Soon after Hu Chuyuan sold silk, other businessmen also rushed to sell silk, and the major foreign companies had completed the acquisition, seeing that Chinese businessmen were scrambling to sell, they bought raw silk at a low price, and the price of raw silk fell all the way, and soon fell to 4 taels per catty, which was lower than in previous years.

Breaking the rules is always scolded, but this time the situation is special.

Everyone heard that Xu Run sold the silk, so they went to Xu Run to settle accounts, and Xu Run said that Hu Chuyuan entrusted him to sell it.

Everyone went to find Hu Chuyuan, and Hu Chuyuan said, where do I have so much raw silk, besides, you have never discussed a unified selling price with me before?

It's a muddled account anyway.

After a few busy days, Shen Furong finally took a few people to identify the antiques, calligraphy and paintings hidden in the Hu Mansion, and handed over the list to Hu Chuyuan early in the morning.

Hu Chuyuan took a closer look and found that there were really a few fakes inside, and he had to find a way to buy a few genuine items of similar value to offset them.

After reading this list, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Shen Furong: "It's really hard for you these days." ”

Shen Furong said with a smile: "These fakes are not very valuable, it should be that Master Zhang was blinded for a while and was deceived." The Gu family's things are not fake, but haven't you noticed that there are two pieces of porcelain in this that are exactly what we want. ”

"Huh?" Hu Chuyuan's heart was hot, and he hurriedly read the list again, and sure enough, there were two Ming blue and white flowers painted in red circles in the list that Zeng Guoquan wanted.

He immediately asked Shen Furong, "Are you sure it's what we want?" ”

Shen Furong nodded solemnly and said, "It's all collected by Gu Shouzang, I guess he also has questions about these things in his heart, but he still collects them and studies them." I'm going to find two more Ming Qinghua to replace and keep these two things. There are so many things, it is estimated that Zeng Shangshu can't remember it. ”

It's dangerous, but it's a huge profit.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and acquiesced, and asked Shen Furong again, "Does Gu Shouzang know these things?" ”

Shen Furong said: "No, let's put this batch of antiques in the Shen family's garden, if we let him know, wouldn't it be distressing." Although he didn't dare to say it, it was hard to say this kind of thing, so it was better to be careful, and I kept sending him back to the fast to be busy with idle things. ”

Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "That's okay, you will try your best to wash your hands through the pawnshop, and then sell them to several officials one by one......!" ”

Before he finished speaking, Hu Rong hurriedly walked into the study and brought in a girl who was as beautiful as a fairy.

Hu Chuyuan raised his eyes and saw that it was Pan Limei who came, so he asked curiously: "There is news from Suzhou!" ”

Pan Limei smiled slightly, took out a folded letter from her pocket and handed it to Hu Chuyuan, and said, "Governor Tan sent someone to find you yesterday, and when I saw that you were not there, let me bring this letter to you quickly!" ”

"Oh?"

Tan Zhonglin's letter, it's not easy to say.

Hu Chuyuan immediately pulled out the letter, only to see a line of small characters written on the paper: The matter has been decided, and a fine of 800 yuan per catty of salt hoarding will be fined.

As soon as he saw this sentence, Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but gasp.

Yang Changjun once told him that "600 wen is not light, 800 wen is not heavy", he still expected it in his heart, but when he saw the real result, he still sighed in his heart, both surprised and happy.

What is surprising is that the amount of the fine is too high, and the merchants who speculate on salt everywhere are afraid that they will go bankrupt soon, and Kita is also these people who are about to go bankrupt.

He immediately gave the letter to Shen Furong.

Shen Furong exclaimed after just one glance: "So high? ”

Hu Chuyuan asked, "How much did you think before?" ”

Shen Furong said: "In previous years, when the salt was confiscated, it was only a fine of one or two hundred yuan per catty, but this time the area involved is so large, the amount is so large, and the amount of the fine is so high, I am afraid that many giant businessmen will go bankrupt and confiscate!" ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Zhongtang is for this effect. You let Gu Shouzang return to Nanxun with the money now, you tell him to buy land and antiques at a low price, the store is second, and the mansion is not wanted. ”

Shen Furong said: "Okay, I'll go find him." ”

Hu Chuyuan said again: "You will be in charge of Shanghai here." Shanghai and Nanxun are the hardest hit areas in this salt case, and the bankrupt rich gentry should also be concentrated in these two places. ”

Shen Furong nodded slightly, and felt that this was the case.

It is difficult to make money quickly and make money ruthlessly when you go bankrupt, this is the iron law that has always been unchanged in the shopping mall.

Soon after Shen Furong left, Yang Changjun of Shanghai Daotai also sent someone to deliver a letter to Hu Chuyuan, and the news was the same, and the Jiangnan salt case was to be decided in the next two days.

In business, talent is the most important, and information is also very important.

Knowing the news two days earlier than others, Hu Chuyuan had time to prepare.

He did make a lot of money during this time, and the capital in Fukang Qianzhuang and Jiangnan Commercial Bank still did not change, but his capital in CITIC Company reached 20.73 million taels of silver, and this part of the assets was accumulated in the salt disaster case, half of which was more than 10 million taels of kickbacks for speculation and hoarding of salt, and the other half was the fixed assets of Gu and Zhang.

Excluding Yufeng Grain Society, his total assets at this time have exceeded the 50 million taels of silver mark.

That's a good calculation.

He now has 17.4 million taels of silver in his hand, the capital of the Jiangnan Commercial Bank has grown to 11.85 million taels, 76% of which is his, the Hunan Army's debt of 12.94 million taels of silver is dead, and the foreign bank owes him another 4.53 million taels of raw silk payments.

Although Fukang Money Village and Gongji Pawnshop are both industries with low capital and high profits, they also have an inherent capital of nearly 10 million taels of silver.

These figures add up to 53.87 million taels, not to mention, CITIC also has a lot of real estate and dock warehouses in it.

Because the salt disaster case came very urgently, Hu Chuyuan stayed in Suzhou and did not calculate the general ledger dividend, and the bonus money at the end of the year was not paid.

Hu Xueyan's income in previous years was between 1 million taels and 2 million taels of silver, and the dividend was between 100,000 taels and 200,000 taels.

Although Hu Chuyuan has earned a lot this year, at least 20 million taels of income cannot be seen publicly, and the dividends have increased, but it can only be set at the standard of 300,000 taels of silver, but the four big treasurers will each give a bonus of 300,000 taels, which will continue to be pressed in their respective businesses as discount stocks.

When Chen Xiaobai sorted out the accounts and looked at the general ledger, Hu Chuyuan pondered in his heart.

After the dividends, he still has 15.9 million taels of silver in his hand, plus nearly 2 million discounted shares from the four big shopkeepers, according to the calculation of 500 RMB for one tael of silver, it is at least 9 billion funds.

With so much money, where is he going to invest it?