A few bowls of daughter red actually made Long Qian drunk. When he returned home, he couldn't get on the horse, Ouyang Zhong, who came to pick him up, had to call a carriage, and Long Qian fell asleep after getting into the car, slept all the way back to the headquarters, and was helped back to the backyard by the adjutant and the guards, Chen Shu inevitably complained to Ouyang Zhong. Ouyang Zhong couldn't defend himself and took the responsibility. Heart, just a scholar can drink down the commander? Isn't that incredible?

When I woke up, the lights were already on in the house. Feeling that his mouth was so dry, a glass of water had been sent to his lips, and he drank it with a bang, which was much more comfortable, "Xie Lu Xie." He said to Chen Shu.

"You, always come with me. Is that Principal Xu massive? It's the first time I've seen you like this......"

"Some more water, it's going to be cold......"

"You kept talking in your dreams just now, what did you dream about?"

"Really? I can't remember exactly......"

"Don't do that again. Don't let others do this or that all day long, and don't shine a flashlight like you say, shining on others but not on yourself. ”

"The lesson is good, and I wrote it down for my husband. This drinking is really a mistake......"

"It's good to eat, will I bring it to you?"

"No, not anymore. You call Jiang Yun. ”

Chen Shu went out. Long Qian rubbed his cheeks vigorously, put on his shoes and went to the ground, Xu Si's face unconsciously flashed in his mind...... I thought I had been reborn, but in fact it was far from ...... Xu Si is not Qin Xinruo...... Chen Shu said it well, even if it was a dream, the reality is that in the great changes of the late Qing Dynasty, after painstaking management, he already has a good foundation...... I heard the voice of my wife and Jiang Yun. Long Qian rubbed Fa Mu's cheeks again, and his thoughts became clear.

"What does the commander command?" Jiang Yun, who was dressed in civilian clothes, came in and saluted Long Qian.

"Sit down. The work of Shandong University Hall should be strengthened. There is a professor named Qiu Muchun, who should be from Sun Wen's department, you first secretly find out the origin of this person, as well as his social relations. These people began to infiltrate the army......"

"Understood."

"Don't alarm him."

"Cao Minzhong's side, is the commander explaining?"

Jiang Yun kept trying to catch the reconnaissance inside, but Long Qian sternly refused. Reconnaissance control of the Mengshan Army was handed over to Cao Minzhong's Judge Advocate Advocate General's Office, which more than doubled its personnel since taking over this function.

"Internally, you don't interfere." Long Qian said coldly. "It's not that I don't trust you. It is for the long-term peace and stability of our community. By the way, when will Yang Shixiang arrive? ”

"It should be two or three days later."

"Did he leave Beijing with his family?"

"There is no news from the Beijing station yet."

"By the way, have you eaten?"

"I was about to eat, and my sister-in-law passed."

"Okay. You tell Ouyang. Let him inform Lao Song and David. And Situ, I'll meet here in half an hour, including you. By the way, bring something to eat. I haven't eaten dinner yet, and I'm a little hungry right now. ”

Long Qian's dispatch of Song Jinguo and David and his son to the United States was a decisive action. The most suitable person to do this is Long Qian himself, but he really can't leave. It's not a matter of three or five days, it takes twenty days just to cross the Pacific.

Song Jinguo, Liu Xiaoqi and Di Wen father and son brought several tasks, which were not easy. The simple task was to expand Huamei's business scope and continue to purchase machining equipment, which was relatively easy to accomplish. After Huayuan Company merged with Shandong Machinery Bureau to establish Xinhuayuan, Huamei Company held 25% of the shares, which is one of the major shareholders, so that Xinhuayuan continued to bring the brand of the American-funded company, and purchased general machining equipment, turning, milling, planing, grinding, boring, drilling and other machine tools are not restricted, not to mention that there are also American-funded brands left there. After repeated research with Xu Jianyin, Zhou Xuexi and others, in order to make Xinhuayuan have the ability to produce general weapons, the demand for machine tools is huge.

The rest is more difficult, one is to get Huamei to cooperate with two well-known American consortiums, and the second is to expand the capital of Zebra, a company registered in Switzerland, to set up a laboratory, and to recruit experts to explore the kind of new drugs that Long Qian describes as miraculous in solving anti-inflammatory properties.

Long Qian does not have many trump cards in his hands, and there are four companies in the United States that he is considering cooperating, that is, Rockefeller, Morgan, Ford and DuPont. Although these companies are not as famous as they were a hundred years later (Rockefeller was dismembered by the antitrust law), they are already giants in the industrial and financial worlds, and they may not be as big as a consortium, but they definitely show the atmosphere of a consortium.

In addition to this, Long Qian gave them the task of buying a manufacturing license for the Manchester shotgun in the name of Huamei.

Shandong has oil, and Long Qian knows very well that if he plays this card, eighty percent will attract the bloodthirsty Rockefeller consortium. However, at present, Shandong's industrial foundation is too poor, and it is too dangerous to get oil in advance, and it will even subvert its own foundation in Shandong, so it vetoed the cooperation with Rockefeller.

The Morgan consortium took control of Wall Street and now mainly plays with stocks, underwriting Treasury bonds. Morgan will enter steel and railroad in the future, and it seems that there is no basis for cooperation.

Long Qian's eyes were fixed on Ford and DuPont. This is also what he told Song Jinguo and David. Song Jinguo has never seen the world, and the largest city he has ever visited is Jinan. But there must be a trustworthy person to grasp the total of this trip. The specific negotiation liaison depends on the Diwen father and son. But the old Diwen is basically a mercenary businessman, and in the past two years, he has "loved" China because he has given him shares in several companies. However, his son David has always shown loyalty to the Mengshan Army, and the young American seems to have made up his mind to tie his life to the Mengshan Army, a new armed group.

Ford was playing with his car, and at this time, the Model T that laid the foundation of Ford's life had not yet come out, but Long Qian knew very well that this famous car, which had been selling well for decades and almost monopolized the family car market, so he brought David a drawing of the Model T, marking the main performance data. We hope to use this design to get a partnership with Ford. As for DuPont, Long Qian didn't know where DuPont was currently standing, but it was a promising company that led the way in explosives and chemicals. Although it can produce explosives by itself, the scale is very small. It simply cannot meet the needs of the future. The need is not only for the military, but also for the civilian market. If DuPont can take a stake and promote DuPont's investment in Shandong, it will play a key role in the military industry that Long Qian has made great efforts to build.

There must be something to impress these shrewd and bloodthirsty capitalists, otherwise they will not take care of a newly established Huamei company.

Long Qian's knowledge is concentrated in military history, and because of his personal hobby, he can barely say something professional about the development of automobiles. So, he racked his brains and gave David and Song Jinguo a formula for quick-drying paint, and asked them to fool DuPont, which takes chemicals as its core product.

And then there's the airplane. Long Qianzhi Dao, early twentieth century. The Wright brothers will invent the airplane. Now there is no appearance, he knows nothing. Finding the Wright brothers and co-registering an aircraft manufacturing company with them was one of the tasks given to them by Long Qian.

Song Jinguo and the others had been gone for more than half a year, and Long Qian was anxiously waiting for their news. It wasn't until early April that Lao Song and David returned to Jinan from Shanghai, and Long Qian finally got the fruits of their trip.

The results exceeded his imagination. For this result. The most surprised person was not Long Qian himself. It was Di Wen's father and son and Song Jinguo.

Huamei officially bought a three-story office building in New York. Hang out the brand of their own company, increase the registered capital by 2 million US dollars, and expand the recruitment of relevant business personnel. This company, which has been established for less than three years, looks like a powerful company. And that's not all, the key is the collaboration with Ford and DuPont, which surprised the Divines and sons.

A drawing in exchange for a 5% stake in Ford Motors? The additional condition is that Ford will have a right of first refusal to subscribe for shares after Huamei Machinery's listing, but not more than 25% of the total share capital. But Ford actually didn't have the strength to buy Huamei at all, because it was still very weak.

Divins and sons, along with Song and Liu, did not understand what the Model T meant to Ford.

In 1902, the genius mechanic and founder of the Ford Company, Henry . Ford developed the "999" brand car, which won the national competition and set a new national record.

On June 15, 1903, the Ford Motor Company was founded in Lansing, the capital of Michigan, with a nominal capital of only $100,000 and 12 shareholders. In that year, the Ford-designed "A" model went into production.

Ford has an ambitious plan to gradually introduce B and C cars in alphabetical order. When Song Jinguo approached Ford, Ford had just been founded, and his Model B was still in the testing stage, and with his genius-like intuition for automobiles, Ford immediately saw the glorious future of the Model T. Because this car with a simple design and an appearance beyond his perception is so beautiful! The point is that Ford Motor Company can build it.

Ford rejected the follow-up investment of Huamei, and the shrewd old Ford was actually more willing to spend money on this genius design, but the old Divin's offer was too high, so he had no choice but to accept the old Divin's proposal and exchange 5% of the shares for the drawing.

For Song Jinguo to choose, he would definitely sell the drawings for cash instead of shares. But old Divine persuaded him, and the commander did confess, and strive to get the shares of Ford Motor, the more the better.

Huamei had money, and that money was remitted to Huamei Machinery through the newly established Jinyuan Bank through Citibank in Shanghai. Song Jinguo, who has been in charge of the logistics of the Mengshan Army for a long time, knows the value of funds, but this time when he came to the United States, in addition to buying the general machinery of the American side to make him feel at ease, this kind of inexplicable transaction in his opinion is too empty, but it is not as clear as Liu Xiaoqi's understanding.

"Director, if Ford is developed, we will make a lot of money!" Liu Xiaoqi, who is almost self-taught, explained. When he came to the United States this time, he was amazed by countless new things, no wonder the commander knew so much.

Song Jinguo participated in a series of work on the establishment of shares in Huayuan and ZTE, and he was no stranger to shares, but he was worried about being deceived. But Lao Diwen's insistence dispelled his doubts, "They are all very regular companies, how can they be greedy for our money?" Then they're finished! Prison is light! ”

For the cognition of the law, Song Jinguo was even more backward.

After finishing the Ford business, they approached DuPont again.

DuPont's experience is even more peculiar. With a recipe for a paint, it sold for a whopping $300,000. This is not counting, after all, Lao Diwen's business vision is not comparable to his son David, let alone the earth bun Song Jinguo. When negotiating with DuPont about the formula of quick-drying spray paint, Old Devon found an opportunity and persuaded several companions to successfully make Huamei Machinery a partner of DuPont.

Here's the thing. In 1902, DuPont President Eugene Brown Brown DuPont died, the company fell into civil unrest, and the partners decided to withdraw their shares, losing confidence in the company. Alfred, who was kicked out of the family for bad deeds, joined his cousins Coleman and cousin Pierre to buy the family company for $12 million. Coleman owns 43,000 shares, Alfred owns 24,000 shares, Pierre owns 21,600 shares and the rest of the family owns 33,000 shares.

David Sr. took the opportunity to buy 11,000 shares of DuPont from members of the DuPont family in the name of Huamei, becoming the fourth largest shareholder of DuPont, for which it cost about $1.09 million. Coleman, Alfred and Pierreburn, the three great-grandsons who control DuPont's current founder, are reluctant to be on the company's board of directors, but they can't resist the large sums of cash in the hands of Huamei Machinery. After taking over the family business, they decided to expand the company's business, and in 1902 they established the Eastern Laboratory to conduct research on new projects. In 1903, they established a central laboratory at the old site along the brandy river in Delaware, and used the company's experience in chemical fibers to conduct research on new products. The extreme hunger for funds made them quickly unify their understanding and decided to transfer about 10% of the share capital to Huamei Machinery, so that Lao Diwen successfully entered the board of directors of DuPont and became a full member of the board of directors.

After the events in the United States were over, Song Jinguo and David returned to China. Lao Diwen and Liu Xiaoqi went to Switzerland to continue their mission.

Song Jinguo was suspicious of investing in DuPont, this is a million yuan of white ocean, just give it to these foreigners to toss? But in the end, Lao Song still agreed to the deal. Worried about being criticized by Long Qian when he came back, who knew that Lu Dao was highly praised, saying that what this million oceans brought back would be 10 million or even 100 million!

The results of Song Jinguo's trip to the United States were still highly classified in the Mengshan Army. Long Qian recruited a few cronies, not to study how to digest the results of Song Jinguo's trip to the United States, but to discuss how to deal with the new governor of Shandong, Yang Shixiang. (To be continued......)