Chapter 141 Honesty in Business

The United States is a country of firearms liberalization, the firearms industry is also very developed, and its production capacity cannot be ignored.

The firearms ordered by Hu Chuyuan in the United States are an improved version of Winchester 1876. The main improvement is combined with the projectile design of the Spencer rifle, which can directly load 13-15 bullets on the battlefield by replacing the projectile. The disadvantage is that the range is too short, at most about 200 meters.

To this end, he ordered the Mauser 71 improved continuous-shot rifle in Germany - the least seen Mauser 71/84 rifle in the legend. This gun has been initially finalized in 1982. It uses a barrel magazine similar to the Spencer rifle, which can provide a capacity of 5-13 bullets, but Germany [***] I am willing to accept that it is not as advanced as the new Grass rifle of the French, and asked Mauser to modify it further.

Hu Chuyuan had no choice and agreed to this somewhat outdated improvement before the German War Department.

He has been talking to Fister Delano late at night, and Hu Chuyuan sent him to rest. Now he thinks of Wu Shuzhen. I guess she also has something to discuss. Unfortunately, it's too late to wait until tomorrow.

Next time, Hu Chuyuan just woke up and was about to find Wu Shuzhen. Albert Russell came to him.

Hu Chuyuan muttered in his heart and invited him to have breakfast together.

Halfway through eating, Albert Russell couldn't help asking Hu Chuyuan, "Mr. Hu, in fact, I always have a question to ask you?"

Hu Chuyuan hummed and said, "Let's talk about it!"

Albert Russell continued: "Which industry do you think is the most promising at present and in the future?"

Hu Chuyuan thought for a time and said, "Oil and electricity, followed by media newspapers. Why, does the Russell family also have any doubts about this?"

Albert Russell nodded silently.

The state at this time is very interesting. In the eyes of Albert Russell and others, Hu Chuyuan is like Buffett 130 years later. The industry he sees will basically have very good prospects.

Albert Russell is asking him very seriously to find a new way out for himself.

Hu Chuyuan can also generally feel that the Russell family is not short of funds. Although it is far from comparable to him, they still hold certain shares in the National Trust and Savings Bank of the Americas, Wanqi Foreign Bank and the United Railway Company of the United States. They can generally withdraw 13 million US dollars at the current market price.

This amount is indeed a real huge asset in the United States at present.

Hu Chuyuan thought more and more seriously. After a while, he continued with Albert Russell, "If it is my personal advice, I think medicine and the media will be the new direction of the Russell family. If possible, you should cash out the shares of United Railroad at the right time. This industry will no longer have a larger-scale expansion, and there will be no more huge profits. In the chemical system of Wanqi Yanghang, washing will be operated by a separate company. Similarly, medicine and medical devices will also be operated by a new company, and you can use Russell to operate. If the expansion of Wanqi chemical industry is relatively smooth, I will gradually let you hold more shares on behalf of the Russell family.

Albert Russell was very happy and said, "Okay, that's exactly what I want!"

Hu Chuyuan continued: "Regarding the American News Company, I admit that Mr. Pulitzer will be a very good operator, but his political position is too strong, which is not a good thing. The journalism industry is either [***] or there is no political axe. Once it is biased towards the political axe, it will lose readers. Therefore, if you hold a certain amount of shares, you can coordinate this issue with him.

Albert Russell nodded silently.

Hu Chuyuan thought in his heart and added to Albert Russell after a while: "After returning to China, you can set up two Wanqi laboratories in Auckland and New York at the same time, secretly study gunpowder and other military technology in Auckland, chemical technology in New York, and electrical and telegraph telephone technology. We can cooperate with other companies. I know one thing. A person from the gunpowder bureau once told me that nitrate and cotton can also be combined to make gunpowder, and the burning is smokeless. However, he only found it occasionally and did not continue the research. You can find a reliable candidate to continue the experiment in the Auckland Wanqi Laboratory.

I can't help it. The short story about smokeless gunpowder is so famous that even Hu Chuyuan is technically illiterate.

Albert Russell nodded, quickly took out a pen, and wrote down the things Hu Chuyuan ordered in a notebook.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan has nothing special to say.

He doesn't need to say more. If Albert Russell can't do it, he will manage it with another person. It seems cruel, but this is business, this is business.

Albert Russell quickly got up and left, letting Hu Chuyuan continue to enjoy the tranquility of a person.

After he left, Hu Chuyuan quietly drank morning tea and thought about it in his heart.

He already has a clear idea about the American industry.

Taking Wells Fargo Investment Bank of North America as the source, Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America as the financial core, it forms a solid Wells Fargo consortium. Carnegie Steel Company, Wanqi Bank, San Francisco Bay Company and American News and Newspaper Company are the four pillars. In addition, Hu Chuyuan has been interested in competing with JP Morgan to acquire Bell Telephone Company.

The main supporter of Edison Electric Company is JP Morgan. It is easy for Hu Chuyuan to take shares, but after that, he will always be in a weak position in the electrical field and cannot play the value of the dominant.

So, he decided to look for a few other best electrical engineers, who were still the source of Wells Fargo's behavior and set up a new electrical company to compete with Edison Electric Company.

If Edison wants to make bamboo light bulbs, he will make tungsten light bulbs. If Edison wants to make direct current, he will make alternating current.

If Edison dares to provoke alternating current in the media and slander alternating current, he will also attack at any cost.

In addition, he wants to confirm the effective surname of traditional Chinese medicine through the case experiment of traditional Chinese medicine in the United States by Russell Pharmaceutical Company, and distribute traditional Chinese medicine through the agent of Russell Pharmaceutical Company.

It is not enough to have a Qingyu Hall. Hu Chuyuan targeted Tongrentang and Jiuzhitang.

He was thinking about these things when there was a click of high heels in the corridor. After a while, Wu Shuzhen walked into the garden with a smile and smiled with him, "Why are you thinking about something again? Are you going to fight with someone again?"

Hu Chuyuan smiled and asked her to sit down and drink a cup of tea with her. Then he asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

Wu Shuzhen replied with a smile, "I originally wanted to eat with you. Who knew that Albert was so anxious that he came here early in the morning. I guess you will talk for a long time. You drank a bowl of bean juice and two deep-fried dough sticks at Mr. Yan's place. It's really greasy. Now I don't want to eat anything."

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "His taste is heavy, bean juice is fishy, and deep-fried dough sticks. I dare not eat it, let alone you!"

Wu Shuzhen giggled and said, "I think the taste of bean juice is quite interesting. Now I'm used to it."

Hu Chuyuan smiled and asked her, "You should have something to say this time, right?"

Wu Shuzhen hummed and smiled sweetly, "I found a new partner in the UK through Mr. Butterfield and opened a new Jetta advertising company in London. As for you, you just invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in advertisements for tea and silk industry in the UK last year. Why don't you give these advertisements to me... The fat water doesn't flow to outsiders!"

"Oh?"

Hu Chuyuan didn't say anything.

Actually, he doesn't want it to be like this. If others don't do well, he can change it. If Wu Shuzhen doesn't do well, what can he do?

After thinking about it, he said lightly, "You know how important these things are to me!"

Seeing that he was so serious, Wu Shuzhen also nodded seriously, but still smiled warmly and said, "Of course I know, that's why I want to follow. I have talked to my partners. I haven't made any money in the past five years, and I have used all the loans for the business development of the Jetta London branch.

Hu Chuyuan silently continued to calculate in his heart that his current partner in the United Kingdom is the largest Messer Crowther advertising company in the United Kingdom, including his friend, the shares of Sir John Brooke, a noble banker.

The hasty interruption of the partnership is not conducive to his long-term cooperation with Sir John Brooke.

In fact, many textile companies and Sigu International Shipping Company, which have recently been controlled by Skoo Yanghang in the United Kingdom, have also been given to Mese Kraus advertising companies.

Mesé Crowther is a very good British advertising company. It has great influence in the British media and is one of the earliest advertising companies in the UK.

They currently have very large advertising markets in London, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh. After reaching a huge lucrative advertising partnership with Hu Chuyuan, they quickly interrupted the cooperation with Indian tea merchants in accordance with the requirements of the contract, and began to comprehensively control and influence the media to promote Chinese tea. .

According to Hu Chuyuan's planning and design, Taikoo Yangxing merged the British Tea Company and began to establish a direct sales system throughout the UK, divided into five varieties of black tea, white tea, black tea, green tea and flower tea, and launched three tea brands, Lefu, Runji and Zhenji, replacing the original traditional marks such as Chinese tea and Min tea. .

Lefu is aimed at black tea, Runji is aimed at traditional black tea and green tea, while Zhenji sells green tea, flower tea and white tea. On top of the three brands, there are three more high-end brands: Centennial Lefu, Centennial Runji and Centennial Zhenji.

For English, "hundred years" is a new word that directly uses the transliteration of "PANNI" to flaunt the long history of the three brands.

Meisse Crowther Company gives a new direction to the promotion of tea. Black tea (Oolong tea) is promoted as men's tea, military tea, steel-like tea, white tea is noble tea, black tea is healthy tea, green tea is natural tea, thought tea, flower tea is lady's tea.

Also at the suggestion of Hu Chuyuan, Messe Clauser chose to hire different celebrities for each kind of tea, and organized a large number of social activities through its own network in the upper class, taking advantage of various opportunities to promote Chinese tea and the three major tea brands of Lefu, Runji and Zhenji.

Through this series of market differentiation, although Chinese tea is still not a rival to Indian black tea in terms of cost, at the end of 1881, Chinese tea obviously began to rebound in the market and sales increased. This year, this trend became more obvious.

Hu Chuyuan believes that Jetta does not have the ability to replace Messer Clauser for the time being.

Considering this, he said to Wu Shuzhen, "There is no need to replace the new advertiser for the time being. In fact, my partnership with Messer Crowther may be very solid."

After a pause, he persuaded: "The markets of the United States and China are large enough. Don't consider the expansion of the United Kingdom for the time being. You should do a good job in the American market first and take into account China. When you have enough capital, it is the most appropriate way to directly choose to merge an advertising company in the UK.

Wu Shuzhen could understand and said with a smile, "Okay, I know what you mean. OK, I will put the United States and Chinese markets first. But what about the partner over there? He is very keen to pull your business, and I feel that he also has a good idea!"

Hu Chuyuan didn't care much and said, "You tell him that Chinese people do business with integrity and morality. I am very satisfied with the existing advertisers, so I have no intention to change advertisers."

Wu Shuzhen was quite helpless. In fact, she thought it was a matter of ten, but now she knew that in the face of interests, Hu Chuyuan, a bastard, was also disapproved of her.

But what can she say? Hu Chuyuan is also a major shareholder of Jetta Yanghang.

"Okay!"

Wu Shuzhen was also a woman who was open-minded, but she swallowed two sips of tea to calm down. Then she continued to ask Hu Chuyuan, "Why didn't you mention Pan Limei before? I really didn't expect that you actually hid a beautiful woman in your hometown in Hangzhou?"

"Oh...?"

Hu Chuyuan raised his eyebrows and replied coldly, "The partner's daughter, because she is the only daughter in the family, let me cultivate him for a few years."

"Really?"

Wu Shuzhen smiled badly.

Damn it, she actually learned to laugh.

What do you mean!!!

Hu Chuyuan couldn't figure it out.

(to be continued)