Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 210 Spring Outing (Part [-])
Highly pragmatic in doing things, he has always paid attention to efficiency, but his so-called emphasis on efficiency is not the kind of "vigorous and resolute" that people understand.Compared to the kind of people who think of an idea and start immediately, he prefers to plan carefully, from point to point, and strive to connect one thing in series, or do one thing while driving another.

This is his theory of efficiency, because to a certain extent, he believes in the saying that sharpening a knife does not cut firewood by mistake.

He also upholds the same philosophy when inviting a group of honorable children for a spring outing.

The cause of this incident can be recounted a few days back: after he entered the palace to show the magical effect of soap to Concubine Li and the prince that day, Concubine Li told Emperor Longqing about the soap on the same day.The emperor also personally tried the soap presented by Gao Yushi. The emperor was very satisfied with the effect of the product. He had no objection to the conditions given by Gao Yushi, and even felt that he had taken advantage of it—— The price you get is of course high and pragmatic.

Long Qing was not an idiot emperor raised in a deep palace since he was a child and didn't know the sufferings of the people. He had lived a lot of "hard times" back then.
"Yes, he knows the value of two taels of silver very well.

Of course, a bar of soap is very expensive to sell for two taels of silver, and many people in Beijing can only cover this amount with half a month's income.But there are two problems here: one is that the efficacy of the soap is indeed very obvious, but Long Qing knows nothing about the technical content, cost price and so on.In his opinion, to have such a miraculous function, it must be made of very precious materials - isn't the best rouge and gouache expensive?So looking at it this way, two taels of silver is still a good deal.

This kind of thinking is the same as some people who take medicine when they are sick. Originally, it is only a minor illness that can be cured by two slices of angelica, but they always want to eat ginseng.Because in the minds of many people, expensive is always expensive for a reason, and because of this, they even ignore whether the medicine is suitable for the symptoms. There are cold medicines everywhere in later generations. The medicine for cold, or conversely, after taking the medicine for wind-heat and cold, it always doesn’t work in the end, thinking that the medicine I bought is not good enough.

Here, Gao Yushi perfectly took advantage of Long Qing, Li Guifei and others' ignorance of technology, and sold them at a reasonable high price.

As for the second point, no matter how expensive the item is, according to Gao Yushi's exchange terms, no matter how much money it has, you don't have to pay it yourself.Then it doesn't matter, even if you sell it for 100 taels, I won't feel bad!Anyway, it is you who lose money.

In fact, this is also the reason why Gao Pragmatism insists on paying tribute for free: No matter how high your price is, how much money can you receive from the emperor?You must know that the amount used in the palace is actually only a small amount. Although he has decided to cover things like soap from top to bottom, it must be popularized after all, and popular products can only guarantee profits if they are sold in large quantities-the price is expensive. How to take the amount?If the volume is not enough, no matter how high the profit per block is, it is useless.

And the emperor agreed to Gao Pragmatic's contribution and graded monopoly, which is equivalent to granting Gao Pragmatically the power to monopolize the soap industry.Needless to say, the power of monopoly.

Not only that, but after thinking about it, Long Qing still felt that he had taken advantage of it a bit, and spreading the word might hinder his holy name.So Long Qing discussed with Concubine Li Gui to see if he should give Gao Yushi some kind of reward.

A few days ago, Concubine Li Gui was complained by her younger brother that the house she was given was not as good as others, so she said casually: "Then give him a house, the left and right senior servants don't even have a place to live in Beijing."

However, Long Qing was somewhat reluctant to part with the house in Beijing, so he found a reason, saying that Gao Shidu was brought by Mr. Gao to teach him personally, if he was given a house alone, he would definitely have to live in it, wouldn't that be the case? Does it seem that I deliberately want to alienate their uncles and nephews?
But that being said, bestowing a house is indeed a good way, so Longqing changed the subject and said that the late emperor built several other courtyards in the suburbs of Beijing, among them Jianxinzhai in Xiangshan, although it is not big, it is worse than exquisite , why not give it to Gao Shidu as his reward for offering soap.

Concubine Li Gui had nothing to do with this, anyway, the reward was proposed by the emperor himself, and she had never been to see Xinzhai, whether it was suitable or not was the emperor's own consideration, so she agreed.

Therefore, Gao Wushi got another courtyard in Xiangshan, which was Jianxinzhai.

Of course, Jianxinzhai is completely different from Sanshen Garden. This other courtyard is really not big, with a construction area of ​​only about six acres of land, plus the attached land outside, it is only more than ten acres of land. It is a veritable small garden. other courtyard.

But Gao Wushi was very happy when he got the news, because this time "there is a house in Beijing", and he directly lived in Xiangshan Park...

So Gao Wushi urgently sent someone to buy a dozen maids and servants to take them over to clean and tidy up, and adjusted his original plan to hire a restaurant to entertain those honorable children, instead inviting them to Xiangshan for a spring outing.

The reason for this adjustment is because he has another purpose: firstly, to show the holy family; secondly, Xiangshan is going out of the capital at this time, and gathering here can avoid some unnecessary attention; The matter of the soap was spread more by word of mouth of these people, so as to further increase the popularity and expectations before the soap "launched".

For his first wave of "original products", Gao Pragmatism really worked hard.

Jianxinzhai is located on the north side of Xiangshan Mountain. The terrain here is relatively open, with mountains to the east. The Zhao Temple of later generations has not yet been built. Across a valley is Jianxinzhai.Not far to the north is Biyun Temple.

Jianxinzhai is a circular courtyard building with a unique shape and a quiet environment.There is a semicircular open pool in the courtyard.There is Zhiyu Pavilion beside the pool. The water in the pool is clear and there are countless fishes.There are semicircular corridors along the east, south and north sides of the pool, connecting the three water pavilions on the front - this is the "noumenal" building of Jianxinzhai.

Jianxinzhai occupies a small area, but the layout of pavilions, platforms, corridors and pavilions is exquisite and unique.There are teahouses in the courtyard and koi in the pond.

The terrain here is high in the west and low in the east.The east, south and north sides of the garden are surrounded by mountain streams, and the garden walls naturally meander along with the direction of the mountains and mountain streams, meandering up and down.The overall layout of the garden conforms to the terrain and is divided into east and west parts.The eastern half is centered on the water surface, with the waterscape enclosed by the building as the main body, while the western half has a higher terrain, with the courtyard and mountain scenery combined with the building and rocks as the main body.A mountain and a river form a contrast, and most of the buildings face east from west.

The water surface in the eastern half is elliptical, and a curved ruler-shaped water outlet extends from the northwest corner, as if the source of water is endless.The verandah along the wall surrounds the pool, and the whitewashed walls have leaked windows, which is very full of the sentiment of Jiangnan Water Court.

In the main hall, Xinzhai sits west facing east with surrounding corridors, and its northwest side connects a small building with a curved corridor. Facing north and south, it is a transportation hub for climbing the western half of the mountain.On the east bank of the pool, there is a pavilion named Yuting, corresponding to Jianxinzhai across the water, but slightly to the north, so that you can enjoy the panoramic view of the west bank.

This day when Xushi arrived, a team of no less than [-] people came to see Xin Zhaiwai—it was Gao Wushi, the group of honorable disciples and their entourage.

(End of this chapter)