"Damn old fox" Su Zhen looked at the Chinese old man leisurely sipping tea in front of him, and scolded in his heart.

After deciding that he was ready to unite with several old families to take advantage of the economic crisis to make a lot of money, Su Zhen contacted John Rockefeller Jr. and J.W. Morgan, the contemporary helmsman of Rockefeller and Morgan, through Dick Rockefeller, who had a relationship with each other, and the two agreed with Su Zhen's idea of cooperation.

In fact, it is impossible to say that they don't want to suppress Su Zhen, if Su Zhen develops gradually like Buffett and Bill Gates, maybe Su Zhen's industry has already been controlled by several major families, but Su Zhen's rise is too fast, so fast that they can't react at all, especially after Su Zhen began to cooperate with the DuPont family, it will be even more difficult for them to suppress Su Zhen, and they are not stupid, they know that they can't do it, and they must do it, it will not benefit them at all.

And after growing up dealing with an enemy that you can't completely destroy, what is the best way to deal with it? Needless to say, it was natural that the other party was drawn into his camp...... Therefore, for Su Zhen's proposal for cooperation, they and Ben have no reason to refuse, there is no such thing as discipline or anything in the eyes of the capitalists, there is only one thing in their eyes, that is, interests, Marx said in "Capital": "Once there is a proper profit, capital will be bold." If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With a 20% profit, it becomes active; With a 50% profit, it takes risks; For the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging its head. ”

And another old family, the Mellon family, still didn't treat Su Zhen very well, and didn't send someone to contact Su Zhen, but they didn't object...... In other words, it is acquiesced, but it can't pull down the face.

Su Zhen didn't care. Anyway, the purpose has been achieved. However, not long after the Freedom Alliance and the three major families reached a tacit understanding, someone found Su Zhen, who was the old Mr. Wu who represented the Hanhua Foundation in front of him.

"I don't know what Mr. Lu Daowu is here this time?" Su Zhen still couldn't help but ask. Mr. Wu put down the teacup and spoke eloquently.

"Hehe, this visit is to discuss cooperation with Mr. Su Zhen on behalf of the Sinicization Group," Mr. Wu said with a smile.

"GCA Group?" Su Zhen frowned when he heard this, Su Zhen is knowledgeable about the Hanhua Group, and it is also a very powerful consortium in the United States, although the Hanhua Consortium is not among the top ten consortiums, but its strength cannot be underestimated. In fact, among all the consortia in the United States, Su Zhen is not the deepest Mellon, Rockefeller and other consortia, but this Hanhua Foundation, this Hanhua Consortium is really too low-key, and even so low-key that almost no one knows all the background of this mysterious consortium.

"Hehe, I don't know if Mr. Su knows about the thirteen lines of Guangzhou?" Mr. Wu saw Su Zhen's doubts, so he asked with a smile.

"The Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty?" Su Zhen was a little puzzled, did this have anything to do with this old man coming to him today?

"Hehe, I've said it before. The contemptible surname is Wu," the old man said, still selling Guan Zi.

Su Zhen frowned when he heard this, but then a flash of realization flashed in his mind, the thirteen lines of Guangzhou? Surname Wu? Wu Bingjian?

"Dare to ask Mr. Wu Bingjian?" Su Zhen asked tentatively.

"It's the ancestor" Seeing that Su Zhen had guessed, the old man nodded and replied. There was an inexplicable pride in his tone.

However, Su Zhen didn't care at all, because this old man had the confidence to make him proud, and it was because of Wu Bingjian.

Perhaps many people know Hu Xueyan, a red-topped businessman who was rich in the world in the Qing Dynasty, but they don't know Lu Dao. Before Hu Xueyan, there was another super-rich man, that is, Wu Bingjian.

As everyone knows. The Qing Dynasty can be said to be the most serious dynasty in the history of the country, but the Qing Dynasty is not completely closed, but all foreign trade can only be carried out through the Qing government designated by the tooth line (similar to modern brokerage companies, intermediaries), and the Guangzhou Thirteen Lines is one of them, (although it is known as the Thirteen Lines, but in fact there is no fixed number, just a general name).

In the Qianlong period, the Qing government ordered that Guangzhou would be the only foreign trade port in the country, which made Guangzhou 13 completely monopolize the foreign trade privileges at that time, thus creating a large number of huge wealth, and Wu Bingjian was one of the leaders.

In 2001, the Wall Street Journal listed the richest people in the world in the past 1,000 years, among which four Chinese were selected, they were Liu Jin, He Shen, Wu Bingjian and Song Ziwen, and Wu Bingjian was the only one selected as a businessman. As the general merchant of the 13 banks in Guangzhou at that time, Wu Bingjian had outstanding foresight, he not only had a huge industry in China, but also boldly invested in the United States' railway industry, securities investment and insurance business, you must know that it was still the end of the 19th century, the United States was founded only a few decades, and even the famous Civil War had not yet broken out, and the United States at that time was actually not as good as the Qing Dynasty in the world, it was in this situation that Wu Bingjian dared to invest heavily in the United States...... It can be seen that it is far-sighted.

At the same time, Wu Bingjian was also the largest creditor of the British East India Company, and the British East India Company would borrow money from Wu Bingjian when the capital turnover was not working...... East India Company: What is that? It was the most powerful country in the world at that time, the vanguard of Britain's resource plunder in Asia, it not only had the commercial monopoly power in Asia recognized by the British government, it also had its own army, and even for a long time, the East India Company was the actual controller of the whole of India, but it was such a company against the sky, it needed to borrow money from Wu Bingjian .......

It's a pity that Wu Bingjian was born at the wrong time, although he was already good enough, but he was born in the feudal period when merchants did not have the slightest status, even if he spent countless finances, purchased a three-grade official position from the Qing government, and paid war reparations for the Qing government during the Opium War, but he still could not keep his own industry, under the pressure of the Qing government, the thirteen lines of Guangzhou went bankrupt one after another, and Wu Bingjian was also completely disheartened by the Qing government, if it were not for the fact that he was very old at the time and could not withstand the toss of the sea. He wanted to move to the United States, but in the end, Wu Bingjian died suddenly in Guangzhou.

But Wu Bingjian's death does not mean the decline of the Wu family, because of Wu Bingjian's foresight, the business of the domestic commercial house has long been not the only lifeline of the Wu family, and in the Opium War, the money sent by the Wu family to the Qing government and the war indemnity paid on behalf of the Wu family were only more than two million taels of silver, but how much was Wu Bingjian worth at that time? 26,000,000 taels ...... With this net worth, Wu Bingjian was the richest man in the world at that time.

But after Wu Bingjian's death, Wu Bingjian's descendants and his huge assets were completely lost in history, and now, the old man in front of Su Zhen claims to be the descendant of Wu Bingjian, how can he not surprise Su Zhen? If all this is true, it means that this Hanhua Group is a family group that is older than Mellon, Morgan, and Rockefeller, and more importantly, this family group is controlled by Chinese Americans.

The longest-standing family consortium in the United States is actually a Chinese-American family consortium, which is really amazing news...... No wonder the outside world has not been able to really understand this mysterious consortium, a family that has existed for a time comparable to American history, it is not surprising that it has such a background, and even Su Zhen suspects that the hidden strength behind this consortium far exceeds the strength it actually shows, after all, the Chinese are famous for their love of saving money, especially these old families, and their favorite thing is to hide gold and silver...... What is hidden behind this is unimaginable to Su Zhen.

But since there is such a deep-rooted Chinese family in the United States, why are Chinese in the United States still so low? "It's a long story," when Su Zhen asked this question, Old Man Wu sighed and said, "This has to start with the Civil War."

When Su Zhen heard this, his head was immediately full of black lines, I wiped it, more than a hundred years ago? Feelings: This has to be a history lesson? (To be continued......)

PS: The content about the Hanhua Group is purely made up by me, and the Hanhua Group is indeed quite mysterious in reality, and the specific information cannot be verified, so don't take it seriously.