No matter how Hu Xueyan earned his first pot of gold to open Fukang Qianzhuang, Wang Youling was the key person who could later enter the business and become a "red-top businessman" step by step. Not long after Wang Youling returned to Hangzhou, his old friend He Guiqing was transferred to the governor of Zhejiang, and he became the prefect of Huzhou. Hu Xueyan borrowed Wang Youling's power to ** the Huzhou Treasury, he lent the cash in the Treasury to the farmers to raise silkworms, and then purchased the Husi and sold it in Hangzhou and Shanghai, and finally returned the principal to the Zhejiang "Domain", and he did not need to pay any interest in the process. The Taiping army is in turmoil in the southeast, and their belongings cannot be carried with them, so they need to find a place to store them temporarily, and Fukang Qianzhuang with a quasi-official background is obviously a good choice. A group of wealthy sons who avoided chaos in Shanghai had 2.02 million taels in Fukang's account, and this money later became the principal of Hu Xueyan's involvement in the pawnshop business. Hu Xueyan also saw the potential of Shanghai.
After the opening of the port to trade, Shanghai gradually became a metropolis connecting China and the West in the late Qing Dynasty. Hu Xueyan was keenly aware of the appreciation potential of the land there, and after taking a primary school apprentice to inspect the site and find out the foreigner's investment plan, he first bought the land that the foreigner was going to develop, and then made a lot of money as soon as he changed hands. In Hu Xueyan's words: "Eight jars and seven covers, cover and cover without goofing, this is to do business." ”
Hu Xueyan relied on the power of the government to expand his business, but in turn, he had to repay the favor. Among them, the most important thing is that he helped He Guiqing and Wang Youling supervise the group training and raise food and salary. In the sixth year of Xianfeng, the Taiping army broke through the camp in the south of the Yangtze River. He Guiqing served as the governor of Liangjiang. He sent Wang Youling to Shanghai to sort out the finances, control the customs revenue, and in the three prefectures and prefectures of Suzhou, Song, Chang, and Taizhou, he re-levied money and miscellaneous taxes, and raised more than 1 million stone of grain and 7 million taels of taxes every year, which became the largest source of wealth for the camp in the south of the Yangtze River.
In the tenth year of Xianfeng, Wang Youling was promoted to the governor of Zhejiang. Hu Xueyan has a bigger platform, he was appointed as the Zhejiang Grain Station, and he was allowed to be the exclusive manager of the provincial treasury official funds, which is equivalent to monopolizing the finances of Zhejiang Province in his own handsSecondly, Wang Youling ordered: "Those who pay the grain must be remitted by Hu, otherwise they will not be paid." "The business of Fukang Qianzhuang is more prosperous. In order to expand the business, Hu Xueyan upgraded Fukang Qianzhuang to Fukang Yinhao, and opened branches in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Hankou and Beijing. Hu Xueyan has opened more than 20 pawnshops in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei and other provinces. The old Chinese medicine store "Hu Qingyutang" was also opened by Hu Xueyan at this time.
It's just that the good times didn't last long, and the Taiping army Li Xiucheng besieged Hangzhou in the following year, and there was a tragedy of cannibalism in the city under the condition of starvation. In order to reverse the disadvantage, Wang Youling ordered Hu Xueyan to secretly go out of the city to raise food and grass. Before Hu Xueyan returned, the city of Hangzhou had been breached, and Wang Youling committed suicide and martyrdom.
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