At night, the sea ships on the wharf are undulating in waves, and this Beiyang wharf on the banks of the Huangpu River is next to the wharf of Japan's Mitsui Kaisha, and the two who once worked together in winter seem to be faintly rivals - a steady stream of cheap Korean anthracite coal is constantly robbing Mitsui Kai of part of the coal market.

However, limited by resources, North Korea only produces anthracite, so this competition is extremely limited, and compared with the wide demand for bituminous coal, the market for high-quality anthracite is extremely limited, but the Beiyang Trading Company, which monopolizes the sales of anthracite in North Korea, introduced the popular honeycomb coal and briquette furnace into Shanghai last winter. It has become a well-known foreign company on the beach.

The wharf located in the public concession is the base camp of the Beiyang Trading Company, and the company's two-storey office building is also located next to the wharf leased land, although it is late at night, but the manager's office on the second floor is still lit up, in the manager's room with the electric lights on, Zhang Jing smoked a cigarette silently, and the smoke was filled in front of him, and sitting on the sofa opposite was a young man who was a few years younger than him.

"Big brother, I have calculated, now your Beiyang Trading Company has docks in Shanghai, Zhenjiang, Jiangyin, Wuhu, Anqing and even Wuchang Hankou......"

After opening a company in Shanghai last year, the company invested hundreds of thousands of yuan to set up special wharves and coal stacks in Jiangning, Zhenjiang, Jiangyin, Hankou, Wuchang and other Yangtze River ports, so as to control the coal shore market in these areas with the advantages of transportation and storage.

This is based on the development strategy that he has set out to preside over the company. Starting a dock stack can earn a lot of income for your company. Such as ship docking fees, cargo foot and foot costs. As well as stack rents and surplus coal, etc., this move can greatly reduce the fixed costs of enterprises, so that a large amount of capital flows into affiliated companies, which is quite beneficial to the development of enterprises.

At the same time, while the goods of the Special Economic Zone such as cast iron, hot water bottles, soap and cotton yarn are continuously imported into the domestic market, it is precisely by relying on the initial layout that the company has taken the lead, and this case has even been written into the business training class of the Tongwen College, which cannot help but make Zhang Jing very proud. But he never thought that now his family is eyeing the company.

"I have inquired that after the coal transported from North Korea is unloaded at the wharf, it is generally counted as 98 tons, and 1,000 tons of coal are counted as 980 tons. And because of the open-air storage, the rain and snow are soaked, and the coal will naturally be full of water, and 1,000 tons can increase to 1,000 tons, and sometimes even more than 1,100 tons, and this excess coal. It was sold by the dock company and the dock director, if I'm not mistaken. Even if this account is eliminated from the company's account, the company will not pursue it! ”

Looking at the third brother in front of him, Zhang Li had a flattering smile on his face, if it was in the past, he naturally didn't need to please the third brother who came out of the four rooms, but now it is different, who in Shanghai doesn't know that the third brother of the Zhang family presides over the Beiyang Trading Company, and the Beiyang Trading Company has sold more than 1670,000 tons of North Korean coal alone for half a year, not to mention whether he is the red man of the North Korean commander, this million tons of coal alone is enough for people to call him a coal king, even if he is from a big house, he has to be careful to curry favor in front of him.

"Last month, the company produced nearly 400,000 coal, according to the ninety-eight conversion plus the extra draft, this month is a good 10,000 tons of coal, worth 100,000 taels of silver! Big brother, this fat water doesn't flow into the fields of outsiders, and the family doesn't take care of it, and it doesn't make people laugh if it spreads! ”

The fourth child's words made Zhang Jing's brows furrow even tighter, and now the sale of surplus coal in the dock stacks is an important additional income for the wharf stack industry, but this income, although it is not directly done on the books, but the company is very clear, but it has never been asked, let alone remembered, as for where the money is spent, it is also used to supplement other businesses, and now it is remembered by his own family.

As far as Zhang Jing himself is concerned, he naturally had the idea of that amount of silver, after all, it is an extra amount of silver, according to the current development trend, by next year, when dozens of cities along the river use briquettes, at least 780,000 tons of coal will be sold a month, or even more, just a surplus of coal a year, there are millions of taels, in the face of such a sum of silver, it is possible for individuals to be greedy.

But it was precisely because there were too many that Zhang Jing didn't dare to stretch out that hand, and besides, this silver was still of great use to adults, the only difference was that this silver couldn't be accounted for.

"Third brother, this silver, said to be a company, it is not in the house, the silver of the government, if you don't take it for nothing, you won't take it! Do you say this is ...... reason" But at this time, when Zhang Jing looked at the fourth child in front of him, the corners of his lips raised slightly, and he said coldly.

"Fourth, even if you take the money from the government, aren't you afraid of losing your head?"

"Ahh

Slightly stunned, Zhang Li smiled:

"Third brother, look at what you said, lose your head? There are a few officials in the Great Qing Dynasty who don't take the government's money, if they don't take it, then it's strange, then again, even if they are caught, and a few of them lose their heads, you really think he is Zhu Hongwu, and he can still peel the skin and fill the grass! ”

Zhu Hongwu!

The fourth child's words made Zhang Jing's brows jump slightly, whether the adult will become Zhu Hongwu, he doesn't know, but he knows that the things that adults do are adults, and only if they follow the adults closely, they will not fall down, and the silver of the white flowers is easy to take, but it is hot, from the adults to North Korea, there are not no people who have planted their heads on this, even those who are greedy for a few dollars can be sent to Pyongyang to dig coal, if they really do it......

"However, the third brother is his own brother, and being the younger brother will naturally not embarrass you, and the younger brother will not let you float away this surplus coal, I mean, how much of this surplus coal is left, isn't it your business, you can have one percent left, and you can also have half of it, do you say this is the reason!"

"The Fourth ......"

Shaking his head, Zhang Jing stared at Zhang Li and said.

"It's not easy to get the money in the house, you know this coal ......"

Pointing to the coal outside the window, Zhang Jing looked back at the fourth child and said.

"Do you know where this coal came from?"

"Third brother?"

"In that coal mine, in addition to the steam shovels made in the United States digging coal, there are also some people like you who don't know the height of the sky, they make the silver confused, but now they are digging coal in the coal mine where they can't see their fingers,"

In the past, North Korean prisoners were kept in prisons, but now they are sent to coal mines, according to adults, this is called "labor reform", Zhang Jing himself does not want to "reform", naturally he does not want his family to go over, even if he did not want to see his brother in the past.

"I advise you to give up this thought, after all, there are dozens of people in our Zhang family, if you want to make money, don't you have a good business ready-made? A new 600,000 spindle yarn factory has opened in Incheon this year, not to mention anything else, that is, you take some silver from your home, you are a longhouse, open your mouth, and your father can't take out 10,000 taels yet, you take this silver and go to the countryside to harvest cotton, and you will have at least 40% of the ......profit in one season."

The euphemistic persuasion changed in Zhang Li's ears, originally because of the "low three and four" flattery, although he was resentful, but Zhang Li knew that the current third child was not the third child who swallowed his anger back then.

"I know this job, it's almost the same as the silk harvest, it's too tiring, it's too boring......"

If it was the turn of others, maybe Zhang Jing would have kicked him out a long time ago, but this would face his own brother, he could only persuade bitterly on the side, when he persuaded upstairs, he didn't notice that in the dock warehouse downstairs, several people were counting something in the warehouse, and after a crate was opened, Li Muchen directly took out a stack of paper bags wrapped in oiled paper from the straw in the cast iron furnace in the box.

"Pack everything in a box, and don't leave a single one behind!"

It may be helpless to transport books by smuggling, but this is the task of Li Muchen now, and not only that, he also wants to "give" these books out and "deliver" them to the hands of readers.

In Shanghai, Mr. Li was not worried that the book could be sold almost openly in bookstores, and the key was to deliver it to the rest of the country.

Looking at the boxes of books, hundreds of thousands of books were carried onto the carriage, but Li Muchen muttered in his heart.

"The key is to have someone read it!"

What's the point of a book if no one reads it?

After returning to Incheon from Japan, he discovered the charm of this new job, the words of one person destroying a country, perhaps only in the past in the drama, but in Japan he saw with his own eyes how one person destroys a country.

As long as there is a proper push, it is not difficult to destroy a country, and now, when the teacher turned his attention to China, instead of feeling panicked, Li Muchen was eager to try, and even came to Shanghai in person, planning to establish an intelligence network on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wanted to brew "anti-Manchurian" feelings, which would not only help the future, but also help the development of intelligence work.

"Use its original sin to destroy its rule!"

Thinking of the eight characters that the adults told him when he left Incheon, Li Muchen's brows raised slightly, this may be the best way.

"Director, the book is ready!"

At this time, the voice of the young man around him interrupted Li Muchen's thoughts, and through the light in the courtyard, looking at the young man in front of him who had personally selected him from the Tongwen Academy, Li Muchen said with a solemn expression.

"Yuanshi, I'm going to the capital today, and I'll leave you to this Yangtze River area!" (To be continued......)