On Monday noon, Joshua went to Huntelaar's house again and took John with him under the pretext of attending a friend's party. After driving in a carriage for nearly half an hour, the two stopped at the gate of a restaurant.

"I've already booked a seat, and it's a reservation."

Handing John a piece of hard paper, Joshua hesitated for a moment, and asked with some trepidation, "John, are you sure you don't need me to accompany you?" ”

"Of course not."

After taking the appointment form, John waved his hand and smiled, "I'm just going to meet my tutor, not to do anything." And you also know that Miss Philip has a lot of self-esteem, and it will be very inconvenient for you to be there! ”

"But ......"

Joshua was still a little uneasy about thinking about it, and just as he was about to say something, John had already jumped out of the carriage, then turned around and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, let's go...... Don't forget to ask Fett to pick me up Miss Philip and come and pick me up at four o'clock! ”

“…… All right. ”

Seeing that John's attitude was very firm, Joshua had no choice but to nod and beckoned Fett to leave.

"Hoo ......"

When the carriage had gone away, John let out a long sigh of relief, then looked up at the blazing sun in the afternoon, and turned and walked into the hotel. This is a relatively good restaurant in the neighborhood, but John still couldn't help frowning when he entered, because the contrast with the places that old Huntelaar and Joshua usually took him to was still a little bigger.

But on second thought, John was happy himself.

I was lucky in this life, and I got the identity of a rich second generation, and most of my friends around me were in this situation, but in just a few months, I was hypocritical.

Led by the waiter, John came to a window seat and waited patiently for Miss Philip's arrival.

It was not far from where she lived, and John had seen the name of the restaurant when he came that day, so he wrote a note to Miss Philip asking her to meet here today. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Joshua would never have allowed him to go into the slum, John would have wanted to visit her house, but now they would have to meet in the dining room.

"Will she accept my gift?"

While waiting for his tutor, John pondered secretly.

John didn't really have much curiosity about what happened in Miss Philip's family, and he had never had much interest in other people, but that didn't stop him from being determined to help Miss Philip. If he was a poor man in this life, even if he was an ordinary middle class, he would definitely not do such a thing as spending three or four hundred dollars to help others, but now that he is a small owner of a promising factory and has thousands of dollars on him, it is a matter of course to help the teacher he admires.

It's just that when he thinks of Miss Philip's temperament, John can hardly guarantee that the other party will accept his kindness. That woman is so strong, if it weren't for the emergency, I'm afraid I wouldn't have borrowed the hundred dollars last time, let alone John would have given three hundred this time......

Ordering a cup of coffee, John waited a little anxiously.

Twenty minutes later, however, Joshua's coachman hurried into the dining-room, came to John's table, and whispered, "Sir, when I went just now, that young lady was yesterday...... Suddenly left! ”

"What?!"

Hearing this, John exclaimed and stood up suddenly.

……

In New York in 188o, the summer was not particularly difficult.

Although there is no air conditioning or electric fan, the city is not that big now, and there are no all kinds of chaotic gases, so it passed before I knew it.

Time slowly came to the season when John had just arrived in New York last year.

The days passed plainly and quietly, Miss Philip completely left John's sight, and the tutor that the old Huntelaar found for him was also very good, especially in the painting that John was good at, which gave him a lot of help, the only pity is that the new teacher is just a woman from an ordinary family, with a little less nobility, and of course a lot of interesting stories about the mainstream European society that John used to listen to.

Towards the end of the year, the "Flying Pigeon" brand bicycle was finally put on sale.

And with the use of a set of specially designed machines, the cost of the bicycle was quickly reduced to about 28 dollars, and in the future, with the improvement of the production process and the expansion of the production scale, it is also likely to be reduced to about 20 dollars!

The time is finally ripe to go public.

On December 25, just the day of Christmas, four bike specialty stores in Manhattan and Brooklyn opened on the same day. Only one model of the Flying Pigeon brand bicycle has entered the public eye, and the price tag of up to $58 has made many people smack.

However, the high price can't stop people's enthusiasm!

For more than half a year, ten bicycles have been driving through the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn every day, and Central Park is the best stage for them every weekend. This ongoing display has long been a glimpse of what makes the bike great. Compared to bulky carriages, it is lightweight, convenient, does not require advance preparation, and is ideal for medium-distance travel. Perhaps for the truly wealthy, bicycles are far less important than horse-drawn carriages, but for the average middle class, this new form of transportation is much more convenient and cost-effective than the horse-drawn carriages on the road.

John's strategy was so successful that by January 1, 1881, 200 cars were sold in Manhattan alone, and nearly 100 in Brooklyn in one week!

Sales of nearly $20,000!

This figure, while making the shareholders enthusiastic, also made John very surprised. He originally thought that with the current income level of Americans, it would be difficult to afford such a high price, but he didn't expect that Yan Zhan Zhòng underestimated the desire of people in this era for convenient transportation!

But in any case, it is off to a good start.

While the pricing of a bicycle severely limits its target audience, more people will see the advantages of cycling as more and more people take to the streets. And don't forget, this is just a week's worth of sales in New York and Brooklyn, and Joshua and his family have already started to actively operate the market in the United States and Europe with the help of their fathers!

Also on the market was an ugly version of the Swiss Army knife designed by John, as well as a razor blade. But just as Huntelaar Sr. had predicted, dozens of Swiss Army knives priced at less than $3 were sold, but razors priced at less than $2 sold only two in a whole week!

"Sure enough, the traverser is not omnipotent!"

When he heard this number, John secretly sighed.

Each era has different needs for each era, and blindly launching a product that he thinks is feasible is definitely looking for death, and John has secretly accepted the lesson of this failure in his heart......

……

The success of the bike gave old Huntelaar a busy and enjoyable New Year.

Helping the factory expand its production capacity is one thing, and on the other hand, he is also taking advantage of this shareholder wind to expand his business field. Together with the Stone family, the production and sales of bicycles are all packaged, and it can be said that the fertilizer does not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Also busy was John.

After Christmas, the elder Huntelaar gave several tutors half a month's vacation, and then on December 31st, the elder Huntelaar officially made a will under the notarization of Mr. Stone, another friend and lawyer, and his only descendant, John Huntelaar, to inherit all his property!

In this era, the average life expectancy of white Americans is only about 40 years, and the life expectancy of urban people is much lower than that of rural people.

After making a will, old Huntelaar was ready to integrate John into his world.

John began to attend various banquets with his grandfather every day, especially the most fashionable balls in New York now, and then met all kinds of characters, and gradually many German-American New Yorkers knew about John's existence......

At the same time, the elder Huntelaar officially showed his family background to his grandson.

The results surprised John!

John first learned from Mr. Slark that his grandfather was very wealthy, and that he earned thousands of dollars a year, but then he himself was probably not so simple now, and estimated that it was more than ten thousand dollars.

But now, John himself is now underestimating his grandfather!

Starting with the wealth brought from Europe, twenty years of hard work allowed the old Huntelaar to save enough wealth to shock John, but because the old man was alone, and not many people knew about his low-key nature. In fact, the three trading companies in the hands of the elder Huntlaar can bring him more than $30,000 a year in net income, and he still has nearly $100,000 in cash in his accounts with several banks in New York!

Even if you don't have that bicycle factory that is making money every day, you are a proper rich second generation!

So in the first half of the night, John lost sleep......

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