On this day, Hu Chuyuan was destined to not be able to sleep, and he was woken up by someone as soon as he fell asleep, saying that Prince Yiyun had made a decision.

Hu Chuyuan could only rush to the Splendid Villa in the middle of the night, at this time, Prince Yi Xun had already made up his mind to find Yi to join forces, but this matter must be hidden, at least until the ceremony of returning to power and returning to the dynasty is over.

The two of them worked together in the villa and finalized some detailed plans.

Yi Xun came here secretly, and he would return to Beijing as soon as possible early tomorrow morning, borrowed 6 million Qing Yuan from Hu Chuyuan to dismantle it first, and then left Shanghai by boat.

As for Hu Chuyuan, he didn't care very much.

For now, he still continues to ride the wall, and when Yiyun and Yizhen join forces, it will not be too late for him to contribute.

Next year will be the official return to the government, and next year will be a bloody year.

At this juncture, no one wants to have more rights and wrongs.

The next day, Hu Chuyuan specially invited Kang Youwei back to Yongyuan, and persuaded him to think in the long run, first go back to Guangzhou to participate in the township test, this time, he paved the way for Kang Youwei to ensure that Kang Youwei was promoted.

Next year, Kang Youwei will go directly to Beijing to participate in the examination, not next year, and the year after tomorrow, there will be Enke, which will be referenced twice in a row, and the chances will be doubled.

Kang Youwei is a political speculator in the final analysis, and Li Hongzhang is a kind of person, and they are both crazy and want to be officials.

In fact, Kang Youwei has an even crazier plan in his heart.

He immediately agreed, suspended the newspaper in Shanghai with high interest, and went to Guangzhou to participate in the township examination.

Kang Youwei can also be regarded as a character in the future, scheming and rampant, at this time he has already declared that "his learning and success, there will be no progress in the future, and there is no need to make any progress."

However, he also lived for thirty years in vain, and in front of Hu Chuyuan and Li Hongzhang, he was nothing.

Hu Chuyuan controlled him in a few words and asked him to go to Guangzhou obediently to take the township test.

Speaking of Kang Youwei, I have to say Liang Qichao.

Liang Qichao is a talent, but unfortunately followed Kang Youwei to take a detour, after asking people to send Kang Youwei back to Guangzhou, Hu Chuyuan immediately asked people to find a Guangdong genius named Liang Qichao, who was selected for Xiucai at the age of 12, and who will participate in the township test in the past two years.

Talent is rare.

Even Liang Qichao's teacher, Hu Chuyuan, has thought about it, it is none other than Niu Yugeng.

It is also strange to say that Niu Yugeng was originally invited by Hu Chuyuan to edit the "Consultative Reference", and for eight consecutive years, this reference book for internal affairs officials could not be officially published, but Niu Yugeng gradually learned Chinese and Western in the process and became a university scholar.

After the end of the Sino-French War, he had a premonition that the publication of the "Consultative Reference" would eventually be a distant event, so Niu Yugeng devoted himself to sorting out the theoretical system of the pragmatist school, and put forward a new theory of "benefiting the people, enriching the country, and strengthening the army" and "benefiting the people and benevolent government".

He made changes to Hu Chuyuan's "teaching the people, enriching the country, and strengthening the army", which made the traditional officials of the Qing political axe more acceptable, and also played a vital role in the promotion of the pragmatic school.

Niu Yugeng used a very simple statement to describe the pragmatists, that is, "the ruler is long, the inch is short, and the practitioner should be pragmatic, increase my strengths, and make up for my shortcomings."

He believes that benefiting the people is the foundation of benevolent government, and being able to benefit the people is benevolent government.

To this end, he made a systematic explanation of this through the scriptures and Yi, and compiled a book of more than 30,000 words "On Practice", which not only explained the correct theory of "benefiting the people" through Confucianism, but also put forward specific strategies and methods.

Of course, he also explained the feasibility of borrowing money to run civil affairs.

Since he established the theory of the pragmatist school, this school of thought quickly became the mainstream ideology in the Qing political axe, and the vast majority of local bureaucrats belonged to the pragmatist school, because the theory of the pragmatist school was very conducive to their practical work in the localities and their grasp of real power.

Because it was under the banner of benevolent government, those Manchurian people in Beijing knew the thoughts of the local officials, but they could not oppose it openly, at most they did something in secret, forming a more conservative and rigid force.

A few days later, the Hu family's shopkeeper meeting was held in Shanghai.

In a few days, the Bank of China Council and the World Chinese Entrepreneurs Association will also be held one after another, which is an unprecedented grand event in Shanghai, Qiao Zhiyong, Wu Zhenbang, Zhang Bishi and others have already arrived in Shanghai.

It can also be said that Hu Chuyuan wants to take the opportunity to show his influence to the Qing Zheng Axe, so that the Qing Zheng Axe will throw a mouse into the trap, even if the matter of returning to the government is finally decided, even if Cixi wins, she must be jealous, so as not to clean up Hu Chuyuan immediately.

Of course, when Hu Chuyuan was preparing for this grand event, he didn't expect Prince Alcohol to be willing to form an alliance with him.

This year's shopkeeper conference is different, because the oldest Chen Xiaobai and Shen Furong have retired one after another, Tan Yiyun and Liu Chengxiang also plan to officially retire in this shopkeeper conference, Hu Chuyuan must launch a new four chief shopkeepers this year.

The specific personnel have been decided a long time ago, and it is only officially announced at this time.

Zheng Xitai, general manager of CITIC Corporation, Ye Tongguang, first deputy general manager of Jiangnan Commercial Bank, Lu Sanyuan, general manager of CITIC Agency, and Gu Shouzang, general manager of Poly Company, were identified as the chief treasurers of the new generation.

In addition to the four of them, Hu Dazong, Hu Weiyuan, and Li Hongling are also the chief shopkeepers, but they are not officially included in the ranking of the four chief shopkeepers.

Xu Honghai of Oriental Press Company, Zhuang Jiaxian, the chief manager of Hongfeng Ticket and Changjiang Bank, and Hu Baosong, the chief manager of Zhaofeng Ticket and Huishang Bank, are still the most special treasurers.

This was followed by the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Bank of China, and the Bank of Shanghai sent Ye Chengcheng as a representative, and finally squeezed in and obtained the issuance quota of 15 billion banknotes and clear baht.

Among the banks, this is the lowest scale, with China CITIC Bank in first place, followed by China Commerce Bank, Nanyang Bank, Beiyang Bank, Jinshang Bank, Huishang Bank and Changjiang Bank.

Hu Chuyuan is the one who makes the cake and the one who divides the cake, and he has to decide how many baht banknotes each family has. Of course, he will not favor one over the other, everything is determined according to the amount of public deposits of each family, as well as the balance of supply and demand in the entire market.

Now that the money market is flooding, the key is not that there is too much supply of banknotes, but that the market lacks more investment space. Even Hu Chuyuan was very difficult to set up a railway, and he needed a lot of bribes, not to mention other commercial houses and merchants.

At the Hu family's shopkeeper meeting a few days ago, Hu Chuyuan had already decided to take a large amount of capital to invest in the United States and Nanyang, and the scope of capital investment in China was too small.

In the subsequent General Association of Chinese Entrepreneurs, Chinese business giants from all over the world gathered in Shanghai, Qiao Zhiyong, Zhang Bishi, Xu Run, Hu Weiyuan, Hu Dazong, Yan Xinhou, Liu Yong ......, at least six of them have a net worth of more than 100 million yuan.

Subsequently, Qiao Zhiyong's Shanxi Commercial Bank, the Beiyang Commercial Bank held by Zhongrun Company, and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Commercial Bank merged into the new Beiyang Commercial Bank. Xu Run's Liangguang Commercial Bank and Yip Wenlan's Nanyang Commercial Bank merged to form the new Nanyang Commercial Bank.

So far, there are three real giant commercial banks in China - Jiangnan, Beiyang, Nanyang, plus the Huguang Commercial Bank, which is also not to be underestimated, and the four major commercial banks correspond to the four major banks of CITIC, Beiyang, Nanyang and China Commerce.

In this event, there were two opponents who could compete with Hu Chuyuan - Qiao Zhiyong and Xu Run.

Coupled with Zhang Bishi, the real richest man in Nanyang, the wealth controlled by the four of them exceeded the annual income of the Qing Zheng Axe, which made the Qing Zheng Axe, especially the Manchu and Cixi, very sad.

One person is okay to deal with, four people ......???

Behind this grand event, Hu Chuyuan also withdrew at least 2 billion yuan of capital from the Chinese market and transferred to the international market, especially the American market.

Having your own note-issuing banks in both countries is a fantastic business.

Since 1883, Jiangnan Commercial Bank has gradually adopted a combination of British pounds and silver settlement, and after 1885, it began to increase the settlement of three foreign currencies: US dollars, francs and German marks.

After withdrawing a large amount of clear baht, Hu Chuyuan converted it into four foreign currencies, namely the British pound, the US dollar, the franc and the mark, through various commercial banks, and further exchanged it for gold in the international market, deposited it in the Bank of America, and increased its capital and issued notes.

Gradually, Hu is expected to inject about $1 billion into the U.S. market within three years...... Unless there is a sudden change of surname in the domestic market.

In April, the event in Shanghai finally ended, and the big businessmen from all over the world returned to their nests to start planning and operating for the new year.

Hu Chuyuan continued to stay in his garden, thinking about his next investment plan in his heart.

Huge sums of money to launch a huge market.

This is his best capital work, new Shanghai, new Fuzhou, new Tianjin, Fuzhou shipbuilding, Ma'anshan Iron and Steel, Tianjin textile, Shandong textile, Sarawak construction, Haiphong construction, Huguang railway, Jiangxi-Zhejiang railway, Qingxu railway...... Behind it is his huge capital control.

However, these are far from enough.

His total capital is too large, and if he wants to continue rolling, he must cut off Cixi's obstacle in advance.

For this reason, he is willing to give 100 million yuan.

Not long after the end of the Shanghai event, the Pan family gave a reply, and very much agreed to marry their daughter Pan Limei to Hu Chuyuan as a second room.

The second room is different from the big room, and the difference in etiquette is also obvious.

Newly married Yan'er, Hu Chuyuan is ready to take his family to the United States, not only for his honeymoon, but also to find a larger market space in the United States.

Just before Hu Chuyuan set off, he received information intercepted from the General Information Office's Foreign Secrets Office from Yu Ben, which had an obvious new trend.

(To be continued)