It's over. The old shopkeeper has made it clear that he wants to help his relatives rather than take care of them. He can't afford to offend his relatives, who are the next generation. In addition, Fu Yin'er is the old shopkeeper's only hope and the biggest heir to the property.
Fan Jian is no longer doting on Fu Yin'er, he is basically willing to die!
Mi Fu and Boss Niu looked at each other and knew that they were going to lose today. The old shopkeeper was here to distract him. As expected, after giving his grandson money, the old shopkeeper asked to speak.
This is against the rules, this is a gag! But there were too many people who were messing around today, and they were all people they couldn't afford to offend. Sima Yun and Xiao Hexin had no choice but to smile bitterly and help the old shopkeeper slide down the pole.
Fan Lian is really old. He has rarely gone out to attend meetings because of his weak legs and feet in the past two years. Especially this year, the rheumatism in his legs has become more serious. It is very difficult to walk with a cane. He has to rely on a sedan chair and a sliding pole to go out.
A group of people helped the old shopkeeper to walk to the podium. The old shopkeeper was sweating a lot just a few meters away.
Standing behind the podium, Fu Yin'er brought over a high-backed chair for his grandfather to sit on, and then brought a fine Persian velvet blanket to cover his grandfather's knees.
The more the old shopkeeper watched, the more he loved it, the more he liked it, but the more he liked his grandson, the more he hated the guys who were against him.
There was a bang, and the old shopkeeper's cane hit the podium. He stared at these congressmen and said, "Haha... I have heard what you said before. There are some words that I, a person who is about to die, will not be polite to you." Got it!"
"King Shangtai, General Luo Huo, and my grandson all spoke too politely to you just now... I think you still have to pull out the thorn in your heart!"
"The dirty kid in your heart, do you think I don't know? In your calculations, making money from business is the biggest thing. As for how big the future territory of the Chinese nation will be, you actually don't care at all!"
This sentence was so heart-wrenching that Mi Fu and others turned pale with fright, "No... old shopkeeper... you... you are wronging us..."
"Haha...Am I wronged? Maybe...let me shake out all the little calculations in your mind!"
"Of course you also hope that the territory of this country will become bigger and bigger. Who doesn't have a dream of becoming a big country? But you people are exposed to national affairs, and you know how difficult it is for the country to advance and how much money and food it consumes, so you become selfish. !”
"China is very big, but the areas where China can create huge wealth are not very large. They are all concentrated on the southeastern coast, the Yangtze and Yellow River basins, and the plains with convenient road transportation!"
"The mysterious Western Region, the towering Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tangnu Uliang Sea, Lake Baikal, the Outer Xing'an Mountains... these places are actually so-called loss-making places in the eyes of you businessmen!"
"From the beginning to the end, you feel that running these places is a huge loss of money and is not cost-effective! Even if you can make money in the future, it will be 180 years later!"
"How can you annex Jiangnan and the Central Plains immediately and enjoy the cash immediately? Isn't it...is it?"
"Don't pretend to be dumb with me, I understand your thoughts very well... Haha... Because back then, I was just like you, a villain with no big picture, just a stinky businessman!"
"Don't always blame scholars and warriors for looking down on us and calling us stinky businessmen...don't you know about our short-sighted short-sightedness that is based on profit?"
"Bah... Anyway, I have to scold my own ancestors..." Fan Qian gave himself a slap with his backhand. "Two hundred years ago, my Fan family was also motivated by profit, smuggling salt and iron to the Jurchens outside the Pass, and in exchange for this, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty His status as an imperial merchant!"
"What's the final result? Our family has taken advantage of it, but the beautiful country of the Central Plains has been plagued by the Tartars for two hundred years!"
"Ashamed, humiliated, and shameless! My Fan family is also a bad businessman!"
"Today, the head of state has opened our eyes to the world with all of us. Could it be said that there are no more short-sighted people?"
"Haha, I don't think so! I think there are a lot more!"
"What does it mean to be in limbo? What does a strategic buffer zone mean? What does a nation's future development potential mean? This is all guaranteed by territory!"
"You may not be able to make much money in a short period of time in a distant frontier, and you still have to invest money to operate it, but it can protect a prosperous economic center and provide strategic depth!"
"If there is an invasion of aliens in the future, these barren lands will be able to withstand the enemy's cavalry. Don't you understand this?"
"Not only that, do you really think that it is a barren land? God knows what new mineral resources our Chinese people will need in the future? What was a barren land in the past will be a golden mountain in the future. Have you ever thought about it?"
"Borneo was originally a very backward place. They were all savages who drank hair and blood. They were all a bunch of wild monkeys!"
"But who would have thought that there are so many oil fields in Borneo now? Isn't the kerosene you use in your home produced in Brunei, Borneo? Is this money? Was this a wasteland before oil was discovered?"
"Haha... When we were developing wasteland for investment, you all complained. Now that there is money and water, why don't you say anything?"
"I don't care what new ideas or strategies you have, old man, I just say one thing! The strategy of the head of state cannot be denied, and what my grandson says is the imperial edict!"
"Grandson... tell these ignorant people, tell these short-sighted people who only know how to make quick money... what have you won for them?"
With the support of her grandfather, Fu Yin'er's smile became even brighter: "Uncles and uncles... I have already negotiated with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Grain purchases will be settled in silver..."
"And all arms trade... is settled in gold! Let's earn gold for everyone, which is hard currency..."
ah! The Chamber of Commerce was suddenly in an uproar. More than 700 members were stunned. "Really? Isn't this...a rumor?"
No one expected that the gold purchase contract, which was thought to be a rumor, was actually proved to be true by the young master and the old shopkeeper!
When rumors were flying all over the sky before, many channels denied this rumor. The reason is simple because this trading model has never appeared in China.
China has been a region lacking precious metals such as gold and silver since ancient times, and gold is especially rare!
Unlike Europe, which experienced the influx of gold and silver from the Americas during the Age of Discovery, after the Age of Discovery in Europe, most currencies were on the gold standard, and gold trade between countries was common.
Not in China. Without Zhang Juzheng's whipping method in the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid the status of silver would not be as high, let alone gold!
Under the influence of this kind of inertial thinking, the capitalists in the Chamber of Commerce could not believe that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would use gold to settle the arms trade!
The Council was originally an iron-clad alliance, but now it was shaken, and greed and fear shone in people's eyes!
Greedy for gold and afraid of power, no one dares to treat Fu Yin'er as a child right now!
