The construction speed in the American concession is now very fast, and there are very many workers.

After the setback, the Canal Gang did not disrupt the construction of the American Concession for the time being.

The building materials are sufficient, the first three phases of the project have been completed, and the fourth phase of the project has been entered!

The street was paved within a month, and the lease pier was in shape.

A modern city can already see a little shadow, so that Xuan Yuemeng's fourth phase of the land sales plan will go more smoothly.

Xuan Yuemeng is expected to spend 16 phases to sell half of the land in the US Concession, which will be a very modern city with unified planning, and everything is of high standard!

Xuan Yuemeng knows that even in 2028, the city will also be a city that meets modern standards, which is the benefit of unified planning, this is a city that rises from the ground!

Xuan Yuemeng wants to build the American Concession here into an ancient Causeway Bay.

Timothy Lee: "Mr. Yuemeng, we don't have enough manpower, the speed of development of foreign banks is too fast, if we want to open branches of foreign banks to ports across the country, we do need more reserve cadres." ”

Timothy Lee is now accustomed to many of Xuan Yuemeng's business ideas, or many of Xuan Yuemeng's business ideas, and Xuan Yuemeng's reserve cadres are actually the elites of the Huacui Association!

Klinsmann's foreign company is developing rapidly, but the development speed of the Huacui Society cannot keep up, Xuan Yuemeng's previous domestic slaves are now thousands, on the one hand, the scale is too large, and it can't be investigated at all, and Xuan Yuemeng is in line with the principle of preferring shortage to excess, and now the congregation of the Huacui Society has only developed to the second generation, with a total of less than 100 people.

Moreover, the cultural level of these 100 people is too low, and most of them are just simple literacy, which is far from enough for the development requirements of Xuan Yuemeng!

Xuan Yuemeng: "Yes. This requires us to speed up the construction of schools, and haven't I been busy with these things lately? ”

Timothy Lee: "The primary school has been built, Mr. Yuemeng, now just wait for the cement to dry, you can use it, and you have also planned a middle school." There is also a junior high school and a high school, so why do you need a university? Could it be that our foreign bank still wants to become the Ministry of Education? Education is a matter for the government of a country, and if all these expenses are paid by our foreign firm, it will be very huge, have you ever thought about it? Except for the way we subsidize money, I don't think these schools can recruit people, and. Do you need to build secondary schools and universities for the time being? ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "So I didn't ask for a middle school and a university to be built immediately?" It's just that the land is planned out first. ”

Timothy Li still didn't understand Xuan Yuemeng's approach, "Mr. Yuemeng, are you sure we need middle school and college in the future?" If you really want the children of foreign workers to be able to study, there is a primary school. This land is now gold, and the land in our American concession has now been speculated to 50 times, or even 100 times, and this gold-like land is used for public utilities. Is this reasonable? In your planning, I only approve of commercial land and hospitals. School, I think an elementary school is enough. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and said: "Mr. Timothy Lee, you can't think about money all over your head, Germany's industry is now starting to take off, because of what?" Just because the German education system after Bismarck was the most advanced! It provides a guarantee for the development of Germany, and I am a Chinese. I can't just think about making money, I have to think about my country, you know? And, from the perspective of future development, we will let our employees and their children receive advanced education. It also lays the foundation for our greater development in the future. Besides, when the school building is built, you can rent it out first, and then take it back when you need to use the middle school and university, are you still worried that there will be no one to rent such a good location and such a good house? ”

Timothy Li hesitated for a moment and smiled bitterly, "Mr. Yuemeng, from the perspective of a businessman, you have not convinced me that even if you can rent it, sell the land directly, or use it directly for commercial purposes, it must be much better than this kind of conversion and turning around." However, I can understand your patriotism, Mr. Yuemeng, do you plan to be an educator? ”

Xuan Yuemeng thought that she had gone to college and failed most of her grades, so she felt that it was quite funny for Timothy Lee to say that she wanted to be an educator, and shrugged her shoulders, "Maybe, why not?" Isn't it great? Anyway, don't we have enough money? Be happy, think about the fact that we are in the most difficult time, and we are not able to do these things, my international friends, show your love and love those Chinese children who need to learn knowledge. ”

Timothy Lee laughed, "Okay." However, Mr. Yuemeng, I have to warn you that we are still in a difficult situation right now! Didn't you notice that what we are doing now is only a small share of the import and export business? We are trying to survive in the gap between Britain and France, the yield of our foreign bank is still negative, and now there is money, not through the business of the foreign bank, but you rely on your own personal ability to fight for it, in other words, in addition to your personal investment has always been successful, our foreign bank and you personally distinguish it, our foreign bank is still a foreign bank that loses money, you are too good to the workers, this is more like a nursing home. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and shook her head, "Mr. Timothy Lee, these are temporary, after we have our own factory, these will change!" The largest export of the Great Qing Kingdom is porcelain, and we can open a porcelain factory! Have you ever found that in fact, foreigners do not have high requirements for porcelain, and those exquisite porcelain are transported from all over the country to the port, and they are transported abroad, it is not very troublesome, we only need to open a porcelain factory in our industrial zone, we will make good profits, I also plan to open a textile factory, the most exported from abroad is textile products, thousands of miles from abroad, why don't we produce by ourselves, if we can in the future, we can also open a mechanical processing factory! Or even start a military-industrial complex! How big is the Qing Dynasty, as long as we increase the industrial base of the Qing Dynasty by 1/10,000, what is this concept? ”

Timothy Lee smiled and said, "Mr. Yuemeng, I'm glad you can tell me what you think, but, let me tell you, machining." You can start preparing, but the military-industrial complex is the foundation of a country, and you can't get such a good engineer! Let's start with private enterprises, porcelain factories and textile factories are indeed good ideas. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "I still have a lot of ideas, if I can." I want to turn our industrial zone into a light industrial base, and in the future we will have a heavy industrial base at Klinsmann & Co., and at that time, you will have to work hard just to manage our money, haha......"

Timothy Lee laughed, "I hope so, haha......"

The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the New Year, and Xuan Yuemeng was already one year old!

Xuan Zonglu must give Xuan Yuemeng a full moon wine. invited a lot of people to come, Zeng Jize naturally arrived, Klinsmann Foreign Company is now a big ocean company, Xuan Yuemeng came to a lot of subordinates, although it was held in the open air, the conditions were not good, but the atmosphere was very good.

Xuan Yuemeng also fulfilled her promise to Xuan Zonglu, in a newly opened German-funded bank in the American concession. opened a joint account and let Xuan Zonglu have a passbook with affiliated qualifications. There are more than a million taels of Chinese official silver in this passbook! Of course, this is only a small part of Xuan Yuemeng's deposit, Xuan Yuemeng's net worth has now exceeded three million taels of Chinese official bank, and Xuan Yuemeng has been actively preparing to do other businesses. Speculating on exchange rates, after all, is too risky business, this kind of business. can only be led by the state, because the policy side is something that no one can control, Xuan Yuemeng is not so stupid, with such a large amount of money to do venture capital, he is now more inclined to industrial investment and banks.

The banks are sound. It's just that his strength is not enough.

Through the sale of smoking cessation pills, the successful Qing Dynasty folk set off a wave of resistance to the big smoke, which was very satisfying to Xuan Yuemeng, Xuan Yuemeng decided to vigorously build its own industrial park, to further promote the take-off of China's basic industry.

Xuan Zonglu listened to Xuan Yuemeng's suggestion in the end, and agreed that Xuan Hongtao sold the old mansion that had become ashes and lived for more than ten years, the old man was reluctant, and Xuan Hongtao was also a little reluctant, which carried the memories of the four brothers and the family for more than ten years.

As a modern person, Xuan Yuemeng doesn't think there is anything rare, the house is always developing towards better and better!

Spending the New Year in a new house is Xuan Yuemeng's wish, and he has come true.

The streets in the American concession have been paved, and the commercial land sold out is under intense construction, because Klinsmann & Co. has a unified pricing, the pricing is not too high, on the basis of materials and labor, only earn a profit of 50% of the cost, which is already a small profit in the construction market, and Klinsmann & Co. has a monopoly on the construction workers in Tianjin, so the vast majority of buyers who bought commercial land are willing to let Klinsmann & Co. build houses according to their requirements.

Xuan Yuemeng stipulates that the height of the house shall not be less than three floors, and if you can't build it now, don't build it for the time being, or build a layer, but the foundation must be three layers, and then you will continue to build it when you have money in the future! Those who can buy commercial land in the American Concession are not idle businesses, and of course there is no such problem as Xuan Yuemeng said.

Xuan Yuemeng gave himself the house he lived in, named Meng Garden, Meng Yuan just surrounded a yard, Xuan Yue Meng plan is to build three Western-style villas with a combined style, and then there is a garden, a swimming pool, a football field and a basketball court, and a multi-functional court with tennis courts! Anyway, what he thought about in modern times but didn't realize, he had to make up for it!

Because, the construction capacity is not allowed, Xuan Yuemeng's Meng Garden is just around a yard, Xuan Yue Meng first built the open garden next to the big house next to the Meng Garden, the open garden is one-third the size of the Meng Garden, but it is already the largest private villa in the American Concession in addition to the Meng Garden, it can be seen how big the area of the Meng Garden is!

Why is it called Dew Garden? In fact, the ownership of this villa belongs to the Xuan Huang family, but in order to compensate for the burning of Xuan Zonglu's old house, Xuan Yuemeng persuaded the Xuan Huang family and the people in the big house to call it Lu Yuan, so that the old man felt more comfortable.

Xuan Yuemeng invited Zeng Jize's family to celebrate the New Year with his whole family! As a token of appreciation.

Zeng Jize's family, as well as Timothy Lee's family, at the request of Xuan Yuemeng, Timothy Li still picked up his wife and daughter in Germany. Xuan Yuemeng's meaning, settle down first, then you can work with peace of mind! Timothy Lee was given 10,000 taels of silver as a settling-in allowance at one time, and Timothy Lee also owned a regular villa in the villa area where Moe Garden and Lu Garden were located, which made Timothy Lee's wife Catherine and daughter Sophia very happy, they did not have good living conditions in Germany, and Timothy Lee had not sent money home for more than two years before coming to work in Klinsmann & Co.

Although Xuan Yuemeng and Zeng Jize had differences in many ideas, and they were also dissatisfied with Zeng Guofan in the past, through Zeng Guofan's support for Klinsmann & Co. to open a branch in Liangjiang and sell smoking cessation pills, Xuan Yuemeng's good impression of the Zeng family doubled!

Zeng Guofan just moved his mouth in Liangjiang, and the good influence on Klinsmann's foreign company is absolutely amazing, with Zeng Guofan's support, who would dare to embarrass Klinsmann's foreign company in the Qing Dynasty? This made Xuan Yuemeng's Klinsmann Foreign Company extend its sales tentacles to the entire Daqing port, the provincial capitals within three months!

Timothy Li didn't understand why Xuan Yuemeng did this, Klinsmann Foreign Company obviously had no products except for quitting smoking pills, and quitting pills can't make money, most of them are given away for free, the more they produce, the more they lose! And Timothy Lee didn't understand why he wanted to open a semicolon all over the Qing Dynasty, he felt that such a concept of development was tantamount to burning money.

Xuan Yuemeng is arbitrary again, Xuan Yuemeng is more confident in Klinsmann than Timothy Lee, Xuan Yuemeng believes that as long as the product comes out, the money spent in advance in the sales network must be needed, he used to work in the modern foreign-funded enterprises, the sales network is also all over the place, many places are not profitable, but there are still outlets, why is this? In order to expand influence and keep the position, only with a competitive heart can we hope to compete with others! Therefore, Xuan Yuemeng gritted her teeth and spent a huge amount of money to establish a sales network! Originally, Xuan Yuemeng also wanted to establish abroad, but the funds were insufficient, so for the time being, Klinsmann & Co. only opened one office in Germany and the United Kingdom! For this alone, Xuan Yuemeng spent nearly 500,000 taels! Timothy Lee is distressed, naturally needless to say.

Xuan Zonglu is really happy, Meng Garden is a Western-style villa, and Lu Garden is a Chinese-style villa, although the appearance is similar to the current house structure, the internal segmentation, but also maintain the pattern of the original courtyard of the Xuan family's old house, a small third courtyard outside, a large third courtyard inside, but the internal materials, but all are new materials, tiles, cement, are imported from Germany, the engineer estimates, Klinsmann is now using materials and design standards, all the houses made by Klinsmann are not repaired for a hundred years, can withstand the wind and rain of history!

Xuan Zonglu held Xuan Yuemeng's hand and looked at the brand-new villa, "Okay, really good, Yuemeng, it's only been three months, and such a big manor has come out?" Flower beds, ponds, and a bamboo forest that can be used for reading, rockeries, and pavilions, how much silver does this cost? ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "More than 200,000 taels!" (To be continued.) )