The year 1883 gradually passed.

The biggest mark left by history for this year is the "death of Hu Chuyuan", and another major mark is the opening of the Sino-French War.

After living in Changle County for half a month, Hu Chuyuan readjusted the personnel around him, and secretly redeployed more than a dozen elite guards through the Fuqing Society, which was managed by Chen Shanyuan.

In addition, this year's general ledger was also handed over to Hu Chuyuan in advance.

In mid-1883, even if the arbitrage gains on the U.S. stock market were not counted, Hu Chuyuan passed through his Jiangnan Commercial Bank, China CITIC Bank, CITIC Capital Company, Jiangnan Cooperative, Yufeng Society, CITIC Ticket Number, Wanqi Foreign Bank, and Wells Fargo Investment Bank of North America...... and so on made a profit of more than 47 million taels of silver, equivalent to 1/2 of the annual fiscal revenue of the Qing political axe.

After several years of gradual development, the joint operation system of Jiangnan agricultural cooperatives has been completely expanded, controlling 64% of the tea output in Fujian Province, mainly concentrated in Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Funing, and the northernmost part of Fujian and the southernmost tea-producing counties of Zhenghe, Qingyuan, Shouning, Taishun, and Fuding.

These tea markets are characterized by low transportation costs and are also the main producers of tea exported from Fujian.

In the southwest of Zhejiang, central Anhui, Jiangxi and other major tea producing areas, the joint camp of Jiangnan cooperatives also occupies half of the country.

As the UK continues to invest heavily in advertising and publicity, it has stabilized the traditional green tea market, promoted new flower tea, white tea and dark tea products, promoted new black tea technology in eastern Fujian, Huizhou, Jiujiang and other places, gradually expanded black tea sales, and reduced costs through the one-stop operation of production, marketing, transportation and sales...... In 1883, China's tea market began to pick up significantly, and the total export volume to Britain increased by 23% over the previous year, which was also the only major increase in the British market in the past decade.

In the United States, Russia, France, Spain and other markets, Chinese tea sales have also increased significantly, especially in the United States, where total sales have increased by 37% compared to two years ago.

In South American countries, Australia, and Nanyang, Hu Chuyuan has also added new sales networks and channels to promote tea exports.

Since Hu Dazong had already obtained the Shandong Commercial Bank in Ming, using the channels of the commercial bank, the expansion of Yufeng Society in Shandong increased sharply, and its own land reached 6.52 million mu, and the joint venture land occupied almost 1/4 of the total cultivated land area in Shandong.

According to Hu Chuyuan's arrangement, Hu Dazong took down all the land near Qingdao, built a new port and factory in Qingdao, and invested in the cotton textile industry and oil extraction industry in Qingdao.

Zhongrun Company controls nearly 7 percent of the shares of Beiyang Commercial Bank, Hu Dazong's Yufeng Company also controls 7 percent of the shares of Shandong Commercial Bank, plus Jiangnan Commercial Bank, and Hu Chuyuan's holding in Nanyang Commercial Bank and Liangguang Commercial Bank, Hu Chuyuan can get 20 million taels of silver just for the annual profits of these official stock commercial banks.

The figure in 1883 is not amazing, after all, the Shandong Commercial Bank has only just hit the road, and the Beiyang Commercial Bank has just suffered a heavy blow and is being rectified, and next year, the year after that, this number will be really amazing.

Almost half of the huge profits generated by China's salt industry went to Hu Chuyuan, who also controlled the markets for raw silk, tea, cotton, hemp, sugar cane, peanuts, soybeans and other agricultural products.

He basically controls China's financial system through the bank's banknote issuance authority, the more than 10 large ticket numbers of the CITIC system throughout the country, the micro-agricultural loan system of various agricultural cooperatives, and the small-amount mortgage pawn loans (pawnshop business) of more than 400 cities under the Poly Company.

Through Jiangnan Commercial Bank, Beiyang Commercial Bank, Shandong Commercial Bank, Liangguang Commercial Bank, and Nanyang Commercial Bank, he also established a large commercial channel comparable to Wal-Mart, controlling China's internal trade.

In fact, what he pursues is small profits but quick turnover, benefiting the country and the people, if he wants to pursue real huge profits, his annual income in the country can exceed the annual financial income of the Qing political axe.

Even so, counting his windfall investment in real estate and the huge loan interest, his annual income far exceeds the financial income of the Qing political axe.

But...... It's embarrassing.

It's really embarrassing, and instead of luxury and glory, huge wealth has brought him unforeseen disasters.

Behind Inoue Xin are Mitsui, Sumitomo, and Mitsubishi consortia, and everyone contributes more than 100,000 taels of silver every year, which is enough to pose a fatal threat to Hu Chuyuan's personal safety.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan was a little helpless, so he could only use the news of his death to temporarily ease up, at least so that his family could spend a period of time safely, while he had to secretly manage another thing.

Now, he is no longer satisfied, he wants to really have his own military power...... Not just because of the change in the situation and the persecution, but because his plan did come to this point.

The time is ripe, now is a good time for him to establish a lineage in the Hunan family, Zuo Zongtang will never treat him badly, and he will definitely continue to take care of him, but Zuo Zongtang is Zuo Zongtang after all, Zuo Zongtang will always be on top, and he will always be on the bottom.

Unless Zuo Zongtang dies, this situation will never change.

Establish your own lineage among the Hunan forces...... This will take a little time and patience, at least wait for Zuo Zongtang's death, and in Mei Qizhao's place, the Jiangxi army they jointly established is undoubtedly Hu Chuyuan's descendant strength.

This force was the reliance on which Mei Qizhao ascended to the governorship's throne, and it was also the oppressive force that the Hu-Mei alliance surfaced and forced the Manchus to continue to endure.

The current Manchu Qing looks terrible, but in fact it is just a paper tiger, what is so terrible about a paper tiger?

They had no military strength of their own at all, and could only rely on the military power in the hands of the Han people to balance each other's elbows, and when they resolutely shouted that "once the Han people are strong, the Manchus will perish", the Manchu Qing Dynasty was actually doomed.

It was not because of the economic collapse of the Manchus that the people were struggling to make a living, and the Manchus would perish, but because the military power was in the hands of the Han people, it had to perish.

Of course, Hu Chuyuan did not want the Manchus to fall too soon, if that was the case, it would only leave China with a situation of warlord warfare, at least until he controlled most of the military power, the Manchus could not die, and the Manchus still had the puppet role of maintaining domestic unity and the passage of government decrees.

After reading the general ledger of 1883, Hu Chuyuan sat silently in the room and reflected.

He thought about it, waiting for the end of the Sino-French war, before the Qing Zheng axe decided to devour his family business...... He was about to show up, and at this time, his child was also born, and if he couldn't do it, he secretly sent his family, Wu Shuzhen and the child to the United States.

At that point, he didn't care.

January 15, 1884.

Hu Chuyuan left Lehua County and went to Hong Kong.

He did not stay long in Hong Kong, but soon obtained a permit through a foreign firm in France, ventured deep into the Red River, and arrived in Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam, on February 3, 1884, and continued north.

At this time, it is the cool season of the dry season in Vietnam, and the climate is pleasant, which is very suitable for people's travel.

Hu Chuyuan rode the ox cart all the way, swaying forward, pretending to be a merchant, and the car was loaded with some goods.

After a few days, the mountain road became wider and wider, and a large basin appeared in front of it, and flat rice fields were reclaimed everywhere.

Several of Hu Chuyuan's people drawn from the Fuqing Society were from the Red Flag Army, and they used to haunt here, and they soon told Hu Chuyuan that this was Heye, and then behind was Kemi Spring, where was the lair of Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army.

This area is already safe, and the immigrants who live here are all immigrants from Guangxi, and the paddy fields are cultivated here, and Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army also arose here.

Hu Chuyuan's telegraph had already covered Guangxi and northern Vietnam, and it was through two routes, one on land and sea.

He had already secretly contacted Liu Yongfu and informed Liu Yongfu that he was about to arrive.

Because, Liu Yongfu led thousands of troops to wait in Heye.

As soon as he arrived outside the Heye Village, Hu Chuyuan saw the black seven-star flag fluttering in the sky, the scale of the military village is very large, at least 20,000 or 30,000 people can be stationed, all of them are made of stones, with a circle of black cannons on the top, and there is also a circle of batteries on the surrounding hills.

The people of the Fuqing Society immediately entered the military village to pray, but after a while, the black flag on the walled city waved continuously, the gate opened, and the people rushed out on military horses, led by a military attache who was more than half a hundred years old, with a thin figure, wearing a variegated coat, but wearing the top of the Qing Dynasty Admiral with a flower feather.

After a while, half a hundred military attachés arrived in front of Hu Chuyuan's ox cart, and he rushed down in a hurry, regardless of his age, showing that his skills were extraordinary.

Hu Chuyuan could guess who this person was, and the members of the Fuqing Society around him secretly reported the name of the person who came, and confirmed that it was Liu Yongfu himself, so he got off the dirty ox cart and stepped forward to greet him.

This is Liu Yongfu.

Hu Chuyuan is a little strange, this person is a little bizarre, and his appearance is also strange, which is a little unusual.

Liu Yongfu had already greeted him, laughed loudly, and hugged his fists with Hu Chuyuan: "Lord Hu, Liu has admired you for a long time, and now I finally see your true face." ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled, and also hugged his fists and said: "I am also the name of General Jiuyang." ”

Liu Yongfu said with a smile: "My lord has worked hard all the way, come, please go to my barracks to rest quickly, let's go to the camp tent and talk!" ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly, and asked Chen Shanyuan and Cheng Tinghua to follow him into the Heye Village.

The people living in the village are all Guangxi people, speaking Guangxi dialect, there are about thousands of people, most of them are civilians, most of the people of the Black Flag Army live outside the city, they work in agriculture in peacetime, and they are transferred in wartime, and there are also some elite soldiers, who are stationed in the village all the year round, and the number is not more than a few thousand.

The Black Flag Barracks is in the middle of Heye Village, covering a vast area, with more than a dozen small villages distributed large and small, and most of them are wooden walls and grass houses, without decoration.

Although he had Hu Chuyuan's financial support, Liu Yongfu did not dare to compare with the army of the imperial court, even in his base camp, he was very frugal when he lived in Chang Zhu, and tried his best to use every penny in practice.

Hu Chuyuan looked all the way and was still very satisfied.

After entering the main village, Hu Chuyuan said to Liu Yongfu as soon as he sat down: "General Liu, I came here this time to take refuge, and I hope you will keep it secret and don't let outsiders know." ”

Liu Yongfu hummed silently and said, "Don't worry, I am all my own family here, and I won't leak the slightest rumor." What's more, I have already made arrangements, and everything is very secret. You continue to live in the name of a merchant and open an oil and salt shop here as a cover. ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and asked, "I heard that the Qing court has named you a named admiral, and the Vietnamese emperor has named you the governor of Sanxuan?" ”

Liu Yongfu sneered and said: "It's all a false name, saying that it is the Admiral of Sanxuan, and the funds still have to be raised by myself, but the food and salary in the area of Sanxuan are allowed to be levied by myself, and I finally have a livelihood." As for the named admiral of the Qing court, it is even more of a false name, so don't mention it. If it weren't for Lord Hu's support over the years, Liu would have been buried in the wilderness a long time ago. Now you look at it again, Liu is so strong that I am the only one in the Vietnamese army who can compete with the legal person, and when it comes to equipment, I am actually more powerful than the French. The Qing army, if you don't talk about it, it's just a pile of mud that can't support the wall. ”

(To be continued)