Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 354 Xinzheng Ironworks (Part [-])
Gao Cai thought that he would be like this for the rest of his life, but he never thought that after retiring as an official, he would have the opportunity to participate in a major event that might be famous in history, of course he would not let it go.As for the trivial matter of the previous conflict between Gao Yushi and Gao Wuzi, it suddenly became trivial.

Gao Cai said broadly: You don't have to take this matter to heart. Although that kid Gao Wuzi is the head of the family, Gao's family has been divided from the beginning, and now he has three uncles alive. It's not his turn to show off his prestige when people participate in ancestor worship.

Gao Wushi breathed a sigh of relief. Among the three living elders, the third uncle would definitely not support Gao Wuzi, a good-for-nothing, not to mention his cheap father.Now that Uncle Wu has also expressed his support, Gao Wuzi has nothing to do.

To be honest, Gao Wushi didn't want to completely tear himself apart with Gao Wuzi, after all, even if he was reasonable, it would be ugly to spread the matter of brothers fighting against each other.It would be great to be able to cover up the matter under Wu Bo's suppression.

Gao Wushi struck while the iron was hot, and said that he planned to give Gao Wuzi some shares in the Xinzheng Coal Mine. After hearing this, Gao Cai said with emotion: "Wuzi is really not up to the mark. He is a man in his thirties. He has been doing nothing all day. He is not as sensible as his son! I was worried that sooner or later he would ruin the little family property left to him by the elder brother, but now you are willing to let go of the past and give him some dry shares in the coal mine , I, as a younger brother, will be able to talk easily when I see the eldest brother in the future."

It's hard to speak out if you are highly pragmatic, so you have to keep silent.

Gao Cai thought for a while, and then added: "You have a good intention to leave dry shares for him, but he is really unreliable, you must write clearly in black and white in advance, these dry shares can only be paid dividends, and you can't intervene in the management. You can't resell it or donate it as a gift... You can even make a decision and write the name of Rui Chu directly on the stock, Rui Chu is better than his father."

Gao Ruichu is Gao Jie's eldest grandson. It stands to reason that because of Gao Wuzi's presence in the middle, it is not his turn to be an official. However, Gao Jie has no confidence in Gao Wuzi's son. He is afraid that letting him become an official will harm him. At the time of Yinguan, the Yinguan was not given to his son but to his grandson, so Gao Ruichu could directly Yinguan as long as he graduated from the Imperial College.However, it is said that Gao Ruichu is quite ambitious. Although he already has a place for Yinguan, he still expresses that he will take part in the imperial examination in the future.

Gao Wushi thought about it, and it is certainly possible to give the dry stock to Gao Ruichu, but it is difficult for him to take advantage of this opportunity to ease his relationship with Gao Wuzi.

Although Gao Wushi looked down on Gao Wuzi 1 times, Gao Wuzi could not care about adding "brother disrespect" to his title of dude, but Gao Wushi refused to let "brother disrespect" be added to his head Therefore, this dry stock has to be given to Gao Wuzi himself, at least so that he will not speak ill of himself when he meets everyone.

Fame is a double-edged sword sometimes.Just like in history, after Zhang Juzheng became the first assistant, his father used his power to bully others and commit crimes in his hometown in Jiangling, which made the sky angry and people complained, so someone wrote to Zhang Juzheng to ask him to take care of him.

Zhang Juzheng reacted very quickly, and immediately wrote a reply letter from the old elders to the person who persuaded him, but it actually meant the same thing: that is my father, how should I care about it?If I don't make it right, I will bear the title of "unfilial". Even if I am the chief assistant, I can't bear this title!
Now that Gao Wuzhen has approved Uncle Wu's veins, he doesn't hold much back to him, he expresses his worries, and expresses that he should give the stock to Gao Wuzi, lest he speak up and make his family ugly.

Gao Cai sighed and admitted it, but added: "Then the dry stock can't be given more, at most it can't exceed [-]%...Anyway, you said that Xinzheng has a lot of coal, and the [-]% can't be lost to him. "

Gao Wushi nodded and agreed, and the two of them carefully discussed the matter of starting an iron factory—after all, they both knew that opening a coal mine was to lay the foundation for the iron factory. iron works.

The fact that Xuchang’s iron mines are not far from Xinzheng was finally confirmed by Gao Cai. Gao Wushi was relieved, but subconsciously wanted to follow his usual thinking: one-stop contract.So he asked Gao Cai if he could think of a way to buy the iron mine, and even buy the surrounding mountainous areas that might be the mine veins.

Although Gao Cai already knew that Gao Pragmatic has great vigor in the industry, he was still a little shocked by this practice of buying a large piece of land at every turn. Even though those places were in mountainous areas and there were not many fields, Gao Cai also felt a little dumbfounded.

But Gao Wushi calculated the accounts carefully with him, and he had to admit that buying the land in the mining area and buying the fields were indeed two different things.

Many of these mountains are unowned, and they can be purchased directly at the local government office at an extremely low price, and even the local government office is mostly very happy-this is waste utilization, what is the use of those unowned mountain lands?Some people bought it but refused to sell it. Could it be that the county magistrate wanted to keep him to go hunting in the mountains?
It doesn’t matter even if you occasionally come across an owner-owned mountain forest. These days, there is basically no decent output from the mountain forest, and the use value is very low. The cost of buying a mountain forest is more than ten times lower than buying a field, which is usually a few tenths of a field. The price is almost a free gift. With Gao Shidu's net worth, he can buy dozens of hectares in one go without blinking an eye.

The only trouble is that the iron mines in Xuzhou are said to be owned by a big local family. The family is surnamed Fan, and the clan is quite large. Classical history, it can be seen that the foundation is very deep.And this year there was even a Juren named Fan Shouji.

Fan Shouji?In Gao Yushi's impression, this person became a Jinshi later, it seems that it has been in the past few years, and he seems to have been a master, and even served as a minister of the Ministry of War. It turns out that his house is next door to his own...

But Gao Pragmatically and Sensitively discovered a problem, and asked: "Xuzhou is a state, how can there be a master book and a history?"

The state is slightly higher than the county, and the master book and history of the county correspond to the state, which should be judges and officials.

Gao Cai said with a smile: "The Fan family's native place is Weichuan County near Xuzhou, but his family is relatively powerful and has industries in Xuzhou. The iron mine in Xuzhou is one of them."

Well, that means we have to deal with this Fan family.

Gao Wushi frowned, and asked hesitantly: "This Fan family...Since Uncle Wu has bought iron from his family, do you have any friendship with them? If you want to buy his iron ore, will they sell it?"

Gao Cai shook his head slightly: "I don't have much friendship with their family, but the matter of buying iron ore... I think the key is the price. Their family has only produced a candidate so far. In the middle school, you have to rely on alternates to be an official. Even if you can be a Jinshi, your third uncle is the second assistant of the court after all, and he is also a heavenly official. I feel that as long as the money is paid enough, they should not refuse to sell it.”

　Thanks to the book friend "Battle of the Dragon", thank you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)