The plan to persuade Gao Mengnan was simpler than expected, and Gao Mengnan quickly accepted Gao's pragmatic invitation.

Looking back, Gao Pragmatic estimates that Gao Mengnan also stayed in Xinzheng a little quietly, and there may be another reason, that is, his relationship with Gao Wuzi is not very harmonious.

This is not unexpected, after all, Gao Mengnan is not a gentleman like Gao Wuzi, and because Gao Wuzi is the son of a long house, even if he sits and eats the mountain, at least the "mountain" is not small, and it seems that it is enough to eat for a while.

But he Gao Mengnan is different, although he was adopted by Gao Jie as an adopted son, but the adopted son and the son-in-law can not be compared. Gao Jie was a little better when he was alive, but after Gao Jie died, his days began to be spent on Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and every year was not as good as a year. In the long run, one day I will have to drink the northwest wind!

Gao Pragmatic's performance in Jingshi, although Xinzheng's hometown doesn't know it well, but he still has some understanding, at least people's Jinghua soap is enough for him to get rich in six rooms. Can make such a big deal of high pragmatism, how can it be in vain?

Following Gao Pragmatism is at least ten times better than following Gao Wuzi. This is the basic judgment in Gao Mengnan's heart.

Of course, the matter of investing in Tianjin Port is not very anxious, and it is not in a hurry, and Gao Pragmatic does not plan to let Gao Mengnan go to Tianjin immediately.

It's not in a hurry, because the opening of a port is different from the opening of a mine. After opening the mine and mining it, whether it is selling the finished product after deep processing or directly selling the raw ore, it can quickly enter the normal business state and start to return to the cost and make a profit. There is only one condition that needs to be met, and that is the sales network.

The name of the Gao family in the official face is here, and there is Puzhou Zhang's as a hidden business backing, coupled with the golden rooster of Jinghua soap that Gao pragmatic himself put on the bright side, few people will doubt that Gao pragmatic's industry will open today and close tomorrow, so his sales network has been relatively smooth.

But the operation of the port is completely different from the mining and even ironmaking.

First of all, the port itself must have relatively good natural conditions, such as the shape of the port, the size of the water in the port, the depth of the water in the port, whether it is sheltered from the wind, etc., there are innate requirements. The Tianjin Port of later generations is an international port, and it stands to reason that the congenital conditions should be okay, but you must know that the Tianjin Port of later generations was formed after many large-scale artificial transformations, and the current high pragmatism does not have that kind of transformation ability.

Of course, Gao Pragmatic did not dare to expect to build a port of the scale of Tianjin Port in the future, but he still needed to send people to investigate in detail and integrate various factors before making a final decision, so as not to become a second moon port.

Although Fujian's Moon Port is the first port in Longqing and the only open sea port at present, the natural conditions of Moon Port are quite average. That place was originally a port that spontaneously arose because of the prevalence of smuggling, and the real advantage is actually very funny: it is located in the middle of nowhere, and it is not easy to be discovered by the government, let alone by the government.

It is precisely because of this advantage that "minor problems" such as the cramped water area and the presence of reefs under the channels in and out of the port are ignored.

However, Gao Pragmatic treats Tianjin Port as his own industry, and it is not an ordinary industry, and he also intends to be able to undertake such a big business as the imperial court's "south-to-north grain transfer" in the future, so of course he can't just do it casually, talk about building a port today, and start construction tomorrow when he goes to buy a piece of land indiscriminately.

Building a port is not like building a wharf, and it is not a matter of building a few trestle bridges. In addition to finding the most suitable natural haven, it is also necessary to plan and build a large number of projects in the port area.

Planning this stubble is relatively easy to do, Gao Pragmatic followed the leader to the coastal inspection when he went to the port, roughly understand the layout planning of the port, although the knowledge here is actually very deep, Gao Pragmatic only knows some skin, but he estimates that his level in this era is barely enough.

At the very least, he also knows that according to the different currents, currents, and wave currents, the port's shipping channel, breakwater axis, and gate orientation must have corresponding measures to deal with it. As for the functional layout of the land area of the port, anyone who comes to the port in the future can say one, two, three, four, and he can do it...... Well, barely, it's okay.

But the third point is powerful, and even the most fundamental element of Gao Pragmatism's current uneasiness: just having a port, it has no effect, because the port itself cannot produce any value, and the value of the port comes from the ships entering and leaving the port.

In other words, the port itself needs to have a location advantage, and then attract ships to dock and realize its value through the throughput of the port.

If there are no ships to dock, load and unload goods, no matter how good a port is, it is a garbage asset.

Therefore, before building the port, Gao Pragmatic must first contact a group of willing shipwrecks and merchants, so that they will be interested in using Tianjin Port as a place of discharge or shipment in the future. Otherwise, how much the port invests, how much it will lose if it is pragmatic, and it will continue to lose - in order to ensure the operation of the port, someone must manage and maintain it, which costs money!

In addition to these hard conditions, Gao Pragmatic also has to figure out whether this kind of thing can be done in a private commercial port, and if so, what procedures need to be handled.

According to Gao Shipra's current understanding of the Ming court and local yamen, the government will not interfere at all in the construction of any commercial facilities by the merchants, as long as they do not trespass on the form. This is also the reason why every time Gao Pragmatic opened a coal mine to make honeycomb coal, open an iron mine to make steel and smelt iron, etc., the local government only checked whether he had the title deeds of those plots in his hand and directly approved it.

If this can only be said that the Ming government is very tolerant, then the next point is even more amazing.

For example, a businessman builds a large warehouse by himself in a transportation area, because the local area is the thoroughfare of several provinces or several provinces, and the business is prosperous after the warehouse is completed, and the day is making money!

What will happen to the government at this time?

Congratulations to this merchant, because the Ming government will still treat it as if it didn't see it, and it won't even think of going to this merchant to collect taxes!

You are not mistaken, as long as the location where the merchant built the store, and the land owned by the merchant, the Ming government at all levels will consider any legitimate business you have on this land to be reasonable and legal, and will not ask you to collect taxes.

At the very least, there is no regular tax, at most, when the government is facing some big trouble, it will send someone to you to apportionment a fee. This kind of big trouble is actually not much, for example, when bandits attack the city, the government wants to recruit the people to be brave and brave, but the yamen is relatively poor, so they have to find a local gentry and a big man to "cooperate", and then the government will remember to let you, a big businessman, donate.

The reason why Gao Pragmatic still has to be determined is mainly because of the particularity of the port - after all, although Emperor Longqing has opened the sea, he has only approved Yuegang as an export port (Note: imports are also allowed, but there are restrictions on import and export. Although Gao Pragmatic plans to build Tianjin Port, he has no plans to engage in overseas trade at present, but he and Sanbo Gao Gong are both on the cusp of the storm, and it is not wrong to be careful.