Two years later, it coincided with the opening of Zohar Square as a free market by the Sambolong Municipal Government, and the establishment of stalls in the market. The cost of setting up a booth is 1800 guilders, and each businessman who rents a booth contributes 65 guilders. At this time, Huang also rented a fixed booth in the market with years of savings and continued to operate daily groceries and local products. Due to the moderate market position in Zohar, 1890 has developed into a famous trade center, keeping pace with another market named Peking University Ma Zhi. 1898, there are 240 stalls in this market. Most of them are run by China people. With the help of his wife, Cai, Huang worked in the dark, cooperated sincerely and managed carefully, and achieved good business development. Soon, he expanded the booth into a regular shop. With the development of business, Huang bought a carriage and often drove to nearby towns to buy cheap local products and sell goods.
/kloc-from the end of 0/9 to the beginning of the 20th century, sugarcane planting and sugar industry in Central Java developed further. Sugarcane sugar produced in nearby places such as Modjo, Seddaiu, Tjapala, carion, Tjepiring and Gemoe is all transported to Sambo for sale, and some are re-exported to European and American countries. Central Java has become one of the major sugar production and sales centers in the world. Huang realized the development prospect of sugar industry with keen insight, so after 1895, he mainly engaged in sugar industry. From 1895 to 19 14, when the first world war broke out, the price of Java sugar remained at 100 kg, and the price was between 10 and 12 guilders, which was relatively stable. Huang bought it from small and medium-sized sugar mills at a relatively low price and sold it to Java and Indonesia for export. 19 10 With the development of business, the original storefront is not enough to apply. So, he bought a big store in the middle street of the bustling Long Commercial Street, and formally established the "Rixing Store", employing Chinese and foreign notebooks and some shop assistants. Since then, with the development of sugar industry, branches have been set up in Bacheng, Surabaya, Medan, Dagang, Bagala Coast and Singapore. This period was the first time that Huang achieved significant commercial development. According to relevant records, by the time of 19 14, his total assets had reached more than 3 million guilders, and his name had been included in the World Business Who's Who.
19 14 after the outbreak of the first world war, although Java was far away from the war zone and had little interference, many sugar merchants were worried about the impact of the European war on their exports and hesitated to wait and see. With extraordinary courage and abundant funds, Huang continued to buy a lot of sucrose. The sugar prices in 19 13 and 19 14 are1.66 guilders and 12.6438+0 guilders per 100 kg. However, from 19 15 to 19 17, due to the war, the price of sugar in Europe rose sharply, rising to 16.33, 18.22 and 18.34 successively. Therefore, in recent years, Huang's "daily progress" has made considerable profits. 19 17 years, the European war has been going on for three years, and the belligerents suffered heavy losses. The governments of Britain, the Netherlands and other countries recalled many cargo ships to China for use. As a result, local products such as sugar in Java were once unable to be shipped abroad, and the sugar prices in local official and private warehouses piled up like mountains, and the sugar prices plummeted. Some China businessmen went bankrupt because of heavy losses. On June 12 of the same year, more than a dozen large sugar companies, such as Nikko Bank and Jianyuan Company of Huang, held a meeting in the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce to study countermeasures and decided to organize sugar joint-stock companies to tide over the difficulties. The company's capital is100000 guilders, part of which is borrowed from the Dutch commercial bank. However, because the representative of the Dutch commercial bank took the opportunity to put forward harsh conditions, Chinese businessmen did not agree, and as a result, the company was not established. Huang and overseas Chinese sugar merchants held 13 meetings successively, and made some cooperation measures. Huang also borrowed a property purchased in Singapore from Huang, which solved certain turnover difficulties. 19 18. At the end of World War I, due to the war damage and the shortage of food and sugar in Europe, western Europe resumed shipping, and the price of sugar began to rise, even thousands a day. 19 19 rose to 28.40 guilders per 100 kg, and 1920 rose to an unprecedented 53.45 guilders. Huang's "Rixinghang" stock of sucrose not only sold out, but also took advantage of this good opportunity to buy and export in large quantities and made unprecedented profits. Its assets have increased to tens of millions of rupiah. Huang (Rixinghang), Huang (Jianyuan Company), Guo Jinmao (Jinmao Stack) and Macallong (Changlong Stack) became the four most famous sugar merchants in Java. At the same time, in order to cooperate with overseas Chinese sugar merchants in Sambo, Huang Rixing and 65,438+00 sugar merchants such as Jianyuan Company, Jinmao Stack, Changlong Stack, Ruiyuan Stack, Xinfeng Stack, Hechang Stack, Liancheng Stack, Stack and Ruiqing Stack organized "China Sugar Bureau" to jointly promote the foreign trade and development of China sugar industry and break the monopoly of Dutch capital. According to the minutes of the meeting of Zamboanga Chinese Chamber of Commerce 1920 on February 4th, the comprehensive profit of "China Sugar Bureau" (established on August 25th of1KLOC-0/8) is about 300,000 guilders. Besides donating the funds, handling fees and attorney fees of Chinese clubs in various ports, there are also real money/KLOC-.
The Dutch colonial government suffered heavy losses in the First World War, so it stepped up its exploitation and oppression of its colonial Indonesian people and overseas Chinese after the war. As early as September 26th of 19 17, the Dutch-Indian colonial government formulated the so-called "wartime income tax regulations", stipulating that anyone who earns more than 3,000 guilders from 19 14 must pay a "war tax" of 30%. Therefore, after the war, the colonial government of the Netherlands and India ordered Chinese businessmen to pay the wartime income tax of 19 14 to 19 18, and other taxes suspended due to the influence of the war. The Dutch-Indian colonial government attempted to kill two birds with one stone, plundered the legitimate property of Chinese businessmen, and excluded or even stifled overseas Chinese industry and commerce.
19 12, the Dutch-Indian colonial government used this name to levy a "war tax" of 35 million guilders on the "Jianyuan Company" in Sugar Wang Huang. Huang was forced to take refuge in Singapore and finally died there. Similarly, the Dutch-Indian colonial government also ordered Huang's Nikko Bank to pay various "war taxes"150,000 rupiah. In fact, Huang's "Nikko Hang" and other overseas Chinese sugar merchants have paid taxes in the past five years. The Dutch-Indian colonial government openly plundered overseas Chinese businessmen. At that time, the Dutch-Indian colonial government had a policy that all Dutch nationals had the right to reduce taxes. Therefore, local government officials used this to mobilize Huang to become a Dutch citizen, thus reducing the payment of this "war tax." Japanese consul general Long also tried to use this gap to win over and divide Chinese businessmen, and invited Huang to become a Japanese citizen in order to obtain the "protection" of Chinese businessmen. However, Huang has a strong sense of Chinese national pride and patriotism, and he has seen through the purpose of "giving" and netting by state-owned enterprises such as Holland and Japan, and despised and rejected them. Huang further realized from this incident that due to the weakness of the China government, the vast number of overseas Chinese and Chinese businessmen have always been in the plight of overseas orphans. He realized that the Dutch-Indian colonial government imposed harsh tax rates, and the hard-earned income would also be used as foreign reserves in the future, in vain, so he decided to "return to China after his official career." At that time, a friend once advised him to return to China: "There are many reasons in the Central Plains, so it is better to play here. If you are a hero, why not heaven? Is it not good to make the final plan? " But he firmly replied: "I am a national of the Republic of China. Can I endure humiliation and be strictly forbidden by others? What about the nationality of the people? " Moreover, China has a vast territory and abundant natural resources, and its construction is easy to succeed. What is the promised land of Ningfei? Everything in the world is human ears. "Huang and his son, Huang and Huang, discussed how to deal with Indonesia's industries, registered the" Rixinghang "separately and changed the manager, and gradually terminated the branch and office business in Medan, Dagang and Beijialang. After taking over the real estate industry of Sanbaolong, his wife Cai Bing and his son-in-law Xu Chunlong took over. 19 19 April 5.