Wei Xuezeng's suggestion, in fact, is very satisfactory to Gao Pragmatic.

Gao Pragmatic doesn't care how much money was spent on the construction of the four official ports, because in Gao Pragmatic's view, many of these expenses have not been spent, and a large part of them may have to be reversed after Gao Pragmatic wins.

Gao pragmatic is actually concerned about three other aspects.

The first aspect is that after the withdrawal of the Ministry of Industry, in fact, there is no so-called official port in Daming, and all of them are private ports. In terms of private ports, Jinghua's construction and operation capabilities can comprehensively beat the rest of the "retail investors".

Why Jinghua Tianjin Port has increasingly rich experience in operating ports, Jinghua Infrastructure has the first engineering construction capacity in Daming, while Jinghua Cement Plant can use "internal price" cement, a large amount of cement, so that the construction standard has gone up, but the construction cost has come down.

It is important to know that in the vicinity of the port, due to the sea breeze and rainfall, the service life of the wooden building itself is lower than that in dry areas, and the inside of the building is more likely to be damaged by moisture. Therefore, the "Jinghua Standard" of fully using brick and cement buildings is itself a business card to attract maritime merchants.

Coupled with the advantages of large-scale operation and so on, it can be said that as long as Jinghua wins the four official ports, Daming's ports are only divided into two categories: Jinghua and others. This kind of brand effect is Gao pragmatic has been tirelessly pursuing, why his industry is all hanging the "Jinghua" brand is also for this consideration, as long as you see "Jinghua", the first impression is "strong"

In this era, no one can count how much wealth a certain rich person has, many times businessmen pay attention to a reputation, and the brand of Jinghua built by high pragmatism can now pat their chests and say that the word "Jinghua" is reputation

The second aspect is the location advantage. Location advantage is a word that he has been exposed to a lot in his previous life, if it is replaced by the words of a Hong Kong real estate tycoon at that time, it is "the core factors of real estate success have three positions, location, location"

In the feudal empire of the Ming Dynasty, who can get the best position is undoubtedly the imperial court, even the pragmatic Tianjin Port is next to the construction of the imperial court's official port, it can be seen that the best location must be requisitioned by the imperial court, and now it is still the Wanli Dynasty, not the Chongzhen Dynasty, the imperial court wants this land, do you dare not give it

Therefore, not only the location of Tianjin official port is good, but the three official ports of Ningbo, Quanzhou and Guangzhou in the south also occupy the best geographical location. He didn't realize how much more money he had to spend on these plots of land under the efficient operation of Jinghua

The third aspect is that Gao Pragmatism, who has been thinking about expanding to the south, has so easily achieved an excellent entry point. Originally, Gao pragmatic wanted to buy land in the southern port several times, but the results were not good, even if he was already a business tycoon in the north, not to mention the hidden power in politics. However, in the south, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the local officials and gentry are rich in reasons and methods to exclude Gao Shipra, and there is no good entry point at all.

In particular, Gao Pragmatic's partner in the south, the Marquis of Linhuai, does not have the ability to help so much, their family's title is faulted in the middle, and their strength is indeed limited, at most they can help in terms of health guards, and everything else is unreliable. And after Xu Pengju's incident, although Xu Bangrui, the new duke who inherited the title of Duke of Wei, was favored, he couldn't reverse the antipathy within the Xu family towards the Gao family for a while, so he could only send a letter privately to express his gratitude, and he couldn't help on the surface.

And now, as long as Gao pragmatically agrees to this deal, he immediately has the three best located private ports in the south, and gains three footholds in the south at once.

Think about it carefully, Wei Xuezeng actually gave Gao Pragmatic two choices, one is to temporarily owe cement on credit, according to Gao Pragmatic's meaning, credit can be, the amount of credit should be discussed, and by the way, the interest is estimated to be inevitable, and the other is the transaction of this private port payment just now, Gao Pragmatic directly exempted this year's cement payment, and added some money to it, and the four official ports directly changed hands to Jinghua.

This multiple-choice question may not be much different in Wei Xuezeng's opinion, but in Gao Shizheng's view, the difference is too big, and he said without hesitation, "Since Wei Butang attaches so much importance to river engineering affairs, as a Henan township, he naturally has to do his best to ask for it in Guangang, and the rest of the conditions are also done according to Wei Butang's wishes." ”

Wei Xuezeng was overjoyed, and secretly said that this was no better, not only lost a big burden of losing more than 20,000 taels of silver every year, but also "laid" nearly 300,000 taels of arrears, not to mention that there were 100,000 taels of silver in cash. This time, even if the allocation of the household department is greatly reduced this year, our Ministry of Industry can still breathe

Wei Xuezeng Wei Butang hurriedly stood up and thanked Gao Pragmatic, Gao Pragmatic was thick-hearted, and he could still accept it with a smile, with a look of "I only suffered such a big loss for the sake of your Wei Butang's face".

Wei Xue was grateful again and again, but he still had to ask clearly, "I don't know the 100,000 taels of silver"

"Money is easy to do." Gao pragmatic smiled, "I don't know if the Ministry of Industry plans to ask for silver directly or if there are other considerations."

Wei Xuezeng was slightly stunned, "What do other considerations refer to?"

Gao pragmatic said, "It's nothing special, there are two main considerations, one is that the 100,000 taels can still be used to buy cement, whether it is this year or next year, this silver can be directly reversed, and we will be too lazy to do it." Second, the 100,000 taels can be used to hire Jinghua infrastructure to build the final project of the Yellow River diversion, you know, since the household funding of the river workers is insufficient, in addition to cement, most of the employees will also be reduced, and whether it will affect the overall progress of the diversion project, I am afraid it is not easy to say now, it is best to prepare early. ”

"Oh" Wei Xuezeng frowned, and thought for a while before saying, "I'm afraid that this matter will have to be discussed with Mr. He, so I can answer, or let's complete the previous transaction first, how to trade the 100,000 taels of silver, it is equivalent to Mr. He's discussed, and I will reply to you."

Gao pragmatically smiled: "Naturally." However, he said that, he still hoped that it would be better not to directly take the money out to get business for his own family, but this intention may be too obvious, and Wei Xuezeng obviously wanted to communicate with Mr. He first.

The two ministers were kept to have dinner in Gaofu, but the two ministers politely declined, and Gao pragmatic guessed that they would not stay to eat, so he politely sent them to the gate. It was a great deal.

When the guest left, Gao Pragmatic had to turn his spirit back to the current problem, and the emperor said that he should let him look for a horse for the third princess in the examination in Beijing, how to handle this matter

The main question is whether it is feasible for these people to take the exam, obviously they are still quite eager for their careers, so that they can give up the "close" civil service future, but to become a Rausch son who can basically do nothing except the name, this thing is only a little difficult to do