War brings chaos, but it also brings wealth, and the reason why it brings both is precisely because it shatters everything, and the collapse of the old order brings chaos to society, but it also brings countless opportunities, and opportunity means wealth for those who are prepared. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just as the three eastern provinces at this time, when the governor's offices of the three provinces worked hard to build a completely different civil system in the three provinces, Mukden, as the first commercial port of the three provinces in the old days, has not only recovered from the chaos of wartime, but has also become more prosperous than in the past.

In fact, these companies did not enter the Northeast after the end of the war, some of them entered the Northeast before the war, and during the war, these companies of various sizes raised tens of millions of dollars worth of supplies for the army in the battlefield, although most of these materials were not used, but they fully demonstrated the power of commerce - just like the Beiyang Trading Branches in Tianjin and Shanghai, a large amount of materials were hoarded in the concessions, so that the Qing army could not raise enough materials in the two places.

After the end of the war, tens of millions of materials worth of materials accumulated inside and outside the Guanxi were sold to the Russians by the Beiyang trade, not only did not lose money but made another profit due to the rise in prices, as for those companies involved in it, they all made a lot of money, and after the end of the war, these companies that developed in the war immediately poured into the Northeast and began to seize the leading or dominant position in a certain industry before the economic control. Thus obtaining government concessions after the control.

For these foreign businessmen who came to Northeast China from Korea, they were accustomed to dealing with the unified prison government, and they were naturally no strangers to its policies. At this time, the Northeast is like a commercial virgin land for them, and of course, the more important point is that the control economy will not be extended to the Northeast in the short term, which means that they have plenty of time to develop themselves.

Opportunities are always for those who are prepared, this sentence is true, when hundreds of companies compete for the commercial market in the Northeast, Fu'an Company, an inconspicuous small company. However, they turned their attention to another market - the cotton market.

Although the conflict did not last long, during the conflict, troops entering the northeast were requisitioned in order to obtain supplies. In order to raise supplies such as food, horses, etc., on the spot, although some of them were paid for silver dollar bills, and a considerable part, to be precise, the vast majority of them were requisitioned. Just issued a levy coupon. Those who received the requisition vouchers could apply for repayment at the local civil affairs office, and the requisition vouchers issued by the army amounted to tens of millions of yuan throughout the war.

For the government, in order to maintain the credibility of the government after the war, it was necessary to honor the requisitioned vouchers, and on the other hand, it was a heavy burden, after all, there were too many problems with the requisitioned prices of many goods during the war.

The Beiyang Trading Company, which had contributed to the war, applied to the Governor's Office to be responsible for handling the matter, and according to the practice of Beiyang Trading, it did not directly repay the money. Instead, it is repaid with foreign goods such as cotton, as for the other party. If you don't exchange foreign goods, you just want to exchange for silver, then you won't get anything. I change it and am still advantageous. Of course, in order to transport foreign services such as cotton cloth from Incheon, certain shipping and port fees are exempted. Moreover, Beiyang Trade used this to expand its influence in the Northeast, and when it seized the Northeast market from British and American merchants, several of the company's traders noticed an unnoticed detail that led to the establishment of the Fu'an Company.

"The Han family in Jilin promised to sell 1.2 million yuan of foreign goods to us at a 20% discount......"

The Jilin Han family in Li Chengyuan's mouth refers to Han Xianzong, who is known as "Han Bianwai" with the name of "Kwantung Golden King", and the people in the gold mines in Jiapigou under the jurisdiction of Han Bianwai only know the Han family, do not know the country and do not know the government, and the "Han Bianwai" in the "independent kingdom" in its own law, rewards and punishments, and taxation, first out of government control for a long time, and was recruited by the government in the early years, and when the third division entered Jilin, it was ordered by the Jilin general to recruit thousands of Orion strong men and organize them into several infantry battalions. Because Han Xianzong was already old, Han Dengju took the initiative to ask Ying to take command for his grandfather.

These Orions brought some casualties to the Third Division with their familiarity with the terrain of mountains and forests, but they were a rabble after all, and after several fierce battles, the main force of the Orion Battalion was annihilated, and Han Dengju also fled back to Jiapigou. After defeating the main force of the Han family, the 3rd Division, which was unforgiving, immediately sent a battalion to escort the civil affairs officials to Jiapigou, and established a civil affairs department in the local area with the prestige of a great victory, breaking the rule of the Han family in dozens of gold mines in the Jiapigou area, and then "requisitioning" a large amount of materials -- among them, as much as 90,000 taels of gold sand "handed over" by the Han family and other gold households, which was the largest "requisition" during the war.

Originally, when the requisition was issued, no one thought that the money would be repaid, after all, everyone thought that the requisition on the battlefield was ultimately a headless debt. What I didn't expect was that in order to maintain the credibility of the government, as soon as the Governor's Office moved to the northeast, it immediately issued a decree recognizing wartime levies, and declaring that all wartime levies and levies were to be cashed by the government, which naturally included the gold sand, which was worth a lot of money and was actually completely "extorted".

However, although they agreed to compensate, the foreign goods worth millions of yuan were a good thing for the Han family - they couldn't eat, they couldn't use it, they couldn't sell it, and the shipping cost was high. In fact, for many "big households" who have been requisitioned, this is exactly the reality they have to face. Even if it sells these foreign goods, it is difficult to sell them -- the value of foreign goods that have sprung up in the market at the same time is tens of millions of yuan, which is completely more than the northeast market can afford.

The business that the Fu'an Company is now engaged in is to purchase and issue coupons, and then go to Niuzhuang and North Korea to exchange them for goods, and with the help of the old channels, directly sell them to Zhili, Shandong and other places, and it is this business that makes Li Chengyuan change from the chief of the business section of a trading company to the manager of the Fu'an Company, but he is not satisfied with the status quo.

"Manager, we can earn at least 300,000 yuan in this business, if the operation is good. It's no problem to earn 400,000 yuan! ”

"Forty is a little too much, thirty is a little less, I think thirty-five is no problem!"

An Guoli, Qin Fu and others were there to calculate how much money they could earn outside the Han border. Li Chengyuan on the side frowned, and it was not until several shareholders finished saying a word that he asked rhetorically.

"This army has only requisitioned and distributed only 30 million supplies in total, and the local area can absorb almost 15 million goods, and what we are taking over now plus this one outside the Korean border is almost 3 million, in other words. Our good days are almost over, dude. What are we going to do then? ”

Li Chengyuan's rhetorical question made the smiles on the faces of An Guoli and Qin Fu narrow, and one of the shareholders whispered,

"Aren't we already planning to invest 300,000 yuan in reclamation? This is hundreds of thousands of acres of land. But it takes more than ten years to open so many ......."

The shareholder's words made everyone else breathe a sigh of relief, but no, compared to ordinary business, if the land is reclaimed, it is a profitable business.

"That is, even if it is not good, this bean or something business will not be completed, and then we will sell the land that has been reclaimed. This cooked land can get a small ten yuan per acre, which is more than ten times the profit! ”

More than ten times the profit. It's enough to make anyone want it, and for them, it doesn't just mean surviving future wealth, but more importantly, long-term income. Even some shareholders are thinking, if it is really not possible, they will directly divide the land and become a landlord, recruit a group of tenants to their hometown, guard tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, and collect tens of thousands of yuan a year just to collect rent, at that time life can be more stable than now, after all, even if it is the company's stock, there are times when there are ups and downs, as for dividends, there are also times when they shrink.

Although both the government and the company have taken the initiative to make profits, so that the government and the company's employees invest in stocks, and then form a "private investment" atmosphere, but ignore the people's "stability" heart, although compared with other investments, investment companies, and even investment in Fuzhong bonds are extremely stable investment, but when the land is placed in front of them, they see that it is the land that brings generational benefits, and any investment is not as stable as land.

The "business vision" he cultivated during his time in the company made him realize that investing in wasteland may be the most lucrative investment in the future, and there is no risk at all. As a result, everyone naturally becomes eager to invest in land.

"What connection do we have in the house?"

Li Chengyuan did not refute them, but directly asked about another matter.

"Now that the governor has arrived in Lushun, it stands to reason that although the official famine registration plan has not yet been completed, but a part of the total registration has been completed, if you wait until the three northeastern provinces to register the official famine to get the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, so naturally, the ban should be lifted, and the people should be reclaimed to attract displaced people, do you say this is the truth? But now? Not only has the ban not been lifted, but I heard others say that adults intend to build a farming reclamation regiment and then carry out military reclamation. ”

Compared with other people, Li Chengyuan is often better at obtaining some information from many "gossip", which has a lot to do with the intelligence training he has received, but now this "gossip" has made him aware of the crisis, more precisely, the crisis of the reclamation industry in Northeast China.

On the surface, the court allocated 15 million taels of silver to the three provinces to build the province, but in fact it was deducted with the three provinces, and the imperial court wanted the three eastern provinces to solve the money for the sake of face, but the handsome side naturally would not give a penny, and even wanted to ask the imperial court to build a provincial salary, so everyone deducted each other for the sake of face, in a word, in the next ten years, the imperial court will not give a penny of silver to the three eastern provinces, The three eastern provinces also do not need to release a penny of silver to the imperial court.

Now that the Governor's Office's expenses are entirely dependent on the bonds issued in North Korea, how can the tens of millions of taels of bonds be repaid? Although the Beiyang Company, the Bank of Korea, and the Governor's Office are all handsome, even the accounts between the branches are very clear, relying on taxes obviously cannot maintain the expenses of the three provinces, let alone repay the bonds, what is the most valuable capital in the hands of the Governor's Office now? It is the hundreds of millions of acres of ownerless officials in the three northeastern provinces, so it is naturally impossible for the marshal to let the big guy "make money" from the already "impoverished" Governor's Palace, and self-reclamation has become the most beneficial choice for the Governor's Palace.

But the problem is that many people can't understand this truth, not because they can't understand it, but because they ...... Let the lard blindfold. The eyes of others can be blindfolded, but for Li Chengyuan, at least the company's eyes can't be blindfolded like this.

"Carry out military reclamation? This from ancient times to the present, there are not tuntian, so many places in the northeast, the implementation of tuntian, but also lose the policy of consolidating border defense! ”

Qin Fu nodded in agreement, and then used the old example of Zuo Zongtang in Tuntian, Xinjiang when he was in the west, to provide circumstantial evidence for his words. Listening to his story, Li Chengyuan still had a smile on his face, and he didn't say until his voice fell.

"It was Zuo Zongtang who leveled Xinjiang back then, but today's governor of the three provinces is our Tang Dashuai, has there ever been an old precedent for the economic control implemented by the Dashuai in North Korea?"

After a rhetorical question, Li Chengyuan looked at the people in the room and continued to ask rhetorically.

"Everyone only saw the land in the Northeast, but they didn't see it, the marshal ruled Korea with control, since Fuzhong was able to rule the economy of North Korea yesterday, why can't he control the northeast with the northeast today? What if the official shortage is completely controlled by the government? ”

Li Chengyuan's rhetorical question only made everyone's faces change, maybe the control of the economy can make them benefit deeply, but on the other hand, control means that the government dominates everything, if the control of the official shortage, then what land do they reclaim? What kind of wilderness? This big guy's mind is in vain!

"If, if that's the case, then, how can it be good?"

Just when the other shareholders were nervous, Qin Fu suddenly smiled and said.

"Manager, since you mentioned this, you must have an idea,"

The reason why the two of them resigned from the company's jobs to follow Li Chengyuan was because of his vision, and now that he naturally mentioned this matter, he must have made a decision a long time ago. As in the past, Qin Fu still kicked the ball to Li Chengyuan, and in everyone's expectations, he was silent for a moment, and then said.

"This, this matter, I'm afraid we have to investigate it first, find out first, what the adults think before making a decision! Also, if we can't do it here, it doesn't mean that other places can't! Sometimes, it's better to take a long-term view! ”

(Regarding the state-owned land mentioned in these chapters, it needs to be explained that it refers to official wasteland, and there are also government-owned wasteland, in other words, according to the traditional Chinese law - terra nullius land is officially owned, and the same is true in the West, such as Lincoln's homestead law, which also reclaimed the so-called state-owned land (terra nullius) to the people, as well as the land grants along the line obtained by the Pacific Railroad, so ...... This is not the state ownership of land, it can only be said that the state-owned land is conditionally leased to the people. Weakly ask for a fixed reading and monthly pass, whether you are looking at the genuine version or not! The Empire's Sunrise Reader Exchange Group: 150536833 welcome to join)) (To be continued.) )