Chapter 77 American

All right.

That's her.

Hu Chuyuan thought that he admitted that... Wu Zhenbang chose to send his youngest daughter here after careful consideration. Wu Shuzhen is a woman who has experienced the world. She is well-educated and is not surprised by changes, and she is so smart and beautiful.

She said that 1.3 million taels of silver were sold, and you were embarrassed to say 1.25 million taels.

Hu Chuyuan was thinking like this, but Wu Shuzhen said with a smile, "Actually, it's okay. I think the English name is WINCH, and the Chinese name is Wanqi is very good. When I return to China, I will discuss with my father. The Chinese name is easy to say, and the English registration name needs to be approved by the Russell family. After all, this company was founded by the Russell family.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly. He didn't have the idea of changing his English name. He just temporarily tested the bottom line of the Wu family. Now he doesn't have to retreat. For him... This is just an irrelevant detail, but it proves that the bottom line of the Wu family is very low.

As long as he can be invited to share, the Wu family should not hesitate to lose.

It's enough to talk about this. For the rest, you have to wait until Hu Chuyuan has verified all the assets of Qichang Yanghang.

In the evening, Hu Chuyuan invited Wu Shuzhen and Rong Hong to stay in Yihua Hall and invited them to enjoy dinner together.

Hu Chuyuan's life is still very fastidious. The annual salary of the two chefs in the Garden is as high as 600 taels of silver, which is enough to buy a small-scale restaurant in Hangzhou. They are also top celebrities invited from Zhejiang and Guangdong. They are famous for cooking Hangzhou cuisine and Cantonese cuisine.

Hu Chuyuan's standard is very careful. In the morning, he must have a cup of soy milk, a half-ripe poached egg, and eat a small plate of peeled dried fruits, cashew nuts, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, etc. at about nine o'clock.

He eats Chinese food at 12 o'clock. If there are no guests, it is three meat and three vegetables, two soups and one cold dish, plus a fruit plate. The three meat dishes should not be fried and cannot be pickled. The first choice is steaming, and the second choice is braised. There can only be one serving of red meat such as pigs, cattle, donkeys, one fish, and one poultry.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, he will drink a cup of freshly squeezed juice, add a refreshment, or a fruit plate.

He has dinner at six o'clock. Normally, he must have a bowl of eight-treasure porridge. Red beans, corn, peanuts, and lotus seeds must have them. Other ingredients change every day, and the rest is still three meat and three vegetables, two soups and one cold dish.

For supper at eight o'clock, there must be a bird's nest, mainly golden bird's nest and blood bird's nest.

All main dishes must not be repeated within three days, and they are fine grains at noon, coarse grains in the evening, sorghum and sorghum must be eaten often.

Hu Chuyuan invited Wu Shuzhen and Rong Hongzhu to eat Cantonese food. He still chose a very exquisite corn nest head according to the usual standards. Of course, his nest head is also very delicious. The two chefs tried their best to make three or four flavors in the same dish of nest head, and they have to change it every few days. Change the pattern.

After eating for a while, Rong Hong sighed, "I didn't expect that as a Cantonese, I actually ate the most authentic Cantonese food here in my life. I'm envious and envious."

Hu Chuyuan smiled.

Wu Shuzhen smiled interestingly and said, "Mr. Hu, your chef seems to be a master of Cantonese cuisine. It's very valuable. My father hired a few people with a lot of money a few years ago, and his level should not be as good as this one."

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "To be honest, I'm considering adding two new chefs. No matter how powerful the chef is, there are only some good dishes... I'm not tired of eating. After all, others are trying their best to change every time. The key is to try something fresh. For example, Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, Beijing cuisine, and Cangzhou cuisine. There are so many Chinese food in my lifetime. I don't think I will get tired of it.

Wu Shuzhen vaguely felt something and sighed, "It's better to be in China!"

There are so many meanings in these words!

It was not convenient for Hu Chuyuan to continue with her words, just to taste the delicious food quietly.

He has a lot of rules. He doesn't like to talk when eating. If he has anything to do, he will talk about it after dinner.

The most important thing in the world is food, clothing, housing and transportation, other people's food, clothing, housing and transportation, his food, clothing, housing and transportation... In his opinion, eating is the first priority, sweet and sour, only everyone knows it in their hearts.

Besides, only when you eat well can you be in good health. Only when you are in good health can you have the energy to handle such big and small things.

After sending Wu Shuzhen and Rong Hong back to the guest room for a rest, Hu Chuyuan invited Chen Xiaobai to the Yinghua Hall, leaving him for supper together, and handing over the verification of Qichangyang's assets to him.

Of course, this matter should be very confidential, so Chen Xiaobai will only select some trustworthy main accounts for detailed investigation, and only report to Hu Chuyuan, and no information will be disclosed to the public.

Next time, at the invitation of Fister Delano III and Wu Shuzhen, Hu Chuyuan visited the most profitable Qichang silk factory in Qichang Yanghang. This is the largest silk factory in China at present. It operates at full capacity and can dye one million tons of raw silk every year. The full set of equipment is imported from the United States and France. It is also imported from the United States and France.

In the case of packaging and selling the ship shipping business to the Shanghai Shipping Bureau, and the development of import and export, real estate and credit business is not as good as that of British foreign banks, this is actually the best asset of Qichang Yanghang, and the best card that the Russell family and the Wu family can take out.

The silk factory is very large in scale, and the machine is also brand new. It was just opened last year. The main technicians are all Americans and are also training Chinese technicians.

The price of raw silk per catty is about five taels, and the selling price after dyeing is as high as seven taels. The price of raw silk is raised to six taels, and their selling price will also be raised to eight taels. The annual profit can be maintained at about 1.2 million taels of silver. After deducting the depreciation of the machine, there can still be a net profit of 800,000 taels of silver.

Of course, if Hu Chuyuan is willing to invest and continue to increase the investment scale through the support of Jiangnan Commercial Bank, the profit of the silk factory can continue to increase.

Compared with the silk factory that Hu Chuyuan is preparing in Hangzhou, this silk factory has an absolute advantage in both scale and technology. Hu Chuyuan has to admit that there are more than 20 technicians hired from the United States alone.

As for him, he can only fucking hire three second-rate goods from Japan, and spend a lot of extra investment. In addition, there are several training in France. I don't know when he will return to China after learning.

If he had known today, why did he have to spend money to run a broken factory?

After reading these, Hu Chuyuan still did not say anything. He quietly continued to wait for Chen Xiaobai and others to verify the report. The key is not that the factory makes money, but to look at the actual operating conditions of Qichang Yanghang and the debts of Yanghang.

He knew that if he did not take action, the former king of the American foreign bank, which once created the "Qichang era", would eventually close down in 1891.

Even now, Qichang Yanghang has long been thrown out hundreds of meters away by the British foreign bank, which is out of reach.

When I came back from Qichang Silk Factory, there were only Hu Chuyuan and Wu Shuzhen in the carriage.

This is a carriage imported from the United Kingdom. It is naturally a foreign-style four-wheel structure. Even the horse is imported. It feels very smooth and comfortable when driving on the road.

Sitting in the car and looking at the scenery along the road, Wu Shuzhen's heart was not calm.

She was a little surprised. For Hu Chuyuan, she still didn't figure it out until now. She didn't know what Hu Chuyuan was thinking and whether she would replace the Wu family to invest in Qichang.

Compared with Hu Chuyuan's age, his sophistication and calmness, as well as his scheming, have left an extremely profound impression on Wu Shuzhen.

Wu Shuzhen can only say that Hu Chuyuan can firmly win the salt government in the five provinces of the south of the Yangtze River, with an annual income of more than 5 million taels of silver, about 7.5 million US dollars. Although the political connections and commercial influence left by Hu Xueyan are very important, his personal ability is also indispensable.

If this is the case, this will definitely be a terrible businessman.

Like his father, he is also an official and a businessman, which is frightening.

Thinking of "officials and businessmen", Wu Shuzhen remembered her family background and sighed.

Looking at the carriage about to drive back to Ningbo Road, after thinking for a moment, she suddenly said to Hu Chuyuan, "Mr. Hu, have you ever thought about becoming a citizen of the United States?"

"Huh?"

Hu Chuyuan admitted that this question is a little strange.

Wu Shuzhen said, "As a friend, I sincerely advise you to join the United States early. The United States recognizes dual nationality. Legally speaking, the Qing court also acquiesced... It can also be said that the Qing court does not have a contemporary concept of nationality. You can really think about it. This is not only beneficial to your investment in the United States, but also a way out for you. You are a really smart person. Think about the situation of my family, and you will understand the powerful relationship.

Hu Chuyuan asked with a little interest, "Is it appropriate? Is it easy?"

Wu Shuzhen smiled and said, "Of course it's appropriate. As long as you don't say it, who will know? In the past two years, it is still easy to become a citizen of the United States. The current immigration access principle in the United States is still controlled by state magistrates themselves. As far as I know, due to the impact of the European financial crisis, a large number of Europeans are flocking to the United States to apply for jobs, which also has also had a negative impact on the United States. The U.S. Congress is currently considering formulating a new migration. Civil Act. Before the new bill is passed, you only need the approval of the state judge to have an American. I can help with this. The Wu family and the Russell family are also willing to provide political guarantees.

Yes, she studied law.

Hu Chuyuan also smiled. He was a very cheerful person and said, "Well, I'll try my best to take time to go to the United States. I need your help at that time."

Wu Shuzhen smiled and said, "Don't worry, the father of my classmate at MT.Holyoke College is a state judge in Massachusetts. He has the right to approve immigration applications. As long as he doesn't say it, if you don't say it, no one will know if no one goes to the state court to check. Then, you can use the new proof of nationality documents to open an account with Hanhua Bank, set up a private equity U.S. citizen property fund, and entrust Hanhua Bank to act as an agent for tax payment. In this way, if no one knows, you can buy all the assets of the United States and be protected by the federal government axe. "

Okay.

Hu Chuyuan admits that it is still very useful to study law.

However, he was more curious about whether this method could be used in the Shanghai Concession, so he asked Wu Shuzhen, "If I also want to use this method in the Concession, is it okay?"

"Is that so?" Wu Shuzhen quietly fell into deep thought, and the luster of wisdom flashed in her clear eyes. After a while, she said, "In theory, it is not impossible. The public concession has chosen the continental shelf bill system, and the shortcomings are to invoke the constitutions of the United Kingdom and the United States, which is of course possible. If you want to enter the domestic market through this fund, you need to invest in unlisted companies and commercial banks, and enter the mainland through the company and commercial banks. The key is which bank will do it.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "What's so difficult? If I decide to invest in Qichang Yanghang, or Wanqi Yanghang, I plan to open a Wanqi Bank in Shanghai and a branch in Hong Kong and Tianjin."

"This way...!"

Wu Shuzhen was a little hesitant and said, "We have held 9.75% of the shares of Hong Kong Huili Bank, which is also the fourth largest shareholder of Hong Kong Huili Bank. It seems that we are not in a hurry to enter the banking industry. There is still a lot of capital needed to start a bank."

Hong Kong Huili Bank is Hong Kong and Shanghai Huili Bank. At the end of 1880, the Chinese name was changed to the later HSBC Bank. In order to distinguish the French Huili Bank at that time, the Chinese were referred to as Hong Kong Huili.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Let's talk about it later."

When Qichang Yangxing found him and wanted him to buy shares, he had already outlined a very huge and majestic financial plan in his mind, wanting to establish a financial channel across the Pacific Ocean.

Of course, now is not the time to talk to Wu Shuzhen.

Although he also likes this smart and erudite woman, business is business. Shopping malls are like battlefields. Good ideas and ideas can often be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions of dollars.