Li Xiucheng Road
Xu Rongcun said that he was down to business. "I’m afraid the sea is not as simple as Ningbo. I’m afraid I can’t collect this tax."
Li Xiucheng frowned. "What is this?"
Xu Rongcun sighed, "The British will not agree."
Li Xiucheng grunted, "Are you afraid of foreigners?"
Xu Rongcun said, "This is not a fear of problems."
Li Xiucheng sneered, "What can be the problem? If you are afraid, my kingdom will come forward."
Xu Rongcun said, "The question is whether the kingdom of heaven can fight foreigners in the sea. Can you fight foreigners in England?"
You can be beaten passively, but it’s best to defend yourself. That’s the big problem
Li Xiucheng hummed, "I don’t have to hit him if he doesn’t mess with me."
Xu Rongcun knew that Li Xiucheng was being stubborn. "But what kind of tax do you charge for this fight?"
Li Xiucheng understood, "Are you here to be a lobbyist for foreigners?"
Xu Rongcun shook his head. "It’s not just that lobbyists mediate. Would you like to listen to me at the age of nine?"
Li Xiucheng hum a impatient gave a sign for Xu Rongcun hurriedly said.
Xu Rongcun said, "I’ve always been honest with the 90-year-old, and I won’t hide it from your report. My involvement in the sea at this time will make it more troublesome here."
Li Xiucheng frowned. "What about the tax?"
The reason why he hit the sea was that the British paid all the sea taxes, which made him greedy and angry. Now it is a problem how to collect the taxes.
Xu Rongcun said, "Naturally, it’s all handed over to the kingdom of heaven. Although foreigners are reasonable, they are still paying attention to accounts in doing business. It doesn’t make any difference to the kingdom of heaven if foreigners can hand over the customs tax to the kingdom of heaven."
Li Xiucheng thought it was the same, but he hesitated in his heart. "What are the benefits of your great power?"
He never knew that this group of people was a gentleman, and he knew it from the first time he dealt with Zhu Jinglun. At that time, Zhu Jinglun sent him rations, but they all received money. It was no good for this group of people to do things.
Xu Rongcun laughed and said, "Like Qingdao and Dalian, I am the manager of local foreigners to collect taxes."
Li Xiucheng naturally knows how to manage those ports and foreigners collect taxes, but other local taxes are mainly due to the receipt that they have not withheld money to build ports, but Li Xiucheng denies that they will do such thankless things.
Even so, Qingdao and other places are Manchu territory. Now the sea is a kingdom of heaven, but he is Li Xiucheng territory. How can he hand over the place when he hits the sea? How can he rest assured that he will never believe foreigners, and of course he will not believe big.
"You mean let my heavenly army give you the sea?"
Li Xiucheng displeasure way
Xu Rongcun knew that he was worried and smiled. "At the age of nine, I don’t doubt that I occupied a lot here. It doesn’t hurt the kingdom of heaven. It’s a matter of whether it’s a national prestige or a kingdom of heaven. It’s only when I’m here that foreigners dare to do business and collect their taxes. If the kingdom of heaven is here, foreigners may not be at ease and the British will never give up."
Li Xiucheng growled, "Are you afraid of foreigners? Are you really afraid of being laughed at by heaven and man?"
Xu Rongcun sighed, "At the age of nine, don’t worry about saying something wrong. If the heavenly soldiers stay in the sea, people can pay taxes according to regulations, but who can you trust when you hand over the sea to the age of nine?"
Li Xiucheng was suddenly choked by this sentence. He felt a sigh of relief and his face turned red as if he had been punched in the chest.
Yeah, even if you run this place yourself, who can run this place? He can’t rest assured that he will take such an important place and such a large piece of fat meat. He knows that many people will be robbed, and he must hold it firmly in his hand. Even if he gives it to his cousin Li Shixian, he can’t rest assured. He is not afraid that Li Shixian will be greedy for money, but he can’t rest assured that Li Shixian will take it.
The Manchu Dynasty became a warlord, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom became a vassal. Li Xiucheng could not find words to refute Xu Rongcun dialect for a long time.
"So you’re going to station troops in the sea?"
For a long time, Li Xiucheng also asked this sentence and said that he had acquiesced in letting Da get involved in the sea.
Xu Rongcun said, "Foreigners won’t be at ease if my big army is not here. Foreigners will have to station their own troops here. Please be considerate at the age of nine."
Li Xiucheng waved his hand, "It’s just that you can station troops if you like, but no more than 10,000 people."
Xu Rongcun said, "There is no money to feed so many soldiers, but the navy has to be stationed in a fleet."
Li Xiucheng grunted, "If you are not stationed in the navy, foreigners will be stationed, right?"
There is a saying in his look that "you are really foreigners’ lackeys" without saying it.
Xu Rongcun is not annoyed by "Nine-year-old English"
Li Xiucheng gave a hand and he was really impatient. Xu Rongcun continued to talk before he could say "Fujian"
"Nine-year-old business is over, and there is still a feeling. Please ask for a favor from nine-year-old."
Although Li Xiucheng is not happy in his heart, he is actually quite satisfied with letting them station 10 thousand people and a navy here according to the general idea. He can collect tens of millions of taels of silver to fight the sea every year. Isn’t that enough? To be honest, he still doesn’t care about that soldier. If he can receive Qian Hai, it’s him, Li Xiucheng.
People are happy when they are happy. "Say what you have to say."
Xu Rongcun laughed. "A foreign silk factory in Shanghai has closed down. My brother intends to take over and hopes that it will be convenient for the nine-year-old man."
Before hitting the sea, foreigners had almost run away. Where is the factory? Since the Xu family wants Li Xiucheng to be a accommodating person.
"Wang Zhun"
Xu Rongcun, however, waved his hand and said, "It’s not that the foreigner factory closed down because it didn’t harvest cocoons. My brother means to find a place with cocoons and invite the nine-year-old heavy silk factory to grant permission. It means that my brother wants to move the silk factory to Suzhou." U
Section five hundred and fifty-two Jardine Silk Factory
Like many industries, the first modernization project in China in modern times was often brought by foreigners from shipbuilding to textile.
The same is true of the silk reeling industry. The first modern silk reeling factory in China was not from China, but Jardine Matheson.
In the first 16 years of history, they set up the first silk reeling factory in the sea, Yihe Silk Reeling Factory. The original British people wanted to make the silk reeling factory go to Jiangnan, but neither the Taiping rebels nor the Qing army occupied Jiangnan, so they refused to allow this request and put it in the sea.
But the problem is that the sea is not a silkworm producing area, and the raw cocoons of the cotton reeling factory are mainly planted around the sea, and they have to be transported from Suzhou
Transportation is not a problem. The problem is that the cocoon is not a dead thing. It is not an ore or a cotton cocoon, but there is a silkworm baby in it. When it is a living thing, the silkworm baby will bite the cocoon, which is a waste cocoon. Maybe there is a way to deal with the machine by hand.
This is a problem, even if it can be transported to some cocoons at the right time, it will not be easy to be worn and flattened.
Therefore, Jardine Matheson set up a silk factory in Shanghai, and they have to solve many problems. For example, they need to build scientific transportation facilities to imitate cocoons that are damaged during transportation. Even if the cocoons are shipped to the sea, they are seasonal raw materials. The silkworm base in Jiangnan is spring and summer, and they need to buy the raw materials they need for one year in these two seasons. This requires equipment maintenance and cocoon facilities, usually building cold storage, otherwise the silkworm babies will bite the cocoons if they feel warm.
General Jardine Matheson Company needs to solve not a silk reeling factory problem, but a whole set of modern silk reeling problems. This problem is not that he alone can handle huge investment, not to mention all kinds of communication with local governments. It can be said that it is difficult to develop this industry without strong government support.
In the course of operation, Yihe Silk Reeling Factory often encounters the problem of insufficient raw materials, and it is almost normal to stop working. The most important thing is that a cocoon problem has not been solved. Therefore, after ten years of bleak operation, the reality is that it is competitive, but the manual reeling Yihe Silk Reeling Factory in Su Hu has closed directly.
Ten years, that is, from 2000, before the Taiping rebels attacked the sea, they would not have gone. In fact, the biggest problem in history was the Franco-Prussian War. As France, the world’s largest silk producer, was in a state of war, it relied on exporting raw silk directly to France and struggling to support Jardine’s silk reeling factory.
Originally, they closed directly, but things have changed in this era because of the flying exhibition of Guangdong silk reeling industry.
Xu Rongcun was the first comprador in the sea, but his family didn’t come alone. He followed his brother Xu Yuting to do business in Macau in his early years. It can be said that he was a comprador before the Opium War.
Later, after the Opium War, foreigners flocked to the sea, but for a moment, it was not because the sea didn’t have the whole set of Macao. As a result, Baoshun Foreign Firm lent a huge sum of money to invite Xu Yuting, its partner in Macao, to the sea exhibition.
As early as 146, Xu Yuting set up a Yichang Silk Tea Land in Shanghai, mainly dealing in silk tea and opium. In fact, what he did in Macao was that silk tea was for Baoshunyang licensed opium, while Baoshunyang gave him goods, which was equivalent to transferring the Xu family’s trade in Guangdong to the sea.
With the early flying exhibition of the sea port, especially the unique character of the sea people who are not exclusive, Xu Yuting made his business bigger in a few years in the sea. Xu Rongcun set up a Rongji silk shop with the help of his brother’s contacts and came to the sea, mainly to do raw silk business
However, as soon as Xu Rongcun learned that no one else cared about the British holding a trade fair, he sent a pack of raw silk to the exhibition and won the gold medal, which made the big government notice that he invited him to do foreign affairs and left the officialdom. However, his family still operated foreign trade business in the sea. Instead of being depressed because of his withdrawal, he became more and more connected.
His brother Xu Yuting has been in poor health in recent years, but the Xu family has a fierce epigenetic name called Xu Run, which is also a famous comprador in later generations. The main mark in history is that he later helped Li Hongzhang to be a ship investment promotion bureau.
"I’ll leave the sea to you to collect taxes. I don’t care about the money."
