After the riverbank fort was destroyed, the direct result of the guide was that the original vertical and horizontal defense system of Shanxi City had been completely broken, and now in addition to the back road has not been cut off, the entire Shanxi City is already a lonely city.

The losses paid by the French still played a decisive role, and the gunboats near the river bank were able to shell the city of Shanxi at this time, and the French army from behind the occupation of the hillside on the left side set up the machine guns and field guns, and immediately overturned all the artillery erected by the Cantonese army on the city tower.

Now, the only thing to rely on is the thick wall, and any officer understands the fact that defeat is inevitable, how can there be any hope of victory in this passive beating More than 10,000 people nested in the city, and the French outside the city did not attack immediately, Guba had already calculated it, and killed the turtle after the tortoise shell was broken......

Sure enough, in the evening, the Gui army in the south of the city ran away on the first road, and their escape direction was due south of Lianchi County, anyway, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the French with firearms in this era were afraid of fighting at night, but it was better to use the Qing army that was accustomed to big swords and spears, and the Cantonese army had already set up a position on the back road, and immediately patted their butts on the road, but they were very bullish and defeated all the way along the Red River.

The Gui army, which treated the French army as a fool, was the first to be unlucky, and not far from Shanxi, it was ambushed by the French in a basin in the south, and the Gui army, which had already run to the scattered formation, immediately became a straggler, and when it was dawn, Admiral He passed by the lotus pond with his soldiers and horses, but he broke off the idea of entering the lotus pond to defend, and was directly defeated all the way to Huangshe County, which was only 20 miles away from Hanoi.

Under the leadership of Wu Kui, the Cantonese army fled along the Red River to the vicinity of Donggao, and finally met the soldiers and horses of the two battalions stationed here, before dawn, the remnants boarded the ferry that came to them, and went down the river overnight, stationed down to the south of Hanoi, and joined the other two divisions of the Cantonese army stationed outside the city.

The defeat of Shanxi City was immediately sent to the Yunnan army troops left behind in Yong'an, and the soldiers and horses stationed in various places have received orders to shrink the whole line to the position west of the Songdong River, with the Red River and the Songdong River as the boundary, to establish a defense area to protect the **, as for the Qing army on the other side, Zhou Ruidong has no intention of participating in their defense at all, in his opinion, the only result of cooperating with these old soldiers is to be sold by them as cannon fodder......

Xian'an City, the county commander Wang Tang has not been idle for a few days, a large number of troops outside the city are constantly coming from the river juniper, Fangcheng, his task is to provide supplies and guides for these troops, and then through the mountains west of Guò to the coal and iron industrial zone of Shishan Pass, soon a battalion of soldiers and horses once stepped on the mountain road, walking in front of the road is the local Zhuang villagers, this road has long been marked on the map of the guard, Zhou Ruidong has been carefully explored a long time ago.

Similarly, in the southwest of North Vietnam, a large number of troops set off from Hue by sea and land, escorted by the main fleet of the Nanyang Naval Division, and quickly rushed to the mouth of the Thai Thai River, and then changed to river boats and went up the river.

The entire Zhiling to the south of the first line of Luerzhuang is being quickly mobilized around the war, and the indigenous people gathered in each county are more than 10,000 people, under the unified command of the Freemasons, they dig fortifications near Luerzhuang, and they also receive simple military training in their free time, for the war on Vietnamese soil, Qin Kai has very clear instructions, which should be borne by the Vietnamese.

And in the Zhiling Fortress, the Vietnamese servant army, which has been trained for more than three months, already has some military appearances, and the practice of firearms is also on the right track, and the number of people has rapidly swelled to 10,000.

Qin Kai's silver was being consumed on the land of Vietnam, and he who had already returned to Guangzhou was startled by He Xing, who had rushed over, and Lao He's eyes were bloodshot, he had rushed over from Fuzhou overnight.

As soon as they met, He Xing took the account book and asked Qin Kai, "Gale Wind, we had a deficit again last month, I will manage this property for you, but the more I manage it, the more alarming it becomes, you have a big family now, but you can't afford to toss it like this."

Seeing He Xing's distressed look, Qin Kai was also stunned, he hadn't squandered it in the past two months, in this era, to be honest, he wanted to spend money and had nowhere to spend it, so how could he have time to go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers? Want to buy some high-tech gadgets...... In addition to his light brain, the most high-tech in this era are the weapons produced in his factory? ,

As for women, Qi Meinu occasionally comes to visit the door, but he himself is not in Guangzhou for three days and two ends, and he has never lost in this regard, and the biggest expenditure is still for Zhou Ruidong, but it seems that it is okay, compared to the income of the horsetail industry......

I pondered for a while, and looked at He Xing very innocently, "Brother He, how much silver did you lose last month?" ”

"One hundred and forty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-two taels," this number is obviously that He Xing has already counted it a few times, immediately reported the results, and then handed a list to Qin Kai, "Gale Wind, you are in such a big situation now, you have to find some people to take care of this silver, the Mawei shipping plate on my side is getting bigger and bigger, and some of them can't be greeted."

Qin Kai took the list, and the above was a dense list of expenditures, the expenses of the Guangzhou fleet in the South Seas, just the supply of coal, fresh water, grain, vegetables, the huge fleet, the monthly expenditure reached an astonishing 243,000 taels; Zhou Ruidong's Vietnamese salary, clothing, weapons and ammunition are no longer counted, and it is 470,000 taels per month......

Qin Kai smashed it, smashed his mouth, this is a war, let's work hard to get this little industry, and now there is a big group of capable people to help with it, so there is today's income, and he is still thinking about it privately, according to the income of the horsetail industry, the rich can rival the country, it is not covered.

Thinking of the country, 40 million people, this has just enlightened the industry, the annual income tax is not more than 30 million taels of silver, their own horsetail industry, as early as last year into the threshold of 2 million taels of monthly income, this year plus the tax of Guangzhou Industrial Zone, Fuzhou, Fangcheng, Hejuni several pieces of industry income, more hope to go to the next level.

The Mawei shipping has broken through the steps of 100 cargo ships, which can be said to have completely thrown the China Merchants Shipping Bureau far away, but out of political considerations, he has not expanded the business scope of shipping to the Shanghai and northern ports of the China Merchants Shipping Bureau for the time being, and in the near future, more than forty percent of the cargo ships have been requisitioned by the escort ** and the Guangzhou fleet, and the loss of income in this regard is also very large.

The highest amount of silver on He Xing's books was 27 million taels of silver in July, this huge number was definitely a brilliant creation, but then, this number fell all the way, and today, the silver on the books has fallen to 24.11 million taels of silver, although this is still a huge number that is rich and rivals the country, but thinking of the current expenditure deficit of Qin Kai, it is enough for more than a year.

Some time ago, the construction of roads and bridges, the construction of a large number of civil works in Leizhou Prefecture, coupled with the large-scale construction of steel mills and machine tool factories, the investment in the purchase of steelmaking open hearth furnaces and rolling equipment from Germany alone reached 1.5 million taels.

He Xing naturally understands that the main role of this steelmaking plant is still to serve the Nanyang Naval Division, the shipyard and the Artillery Bureau, from ore processing, coal preparation to the final production of finished steel and wrought iron, the whole process consumes a huge amount, only he, the financial director, knows best, the three medium-sized coal mines currently controlled by the Mawei Shipyard are operating at full speed, so they can barely maintain the production of Mawei Shipping, Nanyang Naval Division and the iron ore factories in Fuzhou and Leizhou.

At present, the iron mines, coal mines, copper mines, steel mills and rolling mills in Vietnam, including Vietnam's stone son iron mines, coal mines, copper mines, steel mills, and rolling mills are completely unproductive, and the monthly salaries and funds for the normal operation of the factories require nearly a large amount of silver, and the cargo ships of the Mawei Sea that have been requisitioned are losing money every day

Qin Kai and He Xing carefully estimated the entire list, the Guangzhou fleet currently roaming in the South Seas and the war in Vietnam must be fully supported, and although the industrial base in the Leizhou area has been partially put into production, more huge plans are being launched, including the railway construction in charge of Zhan Tianyou, the introduction of steam locomotive production lines from Germany, and the need to pay nearly 1 million taels.

He Xing had no concept of this train, and he didn't understand why Qin Kai had to build a railway in Leizhou, but when he saw Qin Kai's excitement when he talked about the train, he also knew that this silver would definitely be spent.

He immediately asked Wu Jingui and Sun Fu to come in, and carefully discussed the current financial deficit problem, these two were also very surprised after listening, a few months ago at the core meeting, everyone was still very relieved of the growing income, but I didn't expect that the continuous investment in the past few months, coupled with the outbreak of the Vietnam War, has caused such a big chain reaction, and the original monthly income of several million taels has shrunk so much. ,

Wu Jingui spoke first, he is now the head of the Guangzhou Merchants Bureau, the income problem of the Guangzhou Special Economic Zone, he is the clearest, in half a year, nearly 90 large and small enterprises have settled in front and back, and there are a large number of small businesses to ask how to settle in.

The merchants of various provinces in Guangzhou are very interested in the projects that Qin Kai can provide, but most of them are limited to financial problems, after all, to build a new type of factory, this steam engine and coal are necessary, plus the new machine, the initial investment is not a small amount, and the students sent by Qin Kai to study in Fukang Silver have not yet graduated, and the shopkeeper sent by Fukang is currently inconclusive.

However, at present, the efficiency of the production capacity of the special industrial zone has been partially formed, and the first batch of factories put into operation, including Hu Xueyan's silk reeling factory, silk factory, and oil mill, are currently handed over to China Merchants every month The amount of gold is also a large amount of income, and now the number of silver hanging on the books of China Merchants has reached 2.3 million taels.

Sun Fu continued the topic of Wu Jingui, the construction of Zhanjiang in Leizhou has some scale, so the demand for silver on Chen Bingkun's side will gradually decrease in the next few months, but there is no way to continue to maintain it for a while, as for the railway construction on Zhan Tianyou's side, it is not very expensive, the rails produced by Tongguò Mawei Steelmaking Plant have been sent to Leizhou this month, and the production of rails will be undertaken by the second steelmaking plant in Leizhou.

After such careful calculations, the continuous deficit will continue for a few months, but this is also a necessary pain for large-scale investment in basic industry and infrastructure. Thinking of this, Qin Kai pondered for a moment, and immediately asked Sun Fu to send a telegram to summon the core members of Mawei to prepare for a meeting, and he took He Xing and Wu Jingui out of the yamen and went straight to the Fukang Silver on the Thirteenth Street.

Hearing that the governor was coming, Lu Yijin, the Guangzhou treasurer of Fukang Yinhao, hurriedly greeted him, and happily welcomed these three bigwigs into the inner room, but he guessed a little bit of Qin Kai's intention, so he asked with a smile: "Lord Qin, could it be that you are here today for the matter of the silver village?" ”

Qin Kai wants to open a silver village, this matter is no secret in these core layers, before and now it is in the preliminary preparations, the students sent have also learned quite solidly in the Fukang silver number in the past two months, Wu Jingui also sent his subordinate shopkeeper to see, but it is only the initial operation, he and He Xing do not know about the business of this silver number, so they do not dare to interfere lightly.

Qin Kai smiled and looked at Lu Yijin, "Shopkeeper Lu, I did come here for this, but I don't know if the big shopkeeper entrusted you with the manpower is available?" ”

"Yes, I'm afraid that Lord Qin will not be satisfied," Lu Yijin laughed, this matter is definitely a crucial choice for Fukang Yin, in the past three years, Fukang has developed all the way with Mawei Shipyard, and has been involved in too many industries that were unimaginable in the past, and each industry has made a lot of profits, so this time Hu Xueyan and Lu Yijin are also racking their brains to ponder this matter.

The person who is looking for this must be proficient in the trading of this silver number, which is not difficult, and the most important point is that this person must be a person who Hu Xueyan and Lu Yijin absolutely trust, otherwise the recommended person will drop the chain at that time, and it will not only be Qin Kai's silver number that will suffer, but the relationship between the two sides will be greatly affected......

Qin Kai is actually most worried about this problem, it is not difficult to find someone who knows how to do it, the problem is that none of his subordinates with such a large number of people can do this job, if he does it himself, he thinks about it and estimates that it will be possible, but how can he have this time to soak in this, now that he heard that Lu Yijin has found manpower, the smile on his face suddenly became a little thicker, "Lu Da shopkeeper, let's hear it"

At this time, He Xing and Wu Jingui behind him were also nervous, they knew that this was a major matter of millions of taels of silver, and this had to be handled by people who were very relieved, and they didn't know what kind of person Fukang Silver could find?

Lu Yijin saw the three of them staring at him, the words turned around in his stomach a few times, pondered a suitable word, and said with a smile: "Lord Qin, Shopkeeper He, Shopkeeper Wu, isn't this also Mao Sui's self-recommendation, to be honest, Shopkeeper Hu and I have discussed for a few days, but there is no very suitable candidate, the person we recommend, then they have to bear the responsibility for Lord Qin's industry, so I am thinking about letting my old bones be used."

After saying this, Lu Yijin's eyes naturally turned to these listeners, Qin Kai squinted his eyes and didn't know what to think, He Xing and Wu Jingui also had rich expressions on their faces, but they could see that they were very interested in this ......,

Qin Kai didn't expect Hu Xueyan's decision, Lu Yijin has dealt with Mawei Shipmaster the most in the past few years, and for Fukang Yinhao, he is definitely the top executive, let him bring a group of people to run his own bank, this is indeed the best plan, he can rest assured, Hu Xueyan is also assured.

He looked at Lu Yijin, today, this old man is becoming more and more cute, and smiled slightly, "Shopkeeper Lu, you are willing to help me, that is unbelievable, then...... I will leave the affairs of this silver trumpet to you in the future."

"It's naturally my old man's honor to be able to serve adults," Lu Yijin saw that this most critical issue had reached a tacit understanding, but he also put his mind at ease, he naturally understood his role, he could help Qin Kai's silver get on the right track, that is, to give this high-profile feudal official a big face, and now the silver number is only relying on the face of Zuo Dashuai, in that case, there will be another big backer.

Qin Kai nodded, with Lu Yijin joining, he put down more than half of his thoughts, he didn't understand, this old man must understand, he understood, as long as he dialed a little bit or two, this old man would definitely be able to understand, but some things still had to be made clear in advance, "Lu Da shopkeeper, hmm...... There are some things that I still have to make clear first, my silver number and Fukang silver number have nothing to do with each other, of course there can be business dealings......"

"Lord Qin, don't worry, since I came to your silver number to work, it has nothing to do with Fukang" Lu Yijin hurriedly expressed his attitude, but it was a little surprising for Qin Kai to explain this, after all, now Fukang is the absolute boss in the domestic silver number, if the two sides hold some equity in each other, it is undoubtedly a very good way to cooperate.

As for Hu Xueyan, if he cooperates with Qin Kai, who has a thorough officialdom background, it will also label the Fukang Silver Account as an official, and the reputation of the Silver Number in the future can definitely go to the next level, but ...... Since Lord Qin was unwilling, he didn't mention it anymore.

"Okay," Qin Kai nodded, he had been worried about the financial turmoil that would crush Fukang in one fell swoop, although he brought too much butterfly effect, but some things are destined to be unavoidable, you must prevent it as soon as possible, otherwise you will fall into it, even if you have the heart to help Hu Xueyan, it is estimated that you will be powerless at that time, after speaking, he took out a piece of paper and handed it to Lu Yijin, "Lu Da shopkeeper, how many deals here, how many do you think can be done?" Are there any risks? ”。

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