It's just that he has never had much heart to take care of the business problems of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, he is busy fighting for power and profit, where there is time to take care of the business of the yarn factory, he has always been handed over to Zhao Chenbin to manage, last year Zhao Chenbin put the main focus on the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, and served as the chairman of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, Zhao Dongyun's third uncle Zhao Chenliang specially came from his hometown in Xuzhou and served as the general office of the Fuyuan Yarn Factory.

He also knew that Fuyuan Yarn Factory wanted to open a weaving factory, but he didn't pay much attention to it as before.

The main business of Fuyuan Yarn Factory is spinning, simply put, it is to spin cotton into yarn and then sell it to various weaving mills, the business scope is all over the country, in addition to being the main yarn supplier in several provinces in North China, it also competes with several other large yarn mills in southern provinces, such as the famous Dasheng Yarn Factory in history is one of the main competitors of Fuyuan Yarn Factory.

However, seeing that the domestic homespun market is getting better and better, Fuyuan Yarn Factory itself has begun to get involved in the weaving industry on a small scale, and has purchased hundreds of looms, but the overall scale is not large, and the sales area has been limited to Zhili Province.

However, now the domestic demand for homespun cloth is getting bigger and bigger, especially after the tense situation in the Northeast, Russia resists the entry of Japanese goods into the Northeast, and guides the large-scale withdrawal of foreign cloth from the Northeast, which also gives the domestic homespun a great business opportunity, and countless domestic homespun cloth manufacturers sell homespun cloth to the Northeast.

Seeing this, Fuyuan Yarn Factory is naturally unwilling to be an upstream yarn supplier, so it is also ready to invest in building a weaving factory and prepare to seize the Northeast market.

Fuyuan Yarn Factory wants to prepare for a weaving factory, which has naturally attracted the attention of many people, and this weaving factory is not something that can be done with tens of thousands of taels of silver, not to mention the investment of more than 100,000 taels of silver, so that it will have to raise funds.

The Li family is also one of the shareholders of Fuyuanji Qì Factory, which is very interested after hearing the rumors. They were interested not only because they had spare money and wanted to invest in the industry, but also because they saw the lucrative prospects of this weaving factory.

Once this weaving mill is established, it will definitely be supported by Fuyuan Yarn Factory, not to mention the supply of yarn alone, there is no need to worry, and the cost is definitely cheaper than other weaving mills.

At the same time, the Li family is also a veteran business family in the Northeast, and has been operating foreign cloth sales before, after the situation in the Northeast began to be tense last year, the Li family's consignment sales of Japanese and foreign cloth have been greatly reduced, and the Li family's share in the three eastern provinces has also been greatly reduced, in this case, the Li family must find new cloth supply channels.

In the past six months, the Li family has also negotiated a lot of homes, but has not been able to find the ideal partner, the Li family even plans to set up a weaving factory by themselves, but doing trade and doing industry are two different things, the Li family is rich but can't build a weaving factory, let him sell cloth, but let him weave cloth is difficult for a strong man

Now I heard that Fuyuan Yarn Factory is going to set up a weaving factory, and it is also preparing to raise funds from business colleagues to set up a factory, which is undoubtedly good news for the Li family, if they can participate in this new weaving factory, they will undoubtedly have a stable supply of cloth, and at the same time can effectively reduce their purchase costs.

However, with the success of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, as soon as those capitalists heard that Fuyuan Yarn Factory was going to raise funds to set up a weaving factory, they all brandished checks to find Zhao Chenliang.

Although the Li family can participate in the shares of Fuyuan, what they want is not only to invest in dividends, but also to obtain a stable supply source of cloth, so to speak, what they want is to enter the weaving factory industry, not just invest and wait for dividends.

It's just that Zhao Chenliang has not played much in industry before, but he has a group of professional managers to help, and the fund-raising plan formulated by the manager team dominated by foreigners is the same as the original Fuyuan Machinery Qì Factory, which is to collect funds in a decentralized manner, through guò's own investment, and after borrowing at least half of them, they will then disperse to dozens of merchants to raise funds to ensure their own controlling stake.

In this case, just like Hong Xuwei at the beginning, you can't invest all the money in it!

The Li family was naturally unwilling to do this, and after hearing that Zhao Dongyun, the big boss behind the Fuyuan Yarn Factory, had come to Jinzhou, they naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and first set aside a yard for Zhao Dongyun to use as a headquarters, which made Zhao Dongyun, who had lived in a tent for many days, have a good impression of the Li family.

And today's banquet is called to catch the wind for Zhao Dongyun, but in fact, it is used to probe Zhao Dongyun's tone and see if he can make a breakthrough from Zhao Dongyun and get the opportunity to invest in Fuyuan Weaving Factory on a large scale.

However, what they didn't expect was that Zhao Dongyun was more intoxicated with officialdom than they imagined, maybe for others to be an official just to make a fortune, but for Zhao Dongyun, money was just his help in officialdom, otherwise why would he invest hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to go to Fuyuan Machinery Factory, is it just to make money? Definitely not, he wants the Beiyang New Army to gain the ability to make its own weapons, and at the same time to enhance its influence within Beiyang.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun ignored the decisions of Fuyuan Yarn Factory that cost tens of taels of silver at every turn.

Well, it's an exaggeration to say that it doesn't matter, Zhao Dongyun just believes that there are so many professionals taking care of it, and there is no need for a layman to stare at it every day, and it has no effect to be tired like that.

"This consignment cloth is naturally not a problem, you can talk to my third uncle directly about this matter, I have never interfered in these matters!" Although Zhao Dongyun can guess a rough idea, he still doesn't have much interest in it, so he only vaguely said about consignment, and he didn't mention it at all as for investing in setting up a factory.

Li Yijian's face was a little gloomy when he heard this, but he didn't show any disappointment, but said: "It's my fault, I shouldn't use these mundane things to bother Lord Zhao, now the wine is almost eaten, it just so happened that a troupe came to Jinzhou recently, and the performance is quite eye-catching, Lord Zhao might as well take a look together!" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "Guests are as they please, just take a look!" ”

Next, the four of them walked out of the flower hall and turned into the open courtyard, only to see that the stage had been set up there, not only many members of the rear opera team, but also other members of the Li family, several brothers and nephews of Li Erjian, as well as the wives and concubines of the Li family. When Zhao Dongyun saw this occasion, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, this Li family's atmosphere was open enough, and he even let a large family go into battle to accompany him, a foreigner, and even the female family members were pulled out.

If this is placed in other official palaces, this is absolutely impossible, at least Zhao Dongyun has been in Baoding for many years, and logically speaking, he can be regarded as a high-level in Beiyang, and Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and others can be regarded as looking up and looking down, but they have never seen what the daughter of Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and others looks like......

For this reason, Zhao Dongyun has always felt pity!

When he was thinking nonsense in his heart, he also entered the courtyard under the guidance of Li Erjian, and many people in the courtyard saw Zhao Dongyun appear, and they all got up to salute, and the men came up to salute and shouted: I have seen Lord Zhao and the like, while those female dependents stayed on both sides, staring at Zhao Dongyun one by one.

For them, today's Zhao Dongyun is very rare, the father and brother they usually see are dragging a braid, wearing a horse coat style, and more or less with the traditional habit of bending over and bowing their heads, but this Zhao Dongyun From the first step in, they found that Zhao Dongyun's waist was straight, his head was always high, and he never lowered.

He was wearing the dress of a senior officer of the Beiyang Standing Army, wearing shiny black leather shoes, and the most striking thing was that he had a bare head, not to mention the braids on the back of his head, and he had no hair on his head, plus his slightly upturned mustache, which looked like a foreign officer in the Eight-Nation Alliance.

To be honest, Zhao Dongyun in such a costume is actually very different from the image of military generals in contemporary times.

couldn't help but let everyone in the Li family widen their eyes at him, and several young ladies and maids opened their eyes even more, but they didn't whisper anything to their companions beside them, and then there were a few chuckles.

As a Beiyang officer in this era, you have to have the consciousness of being scolded as a 'fake foreign devil', almost everywhere the Beiyang New Army goes, it will inevitably be pointed at by the people, and the Beiyang officers and soldiers have been used to it in recent years, and Zhao Dongyun is even more indifferent to this.

With Li Erjian's guidance, several male members of the Li family came up, including Li Erjian's two younger brothers, as well as Li Erjian's second son and several nephews, but most of them could only say that they had seen Lord Zhao or something like that, Zhao Dongyun didn't reply most of the time, just replied with a 'um' or a slight nod.

However, after arriving at the woman's side, Li Yijian said: "This is my mother!" ”

Filial piety comes first in China, although the Li family is really nothing in Zhao Dongyun's eyes, but in the face of fifty or sixty-year-old old ladies, he still maintains a certain respect, and immediately nodded slightly, and said hello with a kind face.

However, this action is a bit presumptuous in the eyes of others, because in the concept of ordinary people, even if you Zhao Dongyun is a big official, but in the face of the old lady, you have to be more or less kind, and you don't say kind words, and even lower your head a little, which makes Li Yijian and other Li clansmen on the side look quite unhappy.

A girl holding Mrs. Li snorted even more!

What others don't know is that even when Zhao Dongyun faced Yuan Shikai, even if his language was extremely respectful, his waist was never bent, and his head was never lowered.

Compared with countless predecessors, Zhao Dongyun felt that he could still boast at this point, more than two years after coming to this era, he had never knelt to others except for kneeling to Zhao's mother, bent over, and bowed his head, even when facing Yuan Shikai.

Of course, on the one hand, it is his self-esteem, and on the other hand, it is also related to his military school education, for his behavior of straightening his waist regardless of standing and sitting, in fact, Yuan Shikai is very appreciative, Yuan Shikai praised him more than once for his young spirit and good spirit.

This spirit is not about his appearance, but his spiritual temperament, at least a soldier's temperament.

For the Beiyang New Army, which was modeled after the German Army, this temperament was extremely scarce and worshipped.

It's just that his behavior is a little inappropriate on this occasion, but Zhao Dongyun has been in the upper echelons for a long time, and to be honest, he really can't turn around and put on a respectful posture for a while.

Just when he was embarrassed, he heard the girl holding Mrs. Li's left hand in front of him whisper: "Fake foreign devil!" ”

The sound of this is not too loud, but at this time, no one spoke, not to mention that the needle could be heard, but it was also quiet, although the words "fake foreign devil" were light, but they still clearly fell into everyone's ears.

In an instant, everyone's hearts were shocked, and Li Erjian's face turned pale instantly!