Wang Jiuxuan lost less than one million taels of silver to suppress grain prices, and the rest was used by Xuanzheng to buy various factory industries, making Sanyuanguan a huge group spanning dozens of industries such as tea shops, shipbuilding, weaving, pharmaceuticals, ceramics, silk, gold and silver jewelry, copper and iron utensils, etc., with shops all over the streets and alleys of Guangzhou.

"We now have hundreds of factories in Sanyuanguan, and there are more than 50,000 workers alone, and we have to lose money every day to support them, which is really desperate.

At that time, it would have been nice to buy a few less. Xuan Zheng said with a sigh.

"More than 50,000 workers?" Hearing that Sanyuanguan actually had more than 50,000 workers in Guangzhou, Li Xian's eyes flashed coldly, and then he covered it up well.

"All in all, both of us are short of money right now, and we need to solve it as soon as possible, otherwise there will be a mess. Xuan Zheng said distressedly.

"Lack of money is of course a big deal. However, as the saying goes, what can be solved with money is not a big deal, and it is relatively much easier.

Isn't it just money, we can earn it again if we don't have it. Li Xian snorted and said.

It's just that what is lacking now is not one, two, two, or two, nor ten thousand or twenty thousand taels, but millions of taels, which requires a lot of thought.

The three of them discussed it together, and felt that there was a solution to this matter, but they all had some sequelae.

First of all, the easiest thing is to loot the merchants who are left in the city.

Although Wang Jiuxuan did not restrict the entry and exit of large businessmen in the early stage, so that many rich people went to places outside Guangzhou, but because there was nowhere to go or was reluctant to leave, there were many rich people who stayed in Guangzhou.

Many of these people are involved in food hoarding and other things, and if they are looted, many problems can be solved, and even food shortages can be alleviated in a short time.

It's just that three people can understand on their knees how big the sequelae of this will be, that is, to give up long-term prospects for the sake of short-term interests, but any organization with a little bit of ambition will not do this.

It is said that many of the merchants who withdrew from Guangzhou went to Hong Kong, but then they would inevitably be completely hostile to the British, and there was no room for relaxation, and it was not suitable.

In addition to these two places, other state cities or county towns in the Qing Dynasty were very poor, and even if they were occupied, it was impossible to seize millions of taels of wealth at once, and even hundreds of thousands of taels were unlikely, which was troublesome.

The three of them discussed for a long time and felt that to solve the current crisis, there were only a few parties to work together.

"First of all, we can't do anything to stabilize prices here, it's with the businessmen and even the common people in Guangzhou behind our backs, and we will pay for death.

Secondly, the other side plan is going to be advanced. I was expecting the arrival of the locomotives and rails ordered in the UK to launch this project, but it seems that it will not wait until that time and will have to be carried out as soon as possible.

In addition, it is necessary to start the crusade as soon as possible, at least to make up for the short-term funding gap. After discussion, Li Xian said in a concluding manner.

"That's all there is to it. Xuan Zheng and Wang Jiuxuan both nodded in agreement.

Since the discussion was stopped, it was time to proceed, so Li Xian took his leave and got up, and decided to go back to deploy first.

When Li Xian left, Wang Jiuxuan looked at his master worriedly.

"Master, Li Xian has always been smart, do you think that we are calculating him?" asked Wang Jiuxuan.

Xuan Zheng thought for a long time before replying: "So what, what we use is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy." He doesn't want Guangzhou himself, doesn't he allow us to control it ourselves?"

But on the other side, Li Xian took Zhao Hujiang back to the carriage, but his face was as if he was covered with a layer of frost, and he was cold.

"The three-element view is to pick peaches and cut off beards, and to shoot the fruits of our victory. After making sure that there was no one around, Li Xian said coldly.

"The head of the sect said that Sanyuanguan actually has money, but he doesn't want to lend it to us, right?" Zhao Hujiang didn't understand what Li Xian said, and hurriedly asked.

"They say that there is no money, and naturally there is no money, and I am not talking about this. Li Xian glanced at Zhao Hujiang and couldn't help but shake his head.

General Zhao Hu has always been known as the second person in addition to Li Xian of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and even the officers in the army also admit that General Zhao Hu has a special status, but in fact he is not worthy of the name.

Not to mention the issue of its loyalty, in terms of ability alone, there are many deficiencies, and there is a trend that it is becoming more and more unable to keep up with the development situation of the Mixed Yuan Sect.

General Zhao Hu was originally only the backbone of Chen Qian's subordinates, if it weren't for the fact that the Mixed Yuan Sect was already in decline at that time, and the number was very small, otherwise he would not be able to sit in the position of an elder, and he was a little stronger than ordinary people, but in the case of the Mixed Yuan Sect developing to tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, it was a little insufficient.

If nothing else, let's just say that in the situation of the Sanyuan View just now, Zhang Sicheng and Hu Chong and other people who are the big shopkeepers of foreign banks can see the doorway inside, and know why Li Xian is unhappy and even a little angry, but Zhao Hujiang still needs Li Xian to mention something.

In terms of ability alone, talents like Zhang Sicheng and Hu Chong, who are equivalent to senior managers of large enterprises, are actually more suitable for his current position than Zhao Hujiang.

It's just that the promotion of personnel within every organization has its own laws, and Li Xian can't belittle others when General Zhao Hu didn't make obvious mistakes, even if he is promoted openly and secretly, it is not conducive to the continuation of the inheritance in the future.

Having said that, from the perspective of talents, the Mixed Yuan Sect is far worse than the Three Yuan Sect.

The three-element concept inheritance is complete, from the first order to the fifth order there are capable talents, and the martial artists who can enter the rank are at least those who are resolute and have wisdom inside, and can also make extraordinary achievements by learning management and technical knowledge in addition to practicing martial arts.

Relatively speaking, the Mixed Yuan Sect relied on Li Xian to take the lead, and threw a lot of resources to forcibly pull everyone up, and its vitality was its advantage, but in terms of multi-level talent reserves, it was a little worse, and it was necessary to rely on Li Xian to introduce talents from all aspects from the outside to maintain the situation.

Li Xian glanced at General Zhao Hu, but he had the idea of introducing a few top talents who could control the scene.

It's just that in this case, he has to explain the situation carefully to General Zhao Hu, lest he have a wrong judgment on things.

"I mean that the Sanyuan Sect quietly buys so many factories and puts away so many workers, which is aimed at our Mixed Yuan Sect, which is very harmful to our development. Li Xian said.

"How can this be solved?" Zhao Hujiang asked puzzledly: "They spent money to buy a factory, but they actually spent unjust money, which is of no great use, right?"

As long as they are willing to wait a little longer, those who are really going to leave may throw away all their property and run away, so why spend so much money now.

Besides, what does their acquisition of these properties have to do with our Mixed Yuan Sect, has the head of the sect also thought about buying these properties?"

"That's not how it looks. These factories seem to spend money, but the workers inside are old skilled workers, many of them have been doing a job for generations, and the technical ability is quite strong.

Don't look at these factories now, they have to spend money to support Sanyuanguan, as long as the situation improves slightly, they can earn a lot of money for Sanyuanguan.

Not to mention anything else, during this period of time, we have been doing various technological research and development, and we have also studied steam engines, and the military industry and heavy industry have been greatly improved, and the next turn will be the increase in the productivity of light industry and agriculture.

Those workers with advanced Western technology represent a huge increase in output and a huge reduction in costs, and the profits in them are extremely considerable.

Originally, we invested so much resources in technology research and development, and this kind of profit should be exclusive, but I didn't expect the three-element view to move very quickly, and it actually controlled the downstream industry.

In this way, no matter what industry we want to develop, we can't avoid the three-dimensional view, even if we can share the results together, we will have to be scraped away more benefits, which is much more than the five million taels of investment.

With more than 50,000 light industry workers, Sanyuanguan can easily take advantage of industrial upgrading, and can also carry restrictions on our development in Guangzhou.

There is really no one who can be promoted to an innate master. ”

Li Xian sighed, feeling that he really underestimated Xuanzheng, or the entire group of ancients.

It didn't take long for Xuanzheng to dismantle the industry, but he immediately saw the key to future development, and then took advantage of Li Xian's busy technology research and development to secretly monopolize half of Guangzhou's light industry.

If Xuan Zheng didn't do this, then Li Xian's next step would be to promote various new technologies and steam engines from the West to the light industry, and then make a lot of profits.

Not to mention anything else, ordinary wooden ships are upgraded to steam engine ships, and the handmade textile industry is transformed into machine weaving, which represents a lot of profits.

However, if Li Xian wants to intervene in these industries in Guangzhou now, he can't avoid the three-element view, after all, the workers are in the hands of people, and then he will score out a lot of unexpected profits.

The Sanyuan Concept was originally much inferior to the Mixed Yuan Sect in terms of industry, and even relied on the military factory on Donghai Island to manufacture grenades at the earliest, but with the investment of more than 5 million taels, the distance between the industry was suddenly narrowed, and it can even be said to be flat.

The only thing Li Xian can comfort himself is that his subordinates are all industrial workers in heavy industry and military industry, and they still have many advantages compared with manual light industry workers.

However, considering that Li Xian only has thousands of workers under him, compared with the tens of thousands of workers in other people, this number gap is still obvious.

However, the three-element view is a yang scheme, and Li Xianming knows that others want to cut off the beard, and he has nothing to say.

Zhao Hu was limited to his knowledge, and he still didn't quite understand Li Xian's thoughts, so he could only interpret it in his own way: "The head is saying that there are more than 50,000 workers under Sanyuanguan, all of whom are native to Guangzhou, and their influence in Guangzhou is much greater, and if we want to strengthen our influence in Guangzhou, it will be even more troublesome, right?"

Literally, it can be understood that way. Li Xian said hesitantly.