Gao pragmatic infrastructure construction is definitely to make money, but it is not entirely for the sake of making money, because he has a lot of projects that need to be built in his plan, which belongs to the category that is far inferior to being handed over to others to do it himself.

The construction technology of the Ming Dynasty is a typical "civil engineering", but Gao pragmatic knows that the future infrastructure projects should use less so much wood, just like the palace of the Ming Dynasty from time to time by lightning or accidental fire, every time the repair is just to make wood, transport wood to waste a lot of money, food, capacity and even time, if it can be replaced by reinforced concrete, the possibility of not mentioning the fire has dropped significantly, just time and money, you can save I don't know how much.

It should be said that the more the kind of project that requires large timber, the more cost-effective it is to replace it with reinforced concrete, and the more durable and durable, don't look at the fake steel bar he uses, but that is also more reliable than wood!

It's just that he is not professional after all, so he has no choice about large steel columns and steel beams or something. At the same time, he can't get such a magical technology as welding, basically relying on assembly, the strength is still too far behind the later generations, it can only be said that it must be stronger than the current Ming technology.

As for the cost, a lot of the transportation of large timber is transported from the deep mountains and old forests on the Yunnan-Guizhou side, in this era when there are no trains and giant ships, it is really the price of tofu can be turned into meat, far less than the cost of cooked iron rods near the three major factories in Kaiping.

The so-called high cost of cement is completely high pragmatic self-talk, although now he has not been able to mass production, can not maximize the benefits, but the raw materials required for the production of cement are placed there, no matter how expensive can it be? There can be a large number of people around Jingshi, especially when he places the cement factory near the three major factories in Kaiping, so that materials such as coal ash, slag, and iron ore powder can be wasted, as if they don't need money, the real cost is almost a little limestone and sand, and these two things are not worth a lot of money even in Jingshi!

Therefore, the statement that cement is very expensive is just a rhetoric under the monopoly of high pragmatic technology.

The reason why he wanted to help Longqing repair the tomb for free was actually the same as his previous promotion of soap, just to use the most effective publicity channel for the royal family in these years. Think about it, the emperor's tombs all use cement, so can this cement be a good thing?

With this level of advertising, the next high-level pragmatic Jinghua Infrastructure will take over the business, and there will be the highest level of compulsion, neither worrying about no business nor profit.

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

The first major project is Tianjin Port, the preliminary project of Tianjin Port has been almost done, and now it is necessary to engage in such as breakwaters, permanent wharves, shelter facilities, etc., and of course, there are planned storage blocks, which require a large amount of cement, so in recent times, the cement plant of Jinghua Infrastructure only has the problem of insufficient output, and there is no unsalable.

What's more, due to the opening of the trade routes between Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, the trade profits of the Jinghua caravan increased again, so that Gao Shishi's income still increased steadily even in the case of several ulterior large expenditures recently, so he had already begun to send people to Liaodong to prepare to open another port in Liaodong.

At present, the location he is looking for is called Liangfangkou, and Gao Pragmatic has just known this name, because the task he assigned is to "find an area suitable for opening a port near the mouth of the Liaohe River", and this place now called Liangfangkou is actually Yingkou in later generations.

The meal has to be eaten in one bite, the road has to be walked step by step, Gao Pragmatic has limited allies in Nanjing, and his influence will not penetrate so far for a while and a half, not to mention Fujian and Guangdong.

Therefore, he planned to first open the sea route in the north, the main route was simpler, connect the Bohai Bay in series, and at the same time expand to Shandong to influence the Shandong Deng, Lai area There is a certain shipbuilding foundation, although it seems that it is impossible to build the kind of ocean-going ships that can run the Nanyang route, but the flat-bottomed sand boats suitable for cruising in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea can still be built. Gao pragmatic regards this as his first step to "go to the ocean".

The construction of the harbor first, then the construction of the sea vessels, then the construction of the fleet, and finally the consideration of the armament of the sea, this is the main step he has set.

Although it seems to take a long time, he said that he is not in a hurry to be young! What's the hurry?

If you want to do it, you have to make a dragon-style Big Mac, otherwise how can you strangle the lifeblood of others in the future and let people follow their baton? Only by taking the whole chain into his own hands did the people have to listen to him, and by listening to him, he was able to tie up the people who had been on his thief ship, and together they turned from landlords to maritime merchants.

Otherwise, those really rich and powerful "local tyrants" in the Ming Dynasty only know how to annex the land, how can they plant, and they can still grow a golden flower?

Gao Pragmatic has now completed the first big plan since the crossing to help Gao Gong sit in a secondary position and continue the great reform of the Longqing era. After the completion of this plan, he intends to enter an "incubation period" of several years to ten years or so in the officialdom, focusing on two things.

First, there is nothing to explain this, now that all the conditions have been laid, I am about to pass the Jinshi examination, how can I do it if I don't do it well? However, as long as Gao Gong does not become a scholar, he will not be admitted to the Jinshi, lest he become the kind of reputation of Zhang Juzheng's family in history, which is not what Gao Pragmatic wants.

Therefore, he has to wait for Gao Gong to retire before he will take the exam, and he will take the test for a jinshi worthy of the name and no one will question it, which is of great significance to the "deepening reform" he wants to carry out in the future, at least let people have one less reason to criticize him.

The second is to continue to expand its business territory, especially the military industry and shipbuilding, as well as these two types of related industries, which are all businesses that Gao Pragmatic intends to vigorously expand, such as coal and iron, infrastructure, etc., are all industries that lay the foundation for these two industries. As for what goods will be sold after the fleet is really built in the future, it is not a high pragmatism and anxious.

Just like silk, porcelain and even tea and other Ming fist products, Gao Pragmatic even if he does not participate in the slightest, they are also invincible existence, so what is the hurry, do you have to be pragmatic and intervene? And he didn't do much to promote these three products.

He knows how to improve textile efficiency, but he still doesn't know if Jenny's spinning machine can be used to improve silk productivity, only cotton cloth is sure, and his hand can't reach the Nanzhili area of the Daming cotton spinning center, so it's useless to be anxious.

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

However, that doesn't really mean anything, because even in the most touted era of bone china, its value is far less than some famous Chinese porcelain, such as the thin fetal porcelain in Jingdezhen and other places, not to mention the technological achievements and artistic achievements. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic feels that it seems that there is no point in engaging in porcelain, at least it does not play much of a role in promoting.

As for tea, Gao Pragmatic has no interest in buying hundreds of thousands of acres of tea mountains. Just kidding, even if he wants a landlord, he will only choose to rent and collect rent in places such as port areas and trade areas, and even if he engages in planting, he will promote high-yield crops in the Americas in the future, but that is also promotion, not his own planting.

His eyes are still on those industries that can play a role in promoting the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.