Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 482 The messenger of King Zheng

Henan Chief Envoy, Weihui Mansion, Huojia County.The highly pragmatic cavalry team will stay here overnight.

This is the itinerary that Gao Wushi has made according to the time, because the escort of Gao Gong's coffin back to his hometown must not be delayed, and Wei Hui will pass through Wei Hui when he returns to Xinzheng from the south of the capital. It is practically a waste for the officials and gentry of neighboring prefectures and counties to meet each other and play up their feelings.

To do business, you must have the attitude of doing business. If you don’t make a profit, you will lose it.The same is true for Shilin Yangwang. When he arrives in a place, he fails to exchange feelings with the officials and gentry of the place, and cannot let them get close to him, which is tantamount to a loss.Therefore, Gao Wushi and his party specially adjusted the itinerary, stayed in Huojia County that night, had a meal with Wei Hui and the officials and gentry from nearby prefectures and counties, bragged for a while, and everyone praised each other...

Of course, the process of this kind of face project is very easy to follow. Gao Pragmatism has already been familiar with it, so there is no need to talk about the specific details.The main reason why he insisted on staying in Huojia today was because he wanted to meet a person—to be exact, the person's plenipotentiary representative.

There are actually people in Henan who put on airs in front of Gao Yushi and send a representative instead of coming to see him in person?

There really are, but it's not to put on airs, but you can't come in person.

Because what Gao Pragmatically wants to see is someone from Prince Zheng's residence, the plenipotentiary representative of King Zheng Zhu Houtan.King Zheng is a vassal king, so of course he is not allowed to leave the fief at will.

The contemporary King Zheng, Zhu Houtan, is a good person. He has at least one thing that he admires for his high pragmatism: Emperor Shizong Jiajing was obsessed with Taoism. Emperor Jiajing put national affairs and ancestral foundations as the most important things, and he should not indulge in cultivating Taoism, let alone take pills indiscriminately in order to achieve longevity.

Emperor Jiajing was very decisive, and immediately decreed that Zhu Houtan would be reduced to a commoner, and he would be sent to the clan's mansion and imprisoned within a high wall.Zhu Houtan's eldest son, Zhu Zaiyu, was also unlucky. He was deposed as a prince and demoted to a commoner.

It was not until Mu Zong Longqing succeeded to the throne that this unjust prison was vindicated, and the identities and titles of King Zheng and the sons of King Zheng were restored. Since the Longqing period, the relationship has been good.

Gao Wushi returned to Beijing after taking the middle school entrance examination. After Weihui staged the dramas of "Scattering Fortune Boy" and "Wanjiasheng Buddha", he set up businesses in Huojia County of Weihui Prefecture and Xiuwu County of Huaiqing Prefecture. Several mines, several factories were set up, and a large number of refugees in Henan were properly settled. Not only did they gain a wave of prestige in the officialdom, but they were also praised by many local people.

The praises in the official circles may be true or false, but the feelings of local officials and gentry for Gao Yushi are very real, as real as real money - because Gao Yushi did make them earn real money.

Why did Gao Pragmatism open mines and set up factories so that local officials and gentry earned real money?
This matter is really too simple to say, and people of later generations may understand this truth: After a large number of refugees are resettled here, so many people need food, clothing, and expenses, and these things are highly pragmatic. Mine does not produce, they can only buy from the surrounding counties, and the grain, cloth and various daily necessities of the surrounding counties are mostly in the hands of these local officials and gentry?

Therefore, Gao Pragmatism forcibly turned a group of refugees who caused major hidden dangers to their lives and property into a stable and huge consumer market. Isn't this Wanjia Shengfo?
What's more, in their eyes, Gao Wushi is still a kind person who is very willing to take care of his hometown. When these factories and mines started production and found sales, and began to make stable profits, Gao Wushi came forward through his mother Zhang to invite Wei Hui , Huaiqing two government gentry Da Jia participated in the shares.

Originally, the officials and gentry of the two governments thought it would be easy to borrow money. After all, Gao Wushi had the Changlu Salt Farm behind him, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to pay back the money. It's a bit big, in case of a loss, it's not a decimal.

However, it happened that Zhang Juzheng fell from power at that time, and Gao Dang gained a comprehensive advantage in the imperial court. After thinking about it, the squires from the two provinces in Henan regarded the investment as a protection fee for Gao Dang's care, so they bought shares one after another.

However, since they only bought shares for the sake of Gao Gong's face, the ratio of their final investment funds to the total shares was not that high, and it was only 17.00% when added together.

As a result, something unexpected happened. Since Gao Yushi invented cement, and there are large reserves of limestone mines, coal mines and iron mines near Huojia and Xiuwu counties, the Henan branch of the Jinghua Cement Plant here suddenly became a Sweet pastry, Mr. He bought cement worth as much as 11 taels from here in the first year. Later, with the gradual improvement of the national finance, the funding for river construction also increased year by year. The Henan Branch Factory bought cement worth 19 taels of silver!

The factory is not only engaged in the business of He Zong’s family. You must know that these two counties are not far from the Yellow River. All the connected water systems along the Yellow River and even in the basin can easily obtain cement because the transportation cost is very low!

In this way, most of the gentry and rich merchants in Weihui and Huaiqing prefectures have made money accordingly, and their feelings for Gao Yushi are naturally as real as real money.

The reason why King Zheng's Mansion contacted Gao Yushi this time was because when King Zheng was imprisoned before, King Zheng's Mansion suffered a huge loss. The wealth accumulated over the past 150 years (the first King Zheng was the second son of Renzong) was lost, and he was eager to recover blood. It also happened that he took a fancy to some land under the name of King Zheng——Wang Zheng granted Huaiqing, and many lands in Huaiqing Mansion belonged to his family.

Although theoretically speaking, due to the fact that civil servants have been in power for a long time, many of the properties under the name of the palace are not directly controlled, but the local government is responsible for giving benefits on their behalf, but in fact, just like the hidden fields of the officials and gentry, the hidden fields of the palace are also A lot, plus the rewards from the emperors of the past dynasties and the plunder of the kings of the past dynasties, there is no palace that does not have a large number of land that is not in the yellow book.

King Zheng's place is pretty good. The main land is basically in Huaiqing Mansion. If you want to change it to King Shu, let's not talk about other places. In Chengdu alone, the mansion of Shu King occupies 70% of the land...

As for the land that Gao Pragmatism wanted, needless to say, if you look at the map, you will know that it must be near Jiaozuo in later generations!

Jiaozuo not only has huge reserves of high-quality coal mines, but also a large amount of iron ore, as well as a large number of high-quality limestone mines required for the production of soda ash and cement, and a river that runs directly to the Yellow River. It is simply an ideal place for primary industries in this era. , How can you miss this great opportunity to make money?

In addition to discussing the purchase of shares in the form of land by King Zheng's Mansion, Gao Wushi is also very concerned about the envoy sent by King Zheng this time, because he is the son of King Zheng—well, this is not important, the important thing is that his name is Zhu Zaiyu .

Who is Zhu Zaiyu who is valued so highly by Gao Yushi?He was called "the sage of the Eastern Renaissance" by many experts and scholars in China and the West in later generations, and even called "the sage of the law"!
(End of this chapter)