Although Han Huaiyi emphasized that this was given after the fact, isn't this a kickback?

Han Huaiyi explained to Xiangshuai very reasonably: "The remuneration after the completion of the matter is not a transaction in advance. I was a little surprised when he gave it to me, but I can't push the money out. ”

"Then this time you promised others, did you promise that the other party won the bid?"

"Naturally, I didn't agree, the amount of the tender is set by you, how can I promise someone? Which rat is slandering my innocence? Han Huaiyi finally understood the reason why Zhang Zhidong was unhappy with him, and he asked righteously.

Fevoli's troubles are gone, and Dewitt has resigned, so what about the BNP Paribas wool!

So he is very straightforward, as for the leaked BNP Paribas, hehe!

What he said was very reasonable, and Zhang Zhidong thought about it.

He then changed his words: "The old man sees that you have a fierce light in your eyes now, are you going to find out who reported you, and then go to find someone else's trouble?" ”

"Don't dare." Han Huaiyi himself didn't believe this.

Zhang Zhidong finally confessed to him: "Did you offend the Japanese?" I haven't had anything going on in Shanghai lately. ”

It turned out that the old man had come in a big circle, and in addition to finding out the situation, he was actually concerned about him.

Han Huaiyi thought to himself, it turned out that BNP Paribas had sold the situation to the Japanese.

These dogs can really play, and they actually hit Wuchang with one shot, heh! He told him about Lejia's affairs, and Xiang Shuai suddenly realized that he had blackmailed the Japanese silver taels before feeling this guy!

But Zhang Zhidong then did not comment on Han Huaiyi's extortion, juniors have the way of doing things as juniors, and he has seen everything at his age, so he doesn't need to care about these branches and leaves.

For Xiang Shuai, the point he wants is that Han Huaiyi has lived up to his trust.

He didn't mess around with national affairs, and the earth-shattering bidding meeting that he made in the newspapers was not a show!

That's enough.

Therefore, Zhang Zhidong's demeanor finally came down in a truly amiable manner, and seeing that the dark clouds in the sky had dispersed, Han Huaiyi took the opportunity to take out the bag and send it.

"What is this?" Zhang Zhidong asked puzzled.

When he opened the box, he saw a Western pocket watch in his hand.

This watch is made of sterling silver shell, carved with auspicious clouds, delicate patterns, but simple and atmospheric layout.

When the case is opened, the word "indisputable" is engraved on behalf of Zhang Zhidong's famous words.

This is the Swiss goods that Han Huaiyi arranged for Melo to help him get through the channel in advance.

"Xiang Shuai, do you like it?"

"Not bad. Why didn't you take it out before? ”

"I didn't make it clear, and good filial piety became money to buy a life, and it was not interesting."

Zhang Zhidong likes to listen to this, he didn't stand up satisfied when he saw it, and then put the pocket watch on the spot.

Then he asked Wei Yungong and Han Huaiyi, "Have you eaten?" Come with me to some dinner. ”

Han Huaiyi went up and helped him, and his mouth was endless: "Do you take care of the cook, I can't eat spicy." I said you should eat less, eat more and be angry, maybe one day I will be sent to the palace with a knife from my eldest brother Yungong. . . ”

"You babble all day! At noon, you'll only be allowed to eat spicy food! Zhang Zhidong blew his beard and stared, but he was actually very happy.

Wei Yungong, who was following them, saw the wonderful atmosphere between the old and the young, and he only had envy.

Let him talk nonsense with his old boss like Han Huaiyi, he will not dare in his eight lifetimes.

And Han Huaiyi's revenge will not be overnight.

After eating some lunch at Zhang Zhidong's side, he immediately ran to the Wuchang Pier in New Rome.

Because the warehouse here was temporarily used as the site of the tender meeting in New Rome.

So most of the foreign businessmen live nearby.

Han Huaiyi didn't mention the notice when he arrived here, he first asked Gu Jiatang about the situation.

After knowing this, he asked Xie Miao, who was accompanying him, to transfer some white Russians, and then went to Wei Litao to ask him to notify those foreign businessmen to come over, and then he handed over the accounts with Wei Litao.

Seeing him come to Wei Litao was simply relieved, because those foreigners were too difficult to serve.

When Han Huaiyi wasn't here, he was angry for an unknown amount of time.

However, Wei Litao is a tolerant person and did not sue Han Huaiyi.

But he didn't know that Gu Jiatang had already reported these situations to Han Huaiyi.

At present, there are 16 comptoirs from Germany, Japan, Spain, Belgium, England, France, and the United States, all of which are vying for this business.

Each of them paid a deposit of 10,000 taels.

Han Huaiyi saw some familiar names according to the list.

Mitsui Steel, Carnegie Steel of the United States, Krupp Corporation of Germany, etc., including Northern Steel of France, which is backed by BNP Paribas, etc.

"Mr. Han, you seem to have some thoughts?" Wei Litao is a sensitive person, he asked.

Han Huaiyi didn't deny it: "I almost got cleaned up by the old man today, and someone gave me eye medicine in front of him!" ”

Wei Litao was taken aback: "Who?" It doesn't matter to you. ”

He was born in the Qing court and understood that Xiang Shuai's status was life and death for ordinary people.

Whenever you find a problem, you will clean up when you say that you will clean you up, and there is no ambiguity.

Han Huaiyi shook his head: "It's okay, because I didn't do anything wrong, but I don't like this." ”

Don't look at Han Huaiyi always playing with Xiang Shuai like a second goods, in fact, he knows very well that even if it is a famous minister like Xiang Shuai, it is still old-fashioned thinking.

To put it mildly, it is that those who follow me live and those who oppose me die.

That's why he is so careful in Wuchang that mature people can't change the environment, they have to adapt to the environment.

As a traverser, although Han Huaiyi admires Xiang Shuai, he prefers to stay in a place like Shanghai where the progress of development and civilization is better.

That's why he didn't come here as a last resort.

Chatting with Wei Litao, Han Huaiyi swiped his fingers across the list and had some ideas in his heart.

It just so happened that the foreigners were coming, and there was a lot of shouting outside.

He went out and asked you to sit down.

"I know that you are here to inquire about the news, and I can promise that this matter will definitely be fair and just, because at noon I have discussed with Xiang Shuai the specific way of bidding, that is, the right one."

But before he could finish speaking, there was an uproar below.

The top jumper was Gago, the representative of the Bilbaos company in Bilbao, Spain, a burly middle-aged man who has been living in the British Concession in Hankow and is almost 50 years old this year.

He had a long beard and a straight waist, and he looked like he had been a soldier.

It was also this guy who repeatedly targeted and despised Wei Litao before.

The hot-tempered Gago, who was the first to roar: "What is the right one, this way is simply vague to the extreme... ”

Wei Litao saw that it was him again, and couldn't help but look at Han Huaiyi.

What surprised him was that Han Huaiyi picked up the teacup in his hand and smashed it directly: "Shut up Lao Tzu!" ”

At the same time, Semyon poured into the venue with more than a dozen White Russians and aimed his guns directly at this guy.

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PS：

In other words, it really annoys those "historians" who regard the relationship between the proprietor and the steward as the prince and the enslaved in the Qing court drama.

After Sanjiang, some people once again said why they didn't directly kill the things inside and outside the steak at the beginning.

The death penalty of the Qing court was all carried out by the central government, and how could the Han family, who was stared at by their opponents, kill people at will.

In the grievances of Yang Naiwu's little cabbage at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the framer was Yuhang Zhixian, and he didn't dare to directly kill him, not to mention the Han family, a businessman!

I've always seen the Qiao family's compound.

Sun Maocai, played by Mr. Ni Dahong in the Qiao family's compound, even thinks about the owner's sister-in-law!

Zhou Ada, the steward of Hanjia Wharf, is not a slave.

His daughter Yu'er, the role in the book is naturally not a slave, let alone a coat!

Speaking of Yangzhou in the Caoyun era, some people said that the Han family was too poor, and asked me "How rich are the salt merchants in Yangzhou?"

I know, but the salt merchants in Yangzhou declined as early as the last years of Qianlong, and that was a hundred years ago from the years in the book, right?

In 1842, the British army captured Zhenjiang in the Opium War and blockaded Caoyun, so that Emperor Daoguang quickly made a decision to sue for peace, and soon signed the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing, which became the decisive battle in the entire war.

After 1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Nanjing and Anhui along the Yangtze River for more than ten years.

After the diversion of the Yellow River in 1855, the eastern section of the canal was gradually silted. Since then, Caoyun has mainly changed to sea routes.

By 1872, China Merchants Steamship Bureau was established in Shanghai, and officially used steamships to carry grain. Since Daoguang, the river has been between 1230,000 stones, and the sea grain has reached about 1.2 million stones.

In 1901, the canal traffic was phased out.

In 1904, the Qing court simply removed the governor of Caoyun.

The year 1904 is the next year in the book.

I can't figure out how awesome the Yangzhou Caoyun Han family can be in this era, how many thugs can there be, how much financial resources can be related!

I've already exaggerated a little bit of their starting strength.

Let's talk about the problem of 32,300 boats, please first figure out the style and grade of Yangzhou ingots, and then convert them into RMB. (One tael is converted into 350-700 RMB, take the median value of 500)

The total price is 1.5 million, about 5,000 yuan, is a wooden boat cheap? You know, the purchasing power was still stronger back then.

The sources of this book include: Yangzhou local documents, Shanghai Concession Chronicles, American business development history, Godfathers, Rockefeller, Scott Carnegie, JP Morgan and other biographies.

Since I couldn't buy the Shanghai Concession Chronicle, I simply printed out more than 800 pages on a printer, and then classified them into a book according to the outline, and kept it at hand to read and refer to at any time.

Because it contains various details of the Ministry of Industry Bureau and the Public Board of Directors from its establishment to its conclusion.

That's it.

As for those low-level trolls who scold for scolding, picking thorns for the sake of thorns, and being slapped in the face for showing superiority, how far and how far they roll, I am not your Uncle Wang, Benima is pestering me.

That's it.