Zhu Jinglun also brought back his group of artillery from the manhole, including ten Irish officers and some selected gunners, and there were 20 British and French infantry cannons. These were gifts from Huang Zonghan and were dug out from Hua Tingjie and others.
Gunners have to find their own way. The gunners in Guangzhou suffered a lot of injuries in World War I. Those gunners have to be dominated by Hua Tingjie, Li Futai and Lin Fuxiang, and they are all reluctant to give up as treasures.
Zhu Jinglun sent a dozen younger brothers brought back from the Chen family to the artillery corps to let them learn from Irish officers. What they can learn depends on themselves. He is not going to interfere and tell them to teach a qualified artillery to reward them with 120 silver. It is better for Manager Zhu to let professionals do professional things than to intervene at will.
Zhu Jinglun knows his identity very well. He should be a rulemaker, not a specific executor. He needs to be responsible for supervising whether he makes rules properly. If so, he will supervise to make the rules work well. If not, he will modify the rules and further formulate an effective mechanism that can reasonably correct the rules. Then it is necessary to maintain the good operation of this mechanism.
People like Fangshan are obviously the staff of Zhu Jinglun to maintain the rules or mechanisms in the future, but at this time Zhu Jinglun is still in the stage of establishing rules, and Fangshan and others can also be in the stage of implementing rules
Fangshan has been in Macao for three days, and he is not alone. Of course, there is no Zhu Jinglun around him, because Zhu Jinglun has no one to send. Fangshan is surrounded by a group of Wu family members.
He not only borrowed money from the Wu family, but also borrowed it from the Wu family.
This is not Zhu Jinglun’s request, it is Fangshan’s own decision, because if one million taels of silver is put in his hand, he doesn’t even know what he will do. He is poor and afraid of hardships, but he is a wise man, and he knows that money is not so easy to take.
Fangshan doesn’t know that he can’t stand it, and he knows that Zhu Jinglun is definitely not sure, but Zhu Jinglun directly handed it over to him without taking preventive measures. Fangshan understands that this is still a test. Although the test means that Zhu Jinglun hasn’t finished trusting him, he can understand that he is not Zhu Jinglun’s relatives, even in front of his relatives, he may not be at ease, and Zhu Jinglun gave him this power, which means that even if this is a test, it is a golden test, and few people are entitled to it.
In order to withstand this test in case of failure, Fangshan borrowed from Wu family, and he didn’t intend to touch any money or copper. This was because he set up a firewall for himself to guard against greed and protect himself, and his life was rich and prosperous.
1.2 million even for the Wu family, which is extremely rich, it is a huge sum of money. The Wu family is also extremely serious. They sent their most trusted people, Wu family members, several old shopkeepers, and a group of people who will join the family graves after Wu’s death.
"How much did you lose today?"
For three days in a row, the money went out like water. This means of doing business is that several experienced shopkeepers are also shivering. This is not a business, it is a failure.
"Lost thirty-five thousand two hundred"
A shopkeeper quite some chest tightness in general said
Fangshan was relaxed, but he couldn’t help thanking himself. Ying decided that if he was in charge of the money himself, he would definitely be so relaxed.
"Well, the day goes on."
He casually said a few words and decided that hundreds of thousands of money would flow to this kind of tolerance. These shopkeepers have also seen it in Wu Bingjian, who has been dead for many years
Sighed in succession and left their busy lives.
They are busy every day. What is it called?
Secretly spend money to put away the bills of exchange, and then rush to find those powerful big merchants to exchange them in the name of the Wu family. These old shopkeepers of Jardine Matheson are also very well connected in Macau.
Therefore, it is impossible for their actions not to arouse people’s doubts. They have been questioned by many channels. The Wu family replied that they were short of cash and had to exchange some bills from the backlog.
However, the Wu family is so powerful that no one will believe that all kinds of rumors have come out at the moment. Some say that the Wu family has been in great trouble and needs to spend money to save lives. Some even swear that the Wu family intends to run away. Because of accurate information, it is clear that the government has planned to settle accounts with the Wu family and destroy the family. The Wu family intends to realize its industry and flee to Citigroup.
The East India Company’s draft is very firm, but the price is one to one, but when it is sold, they want 90% cash on the first day, and the next day, it will be 70% successful and willing to cash in.
Wu’s experienced shopkeeper doesn’t understand this method of buying and selling, and Fangshan doesn’t understand it either, but if the speculators in London or new york can recognize it at a glance, someone is making a bill of exchange for the East India Company.
After three days, the price has been maintained at the seventh floor, but their purchase price has also been lowered, which means that the Macao draft market has changed from a simple exchange instrument to a financial instrument that can be bought and sold and get the difference.
There is no financial market that can’t do financial manipulation, but Fangshan has created such a financial production and trading market in a short time with the help of the Wu family.
In another three days, it will still be a loss of 70%, but the source of bills of exchange is not limited to Macao. Many Hong Kong bills of exchange have flocked to Fangshan, Macao, and the Hong Kong market has been involved.
At this time, according to Zhu Jinglun’s plan, it is time to stop.
Night inventory
"Today we lost 102,000 yuan!"
Wu’s old shopkeeper’s heart is bleeding, although it’s not his money, but he doesn’t want to see such a prodigal family.
Fangshan nodded. Today, they made a loss of one million and two hundred thousand yuan, which involved all foreign firms in Macao. Recently, almost all foreign firms are discussing the Wu family’s selling of the draft, and they all know that private companies can receive cheaper draft and resell it to the Wu family, which is a ten percent profit. This is a good deal, especially in Guangzhou, where there is no way to confront the British along the coast, and there is no good business in the whole southeast coast. When many foreign firms do it, they will resell the draft as the biggest industry, and they will handle it from Hong Kong.
"How much did we lose altogether?"
Fangshan asked again
"Three hundred and fifty thousand and seven thousand two hundred"
The old shopkeeper replied
Fangshan nodded. "Let’s close the day and don’t cash the bill. Please bother the shopkeepers to inform some familiar ocean companies and tell them that they have received the news. The British Parliament dissolved the East India Company. The East India Company bill has become a piece of waste paper, and no copper can be cashed in the London market."
Fangshan has just finished saying that some of these old shopkeepers can’t help but take a breath of air conditioning. Obviously, their quick reaction has made them understand what they are doing these days. They are doing a bill of exchange bureau. China has no mature financial market, but who among these experienced shopkeepers has never done hoarding like this? They have hoarded cotton, tea, silk and even crow’s feet. They didn’t expect that the bill of exchange could be played like this. The most important thing is that they didn’t know that Britain actually dissolved the East India Company. In their eyes, the East India Company has always been the same as the British government. Of course, the East India Company is a monopoly firm just like their thirteenth line, but so what doesn’t prevent them from never doubting the company’s trust.
Now that Fangshan broke the news, they immediately realized that it was a handicap, disturbing the draft handicap, so it was time to kill the pig, even if Fangshan was not behind the command, they would have done it and might have done it better.
Fangshan came to explain that the news was whether to accept or not to sell, but it could not be collected at a price of 70% of the face value, and it was necessary to tighten it step by step as low as possible until the price of the draft rebounded to the face value
Fangshan came to an end. According to Zhu Jinglun’s instructions, he returned to Xin ‘an, but when he boarded Xin ‘an Wharf, he found that the farmland in the distance had been harvested by hardworking farmers, and then he planted new seeds in the hope field. He didn’t know that he had actually planted a seed and was waiting for the harvest.
Section one hundred and six The East India Company gambles.
Elgin, the British representative to China, felt that he had also reaped a bumper harvest. The pressure of negotiating Guangzhou with an imperial envoy from the Qing court in SH almost forced the Qing court to agree to all his demands, including the legalization of crow-and-crow trade, import and export tax rates, and the fact that the British came forward to help the Qing national tax. The Qing court even agreed to lift the forced resumption of the post of governor of Guangzhou and Guangdong.
It’s a satisfactory and enjoyable trade rules. Although it is attached to Tianjin Treaty, it really depends on these trade rules to get benefits.
Now that Erkin has what he wants, he should quickly deal with other things in the south, such as the Guangzhou issue. He has always advocated attacking Guangzhou and letting the two generals Simami Geli and Grant do it. It does not mean that others are belligerent.
Erkin is a politician and an official to be exact. Before he came to China, he worked in several British colonies. The highest position was the Canadian Governor.
Moreover, Erkin, a politician, is not a general diplomat, but a diplomatic family. His father, Elgin, was an ambassador. When he got married, Elgin promised his wife to build a mansion decorated with precious art from the East. He kept his promise. During his tenure as Ottoman ambassador, he looted the Parthenon in Greece and looted a large number of ancient Greek art treasures by disgraceful means. Unfortunately, when these treasures were shipped back to Britain, Elgin found that his wife had long been unable to bear loneliness and ran away with others. In the end, these treasures were not decorated in Elgin’s mansion, but were sold to Britain.
Old Elgin looted the ancient temple of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, and later presided over the looting of the Manchu emperor’s garden. If it is too pale to just retaliate against the Qing emperor, it may be better to explain the nature of these pirates.
Despite this barbarism, it is undeniable that Erkin’s professional diplomatic quality and diplomat’s world outlook.
Since he is a professional diplomat, he is unlikely to like constant war. The purpose of war is not to gain benefits. Since the benefits have been gained, there is no need to fall into the endless war and really like war. There are those pure soldiers.