Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 415
Jianxinzhai, an open space separated by itself and surrounded by high walls.

Gao Wushi stood in front of a dozen busy craftsmen, watching them work motionlessly, with no expression on his face, showing no emotion at all.

What are these artisans doing?
If there are people from later generations here, they must be able to see some clues from the piles of raw materials piled up near this open space.

There are four kinds of materials stacked here, namely limestone, clay, coal and iron ore powder.

In addition to the raw materials, there are some equipment that cannot be seen elsewhere. Among them, the largest and weirdest-looking one is a very weird kiln-a cement kiln designed and directed by Gao Yushi himself.

This so-called cement kiln is more than a hundred times cruder than the advanced cement kilns of later generations. It is neither economical nor durable to use, let alone environmentally friendly. The equipment is too strong, and in the 21st century, it will only be banned and seized.

This is also impossible. Gao Yushi is a liberal arts student after all. If he hadn't relied on a little bit of knowledge in his work, he wouldn't be able to get out of this semi-finished product—no, semi-waste product—cement kiln.

Now, although the tools and equipment are primitive and unsightly, considering the current level of productivity, he has no choice but to admit it. Anyway, if he can get the cement out, he will be done.

As for other things, such as poor quality, high cost, and large pollution, don't think about it for the time being, so as not to piss yourself off.

Indigenous cement is not difficult to make, but that is for the productivity of future generations. It is not easy at all now. Gao Pragmatic has been preparing since last year. Wei Hui transferred a group of servants to start trial production.

These servants were selected from last year's refugees, and they had already signed the contract of selling their lives. In theory, all of them had the surname Gao, and they belonged to their own people who could be used with confidence.

Gao Wushi transferred more than 300 people from Weihui Mansion to the capital this time, a small part of them were various craftsmen, and most of them were children and teenagers of three different age groups, namely seven to eight years old, nine to ten At the age of [-] and [-], the first purpose of using the trial-produced cement was to build a school for them.

Of course, it is definitely not a school that teaches the Four Books and Five Classics.

Gao Yushi has already thought of a name for this school that is still under planning, and it is called Jinghua Craftsman School.

The name is tacky, rather tacky, and not at all fancy.

However, Gao Wushi knows that a school that intends to teach mathematics, physics, and chemistry in addition to teaching elementary school must not be popular in this era, it must be vulgar, or even unbearably vulgar.

If he dared to name this school "Gewu College", it would definitely attract attention, and then all kinds of troubles would follow.

The name Jinghua Craftsman School is very subtle. First of all, it means that this is just a small school of "Jinghua"'s own family. In the eyes of outsiders, it is at most the level of ethnology.

In addition, being dubbed the word "craftsman" is even more worthless. Obviously, he can't teach any advanced knowledge, maybe he can teach some carpentry, masonry and other things. Calling it a school is almost a bit It's an insult to gentleness, no matter whether it is a civil servant or a general, no one will be interested in such a broken school.

"Master, the trial production of cement has been successful!" Shen Li'an, who was transferred from Sanshen Garden last year to see Xinzhai as the housekeeper, ran over excitedly to announce the good news.

Gao Yushi can understand why Shen Li'an seems more excited than him, the instigator. After all, Wei Ximin and others have been reused. He, the steward of the inner government who held the financial power of Sanshen Garden, almost became a peripheral person. There must be urgent How can you not be excited now that a very important event in the eyes of the young master has finally been accomplished?
Gao Yushi doesn't even care about spending money, and naturally he doesn't care about verbal praise. He praises people one after another, making Shen Li'an's face flushed with praise, and he can't wait to tear out his heart and swear that only the young master will follow his lead for the rest of his life.

After looking at the trial products, he asked the craftsmen to try to build a small wall, and told them that the wall should not be exposed to rain, and that he would come back to see the effect in a few days. Went to Shouxinlou.

Just arrived at the Shouxin Building, when I heard Gao Guoyan and Gao Xiaozhuang seem to be arguing on the second floor, Gao Wu stopped Gao Mo from shouting with gestures, listened carefully for a while, and sure enough, as he expected, these two people were opening peace for Jinghua The shareholding dispute of the three major factories.

Gao Yushi heard from their dispute that Gao Guoyan believed that Gao Yushi's equity allocation plan was very problematic-mainly because of the huge losses.

Gao Guoyan’s point of view is that Gao Wushi’s current distribution plan is not relevant, no matter from the perspective of Gao Wushi’s huge investment in Qianxi Iron Mine, Kaiping Coal Mine, and Kaiping Iron and Steel Plant, or from the perspective of the future scale and expected benefits of the three major factories. It was his family who lost a lot of money and inexplicably fattened a lot of outsiders.

But Gao Xiaozhuang's point of view is more straightforward: I will resolutely defend all the decisions made by the young master; I will unswervingly follow all the instructions of the young master.

His reasons are also very simple, there are two in total: the first one, I, Gao Xiaozhuang, is the son of the Gao family, and I have been following the young master, so the young master can do whatever he wants, there is no explanation for this; the second one, so far , the young master has never made any wrong decisions, even the decisions that seemed almost nonsense at first turned out to be extremely wise in the end, so the young master must have his own considerations, I didn't see it just because I limited ability.

After listening to Gao Yushi, he was a little suspicious that he should have asked Gao Xiaozhuang to lead the family guards. His style is completely "execute what you understand, and implement what you don't understand. Deepen your understanding in the process of execution." God, this is natural military material!

But think about it or forget it, Gao Xiaozhuang is doing a good job now, if he is suddenly reassigned to "lead troops", he has to be retrained, Ma Fang's side is easy to deal with, but right now Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng have gone to the opposite side However, it would be inconvenient to bother Qi Jiguang at this time.

What's more, Gao Mo and Gao Yu didn't do a bad job, so they can't be slapped for no reason.

Gao Wushi shook his head, put these distracting thoughts out of his mind, walked up to the second floor unhurriedly, and shut Gao Guoyan and Gao Xiaozhuang with a light cough.

The two of them turned their heads at the same time, seeing that they were highly pragmatic, they hurried over to meet them together.

After all, Gao Guoyan and Gao Yushi are cousins, and their identities are different from Gao Xiaozhuang. He took the initiative to say: "Yushi, you came just in time. I saw the equity distribution draft of the three major factories in Kaiping that you sent to Sanshenyuan yesterday. I will leave early this morning. I came to see you... Let me tell you, your equity allocation method is at a big loss!"

"I know." Gao Wushi didn't seem surprised, and even blinked, and said, "Just from building the factory, recruiting workers to putting it into production, according to this equity distribution plan, I will lose more than 17 taels of silver."

Gao Guoyan didn't expect that Gao Yushi would settle the account long ago, and was at a loss for words for a while.

Gao Yushi continued to smile and said: "And if my follow-up production plan can be carried out smoothly, then I will 'lose' at least 4 taels every year because of this equity distribution plan in the future, and in about five years, even every year I will lose about 7 taels."

"You know?" Gao Guoyan was stunned for a moment, and then he said angrily: "Then you still distribute it like this? Are you really using money as dung, you?"

Gao Wushi approached Gao Guoyan, put his hand on his shoulder, and comforted him: "Brother Sanhuai, don't worry, will I not take my own money seriously? There is a reason for me to do this."

"I know their identities are very special, but no matter how special their identities are, they can't be spent as money..."

"Hey, brother, you are wrong. Identity can really be spent as money." Gao Wushi smiled and pulled Gao Guoyan to sit down, while he sat next to him, explaining: "Brother, think, if I don't Fu's nephew, even if I earned some money before, when I was in Henan last year, would the gentry and powerful men of the Weihui Mansion lend me 30 taels without saying a word?"

Gao Guoyan didn't like this, and opened his eyes wide and said: "But you are borrowing, no matter how much you borrow, you will always have to pay it back! They are different, you are giving them money, and you are not giving it all at once. It's a matter of sending it all the time!"

Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "Brother, this account can't be calculated like this." He sighed, and looked Gao Guoyan in the eyes: "If I don't send this money, there may be big problems in the military industry and private affairs. Resistance, whether it can be managed or not is not good. Just think about it, we have spent so much money on the three major factories in Kaiping, if the military industry and the private sector cannot be established, how much will we lose every year?"

"Don't mislead me!" Gao Guoyan continued to open his eyes wide, and retorted: "Our coal mines and iron ores are cheap and cheap, even if we sell raw ore, we can't lose money. Even if there is no ordnance business in the iron and steel plant, it is nothing special. After steelmaking, we rely on iron smelting. We sell pig iron and agricultural tools, and we will not lose money. Although we are always losing money, it is because you are constantly expanding production capacity and production scale. Stop expanding, and we will be able to turn losses into profits next year! Be pragmatic, you will settle accounts, and so will I.”

"I know, I know, there are few people in the world who can do my brother's arithmetic." Gao Wushi laughed at first, but immediately restrained his smile, and said seriously: "But why should I stop expanding production? Whether it is the coal mine in Kaiping or Qianxi The iron ore reserves are extremely large! Even if I expand the production by ten times, I will not be able to mine it in 500 years, why should I waste it?"

Gao Guoyan was stunned at first, and then he said with some incomprehension: "If you can't finish digging, you can't finish digging. Anyway, you bought all these lands. It doesn't matter if you can't finish digging. Your son and grandson just keep digging. Keep some Isn't it good to give the property to the younger generation?"

Gao Wushi rolled his eyes and thought to himself: It’s over, there’s no way to explain it. If I said that I came here to improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and secondly, I wanted to arouse the enthusiasm of the powerful class of Ming Dynasty to devote themselves to industry through the demonstration effect. , I'm afraid my cousin will think that I've lost my mind.

But it won't work if you don't persuade Gao Guoyan. He is his cousin, not a servant. In theory, he can't order him, and he is the best candidate for the position of chief financial officer, so there is no need to change him.

So Gao Wushi thought for a while, and then said: "Brother, if you don't do this, you have to do two more questions: the first one is that we will not expand production, do not make ordnance, or even refine Steel, how much can you earn every year? The second way is that we expand production and enter the ordnance manufacturing industry. The output and sales volume increase year by year according to my previous estimate. According to my distribution plan, part of the income shared by those people is removed. How much more can we earn each year on our own side?"

Gao Guoyan was quite confident in his arithmetic, so he closed his eyes and began to calculate in his head without saying a word.

At the beginning Gao Guoyan's expression was still calm, but slowly he began to change his expression, and became a little more cautious. In the end, his expression finally became ugly, and it became more and more ugly.

When Gao Wushi saw it, he smiled and asked, "How is it?"

Gao Guoyan put his hands on his forehead, looked depressed, and sighed, but still had no choice but to answer: "According to your plan, the first two years were not very good. Of course, there are profits, but not much, because you want to give them money. That part of the money, so it must be at a loss, according to what you said, it is a 'deficit'. However, from the third year onwards, the profit began to increase, which will greatly exceed the plan of not expanding production...you win gone."

"There's nothing to win or lose here." Gao Wushi waved his hand and explained: "Actually, this is the scale benefit, the allocation plan for expanding production. Although I lost costs and gave away shares for free, as long as my production scale It’s getting bigger and bigger, and the more products I sell, the more money I can make from it.”

Gao Guoyan nodded depressedly, but after thinking about it, he said unhappily: "But in this way, the money you 'gift' to those people will also increase! This is your money in the first place. Ah, these people are just getting something for nothing, we're working hard here, and they're lying at home counting the money!"

Gao Wushi smiled, and comforted him: "Get something for nothing? No, no, brother, they still have to 'work'."

　More than 3800 words, one chapter is worth two chapters, because it is difficult to divide, I will not divide it...

　　
　
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