After staying in Yingkou for five days, Wang Yi returned to the Octagonal Platform. The day after his meeting with Jack, Augustus, and Naide, he met with the British businessman Charles Fama, also handing over an order list, and bargaining. But all in all, the meeting was quite pleasant, after all, no one would have trouble with money.

Britain, Germany, the United States, three families. Britain and Germany had a higher level of science and technology in this era, while the United States now plays the role of contemporary China, a copycat power. The price of the product is relatively cheap, but the quality is still lacking. In general, each of the three has its own benefits, as for which goods to order, it will be analyzed in the specific situation.

On the afternoon of Wang Yilin's departure from Yingkou, four foreigners came to the door, and when they asked later, it turned out to be a foreign language teacher introduced by Naide. Wang Yi roughly checked the teaching level of the two English teachers, and on the whole, it was quite acceptable. And he himself doesn't know German, so the other two, he only examined their Chinese level, and in terms of communication, there is no problem.

The efficiency of the Zhang family is still commendable, just during the time when Wang Yi left the Octagonal Terrace. In the name of celebrating the old man's birthday, the Zhang family invited all the people with heads and faces in the nearby ten miles and eight villages, as long as you are willing to come, the Zhang family will send someone to pick you up. There was also a group of poor relatives who didn't dare to come to the door on weekdays, but all those who were on crutches were also brought in.

Of course, the Zhang family is not in vain, and their eyes are fixed on the soybeans and wheat produced on other people's land.

After the banquet, the Zhang family began to explain the purpose, but they did not bully others, and the purchase price increased by 1.5 times compared with the previous year.

Although the end result was not completely satisfactory, at least it was a good start. It is also the first year of the year, and it is understandable that some people choose to wait and see. The contract is signed for five years, with a minimum purchase price, and it is also stated that it is not allowed to sell its own soybeans and wheat to others without permission. Today, Zhangjia's grain and grain mill has enough raw material production base, east to Xiuyan, north to Liaoyang, west to Panjin, south to Dashiqiao.

Just a few days after the incident here, someone came from the Yingkou side. Nominally, it is the business council of the Yingkou Fire Temple, and the other party is obviously not good, but to Wang Yi's expectations, the Zhang family does not seem to be afraid. It wasn't until Zhang Jingxiao said the reason that Wang Yi suddenly realized that there was someone in the Zhang family! Of course, being the target of public criticism is not a good thing after all. As the saying goes, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. Later, according to Wang Yi's Jianyi, instead of all of them being scarred, it was better to divide and win over some Yingkou oil mill merchants, and let them exchange the oil mill machine and site for shares, and join the Tai'an grain and oil processing plant (Zhangjia grain and oil processing plant). Make the red ocean a blue ocean, and everyone will make money.

Zhang Quanbao deeply agreed with Wang Yi's words and thought that this was the way of the old man to seek the country.

When the Zhang family's public relations offensive was launched, the effect was immediate, and more than thirty percent of the Yingkou oil mill owners chose to surrender.

After that, the king offered a plan again and again.

In addition to nearly half of the small and medium-sized oil mills in Yingkou, there are also several large oil mills with deep backgrounds, and it is obviously impossible to join Tai'an. Instead of becoming a competitor, it is better to build a price alliance.

It is said that everyone buys and sells to make money, and no one is comfortable if it goes on like this. When the Zhang family threw out the price alliance's proposal, the remaining four large oil mills immediately accepted the Zhang family's proposal, and publicly recommended that Zhang Quanfu, Quanbao's younger brother, be the leader of the alliance.

At this time, Wang Yi repeatedly offered a third plan -- to establish a grain and oil futures exchange.

Wang Yi, the grain and oil futures exchange, is completely different from the grain and oil futures exchange in later generations. He set up this thing to silence foreign businessmen.

First of all: the qualification requirements are extremely strict, and the external claim is to ensure the interests of traders, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is tailor-made for the price alliance. The purpose is to prevent outsiders from forcibly entering, and if there are indeed qualified new traders, most of them will not be a role that the price alliance can afford to provoke. Rather than refuse, absorb it.

Secondly: the complete control of the number jù. To put it simply, if the price alliance wants the price of soybean oil to rise, the price will rise, and if it wants it to fall, it will fall. Just to attract more traders to appear, try not to show up in the price as much as possible.

Finally: the official face of the person came out to the platform to escort. This is a very easy thing for the price alliance.

Wang Yi knew that after his three plans were thrown out, the remaining small and medium-sized oil mills in Yingkou would probably be unsustainable, most of them were foreign oil mills, and it was a matter of time before they went bankrupt. Wang Yi will not have any mercy for them, and if he comes out to mix, he will have to pay it back sooner or later. As for the local oil mills, Wang Yi's tendency is to let the Zhang family launch a public relations offensive, and it is naturally best to join. If you are really stubborn to the end, then you can't talk about it, you can live and die in the mall.

Under Zhang Quanbao's arrangement, the Zhang family's Tai'an grain and oil processing plant began to be built near the Liao River in Yingkou. Those small and medium-sized oil mills that have joined Tai'an have begun to relocate their equipment, and Tai'an stipulates that they should unify their factories and manage them in a unified manner.

Wang Yi has only one request for the Zhang family, that is, not to treat the farmers who farm the land and the small and medium-sized shareholders in Tai'anli. The Zhang family is also from a peasant background, and Wang Yi's reasoning is also easy to understand, coupled with the storage of the board of directors of Tai'an, at least in the short term, there will be no loss of checks and balances.

The weather is getting hotter, and in the small garden of Zhang's mansion, Wang Yizheng and Zhang Quande are playing chess. Speaking of this Zhang Quande, it is also quite weird, in terms of chess strength, ten he is not Wang Yi's opponent, but he is not too fishy to eat a hundred beans, and he is completely looking for abuse.

Wang Yi sat on the small bench, crossed his legs, held a big teacup in his hand, and looked at Zhang Quande, who was sweating with beads of sweat on the opposite side, counting chess there, and he couldn't control it with a broken mouth.

"I said Brother Quande, you are playing chess! It took three hours to grind a chess move, otherwise we would have equalized this game of chess! ”

Zhang Quande deliberately pretended not to hear, but there were more and more beads of sweat on his head.

"Let's go! …… Wait any longer, it's all time to walk to the city of Beijing...... It's time to Guangzhou, hurry up, I'm about to see Indian Ahsan! ”

At this time, Zhang Jingxiao walked in from outside the hospital, and he was not happy to see his second uncle's embarrassment. Just saluted respectfully in front of Wang Yi and said, "Sir, it's time for the exercise!" ”

Wang Yi patted his ass and stood up, and said to Zhang Quande with a smile: "You think about it slowly, if you can't think of it today, let's continue this game tomorrow, don't be under pressure!" ”

Zhang Quande was squatting there, but he still didn't squeak, and Wang Yi took Zhang Jingxiao away.

On the way, Wang Yi made fun of Zhang Quande again, and said: "Respectful filial piety, do you remember what I told you before, your second uncle just left the door and didn't leave, and he had to be the one who drilled the window." ”

"That's what the gentleman said." Zhang Jingxiao also nodded in agreement, but soon his face turned straight and said, "Sir, there is news from the shopkeeper of Shijinxiang Chen." ”

"Tell me."

"First of all, Mr. Naide's news, Mr. Jack's paper equipment and cement production machinery have been loaded on the ship, along with thirty mechanics. Among them, there are 10 people in the paper mill and 20 people in the cement factory. Augustus' printing equipment and glass-making and processing equipment have also been shipped, along with twenty head of breeding cattle that you need, in addition to twenty craftsmen. Ten stallions. ”

The king is a little bit of the ground. "How's the venue going?"

"It's all leveled."

"Where's the livestock farm?"

"The herders are in place, and at your request, start letting them learn the rules you have written down. Trials have already begun on local cattle and sheep, and the results are said to be gratifying. ”

"Tell the director of the livestock farm, let the herdsmen work hard, I won't treat everyone badly."

"Understood!" Zhang Jingxiao paused at this time, and then said: "Shopkeeper Chen also sent a second message, saying that there are currently fifty-six people who have signed up for the silver furnace position you want to recruit. He asked when you were going to come over for the interview? ”

Wang Yi pondered for a moment and said, "It's set in three days, let them continue to recruit people, and the more people involved, the better." At the same time, help me clean up a large space, prepare enough chairs, and pen and ink. ”

"Mr. is ......"

"You'll know then."

Wang Yi had never heard of the silver furnace industry before he crossed over, and he only knew that there was such a thing after he arrived in Yingkou.

Yingkou is the earliest city in Northeast China to have a silver furnace industry, so it is also the most representative. The silver furnace industry is the industry of processing and casting "ingots and silver ingots", and the spot of the silver ingots cast is called furnace silver, which has been a special currency in the Northeast currency in the financial history. The silver furnace industry that processes and casts furnace silver has developed from simply processing silver ingot spot to "furnace silver" with virtual silver overcode. It handles bank deposit and bank transfers for merchants around the country, issues triple checks, and becomes a credit center between merchants, with the transfer function of bank deposit and payment. It has played a positive role in the prosperity of the local economy and the expansion of trade.

In 1860 (the tenth year of Xianfeng), the first silver furnace in Yingkou - Yongchengde was opened. On May 24, 1861 (the 11th year of Xianfeng), Yingkou replaced Niuzhuang and became the only port open to the outside world in Northeast China. In the early years of Tongzhi, British merchants such as Taikoo and Yuanlai (later changed to Yuanlaisheng) went to Yingkou to buy real estate, build wharves, and traffic goods. Industrial elites from Shandong, Zhili, Guangdong, Shanghai and other places in China are also competing to go to Yingkou to do business, and the trade volume is increasing day by day. At that time, the currency of Northeast China was only coined (copper coins), and there were only a few of them, which was difficult to meet for turnover. The treasure silver brought by the merchants who came to Yingkou to trade was of different fineness and had to be weighed and identified, which was very troublesome, so the silver furnace industry of melting and processing silver ingots of uniform specifications came into being. The initial business of the silver furnace industry was limited to buying silver ingots from other places or processing them for customers to make Yingkou furnace silver - "Yingping silver", with each ingot weighing 53 taels and 55 yuan, and the fineness was 992. This kind of furnace silver adapted to the needs of local trade and was widely welcomed by merchants from all over the world. This kind of business has been in Yingkou for many years, and the business in the market is thriving. However, in the process of circulation, the furnace silver was carried to each other and was very troublesome, so the method of saving the silver furnace on behalf of the silver was born. After that, the merchants traded commodities between them, and both the buyer and the seller deposited silver in the same silver furnace, and the silver furnace used the method of "transfer and exchange" to subtract the amount of silver due from the buyer's deposit account, and deposited it in the seller's deposit account, and the price could be settled, which was very safe and simple. Since then, it has been gradually promoted that buyers and sellers who do not interact with each other can also transfer money to each other through the silver furnaces they interact with to complete the transaction. This method is commonly known as the "wipe code" and "over-code" of furnace silver. As a result, "over-code furnace silver" became popular in the market, and the silver furnace industry gradually jumped to an important position in the economic and financial circles, similar to modern banks, and became the central channel for capital flow in Yingkou commercial transactions.