The Vanderbilt family came from the Netherlands, and their ancestors came to the New York area of the United States as indentured slaves. Vanderbilt was the first generation of the family and the richest capitalist in the United States at the time, having eight daughters and four sons. Before Vanderbilt's death, the capitalist made a surprising decision to leave 95 percent of his assets to his eldest son, William. Henry. Vanderbilt's remaining children were only able to divide the $500,000 inheritance equally, which led to many of his children eventually falling into bankruptcy.

William. Henry. Vanderbilt was still a very clever capitalist, with good and bad business, but he had only one son and two daughters, and like his father, he gave only a small inheritance to his two daughters, leaving the vast majority of the inheritance to his only youngest son, Cones. Vanderbilt.

It is for this reason that Connes. Vanderbilt was able to maintain his place in such a competitive American business world, not because of his talent, but because of his huge wealth, at least in the financial industry, he maintained a very good relationship with JP Morgan, entrusting most of his wealth to JP Morgan Trust Bank.

…… Song Biao spent a week in San Francisco, met with Ouyang Geng and Ouyang Qi, who worked at the San Francisco Consulate, and met Ouyang Qi and Conns. Vanderbilt was accompanied by an inspection of the investment climate throughout San Francisco.

After the earthquake, the price of land in San Francisco plummeted, and Song Biao wanted to take this opportunity to absorb some real estate and ports, but he had no spare money in his hands, and the three million dollars he finally squeezed out were ready to be invested in the oil mines of Tampico, Mexico. Vanderbilt now has a request for him, and he generously co-founded a "San Francisco Bay Real Estate Company" with Song Biao, and first lent Song Biao $2.3 million to buy shares.

They tried to buy real estate and ports in the areas of Fisherman's Wharf, Russian Hill, and Telegraph Hill north of San Francisco, and planned to set up Pacific Shipping Company's shipping base in the San Francisco area in the United States.

The western part of the United States is the western part of the United States, and at this time, in the entire economic map of the United States, the entire western part of the United States is not as good as a state in the eastern part of the United States, and it is far inferior to New York.

It's only in this environment that you can appreciate what the Vanderbilt family meant to America in the 19th century, even if it's the third generation of the declining family. Mr. Vanderbilt's influence and financial resources are also much stronger than those of Warren Buffett in the 21st century. Compared to Mellon, Carnegie and others, he seems mediocre.

In addition to the City Bank of San Francisco and the San Francisco Citizens Insurance Company, it is worth Conns. Vanderbilt's acquisitions, as well as the number of financial institutions that want to work with him, are simply too many to work with. After Vanderbilt showed enough sincerity, many of the small banks in the midst of the disaster couldn't wait to cling to the Vanderbilt family.

In fact, Americans have always maintained a very conservative Puritan culture, and they attach more importance to family honor and tradition, such as the Bush family, the Morgan family, and the Kennedy family, all of which are legends created by the American people themselves, especially for ordinary Americans, the Vanderbilt family, which has clearly gone into decline, still has a very high reputation and reputation.

Under the influence of this peculiar factor, Connes. Vanderbilt didn't come up with much money, and after acquiring the City Bank of San Francisco and the Citizens Insurance Company, he miraculously stabilized the precarious financial system in the San Francisco area, and used his family prestige to secure the big banks in the East for the banks he acquired.

In just one week, Conns. Vanderbilt acquired four small banks and two insurance companies in San Francisco, and at Song Biao's suggestion, tried to reorganize them into a stable large financial company, the Vanderbilt Trust Company of the United States, which controlled the controlling stakes in the National Bank of San Francisco and the San Francisco National Insurance Company.

Connes. Vanderbilt was not a genius in the securities and financial industries himself, but he chose Amadeogiannini, the founder of the Bank of Italy, as a partner in the process of working with the local Bank of Italy, to serve as the general director of the National Bank of San Francisco.

In this process, Song Biao has been an important observer, quietly watching for a week, and then taking the Pacific Railroad train alone across the east and west of the United States, to Washington, D.C., and the President of the United States, Theodore. Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary Koteliu met.

With the support of the Vanderbilt family, Song Biao also met with other important U.S. political officials and senators in Washington, D.C., and then in New York, he also had the privilege of meeting with J.P. Morgan, John A. Rockefeller, and Andrew W. Mellon.

These people are all figures of the times, and it must be a good thing to have the opportunity to meet, and accompanied by the US Treasury Secretary A.D. Kotlieu and the former US Minister to China, Song Biao enthusiastically lobbied these chaebol giants to invest in the three eastern provinces, and explained to them in detail the various preferential policies of the three eastern provinces and the huge development potential.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was too much unfair and immoral competition in the economy, for example, although Song Biao never issued any law prohibiting other forces from setting foot in the soybean and coal and iron ore industries in the three eastern provinces, in actual operation, he could firmly control the soybean sales and the development of coal and iron ore in the entire three eastern provinces through regional administrative advantages, the franchise contracts that had been signed, and the control of the railways.

Such a situation was even more pronounced in the United States during the same period, and it is for this reason that Theodore. President Roosevelt had to wage war against the various monopolies in the United States in order to prevent the American economy from being completely controlled by the capitalist minority.

J.P. Morgan\John A. Rockefeller\Andrew W. Mellon can be called the three giants of the American economic circles at this time, controlling the United States' finance, oil, steel, railroads, and shipping.

At this point, Song Biao gave full play to his specialty of seeing people and telling nonsense, and confirmed and unmistakably promised them that American capital would definitely have such a right, of course, compared with Mr. Connes D. Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, John A. Rockefeller, The Andrew W. Mellon Triumvirate was much more arrogant, so arrogant that they hardly took Song Biao seriously, and it seems that the reason why they were willing to meet with Governor General Beo Vladimir Soong was purely to give U.S. Treasury Secretary A.D. Kotlieu a favor and to satisfy the proposal advocated by U.S. Secretary Cotelius and U.S. Minister to China Rockhill that "the United States should and must develop the most critical influence in the three eastern provinces."

For Song Biao, who has always been unwilling to be a queen, or even a very self-confident person, his low profile and tolerance for the arrogant attitude of others in meeting with the Big Three do not represent his heart, and he hopes that the next time they meet, he can have the opportunity to educate the Big Three and make them understand that "Be'o. Vladimir. Song: "What a powerful man the Governor is.

The so-called talks were actually not pleasant.

Because of the delay in arranging a good deal with Mexican President Boferio. During Dias's meeting, Song Biao was in no hurry to leave the United States. Accompanied by Conger, she went to Connecticut to visit Connecticut Women's College and Yale University, and then her trip to the United States was mostly related to education.

Song Biao was more of an outpost, and when he was about to leave the United States, Yin Chang, the governor of Fengtian, and Tang Shaoyi, the minister of reclamation in the three eastern provinces, were leading a two-month New Deal inspection team into the United States, and they would stay in Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York, and Boston, and then return to the three eastern provinces by the same route, and continue to visit the New Deal in Yueben for a month on the way back.

According to Song Biao's arrangement, starting next year, a group of New Deal inspection groups will be sent to the United States every six months to study and study.

After nearly a month's trip to the United States, Song Biao took the train to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Porfirio. Dias meeting. The most famous scholar in Mexican history was Song Biao's mentor, and what Song Biao did in the three eastern provinces was almost like Bofirio. Díaz made a copy of what he did in Mexico, building a railroad, bringing in foreign investment, studying talents, controlling the army, and introducing a new education.

People with similar smells can smell each other even from a distance of 10 kilometers.

Although the arrangement of this itinerary seemed extremely tortuous and difficult, the feeling of the two of them when they met was that it couldn't have been better, because they were both born in the army and became famous in the war, which gave them a lot to talk about and negotiate very pleasantly.

For the construction of the army in Mexico, and the possibility of war with the United States and the like, Song Biao gave Porfirio. Dias's only suggestion was to ensure that the forces around Mexico City were under his direct control and control, and that as many Maxim machine guns, shotguns, and three-inch Lucia field guns as possible were available.

This was the main lesson he learned in the war, and the result of the bloody experience.

In addition, he also suggested that Mexico purchase M1905 77mm mortars from Russia, and strengthen the military training of troops in trench warfare and small-scale troop raid warfare in combination with some modern warfare trends manifested in the Russo-Russian War.

For the next few days, he was like Bofirio. The military advisers invited by President Díaz generally visited the Mexican Army intensively, and one by one put forward dozens of recommendations to make Porferio. President Díaz had to tighten his grip on the army, and at all costs ensure that an elite force was under the president's strong control, and that this force did not really need many people, an infantry division of 18,000 men and a cavalry brigade of 8,000 men would suffice.

Song Biao and Bofirio. President Dias's friendship was based on these events, as he was a warlord and the other was a military scholar, and both established their ruling authority with their own troops.

With these foundations in mind, when Song Biao voiced his idea of using his U.S. company to buy an exploration in Tampico, Mexico, in search of oil, even he himself was incredulous enough to buy 320,000 acres of oil exploration and development rights in the western part of the Tampico region for only $700,000 with a symbolic surname.

In 1901, an American businessman paid three times the price to buy 140,000 acres of oil exploration and development rights in the area, and Song Biao's new oil company was basically an empty shell. Norton worked as an engineer.

When Song Biao won a large number of oil development rights at such a low price, he bought shares of Petroleos Mexicanos in the New York and London stock markets, merging his oil company with the other party, which is equivalent to winning all the oil development rights of Tampico at a very low price, Song Biao himself felt too lucky, although Rong Kui and others disagreed with his idea very much, but after inspecting Tampico for a few days and seeing a large number of natural asphalt lakes, Song Biao still firmly decided to invest in exploration here. And let Rong invite a few more talented oil exploration experts from the United States as much as possible.

At this time, there was only one oil company in Tampico still looking for oil - the American Edward. Dohanni and Bill Reis. Rong Sen. Canfield co-founded Petroleos Mexicanos, but after three years of hard work, Edward Edward. The founder had already sold his stake and fled the land, returning to his familiar United States in search of new oil wells in Texas, from which Canfield was a major creditor and all his fortune was invested, and there was certainly no way for him to escape from the company.

After buying the vast majority of Petroleos Mexicanos' junk shares, Song Biao easily reached an agreement with Canfield to buy the Petroleos Mexicanos, thus holding the rights to explore and exploit oil throughout the Tampico region.

…… September in Mexico is a sun-drenched harvest season.

From China to the United States, from the United States to Mexico, Song Biao himself never thought that there would be such a long journey, this is not the first time in his life to travel abroad, but it is certainly his first time to Mexico.

All he knew about Mexico before probably came from crime films, digging a tunnel from Mexico to bring drugs into the United States to make money, which is simply the dream of all drug dealers.

Tampico is a very strange place, where it is not uncommon to see asphalt lakes formed by the accumulation of natural asphalt, which is rare to see in China. The clumsy way to discover oil in the early days was to look for such places with asphalt lakes.

Because Song Biao had been planning to buy this area for oil production before this, Rong Kui and the exploration team he had worked so hard to assemble arrived in Tampico a few months in advance. Norton previously worked as an engineer at Mellon Oil Company and has extensive experience exploring for oil in the central United States and Pennsylvania.

After buying Petroleos Mexicanos, Song Biao and Rong Kui had more than 600 oil workers at once, and they also hired several experts from the United States with rich experience in prospecting.

Everyone wants to make a fortune in this era, and Song Biao is no exception.

(To be continued)