Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 476 New goals [4th more! ]
Gao Pragmatic's infrastructure construction is definitely to make money, but not entirely for making money, because there are quite a lot of projects in his plan that need to be built, and they belong to the category that entrusting others to do it is far worse than doing it himself.

The construction technology of Ming Dynasty is a typical "civil engineering", but Gao Yushi knows that it is better to use less wood in future infrastructure projects, just like the Ming Dynasty's palace was struck by lightning or accidentally caught fire from time to time. Carrying wood would waste a lot of money, food, energy, and even time. If it could be replaced with reinforced concrete, the possibility of not starting a fire would be greatly reduced. Time and money alone would save a lot.

It should be said that the more projects that require super-large timber, the more cost-effective it is to replace it with reinforced concrete, and the more durable it is. Don't look at the fake steel bars (long-wrought iron bars) he used, but that is also more reliable than wood. Spectrum!

It's just that he's not professional after all, so he can't do anything about large steel columns and beams.At the same time, he couldn't come up with such a magical technology as welding, basically relying on assembly, the strength is still far behind that of later generations, it can only be said that it must be stronger than the current technology of Daming.

As for the cost, many of the large timbers are transported from the deep mountains and old forests in Yunnan and Guizhou. In this era without trains and giant ships, it is true that the price of tofu can be made into meat, which is far less than that of the three major factories in Kaiping. The cost of providing wrought iron rods is low.

As for cement... the so-called high cost is just a matter of high pragmatism. Although he has not yet been able to mass-produce and maximize the benefits, the raw materials needed to produce cement are there, no matter how expensive they are. Where is it expensive?It can be provided in large quantities around the capital, especially since he placed the cement factory near the three major factories in Kaiping, so that materials such as coal ash, slag, and iron ore powder can be used as waste. Limestone and gravel are almost the only cost, and these two things are not worth much even in the capital!

Therefore, the saying that cement is expensive is nothing more than a rhetoric under the monopoly of high-level pragmatic technology.

The reason why he wanted to help Longqing build the mausoleum for free was actually the same as his previous promotion of soap, he just used the most effective publicity channel these days - imperial use.Think about it, the imperial mausoleums all use cement, so is this cement a good thing?

With this super advertisement, the highly pragmatic Jinghua Infrastructure will go to pick up the business next, and it will have the highest quality invisibly, without worrying about no business or no profit.

It's just that he doesn't have the energy to take on other projects now, because he has a lot of projects to do in his own hands.

The first major project is Tianjin Port. The pre-construction work of Tianjin Port has almost been done. What is to be done now is such as breakwaters, Yonggu Wharf, wind shelter facilities, and of course the planned storage area. These are all A large amount of cement is needed, so recently, Jinghua Infrastructure's cement plants only have the problem of insufficient production, and there is no slow sales.

What's more, due to the opening of trade routes in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, the trade profits of the Jinghua Caravan have increased again, allowing Gao Yushi to still grow steadily in income even with a few ulterior large expenditures recently, so he has already They began to send people to Liaodong, and planned to open another port in Liaodong.

The location currently looking for is Liangfangkou, and Gao Wushi has just learned the name, because the task he confessed is to "find an area suitable for opening a port near the mouth of the Liaohe River"-this place now called Liangfangkou is actually the place of later generations. Yingkou.

Meals have to be eaten at one bite, and the road has to be taken step by step. Gao Wu has limited allies in Nanjing, and his influence will not penetrate that far for a while, let alone Fujian and Guangdong.

Therefore, he plans to open the sea route in the north first, make the main route simpler, connect the Bohai Bay in series, and at the same time expand its influence to Shandong—the Deng and Lai areas in Shandong have a certain foundation for shipbuilding, although it seems that they cannot be built to run the Nanyang sea route. The type of ocean-going seagoing ship, but flat-bottomed sandboats suitable for cruising in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea can still be built.Gao Yushi regards this as his first step in "going to the ocean".

First build the seaport, then build the sea ships, then build the fleet, and finally consider equipping the sea armaments. These are the main steps he has set.

Although it seems that it will take a long time, he said that he is not in a hurry-I am young!No hurries?
If you want to do it, you have to make a one-stop Big Mac, otherwise, how can you hold other people's lifeline in the future and let them move with your own baton?Only when he holds the whole chain in his own hands, can people have to listen to him, and if he listens to his words, he can firmly bind the people who boarded his pirate ship, and together they will turn from landlords to merchants.

Otherwise, those really rich and powerful "local tyrants" in Daming only know how to annex land, no matter how they can grow it, they can still grow a golden flower?
Gao Wuzhen has now completed his first major plan since time travel: to help Gao Gong secure his position as chief assistant, and to continue the major reforms of the Longqing era (in fact, it began during the Jiajing period).After this plan is completed, he intends to enter an "incubation period" that lasts from several years to ten years in the officialdom, focusing on two things.

One is to study, there is no need to explain this, now that all the conditions have been fulfilled, the only thing that needs to be done is to pass the Jinshi examination, what can I do if I don’t study hard?However, studying belongs to studying. As long as Gao Gong does not become an official, he will not take the Jinshi examination, lest he get the reputation of Zhang Juzheng's family in history, which is not what Gao Yushi wants.

So he had to wait for Gao Gong to retire before going to take the exam. Examing a genuine and unquestioned Jinshi is of great significance to the "deepening reform" he will carry out in the future-at least people will be less able to criticize him. reason.

The second is to continue to expand our business territory, especially the military industry and shipbuilding, as well as the industries related to these two types. They are all businesses that are highly pragmatic and plan to expand vigorously. For example, coal, iron, infrastructure, etc., all lay the foundation for these two industry.As for what goods to sell after the fleet is actually built in the future, that is not a matter of high pragmatic anxiety.

Just like silk, porcelain, and even tea, which are the flagship products of Ming Dynasty, if Gao Pragmatic does not participate in them at all, they are also invincible existences, so why worry about Gao Pragmatic getting involved?And he can't be of much help in promoting these three products.

He knows how to increase the efficiency of spinning, but he still doesn't know whether the Jenny spinning machine can be used to increase the productivity of silk. useless.

In terms of porcelain, he has a unique skill, which is the product that later generations of Europe finally broke the monopoly of Chinese porcelain, and it is also the only type of porcelain invented in Europe-bone china.

However, that is actually meaningless, because even in the era when bone china was the most touted in later generations, its value is far less than that of some famous Chinese porcelains, such as thin-bodied porcelains in Jingdezhen and other places. Not to mention.Therefore, Gao Yushi felt that it was meaningless to engage in porcelain, at least not much to promote it.

As for tea... Gao Yushi has no interest in buying hundreds of thousands of acres of tea mountains.Just kidding, even if he wants to be a landlord, he will only choose to be a chartered renter in the port area, commercial area and other places to collect rent, and it’s fine to do planting. It’s great to promote the high-yielding crops in the Americas in the future, but that’s just promotion, not me. to plant.

His eyes are still on those industries that can promote the national strength of Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)