See Shinsai, a separate open space with a high wall.

Gao pragmatic stood in front of a dozen busy craftsmen, motionless as he watched them work, without a trace of expression on his face, and he couldn't see joy or anger at all.

What are these artisans doing?

If there are future generations here, they will definitely be able to see some clues from the piles of raw materials piled up near this clearing.

A total of four materials are stacked here: limestone, clay, coal, and iron ore powder.

In addition to the raw materials, there are some equipment that cannot be seen anywhere else, and the largest and most bizarre one is a very strange kiln - a cement kiln designed and built by Gao Shishi himself.

This so-called cement kiln is more than a hundred times simpler than those advanced cement kilns in later generations, and it is neither economical nor durable to use, not to mention any environmental protection.

This is also a helpless thing, Gao Pragmatic is a liberal arts student after all, if it weren't for a little shallow insight in the work back then, he wouldn't have been able to get this half-finished - no, semi-waste - cement kiln.

Now, although the tools and equipment are unsightly, considering the current level of productivity, he has no choice but to pinch his nose and admit that he can get the cement out anyway.

As for the rest, what kind of things like poor quality, high cost, and high pollution, don't think about it for the time being, so as not to make yourself angry to death.

Soil cement is not difficult to make, but that is for the productivity of future generations, it is not easy at all now, Gao pragmatic began to prepare last year, until now barely to build a variety of tools and equipment, and from Wei Hui transferred a group of families to start trial production.

These family members were selected from last year's refugees, and they have already signed a deed of sale, and theoretically all of them have high surnames, and they belong to their own people who can be used with confidence.

Gao pragmatic transferred more than 300 people from Weihui Mansion to Beijing this time, a small part of which are all kinds of craftsmen, and most of them are children and teenagers of three different ages, respectively seven to eight years old, nine to ten years old, and eleven or twelve years old.

Of course, it is certainly not a school that teaches the Four Books and the Five Classics.

This school is still under planning, and Gao Pragmatic has already thought of a name, which is called Jinghua Craftsman School.

The name is cheesy, quite cheesy, and not at all lofty.

However, Gao Pragmatic knew that in addition to teaching Mengxue, the rest of the schools that planned to teach mathematics, physics, and chemistry must not be very popular in this era, and must be vulgar, or even vulgar.

If he dared to name this academy something like "Gewu Academy", it would definitely attract attention, and then all kinds of troubles would follow.

The name Jinghua Craftsman School is very hidden, first of all, it means that this is just a primary school of "Jinghua" itself, and in the eyes of outsiders, it is at most the level of ethnic studies.

In addition, it is also named the word craftsman, which is even less worth mentioning, obviously not teaching any advanced knowledge, maybe it is to teach something carpentry, masonry and the like, calling it a school, it is simply a bit insulting, whether it is a civil official or a military general, no one will be interested in such a broken school.

"Young master, the cement trial production has been successful!" Shen Li'an, who was only transferred from Sanshenyuan last year to see Xinzhai as a big housekeeper, rushed over to report the good news.

Gao Pragmatic can understand why Shen Li'an seems to be more excited than him, the initiator, after all, Wei Ximin and the others at the beginning have been reused, and he, the internal government manager who originally controlled the financial power of Sanshen Garden, has almost become a peripheral person, he will definitely have a sense of urgency, and now that he has finally completed a major event that is quite important in the eyes of the eldest young master, how can he not be excited?

Gao Pragmatic didn't even care about spending money, and naturally he didn't care about verbal praise, praising people one after another, praising Shen Li'an with a red face, and he couldn't wait to dig out his heart and lungs, gamble and swear for the rest of his life, only the eldest young master is the first to look forward.

After seeing the prototype, he asked the craftsmen to try to build a small wall, explaining that they could not get rained on this wall, and that they would come back to see the effect in a few days.

As soon as he arrived at the Shouxin Building, he heard Gao Guoyan and Gao Xiaozhuang on the second floor seem to be arguing about something, Gao Pragmatic used gestures to stop Gao Mo's gesture and wanted to shout, and listened carefully for a while, as he expected, these two people were fighting over the equity of the three major factories in Jinghua Kaiping.

Gao pragmatic heard from their dispute, and Gao Guoyan thought that Gao pragmatic's equity distribution plan was very problematic - mainly because he lost money and made a fortune.

Gao Guoyan's point of view is that whether it is from the point of view of Gao Pragmatic's huge investment in Qianxi Iron Mine, Kaiping Coal Mine and Kaiping Iron and Steel Plant, or from the perspective of the scale and expected benefits of the three major factories in the future, Gao Pragmatic's current distribution plan is his own huge loss and inexplicably fattened a large group of outsiders.

And Gao Xiaozhuang's point of view is more straightforward: I will resolutely defend all the decisions made by the eldest young master; I have unswervingly followed all the instructions of the eldest young master.

His reasons are also very simple, there are two in total: first, I am Gao Xiaozhuang, the son of the Gao family, and I have always followed the eldest young master, so what the eldest young master says is what it is, there is nothing to explain; Second, so far, the eldest young master has not made any wrong decisions, even if the decision that seemed to be almost nonsense at the beginning, it was proved to be extremely wise in the end, so the eldest young master must have his own considerations, and I didn't see it just because of my limited ability.

After Gao Shishi listened, he was a little skeptical that he should have let Gao Xiaozhuang go to lead the family Ding Escort Group, his style is completely "understand to implement, do not understand to implement, deepen understanding in the implementation", my God, this is a natural military material!

But forget it after thinking about it, now Gao Xiaozhuang is doing a good job, and suddenly he was sent to "lead the troops", then he has to be re-cultivated, Ma Fang's side is still easy to do, but now Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng have already gone on the opposite side, and it is not very convenient to trouble Qi Jiguang at this time.

What's more, Gao Mo and Gao Jue are not bad, so they can't be masturbated inexplicably.

Gao pragmatic shook his head, threw these distracting thoughts out of his mind, walked up to the second floor unhurriedly, and shut up Gao Guoyan and Gao Xiaozhuang with a light cough.

The two of them turned their heads at the same time, and when they saw that it was Gao Shipra, they hurriedly walked over to greet each other.

After all, Gao Guoyan and Gao Pragmatic are cousins, and their identities are different from Gao Xiaozhuang, so he took the initiative to say: "Pragmatic, you came just in time, I read the draft equity distribution of the three major factories in Kaiping that you sent to Sanshenyuan yesterday, and I left to find you early this morning...... Let me tell you, you have lost a lot of money with this equity distribution method! ”

"I know." Gao Pragmatic didn't seem surprised, and even blinked, and said: "Just from building the factory, recruiting workers to putting it into production, according to this equity distribution case, I will lose more than 173,000 taels of silver." ”

Gao Guoyan didn't expect Gao Pragmatic to settle the account earlier, and he was a little speechless for a while.

Gao pragmatic continued to smile and said: "And if my follow-up production plan can go smoothly, then in the future, I will 'lose' at least 40,000 taels every year because of this equity distribution plan, and after about five years, I will even lose about 70,000 taels per year." ”

"You know everything?" Gao Guoyan was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "Then you still distribute it like this?" Are you really taking money as dung? ”

Gao Pragmatic approached Gao Guoyan's side, put one hand on his shoulder, and comforted: "Brother Sanhuai, don't worry, my own money, will I not be in the same place?" I do this for a reason. ”

"I know that their identities are very special, but no matter how special their identities are, they can't be used as money......"

"Eh, brother, you're wrong, identity can really be spent as money." Gao Shishi smiled and pulled Gao Guoyan to sit down, while he sat beside him, and explained: "Brother, do you think, if I wasn't Yuanfu's nephew, even if I earned some money before, when I was in Henan last year, would the gentry and powerful people of Weihui Mansion lend me 300,000 taels without saying a word?" ”

Gao Guoyan didn't eat this, his eyes widened and said: "But you are borrowing, no matter how much you borrow, you always have to pay it back!" They are different, you are sending them money, and you are not sending it all at once, you are sending it all the time! ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said, "Brother, this account can't be calculated like this. He sighed and looked Gao Guoyan in the eye: "If I don't send this money, there may be great resistance to the military industry and private affairs, and it is not good whether it can be done or not." Think about it, we have spent so much money on the three major factories in Kaiping, if the military industry and private industry can't run it, how much will we lose every year? ”

"You don't mislead me!" Gao Guoyan continued to widen his eyes and retorted: "Our coal mines and iron minerals are cheap and cheap, so even if we sell raw ore, we can't lose money." Even if there is no ordnance business in the iron and steel factory, we will not make steel if we are great, and we will not lose money by selling pig iron and agricultural tools by relying on iron smelting. Although we have been losing money now, it is because you are constantly expanding your production capacity and production scale, as long as you stop this endless expansion, we will be able to turn losses into profits next year! Be pragmatic, you will settle accounts, and so will I. ”

"I know, I know, my brother's arithmetic is something that few people in the world can match." Gao Pragmatic laughed at first, but immediately restrained his smile, and said, "But why should I stop expanding production?" Whether it is the coal mine in Kaiping or the iron mine in Qianxi, the scale of reserves is huge! Even if I expand my production tenfold, I won't be able to dig it up in 500 years, so why should I waste it? ”

Gao Guoyan was stunned at first, and then said with some incomprehension: "If you can't finish digging, you can't finish digging, anyway, these lands have been bought by you, what does it matter if you can't finish digging, your son and grandson just continue to dig, isn't it good to leave some belongings for future generations?" ”

Gao Pragmatic rolled his eyes, and secretly thought in his heart: It's over, this can't be explained, if I say that I want to improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and secondly, I want to arouse the enthusiasm of the Ming elite to devote themselves to industry through the demonstration effect, I'm afraid that my cousin will think that my brain is having a convulsion.

But if you don't convince Gao Guoyan, you can't, he is his cousin, not a family member, and theoretically he can't order him, and he is the best candidate for the position of financial director, so he can't change it at all.

So Gao pragmatic thought about it for a while, and then said: "Brother, otherwise, you can calculate two more questions: the first is that we are like you said, if we don't expand production, don't make ordnance, and don't even make steel, how much can we earn every year?" The second is that we expand production and enter the ordnance manufacturing industry, and the output and sales volume will increase year by year according to my previous projected scale. ”

Gao Guoyan was quite confident in his arithmetic, and without saying a word, he closed his eyes and began to calculate mentally.

At first, Gao Guoyan's expression was still very calm, but slowly began to change his complexion, and he became a little cautious, and in the end, his face finally became ugly, and it became more and more ugly.

Seeing this, Gao Shi smiled, and asked, "How?" ”

Gao Guoyan held his forehead with his hand, looked depressed, sighed, but still had to answer: "According to your plan, the first two years were not good, of course there was a profit, but it was not much, because you want to balance the part of the money you gave them, so it must be in a loss-making state, according to what you say, it is a 'deficit'." However, from the third year onwards, the profits will begin to grow larger, and will greatly exceed the non-expansion plan...... You win. ”

"What's there to win or lose." Gao pragmatic waved his hand and explained: "In fact, this is the scale efficiency, the distribution plan for expanding production, although I have lost both costs and shares, but as long as my production scale is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more products are sold, the money I can make in it will also rise." ”

Gao Guoyan nodded a little depressedly, but after thinking about it, he said a little unhappily: "But in this way, the money you 'send' to those people will also rise!" It's all your money, these people just don't get it for nothing, we are tired and tired here, but they are lying at home counting the money! ”

Gao pragmatically smiled and comforted: "Nothing for nothing? No, no, brother, they're still 'tired'. ”