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Chapter 9 Chapter 9

When Liu and Kong said this, they had long forgotten the hatred between them. They cursed the foreigners and the court in unison, and completely forgot the main purpose of their visit. Chen Zaixing looked at the two of them, filled the wine glasses in front of them, and smiled and said, "Both of them are both businessmen. They should have heard of the saying 'The profit of farming is only ten times, the profit of jewelry is only a hundred times, and the profit of establishing a country is endless'!"

Liu Qingyang nodded blankly. Kong Zhang beside him was a descendant of a saint, and the articles in his belly had not been completely lost. He hurriedly replied: "Is this statement from Lu Buwei's mouth!"

"Yes, it's Lu Buwei!" Chen Zaixing said with a smile: "Growing cotton and weaving cloth benefits are only ten times. When I find treasure mines in Myanmar, I make only a hundred times profits. But these are not as good as Lu Buwei. Establishing a lord of a country is the biggest deal!" It turned out that Lu Buwei was a great merchant of the Wei Kingdom. By supporting the prince Yiren who was hostage in Zhao Kingdom, he helped him return to Qin and become the King of Qin, becoming the prime minister of Qin, making a profit of billions, and leaving behind the famous "Lüshi Chunqiu". There are more than billions of merchants in Chinese history, but in terms of status and achievements, no one can compare with him.

Liu and Kong were not fools. After hearing this, they could already hear Chen Zaixing's meaning. Liu Qingyang looked at Kong Zhang and smiled and said, "The second-tier man invited us to come. I guess there is a big deal that will be cheap for us. I'll thank you here first!" As he said that, Liu Qingyang stood up and sang a fat promise to Chen Zaixing. Kong Zhang hurriedly followed him to salute.

"Forget it! There is no end to business in the world. If you have money, you are the right way to make money!" Chen Zaixing stood up and returned the two men and gave a gift, and then a coup in Myanmar. The Burmese King died and his two sons fled to Dashun. Now he was telling the story of the protection of the Wanding Shun Army. Finally, Chen Zaixing laughed and said, "Two, I have accumulated less than one million yuan in less than five years in Myanmar. It is not that I have better business methods than the two. But Myanmar has abundant land and treasures are like mountains and hills. It is not that I can make money by doing anything casually. Now that the country is in chaos, it is a great opportunity. If we send the prince back to the throne of the Burmese King, we will be divided into pieces. If we seek one or two profit rights, Myanmar is 4,000 miles in a radius of four thousand miles, and the land is almost one tenth of my Dashun. If we take a little rectification, how can we count the benefits with the two of us?"

Liu and Kong were so excited when they heard this. It turned out that since the war in the late Ming Dynasty, the capitalist component in China's economy has been increasing. A considerable number of large and small workshops engaged in textile, oil pressing, steel and other industries have appeared in economic center areas such as Jiangnan, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Hanjing, and Liangzhe. The technical level and scale of these workshops have made considerable progress compared to the predecessors in the late Ming Dynasty, and have also brought huge wealth to their owners. They and their peers engaged in traditional industries such as trade, currency exchange, and large-scale economic crop cultivation have formed a industrial and commercial class that has far surpassed the previous dynasties in terms of social influence and capital. This class also gained considerable influence on the Dashun country by allowing their children to become officials in imperial examinations and purchasing state bond rolls. However, when history entered the 1880s, this class found that the environment they were in had undergone subtle changes.

Originally, the main trade targets of Dashun merchants were Japan, Southeast Asia, the northern nomads and those red-haired and green-eyed foreign devils. However, with the British trying to grow tea in India, Ceylon and other places, and the gradual success of growing sugarcane in the West Indies and Brazil, the traditional profitable tea and sugar trade gradually became depressed, and the traditional export market, Southeast Asia also showed competitors from afar, and there were harsh restrictions; after the reform, Japan adopted Gaoguan.

The policy of tax barriers is to protect weak emerging enterprises in China. Without these traditional markets, the situation in Dashun is not optimistic. After all, most people in Dashun are still in a natural economic state of "men farming, women weaving". They are unable to buy other products except for a very small number of necessities that they cannot produce. The tax system in the form of grain cloth established by the Dashun government to prevent farmers from being exploited by merchants during the founding of the country also strengthened this economic situation.

The result of this series of internal and external factors is that since the 1880s, a "overproduction" situation has appeared in Dashun for the first time: more advanced technology is used, and larger-scale factories produce mountains of goods, but cannot be sold - except for a few rich people, the vast majority of poor workers and urban poor are unable to buy those goods at all, and the rich are extremely extravagant and can only consume a very small part of these goods. Many factory owners have to go bankrupt and stay on the streets. As financial operators who are most sensitive to the current economic situation, Kong and Liu are unable to explain this situation with scientific theories, but they instinctively realize that the only way to break this situation is to expand outward, obtain a larger market and a cheaper source of raw materials, so that everything can be run again and get rid of the embarrassment in front of them. Chen Zaixing's suggestion coincides with their wishes, so how can they refuse?

Kong and Liu looked at each other, and Lianrong said in unison to Chen Zaixing: "No. 1, please say anything we need to do. As long as we can do it, we should obey our orders!"

"Okay!" Chen Zaixing said with a smile: "I'll invite you two to come today, so I'll ask you to raise some money for me and make up an integer, and it's only six million taels of silver!"

As soon as Chen Zaixing finished speaking, two crisp sounds were heard in the room, but it was Kong Zhang. Liu Qingyang fell into the seat in a daze. The wine glass in his hand had fallen to the ground and was smashed to pieces.

"This, this!" Kong Zhang stammered: "The second-hand man, can you still discuss this matter from a long-term perspective? As the villain saw, the six million taels of silver was really a little more!"

"Yes!" Liu Qingyang stood aside with Kong Zhang in an abnormal manner: "As far as villains know, Shanghai's customs tariffs this year are only seven million taels of official silver. With such a large number, can the second-level official consider a little more?"

"Two." Chen Zaixing smiled on his face, but he was reluctant to give in: "Jiangsu-Gong-Du, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was the current position of the Beijing Examination. The son of the Burmese King is now in the Kunming Jiedu Mansion. The imperial decree of the inner court and the ministers in the court have also made an order. The affairs of Myanmar are bound to be fought. The imperial guards in Hunan have been transferred to Yunnan. You can go and ask if it is true. When the son of the Burmese King escaped from Mandalay, the man was in the process of going back. If I spoke to Master Wu and wanted to enter the temple to plan this matter, would you say Master Wu agree?"

Kong, Liu smiled bitterly, "Of course I will agree!"

"You two are also doing old business! You should know that everything in the world is going to die early. If the imperial army goes south and the overall situation is decided, I am afraid that you will have to queue up with money, right?"

Chen Zaixing said this, and he had already made his words openly. As he said just now, with his identity, relationships, and knowledge, he could play an extremely important and even decisive role in sending troops to Myanmar. The two of them could see what Chen Zaixing said just now, and the others could naturally see that the overall situation was not decided, and they were still qualified to talk here. If the overall situation was decided, I was afraid that the people who went to Chen Zaixing to hold the money and would be lined up in a long queue, so where would the two of them sit in front of Chen Zaixing to drink and talk?

A thin layer of sweat oozed from Kong and Liu, and the blue veins on their faces were exposed, and their muscles were trembling, as if they were doing hard work. Chen Zaixing was not in a hurry at this time. Shi Shiran sat back on the chair, poured himself a glass of wine, and sipped slowly. After a while, Liu Qingyang stood up and gave Chen Zaixing a bitter smile, "Please forgive me, please forgive me, this fact is too risky. Houde Bank is the foundation of more than ten generations of ancestors. The villain really dares to take this risk. However, the villain can privately mobilize some positions, plus his own net worth, and it will be 300,000 taels. It will be a bit of a slight connotation!"

Chen Zaixing felt a little disappointed, but on the surface he stood up and said politely: "Where is where, this is business, I'll thank you here first."

"I dare not, I dare not!" Liu Qingyang hurriedly responded. Chen Zaixing smiled slightly and turned his eyes to Kong Zhang who was still sitting there. Kong Zhang's eyes were in a daze, sweating all over his head, his hands and feet trembled slightly, and a low roar was heard from time to time, as if he was getting mad. Liu Qingyang was a little scared and was about to reach out to pat his shoulder to wake him up, but Kong Zhang suddenly jumped up from the seat, which scared others.

"Forget it, I'll bet on this!" Kong Zhang's muscles on his face were twisted, and he looked very afraid: "No. 1, I took out all the funds that can be allocated by JD and the south banknotes in my hand, and then took all the national debts and some industries on hand. Total of them should be 4 million. If the rest are borrowed from each other, it should be exactly the same as the number required by No. 1," said Kong Zhang's eyes, suspiciously, swore over Liu Qingyang beside him. Liu Qingyang, who knew it, quickly sweared loudly: "If the things in the house are leaked a little bit today, they will fall on me. I, Liu Qingyang, will die of sores, and the descendants are thieves and women are prostitutes. You can rest assured now!"

Kong Zhang snorted coldly and turned his head. It turned out that if Kong Zhang had just embezzled the remaining funds that could be allocated from each bank account, and if it was spread by someone with ulterior motives and the depositors would run, it would be risky of bankruptcy immediately. It was because of Liu Qingyang who made such a poisonous oath.

Seeing Kong Zhang like this, Chen Zaixing couldn't help but be grateful. He forced himself to suppress his feelings, poured himself and Kong Zhang with a glass of wine, raised his glass and said, "Brother Kong, I will never regret what happened today."

At four o'clock, Chen Zaixing said goodbye to Kong and Liu and the others. When they returned to the house, they stretched their waists and moved their necks with a little soreness, but a servant came in to report: "Guest, a guest named Chen is here to visit, and they are the minister outside!"

"Secret Chen?" Chen Zaixing was stunned when he heard this, and then a surprise appeared on his face. He stood up and asked anxiously: "Where is he and how long have he been here?"

The servant smiled and said, "Report to the guest, Mr. Chen has been here for half an hour and is using tea outside!"

Chen Zaixing asked anxiously when he heard this, "What? Why didn't you notify me after so long?"

"This!" The servant looked embarrassed and replied, "It's not a villain's business. Mr. Chen heard that you are currently having a banquet at the guest, so he told him not to disturb him. After everything is over, he will notify the guest..." The servant had to continue to defend himself. Chen Zaixing could no longer listen and asked anxiously: "Don't talk nonsense, take me to see him!"

"Is it Brother Aung Mo?"

Chen Zaixing suddenly pushed open the door and saw a man turning around. He saw that the man was as handsome as a crown, handsome and elegant as a handsome man, about 36 or 37 years old, wearing a royal blue robe and a melon-skinned hat, with a piece of beautiful jade about an inch square in the middle of the hat. After seeing Chen Zaixing, the man was shocked and showed a look of excitement on his face, but he bowed and smiled: "I haven't seen him for several years. Today I meet again. Brother Nian is more charming than the past. I am really happy!"

"Brother Hong Mao, you are joking again. I'm hanging out in the old forest in Myanmar. How can I be as good as you in the Jade Step Hall of Hanjing?" Chen Zaixing stepped forward and grabbed the visitor's arm, and smiled and said, "Brother Hong Mao, since you have arrived early, why don't you let that guy call me, but wait here!" It turned out that this person was Chen Zaixing the same year, and has now been promoted to Shen Hongmao, a doctor in the Yu Department of Works, and is in charge of mining and smelting in the world. After Chen Zaixing returned to Hanjing, he compiled a letter with him, leaving behind his residence address in Lu Mingting, and was preparing to discuss a major event with him.

Shen Hongmao smiled and said, "When I came, I saw the carriages of the two banks, Houde and Renyi, stopped in the courtyard. When I asked the guy, I realized that you were asking the manager of these two banks. I didn't want to be caught by them, and I didn't want to hinder your business, so I told my guy not to tell you."

"So that's it!" Chen Zaixing nodded slightly, knowing that he was a very square person in the same year. He was very contemptuous of the lending and profit-making done by Renyi Bank and Houde Bank, and his behavior of being unkind when he started his business. In addition, the official position he lived in was somewhat related to him. If he saw it, he was afraid that some requests would be difficult to refuse, so he simply avoided it. Thinking of this, Chen Zaixing sighed and said, "I haven't seen you for several years. Brother Nian, you are still as simple as an introduction!"
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