Chapter 605 Don't be Hu Xueyan for business

After the meeting that night, Tang Yu originally wanted to stay in Xiangjiang while the iron was hot, but as soon as he lay down and didn't fall asleep, he was called back by Su Murou's phone. Hearing Su Murou's tone, it seemed to be very urgent. Tang Yu did not dare to neglect it and took a plane back overnight.

When he went back, he was handed over directly to Shen Ruihong's home. When he entered the study, he found that Shen Ruihong, Su Muru and his father Tang Tianhong, who was supposed to be in Dongling City, were all in the study. All three of them were seriously swallowing fog, " Uncle Shen, you are going to have three trials."

Tang Yu also joked casually. This time the matter was well done, and he had just pulled a billion-dollar development fund. Naturally, he was extremely excited. Seeing that the three people in the room looked serious, he thought that something big had happened in Liaohai Province, but he had pulled a billion dollars of development funds and his own business. The industry group can further grow. At that time, it will be comfortable to have left-hand money and right-hand guns. Tang Yu is excited to think about it. However, his excitement was swept into the abyss by Su Murou's words.

"Xiao Yu, do you know that you are in a very dangerous situation now?" Su Muru spoke in a very serious tone. Shen Ruihong and Tang Tianhong did not speak, but looking at their serious appearance, obviously, the three people gathered for the same thing. Tang Tianhong's small cadre had the opportunity to sit in Shen Ruihong's study, which must be a blessing for Tang Yu. If not, this study is How many deputy provincial officials don't want to come in.

"A very dangerous situation?" Tang Yu was stunned and didn't react. He dared to say that the three people gathered together to talk about his own business. Tang Yu couldn't help but feel a little funny and dangerous? What's the danger? Is it because of what they did in Indonesia that made Suharto or Pravos very unhappy? They want to use extraordinary means to kill themselves? Tang Yu thought helplessly. It seems that this is also possible. Both of them are the real power of the Indonesian military. They have almost lost completely in their own hands. It is impossible to have no resentment against themselves. However, he is the boss of Blackwater International. I don't know how many bodyguards follow secretly when traveling. If I can After being assassinated, can Blackwater International get along?

But then, Tang Yu saw Shen Ruihong spread out the rice paper. Su Murou took the initiative to stand beside him. Tang Yu hurriedly helped moisten the pen. Only then did he see Shen Ruihong concentrate and write down the seven characters "Don't do Hu Xueyan for business" like a dragon and snake on the rice paper.

"Good words, good words, Uncle Shen can be a calligrapher."

"It's not for you to read, it's for you to read."

At first glance, there seems to be a contradiction in this sentence. It's not reading, but reading. What does it mean? Are you allowed to read or not? However, Tang Yu obviously understood that what Uncle Shen meant was not to let himself appreciate calligraphy, but to let himself look at the meaning in the words.

"Don't be Hu Xueyan for business, and don't be Hu Xueyan for business." Tang Yu chewed this sentence in his mouth for a few words. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something, and his face also showed a look of fear. " Uncle Shen, you mean..."

Tang Yu didn't finish, but Shen Ruihong understood what he wanted to express. He nodded with a heavy face, and Tang Yu's face crossed.

Tang Yu will naturally not know who Hu Xueyan is. As a businessman, if you don't know Hu Xueyan, it's a failure. This person can be regarded as a role model in the Chinese business community, but he is by no means the object Tang Yu wants to learn from. This person wants to be an official businessman, but Tang Yu doesn't want to be an official businessman. He doesn't want to be a red-top businessman, but wants to be serious. Business and embark on a real business path.

Hu Xueyan is actually named Hu Guangyan. He is a famous red-top businessman in modern China. He is a famous entrepreneur and politician in the late Qing Dynasty. He can be said to be famous.

This person is quite prominent among modern business celebrities, and his autobiography is a must-read book for almost all businessmen.

Hu Xueyan's experience is full of legend. He started from a little guy in Qianzhuang. By making friends with dignitaries and dignitaries, he helped the crops and served the court. In the foreign affairs movement, he hired foreign craftsmen and introduced equipment, which was quite hard. Zuo Zongtang went on the Kansai expedition, and he raised grain and equipment, borrowed foreign money, and made great contributions. After several tossing, he jumped from a banker to a prominent red-top businessman. He built a financial network based on money banks and pawnshops, opened pharmacies and silk warehouses, and not only did business with foreigners but also fought with foreigners. Throughout his life, Hu Xueyan's merits and demerits are mixed. Here we only analyze his humanity. One of the most important reasons for Hu Xueyan's success is that he is good at using people, taking people for his long, and not asking for perfection. He said that a person's greatest ability is to use people's ability. Gu Sixie, a native of the Qing Dynasty, once had a poem: Horses can adventure, and plough fields are not as good as cows. A strong car can carry heavy loads, and crossing a river is not as good as a boat. Give up the long to take the short, and the wisdom is difficult. Raw materials are expensive and suitable, so be careful not to be too demanding.

Such a person, almost in the era when he was alive, he had participated in all the major events.

In Chinese history, Hu Xueyan was known as the "shang saint of a generation" and was a role model for many businessmen to learn from, but he was by no means a role model for Tang Yu. The two are very different. He first set up a silver account in Hangzhou, and then entered the Zhejiang governor's curtain to raise money for the Qing army. In 1866, he assisted Zuo Zongtang to establish the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau. After Zuo Zongtang was transferred to the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, he presided over the affairs of the Shanghai Procurement and Transportation Bureau. He borrowed foreign debts for Zuo Da, raised military pay and ordered arms, and relied on the power of the Hunan army to set up Fukang Yin No. 2 in all provinces. More than 0 places, and operated traditional Chinese medicine and silk tea business, and manipulated Jiangsu and Zhejiang commerce, with a capital of up to more than 20 million taels. He was the " richest man in China" at that time.

Hu Xueyan was poor when he was a child. He made a living by helping people herd cattle. After he was a little older, he was recommended to Hangzhou Yu Qian Si as an apprentice. He was appreciated by the owner and was selected to run the street. Later, with the help of Wang Youling, he opened Fukang Qianzhuang and communicated with people in the officialdom, becoming a big business gentry in Hangzhou.

At first in Qianzhuang, Hu Xueyan started from sweeping the floor, pouring the urine pot and other chores. After three years of mastering, he became an official clerk of Qianzhuang because of diligence and down-to-earth. It was during this period that Hu Xueyan became a rich man in Hangzhou with the help of Wang Youling.

Wang Youling is a marquis of Fujian. During the Daoguang period, Wang Youling donated the Zhejiang salt transport envoy, but he had no money to enter Beijing. Later, Hu Xueyan was wise and determined that his future was extraordinary, so he subsidized Wang Youling with five hundred taels of silver and asked Wang Youling to quickly go to Beijing for an official position. Later, Wang Youling met his old servant He Guiqing in Tianjin. After his recommendation, he went to the governor of Zhejiang and became the General Office of Grain Taiwan.

After Wang Youling made a fortune, he did not forget the kindness of Hu Xueyan, so he funded Hu Xueyan to open his own money bank. After that, with the continuous rise of Wang Youling, Hu Xueyan's business became bigger and bigger. In addition to Qianzhuang, he also opened many stores.

Geng Shenzhi became the starting point for Hu Xueyan's great development. In the Geng Shen transformation, Hu Xueyan became unsurprising and secretly hooked with the military community. A large number of recruitment funds were stored in Hu's Qianzhuang. Later, he was entrusted by Wang Youling to handle grain equipment, comprehensive management and transportation and other important responsibilities. He mastered more than half of Zhejiang's wartime finance and finance for the future. Development has laid a good foundation.

The reason why Hu Xueyan can quickly be stubborn is that in addition to Wang Youling, another person also plays an important role. This person is Zuo Zongtang. In 1862, Wang Youling was killed by suicide due to the loss of the city. With the recommendation of Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang succeeded him as the governor of Zhejiang. Zuo Zongtang's department owed Zuo Zongtang nearly five months when he was in Anhui, and there were many people who died of starvation and died in the war. This time he entered Zhejiang, and problems such as food shortage still troubled Zuo Zongtang, which made him extremely distressed. Hu Xueyan, who was eager to find a new backer, seized this opportunity tightly. He sent help in the snow. In the war environment, he excellently completed the almost impossible task of raising 100,000 stones of grain in three days. He showed his talent in front of Zuo Zongtang and was appreciated by Zuo and entrusted with heavy responsibility.

After gaining the trust of Zuo Zongtang, Hu Xueyan often traveled between the trade ports where foreigners gathered in Ningbo and Shanghai as an official and a businessman. In addition to handling the transshipment of grain stations and receiving military supplies, he also tightly seized the opportunity to interact with foreigners, colluded with foreign officers, and trained more than a thousand people for Zuo Zongtang, all of whom The Changjie Army, equipped with foreign guns and cannons, has jointly attacked Ningbo, Fengdai, Shaoxing and other places with the Qing army.

Hu Xueyan is a businessman. The businessman naturally puts his interests first. During Zuo Zongtang's tenure, Hu Xueyan managed the affairs of the Mifu Bureau. He set up a porridge factory, a good hall, and ayi mat, repaired the ancient temples of famous temples, and collected hundreds of thousands of violent bones; restored the oxcarts that were once terminated due to the war, which was convenient for the people; and persuaded large official gentry to donate to solve the post-war financial crisis and other affairs. As a result, Hu Xueyan became famous and his credibility was greatly improved. In this way, it's no problem that the money is rolling in.

Since the Qing army captured Zhejiang, all the things looted by the generals, no matter how big or small, were stored in Hu Xueyan's Qianzhuang. Hu took this as his capital and engaged in trade activities. He set up businesses in various cities and towns, which made a lot of profits. In just a few years, his family property has exceeded 10 million.

The famous Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty was initiated by Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang. In the war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, these three recognized the importance of advanced military technology in the West and urgently demanded to learn from the West and resist aggression, but because of their special identity, it was inconvenient to deal with foreigners.

In this way, he is in close contact with Zuo Zongtang, and Hu Xueyan, who is connected to Huayang affairs, has found another useful place in the foreign affairs movement. He assisted Zuo Zongtang to establish the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau and the Gansu Weaving General Administration; he helped Zuo Zongtang introduce machines and use new Western machines to dig the river. It is no exaggeration to say that Zuo Zongtang's success in his later years was greatly credited by Hu Xueyan.

As a generation of red-top merchants, Hu Xueyan dominates the shopping malls and writes about the romantic customs in the world. What is more praised by future generations is that he is rich and benevolent, good at charity, and has done many righteous deeds. While winning the reputation of Hu Dashan and adding a yellow coat, he has also gained more wealth. Among his righteous actions, the opening of Hu Qingyutang's medicine account was especially praised by later people.

There are two theories about the reason for the establishment of Huqing Yutang Xueji National Medicine Account: one is that Hu Xueyan was angry because Mrs. Hu was sick and prevented from grasping the medicine; the other is that Hu Xueyan was sick, and there were one or two flavors of medicine that were used as good medicine because of Xiaowang. When he asked for a replacement, he was robbed by the pharmacy clerk and was furious and issued a medicine number. In fact, any accidental event has its inevitability. The creation of Hu Qingyutang is closely related to Hu Xueyan, who is deeply influenced by the long-standing traditional Chinese medicine culture in Hangzhou and the idea of saving the world in troubled times.

In fact, as early as 1875, due to war, epidemics and other reasons, the mortality rate increased sharply, and the population grew negatively, Hu Xueyan had made up his mind to save the dead and the wounded. He invited famous doctors in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to develop Zhuge Xingjunsan, Babao Red Elixir and other drugs, and gave them to Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and other departments and the people in the disaster-stricken areas. Hu Qingyu Hall, founded by Hu Xueyan in his heyday, expanded the scope of his object of saving lives and helping the wounded to all the people in the world. Under the auspices of Hu Xueyan, Hu Qingyutang launched 14 kinds of patent medicines, and gave away the necessary Taiping medicine for the people, such as anti-epidemic elixir and sting medicine for free. He advertised on the Declaration, which made Hu Qingyutang famous before he started business. This is Hu Xueyan's business strategy of fishing big fish in the long line. In the spring of 1878, the above consumption was exchanged for a double profit.

In 1880, Hu Qingyutang's capital reached 2.8 million taels of silver, which contrasted with the century-old Tongrentang in Beijing. It was known as Tongrentang in the north and Qingyutang in the south. And Hu Xueyan, the founder of Hu Qingyutang, also wrote a glorious stroke in the history of Chinese pharmaceutical industry as a person who was born in Qianzhuang and was not familiar with the pharmaceutical industry because he was not ashamed to ask questions and had the courage to explore, so that Hu Xueyan's reputation was not diluted by time. This is also a good reward!

In addition to the righteous act of founding Hu Qingyutang to help the world, Hu Xueyan also borrowed foreign money for Zuo Zongtang's western expedition, successfully recovered Xinjiang for Zuo Zongtang, made great contributions to the end of Agubai's more than ten years of barbaric rule in Xinjiang, and wrote a wonderful stroke in his life. In 1866, Zuo Zongtang was transferred from the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang to the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and was ordered to go to Kansai. As the saying goes, although the funds for the western expeditionary are jointly raised by the provinces, there are few and they are often in arrears. In order to solve the funding problem, Zuo Zongtang had to ask for foreign money for emergency.

Naturally, the task of handling foreign loans falls on Hu Xueyan's shoulders. Hu Xueyan planned to borrow money from Standard Chartered Bank in the United Kingdom through the arrangement of Gu Yingchun, a friend who is a helper at HSBC in Shanghai. Hu and the bank manager broke up unhappily because they could not reach an agreement on interest, loan term and other issues. Later, under the careful planning of Hu Xueyan, the general manager of Standard Chartered Bank in China, which claimed to be Chinatong, was put in the place, and the two sides soon reached an agreement on the details of interest, term, repayment method and so on. Hu Xueyan raised the first loan for the Western Expedition.

Since then, in order to help Zuo Zongtang's Western Expedition, Hu Xueyan borrowed money from foreigners six times, with a cumulative amount of 1 1.7 million taels of silver, and the interest accounts for at least half of the total, which can be said to be a very amazing usury. But from the situation at that time, this borrowing move was worth it.

Of course, Tuli is the nature of a businessman, and Hu Xueyan can't get rid of vulgarity. He floated the interest rate and took advantage of the difference between the paid-paid interest on the loan and the interest payable to eat "rebate". However, in general, at that time when the army of the Western Expedition was short of food and the parties pushed each other, Hu Xueyan was able to stand up and take on the heavy responsibility of raising foreign funds and assisting Zuo Zongshang in the Western Expedition to protect Xinjiang, which showed his patriotism.

Although we often associate the character treacherous with the word business, and even say that there is no profit without profit, as for the fact, there are also temperamental people in the business field, and Hu Xueyan is one of them.

After becoming famous, he did not forget his birthplace, Hangzhou, which made many righteous deeds for the people of Hangzhou. He set up Qiantang River Yidu. It facilitated the connection between Shangbafu and Xiasanfu, and set up a ship to provide convenience for passengers waiting for the ferry, and thus won the "famous name of Hu Dashan". He is also extremely enthusiastic about philanthropy and kind. He has made many donations to flood-stricken areas such as Zhili, Shaanxi, Henan and Shanxi. By 1878, in addition to the medicinal materials donated by Hu Xueyan to the Western Expeditionary Force, the disaster relief funds he donated to various places were estimated to have reached 200,000 taels of silver.

What is less well known is that in the case of Yang Naiwu and Xiaocabbage, which caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, he used his reputation to work as a Beijing official and sponsored money. In the end, he made great contributions to this case, and made his righteous voice and reputation more popular. In addition, he also went to Japan twice to buy back Chinese cultural relics lost in Japan at a high price. From all these actions, it can be seen that he is chivalrous and righteous and patriotic.

As the old saying goes: Hu Xueyan, a Confucian businessman and a red-top businessman, not only dominates the market, but also is proud in politics, and is more skillful in love. He can be called a master in love.

Hu Xueyan is a romantic flower-seeking veteran. He often says to himself: First, he is not an official, and the other is not looking for fame, but only for profit, marrying a wife, and being romantic for a lifetime. This life is enough! Therefore, he usually won't let go of a woman who suits his heart easily. Of course, as a successful businessman, Hu Xueyan never forgets the shopping mall in love. Almost all the women he met during his entrepreneurship served his career: some became victims of his use; some were very lucky to be accepted as concubines by him, but the prerequisite for accepting her as a concubine is that the woman must be beneficial to the development of his future career. In a sense, Hu Xueyan can grow into a generation of red-top merchants, and these concubines with the helper's life have played a great role.

At the beginning of his business, Hu Xueyan met Yunxiang, the daughter of an official eunuch who was sold to Lihuachun because her father was imprisoned, and was attracted by her beauty, but Hu knew that as his own at that time, there was no blessing to be a beauty. When he was all kinds of chagrin, he had an idea and gave Yunxiang as a favor to his backer, the governor. In this way, although Hu Xueyan lost Yunxiang, he got the value of Wang Youling and the loyal eyeliner of Yunxiang. From then on, he mastered the whereabouts of Governor Wang. In a sense, it can be said that he controlled Wang Youling and made it for Hu. The deal was impeccable, and Yunxiang became Hu's first bargaining chip for success.

As the saying goes: I don't want the child to be trapped by the wolf. In business, for their own long-term interests. Hu Xueyan gave up his love again and again, giving his love to others one by one like a commodity. In order to get close to the big tree of He Guiqing, a student in Jiangsu Province, he gave his beloved concubine Aqiao as another gift. Although Hu Xueyan has repeatedly stressed that feelings and business should be completely separated, and the two should not be confused, his combination with Yang Qi attaches more importance to the promotion of emotions on business. After marrying Yang Qi, Yang Qi immediately became Hu's left and right hand, which made Hu Ruhu more powerful and promoted the further development of Hu Xueyan's career. Unfortunately, Yang Qi passed away prematurely. This leaves some regrets for Hu Xueyan.

But soon, Hu Xueyan met another girl who was very similar to Yang Qi and very business-minded. She is the most important woman around Hu Xueyan, the Cuihuan girl who accompanied Hu Xueyan through her life, that is, the famous "Mrs. Luo Si" at that time. Although Hu Xueyan has become a popular businessman, his wife is out of stock and can't get on the table. This has always been a big regret in Hu Xueyan's heart, so that Hu Xueyan often sighs that it is difficult to find a bosom friend and is very lonely in his heart.

The appearance of Cui Huan brightened Hu Xueyan's eyes. With his keen vision, Hu Xueyan believes that Cuihuan is to go to the hall and enter the inner room, and he has been looking for a virtuous inner helper and confidant for a long time. So Hu Xueyan made up his mind to win the favor of the girl Cuihuan and had to marry her as his wife. After hard work, he married Cuihuan as his wife in the form of two big ends. Cui Huan was shrewd and capable, and soon became Hu's right-hand man. He is extremely thoughtful and very good at catering to her husband's wishes. Hu Xueyan is very grateful for Hu Xueyan to marry his twelve aunts. In return, Hu Xueyan straightened him up and made him appear in the hall, becoming the wife of the palm seal of Hu's mansion.

The twelve aunts married by Hu Xueyan are all in the flower season. Hu Xueyan spoiled the twelve aunts and squandered a lot of money on them. He built a rest place for these aunts - Jiaolou, so that the concubines lived in separate rooms, and he, like the emperor, took the cards to invite the concubines to go to bed every night, and his life was extremely luxurious. Jiaolou alone is extremely luxurious and costs tens of thousands of yuan. The building is magnificent, surrounded by beautiful scenery, and is cleverly decorated with artificial West Lake Penglai Fairy Pavilion and other scenic spots, which makes the viewer dizzy and happy.

Since then, Hu Xueyan has been soaked in the beautiful building all day and indulged in his gentle daughter's hometown.