The problems within the fifteen business alliances were solved, everyone had the same goal, and the next thing was simple, and the heads of the thirteen big merchants began to enjoy the Lixiang Garden in the southeast of the famous town under the guidance of Pan Shicheng.

The stewards of the major businesses began to plan the letter of intent, and because the stewards of the Pan family had done their homework in advance, it was not so difficult to do.

Two days, one day to visit the garden, one day to appreciate antiques, Lixiangyuan's strong family business, the town of thirteen big businessmen. Taking advantage of the gap between the past two days, Yang Meng also let Qin Ziqi train a new army, which reassured these family owners.

With the financial resources and force, the stewards of each family started to do things very quickly, and early on the morning of the third day, a list was handed over to Yang Meng.

Listening to Qin Ziqi read the content again, Yang Meng's brows sometimes furrowed and sometimes stretched, what should I say? These merchants in the Qing Dynasty have a good vision of doing business, but the others are far behind.

Knowing that the foreign cloth, foreign iron, and foreign white sugar had a great impact on the Qing Dynasty, but these people did not have any scruples about the order, and an order was the amount of nearly 100 ships, with the strength of fifteen business alliances, it would not take three years and five years, and these industries in the Qing Dynasty would have to stop.

Self-striking bells, bone china, gold and silver bowls and chopsticks with mechanisms, and stainless steel carriages, these Western luxury goods, the thirteen major merchants have also ordered a lot. These objects had little impact on the people of the Qing Dynasty, but they also allowed Yang Meng to see the depth of these merchants.

The thirteen wealthy merchants, plus many merchants behind them, saw only profits, machines for weaving and spinning cloth for foreign devils, and technical equipment for smelting steel. It wasn't even mentioned at all. Except for daily necessities. It is a luxury item and a rare object of the West. Although there is no mention of opium in the list, there should have been a private deal.

Exports are even simpler, porcelain, tea, raw silk, almost the same three things occupy the vast majority of the share, oil, leather goods sporadically involved.

Buying and selling in this way is a sure profit for the Qing Dynasty, but with the terrifying amount of opium, this kind of business is more and more done. The more seriously the Qing Dynasty's national strength was consumed.

Most of the common people usually use copper coins, silver is expensive and money is cheap, and the court has invisibly made a big scratch on taxes. However, the total amount of taxes paid by the imperial court has not changed, and will even decrease, but the common people are overwhelmed.

The same tax, before Gengzi year, it may have been 100 catties of grain, but now it is 120 catties or 150 catties. Make a profit.

In the end, the common people did not have enough to eat, and the handicraft industry went bankrupt. The taxes of the imperial court will only decrease, and only the merchants and some bureaucrats will be fattened. Relying on opium, the great powers were rapidly depleting the Qing Dynasty's national strength.

Once there is a famine, how many people will raise their arms and shout, what will be the result? Unemployed and bankrupt craftsmen, hungry farmer tenants, how much will the raging tide annihilate?

And these are good things for Yang Meng, with his means in Yunnan, as long as the foundation is laid, encountering such a tide, it is a great opportunity, but to lay a good foundation in Yunnan, he is not clear, he must buy time for himself, for the development of Yunnan to create all the necessary conditions.

"Ziqi, go and ask Master Pan to come over."

It seems that some of the policies of the fifteen merchant alliances are about to change again, and these recent things have been a bit hasty, such as the rebellion in Yunnan, the riots of the mountain people, and the sudden East India Company, the establishment of the fifteen merchant alliances.

These things made Yang Meng feel that he was a little busy, and he had a lot of constraints on his actions, and after finishing this ritual in Guangzhou, he would have to take care of it when he went back.

"Xingdou, what's the change?"

Early in the morning, his beloved son-in-law came over to him, there must be something, Pan Shicheng's heart that had just stabilized in the past two days was slowly hung up again.

Yang Meng frowned and said his analysis, Pan Shicheng also felt that it was like a slap in the face, but he didn't expect the foreign devil to hold back such a scourge of the Qing Dynasty.

"Brute! These foreign devils really don't have a good heart, not to mention the opium poison in the Qing Dynasty, they are still wrapped in such evil intentions, once the tide of civil unrest sweeps the Qing Dynasty, the land has nothing to produce, and the people have no food to live on, it is unimaginable!

Xingdou, how should we deal with it? ”

Pan Shicheng, who had just woken up, only felt numb all over his body, and cold sweat soaked through his clothes in an instant. He was a businessman and a scholar, and he read a lot of history because of his hobby of antiques.

The civil unrest that swept through China, the most recent is Li Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chuang rebelled in the Central Plains, Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Sichuan, starved countless people, and people cannibalized each other.

"Take over the opium of the East India Company, and fifteen merchant alliances barter!"

Yang Meng's idea is simple, but it is absolutely practical, his own exchange of cloud smoke for opium gold and silver, the merchants of the Qing Dynasty bartered goods, and without the outflow of massive silver, this catastrophe can at least be delayed for a moment, even if it comes in advance, the scale will be greatly reduced.

"It's simple, just let me know, there's no problem with the list submitted by the stewards, right?"

Bartering is the means of ordinary transactions, and when it comes to this, the thirteen will not have an opinion.

"You can't say that there is no problem, but it's good to say that it is in the past. Father-in-law, these days, you can gather Mifa and other foreign businessmen in Guangzhou! Take out a thirty-percent share of the list and ask them to gather merchants from their respective countries to distribute these orders.

In addition to each manifest, it must be equipped with arms and machinery and equipment, such a large order, I think those foreign merchants will agree to this request, and can get good things, with this list, our affairs are much easier. ”

Originally, Yang Meng was in order to add the arms and machinery and equipment needed by Yunnan to the order, and now fifteen business alliances have appeared, which makes Yang Meng more confident.

"Good! I didn't expect that the establishment of this business alliance would have so many benefits for us, or you kid is young and lively, and if I go up, I will only mess things up! ”

Pan Shicheng also felt that the task assigned to him by his beloved son-in-law Yang Meng was smashed by his arrogance and slackness. and almost brought disaster to himself. Compare yourself with your son-in-law. It's a bit of a stupe.

I heard a letter from Yunnan that my in-law Yang Shiqin has been half hidden, should I also follow suit?

"Huh! My father-in-law is in his prime, it's nothing more than negligence, how can Xingdou compare with you in business? ”

The meaning of Pan Shicheng's words, Yang Meng also knows it. But Yunnan has already rested an old man, on the southeast coast, someone must be in charge, his own boss does not have that wrist, and his cronies, there is no such talent, Ding Taichen cultivated, but he can take the position of Lao Taishan, but now the time is not enough, and then Ding Taichen still lacks some experience.

"Alright. What kind of sycophancy are we doing, and the matter is settled. I'll go down and arrange the negotiations, English merchant, won't one be invited? ”

"Hmmm! One was not invited, but the news was leaked to them, and the evil deeds of the East India Company were also passed on, saying that this was a means for us to protect ourselves, so that their own merchants would put some pressure on the East India Company, so that they would not worry about not bowing their heads. ”

On the same day, Pan Shicheng spread the news, the huge order made the businessmen of Mifa countries crazy, the order of a business alliance, involving countless goods, this is definitely an opportunity to make a fortune! And the clouds and smoke that have recently swept Europe and the United States are also in these export manifests, so fools don't go to participate!

In the past ten days, the big businessmen of the five major ports of the Mifa countries have gathered in Guangzhou, and many big merchants in England have also heard the news, when they learned that England was excluded, and the evil deeds of the East India Company.

The East India Company was not the same as the merchants of England and Fortune, but these British merchants immediately became the embodiment of the messenger of justice, not only sending gifts to comfort Pan Shicheng, who was robbed of the goods, but also jointly putting pressure on the East India Company.

Since more than ten years ago, the trade monopoly of the East India Company was broken by its own merchants, and the East India Company slowly withdrew from the maritime trade in Europe, and could only profit from opium and cotton in India.

The withdrawal from the European market also had a huge impact on the East India Company, without domestic support, coupled with the frequent rebellions in India, the costs were huge, and the profits of the entire East India Company were shrinking year by year.

The East India Company's commercial representative in Guangzhou is also ambitious and has a very high business vision, Yunyan is the East India Company's opportunity to carry out European maritime trade again, huge profits, coupled with the ability to communicate with the country, the entire East India Company, the rise of the United Nations is not without opportunities.

But the enemy he encountered was Yang Meng, and the Qing Dynasty he preached to restore the old thirteen lines became so vulnerable in the face of huge commercial profits.

Soon after the pressure from the English businessmen, a letter of appointment and dismissal from Hong Kong Island arrived, along with the new commercial representative in Guangzhou. The commercial representative of the East India Company, who had both ambition and business vision, could only board the cargo ship bound for Hong Kong with great frustration.

The new representative of the East India Company in Guangzhou also showed sincerity, and the matter of monopoly rights was no longer on the table, but he could still do it by secretly promising to give Pan's firm some preferential conditions.

And the English merchants who followed him were also impossible and dare not refuse by the merchants of the Qing Kingdom, and he had 100% confidence in the trip to Guangzhou.

The merchants of Mifa and other countries who had just gathered also had the intention of watching the excitement, and they all expressed their support for the Pan family, the Qing businessman who brought them huge orders, but to what extent they could support it, only the ghost knew how much.

For the new commercial representative of the East India Company and a dozen or so English merchants, Pan Shicheng seemed a little cold, and only put forward one request, that is, the two sides secretly conducted a duel, and the number must be more than 500 people.

If you go back ten or twenty years, the commercial representative of the East India Company will not hesitate to accept this request for a duel, but now! To duel with the merchants of the Qing Kingdom, that is undoubtedly to lower one's status.

However, if he refused, he would miss out on a huge order, which was not in the interests of the East India Company and the English merchants, and the commercial representative was in a dilemma.

Qing people have a hobby of watching the excitement, and the same is true for foreign devils, several merchants from Mifa countries, and English businessmen are also instigating behind their backs, as long as it is not the native who dies, it doesn't matter if the duel is not there!

The commercial representative of the East India Company, enduring the unhappiness in his heart, agreed to this proposal, and only asked Pan Shicheng to give them ten days to train the personnel involved in the duel.

Of course, Pan Shicheng agreed, this time the battle was just to show and test the combat strength of the Yunnan New Army, as for who to duel with, it didn't matter, and the other purpose was to let the powers and countries see that the Qing Dynasty still had an army worthy of a war. With this appointment, Yang Meng's backhand prepared in Yunnan can play some deterrent role.

And Yang Meng's idea of revenge was also persuaded back by Pan Shicheng and Wei Wu, now is really not the time for revenge, Yang Meng can only wait for Yunnan to gain a firm foothold in the future, and then repay this blood debt exponentially. (To be continued......)