The cacophony of silver cutlery, the turning of the coffee machine, and the conversation of the crowd are all intertwined in the restaurant.

After taking a sip of coffee, Thomas's face suddenly showed a professional smile, and he smiled at the guest introduced by Xu Shunqiu in front of him, as a businessman, especially when he came to Shanghai, this adventurer's paradise, Thomas always knew what these rich gentry were aware of him.

Wealth!

"I heard, Mr. Chen, he also runs a printing shop, right? I don't know which foreign company is the agent of your paper? ”

Sure enough, hearing Thomas's straightforward question, Chen Moran took a sip of Red Mary mixed wine.

"I just returned from Europe a few years ago, and now the factory is in the process of being set up, and the paper supplier has not yet been decided! I guess bidding is always inevitable, isn't it? Personally, I prefer the products of this paper mill, after all, the price is the lowest. ”

Of course, what Mr. Chen said is very true! In business, it is natural to buy the cheapest paper. ”

Thomas still had a hypocritical smile on his face, as if he was looking at Chen Moran.

"Mr. Chen, Meihe has always been the agent of Tarleton Paper Company in China, and Tarleton Company is the largest paper company in the United States, the paper produced is not only the best quality, but also the price is very fair, although the price of this paper is low, but his quality!"

As he spoke, Thomas pulled out two books from his bag next to him.

"Mr. Chen, you see, this is a book printed by the Commercial Press, this one is made of paper, and this one is made of paper produced by Tarleton."

Pushing the two books in front of Chen Moran, Thomas saw that he didn't mean to open them, so he secretly begged in his heart, and opened the book with a smile.

"You see, the paper is not only poor manufacturing process, but also the paper is thin, the ink is strong, do not need to welcome the light, the back of the word ink has been through, seriously affect the reading, like this kind of book, although the cost is low, but the price is also very low, American paper, there is no possibility of this situation, although the price of paper is 15% more expensive, but you look at their selling price, the same book, with American paper, but can be sold to 1.5 times that of this paper, so that although the use of American paper has increased the cost, but the actual profit is not reduced but rising."

When Thomas was there with a book and boasting about the good quality of American paper, Chen Moran just raised his eyelids and glanced at the Yankee, and then casually opened his pocket watch to look at the time.

Maybe Chen Moran is not as cunning as those businessmen who have been in the business world for many years, but in the past few years, he has learned a lot from his partner who made a fortune by fraud, and knows how to use some small actions to influence the judgment of others.

"What, Mr. Chen, is there anything else going on in the afternoon?"

Sure enough, Thomas saw that Chen Moran was not interested in his explanation at all, then looked at the time again, and hurriedly asked.

"In the afternoon, I made an appointment with the managers of several banks to talk about something!"

Chen Moran said loudly.

"But there's an hour now!"

Hearing this, Thomas's originally embarrassed expression immediately eased, and he laughed heartily.

"Hehe, I forgot that Mr. Chen's printing factory is under construction and needs bank financing, Mr. Chen, you are the director of the Commercial Press, and the Commercial Press has always been the most important partner of Midea, if you need it, purchase paper from our bank, and in the next three months, the paper required by your factory can be advanced by our bank to show our sincerity."

Ten years ago, Thomas, who came to Shanghai with dozens of dollars, after five years of hard work, founded the United States and foreign companies, he had already missed the era of "foreign companies getting rich", competition is everywhere, especially like paper, this kind of technical products, he not only needs to face the competition of other European and American foreign companies, but also needs to compete with himself and even Chinese, the reason why the United States and foreign companies can develop on the basis of paper so far, The root cause is Thomas's respect and attention to his customers.

In business, no matter how their country declines, as long as these Chinese can bring him wealth, then he will give this person full respect, which is difficult for others to do, for too many foreign bank managers, the Chinese are nothing more than fat sheep who let them deceive. And it is precisely by relying on this respect that Meihe has attracted large customers such as business.

Thomas's eagerness was heard in his ears, and Chen Moran coughed lightly and said with an embarrassed look.

"I think, Mr. Thomas, you're mistaken!"

"Misunderstanding?"

Thomas was stunned, was there a misunderstanding?

Picking up the two books from the table, Thomas realized that he was not interested in Huaying Beginner, and Chen Moran flipped through them casually.

"Book printing, this is the business of the Commercial Press and other bookstores!"

Chen Moran's words made Thomas frown, this information was beyond his expectations, it was basically certain bad news, he glanced at the food and wine on the table, although it was a little painful, he knew that maybe he needed to find a reason to get out, and he couldn't let the Mr. Chen in front of him notice it.

While Thomas was thinking of an excuse, Chen Moran took out his wallet from his arms.

"Mr. Chen, you, what I said, should be treated by me!"

As he spoke, Thomas hurriedly took out his wallet, and when he took out the money in a little pain, Chen Moran had already taken out a few silver dollar coupons and two silver coupons from his wallet.

"Mr. Thomas, what is this?"

Thomas, who was holding the money from his wallet, almost choked on this sentence, what was that? That's his grandfather, his ancestor, he crossed the Pacific Ocean to Shanghai, for that thing, is he insulting himself?

It doesn't seem to be, so why did he ask?

"Money!"

The curiosity in his heart led Thomas to answer this question.

"Yes, it's banknotes,......"

Putting the banknotes issued by various banks on the table, Chen Moran picked up the wine glass and took another sip.

"Advantageous, Macquarie, HSBC, Deutschwah, Amundi, Sino-Russian! There are also Yokohama Zhengjin, there are more than a dozen foreign banks that issue banknotes in China, as for the Bank of China, the International Commercial Bank and several other banks issue banknotes, most of the money banks issue silver bills, and now with the initial development of China's industry and commerce, domestic and foreign trade is increasing, the old-style silver dollar, silver two and the old-fashioned banknotes issued by the Qing government axe can no longer meet the needs of the circulation field at that time, and the issuance of banknotes and banknotes, banknotes replace silver bills, is inevitable? ”

"Yes, Mr. Chen, it's easier to use banknotes!"

Thomas nodded thoughtfully, silver bills can only be used in the bank or money bank to exchange cash, and these bank cash coupons can be directly circulated in the market, banknotes are not only more convenient, for the bank, this is still a lot of profit, only one million margin can be issued two million, which is simply a huge profit.

"I think Mr. Thomas should know that the banknotes printed by European and American banks or local and private silver numbers are actually all printed by European and American banks, such as the British Denaro Company, the Walter Road Company and the American Banknote Company have all printed paper money for these banks, and in the whole of Asia, except for the book, there is no factory that can print paper money!"

"Then your factory!"

Thomas's whole person became excited, Chen Moran's words made him suddenly realize that the person in front of him and his factory may be his biggest customer, and the paper used to print money is by no means different from those ordinary papers, and his profits will be higher, just like printing money itself is a huge profit.

"My factory will be the first factory in China with the ability to print money!"