Chapter 68 The matter of the ship investment bureau is coming

Hu Chuyuan is well-informed. Gu Shouzang is proficient in antique calligraphy and painting, but he is not necessarily a "human spirit". What's more, this person loves treasure as his life. He is already in a world of antiques, unlike Shen Furong, who is a playful but not addicted to it.

Early the next morning, Hu Chuyuan called Shen Furong to talk about it secretly for a while, and entrusted him with all the power of "Rong Baozhai". A bowl of water was flat, and he was also given a percentage of the shares. The big shopkeeper's annual red and commendation were counted separately.

Beside Hu Chuyuan, he also has another "Rong", that is, Wang Yirong. It is Wang Yirong in the north and Shen Furong in the south. These two honors add up to be regarded as the real "Rong Baozhai".

In this regard, Hu Chuyuan thought about it. With Wang Yirong's talent, it was easy to take the entrance examination for Jinshi, not to mention the appreciation of Wan Qing, the minister of the Ministry of officials in the capital.

Wang Yirong has the luck of being an official. He doesn't want to block people's future, but he hopes that Wang Yirong will devote himself to academics, study Oracle, Dunhuang Studies and other traditional Chinese studies.

Because everyone has their own talent, and Wang Yirong just doesn't have the talent to be an official.

Yan Shizhang is very talented as an official. It's a pity, it's a pity that he's old.

Speaking of the talent of being an official, Hu Chuyuan thought of Tan Zhonglin. He has also seen many high-ranking officials, but Tan Zhonglin is really awesome.

He thought that it was no wonder that this person could later achieve the throne of governor of Zhili, which was the highest authority among the governors of the world.

Compared with Tan Zhonglin, the current governor of Zhejiang, Mei Qizhao, and the former governor of Zhejiang, Yang Changjun, are all one after another.

There is a bad thing. Tan Zhonglin is relatively conservative. He has always been more disgusted with foreign affairs. On the other hand, he likes the "Jiangnan New Rural" plan advocated by Hu Chuyuan very much.

Thinking of this, Hu Chuyuan had to admit that no one is perfect.

Inadvertently, Hu Chuyuan found that he was in this layer of crisis, and he could think about things so calmly. There was no doubt that all this benefited from the existence of the four major shopkeepers.

There are big shopkeepers such as Chen Xiaobai, Liu Chengxiang, Tan Yiyun and Shen Furong. There are housekeepers like Wang Baotian and Hu Rong. There are young talents such as Lu Sanyuan and Zhang Lingpu who can be transferred, so that he can sit in the Hu Mansion at ease.

He quietly thought about distant things and felt more and more that when the salt disaster in the south of the Yangtze River was settled, he would really gather all his strength to do a few big things.

The first is "teaching the people". He wants to really prepare a few good schools in Shanghai. It is a good school. The National School and the Western School are set up first, followed by several middle schools, followed by the Business School, the Engineering Museum and the Agricultural School.

Secondly, he must gather most of the financial resources and manpower to truly do a good job in agriculture in the five provinces of the south of the Yangtze River, especially the three industries of silk tea and cotton. The second is the revival of the porcelain industry, and the preparation of silk reeling, dyeing, tea factories and cotton yarn factories.

Finally, he has to continue to fight with Sheng Xuanhuai. If the Shanghai Merchants Shipping Bureau can compete, he can compete. If he can't, he will organize the Jiangnan Shipping Bureau. The Telegraph Bureau must take it, and the amount of money will not hesitate - you know, this small telegram plays a key role in the reason why Hu Xueyan collapses.

Information is always the most important.

In the end, he had to consider the Fuzhou shipping administration. The bottomless hole had to be filled in, and the Fujian sailors had to find a way to rectify it.

Otherwise, He Jing will perform a good play to escape from the battle again.

He Jing should run away. At worst, he will not be an official, but Hu Chuyuan will be in trouble. In case the newly appointed governor of Fujian and Zhejiang is not a fuel-efficient person, or the Qing school, Manchu, Huai... Then it will be a big trouble, and there will undoubtedly be a fire in the backyard.

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Thinking of He Jing, Hu Chuyuan was full of anger.

At present, there are a lot of things to do. I only want speed, not momentum and omp.

Shen Furong and Gu Shouzang soon built a Rongbaozhai Shanghai store in Yuyuan Garden. The real place of work was in Hu Chuyuan's Hu Mansion. He also mobilized several appreciation masters from Suzhou and Hangzhou to identify antiques in the mansion.

I don't know whether the antiques that Zeng Guoyuan and others want to wash are true or false. If it is a fake, Hu Chuyuan has to prepare the real one by himself. Assets worth tens of millions of taels of silver were sold to him for only two million taels of silver, which is not so easy to earn.

A few days later, Xu Run came to see Hu Chuyuan.

He came, indicating that there was news about the raw silk.

Hu Chuyuan went out to greet him in person, and the two met at the door of the English villa.

Xu Run stepped forward with a smile and said to Hu Chuyuan, "I want to congratulate Mr. Hu on making a fortune!"

Hu Chuyuan laughed happily and immediately invited him into the living room to sit down. Then he asked, "Has the matter of raw silk been done?"

Xu Run took out a few initial agreements from his briefcase and said, "In the afternoon, it can be sent to foreigners for inspection. Yihe Yanghang, Wanbao Yanghang and Shaxun Yanghang are willing to buy 200,000 catties of Jiris, Wanbao Yanghang buy 100,000 catties of Jiris, and Qichang Yanghang buys 520,000 catties of Susi alone, only those Hangsi. ...This is a little troublesome. As a leader, I asked Qichang Yanghang to buy 100,000 catties, and the price is not high. In fact, Hangsi is not bad. Chunsi is also second-class, and Xiasi is a little worse than Husi.

Hu Chuyuan said, "It doesn't matter. I'll use it myself."

Xu Run couldn't help but be a little surprised and said, "How are you going to use 110,000 catties of raw silk?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "I'm not in a hurry to say this. I want to ask about the price!"

Xu Run smiled and said, "So, I want to congratulate Mr. Hu on making a fortune. All foreign banks were originally talking with Pang Yunyu. They were negotiating the price while contacting overseas dealers. As a result, I don't know if Pang Yunyu thought the price was low and refused to sell it again. It happened that I went to them again to talk about selling silk. The quantity and quality were good. They were afraid that I would retreat halfway. The price was very good. 7 taels and 6 cents of silver per catty, Susi 7 taels and 4 cents per catty. Even Hangsi has a good price of 6 taels and 8 cents. The payment will be handled in accordance with the rules of previous years. As long as the goods are on the ship, half of the money will be paid immediately, the other 30% will be paid in three months, and all the balance will be made up after half a year.

At this point, Xu Run smiled and said, "Congratulations, Mr. Hu, you have really made a fortune."

Hu Chuyuan couldn't help laughing and said to Xu Run, "Boss Xu is indeed the tea king of Shanghai, and his relationship with Yangxing is indeed unusual!"

Xu Run also laughed and said, "At this point, it's really not a boast. To tell you the truth, when I was negotiating with Yanghang to sell silk, Liu Yong and Ningbo businessmen were also talking, but my face is always bigger, and Yanghang also hopes to continue to cooperate with me in the future. I gathered all the foreign banks together and boasted that the court had given me all the raw silk confiscated. If I want to buy silk, I will talk about it now and talk about it today, otherwise I will lead other merchants to continue to press the silk. Of course, the foreign bank was in a hurry and signed the contract with me immediately.

After a pause, he sighed again and said, "However, Boss Liu Yong and Boss Pang Yun and Mr. Pang are in big trouble. I sell a lot of raw silk, and the major foreign countries are not full, but I don't have to worry about it. I'm afraid that the raw silk of Boss Liu and Boss Pang can't be sold for five taels of silver per catty!"

"Yes!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled bitterly. He knew that he had offended many people again this time.

But he can't control so much. On the one hand, he asked Tan Yiyun to be responsible for sending the silk to the ship, and on the other hand, he held a banquet to entertain Xu Run.

Halfway through the meal, Xu Run proposed to borrow another sum of money, which was not much... 800,000 yuan.

Hu Chuyuan more and more felt that there was something wrong with Xu Run's capital chain, but he still agreed without thinking. When Tan Yiyun and Chen Xiaobai came over in the evening, they asked Chen Xiaobai, and then they knew... After Tang Tingshu's 20% of shares in the Shanghai Shipping Merchants Bureau were confiscated, they belonged to the court, and the official shares of the Shipping Bureau were It has reached 60%.

Even if Xu Run is a real operator, Li Hongzhang still let Zheng Guanying, an ally of Sheng Xuanhuai, be the head office of the shipping bureau, and intends to let Zheng Guanying invest in the purchase of some shares.

In order to maintain his position in the shipping bureau, Xu Run can only compete with Zheng Guanying to acquire the shares of other businessmen and maintain the status of a major shareholder.

In this case, Hu Chuyuan was not polite. He immediately asked Chen Xiaobai and Xu Runming to say that as long as he robbed the share capital of the shipping bureau, no matter how much it was, he could borrow it, and the interest rate was excellent.