on opening coal mines: coking and iron smelting.

The coal mines in Mentougou do not quite meet the need for high pragmatism, but they can be used to train a group of mining workers in advance, which is very important.Gao Yushi is not some time-traveling god, he thinks he is not capable of recruiting a random group of people to do all the careers he can provide in his mind.

His work experience in his previous life told him that no matter how humble a job is, there will be "professionalism". If you get a few Jinshi masters to sweep the streets, they may not be able to win over the 60-year-old Uncle Wang next door. .Of course, this is especially true for mining and coal mining. This work is a very professional job in later generations, and the risk is not low. It is not something that any cat or dog can do.

In addition, high pragmatism also has an ulterior purpose: in history, whenever the miners revolted, they were in great trouble, because these people lived in bad conditions and were all doing hard work, and coal mining made them have no choice. Don't pay attention to cooperation - this is simply the best soldier seedling!

In the Qi family army, there are many Yiwu miners, right?Are there many "Guangxi old brothers" miners in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's army?Even the Kumamoto Division, which was pulled out to be a pioneer in Japan in a certain era, was based on miners.

Why is the army of miners so strong?
One is that the body is strong, and those who are not strong cannot work as miners; the other is that they are accustomed to organization and discipline, and those who go down the mine without rules will die early; the third is that in ancient times, going down the mine once was equivalent to facing life and death once, and even going down the mine without fear of fighting is even more trivial; The fourth is that the miners trust each other with their lives, which is equivalent to the soldiers of later generations knowing "don't worry about your back, trust your comrades in arms".

Although Gao Yushi did not intend to seek to usurp the throne, but in view of the great danger of the great cause he wants to do, he must have an extremely reliable force under his command.This military force must be inconspicuous at ordinary times, because it may cause bad things, but at critical moments, it must be able to fight when it is called.

Miners are great!Especially miners who have participated in training are even better!
name?We are afraid that no thieves will be watching, so we usually train as a militia.

organize?Oh, yes, we are called the workers' mine protection team, which means that if someone dares to rob us and steal our jobs, we will fuck it!

Very good, with the thinking of Daming people, there is no problem at all.

Which aristocratic family can't pull out a team of servants who can fight?Which century-old clan does not have its own Wubao old village?Similarly, with such a large private mine, there will be no regular imperial army guarding it for you. If you are robbed, who will you cry to?Of course I want to guard my own fields. I am willing to let my miners have an extra job, and I pay the salary. What is hindering your court?They robbed their homes and bullied the market?If not, why are you talking so much nonsense!
After training enough professional miners, the coal mine that Gao Pragmatism really likes will start to prepare to take it down.

Kailuan Coal Mine!
I don’t need to introduce any more on this, but I will just say one key point: Kailuan Coal Mine is rich in bituminous coal, and quite a part of it can be used as coking coal for coking.

In view of the incomparably huge reserves of Kailuan Coal Mine, this "quite a part" is more than enough to supply the whole of Ming Dynasty even if Gao Pragmatic develops technologies such as coking and blast furnaces, and all the iron and steel smelting in the world is changed to using coke.

Although the horoscope has not yet been written, but this kind of prospect is cool to think about.

How many things he will do in the future are related to this iron and steel smelting?If charcoal is always used to make steel, let alone the huge waste, the poor output alone will make Gao Wushi roll his eyes.As for the fact that a liberal arts student who is highly pragmatic can't make a really high-tech blast furnace, that's true, but when he was a child, he always heard from his elders that people who made steel by indigenous methods used to make some low-tech and high-environment pollution. One point, the local method of steelmaking with poor production efficiency can still do its best.

So when Gao Yushi returned to the capital this time, apart from being busy preparing for the "performance" to be held in the palace in two days, he also sent people to Qi Jiguang and Wu Dui.

Why Qi Jiguang and Wu Dui?Because Qi Jiguang is the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, and Kailuan is within his garrison range, at the same time Gao Yushi also intends to test Qi Jiguang's attitude towards Gao Gong with a small incident; Deputy envoy", Kailuan is his direct jurisdiction!

(End of this chapter)