Hu Chuyuan spent money to tackle tough problems, and others followed behind to enjoy happiness.

Hu Chuyuan didn't want to do this kind of thing several times in a row, he had already planned it this time, and he wanted to make it difficult for several other official stock firms to copy, and he couldn't copy it if he wanted to, and it was a lot too late to copy it.

It didn't take long for several big shopkeepers to hurry to the carriage, and everyone had already discussed what to do, and now it was just the last breath of strength.

took turns to read Zuo Zongtang's telegram, everyone was very happy, hurriedly came, hurried away, and then quickly went back and instructed the other shopkeepers to speed up their work, and if there was anything that had not been done, it should be done quickly.

After waiting for two days, Yang Changjun of Shanghai Daotai came to Hu Chuyuan and told Hu Chuyuan about the specific situation.

First of all, Yang Changjun played the imperial court at the beginning of last year, under the pretext that the foreign yuan was flooding in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the foreigners were reaping heavy profits, and the people were bewitched, they liked to use the foreign yuan, and they did not want official silver, and wanted to prepare for the Shanghai Silver Bureau and mint silver dollars.

Hu Chuyuan then exerted his strength, and dredged the household department of Manshang Shu Jing Lian and the household department of Han Shangshu Dong Sui, the two suggested that the imperial court approve it, and try to set up the Shanghai Silver Bureau in Shanghai, with one person to supervise it, which was directly managed by Shanghai Daotai.

Dong Sui then continued to contribute, saying that copper dollars can also be minted, one copper dollar can be exchanged for three copper coins, or according to the situation, directly exchanged for silver dollars, and said that the benefits are great, which can increase the tax of the household.

Prince Gong and Prince Su have already been targeted, and they have been praised one by one, and the queen mother of the two palaces agreed.

This is just the beginning of the matter, and the rights to mint silver and copper dollars are still in the hands of the Shanghai Silver Bureau, and they have nothing to do with Hu Chuyuan.

Soon, Zuo Zongtang personally folded the military aircraft office and Prince Gong, discussed the printing and distribution of banknotes to make profits, used to repay military debts, and learned the lessons of the Tongzhi years.

How to operate it exactly, the method is also simple, the merchant buys silver dollars and copper dollars from the bank bureau as reserves, and issues three times or two times the amount of reserves, but any part that exceeds the reserves must be subject to a banknote printing tax, and the tax is one-twelfth.

Since it is a secret fold, then it can only be a secret talk, Prince Su won the trust of Cixi, and took Hu Chuyuan 200,000 taels of silver, he went to Cixi to negotiate, saying that this is good, very good, the tax is rich, if the merchant messes up, it has nothing to do with the court.

The imperial court was only responsible for collecting taxes, and did not care about other matters.

Such a big matter must be discussed in court, and all the ministers have to express their opinions, and the imperial historians must also show their unique thinking and the duties and powers of loyalty to the country and the monarch.

As long as you start talking about it publicly, it will take a lot of time and Zhou Zhang, but fortunately, the real power figures of the Manchurian people all agreed, and Zuo Zongtang, Liu Kunyi, Wan Qingqui, Dong Sui and others were also very much in favor...... If you don't approve of it, it's not okay, the money is soft.

Yang Changjun said that it is estimated that there will be an open court discussion in the near future, and he is not afraid of anything else, but he is afraid that those imperial historians who love to gossip and have no real power in their hands to reap benefits will be blushing when they watch others make enough money.

Zuo Zongtang meant to let Hu Chuyuan personally go to Beijing to sit in the town, and send the imperial historians in advance.

If all goes well, in the end it will be done according to the wishes of Prince Gong and Prince Su -- first in Shanghai to try out the Daqing silver and copper yuan, and then wait for a year or two in other places, where the CITIC Bank will first specialize in five-year banknotes, and then let other money banks enter.

Since this is the case, Hu Chuyuan did not delay much, and immediately asked people to prepare the itinerary, that is, to go to Jingshi to sit in town.

If he had time, he would also like to go to Shanxi to meet Qiao Zhiyong.

At this time, the Jin merchants were still very powerful, and if they could negotiate with them, they would also account for a sum of banknotes in the north, which would be a lot of gain.

In the seventh year of Guangxu, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, Hu Chuyuan hurriedly set off and went to Beijing by boat.

Wu Shuzhen wanted to go back to the United States to prepare for her own Jetta foreign company, so she didn't go with him, and in order to keep it secret, Hu Chuyuan only brought Chen Shanyuan and Yan Shizhang, while Zheng Xitai and others stayed in Shanghai to quickly do all kinds of things, the sooner the better.

After arriving in Tianjin, Hu Chuyuan had to take a carriage to Beijing, and after getting used to riding a huge waterway ship in the south, the trip in the north was simply a torture.

After four days of staggering in the carriage, Hu Chuyuan finally arrived in Jingshi.

1881 was a cold year, at this time Yanjing City was still snowing heavily, and the carriage creaked on the snow, leaving two deep traces, gray, glowing with the silver light of ice and snow.

After entering Yanjing City, the carriage drove leisurely through the street and entered the Changdian Hutong near the Liuli Factory.

At any cost, Rong Bao Zhai is now the number one antique shop in Beijing, the largest shop, and bought a big mansion in Changdian Hutong, which was originally a courtyard house of Baylor.

There are many Beijing officials living in this area, and many editors of the Hanlin Academy who have just passed the Jinshi examination live here, and the rent is not cheap, but the official flavor is strong, and it is easy to dredge and take care of it.

Because he sent a telegram to Shen Furong before he came, the carriage entered the alley, and Shen Furong, Wang Yirong and Zhu Yannian, the shopkeeper of the Jingshi General Store of Fuguo Qianzhuang, were already waiting outside to greet him.

Zhu Yannian is also an old courtier.

Hu Xueyan is very particular about employing people, this Zhu Yannian's shopkeeper is an authentic Yanjing person, he was a showman, and he went to Qianzhuang to make a letter in order to make a living, that is, he was responsible for counting the business letters submitted by the branches in various places.

When the army was in chaos, he followed his shopkeeper to Hangzhou to deliver money, and was robbed by a group of soldiers and bandits.

Hu Xueyan inadvertently learned about this, so he negotiated the conditions with the gang Xiangyong, released them, and invested in their money bank, and asked them to go back to Beijing to run a branch shop for Fukang money village.

Later, the shopkeeper of Qianzhuang took inventory of the shop to Hu Xueyan, and Zhu Yannian stayed to be the shopkeeper.

Zhu Yannian is also fifty years old, wearing a black silk jacket with shearling sheepskin, shrinking his hands into his cuffs, enduring the cold wind of the snowy day, waiting hard.

Seeing that the carriage stopped, as soon as Hu Chuyuan lifted the curtain, Shen Furong said with a smile: "Boss, you are finally here, this road is not easy to walk, it is not as good as our south, it is not convenient to come and go!" ”

Hu Chuyuan laughed, and without waiting for others to step on a stool for him, he jumped down from the carriage, and after him, Chen Shanyuan and Yan Shizhang got out of the carriage one by one.

"Oh, my lord, don't fall!" Zhu Yannian was very nervous, so he hurriedly went up to help Hu Chuyuan.

Afraid that Hu Chuyuan wouldn't recognize him, Shen Furong introduced him: "The owner, this is Zhu Yannian and Zhu Da's shopkeeper." ”

Hu Chuyuan was very happy and said to Zhu Yannian: "Shopkeeper Zhu, Yanjing's business has always relied on you, it has been really hard for you for so many years, Chu Yuan is grateful." ”

"Master, don't say that!" Zhu Yannian smiled, there were still snowflakes on his beard and eyebrows, and said: "If it wasn't for the old club to rescue, my life would have been lost in Hangzhou." The old owner and the owner are both benevolent and righteous people, eager for justice and righteousness, and can give your family a family business, which is also my blessing, just in this Yanjing City, I don't know how many people envy me! ”

Hu Chuyuan said with a smile: "Isn't it also my blessing to have you run my family business in Yanjing?" ”

Zhu Yannian hurriedly said politely: "The owner is too reputable, too reputable." ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled calmly, he didn't like to be too polite and lively, basically to the point, and then said: "Don't say it, this Yanjing City is really cold enough, let's go into the house and talk!" ”

Saying this, he pulled Zhu Yannian and entered the courtyard half-carried and half-carried together.

In the Hu family, Zhu Yannian is of course not a big shopkeeper, but can only be said to be between the big shopkeeper and the shopkeeper, in charge of the two CITIC Money Houses in Yanjing, and there are other shopkeepers in Tianjin and Baoding.

Saying that he is the big shopkeeper is just an honorific title, because the Yanjing branch was developed by him, which is the same as Zhu Funian who opened an office pawnshop for the Hu family in his early years, although he does not have the real power of the big shopkeeper, everyone still respectfully calls Zhu the big shopkeeper.

People in different social positions and positions always have different momentum, aura, demeanor, and speech.

In the past few years, Hu Chuyuan's momentum has been very different from ordinary people, ordinary rich sons and rich gentry.

Unlike Hu Xueyan, he gives people the feeling of being cold, it is difficult to get close, many people are very afraid to see him, as soon as he appeared in the Jiangnan Commercial Bank, everyone in the entire hall was silent and did not dare to speak.

However, when you really walk into his world, you will find that he is actually an easy to approach, easy-going, generous, no hierarchy, in his eyes, it seems that everyone is fair, and he is the same as you.

Many people will be especially happy after only talking to him for a sentence or two.

Including the family, nurses, cooks, and maids around Hu Chuyuan, everyone is like a demon with him, not to mention these people, Yang Changjun, Ye Fu, Huo Hongji and others, all have an indescribable respect for Hu Chuyuan.

As soon as they met, Zhu Yannian sighed in his heart...... He's a great proprietor, and he's not an ordinary person at all.

After entering the main hall, Hu Chuyuan sat down at the big table in the room, let Zhu Yannian sit on his right, and then asked Shen Furong and Wang Yirong about the current situation of Jingshi.

What Hu Chuyuan is going to do, everyone knows very well in their hearts.

Wang Yirong said first: "On the surface, the Metropolitan Procuratorate seems to be the key to the problem, but in fact, the most important person at the moment is Li Hongzao, Minister of Military Aircraft. This person is extremely conservative, but he must oppose all foreign affairs, and even Prince Su at least recognizes money, but he doesn't recognize anything, and Li Hongzhang and Prince Gong are the sworn enemies of officialdom. ”

Hu Chuyuan asked him, "Are you familiar with it?" ”

Wang Yirong said: "It's quite familiar, I just visited a few days ago, and I sent some calligraphy and paintings, which can be regarded as a foreshadowing, and I am waiting for the real dredging recently." Because everyone is afraid that he will oppose it, they have not yet told him the news. ”

At this time, Wang Yirong had already won the Jinshi last year, and he was born in the second class and the first Jinshi, because of the "people" to dot and the appreciation of the secretary of the ministry, Wan Qingquinoa, he immediately got a position as a foreigner in the ministry.

Since he is in the ministry, he will be very well-informed about all kinds of news, and it is convenient for other officials to move around.

(To be continued)