Zhilin was stunned, and he really didn't dare to move forward, not because he was afraid of Xuan Yuemeng, but because he was afraid of Timothy Li behind Xuan Yuemeng, and behind Xuan Yuemeng was a foreign company! No matter how good Lao Tzu is, it is also in the Great Qing Dynasty, involving foreigners, and Cixi is a fart, let alone him.

Xuan Yuemeng pointed out that Zhilin burned the troupe, but Zhilin was still weak-hearted! There is no way to argue. attracted a few people to watch the excitement, and a few watchmen of the Beiyang Yamen whispered and discussed.

Zhilin roared angrily: "Which dog of yours saw that I was burning the troupe? I said you burned it! Boy, don't be crazy, sooner or later there will be no scum left to let you die. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "What I just said is that you only dare to attack the troupe that has no power, no power and no backstage, and let you burn our house if you have a kind, I didn't say that you burned the troupe?" Oh, no need to ask, everyone heard clearly, right? He didn't confess to himself, I didn't point out how he did it, he himself said that he used the method of burning fire! ”

Zhilin was furious, and his whole body trembled with anger: "When did I not confess to myself, when did I say that I would burn with fire?" ”

Xuan Hongbo hurriedly stopped Zhilin, "Forget it, we are people with status, don't talk nonsense with this kid, adult, let's go." ”

Zhilin was furious, and was pulled away by Xuan Hongbo, and Xuan Yuemeng just smiled plainly.

Inside the carriage.

Timothy Li asked Xuan Yuemeng curiously: "Mr. Yuemeng, didn't you just say that you don't like it, and it doesn't prevent you from becoming friends in business?" Why bother to provoke this Zhilin, this person is very powerful in the Qing court, in this case, it will not be more difficult for us to deal with the Qing Yamen in the future? ”

Xuan Yuemeng: "Mr. Timothy Li, what I just said is the relationship between us and Xintaixing Foreign Company, although Xintaixing Foreign Company is also collusion between officials and businessmen, but their commercial component is greater than that of officials after all, so we have the possibility of cooperation with them." This guy is different, he is the kind of person who relies on exchanging the power of the state for money, and this kind of narrow-minded and scheming, and does all kinds of evil, once he offends him, only find a way to get rid of him, we don't have any possibility of cooperation with them, since this is the case, it is better to lure this latent enemy to the surface, so that when they want to deal with us, they will take more care! If we were assassinated one day, people would be the first to think of this guy. ”

Timothy Li nodded and agreed with Xuan Yuemeng's statement, but her brows were still tightly locked, because Xuan Yuemeng was not an ordinary person offended.

Xuan Yuemeng didn't take Zhilin in his eyes, and he didn't act rashly just now, he just wanted to deliberately provoke Zhilin.

McMarfoy was very surprised that Timothy Lee and Xuan Yuemeng would actually come to his foreign business, looking down from the window on the third floor, Timothy Lee's luxurious carriage was a grade higher than the carriage he was riding, "Let them come in, I'll see them." ”

McMarfoy's assistant, "Sir, we've been so badly hurt by them, and we've lost so much!" Why do you want to see them? We should call on all British foreign firms to boycott this Klinsmann firm and not to do business with him. Tell others that whoever does business with them is the enemy of our Xintai Xing Foreign Bank. ”

McMafoy shook his head, "Business competition is not what you think, you don't let everyone contact him, and you can't stop him from doing business, the best way to limit his opponent is to maintain a relationship with his opponent and see what he wants to do?" Remember, we are not pirates. ”

Assistant: "Yes." I'll go and call them up. ”

Xuan Yuemeng didn't go up, he didn't need to be used to contact foreigners, and he didn't like to show his head too much.

Timothy Lee was very excited when he came out of Xintaixing Foreign Company, "I really didn't expect it, I told Mr. McMarfoy according to what you taught me, I first apologized for what happened that day, and said that if I can cooperate with Xintaixing Foreign Company, even if it is a business that cannot make any profits, I am willing to work." Mr. McMafoy not only did not blame the day for the tipping, but also said that in the future, there are large projects that will consider allocating a little for us to do. ”

Xuan Yuemeng nodded, "Didn't I say that?" There is no eternal enemy in business, even if you are still an enemy in your bones, you can turn into a friend at any time on the surface, since this Mr. McMauff can do such a big business, he will not even understand such a simple truth, the most important thing for us is to show our strength, so that people may take us in their eyes, he is just talking casually now, and he doesn't have to be too happy. ”

A few days passed.

One morning, Xuan Yuemeng, as usual, discussed business affairs with Timothy Lee early every morning, Xuan Yuemeng likes to do things early, and the morning is the beginning of the day, whether it is people's energy or to find people, this time is more efficient. The last very important reason is that only by getting up early can Xuan Yuemeng get rid of Zeng Siping, otherwise Zeng Siping will be at the gate of her house, not pestering him to play with her, which is also very nerve-wracking for Xuan Yuemeng.

At Timothy Lee's request, the German Consulate in Beijing approached the American Consulate in Tianjin, which was doing this out of the interest of encouraging German businessmen, and agreed to Timothy Lee's request to let Klinsmann & Co. host a celebration of the victory of the Franco-Prussian War if Germany had won the Franco-Prussian War.

The communication between the two consulates was effective, and the U.S. consulate originally intended to let other countries help develop the U.S. concession, and the U.S. domestic did not pay any attention to the U.S. concession in Tianjin, because most of the U.S. business was in the Yangtze River valley.

The two sides finally reached a consensus that the reserve price of the land that Xuan Yuemeng fancied should not be less than 2 million taels of Chinese official silver, and the payment must be paid in five installments within five years, and the down payment should not be less than 400,000 taels of Chinese official silver.

This is the lowest transaction price and closing conditions.

Such a large piece of land is very cheap even if it is placed outside the concession! The main thing is that the U.S. Consulate and the U.S. can't think of any role for such a piece of wasteland, and it's a waste to be idle all year round! If it is to be developed, it will cost at least tens of millions of taels of Chinese official silver, and even if it is developed, it is still a big question whether it can recover two million taels of official silver. Not only Williams, but Klinsmann & Co. wanted to buy this land, and the entire foreign business circle knew that none of the foreign firms competed with Klinsmann & Co., and everyone thought that Klinsmann & Co. was crazy.

Xuan Yuemeng: "Two million taels, it's really not expensive." ”

Timothy Li said in a hurry: "Mr. Yuemeng, do you have so much money?" Don't think about this business anymore! Do you know what people say about us now? Call us fools! How is it possible for us to pay 2 million taels of Chinese government in five years? Are you going to let our foreign bank take on such a huge debt in the start-up stage? Moreover, have you ever thought that this land is close to the river, and if you don't build a river embankment, you can't use it at all, and you can't use it to build a house? I really don't think this land has any commercial value. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled, "I don't know if it's a fool, but what you said we don't have so much silver is indeed a big problem, and I need to start thinking about this down payment of 400,000 taels!" Alright, you go ahead and get busy with yours, I'll think about it again. Are you going to have breakfast with me? ”

Timothy Lee shook his head, "I still have a lot of things to do, I haven't established the organizational structure of the foreign bank you gave me, Mr. Yuemeng, are you sure you want to recruit so many engineers?" Are we running a construction business? What do you want so many construction technicians to do? ”

Xuan Yuemeng said with a smile, "If you want a construction technician, of course, you want to do architecture, and architecture, machinery, manufacturing, these are all connected, architecture belongs to a profession with rich knowledge, we either don't do it, we have to do our best." It's very important to reserve talents, I don't let you stop, you just keep recruiting. If you have nothing to do, just play together, you spend more time cultivating feelings with them, a good relationship is a good start, and everyone should have a sense of belonging to our foreign bank. Build the technical team of the foreign bank as soon as possible, which is the focus of your work now. You can now customize a set of equipment for the production of cement and lime from German manufacturers, and then order a batch of construction materials, I have opened a list, and order more than a few manufacturers, to do shop around, we are a foreign company opened by German businessmen, and require payment on delivery. Once you have a goal, you know how to work hard, come on, Mr. Timothy Lee. ”

Timothy Li put away the list that Xuan Yuemeng gave herself, and felt that her mind was clearer, and when she woke up in the morning, she didn't know what to do today, "Okay." ”

Timothy Lee had a focus and a direction to work towards.

The focus of Xuan Yuemeng's work is to raise money, which is quite difficult, if you want to ask people to borrow money, you must have the corresponding collateral, the Qing government can always find foreigners to raise funds, because the Qing government is to take out the customs tariff to make a mortgage! There is nothing more secure than this, so although the Qing government's fiscal deficit was serious, whenever the Beiyang Yamen asked foreigners to borrow money, foreigners flocked to it.

Xuan Yuemeng didn't have anything to pledge, and all his current property was just the Deutsche Mark worth more than 100,000 taels of Chinese official silver.

Xuan Yuemeng still has a gap of at least 300,000 yuan before he can trade the North Beach he values, and Xuan Yuemeng is determined to make this North Beach the first pot of gold in his life this time.

Xuan Dali: "Young Master, where are we going now?" Go home? ”

Xuan Yuemeng: "I'm in a bad mood, go eat something good, go to the most expensive breakfast shop." ”

Xuan Yuemeng thought about going to the early shop, in fact, she wanted to meet Zheng Beile's daughter Yaxin, Xuan Yuemeng didn't know why, she would be so fascinated by a ten-year-old girl, anyway, after seeing her, she could cure all her troubles, Xuan Yuemeng wanted to see Yaxin, could she help raise money to find inspiration.

Xuan Yuemeng was disappointed that Zheng Beile's private room was empty.

Xuan Yuemeng ordered four plates of exquisite dim sum and a bowl of bean juice.

Although he didn't have a private room, but after coming a few times, the shopkeeper of this shop was also intimate, seeing that Xuan Yuemeng was a big customer, he also specially customized a special chair for him, a particularly high chair, which needed someone to hug Xuan Yuemeng to sit, but it could make Xuan Yuemeng eat easily, and he didn't have to stand on the chair to eat like before.

Xuan Sanniu was looking at the carriage outside, Xuan Da Niu, Xuan Da Niu, Xuan Erniu and the three of them stood and served, not that Xuan Yuemeng was playing music, he would not be as unruly as Xuan Hongtao, since it was the Qing Dynasty here, respect and humility still wanted, the subordinates could eat, they had already eaten quickly just now, how could the subordinates sit with the master and chew slowly?

While tasting the food, Xuan Yuemeng was still thinking about the burning of Wu's class, and how to raise money to buy land, he suddenly realized that the two things could actually be related!

It was just a flash of inspiration, and he thought quickly.

"Hey, Amma, isn't this the little prodigy?"

Xuan Yuemeng's expectant voice appeared.

Xuan Yuemeng raised her head from her thoughts, and saw Zheng Beile leading Yaxin Gege and the two to appear in front of her.