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In addition to Wu Peifu, little Kadoorie did not forget to visit the direct boss Cao Kun. Cao Kun is a better talker than Wu Peifu, he is a person who can talk about anything as long as there is interest.

Or rather, he's a more sleek man.

No matter how bad the perception of the Beiyang government's elites was, little Kadoorie still enthusiastically dealt with them, publicized Nanhua, portrayed Nanhua as a paradise for investment, and encouraged wealthy people in Beijing and Tianjin to invest in Nanhua, which was also somewhat effective.

There are a large number of powerful people in Beijing and Tianjin, they are all rich people, but they do not invest in industry, they are keen to buy houses in the concession, speculate in real estate, and live a superior life as second-class citizens.

Either they went home and bought the land, they were very conservative, preferring to hide their money under their beds rather than deposit it in the bank, believing only in what they could see - land and silver.

They collected a large number of Beiyang bureaucrats who were in office and went to the Tianjin Concession to work as dukes. In the case of a bad investment environment, the publicity of the Meihua Company still aroused a little interest from these people.

The land in Nanhua is cheap and the products are abundant, and for large families with a population of dozens or hundreds, it is also a good choice to divide some people to go to Nanhua.

So Xiaoxiaodi, in the idle Beiyang Apartment in Beijing and Tianjin, set off a small wave of investment in land in Nanhua. Of course, most people will not leave for Nanhua lightly, and perhaps only the less important members of the family will go to Nanyang.

Little Kadoorie hummed a song and returned to the Beijing branch of Meihua Company, and heard Lin Yimin call him.

"Seeing you're in a good mood, things should be going well, right?" Lin Yimin said with a smile.

"Not bad. They asked for all the goods, and they also promised to facilitate Nanhua's recruitment in China. Little Kadoorie said lightly.

"That's good." Lin Yimin nodded.

"By the way, some of my compatriots, they want to go to South China, do they welcome them in New Tangshan?" Little Kadoorie asked cautiously.

"No problem." Lin Yimin said briskly, except for the Japanese, Nanhua welcomes everyone to immigrate to Nanhua. "But can you be specific?"

"Well, they escaped from Russia. You know that Russia is in chaos right now, and a large number of White Russians are pouring into Shanghai, Harbin and other cities, and some of them are Jews. They wanted to go to a place of peace and stability. ”

Little Kadoorie looked at Lin Yimin with some expectation, and a trace of sadness suddenly surged in his heart. The Chinese in South China established their own country and were no longer bullied, while the fate of the Jews who wandered for thousands of years continued.

The White Russians who can flee should all be propertied classes or intellectuals, and they should be able to bring scarce capital and technology to South China.

"I think New Tangshan will welcome them, and they will have a bright future." Lin Yimin nodded and advised, "But you still have to be cautious." I'm a little worried about people coming out of Russia. ”

"Hmm. I'll have an idea. Little Kadoorie said, "By the way, a few days ago there was a man who seemed to be interested in us, and he said that there was something he wanted to talk to us about. ”

"Oh? Who? Lin Yimin couldn't help but be interested when he saw Little Kadoorie's serious appearance.

"An old man named Fu Tian seems to be a remnant of the previous dynasty." Kadoorie Jr. said.

Lin Yimin was a little strange, they had never had a relationship with the remnants of the previous dynasty, and they didn't know why the person named Fu Tian was looking for Nanhua.

"It doesn't hurt to meet him." Lin Yimin nodded. ??????

"Sure enough, it's an old man!" Lin Yimin looked at the long braid in front of him. Fu Tian, who wore most of the horse coat and melon skin hat, reacted immediately.

The other party is really old, and his back is slightly rickety. The eye sockets are deep, and the face is full of wrinkles, as if there is a breath of death.

To Lin Yimin's secret surprise, the other party's eyes were very calm, as if they were hiding deep exhaustion, as soon as they closed their eyes, they fell asleep forever, and they seemed to have seen through all kinds of things in the world, and then waited for the last moment of their lives with peace of mind.

The old and the young sat quietly like this. Look.

After a while, Fu Tian spoke: "Previously, I was a little curious about how Han immigrants could create a new world in Nanyang. Now, it seems that some of the answers are seen in you. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Lin Yimin asked with a smile.

"Confident, positive, and as if you can burst out with amazing energy at any moment." Fu Tian said lightly. Lin Yimin's self-confidence and calmness are not possessed by many young people now. He has been paying attention to Meihua for a long time, and the great changes that have taken place in Nanyang in the past year have changed his view of the past.

"Sir, I wonder what you are looking for us?" Lin Yimin said directly.

Fu Tian pondered for a while and asked, "I heard that you guys are not good to the Japanese?" ”

"The Chinese are not good to them." Lin Yimin said, a little puzzled in his heart, why did this old immortal ask like this? Does he have a grudge against the Japanese?

"Oh!" Fu Tian responded, silent, and his thoughts seemed to sink again.

Lin Yimin felt impatient, and Fu Tian's ethereal voice sounded in his ears: Great chaos and great governance, five hundred years of reincarnation. The country is going to be in chaos, and maybe there will be a big rule, but I can't see it, but I have some regrets in my heart, and if I don't say anything, I will be taken to the coffin. ”

"Sir, let's talk about it." Lin Yimin said with a straight face, pricked up his ears, and listened carefully to the words of this old man who seemed to be slow in everything.

"I participated in the First Sino-Japanese War, and a lot of people died at that time, but I survived. I was a nobleman, and I was later entrusted with important tasks, but I was unable to save the Qing Dynasty.

The New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Imperial Cabinet, and then Xinhai came, Yuan Shikai also got up, struggled, and the last one was empty, the general trend of the world really can't be changed for manpower! ”

Fu Tian sighed, inadvertently closing his eyes, as if caught in the memories of the past. There was a wry smile on his lips, I don't know whether to laugh at others or laugh at myself, and I wonder if it is a satire of this world.

It turned out to be a frustrated former dynasty magnate! Lin Yimin sneered in his heart. What is this Fu Tian going to do? Lin Yimin was puzzled, so he continued to listen.

"I'm going to make a deal with you."

"What deal?"

"I want you to help me kill the Japanese!" Fu Tian suddenly opened his eyes and shot out a cold light, as if hatred was burning, which made Lin Yimin's heart sink.

"Which Japanese? And, what a price you can pay! Lin Yimin asked, hearing that he was going to kill the Japanese, his attitude towards Fu Tian changed a little, and he felt that this was a bloody man, at least not like other old and young people who hated Han people. thinks that the Han rebelled and took away their country.

"The more the merrier, it's better to kill them all!" Fu Tian gritted his teeth and said, "I will tell you a secret." The secrets of the treasure. ”

"I'm sorry, I'm not interested in your secrets." Lin Yimin refused.

Hatred and disgust of the Japanese does not mean that he has to take radical measures against the other party, although in his heart he agrees with the idea of this old madman named Fu Tian, but this idea is not practical.

"I know your concerns. All I need is a promise from you, and I hope that when the demon's butcher's knife ravages this land in the future, you can make a difference, which is my last bit of heart for this country. ”

There was a hint of hope in Fu Tian's eyes.

The old guy seemed to have met something. It's a bit ridiculous to suddenly explain what happened to a stranger to himself. However, the other party's request is reasonable.

"Why me?" Lin Yimin asked.

"I can't find anyone else, and no one else can be trusted." Fu Tiandao seemed to have identified Lin Yimin.

"Alright! What the future holds, no one can guarantee. To be sure, there are some things that don't have you. We will do it too. Lin Yimin said resolutely.

Xindao: This old man may really find a lot of others, right? Perhaps, this has something to do with Nanhua's transcendent status.

"Thank you, sir, for your trust in us. If you can. You want to go to the South Seas, but your body-"

"It's okay! My heart is already dead, dead in the deep blue of the Yellow Sea. It's not bad to take a look, but I don't know if the water in the South China Sea will be as blue as Dadonggou? ”

Fu Tian smiled with relief, chatted with Lin Yimin for a few more words, and finally left in style. Since then, Lin Yimin has never seen this old man again.

The next day, a teenager in a school uniform came to the door, found Lin Yimin, and handed him a package.

Lin Yimin looked at it. sighed in his heart that if the information provided by Fu Tian was true, Nanhua would have a huge amount of money.

"Does he have anything else to say?" Lin Yimin asked the young man.

The young man shook his head, nodded again, and said, "He asked me to follow you, and said—"

"What else?"

"You want me to defeat the Japanese at sea once!" The boy said.

"Oh! You'll have a chance. Lin Yimin looked at the young man in front of him, "What's your name?" Who is he? ”

"Hatred of the sky! He adopted me! Qiu Tian replied.

"What about him?"

"I don't know! It seems to be going to the south. He told me not to go to him. There was some sadness in Qiu Tian's eyes, as if he had lost the most precious thing.

Lin Yimin looked at Qiu Tian with some sympathy, and said softly: "You can follow me for the time being!" ”

After a few days, the results of the investigation on Fu Tian were obtained, basically as the other party said, an old man from the previous dynasty, who had lost all his relatives, and the court that he fought for was gone, and in the end only the hatred in his heart remained.

"Although I don't know why you found me, I won't let you down, and I won't be greedy for ink, and every penny will be returned to this country in the future."

Lin Yimin lit a fire and burned the information left by Fu Tian.

The arrival of Fu Tian made Lin Yimin realize a group of people, the widows of Beijing and Tianjin. They are all a bunch of rich people who have the money that Nanhua needs.

Leaving the dirty and quaint city of Beijing, which exudes a thick musty smell, Lin Yimin went to Tianjin.

"Yimin, I finally looked forward to you." Kong Xiangxi enthusiastically pulled Lin Yimin to say.

"Mr. Kong, I'll stop this time." Lin Yimin said with a smile.

Kong Xiangxi is the agent of the Meihua Company in Tianjin, commonly known as the comprador, and at the same time he also has a lot of industry of his own, especially in cooperation with the Western Petroleum Company, and the kerosene sold by Kong Xiangxi in the northwest region every day exceeds 5 million yuan.

"I heard that Nanhua is engaged in a lot of construction, and there are many opportunities, so the people should take care of us more." Song Ailing said with a smile.

In order to greet Lin Yimin, she deliberately rushed home from Zhimeizhai.

"Everyone helps each other, and we can't talk about caring for each other." Lin Yimin smiled and said, "Sister Song has a good complexion, business should be good recently, right?" ”

The combination of Kong and Song is really exemplary, both of them are very shrewd, their knowledge, background, and interests are similar, and they get along very well.

"Zhimeizhai's business is still passable, I can't make too much money, and I don't lose too much. Now that the times are not good, the antiques business is becoming more and more difficult to do. Song Ailing sighed, looking at Lin Yimin with some expectation.

"Hmm." Lin Yimin nodded, Zhimeizhai is an industry cooperated by Situ Nan and Song Ailing, and Situ Nan did not plan to use it to make money. I just want to buy more cultural relics through guò to Mei Zhai.

Now Song Ailing sighed, obviously because she didn't make enough money. Lin Yimin thought to himself.

"By the way, what's going on with the oil company?" Kong Xiangxi asked, and Song Ailing next to him also looked at Lin Yimin expectantly.

One of the main purposes of Lin Yimin's visit to Tianjin was also to discuss the oil company with Kong Xiangxi and his wife. The oil company was founded by Kong Xiangxiti yì. Song Ziwen happily joined, and also took a line to find Lin Yimin, and Lin Yimin nodded and agreed after thinking about it.

He is Huang Zhonghan's son-in-law, and it just so happens that Huang Zhonghan also intends to run the oil industry, and the two sides hit it off.

Now Lin Yimin and Kong Xiangxi are discussing their oil company in Nanhua, and he laughs: "It's not a big problem, and the total investment is tentatively set at 10 million US dollars." My father-in-law accounts for 40%, I account for 10%, other Chinese families account for 30% and a half, and 10% is left for you and Ziwen. ”

The couple's expressions fell on the "This is a little less, isn't it?" Song Ailing said with a frown. The two Song Kong families worked together to come up with $1.5 million, which was not a big problem, but seeing that the oil company he set up was accounted for by others, Song Ailing had a feeling of mentioning others to make wedding dresses, and she was a little dissatisfied.

Kong Xiangxi sat aside. His face is still so gentle and smiling, if you look closely, you will find that his smile is a little forced. Lin Yimin's eyes. He explained with a smile: "It's a lot, and it's the result of my hard work." In addition to three or four Anglo-American oil companies, South China now has only two oil companies, one is American-Chinese Petroleum and the other is our Jianyuan Petroleum.

In this regard, Nanhua is very restrictive, and it is estimated that no other oil companies will be allowed. If it weren't for the fact that my father-in-law was influential in Nanhua and also contacted other Chinese families, Meihua would have prepared a monopoly on oil in Nanhua. ”

"Aren't you the Meihua Company?" Song Ailing smiled, as if she was a little sarcastic. Heart: Meihua. Meihua, I come across it everywhere I go.

"The eldest sister laughed, I can't interfere in things over there. In Nanhua, the industry of Meihua Company is equivalent to the industry of the country, and many projects cannot compete with Meihua Company without a strong relationship.

Take oil companies, for example. Even in Britain and France, where the liberal economy is based, their oil companies have government backgrounds and even government investment, so it is unlikely that anyone else will want to meddle in the oil industry.

Jianyuan Petroleum Company can squeeze into the oil industry of South China, and its potential is unlimited. Speaking of which, they don't want our side to interfere yet. ”

Lin Yimin said frankly.

He was telling the truth. With the exception of the United States, the governments of other countries in the world have strictly controlled the oil industry, and the British and American oil companies have squeezed into the oil industry of small countries by virtue of their strong strength, and there is no way for small countries to stop them.

For example, Mexico, because of the oil problem, the domestic political arena is at the mercy of the big oil companies of Britain and the United States, and the situation in Mexico is turbulent in the fierce competition between Britain and the United States.

The situation in Nanhua is a little better, and aside from Situ Nan's relationship, it is impossible for Nanhua to reject the Anglo-American oil companies, and in order to compete for Nanhua's oil resources, the struggle between the oil companies will also be fierce.

Kong Xiangxi and his wife glanced at each other and fell silent, from Lin Yimin's words, they felt that investing in oil in Nanhua was not as simple as they imagined, and many people were staring at this cake.

If it weren't for the fact that he mentioned yì early and caught up with Lin Yimin, it is estimated that those people in Nanhua would kick themselves and the Song family away, right?

Kong Xiangxi thought to himself, he vaguely felt that it was a little inappropriate for him to stay in the mainland, if he wanted to work hard in the oil industry.

He is a very smooth person, and it is impossible to write his thoughts on his face, at least in Lin Yimin's opinion, that round and gentle smile seems to have never changed.

"It's just a preliminary plan, it's not quite finalized yet. However, if Mr. Kong shows sincerity, the matter of shares can still be discussed. Rumors were that if Mr. Kong could join the oil company, they would be willing to give up half of their shares. Lin Yimin said again.

"Really?" Kong Xiangxi's voice was a little anxious, and he said in surprise.

"Can you be specific?" Song Ailing interjected, with some doubts in her heart, this half part is not a small amount, how can Nanhua be willing to let it out? The conditions seem to be very easy, and Kong Xiangxi is required to join the company.

Seeing that the couple had some doubts in their hearts, Lin Yimin smiled and explained: "The reason is very simple, there is a shortage of people over there, especially talents like Kong Xiangxi, they are eager to find talents.

Take my father-in-law as an example, banking, shipping, minerals, railways, sugar, investment is very extensive, and the amount is not small, he alone can not manage it at all, can only absorb talents from the outside, give a small part of the shares of the other party, and seek common development. Not only my father-in-law's family, but also other families.

In the past two years, after the founding of South China, the power of those Chinese families has swelled greatly, and for them, opportunities are everywhere. If I wasn't in China, I would want to go back and do a great job. ”

"Is that true?" Kong Xiangxi's voice trembled a little, and he clenched his fists to suppress the excitement in his heart.

"It's true! Nanhua is preparing to build a large number of buildings, and my father-in-law has invested in railways in addition to oil companies, and is preparing to build a railway around the island, and I heard that the first batch of investments will reach 100 million US dollars! Meihua is about to recruit 1 million people in China, most of whom are invested in railway construction. ”

Lin Yimin introduced. Selectively reported the huge engineering project carried out by Nanhua to Mr. and Mrs. Kong Xiangxi.

Seeing that their eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and their breathing was becoming more and more urgent, Lin Yimin knew that the other party was completely tempted.

"The railway thing is true, I also contacted Ziwen two days ago, and now the Hanyang Iron Works is fully engaged in the production of steel rails, most of which are shipped to Nanhua In addition to the rails, there are countless other machines and equipment, but unfortunately the output of Yangzi Machinery Company is limited, otherwise Nanhua will not have to spend a lot of money to import machinery equipment from the United States and Europe."

Lin Yimin felt a little regretful, and said to Kong Xiangxi and his wife: "Mr. Kong, Sister Song, I know that you are all very ambitious people who want to do a big career. I think Nanhua is a very good choice, and not only in business, but as far as I know, there are a lot of shortfalls in officials in Nanhua. What this means, you should know. ”

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