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, those who had the friendship of the same townspeople were easy to form allies politically, because at this time there was no party with common interests and independent political ideas - that should at least be counted from the Donglin Party, and even in the era of the rise of Donglin, there were also the so-called Qi Party, Chu Party, Zhejiang Party, etc. to compete 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 home of several generations of eunuchs, is one of the world's great sects, Gao Gong is the chief minister of the Longqing Dynasty, although he himself has no intention of being a local party leader, but it does not prevent Henan officials from treating him as the leader of the Yu Party, and even with many Henan officials who hope to go further in their careers, they also intentionally or unintentionally move closer to Gao Gong or Gao Jia.

Although Gao Pragmatic is young, judging from Gao Gong's current attitude and practices, there is a chance that he may be the "heir to the mantle" of the Gao family in the future, and to a certain extent, he is the leader of the next generation of the Gao family - this can be seen from the fact that he has been unprecedentedly out of the crown prince's companion for nothing, but he rushed back to Xinzheng to prepare for the scientific examination.

Gao Gong has no children, if Gao Pragmatic does not have lofty political ambitions, he can wait for the Yin Guan, judging from Gao Gong's current favor for him, as long as Gao Gong dies, the Yin Guan will inevitably fall on Gao Pragmatic's head, and in terms of Gao Gong's status, Gao Pragmatic Yin Guan at least starts as a scholar in the middle school, and may directly enter Shang Bao Prison.

However, the tradition of the Ming Dynasty is there, and the development prospects of Enyin officials are very restrictive, and they are far less than the right path of scientific research. Gao pragmatic returned to his hometown for scientific research, obviously looking down on the grace of the official, which shows that Gao Gong's expectations for him are by no means relying on the grace of his father.

In this way, Fan Shouji came to meet Gao Pragmatic in advance, and it was a very normal move to be familiar with each other.

Sure enough, Fan Shouji came here, and he was very cooperative with Gao Pragmatic's desire to buy Fan's iron ore mine in Xuzhou, not only bringing a description of the Xuxian Iron Mine, but also introducing in detail the scale, strength and known surrounding veins of his Xuxian Iron Mine, and also put forward a proposal that was slightly unexpected by Gao Pragmatic.

The Fan family hopes to use the existing Xuxian iron mine as capital to invest in the iron ore mine and even the iron plant that Gao Pragmatic plans to build. At the same time, Fan Shouji made it clear that the specific division of shares is good to discuss, as long as Gao pragmatic quotes a proposed investment amount, Fanjia Iron Mine can directly join at a discount.

To be honest, this attitude surprised Gao Shishi, and he didn't know whether the Fan family did this simply in the hope of tying up the interests of the Gao Fan family to deepen the relationship, or if he found out that his Gao Shishu was a bit of a stone into gold in business, so he came early to get a piece of the pie.

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

Originally, Gao Pragmatic founded these industrial and mining industries in the hope of taking himself as an example and proving to the world that it is not only about buying land and buying property that is the way to get rich, and then using some industrial and mining industries with core technologies to drive more Ming and enlightened classes to gradually move towards the capitalist road.

He never thought that the industry founded by himself alone could make the Ming Dynasty move from an agricultural country to an industrial country, which was impossible to complete, and even if he had that ability, such a prosperous and rich man in the world without tying up a large number of people with the same interests, in the end could only be ruined and killed by others - if he couldn't kill by means within the rules, someone would definitely kill himself by breaking the rules.

It is even possible that the emperor made a move.

Even if the emperor at that time was likely to be Zhu Yijun.

If Gao Shishi's financial resources are strong to that extent, and he has no power to protect himself, this is almost an ironclad thing, even if Zhu Yijun and him have been mixed together since they were a few years old, they will have to kill him at that time.

The bourgeoisie must be a class, not just a pragmatic man.

There is no doubt that only the emperor can be a lone husband in the world, and other people will inevitably become hostile to the emperor as long as they have this trend.

But the emperor also needs a ruling foundation, if Gao Pragmatic can form a bourgeois interest group with himself as the leader in the future, then even the emperor has to weigh the impact of tearing his face with him.

Therefore, Gao pragmatic welcomes the Fan family who takes the initiative to get close to himself and is close to himself in terms of industrial development.

However, in the iron factory, Gao Pragmatic still does not intend to let the Fan family enter immediately.

Of course, profit monopoly is considered to be a consideration on the one hand, but it is not all, the deeper reason is that iron-smelting and steelmaking is an important foundation for industrialization, and it belongs to the core competitiveness industry.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic only agreed to the Fan family's participation in the new iron plant, and the specific shares could only be determined by waiting for Gao Pragmatic to determine the investment amount, and the investment quota also needed to send someone to investigate the possible reserve zone of Xuxian Iron Ore - this Gao Pragmatic can basically be determined now, probably near Wuzhuang in later generations.

According to the information brought by Fan Shouji, it can be determined that the scale of iron ore in that place is okay, but it is also a typical Chinese poor iron ore, and it is expected that the highest iron content is about 35%, which is only a level that can barely be developed in later generations.

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 high iron smelting costs are commonplace, and 35% iron ore can be fully exploited.

What's more, the smelting technology mastered by Gao Pragmatic 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 Pragmatic also determined from the information brought by Fan Shouji that the Xuxian iron ore should be dominated by magnetite, which is good news, because if the magnetite has fewer impurities, it can be directly used for open-hearth steelmaking - 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 will not take it down and use it at all, because the cost is not cost-effective.

The only trouble is that the impurity content of the Xuchang iron ore mine seems to be a bit high, which can seriously raise the cost. After all, there is no magnetic separation and other means of beneficiation in later generations, and only primitive crushing, grinding and other means can be used, which is inefficient.

But this problem can't be solved pragmatically, and he didn't learn this piece, and those magnetic separation and flotation in later generations have professional equipment, and he doesn't even understand the basic principles of those equipment, let alone manufacture.

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