Chapter 139 General Letter Room and General Account Room

Pan Limei is a lovely girl. There is only one more person in the garden, so she seems to have a group of people. Finally, she was transferred back to Hu Chuyuan's side to make her happy. She talked to Hu Chuyuan about those interesting things in Hangzhou Silk Factory. Cheng Tinghua also listened to it and seemed to be a little interested.

In the past few years, the contribution of Hangzhou Silk Factory to the whole Hangzhou government has been extremely huge, making Hangzhou surpassing Suzhou and becoming the first distribution center of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk industry. From a macroeconomic perspective, it has also created a large number of employment opportunities and consumption power for Hangzhou.

It also plays a vital role in the promotion of the silk industry in Hangzhou Prefecture and the Jin Qu Basin. With the support and guidance of Hu Chuyuan, Huo Hongji, who was successfully promoted to Yanhang Daotai, started the concept of Hangzhou, promoted the construction of Hangzhou's new urban area, implemented rectification of the old city, and established two connected urban areas around Wangjiang Road. Commercial Avenue.

Such a glory should have belonged to Suzhou, and Hu Chuyuan has always thought so, but Tan Zhonglin's conservatism made Suzhou lose this opportunity.

Pan Limei saw these things clearly, ridiculed Tan Zhonglin from time to time, and said how rich Hangzhou is now, and how the third and fourth masters of the Hu family's industry in Hangzhou are getting bigger and bigger.

She is proud. In these things, she has contributed a great contribution.

Listening to her chattered, Cheng Tinghua also became interested and wanted to go to Hangzhou to see it with his own eyes.

Not only would Pan Limei also bring Hu Chuyuan a set of 1600-hole new woven samples, but also said that she would use this silk satin to make a new set of clothes for Hu Chuyuan.

Hu Chuyuan was very happy to hear that. After all, the change of Hangzhou government is behind him. With the opening of the Jinhang, Huhang and Hangning Railways, Zhejiang will have the first main railway, the best super-class raw silk and a large number of Jinqu first-class raw silk transported to Hangzhou through the railway, processed and woven, and then from Ningbo. It is exported to the whole country.

Hangzhou will be more prosperous in the future.

It's getting late. Pan Limei also said almost all her credit and hard work in the past few years, so she said coquettishly to Hu Chuyuan, "Young master, I've worked hard in the past few years. It's rare for me to come to Fuzhou for the first time. Please accompany me to the market tomorrow. At least I have to buy something to reward others. You know, Master Liu is stingy. He gave Shen Mao a lot of dividends, but not as much as me!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled, as if he was very happy, but he hesitated in his heart.

No, he thought, I'm also a man who has been married now. He took a little girl across the market in broad daylight. In case Wu Shuzhen knew about it, something would happen.

Besides, Wu Shuzhen said she would come!

In case you come tomorrow, catch it right. This evidence is too much, and it's hard to argue!

As soon as he raised his eyes and saw Cheng Tinghua, Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Mr. Cheng, you have worked hard all the way from Yanjing City. You have been teaching me boxing in the house for so many days, and you don't have a chance to go to Fuzhou. Just in time, let's go to Fuzhou City tomorrow to see the blacksmith's work of Fuzhou craftsmen!"

"Huh?"

Cheng Tinghua was puzzled as soon as he heard it. He thought, no, I went to Fuzhou City with Wang Zhengyi a few days ago, and I went to see other people's blacksmith's craftsmanship?

On a thought, he said, "Why not?"

As soon as Hu Chuyuan heard this, he also understood one thing.

Cheng Tinghua is usually not very good at rejecting others. When he feels very reluctant, he will say, "Why not?" You think it's "why not." In fact, in Cheng Tinghua's heart, it's better not to.

Everyone has their own habits, including speaking and using words.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and thought he didn't notice it.

Pan Limei is now a teacher, and her ability and identity are different. Hu Chuyuan specially asked her to arrange a separate apartment building for her. This was originally a foreign-style villa for French consultants. Later, when Wu Shuzhen came, the two beautiful women lived together and took care of each other.

Next, Hu Chu Yuanzhen went to Fuzhou City with Cheng Tinghua and Pan Limei.

When she arrived at the place where Fuzhou was concentrated on buying and selling silk and satin, Pan Limei stopped here and looked at Fuzhou's cooked silk and silk. She heard that Fuzhou silk could be sold at a good price in Nanyang, and the sales volume was also very large, so she had an idea.

She and Hu Chuyuan said that the quality of Fuzhou silk is not as good as that of Hangzhou silk at all. If they also build a silk factory in Fuzhou and operate silk goods in Nanyang, they will definitely make a lot of money.

Hu Chuyuan is an old buyer and seller. As soon as he heard it, he thought it was a good idea. He asked her to transfer some people from the Hangzhou silk factory to handle it, and asked Wu Dazheng, the general office of the Fujian branch, to help.

He has to say that Pan Limei is really smart.

Wu Shuzhen is also smart, but her intelligence is based on good education and insight. Pan Limei is different. Pan Limei's cleverness is an innate talent.

For example, Wu Shuzhen's Jetta Yanghang and Kimberley Company are very beautiful, but these ideas are all thought of by Hu Chuyuan. Wu Shuzhen just goes to handle it, but Pan Limei is different. She can completely think of a way to make money by herself.

This is the difference between two beautiful women.

Similarly, Wu Shuzhen's beauty is a kind of temperament, a kind of elegance, tranquility and atmosphere, and Pan Limei is a kind of pure natural beauty... She is extremely amazing and beautiful.

When passing through the most prosperous Nanhou Street in Fuzhou, a group of people gathered around the street. Hu Chuyuan and others also came over to have a look, but saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old beggar girl selling her body to bury her parents at the corner of the street.

Everyone is talking about it, but no one is willing to help.

Hu Chuyuan took a look and thought of his luxury. He couldn't help sighing - it was Zhumen's smelly wine and meat, and there were frozen bones on the road!

There's nothing he can do. He is such a selfish person.

Looking at this scene, Cheng Tinghua and Hu Chuyuan sighed, "Your Excellency, the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is very good. In Yanjing City, there are many such things in the area of the Old Temple of Heaven and Qianmen. If it is placed in Cangzhou and Baoding, there will be more things. In my deep state, there are countless... Especially on the road around the canal transportation, in recent years, I have starved to death and did not know the villagers. In the past few years, when there was a famine, it was said that Shanxi had starved millions of people to death. The five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River... are indeed a rich and blessed land.

Hu Chuyuan listened to this and felt a faint feeling in his heart.

People's surnames are fragile.

He thought for a moment and said to Chen Shanyuan beside him, "Hire her as a maid and send her parents back to her ancestral home in the countryside for burial."

Chen Shanyuan nodded silently, took out ten Qingyuan from his arms, and said to the girl, "My grandfather hired you to be a maid. This is your salary. Let us do your parents' burial."

The girl was happy and thanked Chen Shanyuan.

Chen Shanyuan is from Fuqing and has lived in Fuzhou for many years. He is very familiar with the local personnel and soon found a suitable coffin shop.

He went to do these things, and Hu Chuyuan, Pan Limei and Cheng Tinghua returned to the government office.

When he went back in the carriage, Hu Chuyuan had been thinking about it. When he returned to the government office, he invited Yan Shizhang and the Gu family to discuss the adoption of orphans in Tzu Chi Hall in various parts of the north.

Since it is Tzu Chi, naturally, you can't rely on Hu Chuyuan to pay alone. The rich gentry in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang must also pay as soon as they can. The local squire has to contribute to the Tzu Chi Hall under the name of the Public Welfare Bureau and set it up a unified house. There is a family in each government to adopt orphans and teach them to read and read.

If you are a particularly poor family, your children can't be supported, and you can also be supported in Tzu Chi Church.

Hu Chuyuan roughly said what he meant, and Yan Shizhang couldn't help asking, "My boss, how much money do I have to pay this year?"

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment and asked Yan Shizhang, "Do you think how much it can be?"

Cheng Tinghua, who has been listening, suddenly said, "Your Excellency, if you do it in the south of the Yangtze River, I'm afraid you don't need much money, but if you do it in the north... Not to mention other places, my hometown Shenzhou alone, you will accept hundreds of orphans this year. If you still have to support it, there will be more than a thousand people. Just like this, in a county in Shenzhou, you have to take out 5,000 taels of silver every year. The longer it takes, the next seven or eight years, you need thirty thousand taels of silver every year to last for a long time.

Yan Shizhang said, "I'm afraid I can't do it. This is a good thing. Other squists still have to pay a little, just like we run a charity school in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Most of us and the local squists can share half of each, the owner will give half, and dozens of them join together to produce the other half. Besides, we don't raise all kinds of children. If we are over three or four years old and under fourteen years old, we will raise them. No matter how old we are, we can work at home, so we don't need to raise them. The situation in the north is very difficult, especially in the area of Zhili Shandong. In previous years, tens of millions of people were raised by Caoyun, and most of these people have now lost their source of livelihood.

Hu Chuyuan said, "Then let's do this. I pay three million taels of silver every year. Mr. Yan, we can save as much as we can. Where are the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River? I pay an additional two million yuan every year, which is a total expenditure of eight million yuan. Please use it carefully for me."

Yan Shizhang thought for a moment and said, "You might as well let Niu Yugeng do this matter. The "Political Reference" has not been passed so far, and the accumulated information and manuscripts can be used for six years. You might as well let him do something else at the time. He has repeatedly served in local politics, has a large number of students, and is quite famous among the gentry in various places. It should be very convenient to run Tzu Chi Hall.

Hu Chuyuan nodded and asked Yan Shizhang to invite Niu Yugeng again. After several people talked about it in detail, Niu Yugeng agreed. Because Niu Yugeng used to study politics in Shandong and have some connections in the local area, he decided to leave for Shandong tomorrow. First, he will run several Tzu Chi Halls in Shandong and be responsible for selecting good people.

Waiting for everyone to do their own things, Cheng Tinghua and Hu Chuyuan sighed, "Your excellency is indeed a person who helps the world. The family business is so big and the benevolent heart is so wide that I have never seen it in my life. If the adult does not think that Cheng is not good at learning, Cheng is willing to be a lifelong nurse beside the adult.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "If you are willing to stay, you can stay as long as you want. However, with your skills and skills, there will always be a lot of big things to do in the future."

Cheng Tinghua is also a smart man. He smiled and hugged his fist and said, "It's all up to your orders."

After Pan Limei, Ye Tongguang, Miao Tsuensun and others arrived one after another, Hu Chuyuan's general letter room and general account room in Fuzhou have been formed.

With these two houses, even if he is in Fuzhou, he can control the whole industry, including business, politics and military affairs. At the same time, in the capital, Wang Yirong invited Wan Qinglin, Li Hongzao and Weng Tonghe to set up the Jingshi National Academy near Taoranting, covering an area of more than 100 mu, providing a very unique gathering place for the people who rushed to Beijing to take the exam.

Here, the poor can get free food and accommodation. After the entrance examination, the National Academy of China will also spend an extra gift, not much, three or four hundred taels of silver, for the first year's expenditure in the capital.

Wang Yirong kept writing letters to Hu Chuyuan through the general letter room, informing him that the young scholars he favored, and the scholars in Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Huizhou would be taken special attention.

A very special point, the Beijing Normal University National Academy will also simulate the pre-examination of the palace examination in previous years to help these outstanding people build momentum in advance, and secretly figure out the level of people in various places, and select some people to focus on funding.

For those local officials and key members of Beijing who have established secret contact with Hu Chuyuan, everyone also secretly communicates through the general letter room to report inside information. It can be said that Hu Chuyuan can coordinate and clarify everyone's interests.

Everyone summarizes what the Man people want, what the Xiang army wants, and what the Qing school wants. Hu Chuyuan's task is to let everyone take what they need, and he can indeed do this.

Liu Yongfu, Zhang Lingpu, Liu Jintang... Everyone's affairs also have to go through the general letter room. These people have their own code names and sealed letters. Only Hu Chuyuan can read them. The work of the general letter room is to select these letters separately and give them to Hu Chuyuan one by one.

There are more things to be responsible for in the general ledger. The accounts of various places, large and small, and the accounts of thousands of industries should be summarized and checked here. Hu Chuyuan's own industry, the industry of shipping administration, and the industry of partnership with others... are all checked here.

Safety first, Hu Chuyuan transferred Hu Changnian back from Huizhou and sat alone in the general account room. Ye Tongguang, Yang Hongbin, Pan Limei and others were responsible for assisting. Specifically, the people responsible for auditing the accounts were the old master, and each of them worked with the Hu family for more than ten years.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan can do two major events at ease, first, to deal with the Sino-French war; second, to rectify Chinese tea.

Neither of these two things should be lost.

At this time, he has generally looked for several people who can lead the army in the Sino-French War. There are two fierce generals under Zuo Zongtang's account. Of course, Liu Jintang and Wang Debang are not two candidates, and Cen Yuying, the governor of Guizhou, is also very good.

Although Mei Qizhao has secretly organized his own Jiangxi army, Jin Qubing is a general of Mu Zhitian and Jiaxing's general Yang Guangqi from Jiangxi, and Ningbo magistrate Luo Dayou also participated in it.

Compared with other established military departments, the Gan army not only has no reputation at all, but everything is done secretly, and there is also an obvious lack of really good generals. Yang Guangqi was also born in the Huai army and reluctantly relied on his fellow villagers to attract them.

The so-called Gan army is Mei Qizhao's three Fubiao camps in Zhejiang, which gathered around Ningbo to defend pirates, with only 2,000 people per battalion. Although the number of people is not large, they are all the children of the Jiangxi Liang family, and they also have the best equipment at present.

In order to cope with the Sino-French war, Hu Chuyuan persuaded Zuo Zongtang to send Liu Jintang and Wang Debang to Germany and France to inspect the army's military system, equipment and training for half a year. Among the entourage were not only Xu Yanxu, Chen Fanglue, Zhang Chunfa, He Xiuqing, Xiao Delong and other middle-generation generals of the Hunan army, but also Mu Zhitian and Yang Guangqi. Luo Dayou and Mei Qian, as for the rectification of China's tea industry, because Zuo Zongtang doubts that the "Political Reference" was issued, everyone was afraid of the European powers, the "Political Reference" could not be published for a long time, and the "British Threat Theory" in Hu Chuyuan's plan could not be used for a while.

At this stage, Hu Chuyuan can only concentrate on internal work and give priority to the joint venture of the source of tea in Fujian.

After several years of investment, the number of joint tea companies in Fujian has reached more than 1,000, accounting for 40% of Fujian's total tea production, mainly concentrated in the eastern Fujian area, which is easy to transport and export.

With the secret brewing and planning in the past few years, Hu Chuyuan can officially exert his strength at this time.

This also means that at least 100 million yuan has been invested in these two major events in recent years, and the waiting for the French will also be an unprecedented defeat.

This is a doomed thing, because Hu Chuyuan has already entered an era of money.

When Hu Chuyuan only needs to hold 15 million taels of silver in the market to convert 100 million yuan of financing capacity, how can the French fight?

(to be continued)