[94] Award ceremony

Yao Fan set up some wine and food in his house to entertain Meris.

"James, now that we are acquaintances, you have proved your credibility with your ability, I know that you have earned 8ooo taels this time, but until you have enough capital, I am willing to give you additional credit to help you occupy the market faster. In addition, I will give you a bigger discount on the price, from 5o taels to 45 taels of silver per kilogram of dye. ”

"Oh my God, Frank, you're an angel! It's a saint! I have to say, you are the most amazing businessman I have seen since I came to China! ”

"This time you will be given twenty barrels of dye, ten barrels of 5o kilograms, ten barrels of 3o kilograms, for a total price of thirty-six thousand taels. I have great hopes for you, Meris, that you will gain a foothold in Shanghai and sell dyes throughout Asia and the world. ”

"Frank, I also want to open up the market as quickly as possible, but the tariff barriers in Europe and the United States are too high, and the actual tariffs are more than 30 percent, and I am currently paying more attention to the Asian and South American markets."

"James, you have to be confident that with the expansion of the capacity of my dye factory, the batch price will be cheaper in the future.

And the first thing you have to do is to first destroy the foreign dye wholesalers and the local dye industry in the various low-tariff colonial markets, and monopolize the entire market, and once there is no market, the dye factories in Europe and the United States will not be able to compete with us. ”

"Frank, your plan is very clever, but I don't think it's likely that your production will supply the global colonial market in a few years."

"Oh, you know me so well!" Yao Fan scoffed.

Meris smiled awkwardly.

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The next day, Melis left Qingdao with the dye, and Yao Fan sent him off with hospitality.

Seeing the cargo ship leave the dock, Yao Fan returned to the Yuchun firm to check the accounts.

Holding the account book handed over by He Wannian, he silently calculated in his heart:

"So far, the retail sale of folding umbrellas has been calculated according to the integer of 160,000 units, and the supply price I gave to the firm is 22 taels, a total of 3.52 million taels of receivables.

Fountain pen plus ink, after rounding, a total of 12ooo and 3ooo bottles were sold, according to the supply price of a pen 5 taels of silver, a bottle of ink and a penny of silver, a total of 60,000 and 300 taels of receivable.

Because the dye is intended to be exclusively operated by Meris, it is not counted as a business name, so it will not be remembered for the time being.

The bicycle was sold for 15oo units, and at the supply price of 65 taels, it was 975oo taels of silver.

The sewing machine was sold for 75o units, and according to the supply price of 65 taels, it was 4875o taels of silver.

510,000 iron-shell thermos flasks were sold, and at the supply price of 13 taels, it was 6.63 million taels.

The total amount to be picked up is 1o350,000 taels. ”

In 1872, Hu Xueyan's Fukang Money Village had total assets of only more than 20 million taels of silver, of course, this does not include the Hu family's own private property such as 10,000 acres of fertile land, only the assets of the bank.

He Wannian said with a little trembling: "Brother Yao! Early sail! My own brother! You saw it too! At the moment, we are making money so fast, I am busy during the day, I am scared to death at night in front of the ledger, and I often have nightmares after going to bed! Also, at the moment, this capital is so huge, I don't know how worried your family is! Hurry up and send the gold out and pay back your family's purchase money. ”

"Why should Brother Wannian be surprised, the foreign trade industry is a huge amount of money for trading, if my family has no foundation, how dare to do sea trade? The total value of British exports in 187o alone exceeded 200 million pounds, equivalent to more than a billion taels of silver. What is the book capital of tens of millions of taels? ”

"Brother Yao is really a maritime merchant family, and he has seen the world, but I can't do it." He Wannian shook his head.

"Brother Yao must know, I was really frightened by the chaos of the past few years, when the first twist, the officers and soldiers all took the white slip opened by the general of the army directly to the money and shops on credit, and the note wrote three thousand taels is three thousand taels, and five thousand taels is five thousand taels! If you don't give it, you have to rob it! In short, if it is known that there is a treasury of 180,000 yuan in the bank, at least 10% of it must be withdrawn as military salary! If we want to put this running water on the account, I still can't hang myself? ”

"Brother Wannian, you didn't sue anyone else for the flow of money in the account, did you?"

"Of course I don't dare to sue others! At present, the five accounting offices of the firm are in charge of each other, and I dare not ask them to do this general ledger! I know that you only need gold, so as long as I receive the payment during this time, I will take it to Hengli to exchange it for you for gold. Now Hengli is transporting gold in batches, and now there is still the last batch left, and your treasury in Yaojiazhuang is full of gold worth 10 million taels of silver! ”

Yao Fan said gratefully: "Brother He has worked hard, he has earned so well recently, next time we pay dividends, what does Brother He plan to do with the bonus silver?" ”

He Wannian shook his head and said: "I want to buy half of the land, and half of it will be deposited in the major banks, in short, I can't keep it in the account." ”

As soon as Yao Fan thought of the future land policy, he felt obliged to give advice to He Wannian.

"What do you do when you buy land? For those of us who are in business, it is more appropriate to do business honestly. ”

"It's better to leave money for your children and grandchildren than to leave land, Brother Yao, your family has been doing business overseas for a long time, and you won't understand." He Wannian said.

Yao Fan didn't say more.

Yao Fan's private account had 220,000 taels before, and after deducting various bribery expenses, Yaojiazhuang construction fees, partners' wages, and credit union loans, there were more than 70,000 taels left, but now, he could collect more than 10 million taels of silver in one fell swoop, so that he himself was a little frightened in the face of the huge sum, not to mention He Wannian.

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In the evening, the conference room in Yaojiazhuang.

It is said to be a conference room, but in fact it is a large warehouse, but after installing 30 4owatt electric lights lit by diesel motors, the snow is as bright as day.

In the conference room, there were cadres carefully promoted by Yao Fan, except for a few guys like He Shicheng and Zhou Si who originally followed Yao Fan, all of them were born beggars and poor peasants! Moreover, even Zhou Si and He Shicheng were the first few of their buddies, and they were all children of peasant families.

The composition of these cadres is the platoon leaders of the Township Yong Regiment under Yao Fan, as well as the squad leaders of the various work squads on the construction site, a total of 178, and this 5oo square meter dry base civil engineering building is full at the moment.

It is said that the cadres have promoted them somewhat, but in fact only one-third of them have a literacy rate, and the remaining two-thirds have learned a few hundred words after a period of literacy, and in this way, they have basically reached the level of those one-third of the literate people. Among them, there are more than a dozen cadres who have a very outstanding ability to learn on their own, and in addition to learning the words taught in the literacy class every night, they can also grasp their spare time to study on their own, and they have now read more than 2,000 words! This has reached the level of the second grade of primary school, and it is no exaggeration to say that this makes Yao Fan feel very gratified,

Yao Fan sat behind a red-clothed rostrum at the front of the conference room, behind him a rudimentary blackboard painted with black paint. The rostrum is made by a carpentry class, simple and bulky, one meter wide and six meters long.

"During this time I was in Jinan Mansion, and I came back to listen to Su Sanjie said, a large number of learning models have emerged among our cadres, in addition to the prescribed number of words, but also in the spare time with textbooks for self-study, after learning pinyin, now I have recognized more than 2,000 words, and what is more valuable is that there is more than one such cadre, there are more than a dozen! I'm so happy that we're here tonight, together proud and proud of them, celebrating them. ”

The cadres listened attentively, they are no strangers to the new word cadre now, Yao Fan has called all squad leaders and platoon leaders in person many times. The name does not cause any alarm, because the foreign word was introduced to China with the emergence of modern parties in China.

Yao Fan said: "Now, the cadres whose names I have registered are invited to come forward, and I will give you certificates."

"Zhou Niansheng."

"Here!"

"Yang Weiyi."

"Here!"

"Luo Qiren."

"Here!"

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With Yao Fan's roll call, one by one the cadres came to the stage with excitement, looked at Yao Fan with adoring eyes, and took the red paper certificate sold in the 2o11 stationery store from him one by one, which was written by Yao Fan with a brush, "Learning expert so-and-so, in the literacy competition, breakthrough 2ooo words, this certificate is awarded as a reward."

Yao Fan saluted each of them with a modern PLA military salute, and each of them returned the salute with the same standard posture.

Yao Fan was quite satisfied with the results of the training during this time, and these cadres, whether they were village warriors or not, had at least carried out basic training in queues and military postures, which was very beneficial to his rapid expansion of the army in the future.

"Next, the teacher Su Sanjie presented the awards, and everyone applauded to pay tribute to their excellent performance!" After speaking, Yao Fan immediately took the lead in applauding, and the conference room immediately applauded. The cadres looked enviously at these outstanding people who were in the limelight.

Yao Fan hoped to break the vicious circle of men and women not kissing each other in these years, so he simply arranged for the literacy teacher Su Sanjie to participate in this award event.

The third sister wore a long-sleeved green cloth shirt on her upper body, a short black embroidered vest on the outside, a black pleated skirt, and a pair of green liberation shoes at her feet were very inappropriate. This makes her in Yaojiazhuang, no matter where she goes, there are cadres and men staring at her feet.

Third Sister Su tonight, as usual, combed a bun on the back of her head and tied it with a wooden hairpin. With a red face, she handed over pens and bottles of ink to these cadres, and said with a smile, "Congratulations." These three simple words were taught to her by Yao Fan after she consulted her.

Some of these award-winning cadres smiled honestly, some nodded embarrassedly to the third sister, and some were so excited that their hands trembled. They saluted the third sister with the same respect as they respected Yao Fan.

"Now, Comrade Zhou Niansheng, the representative of the award-winning cadres, will say two words on behalf of everyone." Yao Fan continued according to the process arrangement.

The name Comrade has now been called by Yao Fan, and he has asked to call each other like this in the future. The bully was that the Qing Dynasty officials had no idea of the modern meaning of the word comrade.

Zhou Niansheng wore blue overalls and green liberation shoes on his feet, excitedly reciting the speech revised by Yao Fan on the stage and reciting the speech for an afternoon.

"Today I will tell you a story about my own life, this is a story of turning from a human to a ghost, and from a ghost to an adult......" Zhou Niansheng read aloud in a deep voice.

“…… I think that at the beginning, my family borrowed ten taels of silver from the landlord's old wealth in the year, and at the end of the year, the profit rolled and the profit became more than twenty-five taels......

…… This land can no longer be planted, and this debt will not be paid off in a lifetime! My family is a tenant, where can I beg for a living? When winter comes, my father will starve to death, my mother will starve to death, and I will starve to death before I see it! ……

…… But when I was about to starve to death, a thunderclap opened on a sunny day, and the stars in the sky fell, and I actually met our host! ……

…… The local tyrants and gentry forced me to have nowhere to live, but the proprietor saved a person like me who was suffering......

…… We poor people have suffered and suffered for thousands of years, but today we can meet the owner, it is like seeing the sun in the long night and driving away all the darkness......

…… The local tyrants and inferior gentry force people into ghosts, and the proprietors turn ghosts into human ......"

Zhou Niansheng choked up as he read it, tears flowed in his eyes, and he couldn't help himself.

The reason why Yao Fan chose Zhou Niansheng to be a representative is also because his situation is very representative, which can be described as bitter and bitter, Yao Fan helped him revise the speech, hoping to arouse the resonance of the cadres even more.

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