As for the old team of Dagui Commercial Bank, whether they were happy or worried when they watched the people of Yisheng Bank work under their boss, it was a matter of whether they were happy or uneasy.

Next, Zhao Dagui discussed with Qichang and Jardine Matheson and other ocean banks that each family would no longer sell foreign cloth within three months, nor would it be shipped, giving the market a chance to recover on its own.

All the foreign companies were very supportive of this resolution, and they strictly complied with it, and the price of foreign cloth, which had been falling continuously, stagnated for a while, and no longer fell, staying at the level of five per horse, and there was still a slow upward trend.

At this stage, the tide of bankruptcies is still coming and going, but it is not as violent as before, and the problem of financial difficulties of various foreign banks has not been fundamentally solved.

According to Zhao Dagui's memory, this situation did not ease until July and August 1846.

In the past, the major foreign banks and comprador banks all set up branches in Huzhou and Hangzhou, and some of them were next to the branches of the Dagui Bank, putting on a posture of fighting in the ring, but at this time, the funds were difficult, so they had no intention of continuing to operate, and many commercial banks were willing to transfer them to the Dagui Commercial Bank at a low price in order to obtain working capital.

Zhao Dagui also had a good belly, and did not embarrass these firms, but agreed to buy these shops at a low price, knowing that in this way, these foreign firms would not be able to go to other places to grab raw silk or tea supplies with Dagui firms within two or three years, that is to say, Dagui firms paid tens of thousands of yuan to obtain a monopoly of foreign sources for two or three years.

Zhao Dagui vaguely remembered that Liu Yong started his business because in the winter of 1846, silk merchants in Huzhou joined hands to press the price of silk, and went to Shanghai to sell raw silk by themselves, only to find that the price difference between the two places was amazing, and finally earned hundreds of thousands of yuan and obtained the first pot of gold in his life.

Combined with the current situation, it can be understood that the winter of 1846 happened to be February and March 1846, and the foreign banks in Shanghai were unable to send people to Huzhou and other places to buy goods because of a major crisis, which would lead to a decline in the local silk price and force the silk village to join hands to reduce the price.

Of course, those silk villages should have an understanding of trade, and they can actually make money by pulling raw silk to Shanghai.

It is a pity that the silk merchants or tea merchants of this era did not know anything about Sino-British trade, and they did not know how much raw silk or tea could be sold for foreigners, so Liu Yong, the first to eat crabs, made a lot of money in vain.

By chance, there is nothing more than this.

In addition to expanding in Huzhou and other places, Suzhou will need to rearrange its layout, and strengthen its influence in places such as Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

Dagui Commercial Bank originally had the experience of doing business in Suzhou, but later withdrew, and from Yisheng Bank was originally the most influential trading house in Suzhou, the shopkeepers of Yisheng Bank were very familiar with Suzhou, Dagui Commercial Bank re-entered Suzhou, and easily received the accumulation of Yisheng Bank for many years, and became a pivotal commercial bank in Suzhou.

The problem in Suzhou is easy to solve, but the situation in Hong Kong and Guangzhou is more complicated.

It turned out that there were many merchants engaged in the trade of foreign goods in Guangzhou, and they formed public banks such as the Thirteen Banks to monopolize the trade with foreigners.

After the Opium War, although the Thirteen Lines were forcibly disbanded, the merchants still involuntarily united, hostile and repulsed any foreign merchants, and tried to continue to monopolize trade with foreigners.

Before the war, the British praised the merchants engaged in trade in Guangzhou, but after the war, they criticized them in very sharp words, because these merchants of Guangzhou together excluded foreign merchants and manipulated prices, which was very unfavorable to the British merchants to make money.

Therefore, although Zhao Dagui was jointly promoted by Debeshi and Qiying to build a wharf and warehouse in Guangzhou for regular cruise business, he did not carry out further commercial activities in Guangzhou.

In the second half of 1845, there was a large backlog of foreign cloth in Guangzhou, and some merchants were eager to dispose of the inventory, so the Dagui firm took the opportunity to buy some of the backlog of foreign cloth to counter the suppression of the Shanghai maritime merchants.

However, the relationship between the two sides is nothing more, the Dagui Commercial Bank is also a foreign commercial bank, and it is okay to help Guangzhou merchants deal with the goods in stock, and if they want to insert it into the business of silk tea and do business directly with the British, they will face the joint suppression of Guangzhou merchants.

Fortunately, the foundation of Dagui Commercial Bank is in Shanghai, and there is no need to go to Guangzhou to pull business, and during this time, Guangzhou businessmen are also too busy to take care of themselves and are unable to resist the infiltration of Dagui Commercial Bank.

Unlike ordinary businessmen, Zhao Dagui was far more interested in Hong Kong than in Guangzhou, and took his own cruise ship to Hong Kong to buy two shipyards in Hong Kong with Stark's help.

It turned out that the bosses of these two families were also engaged in the trading of foreign cloth before, and then they lost a lot of money, and they were asked by creditors to collect debts every day, so they were willing to sell the shipyard for cash.

Zhao Dagui originally acquired a number of shipyards in Macau, but many European engineers in the factories did not go north in the end, and later worked in these two shipyards, and at this time they were also introduced to the shipyard of Dagui Commercial Firm.

These two shipyards are both newly established shipyards, and the machinery and facilities in them are much better than those of Macao shipyards, and more importantly, there are many technicians in the shipyards, which is the real reason why Zhao Dagui likes these two shipyards.

After the merger and acquisition of these two shipyards, Zhao Dagui was able to obtain a large number of equipment and technical information, in addition to the above-mentioned engineers, there were also a number of British engineers and shipyard workers, which also received interest.

Stark inspected the industry under Zhao Dagui's command and found that Zhao Dagui's scholars and workers were sufficient, and there were many shipbuilding equipment and technical books such as machine tools.

However, after staying in Hong Kong for a while, Zhao Dagui found that the British in Hong Kong had expanded too much before, and the losses suffered in this crisis were still on top of his predictions.

Moreover, the other industries operated by Stark and his family have also been greatly impacted, and the extent of the loss may be higher than the loss of Yishengxing.

Knowing this, he should have spoken more ruthlessly at that time, and after learning about these situations, Zhao Dagui felt a little regretful in his heart.

Stark lost a lot of money in this crisis, and after negotiating with Zhao Dagui, he was willing to help Zhao Dagui order a large number of precision machinery and advanced machine tools from the United Kingdom, and seemed to abandon the strategic policy of suppressing China's local scientific and technological development.

Zhao Dagui had a lot of cash at this time, and Stark was willing to accept the deposit with factory silk, so Zhao Dagui naturally had nothing to disagree with, and also took the opportunity to book a large number of special steel, raw wrought iron, raw cooked copper, etc.

After all these twists and turns, Stark and the others are expected to make trouble in the future, but at least they will not use too inferior means, such as cheating after receiving the deposit.

When he returned to Shanghai, Bafur was speechless for a while after knowing the process.

Stark and the others represent the interests of some big families in the local area, far more noble than his status as the son of a captain of the East India Company, so that he knows that someone is targeting him, but he has not been able to make a strong counterattack, but he did not expect Zhao Dagui to clean up.

It's just that Zhao Dagui has always been independent, ostensibly the comprador of the consulate, but he has never been controlled by himself, and how to sort out the relationship between the two sides in the future is also a problem.