Chapter 64 See the benefits and never forget

The matter was urgent. Tan Yiyun took his life and went out to do business overnight, while Chen Xiaobai was not in a hurry to leave.

Seeing that Chen Xiaobai seemed to have something to say, Hu Chuyuan asked him, "What's wrong... What's wrong?"

Chen Xiaobai smiled and said, "Of course, there is no problem with what the owner ordered. I'm thinking... When the Jiangnan salt disaster case is settled, the Nanxun merchant gang will basically be over. In the future, we have to confront the major foreign banks. I don't know what the owner is going to do?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "In terms of financial resources and power, I can raise the price with foreign banks, but I don't want to raise it!"

Chen Xiaobai couldn't help but be a little strange and asked, "Why, with each price increase, we can earn hundreds of thousands more taels?"

"Yes!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "It is not a way to raise it like this. The price of domestic raw silk fluctuates too frequently, which will prompt foreign banks to turn to Japan and other places to buy raw silk. Therefore, I will not raise the price for the time being and focus on setting up silk schools and cooperatives in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In a few years, I will directly bypass these foreign banks to set up branches of Jiangnan Commercial Bank overseas.

Chen Xiaobai nodded and said, "That's good. After all, you are new to Shanghai. You are so fierce that it's easy for the foreign bank to deal with us!"

Hu Chuyuan said, "The foreign bank is not easy to deal with. We have to make a long-term plan. Now I feel that it is too difficult to fight alone. Taking advantage of the weakness of the Nanxun business gang, I want to support a few people from it and maintain the momentum of unity. What do you think?

Chen Xiaobai smiled and said, "Of course, the owner is willing to do this. Pang Yunyu, one of the four elephants of Nanxun, can consider that this person has been doing business with his old boss in the past, and he is still collecting silk for his old boss in Nanxun. After the old boss left, he felt that his wings were rich, so he did not contact us again. When he bought Xia Si, he also chose to join hands with Zhang Songxian.

After a little thought, Hu Chuyuan and Chen Xiaobai asked, "Is this person deeply involved in the salt case?"

Chen Xiaobai said, "When stir-frying salt, Tan Yiyun and I looked for suitable middlemen everywhere. After all, we have cooperated for many years, and we let him be responsible for distributing salt to Nanxun merchants. At least 70% of the salt hoarded by the Nanxun Chamber of Commerce was resold by him. Now it's good. He has fallen into a non-human end in Nanxun Town. However, he was greedy and actually hoarded more than 6 million catties of private salt.

Hu Chuyuan sneered again and said to Chen Xiaobai, "With you big shopkeepers to help with some family business, I'm really much more relaxed. This person may be able to consider it.

Chen Xiaobai also smiled, but said, "My boss, let's put it back, a businessman is a businessman. In business, who doesn't want to make more money? Who doesn't want to sit in the position of the old boss and dominate the whole Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"

See the benefits and forget the righteousness.

This is the heavenly surname of a businessman. Only a few businessmen like Hu Xueyan can achieve "seeing profits and not forgetting righteousness", so he can get Zuo Zongtang's favor and take charge of the finances of the Xiang army.

Hu Chuyuan and Chen Xiaobai asked, "Where is he now?"

Chen Xiaobai said, "Of course, in the concession, there is no place for him in Nanxun Town... Well, I heard that he and Liu Yong are contacting foreigners everywhere to sell silk, and the amount of raw silk they hoarded is also considerable, about 400,000 catties. Because their capital turnover is not good and they are eager to sell, foreign banks always press their prices, and they are now distressed.

Hu Chuyuan's eyes shrank and said to Chen Xiaobai, "I have entrusted Xu Run to help sell silk. You can contact Xu Run again tomorrow and say that the price can be lower. The key is to be fast, the faster the better."

Chen Xiaobai said, "Don't worry, the owner. I talked to Tan Yiyun. It is estimated that most of the raw silk of the Tang, Zhang and Gu families are in the hands of the owner. In case Liu Yong and Pang Yunyu sell the silk cheaply, we will suffer a big loss. So I took the initiative to talk to them two days ago, borrowing 600,000 yuan of working capital from each of the two companies, on the condition that they used raw silk as collateral. Tan Yiyun took the opportunity to count the goods to find out the quantity and inventory location of their raw silk, and has been sending people to secretly monitor them. If we are not wrong, they won't sell it in the next two days. But if the price is too low, it seems inferior and deliberately wants to frame them.

Hu Chuyuan smiled in his heart.

These big shopkeepers are all human beings, no worse than Xu Run.

Therefore, the Hu family has today's career. After he took charge of the Hu family, everything can be the same as before, and even the storms and waves such as the Jiangnan salt disaster can pass.

He thought that he would definitely make a lot of money this year, and give special preferential treatment to the four big shopkeepers and get more annual bonus.

Talents always come first and are a hundred times more important than capital.

He said, "You'd better tell Boss Xu and ask him to try his best to sell quickly. If the price can't be low, the repayment method can be more flexible."

"Allied!" Chen Xiaobai nodded slightly and said, "My boss, I also remembered one thing. Before you went to Suzhou, you left a man named Zhang Lingpu. When stir-frying salt, several hooligan leaders in Shanghai wanted to smash the shops of our Jiangnan commercial bank, but they were all heard by him in advance, so that we could take precautions. I talked to him several times later and found that this person was indeed very capable and talented, and he was also smart and capable. He is not only proficient in classics and history, but also has a reputation as a scholar. He also knows machinery, proficient in English, and a little French. He is also outstanding. He is really a talent!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled. In fact, he also found that Zhang Lingpu was indeed rare.

It's a pity that such a person failed to leave his name in history. Hu Chuyuan estimated that... Nine times out of ten, this person died in the Battle of Mawei.

Chen Xiaobai continued: "This man's family is also from a large family. He has been running the tea business for generations, which has nothing to do with He Jing. I sent someone to inquire. He Jing asked for someone from the ship's political school, and the school recommended him. As a result, he came to us. But I talked to him and felt that he still wanted to return to Fuzhou Marine Division.

Just when he mentioned this person, Hu Chuyuan said to Chen Xiaobai, "Then call him over tomorrow. I'll talk to him in the morning. As for where he wants to play, let's talk about it later."

Chen Xiaobai nodded and said, "My boss, it's getting late, so I'll go back first. You should also go to bed early!"

Hu Chuyuan looked at the time and saw that it was already early in the morning, so he asked Chen Xiaobai to stay in the room of Hu Mansion for a night and go out to do business tomorrow.