Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 15 Soap Again (Part [-])
Therefore, the first money-making product he wants to launch must meet the following conditions:
First of all, the production cost should not be too high, otherwise, if he wanted to directly open a shipyard to take advantage of the "Longqing Kaihai" wind to engage in overseas trade, the cost was obviously not something he could afford with the thousand taels of silver on hand.This rule determines that his first money-making product can only be a "gadget".

Secondly, this product should have a certain level of technical content and be unobtrusive, otherwise it will be impossible to maintain profits if it is too easy to imitate, and it will attract excessive attention from the outside world if it is too eye-catching.

Thirdly, the audience of this product should not be too narrow, otherwise even if this gadget can rely on technological monopoly to sell a considerable price, it will be difficult to be promoted because the audience is too small. As a traveler in the commercial era, Gao Pragmatically, we know that the total profit of industrial products without scale effect is difficult to guarantee the rapid development and growth of our company-wasn’t Rolls-Royce Motors also acquired by BMW?Doesn't Ferrari also have a parent company called Fiat?Could it be that the Rolls-Royce and Ferrari brands are not worth much?Obviously not, it's just that the audience is too small and the product doesn't have the scale to scale with a brand with a wider audience.This is the same reason why Porsche forced the launch of the Cayenne amidst doubts - as a company, it needs to generate profits.

Again, this product is best covered from high society down.Because once the upper class approves of the product, it can greatly increase the added value of the product and drive the middle class to use it, thus forming a trend that will continue to increase its profits over time.

Finally, in order to launch this product, it is best to have a partner who can to a large extent dispel the coveting of some people with ulterior motives for the profits obtained from its technology monopoly and marketing.

The problem of what products to produce is easier to solve——travelers, under this technical condition or the technical conditions that can be created, the high, medium and low-end products that can be produced are written in so many novels, just pick a few It is not very difficult for me to remember.

For this first product, even if it needs to meet the requirements of cost, technology, and audience, it is not too difficult for high-level practitioners. For example, the favorite soap of Time Travelers can meet these conditions.Of course, it is best to make soap directly, after all, it is to be covered from the upper class. Although it is very practical to make a soap for washing clothes, it is far inferior to making it for the royal family, dignitaries and other people. The soaps used by his family members are quite impressive.

However, for partners, high pragmatism has to think carefully.

Theoretically speaking, with Gao Wuzhen's current special status, if Gao Gong can be persuaded to nod his head, then it should be the most convenient and safest way to attract a group of "Gao Party" elements to cooperate in setting up the factory.However, Gao Wushi didn't want to involve the "Gao Party" in the first product - Gao Wushi felt that before he passed the Jinshi examination and entered the officialdom, his primary purpose was to break up the three-person group that had been turned down two years later, and create a better life for Gao Gong. During the Wanli period, he continued to rule to create conditions.And Gao Dang... To be honest, as long as Gao Gong is in power, Gao Dang will always exist, and there is no need to rush to get angry now to engage in a combination of interests.Conversely, if Gao Gong falls, Gao Dang or something, it will be the fate of the stars.

If the skin does not exist, how can the hair be attached?
Therefore, Gao Pragmatism hopes that this first product can help him to break up the trio while completing his initial plan to raise money.

In the trio, Zhang Juzheng didn't need to think about wooing them. This is completely useless. Although political struggles don't need to be full of gunpowder, the degree of life and death is even higher than war, so Zhang Juzheng can't "use it for me".Besides, although many so-called experts and professors of later generations tried their best to tout that his reforms largely saved Daming's life for decades, in fact, his reforms did not touch the deeper level at all, so they were not thorough. Later generations also have public opinions, saying that it is a reform, but in fact it is at most an improvement.Even Gao Yushi has great doubts about Zhang Juzheng's actual role in the Longwan reform and the actual effect of the reform.

For example, the abolition of the shift system for craftsmen started as early as the eighth year of Jiajing, and it obviously has nothing to do with Zhang Juzheng.And the first reform of the compilation method began in the tenth year of Jiajing. In the Longqing period, it was already "regarding the land as a trap" and "the rich reduced their capital to the end" (source "Ming Mu Zong Shilu"). It can be seen that The effect of a weaving method has already appeared.Therefore, on the whole, Zhang Juzheng did not achieve the main achievement of the weaving reform, and even Gao Gong can only be said to have inherited the correct line of his predecessors and continued to advance.

So what did Zhang Juzheng do?Well, he forced a weaving method to be promoted across the country, not like the Jiajing and Longqing years, depending on the local conditions.Is this merit?I'm afraid not.For the southern region where industry and commerce are developed and land annexation is relatively serious, it is suitable for a code reform, which has been reformed during the Jiajing and Longqing years.The areas that Zhang Juzheng promotes are precisely the northern and Sichuan areas where the land occupation is not serious and the industry and commerce are not developed. In fact, they are not suitable for this reform.

In addition, Zhang Juzheng also promoted the forced collection of silver.One of Jiajing's reforms has always been to maintain the payment of grain instead of silver, because this can prevent self-cultivating farmers from being repeatedly exploited by official and commercial landlords.And Zhang Juzheng's forced collection of silver not only increases the space for officials to force people with no land and little land to pay two taels of silver—because if it is to pay grain, the population with no land and little land has no harvest, and it is much more difficult for officials to cheat—and also pays official business landlords two taels a year. A chance to make a fortune.

Zhang Juzheng also developed a test method. This test method basically means that no matter how you collect tax money or who you collect it from, as long as you can collect it, your performance is considered qualified. Otherwise, you will be negligent and lazy. You may have to lose your hat or change your hat to a smaller hat.Moreover, this examination method has been inherited. During the reign of Chongzhen, the bureaucrats tortured farmers without land and little land in Shaanxi, which basically inherited Zhang Juzheng's behest.

Zhang Juzheng also re-measured the land of the whole country, but what is the result of the measurement?Anyway, in the Longqing period, the taxpayer's land was more than 700 million hectares, and in the tenth year of Wanli's tenth year, the taxpayer's land was still more than 700 million hectares.

In the end, Zhang Juzheng actually gave the Donglin Party the soil to emerge and exist.Official and business interest networks such as the Donglin Party can easily breed under the conditions of Zhang Juzheng's rejection of dissidents to curb public opinion. Gu Xiancheng and Li Sancai both gained bureaucratic power during Zhang Juzheng's period.Zhang Juzheng's so-called reform is actually not good for the poor peasants, and it is likely to do more harm than good to the dynasty, but it is the most beneficial to the group of officials and businessmen represented by the Donglin Party. Immediately vindicated Zhang Juzheng.

Donglin Party or something, even if some of them are full of integrity, Gao Yushi, as a young cadre trained by our party in the Red Dynasty, has always been displeased with people who only talk about personal integrity and not national interests—— If you You are an ordinary commoner, so it’s fine if you can’t “give up your family for everyone”, but as a high-ranking official of the country, you don’t even have this awareness, what use does the country want you for?Correspondingly, even though the Hong Dynasty also had corruption problems, but looking back, was there a danger in the Hong Dynasty when it was fighting floods and rescues?Is it that "the secretary withdraws the secretary, and the party members are not allowed to retreat unless the secretary quits"?At least Gao Yushi used to be the secretary of a high-ranking county official, and he always followed the secretary on the front line of flood fighting in critical moments, and he couldn't go down the embankment for three or four days.

Rights should always correspond to responsibilities.

Of course, for the real results of Zhang Juzheng's reforms, there is still one thing to be sure of: no matter whether the means are clever or not, at least the rats in the treasury will not starve to death.

Although Gao Yushi has always felt that the tax system of the Ming Dynasty had big and complicated problems, in the final analysis, continuing to collect taxes from farmers must be a stupid way to quench thirst. It is right.

In the end, Zhang Juzheng's reform was still only trying to find a way on the agricultural tax, and in fact there was a situation of compulsory collection of currency agricultural tax. From the perspective of high pragmatism, it can only be regarded as mixed success: of course, it has contributed to the survival of the Ming Dynasty. , but it is also constantly overdrafting the hearts of the people at the bottom of the court, and after him, the Ming Dynasty went further and further along this wrong road, and it became less and less able to recover.

So in comparison, Gao Wushi believes that Gao Gong will not do worse than Zhang Juzheng if he continues to be in power, and if he has the opportunity to take power in the future, although the difficulty of collecting business taxes can be described as huge, he is still confident that he can at least do better than Zhang Juzheng better.That being the case, then I have to excuse you, Mr. Zhang, to move your butt and cool off.

The rest are Feng Bao and Li Guifei, the only ones Gao Wushi can find a way to break up.

On Feng Bao's side, it should be relatively easy to handle.As an eunuch, even if he usually likes to decorate his appearance with culture, his love of money should not escape him. Feng Bao was not so impervious in history, was he?Therefore, as long as the operation is done properly, there is still hope for wooing him into the group.

The difficulty lies in Concubine Li Gui. The current Concubine Li Gui is not the Empress Dowager Li who represented the imperial power to a large extent after the death of Emperor Longqing.At this time, she is living in the palace, even though Gao Yushi is a child, but the palace is not the back garden of Gao's family, how can she go there whenever she wants, the last time she entered the palace with such a good opportunity, didn't she see this one?

Besides, so what if I saw it?Would it be possible to tell her: Oh, ma'am, I have a business here that is sure to make a profit without losing money, and the profit is extremely rich, do you want to buy a stock too?

It is simply the Tang Dynasty of the barren world.Even if they want to buy shares, according to the traditions of the past dynasties in China, it should be the head of their family. That's Emperor Longqing, and it's not Li Guifei's turn.

After thinking about it, Gao Yushi still felt that Li Guifei's opening was not easy to open.But after all, he is a person who has worked in politics in later generations, and he knows the truth that "if the leader can't handle it, he can handle the people around him".

The "leader" is surrounded by court ladies and eunuchs?It doesn't matter, Feng Bao will find a way to deal with it first, and then - deal with Concubine Li's family!
Although Concubine Li herself lives deep in the palace, she still has family members, and it is recorded in the history books that her father, Li Wei, has countless people with the same name in later generations.

The later Lord Earl was originally just a bricklayer in the countryside of Tongzhou. At that time, his hometown was plagued by insects, and Li Wei couldn't get along in the countryside. He brought his daughter to the capital as if he was fleeing. It was not easy, and she was about to starve to death on the street, so she had no choice but to send her daughter to Prince Yu's mansion to be a maid.

It has to be said that this is the most correct decision Li Wei has made in his life, because since then, a broad road has been laid before him.

(End of this chapter)