Chapter 130 The storm of the Chinese exclusion case 4

The Russell family is more like a political family than a businessman family. They are slowly moving away from business, and the most elite talents will always be placed with great hopes in politics.

Albert Russell is such a person. His father, Robert Russell, is a congressman who has a place in the moderate Republican Party and is one of the staunch supporters of former President Grant. He also paid to support Grant in the third presidential election.

The Russell family gave special expectations for joining a news and newspaper company, and let Albert Russell put everything down from the beginning and run it wholeheartedly.

During this period, Albert Russell has been running between Boston and New York, and it took a lot of effort to buy the New York Times, which is still very profitable.

After hearing that Hu Chuyuan had arrived in Washington, he quickly suspended the acquisition of the Philadelphia Inquire and rushed to Washington by train from Philadelphia.

This was their first meeting, and soon the two went to St. Louis together.

At this time, St. Louis is not a very prosperous city, but it also has more than 100,000 residents. The most influential newspaper in the local area is the St. Louis Express Mail.

After getting off the train, Albert bought a good-looking St. Louis Express Mail at the newsstand at the railway station, and Hu Chuyuan and Wu Shuzhen also bought one each.

This is the way Albert buys newspapers. Although he is an American, he has no opportunity to read newspapers in other regions except for newspapers in New York and Boston. Because Hu Chuyuan promised him that there was no problem with his funds, every time he went to a big city, Albert Russell would sit at the railway station for a long time, buy a copy of the newspapers he could buy, and always paying attention to which newspaper sold the fastest.

In this way, he bought some of the best newspapers in the United States.

He was used to continuing to sit in the waiting hall of the railway station, and Hu Chuyuan also sat down and looked at the St. Louis Express Mail they bought.

What satisfies Hu Chuyuan is that this newspaper is obviously more interesting than the Washington Post.

After a while, Albert Russell said, "It seems that we are about to buy the best newspaper in the United States."

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly. He knew that his surname could prove this.

Because the matter was very urgent, Hu Chuyuan did not make any further delay and asked people to drive the carriage directly to the door of the express mail.

The newspaper is a company that won't leave work very early. When Hu Chuyuan arrived, all their staff were still working, and it was already very late.

Hu Chuyuan, accompanied by Albert Russell and Wu Shuzhen, went directly to the general manager's office of the newspaper to find Mr. Joseph Pulitzer.

Then, it only took Hu Chuyuan ten minutes to persuade Joseph Pulitzer to sell the shares of the St. Louis Express Mail to the American News Company. As a condition, Hu Chuyuan not only gave Joseph Pulitzer a salary to the general manager with an annual salary of $200,000, but also gave him the American News Company 11. 5% of the shares, but when Joseph Pulitzer retires, the company has a priority right to repurchase.

After that, Hu Chuyuan also talked about other things, including the company's future business strategy and practical content.

He firmly believes that a simple and universal name is easier to make the newspaper appear formal and easy to make people believe it. He asked to change the St. Louis Express Mail to a simpler St. Louis Post. He also wants to open a national American News, as well as some professional types of newspapers and weekly magazines.

At least in recent years, the U.S. news newspaper company has no intention to make a profit. Wanqi Yanghang will subsidulate one million US dollars every year to help the company merge newspapers with other regions, establish the United News Agency, and reduce the cost of newspapers in news reporting.

In a word, American news and newspaper companies will be extremely great.

When Hu Chuyuan came out of Joseph Pulitzer's house, he didn't know where he was going to live tonight.

Looking at the stars all over the sky, he not only wants to say to the world - think about it, what a magical era it is. As long as you want, there is almost nothing that can't be done in this era.

At this moment, the poor minister Chen Lanbin was still tossing and turning in the slightly shabby embassy and sleeping. How could he think that an unprecedented media war would come.

It may even change the whole United States.

Similarly, the huge profits and extremely bright prospects made Joseph Pulitzer restless. The next day, he temporarily put everything down and took his editor-in-chief Kirk, Hu Chuyuan and Albert Russell to New York.

After confirming that New York will be the final place of application, the legal team hired by Rong Hong has been working in New York and rented a three-story building in Manhattan as an office and communication center.

It was here that Hu Chuyuan met the chief lawyer hired by Rong Hong, Mr. George Cassef, the former Boston District Attorney, who was also Rong Hong's classmate at Yale University. It can be said that based on this relationship, George Cassoff accepted this seemingly hopeful criminal self-examination lawsuit. At the same time, a huge amount of civil compensation was added.

With abundant financial support, George Kasef established his own Kasef law firm. In the past two years, he has hired more than a dozen professional lawyers, detectives, auditors and prosecutors to form a huge investigation team.

They are familiar with the whole legal and law enforcement procedures and follow every principle to collect materials.

In addition, George Cassef contacted some senior Baptist and Presbyterian priests and premeditatedly asked them to be witnesses.

American law has its own operating mechanism. After confirming that the first round of appeals will be made in the New York State District Court, several lawyers' aides have clearly listed all kinds of people they may encounter on the wall.

When Hu Chuyuan arrived, they were discussing whether to expose it to the media first, and then affect potential jurors, or keep a low profile and give the irreparable fatal injury to the Pacific Union Railway in the last hit.

Hu Chuyuan did not ask. For these lawyers, the person who hired them was Rong Hong, the chairman of the National Chinese Association, and he was nothing.

Hu Chuyuan left this problem to Rong Hong to solve by himself, and he helped Joseph Pulitzer find a suitable foothold in Manhattan and formally establish a brand-new American news and newspaper company.

There is no doubt that the first is to finalize a long-term office location, the second is to establish the Associated Press, and the third is to issue a very good news weekly.

Hu Chuyuan didn't mind stealing ideas. He set the name of the weekly magazine as Times.

Time!

In fact, he didn't stay in New York for long. John Sherman arranged a trip for him. He will meet a heavyweight VIP in Washington, former U.S. President Grant.

Hu Chuyuan immediately returned to Washington. After meeting Grant, he also talked about some in-depth topics and asked Grant's help, and the answer he got was more positive.

Then, Hu Chuyuan began his busy journey and kept meeting with those heavy people in the political and economic circles of the United States, including JP Morgan, whom he had always wanted to see.

In this process, the American news and newspaper company also began the first time, more like a team of practicing hostage teamwork. Two Associated Press reporters followed and reported the matter continuously, and the company's newspapers gave priority access to this information and column reporting rights.

The attention of the American media quickly focused on Hu Chuyuan.

After having a certain foundation, Hu Chuyuan held the first stop of the magnificent Chinese Art Exhibition in New York. The address was the National Museum of the United States... and later the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Most of the antiques and folk handicrafts exhibited this time are provided by Rongbaozhai and Poly Company, and some of them are rented by Gu Shouzang, Shen Furong, Miao Tsuensun and others through relationships. They are divided into history, architecture, literature, drama, art, porcelain, tea, silk, clothing, bronzes, jade carvings and There are a total of 12 folk handicrafts.

Hu Chuyuan hopes to make more Americans realize what kind of country China is in this way.

After the first [***] report by the five newspapers of the New York Times, the Boston Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and the San Francisco Bay News, other media in the United States began to reprint, or personally sent reporters to the National Museum to report.

The vast majority of Americans just heard from the newspapers that Chinese workers were robbing their jobs and saw those maliciously vilified cartoons, and they didn't understand what China meant at all.

This is a good start.

Hu Chuyuan invited JP Morgan, Grant and a large number of distinguished guests from the U.S. economic and political circles to visit and continue to attract media coverage.

When people see China's bronzes 3,000 years ago, the three colors of the Tang Dynasty, the white porcelain and celadon in the Song Dynasty, the secret porcelain of the Five Dynasties, the blue and white porcelain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, those ink paintings, those exquisite jade... "China" is no longer just poverty in the concept of Americans.

A few days later, Hu Chuyuan "accepted" an exclusive interview with the New York Times, answering questions about China's history, diplomacy, and various questions that people currently suspect.

He said frankly that without the deliberate deception of American illegal businessmen and Chinese foreman, not many Chinese people would have come to the United States to survive.

Six days after the exhibition began, the main exhibits began to leave for the exhibition in Boston, and the next stop will be Philadelphia.

Media attention needs a period of relaxation and calmness.

Hu Chuyuan wants to give the New York media a holiday to prepare for the upcoming real storm.

(to be continued)