Yingkou was in early October and the weather was clear and the pier was busy. Tang Tingshu and Xu Run were a little tired, but they didn't have much time to rest. They were also strange. They said hello to Li Yuzhen from the Da Shang Silver Furnace before coming to Yingkou, but they did not inform the specific date.

"Runli, what do you think of Yingkou?" Tang Tingshu looked at the dock after getting off the ship, and turned to Xu Run beside him.

Xu Run was somewhat surprised that Yingkou was very different from what he imagined.

"I didn't expect it to be as prosperous as this! Foreigners gathered and the industry flourished. I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it."

"Yes! I feel the same way." Tang Tingshu also sighed. The headquarters of the China Merchants Bank of China Merchants Bank is in Shanghai, and it is very lively. However, after seeing the scene of Yingkou Wharf today, it is not much worse than Shanghai.

Not long after the pier, the road was open, and there was a row of European four-wheeled carriages parked on the side of the road. The coachman was all Chinese, but he was wearing a black swallowtail suit. He seemed to have received training in his behavior and movements. The carriage had a license number - Tianji No. 5.

The coachman was in his thirties and saw two people quickly stepped forward to say hello.

"You two want to enter the city? Why don't you take my carriage?"

Tang Tingshu and Xu Run glanced at each other and said, "How do you calculate the money?"

"Everyone is a silver coin no matter where you go in the city."

The two thought it was expensive, but they were not short of money, so they got on the carriage. Because it was not a closed carriage, the roof only had a retractable sunshade. The two had no barriers to the coachman, and the three of them started chatting.

"Luojia asked, what are the wooden pillars on the roadside?" Xu Run watched everywhere curiously.

The coachman smiled and said, "That's the pole that supports the telephone line."

"Phone line?" Neither of them had heard of it before and said in confusion: "What is the phone?"

"Oh, this thing is also a new item in ours. It is said that there is no foreigner yet. It is the invention of our Dashang. If we want to say that the use of this thing is actually simple, that is, I am in one place and you are in another place. As long as there is a phone call, we can talk and chat."

"Wouldn't that be more convenient than telegram?" Tang Tingshu said in surprise.

"Telecom?" The coachman smiled and said, "We don't have telegrams here yet. But the people from Da Shang said that in a while, ours will have telegrams here, but it's just wireless telegrams." The coachman said very proudly, and looked completely proud.

"Radio Telegram?" Tang Tingshu and Xu Run were both shocked. "Where can I call you?"

"The bigger ones are the telephone and telegraph offices, which are run by Dashang. There are many phone calls inside and can also help with mailing. There are also some small families who specialize in telephone business, so their phone calls are fewer, usually only one or two, and the names given by Dashang are public telephones. Whether it is a telephone office or a public telephone, they are billed based on time. The price is not cheap, nor is it expensive. However, if a family member is away from home, he can hear a voice and say a few words, and he will feel at ease, right?"

"Can the phone call be connected now?"

"Of course not. You can only reach Anshan at the north, to the west to Panshan, and to the east is Dashi Bridge. However, it is said that it can reach Liaoyang in 2009, and then to Shengjing and Fushun north."

"Anshan?" Both of them have heard of several other place names, but Anshan is a little unfamiliar.

"Anshan is Dashang Steel Factory. Dashang has built a new city there. Because there is a Qiandai Lotus Mountain with good scenery and Tanggangzi Hot Spring, many high-ranking officials, famous and famous people have bought houses and bought land there."

Xu Run was very interested in real estate and smiled and said, "Since that's the case, you will buy a house with you in the past. In the future, the land price will increase, and it will be a revenue."

After hearing this, the coachman smiled and said, "I don't have to buy it. It's not bad to live in Yingkou. My brother works in an Anshan steel factory. If you want to buy a house, Dashang Yinlu provides a low-interest loan, but each household is limited to purchase one."

"The steel mill still manages the house?"

"It's more than just a house? There are insurances. Medical insurance, pension insurance, work-related injury insurance, maternity insurance. As long as you work in Dashang, Dashang will take care of them. When you reach the age of a young man, you will be paid for the pension. If you go to a designated clinic when you are sick, Dashang will also reimburse some of the medical expenses. By the way, there are children going to school. If you want your child to have a good job in the future, instead of getting a good fortune, you can go to Dashang's affiliated schools and where can you receive a free nine-year education. If you pass the graduation, you can go to Dashang to work. Of course, this is not forced."

"How could this happen? How much money does the big merchant spend?" Tang Tingshu said in surprise.

"Of course I can't say how much money I spend, but the chairman of Dashang once said that if we don't solve the problem of life, pension, education and medical care, how dare our employees spend money? If even our employees dare not spend money, then who will we sell our products?"

Wang Yi said similar things, but the premise is that this policy is effective in a closed market environment. Otherwise, economic globalization will blindly encourage consumption and blindly increase social welfare, leading to a surge in local labor costs, and most industries will inevitably move out or go bankrupt. So Wang Yi did give benefits for the four insurances and also gave low-interest loans for the first house. But to be honest, there are a lot of insurance types, but in fact there is not much money. It is just that most people suddenly live such a guaranteed life and will certainly feel that their lives are much happier. If they just wander at the bottom of the Da Business Party, living is not a problem, but it is unlikely to be rich. The way to improve their lives is very simple, either study hard, specialize in a certain technology, obtain patent fees, or obtain sufficient diplomas and work experience, pass the public recruitment exam, and be promoted to management. Or they go out and start their own business.

Everyone wants to make a lot of money, but he doesn't work hard. He is lazy all day long and is busy waiting to die. Wang Yi will not pity such people at all.

As they talked along the way, Tang Tingshu and Xu Run became more and more shocked the more they listened. The business practices of this Da Shang were completely different from their perceptions. Some of them sounded absurd, but when they thought about it carefully, they made sense. Later, at some point, both of them fell silent, leaving the coachman talking alone.

About half an hour later, the two of them went directly to the headquarters of the Dashang Silver Furnace. Today, the Dashang Silver Furnace is much more grand than when it was first established. Four floors, glass turntables, and live ammunition guards.

The carriage stopped about fifty meters away from the Dashang Silver Furnace. The coachman said a little embarrassedly: "Two, the Dashang Silver Furnace has arrived, but you two can only get off here. The street in front of the Dashang Silver Furnace is prohibited from entering the carriage."

Tang Tingshu smiled and said, "Yes." Then he gave the coachman three silver dollars, two were the fare and one was the tip. "Thank you all the way, have a little tea."

"Oh, thank you so much! If you need it, you can call the above. Our company will send such a carriage to pick you up on your doorstep."

The coachman handed over a business card with the coachman's name, number, and company phone number.

After the coachman left, Xu Run smiled at Tang Tingshu and said, "General Office, the service of this car dealer is considered to be a good one. If the coachman inside is like the one who is today, it will be difficult to make money."

Tang Tingshu nodded and smiled, "We're just open our eyes this time."

Because both of them were carrying suitcases, before they could walk to the gate of Dashang Yinlu, the guards came up and saluted them.

The two of them didn't know what kind of etiquette this was, so they could only laugh. To be honest, with their current status, if they wanted to change places, they would definitely turn against each other. But today it was strange. After they got to Yingkou, they always felt as if they were shorter, and even their temper became much gentler without realizing it.

"Sorry, the company stipulates that because you are carrying a large suitcase, I can take the liberty to ask, are you looking for someone or doing business?"

"Is there any difference?"

"Oh, if you are looking for someone, please store your luggage in our storage office first. After our front desk staff confirms that the person you are looking for is in the company, you can retrieve the suitcase."

"What if I do business?"

"If you use a suitcase to deposit and withdraw money, we will have a specialist to handle the business, and you two don't have to wait in the front hall. If it's a small business, the suitcase should also be placed in the storage room."

Although the guards did not explain the reasons, I think everyone knew the reasons, just for safety. Otherwise, if you bring a big leather box and bring guns and ammunition inside, what should you do if you want to rob it? Bandits are rampant these days, you are not afraid of 10,000, but you are afraid of what if.

"We'll find someone." Tang Tingshu said at this time.

"Then please come to the lobby with me and call me, and the other one will go to the teahouse there to rest."

Li Yuzhen was in a meeting, but suddenly the male secret secretary said that someone was looking for him, and he was confused for a while. Later, when he heard that it was Tang Tingshu, he thought for a long time before he realized it and quickly went downstairs to greet him.

"Brother Jingxing, Brother Runli, I have been admired for a long time, and I am Li Yuzhen, General Manager of Dashang Yinlu."

"I dare not take it, I dare not take it. Fortunately, I will do it!"

Tang and Xu smiled and looked at Li Yuzhen while greeting each other. They found that this person was very young, but his temperament was very unique. He did not show his sharpness, implicit and calmness of ordinary young people, but he had a gentle force.

Before Li Yuzhen defected to Wang Yi, he was briefly under Li Hongzhang, but he was just a free job, so he naturally didn't have the chance to meet Tang and Xu. Tang Tingshu was six years older than Xu Run, and he was already forty-five years this year. He looked average, a little thin, with a beard and wearing a traditional Qing suit. Xu Run looked much handsome and had a beard.

Under the leadership of Li Yuzhen, the three of them went to the general manager of Dashang Yinlu to run the company. At this time, a male secretary was on the tea.

Li Yuzhen smiled and said, "Welcome to you two. I've missed you before, so I hope you can forgive me."

"It was also my two of us who took the initiative to come directly without having time to notify us in advance. I am ashamed, ashamed!"

The dialogue begins, and both sides test.
Chapter completed!