Chapter 123 Go to Beijing

Hu Chuyuan spent money to attack, and others followed him to enjoy happiness.

Hu Chuyuan doesn't want to do such a thing several times in a row. This time, he has already calculated that it will make it difficult for other government stock companies to plagiarize. He can't copy it even if he wants to copy it, and it's too late to copy it.

Before long, several big shopkeepers hurriedly came in a carriage. Everyone had discussed what to do for a long time, and now it's just the last effort.

After reading Zuo Zongtang's telegram in turn, everyone was very happy. They came in a hurry and left in a hurry. Then they quickly went back and ordered the other shopkeepers to speed up their work. If there was anything else that had not been done, it was done quickly.

After waiting for two days, Yang Changjun from Shanghai Daotai came to Hu Chuyuan and talked about the specific situation with Hu Chuyuan.

The matter is generally like this. First of all, Yang Changjun reported to the court at the beginning of last year. On the pretext that Yangyuan was flooded in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, foreigners were making heavy profits, and the people were deceived. They liked to use Yangyuan and didn't want official silver. They wanted to set up the Shanghai Banking Bureau and cast silver dollars.

Hu Chuyuan then made efforts to dredge Man Shangshu Jinglian of the Ministry of Household and Dong Xue of the Ministry of Household. The two suggested that the court approve it and try out the Shanghai Banking Bureau in Shanghai, and set up a supervisor, which was directly under the direct management of Shanghai Daotai.

Dong Xung then continued to work hard, saying that he could also cast copper yuan, one copper yuan for three copper coins, or directly exchange silver dollars according to the situation, and said that the profit was large, which could make the household department collect more taxes.

Prince Gong and Prince Su, the military ministers, have already been called, and they were praised one by one, and the empress dowager agreed.

It's just the beginning of the matter. The right to cast silver dollars and copper dollars is still in the hands of the Shanghai Banking Bureau, which has nothing to do with Hu Chuyuan.

Soon, Zuo Zongtang personally went to the military machine office and Prince Gong to discuss the printing and distribution of banknotes to make profits from them to repay military debts and learn from the lessons of the Tongzhi period. This time, the court no longer printed the banknotes directly, but the banknotes were run by the merchant Qianzhuang, who was fully responsible for cashing them. The Shanghai Banking Bureau only collected taxes.

How to operate it? The method is also simple. Merchants buy silver dollars and copper dollars from the banking bureau as reserves, and issue three or double according to the amount of reserves. However, any part that exceeds the reserves will be subject to printing tax and one twelfth of the tax.

Since it was a secret fold, he could only talk about it secretly. Prince Su was deeply trusted by Cixi and took 200,000 taels of silver from Hu Chuyuan. He went to Cixi to negotiate and said that this was good, very good, and the taxes were generous. If the merchant failed, it had nothing to do with the court.

The court is only responsible for collecting taxes, and doesn't care about other things.

Such a big thing definitely needs to go through a court session. All the officials have to express their opinions, and the imperial historians also have to show their unique thinking and the authority of loyalty to the country.

As long as you start talking openly, it will take a lot of time and Zhou Zhang. Fortunately, the real powerful figures of Manren agreed. Zuo Zongtang and Liu Kunyi, Wan Qingyu, Dong Xun and others also agree very much... It's okay if you don't agree. The money is soft.

Yang Changjun said that it is estimated that there will be a public hearing soon. He is not afraid of anything else. He is afraid that those royal historians who like to gossip and have no real rights in their hands will be jealous when they see others make money.

Zuo Zongtang meant to let Hu Chuyuan go to the capital in person and send all the imperial historians in advance.

If everything goes well, it will eventually be handled according to the wishes of Prince Gong and Prince Su - first try out the Qing silver yuan and copper yuan in Shanghai, and wait for another year or two in other places. In Shanghai, CITIC Qianzhuang also specializes in five-year banknotes, and then let other banks enter.

Since this is the case, Hu Chuyuan did not delay much and immediately asked people to prepare the itinerary, that is, to go to the capital to sit in town.

If there is time, he also wants to go to Shanxi to meet Qiao Zhiyong.

At this time, the Jin merchants are still very powerful. If they can negotiate with them and also occupy a banknote transaction in the north, it will be a big gain.

In the seventh year of Guangxu, on the 24th day of the first lunar month, Hu Chuyuan hurriedly set off and took a boat to the capital.

Wu Shuzhen wanted to go back to the United States to organize her own Jetta trip, so she would not go with him. In order to keep it a secret, Hu Chuyuan only brought Chen Shanyuan and Yan Shizhang, while Zheng Xitai and others stayed in Shanghai to quickly do all kinds of things, the sooner the better.

After arriving in Tianjin, Hu Chuyuan had to take a horse-drawn carriage to the capital. After getting used to riding an unimpeded waterway ship in the south, his trip to the north was simply a torture.

After staggering in the carriage for four days, Hu Chuyuan finally arrived at the capital.

1881 was a cold year. At this time, it was still snowing heavily in Yanjing City. The carriage creaked on the snow, leaving two deep traces, gray and silver light of ice and snow.

After entering Yanjing City, the carriage swayed across the street and entered Changdian Hutong near the glazed factory.

At the cost of a lot of money, Rongbaozhai is now the number one antique shop in Beijing. The shop is the largest, and he bought a big house in Changdian Hutong, which was originally a courtyard of Baylor's mansion.

There are many Beijing officials living in this area, and many editors of Hanlin Academy who have just been admitted to Jinshi live here. The rent is not cheap, but the official taste is strong, and it is easy to dredge and take care of.

Because he sent a telegram to Shen Furong before he came, the carriage entered the alley. Shen Furong, Wang Yirong and Zhu Yannian, the shopkeeper of the Jingshi General Store in Qianzhuang, Fuguo, were already waiting outside to meet him.

Zhu Yannian is also an old minister.

Hu Xueyan is very particular about employing people. This shopkeeper Zhu Yannian is an authentic Yanjing native. He used to be a scholar. In order to make a living, he went to Qianzhuang to make a letter platform, that is, he was responsible for counting the business letters submitted by branches in various places.

When the army was in chaos, he followed his shopkeeper to Hangzhou to send money and was robbed by a group of soldiers and bandits.

Hu Xueyan accidentally knew this matter, so he negotiated with Xiang Yong, let them out, and invested in their bank, asking them to go back to Beijing to run a branch for Fukang Qianzhuang.

Later, the shopkeeper of Qianzhuang gave the store inventory to Hu Xueyan, and Zhu Yannian stayed to be the shopkeeper.

Zhu Yannian is also 50 years old. Wearing a black silk jacket with wool sheepskin, he shrank his hand in the cuffs, endured the cold wind on a snowy day, and waited bitterly.

Seeing the carriage stop, as soon as Hu Chuyuan lifted the curtain, Shen Furong smiled and said, "Dong, you're finally here. It's not easy to go all the way. It's not as inconvenient to come and go in the south!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled. Before others stepped on the stool for him, he jumped off the carriage and followed him. Chen Shanyuan and Yan Shizhang took the car one by one.

"Ouch, my lord, don't fall!" Zhu Yannian was so nervous that he hurried up to help Hu Chuyuan.

Afraid that Hu Chuyuan would not recognize him, Shen Furong introduced to him, "My employer, this is Zhu Yannian's Zhu Dafu."

Hu Chuyuan was very happy to bow to Zhu Yannian and said, "Mr. Zhu, Yanjing's business has always been in your hands. It's really hard work for you this year. Chu Yuan is very grateful."

"Sir, don't say that!" Zhu Yannian laughed, with snowflakes on his beard and eyebrows, and said, "If it hadn't been for the old boss's rescue, my life would have been lost in Hangzhou. Both the old boss and the boss are both benevolent and righteous people. They are eager for justice and righteousness, and they can do the family business for your family. This is also my blessing. In Yanjing City, I don't know how many people envy me!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Isn't it also my blessing to have you doing my family business in Yanjing?"

Zhu Yannian hurriedly said politely, "The owner is overreputed, overreputed."

Hu Chuyuan smiled calmly. He didn't like excessive politeness. Basically, he clicked until the point. Instead, he said, "Don't mention it. It's really cold in Yanjing City. Let's go into the room and talk about it!"

With this, he took Zhu Yannian and half of them into the quadrangle courtyard.

In the Hu family, of course, Zhu Yannian is not a big shopkeeper. It can only be said that it is between the big shopkeeper and the shopkeeper. The two CITIC banks in charge of Yanjing, and the sub-names of Tianjin and Baoding are under the control of other shopkeepers.

He said that he was a big shopkeeper, which was just a respectful name, because he pioneered the Yanjing branch, which was the same as Zhu Funian's early years of opening a pawnshop for the Hu family. Although he did not have the real power of a big shopkeeper, everyone still respectfully called him Zhu's shopkeeper.

People always have different momentum, aura, demeanor and words in different social status and positions.

In the past few years, Hu Chuyuan's momentum has been very different from that of ordinary people, ordinary rich princes and rich gentry.

Unlike Hu Xueyan, he feels cold and difficult to approach. Many people are very afraid of him. When he appeared in Jiangnan Business Firm, everyone in the whole hall dared not speak silently.

However, when you really enter his world, you will find that he is actually an easy-going, easy-going, generous, and hierarchical person. In his eyes, it seems that everyone is fair, and he is the same as you.

Many people will be very happy if they only talk to him for a word or two.

Including the family members, nurses, chefs and maids around Hu Chuyuan, everyone seems to be possessed by him. Not to mention these people, Yang Changjun, Ye Fu, Huo Hongji and others, have an indescribable respect for Hu Chuyuan.

As soon as we met, Zhu Yannian sighed in his heart... He is a great host, and he is not an ordinary person at all.

Entering the main hall, Hu Chuyuan sat down at the big table in the room, let Zhu Yannian sit on his right side, and then asked Shen Furong and Wang Yirong about the current situation of Jingshi.

Everyone is very clear about what Hu Chuyuan is going to do.

Wang Yirong said first: "On the surface, the Metropolitan Inspectorate seems to be the key to the problem. In fact, the most important person at present is Li Hongzao, the Minister of Military Affairs. This man is extremely conservative, but he has to oppose all foreign affairs. Prince Lian Su at least admits a piece of money, but he doesn't recognizes anything. He and Prince Li Hongzhang and Prince Gong are sworn enemies in officialdom.

Hu Chuyuan asked him, "Are you familiar with it?"

Wang Yirong said, "It's quite familiar. I just visited before and sent some calligraphy and paintings, which can be regarded as a foreshadowing. Recently, I've been waiting for a real dredging. Because everyone is afraid that he will object, we haven't told him the news yet.

At this time, Wang Yirong had already won the Jinshi last year, and he was born in the second-class and the first-class Jinshi. Because of the "people" and the appreciation of Wan Qinglin, the minister of the Ministry of Officials, he immediately got a position as a member of the Ministry of Foreigners.

Since you are in the Ministry of Officials, you will be very well informed about all kinds of information, and it is also convenient to move around with other officials.

(to be continued)