After Lu Sanyuan left, Hu Chuyuan asked Liu Chengxiang, Yan Shizhang and Wang Yirong to come in and talk about the mistakes that Lu Sanyuan accidentally discovered.

The four of them were all insiders at this time, and everyone discussed it carefully.

After talking for a while, Yan Shizhang said to Hu Chuyuan: "Boss, I see, I still have to go to the capital with Wang Yirong, and I can't spend this year at home." You think, other people's goal this time is to bankrupt the unified sales law after all, then they must have buried a secret trick in the capital, just wait for the price of salt in the south of the Yangtze River to rise, there will definitely be a large number of imperial history, officials on the discussion, when the time comes, our trouble is not small! ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently and said, "I'll ask Shopkeeper Liu to open you a money ticket for 600,000 taels first, and you and Wang Yirong will go to Beijing to make some points." I'll give you another letter, at the critical moment, you can draw another one million taels of silver from the capital branch of Fukang Qianzhuang. As long as I can keep the unified marketing law and control the salt industry in the five provinces south of the Yangtze River in my hands, let alone one million taels of silver, even if it is three million taels of silver, I am willing to spend it! ”

Wang Yirong said: "Captain, there are more than 100 antiques we bought back from Yueben, and there are more than 1,000 rare ancient books. Let's just don't make this windfall, I will bring some valuable things to the capital, and use some of my previous connections in the capital to find a way to take care of the group of crows in the Yushitai first. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Okay, you set off immediately, and when you meet an acquaintance, you just say that you are coming back for the New Year." ”

Yan Shizhang said: "The owner, the day before yesterday I forgot one thing, this matter is a matter of life and death, Zhongtang must also send someone to deal with it, when we pass by Jiangning, by the way, please ask Zhongtang to also send a staff member to go together, some people, we can't see it, but the staff of Lord Zhongtang can see it, and there is room for negotiation." ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "These things are all up to you, as long as you are sure that they are useful, you can do it!" ”

Yan Shizhang solemnly arched his hand and said: "Then I have thanked the owner for his trust, and this afternoon, I will go to Jiangning Mansion with Wang Yirong first." ”

Hu Chuyuan knew in his heart that Sheng Xuanhuai might have arrived in the capital, and the Danqing Emperor Treasure of Song Huizong was a big killing weapon, and it was hard to kill him!

Therefore, he gave Yan Shizhang the right to dispatch another one million taels of silver.

Of course, you can't give it away, but when it comes to life and death, you can't be reluctant.

A bloody battle was in front of him, and he could already smell blood.

He knew that this battle would definitely cost his life.

In the final analysis, it is still the struggle between Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang, the dispute between land defense and coastal defense, and the dispute between Xinjiang Province and Beiyang.

Thinking of this, Hu Chuyuan had to sigh in his heart, Hu Xueyan died without complaining.

The dispute between Zuo and Li is a bottomless pit, and I don't know how many more people will die.

The most terrible thing is that the bad guy lives for a thousand years, Li Hongzhang's life is very long, he loses, he can wait until Zuo Zongtang dies and then slowly settle the account, when the time comes, Tan Zhonglin, Mei Qizhao, and him, I'm afraid they will not be able to escape.

After all, this is a matter of the future, and he already knew that joining the Hunan faction, especially defecting to the left faction, would inevitably face this risk.

After sending Yan Shizhang and Wang Yirong away, Hu Chuyuan and Liu Chengxiang also discussed again and finalized more details, while he operated the Jiangnan Silk Industry Cooperative in a more high-profile manner.

In fact, Hu Chuyuan knew very well that the Jiangnan Silk Industry Cooperative was far more important to him than Jianghuai Yanzheng, and if he wanted to monopolize the Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk industry, he had to start from the silk industry cooperatives and take a completely different path from the traditional raw silk acquisition, which he had been brewing in his heart for a long time.

On the day of the opening of the Jiangnan Silk Industry Cooperative, Mei Qizhao and Huo Hongji came to cut the ribbon and cheered, and also invited raw silk merchants and large households in Hangzhou to discuss the preparation for the construction of the Zhejiang Mulberry Museum.

On the surface, the conversation was very lively, and that night, Hu Chuyuan quietly returned to Suzhou by boat and continued to live in the Humble Administrator's East Garden to wait for the latest news.

On the third day of Hu Chuyuan's return to Suzhou, the sales of Jiangnan Commercial Bank's salt industry in Shanghai began to surge, and then the sales of sea salt in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Huzhou, Jiaxing, and Changzhou also began to increase.

If he hadn't been prepared, Hu Chuyuan would definitely not have felt strange.

Just waiting for the sales in various places to surge, he immediately asked all the commercial banks around the country to implement sales restrictions, stop wholesale business, each branch can only retail 2,000 catties of salt per day, and each person is limited to two taels of salt.

His method is very simple, all the shops sell salt 24 hours a day, but each person can only buy 2 taels, and the guys must use small scales to thin scales when selling salt.

Of course, this is not to prevent more and less sales, but to allow 2,000 catties of salt to be sold slowly for a day.

As a result, his salt was never sold short and the price never increased.

But on the other hand, he deliberately asked the shopkeepers to contact some fixed middlemen, who were responsible for buying salt in large quantities at the market price, and then reselling it to those merchants who wanted to fry salt.

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At No. 14 on the Bund, the head office of Jiangnan Commercial Bank in Shanghai, thousands of people rushed to buy salt outside the spacious storefront.

The noise is like the waves of the sea, deafening, even if you are a few steps apart, you have to speak in the loudest voice to be heard.

"The price of salt has risen, the salt of Jiangnan Commercial Bank has been sold short, and tomorrow I can only go to other places to buy salt, everyone buy it quickly!"

"Holy, what?"

"Do you still want us to live?"

"No restrictions on sales, no restrictions on sales...... If you don't have salt to sell, get out of Shanghai with a fucking shit, don't fucking stand in the pit and don't shit! ”

People crowded like a tidal wave, rushing into the store, trying to grab the limited amount of salt.

Standing in the shop, Liu Chengxiang was covered in sweat, he had lived for most of his life, and it was the first time he had seen people grab salt to this extent.

But no matter how crowded the people were, there was only one small door at the entrance of the trading house, and the temporarily hired handyman was responsible for guarding the door to prevent others from rushing in to grab the salt. The three guys who are really responsible for selling salt weigh carefully and sell slowly, pinching and selling 2,000 catties of salt a day.

Speculating on salt is a very simple matter, but Hu Chuyuan didn't think about it carefully before.