Chapter 60 Copying other people's homes and making a fortune 1

Compared with slowly accumulating and slowly fighting with Li Hongzhang and Sheng Xuanhuai, it is obviously faster and more cost-effective to dig out the big fish of Xu Run.

Calculation, Xu Run is only 40 years old now. It is a good time to be energetic. Both ability, qualifications, experience and social relations are at a very high level. It is good for the operation of Jiangnan Commercial Bank to dig him over.

Hu Chuyuan immediately discussed with Xu Run about the steps and date of the joint stock. The two had almost talked about the big deal. It was already late at night. Xu Run said to him, "It's almost time for me to leave. When I returned to Shanghai this time, I began to deal with relevant things, but... What Boss Tang asked me to do was not done, but I did it myself. I have a good business, and I have a guilty conscience!"

Hu Chuyuan didn't want to talk about it. After thinking about it, he still said, "Boss Xu, after you go back, you can tell Boss Tang that the matter is really not something we can decide. It is impossible for him to retreat completely at present, but as long as he stays in the concession, the problem will not be too big. As for the property outside the concession, it should be quickly resold to others at a low price, and it must be someone who can keep it, otherwise he will have to be copied and returned to the work!"

Xu Run couldn't help but be overjoyed and asked, "Are you sure!"

Hu Chuyuan said, "Seventy or 80% sure."

Xu Run sighed, "Seventy or 80% of the certainty is enough. Well, I'll go back and inform him now. I hope it can be as you said."

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently and sent him away in person.

When Xu Run left, Hu Chuyuan returned to the room and kept pretending to understand Chinese. Pan Limei, who was next to him, sighed, "Young master, you are so awesome. He was severely frustrated in a few words. But I don't understand why you give him 20% of the shares, so aren't you only 50%?

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "First of all, you need to understand a very simple truth. Money is endless, but time is limited. The second reason is that there are three conditions to do business. The first is capital, the second is the relationship, and the third is talent.

Pan Limei listened carefully to these words and fell into meditation. After a while, she said, "Young master, if you swallowed his teahouse and shipping bureau, did you get the relationship he has accumulated in the tea industry and the shipping industry over the years, as well as the talents who run these industries, from shopkeepers to clerks, all of everything."

Hu Chuyuan smiled. He was really interested in ** to Pan Limei, and said, "In addition, there is a third truth. Think about it yourself. If you can't figure it out, I can give you a hint, that is, to refer to the share capital ratio of Shanghai Shipping Merchants Bureau!"

"Oh...!" Pan Limei thought for a moment and said, "Is it to prevent the Qing court from being afraid of you?" You own 76% of the shares in Jiangnan Commercial Bank, which is indeed very domineering, but this is a company operated by the privilege of official stocks.

Hu Chuyuan said, "Yes. I used to only do salt work, but I was not in a hurry to change it. At present, it is different. After this battle, Jiangsu and Zhejiang businessmen have suffered heavy losses. In previous years, the two main opponents competing with me in the silk industry are facing the dilemma of house raiding and investigation. The silk industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is already my duty. Swallowing salt alone, swallowing the silk industry, and developing towards tea and shipping in the future, the rice industry is also steadily expanding, and the capital is getting bigger and bigger. I'm afraid the imperial court will be very afraid!"

Pan Limei said, "Young master, you are indeed a very powerful man."

"No!"

Hu Chuyuan shook his head and said, "My level is not enough. Tang Tingshu and Xu Run's ability to calculate such things is stronger than mine. Several Zhongtang and Jiangsu governor Tan Zhonglin are stronger than me. We need to know this clearly. Only by being clear about these things can we take precautions and make arrangements early.

Pan Limei nodded silently.

The end of the year arrived in a flash, and the salt disaster case could not be concluded. Hu Chuyuan was not in the mood to go back for the Spring Festival, so he continued to live in Suzhou.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, as Hu Chuyuan expected, Zeng Guozheng had a tough attitude to enter the concession to arrest Tang Tingshu and other businessmen on the charge of "fornication with foreign countries", but the public concessions did not agree and protested against this charge. The two sides quarreled.

The three masterminds of the salt disaster were Tang Tingshu, Gu Shousong and Zhang Songxian. Except for Zhang Songxian, they were captured, and the other two were hiding in the Anglo-American concession in Shanghai.

If the main culprit can't be caught, how can the case be tried?

Around the 20th day of the first lunar month, Tang Tingshu and Gu Shousong had fled to Hong Kong.

Zeng Guoqian originally had to wait until he was arrested before convicted. At this time, he could not arrest anyone. Suo's surname was added to the two charges of "afraid abscond of crime, hidden silver outflow", and investigated and dealt with the three families of Tang, Gu and Zhang.

After waiting for a few more days, the newly appointed Shanghai Taoist Yang Changjun came to visit Hu Chuyuan.

As soon as the two met, Yang Changjun arched his hand and said with a smile, "Congratulations, Captain Zhongtang has appointed you as the General Office of the Shanghai Procurement Bureau, who is in charge of the procurement of the Liangjiang Military Supplies. This is an important task, and I hope that the Cavalry Lieutenant will do it carefully!"

"Well...!" Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but be a little surprised, because he hadn't heard any news before. He immediately said to Yang Changjun, "Your excellency has become an official again. It's also gratifying to be a new Shanghai Daotai."

Yang Changjun laughed and said, "Let's be happy together."

When Hu Chuyuan saw that he had something else to discuss, he invited him to enter the Fucui Pavilion.

Sure enough, as soon as Yang Changjun sat down, he let the left and right retreat, took out a letter and gave it to Hu Chuyuan, and said solemnly, "This is the handwritten letter of Lord Zhongtang. Please ask the cavalry captain to read it and burn it immediately."

"...!"

Hu Chuyuan raised his eyes slightly, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.

He opened the letter and looked through it carefully before he knew that the letter was indeed going to be burned and could not be left behind.

It turned out that Zuo Zongtang said three things in the letter. The first thing was that Hu Chuyuan took advantage of the opportunity and returned to Shanghai, so he gave him the position of the General Office of the Shanghai Procurement Bureau;

The second thing is that Zuo Zongtang and He Jing are discussing tax reduction for Jiangnan Commercial Bank. After Zeng Guoxuan went to the south to try the case, Zuo Zongtang knew that the matter had stabilized, so he and Prince Gong Yi