The potential descendants of the big family, at most, are remotely controlled behind their backs, but if they want to come forward in person, it is unlikely, they can't afford to lose this face.

The most typical is the Zhili Textile Bank, which can be said to be the largest private bank in China at present, and it is also the largest private enterprise, with assets under management of more than 50 million taels of silver.

The vast majority of the bank's shares are controlled in the hands of the major gentry families in Jiangnan through various means, such as direct shareholding, or through companies, institutional shareholdings, etc., well, they are basically typical official families similar to the Chen Lifu family, famous gentry.

However, among the twenty or so famous gentry families, none of the outstanding young generations in each family held a position in the Zhili Textile Company, even if it was a high-ranking official.

Because the outstanding generation of these gentry families are becoming officials one by one!

Even if he is not an official, he is studying hard, desperately trying to apply for Guozijian University, Jinling University, Jiangnan University, and then pass the examination to become an official.

Studying and becoming an official is their main business, and going to business is called not doing business.

Yang Cheng, naturally, does not belong to the outstanding generation of these gentry families, his eldest brother Yang Lin is, and he Yang Cheng belongs to the one who was abandoned.

But even so, as a descendant of the gentry family, he personally went into business, this kind of thing is still rare, because many other gentry descendants who can't even enter the try, people are gritting their teeth and not doing business, and they can't afford to lose that face!

But Yang Cheng felt that it didn't matter, his face had lost his luster in the past 20 years, when he applied for Nanchang Preparatory School, he only scored eight points in mathematics, which was widely spread in the Jiangxi scholar circle.

After being cheated of more than 8,000 taels of silver, Yang Cheng was very angry at first, but after the anger, he also felt very helpless.

If this will be in Jiujiang, their Yang family will immediately put pressure on the relevant yamen to solve the case as soon as possible, these liars dare to lie to him Yang Ershao in Jiujiang, this is not looking for death!

But this is not Jiujiang, but in Shanghai!

In a place like Shanghai, let alone him, even if his father came in person, he was no different from ordinary people.

In this place, making money is the king, who cares if you are a child of a gentry or not, besides, you Yang Cheng is a child of a gentry, as if everyone is not.

In these years, most of the people who can come up with a lot of money to invest in opening companies and building factories are gentry families.

And Shanghai is currently the most developed place for imperial industry and commerce, and the place with the highest concentration of private enterprises, and these private enterprises, to put it bluntly, are not the enterprises run by the gentry family.

Therefore, in this place, there is a lot of money, and there are many children of the gentry with status, and Yang Cheng's identity cannot be displayed in Shanghai.

Coming out of the patrol station helplessly, Yang Cheng looked at the gloomy sky, sighed, and then pondered, there are less than two thousand taels of silver left on hand, how to open a factory, just this little money, even the equipment can't be bought......

The housekeeper on the side didn't know what to say when he saw his second young master like this, although he was more than 20 years older than Yang Cheng, but this was the first time he came to Shanghai, and he had just seen the sinister of Shanghai.

Therefore, he could only say: "Young master, don't worry, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, there will always be a way!" ”

Yang Cheng frowned and said, "But the problem is, there is not even a boat now!" ”

"Why don't you send an urgent letter to your home and ask your family to bring the money over, otherwise, you won't be able to open in the factory!"

Yang Cheng directly refused: "No, you can't tell your family about this, and you can't ask your family for money!" ”

He still has a word in his heart, if he looks for money from his family, wouldn't he have to tell the story that he was deceived when he first came to Shanghai, and his father used to often say that he was stupid and couldn't read a fart after studying for more than ten years.

Now if I tell my father about this, it is estimated that he will regard himself as mentally retarded, and maybe he will say: In more than 200 years in my Yang family, you have never been so stupid!

Therefore, this matter cannot be said, otherwise it will be self-inflicted.

Since there is not much principal, I am afraid that this glass window will not be able to continue, and I still have to make another plan.

In fact, he didn't think about using his private assets to fill it, but how could it be so easy.

His private assets are more than tens of thousands of silver, but most of them are not cash, but more than half of them are shares of the family company, that is, Jiujiang Glass Company, and the other is a small grange and two shops, which is really not much cash.

And these stocks, as well as the small grange and the shop, were all given to him by his family when he was an adult, and the intention was not to let him sell these assets to repay the money, but so that he could obtain the annual profits of these properties, and then use them as personal living expenses or something.

If he sells these assets, especially the shares of Jiujiang Glass Company, his father can break his legs!

In this case, although he has a lot of assets in his name, but the cash is only a few thousand taels of silver in ordinary times, and when he first arrived in Shanghai, he used nearly a thousand silvers to purchase a small mansion with a very good location but a very expensive price, and then he purchased a two-wheeled carriage and a horse, and then hired a coachman, a cook, a maid, etc., and the cost was not small.

After all, they all plan to live in Shanghai for business, and they always live in guest houses, and the house must be there, and he is a decent person, he can't live too badly, and the mansion can't be lived, but at least he needs a good location for a small house, in addition to the carriage used for travel is also essential, and the cook and maid are also indispensable.

Otherwise, how will you gain a foothold in Shanghai in the future!

Therefore, now there are less than two thousand taels of silver left in his private account in the bank, although the money is not much, but he does not have to worry about spending too much, there is no money to spend in the future, the assets in his name make him money every day, and the income of four or five thousand taels of silver a year is enough for him to maintain a decent life in Shanghai.

It's just that although there is no shortage of living expenses, even if he doesn't eat in the future and fills all the money, he still can't afford to buy those machinery and equipment!

With distress, Yang Cheng left the patrol police station, and then went back to the small mansion he had just bought!

Relying on the existing assets, this glass branch is afraid that it will not be able to open, after all, the equipment is unaffordable, but Yang Cheng is unwilling.

Now the biggest difficulty he faces is that he can't afford to buy machinery and equipment, as for other problems, although there are also other problems, but they are not too big, the plant he has already contacted well, put a deposit, the workers, there is no technical content, just recruit ordinary workers, as for the craftsmen who master the technology, they have been brought from Jiujiang.

The only trouble these days is the equipment!

Yang Cheng lay on the recliner on the balcony on the second floor, did not close his eyes, but looked at the road and street lamps outside the balcony, as well as the boats on the Huangpu River that emitted faint lights.

The two-storey building he purchased was not in the business zone, but a small building along the river at the junction of the business zone and the first industrial zone.

The riverside area in the business district is basically an extremely expensive office area, and only a small area is a residential area, that is, Huangpu Road.

This is a small protruding area of the Huangpu River, when the Shanghai Wharf Company developed this place in the past, because the terrain of this place is not very good, it is not suitable for the use of the wharf, so it is simply to establish a large park here, and then around the periphery of the park, that is, the area along the river on three sides, more than 50 two- or three-story single-family houses have been built, and this short Huangpu Road is only a few hundred meters, which is the most expensive residential area in the entire business district.

The residences there are all two-story or three-storey small buildings, the style is not the same as the traditional buildings, but the new type of housing that combines Chinese and Western properties that has only appeared in recent years, these small buildings, a total of only about 50 buildings, each of which is sky-high, and the owner of each building is either a new magnate of the empire, or an old famous gentry, in short, they are rich and powerful guys.

Those places are naturally not something that he Yang Cheng can afford to buy and live in.

The success of the development of Huangpu Road also gave the Shanghai Wharf Company a taste of sweetness, so it built a new park along the river at the junction of the business zone and the industrial zone, and then built residential buildings around the park for sale.

It's a pity that the pricing is too expensive, and at that time, in order to make more money, the Shanghai Wharf Company desperately wanted to build more houses in the limited land, so the houses were generally small, each with an area of only a few hundred square meters, and the courtyards before and after were also very small, which was completely different from the construction area of thousands of square meters on the side of Huangpu Road.

However, this has also led to the fact that the real powerful and rich people can't look down on it, and those who don't have money can't afford it, so most of the people who buy properties here belong to people like Yang Cheng, who are not very rich, but they also have some money, and they are also people who pursue all kinds of decency.

On the recliner, although Yang Cheng was looking at the scenery outside, he didn't pay attention to the flickering of the street lights outside, but thought about how to solve the equipment problem.

The equipment must be purchased, otherwise, his glass branch will not be able to open!

But there is no money, if he has it, he will buy it directly, why think about it now.

After thinking hard for half the night, until the early hours of the morning, Yang Cheng suddenly remembered something, and then went back to the room, picked up a wooden pole carbon core ratio and wrote directly on the paper, the more he wrote, the more excited he became, in the process of writing, he occasionally stopped to ponder, and then crumpled the written paper and threw it away, and then re-wrote.

This writing, that is several hours, when he put down the pen, the sky is already white, but this time he is not sleepy, on the contrary, he is extremely excited, muttering in his mouth: "There is no endless road, I Yang Cheng will definitely succeed!" ”