Timothy Li was a little confused when he heard it, but he was used to Xuan Yuemeng's idea, "Okay, boss, listen to you, so do we have to go to the market every day in the future." ”

Xuan Yuemeng nodded, "There is still a lot of time, and we must pay close attention to price fluctuations in these seven days." ”

From the next day, Xuan Yuemeng began to sell a small amount of the mark she had in hand in exchange for gold!

When he found that he threw out too many marks, which would affect the speed of the mark's rise, he knew that this kind of increase was very weak, and immediately asked Wang Wu again to accompany Timothy Li and take most of the amount of marks to Beijing to exchange, there are more foreign foreign banks in Beijing, and the strength is stronger than Tianjin's, Xuan Yuemeng gave Timothy Li an exchange form, so that Timothy Li reached the price of rising by 30%, and shot a batch, and when the price rose by 40%, he shot again, and if the price fell, he would do whatever it took to shoot!

Xuan Yuemeng gave Timothy Li three days, so that Timothy Li and Wang Wu had to rush back to Tianjin before the seven-day deadline arrived, there was no train in this era, and the two of them rushed on the road according to Xuan Yuemeng's instructions.

Timothy Li and Wang Wu exchanged gold in Beijing, and Xuan Yuemeng also exchanged it in Tianjin with great wisdom and vigor, and he has been using it for the past few days.

Xuan Yuemeng's estimate is not wrong, the economy of this era is still too weak, and as soon as his hundreds of thousands of marks rush out, the inflated Deutsche Mark price will immediately collapse! Many speculative foreign businessmen who wanted to speculate on this were bankrupt, and Xuan Yuemeng made more than forty percent of the profits, and the gold he had in hand was worth more than 1.3 million taels of silver!

Xuan Yuemeng exchanged a part of the gold for Chinese official silver and went to the U.S. Consulate two days in advance to sign a contract with U.S. Consul William.

Xuan Yuemeng, Timothy Lee signed on behalf of Klinsmann & Co., Williams and the U.S. Consulate Counselor signed on behalf of the U.S. government, and the contract was successfully signed.

Williams said happily: "According to the words of the Chinese, now I will become a hand-shaker, Mr. Timothy Lee, I didn't expect that your partner is actually a Chinese gentleman." ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and said: "Mr. Williams, please help me keep this secret, in Klinsmann & Co., I only have one percent of the shares, I just take out a little money to invest in Mr. Timothy Lee, I don't want more people to know about my German nationality." In that case, it will not benefit either of you or me, and will only cause diplomatic problems in the future. ”

Williams listened to Xuan Yuemeng speak fluent American English, and laughed, "Mr. Yuemeng, there are very few children like you in the world, okay, I will keep this secret for you, I have a proposal, are you and Mr. Timothy Lee willing to obtain our American citizenship?" Anyway, our U.S.-registered enterprises in China don't have to pay taxes, and I can't collect your taxes, but for the sake of the United States, I believe that the United States needs talents like you. You have acquired the entire land of the American Concession, and if you obtain American citizenship again, I can let you all join the public board of directors of the American Concession, so that you can let go and manage the American Concession, and I really don't have to do anything. ”

Timothy Lee couldn't believe that Williams would take the initiative to invite Xuan Yuemeng to join the United States, "Mr. Yuemeng, this is a great honor." ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "Thank you, Mr. Consul, I am willing." ”

Williams and Xuan Yuemeng's hands were shaken together, and the two of them smiled.

Xuan Yuemeng first became a German citizen, and now she has an American citizen, and now she has double insurance.

In fact, Williams wants Xuan Yuemeng to join the American nationality for a very simple reason, he really doesn't want to care about anything, the United States has little power north of the Yangtze River, and the U.S. government does not pay attention to the concession in Tianjin. Better development of the American concession. In fact, the foreign empire is not as harmonious as it seems, because of the tradition and history of the British, plus the strong power in China, except for the French, almost everyone looks down on them, especially the rising star of the United States, Williams has long been fed up with the cold eyes of the British, and naturally hopes that the American concession can get better in his own hands.

Williams said sincerely: "Mr. Yuemeng, I can tell you right now that you are already a citizen of the United States, and I will send a telegram back tomorrow, and when the nationality information in China is returned, it is just a matter of formalities." However, I would like to remind you two, have you ever thought about how to develop such a large piece of wasteland when you bought it? The British merchant group is very powerful, can you take advantage of their mouths? The entire north of the Yangtze River and the Chinese court were basically British merchant groups. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and said, "Mr. Williams, you don't have to worry about this, Mr. Timothy Lee will try his best to make Klinsmann & Co. the leader of the American & Co. in China." ”

Williams nodded and said with a smile: "That's great, when you develop the American Concession, I will move the American Consulate back to the American Concession, maybe I will become your customer, you must leave the best land for the American Consulate." ”

Xuan Yuemeng: "Definitely, Mr. Timothy Li will make the Tianjin American Concession become the pearl of the Orient and shine in the whole world." ”

Williams' eyes lit up, "I hope this day will come, and I hope you will be brave enough to defeat the commercial blockade of British and French merchants." However, the ugly thing to say is that you still have four installments of payment, which need to be paid in advance every year, and if you can't deliver it at the right time, we will terminate the contract and take back all the rights that belong to you in this contract. ”

After leaving the U.S. Consulate, Timothy Lee was both happy and worried, "It's finally settled, 400,000 Chinese official silver will go out at one time, and we will have to pay 400,000 Chinese official silver every year in the future, such a large sum of money, our Klinsmann foreign company is under great pressure!" ”

Xuan Yuemeng was slightly displeased: "You don't have to worry about money, Mr. Timothy Li, I will transfer 500,000 Chinese official silver to the accounts of our foreign bank, and the accounts of the foreign bank will be under the management of the foreign bank, and you will be responsible for the overall operation." From now on, our foreign bank will be officially launched. What we have to do now is to find enough construction workers at once to level the entire land in the US Concession, and I have already planned a zoning map of the US Concession, you can find an engineer to come and have a meeting with me, and then you can find someone to notify the residents of that small street to move immediately. ”

Timothy Li looked at the little chubby young master Meng, and said in his heart that he really looked like a boss, but Timothy Li still didn't think it was a successful deal in his heart for Xuan Yuemeng to buy such a large land in the American Concession, in Timothy Li's opinion, these lands are half the cheapest price, and it is difficult to recover the cost, "Yes." ”

Xuan Yuemeng had already surveyed the land in the American Concession with the engineers recruited by Timothy Lee before this, and now it is autumn and winter, and the river water is down, which is a good time for construction, and if it is colder, there will be no way to construct it in winter.

Xuan Yuemeng planned the American Concession into two streets, the original general pattern has not changed, but the street is widened, planning out a wharf as the first construction goal, the next second phase of the project is the river embankment, to ensure that the land from the American Concession to the Tianjin estuary is not in danger of flooding, and then the entire American Concession land is leveled, planning out streets, parks, public facilities, hospitals, schools, shop planning, underground drainage pipes, sewage pipes, septic tanks, overall building planning, Prepare to build 200 high-rise buildings, all of which are of eight-storey specifications! This was already terrible in this era, when the buildings were all made of wood, and even if there were a few four-storey buildings in the British Concession, they were already super tall in this era. The foundation position of the building is demarcated in advance, and the foundation position of the street is demarcated in advance.

Xuan Yuemeng's positioning of the new concession is pure commercialization, pure entertainment, according to the standards of modern Hong Kong, it will be built into a densely populated, highly modern commercial area, his finishing touch is to build an independent wharf!

Xuan Yuemeng had not discussed with Timothy Li about building a wharf in advance, and Timothy Li was surprised: "Mr. Yuemeng, how much does this cost?" The money you have just transferred to the account of the foreign bank is definitely not enough. ”

After asking the opinions of a group of engineers, Xuan Yuemeng knew that according to the standards of his wharf design, many materials needed to be imported from Germany, and at least more than 3 million Chinese official silver would be consumed!

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "What to do, think about failure before you do it, then don't do it directly, the old wharf is the three-way wharf at the mouth of the sea, the three-way wharf is too small, and the location is not as good as the location I am demarcating now, once this wharf is completed, it will make the American concession the center of gravity of the entire Tianjin, the center, here will always become the most prosperous business center area, when the time comes, we will sell a small amount of land, it will be enough to offset the expenses!" Let's get the blueprint up now and start moving! ”

Did Timothy Lee and a bunch of engineers think this Chinese kid was crazy? They really can't see that this place where the streets are full of low houses, and most people even have problems with food and clothing, can have such great development potential? All foreigners have the same idea in their hearts, thinking that Chinese children are daydreaming, and it is better to throw money into the sea than to waste it like this! I haven't heard of a foreign company building a wharf on its own! The foreigner engineers asked Timothy Lee for his opinion in private, and these foreigners thought that Klinsmann & Co. was Timothy Lee the majority shareholder, and Timothy Lee only had one sentence, everything was done according to what Mr. Yuemeng said, and the foreigner engineers and technicians thought that Timothy Lee was also crazy!

Everyone dispersed, and Dazhi and Dali began to recruit workers, reserve food, and build simple sheds according to Xuan Yuemeng's meaning, and they were very busy.

A few days ago, Xuan Zonglu thought that Xuan Yuemeng was going to rebuild the Xuan family's mansion, but without a few days of effort, they vigorously moved all the building materials piled up in the Xuan Mansion, which made Xuan Zonglu unclear So, he asked Xuan Hongtao, and Xuan Hongtao didn't know what Xuan Yuemeng was busy with these days.

Xuan Yuemeng's funding gap is very large, and Xuan Yuemeng also knows that it is very difficult to successfully raise money to let his huge project continue, but he feels that as long as the project is moving, it will be a huge advertisement!

The news of the construction of a large wharf in the US concession seemed to have wings, and within a few days it flew all over the north and south of the river, and the whole of Zhili and even the whole of China knew about it, which greatly boosted the morale of the German and American business circles! These two power groups are both rising countries, and the market space in China is actually not large, I didn't expect that a foreign company that has never heard of the name will be so bold!

In the hearts of Americans, Timothy Lee, the shareholder of Klinsmann & Co., has American nationality and is registered in the American Concession, so it should be regarded as an American foreign firm, while in the hearts of Germans, Timothy Lee is German, although he has both British and American nationality, but they are still willing to treat Klinsmann as a German foreign firm, and Klinsmann is also the name of a German nobleman. However, there are very few people who know that there is such a person as Xuan Yuemeng, and even if they do, they only think that Xuan Yuemeng is a very insignificant partner of Timothy Lee, and no one would have thought that a Chinese child is the absolute controlling person of this most popular foreign firm.

Xuan Yuemeng's project to overhaul a large wharf in the American concession has not only attracted the attention of foreign businessmen throughout China, but also attracted the attention of some large business groups in the United States and Germany, and many foreign companies want to join the project. This level of attention is not even the attention that later generations can do with advertisements for half an hour every day before the news broadcast, and Timothy Lee's temporary office in a small villa in the British Concession is still used as a temporary office for foreign companies, and Timothy Lee's biggest task every day is to receive inquiries from various merchant groups.

But Xuan Yuemeng's goal is to independently own all the property rights of the terminal, not to find a partner!

Xuan Yuemeng asked people to mark all the land in the entire American Concession on the blueprint, and even the house numbers of each address were marked, and a small part of the commercial land was divided as a sale lot. But his sales wish was disappointed, and he once again thought things simple! Among the very few inquirers, even if someone bids, the price is ridiculously low, and even lower than the price of land in the various hutongs of Tianjin outside the concession. If you don't see a rabbit, you don't scatter an eagle, unless it is built by Xuan Yuemeng's dock, no one will bet on things that will not benefit in the short term!

In a fit of anger, Xuan Yuemeng raised the collective price of land in the US Concession by 20 times! Below this price, not considered. This is still part of the land he launched in the first batch, Xuan Yuemeng divided the commercial land in the American concession into 16 grades according to the geographical location, and the first batch of launches, that is, the 16th level of the lowest grade, the price he marked is 20 times more expensive than the normal land price in Tianjin! The price of land in the British Concession is generally twice the normal land price in Tianjin, that is to say, the price of the sixteenth grade of land that Xuan Yuemeng intends to sell is ten times the price of the land in the British Concession!

Everyone thinks that Xuan Yuemeng is crazy, and those who don't know think that Timothy Lee is too crazy and that Klinsmann is a crazy foreign company.

Timothy Lee: "Mr. Yuemeng, with the extension of the construction progress, all our money is used to buy materials, to provide food for construction workers, to provide wages for engineers and architects, it is not enough, we must stop the construction project of the wharf immediately, we have hired more than 500 workers now, but your land, not a single piece of it has been sold, don't you think it is terrible?" ”