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Tian Hongyu had no other talents in his life, but his daughter was as beautiful as a flower. Tang Tong had to admire this. Tang Tong did not see Tian Shufei Tian Xiuying, but he saw Tian Hongyu's second daughter. Tang Tong did not know her name, but because the two families were close friends back then, Tian Hongyu was extremely happy to get the glass bowl and perfume, and he also asked his wife and second daughter to come out to meet Tang Tong, the so-called nephew.
The wealthy Tian Hongyu originally looked down on the declining Tang family. However, in the past year, Tang Tong has been doing very well in Changzhou and has accumulated a considerable fortune. This surprised the money-loving Tian Hongyu and he began to look up to Tang Tong.
This time when Tang Tong came to pay a visit, he brought six glass bowls with ten bottles of perfume, two boxes of preserved eggs sent by water, ten camphor tea ducks, two boxes of soap and one box of scented soap. Such a generous gift was not something that even those who came to his Tian family to seek official positions could afford. What's more, Tang Tong was not here to seek official positions, but just to visit his uncle Tian Hongyu. How could Tian Hongyu not look at Tang Tong differently and treat him with great enthusiasm?
Although Tang Tong was not a business expert, he still had some basic knowledge. He did not deliberately talk about what he was going to do in Beijing in front of Tian Hongyu and Tian Wan, but instead boasted about how he made his fortune.
Tian Hongyu and Tian Wan, both of them love money very much, and they are particularly concerned about how to make money. Tang Tong gradually led the topic to steel, cement, coal mines, and sea transportation. After Tang Tong's discussion, the eyes of the money-loving Tian Hongyu and Tian Wan almost turned red, especially after Tang Tong deliberately showed off a set of chain steel furnace drawings and operating procedures, the two sons of the Tian family almost wanted to snatch the information from Tang Tong's hands immediately.
Finally, Tang Tongcai casually mentioned that he wanted to find someone to cooperate with. Although the son of the Tian family was smart, he was obsessed with money at the moment. After Tang Tongcai's suggestion, he agreed to participate in the shares.
Of course, another reason why the son of the Tian family could agree so easily was that the money-making achievements Tang Tong had made in the past year also gave the son of the Tian family great confidence. Things became much easier afterwards. With the help of the son of the Tian family, more than a dozen bigwigs in the capital participated in the shares of this steel plant, including Zhang Guoji, the son of the former queen Zhang Yan, and Zhou Kui, the son of the current queen Zhou. Basically, this was an organization composed of royal relatives, who raised a total of 14,000 taels of silver. In the end, Tang Tong invested 6,000 taels of silver, accounting for 10% of the shares of this steel plant.
Originally, the Tian family and the Zhou family had some discord due to the dispute over the harem, but thanks to Tang Tong's persuasion, the eldest son of the Tian family understood that the greater the power, the easier it was to make money. Later, under Tang Tong's mediation, the two families temporarily put aside their differences and sat together to discuss their plans to make money.
At Tang Tong's suggestion, these dozen royal relatives secretly established a joint chamber of commerce for foreign workers, because doing business in this era was still a face-losing thing. Everyone liked money and everyone wanted face. In the end, Tang Tong was appointed as the president. Each of these dozen families arranged a loyal servant to become a director of the joint chamber of commerce, and Tang Tong managed the accounts and some small matters in the chamber of commerce.
The first thing the Chinese Workers' Union Chamber of Commerce did was to build an iron ore plant in Ma'anshan (it was because Tang Tong guaranteed that there was a large iron ore mine associated with copper in Ma'anshan that the royal relatives were so enthusiastic and brought the approval document for mining the iron ore the next day. In addition, in this era, the mining of mineral deposits was ostensibly controlled by the state, but in fact, the eunuchs who were in charge of the mining colluded with local tyrants, making the mineral deposits basically occupied by private hands).
While mining the iron ore, Tang Tong will open a steel mill. After the steel mill is completed, he will successively open a carriage factory (to produce bases for mobile artillery), a hydraulic textile machinery factory, a water pressure well foundry, and an industrial machinery manufacturing plant. As for the weapons manufacturing industry, Tang Tong will not let others participate.
Tang Tong painted a huge pie for everyone, the purpose of which was to tie this group of powerful people to his chariot in order to reduce the resistance to his future progress. At the same time, the spices, jewelry, diamonds and other valuables he obtained from overseas colonization in the future would also have to rely on these people to help turn them into silver.
It took Tang Tong about ten days to complete the task, and all the glass bowls and perfumes he had were delivered. These glass bowls and perfumes caused a great sensation in the capital. Emperor Chongzhen also received several glass bowls presented by the Tian and Zhou families. Looking at the translucent bowls and the preserved eggs, Emperor Chongzhen could not help but admire them.
And those families of status and position in the capital were even more eager to find out the origins of the glass bowl and perfume. In order to get a glass bowl and a bottle of perfume, each of them spent a lot of effort. The price of the glass bowl was hyped up to more than one thousand taels of silver, and the price of the perfume was hyped up to two thousand taels of silver, but there was still no demand for them. Because those who had the glass bowl and perfume given by Tang Tong were all rich people, there was no way they would sell these things. Moreover, after knowing that the things in their hands were so valuable, they looked at Tang Tong with a different eye.
No one knew that the glass bowl and perfume were sold at such high prices because of Tang Tong's behind-the-scenes promotion. In the post-war modern business, there are probably not many people who don't know how to engage in commercial hype, because commercial hype has become rampant. A piece of rag can be hyped up as an antique, an ugly woman can be hyped up as Xi Shi, and a certain sister can also become a beauty in the eyes of some people. In such an environment, if Tang Tong didn't understand, he would be so stupid as to reincarnate again.
When Tang Tong was preparing to return to Jiangnan, the case of Wu Sangui's murder was also solved. Minister Luo, who hated the Wu family because of the death of his beloved son, interfered with the Dali Temple's investigation. In Minister Luo's view, his son was beaten to death by Wu Sangui, so the person who killed Wu Sangui had avenged his son. He did not want the Wu family to find the murderer of Wu Sangui as they wished. In the end, the Dali Temple found more than a dozen scapegoats to close the case.
Wu Sangui's relative Wu Xiang himself was not someone who was so easily fooled. As the Wu family's power was not in the capital, he had no other choice but to raise some doubts about this conclusion. As for Zu Dashou, he was originally a subordinate of Yuan Chonghuan. Although Emperor Chongzhen did not do anything to him because of Yuan Chonghuan's treason case, Zu Dashou did not dare to step forward at this time.
Yuan Chonghuan's case was the subject of much debate later. In Tang Tong's opinion, the main reason was that the Qing Dynasty later made him a national hero, which made later Hanists somewhat unacceptable. From Tang Tong's personal point of view, there was no such thing as Yuan Chonghuan collaborating with the enemy. There was no doubt that he had no military talent but was stubborn and self-righteous. The tactic of building forts was ridiculous. Not only did it cost a lot of money, but it also posed no threat to the Jiannu.
If it were Yue Fei, Tang Tong would have gone to rescue him even if he had to risk all his money. However, as for Yuan Chonghuan, Tang Tong had no intention of rescuing him because Yuan Chonghuan's ability was not worth Tang Tong's risking all his money.
During this era, the only people in Daqin who had real military talent were Sun Chengzong, Hong Chengchou, and later Wu Sangui who was killed by Tang Tong. Unfortunately, two of them became traitors. Although Sun Chengzong had outstanding talents, Daqin was already rotten. Even if Sun Chengzong shed all his blood and loyalty, he could not save the Daqin Dynasty from collapse.
Tang Tong never thought about saving the Great Dynasty. What Tang Tong wanted to save was only the inheritance of the Han surname and Chinese culture. That's why Tang Tong tried desperately to expand his power in secret. To expand power, one needs money, because modern armies with hot weapons are not built up by numbers, but by money.
When they went to Changzhou, they went there by boat. This time, Tang Tong was accompanied by dozens of directors and staff members of the Mining Industry Association, as well as a eunuch who was in charge of the mining industry.
This eunuch was only seventeen years old and was just an ordinary eunuch in the palace. Originally, this lucrative position would not have fallen into his hands. However, in order to gain more benefits for themselves, the royal relatives only reported the mine as a small iron mine so that Emperor Chongzhen would not take it seriously. Secondly, they only brought this little eunuch in to take charge of the matter, as they could not let the benefits fall into the hands of this eunuch.
When Tang Tong was in power, he had been to Ma'anshan City. After arriving in Jinling, the group recruited some craftsmen and people who had worked as miners, and went directly to Ma'anshan. After three days of searching, they finally found the location of the iron mine. This good news immediately made the directors report to their respective masters. The royal relatives who received this good news actively mobilized the power in their hands and got a large number of experienced miners and iron-making craftsmen. It took only one month to mine the iron ore. At the same time, the chain steel plant was also built simultaneously. Due to the use of Tang Tong's design, a steel plant with an annual output of 2,000 tons was built after another month. When the first batch of steel came out, it was verified that the steel produced was of better quality than the current steel in Da'an.
Seeing that the matter had been settled, Tang Tong returned to Changzhou. However, at this time, Tang Tong faced a financial crisis.
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