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Volume III Aftermath 96 South China Grain Lines

Although Nanhua Grain Bank has a lot of energy, it is still a company after all, and if it wants to survive and develop, it must follow the laws of the market, and its sense of social responsibility will not change the bad situation of this society.

After listening to Liu Chengmin's narration, Situ Nan generally understood the situation of Nanhua Grain Bank, and asked: "After completing the preliminary layout in the southern provinces, it should be expanded to the north next, right?" ”

"Yes, next, we are going to open two more branches in Qingdao and Tianjin. As for the further afield, there is little we can do. The northern provinces are more chaotic there, and Zhili is better, like Henan, Rehe and other places, the situation is more chaotic, and the traffic is not good, I don't plan to spend too much energy, I plan to concentrate more energy in the south. ”

Liu Chengmin said. He felt that the stall was too big, which was not good for Nanhua Grain Company, and he did not have so much spare energy.

Tunan nodded. He also said, "It is said that you have bought a lot of land in your hands, tell me about it." ”

"That's the case, isn't there a lot of peasants who are bankrupt, I think their land is better in the hands of the landlords than in our hands, and most of them are good land, but those peasants have a weak ability to resist risks, and have to be sold to pay off debts, we buy it, repair it, and then set up a farming company, I believe it will play a good role."

Liu Chengmin said with a smile, "Our grain bank is going to set up agricultural reclamation companies in Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other places, imitating the operation of large farms in the United States. This directly controls grain production, so that there is no need to be divided into some middlemen every year. ”

"Modeled after an American ranch?" Situ Nan said half-convinced, feeling a little unrealistic, "How much land do you have in your hands now?" ”

"If 500,000 mu of land is fully purchased, I am confident that it will expand 10 times within a year," Liu Chengmin said confidently.

"So much?" Situ Nan looked at Yoo Seungmin in surprise.

"That's not much. You don't know, those warlords and tyrants are powerful, I heard that the Northeast bandit Zhang has millions of acres of fertile land, and there are countless other forests and rivers. The other Overseers aren't far behind, and we're a few. ”

Yoo Seungmin said with a smile.

He added, "There is not much land, but there are a lot of farmers in this land, and this 500,000 mu of land can have millions of people behind it, and if it weren't for the immigrants to Nanyang, it would be difficult to drive them elsewhere casually, I really have a headache."

Situ Nan suddenly realized: "According to what you said, the more land Nanhua Grain Control has, isn't it the control of hundreds of millions of farmers?" And if someone finds out, aren't the Overseer leaders worried about our rebellion? ”

"Yes, in the past, this was a big blow to the head-killing tree, and it had to be covered up like a way." was reminded by Situ Nan, and Liu Chengmin immediately realized the risks.

Although the Nanhua Grain Bank did not think of rebellion or anything, if there were really millions of peasants under his command, then whoever was the ruler would have to pay attention to the Nanhua Grain Company.

For the always low-key South China Grain Company, there is a feeling of thorns in the back.

"Forget it, don't worry. It's good to cover it up a little, we American Chinese have done more rebellious things, and it's not bad like this," Situ Nan comforted.

Yoo Seungmin nodded.

After walking out of the Situ Mansion, Liu Chengmin looked up and found that the sunlight was a little dazzling, and there was a feeling of unreality. Looking back, no one could have imagined that a small rice shopkeeper would become the largest grain merchant in South China today, and if he had deliberately manipulated it, China's grain prices would not necessarily skyrocket, but there would certainly be some turmoil.

Glancing back, the Situ Mansion that was silent behind him, Liu Chengmin's heart was a little surging, because he had just persuaded Situ Nan to invest 10 million yuan in the project of exchanging grain for land.

If the operation is good, it is estimated that the land controlled by the Nanhua Grain Bank will increase by one million mu. It's just how to cover up the storage of the South China grain line?

"Just absorb some local businessmen into the agricultural reclamation company, set the rules for Nanhua Grain Bank, and then let the local businessmen come forward to operate, as long as the agricultural reclamation company is controlled in terms of finance and sales channels, those local snakes will not dare to resist Nanhua Grain Company. And what do they benefit from?

Do you want to borrow money from farmers again? The usury in the rural areas is also really excessive, the market is also large, and it seems that it is not bad to control the rural economy financially."

Liu Chengmin left the Situ Mansion with great hesitation and came to the Guangzhou branch of the Sino-Chinese Bank. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of Meihua (China).

"Want to borrow 10 million?" Lin Yimin couldn't help shaking his head, and said bitterly, "Lao Liu, you are the veteran of the company, I respect you, but the company's funds are too tight at present, can you understand it?" ”

Nanhua Grain Bank is one of the subsidiaries of the Meihua Company, but Lin Yimin has never seen the financial statements of this grain bank, and only knows that this grain bank is only under the management of Situ Nan and the Meihua American headquarters, and has a relatively independent status, but is only affiliated with the Meihua China Branch.

Feeling that his tone was a little stiff, Lin Yimin said again: "As far as I know, Nanhua Grain Bank has lost 3 million yuan in the past two years. Lao Liu, if there is no good reason, I can't agree to approve such a large amount of money to you again, even if I agree here, the US headquarters will have to review it, right? ”

"You don't have to worry about this, I've already gotten Young Master Situ Nan's consent. The money will be transferred directly from the United States, and it does not have to take up funds from your side. ”

Liu Chengmin said directly, he didn't want to offend Lin Yimin, and said: "This is the text of the grain line, you can know it after you take a look." ”

Hearing that there was no need to occupy the funds of the Chinese branch, Lin Yimin breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Liu Chengmin's solemn appearance, was curious, picked up the text of the grain store and looked at it, but immediately felt that the text was hot.

"Are you crazy, Lao Liu Grain Store doesn't do grain business, you want to be a big landlord? How much land can you buy for 10 million yuan? Lin Yimin looked at Yoo Seungmin in surprise.

"Let's talk about it after reading it," Liu Chengmin smiled slightly. He sat on the side and waited patiently for Lin Yimin to read the text, because Nanhua Grain Bank still needs Lin Yimin's cooperation in the future

"The young master dares to do this" Lin Yimin sighed, raised his head, and shook slightly.

&nff8bsp;"Lao Liu, don't say anything, anyway, I will support you." ”

"Huh. Just have your words. When the board of directors asks about the grain store, you have to cover it up. Yoo Seungmin said with a smile. According to his plan, in the next few years, the loss on the books of the grain bank will become bigger and bigger. Eventually, the money and food were reduced to unseemly title deeds.

Of course, if you calculate the value of those lands, it will be astronomical

"Okay." Lin Yimin replied briskly.

He made up his mind not to inquire about the grain business. In China, it is really dangerous for private companies to own so much land and control so much grain.

All **, wars, in the final analysis, can be found in the land. In the era of the feudal dynasty, what Nanhua Grain Bank did had already touched the ruler's scales, and he was going to be killed.

Fortunately, this hellish society is a bit chaotic, and you can fish in troubled waters, but it has become a Nanhua grain store. Liu Chengmin's first test site was Qingdao, Shandong.

If the public sentiment in Guangdong, Hunan and other provinces in the south can still be barely maintained, the public sentiment in Shandong has long been boiling.

Since the Xiaoice River at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Shandong has not had a few days of good life, and natural disasters have continued.

There are countless secret organizations, religious groups, bandits and bandits, and it can be said that the people have suffered for a long time. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the vigorous invasion of Shandong people into the eastern part of the country shows that the local people in Shandong really can't survive.

In addition, the successive invasions of Germany, Japan and other powers have made the situation in Shandong even more turbulent, and there are warlords in the direct Anhui family who are about to fight again, which has also aggravated the turmoil in Shandong.

Shandong has always been the hardest hit area of disasters in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and the grain harvest has been lost year after year.

Since the Republic of China, more and more Shandong people have gone to the eastern part of the country, and a large number of peasants who could not survive have left their hometowns and gone to the northeast in droves to make a living. Zhang, a bandit in the Northeast, also hopes to bring in a population from the Guannai to develop the Northeast and enrich the strength of his territory.

In short, Shandong is short of grain and grain prices are soaring, which gives Nanhua Grain Bank an opportunity. After the Nanhua Grain Bank established its Jinan branch in Shandong, it chartered the fleet of the Meihua Company to transport grain from French Annam, Siam, and even the United States to Jinan, and on the way back, it also transported some Shandong peasants who were interested in going to the South Seas to Sumatra and other places.

The Nanhua Grain Bank has a large amount of grain in its hands and has its own transport fleet, which is much stronger than the average grain merchant, so even if the land price is used to sell the grain, it will not lose money, on the other hand, the cost of those grain merchants who want to purchase goods from Jiangsu and Zhejiang is higher than that of the Nanhua Grain Bank, so they are in a disadvantageous situation in the competition.

After several open and secret battles, the Nanhua grain merchants convinced the grain merchants in Shandong, and by the way, they also "co-opted" those local grain merchants and made them partners of the Nanhua grain merchants.

With the pressure of potential and the lure of profit, the radish stick went hand in hand, and the South China Grain Bank opened up the grain market in Shandong. Prior to this, as early as Guangzhou, Shanghai and other places, relying on similar means, Nanhua Grain Bank completed the layout of the grain market in South China.

In times of peace, it is difficult for people to understand that the windfall profits of the grain business are not at all inferior to arms or financial speculation, and that in the absence of a price bureau, no hearing, and no one supervises, reselling grain can easily obtain 10 times or 100 times the profit.

It was under this circumstance that the South China Grain Bank intervened in Shandong's grain market. Liu Chengmin deliberately selected a group of nimble shopkeepers from the Chinese workers from Shandong to go back to Shandong to start the grain business, and at the same time began to secretly absorb land.

There were a large number of bankrupt peasants in Shandong, so Nanhua Grain Bank obtained a large amount of land without much effort. Even some of the original 10 or so acres of good land fell into the hands of grain stores, and the price was only a few buckets of rice, which was converted into less than one-third or one-fifth of the original land price.

This business is just good

However, it is easy to regain the land, but it is not easy to develop the land, at least to deal with the large number of half-bandits and half-people, and the grain store even has to set up a security group

This man had to spend a lot of money on eating horses, and he couldn't count on those troops, so he didn't dare to drill into the mountains anymore after the Qingdao branch acquired more than 500,000 acres of fertile land in the coastal cities of Qingdao, Jinan and other big cities.

Liu Chengmin did not think of carrying out armed secession in Shandong, so he had to stop expanding in Shandong and began to devote his energy to managing those lands and planting cotton, peanuts and other cash crops.

As for the peasants who could not digest the labor, at the request of Liu Chengmin, the Meihua Company also began to organize the Shandong peasants to go to Nanyang. Since then, the prelude to the Nanyang of Shandong farmers in the Republic of China for more than ten years has begun. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to the starting point mobile network, reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )

Volume III Aftermath 96 South China Grain Lines

Volume III Aftermath 96 South China Grain Lines,

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