Chapter 133 Tianjin, Assassination of Hu Chuyuan
There is nothing special recently. It is nothing more than bottoming out the U.S. stock market. While focusing on the penetration of bank stocks, we can also buy steel, transportation and other stocks together according to the requirements of JP Morgan.
February 15, 1882.
Hu Chuyuan gave himself a day off, went to Central Park in New York with Wu Shuzhen, had a picnic on the open grassland, and enjoyed the quiet and unique life given to them by the world.
It's not particularly cold today, and the sun is good. Hu Chuyuan is also a rare rest. He rests very relaxedly against the trunk of the tree and closes his eyes to enjoy the breath and embrace of nature.
He only now understands that this kind of tranquility in the natural wilderness can't be bought with money.
Wu Shuzhen also leaned against the trunk for a lunch break. After a while, she quietly leaned on his shoulder and put the white and flawless cheeks on his shoulder. The fragrance between her noses could not help but tease the man's heartstrings.
In this bright sunshine, looking at this exquisite and beautiful face, looking at her long eyelashes, and missing her elegant and meaningful smile, Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but be a little moved.
He had to say that Wu Shuzhen helped him a lot along the way.
Kiss me...!
He smiled badly, but he didn't really take action.
A few days later, Hu Chuyuan still gave Wu Shuzhen a very good gift. He bought two advertising companies in New York and Philadelphia, and then transferred them to Jetta for one dollar to set up a Jetta advertising company in the United States.
In the following days, JP Morgan significantly strengthened its contact with Hu Chuyuan. After obtaining Hu Chuyuan's consent, JP Morgan began to carry out a large-scale integration of the two major industries of U.S. Railway and steel, and established the United Railway Company and the United Steel Company of the United Steel Company.
Among the two companies, Hu Chuyuan's North American Wells Fargo Investment Bank holds 19.55% and 11.42% of the shares respectively, second only to Drakesell-Morgan.
Hu Chuyuan knew very well that at this time, he was just a passer-by in the American market, just an international floating capital, not a real owner. He was just waiting for the right opportunity to transfer these shares.
According to the market value, in the past few months, the 97.5 million dollars he brought has become 230 million US dollars, and the current New York stock market has returned to its original 50% level. In a few months, he will not choose large-scale cash-up.
At this time, making money was no longer Hu Chuyuan's first task, and he began to think about arms.
The Sino-French war is no longer far away. He must first hoard a large amount of arms in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. When the war breaks out, he is in a hurry to buy arms. Isn't he waiting to be slaughtered?
The military industry of the United States has a special advantage... The production capacity is large, although it is not advanced.
During his stay in New York, he also went to four firearms companies such as Manchester and New Haven, as well as two artillery manufacturers, and ordered arms worth 12 million US dollars, demanding to complete the supply within two years.
Hu Chuyuan noticed a detail. There are many firearms companies in the United States, but there are few artillery companies. Although there are many companies that can manufacture and manufacture artillery, most of them are in a state of shutdown.
The main reason is that the United States is still in a stage where the United States does not pay much attention to defense equipment.
Hu Chuyuan decided to reinvest in a large comprehensive military factory in Auckland, similar to Armstrong, based on steel manufacturing. Of course, the focus is to use the human, resources and production capacity of the United States to provide China with the most convenient weapons system.
Businessmen have the way of merchants.
First of all, according to the plan, Wanqi Foreign Bank and Wells Fargo Investment Bank of North America jointly established the San Francisco Gulf Investment Company, and then found a suitable partner through the Gulf Investment Company.
When this matter was almost done, President Chester Arthur announced a decision that had been discussed in advance to formally establish the Chinese Industry Administration, with Wei Lianshi as the director, bear the compensation of Chinese workers by issuing treasury bonds to raise funds, and passed the new Chinese Immigration Management Act in the Congress.
The new bill is much more relaxed than the original Chinese Exclusion Act. The basic situation is that Chinese are allowed to live in the United States through temporary residence and permanent residence for five years. After other conditions are met, they can be renewed as permanent residence.
The Chinese Industry Administration will approve 3,750 immigration applications alone among Chinese workers with permanent residence every year, and family immigration, skilled immigration and investment immigration are not within the quota. In addition, they apply to the Immigration Bureau for immigration.
So far, the Chinese-repeating movement in the United States has come to an end.
After the passage of the Chinese Immigration Management Act, at the invitation of President Chester Arthur, Hu Chuyuan and Ambassador Chen Lanbin went to the White House for a business meeting and signed a new trade agreement.
The United States has reduced the import tariffs on Chinese raw silk, tea, Chinese medicinal materials, porcelain, hemp and related products, straw hats and other traditional handicrafts, while the return given by China is to reduce the import tariffs on some U.S. machinery, chemical products, steel, iron ore and other metal ore and petroleum derivatives.
The two sides gave part of the most-favoured-nation treatment and extended it until 1895.
The United States has made new expansions in the original study abroad plan, allowing Chinese to enter American colleges and universities.
The United States will sell four new cruisers to China, which will be manufactured in 1884. Before that, the U.S. Navy will manufacture two cruisers of the same type in a shipyard jointly recognized by both sides to ensure that the use of new technology is mature.
In the new trade agreement, the United States allows Chinese businessmen to invest - depending on the decision-making of the state courts. Due to the limitations of traditional policies, China still maintains the original agreement and can only allow American businessmen to live and invest in the concession.
Under mature conditions, the two sides are willing to conduct new negotiations on the area of the Tianjin Concession.
So far, Hu Chuyuan can be said to have completed his imperial task perfectly, and did not humiliate the Qing Dynasty.
He went to Europe and ordered $14 million worth of arms in Germany and the United Kingdom. In April 1882, he returned to the United States. Affected by the new Sino-US trade agreement, the New York stock market had basically returned to the level before the financial turmoil.
Hu Chuyuan chose to start cashing out.
Because his total investment is very large, short-term cashing will inevitably cause the stock market to fluctuate significantly, which is not conducive to cashing out. Therefore, he chose to trade directly with several financial institutions, giving priority to arbitrage 55 million US dollars, and the remaining assets of about 340 million US dollars will be left at the North American Wells Fargo Investment Bank, slowly. Now.
90 million US dollars entered the market and currently increased to 395 million US dollars.
This return on investment is strong enough.
Again... Opportunity is always reserved for those who still have a huge ship in the flood.
If you can still hold 97.5 million US dollars in your hand after the stock disaster, as long as you seize the opportunity to enter the market, you can also make huge profits from it.
In simple comparative capital, Hu Chuyuan is no longer much worse than JP Morgan. What he is worse than is that he is in the United States and is destined to be just a passer-by.
Although he was unwilling, he could only accept the reality and quietly returned to China and the court on the Tengchong.
When he left, he didn't expect that in a short time, he would come back to the most important thing in the United States.
On the way back, he didn't have to be in such a hurry. He stopped in Osaka halfway and went to Kyoto to check the business situation of the Nishi-Jian Company. By the way, he took a look at the development level of the Japanese economy and technology, so as to facilitate the decision-making in the future.
Therefore, there was a slight delay. On April 21, 1882, the Tengchong arrived in Tianjin.
Tianjin has always been a prosperous city, but its concession is not as lively as Shanghai. Britain, France and the United States did not pay special attention to the development of the Tianjin concession. It was not until the occurrence of the Tianjin teaching plan that foreigners who originally lived in the old city of Tianjin returned to the concession one after another, driving the development of the concession.
The difference between the Tianjin Concession and the Shanghai Concession can be seen only by the land price. The former is only equivalent to 1/7 of the average price of the latter.
The tonnage of the Tengchong is a little too large, so it can only be parked at the entrance of Tianjin. Hu Chuyuan entered Tianjin in the diesel engine wooden boat of the Tengchong. It was noon. The rain in the lunar valley had just passed, and the sunshine in April was extremely mild.
Hu Chuyuan sat on the bench in the bow of the boat, sitting with Wu Shuzhen, and looked at the scenery on both sides of the Haihe River stupidly.
I have money.
He is indeed rich, and there are fewer and fewer things in the world that can make him difficult.
He looked very relaxed, even a little silly, and smiled stupidly.
Seeing that he laughed more and more, he became more and more stupid, as if his brain was burned out, and the attendants peeped at him strangely. Wu Shuzhen couldn't help laughing, pushed him, and asked, "What's the giggle?"
Hu Chuyuan still smiled and said, "I won't tell you."
Wu Shuzhen couldn't bear it for a moment and suddenly pinched him.
Just pinch it. Just pinch it.
Hu Chuyuan still laughed.
He thought that idiots don't laugh. I'm a man with 400 million US dollars now, and it's not far from the goal of 100 million pounds.
He never thought that there would be today in his life, as if everything was so casual.
Playing with stocks... It's really profitable.
He said, why are those financial oligarchs on Wall Street just playing with stocks? It turns out that they are really profitable.
He suddenly remembered something and asked Wu Shuzhen, "Well, do you think you feel tired or annoyed when you run around with me all day long?"
Wu Shuzhen thought about it seriously, but smiled and said, "What should I do? Who let you be such a man? If you don't work for the court and only do your own business at ease, I don't know how leisurely it will be, and I can also benefit from it.
Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Then don't worry, it will be much easier in the future."
He absolutely guarantees this.
With the current foundation, even if there is trouble in the future, he will let others do it. He will free up more time to play what he wants to play, and he can't continue to work hard.
The small steamer slowly drove into the concession, which is really incomparable to the Shanghai concession.
This is actually not a good thing. In fact, the concession has more advantages than disadvantages for China at present, but it is a face problem. There are still many practical benefits, especially in terms of economy and culture.
I really want to take back the concessions. Where can we build factories, and where we can build the West School, Engineering Museum and Business School? If it is built today, the court can demolish it for you tomorrow.
The vast majority of early Chinese revolutionaries hid in the concession, so as to avoid being caught by the Qing court.
The ship leaned against the dock of the British Concession and set up a sang board. Hu Chuyuan went ashore accompanied by Chen Shanyuan and others. The situation in the British Concession is much better than that of the French Concession and the American Concession, but it is far less than that of the Shanghai Concession. If you want to rent a carriage, you have to wait for a long time.
Fortunately, a telegram has been sent in advance. CITIC Bank in the British Concession has already sent several carriages to wait at the wharf on the right bank of the Haihe River. Zheng Xitai happened to be working in Tianjin and came to pick up people in person.
Dozens of meters away, Hu Chuyuan saw him. He was wearing a suit, his braids were also cut off, and his head was flat. He was a fake foreign devil.
As soon as he saw Hu Chuyuan, Zheng Xitai hurriedly commanded the people of the horse team to follow, and he trotted over.
Before he could run over, a group of people suddenly rushed out of the dock.
Bang.
Someone fired a shot.
There was a panic on the dock, and Chen Shanyuan and others were also shocked. They hurriedly surrounded Hu Chuyuan and Wu Shuzhen and pushed them to the opposite carriage.
At this time, Yan Shizhang, Miao Tsuensun and others were still on the second small steamship, waiting to build a board under the dock. Suddenly, they encountered this kind of thing, which was also a mess. Several nurses on the ship immediately took out their guns and shot back at the group of people who rushed over.
Papa.
The rain of bullets broke out in an instant.
(to be continued)