And this Charles. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Frill also relied on this beautiful merger and acquisition to become a well-known business tycoon in the American business world, and after that, he and his partner Frank can be said to be prosperous.

Because of the 'talent' he showed in this acquisition, Furrell became the head of the Peninsula Depot completely, and he cleared out all the partners of the original Michigan Depot, and after that, until 1899, this Charles. Fore has successively acquired more than a dozen freight and locomotive manufacturing companies in the United States, completely monopolizing this industry in the United States, strangling all potential threatening competitors in the cradle, and making the Peninsula Depot soon become the overlord of the train and locomotive manufacturing industry in the United States.

At that time, it also happened to be the golden age of the development of the American railroad, the success of the western development, and a large number of remnants began to pour into the west from the east, in just a few decades, the journey of the first-class railroad in the United States became a short thousands of miles, and rapidly increased to more than 200,000 miles.

During this period, the Peninsula Depot of Furrell and Frank can be said to have made a lot of money and made a lot of money, but after 1900, the American 'business wizard' made a very surprising decision, that is, he retired bravely and chose to quit.

He chose to retire at the age of 45, and his decision made many people at that time unable to figure it out, but in fact, this was Charles's helpless move.

The reason is very simple, that is, while he is rich and rich, his health has also been seriously threatened, and his health has even deteriorated.

At that time, he claimed that the main reason was because he suffered from a very severe neurasthenia, similar to today's depression, and he couldn't sleep every night, but in fact, the fundamental reason was because he had syphilis, and it was very serious syphilis, which was undoubtedly equivalent to a death sentence in the era when there were no antibiotics.

It turns out that this Forrell was born in a sling, and then suddenly became rich, of course, he had to start living, a life of singing songs night and night, people in that era were very chaotic in terms of private life, especially a billionaire like him, not only everywhere he went, there were women who liked to throw themselves into his arms, and he himself was very indecent, those good families were tired of playing, he liked to go out to prostitute even more, after all, those prostitutes # women, can meet his various requirements for money.

And this guy is going farther and farther on this road, so I don't know when, he contracted such a fatal disease, you must know that syphilis at that time was almost equivalent to today's AIDS, before the birth of antibiotics, it was an incurable disease.

Although he also adopted a conservative approach to treatment, he went to various famous doctors, old Chinese medicine doctors, but he still could not completely eradicate his disease, and finally at the age of 45, in the field of his business empire, he was completely in the field of his business empire, and there was no longer a threat to his business empire, Charles. It was at this time that Frill chose to retreat bravely, sold part of his shares, deposited them in the bank, kept a part of them, and received dividends from the company every year.

And he used the interest from the bank, and the annual dividends distributed to him by the Peninsula Depot, to buy all kinds of art, you must know that the Peninsula Depot has gone through several leaders after losing him, and these leaders are very powerful, none of them are straw bales.

It has always maintained the hegemony of the Peninsula Depot in North American locomotive manufacturing, even now, the American railway industry has been much worse than in the past, and the locomotive manufacturing field has fallen far behind Europe and Asia, and the Peninsula Depot has also changed several times, but the American locomotive manufacturing enterprises based on the Peninsula Depot still firmly hold the name of the largest locomotive manufacturer in North America.

And although the development of the American railroad industry has slowed down extremely slowly, and even has not developed for many years, this industry is still the most profitable industry in the United States, with more than 10% profit almost every year, and in many industries in the United States, it has always been very low-key, and the children and grandchildren of Forell, of course, can also rely on the wealth left by their ancestors to live to this day, and even still retain their status in the circle of American high society.

Let's talk about this Charles. Another major reason why Forrell was able to keep his family alive today, and still stand tall in the United States despite the lack of industry, is that he relied on the antiques he collected back then, especially Chinese antiques.

It turned out that in 1886, after he made his first pot of gold in Detroit, this guy started to play art investment, and at first, he just collected some works of American Impressionist painters.

At that time, he began to play with the purpose of collecting very simply, on the one hand, to collect and preserve his wealth, on the other hand, because these impressionist paintings, after looking at them for a long time, can make people have all kinds of reverie, to put it bluntly, it makes you think crankily, so as to relax the spirit, which is very conducive to physical and mental health for a business tycoon like him who is in an extremely tense state of mind all the time.

At that time, he was very interested in collecting James, an American painter living in London. Whistler's oil paintings, successively purchased and collected more than 1,000 of Whistler's works, and became Whistler's most important patron.

This Whistler is also a very famous master in the American oil painting world, especially in the field of Impressionism, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the founder of American Impressionism.

But because he was shy, he collected some travel expenses from the audience of his works, but unfortunately he was usually arrogant and short-tempered, so not everyone who was rich was willing to deal with him, and in the end only Frill could get him, finance him, and become good friends with him.

And this Whistler was not actually an impressionist painter at the earliest, just a traditional oil painting, but he was very interested in Asian culture, his early works, by the Japanese ukiyo-e and screen painting is very much influenced, it is because of Whistler's influence, Furrell also began to gradually become interested in Asian art, and then from 1893, he began to collect works of art from Asia, mainly from China, which can be said to be very advanced and rare in the United States at that time, It can even be said that he became the first person to eat crabs and the first person to collect Chinese art in the American art collecting circles that year.

Even in 1895, despite his serious illness, he actually traveled all the way to East Asia, to China, Japan and Korea, specifically to check the local art market, Binghe local collectors, and scholars to exchange, and this trip also allowed him to completely improve the collection of Chinese art.

At the same time, it is also completely hidden, smuggling antiques and ancient paintings from China.

Later, he also hooked up with the most notorious antiquities dealer in modern Chinese history, Lu Qinzhai, and became the grandson's nobleman in the United States.

Every time this grandson organizes a tomb robbery gang in China, or through other means, he gets a good antique, and the first buyer he finds must be this Forrell.

And even this Charles. Forrell helped Lu Qinzhai pull the strings, so that he got hooked up with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University, so that the grandson began to rob tombs in China in a steady stream, and then smuggled antiques to the United States.

At this time, this Forrell was already a master of Chinese antiques, and after playing for so many years, his firm skills were already very good, and at that time he even had a famous saying, which was to Lu Qinzhai: "After the Yuan Dynasty, don't show me the paintings, it's a waste of my time." “

Just this sentence, you can see how rampant this guy is, how many good things he got back then, so that he can't even look at Chinese paintings before the Yuan Dynasty...

But God should punish him, when he was 57 years old, because syphilis had penetrated his body, destroying his nervous system, he began to have his first stroke, so he had to move to New York, and after that, his physical condition deteriorated.

This grandson also knew that his days were numbered, so he began to cultivate descendants, although he had syphilis, but because of his night sheng songs, widely sown, his descendants are really many.

Since then, he has begun to think about planning a way out for his descendants, and he has brought a few descendants with him to investigate, but in the end he sadly found that none of these people can inherit his business inheritance.

In the end, he had no choice but to set up a trust fund, entrusting his wealth to that fund, so that his children and grandchildren would specialize in dividends, and in order to let the U.S. government, and the other predators, spare his inactive descendants.

He simply donated part of his life's collection to the National Museum of Art, and then put some other masterpieces that were not intended to be donated to the National Museum on display at the National Museum. (To be continued.) )