Chapter 57 Factory Auction

Think about the money that the Guo family has made in the sugar factory in the past year! Guo Dong turned his head to look at his two most outstanding sons, and the god ordered with some seriousness: "Chen'er! You go to the Huo family's money bank tomorrow and deposit all the 500,000 taels of silver in our family! In addition, all the land deeds and factories of our family are also mortgaged, and see how much silver can be lent from the Huo family's money bank! Quan'er, you go to your father-in-law, and say that I have something to discuss with him!"

"Father, what are you?"

Guo Dongquan sighed and said: "In the past year or so, you have all seen it! The factories built by the Huo family are one after another, and the amount of money they have earned is too much to count! The strength of the family is getting stronger and stronger, and even the governors of Fujian and Zhejiang have formed a family with them! Moreover, they have also built railways in Taiwan! In the past year, I have seen clearly, and if you want to make money in the future, you should still invest in industry! Therefore, now there is such a good opportunity, put it in front of our eyes, and our Guo family can't let it go!"

"Father, since these factories are so profitable, why does the Huo family still sell these factories?" asked Guo Chen with some puzzlement.

"Hehe, there may be some people like you who can't understand it! The Huo family's ambition is very big, and they no longer look down on the money made by these factories! Look at the shipyards and iron factories in Keelung, as well as the railways that are being built in Taiwan! I have inquired a long time ago, these factories are called heavy industry by foreigners, and the silver invested in each such heavy industry factory is millions of taels of silver! Of course, these factories also make more money after they are put into operation, but I don't know too much about the specific amount! But I want to make a million taels of silver a year!"

"Tens of millions of taels of factory !!"

"I can earn millions of taels of silver a year!!"

Originally, I thought that my family was in a sugar factory and land, and I could earn 40,000 or 50,000 taels of silver a year, which was already a remarkable achievement!

"Yes, this is just a factory, plus their other industries, even if there is no income of tens of millions of taels of silver this year, I'm afraid it's about the same!" Guo Dongquan said with some emotion.

This astronomical number made the two sons, who claim to be usually well-informed, completely stunned!

"Therefore, if our Guo family wants to develop, it is no longer enough to rely on land alone, only by relying on continuous investment in the factory, can our Guo family continue to develop and grow, and we do not seek to become a top family like the Huo family, but at least it must not be inferior to other families in Taiwan! Now, the two of you have also become a family, and you usually do things steadily! This auction of the Huo family factory is related to the rise and fall of our Guo family in the future, you must be cautious and not make any mistakes! Understand?" Guo Dong said solemnly.

"Got it, Father!"

Looking at the solemn and serious expressions on the faces of his two sons, Guo Dongquan couldn't help but nod with relief! Although they are now limited to their age and knowledge, the two of them are not calm and calm enough in dealing with the world! However, compared to most of their peers, they are already very outstanding!

"Now your two younger brothers are still in middle school! I want to wait until they graduate from middle school in the next year! I am going to send them to a foreign country to study at a university! After all, this industry is passed on from foreigners, and they can increase their knowledge when they go to school! When they come back, they will be able to help us!"

"Yes, father, or are you thoughtful!"

"Well, don't talk about it, you guys go quickly! Settle the matter of the silver as soon as possible! There are still three days to go, and the auction organized by the Huo family in Taipei Fucheng is about to start! This opportunity our Guo family can't miss no matter what!" Guo Dongquan said categorically.

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The Huo family's auction was not made public, but only invitations were issued to those landlords and businessmen who had already invested in industry or who were interested in investing in industry! However, in recent years, there are really many people who can't help but want to make a fortune, and there are even more people who have vision and strength! Therefore, the news about the Huo family's auction has spread from one to the next, and in less than 10 days, not only the whole island of Taiwan has some strength and strength people know, but even Fujian, Guangdong, and the other side of the sea In Shanghai and other places, many people who have contact with the Huo family or know about the Huo family have also rushed to Taiwan after getting the news of the auction!

"This is Taiwan?" Jerry asked in disbelief as he looked at the neat harbor not far away, the high-pitched roar of machinery in the distance, the towering chimneys as dense as the rails of warships, and the continuous tall factories.

You must know that in Europe, the most important impression of China propagated by various countries is that the people are braided, numb, withered, there is no industry in the country, and the sewage on the streets is overflowing, a dirty and messy pagan country!

But in front of him, the great port of the East, which is comparable to the coastal ports of European countries, does not see at all the conditions he has heard of! All kinds of trees and flowers planted along the streets decorate a city immersed in the warm morning sunshine with vitality! There is no dirty mess in other ports in China, and some of them are workers in blue overalls who hurriedly go to work and students who wear ruddy faces and neat school uniforms to go to school!

To tell the truth, although Taiwan has only been developing under Huo Shan's hands for one year, the appearance of the entire island has changed by a great margin thanks to his large-scale investment! Of course, the reason why he dared to carry out construction here with great fanfare was because all the officials in these places had already been replaced by his own people! Although he spent a lot of money on donating officials! Under the care of the He family, he did not spend much effort!

Of course, because of the short period of time, Taiwan is still a somewhat wild island in the minds of the people! Only those who have been to Taiwan know that earth-shaking changes have taken place here! And those who have not been here do not know that there is such a paradise in China!

"Hehe, Jerry! I don't believe it! Many foreigners are also very surprised when they come to Taiwan! But it is indeed a region of China, and this is not Europe thousands of miles away!" Li Wenbin looked at his college classmates in Europe and couldn't help but smile a little proudly.

"Li, how did all this happen, is the rest of China the same as here?" Jerry is a descendant of an ancient European aristocracy, and this time he came to the East to be in charge of the family's business here! Of course, the first place he went to after coming to the Far East was Hong Kong, the British colony here, and he had never been to any other Chinese city!

Hearing his words, Li Wenbin couldn't help but shake his head with some regret! At present, no other city in China, including Shanghai, is as clean as this seaport named Kaohsiung!

He is a real Hong Kong native, and he has been living and fishing on Hong Kong Island since his grandfather's generation! It was not until his father made a fortune as an overseas producer that he had the opportunity to study in Britain! And he met Jerry! He came here today because the Huo family's fishing company is about to be auctioned, and the Huo family, not to mention these enterprises of dozens of tons and hundreds of tons, most of which are sail fishing boats, is no longer eye-catching, but it has strength, and there are several fishing companies staring at it! Of course, the Li Wenbin family's Li Fishing Company is one of them! However, the Huo family's fishing company was too big for him to eat alone, so he brought his classmate who came to China with him, knowing that his family is an important shareholder of HSBC! As long as the two are in partnership, there will be a great opportunity!

"Jerry, the reason why such a big change has happened here is because of the Huo family, our destination this time!"

"Oh my God! there is such a family in China, and the investment in this harbour is at least 20 million pounds!" cried Jerry in disbelief.

His noisy voice attracted the attention of the workers on the docks, but when everyone saw that it was a white-skinned and blue-eyed foreigner with a big nose, they shook their heads and went about their work! Because almost every foreigner who came to Taiwan for the first time and came to Kaohsiung had this expression, and they had already seen a lot of it.

Looking at everyone's strange eyes, Li Wenbin pulled Jerry with a little blushing and got into a carriage waiting on the edge of the dock.

"Lee, I'm sorry! I was rude just now!" the good aristocratic education he had received in the family made him ashamed of his humiliating behavior just now.

"It's all right, Jerry, let's study the goal of our trip! It has more than six hundred fishing boats, worth five million taels of silver, and a million pounds! It will probably take a lot of effort to take it!"

"Don't worry, Lee, this time I'll have 600,000 pounds, plus your family's funds, enough for us to take over the company completely!" Jerry said confidently. Although his family has a noble status in Europe and is also very wealthy, it is not his turn to use this money! This time he also received a million pounds of money from his family in the Far East, and if he loses all of it, then he can only hold on, and the pitiful commission given by the family every month is too much, and the theory of survival of the fittest is very popular in Europe!

"I hope so!" Li Wenbin looked out of the car window at the busy street, and muttered to himself with some concern.

He is not Jerry, a foreign devil who has just come to China and does not know anything, he has worked hard for the Huo family, and he clearly knows what a huge family it is! It can't help but control Taiwan, and its tentacles are all over the provinces of the Qing Dynasty and Nanyang

The entire Far East, through the intricacies of the various forces tied together by its huge commercial interests, is a little-known underground kingdom!