Just when Song Tiesheng, Krupp, and Li Jianwei were busy setting up the first steel plant of Nanyang Iron and Steel Company, Feng Yunshan hurriedly rushed back to Guangzhou with Wu Chongyao, Zeng Yuheng, Liu Shengbang and others. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The reason is that there is news that a large number of foreigners' armed merchant ships and wooden sail cargo ships have arrived on the Pearl River outside Guangzhou, and it turned out that when the Nanyang Company was established last year, a batch of orders purchased at the bidding meeting were concentrated at this time.

Feng Yunshan was overjoyed.

I've been looking forward to getting the ordered goods in my hands as soon as possible, and now it's finally arrived.

In particular, those machines, as well as steam engines and weapons, were to be used as soon as they arrived.

Originally, Feng Yunshan had long been preparing to build various factories in Guangzhou, but there was no machinery and equipment, so he had to wait for the arrival of foreigners.

Now that the goods have finally arrived, Feng Yunshan hurried back to Guangzhou, and he didn't have time to return to the palace, so he rushed to the dock outside the thirteen lines with Wu Chongyao, Zeng Yuheng, Liu Shengbang, plus Zeng Guanlan, Wu Ruxiao, Hu Damei, Zhou Shengkun and other ministers of the palace who had already come to greet Feng Yunshan.

Seeing that the Holy King was leading people to come, some stewards of the Nanyang Company hurriedly greeted him and told Wu Chongyao that a large amount of grain had arrived in Guangzhou and docked at the Thirteen Lines Wharf, and the rest of the large cargo ships had asked those foreigners to wait on the Pearl River and deal with it when the Holy King arrived.

After Wu Chongyao asked about the situation, he led everyone to the Thirteen Lines Wharf.

A foreigner with a group of people was already waiting anxiously by the wharf, and when he saw Wu Chongyao and others coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Wu Haoguan, I have shipped all the grain that your company tendered last year. Is it possible to make a handover now? ”

Wu Chongyao looked at it, but it was George a British businessman, and when the Nanyang Company was established last year, he won the third tender for the purchase of grain.

"Mr. George, our order is grain, 10 million catties of flour and 5 million catties of rice. But it is required to arrive within four to six months, but it seems that Mr. George you have not fulfilled the contract, and it has been almost eight months now! ”

George quickly explained: "It's a pity. Wu Haoguan, originally I thought that it would only take three or four months to buy grain from India and ship it to Guangzhou. But unexpectedly, there was turmoil in India, which affected my grain procurement, and even half of the rice was gathered from other places. ”

"Mr. George, either way, you are in breach of contract. How to deal with it, it just so happened that our Holy King was here, and Wu went to report to let the Holy King decide how to deal with it. Wu Chongyao said quietly.

"His Royal Highness the Holy King is also there?" George had a headache. With his understanding of the Holy King, this is a powerful person who does not want to suffer.

He hurriedly searched, and finally found the holy king who was as heavy as water in the crowd, and hurriedly smiled: "The holy king, a small businessman, has delayed the major affairs of the holy king, and is willing to be punished, but I ask the holy king to reduce the punishment for the sake of me taking the initiative to admit punishment, I will definitely wear the guilt and make meritorious contributions in the future, what goods the holy king needs, I will definitely bring Guangzhou to the holy king." ”

"Originally, like Mr. George's breach of contract, Nanyang Company had to deduct 80,000 taels of payment. Since Mr. George was so sincere, the king dealt with it leniently. Feng Yunshan smiled as if he didn't care: "I will only deduct Mr. George's payment of 10,000 taels of silver, and punish him slightly." In the future, Mr. George has not been able to abide by the contract and provide more high-quality goods for Nanyang Company! ”

George was secretly shocked in his heart, the Holy King moved his mouth slightly, and deducted him 10,000 taels of silver, but he also said that it was to give him face, if he said anything more, I was afraid that it would be more than 10,000 taels. So, he had no choice but to smile and pretend to be grateful: "Thank you for the Holy King's forgiveness." I'll let people hand over the grain to Wu Haoguan. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded, and asked Wu Chongyao to send the steward of the Nanyang Company to lead the thousands of shipwrights and thousands of soldiers who had been prepared long ago to hand over to them, inspect and pay for the goods.

Speaking of food, it is a lot, but in fact, Feng Yunshan feels that it is still less. Fifteen million catties, in fact, it is barely enough for 780,000 people to eat for a year, which is still to save some food. Because Feng Yunshan seems to remember that in history, locust plagues and the like often occurred in some places in Liangguang and Guangzhou in the next few years, which seriously affected grain production, causing millions of people to be affected by disasters and countless people starving to death.

There is some surplus food in hand, so there will be no panic in my heart. Buy some food as a reserve, and in case of a disaster, there will be food to help the disaster. This is Feng Yunshan's idea.

However, Feng Yunshan had heard that a few years ago, due to the severe drought in Britain, grain production was seriously reduced, and food shortages were also caused, and many people in Ireland even starved to death because of this. Therefore, there is not a lot of grain in India, so it took George a lot of effort to go to India to purchase grain. It is precisely because of this that George was able to transport grain, which showed that this person was really powerful and had a bit of merit, so Feng Yunshan only fined him 10,000 taels of silver.

Thousands of shipwrights and thousands of soldiers were unloaded from George's cargo ship and transported to an original official warehouse next to the governor's yamen of Canton, but there was too much food, and it was estimated that it would take at least a day or two to unload it.

Feng Yunshan just wanted to ask Wu Chongyao about the other arrivals, but George ran over angrily and said, "Holy King, Wu Haoguan, I almost forgot." The villain and the Holy King's two orders need to be delivered! ”

"One is the purchase order for the steam engine, a total of 100 steam engines with medium and large power, and asked for supporting spare parts, etc., the villain and the three of them joined forces with the American line, Fengtai line, and Smith to win this large order at a price of 720,000 taels of silver. Because the little mermaid Smith has the largest share of supply, now that Smith has something to delay, he entrusted the villain to settle it. George accompanied the smiling face.

"Smith intends to confess that the Holy King once promised to give him a ten-percent subsidy, I wonder if the Holy King can still honor it?" George asked, but he was extremely jealous in his heart, and he didn't know what kind of ecstasy this damn American Smith had given to this holy king to make him treat him so favorably. If you can get so much subsidy for your own food, wouldn't you be able to earn an extra 28,000 taels.

"No problem! As long as it is a qualified machine product, this king will give a subsidy of 10%! Without waiting for Wu Chongyao to answer, Feng Yunshan smiled directly: "Mr. George, but in the future, this king will not give such preferential policies for steam engines, because this king has already bought enough." As for food, this king can also give you a subsidy of 10%, I wonder if Mr. George can still help purchase a batch of grain? ”

"No problem! But the Holy King, you know, the best of Europe is also affected, there is not much surplus food, and the villain has to go to the New World to find a way. All, how much can be transported, the villain is not guaranteed, in short, the villain will do his best, the more the better! It's just that this price, because of the distance, may be more expensive than this batch. ”

"The price will remain the same, and this king will give you a subsidy of five percent!" Feng Yunshan cut the railway.

"Ok, deal!" The cunning George thought about it, but he still made some money, and hurriedly agreed.

"There is a second thing, Nanyang Company is not going to prepare to set up a machine factory of about 500,000 taels of silver, the villain promised to help find a senior mechanic to help set up a machine factory last time, and now it has shipped all the equipment for the formation of the machine factory, just on the Pearl River estuary, I wonder if the Holy King can send someone to inspect the goods? In addition, the villain's 5,000 taels of intermediary fees, I don't know if the Holy King can pay it? ”

"Really? Great, this king will not be less of your intermediary fee! When Feng Yunshan heard this, he was very happy that even the talents who helped set up the machine factory were invited, and he hurriedly asked George to send both people and machines to the East Lake Wharf, where the channel was larger, and prepared to build the Nanyang Machinery Factory directly on a vacant land next to the East Lake Wharf.

This vacant land was selected by Feng Yunshan a long time ago, which is not only next to the wharf, which is convenient for transportation, but also the downstream of the Pearl River in the suburbs of Guangzhou, which is not particularly disturbing to the people and easy to manage. (To be continued.) )