(TXT ) (TXT ) (TXT) After the four of them had the most basic foundation of cooperation, it was agreed on the spot that Zhang Bishi would invest two million taels and Sheng Xuanhuai would invest one million taels to build a separate courtyard on Weishan Island.

Among the four, Li Dacheng and Sheng Xuanhuai were the most eager to cooperate, but the two were not in a hurry to talk about cooperation, not because they didn't want to talk about it, but because the timing and time were not right.

Moreover, Meng Luochuan and Sheng Xuanhuai are all scholars, and some things are too utilitarian to do.

After a short conversation, the other three people each integrated into their own small circles, Li Dacheng had Li Cheng on his side, so naturally he had nothing to do, so he found an excuse to leave Weishan Island.

In the evening, Li Chengyou brought back good news, this group of businessmen from the south is also wealthy, in the middle of the afternoon, a throw of five million taels, this is not counting Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhang Bishi's donations, these people are just a group of southern businessmen, according to this scale, short-term financing of one or two hundred million, it must be appropriate.

"How's the coinage going?"

When it comes to the circulation of silver money, it is necessary to pay attention to a benchmark currency, the currency system of the Qing Dynasty is unimaginably chaotic, the Ming and Qing dynasties mint money, machine coinage, official silver and private bank, official bills and private bills, all kinds of silver coins, and paper money of various countries have their own markets.

The donations to the school are all in cash, even if it will not be settled immediately, it will take a month or two. Cash silver will also be sent, most of the silver donated to the medical palace is the silver taels privately minted by various merchants, although the official silver and the private silver are the same thing, but there is a fire consumption. The lowest fire consumption in each province is also about 10%, because of a fire consumption, private bank will depreciate on the ground.

Foreign silver coins such as Yingyang and Benyang are also said to subsidize the water, and the only thing that can be exchanged with the official silver is Longyang, which is just a change in shape. There is at least a price difference of one percent, it doesn't matter how many taels or dozens of taels, but tens of millions of taels of silver, the difference in water alone is a lot of wealth.

Some time ago in Jiaozhou Mansion, Li Dacheng asked those people from the Beiyang Machinery Bureau to try it a few times. As long as the raw materials are fine, there is no problem, but the scale of the original Beiyang Machinery Bureau Mint is too small to mint enough currency to impact the market in the short term.

"Uncle, we have placed orders for mints in Britain, the United States, Germany and France, but it takes time for them to be manufactured and shipped. It will take three months at the earliest for us to have 100 mints, and if we want more, it will take at least half a year.

Those from the Machine Bureau. I have been making steel molds for Longyang and copper plates in various provinces, four months! In four months, we can mint a lot of coins. ”

It's time again, and when he heard the words, Li Dacheng also sighed lightly, and the feeling of not waiting for me came to his heart again.

"Hurry up! In the near future, we will try to use the official silver, and if we don't succeed, we will build a few silver stoves in the pot workshop in Jiaozhou Mansion. Self-minted official silver, in the space of four months. You also have to stock up on some copper, and add a batch of plate-pressing machines. Bullet shells also need this, copper, try to reserve as many as possible, at least ten ships! ”

After thinking about it for a while, Li Dacheng didn't rush too much, these things were not in a hurry, and after about estimating, he also put forward requirements to Li Chengyou, a shipload of copper is calculated according to 1,000 tons, ten ships of copper are 10,000 tons, and the purchasing power of a copper plate can be calculated almost by one dollar, and 10,000 tons of copper is almost enough for temporary coinage.

"Uncle, the copper is cheaper on our side, but the government has restrictions, and the foreign ones are at least thirty percent more expensive, and some have to pay for the freight, the price difference here is very large, do you want Guibeile to accommodate the local governments? Let's buy cheaper copper from Huguang, Yungui and Guizhou? ”

Exports and imports, there is a big price difference, in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, copper only half of the market price, some even lower, transported to Shanghai Road, the price has to be doubled, but the domestic copper even if the freight doubled, the price is much lower than that of foreign countries, foreign imports of copper are a redundant cost.

"Let's do this matter ourselves, Dachenggong's affairs, you have been paying more attention recently, once the old lady returns to Luan, I won't have time to take care of your side."

Copper, is also one of the strategic minerals of the Qing Dynasty, the provincial machinery bureaus, mints are staring at the southwest of the copper, now this matter can not be messed with, Li Dacheng did not answer the refusal of Li Chengyou's request, ten ships of copper is only two or three million taels, because two or three million, let the government and the opposition pay attention to Guishun's side, inappropriate!

"Second master, Sheng Xuanhuai is visiting!"

Li Dacheng's account room Wang Maozhai's voice interrupted Li Cheng's words to complain, money is in the eyes of Uncle Dacheng, this period of time is not money, Dacheng Gong, Zhenwei Army, Medical Mansion, this silver money is like flowing water, except for the goods and the warehouse under construction, there is no money at all, just such a flower, no matter how much silver is not enough to spend!

"Please!

Sincerely, you let the people of Dacheng Gong count it, the state and county where the promotion of sweet sorghum on the ground in Shandong is good, Zhang Bishi is the king of Nanyang sugar, in terms of green pole sugar and wine making, he should be able to help us, rum matter, you also communicate with the people brought by Zhang Bishi, they are more familiar with the foreign wine market.

The promotion of sweet sorghum, Dacheng Gong should also work harder, do not achieve the prepayment of a part of the grain, the main area, just Jiaoji line, Jiaoyi line shall prevail!

In addition, gather the foreign currency in our hands, in the near future, the materials of the Jiaoyi line will also be prepared, Hanyang Iron Works is afraid that there is no hope, can only buy materials, purchase railway materials, with the United States foreign banks as the mainstay, first spend the ruble of Lao Maozi, try to spend the ruble in a short period of time, the war in the three eastern provinces is opened, the ruble is afraid to be discounted. ”

Ignoring the sad nephew, Li Dacheng added another burden to him, Sheng Xuanhuai came, Jiaoyi line and Jiaoji line should be able to be constructed in two lines, and the materials of Jiaoji line. The Germans will handle it, the materials of the Jiaoyi line, Hanyang is now exclusively for the Jinghan Railway, and the quality of the rails in Hanyang is not as good as the goods from abroad. The railway is an important basic project, and if you want to build the Jiaoyi line quickly with high quality, it is necessary to purchase materials from outside.

The promotion of sweet sorghum along the Jiaoji line and the Jiaoyi line also has an examination school in terms of interests, and it is impossible to plant sweet sorghum in every inch of land in Shandong. The land along the Jiaoji Line, especially along the Jiaoyi Line, is relatively barren, which is suitable for growing crops such as sorghum.

And sugar and wine are also considered luxuries in life for the people of the Qing Dynasty now, making sugar and wine. Or to export Shandong, Shandong Province, I am afraid that it will not be able to consume the sugar and wine production capacity brought by sweet sorghum in the future, with the arrival of Zhang Bishi, many things in Dacheng Gong will be gathered, Li Cheng has difficulties, Li Dacheng will naturally not be unclear, but it is difficult to do things!

"Got it!"

He stooped over and responded. Li Cheng followed Wang Maozhai out listlessly, Uncle Dacheng is easy to speak, but it is difficult to do things below! Let's just say this mint. The comprador of the foreign devil, but he cheated him on this item, and hastily purchased the minting machine, and it was purchased by a private person, which naturally cannot be made public, and the compradors of the major foreign banks are also very thieves. The price given is more than double the price of the minting machine purchased by the Beiyang Machinery Bureau. It's hundreds of thousands of unjust money.

If you do it slowly, you will need to spend more money, and this is the case with the medical office. The minting machine is like this, but I am afraid that the machine for making sugar and wine is also like this, not to mention the materials of the glue line......

"When Master Sheng arrived, Li Er was far away."

Sheng Xuanhuai came quickly, Li Dacheng had just gotten up and was about to go out to greet him, and Sheng Xuanhuai had already walked quickly to the small courtyard.

"The second master is polite, how dare you greet the second master in person!"

"Hehe, then it's not polite, come in, Maozhai, let people serve tea."

Introducing Sheng Xuanhuai into the house, the two sat down as guests, and Li Dacheng was not in a hurry to speak, so he asked Wang Maozhai to prepare refreshments first, and the conversation between the two must be very time-consuming.

"Living and moving qi and nourishing the body, the second master does not change his original intention, it is commendable!"

After opening the tea cup, a smell of jasmine diffuses in the house, with the spread of the fragrance of flower tea, Sheng Xuanhuai's face is slowly becoming complicated, flower tea is not in the hall most of the time, the north drinks more flower tea, the reason for water quality accounts for the majority, Sheng Xuanhuai is like this, you don't need to look at the smell to know the quality of the tea, and the tea that Li Dacheng asked people to send is obviously not a good tea.

"Huh...... I'm used to drinking, I'm a rough person, don't mind Master Shan.

Master Sheng must have something to say here, right? ”

Shanghua tea is not Li Dacheng to treat Sheng Xuanhuai harshly, but the habit of training during this time, after training, a lot of hydration is needed, Fei Shenfu also said that drinking tea can relieve fatigue, and Southern tea Li Dacheng feels that it is too light, and flower tea has become something he drinks daily, and there is not much attention to when he goes out, drinking tea is better than drinking white water.

Hearing Li Dacheng's statement, Sheng Xuanhuai also breathed a sigh of relief, don't look at this tea, it represents the attitude of the owner, tea, tea, good tea, in the officialdom is not a joke, but it is true, now many people do the same, meet ordinary people only serve ordinary tea, the grade of this flower tea is too low, Sheng Xuanhuai just asked is also afraid of missing some subtle things.

"Huh...... It's the apricot sunflower who has a lot of heart.

Presumably, the second master also knows the roots of Xingsun, and Xingsun came this time to talk to the second master about the railroad and the ship. ”

Second Master Li spoke very directly, Sheng Xuanhuai was constantly adapting, and after a short polite greeting, Sheng Xuanhuai also came to the point.

"Railroads vs. ships, what? Does Shanda want to have an official supervision and business office for Dacheng Gong? ”

Sheng Xuanhuai made a fortune, but also has its disgraceful side, the official supervision and business office, in fact, is the Qing Dynasty, a means of controlling and suppressing businessmen, whether it is Dacheng Gong or the plague hall, Li Dacheng is a sole proprietorship business, even if the shopkeepers in charge, there is no qualification to buy shares, they can just get a lot of dividends, Li Dacheng does not want anyone to interfere in the matter of management rights, his business can only be decided by himself.

Railway, now Li Dacheng only has a wharf branch line, which is nothing, and the construction of the Jiaoyi line will take at least a year or two, I am afraid that Sheng Xuanhuai really looks at dozens of merchant ships on the other side of Jiaozhou Bay.

With the help of the plague blessing, Li Dacheng bought a considerable number of ocean-going cargo ships, and generally more than 2,000 tons, now Li Dacheng has the number of ships in his hands, the steamship China Merchants and Taikoo Shipping Company combined, not as many as his ships, but during this time, most of these cargo ships purchased are training seafarers, and they are not capable of competing in the shipping market of the Qing Dynasty, but this time will not be too far, at most three or five months, dozens of cargo ships, you can try to operate.

Such a shipping force is enough to change the structure of the shipping industry in the Qing Dynasty, before the steamship China Merchants Bureau crushed the Qichang shipping company, with Gui Shun as the background, Li Dacheng's shipping company may not collapse the steamship China Merchants Bureau, telegraph, shipping is Sheng Xuanhuai's fundamental interests, he didn't want to watch the steamship China Merchants Bureau was crushed by Li Dacheng's shipping company, so he came to Weishan.

"Xingsun doesn't dare! With the number of cargo ships in the hands of the second master, if it is merged into China Merchants, it will definitely be able to account for a large share in China Merchants.

From home and overseas, this is the omen of shipping prosperity! ”

was hit by Li Dacheng's embarrassing thing in making a fortune, Sheng Xuanhuai also had some scalp numbness, and he couldn't get straight to the point! Good words become threats, and this thing is troublesome.

Sheng Xuanhuai, as an official businessman, is not only the general office of the steamship China Merchants Bureau and the telegraph bureau, but also the supervision of the railway company and the yarn mills in the south of the Yangtze River.

The merchants below, Sheng Xuanhuai can naturally use the imperial court to eat them, but the one in front of him is different, if the imperial court can suppress Li Ershen, there will be no Jingu War!

Sheng Xuanhuai, who is good at euphemism, played a straightforward trick, which put him in an embarrassing situation at once, threatening the master in front of him, but it would really be fatal.

"A sign of great prosperity? It's a sign of your prosperity, right? If you take a stake in China Merchants, I'm afraid that Lao Tzu's fleet will be put on the warehouse!

Master Shan, do you know why Lord Belle doesn't accept your refuge? Because of Lao Tzu!

Lao Tzu is not targeting you Sheng Xuanhuai, Lao Tzu is targeting the big hat of officials and businessmen on your head, you know why, right? ”

Sheng Xuanhuai's meaning, Li Dacheng generally understood, but his words were not good, let his fleet merge into China Merchants, didn't he treat him as a big family to eat? So in the tone, Li Dacheng also brought some fireworks here.

"What does the second master mean is that Xingsun is too deeply tied to officialdom?"

"What do you say? Do you calculate how many officials' short shares you have in those properties under your name? And how many shareholders are serious businessmen? ”

"Second master, the right to operate major industries, Xingsun still has the final say!"

Hearing Sheng Xuanhuai say that he has the right to decide on management, Li Dacheng smiled, this is the key to Li Dacheng's non-cooperation with Sheng Xuanhuai, he really wants to have the right to operate, then it's good! (To be continued...) ）。。。。。。

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