It has been four months since I returned to the Qing Dynasty, and after more than a month, a hastily written registration document was in hand after these scattered pieces of silver dotted the villagers of Zaolin Town, and after more than a month, a hastily written registration document was in hand. The buddy is mixed with the town household registration of the Qing Dynasty. I spent 20 yuan Yingyang to buy a piece of mountainous land in the south of Yueerzhuang, I saw that the old man was staring at me with the eyes of Brother Mao, and he couldn't stop introducing a famous doctor in the city, and he was quite conscientious, worried that I was guilty of hysteria. It is understandable that spending a lot of money on Yinyang to buy a wasteland where there are too many stones to bury the dead, is indeed a mistake. I had to say: "I can see the city in the east, the scenery is good, I want to live more conveniently" The old man probably looked at the paperwork and was printed, so he didn't say much more, shook his head and went into the house with his hands behind his back, but the grandson of the old man ran to me and looked around, I pretended to be friendly and bowed down and asked: "Little friend, what are you looking at?" The child's father rushed out, pouted at me, probably a smile, rolled up the child and disappeared, leaving me hunched in front of the old courtyard of the township. In the distance, at the corner of the alley, a few big girls and little daughters-in-law desperately covered their mouths and suppressed suffocating laughter came, although I couldn't see anyone, I also knew that I was laughing at me, the number one loser, laugh, don't suffocate you! I turned around in hatred and walked out of the village.

Now I have been to Jinan Mansion four times, and I am generally familiar with the situation in Jinan Mansion, but there is no other way to get money except to go to different pawnshops to pawn watches. Fortunately, the cheap and suitable batch of my mechanical watch is suitable, and now I can be at the level of fifteen taels of flat silver per piece. To prevent people from seeing the flaws, I almost walked all over the large and small pawnshops in Jinan Mansion, hey, a handful of bitter tears.

Today I went into the city again, I finally learned to ride a mule, and the big green mule I bought was put in my hometown, and I let him call it for free, and I also saved myself from taking care of the livestock, but fortunately there were no travelers of the same era, otherwise I would have been rated as the most unproductive traveler award. Arrived at the five-mile archway in the west of the city, got off the mule to rest, there began to be a tea stall on the roadside, drink a bowl of big leaf sunshine wild tea, and the heat disappeared. This archway in front of you is stone, about three meters high, two meters wide, two stone pillars are erected on the two bases, engraved on the "handkerchief seven feet in front of the spirit, do not regret until death." With the parents in the ground, hand in hand", the upper end of the stone pillar two layers of beams, the middle of the carved "filial piety parents", the upper end of the beam for the dragon pattern flower top cover. In fact, this square is "filial piety square", and then because of this, the square lives in the city of five miles, and people commonly call this square "five miles of archway". After listening to the stall owner's talk about the ancients, I was also a little fascinated, and I didn't know that a third hand was quietly leaning over beside me. "Snap" the third hand was knocked off, this one was still seven dissatisfied, eight were not angry, and he turned his head and scolded: "Women, are you going to die" This looked at the son of the robe and horse coat behind him and the four short-dressed nurses, he knew that something was wrong, and before he could get his senses, he was slapped and made him swing his teeth on his back, and a little guy in a green coat and a small hat rolled up on the "You second-rate bastard thing, Malier's plucking feet, and then begging to stick here in vain, I will take out your bezoar dog Baolai." Frightened, this one got up and slipped away.

"Thank you for your help," I don't think it's like acting in a costume play.

"Flutter" The boy smiled, "Come on, man, you are not a protégé of Confucius, I have something to talk to you about"

"The unconsulted son is"

"The little master is the fourth young master of the Huantai Miao family" The little guy turned his back and cocked his thumb, which is called an arrogance.

"Finally found the master" I said in my heart: "I'm afraid that no one knows the goods, and this clear-eyed person will live", got on the car of the Miao family, and I searched for the information of the Miao family through the BA implantation system: "The Miao Group is formed by Miao Shihou (Deqing), Miao Shiyuan (Xingcun), Miao Shide (Xingheng), Miao Shixun (Hainan) four cousins, they have founded more than a dozen enterprises in the past few decades, such as Gongju such as the grain stack, Hengju and the grain stack, Gongju and the grain stack, Tongju Changliang Stack, Chengfeng Flour Mill, Chengji Flour Mill, Xi'an Chengfeng Flour Mill, Chengtong Sand Factory, Chengda Sand Factory, Wende Iron Factory, Nanji Pufeng Flour Mill, etc. Before the Miao brothers came to Jinan, they lived in Suo Town, Huantai County, Shandong. In 1894, the Miao family partnered with Rong Zhongsen, a large oil store in Suozhen, to open a Juheng oil mill, and by 1898 it made a profit of 3,000 taels of silver, and the two families each shared a dividend of 1,000 taels of silver. At this time, Suozhen spread the saying that "if you want to make a fortune, you have to go to Jinan", Miao Shihou and Miao Shiyuan were quite moved, and in 1899, Zheng Jinsheng and Yang Yuxuan each gave 1,000 taels of silver, and Miao Shihou and Miao Shiyuan opened a grain store in Luokou, Jinan. At that time, the two were afraid that they would come to Jinan to "be unfamiliar with the place" and would not be able to stand, so they discussed with Rong Zhongsen, took out 200 taels of silver from Juheng Oil Mill, and asked Zheng Jinsheng to go to the Yamen of Shandong Governor's Yamen. Rong Zhongsen also donated a tribute student, awarded six ranks, and was alternated for the state judge of Zhili Prefecture. Subsequently, Miao Shihou and Miao Shiyuan went to Luokou to open Gongju and Grain Inn. After 6 years of operation, the grain stack made a profit of 7,000 taels of silver.

Encouraged by the success of the first grain store, in 1906, Miao Shihou and Rong Zhongsen decided to use the dividend of 4,000 taels of silver for 6 years in Suozhen Hengju Oil Mill as the base gold to open another Hengju and grain store in Luokou, with Miao Shihou as the manager and Miao Shiyuan as the deputy manager. Since then, the two grain stacks exchanged information, cooperated with each other, and were always in a favorable position in the competition, and the Miao family made a profit of 5,000 taels of silver in a few years. In 1910, with the 5,000 taels of silver as the base gold, the Miao family's sole proprietorship enterprise was opened in Luokou, with Miao Shiyuan as the manager. This was on the eve of the Xinhai Revolution, the situation was unstable, and the joint venture Rong, Zheng, and Yang were afraid that the grain stack would suffer losses, and asked to divide or withdraw their shares. After negotiation, the oil mill in Suozhen was operated by the Rong family, and the grain store in Jinan was operated by the Miao family, and the shares and dividends of the Zheng and Yang families were returned at the same time. In order to facilitate the operation, the Miao family abolished the Gongju and Hengju and the grain stack, and only retained the public gathering and grain stack in Luokou, and at the same time opened the Hengju Chengtan stack near the Jinan Railway Station in 1911. This is, Jinan's trading center has shifted from Luokou to the commercial port, and the Miao family seized this opportunity to build 30 business buildings in 1912 on Jingyiwei 4th Road, and changed the charcoal stack to a grain stack. As a result, the Miao family's grain store business entered a glorious period. Two years later, the Miao family's grain stack made a profit of nearly 50 times! As a result, Miao ascended to the position of the overlord of Jinan's grain industry, and monopolized the Guangbang raw rice business for 22 years.

It is said that Miao Shiyuan is good at management, and he first told the industry that he would not only collect a penny but also keep it properly when he came to Hengjucheng. After hearing this, many owners of grain stacks with weak strength and narrow warehouses were very happy and turned Miao Shiyuan into their own warehouse. When the merchants arrived in Jinan, Miao Shiyuan led them to the warehouse, and the mountains of sacks stunned the merchants: Jinan has such a powerful businessman! The deal was done all at once.

After the First World War, when China's exports of grain and oil crops surged, Guangdong merchants and compradors of foreign merchants living in Guangdong went north to seek supplies, and Miao Shiyuan took the initiative to join forces with them and won their trust. When we first started working together, there was an abnormal weather year, the peanut harvest failed, and the price of raw rice rose sharply. At this time, the Guangdong merchants booked futures in advance, and if they acted according to the contract, the Miao family suffered heavy losses. But Miao Shiyuan made a decisive decision and still acted according to the contract, and the loss was fully covered by Hengjucheng! This business is a loss, and the Miao family is equivalent to working for nothing for two years. But as a result of this, Hengjucheng's reputation in the grain and oil industry has suddenly been established. Since then, the Guangdong merchants have been unable to do business with the Miao family, and the raw rice business has been completely monopolized by the Miao family. Miao Shiyuan later also founded a flour mill and a yarn factory, and the Lufeng Yarn Mill, which he rented and then bought, was renamed Chengda Yarn Factory, which is today's No. 1 National Cotton Factory.

Miao Shiyuan is kind-hearted, quite good at traveling, and works very diligently, and it is said that every day before dawn he takes a car to inspect the factory, forcing his subordinates not to slack off. When he died of illness, the funeral procession lined up from Wei 12 Road to Wei 2 Road, and the funeral was also held at the same time in Huantai's hometown, and even the political leaders at that time, Vice Chairman Wang, Chen Gongbo and others sent wreaths.

This Miao Fourth Master is probably Miao Shixun (Hainan), thinking of this, I arched my hand: "It turned out to be Brother Hainan in person, I don't know what the younger brother can serve?" "Okay, man, this is the door," the little guy was so happy that he couldn't see his mouth. "Smack" was slapped in the back of the head. "Rude" Miao Hainan is also very strange, it is said that he was looking for more than ten days to find the master, the Miao family is also a newcomer in Jinan Mansion, it is normal to say that his hometown Suozhen is a household name, but he is obviously an idle one in the family, the second brother has a wide range of people, and it is not uncommon for some people to know, how can he be famous. I naturally won't say it, the two of them immediately got acquainted, chatted for a long time before understanding, it turned out that this was from a pawnshop friend heard that the pawnshop in Jinan has recently received a lot of good watches, exquisite workmanship, and the price is not expensive, but the way is not clear, and the price cannot be sold. So I thought about it and wanted to see if there was any oil and water at the source, and of course it was not ruled out that this fourth master was purely idle.

"So brother, you are home-grown," Miao Siye was taken aback. "My brother's family has a workshop"

"The workshop is overseas" I quickly blocked the conversation, in case this master wants to visit, will he be beaten to slag by the machine gun tower and not to mention, the automatic production line of the working cabin alone is enough for him to go crazy. "This time, I am going back to my hometown and taking care of the market."

The two of them seemed to be affectionately probing each other at the bottom of the sea, and after chatting all the way, they became even more angry.

"What does my brother mean by this three turns and one ring?"

"Three turns are watches, bicycles, sewing machines, and one ring is a record player"

"The watch is naturally my brother's family, I have also seen the bicycle, the second boy of Luo Sanye's family has ridden, one big and one small wheels are tightly pedaling, but it is also an interesting thing, what is this sewing machine, it can be used to sew clothes."

"In fact, the brothers' overseas workshops can produce it, and this time I will bring some simple equipment to try the market, if it is good, I will also set up a shop in Jinan Mansion."

"Cheng, don't say anything else, just your watch, Jinan Mansion, isn't it the only one in the entire Qing Dynasty, it turned out to be a rare thing made by foreigners, I didn't expect the brother's family to make it more fine, but the family is now my second brother has the final say, or I will be the east, our brother Tiegong Temple mat some lotus leaf buns, while eating, etc., the second brother accompanied the old lady to the Arctic Temple incense, and let Xiaoliu call him for a while, I will tell you, my second brother has a lively brain, and he will say him as soon as he has a stomach of business."

"Brother Yixian, I was about to ask Brother Xingcun for benefits in person."

"Hey, it's sour again, my second brother is a businessman, and he won't drag the text."

The book is brief, after eating the lotus leaf buns of Daming Lake, a few of us came to the Arctic Temple with laughter and laughter.

"Second brother, I brought it to you, let me tell you, this brother's workshop is really not said, this watch is better than the British goods, but unfortunately it is overseas, I can't see it."

"Fourth brother, Hugh is rude. I don't want to introduce it to my brother. ”

"Okay, second brother, ahhh

Miao Xingcun and I looked at each other, both of them were full of black lines, and we chatted for a long time about this Nanhai brother, and I didn't remember who the other party's surname was!