"Our country has lost a lot in the commercial competition with the Eastern Dynasties. In all fairness, it is not the fact that the merchants of the Eastern Kingdom are as cunning as foxes and arrogant and domineering, but because our generation does not pay attention to the essence of business. In addition, the business competition of outsiders is changing rapidly, and it is urgent and urgent, so how can we resist the momentum of a moment and a barrier, when the tide of the vast ocean is over? Therefore, if you want to talk about competition, you should start with business, and this is also the reason why we opened, that is, to promote business and study business information. Master Chen, the essence of business, in a word, just learn. No learning is not enough to speak business, and no learning is not enough to speak. Since ancient times, commerce has been misplaced at the end of the industry and commerce, but it is not known that all countries today use it to respond to the superiority and inferiority. After struggling to persuade his young mentor to go back, Huang Bochao wiped the sweat from his forehead and returned to the hall. Here, more than 20 men of all ages stood there, their faces were not very good, some people's eyes were still very confused, and there was even a hint of shame, which made Huang Bochao even more gloomy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what Master Chen said is certainly reasonable, but now that the way of the world has changed, the learning of the saints should not remain unchanged forever, otherwise they will take the evil path and become a cult. The study of Confucius and Mencius is all-encompassing and eclectic, and everyone should have their own understanding. At this time of great changes in the world, if we are still clinging to the defects and do not want to forge ahead, why don't we let the glorious Chinese civilization be buried with us? Huang Bochao saw everyone's expressions in his eyes, so he said to everyone: "Imagine that if business is not prosperous and the imperial court's financial plan is insufficient, then the salaries of hundreds of officials cannot be paid, the salaries of hundreds of thousands of troops cannot be satisfied, and there is no way to raise guns and armor and other equipment. What we have learned in the business academy has never been done in China, and the articles of association and other documents are all measures of the traditions and current situation of the country, and the achievements of foreign countries have been generalized, and they will never be burdened with the black pot of forgetting their ancestors and disrespecting famous religions. ”

Huang Bochao's words made everyone nod again and again, and then they scattered one after another, and went to their respective rooms to review their homework.

This is the Yuda Chang Commercial Institute, which is an industry founded by Huang Bochao, the proprietor of Yu Dachang Cloth Company, mainly to cultivate business professionals, so as to prosper local commerce, promote productivity improvement, and then enhance the overall national strength. The teaching materials used in the teaching of the business school are all collected by Huang Bochao during his study tour and business in Ningbo, and many of them are his own comprehension of the truth, which can be said to be the crystallization of his wisdom in business for half his life, and it is not impossible to pass it on to others.

But the problem lies in the fact that this person set up a school with great fanfare, and then printed a large number of teaching materials and distributed them to students to study, and caused a certain influence, which undoubtedly poked the hornet's nest. You must know that in today's Dashun, although the ideological and cultural fields are undergoing slow changes, and the number of workshops and workshops in society is increasing day by day, but from the overall point of view, in fact, it is still the old ideas, the old literati, and the old order that prevail, and the so-called new learning is still tenaciously surviving and developing with the support of some government officials, and has not reached the stage recognized by the whole society. Therefore, it is conceivable that when Huang Bochao opened this business institute in Baling County, it caused the anger of many people!

Yudachang Commercial Institute was listed only three days ago, but it was blocked by a group of scholars, the plaque was smashed, and the flower pots, trees, tables and chairs in the yard were also destroyed. Even on the evening of the same day, some people poured dung on the gate of the merchant house, which shows the depth of resentment.

Although the Yueyang prefect and Baling County Commander of the Dashun Imperial Court were all officials who sympathized with Xinxue (otherwise they would not have been sent to this Hunan gateway that can be called the key place), as the chief officials of a county or even a prefecture, they naturally had to take into account local public opinion, and a large number of affairs needed to rely on the help of the traditional gentry, so they could not obviously protect the safety of the business institute opened by Huang Bochao by administrative means. They can only try to make people turn their attention elsewhere with the mud, so as not to let the Yudachang Commercial Institute be too badly harmed - no way, even in a relatively enlightened place like Dashun, the vast majority of the people are still conservative and conservative, especially in the elite class, the proportion of old-fashioned elements will only be higher, and there is no other good solution, but to adhere to the cultural reform movement, slowly and imperceptibly change people's concepts.

But before people's concepts change, there is no doubt that Huang Bochao and Yuda Chang Commercial Institute itself will bear the strange eyes of many people and become the object of contempt and spurning by many people. But Huang Bochao is a person with firm beliefs, born in Nanchang, he was kicked out of the house by his eldest brother in his youth, and then took the only little floating wealth to Huguang to join his uncle, and finally relied on the wholesale cotton cloth business to slowly make a fortune, and became a pivotal businessman in Huguang, Yudachang cloth store has also become a well-known name in Changsha, Hengyang, Baling, Wuchang and other places, and the business is extremely prosperous.

After making a lot of money, Huang Bochao now has more pursuits, that is, to help this society cultivate more business talents, improve the social status of businessmen, and make business one of the prominent learnings, and then force the improvement of the productivity level of the entire society through the development of business. There are many people who hold the same idea as him, but most of them are concentrated in the money bank and ticket number industry, and those businessmen, after earning huge profits, hope to invest in industry and build workshops or workshops for the production of various materials, which are almost diametrically opposed to the two trends of later generations.

The reason for this is probably related to some trends of thought that will be popular in Dashun. These currents of thought were complex and came from a variety of sources, including the spread of knowledge, culture, and ideas from the East Coast, stimulated by the local merchant groups at the government's demand for more money, food, and materials, and of course, the spontaneous efforts of the local elites after the awakening, who were certainly full of foreign regimes like the Manchus, and were not very satisfied with the East Coasters, who were often condescending with a sense of superiority, guidance, and charity.

According to the words of these people, it is: "If business is prosperous, not only can the two lakes, rivers and Jiangxi be consolidated, but also the prosperity of our compatriots for thousands of years." "It's a pity that there are not enough people who understand this in Dashun, and the power of this kind of thinking is not big enough, from the officials and gentry to the generals, down to the people of Limin, they are just passively moving forward in a muddy way, and the people's wisdom has not been opened, so this kind of thinking can only be spread and accepted in a small area, at best, it can only be a kind of restlessness before the storm.

Huang Bochao is now an understanding person in the Dashun regime. He studied and did business in Ningbo for many years, and later went to Denglai to live for a year, until his father died in Nanchang, and his brother inherited the family property, cutting off his expenses for studying abroad. Since then, Huang Bochao began to run a cotton cloth business in Huguang, during which he constantly dealt with the government, the people on the east coast, and even with the merchants of the Ming and Qing countries. Coupled with his observant and thoughtful skills, he did this amazing thing.

Huang Bochao's Yudachang Commercial Institute now has two teachers, both of whom are experienced shopkeepers drawn from his cotton cloth shop, and it is more than enough to teach these businessmen who are coarse and ink-coarse. Therefore, after talking with the two teachers and learning that the business institute was running well, Huang Bochao left here in a hurry and rushed to the cloth shop at the other end of the city in a carriage to deal with some business affairs.

Baling is located at the confluence of the Xiangjiang River and the Yangtze River, with convenient transportation, developed economy and a thriving population. Undertaking the merchants of the Yangtze River and Hanshui (well, because of the war, more than half of the business in the Hanshui area has been abolished), and the business of the central and southern regions is just in the center of the Dashun Kingdom, and the nearby is the famous plain fertile field, the land of fish and rice, it is really difficult not to be rich and prosperous, it can be said that it has partially replaced part of the functions of the original Hankou, and it can be called a small "Hankou Town".

One is Madang Fortress, which is a stronghold directly controlled by the navy on the east coast, corresponding to the west of Dashun Jiangxi Province, where military supplies or production equipment should be supplied to Jiangxi, are delivered here; The second is Baling County, where the big ships of the people on the east coast no longer continue to move forward, but choose to unload at the wharf of Baling County, and then the Shunguo side organizes transportation with its own ships.

Therefore, Baling County can be said to be one of the two major strongholds for the trade of goods with Shunguo and the east coast, and the horses, weapons, armor, machinery, hardware products, etc. transported by the people on the east bank were delivered to the Shunguo government here, and after being exchanged for cash, rice, miscellaneous grains, medicinal herbs, raw silk, tea, silk, tung oil, pig bristles, lead blocks, cotton yarn and other commodities were purchased from local merchants, not to mention all of them, at least most of them were spent. It can be seen from here that after the taxes collected by the Dashun court in various parts of the country flowed into the pockets of the people on the east coast, most of them were smashed into the Baling market, so countless money circulated here, and it was difficult for the business of Baling County not to prosper.

Today, another East Coast ship docked at Baling Harbor. This is a 1,200-ton big thing, which caused a burst of exclamations from the merchants of Baling on the dock, although they have seen it many times, but they still show enough shock and respect for this large ship that represents the beauty of industry and power. And this kind of large ships often appear in the territory of Shunguo, which objectively also plays a role in fueling the new learning and new ideas, because in the face of this absolute power, any "small words" and "teachings of the sages" are a little pale, but the new learning is more marketable.

In addition to some weapons, ammunition and military supplies, there are also a large number of daily necessities and food, such as soap, biscuits, candy, condensed milk, lamps, candied fruit, jam, decorations, oil paintings, books, leather goods, etc., and even matches and some medicines that are very in demand on the east coast.

After unloading the cargo, the ship will stay at Baling Port for about a week, waiting for the goods to be purchased and loaded before leaving. Huang Bochao also knew about this, because the cotton yarn that the Dongguo people indicated to buy was provided by their Yudachang cloth company. No, now Zhang Shaozong, the comprador of the Dongguo people, is already sitting in Yu Dachang's reception room and talking with Huang Bochao.

For Zhang Shaozong and his people, Huang Bochao still knows something. This gentleman, like Huang, is an old watch in Jiangxi and was born in Jiujiang. When he was a teenager, he traveled in Ningbo, because he was smart and clever, and he came to Baling after focusing on training, and acted as a comprador for the people on the east coast, specializing in buying cotton and cotton yarn from Huguang, and then transporting it to Ningbo for reprocessing - Ningbo Mansion was originally more populous and less land, and the southern development team also had certain requirements for the grain self-sufficiency rate, so it even did not hesitate to draw the red line of cultivated land, and strictly prohibited the counties from surpassing, so there was not much land for planting cotton, so the raw materials required for cotton textile needed to be imported in large quantities. Shunguo is undoubtedly an important source of imports.

Huang Bochao and Zhang Shaozong have cooperated many times, and they have trusted each other, so they quickly negotiated the purchase agreement of cotton yarn. Huang Bochao promised that the goods requested by the people on the east coast would be collected within five days, and then loaded on the ship at Baling Port. For this reason, he will also pay comprador Zhang Shaozong a considerable commission, almost as much as 3%.

It can also be seen from here that the new class of compradors is indeed incredible. Just like Zhang Shaozong, as the agent of Dinghai Textile Factory, the largest textile factory in Ningbo, in Baling, Zhang Shaozong can draw about 5% commission for each business he makes, of which Huang Bochao pays him 3% and Dinghai Textile Factory pays 2%, so although his monthly salary is only 20 yuan, he can easily accumulate a large amount of wealth and become one of the wealthy people in society by relying on generous commissions.

There are as many as seven or eight compradors on the East Coast like Zhang Shaozong in Baling, who are employed by some large manufacturing enterprises or trading enterprises in Ningbo, and they try to find all kinds of cheap and high-quality goods in the Baling area, so as to save the proprietor procurement costs and earn a good commission for themselves. Zhang Shaozong is actually not the most outstanding among the compradors, he is only famous in the Baling area, in fact, the first comprador on the east bank in the Huguang area is the perennial Yangloudong area to buy tea Li Nanxian, this person earns a lot of commissions, plus can take care of business, now the family property is said to have more than 200,000 taels of silver, very amazing.

"Mr. Zhang has repeatedly come to my Yudachang to buy cotton yarn, which really makes Huang grateful, if there are other sending, but what I Huang can do, it is straightforward." Huang Bochao arched his hand and said sincerely: "Yu Dachang can not have today, it is inseparable from Mr. Zhang's care, this Huang Mouming is invisible, dare not or forget. ”

"Hehe, Boss Huang is polite." Zhang Shaozong took a sip of the teacup and said with a smile: "The cotton yarn or homespun cloth purchased in Yudachang (because of its good quality, wear-resistant and wear-resistant, the four feudal clans of the Far East often purchased, or used or resold it), there has never been a case of being reprimanded by the people of the East because of quality problems. Boss Huang, in fact, we are in this business, and the pressure is also very high, if the Dongguo people look at us unpleasantly one day, maybe they will kick it away, so who can we find to reason. ”

"Mr. Zhang is such a talent, no matter where he goes, he doesn't have to worry about running out of food." Huang Bochao complimented.

In fact, he was right, this Zhang Shaozong is not very famous, and even some high-ranking military and political officials in Shunguo have heard of his name. This person even helped the Dashun Qianying to get a loan from the Bank of Taiwan to purchase some weapons and equipment, and for this he won the friendship of many Shunjun bigwigs, which undoubtedly had a huge positive significance for him to do business in the Huguang area.

"By the way, Boss Huang, I heard that you have set up a business school in the county, which is fashionable. Even on the Dongguo side, there is no special business school, but a department is set up in Yantai University to train a small number of talents. Boss Huang's move is not only the first time in Dashun, but even Ningbo and Denglai are stunned. Admire! Admire! Zhang Shaozong didn't know what he remembered, and suddenly turned the topic to this, only to hear him say again: "Such a pioneering move, even if it is unsatisfactory for a while, and is criticized and scolded by others, as long as it takes a long time, there will always be a turning point." The business atmosphere in Huguang has become stronger and stronger year by year over the years, and I have to come here many times a year, and I have new feelings every time. Emperor Li of Dashun has now taken most of Sichuan, controlling no less than four million people and countless goods, and business here will only get better and better in the future, and there will be more and more businessmen. This is the general trend, the Huanghuang Heavenly Dao, can anyone stop it? Those rotten Confucians, who can't carry their shoulders and can't lift their hands, Emperor Li of Dashun doesn't treat them very much, and the businessmen all over the world don't want to see them. When the world changes in the future, these people will only be eliminated, and Boss Huang will not mind much, so let them go. ”

Mr. Zhang is right. Helplessly, this time I came out to teach me a lesson, and my mentor when I was a teenager somehow also went to Baling to teach in Kaimeng, and then I was invited to scold me. Alas, I must have become a wolf-hearted and dog-hearted man in his eyes now. Huang Bochao sighed with some embarrassment: "But this has strengthened my determination to continue to run a business school." This world is now indispensable, the people of the East in Ningbo and Denglai have a population of only four million, but they are so pressed that the Qing court does not dare to act rashly, Zheng Jing in Fujian and Erli in Guangdong are also trembling, and the generation of the king of Lu in southern Zhejiang is even more under the fence and looking up to people. I used to wonder why the eastern kingdom is thousands of miles away, so why can China rely on these four million people to sweep the clouds and rain? Thinking about it, it can only be said that it is highly productive, and there is also the power of the giant ship's cannon, and there is no other explanation. Dashun now has a population of 10 or 20 million, and the territory is also as large as several provinces, and most of them are essences, why can't it reach the level of the eastern country? Huang is not talented, and he is willing to practice this road of rejuvenating the country through business first. If it doesn't work, try the road of rejuvenating the country through industry. Mr. Zhang is talented, if he is willing to invest in industry, Huang can also introduce some ways to make money, that is, spinning mills and weaving factories, but I don't know if Mr. Zhang is interested. ”

"I'm a little interested in this. From comprador to industry, this is the right way. Brother Li Nanxian of Yanglou Cave pointed me out, he built a roasted tea factory there, specializing in the production of brick tea, production and sales are booming, I heard that now I want to join hands with others, set up a shipping brand, this upstream and downstream business is indeed getting wider and wider. Brother Li is a role model for my generation, and if he does this, I naturally want to learn from it. The spinning mill and weaving mill mentioned by Boss Huang are excellent in my opinion, so you might as well go and see them together when you have time later. Don't dare to say anything else, if the project is suitable, Lao Zhang and I can still take out more than 100,000 taels of silver, please rest assured. Zhang Shaozong's eyes lit up when he heard this, obviously he had been planning to enter the upstream industry for a while, and Huang Bochao proposed it, which happened to hit it off with him.

And Huang Bochao is also quite satisfied with this. Bringing in a wealthy comprador like Zhang Shaozong can not only better tie up his interests with himself, which is conducive to the development of Yudachang in the future, but also enhance the energy of the industrial and commercial forces of Dashun in disguise. And only when the strength of their business community is strong, and the social influence and voice of the merchant group are further enhanced, will the future of the country be better.

This is not only his dream of Huang Bochao, but also the dream of many of his colleagues.