Although the last incident was just a false alarm, Yan Guang was still much more cautious when traveling in the future, and at the same time, the news that Yan Guang was almost kidnapped also spread all over Shanghai, making many people who had already set their eyes on Yan Guang scold those five guys for startling the snake.

can't run out at random like before, Yan Guang can only find an acquaintance to chat with in Shanghai, and the only people who can be called acquaintances in Shanghai are Richard and Charlie.

It's just that Richard is a captain, and although he has a certain amount of vacation after every run, it is not a coincidence that his vacation has ended. So after apologizing, Richard had no choice but to return to the ship with his new hat.

And Charlie? To be honest, the friendship with Yan Guang is not particularly deep, just because Yan Guang saved Richard and helped Jardine Matheson on the ship, so Charlie regards Yan Guang as a friend. It's just that Charlie is a manager after all, although he has been in Shanghai for a long time, he has a lot of things to do every day, but fortunately, Yan Guang is now a big customer of Jardine Matheson, so he can still take some time off...

Now, Yan Guang and Charlie are talking about what is the most profitable topic.

Because there are only less than two years left before the Xinhai Revolution, and although his entire net worth is now more than five million US dollars, it is still far from enough to join the revolution to fulfill his ideals...

"Well, the most profitable business is opium, opium is still very profitable..."

After hearing Yan Guang ask what business was the most profitable, Charlie touched his chin and said, although Jardine Matheson has not sold opium for decades, it still knows a lot about the opium market.

"If you don't do it, you can't do it if you kill it." You don't have to think about it.

Governor of Smoke? Opium handsome? Yan Guang might as well strangle himself to death...

"And the arms?"

"It costs money..."

"Textile?"

"I'm doing it now..."

The two of them rubbed their heads together, there are many ways to make money in this era, but there are too few that can make a lot of money.

"Can we only wait for the Shanghai stock boom two months later, put the money into it, and wait for him to become 10 million dollars?" Although the benefits of doing this are indeed very large, and the work is very simple, as long as you put money into it, and the time is also very short, you can wait until April, but...

Yan Guang always felt that he should have other options, other better options than playing stocks...

That's why Yan Guang wants to talk to Charlie, because he needs an external force to inspire this...

"Speaking of which, there is a more lucrative and more secure trade than opium, arms, textiles, and other things," said Charlie and glanced at Yan Guang. Stocks in London. ”

Yan Guang, who thought that Charlie could say something with a construction surname, covered his head and sighed.

Yan Guang once told Charlie about stocks, of course, he didn't tell him everything, but he just said that he had bought a large number of stocks in London, so he could take out more than one million to buy machinery at one time.

And Charlie, who had already heard how profitable London stocks were, kept looking at him with strange eyes after hearing about it, as if he was looking at a guy with a burnt head.

Well, in the eyes of others, Yan Guang is indeed a guy with a broken head, and he actually threw away all of them when the rubber stocks were making money. However, in Yan Guang's view, the stocks in London have reached their peak, and they can't go up if they are rising, so it is better to directly turn him into cash, and then invest it where it should be.

As for making money? In his opinion, the Shanghai stock market in 10 years is much crazier than London, and it has doubled directly in two months, and the London stock market was not crazy to this point when it was the craziest.

Of course, these things are not known to people like Charlie, they only know that Yan Guang is a guy with a bad head.

"Speaking of which, there is actually a very profitable way..."Just as Yan Guang sighed there, Charlie hesitated.

"Say..."Yan Guang, who already had no expectations for him, said casually.

Shaking his head, Charlie pulled out a few newspapers from his drawer.

"Oil."

Unlike later generations, the Middle East is not a major oil producer, so although oil was discovered in Persia (i.e., Iran) in '08, it was still a wasteland in the eyes of others.

This era is still the era of great oil exploration, and the main targets of exploration are the United States and Mexico...

In this era, the discovery of oil is like winning the lottery, as long as a usable oil well is discovered, then the person who discovered it can become a multimillionaire in an instant, but the price of the oil lottery is not cheap, in Mexico there are often people who want to win the lottery but in the end only get the price of bankruptcy...

"Oil..."After hearing these two words from Charlie's mouth, Yan Guang knew what inspiration he had always wanted.

Oil, Yan Guang knows, as long as he rubs a little soup on it, he can benefit himself endlessly, and it is not impossible to earn a few Nedahua-class ships a year.

Of course, looking for oil is not just a random place to find, first you need funds to buy land, how many people who want to find oil are blocked in front of this, but Yan Guang can now use more than five million US dollars, which is not too difficult for Yan Guang in this regard.

The real challenge is how to find the oil and how to get back safely after finding it...

Moreover, although Yan Guang had always been a student who didn't pay attention to lectures in his previous life, he still remembered a little about the Mexican oil fields, just as Persia discovered oil in 1908, and Mexico also discovered large oil fields in 1908...

"How many years has it been?" Thinking that it was the end of 1909, and for a while it was 1910, Yan Guang's head began to hurt.

Although he was already dead set on finding oil in Mexico, Yan Guang still flipped through the newspapers he asked for from Charlie.

It's just that after looking through it for a while, Yan Guang found a big problem, that is, there is nothing about the large oil fields in Mexico in the newspapers...

"It's strange, I remember that the oil field was discovered in the middle of 1908, why didn't it appear in the newspaper?" Because he couldn't figure this out, Yan Guang took these newspapers to Charlie's office.

However, the information from Charlie is that although there is indeed an oil fever in Mexico right now, at least no one has found any large oil fields in Mexico until now...

"This is really strange..."The newspaper in his hand was scattered on the ground, Yan Guang didn't know what his mood was now.

Perhaps, it can only be described with a classic line.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what kind of expression to use to face you at this moment."

"Just smile..."

So a very ugly smile appeared on Yan Guang's face.

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