Hu Chuyuan's strategy is neither to overestimate nor to insult...... The defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War was not so much a lack of strength as a lack of preparation, and the reason for the lack of preparation was, in the final analysis, a matter of underestimating others.

In the current China, how many people can really see the situation clearly?

Of course, there are also many defects in the Hunan and Huai armies, first of all, there are problems in the system, and secondly, they cannot afford to fight a tough battle, and when they encounter a little strong opponent, they are frightened and retreat, and they want to maintain their own strength -- it is understandable that even if they win the war, if the troops are exhausted and the people are gone, the Hunan and Huai armies will have no political support.

The Tokyo auction was still going on, and it was soon the last two days, because Hu Chuyuan had made a high-profile appearance, and it was believed that he would still appear on the last day.

But Hu Chuyuan didn't go, and he didn't plan to go.

A person who does business must be particular about it, and he can't break his momentum, if he wants to go, then he must take it on the spot.

As the so-called praying mantis catches cicadas, the yellow finch is behind.

He believed that one day, these two imperial treasures of Song Huizong would eventually fall into his hands, so why should he be in a hurry to spend those unjust money?

While the merchants of China and China were bidding in the auction hall, he took a horse-drawn carriage and stopped a few hundred meters away from the auction hall.

Sitting in the carriage, Wang Yirong and Miss Pan Limei accompanied him, and Pan Limei continued to interpret some Chinese information for him.

After waiting for half an hour, Shen Furong hurriedly ran over, and when he entered the carriage, he said to Hu Chuyuan: "Owner, it's too dark and expensive." "Hibiscus Brocade Chicken" was bought by Sheng Xuanhuai for 1.15 million yuan, and I heard that Tang Yanshu and Lu Wenjin also have shares. Qiao Jingyan joined forces with several Jin merchants and lost at a price of 1.12 million yuan, and Zhang Songxian and Nanxun merchants joined forces and retreated at a price of 1.05 million yuan. "Boudoir Autumn Moon Poems" was bought by Qiao Jingyan and cost 850,000 foreign yuan. ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently and said, "Get in the car, let's go back to the Fuzhou Guild Hall, let them go happily first!" ”

Shen Furong sighed, got into the car, and left with Hu Chuyuan and the others.

Soon after returning to the guild hall, several newspapers in this book published special reports on the matter, and regarded Sheng Xuanhuai and the Qiao family as the real richest family in "Zhina" at present.

Hu Chuyuan, who was originally focused on by people, did not even pay a single price, compared with Hu Xueyan's heroic momentum at the auction venue, the gap is incomparable, and he was also fiercely ridiculed by those newspapers, especially the kind of "garbage" that Hu Chuyuan bought at a high price.

In fact, I am very "cute", very dirty kind of "cute", and many things are only done by them.

Although I don't know who instigated it, who planned it, or what the intention was, a few people who knew a little Chinese deliberately gathered at the door of the Fuzhou Hall where Hu Chuyuan lived, and maliciously read the contents of the newspaper aloud to everyone around them.

History...... Or in different eras, many of people's behaviors are very peculiar, only people in that era can understand, anyway, Hu Chuyuan feels very boring, which makes him have an indescribable sense of funny.

He thought it was funny, Zhang Songxian and those people didn't think so, they felt that Hu Chuyuan's matter was very embarrassing, no matter what, people had already reached the capital, even if they couldn't afford that price, they had to shout.

I didn't even dare to report the price, and I claimed to be the richest man in the Qing Dynasty, which was really embarrassing.

The next time, these late Qing Dynasty giants left Yokohama by boat, and the Guangzhou Hall and the Fuzhou Hall were no more than 100 steps away, and they didn't bother to come over to say hello, so they left with a beautiful bang and a drum.

In their words, they have nothing to say to people like Hu Chuyuan, and they can't afford to lose this person.

As for Hu Chuyuan, he still has to stay in Yueben for a few more days.

He asked Pan Rong to recruit a dozen Chinese who were proficient in the Chinese language, and secretly set up a translation agency in the Fuzhou Guild Hall, which was responsible for translating the main newspapers and political commentaries, as well as the more popular books, into Chinese, and transporting them to China by ship on a regular basis.

To this end, he invested 600 yuan to ask Pan Rong to buy several houses behind the Fuzhou Guild Hall as the backyard of the Fuzhou Guild Hall to house the translation agency.

Hu Chuyuan paid special attention to this matter, personally recruited those people, and gave them a basic training.

Among them, he found a young man named Pan Qiying, twenty-four, who had just graduated from Kawasaki Yoshijuku, which was run by Xiang Shinjima, and was cousins with Pan Rong, whose parents had opened a grocery store in Nagasaki with the support of Pan Rong.

Pan Qiying wants to do business, and he is also very shrewd, if it weren't for Pan Rong's strong invitation, he wouldn't want to come to this small translation agency, but Hu Chuyuan took a fancy to him at a glance and talked with him all night, which made him decide to continue working in the translation agency.

In order to exercise Pan Qiying's ability, Hu Chuyuan not only handed over this translation agency to him to take care of, but also gave him 6,000 yuan for regular expenses and recruiting new members.

At this time, Koji Nakamura had already sent several sets of Wakaguad machines, drawings and paper to Yokohama, and also sent two skilled Nishijin mechanics, and Hu Chuyuan officially set off to leave Yuben.

Before leaving, he discussed with Pan Rong and brought Pan Limei back to China and stayed by his side as a translator.

Hu Chuyuan thought that Pan Rong would be reluctant, but he didn't expect that Pan Rong was actually very happy, and said that he was very, very, very relieved...... In this way, Hu Chuyuan is not welcome.

A few days later, Hu Chuyuan returned to Shanghai, and instead of returning to Hangzhou immediately, he stayed at the Hu Mansion in Shanghai.

Hu Mansion was originally an English-style villa built in Shanghai by the British Liru foreign company Gudner, located on Ningbo Road in the Shanghai Concession.

When he returned to Shanghai, Hu Chuyuan immediately began to prepare for the Jiangnan West School, and the location he chose was Xuhui District, where several church schools opened by foreigners had already gathered, and the Gezhi Academy opened by the Englishman Fu Lanya was also nearby.

Hu Chuyuan first asked people to find Xu Shou, who has the highest reputation in China's Gezhi academic circles, and then found Fu Lanya, hoping that he would pay for the merger of Gezhi Academy into the Jiangnan West Academy.

In fact, it was to directly buy Gezhi Academy, rename it Jiangnan Western Academy, and Jiangnan Commercial Bank paid for the expenses of the Western Academy.

At present, the main patron of Gezhi Academy is none other than Tang Yanshu, the leader of Chinese businessmen in Shanghai, who has spent a lot of money in Tokyo and hoarded a large amount of raw silk that is difficult to get rid of, and his financial resources are looking cramped.

After hearing the news, he immediately resold his shares to Xu Shou at a low price and no longer continued to fund the academy.

Quit, quit, he always wants to be a face-saving person, so he went around and preached to others, saying that Hu Chuyuan was very disrespectful to him in Yueben, and now he was going to organize Gezhi Academy alone, and he didn't take him as an elder in his eyes.

Therefore, he was repelled by Hu Chu's vitality.

He also sang and harmonized with several other businessmen, and publicized the fact that Hu Chuyuan did not associate with them in Yueben, not only gained nothing in the auction hall, but also was ridiculed by Xiao Yueben's media.

Hu Chuyuan was busy handling the affairs of the Jiangnan West Academy, and he didn't want to deal with the ridicule and ridicule of these people.

Seriously, he's getting a little bit of a little bit of a way to understand this era.

Subsequently, he began to contact foreign companies, wanting to buy silk reeling machines and dyeing machines, in the current China, machine silk reeling and machine dyeing have been monopolized by foreigners, not giving Chinese businessmen the opportunity to intervene at all.

Several major foreign companies were willing to sell him the machine, but the price was ridiculously high, almost four times the price of selling it to Yue himself, and asked Hu Chuyuan to only buy dyes with them in the future, otherwise the foreign technicians would be withdrawn.

The slander and exclusion of the Chinese business circles, the suppression and fraud of foreign firms, made Hu Chuyuan feel that he was weak and alone, and he did not have the sense of smoothness he had in Hangzhou, and it seemed that everything seemed to be very laborious.