Pan Limei is a likable girl, and she is the only one in the garden, so it seems like a group of more people. She was very happy to finally transfer back to Hu Chuyuan's side, so she talked to Hu Chuyuan about those interesting things in the Hangzhou Silk Factory, and Cheng Tinghua listened to it on the side, seemingly a little interested.

In the past few years, the contribution of Hangzhou Silk Factory to the entire Hangzhou government is extremely huge, so that Hangzhou has surpassed Suzhou and become the first distribution center of the silk industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and from a macroeconomic point of view, it has also created a large number of employment opportunities and consumption power for Hangzhou.

With the support and guidance of Hu Chuyuan, Huo Hongji, who was successfully promoted to the platform of Yanhang Daodao, set up the concept of Greater Hangzhou, promoted the construction of Hangzhou's new urban area, implemented rectification of the old city, and established a commercial avenue connecting the two urban areas around Wangjiang Road.

Such a prosperous scene should have belonged to Suzhou, and Hu Chuyuan had always thought so, but Tan Zhonglin's conservatism made Suzhou lose this opportunity.

Pan Limei saw these things clearly, teased Tan Zhonglin from time to time, and said how rich Hangzhou is now, and how the third and fourth masters of the Hu family are buying bigger and bigger industries in Hangzhou.

She is proud, and in these things, her credit is not small.

Listening to her chatter, Cheng Tinghua was also interested and wanted to go to Hangzhou to see it with his own eyes.

Not only will she say, Pan Limei also brought Hu Chuyuan a set of samples of 1600 holes of new machine weaving, and said that she would use this silk satin to make a new set of clothes for Hu Chuyuan.

Hu Chuyuan listened very happily, after all, the changes in Hangzhou are what he is behind the trouble, with the opening of the Jinhang, Huhang, and Hangzhou-Nanjing railways, Zhejiang will have the first trunk railway, the best special raw silk and a large number of Jinqu first-class raw silk transported to Hangzhou by rail, after processing and weaving, and then from Ningbo port, sold to the whole country.

Hangzhou will be more prosperous in the future.

It was getting late, and Pan Limei also said about her hard work in the past few years, so she said coquettishly to Hu Chuyuan: "Young master, I have worked hard in the past few years, it is rare to come to Fuzhou for the first time, you can accompany me to the market tomorrow, and I have to buy something to reward others." You know, Liu Da's shopkeeper is stingy, and he gives Shen Maocai a lot of dividends, but he doesn't have much of me! ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled, as if he was quite willing, but hesitated in his heart.

No, he thought, Ye is also a betrothed man now, this daylight to bring a little girl to swagger through the market, in case Wu Shuzhen knows, then something will have to happen.

Besides, Wu Shuzhen is here as she says!

In case it comes tomorrow, catch it right, this evidence is piled up, and it is difficult to argue!

As soon as he raised his eyes and saw Cheng Tinghua, Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Mr. Cheng, you have worked hard all the way from Yanjing City, and you have been teaching me boxing in Fuzhong for so many days, so you don't have the opportunity to go to Fuzhou for a visit." It just so happens that let's go to Fuzhou City tomorrow and take a look at the blacksmith work of Fuzhou craftsmen! ”

"Huh?"

Cheng Tinghua wondered when he heard it, he thought, no, I went to Fuzhou City with Wang Zhengyi a few days ago, and I went to see other people's blacksmith skills?

After thinking about it, he said, "Why not?" ”

As soon as Hu Chuyuan heard this, he also understood something.

Cheng Tinghua is usually not very good at rejecting others, when he feels very reluctant, he will say "why not", you think it is "why not", but in Cheng Tinghua's heart it is "better not to".

Everyone has their own habits, including speaking and diction.

Hu Chuyuan smiled, but he didn't notice this.

Pan Limei is now a teacher, her ability and identity are different, Hu Chuyuan specially asked her to arrange a separate apartment building. This was originally a western-style villa for French consultants, and when Wu Shuzhen came, the two beauties lived together and took care of each other.

The next time, Hu Chuyuanzhen, Cheng Tinghua, and Pan Limei went to Fuzhou City together.

When she arrived at the place where Fuzhou concentrated on buying and selling silk satin, Pan Limei stopped here and looked at the cooked silk and silk in Fuzhou, and heard that Fuzhou silk could be sold at a good price in Nanyang, and the sales volume was also very large, so she had an idea.

She and Hu Chuyuan said that the quality of Fuzhou silk is not as good as Hangzhou silk, and if a silk factory is built in Fuzhou and specializes in operating silk goods in Nanyang, it will definitely make a lot of money.

Hu Chuyuan is an old trader, and when he heard it, he thought that this idea was very good, so he asked her to transfer some people from the Hangzhou Silk Factory to handle it, and asked Wu Dazheng, the meeting manager of the Fujian branch, to help.

He had to say that Pan Limei was really smart.

Wu Shuzhen is also smart, but her intelligence is based on good education and knowledge, Pan Limei is different, Pan Limei's intelligence is an innate talent.

For example, Wu Shuzhen's Jetta and Kimberley are very beautiful, but these ideas are all thought of with the help of Hu Chuyuan, Wu Shuzhen just handles it, Pan Limei is different, she can think of her own way to make money.

That's the difference between two beauties.

Similarly, Wu Shuzhen's beauty is a temperament, a kind of elegance, tranquility and atmosphere, while Pan Limei is a pure natural beauty...... She's just stunningly beautiful.

When passing through Nanhou Street, the most prosperous street in Fuzhou, a group of people watched on the street, Hu Chuyuan and the others also leaned over to take a look, but saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old beggar girl selling her body to bury her parents at the corner of the street.

There was a lot of talk, but no one was willing to help.

Hu Chuyuan glanced at it, thinking of his usual luxury, he couldn't help but sigh a little embarrassed - it was Zhumen's wine and meat that smelled, and there were frozen bones on the road!

But there is no way, he is such a selfish person.

Looking at this scene, Cheng Tinghua and Hu Chuyuan sighed: "My lord, the situation in Jiangnan is very good, in Yanjing City, the Old Temple of Heaven and the Qianmen area, there are really a lot of such things every day. If it is left in Cangzhou and Baoding, there will be more things. In my home deep state, there are even more ...... Especially on the road around Caoyun, in recent years, it is starved to death I don't know the villagers, a few years ago, when there was a famine, Shanxi is said to have starved to death millions of people. Jiangnan Five Provinces...... It is indeed a blessed land. ”

Hu Chuyuan heard this, and felt faintly in his heart.

Surnames are fragile.

He thought about it for a while, and said to Chen Shanyuan beside him: "Hire her to be a maid and send her parents back to their ancestral hometown for burial." ”

Chen Shanyuan nodded silently, stepped forward and took out ten Qingyuan from his arms, and said to the girl: "My father hired you to be a maid, this is your salary, and we will do it for the burial of your parents." ”

The girl was delighted, and followed Chen Shanyuan after thanking her.

Chen Shanyuan is a native of Fuqing, and has lived in Fuzhou for many years, so he is very familiar with the local personnel, and soon found a suitable coffin shop.

He went to do these things, and Hu Chuyuan, Pan Limei, and Cheng Tinghua returned to the yamen.

When he walked back in the carriage, Hu Chuyuan had been thinking about it in his heart, and when he returned to Yamen, he invited Yan Shizhang and the Gu family to discuss the establishment of Tzu Chi Halls in various parts of the north to adopt orphans.

Since it was Tzu Chi, it was natural that Hu Chuyuan alone could not contribute money, and the rich gentry in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang also had to contribute as much as they could, and the local gentry had to contribute even more to the Tzu Chi Hall under the name of the Public Welfare Bureau, and to purchase it in a unified manner, with one in each prefecture, to adopt orphans and teach them to read and write.

If you are a particularly poor family and your children cannot support them, you can also be placed in Tzu Chi Hall.

As soon as Hu Chuyuan roughly said what he meant, Yan Shizhang couldn't help but ask: "Owner, how much money do you have to do this year?" ”

Hu Chuyuan thought for a while, and asked Yan Shizhang, "How many do you estimate?" ”

Cheng Tinghua, who had been listening, suddenly said: "My lord, if it is done in Jiangnan, I am afraid it will not cost much money, but if it is done in the north...... Not to mention other places, just my hometown of the Deep State, you have to take in hundreds of orphans this year. If you still have to take care of it, it will be more than a few thousand. Just in this way, just one county in Shenzhou, you have to take out 5,000 taels of silver every year, and the longer the time, the more you need 30,000 taels of silver per year to maintain it for a long time. ”

Yan Shizhang said: "I'm afraid I can't do it, this is a good thing, other squires still have to give a little bit, just like we run a school in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, most of us and the local squires can share half of each, the owner will pay half, and dozens of them will join forces to contribute the other half." Besides, we don't raise all children, we will raise them over three or four years old, under fourteen years old, and we can do things at home no matter how old we are, so we don't need to raise them. The situation in the north is very difficult, especially in the Shandong area of Zhili, where tens of millions of people were supported by Cao Yun in previous years, and most of these people have now lost their source of livelihood. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Then let's do it, I will pay three million taels of silver every year, Mr. Yan, we can save as much as we can, what about the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, I will give an additional two million yuan a year, a total of eight million yuan of expenditure, you can use it for me." ”

Yan Shizhang thought for a moment and said: "You might as well let Niu Yugeng handle this matter, the matter of "Consultative Reference" has not been passed so far, and the accumulated materials and manuscripts can be used for six years. For now, he might as well do something else. He has served as a local scholar and politician many times, has a large number of students, and has a considerable reputation among the squires in various places, so it should be very convenient to run a Tzu Chi Hall. ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded, and asked Yan Shizhang to invite Niu Yugeng again, and as soon as a few people talked about it, Niu Yugeng agreed. Because Niu Yugeng once served as a scholar in Shandong and had some connections in the local area, he decided to leave for Shandong tomorrow, first set up a few Tzu Chi Halls, and select good people to be responsible.

When everyone went to do their own things, Cheng Tinghua and Hu Chuyuan sighed: "My lord is really a person who helps the world, the family business is big, and the benevolence is extensive, I have never seen it in my life." If adults don't think Cheng is not good at learning, Cheng is willing to be a lifelong nursing master by the side of adults. ”

Hu Chuyuan laughed and said, "You have to stay as long as you want, but with your skills and strength, there will always be a lot of big things to do in the future." ”

Cheng Tinghua is also a smart person, he smiled, hugged his fists and said: "It's all up to the adults." ”

After Pan Limei, Ye Tongguang, Miao Quansun and others arrived one after another, Hu Chuyuan's general letter office and general account room in Fuzhou had already been formed.

With these two rooms, even if he is in Fuzhou, he can control the entire industry, including business, politics, and military. At the same time, in Beijing, Wang Yirong invited Wan Qingqui, Li Hongzao, and Weng Tongyi to set up the Jingshi Sinology Museum near Taoran Pavilion, covering an area of more than 100 acres, providing a very unique gathering place for people who entered Beijing to take the exam.

Here, the poor can get free room and board, and after the Jinshi examination, the Chinese Academy will also spend an additional congratulatory gift, not much, three or four hundred taels of silver, for the first year of the Beijing Division.

Wang Yirong kept writing letters to Hu Chuyuan through the general letter office, informing him that the young jinshi he fancied and that the jinshi in Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Huizhou would be particularly cared for.

A very special point, the Jingshi Chinese Academy will also simulate the palace examination in previous years to open a preliminary examination, help these outstanding people to build momentum in advance, and also secretly find out the level of lifting people in various places, and select some people to give key funding.

For those officials from all over the country who have established secret contacts with Hu Chuyuan, and important officials in Beijing, everyone also secretly corresponded through the general letter room to report inside information, and it can be said that Hu Chuyuan was in the middle to coordinate and sort out everyone's interests.

What the Manchu people want, what the Hunan army wants, what the Qing school wants, everyone is here to summarize, Hu Chuyuan's task is to let everyone take what they need, and he can indeed do it.

Liu Yongfu, Zhang Lingpu, Liu Jintang...... Everyone's affairs also have to go through the general letter room, these people have their own codes, the letters are sealed, only Hu Chuyuan can read them, the work of the general letter room is only to select these letters separately, one by one to Hu Chuyuan.

The general ledger office has to be responsible for more things, and the accounts of various places, large and small, and thousands of industries must be summarized and checked here, Hu Chuyuan's own industry, the shipyard's industry, and the industry of others in partnership...... Check it all out here.

Safety first, Hu Chuyuan also transferred Hu Changnian back from Huizhou, and sat alone in the general ledger room, Ye Tongguang, Yang Hongbin, Pan Limei and others were responsible for assisting, and the specific people who were responsible for checking the accounts were all old directors, old accounts, each of whom had followed the Hu family for more than ten years.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan can do two major things with peace of mind, first, to deal with the Sino-French war; Second, rectify Chinese tea.

There is no room for error in either of these things.

At this time, he had already generally looked for several people who could lead the troops in the Sino-French War, Zuo Zongtang's two fierce generals, Liu Jintang and Wang Debang were of course the best candidates, and Cen Yuying, the governor of Guizhou, was also very good.

Although Mei Qizhao had secretly run his own Jiangxi army, Jin Qu's soldiers were prepared for Mu Zhitian, Jiaxing's general Yang Guangqi, a general from Jiangxi, and Luo Dayou, the prefect of Ningbo, also participated.

Compared with other veteran military systems, the Gan army not only has no reputation at all, everything is done in secret, but also obviously lacks really good generals, Yang Guangqi was also born in the Huai department, and reluctantly relied on the relationship between fellow villagers to win over.

The so-called Jiangxi army is Mei Qizhao's three Fubiao battalions in Zhejiang, gathered in the Ningbo area to defend against pirates, each battalion is no more than 2,000 people. Although the number of people is small, the people selected are all children of Jiangxi Liangjia, and they also have the best equipment at present.

In order to deal with the Sino-French war, Hu Chuyuan persuaded Zuo Zongtang to send Liu Jintang and Wang Debang to Germany and France to inspect the army system, equipment and training, for a period of half a year, and the entourage not only included Xu Yanxu, Chen Fangluo, Zhang Chunfa, He Xiuqing, Xiao Delong and other generals of the Mesozoic generation of the Hunan army, but also Mu Zhitian, Yang Guangqi, Luo Dayou and Mei Qian. The British threat theory "will not be used for a while."

At this stage, Hu Chuyuan can only concentrate on doing a good job in internal strength, and give priority to the realization of joint operation of Fujian's tea source.

After several years of investment, the number of joint tea houses in Fujian has approached more than 1,000, accounting for 40% of the total tea output in Fujian, mainly concentrated in the eastern part of Fujian, which is easy to transport and export.

With the secret brewing and planning in the past few years, Hu Chuyuan can already officially exert his strength at this time.

This also means that at least about 100 million Qingyuan has been invested in these two major events in recent years, and what awaits the French will be an unprecedented defeat.

This is fate, because Hu Chuyuan has already entered an era that is not bad for money.

When Hu Chuyuan only needs to hold 15 million taels of silver in the market, he can convert 100 million yuan into a financing capacity, how can the French fight?

(To be continued)