"Third master, the chief has something to say."

After Yang Meng arranged Cen Yuying's errand, Xu Ziwei was not in a hurry to go out, but opened his mouth with some hesitation.

"What? Do you want to go out too? ”

Yang Meng frowned and looked at Xu Ziwei, this thing is honestly a scum among the scum, and he can't be classified as a bastard in the good crowd for eight lifetimes, bullying the good and fearing the evil, forcing the good to be a prostitute is Xu Ziwei like this, even if he has his own pressure, many people have not escaped the scourge of Xu Ziwei, although some things are acquiesced by Yang Meng, but this object has not played some edge balls behind the scenes.

is also a scholar, in terms of morality, this Xu Ziwei is not a person compared with Wei Wu, Cen Yuying, Zeng Disheng, and Zuo Jigao; If you talk about talent and learning, Xu Ziwei is not inferior to them, if you want to be an official, you can climb to a high position in a short time, and this Xu Ziwei is not impossible.

But how many years can the Qing Dynasty have a good time? Although scholars attach great importance to fame, once Xu Ziwei is released, there is only one way to go, being slaughtered by Yang Meng.

Xu Ziwei's ability is very useful to Yang Meng, letting him out is a dead end, leaving him by his side, he Xu Ziwei is a gold ingot, in recent years, Yunnan has raised hundreds of officials, I am afraid that Cen Yuying will be released, and this one can't hold back.

"Uh...... That's not what the Comptroller wants to say......"

Glancing at Yang Sanye, who was full of gloomy face, cold sweat also oozed from Xu Ziwei's head, he had been by the third master's side for a long time, what this complexion represented, Xu Ziwei was very clear.

"Oh...... You ugly man, you can't be virtuous, don't think about the outgoing. Just follow Lao Tzu! By Lao Tzu's side. Your power is no less. There are some good things that you can also touch, once you release them, according to your virtue, I am afraid that you will not live for a long time.

The thing that is released outside, the thought is gone, what are you going to talk about? ”

Talking to Xu Ziwei, Yang Meng has always been straightforward, and people like Xu Ziwei are very knowledgeable about current affairs. Some words are better than not saying them.

"The third master has mentioned this matter before, and he has been released as an official, and the chief has long since rejected this idea, and following the third master is not inferior to the superintendent, this chief is very clear.

Since the end of last year, the river project has been dry for nearly four months, and the progress is also very good, but this money is ......."

Today's Yang family in Yunnan. It is the Yang family of Yang Sanye, whether it is the old man or uncle of Yunnan. In recent years, the Yang family's business has become bigger and bigger, but the money earned is not much, since the start of the river project, there are still millions of taels of trading in the past few years, but the profit and loss are flat, there are already some bad words below, but how to say it specifically, even if Xu Ziwei is a villain, it is not easy to speak.

Although the third master of the Yang family said that he protected the calf, but it also depends on what happened, the most intolerable thing for the third master is to be disobedient, the people below, what they say, somewhat accuse the third master, once there are many people who die because of this, I am afraid that the old man in Yunnan will not be able to spare him Xu Ziwei.

"Since we talked about silver, I'm afraid that the river project will lose money, right? Is the steward below scolding Lao Tzu again? These calves, it seems that Lao Tzu has killed fewer people recently, right? ”

With Xu Ziwei's words, Yang Meng also guessed a rough idea, although the Yang family is his own Yantang, but once the Yang family is about to fall, how many people are willing to listen to this Yantang is also a question.

"Hmm...... It is roughly the same as what the third master said, in the first two years, our family was on the right way to buy and sell, and there was a surplus of six or seven million a year, and most of this year's surplus was swallowed up by the river project, and next, it was necessary to consolidate the tributary rivers, build irrigation canals and drainage canals, and the following stewards roughly estimated it, even if we added additional income, we lost at least more than 10 million in the two lakes.

Once the Guhe canal construction spreads to the four provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, within five or six years, we will lose at least 3,000 to 40 million taels of silver.

Third master, the people below are right, the right way to buy and sell is our family's livelihood, you are so fierce to draw the right way to buy and sell the silver, I am afraid that in the next two years, the capital of this business will not be able to come out! ”

For Yang Sanye, Xu Ziwei is also respectful, the river project is as big as promised, and half of it has been completed with the strength of one family, which is really an unprecedented generosity!

Although the third master's wealth is wide, most of the silver looted is used for the military expenses of the two lakes and the funds for the river project, most of which are paid in advance by the Yang family's business, and now the Yang family's business has a lot of shareholders.

"A bunch of blindless fools! The Yang family is the foundation of Lao Tzu, how could Lao Tzu let the Yang family fall casually?

Did you kid see anything? ”

After scolding, Yang Meng didn't laugh angrily, looking at this smiling third master, Xu Ziwei really didn't know what to do.

"Third master, the chief is not good at business, let's talk about it roughly, don't be surprised if you make a mistake. Although you have purchased a large amount of land in the two lakes and it is necessary to build canals and rivers, grain is not a profitable business.

Even if the grain output of the two lakes doubles, it will not be possible to recover the capital within 10 or 20 years.

Although the barge can save eighty or ninety percent of the freight, this cost is not enough to match the output of grain, and all in all, it is difficult to recover the cost of this river project within ten years.

The trading on the right way, without a large amount of silver as the capital, can not be maintained at all, within three or five years, the investment of thirty or forty million taels, is beyond the Yang family's ability to bear.

The river project is a bottomless pit, although there are many benefits, but it has dragged down the Yang family, even if there are more benefits, it cannot be continued! ”

There is only one trade-off in business, that is, the cost of accounting, the cost of river engineering is too large, even Xu Ziwei is not good at business, can calculate the pros and cons.

"Huh...... That's a good calculation, but what if you add cloud smoke? ”

The Yang family's right way of trading does not make much money, but Yunyan is an exception, although Yang Meng is not very clear about the transaction volume of Yunyan now. But there is a surplus of twenty or thirty million taels a year. It should be guaranteed.

The scale of Yiliang Poison Factory has expanded again and again. I'm afraid the current monthly output is around one million catties, right? With this weapon to collect money, a mere river project is really nothing in Yang Meng's eyes.

"Third master, although Yunyan has made a lot of profits, Yunyan's surplus has always been under the control of Xinjun, Xishan, and Minghu, and the cost of each of these three places is not less than that of the river project. Even if there is some surplus, I am afraid that it will not be enough to support the future repair of the river! ”

Xu Ziwei said this, it really hit Yang Meng's weakness, although he has not paid much attention to the development of business in recent years, but the situation in the Qing Dynasty and abroad is also obvious.

Yunnan's exports are dominated by cloud tobacco, and bartering accounts for most of the share; although Yang Meng has opened up some new export projects to earn foreign exchange, it will take three or five years to really develop, and it is not a long time. In foreign revenues, Yunyan still dominates absolutely. Most of the others are still being improved and promoted.

Traditional tea goods, raw silk, porcelain, oil, tea goods are the Yang family's right way to buy and sell, raw silk, porcelain has just developed in the first two years, and most of the oil is used in Yunnan, on the right way of export business, only tea goods are considered a pillar, raw silk and porcelain want to make large-scale profits, it takes time.

As for domestic sales, the Qing Dynasty is up and down, and now it is such a dick, the demand has been curbed by the war, and if you want to make a large-scale profit in China, I am afraid it will be ten years later.

The New Army, Xishan, and Minghu can each be regarded as a river project, and the New Army is under the jurisdiction of the armed forces, and although the consumption here is not the largest, it is the most lasting consumption.

Xishan is the biggest cost of money, building a factory, opening a mine, doing research, opening a place is a million taels of silver, as the factory and mine to the two lakes of Sichuan, the cost here, will be bigger and bigger.

The factories and mines run by Yang Meng are very little profitable, most of them are internal friction, and arsenals, shipyards and other industries are not profitable now.

Although Minghu is just a academy, it costs a lot, helping students, supporting a large number of students in Yunnan, sending foreign students, sending technicians, and a Guangzhou Shipbuilding School, which is where money is spent.

The cost is large, the income is small, although the long-term benefits are endless, but now, the Yang family is only barely supporting the situation, and in the face of the funding gap, Yang Meng is not without a way out.

If you want to reverse the deficit of the Guhe canal, it is very simple for Yang Meng, selling a batch of resources, you can easily make up for this gap, in recent years, the refined copper mined and refined in Yunnan alone has been transported to Guangzhou, I am afraid it is worth tens of millions of taels of silver.

High-quality wrought iron, sulfur, lead and tin, these combined, more than refined copper, these surplus metal deposits, not buried in the ground, these things, after refining, stored in the zài warehouse, as long as it is shipped out, it is silver.

These are strategic resources, and they can easily change hands, whether it is Millican, England, France, or Oros in the north, these minerals must be coveted, and it is only a matter of time before they are exchanged for money.

But if you do this, once the war starts, I am afraid that these things sold by Yang Meng will be used on your own people.

The other way is simpler, that is, to use his harvest in the southeast peninsula and India, in addition to the unrealizable jade, precious stones, antiques, and resources, there is also a huge amount of cash silver.

Half of the southeast peninsula, the whole of India's gold and silver, was swept aside by Yang Meng, the total harvest, dozens of river projects are inexhaustible, as private property, these things are naturally more and better, but now this situation, unless the wealth at home and abroad can be looted on a large scale, it is difficult for the Yang family's business to maintain a balance of payments.

Looting foreign wealth, Yunyan has been doing, although in order to be safe, most of Yunyan chose to barter, but every year Yunyan's income is very expensive, since the British provided weapons to the Taiping Army, Yang Meng also changed his previous strategy, began to suck up the gold and silver property of England, but this matter is also a great hidden danger.

I'm afraid that the strange British businessmen in Shanghai Road are the British Lane's means of coping, right?

Looting the country, this thing is not very difficult to do, so that the sailor regiment training or the new army can be transformed into bandits, the two lakes, Guangzhou, Anhui, Jiangxi and even Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces can become the territory of Yang Meng's food, if you add a sacred treasury of Tianjing, you can also maintain the cost of repairing the canal, and there will be a lot of surplus.

But this thing is even more difficult to do, now the Qing Dynasty, the most money-short one is the imperial court, the other is the person who presides over the river project, once the two lakes, Anhui and Jiangxi are frequently looted, he is also the biggest suspect, just maintained a good relationship with Zeng Disheng, I am afraid it will be broken.

"I know about this matter, tell the people below, the old man in Yunnan, who will inject capital into the business in the near future, tentatively fifteen million taels of silver, you can publicize this matter well, after all, it involves the stability of the Yang family."

The foundation of the Yang family, Xu Ziwei knows a little, the affairs of the Southeast Peninsula, he has personally participated in it, and the harvest over there, not to mention a river project, I am afraid that it is ten, and the Yang family can also afford it.

Although Xu Ziwei said these things clearly, the people below were not clear, if the old man could inject capital, it would be the best choice.

"Third master, but do you want to move that batch of silver?"

"Hmmm! Let's solve the current dilemma first! After the old man injected capital, after deducting this part of the arrears, the rest was the Yang family's shares in the firm, you should inform Taichen in Guangzhou and Yang Fuze in Yiliang about this, and let them get this done. ”

Although it is private property, Yang Meng's account in his heart also understands that today's business name is not the Yang family's own, and there are hundreds of other shareholders, large and small, and there are hundreds of them. (To be continued......)