Sun Zhongshan was indeed a shrewd businessman who made his fortune from scratch. Since his daughter's bad marriage could not be changed, he quickly stopped thinking about it and instead took Zhou Hexuan together to discuss the American silver trade.
Although the amount of 100,000 jins of silver per year was considerable, Sun Zhongshan still thought it was too little and hoped that Zhou Hexuan could get more than 200,000 jins. Zhou Hexuan agreed immediately. The United States was already flooded with silver, so there was no need to worry about not being able to buy silver.
According to the self-regulation of the market, a drop in commodity prices will lead to an automatic reduction in production of the commodity. However, the American Silver Group ignored the laws of market value and continued to mine and smelt silver frantically even as silver prices plummeted.
This situation would last until four years later, when the price of silver in the United States plummeted. When the price of silver hit the bottom, the Silver Group used political pressure to force the newly elected Roosevelt to successfully introduce the "Silver Act." This act led to an increase in the purchasing power of the Chinese silver dollar.
, but it caused a sharp decline in China's merchandise exports and a large outflow of Chinese silver, which accelerated the National Government's currency reform.
In other words, Zhou Hexuan could still make a fortune by using the "Silver Act" in 1934.
Leaving aside matters that are too far away, the current agreed result between the two parties is that Zhou Hexuan will purchase 20 kilograms of American silver every year, transport it to Tianjin and hand it over to Sun Zhongshan for processing. Sun Zhongshan can contact the Tianjin Mint to make the silver into silver dollars (
Coining money is also a good business).
In the end, the profits were split 50-50 by everyone, and no one suffered a loss. Although Zhou Hexuan's overseas remittances were valuable, Sun Zhongshan needed to get through to the government and use his own bank to smoothly circulate the new money.
Strictly speaking, it is illegal for them to do this. No dynasty allows people to make private money. But now in the troubled times of the Republic of China, there are all kinds of coins, and the central and local governments have no time to take care of them, and they do not have the ability to manage them.
According to the current international silver price, if 200,000 kilograms of U.S. silver is shipped to China for mintage, plus the coin impurities mixed in, the net profit will be at least 900,000 silver dollars. However, the Tianjin Mint will definitely have to share some of it and spend money to feed it.
As an official, Zhou Hexuan can get about 300,000 yuan personally.
Even for a banker like Sun Zhongshan, the annual net profit of 300,000 yuan is enough, not to mention that this money can also increase the reserves of his own bank (this is very important for opening a bank).
Sun Zhongshan negotiated a good deal, and the depression caused by his daughter's marriage was relieved a lot. He said happily: "Mr. Zhou, please leave this matter!"
"Let's make some money together," Zhou Hexuan stood up and said, "Goodbye!"
Sun Zhongshan persuaded him: "Let's go after dinner."
"No, thank you for your kindness." Zhou Hexuan clasped his fists and left.
Miss Sun didn't leave, the marriage was settled anyway, she just had to wait to get married.
Walking out of Sun's house, Li Shoumin said excitedly: "Mingcheng, thank you for your help this time, otherwise Jing Xun and I would definitely have a hard time getting things done."
"When are you going to get married?" Zhou Hexuan asked.
"At the beginning of next month, I don't dare to delay it for too long." Li Shoumin said.
Zhou Hexuan laughed and said: "Mr. Sun, I'm afraid I don't want to delay it too long, right?"
Li Shoumin started laughing. Zhou Hexuan was so embarrassed that he even said that Miss Sun was pregnant.
The two chatted all the way, and then they said goodbye after crossing Racecourse Road. Li Shoumin had to go to the telephone office to work, while Zhou Hexuan took the car directly back home.
In the evening, Liao Yaquan and Cui Huifu came home from get off work one after another. Just as everyone was preparing to eat, Meng Xiaodong suddenly came back from Tianjin.
Zhou Hexuan said amusedly: "You only want to wean your child for half a month?"
"It's almost half a month," Meng Xiaodong said.
Zhang Leyi smiled and said: "She must be reluctant to leave her daughter, so she went home early to take a look."
Meng Xiaodong was a little embarrassed when she was told that she was thinking too much, and then smiled and said: "I heard that my sister has given birth, so I came back to take a look."
The two women chatted and laughed and went to hold the baby. Xiao Lingjun burst into tears when he saw his mother, and plucked at Meng Xiaodong's clothes with both hands in order to drink milk.
"Yes, I've stopped drinking milk in the past half month." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.
Meng Xiaodong didn't care about that. She hugged her missing daughter for half a month and nursed her. She asked, "Has your sister's child been named?"
"Not yet." Zhang Leyi said.
Zhou Hexuan said: "Take it. It's called Zhou Wu, the Wu of Wushu."
"When did you get it? It sounds too unpleasant!" Zhang Leyi said unhappy.
"I think it's pretty good." Zhou Hexuan said.
"No matter what, we have to choose a new one!" Zhang Leyi strongly objected. Why did Meng Xiaodong give birth to a daughter with a nice name, so her son would just choose a random name.
Zhou Hexuan was sweating violently, and it was difficult to deal with women when there were so many.
Wanrong interjected: "I also think Zhou Wu is ugly. At least one word must be added in the middle."
Zhou Hexuan scratched his head and ears, turned to Cui Huifu and said: "Please help me think of one."
Cui Huifu thought for a while and said: "King Yuhuangwu, Wujing Weilie. How about calling him Zhou Liewu?"
"Isn't the name Zhou Liewu too prestigious?" Zhou Hexuan felt it was inappropriate.
"To the Emperor Wu, King Wu is extremely powerful" is a sentence in the Book of Songs praising King Wu of Zhou. "Li" means "contribution". If a child is named Zhou Liewu, he is simply comparing himself to King Wu of Zhou, who wants to establish supremacy.
Martial arts.
Cui Huifu asked: "Is that called Zhou Weilie?"
Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly: "They all mean the same thing."
"Hello Zhou Weilie, let's call it this, don't change it again!" Zhang Leyi suddenly made a decision.
Zhou Hexuan could only surrender with his hands up, and let his wife do whatever she says.
Zhang Leyi suddenly became happy, touched her son's little face and said, "Wei Lie, you have a name, doesn't it sound good?"
Zhou Weilie's response was to open his mouth and spit out some white liquid to suppress the milk.
When Zhang Leyi was busy wiping her son's breasts, Meng Xiaodong said: "Brother Xuan, I went to Peking this time to pay a special visit to Mr. Yu Shuyan and wanted to learn from him. But he has no plans to accept apprentices. What do you think I should do?"
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"Why, can't you stand still?" Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile.
Meng Xiaodong said: "Since I was pregnant until now, I have been bored at home every day. It's really boring. I want to go out and learn more."
Meng Xiaodong is now very good at singing, integrating the strengths of various opera families, but she still feels that her skills are not good enough.
As for Yu Shuyan, he is as famous as Mei Lanfang, the master of Peking Opera (Yu School) who founded the sect. The Yu School originated from the Tan School, so it is also called the New Tan School. Meng Xiaodong is a master who is proficient in the Tan School. If you join
Uncle Yu’s rock gate wall is definitely more powerful than a tiger.
Yu Shuyan has stopped singing in recent years, mainly due to a problem with his voice, and has turned to studying Peking Opera theory. He has published several theoretical articles in newspapers from time to time, and his status in the circle is even slightly higher than that of Mei Lanfang.
It's a pity that Boss Yu rarely accepts disciples. Historically, Meng Xiaodong came to visit him every day for several years before he finally agreed.
Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and said, "How about I come to the door in person?"
"Okay, okay." Meng Xiaodong nodded repeatedly, she was waiting for this sentence.
Just when the two of them went to visit Yu Shuyan's house, the stage play adapted from "Titanic" was finally staged on Broadway in the United States.