You deserve to be unlucky!

Hu Chuyuan could only sigh like this, although it was already late at night, he still set off and asked Hu Rong and Pan Limei to accompany him to meet Tan Zhonglin in Suzhou Governor's Yamen.

After personally arresting the salt merchants in Shanghai and Suzhou, Tan Zhonglin handed over the rest of the affairs to the local prefects and envoys, and stayed in Suzhou to look at the overall situation, and by the way, he could often communicate with Zeng Guoquan.

It was late, but he didn't sleep.

Hearing that Hu Chuyuan came to visit late at night, he immediately let Hu Chuyuan enter the flower hall.

Tan Zhonglin walked out with a fur robe, and when he saw Hu Chuyuan, he asked with a deep face, "Is there something wrong?" ”

is also a governor, and he is also facing Hu Chuyuan, his attitude towards Mei Qizhao is completely different - he does not owe Hu Chuyuan a debt of favor, and as the governor of a province, he naturally has the official authority of his governor.

Hu Chuyuan handed over the two lists to him and said, "These are all just sent to me by Nanxun merchants, and I hope I will pass them on to the right officials." ”

Tan Zhonglin glanced at it cursoryly and sneered: "It's ridiculous, I don't even know what situation I'm in, a businessman is a businessman!" Captain Hu, after you go back, you will say that everything has been handed over to me, and I have promised to lobby the Zhongtang and the minister of the Qincha for them. By the way, tell them that the official can't take out the cash of 100,000 taels of silver for the time being, so let's put it on hold for now! ”

"Yes!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently, from Tan Zhonglin's private hiding of dirty salt, he could see that this person was definitely greedy enough, but he was ruthless and spicy in his actions, much more powerful than Mei Qizhao, and he was definitely a difficult person to deal with.

History has a more objective side of history, in the end, Mei Qizhao can only do the kind of abolition of the governor of Donghe, Tan Zhonglin can finally become the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, during which he has also repeatedly served as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the governor of Liangguang, the governor of Sichuan, etc., which shows that his ability is definitely very strong.

Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but think about it and asked, "Lord Governor, are you going to let them go?" ”

Tan Zhonglin said: "How is it possible, what this official hates most in his life is hoarding and speculation." They have money, they really forced them out, and they went to Beijing to send money bankruptly, can we withstand it? Just appease it first, and then take it down in one go. Chu Yuan, you have to remember, if you don't cut the grass and don't eradicate the roots, there will be endless troubles, you and I have offended them very deeply, let them go now, sooner or later they will be scourged, it is better to burn them in one go, and never suffer in the future. ”

After a pause, he taught again: "Don't be greedy for small things in life and work, let alone have the kindness of a woman!" ”

Hu Chuyuan's heart was cold for a while, and he finally understood why Zuo Zongtang was so relieved to let Tan Zhonglin be responsible, this person is not a human being when he is ruthless!

No wonder it can be done in the position of the governor of Zhili!

Self-preservation, self-preservation!

Hu Chuyuan didn't care so much, he immediately said goodbye and left, and when he went back, he told Hu Rong and asked him to tell those businessmen, only saying that Master Tan, the governor of Jiangsu, had already collected the list, but he just felt that Huanxiu Villa was too small and did not have 100,000 taels of silver.

Ashamed, ashamed.

Hu Chuyuan himself was embarrassed to meet those people, although those people also deserved it.

He has perfectly completed the task assigned to him by Zuo Zongtang, and stabilized the price of salt at 70 yuan per catty before the Chinese New Year.

After the price of salt stabilized, Tan Yiyun and Wang Baotian respectively sent the general ledger of the commercial bank and the secret account at home. Hu Chuyuan deliberately wanted to train Pan Limei to become his special assistant, so he asked her to read and settle the accounts and sort out the money in the accounts.

The account book of the Hu family, it is not an ordinary difficult calculation, it is really difficult for Pan Limei.

She buried her head in calculations, and the more she calculated, the more surprised she became, but she was able to hide her surprise and said, "Young master, you are really the richest man in the world." ”

"Oh?" This was not Hu Chuyuan's intention.

"Yes, absolutely!" Pan Limei turned out the account book and said: "Just frying salt shipments, you took a rebate of more than 10 million taels of silver, Jiangnan Commercial Bank paid dividends at the end of the year, you took 1.4 million taels of silver, the principal of the commercial bank was 10 million taels of silver, you accounted for 76% of the hard shares, 2 million taels of discount shares, and 400,000 taels are yours." At the end of the year, the general account of Fukang Qianzhuang had its own capital of 7.8 million taels, and the Hu family saved another 2.2 million taels; At the end of the year, the company's own capital increased to 3.2 million taels, doubling from last year. ”

Frying salt shipments, Jiangnan Commercial Bank is a government-owned enterprise, of course, it can't make a fortune, so the wholesale bid is still 60 wen yuan a catty, and the middleman sells the salt at a price of 600 wen yuan a catty, and immediately gives Hu Chuyuan a rebate of 500 wen yuan a catty.

The money cannot be seen, but can only be recorded in a secret account.

Of course, people as shrewd and powerful as Zuo Zongtang and Tan Zhonglin must know.

On the other hand, Hu Chuyuan also threw a lot of silver in the capital and bribed many people, so as to keep his control of sales.

Really calculated, including the debt of 12.94 million taels of silver owed to him by the Xiang army, Hu Chuyuan's total capital has grown to 38.34 million taels of silver.

Pan Limei couldn't help but sigh and sighed: "Thinking about my father's more than 20 years of running around, the accumulated family business is only a hundred thousand yuan, but it can be regarded as a good Fukang family in Yueben, which can be used for me to study in the Chinese school." But with you, his little wealth can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket! ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "You only know." ”

Pan Limei smiled bitterly and said, "I already knew something, but I didn't see it so clearly." ”

Hu Chuyuan restrained his expression and said, "I asked you to settle accounts so that you really understand what you want to do in the future." In my opinion, you are not just a translator, stay with me, you will have a lot of things to do. Of course, it is also a very dangerous thing to stay by my side, the more money we have, the more enemies we have, and the stronger our opponents will be, Tang Yanshu and Zhang Songxian are the references we should take as warnings. ”

Pan Limei lowered her head and said, "I know, young master, I will definitely work hard." ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "Don't tell anyone about how much money I have, you know, I know." If you can, you will settle these accounts for me in the future. ”

Pan Limei said: "Then won't I be your housekeeper in the future, just like the big butler Wang?" ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Sort of! ”

Butler for a man...... Although such a man?

Pan Limei couldn't help but hesitate in her heart, her education made her believe that the best destination in life was to find an ambitious and capable man to assist him as a virtuous and versatile wife.

After a while, she lowered her head again and said, "Young Master, I will work hard!" ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled.

The money was earned, but Hu Chuyuan was not very happy.

Because he still has a large amount of assets to hide from Pan Limei, in fact, he is hiding it from everyone, only he and Tan Yiyun know the specific amount.

This is Yufeng Grain Society, this problem is too evil, the land directly owned by Yufeng Grain Cooperative is 4.65 million acres of fertile land, but this is a joint-stock field, and the entire Yufeng system controls more than 20 large grain cooperatives, and Yufeng is not the only shareholder.

Counting the shareholding fields of the gentry and rich peasants in other places, the entire Yufeng system controls 1/20 of the arable land in Shandong Province and 1/50 of the arable land in Hebei Province, and is concentrated in the hard-hit areas around Qingzhou and Cangzhou, especially in the Qingdao Bay area in the south of Qingzhou, where nearly 70% of the cultivated land is controlled by Yufeng Grain Society.

Hu Chuyuan was quite bold, but he was a little afraid to face it.

It's horrible!

In fact, the Qing court really has to thank him, if it weren't for his super bold investment, this northern famine would have spread for at least a year, and now it has basically stabilized, only Shanxi is still continuing...... There's really no way, opium is grown too ruthlessly.

Hu Chuyuan felt a chill down his spine because of this matter, so Hu Rong came in with a letter of worship and said, "The owner, Xu Run and Xu Yizhang's boss came to visit, and it seems that he also brought a lot of gifts!" ”

"Oh, please let him in......!" Hu Chuyuan didn't expect this person to come, and after talking to Hu Rong, he and Pan Limei instructed: "You go and prepare a pot of good tea to entertain him, this person...... It's a bit tricky! ”

"Yes!" Pan Limei immediately got up, took the tea set out and cleaned it again, and wondered in her heart whether the tea leaves used in this book were still domestic tea.