Wu Chongyao did not complete the task given to him by Zhu Jinglun in England, and when Zhu Jinglun came, he told him that if he could meet the British king, he would send a tea garden to the British king. Although there are tea plantations in India www.biquge.info but they are the commercial tea gardens of the Assam Tea Company, and if there is a Chinese tea garden that becomes the royal tea garden of the British royal family, the advertising effect on Chinese tea will be too great.

Zhu Jinglun only has economic effects in his eyes, and he has no other ideas at all, but in the eyes of Wu Chongyao, a businessman, there are still some dignity issues, giving his country's tea plantation to the chief of the Yiren, so flattering the Yiren, in his opinion, it is too embarrassing for the country.

Fortunately, the British king did not receive them at all, which made him embarrassed, and turned to pay attention to speculating on the war in the United States, although the scale of the operation in Britain was larger than in the United States, but Wu Chongyao was much easier than in the United States, because there was a whole team in Britain to help him.

First of all, Jardine Matheson, after being knocked out by Zhu Jinglun of 30% of the shares, has been very honest, and then cooperated with HSBC, the business development is quite rapid, because Zhu Jinglun let the bureau sign an agreement with HSBC, the bureau experienced all the cash through HSBC to process, which not only injected a huge cash flow into the newly established bank, but more importantly, strengthened his credit, which is priceless, so that they instantly opened the financial services market in the trade between foreigners and Chinese.

A large number of foreigners and Chinese businessmen who have transactions in Xin'an are willing to complete the transfer through HSBC, which is a transaction amount of up to tens of millions of taels, which has benefited HSBC a lot.

This kind of cooperation made Jardine Matheson think that the shares paid were worth it, so they were very happy to continue to cooperate with the Xin'an Li Bureau and the Xin'an government, and even in the matter of the Kowloon Division, Jardine Matheson was resolutely opposed to Ergin and others rashly entering Kowloon, so as not to cause a war, affecting their voices, and even entangled a large group of foreign businessmen to put pressure on Ergin.

With such a relationship, it is too easy for Jardine Matheson to help Zhu Jinglun do something in the United States, and the representative of Jardine Matheson is not as simple as a commercial firm, behind them stands a group of London financiers.

The East India Company was actually the cash machine of the London bankers, and the East India Company was dismantled by the government, but the three major foreign companies that grew up in the era of the East India Company, the British Jardine Matheson Company, the Baoshun Foreign Company and the American Qichang Foreign Company, were equivalent to inheriting the status of the East India Company, and the inherited peers also had the function of the East India Company as a London banker's ATM.

There are a large number of bankers who share in the success of Jardine Matheson, such as the Bahrain banking family, which has a monopoly on Jardine Matheson's financial business, and is responsible for financing them in London and helping them with working capital.

Therefore, Jardine Matheson has no shortage of contacts in London, and there is a huge network of connections that can be used by them.

Wu Chongyao remitted two million taels of silver to London through Jardine Matheson, which was almost all the cash he could use, and the Wu family was far less powerful than the legend after so many years of decline.

Before Wu Bingjian's death, the Wu family was divided, and the wealth accumulated by his grandfather Wu Guoying before Wu Bingjian was assigned to the Wu family ancestral hall to purchase land, and the rent was divided equally among the houses in addition to the sacrificial purposes, and the property was also taken care of by the houses in turn, and it will never be divided.

The wealth accumulated by Jardine in the era of Wu Bingjian was divided into four equal parts, and each house of the Wu family divided the lots. Including shops, real estate, land, as well as bonds and some accounts invested in the United States, are all divided equally.

After the separation, Wu Bingjian once told others that his family property had 26 million silver dollars, and his friends said that he had 60 million silver dollars, Wu Bingjian probably wanted to use the 26 million silver dollars to lure government officials, because he had long said that he was willing to hand over eighty percent of his family property in exchange for quitting the foreign industry, in fact, these money were just his assets after the separation.

It was indeed rich back then, but after all, it was back then, Wu Bingjian had been dead for almost 20 years, and the capital in Wu Chongyao's hands was a quarter of that year, and then he had everything bad and lost a lot of money over the years, but the family was thriving, hundreds of people lived a luxurious life, he was a parent, but he could not give any of his younger brothers silver, he couldn't give less, the mansion door had to be wanted, the servants had to have it, and none of them could be missing.

The mansion of the Wu family, foreigners say that it can live in an army, which is more luxurious than the palace of any king in Europe, but it is only a branch of the Wu family.

Such luxury, even in wealth, cannot withstand 20 consecutive years of consumption. It's not enough to go bankrupt, but it's already a bit stretched, especially the psychological pressure.

Wu Chongyao is not Wu Bingjian, he has no talent, he is completely a pioneer in Shuzhong, Liao Hua, there is no way to inherit the family business, watching the family family become more and more embarrassed, this pressure is unbearable for him.

If there are no new opportunities, in another 20 years, the Wu family will probably be gone.

But after this trip to Europe and the United States opened his eyes, Wu Chongyao was a little nervous, he saw a new business model, and saw that foreigners were doing business in a completely different way, which made him like a giant fish in a lake that was drying up and suddenly saw a new ocean.

He saw banks, exchanges, insurance companies, these are all ways to make money with money, and he felt unusually feeling, even though he didn't know how to do these businesses yet, but he was already interested.

In London, he came into contact with a number of bankers, many of whom were interested in his fortune and offered him advice on everything from annuities to stocks, British government bonds and insurance.

Of course, these people have helped him complete a series of tasks, or just to pay accounts, these people can do all the business in China in the UK, because their business culture and morality have reached the point where they can take credit entrustment, they will collect their share of commission, but they will not touch a penny that they should not receive, they are greedy, but they are also honest.

They used the two million taels of silver transferred by Jardine Matheson to hoard one million taels of medicine in Britain, and used the remaining one million taels of silver to pay a deposit and order a large number of rifles, artillery, and other weapons from all the factories in Britain that could produce weapons.

Wu Chongyao knew that Zhu Jinglun's judgment was that the United States was going to fight, and he asked the reason, Zhu Jinglun said that one country could have two systems, and the momentum would not last long, and he also said that when Lincoln's New Party came to power, it would inevitably have to make some moves, and these alone made people believe that the Americans wanted to fight, which was not very convincing, but at that time Wu Chongyao did not understand international politics, and he was ignorant and could not even find a reason to be suspicious.

When he asked the Americans how long and how big they were going to fight to determine whether they should follow suit, Zhu Jinglun said that he would have to fight for three or five years, and he asked the reason, and Zhu Jinglun said that such a big country and such a barbaric people, of course, would have to fight a war, and it would have been a long time. Yes, a big country wants to fight, and it is a big war between the north and the south, of course there is a war, and after a long war, Wu Chongyao found that he couldn't find a reason to refute.

So Wu Chongyao chose to follow-up, Zhu Jinglun only borrowed 1 million from his family, but he took out 2 million, a total of 3 million, and gambled together.

But he can understand the war and buy weapons, and he can accept the medicine, but Zhu Jinglun still wants to buy cotton futures, he wonders, what does the Americans have to do with the Indians, and what is the futures, he went to the United States and asked Forbes to know that futures are to pay the money first and then get the goods.

After communicating with Forbes, he learned that there was a relationship here, as soon as the United States went to war, the price of cotton would definitely rise, and Zhu Jinglun paid the money first, which was equivalent to placing an order at a low price.

Wu Chongyao understands futures as an order, because the order is only given a deposit, and the futures only give a part of the margin, the journey from India to the UK is about two months, Zhu Jinglun pressed 300,000 taels on cotton, 300,000 taels as a deposit, so that he can purchase 3 million taels of cotton, when Wu Chongyao came to the UK, the news of the outbreak of the American war has spread, but the batch of cotton is still floating on the sea, the result is that the price has doubled in an instant, and the goods have not yet arrived, Zhu Jinglun has already earned 3 million taels of silver.

In fact, what Wu Chongyao didn't know was that if these cotton were not at sea, Zhu Jinglun would make more money, because those short positions that were eager to close their positions needed to be replenished, which would raise the price to a sky-high price.

Just this result also made Wu Chongyao regret a lot, regretting that he did not follow Zhu Jinglun to do the cotton business, but mainly invested his funds in weapons, and even creatively hoarded a batch of grain, his understanding is that there must be food and guns to fight a war, and investing in these two businesses will definitely not lose, who would have thought that cotton is the best business.

The operation of cotton futures suddenly gave Wu Chongyao a strong impulse to participate, and this kind of system in which one tael of silver can be used as ten taels is simply incredible, and it is simply not an era compared to the arms market that requires slow hoarding and real orders.

Of course, as soon as the war broke out, the arms and medicine market also soared, and the increase was not too exaggerated, because the US military was so large, 16,000 soldiers in the north, the south was not as good as the north, even the Americans did not believe that they would break out into a big war, and the Europeans did not believe it, in addition to the relationship between supply and demand, sometimes people's psychological expectations are also an important factor, because everyone does not think that the possibility of war in the United States is high, even if there is a possibility of war, it cannot be a large-scale war, Therefore, even if a war does break out in the United States, the price of weapons and food will not increase much for a while.

On April 15, 1861, Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring rebellion in the southern states and calling on the people to fight for the restoration of Union unity. On the same day, about 25 miles from Washington, an army of 2,500 men under General Borlegard of the Southern Union on the Boer River in Manassas, Virginia, shouted the slogan "March to Washington" with great arrogance.

In such a war where 2,500 people would dare to storm the capital, it is unrealistic to expect him to pull the price of weapons skyrocketing.

Therefore, in the month that Wu Chongyao was in London, the price of weapons on the market also rose by 30%, and a large number of guns and arsenals that he ordered at a unit price of 3 taels of silver continued to be delivered, and the Americans were not in a hurry to collect spot goods in the market, and only sent a large number of orders to British factories.

This made Wu Chongyao a little worried, these weapons would not be able to get out of his hands in the future and be smashed in his hands, but Zhu Jinglun was very insistent and had to sell at least five times the price. (To be continued.) )