Today's electric lamp has not yet reached the good skill of later generations, the bulb will be black after a period of time, so the replacement rate is still quite high, but the bulb is very transparent and clean, it can be seen that it is often replaced, and now these electric things are not very much, but there has been a lot of research in the Tsinghua University hall, and many rich people in the big cities on the market have also used electricity and electric lights.

I heard that the foreign teachers in the Tsinghua School have begun to study long-distance electricity transportation, saying that electricity can be transported back and forth like coal and iron ore, which is a strange anecdote, although everyone does not understand, but they all think it is incredible, this electricity is not a physical object that can be touched, where can it be transported to and fro?

He was thinking wildly, he might as well hear a cough from behind the shadow wall of the flower hall, a few people sitting on the chair hurriedly stood up, calmed down, and waited, a long-bearded old man wearing a moon-white robe opened the curtain and walked into the flower hall, Lord Mei and a few people hurriedly threw their sleeves, their left knee touched the ground, and then their right knee also knelt down, kneeling down to say goodbye, "Xiaomin Mei and others see Lord Governor." ”

Zeng Guoquan's appearance is not quite the same as Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan has a long round face and a graceful bearing, but Zeng Guoquan's cheekbones are a little high, and his chin is quite pointed, and he looks very scathing, which is also consistent with his temperament. How can you still do such a big ceremony? If you see it outside, this seat will be impeached again for saying that it is disrespectful to subordinates and unruly, after all, kneeling and prostrating is not fashionable now. ”

President Mei stood up, sat down according to his words, and when he heard Zeng Guoquan say this, he turned around and said with a smile, "What the Governor said, other people, it's okay for the little one to be presumptuous in front of them, how dare the little one blow up his wings in front of you, the two old parents?" Not to mention anything else, so many livelihoods in this Foshan Guild were all helped by you, such a great virtue like the grace of parents, and the small one's kneeling is really heartfelt, not false. ”

Zeng Guoquan laughed, took the tea in the maid's hand, and took a sip, "I know that our relationship is very close, so I came to see you immediately, Zhanjiang Dao has been waiting for a long time, where is this seat hanging him to let him cool and cool, you Foshan Guild people know how to seize the opportunity, now these two Guangzhou coal and iron industries, seven or eight out of ten are produced by your Foshan Guild's firm, the silver earned in recent years is only afraid of so much water in Guangzhou Bay, but you are all righteous businessmen, this seat is numbered, disaster relief donations pave the way and build bridges, This is all speechless, businessmen make money is the first, if the businessmen of these two Guang are the same as the people of your Foshan Guild, after making money, and then thinking of loyalty and righteousness for the country, this is nothing to say! ”

Zeng Guoquan threw a high hat like this, but President Mei and the others didn't dare not accept it, but secretly complained in their hearts, not afraid of the boss scolding, just afraid that the boss would come to praise you, Zeng Guofan praised the Foshan Guild so much, I am afraid that this matter is not easy to handle today.

It's just that no matter how difficult it is, you have to say what you mean, Foshan is close to Guangzhou, the water and land transportation is smooth, the foreign affairs are the most prosperous in Guangdong, countless internal combustion engines need coal mines to provide fuel, the construction of machinery and equipment, and gave birth to the steel industry, not to mention that today's railway tracks are to be laid with the best steel, as well as the huge thirst of the steamships in Guangzhou, the firearms factory in Zhaoqing, and the emerging construction industry in various places, which has created excellent conditions for the rise and take-off of the steel industry and the coal industry. Although Zeng Guoquan did not understand economic things very well, but many of his subordinates were new-style schools and economic talents who were very knowledgeable when they returned from abroad, and after some advice, the Liangguang Governor's Office took the lead in setting up the Foshan Association, and the Liangguang government invested 300,000 taels of silver as the capital to buy shares, and the shares of the actual Liangguang Coal and Iron Industry United Company were collected by 65 percent at once, and 300,000 taels of silver were of course not enough, but the corresponding land, policy, and tax convenience could not be estimated. This is one of the reasons why Chairman May and others are excited to cooperate with the Governor's Palace.

Moreover, although Zeng Guoquan was rude, he also knew that laymen did not guide insiders, and he should not care about daily construction and operation, and only sent people from the audit office to audit and supervise the accounts, and he did not take into account the rules of the local governor that he should not go to other provinces easily, and personally went to Mawei Port in Fuzhou, forcing Shen Baozhen to sign a three-year contract for the purchase of 700,000 tons of steel, and handed over all the coal and iron mines in the province to the Foshan Association for management and operation. In a few years, it has become the top coal and iron company in China, the coal mine in Kailuan, the iron mine in Ma'anshan, which are the two big ones in the north, and the south belongs to the Foshan Association and Hanyang Iron Works, these places only have coal or iron, like the Foshan Guild Coal and iron together with the combination of business, not much, so the two Guangzhou, Fujian, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, all of them are Foshan's coal and iron to occupy the market.

Such a giant businessman, so many shares, the silver received every year, although Zeng Guoquan himself can't get it, all of it is collected by the central household department, but in the end there is also a discount left, these silver, part of the school, part of the government to change the official, the other part of the land to change the flow of the river by the way to run a group training, a few years down, not only the province of Guangdong is prosperous, even Guangxi, which has always been a poor place, also relied on these silver to live, this is Zeng Guoquan's most proud political achievements in Liangguang, the center has been rewarded innumerable, In the old year, he was crowned a university scholar, and it is rumored that now he cannot be knighted without military merits, otherwise according to the meaning of Xisheng, Zeng Guoquan would have already entered the third-class duke from the first-class marquis.

However, it is not without other additions, the Shengping Bureau is very strict in managing the affairs of newspapers, and no newspaper is allowed in the localities, and it is only in Liangguang that Zeng Guoquan has been asked to fold up, and he has obtained a newspaper number, and today the number on the market is the newly released newspaper of "Liangguang Business Daily".

So this Zeng Guoquan is also the honorary president of the Foshan Guild, President Mei thought about it, considered the words and said, "The boss favors him, so there is such a momentum as the Foshan Guild, this is naturally nothing to say, as long as the business has been so good, we are all convenient, but now, the coal and iron business is really difficult to do, so I have the cheekiness to come to the governor to rescue." ”

ps: Tomorrow will be updated. (To be continued.) )