The matter was urgent, Tan Yiyun received the order and went out to run errands overnight, but Chen Xiaobai was not in a hurry to leave.

Seeing that Chen Xiaobai seemed to have something to say, Hu Chuyuan asked him, "What's wrong...... What's wrong? ”

Chen Xiaobai said with a smile: "Of course there is no problem with what the owner ordered, I was thinking about it...... When the Jiangnan salt disaster case is finalized, the Nanxun merchant gang will basically be over, and in the future, we will have to confront the major foreign companies and fry silk, I don't know what the owner plans to do? ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "In terms of financial resources and power, I can raise the price with foreign banks, but I don't want to raise it!" ”

Chen Xiaobai couldn't help but be a little strange, and asked: "Why, for every penny we raise the price, we can earn hundreds of thousands of taels more?" ”

"yes!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded, and said: "It's not a way to go down like this, the price of raw silk in China fluctuates too frequently, but it will prompt foreign companies to turn to local places to buy raw silk." Therefore, I will not raise prices for the time being, and concentrate on setting up silk museums and cooperatives in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and in a few years, I will directly bypass these foreign banks to set up branches of Jiangnan Commercial Bank overseas. ”

Chen Xiaobai nodded and said, "That's fine, you are a newcomer to Shanghai after all, and your momentum is too fierce, it is easy for foreign companies to hug us together!" ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Foreign banks are not easy to deal with, let's think long-term." I now feel that it is too difficult to fight alone, taking advantage of the weakness of the Nanxun merchant gang, I want to support a few people from it and maintain the momentum of unity, what do you think? ”

Chen Xiaobai said with a smile: "The owner is willing to do this, of course it is better." Pang Yunhong in the Four Elephants of Nanxun can be considered that this person has been doing business with his old club before, and he is still collecting silk for his old club in Nanxun. After the old club left, he felt that he was full-fledged, so he didn't have any more contact with us, and when he bought Xia Si, he also chose to join forces with Zhang Songxian. ”

After a little thought, Hu Chuyuan and Chen Xiaobai asked, "Is this person deeply involved in the salt case?" ”

Chen Xiaobai said: "When frying salt, Tan Yiyun and I looked around for a suitable middleman, after all, we have cooperated for many years, and we let him be responsible for distributing salt to Nanxun merchants." At least seventy percent of the salt hoarded by the Nanxun merchant gang was resold by him, and now it is good that he has ended up in Nanxun Town that is not a person inside and outside, but he is not greedy enough, and he actually hoarded more than 6 million catties of private salt. ”

Hu Chuyuan sneered again, and said to Chen Xiaobai: "With a few of you big shopkeepers to help with the family business, I am indeed much easier. This person may be able to consider. ”

Chen Xiaobai also smiled, but said: "Boss, let's talk about it again, businessmen are businessmen, in business, who doesn't want to make more money, who doesn't want to sit in the position of the old boss and dominate the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang?" ”

See profit and forgetfulness.

This is the surname of a businessman, and only a very small number of businessmen like Hu Xueyan can "see profit and not forget righteousness", so he can get Zuo Zongtang's favor and supervise the finances of the Hunan army.

Hu Chuyuan and Chen Xiaobai asked, "What about him now?" ”

Chen Xiaobai said: "Of course, in the concession, there is no place for him in Nanxun Town...... Well, I heard that he and Liu Yong are contacting foreigners everywhere to sell silk, and the two of them have hoarded a lot of raw silk, about 400,000 catties. Because they have poor capital turnover and are anxious to sell, foreign companies always push their prices, and they are now distressed. ”

Hu Chuyuan's eyes shrank, and he said to Chen Xiaobai: "I have carte blanche to help Xu Run sell silk, you can contact Xu Run tomorrow, just say that the price can be lower, the key is to be fast, the sooner the better." ”

Chen Xiaobai said: "Don't worry about the owner. I have discussed with Tan Yiyun, and it is estimated that most of the raw silk of Tang, Zhang, and Gu is in the hands of the owner, in case Liu Yong and Pang Yunhong sell the silk cheaply, we will suffer a big loss. So I took the initiative to talk to them once two days ago, and each borrowed 600,000 foreign yuan from two companies for working capital, on the condition that raw silk was used as collateral. Tan Yiyun took the opportunity of counting the pledged goods to find out the quantity and inventory location of their raw silk, and has been sending people to secretly monitor. If we weren't wrong, they wouldn't have sold it in the next two days. But if we sell too low, we will look inferior and deliberately try to frame them. ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled secretly in his heart.

These big shopkeepers are all human spirits, no worse than Xu Run.

Therefore, the Hu family has today's career, and after he takes charge of the Hu family, everything can move forward, and even the wind and waves such as the Jiangnan salt disaster case have passed.

He thought that he would definitely make a lot of money this year, and he would give special preferential treatment to the four big shopkeepers and give him an extra New Year's bonus.

Talent always comes first, a hundred times more important than capital.

He said: "You still have to talk to Boss Xu, let him try his best to find a way to sell it quickly, if the price can't be low, the way of repayment can be flexible." ”

"Okay!" Chen Xiaobai nodded slightly, and said: "Owner, I still remember one thing, before you went to Suzhou, you left a person named Zhang Lingpu, when you were frying salt, several hooligan leaders in Shanghai wanted to smash the shop of our Jiangnan Commercial Bank, but he heard about it in advance, so we can take precautions." I talked to him a few times later, and found that this man was indeed very capable and talented, and he was also a smart and capable person. He is not only proficient in scripture and history, has the fame of showing talent, and has dabbled in the art of war on land and sea, but also understands machinery, is proficient in English, knows a little French, and his skills are also outstanding, he is really a talent! ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled, in fact, he also discovered that Zhang Lingpu was indeed a rare person.

It's a pity that such a person failed to leave his name in history, Hu Chuyuan estimated...... This person died in the Battle of Mawei.

Chen Xiaobai continued: "This person's family is also from a large family in the local area, and he has been running a tea business for generations, and he has nothing to do with He Jing. I sent someone to inquire, and He Jing asked for someone from the Harbour Master School, and the school teacher recommended him, and as a result, he came to us. But I talked to him, and I felt that he still wanted to go back to Fuzhou to work for the sailor. ”

happened to mention this person, Hu Chuyuan said to Chen Xiaobai: "Then you call him over tomorrow, I'll talk to him in the morning, as for where he wants to serve, then let's talk about it later." ”

Chen Xiaobai nodded and said, "Owner, it's getting late, then I'll go back first, and you can rest early!" ”

Hu Chuyuan looked at the time and saw that it was already early in the morning, so he asked Chen Xiaobai to stay in the guest room of the Hu Mansion to sleep for a night, and then go out to run errands tomorrow.