Fan Qianhai responded: "Yes, sir, six months ago we went to operate in China according to your instructions in the telegram, but some dog officials in the Qing Dynasty are really hateful, not only generally corrupt and corrupt, but also inefficient, everything is crawling slowly like a snail, to set up our branches in a hundred cities in China, I am afraid it will take two or three years!" ”

Hu Zhen is very open to this: "My plan is to set up branches in 100 cities in China within three years, which is already a very fast plan, there is no problem with gold and silver, but our lack of manpower is a big problem, how about the opening of commercial and technical schools?" ”

Fan Qianhai was shocked that he had missed a matter in the report, and hurriedly added: "Eight months ago, Mr. sent a telegram back to open a commercial and technical school, recruiting outstanding Chinese children who are willing to engage in business work, and the enrollment in Singapore's commercial school has been smooth, and now there are more than 800 students, and the teachers found from foreigners and Chinese are also very sufficient, and it has been half a year since the start of teaching, and the courses include more than 20 courses such as business, industrial technology, accounting, physics, chemistry, and mathematics!" However, there are many obstacles to the opening of schools in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tianjin; first, there is a shortage of teachers; second, it is difficult to recruit students; domestic scholars are still accustomed to the kind of thinking of learning and excelling; yesterday a telegram from Hong Kong said that they had found enough teachers, but the number of students enrolled was less than 500, and Shanghai and Tianjin have not even been able to make up the number of teachers. ”

Of course, Hu Zhen understands that his behavior in this era is a complete outlier, but without enough talent, how can he quickly achieve industrialization?

He was silent for a moment and said: "Oh, it is not possible to change people's thinking and concepts, so let's change the name of the school to a vocational and technical school, and all the students enrolled will be exempted from tuition and free room and board, but they must sign a contract to come to our company factory to serve for enough years after graduation, so that they will definitely attract a lot of poor children!" ”

"Sir, the budget for opening a school in this way will be ......" Fan Qianhai was full of cost consciousness in his mind after all, and he was worried that the original budget was not enough.

"What is this small amount of money compared to the big thing of cultivating future talents? Zhang Suan didn't come back with me, he was handling trade business in Europe, and you and he exchanged money through cable and telegraph, and negotiated a reasonable budget, no matter how much money it was, I would just allocate it to you. Hu Zhen didn't care about this, the funds in his hands were very sufficient, and the three hundred tons of gold in the nuclear submarine were equal to the financial income of the entire Qing Dynasty for one and a half years.

"Yes, I'll do it right away!"

"Okay, go and find Chen Zichao for me!"

"Chen Zichao went to run errands, I immediately sent someone to find him back!"

"Okay, you go get busy!"

Sitting next to him and listening to the conversation between Hu Zhen and Fan Qianhai, Liang Kunri and Jiang Yunfeng were very shocked, they couldn't imagine that the layout arranged by Hu Zhen was so grandiose, and they were even more determined to follow Hu Zhen in their hearts.

Fan Qianhai went out for half an hour, and an ordinary-looking young man walked in from outside the door unhurriedly, and greeted Hu Zhen as soon as he saw him.

It turned out that this person was Chen Zichao, who was very good at communicating with others, and Hu Zhen sent him back to Singapore from Europe to engage in secret liaison with Borneo and Nanyang Chinese forces.

Hu Zhen nodded and went straight to the point: "Okay, let's talk about your contact with Borneo first!" ”

"I've already made contact with the Chinese forces on the other side of Borneo! But the situation there is not optimistic, the Republic of Lanfang has already existed in name only, a large number of Chinese have fled to other places, and the resistance is very weak and weak, and it will be wiped out by the Dutch and natives at any time, the situation is very critical, we must act as soon as possible. ”

"Okay, it's your great achievement that you can contact the remnants of the Republic of Lanfang in Borneo, how is the matter of contacting the various forces of the Chinese in Nanyang going?"

"I have been to Jakarta, Surabaya, and Sumatra, and I have had contact with all the major Chinese forces, but they don't believe us, their attitude towards us is very cold, and the major Chinese forces have rejected us." Chen Zichao shook his head and lowered his head, ready to accept Hu Zhen's reproach.

Hu Zhen didn't blame Chen Zichao, but said with a smile: "If you contact the major Chinese forces, you will complete the task." It's normal for no one to believe us until we show our strength, but when we show enough strength, it's certainly different! ”

Chen Zichao added: "Another very important thing is that the major Chinese leaders from all over Nanyang have been gathering in Singapore recently, but no matter what we do, no one is willing to invite us, and they also keep the time and place of the meeting secret from us. ”

"Ah, this is a very important thing, you must get the specific time and place of the gathering of the Chinese leaders, you will send all your people out, and you are not afraid to spend money on important information, if you can spend money to do things well, it will not be a problem......"

Hu Zhen was about to continue to say something, but there was a commotion of human voices in the hall outside, and everyone stood up without knowing what was going on.

Hu Zhen listened for a while and said, "Let's go, go and see what's going on!" ”

Everyone walked out of the hall and saw a ten-year-old beautiful woman rushing in, and Fan Qianhai couldn't stop her at all.

The woman had a slender figure and a beautiful face, but her voice was very loud: "What kind of bank are you, you have been preparing for more than half a year, and you haven't started lending business yet, how do you do business?" I want to see your boss, but where is your boss, where is he? ”

Fan Qianhai stretched out his hand to stop the beautiful woman, preventing her from breaking in, and persuaded hard: "Miss Zhong, I have said many times that the foreigners have approved our banking business, but it will take two months before we can open for business, and we can't carry out lending business now." Also, even if our bank loan business starts, then we have to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of your Antai company, and we can only issue loans if we meet the conditions of our bank......"

"Antai Company? Who is she? Are you here to ask for a loan? Hu Zhen asked a bank clerk standing next to him in a low voice.

The bank clerk bowed slightly to Hu Zhen: "Mr. Hu, this Antai company is very different from the business done by other Chinese firms, everyone is doing traditional business in a down-to-earth manner, and their family wants to come up with new tricks to hire foreign technicians to do rubber tire products, but now after Borneo, the origin of rubber raw materials, is completely controlled by the Dutch, the supply of locally produced rubber raw materials has completely stopped, and he can't collect his payment, and he has no money to buy raw materials elsewhere, and now he is one step away from bankruptcy." Zhong Xinghan, the boss of Antai Company, has no tricks, but his eldest daughter Zhong Ling is still jumping up and down to find loans to tide over difficulties, even our bank that has not yet started business! ”

"Oh!" Hu Zhen remembered the tragic experience of the three children on the road just now, whose father worked in this Antai rubber factory.