Chapter 80: Talent

Guild Hall is a unique cultural landscape in China. The earliest guild hall was born in the capital, which was set up by the officials of the capital for the examination of the children of their hometown who came to Beijing for the examination and the officials who were waiting for the appointment in Beijing, and later the industry guild hall gradually appeared. The guild hall is not only an organization for public welfare, but also a place for fellow villagers to gather for meetings and entertain guests.

With the development of commercial economy, some towns with convenient transportation, developed economy and prosperous commodity markets have also built fellow villagers or industry associations. In the early days, the guild hall combined the theater and the temple, and was a place for people to communicate and pray for the gods together, and later developed into a restaurant, tea garden, and theater-style building.

Jiangning, which lives in the Yangtze River, has always been an important place in the world, and the superior geographical location of the river has brought about the prosperity of commerce in this place. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the provinces of the country and some gangs have built hundreds of guild halls in the city, although most of the guild halls built in the Ming Dynasty were destroyed in the rebellion of bandits, but Jiangning is Jiangning after all, but after a few years of hard work, Jiangning's guild hall was rebuilt again.

These appearance seems to be the scenery of the hall, the seat design is exquisite, majestic and magnificent, the building has its own style, showing the strength of the local business group, the Shanxi hall is magnificent, the momentum is majestic, the Zhejiang hall is delicate and charming, chic and exquisite, the Central Plains hall is rough and majestic, thick and magnificent, and the Jiangxi hall is unpretentious, rigorous and concise.

Among these halls, there is a European-style hall, the Shanghai Hall, which is well known in Jiangning, the Shanghai Hall built 30 years ago is compared to the building of the foreigners in the Shanghai Concession, and in the exquisite and majestic halls in Jiangning City, this different European style shows the Shanghai Hall that is not large.

In recent years, in this Shanghai hall, mortals know that Tianzi No. 1 to No. 10 rooms have been covered by the "lame hao", and in recent years, the lame hao seems to have divine help, not to mention the appreciation of Lord Liu, the governor of Liangjiang, not to mention, but also allowed by Lord Liu to develop Pudong, and even Lord Liu even promised the iron ore to his industrial company to develop.

If it was ten days ago, maybe no one knew about the industrial company, it was the people in the Shanghai Hall who mentioned Chen Moran, I am afraid that they would only know about "the lame man who spent a lot of money to win the house of the twelve classes", but now, how could this person not know that Chen Moran's industrial company.

Although it is not yet noon, but in the restaurant of the Shanghai Guild Hall, there is a noisy sound of instrumental music, the charming and graceful beauty has already played the pipa and sang Kunqu Opera, and there are also several tables of guests at the table.

“…… First got Pudong, and then got the iron ore, it is to make people red-eyed, and what can be helped, the Governor even wrote two palaces, for his reward, and even the Governor Governor rewarded him in advance with a "vacancy from the Sanpin Governor's Palace", although it is a supplementary official, but this favor is afraid that it is the first time on the ground of the two rivers! ”

The topic of the drinkers next to him reached Huang Huiyun's ears word for word, listening to those people mentioning Chen Cripple and admiring his experience, even Huang Huiyun was a little envious of that person's good life.

"Good life! It's such a good life, it's your turn, I'm afraid it can only kill you! ”

"Brother Nianda, why is this?"

"Why? The big guy only sees that these two places can give him Chen Moran, as well as the industrial company, and earn hundreds of millions of taels of silver in ten years, but he never thought that a few people would have the appetite to swallow these two pieces of big fat meat! ”

As soon as he heard this, Huang Huiyun listened with his heart pricked up.

"The development of Pudong is to take advantage of the Bund to build a high bridge to connect the two sides of the strait, and regardless of the cost of the industrial company to acquire land in Pudong, the bridge alone, I am afraid that it will not be possible to ...... without millions of taels of silver."

"Since he Chen lame man dares to eat this bowl of rice, he naturally won't worry about the silver, when I came from Shanghai, I heard that the industrial company has recently been a big deal, not to mention the more than 10,000 acres of land in Pudong, it is to buy more than 40 foreign banks of the riverside warehouse, which is difficult for my generation! With such courage, I'm afraid that the first merchant of the dynasty is nothing more than that! ”

"Sooner or later, this way of eating will kill him! In the land of Pudong, although the land price is cheap, it can be as much as 100 taels to hundreds of taels, and millions of taels are needed to build bridges. Pudong Road, water, electricity, this top one needs to be piled up with silver. It would not have been possible without thirty or fifty million taels! ”

Huang Gongyun saw that the forty-year-old businessman would take a sip of wine, and the man shook his head and sighed lightly.

It was he who raised this money and showed his strength in Pudong, and in less than ten years, he Chen Moran could sit on the wealth of the country. But Lord Liu handed over the iron ore and iron factory to him, and the governor of Huguang, Lord Zhang, spent a lot of money to run the Hanyang Iron Factory! I'm afraid that there are not less than tens of millions, Brother Rentai, even Chen Moran is a rich man who came back from Jinshan, I'm afraid he will be embarrassed by such a heavy burden! ”

"Brother Nianda, I'm afraid you're too worried, then Chen Moran will be in Pudong first, and Houxing Mine and Iron Works will be in the back, so he can do these two major things at the same time, and he has his own silver, or he can find the way to raise money! Why should you and I bother others! Come...... Drink! Drink! ”

"The doorway to raise money? Chen Moran can raise some money from outside! ”

When the person who was called "Nianda" was drinking with some pity, Huang Gongyun was excited, but the reason why he was excited was not for the side, but only for the sentence "unraised money".

"Hey, haven't you heard?"

"Huh?"

"Chen Moran's lame man broke his leg today!"

"I'm afraid I'll have to crutches in the future!"

Although he had already laid down, Huang Huiyun kept his eyes awake. This is probably his last chance! It's also the only opportunity, shouldn't I go to someone from that industrial company and recommend myself? He is not willing to devote himself to being a shopkeeper in an ordinary bank.

Huo Ranqi, Huang Huiyun found that after he heard about the industrial company, and the industrial company started to create the Pudong Development Company and the Jianghuai Road Mine, it was difficult to calm down.

"At least 50 million taels!"

Huang Huiyun weighed the number in his heart, he had worked for him at the Bank of America, and knew that this huge amount of money was not to mention him Chen Moran, who was the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, and I was afraid that he would not be able to take it out.

"Three-year, five-year ......"

Lying on the desk, Huang Huiyun began to sketch the time when these projects were completed on paper.

"Maybe he has 10 million taels in his hand, no! Maybe it's twenty million taels, well! It also needs to raise at least 30 million taels, Pudong needs at least 15 million taels in the first year, plus Jianghuai Road Mine, about 20 million taels. He only has enough money to last for one year, and he has to raise at least 10 million taels in the first year......"

Ten years of experience in a bank in the United States made it only take him a few hours to outline a financing plan, until the sky was twilight, and when the rooster crowed from outside the house, Huang Huiyun could be regarded as yawning, looking at the thick stack of financing plans on the table, and finally laughed.

Jiangning Christian Hospital next to the drum tower, although it is not the first western hospital in Jiangning City, was founded by Ma Lin, a British church doctor in the 18th year of Guangxu, although the hospital is not big, but in Jiangning City, everyone knows that this church hospital, in addition to giving free medical treatment to poor parishioners, it is the first in Jiangning City to treat diseases such as fractures.

Although the Christian Hospital is a Church Hospital, in addition to the parishioners who come here for treatment, there are also some non-parishioners who come here for treatment, but most of them are poor, but this time in the corridor of the hospital ward, there are a few people wearing dresses and top hats.

These people stood in the corridor and walked back and forth, so that even those foreign nuns occasionally cast a few glances, and they only knew that a patient had been sent yesterday morning, and there were quite a few people who came to see him, without exception, all of them were dressed in silk and satin, not wearing silk clothes, but there was also a "rich and noble" on their faces, just like the person who had just entered.

Lying on the hospital bed, he smiled at Yan Wenyuan, who gave him silver, but Chen Moran pushed the silver ticket back!

"Boss Yan, you're polite!"

Less! Although he scolded in his heart, Yan Wenyuan laughed on his face.

"Mr. Chen, you have a lot of adults, and the little old man is just talking nonsense for a while, please don't take it to heart!"

"Boss Yan, you're going to be there!"

Seeing that he still had the advantage of taking the silver ticket, Chen Moran's face changed.

Yesterday, he sent someone to inquire, only to know that what he had done that time may have gone too far, so that the entire Jiangning pawnshop knew that the king of Hades had seen the Tao and let people cheat the silver.

"If it's Boss Yan, take out the silver ticket again, I'm afraid that you are really not welcome here!"

Ignoring Yan Wenyuan's strange color when he heard this, Chen Moran said to himself, there was no one in this room, and he didn't feel "ashamed or ashamed".

"Come to think of it, Mr. Yan, you have also heard, I returned from Jinshan a year ago, I am not afraid of your jokes, when I came to Jiangning a year, I silently played with people behind my back, but I lost the money, not to mention, and even broke a leg when I came back, if it wasn't for that in Wendang, Mr. Yan, you are righteous and squandered money, I am afraid that Mo Ran's more than 100 catties have already been left in Jiangning, then there is still today!"

Chen Moran said half-truthfully, whether he believes it or not, in short, he wants to turn this matter over, he is grateful to the person in front of him, he was and still is. Without him, there would never be him Chen Moran today.

Yan Wenyuan laughed dryly, he would believe that this lame man was strange, but he also felt that there were some allusions in it.

"This is a pawn ticket!"

Almost as soon as he saw the pawn ticket, the expression on Yan Wenyuan's face became that complicated, and his heart was full of all kinds of feelings, and his reputation in this life was planted on this pawn ticket.

"Mo Ran came to Jiangning this time, one is to pay a visit to Lord Liu, and the other is to redeem the things that were pawned at the beginning, which are not worth the price! I'm going to redeem it! ”

"Mr. Chen, you are polite, you saved the great grace of the young lady, and the little old man is thinking about how to repay you. When the little old man goes home, he will have people send you things back, what to redeem or not to redeem! The muscles on Yan Wenyuan's face twitched slightly when he said that, that was thirteen thousand taels!

"You're polite, business is business! There has to be a rule for everything! ”

Chen Moran smiled and waved his hand, and took out three stacks of silver and two coupons from under the pillow.

"That's 30,000 taels! One is a silent atonement, and the other is a silent reparation! Please also ask Mr. Yan not to remember his mistake of silence! ”

This...... Ten minutes later, Yan Wenyuan, who was carrying 30,000 taels of silver and two coupons, didn't come back to his senses until he walked out of the ward.

"After all, my eyesight is still poor!"

Yan Wenyuan still shook his head and sighed, his expression seemed to be even more sad than when he came! If there is a regret medicine, I am afraid that it will be impossible for him to go to Wu Renhe's appointment.

Planted! It's really a plant!

saw the "down-and-out", but didn't see the object, and received the object, but took the "down-and-out" as a liar. If you plant it once or twice, it is understandable, but it is born in one person, but it is planted twice before and after.

Thinking about this, until he walked out of the hospital, Yan Wenyuan still lowered his head and sighed, looking lost and depressed, that Chen was lame...... In this life, how did you meet this birdman!

After Yan Wenyuan went out, Chen Moran slapped his head.

"Look at what I did!"

Does Yan Wenyuan care about silver? He may care, but he cares more about face, last time he cut his face for the silver, and today this atonement seems to be to make amends, but in fact, he is simply dumping him in the mouth, and he is making amends there, clearly saying to him.

"You're old again!"

It was simply to throw the old fox's most concerned thing to the ground, and stepped on two feet fiercely, but the door opened in annoyance, it was Zhu Jialiang, after receiving the telegram yesterday, he rushed to Nanjing with a few people, and when he saw Lin Yuqing, he opened his legs and counted his feet.

"Young master, there is a gentleman named Huang Huiyun outside the ward who wants to see you! He said...... When you see this note, you'll see him! ”

Zhu Jialiang, who entered the house, handed the young master a note.

"Oh!"

After taking the note, Chen Moran's face changed, and he suddenly smiled.

"Please...... No, help me up, and I'll go and invite him in! ”

Chen Moran hurriedly spoke, ignoring Zhu Jialiang's surprise, and lifted the quilt to get up.

The young master's movements startled Zhu Jialiang, and he hurriedly pressed him on the bed.

"Young Master, your legs!"

The young master's leg was just taken over yesterday, and the foreign doctor can say that as long as the young master does not move for dozens of days, the lame leg will definitely be restored as before.

"This leg ......"

was reminded by Zhu Jialiang like this, Chen Moran realized that although his leg was in a plaster, he still needed to recuperate if he wanted to recover as before.

"Please come in, Mr. Huang!"

After a little hesitation, Chen Moran commanded.

As soon as he entered the ward with his front foot, Huang Gongyun heard a loud laugh, and followed the sound to see Chen Moran sitting on the hospital bed.

"Brother Huang, I'm really sorry for the tightness, I wanted to welcome Brother Huang in person, but this leg is ......"

Chen Moran sighed again when he smiled.

"Please also ask Brother Huang to be rude silently!"

"Mr. Chen said yesterday that the righteous act spread all over Jiangning, how could Huang not know that Mr. Chen's leg was broken and injured, and he needs to recuperate, so he will allow this rash visit, and please Mr. Chen don't blame him!"

Huang Huiyun smiled and hugged his fists in return, Chen Moran's words made him feel very comfortable, and when he was in a comfortable mood, he knew that he had come to the right place.

"Brother Huang, please take a seat! Jia Liang, serve tea to Mr. Huang! ”

Pointing to the chair in front of the bed, Chen Moran looked polite.

The reason for this is very simple, it is all because of the note, the note that Huang Huiyun handed over only a few words.

"Issuing corporate bonds, running a bank, collecting and distributing funds, for the use!"

Nuo didn't know his "blueprint", he only said it to a few people, I am afraid that Chen Moran would really think that this Huang Huiyun had plagiarized his own ideas, but listening to his slightly Cantonese official words, he thought that maybe this person was the person he always thought he was looking for.

After the initial hustle and bustle, Huang Huiyun took a sip of tea and looked up at Chen Moran, as if he had made a decision, and took out a file from a Western-style leather bag on the side.

"Mr. Chen, this is Huang Huiyun's resume file!"

got up and handed the file to Chen Moran, and Huang Huiyun began to introduce himself.

"Hui Yun, in the ninth year of Guangxu, because of the fate of the elders in the family to study in the United States, Guangxu 11 years admitted to the United States Harvard Business School, study finance, Guangxu 14 years graduated, and then continued to study for a master's degree in finance, Guangxu 16 years into the City Bank of New York, from the staff, until the deputy director of the investment department ......"

Although it was just a few words, Chen Moran couldn't help but be surprised when he heard his resume, although he had never heard the name City Bank of New York, he also knew that in these few words, ten years of hard work and dedication. Being able to hold an important position in such a bank is a manifestation of his ability in itself, and he is Chinese! Not to mention now, even after 110 years, racial discrimination still affects the employment, promotion, and ability of Chinese people in Europe and the United States.

"Then why did you come back?"

"Then why did you come back?"

The two of them asked each other a rhetorical question, and then the two looked at each other, and smiled at the same time, Chen Moran knew the reason why Huang Huiyun came back, and Huang Huiyun also thought that he had guessed the reason for his return to China, and there was only one reason.

"Mr. Chen, in China's current financial industry is extremely underdeveloped, the financial industry is divided into banking, money and money, and the bank is controlled by foreigners, and the money is short-sighted, in this case, China's enterprise financing is extremely difficult, that is, Mr. Chen's industrial company may also encounter such a problem, fair and courageous, the reason why I came to visit Mr. Chen today is to recommend himself!"

Although he was moved by the person in front of him, Chen Moran smiled and put down the file casually.

"I've read your note, but based on these few words alone, I'm afraid it's ......"

"Mr. Chen, this is my cursory plan for starting a bank and subsequent corporate financing, if Mr. Chen needs it, I can come up with a more specific plan within ten days."

After that, Huang Huiyun took out the results of yesterday's night's struggle from his bag, he didn't sleep all night for this financing plan, he was confident enough to explain that the person in front of him, if he was an ordinary Chinese rich man, maybe he didn't have this confidence, but he, like himself, returned to China from the United States, and he could understand many things.

What is talent! Chen Moran smiled and looked at the person in front of him and understood, he was trying his best to find a bank expert, this person would not send it to the door by himself, although he had determined in his heart that this person was exactly what he needed, but Chen Moran would not believe this person rashly, that is, there are turtles in the returnees in the future, let alone at this time.

"I'll look at the plan, but even if you are self-recommended, you also have some self-recommended capital!"

"The capital dare not speak, I dare to guarantee that within a month, in Jiangning, I will help Pudong Development raise no less than three million taels of silver subsidiary bonds!"

Huang Huiyun said confidently, although he is not from Jiangning, he is very confident that he can sell it.

"Oh!"

Chen Moran raised his eyebrows, although there was no change on his face, but he was a little moved in his heart, although the people in the company had begun to sell corporate bonds, and they were ready to advertise in the newspaper in a few days, but they didn't sell much in the past few days, just tens of thousands of taels.

"Then I'll give you a month, and if you can sell three million taels of corporate bonds, I'll give you the position of manager of the Industrial Bank!"

(To be continued)