In the evening, the new main building of Xinzhai was already brightly lit.

The most important feature of this new main building is that it is "non-wooden". It is made of white marble and refined cement from Jinghua Cement Factory, so it is also called "White Jade Building".

The second feature of this building is the "Western style", which was built in the style of the Palace of Fontainebleau, one of the representatives of the Renaissance style, by several Franco-architects hired from Guangdong.

Therefore, this white jade building is not a single building, but a building complex, and its location has also shifted a little northeast from the original Jianxinzhai to the edge of the Glasses Lake.

Fortunately, the "palace" of the Europeans has no special standard standards, and its regulations are only "strange" and not violated, so although this white jade building is very strange in the eyes of the Ming people, but human beings have a basic commonality of "beauty", even if these nobles who saw the white jade building for the first time, they were only amazed, and did not feel ugly or other feelings.

In fact, with a high and pragmatic aesthetic, his white jade building is a little better than the Fontainebleau Palace, because the white ...... Gao pragmatic prefers pure tones.

Of course, the reason for using white marble is not only that Gao Pragmatic likes white buildings and has no place to spend more money, but that there is a white marble production area near Yanjing City - Fangshan Dashiwo, which is the hometown of white marble.

Because the cement is produced by its own family, the cost is actually several times cheaper than that of the outside market, and the white marble is taken from the nearest material, so the construction cost of this replica of the Fontainebleau Palace is not high, and it is only more than 20,000 taels of silver before and after.

Daming's labor costs have always been very low, this has been said a long time ago, and there is no need to mention it. The real expensive thing is the interior decoration, according to the high pragmatism - except for those religious murals, it should be completely Western. This led to a lot of effort on Jinghua Infrastructure's efforts to study Western-style decoration with those foreign architects, and then sent people to experiment with manufacturing.

However, it is also interesting to say that tung oil from Guangxi has become fragrant, because the effect of soaking and maintaining those wooden decorations with tung oil is exceptionally good, so that those foreigners are also surprised.

Gao Shishi's white jade building was not just built by himself for fun, but also had other purposes - because Chinese architecture likes to be made of wood, it is not as strong as Western buildings that like to use stone, this is for sure.

And this led to the fact that once there was a war, very few Chinese buildings could be preserved, which would cause a lot of waste, so Gao pragmatic has been trying to introduce some advantages of Western architecture to make up for the defects after making cement.

Maybe in the future, there will be a Chinese architectural style and a Western-style architectural connotation, but first of all, he wants to make a demonstration, which is the real reason for the emergence of Baiyulou.

Anyway, the Ming Dynasty is not Taqing, it is not xenophobic, and it does not feel that outsiders will not have good things.

What's more, with his identity as the champion of the six heads, I want to scold him for admiring foreign countries, even if I have to ask myself if I am qualified first - I am at the peak of Chinese studies, and now I can't pursue learning at home and abroad?

In the banquet hall, Gao Shishi looked at the Yanjing nobles who were gathered together, and smiled politely with them.

In today's banquet, the nobles of Yanjing almost poured out of the nest, except for the British Duke Zhang Rong, who was so sick that he couldn't go to the ground, sent Zhang Yuangong to come, and Xu Wenbi, the Duke of Dingguo, went to Maoling to pay tribute to Emperor Xianzongchun's death and sent his eldest grandson Xu Xizhen to come, the other nobles in Beijing came in person.

It can also be seen that Gao someone's face is really not ordinary now.

Especially for his business ally for ten years, Jingshi Xungui, it is quite good.

"Ladies and gentlemen, some things about maritime trade, in the Ship Department of the Craftsman Academy, Gao Qi and others have already explained to you." Gao said with a smile: "Presumably, you now have a lot of understanding of the business opportunities contained in it, taking the Japanese fan as an example, an ordinary Japanese fan, trafficked from Japan to my Daming, can net two or three hundred Wen." And how much can a mere fan weigh? How much money can be earned by a boat of fans, you must be able to imagine - to tell you a good news, as long as you join the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, I will not take a penny from this deal, and give it all to you! ”

All the nobles were shocked when they heard this, and said in their hearts: Gao Qiuzhen is really generous, and he will let such a big deal go?

But Zhu Yingzhen is very familiar with Gao Pragmatism, and knows that Gao Pragmatism must have the following, in order to show the unusual relationship between himself and Gao Pragmatism, he deliberately joked: "Hey, if you don't do fan trading, there must be other deals that you fancy you?" You might as well say it and let all of us know, lest you commit the taboo of your tall God of Wealth in the future. ”

"Oh, there's a business, and Gao doesn't plan to let you interfere." Gao Pragmatic didn't seem to take their group of noble grandfathers and marquis in his eyes at all, and said with a smile.

Zhu Yingzhen was slightly stunned, but he was not angry, because he clearly asked them not to meddle in a certain business, which was not the consistent style of high pragmatism, so Zhu Yingzhen became a little nervous and asked, "What kind of business?" ”

"Brimstone." Gao pragmatic said lightly: "This business Jinghua has taken care of, and at the same time, I will also ask the emperor to send a commissioner to my Jinghua fleet to supervise." ”

All the nobles gasped and subconsciously shrunk their necks.

Zhu Yingzhen coughed dryly and said: "Seek the truth, if you don't say anything about this sulfur, we won't dare to touch it, you can rest assured that everyone is not such a disproportionate person." ”

That is, although sulfur can be used medicinally, for today's Ming Dynasty, its main role is to make gunpowder.

Although the Ming Dynasty has been in the military industry for several years, there is a strict supervision system, for example, Jinghua has the authority to purchase sulfur, but it will be subject to the dual supervision of the Ministry of War and the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and Dongchang and Jinyiwei also have the right to investigate at any time.

Others can do this, and these nobles in Beijing really don't dare to touch them - they are military nobles, generations of generals, making money or something, maybe no one is pulling them nonsense, but sulfur ...... What are your intentions to make so much sulfur for the generals who control the Beijing camp?

Therefore, they really dare not touch such a tricky and deadly business, and they have a spectrum in their minds about this cordon.

Zhang Yuangong, the little grandfather of the British Mansion, is also an old acquaintance with Gao Shishi, he asked a question at this time, and said: "Although the fan is a big deal, but we have a large number of nobles in Beijing, so it's not good to do this kind of thing, right?" What's more, we can't go to Japan empty-handed to buy fans and sell them back, there must be goods to sell to them first, which goods are in short supply, and I still ask for your guidance. ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "There are a lot of goods, and Nanzhili is especially good at silk cloth." As far as I know, whether it is white silk, five silk, silk, yarn, silk, twisted silk, brocade, flash satin, gold satin, Nanjing satin, Nanjing silk, etc., all of them are in demand, and they are never afraid of not being able to sell. ”

Zhang Yuangong's face was worried: "But these things, our Yanjing Xungui is a little out of reach." ”

Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly: "Okay, we also have specialties in the north, and the Japanese are not afraid of our kind of goods in large quantities." ”

Zhang Yuangong was surprised: "What is that?" ”

"Iron." Gao pragmatically said: "Jinghua's biggest business in Japan is to sell iron...... Japan was not within the scope of the Ming Dynasty's ban on the sale of ironware, and besides, they fought internally, and there were too many places where iron was needed. ”

Selling iron to Japan may certainly make Toyotomi Hideyoshi's strength stronger in the future, but in Gao Shishi's view, it is a small issue and does not involve the fundamentals.

Because the benefits that the Ming gained from this trade were even greater.

Some scholars in later generations estimated that from 1560 to 1644, between 84 years, Japan produced about 254.29 million taels of silver, with an average annual output of more than 3 million taels of silver!

However, Japan's productive forces are there, it does not need so much silver itself, and can only use it for "foreign exchange", but in this part of East Asia, there are not many people it can do business with, except for the Portuguese, almost only the Ming Dynasty - North Korea has no complementarity with it, and the productivity is also low.

However, the Portuguese needed Asian goods rather than silver, and Japan could not get too many goods that the Portuguese were interested in, so the transaction volume was not too large.

Only doing business with Daming is necessary for Japan.

Gao pragmatic told the nobles that when they went to Japan to do business, they could achieve "seven irons for one silver", and even Jinghua's high-quality refined iron could be the highest "three irons for one silver", which shocked the nobles' jaws!

"My dear mother...... Why is there so much silver in this big bird country? When Xu Xizhen, the prince of Dingguo, said this, his eyes were straight.

Well, Japan is a little smaller than the Ming Dynasty, but it's not as big as "bird", right?

Gao Shishi coughed dryly and said, "Jinghua Kaiping can allow three to forty percent of the output to be used for trade with Japan. ”

Oh, my God?

Knowing that Jinghua's iron production has been improving over the years, the nobles' eyes were straight again, and Zhu Yingzhen hurriedly said: "Is this true? Jinghua is willing to give up so much iron production? Belch...... Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't believe you, I mean Jinghua uses a lot of iron himself, this ...... Are you enough for yourself? ”

Jinghua does use a lot of iron, and in the current era, there is only too little iron, not too much, giving up such a large production capacity, it will definitely have an impact on Jinghua itself.

However, there are ways to make up for it. One is Kaiping continues to expand production, this is nothing to explain, in terms of resources, the current output compared with later generations, is really not as good as a dime, although most of the iron ore of Shougang in later generations depends on imports, but the domestic iron ore can not be said to be a little useless. With the productivity of this era, Kaiping's own Qianxi iron mine alone is completely sufficient.

As for the coal...... Hehe, can Tangshan be short of coal?

And it won't be long before the iron ore mine in Hejing in Annan is developed and an iron plant is established, not only in Annan, but also in the south of the Ming Dynasty, the supply of pig iron and refined iron will be under its responsibility, and Kaiping can be liberated, isn't that enough?

In fact, Jinghua only gave up part of the opportunity to expand its business, but it did not affect the foundation.

So Gao pragmatically said: "Jinghua itself, you don't have to worry, we have a plan to expand production, and we will not cut the supply to you because of our own insufficient use." ”

What else is there to say, all the nobles naturally signed up enthusiastically, and for a while, this banquet hall was almost as noisy as a vegetable market.

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