The weather in July is long and the nights are short, and the day dawns early. The morning sun shines crimson light all over Shanghai Tang.

When Shanghai woke up from the morning light, Chen Moran got up early, and after washing, he had breakfast in the restaurant, while waiting for Xiao Xinren, and after a while, Xiao Xinren, who was still yawning, came to the restaurant, as the manager of the company, he was far less relaxed than Chen Moran's hands-off shopkeeper.

Although the industrial company has recruited a lot of people, this start-up period is often the time when the operator needs the greatest effort, but Xiao Xinren will never expect Chen Moran, as the boss, to ask about these things.

"You had a good night's sleep! I didn't even want to sleep, so I woke you up! Last night, Yunda stayed up until more than three o'clock in that night, and the bank's affairs have been decided, and it opened on the eighth day of August, with a registered capital of 10 million taels! ”

Xiao Xinren, whose eyes were red, sat at the table and complained, but he was not interested in the breakfast on the table, but just drank a glass of boiled water.

"10 million taels, the most abundant capital of the Chinese-funded bank in Shanghai, the capital of the Commerce Bank is only 8 million taels, Yunda said, for the time being, there is no need to register too much capital, you can absorb capital in a way that increases year by year, after all, in the future, our bank will attract new shareholders, and some shareholders can not be pushed off!"

After the boiled water faded away the discomfort in his throat, Xiao Xinren stretched his waist and joined this industrial company five months ago, not to mention "selling" the industry, he simply lost his life to the industrial company.

When he spoke, he glanced at Chen Moran again.

"My Young Master Chen, you can also pity me, although this name has a tough word, but the iron-clad man can't withstand such a toss, this week, I don't sleep as much as you in a day, otherwise you will give me a day off, let me sleep well, so, you will read on my merits and hard work, and I will work for a day!"

Xiao Xinren's complaint caused Chen Moran to just smile slightly.

"My comrade, the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard!"

After that, he realized a mistake he had made, and even quoted a sentence more than twenty years later, smiled helplessly in his heart, and looked at Xiao Xinren's red rabbit-like eyes, "Then, smoke a cigarette first to refresh yourself!" ”

Chen Moran threw him a cigar.

"I only smoke occasionally! It's uncomfortable to smoke in the morning! ”

Placing the cigar on the table, Xiao shook his head.

"Twenty years of catching up with the United States, now is just the beginning, we will be busy in the future, didn't I say? I'm not a professional, you're not a professional, we don't need to do everything personally, for the boss, the most important thing is to find the right people, assign the work to them, just like Yunda, you see, the bank's affairs almost don't need you to ask, he is a professional, and our industrial company needs such a professional! ”

Chen Moran put forward his set of employing people, in fact, there is nothing new in this, in those organs in later generations, there are several leaders who are really "professional", nothing more than layman leaders insiders, some people can do a good job, some people can't, and the reason is very simple.

"A layman leads an insider, and the most feared thing is that the layman is there to experience it himself!"

"I'm a layman!"

Xiao Xinren almost blurted out a sentence.

"However, you are not human!"

"Neither human nor nonhuman, I know and understand!"

Shaking his head, Chen Moran continued.

"I said earlier that I chose your reason, at least now you are more suitable than those insiders to start an industrial company, the industrial company needs professionals, you can invite, to hire, but those professionals are not sure whether there is perseverance, we now need to run a company, run a business is determination and perseverance, this is what they do not have, I choose you!"

Staring at Xiao Xinren, Chen Moran continued to speak with a very serious expression.

"You are a soldier, they do not have perseverance and perseverance, that's why I chose you, in the current China business, we need to face the harsh environment, is no country can compare, there are Manchu oppression and excesses of taxes, there is competition and oppression of other countries, such a bad business environment, if you don't have enough perseverance, it is difficult to persevere, I am convinced!"

Chen Moran's expression was very serious when he spoke, this seriousness made Xiao Xinren speechless, and he couldn't help but sigh when he looked at Chen Moran.

"However, my mouth will never be able to say you, this even sold your life, work overtime, just work overtime!"

"Overtime? There's no need for that at all! ”

Chen Moran shook his head.

"As I said, distribution, distribution of work, you are the leader, you just need to assign the right work to the right people, the only thing you need is to control the overall situation of the whole company! Tell them in the face of setbacks that you will not be discouraged, you will not retreat, just like leading troops to war, there are several marshals and generals who are personally on the battlefield, but who can deny the role of generals! ”

As he spoke, a smile appeared on the corner of Chen Moran's lips, looking at Xiao Xinren as if he was waiting for him to speak.

"Our company is just a start-up, everything is difficult at the beginning, and we always need to pay more energy! Even generals, too! ”

Xiao Xinren nodded and shook his head, Chen Moran has his way of employing people in the world, and he also has his persistence, and at the end of the words, he looked at Chen Moran again.

"However, as you said, the layman really can't insist too much on the insider, I think at least after our company is set up, I don't need to work as hard as I do now! Mingzhe is a good hand at doing business, that is...... His surname ......"

"The surname is too cowardly, there is more than enough defense, and the attack is insufficient, he is the role of defense, not suitable for the company's expansion, and now this environment is not suitable for him!"

Taking the towel handed by the maid on the side, Chen Moran wiped his hands, and then walked towards the living room on crutches.

"Mingzhe, the reason why I put him in charge of the Jianghuai Road Mine is because of his surname, firstly, he is suitable for dealing with people in the officialdom, and secondly, with the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion behind him, local affairs are much easier, at least he doesn't need to face these foreigners like in Pudong!"

After the meal, a cigarette was passed by the living immortals, a cigarette was taken out from the gold cigarette box on the table, the cigarette was stuffed into the cigarette holder, and after lighting the cigarette, Chen Moran took a deep breath, and the cigarette holder worth hundreds of yuan did not have a trace of peculiar smell, but only the mellow aroma of tobacco.

"From the day when the industrial company came out of the news of the development of Pudong, it can be said that we have become the eyes of those foreign classmen, for the British and American consuls and even the vast majority of British, American and French businessmen, our move is nothing, some foreign companies are even happy to see it, after all, for them, the development of Pudong will bring them millions of profits, before our glass factory was built, Shanghai's flat glass factory is far from being able to meet our needs, this alone is millions of business, elevators, wires, Motors, etc., in the face of these door-to-door businesses, they will naturally be happy to see it! ”

Placing the cigarette on the ashtray, Chen silently shook off the ash from the cigarette butt.

"But not everyone will be happy to see it, there are three types of merchants in the concession or all three types of foreign firms! One is mainly engaged in the sale of industrial products in China, the other is mainly the purchase of primary agricultural and mineral products in China, and the last group is composed of a group of the most greedy people, and these most greedy people control the concession! ”

"The most greedy?"

"Jews! A group of people who are known for their greed, for whom they have never had only profit and no conscience, it can be said unceremoniously that the surname of the Jews in their bones is simply a combination of all the evils of capital! ”

Glancing out the window with disdain, a kilometer or two away in the distance, is the Jewish community of Shanghai.

"Since Shanghai was opened to the outside world as a port of five Chinese ports, Jews from all over the world have come to the city. Most of them are Jewish merchants whose ancestral home is Mesopotamia, the Sephardic family, the Kadoorie family, the Abrahamic family, the Ezra family, the Solomon family, the Sofu family, the Graham family, etc., most of these Jewish families have British nationality, so they have extraterritorial protection, and they also have the privileges of foreigners! ”

Taking two puffs of cigarette, Chen Moran pressed the cigarette butt hard into the ashtray.

"These Jewish businessmen, after coming to Shanghai, all say that they have become rich by their own hard work, but I want to say fart, before the Opium War, they were involved in the opium trade, and after the opening of the port in Shanghai, even more so! After they arrived in Shanghai, they immediately devoted themselves to the most profitable opium trade, and then profited from the opium trade to engage in the real estate and land industry, most of them were engaged in the "two soils", that is, "tobacco soil" and "land" as their business, although they gradually expanded to foreign trade, public utilities, finance, manufacturing and other fields, but the huge profits of the two lands are what they pursue, and they cannot give up, and the huge black gold of tobacco soil allows them to have capital for the real estate market, and continue to push up real estate prices for decades. ”

When Chen Moran mentioned those Jewish businessmen, Xiao Xinren's eyes flashed a trace of anger, the reason is very simple, in the past few months, in the process of recovering land in Pudong, the price has been 400 yuan per mu, but those Jewish businessmen are still unwilling to sell their warehouses, and even in Pudong and the industrial company rushed to buy land, so that the industrial company lost millions of dollars.

"In the public and French concessions, nearly eighty percent of the real estate belongs to these Jewish merchants, and they have always held the policy of renting and not selling, and the method of looting money is almost smacking, like that Hartung, as an out-and-out foreigner, Hartung actually collects rent according to the lunar calendar, just to collect an extra month every three years and earn more silver dollars. On the land of the Jews, even a small stall had to be rented, and tobacco was the source of their fortune, and real estate was their lifeblood. There is a Jewish man in Europe who wrote a book saying that capitalism came into the world, and every pore of sweat from head to toe was dripping with filthy blood and filth, in fact, this sentence is very correct to describe the Jews, at least the Jewish merchants in Shanghai! ”

If you don't know the sins of those Jewish businessmen who haven't been in contact with them, Chen Moran may have sympathized with those people in the past, but after seeing what those people did in the concession, he can only say that he deserves it!

"When the Jewish merchants came to Shanghai, every pore of sweat from head to toe was dripping with dirty blood and filth things!"

With cold eyes raised towards the window, Chen Moran stood up.

"It can be said that they are carrying it with us in Pudong, but it is expected that the real estate capital of these Jewish businessmen in the concession together exceeds 500 million yuan, and the development of Pudong will inevitably affect the housing prices and land prices in the concession, and for those Jewish businessmen who are greedy with their surnames, this impact is undoubtedly equivalent to a stab in their hearts!"

"But no, they are not only greedy, but also vicious, those Jewish businessmen in Pudong and us to compete for land and raise the price, and at the same time through other people to sell some land to us, but the land that can be sold is not hollow, or the center of the earth, but we have to take over, Pudong for them, is dispensable, but for us it is different, Shanghai businessmen's liquidity is more than 100 million, so hard-hitting, the final loss is always the industrial company!"

Xiao Xinren, who couldn't suppress his anger anymore, almost gritted his teeth and said about those Jewish businessmen, if he could, he would even want to kill all those damned Jewish businessmen with one sword.

"Their cunning is not a day away, and the anti-Jews in Europe are not out of nowhere, this kind of greed is eager to plunder all the wealth of the world, but it will never repay the people who are afraid of a dime, naturally they will not please people, whether they like them or not, they always have to face them!"

Compared with Xiao Xinren's anger, Chen Moran was worried about whether those Jews would be brewing any conspiracy.

"These people indulge in the public board of directors of the concession, directly affect the decision-making of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau, and the cross-border road construction of the public and French concessions, every time it is rooted in the pursuit of real estate profiteering by Jewish businessmen!"

"What plot will they have?"

"I don't know! If they don't do anything, I'm afraid it's abnormal. ”

One sentence only made Chen Moran and Xiao Xinren's eyebrows suddenly condense together, the interference of foreigners is a threshold that they can't cross in Pudong, now everyone knows what they are going to do, but they don't know what those Jewish businessmen are going to do, this powerlessness just makes the two feel a little helpless.

Smoking a cigarette, until a cigarette was finished, Chen Moran's eyes were suddenly full of confidence.

"Don't talk about this, those people want to meddle in Pudong, they have to weigh their teeth first! Damn, the whole thing is a bunch of disgusting things, the soldiers will come to block it, the water will cover it, just deal with it carefully! ”

Saying this on his mouth, he was sneering in his heart, as if he was laughing at those people, the rabbit was in a hurry and bit to death, and when the time came...... Sneering, Chen Moran took out a letter from the table again.

"Wei Yang, this is sent by Liu Shilun yesterday, he said that the weapons we want to buy, he has them, and he doesn't have them!"

Although Chen Moran gave Liu Shilun a great fortune, he did not go to Germany with Hu Nianzu, and Heisenberg, the manager of the foreign bank, took Hu Nianzu and his party directly, but Liu Shilun has always felt that Chen Moran and the industrial company "carry points", and now as long as Chen Moran has any instructions, he will do it quickly with just a phone call.

"This Liu Shilun, he is just ordering that!"

"No, last night, he made it clear on the phone, now there is a clause in the Eight-Nation Peace, prohibiting the Qing Dynasty from importing ordnance and equipment for producing ordnance for two years, and the manager of the Shangli and Foreign Bank was removed from his post for selling ordnance to Zhang Zhidong privately! In the warehouse of Lihe Foreign Company, there is a backlog of ordnance! ”

"It seems that Liu Shilun is unwilling to help?"

Picked up the tea cup on the table and swallowed a sip of tea, shook his head, and said slowly.

"It's not that he doesn't want to help, it's just ...... He certainly can't sell us those backlogs of ordnance! ”

His brows furrowed slightly, Xiao Xinren never thought that today's things would be so unsmooth, and even this kind of thing that could be done with silver was competing here.

"Without guns, our mine guards can't let them carry big knives and spears! However, if we can't buy it from them, we'll have to find a way to get it from the Governor's Palace, and he has two munitions manufacturing bureaus, so let's buy some first, and make do with it first. ”

"But he didn't say no to sell!"

Chen Moran said with a smile, and then sat forward for a while.

"Weiyang, don't you know that Liu Shilun hates Heisenberg now, to the point where he can't wait to eat his bones?"

At this time, Chen Moran suddenly lowered his voice, as if he was afraid that people would hear him, and the distance from Xiao Xinren was renewed.

"Liu Shilun's comprador has been pressed by Heisenberg, why did Heisenberg kick him away and take them to Germany, clearly speaking, he is familiar with Germany, but to put it bluntly, he wants to compete with Liu Shilun for the 2% of the commissioner, but Liu Shilun may be greedy for money, what he cares more about is not the money, but the opportunity to take charge of a foreign company."

Stretching his waist and lying down on the back of the sofa beautifully, Chen Moran laughed, Liu Shilun said very clearly in the letter last night.

"Lihe intends to open another branch in Qingdao or North China, originally the German side meant that as long as Liu Shilun won a big order, this position would belong to him. Originally, if he went to Germany this time, he would have direct access to the head of the headquarters of Lihe Foreign Bank, and it could be said that he was the founder of the Qingdao branch, but now Heisenberg has inserted a lever from it, which shattered his dream! ”

"In the foreign firm, the Chinese compradors and the Taipan, the conflict of interests has not stopped for decades, not to mention Liu Shilun, that is, in the ten foreign firms in Shanghai, at least eight of the Chinese compradors have opinions on the Taipan, otherwise our industrial company would not have invited so many people."

Xiao Xinren's face was a little uncomfortable, his second brother was a comprador, he was usually angry with the class, and when he returned home, he could only take his sister-in-law to get angry, the comprador seemed to be beautiful, and the helplessness and bitterness in the inner room were afraid that only they themselves knew.

Chen Moran laughed.

"I don't care about any contradictions between them, but Liu Shilun gave me something!"

Shaking the letter in his hand, Chen Moran had a smile on his face and happiness in his heart.

"That Liu Shilun told me that last year, when Heisenberg came from Germany to take up his post, he used a French ship to bring a batch of munitions, which were passed by the language of Lihe and foreign firms, and those arms were now kept in a warehouse rented by Heisenberg in the name of a servant, and the warehouse was ...... Outside the concession! ”

Looking at Chen Moran with a suspicious face, Xiao Xinren suddenly understood what Liu Shilun meant and Chen Moran's thoughts.

"Are you saying that there are batches of arms in warehouses in China, and ...... Liu Shilun told you this because he wanted you to ......"

"You want me to steal it!"

Chen Moran smiled, but Xiao Xinren didn't laugh, he naturally wouldn't believe that there was such a cheap good thing in the world.

"Are you sure there's no conspiracy here!"

"Black and white, if Liu Shilun plays with us, his letter will be enough for him to fall into it with us, and if we do it well, we can get out, but he can't!"

Saying with a smile, Chen Moran knew the reason why Liu Shilun wrote this letter yesterday, he wanted to win his trust, and then he handed the letter to Xiao Xinren.

"This Liu Shilun is a bit interesting!"

After carefully looking at the letter in his hand and confirming that it was Liu Shilun's handwriting, Xiao Xinren had some doubts when he smiled.

"If this is Heisenberg's private arms, then he must have sold them as soon as he took office, and these private goods of the foreign bank were all sold for the first time, but why hasn't he sold them until now!"

"Speaking of which, we have to thank Heisenberg, who has never been to the Far East, so he treats China as Africa, and in order to earn more silver, he brought not Mauser guns, but a batch of guns from the Chatro State Light Weapons Factory in France."

This will make Chen Moran feel quite proud in his heart, what does "good karma grow good fruits" mean, isn't it now?

"This batch is the Mosin Nagant 1891 made by the Shatro Light Weapons Factory in Russia ** years ago, Heisenberg almost seemed to have picked it up, but he just didn't expect that the governors didn't want the famous things at all, and they only recognized Mauser in their eyes! No, isn't it time to cheapen us! ”

"Russian guns!"

Xiao Xinren frowned slightly, and couldn't help but feel a burst of displeasure in his heart, the Russian gun itself has nothing to be happy about.

"Let's make do with it! Something is better than nothing! ”

"It's not, besides, Mosinaghan's gun is not bad, he is a very typical Russian-made weapon - cheap, simple, reliable, simple and reliable to use, does not require too much maintenance, the Russian army is a group of gray animals, undertrained, uneducated, too complex weapons they can't make, we are not like this!"

Chen Moran didn't have Xiao Xinren's dislike at all, after all, according to the information of later generations, this kind of rough and simple looking rifle may still be the most accurate one among military rifles, not to mention, there is no other one to buy now.

"How many guns did Heisenberg bring!"

didn't speak, Chen Moran just stretched out his hand.

"Five hundred!"

"You're typical of looking down on people! You must know that Heisenberg is the manager of Lihe! ”

(To be continued)