The tea market will open tomorrow, the tea guild will quickly send people to inform the various tea shops and tea merchants after receiving the notice, the news will soon spread around, the major tea houses in Xiguan will soon be full, a group of tea merchants and speculators have rushed to the nearby big tea houses to listen to the news, participate in the discussion or listen to the discussion of others, the focus is naturally the price of tea.

Since the news of Yuanqi Bank's unification of Guangzhou money bank, the tea market has been closed, Xiguan and Guangzhou city tea shops are all closed, however, small batches of tea transactions are intermittently carried out, Yuanqi methodically mergers and acquisitions, tea prices are also rising, and now no one is willing to sell the bid of 23 taels and 1 quintals.

Tea collapsed, the bank hall to save the market, the highest price of the tea price rebound is twenty-two taels, and then turned down, now closed for a few days, the price of tea small transactions has risen to twenty-three taels, naturally it is exciting, especially the hand with tea, but also optimistic about the price of tea.

The previous wave of rebound, the price of tea in twenty taels when the trading volume is huge, many speculators are in the price of twenty taels to eat, insist on holding in the hand not to sell, now a load has been steadily earned three taels, selling naturally needless to say, that is really even the intestines are regretful.

The sources of the teahouse are very varied, and all kinds of gossip have emerged in endlessly, and there have always been different opinions, but this time all the businessmen are optimistic about the price of tea without exception! The reason is very simple, after Yuanqi unifies the money bank, it will inevitably raise the price of tea, and try to make the loss of the money bank with shares not too big!

A theory came out in time at this time, saying that the reason why Yuanqi was able to force the bank hall to close and dissolve and unify the Guangzhou money bank was because he won the support of the Tea Industry Association, and the reason why Yuanqi was able to obtain the support of the Tea Industry Association was because Yuanqi promised to join hands with the Tea Industry Association to work together to raise the price of tea, and to unite with the outside world to resist the British increase in tea import taxes.

The sudden announcement of the closure and dissolution of the bank hall was quite puzzling, but as soon as this statement came out, it was immediately recognized by many people and spread rapidly, so that most merchants had great expectations for the price of tea, and many people were even optimistic that the price of tea would return to the high of 30 again.

Bank Mansion, Rong Garden.

Yi Zhizhi met with the shopkeepers of other provinces one after another, until the sun sank, he was free, standing by the window, it seemed that he was enjoying the scenery in the garden, but in fact he was combing the layout of the two rivers in his mind, and in the next three or five years, the two rivers will be the main battlefield of Yuanqi.

The wealth of the two rivers, the first in the world, even if Guangdong is compared with it, it is still inferior, but although the two rivers are rich, there is a fatal weakness, that is, the silk weaving industry market is huge, very suitable for large-scale capital to stir up the wind and rain, compared with the northern provinces and inland provinces, the two rivers are obviously more suitable for Yuanqi to play the power of scale funds.

Once the two rivers are monopolized, it will be much easier to go back and clean up Zhejiang and Fujian, and the expansion plan of Yuanqi he drew up is to first make it easy and then difficult, first south and then north, first coastal and then inland, eat the two rivers, Yuanqi even if the whole country is the enemy, there is enough capital and courage.

However, to monopolize Liangjiang, the difficulty is not ordinary, for Yuan Qi, Liangjiang is not familiar with the place, without the help of the Thirteen Lines of such a huge force, but to face the Lianghuai Salt Merchants and Jiangxi Copper Merchants two huge business groups with strong financial strength.

The only thing he is sure to fight for now is the officialdom of Liangjiang, the governor of Liangjiang is now Tao Shu, who has been in office for eight years, I don't know how many years he can hold out, anyway. The governor of Liangjiang at the outbreak of the war was not Tao Shu.

No matter who takes over as the governor of Liangjiang, he must do everything possible to gain the appreciation of the governor of Liangjiang. During the war, the British attacked Nanjing and signed the Treaty of Nanjing, which was his opportunity to gain the appreciation of the governor of Liangjiang, and only with the support of the Liangjiang officialdom could he launch the annexation of Liangjiang.

At present, he has to befriend Deng Tingzhen and Lin Zexu, who came to Guangzhou to ban smoking, if it were not for the recommendation of these two people, he would not be able to enter the gate of the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion, let alone be appreciated by the Liangjiang Governor.

"Young Master." Li Wang walked in briskly, bowed down and said, "Wu Changqing, Pan Shiming, Yan Shikuan, Wu Yundong, Xie Anzhou, Rong Kunyi and other sons are here. ”

Pan Shiming is back? Yi Zhizhi was happy, and hurriedly walked out, before he arrived at the gate of the garden, a group of people had already poured in, and the leading person was Pan Shiming, as soon as they met, he smiled heartily: "I just went to Macau to go around, Yuan Qi actually unified the money line in Guangzhou, and the contentment brother is a good means." ”

"Brother Zecheng went to menstruation, but he wanted to mess with us." Yi Zhizhi smiled and said: "Is the Western-style movable type printing machine in place?" ”

"That's nature." Pan Shiming said with a smile: "If you don't complete the things assigned by Brother Contentment, how can you have the face to come to see you?" ”

"It's time to celebrate today......."

"I've already booked a seat in the restaurant." Wu Changqing said with a smile: "I originally wanted to ask the little guy to come and invite the brother to the banquet, but everyone said that they wanted to come to visit the new Yuanqi General Number, so they simply came together." ”

Taking advantage of these words, everyone stepped forward to salute, and after returning the salute, Yi Zhisuff smiled and ordered: "Li Wang, accompany the owners to visit the new general number." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and politely said, "Brother Cheng, please." ”

Wu Changqing came every day, naturally he would not go with everyone to visit, and also followed into the living room, Yi Zhizhi poured a cup of herbal tea for the two of them, and then sat down, and before he asked Pan Shiming, he said with a smile: "This printing press was specially shipped from Temasek, I heard that it was originally used to print Chinese publications by the puzzle club, that is to say, this is not a foreign printing press, but a Chinese printing press, which can save us a lot of things, and can be printed directly after installation and commissioning." ”

"That should be the same printing press used to print the "Monthly Statistical Biography of the East-West Foreign Examination." Yi Zhizhi said: "I thought the puzzle club was printed in Guangzhou, but it turned out to be in Temasek. ”

"The Guangzhou government does not allow foreign businessmen to print Chinese publications." Pan Shiming said: "Otherwise, there is no need to spend so much trouble, but this twist and turn is also quite worthwhile, I tried it in Macau, this Western-style movable type printing machine is indeed better than engraving printing, clear printing, convenient typesetting, much higher efficiency, I think not only can print newspapers, but also a large number of books." ”

After a slight pause, he continued: "In addition, I have hired a missionary, Wei Sanwei, a native of Citigroup, who has been in Guangzhou for only four years and can speak fluent Chinese, and who works as an editor of the "Macao Monthly News", who is not only proficient in the use of printing presses but also repairs. ”

"Let him bring a few more apprentices." Yi Zhizhi said: "The printing press will definitely be popularized in the future, just our newspaper needs a lot of printing presses and printing workers, I just ordered a batch of printing presses from American businessmen a few days ago, what is lacking is printing workers, and I also have an idea, the printing house is not with the newspaper, run it alone, so that more printing workers are needed." ”

"A separate printing house?" Pan Shiming said with some surprise.

"Yes." Yi Zhizhi said: "Not only to run a printing factory, but also to run a paper factory." ”