Hou Gongchen was still shrewd in the end, and as soon as he heard Gao Shishi's words, he immediately pointed to the glass mirror and asked, "Could it be that you mean to ask for a true brother...... Building mirrors? ”

Gao pragmatic said: "It's generally good." ”

"Roughly good?" Hou Gongchen's heart moved, and his face suddenly hesitated: "But this mirror-making technique is originally a means to seek true brother you, even if you want to build it, it is also a transaction of Jinghua, what does this have to do with the clan?" ”

Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly and said, "What if I am willing to cooperate with the Heavenly Family and even the Sect to make mirrors?" ”

Hou Gongchen was really taken aback when he heard this: "Why is this?" ”

According to Hou Gongchen's idea, this glass mirror is so precious, and the profit of the mirror-making business must be very high, just like Gao Shifang just said, the Venetian in the extreme west regards glass manufacturing technology as more important than God, which shows its preciousness. In that case, why should Gao pragmatic share this profit with others? Is it really just for the Ming Dynasty and the emperor?

If that's the case, Gao Gongbao is really the number one loyal minister in the world.

Of course, Gao Pragmatic would not directly say his purpose, but he smiled and said lightly: "Brother Hou, you also know that making money is nothing to me, and Jinghua's business is really not small, and I am not short of money." ”

"That's natural, it's only true brother who can do it, whether it's academic or business, no one in the world can be better than you."

Gao pragmatically smiled and waved his hand: "Making money, I just want to prove the utility of practical learning, and it is not what I want." This mirror-making technique is only occasionally obtained in my spare time, and it is okay to make it without making it, but this thing is useful, and it can also be convenient for the people to make some of it, and even for the military, it can also be made.

Moreover, the current treasury is embarrassed, and the imperial court also needs some open-source means in order to open the feudal ban...... Of course, the open source of the imperial court should focus on the overall situation, and should not be based on these small artifacts, so I thought, it is better to make a joint venture with the emperor and the clansmen to make mirrors, and the future funds for selling mirrors can also make up for the lack of the imperial court, so it is the best of both worlds. ”

Hou Gongchen was overjoyed, but immediately a little Hao Ran, and said: "It is true that as Brother Qiu Zhen said, the initial funds required for this opening of the feudal ban are probably quite huge, and even if the emperor wants to contribute, the internal funds are really stretched...... However, I am afraid that this mirror will also require a lot of silver investment, and I am afraid that I am a little shy in my pocket......"

Gao Pragmatic shook his head slightly: "There is no need to contribute to the internal funds." ”

Hou Gongchen was stunned: "No need to contribute? So how do you call a joint venture? ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "There are several kinds of investment, one is to directly produce silver, the other is to produce technology, in addition to land, materials, etc., all of which are contributions." ”

Hou Gongchen suddenly realized: "Oh, what you mean by seeking truth is that you give out money and technology, and you have money...... Out of the land and materials? ”

Gao Shishi bowed his head and said: "That's probably it." ”

Hou Gongchen knew it in his heart, and immediately asked: "But I don't know which place Brother Qiuzhen has taken a fancy to, and what kind of materials do you need?" ”

Gao pragmatic said: "There is no need to find another place, as long as the ground near the three major factories in Kaiping can be expanded, but it is the land of the guard, and the emperor's consent must be obtained...... Well, the land can be regarded as an internal contribution. As for the materials, they are all strange ores, but some of the larger ones are also available near Kaiping, as long as the land is in place, the materials can be handed over to Jinghua to do. ”

The main materials for making glass are nothing more than quartz sand, soda ash, limestone, feldspar, etc., except for soda ash to be obtained from Tumut (that is, the so-called "mouth alkali" at this time, mouth refers to "outside the mouth"), the rest of the several are produced in Tangshan in later generations, that is, near the three major factories in Kaiping.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatism only needs to continue to expand the scope of the mining area of the three major factories in Kaiping, so that these materials can be easily obtained, and there is no need to leak even the formula.

As for the problem of smulate alkali, it has been mentioned a little before, the Mongolians on the Tumut side basically do not need much cost to sell these things, only need to load them directly in the alkali lake and transport them to Daming, coupled with the special status of Gao Pragmatic in Tumut, the price of Jinghua to buy alkali is very low, and the supply of goods is also sufficiently guaranteed.

As for the manufacture of glass, Gao Shicheng originally only remembered some generalities. Over the years, through his own efforts to reminisce, while collecting craftsmen from all over the world, he finally came up with the most common float glass method in later generations.

Who knew that the technical level of the steelmaking furnace of Jinghua Iron and Steel Plant was much higher than that required for making glass, and the furnace only needed to be modified accordingly to easily complete the melting step, so this point was not difficult to Jinghua at all.

However, although the glass was made later, the defective rate was really high, on the one hand, the glass molding technology was not skillful, which caused it to be very fragile, and on the other hand, the problem of glass bubbles was still very annoying.

Of course, these two points are basically not technical problems, but the problem of operational proficiency, Gao pragmatic believes that as long as you are willing to invest, willing to spend the cost of training skilled workers, you can solve it in a short time.

It's just that this "not a long time" is not a day or two after all, at least a few months, so he will initially set the time to solve the problem of the clan as three years - although the glass is good, although Jinghua's logistics and sales system is strong, it always takes time to open the market, and then calculate the time to return to the capital, which is at least a year has passed.

It is precisely because of this that he said that the first year was mainly a pilot - here on the one hand, the real school now likes to carry out reforms first, and on the other hand, it is considered from the perspective of funds.

In case the ban is fully lifted in the first year, and more than 100,000 clans apply for initial funds together, then unless Jinghua personally pays in advance, Zhu Yijun will not be able to take out the money even if he sells the palace.

More than 100,000 people, even if all of them are calculated according to the minimum standard of 100 taels of silver, it is still tens of millions of taels of silver.

Even if Jinghua goes down in person, it may not be able to directly take out tens of millions of taels of silver in one go, and if it is not, it will have to carry out equity replacement from various industries to settle it, which is too pitiful.

Therefore, time must wait, and the steps that should be taken must be taken, and you can't pull the egg.

Hou Gongchen listened to Gao Pragmatic's brief introduction, secretly calculated in his heart, and found that this deal was really good.

On the ground near Kaiping, although Gao Pragmatic asked for a lot of money this time, Kaipingwei had already migrated away as a whole, and the original rotten land really became rotten land - originally some households also ran to settle down around the three major factories because of the attraction of the three major factories in Beijing, and they could usually sell some agricultural and sideline products to the workers of the three major factories to make a little money.

In this way, except for the surroundings of the three major factories, there are almost no people for dozens of miles outward, and no one is naturally wasteland, and wasteland is naturally worthless, presumably the emperor will not take it to heart. If you can exchange such useless wasteland for the solution of the problem of the clan, it can be called a pie falling from the sky, and whoever does not agree is a fool.

However, Gao Pragmatic only promised to give three percent of the net profit dividends, but Hou Gongchen didn't dare to call the shots, although he thought it was no problem at all, anyway, it was all "picking up money for nothing", but after all, the "wasteland" was also the emperor's wasteland, and it was the emperor who finally got the idea, how could he dare to overstep his bounds in this kind of thing?

So Hou Gongchen just agreed in principle, saying that the specific sharing issue should be asked to the emperor, and Gao Pragmatic and reasonable agreed.

Hou Gongchen asked Gao Pragmatism why he mentioned the capital of the clan just now, and Gao pragmatic said: "This is a backhand left for the emperor, in case some of the clans are nervous, the emperor can use part of the dividends from glass sales to appease." "Butterfly

Hou Gongchen hesitated: "This part of the dividend is from the emperor?" ”

"Whether the emperor wants to go out or not depends on the situation, in short, I will set aside a small amount of red for the sect here-but it is still the same sentence, this is reserved for some nervous attitudes or ...... is more special, and when the emperor wants it, I will give it, and before the emperor takes it, it is still disposed of by Jinghua. ”

Hou Gongchen didn't understand why Gao Pragmatic wanted to explain the last sentence, but he felt that it was not the time to think about this, so he agreed first, and then left satisfied.

Early the next morning, as soon as Gao Shishi arrived at the military department, the celebrant sent someone over, saying that it was the emperor who had summoned him and asked Gao Gongbao to go to the palace immediately.

Gao Pragmatic had expected this, and he estimated that Hou Gongchen may have entered the palace overnight last night to report the results, so the emperor's call would come so quickly.

This also shows how much Zhu Yijun attaches importance to this matter - of course, it is not surprising that anyone who has the opportunity to throw away a big burden that occupies a quarter of the imperial court will be as anxious as Zhu Yijun, let alone when he is in urgent need of money.

When he arrived in the palace, Zhu Yijun did not see him in the Wenhua Hall this time, but summoned him in the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace. Gao Pragmatic quietly asked the little yellow door sent by Chen Ju to lead the way, only to know that Zhu Yijun had some "foot disease" today.

Gao Shishi couldn't help but sigh a little when he heard it, in later generations, he had heard that the Wanli remains in Dingling had some bad teeth, and it seemed that most of this guy was really lacking in moderation in eating and drinking.

Zhu Yijun's so-called "foot disease", Gao Pragmatic has long known that it is actually caused by gout, and some precautions have also been told to Zhu Yijun many times, but unfortunately the effect seems to be average, and this guy is not very able to keep his mouth shut.

It's just a matter of talking about this kind of thing, every time he says it, it will make the emperor unhappy, and Gao Pragmatic is not good to take it out every time and say it crookedly, so he can only pretend not to see it.

After all, eating and drinking has always been difficult to restrict in China, and ordinary people have pursuits, let alone an emperor? When it's convenient, you can do your duty to mention it.

When he arrived at Xinuan Pavilion, Gao Pragmatic found that Zhu Yijun was in good spirits, but he refused to get up, but just sat there and asked Chen Ju to show Gao Pragmatic a seat.

He stepped forward and bowed, and Shi Shiran sat down.

Zhu Yijun put down the book in his hand and waved his hand at Chen Ju, and only he and Gao Shishi were left in the huge warm pavilion.

"Do you think that the matter of making glass mirrors can have much income in a year, and thirty percent of the income can support the opening of the ban?"

In the end, it is not a general relationship, Zhu Yijun opened his mouth and went straight to the topic. Of course, this is also what Gao Pragmatic likes.

"If it is ten years later, the minister thinks it should be enough, but I am afraid that these two years are still not enough."

There is a process required for marketing and acceptance, although the unit income will theoretically be higher in the first year or two, but the output will definitely not reach the peak, the market cultivation is not in place, and the income is certainly not as good as the later stage, so it is not surprising that it is not enough.

Zhu Yijun said with some concern: "Is it still not enough?" So what can I do? ”

Gao pragmatic said: "The emperor has other income that can be temporarily used to support the cost of opening the feudal ban for the past three years. ”

"Where?" Zhu Yijun was stunned.

"The Liaodong Salt Works can already start to make net profits this year, and the amount is not small. The minister received a statement a few days ago, and roughly calculated, the emperor could get more than 700,000 taels. ”

Zhu Yijun was really overjoyed: "Is this true? ”

"Your Majesty, ministers never joke about this kind of thing." Gao said calmly: "If it weren't for the minister's departure, if the minister of Liaodong Salt Field personally intervened, maybe the efficiency would be a little higher, at least 800,000 taels." ”

"Eh, 700,000 taels is already very good, pragmatic, not everyone has your ability, and you shouldn't be too nitpicky about those people below. To tell you the truth, this amount of money has far exceeded my expectations - by the way, will the income of this salt farm be this amount next year? ”

Gao pragmatically nodded: "As long as there is no interference from natural disasters and other factors that are uncontrollable by manpower, I think that at least it will not be lower than this year's number." ”

"That's great!" Zhu Yijun laughed excitedly: "The court almost pointed at each other and scolded each other for King Lu's matter, but as a result, you earned most of King Lu's expenses for me in this salt farm." Now this money can indeed be moved to the reform of the clan to cushion it, and when we solve the problem of the clan, this money can also be used as a reward for the battle of Chahar. ”

Gao pragmatically smiled, but arched his hand but did not speak.

Zhu Yijun thought about it again and muttered: "The income of the salt field plus the income of the glass mirror...... Probably able to support the restructuring, right? ”

Gao pragmatic replied: "It should be about the same, even if there are still some small gaps, the minister should be able to cope with it when he thinks of a small idea." ”

Zhu Yijun breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "That's good, then I'll rest assured." As long as we solve the problem of the clan...... Well, now that there are two more incomes, it will not be difficult to make up enough for the military salary of Chahar in the first war. ”

Gao pragmatic asked: "So, did the emperor agree to sell the land?" ”

"Of course." Zhu Yijun was very open to this, and waved his hand: "It's just the size of a county, and it's a deserted place, since it can be used to solve such a big problem, why not sell it?" ”

After speaking, he probably felt that this sentence was a little inappropriate to think about it, and added: "Besides, you Jinghua is not untaxable, and this land is worth it." ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "Originally, this involves the minister, and the minister should not intervene." But...... Hehe, Emperor Shengming, this is indeed the truth. ”

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