Soon, Tan Shaoguang brought over a man who was in his thirties and looked good-looking, dressed as a shopkeeper in the city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Xiaomin Hu Xueyan, meet the Holy King! May the Holy King be blessed with good health, and peace in the Holy Kingdom! The person who came was Hu Xueyan, and when he saw the dignified person sitting in the hall, he knelt on the ground.

"Get up and speak." Feng Yunshan secretly laughed at this Hu Xueyan worthy of being a businessman, his mouth was sweet, and he was quite good at figuring out people's thoughts, so he put him aside, turned his head and asked Shi Dakai: "King Yi, I heard you talk about it just now, it seems that you also know him?" But why? ”

Shi Da laughed and said: "Back to the Holy King, this person has indeed made great contributions to conquering Hangzhou City!" Under his running, more than 100 guards of Hangzhou Wulin Gate were bought by him and surrendered the city to the Holy Kingdom. The reason why Hangzhou City was able to be breached so smoothly was that this person did have a lot of credit. However, he is also for his own business. ”

"I see!" Feng Yunshan also laughed, and then turned his head to Hu Xueyan and asked: "Shopkeeper Hu, I heard that before and after my holy kingdom attacked Hangzhou City, you made huge profits by buying and selling shops in Hangzhou City, it seems that you do have a business vision that is different from ordinary people." Just now, Master Tan said that you can share your worries for the Holy Kingdom, so you can tell me about it! ”

When Hu Xueyan heard this, he hurriedly cleared his throat, but he was obviously a little nervous: "Holy King, Xiaomin heard that the captive army of the Holy Kingdom has captured Danyang, and is preparing to attack Zhenjiang and Yangzhou and other places, and the Northern Expedition to conquer the Qing Demon. The cost of the expedition is huge, and it must have required a lot of food. ”

Speaking of this, Hu Xueyan looked at Feng Yunshan slyly, saw that he was not impatient, and was overjoyed, and continued: "Xiaomin happens to be doing business, and he knows a group of grain merchants in Hangzhou, Huzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang. Xiaomin wondered if he could let Xiaomin draw a line in the middle and sell the grain from southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang to the Northern Expeditionary Army at a low price as military rations. ”

This Hu Xueyan is really as he knows in history, and his sword is on the sidelines. Historically, he took refuge in the Qing government, relied on the war between the Qing army and the Taiping army, sold military rations, opened money houses and pharmacies, and handled the transportation of ordnance and baggage, etc., earning a lot of money, laying the foundation for him to set up businesses in various places in the future and trade with foreigners.

It's just that now because of his own appearance, the captive army is strong, the Manchu Qing is weak, everything is reversed, and the backer that Hu Xueyan sought has become a holy country, and he has also found his head through Tan Shaoguang's door.

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but admire this person's ability to climb up the pole, which was called public relations in later generations.

However, if he organized grain merchants to provide military rations on his own instead of the captive army, he would have saved a lot of logistical affairs, and he could also concentrate his energy on combat. However, military rations cannot be controlled by him, so it is appropriate to procure only one-third or one-half of the military rations needed by the army and provide them wherever he wants.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan nodded.

"Shopkeeper Hu is willing to contribute to the great cause of the Northern Expedition of the captive army for me, and this king is very pleased and should support him." Feng Yunshan also agreed: "As long as Shopkeeper Hu can sell grain at a lower price than the local market, and the quality of the grain is good, the Holy Kingdom is naturally willing to buy military rations from Shopkeeper Hu." However, all this transportation was arranged by the shopkeeper himself, and the settlement had to be settled through the bank run by the Holy State. ”

Feng Yunshan smiled secretly, this Hu Xueyan can only make some hard-earned money at most.

Now that the Holy Kingdom has already opened a banking business under his own leadership, it is impossible for the Manchu government to entrust him with the finances of the entire Zhejiang Province and expand his money bank, as in history.

Moreover, Hu Xueyan wants to set up a fleet on his own to carry out water transportation, and with the expansion of the Liangguang Ocean Company in the Holy Country, it is estimated that it will be difficult to resist.

However, he opened Qingyutang Pharmacy in the future, and he could strongly support him and guide him to introduce Western medicine, combining Chinese and Western medicine, to serve the people of the Holy Kingdom.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan said: "Shopkeeper Hu, there is a lack of medicinal materials in this king's captive army, if you provide medicinal materials for the captive army, this king is more welcome." ”

Hu Xueyan was overjoyed, he didn't expect that the Holy King would actually take the initiative to mention the matter of medicinal materials to him, he was excited, and hurriedly said: "Xiaomin is willing to serve the Holy King and provide the medicinal materials needed in the army." ”

Feng Yunshan nodded with satisfaction. He was thinking about whether he should give Hu Xueyan a position, envelop him around him, and work for himself.

Historically, this person was enveloped by Zuo Zongtang, half official and half businessman, and contributed the most to Zuo Zongtang's war of resistance against France and expedition to the northwest, and helped borrow a large amount of silver. However, the so-called success and defeat of Xiao He are precisely because of Zuo Zongtang, Hu Xueyan was defeated by Zuo's opponent Li Hongzhang and his family, and tens of millions of family properties went bankrupt once, and finally died of grief.

However, Feng Yunshan thought that he was not Zuo Zongtang, and he didn't need such a figure to raise money for himself. He is a holy king, and he controls the money of the entire holy kingdom, and there are countless ways to make money. Moreover, with Wu Chongyao here, it is already enough.

It is better to let this Hu Xueyan go with the flow of business in the people, and then guide him a little, so that he can gradually turn into a private capitalist, lead the rich businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, set up industries, and become the so-called national capital in later generations, which is more beneficial to the holy country.

And as long as he firmly controls the army and regime of the Holy Country, he is not afraid that these people will turn the sky upside down.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but have an idea.

"Shopkeeper Hu, I heard you just now, I know a lot of grain merchants in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, I don't know what grain merchant guilds are?" Feng Yunshan asked.

"Back to the Holy King, some of those grain merchants had the background of the original Manchu government assistants, and some of them were big landlords themselves, hoarding a lot of grain, and buying grain from the countryside at low prices, and then releasing it when the price was high. But I haven't heard of any grain merchants' guilds! However, there is a guild of wealthy banks in Hangzhou. What does the Holy King mean? Hu Xueyan replied respectfully.

"Oh, I see. Since there is no grain merchant guild, you can set one. However, the king first affirms that you, the grain merchants' guild, must also be under the supervision of the Holy Kingdom's government. In the future, this king will ask the local government to guide the price of this grain, and adjust and regulate it according to the disaster year and the harvest year, so that the situation of the disaster year under the rule of the Qing demon in previous years will not skyrocket, and the harvest year will plummet. Feng Yunshan revealed his thoughts.

He was going to wait for the south to settle down for a while, so he would go from the Holy King's Mansion to various places to introduce grain guide prices similar to those in later generations to ensure that the people in various places could eat.

Feng Yunshan was going to give Hu Xueyan a little sweetness first, so that he would become dependent on the Holy Kingdom.

Soon, after the Northern Expedition occupied the Huanghuai area, the Yellow River diversion and disaster relief that he wanted to implement would require great efforts from Hu Xueyan and his gang of grain merchants.

At that moment, Feng Yunshan asked Zuo Zongtang, deputy chief of the General Staff of the General Staff, and Zhou Shengfu, director of the Logistics Department, to discuss with Hu Xueyan how to provide military rations and medicinal materials.

Feng Yunshan was worried that the news would be leaked, so he asked the Eighth Division, which was preparing to garrison Ningbo Mansion and other places, to block the entire Zhenhaikou and the county seat, and within a month, even the people in the county were not allowed to go out, so as to avoid the Manchu Qing Dynasty from transmitting the news of the appearance of a large number of warships in Zhenhaikou to the Manchu court, so that they could be vigilant.

After the arrangement, Feng Yunshan fell into a deep sleep in the place where he had lived for several years in the later life.