The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Sun Zhongshan is worthy of being a shrewd self-made businessman. Since his daughter's bad marriage could not be changed, he soon stopped thinking about it. Instead, he took Zhou Hexuan to discuss the sale of American silver.

Although the amount of 100,000 catties of silver per year is considerable, Sun Zhongshan still thinks it is too little, and hopes that Zhou Hexuan can get more than 200,000 catties. Zhou Hexuan agreed straight away, the United States is already flooded with silver, and there is no need to worry about not being able to buy silver.

According to the self-regulation of the market, a drop in the price of a commodity will lead to an automatic reduction in the production of the commodity. However, the U.S. Silver Group disregarded the laws of market value and continued to mine and smelt silver frantically despite the sharp drop in silver prices.

This situation will continue until four years later, and the price of silver in the United States has plummeted all the way. When the price of silver fell to the bottom, the silver group used political pressure to force Roosevelt, who was newly elected, to successfully introduce the "Silver Act". This bill led to an increase in the purchasing power of Chinese silver dollars, but it caused a sharp drop in China's commodity exports, and a large outflow of Chinese silver accelerated the currency reform of the National Government.

In other words, by 1934, Zhou Hexuan could still use the "Silver Act" to make a fortune.

Leaving aside the matter that is too far away, the current agreement between the two parties is: Zhou Hexuan will purchase 200,000 catties of American silver every year, and hand it over to Sun Zhongshan after transporting it to Tianjin. Sun Zhongshan can contact the Tianjin Mint to make these silver into silver dollars (coin casting is also a good business).

Everyone gets a 50-50 share of the final profits, and no one suffers. Although Zhou Hexuan's overseas remittances are very valuable, Sun Zhongshan needs to get through the government joints and use his own bank to smoothly circulate the new money created.

Strictly speaking, it is against the law for them to do so, and no dynasty would allow private money to be made by the people. 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, nor do they have the ability to manage them.

According to the current international silver price, if 200,000 catties of American silver were transported to China to mint coins, plus the coins mixed with impurities, the net profit would be at least 900,000 silver dollars. However, the Tianjin Mint will definitely have to share some, and it has to pay to feed the officials. Zhou Hexuan can get about 300,000.

Even for a banker like Sun Zhongshan, the net profit of 300,000 yuan per year is enough, not to mention that the money can also increase the reserve silver of his own bank (200,000 catties of silver can cast 4 million silver dollars. It is important to say).

Sun Zhongshan negotiated a good deal, and the depression caused by his daughter's marriage was also diluted a lot. He said happily: "Mr. Zhou, please leave this matter to me!"

"If you have money, let's make money together," Zhou Hexuan got up and said, "Farewell!"

Sun Zhongshan asked to stay: "Let's go after dinner."

"No, thank you for your kindness." Zhou Hexuan clasped his fists and left.

Ms. Sun didn't leave. Anyway, the marriage has been settled, and she just needs to wait for the marriage.

Walking out of the gate of Sun's house, Li Shoumin said excitedly: "Mingcheng, thanks to your help this time, otherwise Jing Xun and I will definitely not be able to achieve good things."

"When are you going to get married?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"At the beginning of next month, I dare not delay for too long." Li Shoumin said.

Zhou Hexuan laughed and said, "Mr. Sun, I'm afraid you don't want to delay too long, do you?"

Li Shoumin laughed, Zhou Hexuan was so hurt that he actually said that Ms. Sun was pregnant.

The two chatted all the way, and after passing the racecourse road, they said goodbye and left. Li Shoumin had to go to work at the telephone office, while Zhou Hexuan went home by car.

In the evening, Liao Yaquan and Cui Huifu came home from get off work one after another. Just as everyone was preparing for dinner, Meng Xiaodong also came back from Beiping suddenly.

Zhou Hexuan laughed and said, "You only 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 part with her daughter, so go home early to have a look."

Meng Xiaodong felt a little embarrassed when he was told his thoughts, and then he smiled and said: "I heard that my sister gave birth, so come back and have a look."

The two women talked and laughed and went to hold the baby separately. Xiao Ling cried loudly when he saw his mother, and grabbed Meng Xiaodong's skirt with both hands to drink milk.

"Yeah, this half month's milk is broken." Zhou Hexuan laughed.

Meng Xiaodong didn't care about that, she hugged her daughter whom she hadn't seen for half a month to nurse, and asked, "Have you named my sister's child yet?"

"Not yet." Zhang Leyi said.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Take it, call it Zhou Wu, Wu of martial arts."

"When did you get it? It's too ugly!" Zhang Leyi said unhappy.

"I think it's pretty good." Zhou Hexuan said.

"It doesn't matter, we must choose a new one!" Zhang Leyi strongly objected, why Meng Xiaodong's daughter's name sounds good, so her son just chooses a random name.

Zhou Hexuan was sweating profusely, it would be difficult to settle down if there were too many women.

Wanrong interjected: "I also think Zhou Wu is ugly, at least I have to add a word in the middle."

Zhou Hexuan scratched his head, turned his head and said to Cui Huiluo, "Quickly help me think of one."

Cui Huifu thought for a while and said, "King Yu Huangwu, there is no such thing as Wei Lie. How about Zhou Liewu?"

"Isn't Zhou Liewu too big a name?" Zhou Hexuan felt inappropriate.

"Yu Huang Wu Wang, Wu Jingwei Lie" is a sentence in the "Book of Songs" praising Zhou Wu Wang, "Lie" means "achievement". If the child's name is Zhou Liewu, he is simply comparing himself to King Wu of Zhou and wants to establish supreme martial arts.

Cui Huilu asked, "That's Zhou Weilie?"

Zhou Hexuan smiled wryly: "They all mean the same thing."

"Hello Zhou Weilie, let's call it this, don't change it!" Zhang Leyi suddenly made a decision.

Zhou Hexuan had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender, so what his wife said was whatever.

Zhang Leyi suddenly became happy, touched her son's little face and said, "Wei Lie, you have a name, does it sound good?"

Zhou Weilie's response was to open his small mouth and spit out some white liquid - the milk is stuffy.

When Zhang Leyi was in a hurry to wipe his son's milk, Meng Xiaodong said: "Brother Xuan, I went to Beiping this time, and I paid a special visit to Mr. Yu Shuyan, and I want to learn from him. But he has no plans to accept apprentices, what do you think I should do? "

"Why, can't you be idle anymore?" Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile.

Meng Xiaodong said: "From pregnancy to now, I've been bored at home every day. It's really boring. I want to go out and learn more."

Meng Xiaodong is already very good at singing now, combining the strengths of different schools, but she still feels that she is not good at it.

As for Yu Shuyan, he is as famous as Mei Lanfang, a master of Peking Opera (Yu School) who founded a school. The Yu School originated from the Tan School, so it is also called the New Tan School. Meng Xiaodong is a master of the Tan School.

Yu Shuyan has stopped singing operas in recent years, mainly due to his voice problem, and turned to delve into the theory of Peking Opera, publishing a few theoretical articles in newspapers from time to time, and his status in the circle is even faintly higher than that of Mei Lanfang.

It's a pity that Boss Yu seldom accepts apprentices. Historically, Meng Xiaodong came to see him for several years, and 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 again and again, she was just waiting for this sentence.

When the two visited Yu Shuyan's house, the stage play adapted from "Titanic" was finally staged on Broadway in the United States.