Chapter 278 Shanghai Bund, Sister Yuegui, selling piglets (please vote, please order)
The Bund, downstairs of the Old Desi Kee Restaurant.
A Western-style four-wheeled carriage, escorted by ten cavalrymen armed with revolvers, stopped steadily on the side of the main road on the Bund.
A Guangdong doorman standing at the door of a Western restaurant to welcome guests quickly stepped forward and opened the door for the distinguished guest sitting in the carriage very attentively. Then he saw a man wearing a green cloth gown and a Western-style hat, carrying a A tall man with a well-made cane got out of the carriage first.
This person did not walk into the restaurant door immediately, but turned around and extended his hand in a gentlemanly manner, and pulled out a beautiful and mature woman who was not tall and wore a tight-fitting jacket on her upper body, which outlined extremely enchanting curves. woman.
This man was Luo Xueyan, the Shanghai governor who had just "returned to Shanghai in victory". The woman with him was not Zhou Xiuying, the hostess of Yu Garden, but Xu Yuegui, the general manager of Yu Garden.
When Xu Yuegui got out of the carriage, she had already pinched a silver dollar in her hand. She handed it to the Guangdong doorman who opened the door as a tip. The doorman said with a flattering look on his face: "Thank you Yuegui." sister."
Xu Yuegui nodded politely, and then walked generously to Luo Xueyan, holding Luo Xueshuai's arm, and walked into the old Dexiji restaurant together in full view of the Bund Street.
"The doorman just called you Sister Yuegui. Is he also your disciple?"
Luo Xueyan, who had just walked into the Old Desi Kee Restaurant, smiled and asked the woman holding her arm next to her.
"Yes," Xu Yuegui admitted generously, "Thanks to Xueshuai, all the bosses of the Red Gang in Shanghai are now under my sect. The Cantonese and Fujian people who make a living in Shanghai are basically disciples of the Red Gang. They all recognize me. This Lao Deji is a place you often come to. I have already said hello to you and replaced all the Chinese guys here with reliable boys from the Red Gang."
The so-called Red Gang is Hongmen, and it is also the Tiandihui. Because Tiandihui has always been fighting against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, it is still inconvenient to openly display its own sign. So there are various "vests", such as Sanhe Hui, Three O'clock Hui, Hongmen, Red Gang, Xiaodao Hui, etc.
Originally, most of the Tiandihui disciples in Shanghai wore the signboard of the Xiaodaohui, but after the Xiaodaohui uprising last time, the signboard was changed to the Red Gang.
And now the leader of the Shanghai Bund Red Gang is the woman Luo Xueyan Xueshuai trusts most, Xu Yuegui, the general manager of Yuyuan.
During the time when Luo Xueyan was fighting Su Sanniang, Xu Yuegui, as the leader of the Tiandihui Recruitment Hall, summoned all the Red Gang bosses in Shanghai and ordered them all to join his sect.
These red gang bosses are all well-informed. Who doesn’t know the background of Sister Yue Gui? That is the general manager of Yuyuan, the white glove of Shanghai Bund Luo Xueshuai. Who dares to disapprove? Yuyuan Secret Door Pistol Team is not them Those with knives and axes can handle them.
If the Secret Door Pistol Team still can't take care of it, then the New Army Foreign Gun Team will attack directly.
In the face of absolute strength, no matter how senior the Red Gang bosses are, they have to call her "Sister Yue Gui" and give a Hongmen gift of three phoenix nods to express their recognition that Xu Yuegui is the leading eldest sister of Shanghai Bund Hongmen.
"Oh, what about the Caobang?" Luo Xueyan held Xu Yuegui's arm and walked upstairs, asking in a low voice, "Are the people in the Caobang convinced?"
"The Cao Gang doesn't dare to refuse!" Xu Yuegui said with a smile, "If Xueshuai doesn't trust them, I will go to Hangzhou in a few days and bring the Dharma Protector Coiled Dragon Staff to Shanghai!"
The main hall of the Caobang has always been in Hangzhou. There is a theory that it was the Panlong Stick given to the protector by Emperor Qianlong when he went to the south of the Yangtze River. It is the treasure of the Caobang and the symbol of the leader of the Caobang.
However, the stick is just a symbol now and has no practical significance. The only place where the Caobang Headquarters can really talk about things is in the city of Hangzhou.
"Don't worry about taking over the Cao Gang. It's them who need to be urgent!" Luo Xueyan said with a smile, "Yuegui, Shanghai can't do without you now. We must hurry up about the Sanxin Company!"
"I understand." Xu Yuegui nodded heavily.
When the two of them were talking, they had already arrived at the door of a private room.
Two short and capable men, wearing short shirts, long trousers, and coarse cloth belts around their waists, were guarding the door. They were startled when they saw Xu Yuegui approaching with Luo Xueyan on her arm. Then they both bowed to Xu Yuegui and shouted in unison, "Sister Yuegui." ".
Then, one of them opened the door of the private room diligently. Luo Xueyan and Xu Yuegui walked in. Inside was a room with a window facing the Huangpu River, a long table, and a rather luxuriously decorated room.
In the room, Wu Jianzhang, Wu Chaoyue and his grandson had been waiting for a while, accompanying the American Minister Marsali and the American Consul in Shanghai Ma Hui.
Seeing Luo Xueyan and Xu Yuegui coming in, the four of them stood up together to greet them.
Luo Xueyan greeted them for a few words, and then sat down with Xu Yuegui on one side of the long table, facing the Huangpu River. The two Americans sat opposite them, while Wu Jianzhang and Wu Chaoyue sat at the two heads of the table. .
Soon a waiter brought coffee, milk tea and two plates of freshly baked bread. Luo Xueyan took a sip of coffee and ate some bread, then smiled and pointed at Xu Yuegui next to Ma Shali. Hui introduced: "This is Sister Yuegui, the boss of Shanghai Sanxin Company. These are the American Minister Marsali and the American Consul Ma Hui."
Luo Xueyan spoke English when introducing Xu Yuegui, and then spoke Chinese when introducing the two Americans to Xu Yuegui.
Then, with a smile on her face, Xu Yuegui greeted Ma Shali and Ma Hui in the English she had just learned, and exchanged her business cards. They were considered acquaintances.
"Mr. Minister, Mr. Consul, Sanxin Company is engaged in the big business of labor export!" Wu Jianzhang immediately smiled and changed the topic to business.
"Labor export" is not a respectable business nowadays. This business is also known as "selling piglets". Even though Luo Yaoguo is now carrying Luo Xueyan's "small account", he is not embarrassed to use his own name to do this kind of business. To make a living, Xu Yuegui was pushed out as a white glove.
In addition, the business of "selling piglets" sometimes does not involve handing over the money in one hand. Instead, the "piglets" are given away first, and then the account can be collected after the "piglets" have made money.
In order to prevent "Piggy" from escaping his debt, the "Piggy's" wife and children are usually required to be used as collateral.
So this is a business that only a gangster can do!
Wu Jianzhang's grandson Wu Chaoyue glanced at the "female boss" who was pushed out by Luo Xueyan, and then took over his grandfather's topic and said in English: "Sanxin Company is responsible for the business in China."
Recruit poor people who have no food to do as indentured labor. Sister Yue Gui is now the female boss of the Shanghai Red Gang. She will take care of the poor people's affairs, so you two don't have to worry.
Tongshun will organize a fleet to transport people to California, the United States. Tongshun is my family's business. My grandfather is already thinking of ways to buy ships. He has already taken a fancy to three fast paddle wheels belonging to Yihe and Baoshun.
The sailboat can be purchased immediately, and the crew can also be hired together.
Qichang Yangxing is responsible for helping indentured workers find homes in the United States. My grandfather was the major shareholder of Qichang. In the past few months, he has bought some more shares, and Xueshuai has also acquired some. However, not all American capital has withdrawn.
, now Qichanghang’s US capital still accounts for 40%.
HSBC Bank is responsible for providing loans to Sanxin Company, Tongshun Bank, and Qichang Yang Company, and also handles remittance business for contract workers. HSBC Bank is a business run by my family and Xueshuai's family, and there are also ways to do it in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
There is a way to transfer money from there to Shanghai.
Nowadays, gold mines are being mined everywhere in California. There is a very shortage of labor and the labor prices are sky-high. My grandfather and I have repeatedly calculated that as long as a contract worker can be safely transported to the United States, he can at least work for Sanxin Company, Tongshunxing, and Flagship.
Changyang Bank provides a profit of fifty silver dollars. If you transport ten thousand people, it will be five hundred thousand, and if you transport one hundred thousand, it will be five million!
The remittance business of HSBC is a long-term business. Moreover, HSBC can also absorb remittances and deposits from wealthy people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in southern Jiangsu, and help them transfer money from their hometown for a handling fee of five points. Really
It’s very profitable!”
While the ancestors and grandsons of the Wu family were happily talking about business, Luo Xueyan was observing the expressions of the two Americans. When he saw the undisguised greed on the faces of the two Americans, he finally laughed and interjected:
"Mr. Marsali, Robert
The money of Sanxin Company may not be clean, but the profits of Tongshun Bank, Qichang Bank, and HSBC Bank must be clean. These three banks have just started now, and their sales are not big, but they will definitely have great potential in the future. Do you want to catch up?
Take this opportunity to invest tens of thousands of dollars?
I guarantee that the return will be at least ten times in five years!
If you two are tight on money and don't have tens of thousands of dollars, you can borrow money from HSBC. HSBC is a business between Mr. Wu and I. We both believe in your credit. We don't need you to mortgage, and we can lend you money right away!
By the way, Mr. Wu has already asked the American manager at Qichang Bank. This way of doing things is in compliance with American law, so you two can rest assured!"
Ma Shali and Ma Hui were already smiling. They both knew the law. After listening to what Wu Chaoyue and Luo Xueyan said, they knew that Tongshun Bank, Qichang Bank and HSBC Bank were all legal and good businesses!
And this Luo Xueyan is truly a leader of the Chinese Republican Party who grew up listening to stories about Washington, and a good friend of the United States of America!
Chapter completed!