"Come, to celebrate the first profit of Daqing Bank. Cheers. Guangxu raised his glass. For a moment, there was a knock on the table.

Daqing Bank, which had been open for more than two months, finally ushered in its first operating income, although it was only 20,000 taels of silver, it was still a gross profit. But it still makes Guangxu happy. That night, Guangxu summoned Lin Qizhao, Tang Shaoyi and others together, and set up a table at the Sihai Hotel to celebrate a little.

"Banks are starting to make a profit, and that's a good start. It would mean that we would have one more place to earn. Although there are few now, there will definitely be more and more as it develops. Guangxu drank the wine in the cup in one go: "Lin Qizhao, the superintendent sent by the imperial court, how is it now." ”

Lin Qizhao sighed helplessly: "This supervisor usually doesn't look at people. The 20,000 taels of silver were recovered, and our supervisor appeared and took away 2,000 taels under the pretext. ”

"Just because of such an official position, I was divided into a hundred shares. Spend money to buy peace, and write it down. One day, I will return everything I have taken, and I will spit out everything I have eaten. After speaking, Guangxu looked around: "Lin Qizhao, you will write a summary of the bank's operation in the past two months to me, see what are the deficiencies after two months of business, and if I can help, I will say it." Of course, the deficiencies should be improved, and don't be afraid to write down the good ones, so that you can develop your strengths and avoid your weaknesses by clearly understanding them. ”

Wechen understood. It's just that the opening of branches in Liangjiang and Lianghu is probably going to be postponed. Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, and Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Lianghu, were extremely opposed. In terms of the two Guangzhou, Wechen is still sending people to contact. Regarding the opening of banks in various places, Lin Qizhao can only tell the truth.

"It's okay, let's get in touch first. At present, it is still necessary to straighten out the current four banks, as for the other branches, if they can do it, we can do it, and if it can't be done, we can just put this meaning out. After talking about the bank, Guangxu looked at Lin Yongxiang, who met for the first time: "Lin Yongxiang, although we are meeting for the first time, your Shunfeng logistics is really good." Come, tell me what the situation is. ”

Since Lin Yongxiang first took over Shunfeng Logistics, he has worked hard.

The first time he met the saint, he dined at the same table with the emperor, which made him feel the grace of the saint as a flat-headed commoner. Hearing the emperor's question, he quickly got up and knelt down to reply. Although they are all royal errands, everyone else must have official positions, and he is the only one at the same table who is still white, so naturally he can't sit back and talk.

"This is not the court, you are also the emperor's errand, sit and talk."

"Wow." The emperor spoke, and Lin Yongxiang naturally could only do it: "The grass people are trusted by the emperor and hand over this important logistics matter to the grass people." The grass people dare not have the grace of God, and they do not seek merit......"

"Stop." Guangxu interrupted Lin Yongxiang's words: "This is the first time you have faced a saint, you still don't know my habits, I don't blame you." But you have to remember, don't say this big thing in the face of the official in the future, I won't think that you are good at doing an errand just because you say a few nice words. Speaking with facts, data, I want to know accurate data. ”

"Wow." Lin Yongxiang was a little nervous, and paused for a while before continuing: "Since the Jiangsu Road Donation Incident, everyone in the world knows that Shunfeng Logistics is done by the emperor. Since then, no one in the fleet of Shunfeng Logistics has dared to collect road donations, which has greatly reduced the cost. Therefore, the fees we charge are lower than those of other dart games, and more and more people are looking for us to haul goods, although we have recruited a lot of people to help, but there are still some people who are short of manpower in the business. Although Shunfeng Logistics has only been open for more than five months, because the emperor has never withdrawn funds, coupled with the emperor's prestige, it is ranked first in the Northeast, Zhili, Liangjiang, Lianghu, Liangguang and other places. Now our line has extended to Sichuan and Gansu. We have set up yard stacks in various cities. It's just that the emperor said that it was decentralized and centralized, and the grass people have not yet been able to understand the emperor's deep meaning. ”

The fart has a deep meaning, it is nothing more than that the set of the post office in later generations was pirated by Guangxu. As for the name of this decentralized and centralized management, Guangxu took it himself. Logistics is a specialized discipline in later generations, and a mechanical engineer knows a fart. Guangxu's face is now thicker, and his face has not changed: "This is just my feelings." I'll give you an analogy: for example, if you want to send things from the capital to Shanghai, you can do this. It will take four days to walk from the capital to Shanghai just on the road, then you can first explain to the person who hauls the goods that it will take seven days to deliver, so that you can receive the goods for two days and send them to Shanghai again, and then use one day to distribute the goods to Shanghai, so that you can save a lot of costs than a batch of goods in the dart bureau. In the same way, it can also be done on a provincial or provincial or county basis. That's the idea, but what I said is not entirely true, the specific things still have to be determined according to the actual situation, and you can go back and find out more. It's not very convenient for me to get out of the palace, if you have any questions, you can also hand it to Lord Tang, and we can communicate on paper. ”

Only said that the film is different from the excerpt, but it can also be heard directly to the sky. Lin Yongxiang knelt down: "The grass people thank the Holy Grace." The grass people will take the teachings of the Holy Gods to heart. ”

"It's not that I'm modest, and I can't really talk about teaching. It's like building a road is not as good as Zhan Tianyou, and teaching me is not as good as Rong Lao. All I can do is give you some advice and some support. I hope that you are all more professional than me, Lin Yongxiang, you will also take care of it when you go back, and be a person who is proficient in this trip. ”

"The grass people will do their best to repay the emperor's kindness."

"Get up." Guangxu raised his hand weakly: "Your situation is good, let's talk about who is holding the dart." ”

"It's still the emperor's grace. At the beginning of July, in escorting a batch of Dasheng's clothes from Jiangning to Wuchang, passing through Xiangyang was robbed by local bandits, the team leader who led the team at that time found Xiangyang County Commander to report the case, and Xiangyang County Commander immediately dispatched officers and troops to encircle and suppress, and soon recovered all the goods. After this, no one dares to intercept the dart of the downwind logistics. In addition, the cost is low, not only the major commercial houses, but also the ticket bureaus in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanxi have come to us to support the dart. We also received a lot of business from foreigners in Shanghai and Tianjin, and ordinary people also had a small amount of goods. Even the governor of Huguang, Lord Zhang, said that our darts are low and safe. This time, the grass people came to Beijing to help Lord Zhang press the tax money. ”

"Not bad, not bad. That's good for you. Guangxu said happily: "We not only want to do business for the Chinese people, but also do business to foreign countries in the future." By the way, you pay attention to the total type and proportion of the goods being shipped. Don't just talk about the good, talk about the shortcomings. ”

"Naturally, there are shortcomings. Shunfeng Logistics has been established for too short a time, and the stall is too large, and the personnel will inevitably be uneven. There were also a lot of losses that could have been avoided. If the emperor allows the suspension of the expansion plan, the grass people will also be able to rectify and rectify. ”

"Well, the land will be as you play. Get in order. In addition, if the local officials have any difficulties, tell me. ”

"The grass people are the emperor's errands, and there is no one in the world who doesn't know. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for the emperor to make it difficult for the grass people, and the roadmen everywhere saw that the Shunfeng flag was allowed to pass unhindered. The dart bureaus in various places have complained about us stealing their business. ”

"Of course, it's good that there are no officials to make things difficult, but when it comes to the end of the year, it is better to deal with it, and things will be easier to do after a group of harmony. As for robbing other people's business, let them say go, and they have the ability to snatch it back. Speaking of this, Guangxu suddenly woke up to the fact that the dart games in these places have long been the climate and he knows the local situation well. If these darts are also added to their own logistics system, they can make full use of their resources. Isn't this just the integration of resources to become bigger and stronger?

Thinking of this, Guangxu opened his mouth and came: "I intend to integrate these dart games into Shunfeng and use their existing manpower and location resources. You've been living here for the past few days. Think about it and write a film. Live in peace, you don't know, this shop is also my property. ”

Happy, Guangxu is really happy. Although Zhan Tianyou and Zhang Qian were both in the Northeast and could not come back this time, they both brought back good news. First of all, Zhan Tianyou brought it, and the topographic survey he brought to the personnel has grown rapidly, and most of them already have the ability to read and work, and some of them are even better than foreigners. The laying of the railway is also very smooth, there is a large amount of manpower and the full support of the United States, and the supporting factories have successfully started production, and the Jingfeng line and the Lufeng line will definitely be completed before July of the 20th year of Guangxu if there is no major natural disaster. The second is Zhang Qian's Asia Mining, which has discovered at least 100 million tons of high-quality iron ore in Anshan, as well as a medium-sized coal mine. This is incredibly exciting for our partners in the United States. The construction of railways in the Qing Kingdom allowed mining companies not to think about sales. However, Zhang Qian asked Tang Shaoyi to bring back a question: how did the emperor know that there was high-quality iron ore in the area of Anshan Daarc Mountain, so that the first drill was successful.

I also know that Benxi Qiaotou Town has reserves of more than 3 billion tons, Asia's largest iron ore, so I won't tell you. Guangxu laughed: "He must have not read much during this time." The National Geographic Encyclopedia says yes. Guangxu didn't care, Tang Shaoyi wondered, he had never seen or heard of this book, and he had seen a booklet called World Encyclopedia written by the emperor himself in the imperial study.

Three days later, Lin Yongxiang's film was handed over through Tang Shaoyi. Guangxu read it carefully, and wrote it well, and had some ideas. The suggestions and methods put forward for the collection of local dart bureaus are obviously more specific and easier to implement than Guangxu thought. With regard to decentralized and centralized management, some concrete measures have been proposed. Lin Yongxiang not only wrote the idea, but also revised the company's articles of association, for the first time to clarify the time of delivery and arrival of goods in various places, and the compensation method for delays. A charter was also written for the express mail business proposed by Guangxu. It's just that because he has only been focusing on expanding the scope of business recently, such as time, location, area, cargo classification and charges, etc., it still takes time to count and then plan, Lin Yongxiang means to start arranging it first, and then announce it early next year.

No matter how well it is written, what the final implementation result is, in short, there is a plan, and I am afraid that I will not even dare to think about it if I am not afraid to do it. Guangxu wrote some construction and asked Tang Shaoyi to send it to Lin Yongxiang, and the five days of going back and forth passed.

In the corner of the lobby of the Sihai Hotel, Tang Shaoyi handed the construction written by Guangxu to Lin Yongxiang: "Lin Da Shopkeeper, the emperor means that he has already told you everything he can think of, and the rest of these things can only be understood by yourself." The emperor himself has never done a single thing, whether these suggestions are good or not, whether you can use them to grasp it yourself, you don't have to do everything according to what the emperor says. ”

"The grass people are terrified, and the small one is also from a business background, but when it comes to the delivery of goods, the emperor is the real person. Lord Tang, don't you know, the emperor's set of decentralized and centralized management is a stroke of genius. No, no, no, it should be more divine than God. Let's say that every time other darts are darts, the pass road card has a lot of points, and you have to go back empty, which can feed a family of 100 people. And not only do we take several times as many times as many of other people's goods in one trip, but we don't come back empty in six out of ten trips. Lin Yongxiang can be said to be very proud: "I started with the 50,000 taels of silver given by the emperor, and in just half a year, plus the emperor's personal opportunity, it is also because there is no road donation." We not only laid down half of the business of this cloth in the Qing Dynasty, but also saved this amount" Lin Yongxiang stretched out three fingers: "Three million taels of silver." ”

"The emperor is as wise as a torch, and he thought that the emperor was just a momentary anger. It seems that the emperor did it on purpose. Tang Shaoyi was thoughtful.

Lin Yongxiang took out a silver ticket of 30,000 taels and put it on the table, and gently pushed it forward: "If it wasn't for Lord Tang's recommendation, there would be no grass people today." The grass people can save a big family business, all thanks to the adults. is just a small courtesy, and I hope that Lord Tang will accept it with a smile. ”

Tang Shaoyi didn't even look at it, and only asked: "Do you know Ma Xiaoliu, who is a big student?" ”

"Of course, I know that after Master Zhang was transferred to the Northeast to open a mine, Dasheng was handed over to him to manage. But I don't know why it seems to have been taken down recently. ”

"Just because he took this." Tang Shaoyi pointed to the silver ticket: "If it is given by the emperor, you can boldly take as much as you want." But you're going to take this...... Our emperor is the most taboo about this thing. ”

Lin Yongxiang hurriedly put away the silver ticket and asked in a low voice: "Da Sheng is far away in Tianjin, how can the emperor know?" ”

"If I take your money, it will be presented to the emperor in the evening. Don't forget that he is the emperor. Tang Shaoyi paused for a while: "The emperor said: You go back to do business with peace of mind, and the emperor will not personally see you off." The emperor even said that although he can't give you any official position now, he hopes that you can be better than the blue in logistics. ”

"Please tell the emperor that the little one will do his best to live up to the grace of the king." Lin Yongxiang clasped his hands into fists in the direction of the palace: "Such a small one will leave Beijing tomorrow." ”

"By the way, let me ask you: If you want to win fifty percent of the shipping volume of the Pacific Ocean within five years, are you sure?"

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