In the evening, Chen Xiaobai and Tan Yiyun returned to the Hu Mansion together, and as soon as the two entered the study, they asked Hu Chuyuan: "Dongjia, are you going back to Suzhou?" ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded unwillingly, asked them to sit down first, and said, "Although it is not happy, for the sake of the business of the firm, I can only avoid it for the time being." It just so happened that Nakado-sama also gave me a suitable step. As soon as I leave, you will say that I will go to Suzhou to sue Lord Tan, the governor of Jiangsu. ”

Chen Xiaobai said: "I have been secretly checking these days, and I am mediating with the people of the Shanghai Business Gang, but in fact, these people are also holding their breath in their hearts." Shanghai merchants, in the final analysis, are nothing more than silk merchants, tea merchants, salt merchants, money merchants and real estate merchants, except for real estate merchants who operate locally, the rest are the owners of Shanghai, and the family business is in the nest of various places. When the master was here, we had offended the vast majority of the silk merchants in Shanghai, and now we have cut off the livelihood of many salt merchants, and the people say that we will enter the tea, rice and real estate industries in the future, of course everyone is afraid, afraid and angry. ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled silently.

Speaking of which, it is the salt merchant who has offended the most.

Since the implementation of the unified marketing law, there are Prince Gong and Wan Qingqui and others in the capital to support, in the locality, Zuo Zongtang and He Jing support each other, even those salt merchants also know a lot of officials, and even can call these officials brothers, but they only know the prefect, the county, Hu Chuyuan's supporters here are either Shangshu or governors, governors, how to fight?

Not at all at the same level.

What's more, those prefects and counties also owe a lot of debts to the Hu family, and the officials in the capital, they can take care of the dredging, and Hu Chuyuan is even more powerful.

In the salt industry, in the past, the big salt merchants were in Shanghai, and the small salt merchants were in Shanghai to buy salt and sell it to various places, each with a way to live, but the Jiangnan Commercial Bank was grasping it from beginning to end, and did not give anyone a way to live.

Even in the shipping sector, Jiangnan Commercial Bank relied on its financial resources and cargo volume to keep lowering prices, and everyone dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, which caused more disputes.

In the final analysis, there are still too few places to invest in China, and there are only so many kinds of profitable trades.

In this situation, as long as someone is instigating and supporting the back, of course, there will be more people who can't get along with the Hu family.

Tan Yiyun hated: "At the moment, I'm afraid I can only avoid the wind a little, but just leaving with such a disgraced face is really shameless." In terms of financial resources and power, who dares to fight us alone in Shanghai? ”

Hu Chuyuan sneered and said, "It doesn't matter, I'll come back sooner or later." Shopkeeper Chen, after I leave, you will buy two more things for me, the first thing is to buy more than 20 acres of land near the Hu Mansion, expand the industry, and build new gardens and Western-style villas. If someone asks, you say that I will move my family to Shanghai in the future. The second thing is to continue to open more money village branches in the five provinces south of the Yangtze River, and when I come back, I will offend the money merchants as well. ”

Chen Xiaobai said with a smile: "If you do business, you can't make money if you don't offend people, so I'll do what you tell me." ”

Hu Chuyuan said to Tan Yiyun again: "The affairs of Jiangnan Commercial Bank will continue to be handled by you, in addition, I see that Xu Shou and Fu Lanya are a little afraid of retreating, you have to stabilize for me." If the students of the rich families of Gezhi Academy have to drop out, you will let them quit, and the new students will be exempted from tuition, and they will be recruited from the children of poor families. ”

Tan Yiyun said: "Okay, I know, it won't cost much anyway!" ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "As for the matter of the silk industry, I still teach the shopkeeper Liu to deal with it." These things were originally best done in Shanghai, but now they can only be done in Hangzhou. ”

Chen Xiaobai and Tan Yiyun could only smile bitterly.

This wave of exclusion by Shanghai businessmen did come very suddenly, and the impact on them was not small, but they couldn't tell when Hu Chuyuan would have to wait until he would be able to kill him again.

The most important thing is that it is too bad for reputation, I am afraid that from now on, these Shanghai businessmen will use this as a talking point every day, and when they mention Hu Chuyuan, they will talk about how they let him roll out of Shanghai Beach with his tail between his legs.

This face is really too broken.

But no matter what, Zuo Zongtang has already given the steps.

discussed with the two big shopkeepers all night, and the next day, Hu Chuyuan deliberately waited until noon when it was the most lively, and then took the car to Suzhou Creek.

Even if he goes, he will go in the open.

Sure enough, when he left at noon, the Chinese business community in Shanghai held a grand banquet at the Central Hotel in the evening, boasting about their respective merits, and at this time, what they said was even more ugly, laughing at Hu Chuyuan for being embarrassed like a wild dog.

However, several real giants were silent and did not participate in the banquet, including Tang Yanshu and Xu Run, and Sheng Xuanhuai immediately took a boat to Tianjin.

Because he took a new-style river boat, Hu Chuyuan arrived at Suzhou Port in the evening, and then went to the Humble Administrator's Garden to meet Zuo Zongtang.

At this time, the Humble Administrator's Garden has been divided into three reading gardens, the West Garden was purchased by the wealthy businessman Zhang Lu in Suzhou, renamed the Supplement Garden, the Middle Garden became the Eight Banners Fengzhi Hall, and the East Garden was used as the temporary office of the Liangjiang Yamen, and remained in the hands of the Liangjiang Yamen.

Zuo Zongtang temporarily lived in the East Garden.

The sedan chair entered the East Garden, and as soon as Hu Chuyuan got off the sedan chair, Hu Ruilan stepped forward with a smile and said, "Oh, Chu Yuan, you have been really hard lately!" ”

Hu Chuyuan knew what he was talking about, and said with a wry smile: "The teacher is serious, where is Lord Zhongtang?" ”

Hu Ruilan said: "The middle hall is resting in Lanxue Hall, Chu Yuan, please come with me!" ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently, followed him along the road into the depths of the Humble Administrator's East Garden, and made more than a dozen bends along the covered bridge with the water before he came to Lanxue Hall, which was brightly lit.

Hu Ruilan pushed the door open, Hu Chuyuan looked at it, and saw Zuo Zongtang closing his eyes in the hall, while Tan Zhonglin, the governor of Jiangsu, was looking at the letter on the side, and Yang Changjun was on the other side.

For some reason, Yan Shizhang was also invited by them and sat in the staff seat with Yang Changjun.

Hu Chuyuan immediately stepped forward to see and greeted Zuo Zongtang and Tan Zhonglin one by one.

Zuo Zongtang also asked him to sit down first, and then asked, "Chu Yuan, you have suffered a lot of grievances in Shanghai, right?" ”

Hu Chuyuan replied: "It's not a big deal! ”

"Wrong, it's just a big deal!" Tan Zhonglin put down the letter, said solemnly to Hu Chuyuan, and said: "It's nothing for young people to be wronged, but if this matter is related to the salt politics of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and the businessmen join forces to speculate on the price of salt, so that the unified marketing law dies halfway, it will be a big deal!" ”