On May 23, 1928, this was the seventh day that everyone came here. Qin Dao spent another two days carefully reading the account books and documents. After reading the accounts of the past year or so, he clearly understood what a behemoth Huo's enterprise is, including the electrical machinery industry, dye industry, wine industry, textile industry, cement industry, fishery, various mining industries, and land transportation industries. , shipping industry, agriculture, printing, education, media, shipbuilding industry, and financial industry. To put it bluntly, the Huo family has been involved in all the businesses that can be done in this era. If we put this company in 70 years, it will definitely be a company that can compete for global hegemony.
Thinking of this, Qin Dao sighed. Seventy years later, no country would allow such a giant to exist.
Huo Yinghong was sitting opposite Qin Dao at this time. Qin Dao put away his thoughts and said
"The problem is very serious now. In the past year or so, you have acquired many new businesses, and the amount of liquidity has begun to increase in a short period of time. This gives you the illusion that funds are sufficient. About a year ago, your Huo's Enterprise began to Purchase iron, copper, lead, tungsten, raw silk, tung oil, bristle, cashmere, thick cotton cloth and other military supplies. From the accounts, you may have provided them to the red troops at first, but you have been purchasing these supplies since half a year ago It was no longer digestible, but you didn’t stop purchasing and started hoarding. After that, it got out of hand. You went through dozens of trading companies and began to frantically scan the goods. The targets were mainly bristle, tung oil, duck feathers, goose feathers, etc. There are only important military supplies produced in China.”
Speaking of this, Qin Dao paid attention to his grandfather's expression. At this moment, beads of sweat were oozing out from his forehead.
"Brother Qin, how did you do it? This information can never be seen from these account books."
"Of course I can't tell anything just by looking at your account books. I made a conclusion based on your capital inflows and outflows, the price trends of these materials and some transaction records, combined with the warehousing conditions in Shanghai, Peking, Tianjin, and Xiangjiang. .”
Huo Yinghong took a deep breath and said, "Brother Qin, you are really amazing. No one believes you when you tell me. You can know the world without leaving home. You are definitely a person like Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen. I admire you, I admire you. If ..."
Qin Dao interrupted his grandfather and continued, "I haven't finished speaking yet. You may have been competing with the Japanese for resources at first, but you didn't expect that the Japanese are more obsessed with these things than you expected. The prices of goods are rising steadily, and some The price of goods has even been increased to more than ten times, and then you start to be afraid. You are afraid that the business war will go in an uncontrollable direction, but you still want to continue to hold the Japanese people back, which makes you neither advance nor retreat. These The goods gradually turned into hot potatoes. They couldn't eat them, and they couldn't throw them away. The stalemate has become a huge burden for the entire Huo family. In addition to paying huge daily storage fees for all the goods left in the warehouse, The goods become moldy and insect-eaten and cause huge losses almost every day. This wealth has become a time bomb for Huo."
"Brother Qin, is there anything you can do..."
"Yes, I can save you and Qin's Enterprise. But."
"Brother Qin, just ask if you have any requests."
"I don't have any requirements, but we need to make an agreement."
"You say."
"First, within five days, you must obey me absolutely and not have any questions about all my decisions."
Huo Yinghong hesitated slightly.
"You can consider it, but I know you don't have much time." He took out a deposit receipt and handed it over.
"This is a certificate of deposit of one million U.S. dollars from HSBC. It's all my belongings. It should be enough for you to survive for five days."
Huo Yinghong was about to decline.
Qin Dao said again, "Don't refuse. You know better than anyone else. Without this money, your Qin family may not be able to survive for three days before the embankment breaks. This money may not be much for the Huo family, but it can solve your problem." It’s urgent.”
Huo Yinghong stopped refusing and put away the deposit receipt.
"Okay, I promise, I will fully support any decision you make in these five days."
"Second, if this thing is done well, you can't reveal my identity to the outside world, and you can't force me to do something I don't like afterwards. I just love to paint, so don't disturb me."
Qin Dao knew about this ancestor named Qin Shangwu. This man was his great-great-grandfather and a non-party person. He donated money and materials to the Anti-Japanese War, but he had never been involved in any struggle in his life. He didn't want to cause trouble, so he wanted to make things clean. .
Huo Yinghong was hesitant at the moment. Obviously he had a lot of words and plans.
"But......"
Qin Dao interrupted him, "No but, if you don't agree, I will leave immediately."
"Even if Brother Qin you turn around and leave, there are some words that I won't be unhappy with. Every man is responsible for the country's peril. Not to mention a great talent like Brother Qin. If you are willing to come out, let alone one Qin's enterprise, five Qin's will be gone." I’m willing to do it too.”
Qin Dao smiled. Grandpa was still as visionary and far-sighted. Qin Dao admired his grandpa very much at this moment. He couldn't turn around and leave. He knew how stubborn his grandfather was and if he didn't convince him. Don't do anything else.
"Everyone has his own ambitions. The weaker the country is, the more necessary it is for everyone in the country to perform their duties. You are a businessman, and it is understandable that you use the money you earn from business to save the country. I am a man of letters, and I also have my own needs. What I should do. Let the whole world see the prosperity of our Chinese culture. This is what I should do."
Qin Dao knew his grandfather's character very well, and a thousand words and ten thousand words were not as useful as suppressing them with a specious righteousness.
Silence, the room fell silent.
After a while, Huo Yinghong sighed softly and said, "Good brother Qin, I promise you that I will never force you to do anything again."
Qin Dao also breathed a sigh of relief at this moment. He knew that getting his grandfather to agree to this was actually the most difficult thing.
"Third, I will not lend you my one million in vain. It is regarded as my investment."
"Of course, it should be. You not only helped me, Huo's Enterprise, but also helped our tens of thousands of employees and countless families. You contributed money and efforts, all based on your own ability, and that's how it should be."
"Afterwards, I still need you to help me with a little thing."
"Okay, Brother Qin."
"We made an agreement and high-fived each other as an oath."
"A word is an agreement, a high-five is an oath."
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The several hundred square meters hall of the Young Marshal's Mansion is now covered with thousands of copied portraits of spine beasts, Yanhua and Muzishan, carefully sorted and inspected.
"Monk, your three apprentices are really capable. These paintings are almost the same as photos. They painted so much in three days."
"Of course, the Young Marshal's Mansion's car can't go anywhere in the entire city of Beiping. People who are cultivators, if they don't have the eyesight or the skill, what's the use of them."
"You speak as if these apprentices were really trained by you."
Li Xiaoxiao walked down from the second floor and said, "We don't have much time. The commander-in-chief will come to Peking on May 30th and we must go back before then. The dance party on the 29th is the best time for us to act, so we still have You have five days to find the place.”
"By the way, what are you doing, young marshal, upstairs these days? He has good eyesight, so let's let him go downstairs and watch together." Yanhua muttered.
"He's mixing a revealing potion. He's also making a human face mask. Don't bother him."
"What are they all for?"
"He wants to see if there are any other secrets in the photo. The human face mask is for him to find someone to replace him for the dance."
"As for the revealing potion, ask his adjutant to ask for it. Their military must have it."
"I've tried it all, but it doesn't work. The young marshal said he would try to prepare it using ancient methods."
"Why haven't you found our God of Wealth after so long?" Yanhua asked.
"The young marshal said that if he didn't come over, he must have encountered something else. The four of us are the only ones taking care of things here."
Muzishan also responded at this moment, "We found him so quickly. Why do we feel that he is a little unreliable?"
"I also asked him the same question. He said that in this era, 40% of the people might be in Peking and 40% of the people might be in Shanghai. It was just a coincidence that you happened to be in Peiping."
"Then where are the other 20%?"
"In Xiangjiang. He said that the Qin family has been in Xiangjiang for generations. He should be in Xiangjiang. If he rushes here, it will take almost ten days. It's better for everyone to go their own way."
The door of the villa was pushed open, and Adjutant Gan ran in.
"Miss Li, people from Japan are here to ask for someone."
"Pick up everything on the floor quickly, don't leave even a thing behind."
In the study room on the second floor, Qin Dao looked at the visitor. He saw an upright-looking man wearing a crisp suit and a clean mustache. Zhang Qilu glanced at him and felt that he seemed familiar.
Standing behind him was a beautiful woman, wearing a bright green kimono with a few cauliflowers embroidered on the cuffs and corners. The whole person was full of the breath of spring, elegant, pure, and delicate.
Zhang Qilu always felt that this girl looked familiar, and he kept looking at each other.
Li Xiaoxiao found a tea set and cooked tea elegantly, rolling his eyes at Zhang Qilu from time to time.
Qin Dao held a cigar in his hand and smoked it one puff at a time, without any intention of speaking.
"Young Marshal, I don't know why you invited us here." It was the Japanese who spoke first. He spoke standard Chinese dialect.
Zhang Qilu took a breath from his cigar and slowly exhaled, "Why did I invite you here? I don't even know who you are. It's just that I happened to meet a Japanese woman in the villa a few days ago, so I asked about which company it was. Girl. I didn’t expect you to come. By the way, who are you?”
The man pretended to take out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, but Zhang Qilu could see clearly that this man was pretending. There was a contemptuous smile on his lips. Zhang Qilu did not want to communicate in such a frivolous way, but at this moment his identity was so real. It is a last resort.
"Sorry, I didn't report my family name. My name is Kimura Seiji, and I am the person in charge of the Peiping region of the Japan Chamber of Commerce."
"Tell me, what's your name?"
"Kimura Seiji."
At this moment, Zhang Qilu was a little confused. He believed that Li Xiaoxiao was the same as him at this moment.
This person reminded them of Kimura Junlan who disappeared in front of the broken door.
Kimura Seiji continued, "Actually, I am basically a Chinese. My mother is from Shanghai. I was basically born in China and grew up in China. By the way, let me explain to you, this girl is my cousin from Shanghai. The person is Xiang Nanxi."
Hearing this name, Zhang Qilu froze up. This girl turned out to be a girl from the Xiang family.
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