Subtitle of this chapter: Don't be afraid of dirty hands when you are a master!

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“BOSS、BOSS、BOSS……”

“STOP！ STOP！ STOP！ Aisi, when did you become a repeater? It's still bad. ”

"BOSS, what is a repeater? Forget it, I don't understand a lot of what you're talking about. ”

Miss Moman said excitedly, "That's right, BOSS. That was Mr. Einstein! The greatest scientist mankind has ever seen! I'm so excited, but I still have to keep a lady's reserve as you say...... So when I was talking to him, I felt, felt, felt ......"

YUAN YAN SNEERED AND SAID, "VERY SHUANG...... WELL, VERY CRISPY, RIGHT? ”

His female secretary nodded heavily, and said with wide eyes, "Yes, boss." VERY CRISPY indeed. How do you know? ”

"Nonsense, how could I not know?" Our Master Yuan rolled his eyes and said, "Miss Moman, you're welcome. There will be a time for you to CRISPY in the future, and now it's your working time. ”

"Take it, here's the telegram draft and the money, let Xiaokang drive you to the telegraph office."

"Okay, BOSS...... So much money, just to send a telegram? ”

"Of course, it's a long telegram."

The recipient of Yuan Yanqi's "very long" telegram was none other than his fiancée, Miss Wei Mingzhu, who had been separated from him for several months.

Speaking of this unmarried couple, the man in the United States is: the master is often crazy, the left leads the mother, and the right is also the mother. Jinguan mink Qiu, soaked a rich woman with a lot of money...... Anyway, this little day is very nourishing.

But the woman is on the island of Java: thousands of miles of lovesickness, not thinking, unforgettable. Full of grievances, there is nowhere to talk about desolation.

Java, Semarang.

On the outskirts of this famous Southeast Asian city, there is a residential area called Tjandi. It is a place where wealthy Chinese businessmen live in Central Java. The Wei Mansion is also here.

"Master, Mingzhu is here again, saying that I have something urgent to see you......" A half-old in her forties cautiously said to the old man in the sixtieth who was half-leaning on the couch and closing his eyes. This woman's appearance is seven or eight points similar to Wei Mingzhu.

Although the old man was sickly, he was very energetic, and he must have been a beautiful man when he was young. He opened his eyes and interrupted angrily, "This good daughter you gave birth to! Let her go back, I'm gone! ”

Hearing this, these two are Master Yuan's Taishan Taishui. Old Man Wei has also had several wives, so the age difference between him and Wei Mingzhu's mother is twenty years.

"Master, you haven't seen her all these days, so let Mingzhu come in and say hello to you."

"Say hello? I don't even want my lord for a man, and I ...... Do you know what the outside is saying about her?! It's really thrown into the face of our Wei family. Half of my illness was caused by your good daughter! ”

Yuan Yanqian, the old Taishan, is a little different from the Nanyang tycoons. He firmly believes in foreign religion, so he does not have concubines, so he has not forgiven the apostasy of his beloved daughter until now.

And Miss Wei, the pearl of the South Seas, originally had a large number of local suitors, but when it came, it fell into the hands of outsiders, and the scene was still so "dramatic". Then naturally some people say strange things.

Mrs. Wei had no choice but to say gently: "Master, it was also your approval to let Mingzhu choose her own husband at that time. You also know that she has been high-minded and high-spirited since she was a child, and it is rare to find a ...... she likes."

"All she likes is the revolutionary party!" Old Man Wei was so angry that he said loudly, "That's why I asked Ming Niang to take her to Europe, I originally thought that Ming Niang was sensible, but what happened...... Don't let me worry about it one by one, it's really an angry old man! ”

As the saying goes, the more the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the happier she becomes. Mrs. Wei still defended Master Yuan: "Master, my uncle is also a doctor from the United States, he is innocent and has no family, and he is also from a solid family......

Well, the old Yuan family, the richest man in a county-level city in the mainland, is just a "solid family" in the eyes of Nanyang wealthy families.

"Little Miss, Little Miss, please stay, please stay...... The lord has told you, you can't go in! ”

Just then, there was a commotion outside. Wei Mingzhu ignored the maids' obstruction and strode into the bedroom.

Old Man Wei was really angry when he saw her: "Get out...... cough cough cough ......"

"Sir!" Mrs. Wei hurriedly stepped forward and finally stopped his cough. She turned back to her beloved daughter and said, "Mingzhu, why don't you go out first......"

Wei Mingzhu pursed her red lips and said angrily: "Grandma, I'll leave immediately, but before I leave, I want Daddy to look at this telegram." ”

Her mother knowingly asked, "Mingzhu, who took this telegram?" ”

"Yes......" Miss Wei said with a blushing face, "It's your son-in-law who sent ......"

And her father still stubbornly said: "Bah, I don't have this son-in-law...... cough cough cough ......"

Mrs. Wei patted him on the back and comforted: "Master, since it's my uncle...... Well, what can you do with the telegram that Mr. Yuan took a look at? ”

As she spoke, she beckoned to her daughter, took the telegram, and held it in front of Old Man Wei.

"Take it out of my way, I don't want to look at it...... Well? Old Man Wei was about to wave his hand, but he happened to see a few English words on the telegraph, and he unconsciously pronounced it, "United Fruit Company......"

"United Fruit Company?!"

This ordinary and unassuming company name made Master Yuan's old Taishan shudder.

No way, the deeds of this company are too domineering. Just to toss the bananas, they turned Central America into a "Banana Republic."

By the way, the Banana Republic is also the name given by the famous O. Henry. The banana republic in his The Cabbage and the King is an allusion to Honduras, which was controlled by the United Fruit Company.

The famous poet Neruda, the future Nobel laureate in literature, once wrote a satirical poem called "United Fruit Company", in which he described: The United Fruit Company and the capitalists in the West, through frenzied plunder, have fattened themselves more and more, while the poor Central American people, under this cruel oppression and exploitation, have been abandoned to the garbage heap like fruit that has been drained of juice and left to rot!

For the people of Central and South America, the United Fruit Company, founded in Boston in 1899, is simply the demonic embodiment of American imperialism.

And for these Chinese billionaires in Nanyang, it is natural to yearn for such a veritable big trust. I can't wait to become "Nanyang United Fruit Company".

So how did Master Yuan "hook up" with this big trust?

Minor C. Keith, one of the founders of the United Fruit Company, is the nephew of Henry Meiggs, the American railroad magnate who also married the daughter of the President of Costa Rica.

It was the 1871 construction of the railroad between San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, and Limón, that allowed Central American countries to export bananas to the United States. Without his railway, there would be no United Fruit.

The Megs family is part of the Boston consortium. So Master Yuan, who had become a "good friend" with Kennedy Sr., got into this relationship.

"Give it to me!"

He grabbed the newspaper with his hand and read it. Although it was "very long" for a telegram, in fact, it was only a few dozen English words on it, but he read it several times as if he were reading some great article.

In the end, Old Man Wei coughed, raised his head and asked his daughter solemnly: "Father asks you, is what the 'kid' telegram said true?" ”

"Humph!" Wei Mingzhu snorted lightly, "How did I know, maybe he was lying?" But ......"

"He traveled extensively in Citigroup, and his friends were rich and noble, and even Mr. George Baker's house he took me to dinner...... By the way, we were personally received by Mr. George Baker. So maybe he's telling the truth. Anyway, I'm not sure about your 'good daughter'. ”

"Mr. George Baker...... Are you talking about George Baker of Wall Street? "Old man Wei is not an ordinary rich man, and the name of the dignified "Three Tycoons of Wall Street" is naturally known.

He patted the edge of the bed and said angrily: "What an unfilial daughter, why didn't you tell your father about 'Mr. Yuan' earlier?!" ”

Wei Mingzhu pursed her lips and said aggrievedly: "Daddy, you didn't ask." ”

"This ......" Old Man Wei was blocked for a moment, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I'll talk about the matter of 'uncle' later." ”

As he spoke, he lifted the quilt and was about to get up. Mrs. Wei hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master, what are you doing when you get up?" ”

"Do what?" Old Man Wei stood up and said, "I'm going to talk to Taiyuan about this matter, hurry up and prepare a car for me!" (Author's note: Taiyuan is the word of "Nanyang Sugar King" Huang Zhonghan.) ）

"Jingle Bell ......"

"The car is ready for you, Mr. Yuan."

"Thank you, Frank...... By the way, let the car wait for me at the back door. ”

Our Master Yuan rarely changed into a relatively simple set of clothes, and also brought a scarf to cover half of his face.

He didn't take the elevator either, but bypassed the lobby through the stairs and crept to the back door to get into a carriage that rosewood had arranged for him.

After half an hour, Yuan Yanqian got out of the car, and after tipping the coachman, he walked for more than half an hour to come to the door of a small restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

Finally, he looked around vigilantly to make sure that no one was following, and then walked into the restaurant.

Master Yuan is so careful to make it look like a spy on the street, and it is also a last resort, because the people he wants to see on this trip are really ......

"Are you Mr. Jesse Smith?"

It wasn't time yet, so the small tavern was deserted, with only one guest sitting at a table in the corner reading the newspaper. Therefore, Master Yuan is not afraid of admitting the wrong person.

If you have a good memory, then you know that this is the male pet and broker of the current Justice Minister Harry Doherty. No wonder Yuan Yanqian didn't want others to know that he and Smith met.

"Whoa."

Mr. Smith removed the newspaper. With a mustache, he had a pleasant face, good looks, and well-dressed, and he was smiling before he could open his mouth. I don't know if it's a psychological reason, Yuan Yanqian always feels that this smile is a little "greasy".

The Attorney General's "white glove" stood up and stretched out his hand and said, "That's right, I'm Smith." You're Neo......"

Master Yuan opened his mouth and interrupted, "Mr. Smith, what my name is is not an important matter. ”

Saying that, he shook Smith's hand perfunctorily, didn't even take off his hat and scarf, sat down and asked directly: "Let's just say it, what are the conditions for your boss?" ”

Smith probably wasn't very accustomed to this straightforward way of talking about business, so he coughed and said, "Then Yuan...... All right. My boss asks for 100,000 US dollars, give 50,000 yuan first, and then give the other half after the deed. He said it was ......"

“OK。” Yuan Yanqian raised her eyebrows, and said lightly.

$100,000 is indeed not a small amount, and he is not too lazy to bargain, but he has his own plans.

How to put it, anyway, the larger the bribe, the more he earns. Because he is not going to pay the final payment, but to swallow it himself.

After our Master Yuan got his Ph.D., he will leave for Europe, and then go to Nanyang to welcome his relatives back to Seris...... Well, he doesn't know what the Master Ball will allow him to do when he goes back, but he's going to have to go back and see if it's okay.

In short, it will take two or three years to complete this circle at the earliest, and the Teapot Hill scandal broke out at the end of 1922.

Besides, even if he can't swallow the final payment, the money is not from him.

"Ahh You say OK? Smith, who thought he was going to bargain, was stunned.

"yes, $100,000 is $100,000. But......" Yuan Yanqian said lightly, "But I have one condition!" ”

He took out an envelope from his inner pocket and said, "Ask your boss to publish a signed review in the Washington Post or the New York Times...... Well, the Wall Street Journal can do that too. I've already written the article for him, and he just needs to sign his name and send it to one of the three newspapers. ”

"All I have to do is see this article in the newspaper, and I'll know that your boss has agreed to the deal. I'll get $50,000 into your hands as soon as I can. ”

Smith glanced at the envelope and hesitated, "But ......"

"Nothing, Mr. Smith." Master Yuan said in a very tough tone, "I don't think your boss would mind publishing this article, after all, it will only be good for him. ”

Smith groaned, "Okay. But he had to agree to it. ”

"Of course." Yuan Yanqian stood up, nodded, and said, "Goodbye then, Mr. Smith." I wish us every success in our cooperation. ”

Before he could return to Rosewood, two gentlemen were already waiting for him in the lobby.

"Albert, are you sick? You're a big mistake in today's speech. Also, why did you even refuse a dinner party? You know, this is the National Academy of Sciences......."

"Haim, don't tell me anything about the American Academy of Sciences, Mr. Neo-Yuan is what I'm most concerned about right now!"

"Albert. This Mr. Yuan is nothing more than a writer. I admit that he wrote quite well, and the "All Quiet on the Western Front" you gave me is very wonderful, definitely a classic. But ......"

"Haim, it's nothing...... Ah, here he comes! ”