Waited for a month...... Is that the result?

In the flower hall of Tianjin Beiyang Yamen, Li Hongzhang was a little restless, pinching the letter in his hand and pacing left and right in the flower hall.

He is a person with a deep blessing, with an enviable lying silkworm under his eyes, his body is not fat or thin, he is well maintained, and his braided hair is more black and less white.

Like the businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he couldn't figure out what happened to the silk industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang this year, although Zheng Guanying wrote a letter and gave him a detailed explanation, he was still a little difficult to figure out.

A subordinate raised the curtain and said to him: "Lord Zhongtang, Lord Sheng has arrived!" ”

"Let him in!"

Li Hongzhang commanded slightly, still pondering this puzzle in his heart.

Vaguely, he felt that Hu Chuyuan not only gave him a problem, but also gave him a revelation.

Soon, a wealthy man of thirty-four or five years old walked in, wearing the official uniform of a third-grade officer, a white and chubby man, not tall, with small eyes, and he looked very shrewd.

He stepped forward and cautiously bowed to Li Hongzhang and said, "Lord Zhongtang, Xia Guan Sheng Xuanhuai has asked you for peace!" ”

Li Hongzhang nodded, let him get up, and asked: "Xuanhuai, can you tell me in detail, why this year's Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk industry is so calm, since the rich gentry have money in their hands, why don't they speculate on raw silk, but give the profits to the Hu family?" Could it be that they are all afraid of the official authority of those Hunan people? ”

"This ......!" Sheng Xuanhuai was a little embarrassed, and said: "Zhongtang, this is a business war, businessmen have their own abilities, each has its own destiny, not to mention foreign businessmen, they are not afraid of those Hunan bandits." The reason why everyone gave way to the bandits was that this kid's tricks were too strange, no one could figure out the depths, and there were a few businessmen who were more courageous, but the end was not very good. ”

Li Hongzhang sighed and said: "This is not good, the interests of the country, the interests of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, how can they all be controlled by one person?" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai sighed: "Zhongtang, the lower officials also understand this truth, the silk industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is related to the taxation of the imperial court, and it must not be controlled by the Hu bandits." Otherwise, wouldn't even the imperial court have to listen to his call? Although the position of a subordinate official is light, he is also a person who cares about the safety of the country and society, of course he wants to fight with him reasonably, but ...... However, his tricks are really strange! ”

"Well, I feel the same way!"

Li Hongzhang reopened the letter in his hand and said against the letter: "Zheng Guanying said that the Hu bandits first came up with a grading method, changing the original traditional division, and dividing raw silk into special grade, first grade, second grade and third grade; secondly, the unified price method is adopted, and a unified purchase price is set according to the four-level division method, and the five provinces in Jiangnan are exactly the same; Finally, the consignment method was introduced, so that silk heads from all over the country could sell raw silk instead of silk farmers. ”

After a pause, he added: "It does look weird, but it's really so powerful that no one else dares to compete with him?" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai said: "At first glance, these methods are not very powerful, but he has established Jiangnan commercial banks in the five provinces and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and in many areas, the branches of the commercial banks have been opened in the town, and his Jiangnan silk industry cooperatives are also all over the towns and townships of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, especially in the area around Taihu Lake, densely packed. The silk heads he selected were all well-known young people in the local area, who were literate and eloquent, and were trained in the head office, and then assigned to the local area to be responsible for running various businesses of the cooperative, including operating mulberry nurseries and silkworm seed nurseries, issuing loans to small and medium-sized silk farmers and mulberry farmers, and purchasing raw silk on behalf of them. In addition, the silk heads also have a variety of small favors, such as sending some vegetables and grains imported from abroad, leading people to reclaim some mountain fields and wasteland, and often going to various households to interfere with others planting mulberry and silk ......! ”

After hearing this, Li Hongzhang quietly frowned, and said to Sheng Xuanhuai: "How can there be such a good person in the world, Hu Bandit, this young man, is either a big annihilation or an extremely insidious person, you must be careful." It is this kind of small favor that he uses to make silk farmers everywhere listen to his dispatch and command, and in the long run, I am afraid that something bad will happen! ”

Sheng Xuanhuai was silent, he was an official businessman, he understood...... If Hu Chuyuan's trick were so simple, it would be easy to crack.

Buying people's hearts is one of them, and the key is to use the small loans of silk cooperatives to crack other people's deposit methods, so that small silk farmers no longer rely on the deposit at the beginning of spring, and the business reading power has greatly increased.

Secondly, the silk head gathers local raw silk by consignment method, and does not negotiate a unified purchase price with the silk farmers, but charges a 5% tap according to the final transaction price.

On the other hand, Jiangnan Commercial Bank gives the same stable unified purchase price to the five provinces, and if it is the silk head of the Jiangnan Silk Industry Cooperative to sell silk, it will fluctuate slightly by 5% on the basis of the unified purchase price.

It's not that no one is frying silk this year, but most of the rich gentry feel bad and don't dare to make a rash move, and those silk merchants and silk dealers who made a move have suffered heavy losses across the board and died miserably.

Among this series of tricks, the most annoying thing is that no matter what others do, Hu Chuyuan is firmly invincible and uses the huge channel network to make a lot of money.

The key problem is that the interests of foreign companies and silk dealers conflict with each other, and it is impossible to form an alliance, and the silk dealers in various places lack a unified network and channels, and they cannot collect silk without adopting a high-price strategy, and the price is too high, and the foreign bank that is ultimately responsible for paying the bill cannot afford it.

After Hu Chuyuan offered a suitable price, the foreign banks first retreated, and a large amount of speculation was withdrawn immediately, and the silk dealers did not dare to speculate on the price, and the raw silk immediately fell completely into Hu Chuyuan's hands.

In this case, if you don't fry it, you can't buy silk, but if you fry it, you will lose money, and whoever fries will die!

Bastard......!

Sheng Xuanhuai could only scold his mother, he really couldn't think of a way to crack it.

What's even worse is that the rules of the entire silk industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are controlled by Hu Chuyuan, all according to his standards to select raw silk and price, if you want to sell at a higher price, silk farmers must follow him, according to the method he said to plant mulberry and silkworms.

There is also a fatal place, Hu Chuyuan's silk weaving factory in Hangzhou has been established, integrating reeling, dyeing and weaving, and it can also digest a lot of high-priced raw silk sold on behalf of itself.

Damn,!

Li Hongzhang may not be able to see through the core of Hu Chuyuan's business strategy, he feels that Hu Chuyuan is buying people's hearts...... A wealthy businessman buys people's hearts in a large area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, even if there is no possibility of rebellion, then the imperial court must be vigilant.

Sheng Xuanhuai, he knows...... He never wanted to get involved in the Jiangnan silk industry in his life, unless his Beiyang Commercial Bank could compete with Hu Chuyuan in Jiangnan and open everywhere.

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Things in the world are always interesting, while Li Hongzhang and Sheng Xuanhuai were secretly discussing, Zuo Zongtang was also talking to Hu Chuyuan, they were in the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou.

In the turmoil of the salt case, Hu Chuyuan bought many gardens at a low price, such as Yu Garden in Shanghai, Humble Administrator's Garden, Canglang Pavilion and Keyuan Garden in Suzhou, Baiyun Nunnery in Hangzhou, Shiyuan Garden and Qin Garden in Nanxun.

Yu Garden covers an area of more than 37 acres, most of which have become public offices for all walks of life in Shanghai, where businessmen gather and play, and some of them are in the hands of the Gu family.

Because it was to run a school, and Yang Changjun of Shanghai Daotai secretly persuaded him, the businessmen generally withdrew. It happened that Xu Run also wanted to move to Ningbo Road, and lived next to Hu Chuyuan, Zhenhai Fangjia and others, so he rented the Yuyuan he bought before to various chambers of commerce.

At present, Yu Garden is being fully restored, and the area will also be expanded to 42 acres, including the lake pavilion and the lots on both sides, in the future, the Jiangnan Chinese Culture Museum, the Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting and the Wenlan Academy will be concentrated here, and it is also a gathering place for literati and scholars.

The three plots of the Humble Administrator's Garden have been placed in the hands of Hu Chuyuan, with a total price of only more than 17,000 taels of silver, and the West Garden and the Middle Garden are being newly renovated, and Zuo Zongtang is still living in the East Garden.

Keyuan was originally part of the Canglang Pavilion, and after buying the two gardens, Hu Chuyuan recombined them into the new Canglang Pavilion and had them renovated in the style of the Song Dynasty garden.

Hangzhou Baiyun Nunnery is located outside the Qingbo Gate in Hangzhou, Hu Chuyuan wants to rebuild the Hu family compound there, has bought more than 190 acres of land outside the Qingbo Gate, and has not started construction for the time being, but only slightly repaired the Baiyun Nunnery.

Qin Yuan, Hu Chuyuan gave it back to the Gu family, and Shiyuan sold it to Pang Yunhong.

As a kind of compensation, Hu Chuyuan bought an old house in Huizhou and gave it to Zhang Songxian's family to live in.

Killing people is not enough, he is helping at this time, not a retribution, purely accumulating virtue and doing good, but also to leave himself a little good reputation among the Nanxun people.

After all, he still has to continue to do business with Nanxun people, and only in Nanxun and its surroundings can he buy real special silk.