The Russell family was more of a political family than a merchant family, slowly moving away from business, and the most elite people were always expected to achieve great political success.

One such person is Albert Russell, whose father, Robert Russell, was a congressman who had a seat on the moderate wing of the Republican Party and was one of former President Grant's staunch supporters, who also paid for Grant's candidacy in the third presidential election.

The Russell family had special expectations for a stake in a newspaper company, and from the outset they asked Albert Russell to put everything down and dedicate himself to the business.

During this time, Albert Russell had been traveling between Boston and New York, and it took great effort to buy the New York Times, which was still very profitable.

After hearing that Hu Chuyuan had arrived in Washington, he quickly temporarily halted the acquisition of the Philadelphia Inquirer and urgently took a train from Philadelphia to Washington.

It was their first meeting, and soon, the two were traveling to St. Louis together.

St. Louis was not a very prosperous city at this time, but it also had more than 100,000 residents, and the most influential newspaper in the area was the St. Louis Express.

After getting off the train, Albert bought a good-looking St. Louis Express at the newsstand at the train station, and Hu Chuyuan and Wu Shuzhen also bought one each.

This was how Albert bought newspapers, and although an American, he did not have the opportunity to read newspapers from other regions except those in New York and Boston. Because Hu Chuyuan promised him that money would not be a problem, Albert Russell would sit at the train station for a long time every time he went to a big city, buy all the newspapers he could buy, and always keep an eye on which newspaper was selling the fastest.

In this way, he bought some of the best newspapers in the United States at the moment.

He was very accustomed to continuing to sit in the waiting hall of the train station, and Hu Chuyuan also sat down, looking at the "St. Louis Express" they bought.

To Hu Chuyuan's satisfaction, the newspaper was clearly more interesting than the Washington Post.

After a while, Albert Russell said, "It looks like we're about to buy one of the best newspapers in America." ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly, he knew that the surname could prove it.

Because the matter was very urgent, Hu Chuyuan did not make any further delays, and asked people to drive the carriage directly to the door of the Express Mail newspaper office.

The newspaper office is a company that does not leave work very early, and when Hu Chuyuan arrived, all their staff were still working, and it was already late.

Accompanied by Albert Russell and Wu Shuzhen, Hu Chuyuan went directly to the general manager's office of the newspaper to find Mr. Joseph Pulitzer.

Then, it took only 10 minutes for Hu to convince Joseph Pulitzer to sell his shares in the St. Louis Express Post to the U.S. News Newspaper Company, on the condition that Hu Chuyuan would not only give Joseph Pulitzer a general manager salary of $200,000 a year, but also give him an 11.5 percent stake in the U.S. News Newspaper Company, but the company would have a right of first refusal when Joseph Pulitzer retired.

After that, Hu Chuyuan also talked about other things, both the company's future business strategy and practical content.

Convinced that a simple and generic name would make a newspaper more legitimate and easy for people to believe in it, he demanded that the St. Louis Express be changed to a simpler St. Louis Post, and he also wanted to start a national "American News", as well as some specialized newspapers and weekly magazines.

At least in the past few years, the U.S. News & Newspaper Company has no intention of making a profit, and Wanqi & Co. will subsidize $1 million a year to help the company merge newspapers with surnames in other regions and establish the Associated Press Agency of the United States, so as to reduce the cost of news coverage for each newspaper.

In short, the U.S. News Newspaper Company is going to be immensely great.

When Hu Chuyuan came out of Joseph Pulitzer's house, he didn't know where he was going to stay tonight.

Looking at the starry sky, he didn't just want to say to the world - think about it, what an amazing time it is, and there is almost nothing that cannot be done in this era if you want to.

At this moment, poor Minister Chen Lanbin was still tossing and turning in the slightly shabby legation, unintentionally sleeping, how could he have imagined that an unprecedented media war was coming.

It even has the potential to change the entire United States.

Similarly, Joseph Pulitzer was so impressed by the huge gains and prospects that the next day he put everything aside and took his editor-in-chief, Kirk, to New York with Hu Chuyuan and Albert Russell.

After deciding on New York as the final place to make his claims, Yung hired a legal team to stay in New York and rent a small three-story building in Manhattan as an office and communications center.

It was here that Hu Chuyuan met with Yung Hong's chief lawyer, former Boston District Attorney Mr. George Casef, who was also Yung Hong's classmate at Yale University.

With abundant financial support, George Casef established his own Kaserf Law Firm, and over the past two years, has hired more than a dozen professional lawyers, police detectives, auditors and prosecutors to form a large investigation team.

They are familiar with the entire legal process and law enforcement procedures, following every principle in collecting materials.

In addition, George Casif contacted a number of senior Baptist and Presbyterian priests and premeditated them as eyewitnesses.

U.S. law has its own set of operating mechanisms, and after confirming that the first round of appeals will be held in the District Court of New York State, several lawyers' assistants have clearly listed all the possible encounters on the wall.

When Mr. Hu arrived, they were debating whether to make it public to the media first and influence potential jurors, or to keep a low profile and inflict irreparable lethal damage on United Pacific Railroad in the final blow.

Hu Chuyuan didn't ask any questions, and for these lawyers, the person who hired them was Rong Hong, the chairman of the National Chinese Association, and he was nothing.

Hu left the problem to Yung Wing, who helped Joseph Pulitzer find a suitable foothold in Manhattan and formally establish a new American news newspaper company.

Undoubtedly, the first thing is to finalize a permanent office location, the second is to establish the Associated Press as an organization, and the third thing is to publish a very good weekly news magazine.

Hu Chuyuan didn't mind stealing ideas, and he named the weekly "Times".

Time!

In fact, he didn't stay in New York for long, and John Sherman arranged for him an itinerary where he would meet a heavyweight dignitary, former US President Grant in Washington.

Hu Chuyuan immediately returned to Washington, and after meeting with Grant, he also talked about some more in-depth topics and sought Grant's help, and the answers he received were relatively positive.

Subsequently, Hu Chuyuan began a busy schedule, constantly meeting with important figures in American political and economic circles, including JP Morgan, whom he had always wanted to meet.

In the process, the U.S. News Newspaper Company also began its first, more hostage teamwork, with two AP reporters following the story in succession, and each of the company's newspapers having priority access to the information and op-eds.

The attention of the American media was soon focused on Hu Chuyuan.

After having a certain foundation, Hu Chuyuan made the first stop of the magnificent exhibition of Chinese art in New York, and the address was chosen at the National Museum of the United States...... Later the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Most of the antiques and folk crafts on display are provided by Rong Bao Zhai and Poly Company, and some of them are leased by Gu Shouzang, Shen Furong, Miao Quansun and others through relations, and are divided into history, architecture, drama, art, porcelain, tea, silk, clothing, bronze, jade carving and folk crafts, a total of 12 items.

Hu Chuyuan hopes that in this way, more Americans will understand what kind of country China really is.

After the New York Times, the Boston Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Bay Journal, the first five newspapers reported on the first volume, other media outlets in the United States began to reprint it, or sent reporters to the National Museum to report on it.

The vast majority of Americans only hear from the newspapers that Chinese workers are stealing their jobs and see those malicious cartoons, but they don't understand what China means.

It's a great start.

Hu Chuyuan invited a large number of distinguished guests from the US economic and political circles, such as JP Morgan and Grant, to visit the city, which continued to attract media coverage.

When people see China's bronze ware 3,000 years ago, Tang Sancai in the Tang Dynasty, white porcelain and celadon in the Song Dynasty, secret color porcelain in the Five Dynasties, blue and white porcelain in the Ming and Qing dynasties, ink paintings, and exquisite jade ware...... "China" is no longer just poor in the American concept.

A few days later, Hu Chuyuan "accepted" an exclusive interview with the New York Times, answering questions about China's history, diplomacy, and other questions that people currently suspect.

He said frankly that without the deliberate deception of illegal American businessmen and Chinese foremen, not many Chinese would have come to the United States to survive.

Six days after the fair began, the main exhibits began to leave for Boston, where the next stop would be Philadelphia.

Media attention takes a period of laxity and calm.

Hu Chuyuan wanted to give the New York media a holiday to prepare for the real storm that was coming.

(To be continued)