Chapter 81 Such a result

Waiting for a month... Is this the result?

In the flower hall of Beiyang Yamen in Tianjin, Li Hongzhang was a little restless. He pinched the letter in his hand and paced left and right in the flower hall.

He is a person with a deep and blessed appearance. He has an enviable silkworm under his eyes. His body is neither fat nor thin. He is well maintained, and his braided hair is more black and less white.

Like the businessman in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he couldn't figure out what happened in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk industry this year. Although Zheng Guanying wrote a letter and gave him a detailed explanation, it was still a little difficult for him to figure out.

A subordinate officer picked up the curtain and told him, "Lord Zhongtang, the grand man has arrived!"

"Let him in!"

Li Hongzhang gave a slight order, and he was still thinking about the puzzle in his heart.

vaguely, he felt that Hu Chuyuan not only gave him a difficult problem, but also gave him a kind of enlightenment.

Soon, a thirty-four-five-year-old rich man came in, wearing the official uniform of a three-grade member. He was white and fat, not tall, with small eyes, and looked very shrewd.

He stepped forward and cautiously knelt down to Li Hongzhang and said, "Your Excellency Zhongtang, Xiaguan Sheng Xuanhuai is greeting you!"

Li Hongzhang nodded his head, let him get up, and asked, "Xuan Huai, can you tell me in detail why the Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk industry will be so calm this year? Since the rich gentry have money in their hands, why don't you sell raw silk, but give up the profits to the Hu family? Is it because they are all afraid of the official power of those Hunan people?

"This...!" Sheng Xuanhuai was a little embarrassed and said, "Zhongtang, this is a business war. The merchants have their own skills and their own destiny, not to mention foreign merchants. They are not afraid of those Hunan bandits. The reason why everyone gives way to the bandits one after another is that this boy's tricks are so strange that no one can figure out the depth. There are also a few businessmen who are bold, but the final result is not very good.

Li Hongzhang sighed and said, "This is not good. How can the interests of the country and the interests of Jiangsu and Zhejiang be controlled by one person?"

Sheng Xuanhuai sighed: "Jung Tang, the lower officials also understand this truth. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk industry is related to the taxes of the imperial court, and it is definitely not allowed to let the Hu bandits take full control. Otherwise, wouldn't even the court have to listen to him? Although the subordinate position is light, he is also a person who cares about the safety of the country. Of course, he wants to fight with him, but... However, his tricks are really strange!"

"Well, I feel the same way about this!"

Li Hongzhang reopened the letter in his hand and said, "Zheng Guanying said that the Hu bandits first came up with a grading method, changing the original traditional division, and dividing the raw silk into special grade, the first level, the second level and the third level; secondly, the unified price method, set a unified purchase price according to the four-level division method, and the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are completely different. The same; finally, the agency sales method, so that silk heads from all over the country can replace silk farmers to sell raw silk.

After a pause, he said again, "It really looks strange, but it's really so powerful that others dare not compete with him?"

Sheng Xuanhuai said, "At first glance, these methods are not very powerful, but he has established Jiangnan commercial banks in five provinces and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. In many areas, commercial shops have been opened in towns. His Jiangnan silk industry cooperatives are also all over the towns and townships of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, especially in the area around Taihu Lake. Hemp. The silk heads he selected were all well-known young people in the local area. They were literate and good at talking. They were uniformly trained in the head office, and then assigned to the local area to be responsible for the operation of various businesses of the cooperative, including operating mulberry nursery and silkworm nursery, lending to small and medium-sized silk farmers and mulberry farmers, and purchasing raw silk on their behalf of others. In addition, the silk heads also have all kinds of small benefits, such as sending some vegetables and grains imported from abroad, leading people to reclaim some yamada wasteland, and often going to each family to interfere with others to grow mulberry silk...!"

After listening to him, Li Hongzhang quietly frowned and said to Sheng Xuanhuai, "There is no such good person in the world. Hu bandit, a young man, is either a great annihi or an extremely insidious person. Be careful. It is he who uses this kind of small favor to make silk farmers all over the country listen to his dispatch and command. In the long run, I'm afraid there will be something wrong!"

Sheng Xuanhuai was silent. He was an official businessman. He understood... If Hu Chuyuan's trick was so simple, it would be easy to crack.

Buying people's hearts is one of them. The key is to use small loans from silk cooperatives to crack other people's's deposit method, so that small silk farmers no longer rely on the deposit at the beginning of spring, and the business reading ability has greatly increased.

Secondly, the silk head uses the agency method to gather local raw silk. It does not discuss the unified purchase price with the silk farmers, but charges 5% of the drawer according to the final transaction price.

On the other hand, Jiangnan Commercial Bank gives the same stable purchase price in five provinces. If the silk head of Jiangnan Silk Industry Cooperative sells silk, it will slightly float by 5% on the basis of the unified purchase price.

It's not that no one stir-fry silk this year, but most of the rich gentry feel bad and dare not take action. The silk merchants and silk dealers who took action suffered a heavy loss and died miserably.

Among this series of tricks, the most annoying thing is that no matter what others do, Hu Chuyuan is invincible and uses the huge channel network to make a lot of money.

The key problem is that the interests of foreign banks and silk sellers conflict with each other, and it is impossible to form an alliance. Silk sellers everywhere lack a unified network and channels. They can't collect silk without adopting a high price strategy. The price is too high, and the foreign banks that are ultimately responsible for paying the bill can't afford it.

After Hu Chuyuan offered a suitable price, the foreign banks first retreated, and a large amount of speculation immediately withdrew. The silk seller did not dare to speculate, and the raw silk immediately fell into Hu Chuyuan's hands.

In this case, you can't buy silk if you don't fry, but you will lose money. Whoever frys will die!

Son of a bitch...!

Sheng Xuanhuai can only scold his mother. He really can't figure out how to solve it.

What's more terrible is that the rules of the whole Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk industry are controlled by Hu Chuyuan. All of them are selected and priced according to his standards. If you want to sell at a higher price, the silk farmers must follow him and grow mulberry and raise silkworms according to the way he said.

There is another fatal place. Hu Chuyuan's silk weaving factory in Hangzhou has been established, integrating reeding, dyeing and weaving, and he can also digest many high-priced silk.

Do you want to do it!

Li Hongzhang may not be able to see through the core of Hu Chuyuan's business strategy. He feels that Hu Chuyuan is buying people's hearts... A rich businessman buys people's hearts in a large area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Even if there is no possibility of rebellion, the court has to pay attention to it.

Where is Sheng Xuanhuai, he knows... He can't get involved in the silk industry in the south of his life, unless his Beiyang business can compete with Hu Chuyuan in the south of the Yangtze River and open everywhere.

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Things in the world are always very interesting. While Li Hongzhang and Sheng Xuanhuai were secretly discussing, Zuo Zongtang was also talking to Hu Chuyuan. They were in the clumsy political garden in Suzhou.

In the salt case, Hu Chuyuan bought a lot of gardens at a low price. Yu Garden in Shanghai, Zhuozheng Garden, Canglang Pavilion and Ke Garden in Suzhou, Baiyun Temple in Hangzhou, Shiyuan and Qin Garden in Nanxun all owned by him.

Yu Garden covers an area of more than 37 mu. Most of the places have become public offices in all walks of life in Shanghai. Merchants gather here, and some of them are in the hands of the Gu family. Hu Chuyuan entrusted Gu Shouzang and Xu Run to come forward to buy it, and promised to leave it to Jiangnan National Academy.

Because it was to run a school, and Yang Changjun of Shanghai Daotai secretly persuaded him, the businessmen generally withdrew. It happened that Xu Run also wanted to move to Ningbo Road and live next to Hu Chuyuan, Zhenhai Fang's family and others, so he rented the Yuyuan he had bought before to various chambers of commerce.

At present, the Yu Garden is under comprehensive restoration, and the area will also be expanded to 42 mu, including the Huxin Pavilion and the two sides. In the future, Jiangnan National Academy, Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy and Wenlan Academy will be concentrated here, which is also a gathering place for literati and scholars.

All three lots of Humble Administrator's Garden have been in the hands of Hu Chuyuan, with a total price of only more than 17,000 taels of silver. Both the West Garden and the Middle Garden are undergoing new renovations, and Zuo Zongtang still lives in the East Garden.

Keyuan was originally part of the Canglang Pavilion. After buying these two gardens, Hu Chuyuan re-merged them into the new Canglang Pavilion and asked people to repair them according to the style of the Song Dynasty garden.

Hangzhou Baiyun'an is located outside Qingbo Gate in Hangzhou. Hu Chuyuan wants to rebuild the Hu family compound there. He has bought more than 190 mu of land outside Qingbo Gate. Construction has not started for the time being, but only repaired Baiyun Temple.

Qinyuan, Hu Chuyuan gave it back to the Gu family, and Shiyuan was sold to Pang Yunyu.

As a kind of compensation, Hu Chuyuan bought an old house in Huizhou and gave it to Zhang Songxian's family to live in.

Killing people can't nod his head. At this time, he gave a helping hand, not to report, but purely to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and also left a little good reputation for himself among the Nanxun people.

After all, he still has to continue to do the business of Nanxun people, and only Nanxun and its surroundings can buy real super silk.