Updated: 202-0-29

On 15 May, Gu Wusheng, An Sheng, Shen Chen, and others from the financial and trade group moved from Zhoushan Huafu Company to Shanghai's Hongkou District, where Gu Wusheng had already set up a hot pot restaurant on Jinshan Road. The area where Jinshan Road is located is the former American Concession. The crossing of the financial group, the preparation starts here.

On June 1, when the space-time transfer of materials on Dongji Island was a little empty, Fan Hua carried the space-time machine to meet with Gu Wusheng, Wang Xietang, Tang Muyao, Jiang Li, Zhu Yangni and others, and set off from the base camp of the financial and trade group on Jinshan Road, and traveled to Shanghai together through the space-time machine. Ansheng and Shen Chen stayed for 20 years.

AXA is a native of Tianjin and is only 0 years old this year. After graduating from high school, he gave up the opportunity to go to university and became a monk, and was later sent to study at the Shanghai Buddhist College by his master. When the Buddhist college was about to graduate, Ansheng suddenly stopped doing it and mixed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange every day. He made a lot of money in the stock market, so he engaged in financial speculation, and at the same time became Chairman Bai's close friend.

Jiang Li is 2 years old this year, a native of Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, who has just graduated from a university and is doing an internship. He is well versed in geography and history, as well as the cultural customs of various places, and is involved in food and beverage and machine manufacturing.

Zhu Yangni, 24 years old, male, from Harbin, is a language genius, a master's degree in psychology, proficient in English, French, Japanese, Russian, and Latin. He is 1.75 meters tall, beautiful, and has a feeling of mixed race, and the best thing is that he can speak naturally with both male and female voices.

This time, because Zhu Yangni wanted to appear in the social circle of Shili Yangchang as a woman, he went to the beauty salon to remove all the hair on his body by using an electric needle to remove hair.

In 54 years, the Huangpu River was turbulent and turbid. The port of Shanghai lies quietly in the bend of the Huangpu River.

Not far away, the county seat of Shanghai was still firmly controlled by the small knife society holding high the banner of "Daming", and the Qing soldiers confronted them fiercely around them, and large and small battles occurred every day.

The foreign concessions on both sides of the Suzhou Creek were unaffected by the war and remained so busy, with boats of all kinds parked on the winding banks, a forest of masts rising in the center of the river, and rows of storage warehouses scattered along the riverbank. On the river, small rowboats and sailboats with eyes painted on the bow of the boats are constantly shuttling, and boatmen, porters, and vendors with long braids on the riverside are extremely busy all day long.

Traveling to the 54-year-old Shanghai American Concession, the location of the store on Jinshan Road is still a private house, and a compatriot from the Qing Dynasty lives in it. Gu Wusheng, Wang Xie Tang, Fan Hua and others immediately relaxed their hearts. As long as this lot has not been occupied by foreign devils, it will be easy to do!

After finding a hotel and settling down a bit, they went to the U.S. Consulate as U.S. citizens to visit Consul Ma Hui.

Gu Wusheng and the others came to the door of the U.S. Consulate, straightened their suits, put on their top hats, and then walked towards the door with brisk steps.

The two bearded Indian guards noticed a group of men with oriental faces walking in, but when they arrived at the ancient priesthood, they were all dressed as gentlemen, and they walked calmly, and more importantly, they did not have braids, and let them go directly.

Gu Wusheng nodded very calmly to the two Ah San, and led the team straight inside.

"Tuk Tuk"

"Please come in."

The U.S. consul Ma Hui was busy annotating a document, and he didn't raise his head to ask Gu Wusheng and others to come in.

Putting down the quill and looking up, Ma Hui was very surprised to find that there were a few more gentlemen and ladies in the room, and they were also Orientals who spoke fluent English.

A trace of disdain flashed in his eyes, and he asked directly, "May I ask what is the matter with me?" ”

"Oh, my name is Wusheng. Ancient, from San Francisco across the ocean. Gu Wusheng introduced himself in pure American English.

"You're not from the Qing Kingdom, nor are you from neighboring Koreans or Japanese?"

"Mr. Consul, you're laughing." Gu Wusheng heard Ma Hui's question, and showed his passport very calmly, "My ancestors are Chinese, but I am an American. My ancestors immigrated to San Francisco from China as early as 654. ”

The intelligence department led by Wang Xie Tang specially recruited a guy who made fake certificates to join the crossing team. It's just that due to the urgency of time, Tang Muyao and Jiang Li's passports haven't had time to be made.

"Aha, it's compatriots." Ma Hui suddenly smiled on his face.

"I am a director of the Far East Huafu Company of the United States," Gu Wusheng then gestured with his hand, "They are all members of our company. Our Huafu company is ready to open a Far East Huafu foreign company in Shanghai. ”

Ma Hui is a devout Christian, and he does not discriminate against Americans of Oriental descent, let alone Asian-Americans who are still rich and ready to do big business in Shanghai.

"Oh, nice to meet you, Director Koo. I'm Consul Ma Hui, Robert Murphy. Ma Hui. After speaking, he directly shook hands with Gu Wusheng, "Do a good job, our consulate is to be the backing of your businessmen." ”

Ma Hui smiled very happily and accepted a set of aluminum alloy cutlery and cutlery. For the sake of his compatriots, and of course thanks to this set of exquisite aluminum tableware, he decided to reissue American passports to Gu Wusheng's companions, Tang Muyao and Jiang Li, whose identity certificates were all lost.

After all the identity certificates were completed, Gu Wusheng and others immediately used the time and space box to shuttle back and forth between the two time and space, and obtained a large amount of money by peddling aluminum products and Seagull brand mechanical watches in Shanghai in 54 years, and then bought a large number of antique jade and resold them to the original time and space. At the same time, in the American Concession on the north bank of Suzhou Creek, on the location of the original storefront in time and space, a large piece of land was expropriated to establish the American Far East Huaxia Foreign Company.

On 8 June, Gu Wusheng learned that the French Minister Bourblon was in the French Concession in Shanghai, so he took Zhu Yangni to visit the French Minister Bourblon.

Zhu Yangni wore a wig coiled into a high bun on her head and wore a wide pagoda covered with wall folds. Sri B's long skirt and slender neck hung a necklace inlaid with a huge ruby, which was quite graceful and luxurious.

Gu Wusheng first respectfully paid tribute to Bourblon and hoped that the United States Far East Huafu Ocean Company could sincerely cooperate with French business colleagues in Shanghai and seek common development in Shanghai.

The French minister, Bourblon, was arrogant at first, but when a charming Oriental woman greeted him with an extremely elegant posture and a fluent French language, he immediately hid his arrogant demeanor and smiled like an angel.

Seeing the aluminum necklace around Zhu Yangni's neck and the ruby on the necklace, Bourblon became more and more enthusiastic. Gu Wusheng introduced that this is his fiancée Yang Ni. Cinnabar.

During the conversation, Gu Wusheng hinted very mysteriously that Yang Ni. Zhu is of Chinese royal descent.

"Qing Kingdom Royal Blood?!" Bourblon's eyes widened suddenly.

Yang Ni said with great disdain, "Those Tatars, those who drink blood, are also worthy of being called royal?!" ”

"Misizhu is a Chinese princess, not a Tatar princess!" In the face of Burbulon's incomprehension, Gu Wusheng said, "This is a sad and blood-boiling story. ”

While sipping coffee, he slowly told a story from more than 200 years ago.

At that time, the Tatars savagely invaded China, and the most beloved daughter of the Ming Emperor, a beautiful and kind princess, was in danger. The princess's bodyguard, a young man, a loyal knight, stepped forward and, with the help of a young French missionary, rescued the princess in time to the Catholic Church, and later traveled overseas and finally to the United States. Later, the princess settled in the United States and married the French missionary.

"That knight is my ancestor." Gu Wusheng pointed at Zhu Yangni, "Princess Daming and French missionaries are the ancestors of Princess Yangni. ”

Zhu Yangni sighed faintly and pointed to the huge artificial ruby on his chest, "This is the memorial they left me." ”

Listening to this sad past, Bourblon put away his smile and kept wiping the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief to show sympathy for the misfortune of Princess Janny's ancestors.

In the end, Gu Wusheng confidently praised the wealth of Huafu Foreign Bank, and hinted that he planned to invest and develop in the Shanghai concession, expressed his willingness to seek common development with French businessmen, and was ready to purchase a large number of shipbuilding equipment and machining equipment from France, and build a shipyard and a machinery factory for manufacturing steam engines on the banks of the Huangpu River.

At these words, the eyes of the French minister, Bourblon, lit up.

Subsequently, Gu Wusheng and Zhu Yangni and others also visited the British consul Sir Robertson, and also won Robertson's friendship. Through continuous social activities, Huafu Foreign Bank gradually established itself in Shanghai.

On this day, Jiang Li found Gu Wusheng and applied to go to Hong Kong to open a branch first.

Gu Wusheng flipped through his plan, "You plan to recruit coolies as the backbone of your team?" ”

Jiang Li said confidently: "Yes." Through brainwashing, they should be able to become our helpers. ”

Gu Wusheng shook his head, "These coolies can be in the army, from farming, or from mining, but they don't know foreign languages, and they don't understand the relationship between the upper and lower levels of the Qing Dynasty, so they are of little use to our Huafu Foreign Bank." ”

When Jiang Li wanted to defend himself, Gu Wusheng blocked him with his hand, "You should know that our foreign bank now needs a large number of compradors to act as the general manager of the foreign bank, the accounting office and the custody of the management of the funds in and out, as well as entering the mainland to purchase and sell goods. ”

"Your plan has little to do with the main business of our foreign bank." He explained with a smile, "The main work of our Huafu Foreign Bank is to engage in economy and trade, recruit technical personnel for the base areas that will be opened up, and deliver materials. As for the intelligence work in your plan, we will also take care of it, but it is only by the way, and we are also taking a clear path. ”

"The missing front is in charge of Wang Xie Tang." As he spoke, Gu Wusheng closed the plan, flicked it with his hand, stared at Jiang Li with his eyes, looked him up and down, and then nodded, "Jiang Li, you are strong, have a public face, a simple appearance, and are interested in intelligence work, you can report to Wang Xie Tang!" ”

Jiang Li was deeply shocked and very depressed, "I thought that the foreign bank was an intelligence station, so I actively signed up." ”

"You're right." Gu Wusheng said, "A foreign bank is like a consulate, its main business is not intelligence, but some people in the foreign bank are like counselors and second secretaries in the consulate, specializing in intelligence. It's just that these counselors and second secretaries and the like, the competent department is not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they are inserted by the intelligence department. ”

Gu Wusheng patted him on the shoulder, "Now you have to think carefully about the future development path, if you want to become like Dai Li, you can transfer to Wang Xie Tang's Jinyi Wei now." ”

"This~~~~" Jiang Li scratched his head with his hand, "People like Dai Li are not my yearning, what I want to do most is a special combat team, that is, to train special forces and play assassination." Engage in intelligence. ”

Gu Wusheng nodded, "Then so be it, when the base of Mingxing Island is established, it will be as you wish." ”

In 54, when the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and the Little Knife Society Rebellion were in full swing, the entire Yangtze River basin was in turmoil, and the British and American concessions became a refuge in the troubled times. Due to the turmoil in the mainland, a large number of talents and funds accumulated in Shanghai, and the concession area became more and more prosperous.

Huafu Foreign Bank soon recruited a large number of talents as their compradors in the concession, and gradually began various business, such as commerce, banking, and wharf warehouses.

Gu Wusheng also ordered two 700-ton steamers from Singapore through Jardine Matheson, which were ready for commercial transportation between Hong Kong and Shanghai.

After everything was running normally, Wang Xie Tang returned to the original time and space in mid-June and continued to prepare for the invasion of Mingxing Island. Fan Hua still ran back and forth between the two places with the space-time box.

On 16 June, a large steamer on the Huangpu River, the British Steamship Company's paddle steamer Marywood, sounded its whistle, which was about to embark on a two-week voyage from Shanghai to Hong Kong.

The people on the deck waved goodbye to the crowd on the shore one after another, Gu Wusheng and Tang Muyao were dressed as gentlemen, and Zhu Yangni stood by the railing at the stern in her skirt, waving goodbye to Jiang Li and others on the shore.

Gu Wusheng, Zhu Yangni, and Tang Muyao took a group of personnel who had just been recruited from Shanghai to prepare to go to Hong Kong to open up the Hong Kong Huafu Foreign Bank, and by the way, accept the steamer from Singapore in Hong Kong. Shanghai is temporarily managed by Jiang Li and others.

The ship slowly left the dock and headed for the end of the Huangpu River.

The "Marywood" arrived off the coast of Hong Kong at noon on June 20, and by the time it passed through the channel crowded with large and small ships, it was already late in the evening.

The brightly lit Victoria City Road, Queen's Road, and the hillside between Queen's Road and Garden Road in Central Victoria City are lit up by clusters of Western buildings.

After going ashore, Gu Wusheng, Tang Muyao, Zhu Yangni and other personnel first found a big hotel to rest. The next morning, Gu Wusheng asked the other officers to go to the Sai Ying Pun South Street area, which is near the wharf, to look for a house. He, Yang Ni, and Tang Muyao asked for two carriages and went straight to the U.S. Consulate to report.

The house found its hand, and they immediately established the Hong Kong Huafu Foreign Bank, with Tang Muyao as the head of the branch. Gu Wusheng and Zhu Yangni waited for the work of the Hong Kong branch to be on the right track, and then returned to Shanghai with two newly purchased steamers, loaded with pig iron, machine tools, steam engines and other supplies.

On 11 July, Chiang Li boarded a galleon loaded with 450 laborers recruited to work in Citigroup, and sailed down the river to Mingxing Island.