"Old man Rong, I haven't seen you for a long time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Hugging the trembling old man gently, John said apologetically: "I should have come to visit you, but you also know that there are indeed some things that are not right on my side now, so I have to trouble you to go there yourself...... I'm really sorry! ”

Asking an eighty-three-year-old man to visit him, John really didn't want to go.

"Haha, Mr. Huntelaar is so polite!"

Gently patting John's shoulder, Rong Hong said with a smile: "The visit of the richest man in the United States to Shanghai has caused a huge sensation, not to mention the newspaper and the business community, even my old man has been stained here, and recently from the north, south, and all kinds of immortals from all directions, but I have given a lot of gifts to my old man, in order to meet Mr. Huntelaar and ......."

"Huh."

Smiling slightly, John suddenly understood what the old man meant.

The relationship between Rong Hong and the Huntelaar Consortium is now well known, or since the first batch of young students went to New York that year, Rong Hong has been labeled as the Huntelaar Consortium! Therefore, whether he openly sympathized with the Restoration back then, or secretly supported the Revolutionary Party later, Rong Hong must have made the Qing government very unhappy, but under the strict protection of the Huntelaar consortium, the old man did not go to the United States this time, but stayed in Shanghai.

In recent years, the old man's name has become bigger and bigger.

As one of the first batch of international students in China, Yung Hong is best known for supporting education and advocating for the retention of children. With John's support, this world has spared no effort to send Chinese children to study abroad, and since 1895, there have been as many as 5,000 children sent out through the Huntelaar consortium in these years!

And don't forget, there are even more adult international students!

In China's original history, around 1905 was a period when the number of international students increased dramatically, and tens of thousands of students studied abroad every year. Due to various problems such as language, script, transportation, and cost, most of the destinations of Chinese students are Japan. It's just that Japan at this time was still learning from the West, and the quality of education was not very high, so the huge number of international students did not bring good enough results. And in this world, because of the large-scale funding of the Huntelaar consortium, more young people have chosen the United States and Germany.

Especially when the U.S. government approved the refund of Gengzi for Chinese students, the number of Chinese studying in the United States exploded instantly!

Because of John's covert operation, the U.S. government ignored the strong opposition of the Qing government and handed over the use of these funds to the hands of Huntelaar Bank and Rong Hong. One-third of them were used by Rong Hong to subsidize international students. Originally, the Huntelaar consortium subsidized half of the expenses of the international students, and Yung Hong was able to absorb a lot of gentry donations through his personal appeal, but now with the refund from the Americans, the cost of students studying in the United States is very small......

In 1906, more than 500 people studied in virtue through Yung Hong's sponsorship, and in 1907 it exceeded 800, and by the end of 1910, the number of people studying in the United States exceeded 2,000, and more than 400 went to Germany!

John pays a huge sum of money every year for the sake of these students!

Based on a student's annual expenses of $500, four years of college is $2,000, and John has to pay at least half of that. In other words, for every international student who goes abroad, John has to pay at least 1,000 dollars, which is nearly 3 million in a year! If you add in the children who stayed behind, it would be an extra million - which is almost equivalent to John's dividends in all of his properties in Europe......

Far from it.

In a word, because he has been committed to sending students to study abroad all these years, Rong Hong's already high reputation has gone further, and now it is in full swing in China!

Both north and south are trying their best to win over this old man.

And whether it is Yuan Datou or that gentleman, they all know the most important point, that is, in addition to Rong Hong's personal influence, what is more important is his relationship with the Huntelaar consortium!

In today's China, no one can ignore this American consortium.

After more than ten years of layout, the Huntelaar consortium has taken deep roots in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Huntelaar Bank and Huntelaar & Co. are its roots, hundreds of primary and secondary schools, dozens of technical schools and three universities are its branches, and more and more factories make it flourish and flourish.

And......

As more and more international students return to China, or join the Huntelaar Consortium, or start various modern enterprises with the support of the Huntelaar Consortium, a force that no one can ignore!

Talent, capital, technology, these people are second to none in the country.

The Xinhai Revolution is a clear example, after the Jiaodafeng Uprising in Changsha, students from Jiangsu and Zhejiang suddenly donated millions of pounds, and donated a large number of arms and countless ammunition, so that Huang Xing, who rushed to Shanghai from Guangdong, was strong! The strong strength made Huang Xing flee everywhere he went, and even the Zhang Xun Army, which was later famous, was quickly defeated, avoiding the farce of Zhang Xun's restoration in later generations. In Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, and other places, the revolutionary party also received a large amount of support, and for a time the troops were strong and strong. If it weren't for the fierce internal struggle of the revolutionary party and the external restraint of the constitutionalists, maybe Yuan Datou would not have had much chance......

Anyone with a little vision knows how important the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are.

It was originally a rich place, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang were the base camps of the Huntelaar consortium, and recently they had the meaning of developing to Hubei, Hunan, and Anhui, Jiangxi. Schools have sprung up one after another, especially technical schools, and factories have been established one after another, bringing with them the most advanced technology and management experience of the Americans, and have begun to produce all kinds of modern industrial products that are coveted by the Chinese people -- obviously all of them are golden chickens that lay eggs!

For all forces, these temptations are undoubtedly fatal!

If nothing else, the number of international students returning to China will surely increase in the coming years. Think about it, in this poor and backward China, how many miracles can be created by a large number of elites who have studied abroad and returned to China, with advanced ideas and technologies, and the unsparing support of the Huntelaar Foundation?

Even building your own guns and cannons, that's not a dream!

In the eyes of many well-intentioned people, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang...... No, it should be said that in the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the strength of the Americans is growing explosively, which is enough to pose a huge threat to the traditional forces of the British. Therefore, when John arrived in Hong Kong, he received a vague warning from the British, and the British minister Zhu Erdian insisted on staying in Shanghai until his arrival, regardless of the situation in Beijing.

All this because of the Huntelaar consortium!

So when John listened to Rong Hong's words, he could immediately understand what the other party meant. Those people wanted to visit him, but they couldn't, so they turned their eyes to Rong Hong, just to get on the line with themselves through this old man. After all, China in these years can provide a large amount of money and arms, and does not require any political conditions, and at present, there is only one Huntelaar consortium......

"Mr. Huntelaar?"

Just as John's thoughts were distracting, Rong Hong, who had just sat down, exclaimed a little strangely.

"Uh...... Call me John! ”

John, who came back to his senses, hurriedly smiled and said seriously: "Old man Rong, please call me John!" After so many years of cooperation, I think our relationship shouldn't be so strange, right? ”

"Haha, of course!"

Old Man Rong laughed happily, waved his hand and said, "And the cooperation with you can be said to be one of the three things I am most proud of in my life......"

"It's my pleasure too!"

Smiling slightly, John hurriedly bowed and said.

John was not interested in knowing what the three things Yung Hung was proud of were, and he didn't even mean to say more greetings to the other party, because John had already found that Yung Hong's body could not afford to talk for too long. The 83-year-old man was supposed to die in a few months, but this world may be because of the affairs of international students and the feeling of being comfortable, so that Rong Hong's mental state is very good, but seeing the other party's trembling appearance just now, John still plans to get straight to the point, long story short!

"Old man Rong."

After a moment of silence, John said seriously: "The main purpose of my visit to China this time is actually to help develop the education here, so the most important thing to invite you to come to Shanghai this time is to ask you to do a ......favor." )