Chapter 43 Xu Run's Advice

There is a famous saying on Shanghai Beach - Nanxun's silk, Ningbo's money, and Guangdong's buying office.

Nanxun is the center of silk in this era.

In the 27th year of Daoguang (1847), the Shanghai port exported 21,176 bags of raw silk, and the number of Nanxun exports was 13,426 bags, accounting for 63.4% of the number of exports. During the Guangxu period, China's total raw silk exports more than tripled, and the proportion of Nanxun decreased, but it still accounted for one-third of the total Jiangsu and Zhejiang raw silk exports, with the best quality and the highest price.

In the past 30 years, Nanxun merchants have quickly become the richest group of people in China. Their rapid rise and financial resources are so fast that only the 13 lines of Guangdong in the past can be compared.

At present, there are more than 100 silk lines of different sizes in Shanghai, and Nanxun merchants account for 70%.

Ningbo.

Ningbo people began to get involved in the Qianzhuang business very early. After the opening of Shanghai, they took the lead in entering the expansion force in Shanghai. In the more than 300 Qianzhuang in Shanghai, half of the country is from Ningbo.

In Guangdong, after the collapse of the thirteen banks of Guangdong, a large number of Guangdong buyers poured into Shanghai to continue to work as buyers, and their nephews and fellow villagers also took over the positions one after another.

In today's Shanghai Beach, half of the buyers are Cantonese.

This is called "Nanxun's silk, Ningbo's money, Guangdong's buying office".

Among these three forces, Tang Tingshu, who once served as the general buyer of Yihe Foreign Bank, has the widest range of people, the most financial resources and the most special status. There are three cousins who make big buyers in different foreign banks. Even Hu Xueyan will give him three points.

Hu Chuyuan is still a newcomer to Shanghai. He is a sworn enemy of Nanxun silk merchants and Ningbo Qian merchants, and he also has a irreconcilable hatred with the salt merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If this offends Tang Tingshu, of course, he will be excluded.

But after all, he still has big things to do in Shanghai.

There is no better way. Hu Chuyuan decided to talk to Xu Run, who has a good position in the Shanghai buyer's industry.

Until now, Xu Run has never criticized him. Although Xu Run and Tang Yanshu are the closest allies in the mall, he doesn't have to beg up to Tang Yanshu and Sheng Xuanhuai.

The most important point is that this person and Sheng Xuanhuai have fought for the position of the Shanghai Shipping Merchants Bureau for more than two years, and the winner has not been decided so far.

Xu Run lives on the easternmost side of Jing'an Temple Road, where he built a Jiangnan garden called Yuyuan, which is also the origin of Shanghai Yuyuan Road.

Hu Chuyuan's Western carriage went all the way east and stopped at Liu's alley outside the gate of Yuyuan. Then he asked Hu Rong to send the worship post and waited in the car.

In addition to him, there is another person in the car.

Miss Pan Limei.

Now, Hu Chuyuan is used to letting Limei stay by his side as an assistant.

Talent is very important.

Pan Limei is also very smart, so he wants to exercise this girl well and make her his most important special assistant.

After waiting in the carriage for nearly ten minutes, the door of the Xu family opened. A rich businessman, who was nearly 40 years old, came out with dark muscles, dignified appearance and elegant manners.

Hu Rong also ran back and opened the door of the car.

Hu Chuyuan saw the rich businessman on one side of his face. He immediately stepped down and left Pan Limei in the carriage to wait.

"Hello, Captain Hu!" Xu Run arched his hand, not to mention happiness or indifference.

Hu Chuyuan hugged his fist and said with a smile, "Master Xu, I have been looking forward to your name for a long time. I just came to see you today. I hope you don't be surprised!"

Xu Run smiled carelessly and invited sideways, "Captain Hu, let's go inside!"

"Allied!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently and walked in side by side with Xu Run.

There are many complex reasons why he is excluded from the Shanghai business community. First, it is the competition of commercial interests. Once he has a firm foothold in Shanghai, Hu Xueyan's control of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk industry may be repeated. Second, he monopolizes the salt industry in five provinces and is hated by people. Especially the old salt merchants in Shanghai, who are reluctant to attack him.

Xu Run is a real estate giant and Shanghai tea king. As long as Hu Chuyuan does not get involved in Shanghai real estate and the tea industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and southern Fujian, they still have something to say.

Entering the hall, Xu Run invited Hu Chuyuan to sit down and asked Hu Chuyuan, "Hu Qiwei, I don't know why you came to see Xu this time?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "I heard that Boss Xu is enthusiastic about public welfare and donated money to build new hospitals and public schools, so I want to ask Boss Xu to fund Jiangnan West School together!"

"Oh, haha...!" Xu Run smiled and shiwed the phor, "Alas, with Hu Qiwei's financial resources, one person is enough to support, Xu will not participate in the fun. In addition... Xu is a pure businessman. He doesn't want to cause more trouble and don't want to be involved in the personal contradiction between you and Brother Tang and Xuan Huai.

"That's good!"

Hu Chuyuan knew that this would be the answer for a long time, and said, "Then I want to talk to Boss Xu about the same document bureau again. Boss Xu's newly opened calligraphy bureau claims to be the first Western-style machine printing factory and publishing bureau established by Chinese businessmen in China. I intend to ask Jiangnan West School to set up an additional publishing house and printing factory, and then expand it to the newspaper industry. I don't know if Boss Xu is interested in partnering together?

Xu Run laughed and said, "Hu Qiwei, you are not kind in business, and you eat the profits of the salt industry alone. You come to partner with me in this kind of unprofitable business... You don't think that I have as much money as you have nowhere to spend, do you?"

Do you think I'm stupid?

That's what Xu Run means. I don't want to make it clear that he is mainly engaged in the real estate industry and can't fight with Qianzhuang, and the Fukang Qianzhuang of the Hu family is now one of the nine major Qianzhuangs in Shanghai. Just looking at Chen Xiaobai's face, he can't say too harshly.

"Let's do this...!" Xu Run thought for a thought and said, "If you want to do it, I support you. It happens that I also want to transfer the same document bureau. At the beginning of the year, I only spent 40,000 yuan to buy it. If you are willing to pay, I will transfer it to you together with the document bureau and the factory at the original price.

"Good!"

Hu Chuyuan agreed. He has sent someone to check that the machine of the same document bureau can be worth tens of thousands of yuan. In addition to those employees and editors on the way, he can accept it within 50,000 yuan.

"Oh... Well, let's make a conclusion!"

Xu Run didn't expect Hu Chuyuan's promise to be so straightforward.

Hu Chuyuan was prepared for everything. He waved to Hu Rong to send four Fukang money tickets with a denomination of 10,000 yuan each. He handed them to Xu Run and said, "Boss Xu, let's do it quickly. Let's hand it over now!"

"Oh...!"

Xu Run was even more surprised.

At least he is also the tea king and real estate giant in Shanghai. What he said could not be counted. He immediately signed an agreement with Hu Chuyuan and transferred the factory and workers with the document bureau to Hu Chuyuan at a price of 40,000 yuan, not much.

After completing the transaction, Xu Runcai and Hu Chuyuan said, "Hu Qiwei, Xu and your father have also had contacts before. Today, I will say something that should not be said."

Hu Chuyuan said, "You say it!"

Xu Run said, "If you want me to see, you are actually a little capable. It's hard to say whether you can support your father's family business, but it's not as bad as Tang Yanshu said. You are still too young. It's too early to find a place on the beach! Come back to Hangzhou after two years of practice. Calculate slowly and get a solid foundation. Sooner or later, Shanghai will be yours.

Hu Chuyuan can only answer: "Thank you, Boss Xu, for your sincere words. To tell you the truth, if I finish the Jiangnan West School, I will return to Hangzhou to govern my family business first. See you in two years!"

"Good!" Xu Run nodded silently and said, "Then let me send you!"

With this, he really got up to see the guests off.

What else can Hu Chuyuan say? Anyway, let's go back to Hangzhou and work slowly. When he comes back, I'm afraid it's not so easy to pass today.