Chapter 169 Detentionally Stay Away

Borneo is not rich in minerals, and most of the areas are dense primitive tropical rainforests, which is the main reason why the British Empire did not care for the time being and agreed to let the autonomous states of Borneo govern.

In order to seek further development, the Chinese League has reached out to the Philippines. The number of Chinese in the Philippines has grown rapidly in recent years, approaching 100,000, and the number of local people of Chinese descent is about 800,000, accounting for 10% of the total population.

After confirming the uprising policy of the China League, Hu Chuyuan went to Lake Merida in Auckland, the United States to start a real vacation.

In the past seven years, Hu Chuyuan bought a triangular peninsula extending from the east bank of Lake Merida and built a 74.8-acre manor-style palace there.

He is first a husband and father, and then a businessman.

The family is on vacation at Merida Manor. During the day, he will accompany his two wives and children to play on the small farm in the manor and teach his stepson Hu Weizhong to ride horses. Sometimes, the family will go fishing and boating by the lake.

Sometimes, they will spend a few days on the big beach of San Francisco Bay, so that their children can see the waves of the sea.

In the evening, Hu Chuyuan always read some fairy tales to his stepson Hu Weizhong and his daughter Hu Weihui before going back to his room to rest. Compared with the difficult and dangerous time in China, he prefers this kind of life, which is calm, rich and warm.

Sometimes, Hu Chuyuan will also meet some old friends in the manor, including U.S. President John Sherman, who is seeking re-election. Soon after, the two brothers and their families also came to Merida Manor, where the family reunited.

In June 1888, Hu Chuyuan began to gradually increase his workload in the United States.

When he came to the United States this time, he not only wanted to take a vacation and check the performance of the rich country investment bank in North America, but more importantly, he was to prepare for the possible war between China and Japan in five years.

In the past seven years, he has been mobilizing funds to invest in heavy industry and chemical industry in San Francisco Bay in the United States. In 1885, he began to invest in Los Angeles and San Diego Bay, establishing a complete set of industrial systems around California.

At the San Francisco Gulf Research Institute, Carnegie Laboratory, Wanqi Technology Company, New Jersey Bell Laboratory and New York Institute of Science and Technology, he invests 6 million to 10 million US dollars a year in technology research and development, focusing on five fields: new metal materials, petrochemicals, electrical communications, mechanical power, and firearms. Point development.

In the past few years, gasoline, nickel steel, chromium nickel steel, smokeless gunpowder, pipe degenerate gun, alternating current, petroleum high-pressure decomposition technology, natural gas liquefaction compression, radio, capacitor compensator, relay, tungsten halogen lamp, inert tungsten filament lamp, electric heater... A large number of new technologies and products have been developed.

In these laboratories, Hu Chuyuan also hired a large number of Liang Dunyan, Rongkui, Fang Boliang, Lu Xigui and other young children studying in the United States who graduated from science and engineering colleges to participate in technical research, and some of the new technologies that could be used were transferred back to China relatively cheaply.

This time in the United States, Hu Chuyuan wants to continue to increase investment in the military industry, expand production capacity, and enhance the promotion of new technologies.

If the Chinese war is inevitable, he hopes it will be a simple ** and trampling on the Japanese.

In the United States, Hu Chuyuan spent the whole summer and went to Europe in September. In Paris, he bought almost all the oil paintings that Van Gogh had never sold successfully, and began to promote Van Gogh through the media.

In October, Hu Chuyuan went to Germany.

In the years of silk tea trade, Hu Chuyuan accumulated an amazing amount of German marks. He used the money to acquire BASF Dye Company, reorganized into a new BASF Chemical Company, and set up a new BASF Investment Bank Company.

Through BASF Investment Bank, he acquired Deutsche Wells Bank in Hamburg and the City Bank of Berlin, reorganized into the new Commerzbank of Germany, and invested in Siemens on a large scale.

Take the financial industry as the center, take agriculture as the foundation in China, and invest in the two emerging industries of petrochemical industry and electrical communication abroad. It maintains a comparative advantage in the four industries of international trade, metallurgical steel, mechanical shipbuilding and mining industry, and retail industry, journalism, local industry, food industry, hotel industry and transportation industry. There are enough and achievements in the textile industry.

This is Hu Chuyuan's whole business strategy.

At the end of October 1888, after Hu Chuyuan and Britain, Germany and France signed a new arms sales agreement, they went to the Ottoman Empire and the Iranian Empire. Taking the promise to buy the national bonds of the two countries as a breakthrough, they exchanged a total of 37 pieces of blue and white porcelain with a batch of the most famous academic oil paintings and artworks in Europe at that time.

The trip to Istanbul was still very valuable. Hu Chuyuan not only met the gloomy Abdul-Hamid II, but was also invited by Hamid II to invest in the Ottoman Empire.

A very special point is that Hu Chuyuan met a man named Ahmed Riza, who was seeking to promote a new Ottoman revolution, trying to overthrow the reign of Abdul Hamid II and restore the original constitutional monarchy.

Ahmed Riza is relatively naive. He believes that China and the Ottoman Empire have a possible surname to unite against European powers, so he came to Hu Chuyuan, hoping that Hu Chuyuan would support his actions.

After consideration, Hu Chuyuan also naively agreed to give Ahmed Riza a huge amount of money to organize an army and agree to provide arms support.

This is an episode.

Living in Istanbul until the end of December, Hu Chuyuan returned to the United States with his family and continued to live in Merida Manor.

The reason why he has to leave China for a long time is that Prince Chun and Prince Gong have reached an agreement in private and are ready to jointly launch a coup... Both of them have been living in the shadow of Cixi for a long time, even to the point where life and death are under control, and they have to take risks.

Hu Chuyuan deliberately stayed away from domestic politics during this period, creating the illusion that he did not want to participate in the return to politics. In the dark, he gave the two princes a huge amount of money and other network support through Wang Yirong, Gu Jiaxiang and others.

In case of emergency, Prince Yi and Prince Gong