One day in April of the eighteenth year of Guangxu, a handsome young man of eighteen or nineteen years old walked out of the British Concession in Tianjin, a young man of medium height, wearing a beige suit, navy blue vest, white shirt without tie, and a pair of shiny white leather shoes on his feet, which set off the whole person more handsome. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although this young man is not strong, his muscles are strong, especially his dark and deep eyes, which are even more capable and neat.

The only shortcoming is that the young man dragged a braid with a sparse thumb thickness of only one foot long on the back of his head, and the short braid swayed when he walked, which looked a little funny and somewhat out of shape when matched with the young man's Western-style outfit.

Behind the young man was a small black dog as tall and short as a bench, with bright fur and almond-like eyes, which made people feel very docile. It's just that, somehow, in its docile eyes, there is always a different kind of alertness. At this moment, this little dog has no time to spare, and is running around the young man with joy and joy.

It's just that the puppy's keen eyes are running back and forth, staring closely at the paper bag full of oil stains that the young man turns back and forth in his two hands from time to time.

In the back, there is a long line of flatbed carts, there are more than 20 of them, most of which are loaded with a dozen large wooden boxes marked with foreign characters, and on the front of the cart with two suitcases, there is also a plaque tightly wrapped in red silk and the like.

This young man's name is Qin Chuan, but he is not from this era.

To be precise, this young man named Qin Chuan is a traverser.

Qin Chuan is a native of Hebei Province of the People's Republic of China in the 21st century, after graduating from the University of Chemical Engineering Light Chemical Engineering Dyeing and Finishing, he first worked in a textile factory, but worked for less than half a year, due to the needs of environmental protection and cost reduction, the factory should be relocated to Xinjiang as a whole, and Qin Chuan, who was unwilling to stay away from his homeland, had to resign from his job in the textile factory and enlisted in the army, and then was admitted to the military academy.

Due to the prevalence of martial arts in Qinchuan's hometown, he has practiced martial arts since he was a child and has a good kung fu, and when he was about to graduate from the military academy, he was recruited into the special forces of the military region in a military competition.

It's just that what he never imagined was that only a year later, Qin Chuan went to Xiangshan in Beijing with his comrades on vacation, he shouldn't have just been confused in the field for a while, to be exact, just a nap, and somehow he traveled to the seventeenth year of Guangxu, that is, last year, in 1891, in the British concession by the Haihe River in Tianjin.

After Qin Chuan figured out the cruel facts of the crossing and was really sad and depressed for a few days, in order to live, relying on the fact that he learned German in college, he fabricated the resume of a South American Chinese, and found a clerk job in the Tianjin branch of the German Swiss Kee Foreign Company in the British Concession. Just because he didn't have braids, he didn't dare to take half a step in the rental world since then.

You know, at this time, without braids, it is absolutely not okay to wander around outside the concession.

As early as 1854, the German Jew Arnold brothers and half-brother Caberger founded this foreign firm in Shanghai, and successively set up branches in Tianjin and Hankou, mainly doing munitions, hardware and electricity business, in addition to doing some German BASF chemical company chemical products, as well as the import and export trade of local products of the Qing Dynasty, because at this time Tianjin only had two concessions of Britain and France, and the German concession had not yet appeared at this time. The branch of Rui Kee & Co. in Tianjin was located in the British Concession.

After thinking about it carefully, he used the money he had saved to make more than a dozen dyeing and finishing aids needed by the printing and dyeing industry, dyed a piece of sample cloth by himself, and gave it to William, the German manager of the foreign bank.

At this time, the chemical industry in the West is far from being as high as the level of later generations, not to mention the additives needed for dyeing and finishing, that is, the technology of the entire printing and dyeing industry and the dyes required for printing and dyeing, which are also very different from the later generations more than 100 years later.

William Xiao, the manager of the foreign bank, was very surprised when he saw that Qin Chuan gave him a sample cloth with a much brighter color than the colored cloth on the market, and was even more amazed when he learned that such a colored cloth was dyed using a chemical aid made by Qin Chuan himself.

In the end, Qin Chuan found Hurd, a British lawyer from the law firm in the concession, to write a power of attorney, together with the formula and production process documents of several additives, as well as the formula and production process documents of more than a dozen reactive chemical dyes that only appeared more than half a century later, and handed them to William Xiao, who helped Qin Chuan apply for patents in Europe and the United States.

Of course, William Jr. does these things, and that is to charge some commission.

Because Rui Kee acts as an agent for the products of BASF, the most famous chemical company in Germany, and has some relationship with BASF, William Xiao also knows very well what these patents of Qin Chuan mean to BASF. After sending a long telegram to BASF, William Jr. soon represented the German chemical company BASF and Qin Chuan to negotiate the purchase of the patent. In the end, BASF agreed to invest 60,000 marks to acquire the patent rights of Qinchuan's additives. The contract between the two parties stipulates that BASF will use these dyeing and finishing auxiliaries manufactured by Qinchuan patents to supply Qinchuan's self-run dyeing factory for ten years free of charge.

The patents of more than a dozen reactive chemical dyes were applied for patents in Europe and the United States by BASF, and the ownership of the patents was retained by Qinchuan for ten years, and BASF could be authorized to produce in Germany during these ten years, and BASF needed to pay Qinchuan 150,000 marks per year for ten years, plus the ten-year dosage of these reactive dyes needed by Qinchuan to open a printing and dyeing factory, and after ten years, the above patents were automatically owned by BASF.

In addition, BASF also signed an agreement with Qinchuan with great foresight, under which BASF has the right of first refusal to purchase any invention patent rights of Qinchuan in the future, as long as it wants to sell them, at the same price.

After having the first pot of gold, all that remains is to have your own dyeing factory to dye colored cloth as soon as possible.

If you want to build a new dyeing factory, with Qinchuan's capital, you can only build a printing and dyeing factory that is not much bigger than a small dyeing workshop. If he had to wait until the end of the year to collect BASF's patent fees before starting to open a dyeing factory, it was too late for him to delay. Second, with an additional 150,000 marks, the funds for him to start a dyeing factory may not be enough.

Qin Chuan knew very well that it was already April 1892, and in a little more than two years, the First Sino-Japanese War would break out, and he must do his best to accumulate his strength as quickly as possible before the war began, and make his strength as strong as possible, so that in that war that caused the Chinese nation to suffer all humiliation and suffering, he could do as much as he could, so that the Chinese nation could shed less blood and retain more vitality.

It's just that this mere 60,000 marks, what can be done!

Just when Qin Chuan was a little depressed, it happened that there was a dyeing factory outside the concession that had just opened and was going to be transferred, and the price was 240,000 Yingyang.

Since the beginning of the eighteenth century, China's raw silk, tea, porcelain and some oriental products have been exported in large quantities, China's foreign trade has maintained a surplus, and it is still a large surplus, such a huge surplus in exchange for a large amount of silver, and these silver are in the form of silver dollars into the Qing Dynasty, first the Spanish Ocean, then the Mexican Eagle Ocean, then the French French Falcon, and even the Japanese silver dollar known as the Japanese dragon or dragon fan. However, among these foreign inflows, the most popular and most accepted by the Qing people was the Mexican Eagle Ocean.

Due to the large inflow of Eagle Ocean, at this time in the coastal area of the Qing Dynasty, silver was only used for bulk commodity settlement, and Mexican Eagle Ocean and copper coins were generally used.

At this time, one tael of silver can be exchanged for one or four eagles, or 1,100 copper coins. In other words, a piece of Eagle Ocean can probably be exchanged for 720 copper coins.

At this time, there was a large circulation of this kind of eagle ocean produced in Mexico, which really surprised Qin Chuan at first.

Qin Chuan's mark in his hand was exchanged for silver to redeem this dyeing factory, which was naturally far from enough, but Qin Chuan was not reconciled, and learned that the other party's factory had only been open for half a year, and the machines were all German, and it was the equipment purchased through William Xiao's foreign company, so he asked William to help contact, and finally negotiated, with William Xiao as a guarantee, Qin Chuan made a down payment of 30,000 Yingyang, and the rest of the money was paid off within half a year.

Because the dyeing factory was outside the concession, it was inconvenient for Qin Chuan to go out, so after asking lawyer Hurd to go to see it, he entrusted Ye Ziqi, a comprador of a foreign firm, and the buyer to go to the yamen to complete the transfer procedures last month.

There was one more thing that made Qin Chuan anxious, and that was his hair.

Although Qin Chuan has been growing his hair since he crossed, the growth of this hair is too slow, and it has been a year that he has only long hair and a shawl, and it is impossible to comb his hair in braids. There was no way, Qin Chuan had no choice but to be patient and make some preparations in the concession.

There is another thing that makes Qin Chuan a little worried, that is, Qin Chuan found that after the crossing, there were some subtle changes in his body, not to mention that his reaction was more agile, and his appearance also looked a little younger, after a year or so, he was originally twenty-six years old, and his appearance became only eighteen or nineteen years old.

Qin Chuan was still a little scared at the beginning, didn't he really want him to shrink his age? But recently, he slowly felt that there was no other change in his body, and it didn't seem to be endlessly transforming to youth, especially when his height not only did not become shorter, but on the contrary, he grew two centimeters, which made him slowly put his mind at ease.

Yesterday, Qin Chuan received a notice from William Jr., and he asked William Jr. to ask BASF to do the work for him, and some machinery and equipment ordered from Germany and send him the first batch of reactive dyes according to the contract, which will arrive in Tianjin in a month. Although the dyes were free, BASF agreed to pay for him in Germany first because of Qinchuan's transfer of patents, and then Qinchuan would pay back to BASF after the goods arrived in Tianjin.

That's a full fifteen thousand marks, if he really pays for the goods, then the money left in Qin Chuan's hand is only less than two thousand marks, and it is only more than two thousand taels when it is exchanged for silver, and it is only more than three thousand yuan if it is exchanged for Yingyang.

In a hurry, Qin Chuan also Qin Chuan couldn't take care of much, hurriedly shaved his head, barely combed into a short braid, and said goodbye to William Xiao and comprador Ye Ziqi in a hurry, and the next day he brought the first batch of more than a dozen dyeing and finishing auxiliaries that BASF sent to him half a month ago, and the first batch of more than a dozen dyeing and finishing auxiliaries made by him with his patents, as well as the bottles and jars such as test-tube beakers for chemical experiments that he bought in the concession.

was finally able to leave the concession openly, which made Qin Chuan feel very happy, and teasing the little black dog running around him before and after was also more energetic, it was the "second goods" under his feet, he bought it last night and just smelled the fragrance, and he didn't move a mouthful of roast chicken to pad, gnawed that called clean, and wanted to cry when he saw this chicken rack, and he was hungry all night.

In order to relieve his anger, in front of the rental industry today, I was stunned to buy two Daokou roast chickens, chewed one in front of the two goods in front of me, and carried the other.

At this moment, looking at the pitiful appearance of the puppy, there is one word in my heart, cool!

With joy in his heart, he turned the paper bag faster with both hands, and it seemed to be floating when he walked. Suddenly, the trouser leg of his right leg was pulled hard, and the unprepared Qin Chuan stumbled down, but fortunately, Qin Chuan was agile, one hand just supported the ground and took advantage of the momentum to turn around and stand up again, so he didn't make a fuss. It's just that the paper bag in his hand has already flown out, and the "second goods" that he has been suffering for a morning seem to have succeeded in a premeditated plan, and he has already "swished" out in the air without waiting for the paper bag to land, and took advantage of the situation to "rub" a few times and ran to a distance, using both mouths and claws, and tearing off a large piece of chicken leg that was still dripping with oil in a few bites, and chewed it heavily.

The moment Qin Chuan pounced, he saw that the sharp mouth of this "second goods" was moving away from his trouser leg, and the two rows of small tooth marks on his trouser leg were still clearly visible.