In the past ten days, in addition to the trial production of soap, Gao Pragmatic has also done some things for its future production arrangements, such as the future "factory" site selection work has been in progress.

Although Gao Pragmatic has a "huge amount of money" in hand, it is not easy to live in Beijing, and the housing prices in the capital of Daming are not cheaper than the housing prices in the capital before he crosses, anyway, with his little money, he can only buy a small courtyard in a remote place in the capital. It doesn't matter if it's remote, after all, the soap production process will be kept secret for at least a while, and remoteness may still be an advantage, but just a small courtyard is obviously not enough. Although the manufacture of soap is not an industry that requires a large area, if it is only supplied to the Imperial Palace, the production area of a small courtyard is about the same. However, the goal of high pragmatism is to industrialize rather than workshop refinement, so production in the capital can only be abandoned.

It is not very convenient to buy land and buy a house outside the capital, and after a hundred decades in the Ming Dynasty, the lords and nobles have already occupied a good land near the Beijing Division, and the royal grange is counted, and there is hardly much land that can be bought casually. It stands to reason that Gao Gong's identity is here, and he can actually find a way to buy some land, but Gao Pragmatic didn't dare to do this under the guise of Gao Gong, so he had to hit the abacus on his uncle Zhang Siwei's head.

Sending Gao Xiaozhuang to ask, I found out that it was a coincidence that although the Zhang family did not have any fields around Beijing, there were several small mountain manors, all of which were built for the purpose of leisure and rest for the leading figures in the Zhang family, located in a quiet place, and the transportation was quite convenient.

When Gao pragmatic heard the great joy, he opened his face, and personally came to the door to tell his uncle that he wanted to buy the next one, and as for the money to buy the land, he deducted it from the next money for the first month and month.

I don't know if it's a pure manor like this in the suburbs of Beijing that doesn't have much land is not very valuable, Zhang Siwei didn't ask much at all, so he said the location of these manors, and asked Gao Pragmatic to choose one by himself.

Gao pragmatic listened carefully, and decisively chose a manor near Mentougou in later generations.

Zhang Siwei was quite relieved to hear this: because that manor is the farthest from the capital among the Zhang family's manors, although it occupies a large area, it is quiet and cheap because it is far away from the capital. Of course, with the huge wealth of the Zhang family, Zhang Siwei will not feel distressed because he gave his nephew a manor, he is pleased mainly because the manor is secluded - he thought that Gao Pragmatic was to find a quiet manor to study at ease, although he felt that the place was far away from the capital, but he thought that quiet was obviously advantageous for reading, so he didn't think much about it, and nodded on the spot and agreed.

The Mentougou piece, of course, is not far from the capital in later generations, but although the capital of the Ming Dynasty is likely to be the largest city in the world at that time, but even so, how can it be as huge as the capital of the Celestial Empire so many years after the reform and opening up? At this time, the Mentougou area was already a very remote location in the "Beijing suburbs" block, a proper outskirts, so the manor occupied a relatively considerable area.

Gao Pragmatic was personally trained by Gao Gong to bring Jingshi to his side, so naturally he couldn't go to the "wilderness" so far away from Mentougou at will, so he could only send Gao Xiaozhuang and Mafu Gao Mo to go to the field. The two of them went for two days, and when they came back, they reported that the manor was not a considerable area at all, but a huge area—of course, they only felt that it was huge—and their original words were: "In addition to the manor itself, which covers an area of more than 100 acres, my uncle also gave you a large area of mountains and forests attached to the manor."

No wonder people say that the gardens in southern China are exquisite and the manors in the north are magnificent, the area of this manor is not only equivalent to the size of two Suzhou Humble Administrator's Gardens, but also simply attached to a large area of mountain forest, can it not be magnificent?

However, this is in line with the meaning of high pragmatism - one of the main reasons for choosing Mentougou is not because Mentougou is a famous coal mining area in later generations?

Coal mines are not worth much at the moment, but Gao Pragmatic wants to come but will be of great use in the future, although it is not clear whether there is a coal mine on the ground near this manor at present, but this place will inevitably become an industrial base point for him in the future, with this place in hand, even if there is no coal mine, you can also find a way to buy coal production land in the future - there are many mountains and few fields near Mentougou on the left and right, and the noble forces do not interfere much, which is the kind of useful but inconspicuous good place.

According to Gao Xiaozhuang's description, the manor adheres to the consistent style of the northern manor, the atmosphere is heroic, although there are also two ponds, but the overall style is still relatively simple, especially for some reason, the manor has built a full three rows of warehouses, each warehouse is not small, there must be more than 20 rooms in total.

This is good news, which means that the production workshop and warehousing room of the soap "factory" basically do not need to spend extra money to build, which is of great significance for the high pragmatism with limited financial strength.

The site of the factory has been decided, but it is obviously not finished, because the problem of workers has not yet been settled, and the problem of transportation has not been solved, and neither of these two problems is easy to solve.

Gao pragmatically believes that the workers of the soap factory are divided into at least two categories, one is that they need to be exposed to a certain soap manufacturing process, and the other is that they only need to sell some effort. It should not be difficult to do the kind of hard work alone, just recruit workers in the surrounding areas, and there is no shortage of people who are willing to work hard. The real difficulty is where the skilled workers who need to be exposed to a certain soap manufacturing process and even recipes come from.

This problem is more troublesome, although the high pragmatism will definitely adopt the principle of cutting process, and divide the manufacturing process into several parts, such as weighing and weighing, perfume blending, water-soluble water solubility, sealing mold sealing, sorting of sorting, observation of saponification, observation of saponification, etc...... But the trouble is that the soap making process itself is not troublesome, and the person in charge of some processes is actually very likely to see two processes, which poses a certain challenge to the confidentiality of the process. Even in the worst-case scenario, only one person needs to be bought off each process line, and the soap manufacturing process is stolen.

Transferring a group of domestic slaves, family members, and family children from the Gao family in Xinzheng is of course a method that can be considered, but after all, the Gao family is only an official family, and it is not a huge rich and powerful like the Zhang family. So in this matter, Gao Pragmatic thinks that it is appropriate to come up with a long-term solution.