Borneo is not rich in minerals, and the vast majority of the area is dense pristine rainforest, which is the main reason why the British Empire did not care for the time being, and agreed to let the Dominion of Borneo take over.

In order to seek further development, the Chinese League has extended its hand to the Philippines, where the number of Chinese has grown rapidly in recent years, reaching nearly 100,000, and the number of local people of Chinese descent is about 800,000, accounting for 10 percent of the total population.

After confirming the uprising policy of the Chinese League, Hu Chuyuan went to the shores of Lake Merida in Oakland, USA, to start a real vacation.

Over the past seven years, Hu has bought the triangular peninsula that stretches out of Lake Merida and built a 74.8-acre manor-style palace there.

He was a husband and father first, and a businessman second.

During the day, he would accompany his wife and children to the small farm on the estate, teach his stepson Hu Weizhong horseback riding, and sometimes the family would fish and row boats on the lakeside.

Other times, they spend a few days relaxing on the big beach in San Francisco Bay to let their children watch the waves of the sea.

At night, Hu Chuyuan would always read some fairy tales to his stepson Hu Weizhong and daughter Hu Weihui before going back to the room to rest. Compared with the difficult time in China, he prefers this kind of life, calm, rich and warm.

Occasionally, Mr. Hu would meet with old friends, including U.S. President John Sherman, who was seeking re-election, and soon after, his two younger brothers and their families came to the Mérida estate, where the family was reunited.

In June 1888, Hu Chuyuan began to gradually increase his workload in the United States.

This time, he came to the United States not only to take a vacation and check the performance of the North American Wells Fargo Investment Bank, but more importantly, to prepare for the Sino-Chinese war that might come five years later.

For the past seven years, he has been investing in the heavy industry and chemical industry in the San Francisco Bay, and in 1885, he began to invest in the Los Angeles and San Diego Bays, building a complete industrial system around California.

At the San Francisco Bay Institute, Carnegie Laboratories, Wanqi Technology Company, New Jersey Bell Laboratories and the New York Institute of Science and Technology, he invests between $6 million and $10 million in technology research and development every year, focusing on the development of new metal materials, petrochemicals, electrical communications, mechanical power, and firearms and artillery.

In the intervening years, gasoline, nickel steel, chromium-nickel steel, smokeless gunpowder, pipe retreat rapid-fire artillery, alternating current, petroleum high-pressure decomposition technology, natural gas liquefaction compression, radios, capacitance compensators, relays, tungsten halogen lamps, inert tungsten lamps, electric heaters, ...... A large number of new technologies and products have been developed.

In these laboratories, Hu Chuyuan also hired a large number of young children who graduated from science and engineering colleges and universities, such as Liang Dunyan, Rong Kui, Fang Boliang, and Lu Xigui, to participate in technological research, and some of the new technologies that could be used were transferred back to China at a relatively low cost.

This time he came to the United States, Hu Chuyuan wanted to continue to increase investment in the military industry, expand production capacity, and enhance the popularization of new technologies.

If war is inevitable, he hopes that it will be a simple ravaging and trampling on the book.

In the United States, Hu Chuyuan spent the whole summer, only to leave for Europe in September, and in Paris, he bought almost all of Van Gogh's paintings that he never managed to sell, and also began to promote Van Gogh through the media.

In October, Hu Chuyuan left for Germany.

Over the years of the silk tea trade, Hu Chuyuan had amassed a staggering amount of Deutsche mark, which he used to buy BASF Dyestuffs, reorganize into the new BASF Chemical Company, and set up the new BASF Investment Bank.

Through BASF's investment banking company, he acquired Commerzbank and Stadtbank Berlin in Hamburg, reorganized them into the new Commerzbank, and invested heavily in Siemens.

With the financial industry as the center, agriculture as the foundation at home, and concentrated investment in the two emerging industries of petrochemical industry and telecommunications abroad, it has maintained relative advantages in the four industries of international trade, metallurgy and steel, machinery and shipbuilding, and ore, and has been involved in the retail, journalism, real estate, food, hotel, transportation, and textile industries.

This is Hu Chuyuan's entire business strategy.

At the end of October 1888, after signing a new arms sales agreement with Britain, Germany and France, Hu Chuyuan went to the Ottoman Empire and the Iranian Empire, and exchanged a total of 37 pieces of Yuan blue and white porcelain with a batch of academic oil paintings and works of art that were the most famous in Europe at that time.

The trip to Istanbul was still very valuable, Hu Chuyuan not only met the eerie Abdul Hamid II, but was also invited by Hamid II to invest in the Ottoman Empire.

In a very special way, Hu Chuyuan met a man named Ahmad Riza, who was seeking to promote a new Ottoman revolution and try to overthrow the rule of Abdul Hamid II and restore the original constitutional monarchy.

Ahmad Riza was naïve, believing that China and the Ottoman Empire might unite against the European powers, so he came to Hu Chuyuan, hoping that Hu Chuyuan would support his actions.

After consideration, Hu Chuyuan also naively agreed, willing to give Ahmad Riza a huge amount of money to organize the army, and agreed to provide arms support.

That's an episode.

After living in Istanbul until the end of December, Hu Chuyuan returned to the United States with his family and continued to live in the Merida estate.

The reason why he has to leave the country for a long time is precisely because Prince Alcohol and Prince Gong have reached an agreement in private and are ready to join forces to launch a coup d'état...... Both of them had lived in the shadow of Cixi for a long time, even to the point that life and death had to be controlled by it, and they had to take risks.

Hu Chuyuan deliberately stayed away from domestic politics during this time, creating the false impression that he did not want to participate in the return to politics incident, and secretly gave huge amounts of money to the two princes through Wang Yirong, Gu Jiaxiang and others, as well as other network support.

Just in case, Prince Yi and Prince Gong did not come forward directly, secretly relying on Wang Yirong and others to connect with friends, and the other two key figures, Prince Li Shiduo and Prince Su Longqin, were still in the dark.

In the United States, Hu Chuyuan continued to take care of his business in the United States, while carefully paying attention to every news in China, and was ready to insert a knife in Cixi's back at any time, of course, he was also prepared not to return to China.

As a precaution, he had collected most of his funds back to the Shanghai and Tianjin concessions, and if the coup failed, he quickly transferred those assets to the Bank of America and various foreign banks, so that Cixi would not embezzle his family business.

Interestingly, he also wanted to complete the discord against Hu Chuyuan through Prince Shiduo. While spending money to bribe Shi Duo, they also took out all kinds of intelligence collected over the years, proving that Hu Chuyuan had invested in the army in Nanyang and intended to overthrow the Manchu regime.

Shi Duo found Prince Alcohol, and Prince Alcohol said that this was just a ploy by himself to get rid of Hu Duwei, and as for Hu Chuyuan's investment in the army in Nanyang, it was just that the foreigners in Nanyang often plundered and killed Chinese merchants in retaliation.

Prince Alcohol also said that as far as he knew, many Chinese businessmen in Nanyang had funded group training to deal with foreigners, which was a good deed, but it was not appropriate to declare it publicly.

After receiving accurate information from various sources, Hu Chuyuan looked very flat, he just said in his heart...... Wait and see, we'll have a good show.

If the discord fails, sooner or later it will have to be assassinated.

Hu Chuyuan not only did the work of preparing for assassination, but also quietly continued to strengthen the assassination arrangements for the elders of the political and economic circles.

On February 26, 1889, the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Guangxu, this day is the birthday of the three palaces of heaven, earth and water.

On this day, a truly big event happened in China, and the 18-year-old Guangxu Emperor finally got married.

Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, he is the latest one to become a parent, because to marry is Chengren, Chengren has to be pro-government, Cixi has dragged on year after year, this year is really not able to delay, only extremely reluctantly agreed to marry this year, let Guangxu pro-government.

Since the age of fifteen, Guangxu has been waiting for this day, and he is also tormented by fear and fear.

Just like Emperor Wanli's fear and hatred of Zhang Juzheng, he was both afraid and hated Cixi, a good woman who scolded him loudly every day and whipped him at every turn, grasped the government and refused to let him be the emperor.

However, he was also grateful to Cixi, without Cixi, where could he have his throne.

What a tangled mood it was, probably only he could understand.

However, thinking about the empress and the two concubines that Cixi forcibly apportioned to him, to be honest, he wanted to vomit blood with hatred.

Hu Chuyuan has a photo of the queen in his hand, speaking with a conscience, he wants to vomit, his face is the same as a horse's face, and he is decrepit before he gets old, it looks like someone else owes her eight million taels of silver.

If she is not Cixi's niece, let alone being a queen, she can only be a female worker who picks dung when she is sent to the palace.

Really, it's too frustrating.

Can this be a fucking woman?

Cixi, you are ruthless!

On the day of Guangxu's wedding, Hu Chuyuan took out the portrait secretly painted by Wang Yirong again, put it on the table and looked at it carefully.

Just looking at this respectful face, he believed that Guangxu definitely had the urge to whip Cixi's corpse, if Guangxu was a man. He had seen a group photo of the "beauties" of the Guangxu harem before...... Damn, that's all he can say.

He could only say that Cixi probably didn't plan to let Guangxu have a normal life.

Now it's okay, I've finally survived the most dangerous moment, as long as the two princes can keep doing it secretly until this time, and before Guangxu is in power, Cixi has not found the signs of a coup d'état, then she has already lost more than half.

With Cixi's authoritative surname, Hu Chuyuan believed that as long as she found the slightest trace of seedlings, she would definitely take measures to replace at least the Admiral of the Nine Gates.

In the evening, Hu Chuyuan called Chen Shanyuan over and said, "Okay, let's go back", which made people arrange a trip back to China.

(To be continued)