Therefore, the first money-collecting product he wants to launch must meet the following conditions:

First of all, the cost of production must not be too high, otherwise if he wants to directly open a shipyard and take advantage of the east wind of "Longqing to open the sea" to engage in overseas trade, this cost is obviously not something he can afford with the capital of 1,000 taels of silver in hand. This article decided that his first money-making product could only be a "gadget".

Secondly, the product should have a certain technical content and not very eye-catching, otherwise it is too easy to imitate and will not be able to maintain profits, and too eye-catching will attract excessive attention from the outside world.

Again, the audience of this product can not be too narrow, otherwise even if this gadget can rely on the technology monopoly and sell a relatively considerable price, it will be difficult to be promoted because the audience is too small, as a traveler in the business era, Gao pragmatic knows that there is no scale effect of industrial products, its total profit is difficult to ensure the rapid development of their company - Rolls-Royce cars are not also acquired by BMW? Doesn't Ferrari also have a parent company called Fiat? Could it be that the Rolls-Royce and Ferrari brands are not very valuable? Apparently not, it's just that the audience is too small and the product isn't of enough magnitude to be compared to a brand with a much broader audience. This is the same reason why Porsche forced the Cayenne out in the midst of skepticism – as a company, it needs to generate profits.

Again, it's best to cover this product from the upper class down. Because once the upper class recognizes the product, it can greatly increase the added value of the product, and drive the middle class to use it, thus forming a trend that its profits can continue to increase over time.

Finally, to launch this product, it is better to have a partner who can go a long way towards dispelling the coveting of the profits made by some ill-intentioned people after their technology monopoly and marketing.

The question of what products to produce is easier to solve - traverser, under this technical condition or the technical condition that can be created, all kinds of high, medium and low-grade products that can be taken out are written in so many novels, and it is not very difficult to pick a few that you still remember.

This first product, even if it has to meet the requirements of cost, technology, audience and other aspects, is not too difficult for high pragmatism, such as crossing the favorite soap, which can meet these conditions. Of course, it is better to make soap directly, after all, it is to cover from the upper class, and although it is also very practical to make a soap for washing clothes, it is far less than making soap for people such as royal nobles, high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and their families.

However, for partners, high pragmatism needs to think carefully.

Theoretically speaking, with Gao Pragmatic's current special status, if Gao Gong can be persuaded to nod, then it should be most convenient and safe to attract a group of "Gao Party" elements to cooperate in setting up factories. However, Gao Pragmatic didn't want to pull the "Gao Party" on the first product - Gao Pragmatic felt that before he entered the officialdom after the entrance examination, the primary purpose was to break up the inverted Gao trio two years later, so as to create conditions for Gao Gong to continue to govern during the Wanli period. And the high party ...... To be honest, as long as Gao Gong is in power, the Gao Party will always exist, and there is no need to rush to engage in the combination of interests now. On the contrary, if Gao Gong falls, the Gao Party or something, that is, the fate of the stars.

One must build on a firm foundation?

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic hopes to be able to complete his initial wealth plan through this first product, and at the same time, it will also play a certain role in breaking up the inverted Gao trio.

In the inverted high trio, Zhang Juzheng doesn't have to think about wooing, this is completely useless, although the political struggle does not need to be filled with gunsmoke, but the degree of life and death is even greater than that of war, so it is impossible for Zhang Juzheng to "use it for me". Besides, although many so-called experts and professors in later generations desperately touted that his reform largely extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for decades, in fact, his reform did not touch the deeper level at all, so it was not thorough, which was also public in later generations. Even Gao Pragmatic has great doubts about the actual role played by Zhang Juzheng in the Longwan reform, as well as the actual effect of the reform.

For example, the abolition of the shift system of craftsmen began as early as the eighth year of Jiajing, and it obviously has nothing to do with Zhang Juzheng. The first to carry out the reform of a compilation method began in the tenth year of Jiajing, and by the time of Longqing, it was already "regarded as a trap" and "the rich reduced their capital to the end" (source "Ming Muzong Records"), which shows that the effect of a compilation has appeared. Therefore, on the whole, the main achievement of a compilation reform is not Zhang Juzheng's, and even the high arch can only be said to inherit the correct line of the predecessors.

So what did Zhang Juzheng do? Well, he forcibly promoted a compilation method throughout the country, not like during the Jiajing and Longqing periods, depending on the situation in various places. Is this merit? I'm afraid not. For the southern region, where industry and commerce are developed and land annexation is already relatively serious, it is suitable for the reform of a compilation law, which has already been changed during the Jiajing and Longqing periods. The area promoted by Zhang Juzheng is precisely the land annexation is not serious, and the industry and commerce are not developed, in fact, the northern and Sichuan regions are not suitable for this reform.

In addition, Zhang Juzheng also promoted the forced collection of silver. One of Jiajing's codification reforms has always been to maintain the payment of grain, not silver, because this can prevent yeoman farmers from being exploited by the government, business, and landlords many times. Zhang Juzheng's forcible expropriation of silver not only increased the space for officials to force the landless and landless population to have two taels of silver—because if they were to pay grain, the landless and small population would not have a harvest, and it would be much more difficult for officials to commit fraud—and also gave the officials, businessmen, and landlords the opportunity to make windfalls twice a year.

Zhang Juzheng also engaged in the examination method, which is basically that no matter how you collect your tax and money, and who collects it, as long as you can collect it, even if your performance is qualified, otherwise it will be slack government and lazy government, and you may have to lose your hat or change your big hat to a small hat. And this examination method has been inherited, and in the Chongzhen period, the bureaucrats tortured the landless and landless peasants in Shaanxi, which was basically to inherit Zhang Juzheng's will - as a result, the result of Shaanxi's examination was that he was admitted to the king.

Zhang Juzheng also re-measured the land of the whole country, but what was the result of the measurement? Anyway, the tax-paying land in Longqing was more than 7 million hectares, and the tax-paying land in the Wanli decade was still more than 7 million hectares.

In the end, Zhang Juzheng actually gave the Donglin Party the soil for its emergence and existence. Networks of official and business interests such as the Donglin Party could easily grow under the condition that Zhang Juzheng excluded dissidents and curbed public opinion, and Gu Xiancheng and Li Sancai both received bureaucratic power during the Zhang Juzheng period. Zhang Juzheng's so-called reform was actually unfavorable to the poor peasants, and it was likely to do more harm than good to the dynasty, but only the group of officials and businessmen represented by the Donglin Party was the most beneficial, so in the early years of the Apocalypse, as soon as the Donglin Party took power, Zhang Juzheng was immediately rehabilitated.

Donglin Party or something, even if some of them are popular, but Gao Pragmatic, as a young cadre trained by our party in the Red Dynasty, has always been unaccustomed to people who only talk about personal integrity and do not talk about national interests - if you are a flat-headed ordinary person, you can't "give up your small family for everyone", but as a senior official of the state, you don't even have this awareness, what use does the country want you? Correspondingly, even though the Red Dynasty also had corruption problems, looking back, was it dangerous for the Red Dynasty to fight floods and rescue people, "the masses withdrew first, and the party members went first"? Is it "the secretary withdraws the secretary, and the party members are not allowed to retire if the secretary does not retire"? At least Gao Shishi, as the secretary of a senior county official, always followed the secretary on the front line of flood control at critical moments, and he couldn't go down the embankment for three or four days at every turn.

Rights should always be accompanied by responsibilities.

Of course, the real results of Zhang Juzheng's reform must be affirmed by high pragmatism: no matter whether the means are clever or not, at least the treasury will not starve to death of rats.

Although Gao pragmatic has always felt that the tax system of the Ming Dynasty was very problematic and complicated, in the final analysis, it must be a stupid way to quench the thirst of the peasants by continuing to find peasants to collect taxes, and only by expanding tax sources, especially commercial taxes, tariffs, and even industrial taxes, is it justified.

In the end, Zhang Juzheng's reform was still only trying to find a way to collect agricultural taxes, and in fact, there was a situation of compulsory collection of monetary agricultural taxes, which could only be regarded as mixed at most in Gao Pragmatic's view: although he had the merit of renewing the life of the Ming Dynasty, it was also constantly overdrawing the hearts of the people at the bottom of the imperial court, and after him, the Ming Dynasty went further and further along this wrong road, and the more and more he had no power to return to heaven.

Therefore, in comparison, Gao Pragmatic believes that Gao Gong will not do worse than Zhang Juzheng if he continues to govern, and if he has the opportunity to grasp power in the future, although the difficulty of collecting commercial taxes is extremely huge, he is still confident that he can at least do better than Zhang Juzheng. Since this is the case, then I have to ask you Mr. Zhang to move his buttocks and go cool.

The rest are Feng Bao and Li Guifei, and Gao Shishi can find a way to break up these two people.

Feng Bao's side, it is said that it should be relatively easy to handle. Eunuchs, even if they usually like to decorate the façade with culture, but they love money in their bones, they shouldn't be able to run away, and Feng Bao hasn't been so dripping in history, right? Therefore, as long as the operation is done properly, there is still hope for him to join the gang.

The difficulty lies in Li Guifei, and the current Li Guifei is not the Empress Dowager Li who represents the imperial power to a large extent after the death of Emperor Longqing. At this time, she lives in the palace, even if Gao Pragmatic is a child, but the palace is not the back garden of the Gao family, how can she go if she wants, last time she had such a good opportunity to enter the palace, didn't she see this?

Besides, what if you see it? Did you tell her: Oh, mother, I have a sure deal here, and the profits are unusually huge, do you want to come and buy individual stocks?

It's simply the Tang Dynasty in the world. Even if they want to buy shares, according to the traditions of Chinese dynasties, it should be their head of the family - that is Emperor Longqing, and it is not Li Guifei's turn.

Gao Pragmatic thought about it, but still felt that Li Guifei's opening was not easy to open. However, after all, he is a person who has been in politics in later generations, and he knows the truth that "if the leader can't handle it, he can get the people around the leader".

The "leader" is surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs? It doesn't matter, Feng Bao will find a way to get it done first, and then - get Li Guifei's family!

Although Concubine Li herself lives in the palace, she always has a family, and her father is recorded in the history books, Li Wei, who has countless namesalike in later generations.

His Excellency the later earl, was originally just a mason in the countryside of Tongzhou, his hometown was plagued by insects, Li Wei couldn't get along in the countryside, and fled like a refugee to bring his daughter to Beijing, after a few months, he found that Jingshiju was not easy, and he was about to starve to death on the street, so he had no choice but to send his daughter to Yuwang's Mansion as a little maid.

I have to say that this is the most correct decision Li Wei has made in his life, because since then, a broad road has been placed in front of him.