Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 35 Soap Factory Site (Part [-])
In the past ten days or so, apart from the trial production of soap, Gao Yushi has also done some things for its future production arrangements, such as the site selection of the future "factory area" has been in progress.

Although Gao Yushi has a "huge sum of money", it is not easy to live in the capital. The house price in the capital of the Ming Dynasty is not much cheaper than the house price in the capital before he crossed. Anyway, with his little money, he can only buy a remote place in the capital. small courtyard.It doesn't matter if it's remote. After all, the production process of soap should be kept secret for at least a period of time. Remoteness may be an advantage, but a small courtyard is obviously not enough.Although the manufacture of soap is not an industry that requires a large area, if it is only supplied to the palace, the production area the size of a small courtyard is logically similar.But the high-practical goal is industrialization rather than workshop refinement, so production in the capital can only be given up.

It is not very convenient to buy land and houses outside the capital city. After more than a hundred years in the Ming Dynasty, noble officials and relatives have already occupied seven or eighty eight good lands near the capital. Including the royal farms, there is almost not much to buy. Randomly bought land.It stands to reason that Gao Gong's identity is here, and he can actually find a way to buy some land, but Gao Pragmatic does not dare to do this under the guise of Gao Gong. .

He sent Gao Xiaozhuang to inquire and found out that, coincidentally, although the Zhang family didn't have much land around the capital, they did have a few small mountain manors, all of which were used by the leading figures of the Zhang family to rest in their leisure time. Purpose-built, located in a secluded place, but the traffic is fairly convenient.

Gao Wushi was overjoyed when he heard that, so he put on a face and came to the door in person, intending to beg for nothing and tell his uncle that he wanted to buy one. As for the land purchase, he would deduct it from his regular money for the first month. .

I don't know if it's because the pure manors in the suburbs of Beijing that don't have many fields are not very valuable. Zhang Siwei didn't ask much at all, just told the location of these manors, and asked Gao Wushi to choose one by himself.

Gao Wushi listened carefully, and decisively chose a manor near Mentougou in later generations.

Zhang Siwei was quite relieved when he heard this: because that manor is the farthest from the capital among the Zhang family's manors. Although it occupies a large area, it is quiet and cheap because it is far away from the capital.Of course, given the wealth of the Zhang family, Zhang Siwei would not feel distressed because he gave his nephew a manor. That place was a bit far from the capital, but he thought that quietness was an obvious advantage for reading, so he nodded and agreed on the spot without thinking too much about it.

The area of ​​Mentougou is of course not far from the capital in later generations, but although the capital in the Ming Dynasty was very likely to be the largest city in the world at that time, even so, how could it be as huge as the capital of the Celestial Dynasty after so many years of reform and opening up?At this time, the Mentougou area is already a very remote location in the "Beijing Suburbs", a proper outer suburb, so the manor occupies a relatively considerable area.

Gao Wushi was brought by Gao Gong to the capital and trained by him. Naturally, he couldn't go wandering in the "wilderness" as far as Mentougou, so he could only send Gao Xiaozhuang and groom Gao Mo to investigate.The two went there for two full days, and when they came back, they reported to Gao Yushi that the manor was not a large area at all, but a huge area—of course, they only thought it was huge—their original words were: “In addition to occupying an area, In addition to the more than [-] acres of the manor itself, the uncle also gave you the large forest attached to the manor."

No wonder people say that southern Chinese gardens are more about exquisiteness, while northern manors are more about grandeur. The area of ​​this manor is not only equivalent to the size of two Humble Administrator’s Gardens in Suzhou, but also has a large mountain forest attached to it. Can it not be grand?

But this is exactly what Gao Pragmatic means—isn’t one of the main reasons for choosing Mentougou because Mentougou is a famous coal mine in later generations?

Coal mines are not worth much at the moment, but it will be of great use in the future if Gao Yushi wants to come. Although it is not clear whether there are coal mines on the ground near this manor, it will definitely become an industrial base for someone Gao in the future. With this place in hand, even if there is no coal mine, you can find a way to buy coal production land in the future. There are many mountains and little fields near Mentougou on the left and right, and the noble forces do not interfere much.

According to Gao Xiaozhuang's description, the manor has the usual style of northern manors, grand and grand. Although there are two ponds, the overall style is still relatively simple, especially because for some reason, three rows of warehouses have been built in the manor. It's not too small, there are more than twenty rooms in total.

This is good news, which means that the production workshop and storage room of the soap "factory" basically do not need to spend additional money to build, which is of great significance for high-level pragmatists with limited financial strength to do more with less.

The site of the factory has been decided, but it is obviously not finished, because the problem of workers has not been settled, and the problem of transportation has not been solved, and neither of these two problems is easy to solve.

Gao Pragmatism believes that workers in soap factories can be divided into at least two categories, those who need to be exposed to certain soap manufacturing techniques, and those who only need a little effort to sell.It should not be difficult for those who work hard, just recruit workers in the surrounding areas, and Daming has no shortage of people who are willing to work hard.What is really difficult is where the skilled workers who need to be exposed to certain soap manufacturing processes and even formulas come from.

This problem is more troublesome, although high pragmatism will definitely adopt the principle of dividing the process and divide the manufacturing process into several parts, such as weighing for weighing, flavoring for flavoring, water-soluble for water-soluble, mold-sealing for sealing, sorting for sorting Picking, observing saponification, observing saponification, etc... But the trouble is that the soap making process itself is not troublesome, and the person in charge of some processes is actually likely to see two processes, so it is very important for the secrecy of the process It poses a certain challenge.Even in the worst case, it only needs to bribe one person in each process line, and the soap manufacturing process is stolen.

Transferring a group of slaves, servants, and children from the Gao family in Xinzheng is certainly a way to consider, but the Gao family is only a family of officials and eunuchs after all, and it is not a wealthy and powerful family like the Zhang family. After all, it is still limited. Even if the soap factory can rely on Gao's family slaves to take over this time, won't there be other industries in the future that will also be caught blind?So for this matter, Gao Yushi thinks it is appropriate to come up with a long-term solution.

(End of this chapter)