Chapter 188 Wu Jinsheng Family

In the grand year, he knelt down in front of Zhou Charter: "The Prime Minister has made a decisive victory, not only in Japan on the battlefield, but also in the shopping mall! Although the villain is a generation of merchants, this business is far worse than that of the Prime Minister! The villain is convinced!"

Zhou Charter scolded: "You dare not accept it! Look at what you are doing! I didn't make much money, but let the people come to my door! It made me become a gangster*! You should be punished!"

Wu Peifu said in a hurry, "Big brother, you can be punished anyway. I will never complain. Brother, you cut my head, and I won't frown!"

Zhou Charter took a look at the grand year kneeling on the ground and shouted, "What is this grand year coming from?"

Shannian also had some backbone. Before Wu Peifu could speak, he said first: "The villain Shannian lived in Wujin County, Changzhou Prefecture. He has been in business for generations. The villain came to Pyongyang to look for relatives. When he met a war, he could not return home, and there was no entanglement. A few days ago, when I saw Team Leader Wu's Zhang Bang Qiuxian, he unveiled the list. My lord, the idea of collecting the registration fee was made by the villain, and the thing was also done by the villain. It has nothing to do with Head Wu. If you want to punish the villain, just punish the villain.

Zhou Charter shouted: "Bold! You are still stubborn. Are you from Wujin County, Changzhou?

"Exact!"

Zhou Charter looked at the grand year and suddenly shouted: "Who are you? From the real trick! If there is a lie, I will definitely not let it go!"

Shannian was so scared that he trembled for a long time and said, "The Prime Minister can not only fight and do business, but also know people! The villain had to tell the truth in front of the heavenly man. Sheng Xuanhuai is the cousin of the villain. The villain was unworthy and humiliated his cousin's reputation. He usually had no face to mention him. The prime minister asked, but the villain did not dare to hide it, so he had to say it brazenly.

As soon as Shannian finished speaking, Wu Peifu scolded, "You son of a bitch, you really humiliated Sheng Xuanhuai! Damn, Sheng Xuanhuai's descendants want me to be a scalper. If Sheng Xuanhuai knows this, he will be so angry!"

Sheng Xuanhuai, courtesy name Xingxun, number Ciyi, nicknamed Bulou, a native of Wujin County, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province.

Changzhou is the birthplace of modern industry and commerce in China. There has been an atmosphere of doing business here since ancient times, and there have been many famous businessmen in history. The Sheng family is one of them. In the 19th century, the Westernization Movement took the lead in the rise of Jiangsu. Changzhou was inevitably influenced by modern Western advanced industrial and commercial ideas. Changzhou merchants combined traditional commerce with modern Western industry and commerce to form the prototype of modern Chinese industry and commerce, so Changzhou merchants became famous all over the world.

Sheng Xuanhuai is the best among businessmen in Changzhou. Sheng Xuanhuai has two biggest differences from other businessmen. First, he is an official businessman. He has held important positions such as Hejian Military Preparation Road, Tianjin Customs Road, Merchants Bureau Supervision Office, Zhili Customs Road, etc. He is a representative of modern Chinese buyers. He has met left and right in officialdom and past with powerful ministers such as Zhang Zhidong and Li Hongzhang. Very close.

Second, Sheng Xuanhuai pays attention to industrial development. He not only mastered advanced Western business concepts, but more importantly, he can apply these business concepts to China's modern industrial development. He created China's first civil joint-stock enterprise ship investment bureau, the first telegraph bureau, and the first small fireship company. The first bank, the first railway, is more striking that he founded Han Yeping Company, China's first steel joint venture, and the establishment of Han Yeping Iron and Steel Company, which changed the situation of Qing's steel dependence on foreign countries and greatly promoted the development and progress of China's manufacturing industry. It can be said that Han Yeping Company is a milestone in China's modernization!

In those years, Zhang Zhidong was preparing to build an iron factory and start an industry in Hanyang, Hubei Province. It was difficult to pull out a big stall, but he lost money every year. Zhang Zhidong heard about Sheng Xuanhuai's name, and at least persuaded Sheng Xuanhuai to be the manager of the iron factory. After Sheng Xuanhuai took office, he recruited merchants and turned the official iron factory into an official supervision office. Before long, the iron factory turned losses into profits, and his management made Zhang Zhidong very impressed!

Sheng Xuanhuai is a business wizard, but this person has suffered losses and is very greedy for money. While realizing a series of official industrial miracles, he also makes profits from it. He likes to eat kickbacks and often enriches in the operation of the company. Zhang Zhidong knows this, but Zhang Zhidong also knows that there is nothing when the water is clear. Fish, never ask about Sheng Xuanhuai's behavior. If someone told Sheng Xuanhuai's situation, Zhang Zhidong would also be put on the shelf and laughed it off.

Therefore, Sheng Xuanhuai is known as the father of China's industry and is famous all over the world. At the same time, he has also made a lot of money, which can be said to be a double harvest of fame and fortune. It's really eye-catching to be a man.

Now, Sheng Xuanhuai is the manager of Hanyang Arsenal. The Type 88 rifle, also known as Hanyang-made, is his performance.

Zhou Charter nodded and asked, "Your uncle Sheng Xuanhuai is so famous. You are his close relative and should always be able to get some glory. Even if you can't get it, I think you also have some management brains. It's always possible to do some small business. How can you end up as a scalper on the streets of Pyongyang?"

Grand Year sighed: "The Prime Minister asked. The villain is Sheng Xuanhuai's nephew. No matter how bad it is, he will not do this dirty business and humiliate the old man. It's just that there is nothing we can do when people go to poverty. In fact, when the villain came to Pyongyang, he was not a relative. He also came to do business. As a result, he lost his capital and had no face to go back, so he had to live on the street.

Wu Peifu was curious: "Is the Sheng family still losing money in business?"

Shannian sighed: "To tell the truth, the Prime Minister, this business done by the villain was originally profitable."

"You boy is bragging again. What kind of business can make a profit?" Wu Peifu shouted.

Grand Year said, "Arms!"

"Arms!" Wu Peifu shouted, "Your son of a bitch's business is big enough!"

Shannian sighed, "What Chief Wu said is that the arms business of the villain is mainly the rifles produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau of the Qing Dynasty. Speaking of which, it is also the blessing of my cousin Sheng Xuanhuai. With the face of his old man, the villain dredged the joints and got this batch of arms. Among all businesses, the arms business has the highest profit, generally ten times the profit, well done, more than 20 times!"

Zhou Charter frowned: "Grand Year, that's not too much. You are in the arms business. Who is the buyer? It won't be sold to the Japanese, will it? In order to ensure the uniformity of weapons, the Japanese will never buy foreign guns and ammunition.

"What the Prime Minister said." Shannian said, "The Japanese look down on this batch of arms of Xiaomin. However, although the weapons of my Qing Dynasty are poor in performance, they are cheap, and North Koreans like them very much.

"North Korean?" Zhou Charter was alert: "Why do they buy weapons? The North Korean army has existed in name only, and the Japanese will not allow the puppet court in Seoul to have its own armed!"

Shan Nian said, "The Prime Minister doesn't know that the buyers of this batch of arms are neither the North Korean court nor the North Korean officers and soldiers."

"Who is that?" Wu Peifu asked.

Shannian looked bitter: "To tell you the truth, Director Wu, until now, I haven't figured out who the buyer is."

It turned out that this grand year was Sheng Xuanhuai's nephew, but Sheng Xuanhuai was separated by several rooms and was a distant nephew. Despite this, the Sheng family in Changzhou is famous, Sheng Xuanhuai is famous, and the people of the Sheng family are well-known. Shannian also does some business on weekdays. The business is not big but not small. He opened his own yarn factory and also does the tea and porcelain business, often with hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Compared with Sheng Xuanhuai, this is a pediatrics and compared with other businessmen, which is also a big deal.

A month ago, Shannian went to Beijing for business. After being introduced, he met a North Korean named Li Dongshu. Li Dongshu claimed to be a businessman and was willing to cooperate with Shannian to do some small business.

Li Dongshu's eyebrows are beautiful, like a Confucian student, but he is extremely bold, quite righteous and rich. The business is also very good, and he is also extremely rich. As soon as he took action, he bought 100,000 taels of silver worth of tea from Shannian.

After the transaction was completed, the relationship between Shannian and Li Dongshu became extremely close, and the two became friends who talked about nothing. Li Dongshu told Shannian that there was a war in North Korea and some people needed arms. If Shannian could transport a batch of arms to North Korea, it would be at least ten times the profit.

Shake your head in the grand year. Arms are the most profitable, but extremely difficult. First of all, it is not easy to buy weapons on the side of the Qing Dynasty, but it is even more difficult to transport weapons to North Korea, because North Korea has declared its independence. The North Korean government of the Qing Dynasty and Seoul are enemies. Sending weapons to the enemy is equivalent to enemies. If it is known by the court, it is a serious crime to destroy the nine races.

Li Dongshu didn't agree. He told Shannian that it was not the Seoul government of North Korea or the North Korean officers and soldiers who wanted to buy arms. As for who it was, it was not convenient for him to say who it was, but one thing was clear that this batch of arms and fires that were transported to North Korea would certainly not be used for the war with the Qing Dynasty. On the contrary, it may be greatly beneficial. In the Qing Dynasty.

Shannian wanted to ask again. Li Dongshu smiled and did not answer, but told him that if Shannian was interested in doing this business, he was willing to pay the full cost of opening the joints and pay 50,000 taels of silver as a deposit. After the business is completed, the profit will be five or five.

This business is really tempting. Shan Nian gritted his teeth and agreed to Li Dongshu.

Li Dongshu found the right person for this arms business. In the Qing Dynasty, only the Sheng family has the way to do the arms business. If others change, they can't afford it.

Shengjia not only has the signboard of Sheng Xuanhuai, but also Changzhou is the birthplace of modern industry in China. Most of the modern Chinese military enterprises with the rise of the Westernization Movement are inextricably linked with Changzhou merchants.