"I came to Sichuan to open a factory." Yan Guang said with a smile.

"Factory?" The three of them were stunned for a moment.

"That's right, the textile factory, of course, there will be a gray factory, a glass factory, a paper mill or something in the future..."

Yan Guang didn't think about what stocks to buy at all, not to mention that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would collapse in three years, just talk about stocks, if it wasn't for Zhou Zining and others telling him, he wouldn't have known that the Sichuan-Han Railway Company had begun to sell stocks...

"That's it..."Zhou Zining sneered. Originally, I saw you dressed as a rich man, and I thought that you came to Sichuan to buy stocks, but I didn't expect that it was to run a factory. ”

"Don't count me in..."Zhao Wenping snorted.

Zhou Zining and they can be regarded as having stayed in the United States, although they are in the East, but they also know the benefits of opening a factory, no matter how big the scale is, as long as it is not an opium factory, it can be regarded as benefiting the country and the people. Moreover, in this era, working as a worker in a factory could earn much more than working as a farmer in the field, and a month's salary would not be much less than that of a soldier in the New Army, and sometimes even much more.

Besides, what are you doing this year and months without suffering? With his back to the sky and facing the soil, farming is very hard, in case of a natural disaster**, the grain is already the luckiest, and if you don't get it, you have to sell your sons and daughters...

And looking at Yan Guang, he doesn't look like a mean person, and he must not treat his workers harshly like some coastal merchants.

"With 50 million people, Sichuan is the province with the largest Chinese population, and borders seven provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Hunan and Hubei, which together have a population of more than 100 million. Even if not everyone wants to buy my products, I won't lose money with such a large base there..."

Yan Guang didn't know what Zhou Zining was thinking, so he was just peddling his business experience there.

In his opinion, Sichuan has a population of 50 million, and even if only one-tenth or even one percent of these 50 million people can become his customers, it is definitely a huge purchasing power, not to mention that there are seven provinces around Sichuan, and the population of these provinces may not be as large as Sichuan, but all of them add up to definitely more than Sichuan.

"In that case, then let's wish Brother Yan a prosperous business here!" Zhao Wenping said with a smile.

"I'm sorry for you." Saying that, Yan Guang touched another card, and smiled when he took it in his hand. "Self-draw."

Seeing the dumbfounded appearance of the three people, Yan Guang laughed happily, no matter whether the construction of the factory in Sichuan went smoothly or not, but at least he knew that his financial luck was really good along the way.

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After arriving at the dock in Yucheng, Zhao Wenping led the blue-faced and white-lipped Zhou Chen and the others off the boat.

Before leaving, Zhao Wenping told Yan Guang where they lived, and asked him to go and sit with them if he had time. However, looking at the trembling appearance of Zhou Chen and the others just now, Yan Guang felt that if he really went to visit them, he was afraid that he would only see Zhao Wenping alone.

Along the way, Yan Guang not only won back all the more than ten silver dollars he lost yesterday, but also made Zhou Taicheng and Chen Guobin lose more than fifty silver dollars.

However, seeing that the two guys were indeed poor and only had pants left, in the end, the four of them had no choice but to play mahjong without gambling, but I don't know if it was a relationship of not gambling money, and in the end, Yan Guang actually lost more than 20 rounds in a row.

After Zhou Chenzhao and the three left, Yan Guang didn't care that he had just gotten off the boat, so he found a car dealer and went to Chengdu in a carriage. It's just that out of distrust of the public security situation at the end of the Qing Dynasty, after getting into the carriage, he took out three of the five Mauser pistols in his suitcase and loaded them.

This is what he brought back from the United States, even when he was on the boat, he also carried it with him, but unfortunately there were no twenty rounds of that Mauser at this time, so Yan Guang could only come back with ten rounds.

Fortunately, there were no problems along the way, otherwise Yan Guang's marksmanship that he had not fired a few shots, even if he was holding the legendary barge gun in his hand, I am afraid it would be useless.

On the second day, Yan Guang jumped out of the car with his muscles and bones that were about to be turned apart.

The first thing you see is the tall city walls. "The city wall is so high, no wonder the Baolu army didn't attack it back then." Yan Guang smiled. "However, the equipment of the Baolu Army is too poor, if there is even a little heavy weapon, I am afraid that the victory or defeat will still be a dilemma with the combat effectiveness of the patrol battalion..."

"This is Chengdu?" As he spoke, Yan Guang took out the car money and handed it to the driver.

The driver smiled and took the money. "That's right, this is Chengdu."

Yan Guang nodded. "Master, you must have been to Chengdu many times in this business, right?"

"Of course, a lot of people who get off the boat from Yucheng end up in Chengdu, so I basically have to come many times a month."

"Then I would like to ask, do you know where near Chengdu is more suitable for building a factory?"

Hearing this, the coachman glanced at Yan Guang a few times and then hesitated. "I don't know this very well, but I think it's better not to be too far away from Chengdu, the countryside is very superstitious, and it's better to build a factory closer to the city."

"Thank you." Yan Guang had heard before that many factories were built in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, but some of them were attacked by villagers for the reason that most of them had destroyed ancestral feng shui and so on.

"It's better to pay attention, otherwise the factory will be demolished as soon as the cover is finished, and it will be too much of a cup..."

After queuing up at the city gate and paying the money, the soldiers at the city gate let Yan Guang in without searching. But come to think of it, there are more than 400,000 people in the whole of Chengdu, and if everyone has to search when they enter the city, I am afraid that they will not be able to search in one day.

After Yan Guang entered the city, he first found a hotel in the city to stay, and when he eliminated the fatigue of traveling the next day, he went out of the city to find the site of the factory.

"The textile factory, the ash factory, and the more than 100 patents I registered in the United States, when the stock becomes money next year, you can also pick out some suitable patents to build a factory, so that the factory needs to occupy a large area..."

Riding the lean horse he bought, Yan Guang finally found a suitable place in the northeast corner of the city. It is not arable land, the terrain is fairly flat, and most importantly there is a river nearby and there are no villages or dwellings around.

After returning to Chengdu, Yan Guang came here with the people of the government, and after learning that this land was terra nullius, he spent 3,000 silver dollars to buy ten hectares, and then Yan Guang sent a lot of red envelopes to it, and soon went through the procedures for building a factory.

"Next, all you need to do is build a factory and buy a machine..."After going through all the formalities, looking at the land that already belonged to him, Yan Guang suddenly felt like vomiting, because he suddenly thought that he was going to take a boat again...

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