It seems that it is not appropriate for the old people to do new things, but it is actually very appropriate, because ...... If Niu Yugeng and Miao Quansun can accept the "Consultative Reference" and "New Edition of Senior Administration", other officials in the imperial court may also accept it.

It took a few days for Hu Chuyuan, the two of them and the Gu family to elaborate their ideas in detail, and even took them to sort out the first issue of the "Consultative Reference", and things began to go a lot smoother.

Finally, Hu Chuyuan can relax for a few days.

He decided to go to the West Lake, and then go to the Baoguo Temple, and also pay homage to Hu Xueyan's spiritual position before going to Fuzhou.

He hoped that when he went, Hu Xueyan's spirit in the sky could bless him.

Just as he was about to go out, the second brother Hu Pinyuan and the third brother Hu Jinyuan came to find Hu Chuyuan.

In the past year, Hu Chuyuan has been busy coming and going, and he really rarely has the opportunity to sit down with his two younger brothers and talk in detail.

"Brother, are you going out?" Seeing that Hu Chuyuan seemed to be going out, Hu Pinyuan asked with concern.

Hu Chuyuan said with a smile: "Yes, I want to go to the West Lake to take a turn, take a look at the land of Qingbo Gate, and go to Baoguo Temple by the way." ”

Hu Yuanyuan thought for a while, but Hu Pinyuan smiled and said, "Then let's go too!" ”

"Okay!"

Hu Chuyuan pulled them up and got into the carriage together.

Waiting for the car to slowly drive out, Hu Pinyuan said to Hu Chuyuan: "Brother, I don't want to go to any Chinese culture museum, I want to go directly to Chen Da's shopkeeper to be a buddy!" ”

"Oh?"

Hu Chuyuan quietly pondered in his heart, and asked him, "Did your mother say something?" ”

Hu Pinyuan said with a smile: "She didn't say anything, I think it myself, and I don't want to do calligraphy, everyone and the university ask, just play by yourself, I can't really put too much effort into it." ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly, and said: "Since Shanxi people created the ticket number industry, there has been a rule of 'three masters do not accept' the ticket number, that is, the young master, the aunt, and the uncle, these three masters are resolutely not accepted. If you want to go to the ticket number to start with the guy, that's a good thing, I agree, but we are the owner, and the young master of the owner has never gone to the ticket number to work, which is the iron rule of the past. If I tell you, the shopkeeper Chen doesn't say anything, but he is uncomfortable in his heart. ”

"That's right...... No wonder! Hu Pinyuan smacked his lips and muttered.

Hu Chuyuan then asked, "What's the wonder?" ”

Hu Pinyuan said: "When I told my mother in the morning, she didn't say anything, just said that I asked me to ask what you mean." Thinking about it now, she also knows that this thing is not easy to do. ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "Siniang must know this rule." You think, when I came back from Yinghua Academy, my father wanted me to go to Qianzhuang to help the account, and I started to learn from below, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he could only let me follow Liu Chengxiang's shopkeeper to work as an outer cabinet in the silk shop. ”

Hu Yuanyuan quietly raised his eyes and asked with some dissatisfaction: "Brother, where did you say that the ticket number came from with so many rules, even the owner didn't dare to ask?" ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly, and said: "Earlier, I didn't understand much, but this is the ticket number, only doing money trading, among all the transactions, this business is the most unique." In fact, there are reasons for these rules, for example, there are two deadliest rules for Shanxi ticket numbers, one is that the owner is not allowed to ask about the business of the ticket number, and only has the right to audit the dividends at the end of the year. Second, the proprietor's own business must not borrow silver taels from the ticket number; Our Zhejiang's ticket number is not strict at these two points, and as a result, Zhejiang's ticket number is fast, and there are many deaths, and many ticket numbers are because the owner interferes in the management, and the unauthorized money is used to operate their own business and go out of business. ”

Hu Yuanyuan said again: "Since this is the case, then do we dare to change the big shopkeeper?" ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Yes, of course, the owner does not dare to change the big shopkeeper easily, in order to deal with this problem, many owners will open a few ticket numbers, and one ticket number is not well managed, and immediately call the big shopkeeper and shopkeeper of other ticket numbers to fill in." Ningbo people do the fastest at this point, several households have more than a dozen ticket numbers in their hands, but the problem also comes out, Ningbo people's ticket numbers are difficult to make bigger, each family can only entrench in one side, can not dominate the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang. ”

Hu Yuanyuan nodded slightly.

Hu Pinyuan asked again: "That's because our big shopkeeper is not thoughtful, so what should I do, we only have one ticket number...... At the moment, there are two of them, but it seems that Chen Da is in charge of them. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "What the proprietor has to do is not to manage things, but to know and employ people, especially in the business of ticket numbers, we must see clearly what kind of person the shopkeeper is." There are also a few old rules in this, for example, the treasurer with a concubine must not be kept, and the outer cabinet with a concubine must not be accepted. Not to mention that the shopkeeper does not marry concubines, Shanxi people don't even accept concubines from the owner of the ticket number. This is the rule of operating the ticket number, not greedy, loyalty, integrity, non-such people, can not operate the ticket number. ”

Hu Pinyuan couldn't help but stick out his tongue, and laughed again: "I'm definitely not going to be able to run the ticket number business, that brother, you can find another way for me to make a living, I'm a twenty-year-old person, I can't just rely on my brother to make money to support me, I eat the interest you earn at home every day, right?" ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled: "If you can think so, of course it's good." Well, you go and do another business, and I think you can do it. ”

Hu Pinyuan couldn't help but ask a little curiously and eagerly: "Brother, hurry up and tell me, my mother will tell me about my ear cocoon, and force me to learn to do business every day." ”

Hu Chuyuan laughed again, and he said, how can such a fun person as Pinyuan really want to be a student.

He said: "You change your name and identity to go to Wanqi Foreign Bank as an apprentice, starting from the apprentice to me, you are not allowed to tell anyone your identity, do it for me, I will send another master to secretly take care of and guide you." ”

Hu Pinyuan looked embarrassed and said, "Then I'm not a comprador...... Brother, your idea is too bad? ”

Hu Xuanyuan said: "What's wrong with the comprador, Xu Run is not a comprador?" If it weren't for the Ningbo comprador to take the lead, could Ningbo people have today? I think it's good, the relationship between Wanqi and our family has always been good, the business is big and wide, and there are many opportunities for exercise. Perhaps, it will be sent to Wanqi Bank in the future. ”

"Yes!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said to Hu Pinyuan: "When you finish a one-year apprenticeship in a foreign bank, follow the comprador master to run a counter for a year, you go to the bank to learn to be in charge, and then you will be a small comprador for three years, and after six years of study, I will let you do business by yourself." ”

Hu Pinyuan smiled and said: "That's okay, it's okay to have a brother, yes, our three brothers have their own paths, just let me go to be a comprador, and I have to rely on my own efforts, the third brother, the second brother envy you!" ”

Hu Jinyuan snorted disdainfully and said, "What do you envy, I don't know if the road to being an official will not work, what if it doesn't work?" Why don't we change the two of us, and I'll go into business? ”

Hu Pinyuan was puzzled and said: "How easy it is to be an official, talk nonsense all day long, talk nonsense, I'm good at it!" ”

They talked to each other, but Hu Chuyuan knew in his heart that the two younger brothers did not have a definite answer to their future, and the affluent life gave them a lot of choices, and they were confused because of this.

At the beginning, the third child was forced by his father-in-law He Jing, and he was angry to go to the imperial examination and be a big official who eliminated harm for the people, but now that he is angry, he finds that it is not very easy to be an official.

It's not that he doesn't want to do it, but he estimates that he won't be able to pass the Jinshi exam.

That's a problem.

Hu Chuyuan is not in a rut, it is easy to lift people, local cheating, there is no way to try.

Thinking of this, he said to his two younger brothers: "In this way, I will talk to a few eldest ladies, and I am not in a hurry to send you an errand for the time being, let alone choose a path for you, you can do it yourself." Whatever you want to learn, you can learn what you want, whether it is to do business or to be an official, in fact, the principle is the same, that is, to see people, to know people, and to use people to do things. “

Hearing him say this, Hu Pinyuan and Hu Xuanyuan were very happy, and they were muttering in the car to discuss.

Hu Chuyuan's meaning is very simple, let them first take the test for fame in Zhejiang, this matter is not difficult, from the governor to the school and politics, they are all their own people.

When the time comes, if they want to be officials, the family will directly find a way to find a real shortage and want to do business, so they still have to do it according to Hu Chuyuan's wishes, first go to a foreign bank to be an apprentice and help for two years, and then become an outer cabinet and comprador.

When the two of them exercised out, Hu Chuyuan officially split up, and each gave them a sum of money to run their own business, and the money was theirs, and the loss went to Hu Chuyuan, the eldest brother.

If you become an official, the shares will stay in the family industry and roll over the dividends.

Both of them were very happy when they heard this, so they decided to do it first.

When the three brothers said about it, the car also arrived outside the gate of Baoguo Temple. Baoguo Temple has long been renovated, and compared to last year, the incense is much more prosperous.

A few months ago, the Hu family invested another 80,000 taels of silver to build three new halls in Baoguo Temple, and the area of the temple will be doubled.

Even monks are inevitably bent over for money, I heard that it is the people of the Hu family who came to worship incense, the abbot Dazhi Zen Master personally came out to greet him, and brought more than a dozen monks in robes, almost all the monks of the courtyard poured out.

As for Buddhism, Hu Chuyuan is still quite convinced, because the world of Buddhism is indeed magnificent, and the momentum is so great that it seems extremely immeasurable in all religions.

Worshipping in front of Hu Xueyan's tomb and in the merit shrine, Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but have a sense of fate and reincarnation in his heart.

It was Hu Xueyan who personally assisted Zuo Zongtang in founding the Fuzhou Shipyard, and now, it is his turn to solve the various shortcomings left by his predecessors in the Shipyard, he, he wants to give Hu Xueyan and Zuo Zongtang a real explanation, and make the Fuzhou Shipyard the strongest shipyard and naval school in Asia.

He knew he could do it.

He also doesn't know how to build ships and don't understand the navy, but he knows how to make money, and no matter how the Manchurians take precautions, he has a way to make the Fuzhou Shipyard's funds self-sufficient.

Wrong.

He had every way to make the funds of the Fuzhou Ship Administration explode!!

Looking at the portrait of Hu Xueyan in the Shrine of Merit, Hu Chuyuan silently said many words in his heart that could make Hu Xueyan really feel at ease, for example, he would completely defeat Sheng Xuanhuai, but it would take a few years; For example, he will really assist Zuo Zongtang and make Zuo Zongtang famous through the ages; For example, he will dominate China's silk tea industry; For example, he will take care of the Hu family and make the Hu family a real financial chaebol ......!

Walking out of the merit shrine, Hu Chuyuan's heart was very stable.

He didn't want to sell Yufeng Grain Society again.

He thought, "Oh yes, let's die."

Die and die vigorously!!

That's what he thought.

The ups and downs and stumbles of the past year have been really important to him, they have allowed him to go through so much and to understand that there are not many things in China that can stump him.

What is so difficult about the Sino-French war, not to mention the chickens and dogs in the Fuzhou Shipyard Yamen?

The French were second only to Great Britain in naval strength, with a fleet of 450,000 tons in total tonnage, and before the Battle of Mawei broke out, France had a total of 52 ironclad ships with an average displacement of 5,793 tons.

But Hu Chuyuan was not worried, nor was he afraid.

The French are not worth worrying about, let alone themselves?

There is a world of difference between the 1895 version and the 1927 version, and there is really no need to care too much, although it is not too depreciative, but there is no need to overestimate it.

In fact, Hu Chuyuan was full of calculations for a situation that ravaged France and the Ben...... This is also possible, after all, he is a master of plotting against others, and he has a lot of time to prepare and plan step by step.

Of course, Hu Chuyuan knows that the most critical moment is this time next year, and only after that pass can China's economy be truly controlled by him.

He called that coming era the "not bad money" of modern Chinese history.

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A few days later, Zheng Xitai and others came to Hangzhou to meet Hu Chuyuan, and Hua Yufang also arrived with six American technical advisers from the steel, shipbuilding, and arms industries.

At the beginning of August 1879, the appointment of the shipping administration yamen finally arrived in Hangzhou, through the participation of He Jing, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and the minister of Fuzhou shipping, the recommendation of Shen Baozhen, the secretary of the military department, and the approval of the imperial military aircraft yamen, Hu Chuyuan "acted" the promotion of the Fuzhou shipping administration in the name of the general office of the Jiangnan Commercial Bank - the temporary surname of the handling of the affairs of the shipping yamen.

Of course, Hu Chuyuan also had to be affected by "Ding Wei", so this appointment was an internal matter of the shipmaster yamen, and the imperial court was only responsible for approval, and there was no real shortage, let alone a specific grade.

This is a special appointment.

Fate seems to be a kind of reincarnation, and what Shen Baozhen experienced back then happened to Hu Chuyuan again.

After the formal appointment of the Qing court, Hu Chuyuan had to leave and set off for Fuzhou to take office.

Before leaving, he opened a 26-table banquet in Juxian Building in Hangzhou, feasting shopkeepers, chief accounts, stewards, and helpers from all over Zhejiang, and also issued an additional salary to everyone to thank everyone for their performance and efforts in this year's raw silk acquisition.

After the banquet, Hu Chuyuan specially left Lu Sanyuan behind and talked all night long, talking about the future of Jiangnan Agricultural Cooperative, hoping that Lu Sanyuan would continue to work hard, and also added a discount stock to Lu Sanyuan in Jiangnan Agricultural Cooperative.

The next day, in the early morning, Hu Chuyuan led his team to board a steamboat bound for Fuzhou.

In the ups and downs of the waves, the whine of the whistle, and the whistling of the sea breeze, Hu Chuyuan thought that the time to kill the Quartet would come!