Chapter 58 Key Customers

After receiving the news of the auction and interested in the Huo family's factory, all the people gathered in Taipei City through their own channels! Of course, their silver had already been deposited in the Huo family's money banks all over the Far East!

On March 16, 1881, the troupe of the Yu Chūn Garden left the opera garden early, and the internal guards directly under the control of Huo Shan also surrounded the place! The reason why it attaches so much importance is because a huge transaction involving tens of millions of taels of silver is about to be held here, and the huge wealth cannot tolerate the slightest sloppiness! Even Taiwan, which is already secretly controlled by the Huo Jiajun!

"It's all arranged?" Huo Shan stood on the stage nearly one meter high, looked at the dense tables and chairs around him, and asked lightly.

"Don't worry, young master, it's all set up!" replied Horay calmly.

"Well, what about Fauber?"

"Fu Bo is outside to greet the guests, there are too many people who came this time, it has already exceeded our expectations! And many of them are the family members of the feudal officials of the Qing Dynasty! By the way, Fu Bo said that the young master's father-in-law will come over this time. ”

"He's coming too?" Huo Shan asked in surprise as the middle-aged man in a suit and tie appeared in front of him, without the slightest traditional Chinese literati temperament.

"Yes! I guess he has taken a fancy to our Huo family's silk reeling factory in Shanghai! The machine that was pulled from us last time made him a lot of money! Now he probably wants to expand the scale of his factory again! After all, these silk reeling factories have made no profit in the past few years!"

"Can't you see it, Horay! I know a lot!" Huo Shan turned to look at the big man like his shadow and said with a smile.

Hearing the young master's teasing words, Huo Lei touched the back of his head with a little blush, and said with a smile: "I've been following the young master for a long time, and I've learned two tricks myself! Of course, I can't compare with you!"

With a wave of his hand, Huo Shan interrupted what he was about to say, and said calmly: "Don't say that, people have their own strengths and weaknesses, just like your kung fu, even if Huo Long and they are not as good as you, I am even worse, this is your strength! So, don't be arrogant, people must face up to their strengths and weaknesses, in order to correct their mentality! Otherwise, everything will not go well and nothing will be accomplished!"

Huo Lei scratched his head, there were always so many big truths in the young master's mouth that he couldn't understand!

Time passed little by little, and the hour hand slowly pointed to two o'clock in the afternoon! The carriages on the Qianmen Street next to the opera garden gradually increased, and the direction of their galloping almost all went towards the direction where the opera garden was located!

He Wenliang straightened his bow tie, stretched out his hand to open the car door and walked out! After looking at the magnificent building in front of him, he walked towards the tall old man not far away with a smile on his face!

"Fu Bo, I haven't seen you for more than a year, your old body is still so tough! This time, you personally greeted you, Wen Liang is really a little ashamed!" He Wenliang looked at the old man's smiling face, and couldn't help but take the initiative to clench his fists and say.

"Hehehe, you are the young master's father-in-law, we are all in-laws, and now I am a little out of sight when I say these words!" Fu Bo said with a smile after returning the salute with a fist.

"Yes, we are all family!" He Wenliang also said with a smile.

Although the wealth of the Huo family a year ago was also huge, it is still a little small compared to the huge scale that controls Taiwan today and has its tentacles all over the Far East!

Although he couldn't understand what had caused the Huo family to make such earth-shaking changes in more than a year! But one thing was certain, that is, the marriage he had once opposed, and it was the He family that brought unimaginably huge wealth! Now he somewhat admired his father's long-term vision!

"Fu Bo, why don't you go in with me?" He Wenliang asked in surprise when he saw the old man who was still standing at the door.

"Hehe, you go in first! I'll be here to greet you!" said Fauber with a smile and a wave of his hand.

"Oh, who else can work on your master?" Wen Liang was a little curious!"

"It doesn't hurt to talk to you! Zhang Mingqi, the eldest son of Zhang Shusheng, the current governor of Liangguang, Liu Zhensheng, the second son of Liu Kun's family, the governor of Liangjiang! and Li Hongzhang, the current governor of Zhili, and the chief manager of the Li family! Of course, there are some other business friends!"

Speaking unintentionally, the listener is intentional!

From the prominent figures in these provinces, He Wenliang can clearly understand that the Huo family is now a big family with a prominent identity and a strong wrist!

"It seems that you should talk to your father if you are looking for an opportunity, and the cooperation with the Huo family should be closer!" He Wenliang, who had a complicated mind, thought secretly as he walked inside.

As the auction approaches, more and more people come! The originally empty hall is now full of guests from all over the world!

Guo Dongquan, father and son, holding a small sign with the number 34 in their hands, were arranged to sit down on a table at the base of the wall on the left!

Looking at the bustling and almost full lobby, Guo Chen couldn't help but say with some worry: "Father, the Huo family auctioned a total of fifty-eight factories, but seeing that the people sitting here today are almost six hundred, so many people come to participate in the auction, the price of the factory will definitely rise a lot, I'm afraid that the money we bring this time is not enough!"

"Yes, when my father entered the door, I also saw several factory owners who ran sugar factories like our family!"

Glancing at the two sons who looked a little anxious, Guo Dongquan took a shallow sip of the tea on the table before he said slowly: "Don't worry, the auction hasn't started yet! Don't be impatient!" The two sons, who are relatively young and vigorous, and a little impetuous, are old and sophisticated, and he is well-informed, and his concentration is obviously much better! Although he is a little worried in his heart, at least he looks much calmer on the surface! In fact, at this time, the Guo family has already put all the money that can be raised in a short period of time into the Huo family's money bank! If they can get their wish this time and take over the factory, it will naturally be the best! However, if they return empty-handed and get nothing! Then they have done the best of the Guo family, and they can only shake their heads and sigh that their luck is not good!

The father's comfort made the two of them feel a lot more at ease, and they also knew that the more they were at this time, the more calm they been, and they must know that almost all of the 58 factories pushed out by the Huo family in this auction were large factories with more than 200 machines, more than 500 employees, and worth millions of silver taels! Every time the price increase may be 350,000 yuan, 350,000 yuan in this era when ten taels of silver can meet the needs of a family of five for three months, that is a huge amount of money that others can't imagine!

"Li, there are so many people here! Are there so many rich people in China?" Jerry asked with some surprise as he looked at the crowd that had already filled the hall.

On the way here, Li Wenbin had already told him in detail the details of all the factories that the Huo family was going to auction this time! Each factory was not less than one million taels of silver, and the price was more than 500,000 pounds! Dispelling Jerry's original idea of buying a few more factories!

But it is precisely because of this that he suddenly saw so many people in the hall, which also surprised him, more than 500,000 pounds is a huge amount of money even in the UK!

"I don't know, I didn't expect so many people to come!" Li Wenbin replied with a frown as he looked at the hall that had already begun to be a little crowded.

In this era when there is no radio, let alone television and the Internet, the backwardness of communication makes the transmission of information not as convenient as that of later generations! Moreover, there are no news organizations like 'Forbes' and 'Fortune Magazine', and of course no one counts the wealth of the Chinese! Therefore, in the eyes of most Europeans, when the impression of the Chinese is still in a state of poverty and backwardness, it is indeed a little hard to believe that so many rich people appear at once! However, compared with these, he is more concerned about the next auction, and this time he has brought all the working capital of his own company! If he can't win the fishing company this time, then the Li family's footsteps will fall behind others!