There was still half an hour before the scheduled departure time, and Qianhua, who had finished dressing early, came to the study with the corner of the skirt embroidered with purple gauze and lilies, took out a green notebook from the drawer, opened the page separated by a thin jade bookmark, and carefully reviewed it.

Transcript: On December 1, 1904, the Intelligence Section of the Cabinet Secretariat submitted information on the top 20 richest people in the country - the first place: Zhang Jian.

The total value of personal assets is 280 million yuan (the total amount of personal movable and immovable property). Guangxing was re-elected as the president of the Jiangsu Chamber of Commerce in the first year, Guangxing concurrently served as the president of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce for three years, and Guangxing resigned as the president of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce in the fifth year and concurrently served as the president of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce. After the abolition of the imperial examination in the eighteenth year of Guangxu (1892), he responded to the call of the new government to sell the real estate in China to devote himself to business, and founded the Dasheng Yarn Factory that year, and the following year founded the Tonghai Reclamation Company and the Guangsheng Oil Factory. During the First Sino-Japanese War, he took the initiative to raise war funds for the government and provided high-quality commercial services, and was awarded the Gold Kirin Medal of the Second Class. From the first year to the sixth year of Guangxing, it successively opened more than 30 enterprises, including Dada Lunbu Company, Tiansheng Lunbu Company, Zixin Iron Factory, Xingda Bank, Juhui Securities Company, Anda Insurance Company, Heshun Distillery, Rongxin Machinery Manufacturing Factory, Jetta Automobile Company, Jisheng Kenmu Company, Kailuan Coal Mine, Fuliao Coal Company, etc., and its business fields involved finance, textiles, chemicals, reclamation, animal husbandry, winemaking, transportation, mining, steel, machinery, etc., constituting a huge Zhang's industrial and commercial empire. In 1903, the total capital of the Zhang consortium reached 1.78 billion yuan, of which the total bank capital was 1.5 billion yuan (the first-class capital was 80 million yuan), and the total approved capital of the consortium was 300 million 60 yuan.

Personal note: After the murder of the Beijing Rebellion in 1905, the vast majority of personal assets of about 250 million yuan were inherited by the eldest son Zhang Xiaoruo (of which 25 million yuan was paid inheritance tax).

Second place: Huang Linhong.

The total value of personal assets is 240 million yuan. Guangxing served as the president of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce for three years, and Guangxing served as the president of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce for five years, and joined the Chinese People's Party and ran for the House of Representatives that year, becoming the speaker of the House of Representatives and the director general of the Chinese People's Party. He was a Xiucai from Guangxi in the former Qing Dynasty, Guangxu 12 years (1890) from the establishment of the Deyue Commercial Bank in Guangzhou, to do business, gradually turned to industry and finance, to be good at making friends with the political and military high-level is famous, during the Sino-Japanese War for the initiative to raise war funds for the government to raise war funds and provide high-quality business services and won the second-class gold unicorn medal, and then received a lot of care from the government, the rapid development of enterprises. From the eighteenth year of Guangxu to the seventh year of Guangxing, more than 20 enterprises were established in Guangdong, Guangxi, Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing and other places, such as Guangdong Steamship, Tongsheng Cigarettes, Daxing Yarn Factory, Guihua Sugar, Guofeng Flour, Guangming Matches, Yixin Dyes, Zhonghua Books, Zhenye Bank, Huiji Insurance, Zhida Xingye (Real Estate), Nanhai Rubber, Dada Machinery, Qixin Cement, Daxin Pharmaceutical, and Beilu Reclamation and Animal Husbandry. In the seventh year of Guangxing (1903), the total capital of the Huang consortium was 1.46 billion yuan, of which the total bank capital was 1.2 billion yuan (the first-tier capital was 60 million yuan), and the total approved capital of the consortium was 320 million yuan.

Personal note: Huang Linhong was killed in the Beijing Rebellion in 1905, according to the will of 1 year before his death, most of his personal assets of about 210 million yuan were inherited by the eldest son Huang Hong (born to the wife) (of which 21 million yuan was paid inheritance tax), the second son Huang Hao received 10 million yuan worth of stocks and real estate, the third son Huang Zhi and the fourth son Huang Zhi each received 5 million yuan, and the remaining 10 million yuan was given to the unmarried three daughters and four wives and concubines as a support fund.

Third place: Zhu Dachun.

The total value of personal assets is $180 million. It was originally the comprador of Jardine Matheson and Shanghai Electric Tram Company. Since the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), Yuanchang Machine Rice Milling Factory and Yuanchang Machine Silk Reeling Factory have been opened successively; He has established joint ventures such as Huaxing Flour Company, Public Welfare Machine Textile Company, and Yiheyuan Machinery Packaging Company. In the First Sino-Japanese War, a large amount of military orders were obtained, and the enterprise developed rapidly, and from the first year to the seventh year of Guangxing, it successively founded nearly 20 enterprises such as Huayuan Cement Factory, China Coal Products Company, Huaji Plush Textile Company, Kaiyuan Hardware Company, Yuanda Machinery Shipyard, Yuansheng Automobile Company, Tongguangyi Real Estate Company, and Xincheng Bank. In the seventh year of Guangxing, the total capital of the Zhu's consortium was 1.2 billion yuan, of which the total bank capital was 1 billion yuan (the first-tier capital was 50 million yuan), and the total approved capital of the consortium was 250 million yuan.

Fourth place: Lu Zhuyuan.

The total value of personal assets is $170 million. International business student at Harvard University. Financial tycoon, real estate tycoon. It has two large banks (Jincheng Bank and South China Bank), two securities companies, three insurance companies, and three real estate companies. The total capital of the Lu consortium reached 1.18 billion yuan, of which the total capital of Jincheng and Nanhua banks was 1 billion yuan (Tier 1 capital was 50 million yuan), and the total approved capital of the consortium was 230 million yuan.

Fifth place: Sun Duosen.

The total value of personal assets is $110 million. Former secretary of the ministry, son of Sun Jianai, political undersecretary of the prime minister. Guangxu 16 (1890) founded Fufeng Flour Mill, Guangxu 18 (1892) served as the deputy manager of Beijing Water Company, the following year in Yantai founded Tongyi Refined Salt Company, Xiefu Real Estate Company, the First Sino-Japanese War contracted the military flour and salt supply and made great profits, Guangxu 20 years have successively founded Zhongfu Bank, Fusheng Real Estate, Tonghe Steamship Company, Tongli Land Transportation Company, Fuli Securities Company, Fuda Bank and other more than ten enterprises, built flour, transportation, real estate, finance-based Tongfufeng system.

The total capital of the Sun consortium is 540 million yuan, of which the total capital of Zhongfu-Fuda banking system is 500 million yuan (30 million yuan of first-class capital), and the total approved capital of the consortium is 170 million yuan.

Personal note: In 1904, the total amount of deposits in the country was 12 billion yuan, the total amount of loans was 9 billion yuan, and the total bank capital was 7.4 billion yuan, of which the total bank capital of the five major private consortia reached 5.2 billion yuan.

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"Princess, the time is almost up, can you go?"

The personal female officer Ye Jingying held her hands behind her back and reminded sweetly behind Qianhua.

"Zhilu Dao, mirror, wait for me outside."

Close the notes, put them back in the drawer, lock them, hide the key behind the thick book "The Complete History of the First Sino-Japanese War" in the second row of the bookshelf, habitually clap your hands, return to the mirror, check the jewelry of the platinum and diamond series, review the mask-like decent smile, and subconsciously straighten the hollow curls hanging from your ears, yes, princess, the perfect princess in Western fairy tales, isn't that it?

Qianhua stuck out her tongue mockingly at herself in the mirror, picked out a handful of Western lady's folding fans by the dresser, lifted the corner of her skirt and ran out of the pan.

On September 17, 1905, Lu Zhuyuan, one of the ten richest men in the empire, established Dahua Airbus, a private commercial airline, and launched the first three routes: Beijing-Shanghai, Shanghai-Guangzhou and Shanghai-Tokyo. Holding air passenger transport is an unprecedented miracle in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, which naturally aroused the keen attention of all parties, and Lu Zhuyuan even sent a wide invitation to invite celebrities from all walks of life to attend the company's inaugural meeting and private banquet, and Qianhua was invited to attend the meeting as a representative of the royal family today.

"I heard that this boss Lu has not renewed his wife since his death 10 years ago, he is so handsome, and he is not too old, he is only thirty-six or seventeen years old, and he earns such a big net worth, and the girls in my hall drool when they mention it...... "Ye Jingying, the big boss of the Mirror Moon Pavilion on the carriage, intentionally or unintentionally pulled about Lu Zhuyuan.

Qianhua looked in the mirror nonchalantly: "Have you seen him?" ”

"I saw it two years ago, and I took out a loan for the Mirror Moon Pavilion at that time, and I dealt with him for a while as my father's assistant, and I was a very interesting person."

"Twenty-three-year-old unmarried hungry female official Ye Jingying......" Qianhua put down the mirror, her eyes were evil, "Autumn has not passed before it has passed." ”

"Princess...... I'm all here for you. Ye Jingying looked innocent.

"For me? Do you want your princess to renew the strings of an old man who is a teenager older? What kind of heart do you have, if you like it, let it be given to you, don't give me bad ideas. ”

"The princess doesn't like old men, I won't say it in the future, it's really stupid, I knew that Princess Lu Dao liked that Li Shishi, what more ...... I have"

Qianhua's neck stretched and her eyes narrowed: "You...... What did you say? What Lee Stone? ”

Ye Jingying blinked: "It's the officer who asked the princess to write to him last time in Lingyan Pavilion, but it's really right to say that he is a stone, and he hasn't ......written for so long."

Qianhua shook her head with a wry smile, and clenched her fist by the way.

Ye Jingying hurriedly shook her hand: "Princess...... It's almost time to get there...... It's better not to mess up your clothes......"

"I'll ...... you"

Before the princess's atrocities against the female officials became realized, the car stopped with a rattle, and as soon as the car door opened, I saw hundreds of men and women dressed in costumes already lined up outside to greet them, and the eyes of men and women were vying to look inside, as if Qianhua was some kind of alien visitor, an otherworldly creature.

"Welcome to Her Royal Highness Princess Yuehua, Princess Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose ......"

After the host Lu Zhuyuan, who was crowded at the front to greet him, led everyone to call Chitose, he reached out to help Chiba get out of the car with the demeanor of a Western gentleman.

It's not that Qianhua hasn't seen Lu Zhuyuan, last year at her father's birthday party, her father introduced this man to her, but she didn't care about it at all, but when she saw him again today, she felt that although he was old, he didn't have the temperament of a mature man, and other elegant, gentleman or something, in Qianhua's opinion, it was just such and such a mask, and there was no fundamental difference from the mask of the perfect princess she wore.

Old men or mature men, a matter of mentality.

Qianhua smiled slightly at Ye Jingying, who didn't know what to say, and stretched out her hand to Lu Zhuyuan next to the car door.

"Mr. Lu, I remember you."

"It's a contemptible honor."

The gentleman in the movie is nothing more than that.

My father said that today's banquet was an eye-opener for me, and I already feel it now, yes, the feeling of standing in the clouds and looking at the earth......

I'll cherish it.