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Volume III Aftermath 70 Xiguan Merchant

After the expansion of Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Company, Meihua Company is still the major shareholder, accounting for 51% of the shares, Yang Limin also took the opportunity to become a shareholder, increasing the shares from the original 15% to 20%, and the remaining 29% was divided by new shareholders such as Wu Youcai's family, Chen Bolian's family, and Huo Zhiting's family

Situ Nan didn't know what those people were thinking about buying shares in Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical, but he instructed Meihua Company to firmly control the Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Company.

Under Situ Nan's instructions, Meihua Company later converted the 1 million debts lent by Meihua Bank to Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Company into shares, and again increased the shares of Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Company to 70%.

"This Chen Bolian is very interesting!" Situ Nan said to Lin Yimin. During this time, Situ Nan refocused on Guangzhou, and found a lot of interesting things. The Meihua Company has its own independent intelligence system, which can collect a lot of information on the wealthy and political leaders in Guangzhou. About Chen Bolian, it is recorded like this: .

Chen Bolian, born in 1884, is a native of Xiqiao, Nanhai, Guangdong. The grandson of industrialist Chen Qiyuan, who is now a wealthy local businessman in Guangzhou, operates industries such as tea silk, coal, transportation, insurance, and banking, and has a large family capital, estimated at 500 to 10 million.

Chen graduated from Queen's College in Hong Kong in his early years, and after graduation, he returned to Guangzhou to inherit his ancestral business and run Guangzhou Changzhan Silk Village. Soon, he became a comprador of the Guangzhou branch of the British HSBC Bank.

Chen initiated the establishment of the Guangdong Insurance Company in 1908. Participated in the organization of the Guangdong Business Group, and served as the head of the Guangdong Business Group in August this year.

Chen attended the Panama International Exposition as an associate of the Guangdong Export Association and was the head of the industrial delegation to the United States. Therefore, Chen not only has a British background, but also has good friends with American capital, and also has certain trade contacts with the United States and Chinese companies.

Chen had great influence in the business, government, and military circles in Guangzhou, and was one of the few people who could influence the situation in Guangdong.

"So, this Chen Bolian is really a man of the year in Guangzhou? Sword businessman, I think he is even better than our Meihua company! Situ Nan said with a smile.

"It's true that Chen has a lot of strength, but it's far from us. Guangzhou has been a thriving business since ancient times, and people here have been fond of doing business for thousands of years.

Now the situation is turbulent, and the warlords of the Beiyang Army, the Revolutionary Party, the Gui faction, and the Yunnan faction have come to Guangzhou as if they were coming to Guangzhou.

This Guangzhou business is just a group to protect itself, and it wants to do business with peace of mind, and it is unrealistic to say that there are other ambitions.

Chen Bolian is not the only leader in the Guangzhou business group, as far as I know, the republican deliberative system is usually adopted, and if Chen is anything great, it is also the result of the business group. ”

Lin Yimin analyzed.

As a former member of the Xiguan merchants, he knew Guangzhou better than Situ Nan.

He couldn't help but think of the year in Xinhai, when his family's shop was looted by bandits, and his father died soon after, and the family road began to deteriorate, so he understood the practices of the Guangzhou merchant group, but he did not have a good impression of those so-called revolutionary troops, thinking that those people were more hypocritical and bad, and they still had to use a beautiful banner to do bad things.

Now it is Lu Rongting's Gui army who rules Guangzhou, Lu Rongting is a bandit, you can imagine what the soldiers he led are like, the whole city is made into a miasma by these people, and the atmosphere is even worse than that of the previous dynasty. Thinking of this, Lin Yimin's brows furrowed.

"Hmm. This Guangzhou merchant is indeed different from other places, the business consciousness is awakened, and at the same time has a good strength, a bit like Venice or Hamburg a few hundred years ago, the merchant ruled the city, in order to protect their own interests, the courage to fight. Situ Nan nodded and praised.

I added in my heart, "It's a pity that this is China, which pays attention to unification, and the status of merchants has always been suppressed, so they are not as good as the Dutch merchants in the Netherlands." ”

Speaking of Chen Bolian, Situ Nan has some impressions that he seems to be the villain of history. If Situ Nan remembers correctly, a few years later, during the Guangzhou Merchant Incident, Chen Bolian was defeated by the hodgepodge of peasants, student army, Cantonese army, and security corps armed with Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the Three People's Principles, and finally fled to Hong Kong.

Not only was the family property that he worked hard to manage confiscated, but he also had to eat dead cats, be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, and be spurned by others.

In fact, after the failure of the merchant group, the Guangzhou merchants also returned to the position of oppression and exploitation of the merchants in the past.

Do you want to mingle with these losers? Will it be against those Whampoa troops in the future?

Situ Nan hesitated in his heart.

"That's right, young master, speaking of the business group, the business group in Taishan and Xinhui counties is also controlled by our people, I received a report before, Xinhui is a little better, I have been in contact with Li Zongren before, his military discipline is not bad, but it is not good on Taishan. Those Guangxi soldiers are similar to bandits, bullying and dominating the market, doing bad things, and Taishan is complaining bitterly.

The merchant group in Taishan ordered a batch of guns from us, ready to fight the bandits, and let them restrain themselves. Lin Yimin said again.

Many of the Chinese in North America are from Taishan, and even many high-ranking people from Taishan in the Zhi Gong Party have also received this information, and they all have the desire to hope for the peace of their hometown.

Well, it seems that Situ Nan's ancestral home is also from Taishan, so Lin Yimin felt the need to report this matter to Situ Nan.

"Hmm. Got it. Situ Nan replied lightly, he knew that the people of Guangzhou had a very strong sense of region, and Gui Jun would definitely not stay long if he continued like this.

The kind of Guangdong-Guizhou war that will start next year is proof of this.

Fighting is not Situ Nan's strong point, and he always feels that those people are like dogs eating dogs, if Meihua is not ready to make some small moves, Situ Nan is too lazy to pay attention.

He thought about it for a while, and then asked Lin Yimin, "By the way, how about that A-level target?" Tell me about it. ”？？？？？

Although he is not very optimistic about Chen Bolian's future, it is only the future, and there are still several years to go.

In business, Situ Nan still decided to increase limited cooperation with Chen Bolian and other Guangzhou businessmen.

The Chen family started their business from silk reeling and still has a silk factory and a textile factory. Situ Nanju invested in the textile light industry in Guangzhou, and the results were fast, so he was willing to cooperate with the Chen family in the textile industry.

Situ Nant had an opinion on Chen Bolian's side, but he didn't have a good impression and felt that Chen Bolian was the kind of person who was shrewd and homely.

Especially respectful to the British, although they are shrewd, they lack a little backbone. But overall, it's a good businessman!

Chen Bolian seems to be busy with the affairs of Jardine Matheson, putting more investment in finance, real estate and other industries, and some look down on the industry, and have little interest in the cooperation proposed by the Meihua Company.

Situ Nan had no choice but to give up and let Meihua find another partner or operate it as a sole proprietorship.

Although it was impossible to negotiate textile cooperation, the Guangzhou business group reached an arms deal with the Meihua Company.

In the face of the increasingly chaotic Gui army, the Guangzhou merchant group felt that it was necessary to strengthen its own armament, so they ordered 3,000 rifles, 20 pistols, 10 machine guns, 5 mortars, and a number of bullets from the Meihua Company, with a total value of 500,000 yuan.

This made Meihua Company make a small profit. In line with the principle of being responsible for customers, when parting, Situ Nan had the heart to wake up Chen Bolian: "Head Chen, I think that the merchant group is a civilian armed force after all, and if it does not have a higher name or stronger strength, it may inevitably collapse in the hands of ruthless warlords or military governments in the end." You should take precautions. ”

"Mr. William is too worried, the merchant group is the power to maintain the merchant, not the ** arm. As long as we don't oppose the government, I don't think anyone will dare to embarrass us at the risk of the world's condemnation. ”

Chen Bolian smiled nonchalantly.

Looking at Chen Bolian's confident appearance, Situ Nan shook his head slightly and didn't say anything. Although we have certain business contacts, Chen Bolian is a friend of the British-funded Jardine Matheson & Co. in Shamian, not Meihua's own people.

"What a man! I don't know what to do. Young Master, you really lifted him up when you met him. If you don't listen to us, you will suffer sooner or later. ”

Lin Yimin looked at Chen Bolian's distant back and pouted.

"Hmm. He is too proud, and sooner or later he will suffer. Situ Nan smiled faintly.

After he hinted, Meihua Company rarely had a relationship with Chen Bolian in other aspects except for business dealings?????

Revisiting the old place, Situ Nan deliberately visited the urban area of Guangzhou, and found a lot of familiar place names in the mottled memory and vivid reality.

For example, Xiguan Commercial Street, the powerful villas in Dongshan District, and the foreign companies in Shamian make Situ Nan feel fresh and real, and he thinks that the yellowed pictures of history will gradually become clear, and then Situ Nan's whole body and mind are integrated into it.

Compared with the international flower metropolis in memory, Guangzhou in 1919 has more charm.

Situ Nan hugged Andy, who was looking around curiously, and walked side by side with Laura on the street.

"Guangzhou is much bigger than Singapore, and it's also very interesting, and there are a lot of interesting places." Laura laughed.

She was dressed in a white foreign group, wearing a wide lady's hat, holding Situ Nan's arm, leisurely. This family of three has attracted the attention of many people on the street, although Guangzhou people are accustomed to seeing Western scenery, but they are rarely seen in Laura, looking at the car that slowly follows behind this family of three There is indescribable envy.

Situ Nan and the others had a good time, but the bodyguards who followed them were scared, and they carefully covered in the crowd, paying close attention to the surrounding Yiqiē, until they walked in front of a magnificent Xiguan mansion, and the bodyguards quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Young master, young grandmother, here, welcome to the Lin Mansion." Lin Yimin said respectfully and invited Situ Nan and his wife in. This big house originally belonged to Lin Yimin's family, but later after his father's business went bankrupt, he sold it to someone else, and now it is back in Lin Yimin's hands.

"This house is nice! Typical Xiguan big house, brick and wood structure, carved beams and painted buildings, hollow wooden windows, there is a wide patio inside, planting some flowers and plants, drinking tea is the most suitable. ”

Situ Nan praised and felt that the life of Xiguan merchants was quite leisurely.

Perhaps, it is this leisure, less bloody, and in the end can only disappear into the yellowed scroll of history.

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