In mid-November, in addition to the construction of various infrastructure facilities on Hong Kong Island, an advertisement of Blackwater Investment Company quickly spread in Guangzhou City and surrounding counties through deliberate publicity.

Are you still worried about the lack of rice at home and the lack of food, come to Blackwater, find investment, your real life assistant will help you get through the difficulties.

It was such a simple advertising slogan that quickly made Blackwater a well-known investment company.

For the word investment company, the people of the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century still don't understand it, but it doesn't matter, there are special employees of Blackwater who will explain to you, investment, that is, you need help, Blackwater is responsible for investing in you, and when you make money, just add a little profit to Blackwater.

Whether you're in business, running a restaurant, or you're a penniless refugee, as long as we feel you're worth investing in, you'll be able to get the money you want.

Heishui's first investment history was in a Hong Kong textile factory, which was about 30,000 silver dollars than the total loan amount invested, and Shi Muqun mortgaged to Heishui for his own hundreds of acres of land around Guangzhou, as well as some shareholder calligraphy and paintings.

If it is not returned within the time limit, Blackwater will have the right to auction the mortgaged land, and the amount obtained from the auction will be converted into the principal and interest of the loan, and the rest will go to the stone and wood groups.

However, Shi Muqun is not worried that he will not be able to pay back the money at all, the mortgage will be auctioned, with the cooperation of Yang Wenwen clothing company, as long as the products produced are qualified, they can even be sold to Nanyang.

When the representative of Blackwater's company approached him and asked him to advertise for Blackwater, he was naturally willing, and Blackwater promised to secretly waive his interest for two months, which was regarded as an endorsement advertising fee.

So Shi Muqun, when he saw people, he promoted the goodness of Heishui, and the people who knew him were a little unbearable, quite like the taste of insurance salesmen in later generations, as long as he chatted with him, he was sure to talk about Heishui Investment in a few words.

Despite Shi Muqun's endorsement and deliberately thought publicity, Heishui's business in Guangzhou City did not improve, the businessmen were afraid of getting into trouble, and the poor were thinking that there was no pie in the sky, and there would be free money to give you.

In short, no matter what Heishui said, the temptation is moving, but no one goes to the investment company of Heishui in Guangzhou City to handle it.

The person in charge of Blackwater's finance is an Australian scholar who originally worked for Manchester City Bank and planned to be sent to other urban branches in the next year.

However, before he could send it out, Tang Wei and others dug him up at a high price to manage Blackwater's investment business in Daming.

The successive advertisements had no effect, and Mao Jianwen was also quite annoyed, although he had a guaranteed salary, but the two bosses said that if the business was good, he could share it proportionally.

It was tempted by this share that I resigned from public office, but I didn't think it would be so difficult to open up the market now.

Thinking of this, Mao Jianwen decided to change his strategy and send the money to his hands. Since you don't come to borrow it, I'll send it, someone will borrow money.

So, Mao Jianwen appeared in the refugee pile with a few staff members, chatted with those people every day, and when he met someone who did have some ability, he handed him a bag of silver and told him to do it boldly.

However, the maximum amount of silver borrowed by refugees is generally set within 50 taels, which is set according to the price of transporting an immigrant, Tang Wei and Jiang Junbo had already thought at that time, if they lent refugees no money and finally transported these people to Australia, anyway, the government will give them money, and at least one person can earn 30 taels of silver when they go out to freight, and this transaction will never lose money.

Although the refugees are poor and have no food, few of them still dare to borrow, after all, they don't have a little collateral to live these Australians will be so good.

Although some people didn't dare to borrow, but they were hungry and uncomfortable, they still let some people take over the silver from Heishui and sign a loan agreement, Mao Jianwen was still a little worried at the beginning that these people would not be sold to Australia without money, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, after all, these are compatriots, but after thinking about it, if these people really go to Australia, they will find a new way out, at least they can eat a bowl of rice and not starve to death.

The refugee who signed the contract took the money to buy some food, and then returned to the refugee, and when the others cast envious eyes, the refugee who borrowed the money always enjoyed the look and gave a little of his belongings to that person.

Under the guidance of one refugee after another, more and more people began to find Blackwater investment, after reading the contract, most of them did not take the money to do business but used it to buy clothing and food, many people have even thought about it, the big deal is to go to Australia, isn't it just to sell to large families as slaves, at least have something to eat.

However, this situation was greatly unexpected by Mao Jianwen, he originally hoped that some people could borrow money to do some small business, and then pay back the money, but now more and more people only borrow money and do not produce, so that he feels a little bottomless.

I had to send a telegram back, asking the two bosses what they meant, in case the money borrowed more and more, and it can't be repaid, then the responsibility will be borne by the time.

After Tang Wei received the telegram, he asked him to boldly borrow money, and when the deadline was reached, he would ship these people to Australia, just let him keep an eye on it and not let people run away.

With the boss's orders, Mao Jianwen has a lot of confidence in his heart, as for those people who want to Taobao, it is impossible, their children and families are under the strict surveillance of Heishui, as long as there is a family group action to go out, Heishui's surveillance personnel will focus on this refugee, if it is really an escape, the monitoring personnel will not hesitate to arrest them back, send them to Hong Kong for a few months of labor re-education before selling them to the government.

In the more than a month since borrowing money, at least there has been no escape, perhaps because the refugees know that they can't escape, so they simply stay in the city, relying on the borrowed money every day to save money for their families, or find some odd jobs to do.

A wave of borrowing is quietly unfolding in Guangzhou City and the surrounding counties, and more and more refugees have survived the loan from Blackwater, and many years later, when their descendants are tracing the experience of their ancestors coming to Australia, they have given high praise to Blackwater's borrowing behavior back then, believing that without their loans, many refugees would have starved to death due to famine.

In short, Mao Jianwen finally opened the market, and his next target was those small and medium-sized businessmen.