Under the bright superpredator Carnegie, the Huntelaar family is extraordinarily low-key. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Less than 10 percent of the shares brought John more than $50 million, and as the emperor of Wall Street, the super-tycoon Morgan, he was also very bold, making an upfront payment of $20 million in July to the Huntelaar Bank. The next $30 million or so will be paid in three installments until the end of the year!

The cash of the Huntelaar consortium has never been more abundant.

So in early August 1901, when the preparatory meeting for the opening ceremony of Huntelaar University was held, John waved his hand and gave Lowell a huge sum of $10,000 for the ceremony. In addition, John even gritted his teeth and injected a one-time $4 million into the Huntelaar University Fund, hoping that they could run like the Harvard University Fund and achieve the purpose of providing blood to the university as soon as possible.

At the same time, a huge sum of six million dollars was injected into the Shanghai branch of the Huntelaar Bank branch.

One million of them were reserved for local use in Shanghai. In recent years, taking advantage of the "great opportunity" of the Eight-Nation Alliance's entry into Beijing, John has increased his investment in Shanghai, especially in real estate, and used a large amount of money to almost wipe out those elite areas! This large-scale investment, regardless of the cost, even attracted the attention of the British, French and Japanese, and it was not until the head of the Shanghai branch made it clear on several occasions that it was purely a commercial practice, and their doubts were suppressed.

This year is not better than the future, what future can we see when investing in China?

With the exception of adventurers, or dumping goods and reselling arms, foreigners rarely consider buying a property in China, let alone setting up a factory, because China lacks the foundation of modern industry - workers. So many people can't figure out why this American bank has such a large-scale land purchase in Shanghai, just like the dollar is not money!

And after buying so much land, what was really built were three elementary schools and one middle school.

These schools not only recruit Americans in Shanghai, but also local Chinese, and the tuition is extremely low. The Americans even provided free breakfast and lunch to Chinese students, which was quite hearty, so it attracted many children from poor families......

Another five million dollars, John specified that they must be invested in places such as Java and the Philippines.

Under the rule of the Dutch, Java was quite friendly to the Americans, and the Philippines had just been taken into the arms of the United States, and it was impossible to refuse the huge capital of the Huntelaar family, so at John's request, the Huntelaar Bank began to purchase the best manors in all aspects on a large scale! Java has relatively little investment, only the most essential parts, but the Philippines is different, for the Huntelaar family, who was active in the Spanish-American War, the military and the government have given the best conditions, and sold a large area of land at an extremely low price!

Without exception, the land was bulldozed and then planted with the same cash crop.

Rubber!

This species, stolen by the British from their South American homeland, is best suited to the climate of Southeast Asia, and can be harvested after five or six years of planting. In recent years, the rise of bicycles and automobiles has led to a huge increase in the demand for rubber for tires, and the British and Dutch have benefited a lot from this. But when the Huntelaar Bank entered the market with a huge sum of five million dollars and built one huge rubber estate after another, the British and Dutch still thought they were crazy!

With so many rubber trees, who will sell the rubber produced in the future?

The person in charge of the Shanghai branch also had this question, and couldn't help but send a telegram to ask the head office, but in John? Despite Mr. Huntelaar's direct intervention and reprimand, the Shanghai branch resolutely carried out the order. And they also received another order to invest at least $1 million a year for the next five years to buy land and plant rubber trees in Southeast Asia, and if the task is not completed in any year, the person in charge will step down......

Ten million dollars, and just like that, it's gone!

The elder Huntelaar silently watched his grandson, spent ten million dollars in a month, and then silently waited for the outcome of his decisions. Ten years ago, the old man might have asked about the reasons and prospects, but the Huntelaar family has developed all the way to the present, and the old Huntelaar has learned to pay attention only silently and no longer ask more......

……

Just as John was distressed about the loss of 10 million dollars, an old friend came to his house one day in mid-August.

"Uh...... Mr. Tesla, what's wrong with you? ”

Looking at Tesla, who looked like he was ten years older, John was really taken aback. Maybe the two have rarely seen each other in the last three or four years because of differences, but this boss won't become like this, right? His hair was almost half white, his weight seemed to be half lighter, he was skinny, his face was even more gray and malnourished, and he looked like a little old man of sixty years old when he was not yet fifty years old!

"This ......"

Expecting Ai Ai, Tesla just smiled bitterly.

Without further questioning, John almost understood what was going on. After the last time the two fell out, Tesla borrowed money twice to use it for its own research. And John believes that during this period, I am afraid that Morgan did not invest less, but the huge amount of money was eventually lost. Again, maybe Tesla can research a way to transmit electricity wirelessly, but it is impossible to use it commercially, at least in this era, so the final result can only be failure.

It's just that too much success has made Tesla paranoid.

Tesla's swelling confidence was so rapid that he didn't listen to John's advice, forgetting that it was the young man who showed him the way and made him successful in business outside of research. In fact, if John hadn't intervened, I'm afraid Tesla would still be like in history, pitted by Edison, Morgan and others, and finally died in a small hotel......

Far from it.

According to the news that John got, Tesla is indeed more miserable this time.

Accustomed to spending lavishly, Tesla had no idea how to save his money, not only in research, but also in life - the basic expenses of each month alone were enough for Tesla to drink a pot. This time, Morgan wants to raise funds to buy Carnegie Steel, and he must have cut off his funding for Tesla, so this big bull is naturally a little unbearable.

But......

After sitting silently for a while, Tesla suddenly said in a hoarse voice: "John, I want to transfer all my shares in Motorola to you, can you make a price?" ”

"What? Did I hear me right? ”

As if doubting his ears, John suddenly exclaimed.

Motorola stock is now a proper gold mine! Every year, the patent fees for licensing European countries alone are hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if you add the local income in North America, it will definitely exceed one million dollars.

"Yes, you heard it right!"

There was a flash of reluctance in his eyes, but Tesla quickly became firm: "The contract stipulates that you have the right of first refusal, and I hope to sell the shares and get the cash as soon as possible!" ”

"Uh...... You're not going to continue that research, are you? ”

After listening to Tesla's words, John's brows suddenly furrowed: "I must warn you, Mr. Tesla, once you transfer the shares of Motorola, although you can get a lot of money, but in the future, you will have less fixed dividend income, which is not a cost-effective decision." ”

To be honest, John was genuinely annoyed.

He had told the other party countless times that there could be no results from this research, but the other party just didn't believe it and had to try it!

That's right, in this day and age, Tesla is indeed a genius. But John absolutely does not believe that Tesla can be so talented that it will surpass the power engineer a hundred years later! There may be a huge difference in individual talents, but the gap between the times is even more unparallelable. John never believed that a man was gifted enough to ignore the times!

Unfortunately, Tesla couldn't understand this, and he still nodded firmly: "I understand what you mean, but I still decided to sell these shares." If you don't agree to buy it, I'll have to go to someone else......" (To be continued.) )