The United States is a country with liberalized firearms, and the firearms industry is also very developed, and the production capacity cannot be ignored.

The firearm ordered by Hu Chuyuan in the United States is an improved version of Winchester 1876, and the main improvement is to combine the barrel design of the Spencer rifle, which can be directly loaded with 13-15 bullets on the battlefield by replacing the barrel, and the disadvantage is that the range is too short, at most about 200 meters.

To this end, he ordered the Mauser 71 improved repeating rifle in Germany - the legendary least common Mauser 71/84 rifle, this gun has been preliminarily finalized in 82, using a tube magazine similar to the Spencer rifle, which can provide a capacity of 5-13 bullets, but the German [***] side is unwilling to accept it, thinking that it is not as advanced as the new GRAS rifle of the French, and requires Mauser to further modify it.

Hu Chuyuan had no choice, and agreed to this improvement, which was already somewhat outdated, before the German War Department.

He had been talking to Pfister-Delano late at night, and Hu Chuyuan sent him to rest, and now thinking of Wu Shuzhen, it is estimated that she also has something to discuss, but unfortunately it is too late, so she can only wait until tomorrow.

The next time, Hu Chuyuan had just woken up and was about to go to find Wu Shuzhen, when Albert Russell came to him.

Hu Chuyuan muttered in his heart, but still invited him to have breakfast together.

Halfway through the meal, Albert Russell couldn't help but ask Hu Chuyuan: "Mr. Hu, in fact, I always have a question I want to ask you?" ”

Hu Chuyuan hummed and said, "Let's talk about it!" ”

Albert Russell continued: "Which industry do you think is the most promising for the present and the future? ”

Hu Chuyuan thought for a while and said: "Petroleum and electrical, followed by media and newspapers, why, does the Russell family also have any questions about this?" ”

Albert Russell nodded silently.

The state of affairs at this time is very interesting, in the eyes of Albert Russell and others, Hu Chuyuan is like Warren Buffett 130 years later, and the industries he sees will basically have very good prospects.

Albert Russell was very serious about asking him about finding a new way out for himself.

Hu Chuyuan can also generally feel that the Russell family is not short of funds, although they are far from being comparable to him, they still hold a certain amount of shares in the National Trust Savings Bank of America, Wanqi Foreign Bank, and United Railroad, and sell them at the current market price, which can roughly arbitrage 13 million US dollars.

This amount is indeed a truly huge asset in the United States today.

Hu Chuyuan thought more and more seriously, and after a long while, he continued with Albert Russell: "If it is my personal suggestion, I think medicine and the media will be the new direction of the Russell family. If you can, you should cash out your shares in United Railroad at an opportune time, and there is no longer any possibility of any larger expansion of the industry, and there will be no more windfall profits. In the chemical system of Wanqi Foreign Company, it is said that the washing and chemical industry will be operated by a separate company, and similarly, the pharmaceutical and medical devices will also be operated by a new company, and you can use Russell to operate. If the expansion of Wanqi's chemical industry is relatively smooth, I will gradually let you hold more shares on behalf of the Russell family. ”

Albert Russell was overjoyed and said, "Okay, that's exactly what I wanted!" ”

Hu continued: "With regard to the American News Newspaper Company, I admit that Mr. Pulitzer would be a very good operator, but his political stance is too strong, and that is not a good thing. Journalism, either [***], or no political axe, once you are biased towards political axe, it will lose readers. So, if you have a certain amount of shares, you can coordinate this issue with him. ”

Albert Russell nodded silently.

Hu Chuyuan pondered in his heart, and after a while, he added to Albert Russell: "After you return to China, you can set up two Wanqi laboratories in Oakland and New York at the same time, secretly study gunpowder and other military technology in Oakland, and chemical technology in New York, and we can cooperate with other companies for electrical and telegraph and telephone technology." I do know one thing, a person from the Gunpowder Bureau once told me that nitric acid water and cotton can also be combined to make gunpowder, and it burns smokeless. However, he only discovered it occasionally, and did not continue his research, so you find a reliable person to continue the experiment in the Wanqi laboratory in Auckland. ”

No way, that little story about smokeless gunpowder is so famous that even a technologically illiterate person like Hu Chuyuan knows a little.

Albert Russell nodded, quickly took out a pen, and wrote down the things Hu Chuyuan ordered in a notepad.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan didn't have anything special to say.

He doesn't need to say more, if Albert Russell can't do it, he will be managed by another person, it seems cruel, but this is business, this is business.

Albert Russell quickly got up to say goodbye, leaving Hu Chuyuan to continue to enjoy the tranquility of being alone.

After he left, Hu Chuyuan quietly drank morning tea, pondering in his heart.

He already had a clear idea of what to do with the American industry.

With the Wells Fargo Investment Bank in North America as the source, the Wells Fargo Bank and the Bank of America as the financial core, forming a solid Wells Fargo consortium, Carnegie Steel Corporation, Wanqi Foreign Bank, San Francisco Bay Company, and American News Newspaper Company are the four pillars.

The main supporter of Edison Electric is JP Morgan, and it is easy for Hu Chuyuan to want to buy a stake, but after that, he will always be in a weak position in the electrical field and cannot play the value of a dominant person.

So, he decided to look for a few of the best electrical engineers, and Wells Fargo was still the source and formed a new electrical company to compete with Edison Electric.

If Edison wanted to make bamboo light bulbs, he would make tungsten light bulbs, and if Edison wanted to make direct current, he would make alternating current.

If Edison dared to provoke alternating current in the media and slander alternating current, he would also attack it at any cost.

In addition, he wanted to conduct case studies of traditional Chinese medicine in the United States through Russell Pharmaceuticals to confirm the valid surnames of traditional Chinese medicines, and to distribute traditional Chinese medicine formulas through Russell Pharmaceuticals.

It is not enough to have one Qingyu Hall, Hu Chuyuan has set his sights on Tongrentang and Jiuzhitang.

He was thinking about these things, and there was a clatter of high heels in the corridor, and after a while, Wu Shuzhen walked into the garden with a faint smile and smiled with him: "Why are you thinking about it again, are you going to do it with whom?" ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled, asked her to sit over and drink a cup of tea with him, and then asked, "Have you eaten?" ”

Wu Shuzhen replied with a smile: "I originally wanted to eat with you, who knew that Albert was in such a hurry, came over early in the morning, I guess you will have to talk for a long time, so I drank a bowl of bean juice at Mr. Yan's place, and ate two fritters, which are so greasy, and I don't want to eat anything now." ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said: "His taste is heavy, the bean juice is fishy, and the fritter oil, I don't dare to eat it, let alone you!" ”

Wu Shuzhen chuckled and said, "I think the taste of bean juice is quite interesting, and I'm used to drinking it now." ”

Hu Chuyuan laughed and asked her, "You should have something to say when you come this time, right?" ”

Wu Shuzhen hummed and smiled sweetly: "Some time ago, through Mr. Butterfield, I found a new partner in the UK and opened a new Jetta advertising agency in London. As for you, who spent hundreds of thousands of pounds in advertising for tea and silk in the UK last year alone, why don't you leave these advertisements to me...... Fertilizer water does not flow into the fields of outsiders! ”

"Oh?"

Hu Chuyuan was noncommittal.

Actually, he doesn't want it to be like this, if others don't do well, he can change it, if Wu Shuzhen doesn't do well, what can he do?

After thinking about it, he said lightly: "You know how important these things are to me! ”

Seeing that he was so serious, Wu Shuzhen also nodded slightly seriously, but still smiled warmly, and said, "Of course I know, that's why I want to go next." I have already talked to my partner, and I didn't make money for the first five years, and I borrowed all the money for the business development of Jetta's London branch. ”

Hu Chuyuan silently continued to calculate in his heart, his current partner in the UK is the largest advertising agency in the United Kingdom, Messer Crowther, including the shares of his friend, the aristocratic banker Sir John Brooke.

A hasty break in the partnership was not conducive to his long-standing association with Sir John Brooke.

In fact, a number of textile companies and Swire International Shipping Company, which Swire has recently controlled in the UK, have also focused on advertising for Messeclaus.

Messer-Crowther is a very good British advertising agency, with a great influence in the British media industry, and is also one of the first advertising agencies in the United Kingdom.

They currently have very large advertising markets in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Edinburgh, and after reaching a lucrative advertising partnership with Hu Chuyuan, they quickly broke off the cooperative relationship with Indian tea merchants in accordance with the requirements of the contract, and began to comprehensively control and influence the media to promote Chinese tea.

According to Hu Chuyuan's planning and design, Swire & Co. merged with the British Tea Company and began to establish a direct sales system throughout the United Kingdom, which was divided into five varieties: black tea, white tea, black tea, green tea and flower tea, and launched three tea brands, namely Lefu, Runji and Zhenji, replacing the original traditional labels such as Chinese tea and Min tea.

Lefu is aimed at black tea, Runji is aimed at traditional black tea and green tea, while Zhenji operates green tea, flower tea and white tea, and there are three more high-end brands on top of the three brands: Centennial Lefu, Centennial Runji and Centennial Zhenji.

For the English language, "100 years" is a neologism, and the transliterated "panni" is used directly to flaunt the long history of the three brands.

The Messer-Crowther company gave a new direction to the promotion of tea, and black tea (oolong tea) was promoted as a man's tea, a soldier's tea, a steely tea, white tea as a noble tea, black tea as a healthy tea, green tea as a natural tea, a tea of thought, and a flower tea as a lady's tea.

It was also at Hu Chuyuan's suggestion that Messer-Crowther chose to hire different celebrity endorsements for each type of tea, and through its network in high society, it organized a large number of social activities, taking advantage of various opportunities to promote Chinese tea and the three major tea brands of Lefu, Runji and Zhenji.

Through this series of market differentiation, although in terms of cost, Chinese tea is still no match for Indian black tea, at the end of 1881, Chinese tea clearly began to rebound in the market, and sales have rebounded, and this year, this trend has become more pronounced.

Hu Chuyuan believes that Jetta does not have the ability to replace Messer-Crowther for the time being.

With this in mind, he said to Wu Shuzhen: "I don't need to change the advertiser for the time being, in fact, my relationship with Messer-Crowther may be very solid." ”

After a pause, he persuaded again: "The markets of the United States and China are already large enough, don't consider the expansion of the United Kingdom for the time being, you should do a good job of the American market first, and take into account China." When you have enough capital, it is most appropriate to simply merge with an advertising agency in the UK. ”

Wu Shuzhen could understand and smiled: "Okay, I know what you mean." Okay, I'll focus on the U.S. and Chinese markets first. But what about the partner over there, he's very keen to get your business, and I think he has a lot of ideas! ”

Hu Chuyuan didn't really care, and said, "You told him that Chinese do business about honesty and morality, and I am very satisfied with the existing advertisers, so I have no intention of changing advertisers." ”

Wu Shuzhen was quite helpless, in fact, she originally thought it was a matter of nine out of ten, but now she knows that in front of interests, Hu Chuyuan, a bastard, is also denied by his six relatives.

But what can she say, Hu Chuyuan is also the major shareholder of Jetta Foreign Bank.

"Okay!"

Wu Shuzhen can be regarded as a woman who can think of it, but she swallowed two sips of tea to dissipate her anger, and then continued to ask Hu Chuyuan: "Why didn't you mention Pan Limei before, I really didn't expect that you still hid a big beauty in your home in Hangzhou?" ”

"Oh......?"

Hu Chuyuan raised his eyebrows, and replied coldly: "The partner's daughter, because she is the only daughter in the family, let me train him for a few years." ”

"Really?"

Wu Shuzhen smiled evilly.

Damn, she actually learned to laugh evilly.

What do you mean!!

Hu Chuyuan couldn't figure it out in his heart.

(To be continued)