$10,000 isn't much, but it can also buy some good antique calligraphy and paintings.

Not long after asking Lu Yuanding, Yan Shao took a few antiques, calligraphy and paintings that Lu Yuanding had purchased for him and set off for Anqing, the provincial capital of Anhui.

Of course, when he helped Yan Shao buy these antique calligraphy and paintings, it is unknown how many pieces Lu Yuanding left behind. However, Yan Shao didn't care much, although his main scope of activities in the future was Anhui, it didn't mean that he wouldn't deal with Lu Yuanding.

Not to mention anything else, the equipment he used to open the factory needs to be purchased from Shanghai, as well as the cotton needed after the yarn factory is set up.

Nantong's chicken foot cotton is extremely famous, it is the best variety of cotton in Chinese mainland, and has won the reputation of long strength and toughness in history, ranking first in Asia. Chicken foot cotton was very suitable for the production of roving made by local soil weaving and sold well in the domestic market at that time. Later, the textile industry developed to worsted spinning production, and chicken foot cotton gradually withdrew from the historical stage.

However, at this time, the yarn mills, including Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory, are almost all based on 12 counts, so there will not be too many problems in this regard.

And to buy cotton from Nantong, if you can have the cooperation of the local government, it will naturally be the best...

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After Yan Shao arrived in Shanghai this time, he did not purchase the equipment he needed to go to Anhui together, but planned to obtain permission to set up a factory first, and by the way, he was looking for a site to build a factory in the future, and then considered the purchase of equipment.

After all, if you buy the equipment before you even get the factory site, where are you going to put the equipment when it comes?

"I just hope that person named Chengxun can deal with it better..."

Thinking so, the passenger ship has arrived in Anqing, the capital city of Anhui...

Chengxun's full name, Ilgen Jueluo Chengxun, is a Manchurian as he sees, and he belongs to the Manchurian Zhenghongqi people. Successively served as Fengjin Road, Ningshaotai Road. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), he moved to Jiangsu as an envoy, and the following year he was promoted as a political envoy. He was transferred to Zhejiang as the political envoy and nursing governor, and was awarded the governor of Anhui in the 27th year of Guangxu, and was transferred to the general of Jiangning in the 32nd year of Guangxu.

In other words, if Yan Shao wants to stay in Anhui, Chengxun is an unavoidable problem.

After arriving in Anqing, Yan Shao did not go directly to visit Chengxun, but first arranged a place for Ileno and the others, and then brought the gifts purchased by Li Liang and Lu Yuanding to the door.

In the governor's yamen, Chengxun had just had lunch, and he stretched his waist a little, and just as he was about to go back to the house with his concubine in his arms to sleep for a while, a subordinate ran over to him to report the news of Yan Shao's visit.

And, of course, the gifts you bring with you when you visit...

"Yan Shao..." touched the beard on his chin, Chengxun was so good that he knew this person.

If it was more than a hundred years ago, Yan Shao could only be regarded as a novelwriter, and he couldn't be on the stage at all, but in this era when everything was not as good as foreigners, Yan Shao was almost the same as the celebrities of the past in the eyes of many people, so Chengxun didn't dare to be too lazy...

"Since it's that person, then invite him in..."

"Yes!"

Nodding his head, the subordinate hurriedly ran out.

In the gatehouse, Yan Shaozheng and Li Liang and others were waiting quietly, because they had made some silver when they came in, and they also knew that Yan Shao was a famous person, so the people in the gatehouse did not dare to snub Yan Shao and his party.

After Chengxun's meaning came out, the people in the house hurriedly welcomed Yan Shao in.

In the main hall, Yan Shao saw a middle-aged man in his 50s, with a fat figure, a white face, and a somewhat sparse beard...

"Meet the Governor...", Yan Shao arched his hand two steps forward.

It stands to reason that he, who is white, should kneel down and kowtow a few times at this time.

However, after returning to China, he met so many officials, and no one had ever asked him to do so, and Yan Shao was naturally happy to do so.

Seeing that Yan Shao just gave it away, Chengxun didn't care much.

First, the gifts given by Yan Shao were very kind, although when Lu Yuanding, the old man, helped Yan Shao, he did take some for himself from the inside, but he didn't just take money and didn't do anything, so the few antiques he bought did have some value.

Moreover, with Yan Shao's current reputation, if Chengxun wants Yan Shao to kneel, Yan Shao will kneel, and Chengxun may have to be insulated from Corporal Lixian's words from now on, plus the reproaches that may arise in all aspects, in contrast to the two, Chengxun is also happy.

"Mr. Yan doesn't have to be polite, please sit down first..."After signaling Yan Shao to take a seat, Chengxun continued. Sir, is it for the purpose of doing business? ”

Yan Shao said that he wanted to run an industry in Shanghai, and it had already spread, and he came to Anhui this time, Chengxun could naturally guess it.

Seeing that Chengxun was so direct, Yan Shao didn't sell it, and besides, he wasn't used to the way that no matter what happened, he needed to talk for half a day first, so he got straight to the point.

"That's right, when I return to China this time, I plan to set up some businesses..."

After receiving a positive answer, Seongxun was in good spirits. "Then I don't know where Mr. plans to set up a factory, and how much will he invest?" The words are quite eager, as if they are extremely looking forward to such a thing as setting up a factory.

"This..."Seeing Chengxun's look so much in anticipation, Yan Shao felt a little strange in his heart, secretly wondering if this guy wanted to make some money on this?

Some things in the late Qing Dynasty, Yan Shao still knew a little.

Later, when the extremely famous Zhang Jian set up the Dasheng Yarn Factory, under the interrogation of Liu Kunyi, the new governor of Liangjiang and the minister of Nanyang, Zhang Jian and Sheng Xuanhuai reached the "Tonghu Yarn Factory Joint Agreement", more than 40,000 spindles of official machines were divided, and half of Zhang Jianling's price was 250,000 taels as Dasheng's official shares (half of Sheng Ling's set up another yarn factory in Pudong, Shanghai), and Dasheng's share capital of 250,000 taels was also raised by the Sheng's help of the vast Shentong, this clause was written in black and white on the contract, signed in addition to the two of them, as well as witnesses Zheng Xiaoxu and He Meisheng.

Later, more than 20,000 spindles of official aircraft were transported to Nantong by warships, but Zhang Jian found that these British-made machines had been shelved at the Shanghai dock for five years, exposed to the sun and rain, even the packaging wooden boxes were broken, and the parts of the machines were rusted and broken. It took 6,000 taels just to carry and wipe the rust. The British engineer who came to install it also said that he had never seen such a machine damaged.

Moreover, the funds promised by Sheng Xuanhuai have not been in place, and they have not fulfilled a single point at the end of the day.

And then what? "Pay interest on an annual basis, regardless of profit or loss", that is to say, whether you make money or lose money, no one cares, as long as you remember to pay dividends to the official every year, and not a penny less...

With such an example, Yan Shao can't be vigilant.

After all, if Chengxun plans to use this way to make money by investing in shares and refusing, it is tantamount to offending this guy, don't refuse? That's tantamount to pheating yourself...

Seeing that Yan Shao seemed to be a little embarrassed on his face, Chengxun smiled slightly, and when Yan Shao was thinking about how to refuse Chengxun for a while, but he would not offend him, Chengxun spoke directly.

"I don't know if Mr. Lu Dao has heard of the "Articles of Association of the Reward Company" issued by the imperial court a few years ago..."

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