Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 356 Interest Binding
Generally speaking, Fan Shouji should be regarded as a natural ally of the Gao family, because they are typical township parties.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was easy for those who had the friendship of fellow countrymen to form political allies, because at this time there was no party with common interests and independent political ideas—at least it should be counted from the Donglin Party, and even in Donglin In the era of rising, there were still so-called Qi Party, Chu Party, and Zhejiang Party competing with it, and finally formed a party struggle.Most of these factions are spearheaded by political leaders in their regions.

The Gao family is the family of several generations of officials, and they are one of the great masters of practical learning in the world. Gao Gong is a well-deserved chief minister of the Longqing Dynasty. As the leader of the Henan Party, many officials from Henan who wished to further their official career also moved closer to Gao Gong or the Gao family intentionally or unintentionally.

Although Gao Yushi is young, judging from Gao Gong's current attitude and actions, there is a high probability that he will be the "successor" of the Gao family in the future. To some extent, he is the leader of the next generation of the Gao family—— This can be seen from the unprecedented fact that he was born as an accompaniment to the prince without any fame, but rushed back to Xinzheng to prepare for the scientific examination.

Gao Gong has no children. If Gao Yushi has no lofty political ambitions, he can wait for the Yin Guan. Judging from Gao Gong's current love for him, as long as Gao Gong dies, the Yin Guan will inevitably fall on Gao Yushi's head. As far as Gao Gong's status is concerned, a high-practice and yin official at least started as a member of Zhongshu Sheren, and might enter Shangbaojian directly.

But the tradition of the Ming Dynasty is there, and Enyinguan's development prospects are very limited, far from being on the right track of scientific research.When Gao Yushi returned to his hometown for scientific research, he obviously looked down on Guan Enyin, which showed that Gao Gong's expectation of him was definitely not to rely on the favor of his parents to fool around.

In this way, it is normal for Fan Shouji to come in advance to meet Gao Yushi and get acquainted with each other.

Sure enough, when Fan Shouji came here, he seemed to be very cooperative with Gao Wushi's plan to buy the Fan family's iron mine in Xuzhou. He introduced information such as , strength, and known surrounding mineral veins, and also proposed a proposal that was slightly beyond Gao Pragmatic's expectations.

The Fan family hopes to use the existing Xu County iron mine as capital to invest in the iron mine or even the iron factory that Gao Yushi intends to run.At the same time, Fan Shouji made it clear that the specific division of shares is subject to negotiation, as long as the proposed investment amount is reported in a pragmatic manner, Fanjia Iron Mine can directly join at a discount.

To be honest, Gao Wushi was a little surprised by this attitude, and he didn't know whether the Fan family did this simply because they wanted to tie up the interests of the Gao and Fan families to deepen the relationship, or if they had a discerning eye and discerned that Gao Shidu's business was a bit awkward. The ability to become gold, so come early to get a share.

But Gao Pragmatism does not reject such an approach, and even welcomes it.

Originally, Gao Yushi founded these industrial and mining industries, hoping to use himself as an example to prove to the world that buying land and real estate is not the only way to get rich, and then use some industrial and mining industries with core technologies to drive more The enlightened class of the Ming Dynasty gradually moved towards the road of capitalism.

He never thought that he could turn Daming from an agricultural country to an industrial country by relying on the industry he founded alone. In the end, he could only be ruined and killed by others—if he couldn’t be killed by means within the rules, someone would definitely kill himself by breaking the rules.

It may even be the emperor's move.

Even though the emperor at that time was probably Zhu Yijun.

If Gao Yushi's financial resources are so strong and he doesn't have the power to protect himself, this is almost a sure thing. Even if Zhu Yijun and him have been together since a few years old, I'm afraid he will have to kill him at that time.

The bourgeoisie must be a class, not just a single man with high pragmatism.

There is no room for two tigers on one mountain, and no two lords in one day. Only the emperor can be the only husband in the world. As long as other people have this tendency, they will inevitably become hostile to the emperor. There is no doubt about it.

But the sole husband of the emperor also needs a basis for ruling. If Gao Pragmatism can form a bourgeois interest group with himself as the leader in the future, then even the emperor will have to weigh the impact of breaking his face with him.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatism welcomes the Fan family who takes the initiative to approach him and is close to him in terms of industrial development.

However, Gao Yushi still didn't intend to let the Fan family enter the ironworks immediately.

Profit monopoly is of course one aspect of consideration, but it is not all. The deeper reason is that iron and steel smelting is an important foundation of industrialization and a core competitiveness industry. High-level practicality will rely on this industry to promote many things in the future And guide, so he can't let go of this part, and he can't even let other people intervene.

Therefore, Gao Yushi only agreed to the Fan family's participation in the new iron factory. The specific shares will not be determined until Gao Yushi's side determines the investment amount, and the investment amount needs to be sent to investigate the possible reserves of Xu County's iron mines. One point of Gao Wuzhen can be basically confirmed now, probably near Wuzhuang in later generations.

According to the information brought by Fan Shouji, it can be confirmed that the scale of iron mines in that place is not bad, but it is also a typical Chinese lean iron mine. It is estimated that the highest iron content is about 35%, and it is barely exploitable in later generations. Level.

However, in the current Ming Dynasty, this iron content is worth developing, because the ancient Chinese have long been accustomed to low-grade iron ore, and such things as high ironmaking costs are commonplace, and iron ore with 35% iron content can be mined and utilized.

What's more, the smelting technology mastered by Gao Yushi is obviously much more advanced than this era, and the coking coal resources are far cheaper and more abundant than those of later generations.

At the same time, Gao Wushi also determined from the information brought by Fan Shouji that the iron ore in Xu County should be dominated by magnetite. This is good news, because if the magnetite has less impurities, it can be directly smelted in an open hearth furnace—— Well, this is also normal. If it is another kind of iron ore that is difficult to handle, it is estimated that the Fan family would not have taken it and mined it at all, because the cost was not economical.

The only trouble is that the iron ore in Xuchang appears to have a bit of a high level of impurities, which can seriously drive up costs.After all, there is no magnetic separation and other methods for mineral processing in the future, and only the original methods of crushing and grinding can be used, which is inefficient.

But this problem cannot be solved in a pragmatic way, and he did not learn this field. The magnetic separation and flotation of later generations all have professional equipment, and he does not even understand the basic principles of those equipment, let alone manufacture them.

But in any case, the problem of iron ore has been solved, and now it is only necessary to determine the investment amount.

(End of this chapter)