The next day, the three brothers got together again for breakfast, and did not mention anything of the past.

Hu Xiaoyan also unceremoniously invited Hu Yansan to go to Xinzhen to become the principal. The previous president was a part-time job of two students from Peiyang University. They inevitably have a lot of things to do, there are places where they can't be seen, the school is made of chickens and dogs, and there are even nearby students' families who run to the school to eat and drink, eat and drink, and some people actually eat a lot of food, and they eat and pack a copy to take away! Your sister's! The canteen masters also ran to fight with these people a few times!

But that's a school after all! It's always bad to fight. In the end, Hu Xiaoyan had no choice but to build a fence for the two schools, and asked two security policemen to stand guard in front of the door to get rid of this situation, which really made Hu Xiaoyan speechless and asked the sky.

In addition, because of Hu Xiaoyan's series of land enclosure movements, thousands of landed families lost their land, and after these families were forcibly relocated by the security team, they cried and made trouble from time to time and hanged themselves, which also cast some shadows on the construction of the new town.

After eating breakfast, Hu Xiaoyan wrote a note to his second brother and asked him to report to school. He himself came to the Lieshan Coal Mine. Here, because of Hu's simple and crude operation, he found an open-pit coal mine. One of the advantages of open-pit coal mines is that they are easy to mine, but they also bring another problem to Hu: almost none of the government-run factories buy coal from here. This also caused Hu Xiaoyan's funds to become very troublesome. Not only did he have to pay the workers, but he also had to build a large warehouse to store the mines.

He had expected this situation, but when he really saw the mountains of coal piled up in the warehouse, he couldn't help but take a deep breath. If you don't sell this coal, you will really have to hang yourself. Chen Ronggui was by his side, looking ashamed.

Hu Xiaoyan couldn't blame him even more. Because this is completely the result of Hu Xiaoyan's own suffering. After all, although the General Department of Anhui Mining has the title of Anhui, he meows, this is a private institution! A private institution with a government sign. And now it is not the Manchu Qing ten years later. Ten years later, due to the internal and external difficulties of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, countless enlightened people finally truly realized that if they did not reform, there was only one way to perish, so everyone opened factories and built foreign affairs. At this time, both coal and iron ore became the much-needed goods of these factories.

At this time, it was only 1898, and the number of private factories was not even a hundred. Let's just say Anhui, there are only a handful. With fewer factories, fewer machines are used. With fewer machines, less coal is used. With fewer coal mines, Hu Xiaoyan's coal cannot be sold. Sheng Xuanhuai's coal mine is on sale!

It seems that it is really necessary to wait until the construction of its own steel plant to solve the problem of coal mines!

Hu Xiaoyan was anxious, but his face was indifferent, and he even joked with Chen Ronggui: "Don't worry, when winter comes, the heating problem in Anhui Province will need astronomical coal." We may be able to sell this stock soon. ”

"I hope so." Chen Ronggui was originally sent here by Li Hongzhang, but he was a little unhappy. But after seeing Hu Xiaoyan's continuous largesse, he really did it with all his heart. Everyone else is pretty much the same.

After returning to Xinzhen from the mine and inspecting the two schools, without taking a sip of water, the envoy of the governor of Anhui came again. Hu Xiaoyan looked at the post in his hand and was a little speechless.

It turned out that Lord Deng saw that his face was useless, and he also caused several large families to be raided. finally got angry, and this post invited him to go to the Anqing Mansion to discuss major matters.

Hu Xiaoyan sneered and threw the post aside. Let Chen Xin go out and tell the envoy: Master Hu is sick, I'm afraid he won't be able to make the trip, and forgive his sins.

The envoy naturally turned blue and left for a while.

After the envoy left, Wang Yue came again.

"My lord, I caught two people in the mine." Wang Yue was a little difficult to speak.

"What identity?" Hu Xiaoyan was a little strange. Wang Yue was Nie Shicheng's subordinate. It stands to reason that there should be nothing to embarrass him.

"That man came to investigate on the orders of Lord Sheng." Wang Yue said, looking a little embarrassed.

Sheng Xuanhuai? Hu Xiaoyan was also stunned. Since he met Sheng Xuanhuai in Shanghai, there has been no contact since, how could he send someone to investigate him?

Colliery? He is not short of coal mines? And his own Anhui Mining General Division will not cause him any competition! At present, the business behavior of the official standard, without the endorsement of officialdom, no matter how good things are, they cannot be sold. One of the reasons why Zhang Jian, the later champion businessman, has never been able to develop is that he has no backstage! For example, he once wanted to raise funds to expand production capacity, but in the end, all the funds were not raised. How much money does he want? It's only tens of thousands of taels! Any wealthy businessman can get it, but no one gives it money. Isn't Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory profitable? No! It's very profitable, it's only been a year, and the Dasheng Yarn Factory has earned it back! So why didn't anyone invest in Zhang Jian? Because Zhang Jian has no backstage, people are afraid that the money will be invested, but they will not be able to get it back. What's more critical is that Zhang Jian offended Li Hongzhang.

And now Hu Xiaoyan has not offended Li Hongzhang, but has a good relationship with him, and Li Jingmai is even working for Hu Xiaoyan!

So why should Sheng Xuanhuai have trouble with him? Hu Xiaoyan couldn't figure it out.

At the end of October, the imposing governor of Anhui, Deng Huaxi, was beaten down by a transfer order from the imperial court. The new governor is Enming. The reason why Enming was able to achieve the position of governor of Anhui was not only his special status, but also because he was a rare Westernist among the Manchu magnates. Legend has it that there was originally a Chengxun for the position of governor of Anhui, and he was also a popular candidate. Chengxun was also a Manchu magnate and also received a lot of support. But after combining Hu Xiaoyan's plan and making it clear that he would respect the enclosure movement in Anhui by the Manchu elite, Enming won the position with a 100 percent turnout.

From this point of view, Enming is not only an official, but also a person.

No, as soon as Anhui Governor Enming arrived, he sent someone to invite him. This banquet, Hu Xiaoyan couldn't refuse. At the banquet, Enming made it clear that he fully supported Hu Xiaoyan's mining plan, and at the same time presided over the development plan of light industry in Anhui Province. After hearing that Hu Xiaoyan was going to Europe and the United States to buy machinery and equipment in the near future, he took out 20,000 taels of silver at that time and asked Hu Xiaoyan to buy the latest textile machinery.

It turned out that Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory encountered an unprecedented predicament this year, but with the encouragement of his friends, he made a last effort with the production of the yarn factory, and the products of the clinker Dasheng Yarn Factory were quickly recognized by the market. All the products of Dasheng Yarn Factory were sold out in just one month. Orders poured in like a tidal wave. The hot sales of the products, including the deposit for new orders, all add up, which actually solves the problem of insufficient funds of Dasheng Yarn Factory. The success of the Dasheng Yarn Factory caused a huge sensation in officialdom.

You must know that Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory has invested less than 50,000 taels so far, and it has only been less than three months since the real start, and it has immediately returned to its original cost. His ROI is almost 100 percent! If it weren't for some people in the officialdom making trouble, Zhang Jian's success would probably have been earlier and faster.

Enming agreed to the enclosure movement of the Manchu elites, and it was precisely because of the success of the Dasheng Yarn Factory that he was stimulated. He believes that the output of land is not at all comparable to that of a good factory. And Zhang Jian's factory is still just a personal factory! If he, the governor of Anhui, came forward to organize the factory, even if he couldn't do it to the same extent as Zhang Zhidong, even if he only had half of Zhang Zhidong. Anhui's finances will also become the largest in the country.

Zuo Zongtang has Hu Xueyan and Li Hongzhang has Sheng Xuanhuai. And Hu Xiaoyan's identity is just an ordinary person in the eyes of most people in the country, but how could he, the governor of a province, not know that Hu Shanshi is Li Yan? There is such a talented man in Anhui, and he doesn't know how to use it, unless his head is kicked by a donkey!

Although I don't understand why Enming values him so much Hu Xiaoyan, but if the governor of a province can do this, he can't help but work hard. In short, this is a good thing, with the support of Governor Enming, Hu Xiaoyan can make a big move in Anhui without worrying about administrative pressure.

After agreeing to Enming's request, the relationship between the two seems to have pierced that membrane and become much more harmonious. Enming even took out the local paper from the study and handed it to Hu Xiaoyan on the spot. Hu Xiaoyan looked at them one by one, and suddenly smiled bitterly.

It turned out that these papers were written by the local scholars in Suzhou.

There are many local scholarly families in Suzhou, although their strength in the officialdom is not seen by Hu Xiaoyan, but considering that the king of Hades is better, the little ghost is difficult. Therefore, Hu Xiaoyan did not touch the land of these scholarly families, and exchanged land locations with these people very fairly. The superior paddy field is exchanged for the superior paddy field, and the inferior paddy field is exchanged for the inferior paddy field. In order to concentrate the land of the big farm, and not to offend these scholars.

But Hu Xiaoyan didn't expect his kindness, and actually got back a complaint.

Enming saw that Hu Xiaoyan's face was not good, so he smiled lightly: "You don't have to pay attention to these people, as long as the official is still there, they can't make any waves." It's just a clown. ”

Hu Xiaoyan smiled reluctantly. Although he understands that this is Eun Ming reminding him.

It's just his way of being an official. But I just feel uncomfortable in my heart, and sometimes I have to say that it is so difficult for you to do something in the Manchu Dynasty. Not only do their own people not understand, but their own enemies are even more obstructive.

It turns out that my movements in Suzhou are still too gentle! Hu Xiaoyan gritted his teeth secretly. He's worried that he doesn't have enough money! And they were sent to the door.

The day after returning to Suzhou, he moved out of the county office. Enming has already hinted that Suzhou is a county in Anhui after all. You, Hu Xiaoyan, are the prime minister of the Yamen of the General Department of Anhui Mining, but you are not a county magistrate. Occupying the county government is always unjustifiable.

Hu Xiaoyan moved out very obediently. But also assigned the county order and others five big and three rough "doormen", so that these people would not be harmed by bandits.

The county magistrate and others were very "happy" to accept Hu Xiaoyan's kindness, and said that they would "cooperate very much" with all the work of the Yamen of the Anhui Mining General Department during his tenure.