In fact, it seems that it is a little earlier to say that the battle of Gaozhang is "started", and it is more accurate to say that it should be "kicked off".

Just three days after Gao Pragmatic obtained the status of a student with the first grade of the Taoist case, the Gao family's horse team set off from Xinzheng and escorted Gao Pragmatic on the road back to Beijing.

There is one more person in the horse team, that is, Shuai Jiamo, who has just settled the Ding Si silk tax case from Huizhou and came north to vote for a high student.

Regarding the use of Shuai Jiamo, Gao Shishi's previous consideration was to send him to Gao Guoyan as a deputy.

After all, Shuai Jiamo's original status was not high, just a small official in a county; secondly, his serious studies are also relatively average, just an ordinary student; Third, he is not a member of the Gao family, or even a slave of the Gao family, so it is too far to talk about relatives.

Of course, these problems are actually not very mindful of Gao Shipra, but the social status quo of Daming is like this, he does not meet any of these conditions, and there is nothing worthy of respect or fear in the eyes of others.

If you have been an official before, and now you will be in a high position under the eldest young master, everyone can bear it, after all, you are originally a big man.

If you are good at studying, you don't dare to think about it, but if you are a lifting man, you will be in a high position as soon as you come, and everyone can bear it. After all, everything is inferior, only reading is high, although they don't know why it's high, but anyway, everyone says so, and they get used to it.

No matter how bad it is, it's okay if you are a confidant of the eldest young master, such as Gao Xiaozhuang, everyone has to endure it. What is the level of the owner's cronies, anyway, he represents the owner, if you don't obey him, it is equivalent to disobeying the owner, so you can just get out of here, and say that what do you do if you don't?

Therefore, it is more appropriate to send him to Gao Guoyan as a deputy first, because Gao Guoyan himself is responsible for financial accounts and does not directly manage many people, and the people who deal with him are the leading figures in various "enterprises", so he will not be jealous of Shuai Jiamo at every turn. And Shuai Jiamo himself is a person who is proficient in mathematics, and Gao Guoyan's hobbies and abilities are more consistent, and it is easy to have a common language. In addition, he can't threaten Gao Guoyan's status, and he is not afraid that Gao Guoyan will not use him.

In this way, he can work on his qualifications under Gao Guoyan's care, and in two or three years, he will be able to let him go out to take charge of one party's business, which can be described as making the best use of his talents.

However, this plan had to be temporarily adjusted due to Gao Gong's letter. Gao Gong was able to seize the opportunity of the Xuzhou generation to break the embankment continuously, and relied on the power of Zhao Zhenji to suppress the opposition of the DPRK and the central government, and forcibly cut out three percent from the Cao Yun to change to sea transportation, which was very unexpected by Gao Pragmatic.

Of course, Gao Gong himself is a very bold person, otherwise it would not have set off the momentum of Longwan's reform. It's just that this wave of opportunities is indeed a bit of a coincidence, and it seems that Gao Gong didn't do this in the original history, and it seems likely that it was the previous time, and what he said to Gao Gong had some effect.

Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic is still somewhat complacent, but he can't be happy for three seconds, and the problem comes.

Tianjin Port is about to be expanded and strengthened under the auspices of Tianjin Wei, and its plan to buy land and open a port in Tianjin Port has not yet been implemented, and it has ushered in a wave of competitors, which is simply a tragedy.

It's just that this is a major policy of the imperial court, and Gao Pragmatic can't and is unwilling to intervene.

His consistent attitude is: while saving the Ming court, he took advantage of the east wind to make a small fortune. If he is allowed to make a fortune for himself and ignore the major affairs of the country, it will be contrary to his purpose. After all, as a traverser, he is still confident that he has enough means and opportunities to make a fortune, and it is highly pragmatic to fat the public and fat private, and it is the Donglin Party to damage the public and fat to the private.

As a result, Gao pragmatic had no choice but to give a big priority to the opening of Tianjin's port, and strive to buy good land near the original Tianjin port as soon as possible.

After all, Tianjin Wei's imperial court official port is only engaged in Cao Yun, and the things handed over to Wei this year are not worth mentioning no matter how efficient they are, and careful planning is tantamount to dreaming, so Tianjin Wei can specialize in the port itself is already very worthy of the little imperial grain they eat, and they know a ghost in the surrounding ports.

However, the business of port support is often higher than the value of the port itself - the imperial court does not pay taxes, what oil and water can there be? Oil and water are all in transshipment, accommodation, consumption, etc., and Gao Shi's purpose is very clear: Anyway, your court doesn't know how to make this money, so it's better to let me come.

Of course, in addition to secretly taking a piece of the pie in the imperial court's fortunes, Gao Pragmatic attaches more importance to the commercial port plan.

Compared with the ghost knows whether it will be gone for political reasons, the Tianjin commercial port in the high pragmatic planning is the real money-maker, but because of the relationship between the imperial court and the fortune, in line with the principle of not repeating investment, Gao pragmatic must quickly determine the location of the commercial port - in addition to some previous conditions, there must be a non-far from the official port.

This is similar to the principle of commercial streets in later generations, the same or similar functional areas should be concentrated as much as possible, and the flow of people with the same purpose will be gathered in one place, which can produce the effect that one plus one is greater than two.

Gao Pragmatic was already a little short of people at hand, and now the matter is more urgent, just a Gao Mengnan is only afraid that he will be a little too busy, just send Shuai Jiamo over, at least this guy has passed the math skills, and is proficient in Da Ming Law, with him to help in Tianjin, it is much easier to buy land or something.

He told Shuai Jiamo about the cause and effect of this incident and his own purpose, Shuai Jiamo was first shocked by Gao Shi's courage to grab business with the imperial court, and then couldn't help but admire his business acumen, and repeatedly said that he would work hard and never disappoint the trust of the owner.

That's right, he is not a member of the Gao family, and Gao Pragmatic did not recommend him to go to the Yamen as an official, so he can only call Gao Pragmatic the owner.

In fact, he was quite excited, he was originally in She County, but he was only responsible for settling accounts, not responsible for managing accounts, and the silver on those numbers had nothing to do with his own half of the money. Now Gao is pragmatic and uses him, and it is such a big deal at the beginning, although there is still a Gao Mengnan above, but he is also a deputy, and his status is not low.

And according to the idea that the owner told him, Gao Mengnan is always in charge, but it is he, an outsider, who has the final say, in finance and legal affairs.

Tianjin opens a port, opens a private port! The amount of silver to be invested here must be at least 100,000 yuan, whether it is hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands, it depends on the meaning of the owner, but for the plan of high pragmatism, Shuai Jiamo estimates that he will not be able to stop without 300,000 taels.

If you treat me as a countryman, I will repay me as a countryman!