Li Mingfang and Jin Lisan left early, first, Li Mingfang wanted to go back to pick up his family, and second, Jin Lisan saw that Qin Chuan had not been idle since he came back, and he had to keep the New Year at night, so he also wanted Qin Chuan to rest for a while. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Qin Chuan also felt a little tired, his spirit was very excited, he wanted to go back to the bedroom and lie on the bed for a while, thinking quietly, but when he walked to the door of the bedroom, his head was still about the depreciation of silver, he hesitated for a long time holding the doorknob and then turned back, lit a cigarette, and paced back and forth on the floor of the living room.

Regarding the depreciation of silver, Qin Chuan knew very well in a review of the world silver price before the crossing that the peak of the silver panic in the United States was in May, that is, less than a month away, when the gold reserves of the United States were far below the warning line, leaving only tens of millions of reserves, causing the dollar base to be shaken. At the same time, major banks have tightened their credit, and many enterprises have been unable to raise urgently needed gold and dollars to buy means of production and repay loans, and there has been a wave of large-scale bankruptcies.

To add insult to injury, the sharp outflow of gold from abroad has not only caused a shortage of liquidity in the market, but even the credibility of the US dollar in the world has begun to suffer, thus laying the foundation for the economic depression in the United States at the end of the 19th century.

The impetus for the eventual implementation of the gold standard in the United States was the decision of India, which has the largest silver stock in the world, to suddenly announce in May that it would change the silver standard to the gold standard, and silver would no longer be used as India's currency in circulation, which caused the value of silver to fall by more than half. After more than two months of hard work, in August this year, the U.S. government was finally forced to announce a gold-standard monetary policy, which led to a rise in the price of gold and a collapse of silver around the world.

Of course, whether the price of silver and gold fell or not had little to do with the people of the Qing Dynasty, who were highly self-sufficient in agriculture, and almost all the materials needed by the people for daily food, clothing, shelter and transportation could be met at home, and prices had hardly changed much because of the depreciation of silver in the world. If there is a slight impact, it is only a sharp increase in the price of imported muslin, foreign oil, machinery and equipment, but this has little to do with ordinary people.

Qin Chuan was not worried about taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime fluctuation in the price of gold and silver in the world to make a big profit, because he had been planning for this for more than a year, and he had repeatedly scrutinized all the details, and even the round-trip time of the freighter between Europe and Asia and the Americas, he had carefully understood and considered. So far, his plan has been implemented step by step.

If anything, it's just that he's making more money than he planned now.

Moreover, his bite of the Japanese, the Americans, the British, the French, the Germans, and the Belgians was also more severe and heavier. Especially for the Japanese who have the weakest national strength among the great powers, Qin Chuan can almost be said to have torn off a piece of bloody flesh from them, although Zhengjin Bank and Yokohama Bank are not the Bank of Japan, but as long as the Japanese can be given more blood and Japan's national strength can be weakened, Qin Chuan has never hesitated.

And what made Qin Chuan proud was that although he suffered a big loss at Qin Chuan's hands in the future, these Westerners and Oriental dwarves couldn't find a reason to regret it, because he Qin Chuan was not qualified to manipulate the currency, and the fall in silver prices was done by the British and the American Morgan Stanley, who ate inside and out. Moreover, on the contracts signed by Qin Chuan with these foreign banks and foreign banks, it was written in black and white, that he wanted to repay the loan in silver, and he also gave the borrower a very generous income that allowed the borrower to take advantage of "a great advantage".

As soon as he thought of the huge amount of gold that he had poured back from these powers, which was now "lying down and sleeping" in the underground vault of the Aurora Bank opposite him, Qin Chuan's mood was extremely excited, especially when he thought of making the Oriental dwarf deflated, Qin Chuan's heart was even more excited, and his energy was full of vitality, if it weren't for Sister-in-law Wu being downstairs, Qin Chuan really wanted to shout twice.

was thinking about how to do this more properly next, but he saw that the sturdy black panther who had been lying on the edge of the sofa had been following him since he didn't know when, and as he kept walking around the floor, Qin Chuan couldn't help but feel a burst of amusement.

Qin Chuan bowed down and reached out to pat the black panther's supple, smooth and shiny black head.

Seeing Qin Chuan making love to it, the black panther's smart and alert eyes suddenly showed a bright light, and his hot mouth kept pouting on Qin Chuan's hand.

Qin Chuan made out with the panther for a while, to see if it was too early, he hurriedly found a brush and paraffin, first removed the dust on the riding boots, and then carefully applied a layer of paraffin evenly on the riding boots, picked up a piece of flannel and wiped it vigorously for a while, until the riding boots on his feet became shiny.

Every time he packed up his riding boots, Qin Chuan remembered shoe polish, but this shoe polish still had to wait until the fine chemical factory he envisioned was built.

Qin Chuan packed up his riding boots, went to the bathroom and washed his face, and the fluffy beard that appeared slightly under his forehead was also carefully shaved by him with a razor, and then he straightened his military uniform, put on the crisp big-brimmed hat, and walked downstairs, and the black panther followed Qin Chuan downstairs closely.

In the hall downstairs, Gao Ying was sitting on the upper hair, talking to Sister-in-law Wu without a ride, and saw Qin Chuan go downstairs and hurriedly got up.

After Qin Chuan instructed Sister-in-law Wu to call the guards to move all the gifts sent by Zhang Shiheng to the reception room outside, he took Gao Ying out of the small building.

As soon as he walked out of the building, a cold north wind blew with crystal clear snowflakes, and the snowflakes fell on Qin Chuan's warm cheeks, melting into cold snow water in a moment, and the stimulation of cold wind and snow water made Qin Chuan's spirit invigorated. The black panther who followed Qin Chuan out of the door of the building, I don't know if it was the first time to see this crystal clear flying snow, looking at the snowflakes flying in the sky, he was stunned for a moment, and then rushed down the steps, chasing the fluttering snowflakes again and again, busy and happy.

Seeing that it was snowing, Gao Ying, who was following Qin Chuan, was busy running back upstairs to get Qin Chuan's fur coat, but was stopped by Qin Chuan, who was in high spirits.

I don't know when the snow began to fall, but the huge yard of the dyeing factory has already been covered with a thin layer of white snow.

Although it was Chinese New Year's Eve, the various factories of the Aurora Group did not stop working, which was what Li Ming asked Qin Chuan for.

At this time, all factories or handicraft workshops in China will stop work on Chinese New Year's Eve, and some will not even start until the fifteenth day of the first month. Although some foreign-funded enterprises ignore the Han nation, the most important festival of the year, and still start work on Chinese New Year's Eve, the wages are the same as before.

Qinchuan, who crossed over, naturally did not simply stop work or start work, but instructed Li Mingfang that due to the tight production, all factories should not stop work on Chinese New Year's Eve, but should give workers appropriate compensation. During the three days from Chinese New Year's Eve to the second day of the new year, plus the fifteenth day, all workers who went to work, day and night, were paid three times as much as they normally would. In addition, from the beginning of the new year, all workers who work at night will be required to pay night shifts.

At this time, not to mention that there are no factories and workshops that pay more wages on holidays, and it is impossible to talk about what night shift pay there is for working at night, and this is not the case in the Qing Dynasty, even in Europe and the United States at this time.

Qin Chuan's move can be described as the world's first precedent for extra pay for holidays and night shifts.

After the news was announced three days ago, the workers of various factories of the Aurora Group publicly recommended Chu Dazhu and a few old workers to express their gratitude to Qin Chuan, and even shouted that they wanted to raise money to build an immortal archway for Qin Chuan. The "Oriental Times" in the concession even reported this unprecedented shocking news on the front page, and even the Reuters reporter station in Shanghai called the "Oriental Times" repeatedly to confirm the accuracy of the news.

Therefore, although today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the factories under the Aurora Group have not stopped working, the roar of the machines in the workshop in the backyard is faintly heard, and no one else walks around at will except for the soldiers of the salt regiment patrolling with guns and standing guard in the front yard.

Looking up at the gray and already dimmed air sprinkled with snowflakes fluttering in the wind, Qin Chuan's heart was extremely happy.

Qin Chuan was enjoying this wonderful snow, a piece of pink suddenly flashed in the corner of his eyes, and when he looked at it, the color was dozens of cold plum trees planted along the wall of the dyeing factory's courtyard.

These cold plums were transplanted and planted by the owner of the original dyeing factory, and the plain dry and thin plum trees did not attract Qin Chuan's attention.

"There are a few plums in the corner, and Ling Han opens them alone."

Touching the scene, Qin Chuan couldn't help but think of the poems in Wang Anshi's "Plum Blossoms", and recited them casually.

Gao Ying, who was following behind Qin Chuan, suddenly heard Qin Chuan reciting poems, and was surprised and delighted, he always thought that Qin Chuan was a martial artist who could do business, where did he think that Qin Chuan could also recite poems like those literati who were full of wealth, full of elegance.

Gao Ying was thinking about listening to Qin Chuan's recitation, but he didn't want Chu Yunfei to suddenly lead a dozen soldiers of the salt regiment carrying ladders and holding a dozen red lanterns to walk out of the corner gate in the backyard of the dyeing factory. Seeing Qin Chuan from afar, Chu Yunfei commanded the soldiers behind him to run over, Qin Chuan hurriedly waved his hand and signaled Chu Yunfei to hurry up and hang the lantern.

Before the crossing, Qinchuan's hometown every Spring Festival, every household has to hang red lanterns, Qinchuan has always thought that this is the Spring Festival custom of the Han nation, but after crossing Qinchuan only found that at this time the Spring Festival only Manchurian people hang red lanterns on the high pole in the yard, and Han families are on the fifteenth day of the first month to hang red lanterns.

Qin Chuan also struggled for a long time about whether to hang the red lantern on Chinese New Year's Eve, but in the end, out of endless thoughts about his original world, he even hung a handmade red lantern in the house last year when he was still alone in the concession.

This year, it is even more impossible for the high-spirited Qin Chuan not to hang lanterns, not only he himself wants to hang lanterns, but also not only these factories, schools, banks, and all places belonging to him of the Aurora Group must hang red lanterns, Qin Chuan even instructed Li Mingfang to ask him to hang red lanterns in the name of the East Street Authority, requiring all shops and families on East Street to hang red lanterns on Chinese New Year's Eve until the fifteenth, of course, these red lanterns are provided by Li Mingfang's administration.

In order to be afraid of going water, Qinchuan unified the big red gauze lamps of different sizes customized by the unified system, and did not directly insert candles in them, but customized glass lampshades at the same time, as if a simple wind lamp was installed in a red lantern, and the lamp bowl inside was full of kerosene, which is the so-called foreign oil, which is enough to burn all night.

Qin Chuan stood on the steps in front of the building, watching Chu Yunfei command more than a dozen soldiers to connect the two corner doors in the front and back yards of the dyeing factory, the small canteen and the door of the reception room where the joint fan conference was about to be held, on both sides of the door, a pair of red gauze lamps were hung, and then they were lit, and a yellow-white flame suddenly appeared in the round red gauze lamp, and the bright and dazzling red halo suddenly reflected the door into a red and bright red.

Looking at that red and brilliant glow, Qin Chuan's heart suddenly filled with a hint of melancholy, but indescribable joy.