"Do you want to make money?"

No one believed the child named Tuwa when he ran back to the village, but after a while, the villagers of the village hula all went to the barren grass beach, because the child had grabbed a large handful of silver dollars in his hand. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When these people finally saw the big stone that Tuwa said, standing in front of them was Yang Chao, who had short hair and was wearing a dress, and asked them with a smile if they wanted to make money.

The villagers looked at each other, still forgetting to appreciate the miracle, and soon everyone nodded their heads in silence.

"Yes!"

"Who doesn't want to make money."

"Silly two don't want to."

"Hahahaha."

A kind of honest villager laughed, the second fool is a famous fool in their village, stupid all his life, and in his fifties, he still wears open crotch pants to play with children.

"I want to do it too!"

A fool with a twisted body and wearing tattered cotton pants said with a smile, and everyone laughed even harder.

"I want to make money! Well, who has a boat at home? ”

Yang Chao asked loudly.

Soon someone raised their hand: "I have a boat!" ”

"My family has it too."

Dongying Village is close to the river, but it is not the Yellow River, but a river called Xiaoqing River, although it is called Xiaoqing River, but it is actually not small, because this is the Yellow River floodway dug and dredged by successive governments, and the last dredging was a matter of the seventeenth to nineteenth years of Guangxu, so the river is smooth and the flow is abundant.

Relying on such a river, the people in Dongying Village are also very reasonable to build boats and fish, and there are more than a dozen small boats.

"If you want to be able to enter the sea, you will go to Yantai."

Yang Chao used the elimination method again, and sure enough, a few people immediately looked regretful, some said that their boat was too small, some said that their boat was too old, and in the end, only three people said that their boat was fine.

But Yang Chao looked at it very problematicly, because these ships were too small, Yang Chao suspected that they could hold two or three tons at most, which sounded good, it could transport seven or eight hundred tons of silver at a time, but how much can a ton of silver have? Calculated as a pitiful 30,000 taels, Yang Chao had to transport 3 million taels of silver, and he had to go back and forth more than a dozen times.

What a hassle!

Looks like we're going to have to find someone to help.

Yang Chao was looking for Gong Zhaoqing, and he sent a galleon, which stopped ten miles off the sea of Xiaoqing River Estuary, and then reversed it with a small boat.

In Yang Chao's big barn, there was a busy scene, a warehouse, a brand new box (newly built by the spaceship), reinforced with half-inch thick iron plates on all sides, and a large black lock locked. I have to lock it, if the box is opened, under the bright silver coins, how many people can stay calm, let alone these villagers, I'm afraid that a few black bulls and a few Yang Chao's cronies can't stand this temptation.

So Yang Chao simply locked it up and tortured these guys who had never seen a few taels of silver in his life.

But there are also curious: "Black Bull." What do you think our adults have in this box? ”

Wang Changping asked.

The black bull glanced at him with disdain: "Of course it's a baby." Didn't you know that the emperor rewarded adults with many treasures? ”

Wang Changping said: "That's not so much." It's still so heavy, I see, eighty percent is silver! ”

The black bull despised him even more: "Stupid? There is so much silver, it must be too much to count! ”

Of course, the black bull didn't believe that the chests in the same room could contain silver.

"I'll come, I'll come!"

"I'm here, I've got the strength!"

Two tired and panting, sweaty villagers actually scrambled.

Diverted the attention of the black bull and shouted at something: "What to rob? Here you go! ”

He casually designated a group of people, and the group bowed down again and again, with a grateful look, can you not be grateful, Yang Chao said, carry a box to give one or two pieces of silver, a box is two hundred catties (one hundred kilograms of silver per box), they are used to doing rough work, two people can carry it. As long as it is carried outside, loaded into the car and pulled down to the river, it is one or two silver, so you have to fight, you must fight, otherwise the next time you encounter this kind of good thing, you don't know that you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

"My lord, this and this, it's all silver!"

In order to show his attention to the things ordered by Yang Chao, Gong Zhaoqing personally operated the sails, drove the largest galleon of their Fujian Gang, and went to the mouth of the Xiaoqing River with Yang Chao.

"Silver, of course!"

Yang Chao said, and took out a black key from his arms, and opened a box on the spot, which was indeed a bright silver coin, full of it, and immediately caused a sound of spitting.

Even the two soldiers on Yang Chao's side were dumbfounded, Hei Niu and Wang Changping supervised the transportation in the barn, and Ma Tengfei and Zhang Guozhu followed him.

Compared with Zhang Guozhu's shock, Ma Tengfei suddenly felt a little nervous, he couldn't help but glance at Gong Zhaoqing's people carefully, and found that they were all staring intently at the silver coins in the box, Ma Tengfei suddenly felt that he was really insecure without a gun by his side. When he returned, he planned to advise Yang Chao, hoping to buy their guns back from the Germans.

But now there is no gun, if these people are ruthless, it is not a pity that he and Zhang Guozhu will die, and Yang Chao will definitely die, so Ma Tengfei snorted coldly towards Gong Zhaoqing, at this time, only this old sailor can suppress that group of subordinates.

Gong Zhaoqing immediately understood that he was not a person who had never seen money, let alone a person who did not want to die when he saw money, so he immediately scolded.

It was his men who cursed, and at the same time kicked the lid of the box closed.

"Haven't you seen any silver? Seeing the silver is the same as seeing your wife. Don't hurry up and get out of the way. ”

kicked and kicked all his subordinates away, Gong Zhaoqing breathed a sigh of relief, so much money, he was also worried that his gang of guys would open their eyes when they saw the money, their group of people walked the sea all the year round, and it was not that they had never done black work, but he knew that some money could be taken, and some money could not be taken, because some money was destined to be taken and not spent.

Yang Chao had already informed the foreigners that he wanted Gong Zhaoqing to come and receive the silver, if Gong Zhaoqing ate the black, this matter would not be hidden, and he would only die without a place to be buried, and not only him, his family would have to die, and the crime of killing the court officials was not something he could afford as a small president of the Chamber of Commerce.

So Gong Zhaoqing became the most nervous person, but fortunately, his men have been with him for a long time, they are all obedient, no one uses their brains, the boat arrived at Yantai Pier safely, and the foreigners are really waiting.

The coolies on the wharf were all found, and the silver was quickly unloaded and sent to Hutchison & Co.

Seeing so much money, Rao is Eickhoff, who has seen more money than Gong Zhaoqing, is also a little shocked, so many modern and foreign places are put together, it is really shocking.

A senior class of HSBC had been waiting for a long time, and there were more than a dozen Huayang accountants, who were in full swing to take inventory, and finally transferred to a small British steamer waiting on the dock, and went straight to Shanghai.

Yang Chao is not stupid to put so many oceans in the yamen, or put it in the British vault in Shanghai is the most stable, Yang Chao of course will not be stupid to directly store the silver, but to exchange it for pounds and save it, for HSBC, although the business of four million taels is not too shocking, but it is also a big business.

For Yang Chao, it is clear that with the promotion of the gold standard in the West, the price of silver is not as good as a year, so the pound sterling that is deposited into the gold standard can maintain its value, otherwise it will be enough to repair the dock this year, and it may not be enough next year; For HSBC, the exchange of four million taels of silver can also earn about 100,000 taels, which is still discounted; Therefore, both sides benefit each other.

Watching the small steamer drive out of Yantai, Eickhoff finally got down-to-earth, and the four million taels of silver became a thin bill of exchange, which meant that there was no doubt about the expansion of the Yantai wharf.

He immediately sent a telegram to the Dutch, asking them to send someone to hurry up the construction, and at the same time send someone to negotiate follow-up cooperation.

Yang Chao also has a lot to do.

Black Bull also returned to Yantai, where he couldn't stay in the barn.

At this time, he was anxiously waiting on the official road from Fushan to Yantai, and behind him was Yantai Mountain.

I waited from morning to noon before I saw a carriage swaying towards me.

The black bull couldn't wait any longer, turned over his horse, and rushed over.

The first time the black bull rode a horse, there was no tension, and there was no feeling of being on the ground, but there was a feeling of flying.

When the black bull reached the front of the convoy, the convoy stopped, the curtain of a carriage was lifted, and a woman smiled at the black bull.

The black bull also laughed stupidly. In his smile, the woman, supported by the two women who got out of the carriage first, also walked the carriage, revealing her belly, which had begun to show her pregnancy.

The black bull was still smirking silly, until the woman came up to him, quietly put his hand on her stomach and touched it, and then ran back to the carriage like a thief.

The black bull looked at his hand, still laughed stupidly a few times, and then shouted 'Ride', and it turned out to be on the horse again.

The carriage stopped at the yamen, and the group entered the yamen, where the barn was big, but it was too cold.

Yang Chao forgot to let Lao Jiu get some heating equipment, but Lao Jiu's database did not have suitable heating equipment, and the equipment on the spaceship could be copied, but it was too shocking. So for the time being, they can only live in the yamen, at least after the villagers hired by Yang Chao will repair the stove inside before moving there.

"Black Bull, I'm going to Jinan. Then you have to go to Beijing, will you go with me? ”

Yang Chao said to the black bull who had just joined the group with his daughter-in-law.

Hei Niu hesitated: "I, I'll go." ”

Yang Chao laughed: "Looking at your cowardice, I know that I don't want to go, so stay with your daughter-in-law." I'll just go with Ma Tengfei and Zhang Guozhu. ”

I have to go to Beijing, but I have to go to Jinan to meet Zhou Fu first.

The purpose of entering Beijing is naturally to expand Yantai Port, which is such a trivial matter, and it will be done by yourself to build a port in Shandong Province in later generations, but in the Qing Dynasty, this is actually related to the imperial court, you must report, get the approval of the imperial court and then be qualified to do it, otherwise it will cause criticism, this is the era of imperial dictatorship.

Not to mention the port, it is half an enterprise, opening a coal mine, etc., Li Hongzhang and these people have not given the court a discount.

In fact, Yang Chao had previously written to Zhou Fu, Yuan Shikai and even Zhang Zhidong to explain the expansion of Yantai to Hong Kong, and these people were all supportive of Yang Chao, and Yuan Shikai also specially reminded Yang Chao to get the emperor to agree. Yang Chao also gave Zaifeng an excerpt, he is a Taoist platform with the title of inspector, and he has the right to fold things. But the emperor did not approve his excerpt, so he had to go to the event this time.

The reason why he went to Jinan to find Zhou Fu first was completely out of officialdom etiquette, since taking office, Yang Chao has not visited this superior, at this time, he wants to go north for the expansion of Shandong Hong Kong, of course, he must have a prophet to meet the governor of Shandong, otherwise it is easy to end up with an arrogant and domineering reputation.

"One more thing!"

I have seen Zhou Fu, the two have nothing to say, the words are not very speculative, Zhou Fu is quite a Confucian style, very reserved, and Yang Chao can't talk, just casually polite a few words, in the expansion of Yantai Port The importance of Zhou Fu was narrated to Zhou Fu, Zhou Fu also expressed his support again, especially the expansion of Yantai to make Qingdao, which made him agree.

In the end, Yang Chaocai raised a question.

Zhou Fu asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "The matter of that courtyard was originally given to the lower officials by Lord Yuan, and the lower officials can't live in it, so let's return it to the adults." ”

Zhou Fu stroked his beard and smiled: "Since it was given to you by Lord Yuan, you can keep it." ”

Yang Chao shook his head and said: "If the adults don't accept it, please ask the adults to help sell it, Yantai is very short of money." ”

Zhou Fu was stunned, and then said with a smile: "Such a beautiful thing, how can this mansion not help you." ”

Yang Chao arched his hand and said, "In this way, I have thanked Lord Futai." ”

This is indeed a beautiful thing, Yang Chao broke his house and sold his house and repaired Yantai Port, how is it not a beautiful thing.