At noon on July 18, 1897, just after the bidding meeting of the China Merchants Administration in Shanghai, the staff had to forcibly terminate the transaction and temporarily arrange for the guests to temporarily eat and rest in the designated hotel.

Yang Shiqi, deputy director in charge of the specific bidding business command, finally pulled away, returned to his office and sat down on a hard wooden chair, never thinking about it again.

Tired, more tired than doing a day's crop work, as if the little strength left in the cracks of the bones has been squeezed out, the muscles are sore and want to cramp, the throat and eyes are hot, as if eating a large handful of peppers into the sky, and the movement is dry like tearing rags.

He has always been strict with his appearance and posture, but he didn't care about his image at this time, stretched out his arm and grabbed the bowl, and drank the herbal tea inside. The fine Longjing leaves soaked in the stretch and emerald green, also poured into the mouth, chewed vigorously for a while, a faint astringency accompanied by the fragrance that penetrated the heart and spleen came out, but made him feel a rare moisturization between his lips.

"Comfortable!"

Yang Shiqi let out a long breath, gently rested the empty cup on the table, and rested his arms on the armrests of the chair, forcing his eyes to savor the comfort of the fire subsiding and the coolness.

Now, he regrets a little that he shouldn't have been impulsive and personally took over the bidding and bidding work. I knew that I was so tired and had such a great impact, and I would never have put myself on the fire to roast because I wanted to show my face in front of the rich businessmen in the country and even the world.

In the final analysis, it is too eager to seek fame, but it is chaotic, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Yang Shiqi is only 36 years old this year, and he originally donated a Taoist after the middle lift, and was appointed to handle the railway affairs inside and outside the Guanguan. Later, he was discovered and promoted by Li Hongzhang, briefly entered the Beiyang Yamen, and was recommended to Yang Hao, and was appointed as the deputy director of the China Merchants Bureau, ranking under Sheng Xuanhuai.

In fact, as Yang Hao's eyes and ears, he stared at the restless Sheng Laosi, and did not let his family dominate the two major institutions of foreign trade and investment promotion.

Yang Shiqi is a great talent, a rare person in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In time and space without Yang Hao's interference, he was able to enter Li Hongzhang's eyes as a mere donor, and became friendly with Prince Qing Yixuan and Yuan Shikai. After the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, he served as Li Hongzhang's liaison with the foreign powers. After Li Hongzhang's death, Yang Shiqi turned to Yuan Shikai and became his pawn and confidant of his "movement relatives and nobles and holding power". Yuan Shikai finally became dizzy and wanted to be the emperor, and he was one of the most powerful culprits.

This is a visionary, ambitious, skillful, and capable master, and he saw early that Yang Hao is the thickest thigh in the world today, so he painstakingly asked his eldest brother Yang Shixiang to trust the relationship, and took Li Hongzhang's door to transfer to Yang Hao's banner. Sure enough, it soared rapidly in a short period of time, which can be described as hot.

It's just that he has been working behind the scenes, and his reputation in the system is very loud, but most people from the outside world are still working hard towards Sheng Xuanhuai.

Yang Shiqi was very unconvinced, he didn't feel that he was any worse than Sheng Laosi. That is, the other party is much older, just one step ahead. He wants to come to the forefront, so that everyone in the world can see his existence and win the scenery of a lifetime, which is no worse than those who were born in Jinshi.

After Yang Hao's investment promotion work was arranged, his heart was hot, and he couldn't help but reach out and take it over, and he didn't even let go of the on-site hosting of the investment conference.

As expected, the scale of this investment promotion is unprecedented, and it is more lively than the few times Tianjin sold advanced aircraft and ordered ship equipment. Not only the wealthy people, ticket directors, and industrial upstarts in China came one after another, but also high-level representatives of more than a dozen countries and directors of large consortia attended as observers, so that the hall of thousands of square meters was almost unfitted!

Sheng Xuanhuai announced the opening remarks, and then he took care of the rest. At first, Yang Shiqi felt very happy, and he controlled several sub-venues with great ease, and the conductor was at ease.

But as soon as several big bags of projects were issued, the guests who were silent at the beginning suddenly made a collective move, and for a while they raised prices and raised cards to scramble, and the venue was smashed with millions of extra weights at every turn!

The first big bag with a price of more than 10 million yuan (two silvers) burst out, Yang Shiqi thought that this was a sign of his own degree of control and remarkable achievements, and he was overjoyed to go around the venue, appeared in front of the representatives participating in the bidding, and personally presided over the bidding of a large plot.

But soon he regretted it, there were too many bidders, and the questions asked and answered on the spot were too big, far beyond his imagination!

For two hours, Yang Shiqi couldn't remember how many times he shouted the numbers and how much money he had paid, anyway, his voice was hoarse, his head felt a little hypoxic, and the whole progress was more than half slower than the original plan!

He had to call a temporary stop, then ran back to the office and forced himself to calm down, think about what was wrong, and figure out how to improve it.

A bowl of herbal tea was not enough to solve the problem, and it was not long before a hot sensation came out of my throat. Fortunately, at this time, the assistant made him a large cup of bitter tea in time, the temperature was still a little hot, Yang Shiqi didn't care about that much, grabbed a small sip to moisturize, borrowed the fragrance of tea and heat to stimulate his nerves, and gradually recovered his sober and calm.

Before he could take a few sips, a secretary hurriedly knocked on the door and came in, with an excited report: "Deputy seat, President Yang has just arrived!" ”

"President Yang? Which one....... Yang Shiqi said subconsciously, followed by his reaction, bounced up, and raised the tone, "You mean, the president is coming to this bureau?" ”

The secretary nodded vigorously: "Exactly!" At this point, I should have gone to the top floor office. ”

"Let's go, come with me and see you!" Yang Shiqi put down the teacup with a "bang", strode out, and suddenly stopped at the door, pointed to the assistant and said, "Bring the summary of the bidding results in the morning, and the president must be asked." ”

The secretary and the assistant www.biquge.info a little bit of fun, and the three of them went straight to the elevator with the wind under their feet.

The president is Yang Hao. Speaking of which, Yang Hao now has his own special titles in different fields.

In the closest military circles, most of them refer to him as commander-in-chief; Among the "Huaxing Society" and the two parties, which are dominated by progressive youth, most of them become "Mr.", and they are respected as the best mentors. In the government system, it is called "president", and it is not known who started to call it from. In addition, there are a very small number of people who listened to the unintentional remarks of the old lady of the Yang family and Yang Haiwei, and named them "Chief Yang".

Yang Hao is thunderous about the name of "Sheep Palm", but he is not sensitive.

In addition, there is no shortage of names such as the head of state, the chief minister, and the general system, and he is the one who sums it up anyway.

Yang Hao refers to the historical insights of this world, and always feels embarrassed to be called "president". Could it be that we also have the luck of peanuts, empty grids, and His Excellency Chang Kaishen? It's so unlucky!

After all, he is young, and he has not yet cultivated to the realm of pampering and not being shocked, so he can't pull down to let the big guy change his name. Besides, it has already spread all over the officialdom, so he will go casually.

This time, he came suddenly without saying hello, which made the China Merchants Administration busy. Sheng Xuanhuai, who did not leave, got the news as soon as possible and immediately went to greet him, Yang Shiqi was an outsider after all, and he was so late that he was so late. When I arrived at the president's office on the top floor, I found that several chief officials had already arrived here.

Yang Shiqi felt a little regret in his heart, forced himself to stay calm, and grabbed the summary report and walked to Sheng Xuanhuai's next head. Yang Hao smiled and nodded at him: "Xingcheng has worked hard today." ”

Yang Shiqi thought that he must have known the situation in the morning, and immediately replied: "I don't dare to be the president to praise, I didn't prepare well in advance, and I didn't estimate the situation enough, so that I was in a hurry and almost made a mistake, which is a dereliction of duty, please criticize the president." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai squinted his eyes with some surprise from the side, but he didn't expect that he would expose his shortcomings as soon as he came up, and he took it first without showing credit, and he was really proficient in the mysteries of officialdom!

Originally, Sheng Xuanhuai wanted to see Yang Shiqi's jokes. Because he knew from the beginning that this time the bidding was different from the past, and inexperienced people would definitely poke out the basket if they rashly reached out and took care of it.

Sheng Xuanhuai didn't dare to fight against Yang Hao's blatant placement of people to set himself up, because he had been reminded by Li Hongzhang that Yang Hao was not the kind of generous and loyal master, and if he was angry, he would kill someone. Looking at the local tyrants and inferior gentry in several northern provinces who have been ruined because of land reform, they are a clear example.

However, he was not at all polite to those who dared to jump out to challenge his authority. If you want to replace him, you have to show excellent skills!

This time, the bidding meeting was not publicized in advance, and it was only notified after the overall situation of the Philippines had been decided. In the specific bidding content, only the location, natural environment, traffic conditions, size and minimum bid amount of the plot are announced. The most concerning details of mineral resources were completely concealed by Yang Hao. With the exception of a handful of mines that have been explored and mined, the vast majority are so unreasonably kept in strict secrecy.

The reason why it is not published is that most of the mineral exploration data comes from the world, and some of them were only well explored before 2010. The meticulous information collected and sorted out can allow the bidders of the second plane to work effortlessly, completely according to the opening of the mountain and the construction of roads until the deployment of mining operations. During the period, there are various precautions, possible accidents, etc. are reminded in advance.

Yang Haixin designed a combination of bidding and auction transactions, after the bidders paid the bid and paid the deposit, they could get further information answers on the spot, but it was still not completely clear.

The initial tender is only the threshold for participation. After coming in, get your questions answered in complete secrecy on the spot, and then bid on the spot, whichever is the higher.

The reason for this is because the scale of those deposits is so big, worth hundreds of millions, and it's amazing. Once it is announced early, it will inevitably cause a sensation around the world. The Philippine rebels, who did not know that they had signed a cheap contract, would inevitably regret it, and even secretly resented Yang Hao, which caused all kinds of accidents. The great powers will not allow China to get such a lot of benefits like a white wolf with empty gloves, and they will definitely do everything possible to obstruct and destroy, or join forces to rob it!

Therefore, Yang Haixin planned, and Yang Hao issued an instruction to only announce a vague subcontract bidding to the outside world. However, they are not worried that no one will come to bid, because similar practices have been played once before in the development projects of iron mines and coal mines in the Northern Dynasties. Later, more than a dozen large projects around Fengtian were also operated. Those investors who chose to believe in Yang Hao from the beginning are now all like pigs' heads. Only a few of them know what kind of huge and terrible interests they are competing for!

This is a huge project for the auction of an entire archipelago! Just seeing that Yang Hao did not hesitate to risk fighting on two fronts, he pulled the fleet twice to drive away the Spaniards, and even found a reason to destroy the leader of the indigenous rebel army, and raised a puppet inclined to himself, anyone with a discerning eye can judge that there must be a great wealth hidden in it!

Sheng Xuanhuai is experienced, so he guessed about it at that time. But Yang Shiqi is obviously not very clear, he wants to show his face too eagerly, but he doesn't know that the more secretive this kind is, the more likely it is to attract great variables, and how much work to be done that he usually can't think of.

Sure enough, from the influx of bidders a few days ago to the boiling sky when the bids were officially opened today, a series of explosive growth made his series of preparations all seem stretched.

He still didn't roll up his sleeves calmly and went into battle in person, which became the worst performance. Although he survived with his intelligence and wit, he obviously lost points compared to the wisdom beads of others.

Yang Shiqi's head turned quickly, and he poured dirty water on himself as soon as he came up, and his attitude was very good.

Yang Hao was not the kind of strict master, he just waved his hand lightly and said with a smile: "You have done a good job, you can control the situation of the scene." Well, I heard that the competition was fierce in the morning? ”

Yang Shiqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly handed over the report: "The enthusiasm of the bidders is amazing, but the T-shaped project opened in the morning is already hot, and they don't seem to be worried about losing money at all." ”

"That shows that the reputation of our new government has been established, and everyone believes that following the new government will not be trapped."

Yang Hao didn't forget to praise his great achievements, took the report and opened it to see the final winning price of those projects, couldn't help but widen his eyes, and exclaimed: "Good guys, these local tyrants are really willing to pay for it!" Even if you use real money to buy security and accept the name, you don't have to be so ruthless! ”

The T-shaped project is the smallest scattered subcontract in the entire Philippine development general contract, either the development cost is high, or the potential is not large, the general transaction price is more than one million yuan, less than ten million yuan, and the development time is not more than 20 years.

This is all set up to attract private capital and external vassal forces, and the information is also the most detailed, and Yang Hao does not expect to make much money from it.

The result was very surprising, these small subcontracts were extremely competitive! Some of them even quickly hit more than 10 million targets, which is really doubtful whether they can recover their costs.

However, Yang Hao took a closer look at the name of the winning bidder, referring to Yang Shiqi's careful appendix analysis, and suddenly understood that almost all of these people who won the bid were rich people in Jiangnan!

They had no relationship with Yang Hao, and their previous cooperation was not very pleasant, and because of the smuggling and reselling of sensitive equipment and goods, they were ruthlessly cleaned up by Yang Hao, leading to tens of millions of losses. How can you pounce on it today? - It's just that the T-shaped projects are all fried at this price, and the higher three levels of projects, what amount of time do they have to be speculated? Wouldn't those tens of millions of tons of gold, silver, and copper ore be worth more than the annual financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty?

When I think about it, it's not surprising. The comprador rich men in Jiangnan have clearly seen Yang Hao's powerful power, and the combined powers can't do anything against him, and now they are even more running out to make the Spaniards down-to-earth, and it is inevitable that they will sweep the whole country sooner or later.

The army's ruthless land reform methods and a series of policies of land nationalization mean that the big landowners in Jiangnan will no longer be able to join forces against the government like previous dynasties.

At the beginning, they were able to pit the Southern Song Dynasty to death, and later they could bury the Ming Dynasty, and they were severely cleaned up in the Qing Dynasty, but they made a fortune quickly for more than 200 years, and the Qing government was forced to count on the British to collect tariffs to support it for decades.

In the past, it was difficult to really shake the rule of the landlords and gentry in Jiangnan, but the land reform launched by Yang Hao could uproot the capital they had entrenched in the people!

The big landlords in Jiangnan did not think about confrontation, they secretly supported the new ** party, trying to come up with a framework for dividing the river and ruling the country. But with Yang Hao's wins again and again, they felt that it was not safe, but now they had to bet on both ends, and first hemorrhaged and accepted the name, hoping to exchange for mercy from their subordinates.

Taking 10,000 steps back, it can be regarded as transferring assets, withdrawing from land, usury, pawnbroking and other industries in advance and investing in industrial development. Anyway, Yang Hao's reputation is good, at least he can change the capital preservation, right?

The project of the Ding No. 1, the opening of the bid in one morning, the total amount has exceeded 100 million, you can imagine how fierce the scene should be when the big projects are pulled out! Optimistically, it seems that it will not be a problem to get him billions or billions of yuan (equivalent to silver dollars)!

(According to a 1996 report published by the Philippine National Bureau of Mines, the Philippines has 7.1 billion metric tons of metal ore reserves and 51 billion metric tons of non-metallic ore reserves.) Mineral reserves are worth $1.4 trillion. ）

Yang Hao tapped the report lightly and said meaningfully: "It seems that the potential amount of funds in my country's private sector is still very sufficient, and the estimated circulation of 3 billion yuan is not a lie, and there is great potential to be tapped!" You should work harder, try to pull them all out of the cellar jar of the landlord's old wealth, as an important driving force to support the country! ”

"It's so ruthless!"

Yang Shiqi and Sheng Xuanhuai invariably touched their eyes, and they had a new feeling for Yang Hao's spicy hand. This guy just sighed that people had made a lot of money, and in a blink of an eye, he instructed everyone to continue to be ruthless - when did this big landlord in Jiangnan offend President Yang ruthlessly!

The two nodded yes in the middle. Yang Hao smiled and said, "I heard that there are still many foreign investors coming? People come from far and wide to cheer, and we can't help but express our enthusiasm for being the host. Let's go, and go to the hotel to say hello to them. ”

A flash of excitement flashed in Yang Shiqi's eyes, he could see with his own eyes how President Yang Da had a close encounter with foreign devils! I don't know how much oil and water can be squeezed out of foreigners this time! R1152