When Guangzhou City was broken, Li Mingchang, who had a bloody hatred with the traitor, was pulled by his supervisor and rushed to his uncle's house. In order to prevent the chaos, the house had already been pushed to the door from the inside. The two of them slapped and shouted outside but ignored it. In the end, they had to turn into the Zhou family from the wall and finally saved their lives.

After this great disaster, Li Mingchang was quiet for a long time. He had fallen into confusion. This person has been through a long time of troubled times. He is full of loyalty to the emperor and revenge, but he is powerless: he personally experienced the corruption and vulnerability of the Eight Banners Green Camp, and saw with his own eyes the enthusiastic surrender of the civilians under the Qing Dynasty. He even saw the short-sightedness and virtue of the merchants from his uncle.

Changmao had only been in the city for a few days. When the city broke, he was so scared that he was trembling with fear. His uncle and his family were hiding under the bed. He started to be proud again. He opened the door and accepted customers with awesomeness. Even their shop had only been closed for 7 days. However, Li Mingchang felt that he had only disdain and contempt for this.

When the first batch of Taiping Army vanguards entered the city, Mr. Zhou took the initiative to donate 1,000 taels of silver to the Taiping Army into the holy warehouse, showing his obedience. He immediately had the word "shun" posted on the door. Only then did the whole family breathe a sigh of relief and began to wash away the dust on his face rubbing under the bed.

Then the next day, Huan Zhuguo, the leader of the Taiping Army, was called to a meeting. This was a Confucian scum in Hunan. At this moment, he was already a confidant of the bandit leader Zhao Kuo. Master Zhou dared not to go. When he arrived at a big house in the Governor's Office, he found that most of the famous wealthy businessmen in Guangzhou who had not gone to Hong Kong and Shanghai were there.

This group of people talk about wealth is probably just the second tier of the original Guangzhou Rich List. It is a group with rich but no power. They are in a wandering place between running or running. For example, Mr. Zhou, whose industry is mainly in Foshan, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. If he runs, he will start over again by throwing away the cost of 20 years of accumulation. He is reluctant to leave. The first tier is all powerful, such as Xiao Ye, who are all related to Qing officials. If he doesn't run, he will be slaughtered.

Everyone looked at each other and found that they knew each other, and they were all famous figures in the business world. They sighed and greeted each other, discussing in private whether these long hair wanted to kill people or seize goods or to extort money like the Qing army.

Just as he was worried, a boy with a long-haired shawl walked in with a smile on his face, and as soon as he came in, he bowed: "Hello everyone, do you still know me, Zhong Jialiang? Ah, isn't this Uncle Zhang? Are you in good health? Ah, Brother Li, how is your restaurant business?"

"Who is this?" Mr. Zhou turned out to be in Foshan and was not very familiar with the Guangzhou business district. Seeing this boy dressed up and acted like this, he couldn't help but turn his head to ask a fat man next to him.

"That was the son of the old boss Zhong Zhong, the 13th line. He sold the old house for him to eat, drink, gamble. He heard that he had gone bankrupt, but he had already grown hair." The fat man looked suspicious and stared at the unfilial son of Zhong Jialiang with a little disdain.

"Xiao Zhong, why are you braiding your hair... What are you doing now?" An uncle-level figure asked Zhong Jialiang.

Zhong Jialiang smiled proudly and bowed: "My nephew is not talented, he is appreciated by the Marquis of Pingnan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Now he is in the foreign medicine business. Please give me some advice and help to you."

"What foreign medicine? Didn't the Taiping Army strictly prohibit foreign medicine?" A well-informed businessman squeezed into the crowd and asked in surprise.

"That's Tianjing, we are Guangdong, and it involves foreigners. Oh, they also believe in God, and it's the business of foreign brothers. So Pingnan Hou still allows it, but it's a franchise," said this, the young master who had long lost his fortune and had no way out of retreat, and smiled sincerely: "My nephew has been licensed as the general distributor of Huizhou and Guangzhou opium. Except for the franchise merchants, others are not allowed to supply and sell opium and open tobacco shops..."

"What did you say!" Before Master Zhou could figure it out, the fat man sitting next to Master Zhou had already jumped up, pushed the crowd away and came to Zhong Jialiang, pointing at Zhong Jialiang and shouting, "You still have to make opium? What about me?"

"Oh? Isn't this Boss Qin?" Zhong Jialiang raised his eyes. He had no fond of this fat man. He spent almost half of his money in the opium restaurant opened by this guy. Even the deeds of a house were blackened by the fat man at a low price. At this moment, the enemy met and sneered: "Boss Qin, our marquis will specialize in business in the future. Not to mention wholesale, even the opium restaurant has a limit. For example, there can only be 10 in Huizhou City. Without the marquis' license, please don't even think about opium."

As he said that, he patted Boss Qin's big belly and said with a grim smile: "Do you know how Pingnan Hou treats private opium? I'll pour some oil on you!"

Before he finished speaking, the fat man rolled his eyes and fell to the ground, and there was an uproar around him: "Old Qin, what's wrong with you?"

At this time, Huan Zhuguo walked in and shouted, "Xiao Zhong, what are you doing? Hurry up and take these men over, the marquis is already waiting."

After leaving the Governor's Office, Mr. Zhou got into a sedan chair and urged the sedan chair husband to rush home. The family's children, wives and concubines were waiting for his good news. Everyone's eyes were filled with tears.

"I'm back!" Mr. Zhou entered the yard and got out of the sedan chair, and ran into the house with the corner of his robe.

"How is the master?" A group of people immediately surrounded him, everyone's eyes were filled with horror.

Seeing his family, Mr. Zhou breathed a sigh of relief. He sat on the chair, picked up a cup of tea and drank the tea in one sip. Then he said in the hall full of family members who could hear the needles falling out quietly, "It's okay for the time being, the Marquis of Changmao Pingnan asked us to open up and continue doing business quickly. He said he protected the businessman!"

"Okay!" The whole family suddenly cheered, some were smiling, some came over to change clothes for Mr. Zhou, and some went to ask the servants to make a table of good dishes.

At this moment, a cold snorted, and Li Mingchang said coldly: "The traitor's plan. Give kindness to buy people's hearts. Only when you relax your vigilance will you catch them all in one go."

This passage is too disgusting, and the whole family is frozen there. The second concubine has a bad temper. She suddenly stood up with a dark face, pointed at Li Mingchang's nose and shouted: "Nephew, what do you mean? You will be happy only if our master dies? You will be comfortable only if our whole family is ruined?"

"A Qi!" Mr. Zhou suddenly stopped the second concubine. He sighed and said, "Achang, your uncle, I am just a businessman, you can make money. Anyway, I didn't expect Guangzhou to be lost so soon, and we were caught by others, but they didn't have much of us either?! I and everyone else who went there were back smoothly. Besides, how bad can they be? It can't be even worse than the Qing Dynasty, right?"

"Hmph!" Li Mingchang turned his head back to the house angrily.

He fully realized that the beast-like bandits Zhao Kuo would not be so kind, and soon they would peel off the human skin and reveal their beastly nature.

But the development of the situation exceeded his imagination. Zhao Kuo had no intention of touching the Guangdong business community. Everything was still in accordance with the original order in Guangzhou. Moreover, because he killed all the Qing officials, he drove away the original Qing officials. He did not need to bribe anyone to do business. The tax rate was actually lower than before. Guangzhou port soon returned to prosperity, and even the former Guangzhou businessmen who fled to Shanghai or Hong Kong secretly or sent people to Guangzhou to manage the original business.

Following diplomats and missionaries, foreign merchants also entered the city.

There are often a group of children in Guangzhou who follow a blonde and blue-eyed foreigner to see.

Business is not difficult to do than when Ye Mingchen was when he was, on the contrary, it is better to do it.

Moreover, Zhao Kuo took special care of the interests of the first wave of big merchants who cooperated with him, including Mr. Zhou, such as the military uniforms ordered (robes, headscarves, pants, etc.), and appointed them to the Guangzhou Clothing Commerce Association, and the military supplies were handed over to the Grain Commerce Association and others for maintenance.

These people were actually regarded as model projects by Zhao Kuo, or the horse bones bought by a huge sum of money. As long as the first batch of people are done well, subsequent businessmen will come continuously.

Prosperous business is not only because Zhao Kuo comes from the future, but also a must-have choice to occupy Guangdong.

Guangdong has a large population and a small land. It is impossible to support so many people by agriculture. After occupying Guangdong, the land was immediately surrounded by the Qing Dynasty on three sides. The only exit was the ocean. If you don’t rely on this group of merchants who don’t know how to transport food in? How to get arms? How to get ships? How to get intelligence? How to achieve foreign aid and diplomacy?

There are two types of marine countries in the world, one is a maritime power and the other is a maritime power.

The former takes France as an example, and can form a powerful navy based on rich land resources; the latter takes Britain as an example, which is completely the case that if the ocean is lost, the country will be ruined.

At the beginning, Hai Song had no strong army, and the situation was closer to the latter.

In order to express gratitude or to a greater sense of security, these guilds also tactfully donated more money to Zhao Kuo's holy warehouse. This is to buy life. Zhao Kuo is not like an advanced organization that did not take the masses one by one in later generations. Of course, he also smiled at his ears.

But the consequences of this behavior make businessmen feel more at ease: Think about whether you are under the jurisdiction of an angel who is not in the world, or under a better Qing official (eat, but not eating you with your skin and bones). Which of these two is more at ease?

Mr. Zhou happily organized the cloth shop guild to donate another 10,000 taels of silver, and organized the Suzhou "artist" who stayed in Guangzhou. The cloth shop guild invited Pingnan Hou to the banquet.
Chapter completed!