Recently, there is nothing very special, nothing more than to buy the bottom of the U.S. stock market, while focusing on the penetration of bank stocks, you can also buy steel, transportation and other stocks together according to JP Morgan's requirements.

February 15, 1882.

Hu Chuyuan gave himself a day off to go to New York's Central Park with Wu Shuzhen, picnic on the open-air grassland, and enjoy the tranquility and unique life that the world has given them.

Today is not particularly cold, the sun is good, and Hu Chuyuan is also rarely resting, so he is very relaxed to rest against the trunk of the tree, close his eyes and enjoy the breath and embrace of nature.

He now understands that this tranquility of the natural wilderness is not something that can be bought with money.

Wu Shuzhen also leaned on the trunk of the tree for a lunch break, and after a while, she quietly leaned on his shoulder, and pressed her white and flawless cheeks against his shoulder, the fragrance revealed between her noses couldn't help but tease the man's heartstrings.

Under this bright sunshine, looking at this delicate and beautiful face, looking at her long eyelashes, and missing her elegant and timeless smile, Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but feel a little tempted.

He has to say that Wu Shuzhen has helped him a lot along the way.

Kiss it......!

He smiled wickedly, but didn't really put it into action.

A few days later, Hu Chuyuan still gave Wu Shuzhen a very good gift, he bought two advertising agencies in New York and Philadelphia, and then transferred it to the name of Jetta for one dollar to set up a Jetta advertising agency in the United States.

In the days that followed, JP Morgan significantly strengthened its ties with Hu Chuyuan, and after obtaining Hu Chuyuan's consent, JP Morgan began to carry out large-scale integration of the two major industries of American railroads and steel, and established the United Railroad Company and the United Steel Company.

Of the two companies, Hu Chuyuan's North American Wells Fargo Investment Bank holds 19.55% and 11.42% of the shares, respectively, second only to Drexel-Morgan.

Hu Chuyuan knew very well in his heart that at this time, he was just a passer-by in the American market, just an international tour capital, not the real owner, he was just waiting for the right opportunity to sell these shares.

According to the market capitalization, in the past few months, the $97.5 million he brought has become $230 million, and the current New York stock market has only recovered to the original level of 5%, and he will choose to cash out on a large scale in a few months.

At this time, making money was no longer Hu Chuyuan's first task, and he began to think about the issue of arms.

The Sino-French war is no longer far away, and he must first hoard a large amount of arms in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and wait until the war breaks out to buy arms in a hurry.

The military industry of the United States has a particular benefit...... The production capacity is large, although it is not advanced.

While in New York, he also went to four firearms companies, including Manchester and New Haven, as well as two artillery manufacturers, and ordered 12 million dollars worth of arms and asked for them to be delivered within two years.

Hu Chuyuan noticed a detail: There are many gun companies in the United States, but there are very few artillery companies, and although there are many companies that can manufacture and manufacture artillery, the vast majority of them are in a state of suspension of production.

The main reason is that the United States is still at a stage where it does not attach great importance to national defense equipment.

Hu Chuyuan decided to reinvest in a large, integrated military factory in Auckland, similar to Armstrong, with steel manufacturing as the base and core. The focus, of course, is to use the manpower, resources, and production capacity of the United States to provide China with the most convenient weapons system.

Merchants have the way of merchants.

First of all, according to the plan, Wanqi Bank and Wells Fargo Investment Bank of North America jointly established the San Francisco Gulf Investment Company, and then looked for suitable partners through the Gulf Investment Company.

Almost as soon as this was done, President Chester-Arthur announced a pre-negotiated decision to formally establish the Chinese Workers Administration, with Williams as its director, to bear the compensation of Chinese workers by issuing treasury bonds to raise funds, and to pass the new Chinese Immigration Management Act in Congress.

The new bill is much more lenient than the original Chinese Exclusion Act, and the basic situation is to allow Chinese to live in the United States through temporary residence or permanent residency, and the temporary residence for five years can be renewed for permanent residence after other conditions are met.

Every year, the Chinese Industry Administration will approve 3,750 immigration applications from Chinese workers with permanent residency alone, and family immigration, skilled immigration and investment immigration are not included in this quota, and they will apply to the Immigration Bureau for immigration.

At this point, the anti-Chinese movement in the United States came to an end.

After the passage of the Chinese Immigration Management Act, at the invitation of President Chester Arthur, Ambassador Hu Chuyuan and Ambassador Chen Lanbin went to the White House for a business meeting and signed a new trade agreement.

The U.S. side reduced import tariffs on Chinese raw silk, tea, Chinese medicinal materials, porcelain, hemp and related products, straw hats, and other traditional handicraft products, while China gave back import tariffs on some U.S. machinery, chemicals, iron and steel, iron ore and other metal ores, and petroleum-derived products.

Partial MFN status was granted on a reciprocal basis, which was extended until 1895.

The U.S. side has made new expansions on the original study abroad program, allowing Chinese to enroll in U.S. universities.

The U.S. side will sell four new cruisers to the Chinese side, which will be built in 1884, and before that, the U.S. Navy will build two cruisers of the same type at a mutually approved shipyard to ensure that the use of new technology is mature.

In the new trade agreement, the U.S. side allows Chinese businessmen to invest - depending on the discretion of each state legislature, and the Chinese side still maintains the original agreement due to traditional policy constraints, and only allows American businessmen to live and invest in the concessions.

When conditions are ripe, the two sides are willing to hold new negotiations on the area of the Tianjin concession.

So far, Hu Chuyuan can be said to have completed his mission perfectly, and did not let the Great Qing Kingdom lose face.

He traveled to Europe, ordered fourteen million dollars worth of arms in Germany and England, and by April 1882 he returned to the United States, where the New York stock market had largely recovered to its pre-financial crisis level under the influence of the new Sino-American trade agreement.

Hu Chuyuan chose to start cashing out.

Because the total amount of funds he invested is very large, cashing out in a short period of time will inevitably make the stock market fluctuate sharply, which is not conducive to cashing out, so he chose to trade directly with several financial institutions, giving priority to arbitrage $55 million, and the remaining assets of about $340 million were left in the Wells Fargo Investment Bank in North America and slowly cashed out.

$90 million was introduced into the market, and the current value has increased to $395 million.

That's a great return on investment.

Again...... Opportunity is always reserved for those who still have a giant ship in the midst of the great flood.

If you can still hold $97.5 million in your hands after the stock market crash, as long as you seize the opportunity to enter the market, you can also make huge profits from it.

Purely comparing capital, Hu Chuyuan is not much worse than JP Morgan, he is inferior to being in the United States, and he is destined to be just a passerby.

Although he was unwilling, he could only accept the reality and quietly returned to China and the imperial court on the Tengchong.

When he left, he didn't expect that it would not be long before he would come to the United States again to complete the most important thing in his life.

On the way back, he stopped in Osaka and went to Kyoto to check on the business of the Nishijin Company, and to see the level of economic and technological development in the city, so as to facilitate future decisions.

Therefore, there was a slight delay, and on April 21, 1882, the Tengchong arrived in Tianjin.

Tianjin has always been a prosperous city, but its concession is not as lively as Shanghai, Britain, France and the United States did not pay special attention to the development of the Tianjin concession, until the occurrence of the Tianjin teaching case, the original messy living in the old city of Tianjin foreign people have returned to the concession one after another, driving the development of the concession.

The difference between the Tianjin Concession and the Shanghai Concession can be seen just by comparing the land price, with the former only equivalent to 1/7 of the average price of the latter.

The tonnage of Tengchong is a little too large, and can only be parked at the mouth of Tianjin, Hu Chuyuan is taking the diesel engine small wooden boat of Tengchong into Tianjin, the time is at noon, the rain in the lunar valley has just passed, and the sunshine in April is extremely mild.

Hu Chuyuan sat on the bench at the bow of the boat, sitting with Wu Shuzhen, looking at the scenery on both sides of the Haihe River stupidly.

There's money.

He is indeed rich, and there are fewer and fewer things in the world that can stump him.

He seemed very relaxed, even a little silly, smiling silly.

Seeing that the more he laughed, the more stupid he became, as if his brain had burned out, and the entourage was peeking at him quite strangely, Wu Shuzhen couldn't help but chuckle, pushed him, and asked, "What are you smiling at?" ”

Hu Chuyuan still smiled and said, "I won't tell you." ”

Wu Shuzhen couldn't bear it for a while, and suddenly pinched him.

Pinch it, pinch it.

Hu Chuyuan was still smiling.

Idiots don't laugh, he thought, I'm a man with 400 million dollars now, and I'm not far from the goal of 100 million pounds.

He never thought in his life that he would be where he is today, as if everything was so casual.

Playing with Stocks...... That's really lucrative.

He said, why are those financial oligarchs on Wall Street playing stocks with all their minds, and it turns out that they are really profitable.

He suddenly remembered something, and asked Wu Shuzhen: "Alas, you said that you are running around with me all day long, don't you feel tired, or annoying?" ”

Wu Shuzhen thought about it quite seriously, but said with a smile: "Then what should I do, who made you such a man." If you don't do things for the court and only do your own business with peace of mind, then I don't know how leisurely it will be, and I can follow it. ”

Hu Chuyuan said with a smile: "Then don't worry, it will really be much easier in the future." ”

He absolutely guarantees this.

With the current foundation, even if there is more trouble in the future, he will let others do it, and he will free up more time to play what he wants to play, and he can't continue to work hard.

The small steamer slowly drove into the concession, and it really couldn't be compared with the Shanghai concession.

This is actually not a good thing, the concession is actually more beneficial than disadvantageous to China at the moment, but it is a face problem, and the actual benefits are still many, especially in the economy and culture.

If you really want to take back the concessions, where can you build factories, where can you build Western Schools, Engineering Museums, and Business Museums, build them today, and the imperial court will be able to demolish them for you tomorrow.

The vast majority of the early Chinese revolutionaries hid in the concessions, so as to avoid being wiped out by the Qing court.

The ship docked at the wharf of the British Concession and set up a sampan, and Hu Chuyuan went ashore accompanied by Chen Shanyuan and others, and the situation in the British Concession was much better than that of the French Concession and the American Concession, but it was far inferior to the Shanghai Concession, and if you wanted to rent a carriage, you had to wait for half a day.

Fortunately, a telegram had been sent in advance, and the CITIC Bank in the British Concession had already sent several carriages to wait at the wharf on the right bank of the Haihe River, and Zheng Xitai happened to be on business in Tianjin, so he personally came to pick up people.

Dozens of meters away, Hu Chuyuan saw him, wearing a suit, his braids were cut off, his flat head was trimmed, and he was a fake foreign devil.

As soon as he saw Hu Chuyuan, Zheng Xitai hurriedly commanded the people of the horse team to follow, and rushed over at a trot.

But before he could run over, Leng Buding suddenly rushed out of the dock with a group of people.

Syllable.

Someone fired a shot.

There was a panic on the dock, and Chen Shanyuan and the others were also taken aback, hurriedly surrounding Hu Chuyuan and Wu Shuzhen, and pushed them to the opposite carriage.

At this time, Yan Shizhang, Miao Quansun and others were still on the second small steamer, waiting to get off the dock with a board, and suddenly encountered this kind of thing, which was also a mess, and several guards on the ship immediately took out their guns and shot back at the group of people who rushed over.

Bang bang bang.

The rain of bullets broke out in an instant.

(To be continued)