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If the Fuxing Society is to use Tonghua as a logistics base in the future, there will be a lot to do. The railway is only an additional project, and according to the previous plan to operate Tonghua, the steamship company is to be opened, which is the result of the discussion between the people when they plan Tonghua. Tonghua is deep in the mountainous area, two or three hundred kilometers away from Fengtian in the west and Andong in the south, and two hundred kilometers away from Jilin in the north, and the six waterways are very inconvenient, if you want to improve it as much as possible, then the most effective thing is to set up a steamship company -- as long as it costs 80,000 yuan, the purchase of ten freighters can solve the traffic problem very well -- of course, because of the particularity of the region, these freighters are intended to be opened in the name of McNeill, according to history, Japan will occupy the entire Liaodong, and Britain and the United States are its backing, In this way, the interference of Japan and Russia can be eliminated, and the channel will be dredged this winter, the previous two shipping masters have explored the area that needs to be blasted and cleaned, in fact, it is the section of the Hunjiang River that connects the Yalu River in Tonghua, there are three or four too sharp bends and some boulders in the river to be cleaned up, and there is no problem with the passage of 500-ton cargo ships after blasting and cleaning, as for the follow-up exhibition, it must be the railway.

The local gentry of the steamship company are fully supportive, and some even negotiate with Zhong Guanguan about the shares, such as Chen Tingsen, the boss of the Baotai Company who made an appointment today, this gentleman is also a native of Zhejiang, who joined the army in his early years and was promoted to the pipe belt, and later abandoned the official to engage in business, opened up the door of Fengtian General Zengqi, and took over the iron factory (place name) coal mine as a mining official. This mine has been mined for more than 10 years, at the time of the Gengzi Incident, the Russians occupied the northeast, and beat away the loyal and righteous army that had been entrenched in Tonghua County for two years, and wanted to occupy this mine for themselves, and lied that the coal mine was opened by the bandits, and had to be stopped, and later after negotiations it was accepted by Zengqi as an official office, and sent officials to supervise, Chen Tingsen took over at that time.

The mine produces good coking coal, and German engineers estimate that there are two to three layers of mineable coal seams, and the initial estimate is that the buried amount is nearly 60 million tons; In addition, there are also coal mines in Wudaojiang, but they are anthracite types and cannot be coking, but the reserves are more abundant, with a preliminary estimate of more than 100 million tons; Other smaller coal mines, such as Donglai Coal Mine and Daan Coal Mine, have reserves of less than 50 million tons, especially the coking coal produced by Donglai Coal Mine, which is particularly good for ironmaking. Although the Donglai coking coal mine has been discovered, Zhong Guanguan still hopes to merge the iron factory coal mine, because the iron factory coal mine and the Qidaogou iron mine are in the same ravine-iron ore is a rare rich iron ore, the ore grade is more than 5o%, and the reserves are more than 20 million tons-this coal mine is still on the outside of the ravine, closer to the river, and the Donglai coal mine is separated from the iron ore by a ridge. If you want to use the coke from Donglai Mine to smelt the iron of Qidaogou, then you have to build a road around the mountain, so Zhong Guanguan wants to merge the iron factory coal mine.

Before then, Chen Tingsen came as promised. Previously, under the introduction of the county commander Qiu, both sides have met, and he admires this fellow villager for being able to set up such a big foundation at a young age, and he has tasted monosodium glutamate, which is really a unique taste in the world. Although Zhong Guanguan explained to the outside world that he came to this place outside the customs to run an oil mill to buy soybean cakes, and by the way to see if there were any other ways to make money, but in the eyes of others, he obviously came to look for mines, and the three foreigners who were looking for mines with him were extremely obvious, and I heard that he opened a large coal mine in Changxing, Huzhou, with an annual coal mining of 500,000 tons, such an output is unheard of, and it seems that only the largest government-run Kaiping mine in the Qing Dynasty can win.

Chen Tingsen Rongma all his life, old age and ambition are not there, thinking that he has fought for half his life and has no foundation to leave, and the official luck is not smooth, so he made up his mind to borrow money to get the iron factory coal mine from the Fengtian general Zengqi, which has been in operation for less than a year, one or two hundred people, the monthly coal production is only more than 400,000 catties, and only more than 200,000 catties when it is less. The output is not large, and at the same time due to inconvenient transportation, the price of coal is very low, only four or five dollars per 100 catties, throwing away labor, you can only earn about 200 taels a month, and you can only collect more than 1,000 taels in addition to various dots in a year. But if the coal can be transported to Anton, not to mention the good coal, the poor coal alone costs two dollars of silver per 100 catties, the price is more than double that of the mountains, and the shipping route is open, and the market is not worried, then more miners can be recruited, and the output will increase dramatically. It was a sightseeing appointment, and he came immediately.

As soon as Chen Tingsen entered the door, he saw Zhong Guanguan greet him in front of the living room, he has been in the army for many years, although he is old but strong, he saluted neatly, "There is Master Lao Zhong personally waiting for him." ”

Zhong Guanguan hurriedly returned the salute, "Brother Chen is here, how dare the little brother slack off, please hurry up." After that, Chen Tingsen was welcomed in. Soon after the tea, Chen Tingsen asked: "I heard that Master Zhong wants to set up a steamship company, if you don't dislike it, Youshan also wants to join in it." But I don't know what about this charter? ”

Zhong Guanguan and Yang Rui have been staying for a long time, and they are very accustomed to this way of talking straight and saying things, and they really want to be like those gentry yesterday, and it is really not ordinary uncomfortable to be polite and polite. He was very clear about Chen Tingsen's intention this time, and his actual situation was inquired about by the tourism industry - in fact, men often gossip like women, the difference is that women show off more about how happy they are, while men care about how others make money, whether he has more money in his pocket or more money in his own, "Brother Chen, the matter of the steamship company is easy to say, and the more shareholders the better." It is planned to use 80,000 taels to buy 10 ships of 500 tons, 10,000 taels to dredge the channel in winter, and 10,000 taels to buy land in Andong and Tonghua to build wharves, with a total of 100,000 taels of silver, with 100 taels as one share, a total of 1,000 shares. The younger brother thinks that he has 600 shares, and the rest is subscribed by everyone. ”

Hearing the total investment, Chen Tingsen couldn't help frowning, this fellow villager is really rich, and he is a big deal, he originally thought that he was only running a trough ship, so he invested a few thousand taels, and he made up a thousand taels to occupy a large share, who knew that it was indeed a foreign ship, and he also spent 10,000 taels to dredge the channel, this scale is really not small, and he can only subscribe to 30 shares at most. The profits of the steamship are not small, Tonghua, Liujiang, Linjiang and other counties are located in the deep mountains, the transportation is inconvenient, and the bandits are infested, and the cost of doing business is quite high. The cost of 6 roads is high, which makes the price of waterways also expensive, bulk goods to lime as an example, per 100 catties of freight rate needs one money and five cents, according to the foreigner's algorithm a ton to three taels of silver, if the coal transport even if the steamship company freight rate minus one tael, counting the price of two taels per ton of coal, to Anton each ton to sell a four taels, if this fellow also opened a coal mine, at the same time the steamship company is his, this freight rate is not the left hand to the right hand, then their own coal should not be sold, can not afford to lose.

Zhong Guan saw that his brows were tightly knit, and he was silent by default, naturally knowing what he was thinking. According to estimates, the money he can take out is only three or five thousand taels, and this money can only account for half of the shares at most, if the freight rate is really high, it is unprofitable for him to transport coal to stability, and he is basically working for the steamship company in vain; If you want to make money selling coal, the freight rate will have to be lowered, which will have to take a large share in the steamship company and lower the freight rate, but now he has limited funds, and at most it is only a small share.

In the middle of the ring, Chen Tingsen said: "Hey, for my brother I wanted to resign from the government to run a coal mine to make a career, but in the end the coal mine is good, but it is difficult to get lucky, now it is a good thing for Mr. Zhong to run a steamship company, but for my brother to spend all his family wealth for the coal mine, but also a lot of debts, now the coal mine has just run a shy bag, I can't recognize how many shares." ”

Zhong Guanguan saw his true feelings flowing in, and hurriedly took his words: "Brother Chen is deeply connected, others just want to take it down, although it costs a lot of money, but it will be earned back in two or three years?" What is there to be sorrowful? ”

"Master Zhong doesn't know, although this coal mine has sold a lot of love, but it also cost more than 30,000 taels, I thought that it would be able to return to the capital in three or five years, who knew that this place was closed, and the family only used firewood and grass, and it could not be shipped out, and the income was very little. Except for the dots, earning 2,000 taels a year is God blessing. Chen Tingsen took over less than half a year, and he regretted his decision that day.

Seeing this, Zhong Guanguan immediately said: "Brother Chen is also in trouble. In this case, the little brother's newly opened coal mine does not sell a pound of coal locally. The freight rate of the steamship company will also try its best to persuade the shareholders to reduce it in order to facilitate the export of Brother Chen's coal. ”

The freight rate is the most sensitive thing for Chen Tingsen, and when he saw Zhong Guanguan's statement, he hurriedly asked, "Master Zhong, how much do you think this freight rate can be reduced?" I heard that the coal of Kaiping in Tianjin is sold for four or five taels, and now the cost of manpower coal mining is very high, according to the Western algorithm, two taels per ton, such as two taels of freight, plus water foot labor, etc., that is not a penny, maybe there will be a lot of losses. ”

Zhong Guanguan was very surprised when he heard this, "Why is Brother Chen's coal mining cost so high, my brother wrote a letter some time ago, Changxing Coal Mine has begun to produce coal, and each ton of labor is less than one or two, probably ** money." ”

Chen Tingsen, who said this, was even more depressed, "Master Zhong, the Changxing Coal Mine must be a machine for coal mining, and my coal mine could have been mined by a machine, but not to mention how to transport it out, even if it can be shipped out, the machine is worth a lot of money, and it is not something I can afford." ”

Zhong Guanguan was waiting for him to say this, "Brother Chen is so embarrassed, I have a plan, that is, I am afraid that Brother Chen will blame me." ”

Chen Tingsen was melancholy, thinking that what he said was also beneficial, so he arched his hand, "Please teach Master Zhong." ”

Zhong Guanguan hurriedly said that he didn't dare, "Brother Chen also knows that I have hired a few foreigners to prospect for minerals, and I still have some gains today." First of all, I have sent a letter to my family, planning to open a coal mine in Wudaojiang, this is a machine qì mining, due to transportation restrictions, foreigners said that it can only be done according to the annual output of 100,000 tons, it takes 200,000 taels. Now Brother Chen is trapped by money in running a mine, and I have money and nowhere to go, so I ......"

Chen Tingsen listened to what Zhong Guanguan said, his face couldn't see joy and anger, and when he said the last sentence, he couldn't help it, "Master Zhong wants to buy my mine?" ”

Zhong Guanguan heard some displeasure in his voice, and hurriedly said: "Brother Chen wants to use this mine as an heirloom, how can the younger brother dare to take away other people's property." I just hope to co-operate this mine with Brother Chen. The mine was converted to machine mining, producing 100,000 tons of coal per year. In this way, the annual profit is huge. Brother Chen also knows that the Northeast is not a stable place, and it is difficult to feel at ease if he doesn't take it back earlier. ”

Chen Tingsen laughed, "Master Zhong also knows that this place outside the customs is very unstable, why are you not afraid that it will be difficult to return the capital?" ”

Zhong Guanguan said with a smile, "Brother Chen doesn't know, if the machine is mined and transported to Anton, the net profit per ton will be at least one tael, and 100,000 tons is 100,000 taels. In the past three to five years, the mine still can't change. ”

Chen Tingsen knows that this is very right, but his financial resources are limited, he knows that he can make money but he can't do anything, this mine is really rich to afford, it seems that this Zhong Lao did not want to seize his own mine, if he did not cooperate, it would be a big deal for people to go up a little bit, and go to Wudaojiang to open a mine, this Tonghua is not a place with coal. Thinking like this, he has already tended to cooperate in his heart, "Master Zhong, cooperation should be mutually beneficial, but how legal is this, please let me know." ”

Seeing him ask like this, Zhong Guanguan knew that he had already moved, so he was no longer in a hurry, "This cooperation should be a joint stock, Brother Chen will make 40,000 taels for this mine, and the younger brother will contribute 200,000 taels, and the income of each qi qi will be shared according to this share." If the output reaches 100,000 tons, you can earn 100,000 taels a year, and Brother Zhong can return to the capital in two years, and then it will be hard to earn. ”

Chen Tingsen didn't care about the number of shares, but asked: "What if I can't earn 100,000 taels?" ”

Zhong Guanguan knew his concerns, so he simply had a showdown. said with a smile, "If Brother Chen is worried, it is better to sell the mine directly, there is always a risk in business." I also heard that Brother Chen was in a bad mood today, so I had this discussion. If you are offended, please also ask Haihan. Then he stood up and saluted.

Chen Tingsen only remembered at this time, saying that after talking for a long time, it was actually for the sake of others, and it was really inappropriate for him to ask for this. said immediately, "What Master Zhong said is all good words. Brother Rong Wei went back to think about it, he always had to make up his mind whether to merge shares or sell them, and it was not a way to be half-dead now. He also saluted: "I have said goodbye to my brother, and Brother Zhong will stay." "Let's go in stride.