"Uncle, what's wrong? Look at you upset. Do you want to order a drink? David once gave him a few bottles of wine, and I think he sometimes drank a little. You want to taste it? Chen Shu saw that her uncle suddenly became preoccupied.

"Oh," Chen Chao didn't hear his niece's words clearly in a trance.

There was a knock on the door.

Chen Xian got up and opened the door, "Oh, say Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived." ”

Outside the door stood David.

"Hey, it's raining so hard, what are you running around? He's not here. Chen Shu greeted.

David put away the yellow oil-paper umbrella and stood outside the door, "I know that Commander Lu Dao is not here." I'm here to eat mixed rice. The food over there was so unpalatable that Camp Commander Ye didn't come...... Oh, where is Mr. Chen? David Fang saw Chen Chao.

Someone who is used to it. Chen Chao pointed to the vacant seat opposite, "Sit down, aren't you accompanying Lord Futai?" ”

"I'm not with you. There are too many rules for your officials, and I can't stand it. David shook his head in an old-fashioned manner.

"Ha Lu Ha. Just right, accompany me for a drink of the foreign bar you brought. ”

"I'm sorry, I didn't bring wine...... "David rubbed his hands in embarrassment.

"It's the wine you gave him before! Are you still polite here? Chen Chaozhi said that David almost regarded this place as his home, and since Chen Shu got married, David has always called her sister-in-law. And Chen Shu really regarded this foreign guy as his younger brother.

"Ah, haven't you finished drinking yet?" David sniffed the aroma wafting from the kitchen, "Oh, it smells so good. Braised pork was eaten again. ”

Sister-in-law Zhang's best thing is not braised pork, but a variety of delicate and elegant side dishes. It's all about color, flavor, and flavor. Chen Chao regretted that he let go of such a good cook. It's not that he didn't have the idea of keeping Sister-in-law Zhang at home. A widow who is not much younger than herself, and she is so beautiful. Worried about You's vinegar. He promised not to take a concubine back then. It's no problem to get to my son-in-law. So Sister-in-law Zhang was sent to Longfu, so Chen Chao often missed Sister-in-law Zhang's preparation of those side dishes.

"Look at your unproductive look! I've seen the world. Chen Xian ridiculed David.

"After eating Sister-in-law Zhang's dishes, I can't eat other dishes...... David took the wine bottle that Chen Shu took with a smile, unscrewed the cap, and poured Chen Chao a glass first, "Second Miss, do you want to have a little too?" ”

"Hey, my brother-in-law doesn't pay attention to eating, you're too energetic. When you were living in Mengshan, didn't you even eat salt for a while? Chen Xian handed over a glass. David has described more than once the hard days of Mengshan's army, but now it has become Chen Xian's handle.

"Of course, it's better if you have the conditions. The commander said that consumption stimulates production is the truth...... "David said hard-mouthed. But I also have to admire Long Qian. Even now. Long Qian eats at home only a handful of meals a week, most of the time in the army's canteen, and with the soldiers.

David poured half a glass of wine for Chen Xian and handed it to Chen Xian.

"Girl's home. What to drink! Chen Chao glared at his daughter.

"Mr. Chen. I salute you......" David grinned and stood up to toast.

"I don't have that many rules." Chen Chao and David touched the cup. Take a sip, "Ah, it doesn't taste right." ”

"Whiskey. It's one of our best wines. David threw his neck up and drank the full cup. Grab the chopsticks and go to pick up the vegetables.

"American stuff is good. But this wine is not as good as our second pot. ”

"That's what you can't get used to. It's good to get used to it. Chinese wine is too powerful, high in strength, and not good for the body. ”

Although it was not the first time for Sister-in-law Zhang to see David, she still looked curiously at this foreigner who had become a guest on Long Qian's seat.

"Forget it. I'd better keep it for you. Shu'er, bring our wine. ”

"David, I think you should ask for a Chinese wife." Chen Xian said with a grin.

"Xiaoxian!" Chen Chao shouted. He felt that his daughter was getting worse and worse, a big girl to be married, and it was just a matter of dining at the same table with foreigners, how could he talk about marriage?

Chen Xian stuck out her tongue and lowered her head.

Chen Shu smiled, "That's what Xiaoxian said. I think let your commander help you find a Chinese girl. Anyway, you are already Chinese. "Really, Chen Shu really regards David as her brother.

"That's a good idea. However, the first thing is to be pretty, and the second is not to bind your feet......" David said with a smile.

Chen Chao's two daughters (he has always regarded Chen Shu as his own daughter) do not bind their feet, but it has become an advantage. The generals of the Mengshan Army have married a lot in the past two years, and they actually took Tianzu as the first choice, which led to the change of the folk customs in southern Lunan. I don't know if Lu Dao was influenced by Long Qian...... Chen Chao couldn't help but ask, "David, does Ling Zun agree with you marrying a Chinese daughter-in-law?" ”

"Of course. My dad already loved it. In addition, my father was going back to China to recruit people and buy some equipment and patents, and by the way, my mother was brought in. At that time, the house over there in Yanzhou was also built. ”

"Really? That's great. When will your father return home? ”

"Mr. Artur's new drug has been successful, and it will probably be ...... after the new drug rolls off the assembly line"

Lao Diwen (David's father) is the director of Zhongxing Pharmaceutical Factory and one of the partners, now Yanzhou. Artur, on the other hand, is a medical expert recruited by Old Diwen from Bayer in Germany, a Jew, and is now the head of technology at Zhongxing Pharmaceutical Factory.

The new drug David was talking about was the most common aspirin in later generations. When Artur came to China, the Jew said that aspirin was not an invention of the German Hoffmann, but his own. Hoffman completely plagiarized his own research results and experimental methods. However, in order to reduce the trouble, Lao Diwen still purchased the relevant patents. After nearly a year of hard work, the kind of small pills that have miraculous effects in antipyretic and analgesic are about to be rolled off the production line.

Chen Chao had heard about it. However, he did not believe in foreign medicines. However, Long Qian attaches great importance to this, and this month alone, he has already made two trips to Yanzhou......

Chen Chao didn't care too much about the pharmaceutical factory, but Chen Chao was quite interested in David's marriage, "David, you know that Chinese girls may not be willing to marry a foreigner......"

"I'm confident. Didn't they think of me as a youkai? Now the girls at the company can talk to me. ”

"Ha Luha, that's right. All right. I hope you find a beautiful Chinese girl to be a Chinese son-in-law. Chen Chao remembered David's father, Lao Diwen, an old man with a somewhat strange personality, who had almost disappeared from the depression caused by reading books and newspapers just now, "David, when I see Ling Zun again, I must tell him about your marriage." Count your age, it's time to get married! ”

"Oh yes, I eat wine almost once a month. Oh, it's just that my wallet is a little overwhelmed. So, I'm going to have to get it back in the same way. ”

Chen Chao's father and daughter laughed.

"Speaking of marriage." Chen Chao slapped his shiny head violently. "A few days ago, your second uncle sent a letter to marry a daughter-in-law in the ninth day of Deqing. Xiaoxian, you can accompany your mother on a trip. I just can't leave. Chen Chao said to Chen Xian.

"The ninth day of the first month?" Chen Xian counted the days, "People have to ask for leave." ”

"Please, please. Your mother is not at ease when she goes back alone. Your sister can't leave. ”

"Okay then." Chen Xian agreed. The second uncle is Chen Xian's maternal uncle, and You Deqing is Chen Xian's maternal cousin. He lives in Yanzhou. At the beginning, the You family was also a big family. Later it declined. Now the Chen family has become the first in Lunan. It is not okay not to go back, it will make relatives say that the father is complacent.

"The day of Deqing is set," Chen Shu muttered. "Remember to come over. Take my congratulatory gift with you. Chen Shu really wanted to go back to her hometown, but Zhenhua was too young, and although the season was good and suitable for going out, it was still inconvenient.

David thought of his father in Yanzhou, and his father's comments about China. Lately, my father has complained a lot less. Of course, the whining was private, such as to David. The hygiene is so bad that you can't take a hot shower or eat ice cream. But David knew that his father was not in a position to complain. The law of a businessman is a contract, and if the other party abides by the contract, your investment is or is being rewarded, you have nothing to complain about. The American company was merged by Huamei, but the business was transferred to Zebra, which he had established. But the shares owned by the Devon family in Huamei and Zebra are greatly profitable! If we take into account the prospect of Huamei, the investment of the Devon family, which dates back to David's visit to China, was guided by the merciful and almighty God to revitalize the family business.

Lost control of your company? What's the matter, my own company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Without Huamei's merger, Diwen's small pharmaceutical company would have been auctioned off by the court to pay off its debts. My father's assets were all in the pharmaceutical factory, and as the pharmaceutical factory went bankrupt, so did the family.

At a critical moment, David returned to the United States.

David didn't want to return to China in the first place. Mengshanjun was recruited, but he was sent back to the United States by Long Qian. Staying in the fiery Mengshan army, the days are full and happy. But when he boarded the ship back home, the longing for his parents instantly overwhelmed him. After two months of wandering in the Pacific Ocean, he finally returned to his homeland. When he returned home in New York, Fang knew that the road had changed dramatically in the two years he had been away. My father's small pharmaceutical company was on the verge of bankruptcy and had been sued by creditors in court. My mother was hospitalized with asthma. Although he had received the news from diplomatic channels that he had been rescued safely in China, the excitement of his parents to see him still made him feel deeply guilty.

He reported to his parents about his trip to China and the great changes that had taken place in China. My uncle had died at the hands of the mob, and if it weren't for God's favor, I am afraid that he would not have survived. David focused on his life in the Mengshan Army, how he went from fear, anger, and curiosity to falling in love with that army, how that army fought from weak to strong, and about the experience and character of Long Qian, whom he regarded as his brother, and confessed that he had been inspired by God that that army was his destination. The old Diwen and his wife listened patiently to their son's lecture until David explained that this time he was assigned by Long Qian to come to the United States and even Europe to carry out a series of business operations.

In the United States of America, where business is extremely strong and the laws are sound, it is easy to register and acquire a company. The premise is that the funds are in place. But the elder Diwen was deeply skeptical of his son's description.

Originally from Germany, the elder is a Protestant, and it has been almost 200 years since his first generation of ancestors left Europe to come to the United States, and he has never heard such a bizarre story. The bandit leader of an ancient country in the Far East, Old Divin, forgot that the people David said had become government troops, and would trust a young American to transfer a large amount of money to the United States?

Old Divine is quite adventurous in his bones, otherwise he would not have given birth to a son like David. Leave nothing else. Old Divine heard an opportunity to revive the family business, didn't the Chinese born in San Francisco ask you to register a company? What are you going to do? Where does the money come from?

David talked about Long Qian's plan. Of course, the money has to be transferred from China. But this one is not easy. However, a number of banks have been opened in China by Western countries, and there are many American-funded banks. Transferring funds is not difficult. Forty days later, the first $400,000 was remitted to the designated account.

In another 100 years, $400,000 may not be a big number. The tycoons of that ancient country in the far East would not even hesitate to buy luxury cars worth millions of dollars or more. But now in the twentieth century, $400,000 is undoubtedly a lot of money! According to the ratio of the U.S. dollar to the Kuping silver clearly stipulated in the Xinchou Treaty signed the year before, one tael of Kuping silver is converted to 0.742 US dollars, and the purchasing power of one tael of silver will be about 260 yuan after a hundred years. Convert it to this. 400,000 US dollars is equivalent to 140 million yuan = 22.6 million US dollars in later generations!

The money went into the account, and Old Diwen's suspicions naturally disappeared. The first feeling is that I am greedy for this money! The other side is not an American citizen who is good at litigation, and China and the United States are separated by the vast Pacific Ocean, will they come to the United States to recover the whereabouts of this money? If it's from the Old World. Old Divine would not have such a greedy thought. But what kind of country is China? Ignorant and backward. The woman is wrapped in her little feet. The man dragged a ridiculous pig's tail, and it is said that the illiteracy rate is as high as 90% or more, and the US government's Chinese Exclusion Act has not yet been canceled. What can they do to get into trouble for themselves? What's more. China's capital had just been opened by the coalition forces, and among the coalition forces attacking Beijing were American troops. David, the Long Qian you said may have died a long time ago! With this money, the pharmaceutical factory will be alive in no time!

As soon as Old Divin's words were finished, David became angry! You are the most shameless plunder, ten times more shameless than a robber! I can't believe you're going to have such a scoundrel thought! God will punish you severely! Long Qian won't die, he still has countless big things to do. Don't forget, he was born and raised in the United States! Only I can move this money, and you have to understand this!

Old Devon had never seen his son so furious. What did this trip to China give him? Old Divin flinched, it was just a thought.

Lao Diwen suppressed his evil thoughts and began to plan to use this business opportunity to revitalize the family business. For business operations, Lao Diwen is much better than his son who ran out of the city just after college. He immediately came up with a plan to sell his story to the Chinese. Isn't he going to buy a pharmaceutical factory? Yes, our pharmaceutical factory will sell it to them for 400,000 yuan.

"No! Where is your broken factory worth 400,000? Besides, the Commander's request is to register a mechanical company here, and his top priority is electricity and steel! David didn't budge.

Lao Diwen finally registered Huamei Machinery Company according to his son's request and began to contact business. However, Lao Diwen still took advantage of this opportunity brought by God, and packaged his pharmaceutical factory with two worthless patents into Huamei Machinery, which was registered by his son, and occupied 10% of the equity of Huamei Company, and paid off the debt with the cash exchanged. When the follow-up funds were in place, Lao Diwen came up with the idea of starting a business in China.

Long Qian's plan is to acquire and purchase machinery and patents in the United States, and to do a pharmaceutical business in Switzerland. I don't know what Lu Dao is doing, he ignores the fact that the Diwen family runs a pharmaceutical factory, if you talk about the achievements in medicine, although Switzerland has a good strength, but the United States is stronger. David didn't understand Long Qian's intentions, but David still honestly followed Long Qian's plan and started the operation, doing his homework on the United States first. Small power plants, steel mills, and general machining machines are not a problem at all, and the U.S. government has been encouraging investment in China in the hope of getting a slice of the roughly divided Chinese market between Britain, France, and Japan. Therefore, after the funds from the Chinese side have been put in place, it is quite popular to buy equipment with cash, and there is almost no difficulty. Negotiations with Carnegie, which has been merged into U.S. Steel, have been very smooth. Huamei Machinery Company became the first American-funded company to invest in Lunan, and this matter also attracted the attention of the U.S. Embassy in China, and Mr. Smith, Commercial Counselor, personally went to Shandong.

After all this was done, David was in a hurry to return to China, and the elder Divine went to Switzerland to register a zebra company. A chemical plant capable of producing explosives was purchased and the equipment was sent to China. Then he made two trips to the United States and Europe, recruiting a group of technicians and technical researchers who were willing to venture to China, including the German company Bayer. Aichengreen.

It was already the summer of 1902 when the elder Divine came to China to reunite with his son. Construction of a pharmaceutical and chemical plant has already begun in Yanzhou. Old Diwen finally met the Chinese general who made his son admire so much, and talked with him all night, and he was fascinated by the industrial layout that the other party had unfolded and the prospects depicted, as the Chinese general said, a blank sheet of paper is good to draw the latest and most beautiful picture, and it is precisely because of China's backwardness and poverty that Mr. Divin's investment will get the most abundant return.

Lao Diwen was appointed as the director of the pharmaceutical factory and was paid a generous salary. He immediately discovered that the army that his son admired was not at all what he had imagined, well-armed and well-trained, without the pig's tail dragging behind his head. Two prefectures in the southern part of Shandong Province are completely under its control. In particular, General Long Qian had a flexible mind and far-sightedness, and had a unique insight into the situation in the world. Under his leadership, Lunan is undergoing astonishing changes, not only a large number of enterprises have been established, but also urban construction and road traffic have specific plans, and the scene is just like the development of the western United States in the past. Old Diwen was instructed to contact the United States and Europe, and received the important task of obtaining talents, skills and equipment from there, which was a task that Old Diwen was willing to accept, and it was a great difference in oil and water. At the suggestion of Long Qian, the chairman of Huamei Company also took over from his son to himself and became the legal representative of Huamei Machinery. As long as he can earn money, Old Diwen is even willing to work for the devil, not to mention that his employer is a civilized person.

With a strong interest in Long Qian, when he returned to the United States for the second time, Old Diwen made a special trip to San Francisco to find the school where Long Qian studied, and to his surprise, there was no Long Qian's name there at all, and there was not even such a Chinese who studied there! San Francisco is a city where Chinese gather, but according to the information revealed by Long Qian's chat with him, the church on that street was found, and no information was found. The birth and death of Americans depend on the management of the church, and there are perfect records, and the information of an American family will not be lost, even if he is Chinese! What does this mean? It must have been Long Qian who concealed his whereabouts in the United States. He did not doubt that Long Qian had lived in the United States, because an authentic Chinese would not have the same understanding of American politics, economy, science and technology and even diplomacy as General Long Qian, let alone the civilization habits that he could not conceal, which was not possessed by a native Chinese, which Old Diwen saw very clearly.

This mystery was told to his son by old Divin, but David did not care. (To be continued......)