Not far from Bu Xingyou and Bu Liang, Feng Wenyi, who was dressed in white, was also looking at this Baoshun ship.

He is the second grandson of the Feng family in Cixi, it can be said that he is young and golden, and he is the best candidate for a fast son-in-law in the hearts of countless people in the entire Ningbo Mansion, but he has grown up since he was a child, and he is also a little arrogant because of this heavy identity: "Just such a second-hand steamship, the North merchant actually gave 140,000 silver?" God knows how many kickbacks there are! ”

140,000 taels of silver, this is not a small amount, even with the Feng family's family background in the world, which is known as the rich in the world, it will be quite difficult to come up with so much cash, but the underworld man next to him said: "Second young master, this money is not from the northern businessman himself, it is Duan Daotai who advances it from the treasury!" ”

That's right! This money was indeed not taken out by the North businessman himself, but was forced to be taken out of the treasury by Duan Daotai, who was difficult to get under the tiger, but I don't know how much of this advance has become a kickback from the handler, at least Feng Wenyi himself knows that the person Yang Fang who handled it has the same smell as Yu Bin, another big profiteer in Zhejiang Province, and they are all experts in getting kickbacks.

The underworld continued: "Although it is old, it is still a steamer, and I am afraid that there is not even a steamer in the kingdom of heaven now, right?" ”

The reason why he said the kingdom of heaven is because he has a senior brother Shen Zhenren, who is very fortunate in the kingdom of heaven, and he used to serve his senior brother but suffered a lot of anger, so he angrily went out of Jinling to Zhejiang, and served the Feng family.

"That's right! It seems that the 140,000 taels of silver are well spent, at least Duan Daotai doesn't have much money to buy foreign guns and cannons! ”

The Baoshun wheel occupies too much money, so that Duan Guangqing does not have much cash in his hands now, buying foreign guns and cannons, and recruiting Guangyong from Buxing, these things are very restricted, so Feng Wenantimony is gloating here: "Before the autumn harvest this year, I'm afraid that Liu Jian has already taken Ningbo Mansion!" "Circle

"Not only Ningbo Mansion, but also Shaoxing Mansion!" The underworld man echoed beside him: "It depends on the Qing Dynasty Ken to bet before the autumn harvest, and now Jinhua Mansion has been inspected and all is left, and only one empty city is left. ”

"I don't know if it's Jiangnan Daying or Wang Butang who is willing to send meat buns to the door to beat dogs!" Feng Wenyi saw it clearly: "But if the inspection point can take down the two mansions of Ningshao, our Feng family can turn over!" ”

He had already established a relationship with Hongjun, and he had already exchanged 80,000 taels of silver tickets for Liu Chang in advance, and he also received a lot of supplies, but the underworld over there said: "Second young master, don't be careless, there are many people in this Ningbo Mansion who can see this, and they also want to match up with the inspection point!" ”

"But this time, they don't want to beat me!" Feng Wenyi was full of youthful vigor and said to the underworld: "I personally went to Nanyang this time, and I went to Singapore to buy the telegraph, telegraph pole and telegraph line needed for the inspection, as long as the inspection point enters Ningbo Mansion, you can hand it over to him!" ”

At first, he went to Shanghai to buy them, but Shanghai was out of stock, so he had to go to Hong Kong, and Hong Kong was still out of stock.

At that time, the foreigners also paid a high price, and as a result, Feng Wenyi revealed a little bottom, saying that he was invited by a certain important person in China to buy telegraph equipment, and as a result, several foreign companies immediately lowered the price, and only the profit was not high.

They are interested in the market behind this telegraph equipment, you must know that China is such a big market, and they do not know that it will take hundreds of thousands of miles of telegraph lines to be enough, and now they have won this 200 kilometers of telegraph lines, then they will be in the leading position in the entire Chinese market, and they can even dominate the entire Chinese market. …,

They calculated this account very clearly, and the foreign company that sold telegraph equipment even sent a few technicians to take a cargo ship transporting telegraph equipment to guide them, but they only learned that the business had not yet begun, and Feng Wenyi asked them to take a sum of money to Shanghai for half a month to play and then come back to wait for the instructions of the Chinese dignitary. plaque

Feng Wenyi felt that this was a great achievement: "Our Feng family has done a telegram for the inspection point, so the business of this telegraph office will be our Feng family's business." ”

Cixi Feng's family started with medicinal materials and made a fortune in money shops, but now the most profitable business is money shops all over the country, but the underworld told Feng Wenyi not to be careless: "Young master, you can't be careless, although the telegraph and railway are full of money, but Guan Jian is money shop business can't be stopped!" ”

"Money shop? Ask the underworld to teach the next generation! ”

The underworld man immediately became proud: "Now I heard that Hongjun has also run an official money shop, no, it should be the nature of the official money bureau, called a bank, which issues public bonds and has mortgage loans, which can be said to be both a money shop and a much broader business than a money shop, so our Feng family should not be careless and let the bank have the upper hand." ”

"Hmm!" Feng Wenyi nodded: "That's true!" The money industry is the foundation of my Feng family's business, can we not let the inspection and government-run banks have the upper hand, what do the underworld people think? ”

"Now I heard that in Taizhou, there are so-called Jianguo grain bonds, which are all public bonds issued by Hongjun to buy grain, Taizhou businessmen originally thought it was just a piece of waste paper, but not long ago, they found that these Jianguo bonds can be used as collateral to borrow money from the bank, so there are people buying and selling public bonds!"

Now Taizhou has formed a very small-scale underground public bond market, many people are anxious to use the money, so they take out the public bonds and sell them, but the price is not high, generally only about two and a half to forty percent of the face price, because of the defeat of Rao Tingxuan, once rose to forty or two, but soon fell back to below forty percent.

Feng Wenyi had already obtained specific information about these situations from the branch in Taizhou, but when he heard the underworld mention it, he had to pay special attention to the stakes involved.

According to the situation observed by the underworld people in Taizhou Mansion, the high and low trading of public bonds has a lot to do with the war of the Rainbow Army, and if the Rainbow Army wins in front, the public bonds will rise sharply, and if the Rainbow Army suffers a setback, or if there is no news of the victory, many people will sell the public bonds in a major event, and the public bonds will immediately plummet.

"This is the way of Westerners!" Feng Wenyi immediately said: "Then Liu Chang doesn't care, if the public debt plummets, it will be very unfavorable to the Hongjun!" ”

He knew that there was such a financial market in Singapore, but there was no such financial market in China, or even in Hong Kong and Shanghai, which were the most fashionable ones.

"Not only do I not care, but I also have the intention to let the banks guide me and put this underground public bond market into the market! What are the plans of the young master? ”

"Ningbo money industry, business, can you enter this industry?"

The underworld man immediately replied: "Now there is only a little shrimp in Taizhou Mansion who is playing around there, playing around every day, that is, a few thousand hanging money, even if someone goes to Ningbo Mansion, it is not a person of much weight." "Li

Thousands of hanging money, in fact, this is not a small number, you know, ordinary small and medium-sized cities have a lot of business in a day, and the business volume of money shops may not be a few thousand hanging money, but in the eyes of the underworld, this is really not a big number.

"In this case, our Feng family should go and have a fun!" Feng Wenyi had already thought clearly: "Underworld, please prepare a few Zhuang tickets for me, I will redeem them immediately when I arrive in Taizhou!" ”

As far as the Feng family is concerned, they don't need to go to the trading market in Linhai City with hundreds of catties of money and hundreds of small public bonds to exchange them like the small landlords in the countryside. …,

Feng Wenyi said with a smile: "This kind of business must be very interesting!" Our Feng family can have a good time......"

After taking Yueqing County, Taizhou stayed behind Xian Na to breathe a sigh of relief, no matter what, there were only Ni Tingmo's troops north of the Oujiang River, but now Ni Tingmo was on the defensive in Yongjia County.

As long as he makes the slightest movement, he will be pressured by the Hongjun from the three aspects of Chuzhou, Jinhua and Taizhou, but after receiving Yueqing, he is so busy with his feet that he can't touch the ground, so he can only ask Gao Liangcai, the Taizhou prefect, for help.

"Commander Xian, this is the affairs of Wenzhou Mansion, it is inconvenient for my Taizhou Mansion to interfere!"

"Yuhuan County is not the territory of Wenzhou Mansion, and now it is taken over, just such a Yueqing County, it is most suitable for Taizhou Mansion to manage it temporarily!"

It is really not necessary to set up a Wenzhou Mansion for a Yueqing County, unless Liu Changxiang specially resettles people, and Gao Liangcai over there also agreed: "I heard that the situation in Yueqing County is very poor? ”

"It's not bad, it's terrible, it's Qu Zhenhan's two living treasure sons, but it's okay, as soon as Shi Huiji passes, the whole Yueqing will be appeased!"

Strictly speaking, these two young marshals did not have the ability to manage Yueqing County, and as a result, many problems arose in the implementation, so that there were many riots in Yueqing, but it was not yet Cheng Lidu who was forced by the officials to rebel against the people, so Shi Huiji led the main force of the Huang Taiping Independent Battalion and hundreds of township soldiers and key militia into 99 Yueqing County, and the whole situation took a fundamental turn for the better.

But to solve the problem of Yueqing County, we still have to ask for the assistance of the Taizhou government: "Yueqing County is now short of food, I hope Gaofutai can borrow them a few hundred stones of grain first, more troublesome things, this year's spring ploughing of the two living treasures are a mess, and they may not be returned during the autumn harvest!" ”

"A few hundred stones of grain is not a problem!" As the prefect of a prefecture, Gao Liangcai still has this responsibility: "What is still missing in Yueqing County?" You bring it up together! ”

"I can't look for you!" Xi Na grabbed his hair and said: "Lack of people, lack of cadres, everything has to start from scratch, and now I haven't even set up a shelf for the county independent company, not to mention the township head, township soldiers and basic militia below, I can only ask for help from the inspection point!" ”

"But I heard that the graduates of the first phase of the military academy will not officially graduate until next month, and this matter in Yueqing County can't wait for a month!"

"What's the high opinion of Nafutai?" Clear