After personally arranging the food and accommodation of Shen Maocai and the others, Hu Chuyuan wandered around the study of the Hu Mansion alone, thinking about ways to break the situation.

In the eyes of the bigwigs in the European economic circles, the foreigners in Shanghai are just a group of second-class dealers, but in Shanghai, they exalt the nobility of white people and extremely discriminate against yellow people.

In order to maintain this nihilistic noble idea, they even forbade poor whites to look for opportunities in Shanghai Tang.

Hu Chuyuan believed that as long as he could bypass these foreigners on the beach and directly do business with the European and American powers, the situation would be much better.

The problem is that he can't get around it at the moment, and he doesn't know anyone in Europe and the United States.

After thinking about it, Hu Chuyuan decided to ask the Nishijin Club to come forward to buy silk reeling and dyeing equipment.

Tang Yanshu and Sheng Xuanhuai had already strangled his room to buy industry in Shanghai, and the silk reeling and dyeing factories could only be opened in Hangzhou.

It is more realistic to open in Hangzhou, after all, he has just set foot in, small business starts, only one set of equipment is used, there are many small coal mines in the Jinqu Basin, and they are transported to Hangzhou along the Fuchun River, and the price is also cheap.

The most important thing is tax avoidance.

The tax system of the late Qing Dynasty was like a fucking lump of rat poop and porridge.

He bought silk from Hangzhou and shipped it to Shanghai for reeling and dyeing, and in the middle, the merchant alone had to pay 36 taels of silver for every 100 catties of raw silk, and 36 taels of silver for transporting it back to Hangzhou.

The dog said.

Not for anything else, because raw silk is to be exported, the imperial court relies on it to support the whole family, young and old, as for the high cost of China's raw silk exports, they will eventually be squeezed out of the world's raw silk export industry, they don't care.

After calculating this account, Hu Chuyuan wrote several letters, the first one to Koji Nakamura, about the purchase of equipment; The second letter was sent to Zuo Zongtang, talking about his feelings after returning from Yueben and the future crisis of the silk industry, and the third letter was sent to He Jing, asking He Jing to transfer four students who were proficient in French from the Fuzhou Shipbuilding School.

asked people to send these letters, and Hu Chuyuan continued to study the imitation of Ruoguade with Xu Shou and them.

A few days later, Hu Chuyuan was busy in the warehouse, and the steward Hu Rong hurriedly ran in to look for him, saying that a Chinese-American had come to look for him, and he had arrived in the living room of the Hu Mansion.

Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but be a little strange, he didn't know anyone in the United States.

He immediately returned to the living room, and as soon as he entered, he saw a man of about fifty years of age, not tall, dressed in a black suit, with flat hair, slightly gray hair, and a black and red face.

This person's bearing is very good, and he has a vague scholarly demeanor, and he seems to be a very cultivated and knowledgeable person.

Hu Chuyuan glanced at it, and then arched his hand and said: "It's Hu Chuyuan below, I don't know the honorific name of Mr.?" ”

The man smiled: "I didn't expect Mr. Hu to be so young, it's really surprising to me...... Oh, I'm Yung Hong, and you wrote me a letter a month ago. ”

Hu Chuyuan was greatly surprised, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Mr. Rong, please sit, please sit." ”

After inviting Rong Hong to sit down, Hu Chuyuan said, "Mr. Rong, why did you come here in person?" ”

Rong Hong sighed: "I have to come in person, Hu Gongzi's letter was sent to the province of life, every sentence said to the deepest part of my heart, Rong was amazed, moved, excited, and wanted to come and meet with Hu Gongzi to discuss the issue of national salvation and education." ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently, asked Rong Hong to drink a cup of tea first, and then said: "A few days ago, I visited Yueben for a while, and met a few people who I called educators. Although there were many Confucian scholars, none of them had the ambition and ability to save the country. I was moved, so I took the liberty to write a letter to my husband. ”

Rong Hong said: "Gongzi Hu is a giant businessman at home and abroad, with a rich family business, if I have the support of Gongzi, I can also set up a school in China and do my best for the country." As long as Gongzi is willing, I am willing to resign from the post of deputy ambassador to the United States with the imperial court and devote myself to this matter! ”

"No!"

Hu Chuyuan flatly refused, but said: "I can't run the school I want to open in China, so I want to ask Mr. Rong to establish a school in the United States that is specifically for Chinese, from middle school to university, as well as professional technical schools, to form a system." In the early days, the school completely adopted English teaching, and then according to the supplement of teachers, Chinese and English joint teaching was launched one after another. The students are divided into two parts, one is to study abroad since childhood, and the other part is that I have purchased schools in China and selected talents from these schools. ”

"This ...... Spend? Rong Hong was both surprised and skeptical.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Mr. said, I am a giant businessman in China, and my family business is rich, and I still have a little money." All the funds I need will be funded by myself, and I will allocate a million dollars to him first, and another $300,000 every year thereafter. As long as my Hu family's property does not collapse, this money will not be interrupted. ”

Rong Hong was shocked and said, "Master Hu, what are you ...... Is...... To tell you the truth, before meeting you, I also visited some old friends in Shanghai and asked them about your personality and situation. Now that I have really met you, I know that they are compared with you, it is simply the difference between heaven and earth, the ambition of the bird, how do the birds know? ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled bitterly, no need to ask, he knew who Rong Hong had met.

Now in Shanghai, the most famous people for setting up education in Shanghai are none other than Tang Yanshu and Xu Run, both of whom are extremely disdainful of him.

He said: "In business, the real wealth among Chinese merchants is nothing more than salt merchants, silk merchants, and official merchants, and I take care of all three, and I eat a lot of each piece, and of course there are more people who are offended." Their words, sir, do not take to heart. As the saying goes, the Tao is different and the great cause I want to hold is something they don't understand, so I don't plan to communicate with them more. ”

Rong Hong smiled: "Yes, businessman...... Alas, to be able to meet my son today, I can be considered worthy of this trip. To tell the truth, when I saw you, I couldn't help but wonder whose handwriting the article "On the Education of the Nation" came from, but now it is certain, and no one else can write it except you! ”

Hu Chuyuan pondered for a moment and sighed: "That's also what I felt!" ”

Hu Chuyuan actually has a lot of puzzles in his heart, he doesn't understand, there are some overseas students in China so far, why have they not been able to succeed, why have they not taken education as their own responsibility?

In the United States, there are 122 Chinese children studying in the United States, these people have lived in the United States since childhood, received Western education, why have they not achieved very well?

Why, on the contrary, did China's revolutionary cause originate from the later students who went to China?

Addendum: (The Qing Dynasty will definitely be overthrown.) I really don't know how to write this if I want to ensure China's raw silk and tea economy, and if I want to rush to overthrow the Manchu regime. Could it be that the protagonist can overthrow the Manchu Qing in a few years, and still guarantee that there will be no war in the Jiangnan region? ）

(The idea of the protagonist is to first secure the foundation of China's economy, that is, raw silk and tea, and then consider the question of the Manchu Qing Dynasty)

(Pan Limei is Chinese, not mixed-race)

(Limited to my personal level and cultural level, this book does have a lot of low-level mistakes, and I didn't write it well.) I just hope that you don't scold too much, if you don't like it, if you are not happy, it should be enough to attack once, there is really no need to attack a few times...... It hurts. ）

(I don't have any requirements for this book, I just want to write a late Qing novel, to satisfy some personal inner thoughts, and now it seems to be a very wrong decision, the good news is that I will only write a late Qing novel once, and it will only be the last time I write a historical novel.) ）

(There are too many masters on the History Channel, and the readership level is very high, I really can't help myself!) ）

(So, I'm sorry I can't please everyone!!) ）