Qin Chuan is now very angry with this Sheng Xuanhuai who doesn't open which pot to mention, but now that everyone is looking at him, in desperation, Qin Chuan had no choice but to say. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I promised to do business with Gao Lin, Ning Xingpu, and Yang Shaonong."

"What business?"

Hearing that there was business, Sheng Xuanhuai's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he hurriedly asked Qin Chuan.

"Minghong, you have sold a lot of goods today, even until May next year, where can you still do business with these many goods?"

Under Sheng Xuanhuai's questioning, Qin Chuan smiled helplessly and said: "Although the monthly output of my cigarettes is only 10,000 boxes, I can produce an additional 1,000 boxes per month." Today's other auction goods are also similar to this cigarette, and some can be squeezed out. In addition, the amount of refined salt is very large, and foreigners will not buy it all. There is also the flour from the flour mill that I opened with Ning Xingpu, Gao Lin, and Yang Shaonong, and I don't plan to take it out this time, and I have to ship it overseas to do business first, and I guess I can make some more money. ”

At the easternmost end of the Qinchuan Aurora Factory, that is, opposite the site of Aurora University, which had already been fenced off by a wall and several main buildings in it had been basically completed, Ning Xingpu, Gao Lin and Yang Shaonong bought a piece of land with a large area and built a large flour mill.

The courtyard wall of the factory is tall, and from the outside, you can only see dozens of tall granaries and a dozen huge bluestone warehouses inside. This year's Zhili HN wheat harvest, every day there are people driving a team of carts to transport wheat inside, and even Huaibei wheat producing areas have ships to transport wheat over, the sound of the machine in the big flour mill has been booming non-stop.

It's just that these people didn't take the commonplace flour mill seriously, and no one ever asked about Qin Chuan.

Hearing that Qin Chuan was going to start his own freight business, Sheng Xuanhuai couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, and wanted to say something, but he glanced at Li Jingfang and the others, closed his mouth again, and just picked up the teacup and sipped it gently, while silently thinking about his thoughts.

Wu Tiaoqing pondered and asked: "Minghong, Gao Lin set up a shipping company with Ning Xingpu and Yang Shaonong in the concession, and bought five second-hand freighters of one or two thousand tons, do you have your shares?" ”

"Hmm." Qin Chuan nodded.

Wu Tiaoqing was a little surprised and said, "Minghong, you can think about this shipping matter simply. ”

"Although shipping is profitable, but the risk is also extremely high, the South Seas Malacca, as well as the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Seas, and even the Atlantic Ocean are full of pirates, Jardine Matheson's shipping companies and the big shipping companies of the European and American powers, their ships in addition to fast speed, everywhere also have their naval protection, pirates do not dare to provoke easily, generally without the government-backed fleet, it is not the same. Especially in the waters of South America and Africa, it is even more dangerous, and if you are not careful, the ship will be destroyed and people will die. ”

Qin Chuan was very grateful for Wu Tiaoqing's reminder, and said with a smile: "Thank you for the reminder, we have already thought about this and are a little prepared." Moreover, our fleet will not go to Europe, and will basically only trade along the coast of the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean, as far as Egypt in North Africa. ”

Li Jingfang blinked, looked at Qin Chuan and said: "Ming Hong, the German Minister Klinder sent a letter to Zhongtang, saying that there are two of their 2,200-ton naval training ships equipped with small-caliber guns, and they will stay in the Far East for a long time to find a seller, so they will often replenish the supply of fresh water in our port, and they also want to ask us for assistance in the maintenance of the ship. ”

These two so-called German Navy training ships are retired shore defense ships of the German Navy, and the ships are more than ten years old, because they are privately purchased, William Jr. took a lot of trouble to dredge up, not to mention, and spent a lot of money to buy a new ship, before he got these two second-hand ships back, and asked Klinder to mediate, so that Li Hongzhang agreed, and he could temporarily dock at TJ under the supervision of the Beiyang Naval Division. Now the sailors on the ship are all retired German sailors, and Qin Chuan is selecting sailors from the soldiers of the Salt Regiment.

Qin Chuan said in his heart: "This Li Jingfang reacted very quickly, as soon as he mentioned the conversation, he thought of this. ”

Qin Chuan, who smiled bitterly in his heart, had no choice but to nod and say: "This is because Gao Lin learned that the Germans had these two training ships that were about to be decommissioned to come to the Far East, so he asked them to escort and protect them." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai pondered, and asked Qin Chuan again with some disbelieving: "Ming Hong, you said that your fleet does not go to Europe and the United States, and only goes as far as Egypt, which is good, you can not compete with these foreign merchants who have purchased a large number of your goods, but the Arabian Sea is vast and sparsely populated, and the market is too small, your fleet can sell some spices and porcelain, but it is probably unprofitable to traffic in bulk goods." ”

Regarding Sheng Xuanhuai's ill-intentioned question, Qin Chuan gritted his teeth this time or resolutely refused to confide in half a word, and the angry Sheng Xuanhuai rolled his eyes and looked at Qin Chuan.

The next auction is hot, mainly concentrated in Qinchuan's soap, laundry soap, as well as new pens, cans, soda ash, although refined salt is also a money-making thing, but after all, the output of refined salt is too large, and it is impossible for ordinary people to eat it all.

Not to mention the soap produced by Qinchuan Aurora Company, although the washing effect is not generally good, it is only a consumable for laundry, and it can only be taken a cheap and high-quality way. However, those soaps with bright colors, strong aromas, or elegant and quiet are very different, and they still attract the favor of a large number of foreign businessmen who have the backing of foreign banks.

As for those sparkling new fountain pens have attracted the competition of foreign businessmen, and the new ink matching the pen has also attracted the attention of foreign businessmen, these so-called inks are not black, but several shades of blue ink, writing is very fluent.

It's just that for this fountain pen, no one in the country cares about it at all.

Not to mention canned food, some time ago, these foreign merchants brought back the canned food back to China has made them a fortune, and many foreign merchants have even accepted the government's commission to prepare a large order.

In the auction, the soap for laundry was mainly underwritten by RB people and domestic merchants, and the bidding for those soaps was fierce, and only a few domestic merchants in Beijing bought one at a high price, and the SX merchants led by Li Yundong bought one copy, and the others were purchased by European and American foreign businessmen.

The high-priced gold-niped fountain pens were won by British businessmen headed by Jardine Matheson, and the ordinary fountain pens were purchased by French, German, and American businessmen led by the French Taihe & Co., Runtai & Co., and the German Huachang & Co., and Tailai & Co., as well as the French, German, and American merchants led by the American Heli & Co., and the Dutch and Belgian businessmen who were alone could only stare in a daze.

Soda ash is exclusively owned by the British foreign bank Bneimen, which specializes in this industry, with the strong support of HSBC.

Leather goods produced by tanneries are sold in a mediocre manner, and large auctions are not attended at all.

This situation makes Qin Chuan very helpless, it seems that these leather products, in addition to supplying their own salt balls, the rest can only be retailed in China.

As for refined salt, although the auction scene is also very hot, but each share is very large, the amount is very large, the small scale of foreign banks and businessmen can not do it, in the end only William Jr. Rui Kee foreign firm and several other German foreign companies jointly purchased one, the United States Heli foreign firm purchased one, the British Jardine Matheson, Lihe, Swire and other large foreign companies jointly purchased four copies, the Japanese businessmen bought one, and the rest were all purchased by the domestic salt merchants headed by Yang Shaonong and others.

Finally, Ye Xilai announced that the next auction will be held again in three months, when it will not only bid for the output of today's goods in the next few months, but also two new products to participate in the auction.

One is a new type of pen that can be used directly without ink and has been used for a long time, unlike fountain pens, and the other is extra white flour produced by Aurora Group using the latest processing methods.

A few people were not interested in any extra white flour, but they heard that there was another factory in Qinchuan that made new pens and put into operation, and these people all started to think about it.

Zhang Shiheng was thinking about how to raise some money because he didn't have much spare money in his hand, Li Jingfang was not able to speak because Zhou Fu and Sheng Xuanhuai were in the same mind, and Wu Tiaoqing was thinking about Li Jingfang, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

Only Sheng Xuanhuai grinned and said: "Minghong, you are not authentic, when you asked me to return the overseas agency from my hands, you said that if you want to open a new factory and allow me to become a shareholder, how can you break your word and get fat?" ”

When Qin Chuan heard that Sheng Xuanhuai was still going to participate in the shares, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

"Shanda, this is not a new factory, this factory has been in preparation for several months。。。。。。"

Zhou Fu, who had been drinking tea with his head stuffy, suddenly said: "Okay, Minghong, the old man has been out for so long, and his body is a little tired, since your auction has ended, I think we should also disperse." Minghong should also greet the merchants who come from afar, and prepare an evening dinner, so you should all disperse. ”

Zhou Fu said this, and the others were not good to stay anymore, so they all got up and got out of the color shed with Zhou Fu.

Seeing that Zhou Fu had relieved himself, Qin Chuan couldn't help but cast a grateful gaze and personally helped Zhou Fu out of the color shed.

Li Jingfang and Wu Tiaoqing first said goodbye, got into the sedan chair and left. Zhang Shiheng also said goodbye and left with scattered eyes, and only sent away Sheng Xuanhuai, who was under him, followed behind Zhou Fu without pulling a step.

Qin Chuan helped Zhou Fu and was about to carry Zhou Fu's green sedan chair, but Zhou Fu suddenly stopped, looked back and saw that there was only Sheng Xuanhuai alone, Zhou Fu stared at Qin Chuan and said lightly.

"Ming Hong, in order to celebrate the birthday of Lafayette who is about to be sixty, the saint allocated a huge amount of money to Lafayette is repairing the garden, the project is huge, and the treasury is not sufficient, the saint is anxious every day, the king is worried about the fault of the minister, all the subjects of the world have the responsibility to relieve the king's worries, as the people of the Qing Dynasty, how can Ming Hong not worry about the king. I think so, I happened to enter Beijing these days, you give 1 million, the old man will take you to donate, and then ask for a plaque from the saint for you. ”

One million, build a garden for Cixi!

This week, why did you suddenly think of this?

Zhou Fu's words made Qin Chuan stunned, and just as he didn't know what to do, Zhou Fu had already gotten into the sedan chair with the support of several followers.

Looking at Qin Chuan, who was stunned on the side, Sheng Xuanhuai patted Qin Chuan on the shoulder and said in a low voice.

"Don't you know that the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty, and with the holy plaque, there will be less but a lot of trouble."

"Go back and think about it, and send a million silver tickets to Lord Zhou's mansion tomorrow."

"Oh, there's more."

Sheng Xuanhuai smiled slyly and said: "In this way, Lord Zhou has done you a great favor, and you don't need to be rewarded, I think so, your new pen factory, I and Lord Zhou want another share, you can calculate the amount of shares, and the money will be paid by me and Lord Zhou in your pen factory." ”

After Sheng Xuanhuai finished speaking, he smiled and also got on Zhou Fu's wide sedan chair, under Zhou Fu's long entourage signal, Zhou Fu's eight-lift sedan chair left the ground steadily, and under the strong shoulders of the eight sedan chair men, the sedan chair left Dongjie smoothly.