[Chapter Word Count: 3353 Last Updated: 2014-10-0908:25:58.0]

Just when Huang Juren was running around with his family to give gifts, Xiao Letian was beaming with his subordinates and began to prepare for the celebration ceremony for tomorrow's opening. The foreign bank was wiped with clean water inside and out, and the loess at the door was padded three times and rammed three times, which was strong and smooth, and the key was to cover up all the odors of yesterday.

The opening of the foreign bank must be all over the invitation, Tanggu 300 foreign companies plus black and white friends must have an invitation card to be delivered, people come to talk about it, but this etiquette can not be abolished, otherwise the scene is troublesome.

There are many things to do for the opening, the coastal building must be chartered, the flowing water seat must be prepared in advance, hundreds of thousands of firecrackers are ordered from Liuyang, and someone must be found to take care of it, and even the bowls for the tea of the guests, including the scattered copper for the rice flower child to be rewarded, can not make the slightest mistake on the big day.

"A little higher on the left, yes, yes...... What a shit, are you hanging yourself or hanging......"

"Here, here to tamp the level, make more efforts, I will ask you to eat the dog at noon......"

"What? Let me write two invitations...... Do they know me when I write foreign words, and I play with ......"

Xiao Lotian was obviously very excited today, scurrying back and forth in his Lotte Bank, and he didn't help but made a lot of trouble.

He is excited, in his previous life and today, Lotte never thought that he would be able to open a company one day, and it was a multinational company, plus the excitement of killing and setting fire last night had not passed, this guy jumped up and down to find trouble for everyone. In the end, Fan Yao forced Xiao Lotian to go out for a walk, and everyone invited this troublemaker away.

Xiao Letian took Long Ye and two clever guys, bored back and forth at Tanggu Wharf, one would teach Long Ye to know the national flags of various countries, and the other would bargain with fishermen selling seafood, not knowing that in the guest room on the second floor of a cargo station, a group of people were secretly observing him.

Hiding behind the window is the cattle shopkeeper of the Sihai Cargo Station who has drunk with **Ren, he is obviously the head of this group of merchants, and everyone's eyes are focused on him, without saying a word.

The shopkeeper Niu looked at it for a while, closed the window casually, and whispered to everyone, "Everyone knows what happened last night, right?" This Xiao Lotian is not easy to bully, this is a raptor, the pigtailed grandson is completely planted, I heard that the surname Xiao killed several ......."

The people of Tanggu already know about the fire of the Huang Ju family today, and the people also know that the fire is very strange, but only the real big people know the details behind the fire. The shopkeeper Niu and the surrounding businessmen are the ones who are qualified to know this detail, and now they don't speak with solemn faces.

It took a long time for someone to speak, "Shopkeeper Niu, it is said that we have discussed with Huang Ye to deal with Xiao Letian together, and we should not regret it, but last night's incident was really ...... It's really chilling, let's be a businessman after all, is it really good to provoke this kind of person?"

One person spoke, and everyone echoed it, but there were also opposing voices: "Then what should we do?" I have already promised **Ren, and now I regret it? What can't he and the pigtailed grandson do, don't sprinkle all your anger on us when the time comes...... The business has just seen an improvement, but I can't afford to toss it......"

"So what to do, the left side can't afford to provoke, the right side doesn't dare to offend, and in the end, we will be unlucky......"

The shopkeeper saw that everyone was talking nonsense, and said with a long sigh, "It's all quiet, complaining can't solve the problem, we are businessmen, we have to use businessmen's methods to solve it, I have a plan, let's see if it's feasible......"

After speaking, the cattle shopkeeper took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, "Generally, on the day of the opening of the firm, one or two businesses will be arranged to please a good mouth, which is also a common practice." But this Lotte foreign store is relatively big, yesterday Fan Ru actually came to visit me, want to buy some bristles from me......"

Through the introduction of the shopkeeper of Guò Niu, people knew that Lotte had actually taken such a big deal, and the bristle trade of the French merchant ship "Lucky" actually made Lotte Foreign Bank give it a round!

At the port of Tanggu, a French merchant ship Lucky arrived just last month, carrying Indian tobacco and Javanese spices, including Europe's best-selling velvet, crystal lamps and other groceries, and it was not completely unloaded until 10 days ago. Now is the time for big buys.

In addition to the fixed tea, silk, and porcelain, there is also a very important cargo that the merchant ship wants to purchase from China, and that is pig bristles.

The average person may not understand how the bristle can become an important commodity in the ocean-going trade, but in the modern history of mankind, the bristle trade is really a very important commodity.

When the petroleum and chemical fiber industry did not rise, human beings wanted to make brushes, and the only thing they could use was animal hair. And the vast majority of animal hair is too soft to make a zuò brush. The only exception is pig bristles, which are not only elastic but also easy to mass-produce because they are the hair of farmed animals, which is why they are considered a very important commodity by humans.

Housewives at home need bristle brushes to clean the kitchen, factory workers need bristle brushes to clean machinery, and even seafarers need bristle brushes to clean decks. At that time, China was one of the largest pig farmers in the world, and there was no way, who would have made pork so marketable in China.

Therefore, since the opening of the Qing Dynasty, the bristle trade has always been a very profitable foreign exchange business, although it is inconspicuous, but the trickle has made a lot of benefits for the Qing Dynasty.

This time, the captain of the Lucky has already said that as long as the Chinese businessman has a pig bristle, he is willing to buy a kilogram of a piece of Mexican Eagle Ocean at a high price, and he wants as much as he wants, even if the Lucky can't be stuffed, it doesn't matter, he would rather hire a ship to bring it back home.

A word stirred up a thousand waves, the entire Tanggu 300 oceans exercised all their efforts to desperately transfer goods, this is a large merchant ship full of goods of 1,000 tons, if it is full of pig bristles, this is a big business of one million silver dollars, not to mention that the lucky has already said, how many to have, so that this business can reach at least 1.4 million silver dollars, which is converted into a million taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty.

Such a big business, almost made the businessmen crazy, countless bristle goods began to gather in Tanggu, and even Shanxi, Shandong, Henan bristle prices began to float upward, as for the price of pig bristles in Zhili, it skyrocketed by three percent.

But just as everyone was excitedly waiting for the French businessman to start buying, an unexpected news came. Three days ago, the captain of the Lucky suddenly spoke, and he handed over all the entrustment of the bristle trade to the newly opened Lotte Foreign Company. In other words, everyone's bristles can only be sold to Xiao Lotian, and the French do not accept bulk goods.

The shopkeeper sighed, "I just got the accurate information yesterday afternoon, Xiao Letian's face is boundless, for this business, he actually entrusted the relationship with the US Embassy, and the French have to give face if the Americans come forward...... Hey, I didn't believe it until now, Xiao Letian is really through the sky......"

"Not only that, but last night Fan Yao also sent someone to send me a message, saying that he didn't make a single copper on this transaction, and he collected and handed over a dollar, just for the sake ......of popularity."

The crowd exploded with a bang, this is incredible, the transaction of a million taels is actually done in vain? The average business has such a deal, it is enough to eat for ten years, this Xiao Lotian is actually so atmospheric!

Looking at everyone's gossip, the shopkeeper knocked on the table, "Be quiet, be quiet...... The plan I said is here, tomorrow we will use this deal to support his Fan Yao's field, a dollar and a kilogram, we will open it to him, as much as you want, but ...... We have one condition, we don't owe a cent on the spot......"

After the cattle shopkeeper finished speaking, the people present gasped, this is really a yang conspiracy, the people present have at least six or seven hundred tons of pig bristles in their hands, piled up in dozens of large warehouses, if this is all converted into cash, isn't it a mountain of gold?

"Not only can we not owe money, but we don't want silver tickets, we have to see cash, I don't believe that they will open with more than one million taels ......of cash?

Vicious, this conspiracy is really vicious enough, in the Qing Dynasty at that time, when it comes to such a large amount of buying and selling transactions, both parties will allow a few days of account period, without saying that it will be settled on the spot. Because there were no modern banks in the Qing Dynasty at that time, the financial system was very backward, and there were no transfers, checks and other things. The buyer and seller will definitely give each other time to raise money. One million taels of silver, that's a full 35 tons of silver, how could such a large amount of wealth be placed in a trading house that has just opened.

The shopkeeper smiled slightly, "We are serious businessmen, we don't do illegal things, and we have to follow the rules of doing business." If Xiao Letian didn't have so much money, he would leave Tanggu as soon as possible and do business with the group of Shanxi vinegar jars as soon as possible. Maritime trading is not as simple as he thinks......"

"What if he did take the cash?" someone asked cautiously. This sentence made the shopkeeper frown at that time, and pondered for a long time, "If he can really come up with so much cash, then let's honestly bow our heads to him and be honest......"

"But I still don't believe it, how many Hu Xueyan are there in the Qing Dynasty? If he can really come up with so much money, he will be the well-known God of Wealth in the North, at least on the same level as Hu Xueyan...... If he really gets to that level, I'm afraid the end of Huang Juren and the pigtailed grandchildren will come......"

There was a dead silence in the guest room of the Sihai Cargo Station, and everyone felt a little chill in their hearts, if they really offended a big man whose power could reach the level of Hu Xueyan, how could they still mix in the mall, it was better to pack up and go home to see the children.

"This is a gamble, and this gamble is too ruthless......"

It's not just the cattle shopkeeper and their group of businessmen who are betting on it, the current pigtails Sun and Huang Juren are also gambling, Huang Ye is smiling in the Tongzhi Mansion and Xietai Yamen, one person gives 10,000 taels of silver and two actors, which is in exchange for the vague nod of the two powerful adults.

And the pigtailed grandson is even harder, he led a group of gangsters to engage in tandem in the countryside, and even made a wish and said that the benefits of tax exemption were stunned.

"Don't you believe it, but you can't believe it, don't you believe that you can't raise people? Last time, you all did it once, didn't there be an accident? As long as you make a little more trouble this time, there will be three buckets of grain to be exempted at that time, and the family will get four more buckets of grain after the autumn......

The common people looked left and right, and their eyes were full of excitement and greed, "It's done, collect four more buckets of grain, and give my grandson steamed white flour steamed buns to eat during the New Year......"