Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 34 Soap Factory Site (Part [-])
No matter what difficulties you encounter, you should first clear your mind, distinguish between the primary and secondary, and then focus on the key points to make targeted arrangements. This is the habit that Gao Pragmatic learned and developed in his work in his previous life.Therefore, the most important thing right now is to ensure that Gao Gong does not fall at the turn of Long Wan, and that the chief assistant and the chief minister of Gu Ming will continue to do so in a safe and sound way; the second is to support Wang, at least in the official circles of the capital, the scholars, and even the royal family. Among them, it leaves a good impression of young talents and talents worthy of great use; in the end, it builds its own industrial team to pave the way for guiding the development and transformation of Daming in the future.

To put it bluntly, the first step is to stabilize his family's position in the Ming Dynasty's political arena. This is a matter of life and death-of course, this may be a bit serious. his political life.However, if this matter is not handled well, then at least Zhang Juzheng's ten years of high pragmatism will not try to do anything, but will be able to lurk honestly.Although from Gao Yushi's age, lurking for ten years does not seem to be a big deal, but he knows that Daming's future will be one bad thing after another, and it is best not to waste time, after all, in Gao Yushi's opinion Zhang Juzheng's reforms in those ten years were not as beautiful as many people in later generations thought. He did not solve many problems well at all. What is remarkable is that he became a paper papermaker like Li Hongzhang.

The second step, to put it bluntly, is to make preparations in advance for one's future title on the gold list and entering the political arena.The advantages of a family of officials and officials are not limited to the visible benefits of economic resources and educational resources. The biggest resource that cannot be seen but can definitely be enjoyed is actually contacts.Gao Yushi himself was in politics in his previous life. Although his position is low, the reasoning is the same—you have someone to support and take care of you, someone around you to help and cooperate, and someone below you to wave the flag and shout. It can only be said that the ability is too poor.Gao Yushi was born as a secretary in his previous life, and he usually does a lot of things that are pre-arranged and checked for omissions. Such pre-arrangements have long become a behavioral habit, so it is not surprising at all.

The third step is a long-term plan, which of course also means the immediate benefits - without property, where is the capital to make friends?In this world, of course, there will still be some good people who simply see that your child is doing well, and will help you with a little favor when it is convenient.But that's obviously not enough, more people will come out to support you and praise you only after you succeed, not to mention if you don't have the slightest friendship with them, how can you be able to do it if you have a tiger? Expecting others to risk their lives to save you just out of morality?So naive, Gao Wushi never dared to count on this.There is a saying that it is easy to add flowers to the cake, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow. If you want someone to give you charcoal in the snow, you must make people feel that the gift of charcoal will be of great benefit to him!Or if he doesn't send this charcoal, he must be in big trouble himself!If these two points can be achieved, then there is no need to worry, there will definitely be people who risk their lives to save you.But how?First of all, you have to be rich, and you have to be able to manage such a large network of people!
Of course there are things like contacts that don't talk about money, but first of all, that's unstable.Do you think that after you fall into peace, a friend of your uncle or uncle or a friend you usually know from poetry and painting will give you a hand out of morality?If your matter is not small, what if people don't want to involve themselves?What if people think that your uncle and uncle are gone, and the favor has faded long ago?What if people are cowardly?What if people are simply afraid of trouble?There is no way to determine whether these are some or not, so you can't count on them at all.

The only ones you can count on are those who have an interest in you.It doesn't matter if you can get a lot of benefits from you after helping you, or you will lose a lot of benefits if you don't help you.These contacts are the ones who will basically not lose the chain at critical moments.why?Don't you hear that "blocking people's money is like killing their parents"?Killing one's parents is a bloody feud!
Therefore, if you want to do well in officialdom, having money is the last word—it’s not that you have to bribe people and give money, but it’s human nature to welcome and send, and reciprocate, right?When you interact with people on weekdays, you are generous and never let your friends suffer. If people don’t like you, who would not want to make friends with you?If you are smarter, for example, if you have a business and your friends think it is not bad, if you invest some spare money in it and share it, you can make money every time, and you will always pay him dividends on time and according to the amount you make. Can people not like you?Can people not trust you?Can people tolerate your accident?

That's the benefit of what's at stake.

Therefore, if you want to have a wide network of contacts, in addition to making more like-minded people, you must also have a foundation, capital, property, and ways to make money.

The soap industry is a high-practice start-up industry. This business is of course a typical emerging industry in Daming. One of the main advantages of emerging industries is that there is little competition and high profits. The disadvantage is that it is sometimes troublesome to promote.

But high pragmatism is not afraid of difficulties in promotion.

People these days are relatively honest in doing business, and the popular thinking is still at the level of "the smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys". If a certain company's superior products want to be promoted, they basically rely on word of mouth and word of mouth.To be honest, this level of original promotion is simply too weak for Gao Yushi, an old fritter who has been in the business world for many years.

Of course, since it is a start-up industry, it must be an instant hit, which puts forward requirements on the product itself-although Gao Pragmatism thinks that he can completely boast that a seven-point good product is very good and make people believe in it, but if the product It's very good in itself, wouldn't it be better?Not afraid of blowing into the sky.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatism is still very concerned about the progress of soap manufacturing.His soap is called handmade soap in later generations, and of course it is a little rougher than some refined handmade soaps in later generations.But no matter how rough it is, the manufacturing process is still basically the same, and the saponification reaction time has to wait, so he spent more than ten days in the Gaofu and his subordinates before finally freeing up more than a dozen yuan.

Since the fragrance of soap is not as good as that of perfume, there is no distinction between top notes, middle notes, and back notes. Soap fragrance is basically a one-time finalized mixed scent.However, it is also necessary to pay attention to a prominent main fragrance when mixing and styling, and the fragrance fixative and essential oil of the fragrance will have a certain impact on the saponification reaction.Therefore, after dozens of experiments, although these ten pieces of soap have been made, it still needs to wait for more than ten days for the saponification reaction to complete naturally before they can be used.However, although it can't be used yet, it can already be smelled. He has limited space and manpower, so the first batch of trial products doesn't have too many varieties. There are only two scent types: mint and laurel.Originally, according to the high-practical plan, there should be jasmine scent in the first batch of trial products, but it is winter after all, and there are not many jasmines in stock in the major medicine stores in the capital. Even if there are dried jasmines, they cannot be used for refining For essential oils, I had to place a small order first, and wait until the jasmine blooms half a year later.Fortunately, mint and laurel are the raw materials commonly used by the people of Ming Dynasty to make sachets. Otherwise, Gao Pragmatic would have to change his mind and make sulfur soap first.

(End of this chapter)