Chapter 67 The Rubber Crisis II
Zhang Agou followed the employee to the office of the company owner Sterry on the third floor. Zhang Agou bent forward and cautiously asked Sterry, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window looking at the scenery of the Huangpu River outside. "I've seen the boss, but I don't know what to tell me."
After hearing Zhang Agou's inquiry, Sterry continued to look at the scenery outside and asked. "Zhang, how is the thing I asked you to do?"
"Now I have found a lot of people to let them spread the word that our foreign bank can pay dividends by issuing rubber stocks, and now the street basically knows the news."
Sterry listened to his answer to himself. Sterry still knows about this person named Zhang Agou, who is at the bottom of society, has no culture and doesn't want to work hard, is very well-informed about the grapevine, and thinks about where to find some money every day, which is a little better than a ruffian. Now they need one such person to understand every move of the city. And when it is inconvenient for them to go out, they can ask Zhang Zhang, who is a local, to negotiate with them.
"Zhang, you're doing a good job, I've seen it all. Now I need you to do something else for me. ”
"Boss, please command." Zhang Agou, who doesn't know his future fate, is still very grateful to this boss and nobleman who speaks Chinese more fluently than himself. When he heard that there was something he needed to do, he hurriedly stepped forward to show his loyalty.
"I want you to go to the leaders of the city gang and ask them to find someone to help us promote the company's stock. Can you do it? Sterry turned to look at him and said what he wanted.
"No problem, the boss is on me." It's too simple to hear that you want to find a gang, for Zhang Agou, who has been mixed at the bottom since he was a child, gangs are a part of his life.
Sterry continued. "Zhang, this time you came forward, and you can give them three thousand taels of silver as a reward, but it will take four months for one hundred and fifteen of them."
Hearing the remuneration offered by his boss, Zhang Agou was also taken aback. Five or two a month, this is four times the salary of ordinary workers now, and they can get four consecutive months. This made Zhang Agou almost come forward to check if his boss was guilty of epilepsy.
Of course, it's not that Sterry is crazy, it's the result of careful calculations. If you want to open the situation quickly, throwing money is the best way. Spending a lot of money to buy an office building and paying a lot of money to hire someone to do an errand is all for this result, and Sterry wants to tell people all over Shanghai that Willis Rubber Company doesn't care about the small amount of money because it has better money.
"Boss, isn't this price a little too high?" Zhang Agou still felt that he had to remind him to be loyal.
"Do you want you to teach me how to do it?" Faced with Zhang's question, Sterry felt the need to knock him.
"The boss is my mouthy, this time I will definitely do this beautifully." Zhang Agou, who failed to show his loyalty, hurriedly remedied, and did not forget to slap himself a few times, what a good dog's leg.
"You go to the finance department and get the money to do something." Sterry said to Zhang Agou. After finishing speaking, I suddenly felt that although this person was not a good person, he knew how to figure out people's minds, which could relieve the pressure in his heart.
After Zhang Agou walked out of Sterry's office, he put away his flattering appearance. I don't have any other skills, but I'm still a good hand at observing words and looking at people's thoughts. Zhang Agou, who was walking in the corridor, was a little complacent and evaluated himself in his heart, and almost collided with a figure when he walked around the corner.
"Zhang, don't you look when you walk." Stockel, who was almost hit, scolded Zhang Agou in English.
Seeing that he almost bumped into the boss housekeeper, he didn't understand his bird language, but looking at his expression, Zhang Agou knew that this was not a good word, so he quickly changed his flattering expression and nodded and apologized to him. "Mr. Stockell, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't notice."
Although Stockel did not understand Zhang Agou's words because of his poor Chinese, he knew the meaning of his facial expressions. Stockel waved at him and headed straight for Sterry's office. Seeing that Stockel had no intention of blaming, Zhang Agou hurried to do what Sterry had explained.
Stockel walked into Sterry's office and spoke to Sterry, who was still looking out the window at the view of the Huangpu River. "We bought a rubber plantation in Sumatra and it cost us £50,000."
"This price is not high, and it is still worth 3,000 acres of rubber plantations." Hearing that the assistant was a little unhappy with the price, Sterry felt the need to explain. "Now the price of rubber has risen, which has led to the construction of a large number of rubber plantations, especially now that it is too difficult to buy rubber. If it weren't for the small tactics we used locally, it would have been even more difficult. ”
Stockel nodded in agreement with Stry's words.
"That would be nice, at least so that we could bring more money back."
When they were talking about how to do the trick to harm the Qing Dynasty's silver, Zhang Agou also led Sterry's explanation, thinking about who to give this wealth to. In his mind, one by one the street characters he guided flashed, and finally Zhang Agou chose a person he was more familiar with and had a good reputation, Cai Asi, who was the leader in Sanbo.
After some questioning, Zhang Agou finally met him in the casino run by Cai Ah Si. After some greetings, Cai Asi asked Zhang Agou about the reason why he was looking for himself. "Brother Dog has something to do with me this time."
As the leading figure, Cai Asi still knows about Zhang Agou in front of him now. This little dun san didn't know why he fell in love with a foreign businessman, and this time he came to find himself must have something to help with the foreign businessman behind him.
In the face of Cai Asi's politeness, Zhang Agou also felt that he had face, after all, not everyone could get Cai Asi's politeness. "The fourth brother is looking for you this time, because he has a big deal and wants to ask you for help."
"How much deal did Brother Dog bring me?" Cai Ah Si picked up his jade cigarette gun and asked as he played with it.
"This time Willis Foreign Company needs one hundred and fifty people for four months, and there are three thousand taels of silver as a payment." Zhang Agou told Cai Asi about the purpose of looking for him this time, and did not forget to stretch out three fingers to gesture.
After hearing Zhang Agou's words of 3,000 taels as a reward, Cai Asi put down the cigarette gun in his hand and said. "It's really a big deal, and I'll take this job."
"But people, you can't find some crooked melons and cracked dates to fool my boss."
"Brother Dog, you also know the name of my Cai Ah Si, and he is the most fair."
"This is a deposit of 1,500 taels, and the other half will be paid after the work is done." Zhang Agou took out fifteen Yuanfengrun silver tickets of one hundred taels that he hadn't covered yet, and put them in front of Cai Asi, at this moment he felt that he had never been so arrogant.
"Brother Dog is refreshing." After Cai Asi praised him, he took out one and handed it to Zhang Agou and said. "It's not easy for Brother Dog to help foreign companies run errands, this is tea money."
"It's your money, how can I take it." Zhang Agou politely postponed.
"Brother Dog, I don't treat you as an outsider. If you introduce such a business to me, you can afford to look down on me, so don't postpone it, otherwise I will turn my face. In the face of Zhang Agou's mentality, Cai Asi understands it too well, and a small dun and three friends have good luck breaking out. Give him a little favor now, and I will be able to catch the line of foreign banks in the future.
After completing the task assigned by his boss, Zhang Agou felt where to go to comfort himself.
"Uncle Hu is still waiting to invite himself to dinner, and after eating, he will go to Yichun Mansion to find the little fan fairy to defeat the fire." Zhang Agou, who had thought of a place to go, shook and walked towards Uncle Hu's house.
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