Chapter 42 Return to Shanghai

Hu Chuyuan's strategy is neither overestimated nor insulting... The defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War is not so much a lack of strength as a lack of preparation. The reason for lack of preparation is that in the final analysis, he underestimates others.

How many people in the current China can really see the current situation?

Of course, the Xianghuai armies themselves have many defects. First of all, there are problems with the system, and secondly, they can't fight a hard battle. If you meet a little strong opponent, you will be afraid and shrink back. You want to keep your own strength - it is understandable that even if you win, if the troops are all down, the people will be lost. There is no political reliance.

The Tokyo auction is still going on, and soon it will be the last two days. Because Hu Chuyuan once appeared in a high profile, people have always believed that he will appear in the last day.

But Hu Chuyuan didn't go, and he didn't plan to go.

Business people should be particular and can't break their own momentum. If he wants to go, he must take it on the spot.

As the saying goes, the mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind.

He believes that one day, the two imperial treasures of Song Huizong will eventually fall into his hands. Why rush to spend those unjust money for a while?

Just as the merchants in China and the two places were bidding in the auction house, he took a carriage and stopped a few hundred meters away from the auction house.

Sitting in the carriage, Wang Yirong and Miss Pan Limei accompanied him, and Pan Limei continued to interpret some Japanese information for him.

After waiting for half an hour, Shen Furong hurried over. When he entered the carriage, he said to Hu Chuyuan, "The owner, it's too dark and too expensive. Furong Jinji Tu was bought by Sheng Xuanhuai for 1.15 million yuan. I heard that Tang Yanshu and Lu Wenjin also have shares. Qiao Jing Yan and several Jin merchants shared shares and lost with a quotation of 1.12 million yuan. Zhang Songxian and Nanxun merchants shared shares and retreated at the price of 1.05 million yuan. The boudoir Mid-Autumn Moon Poetry Post was bought by Qiao Jingyuan and spent 850,000 yuan.

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently and said, "Get in the car. Let's go back to the Fuzhou Guild Hall and let them be happy first!"

Shen Furong got into the car and left with Hu Chuyuan and others.

Shortly after returning to the hall, several newspapers in Japan published extras to report on this matter, and regarded Sheng Xuanhuai and Qiao's family as the real richest family in China.

Hu Chuyuan, who was originally paid attention to by people, did not even pay a price. Compared with Hu Xueyan's heroic momentum in the Japanese auction venue, the gap was not the same. He was also fiercely mocked by those newspapers, especially the "garbage" that Hu Chuyuan bought at a high price.

In fact, I am very "cute" and very "cute". Many things are only done by them.

Although I don't know who directed it, who planned it, and what the intention was, there were several people who spoke Chinese deliberately concentrated at the door of the Fuzhou Guild Hall where Hu Chuyuan lived, and maliciously read the content of the newspaper aloud to everyone around them.

History... Or in different times, many of people's behaviors are very strange, and only people in that era can understand it. Anyway, Hu Chuyuan feels very bored, which makes him have an indescribable sense of humor.

He thought it was funny. Zhang Songxian and those people didn't think so. They felt that Hu Chuyuan was very ashamed to do this matter. Anyway, people have reached the original. Even if they can't afford that price, they have to shout.

He didn't even dare to quote the price, and he claimed to be the richest family in the Qing Dynasty. It was really a shame.

Next, these late Qing giant merchants left Yokohama by boat together. The Guangzhou Guild Hall and Fuzhou Guild Hall were not a hundred steps away. They didn't bother to come and say hello, so they left with gongs and drums.

In their words, there is nothing to say to people like Hu Chuyuan, and they can't afford to lose this person.

Where is Hu Chuyuan? He will stay in Japan for a few more days.

He asked Pan Rong to recruit more than a dozen Chinese who are proficient in Japanese, and secretly organized a translation agency in the Fuzhou Guild Hall, which was responsible for translating the main newspapers and political theories of Japanese, as well as the more concerned books into Chinese and regularly shipping them to China by ship.

To this end, he invested 600 yuan to ask Pan Rong to buy several houses behind the Fuzhou Guild Hall as the backyard of the Fuzhou Guild Hall for the placement of the translation agency.

Hu Chuyuan paid special attention to this matter. He personally recruited those people and gave them a basic training.

Among these people, he found a young man named Pan Qiying, 24 years old, who had just graduated from the Kawasaki Medical School opened by Xindaoxiang. He was a cousin of Pan Rong. His parents opened a grocery store specializing in Fuzhou goods in Nagasaki with the financial support of Pan Rong.

Pan Qiying wants to do business, and he is also very shrewd. If it hadn't been for Pan Rong's strong invitation, he wouldn't have wanted to come to this small translation agency, but Hu Chuyuan took a fancy to him at a glance and talked with him all night, which made him decide to continue working in the translation agency.

In order to exercise Pan Qiying's ability, Hu Chuyuan not only handed over the translation agency to him to take care of it, but also gave him 6,000 yuan for daily expenses and the recruitment of new members.

At this time, Hiroshi Nakamura had sent several sets of Ruo Guade machines, drawing materials and textured paper to Yokohama, and also sent two skilled Western array technicians. Hu Chuyuan officially left Japan.

Before leaving, he discussed with Pan Rong and took Pan Limei back to China and stayed with him as a translator.

Hu Chuyuan thought that Pan Rong would be reluctant, but he didn't expect that Pan Rong was actually very happy and said that he was very, very relieved... In this way, Hu Chuyuan was not polite.

A few days later, Hu Chuyuan returned to Shanghai. He did not return to Hangzhou immediately, but lived in Hu Mansion in Shanghai.

Hu Mansion was originally an English-style villa built by Gu Denner in Shanghai. It is located on Ningbo Road in the Shanghai Concession. After the collapse of Liru Bank, Gu Denner went bankrupt, and Hu Xueyan bought the villa and changed its name to Hu Mansion.

Returning to Shanghai, Hu Chuyuan immediately began to prepare for the Jiangnan West School. The place he chose was Xuhui District, where there were several church schools opened by foreigners, and the Gezhi Academy run by the British Fu Lanya was also nearby.

Hu Chuyuan first asked people to find Xu Shou, who is currently the most prestigious in China's Gezhi academic community, and then to Fu Lanya, hoping that he would pay for the merger of Gezhi Academy into Jiangnan West School.

In fact, it is to buy Gezhi College directly, renamed Jiangnan West School, and Jiangnan Commercial Bank pays the expenses of West School.

At present, the main sponsor of Gezhi Academy is either others, or Tang Yanshu, the leader of Shanghai Chinese businessmen. Tang Yanshu has spent a lot of money in Tokyo, and it is difficult to get rid of a large amount of raw silk, and his financial resources are very cramped.

After hearing the news, he immediately resold his shares to Xu Shou at a low price and no longer continued to fund the college.

If you retreat, just quit. He always wants a face-to-face person, so he preached to people everywhere, saying that Hu Chuyuan did not respect him very much in Japan, and now he has to organize the Gezhi Academy alone, and does not pay attention to him as an elder.

Therefore, he was repulsed by Hu Chu.

He also made peace with several other businessmen and said that Hu Chuyuan did not have contact with them in Japan. Not only did he have nothing in the auction house, but he also publicized that he was ridiculed by the media.

Hu Chuyuan is busy handling the Jiangnan West School, and he doesn't want to talk to the ridicule and ridicule of these people.

Seriously, he is getting a little less and less confused about this era.

Subsequently, he began to contact foreign banks to buy silk reeling machines and silk dyeing machines. At present, in China, machine silk reeling and machine silk dyeing have been monopolized by foreigners, giving Chinese businessmen no chance to intervene at all.

Several foreign banks are willing to sell him machines, but the price is ridiculously high, almost four times the price sold to him. He also requires Hu Chuyuan to only buy dyes from them in the future, otherwise he will withdraw the foreign technician.

The slander and exclusion of the Chinese business community, the suppression and fraud of foreign banks have made Hu Chuyuan feel weak and lonely. At that time, he did not have his sense of smoothness in Hangzhou, and it seemed to be very laborious to do anything.