The good news is not only that, Zhang Siwei told Gao Pragmatic that his monthly silver is now calculated according to the close branch of the Zhang family, and there are twenty-five taels per month, that is, he will save up one thousand taels of silver next month.

Gao pragmatically said, the Zhang family is really a rich family of salt merchants, and the amount of silver this month is more than three times that of his own in the Gao family - he also has a monthly silver in the Gao family, which is eight taels per month. Now the two sides add up, and his monthly monthly silver is thirty-three taels, which is almost half of the "prince and master".

In fact, he is an eight-year-old child, and now he is following Gao Gong, and he usually doesn't need to spend money at all, but now Daming is in such an atmosphere, and most of the children of the wealthy family have money, so he will naturally not be an exception. Although the Gao family is quite poor and happy from the perspective of the official family, Gao Gong has not bought even one acre of land in his hometown over the years. However, after all, the Gao family has been an official for several generations, and it has accumulated little by little over the decades, and it is also a wealthy family in the local area, so how can he lose a share of his money?

However, no matter how you say it, the Gao family wants to talk about wealth, and it is far from comparable to the Zhang family, who was born in a huge wealth of salt merchants, so it is reasonable that the monthly income given by the Zhang family is extraordinarily high. You must know that the Zhang family's status in the business world is quite high, and they almost monopolize the famous Changlu Salt Farm. Moreover, the Zhang family is not fighting independently in the shopping mall, but working together, and it is a business cooperation alliance of the "three alliances" of Zhang, Wang and Ma - Zhang Siwei family, Wang Chonggu family and Ma Ziqiang family. The combination of these three companies almost monopolized the salt market in the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty, and even occupied a huge share of the salt market in the entire north.

From the viewpoint of Gao Pragmatism, a "later man," he was not particularly opposed to monopoly, because according to historical experience, "state monopoly capitalism" is a good way to make the country quickly rich and strong. Therefore, a certain degree and form of monopoly is acceptable and even willing to be promoted.

However, this does not mean that the current Zhang Wangma alliance is in line with the idea of high pragmatism - the highly pragmatic view is actually very utilitarian in the final analysis: I don't care if you monopolize or not, I only care whether the country benefits from it.

If the result of your monopoly is that your own family is rich and the country has nothing to gain, then Gao Pragmatic will definitely think that this kind of monopoly is unacceptable. On the contrary, the result of your monopoly is that although your own financial resources are abundant, the country also makes a lot of profits, then Gao Pragmatic will think that this monopoly is not bad.

After all, it is impossible for a businessman to work for the country without any gains, and Gao Pragmatic believes that there is a 1 in 10,000 chance that there will be an official who "serves the people wholeheartedly", after all, Hai Rui Hai Qingtian is doing opposite Xu Huating in Tianfu at this moment. But he would never believe that there were businessmen who "served the people wholeheartedly".

A businessman is forever chasing profits, and a businessman who does not chase profits does not exist and cannot survive unless he has other intentions.

The Zhang Wangma Alliance, in Gao Shishi's view, is a typical "self-fattening" type of business alliance, in which the state can hardly gain any benefits - at least it should be said that the benefits obtained and the costs paid are not at the same level of interests at all.

The so-called monopoly of salt farms in the Ming generation was actually mainly a monopoly on salt introduction, and this problem involved a system that lasted for almost 150 years. In short, the merchants brought grain to the frontier, and the government gave the merchants salt introduction, and the more the merchants could ensure that the frontier army needed to eat and even partially store the grain, the more likely they were to obtain a large amount of salt introduction. According to the principle of concentration of wealth, over time, these salt introductions gradually converged in the hands of a very small number of people, forming a monopoly.

This method seems to have made a lot of profits for the state, at least the food supply of the frontier army seems to have been well solved, but from a pragmatic point of view, the salt merchants have obtained full windfall profits, and the country's profits are relatively much less, so it is really not a fair deal.

The Zhang family is a wealthy man in Puzhou, so he is naturally a member of the Jin merchants. Gao was very wary of the Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty, because in history they actually became traitorous business groups - so after the Qing army seized the world, several of their representatives became the so-called imperial merchants.

Therefore, in Gao Pragmatic's view, the big problem of Jin merchants is not domestic monopoly, but smuggling, and in this article, what Jin merchants did can be called digging graves for the Ming Dynasty. Of course, he also knows that this problem is actually very complicated - for example, the border army is in hardship, and it has to rely on smuggling to make a profit to maintain, which can be described as drinking water to quench thirst. And here, it involves many generals of the border army seeking personal interests in it, and so on.

In the final analysis, Gao Pragmatic believes that the current policy of the Ming Dynasty has been completely backward and outdated, and only by changing the policy can it be better solved - but this point, Gao Pragmatic is definitely powerless at the moment.

He decided to take his time with the plan he had set for the previous years.

As for the appearance of the Zhang family's money, it is basically equivalent to a windfall for Gao Pragmatic, and this windfall makes his plan seem to be slightly advanced. Then the first thing to do now is to generate income and collect money.

Of course, as a traverser who wants to make a difference, his means of generating income and accumulating wealth is definitely not to take bribes in the name of Gao Gong - this is too low-end, too deadly, and it is simply insulting to the name of the traverser!

Back then, he was also the one who presided over the government affairs of a town...... Well, the pattern of a town is a little small, but the so-called sparrows are small and have all kinds of organs. Even if it is just a town's government affairs, under the premise of modern society, it is enough to involve all aspects. After all, whether it is the development of agriculture, industry, or all kinds of tertiary industries, as well as the coordination of relations between various departments, enterprises, and villages, etc., all need to be arranged, handled, and even supervised by him.

As for the specific way to make money, as a modern person, there are actually a lot of means that can be used, but when some things will be launched, this needs to be decided according to their own situation. For example, Gao Pragmatic knows several important stages in the development of firearms, and also knows several key issues in the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, and even roughly knows where to start with the improvement and innovation of certain firearms, but he is definitely impossible to do now, the reason is very simple - if you are an eight-year-old child doing this, I am afraid that it will not only be difficult to get support, but also be regarded as a monster, and worse, it is very likely to lose the opportunity to promote the development of firearms. So, good stuff has to be launched at the right time.

Age, at present, is a shackle to his plan to accumulate money, which determines that he cannot make too "high-precision" products. But the trouble is that if a simple product is only a few ideas, the difficulty of production is too low and there is no monopoly effect, it is difficult to make a lot of money, because it will soon be imitated. Once a more powerful businessman or merchant gang takes a fancy to this business and intervenes strongly, he, the former wave of the Yangtze River, has to be shot to death on the beach.