Just when Zhu Fugui was looking forward to the arrival of the Chinese workers, in Xinxiang, the largest city in North America at the other end of the mainland, a young and beautiful white girl was carefully walking into a magnificent giant villa under the protection of a maid.

But in the next second, a slender middle-aged man appeared around the corner and looked at his troublesome daughter with an indifferent look:

"Julie, Miss Olivia told me that you haven't been to her piano lessons for three days in a row, can you explain why?"

The girl named Julie said with an unchanged face: "Father, I just haven't been in good health recently and need to rest for a while. ”

"Since you're not in good health, don't go out during this time."

The middle-aged man said to the housekeeper behind him, "George, you will 'take care' of Miss Hao in the next half a month, so that she can recuperate with peace of mind." ”

"Father!"

The girl wanted to argue, but the middle-aged man had already left without looking back.

He is not a fool who spoils his daughter, in fact, in New York in this era, the family affection of the big family has always been very weak.

Back in his office, the middle-aged man pinched his eyebrows and felt tired.

His name was Steve Vanderbilt, and his father was the hottest steamboat king in New York City today.

But Steve knew that his father was planning to abandon his steamship business in favor of the fledgling railroad business.

President Lincoln enacted a series of laws that amounted to giving half of the western United States to the major railroads in exchange for their support in the war.

As a family of industrial capital with roots in the North, the Vanderbilt family was naturally supportive of the federal government.

They don't think they're the same species as the stupid, uneducated Southern rednecks who should be sterilized.

Of course, Asians and Indians are even more inferior.

As for the black people, they are indescribably terrible creatures.

……

The daughter's wayward behavior was not caused by Steve's doting.

On the contrary, Steve Vanderbilt, who was busy with the family business and Wall Street, never disciplined his daughter at all, which ultimately led to what he considered to be too bad a personality.

It doesn't matter if it's the former Vanderbilt family.

But as his father's career grows, the Vanderbilt family is struggling to shake off the nouveau riche title.

Under the increasingly demanding demands of Cornelius, who is exactly 70 years old this year, the whole family must behave in a way that is on par with the British aristocracy.

It's ridiculous to say that Cornelius, a dock worker who eventually became a millionaire, began to pursue these illusory things madly and paranoidly at an age when he did whatever he wanted.

This transformation is bound to be fraught with hardships.

No matter how vassalage these deep-pocketed Yankees may be, the arrogant British will not approve of these nouveau riche.

In fact, in the original historical trajectory, it was not until more than 20 years later that Julie's cousin, the only daughter of Steve's younger brother William, Constance Vanderbilt, finally married the old British nobleman, Duke of Marlborough IX, and the owner of Blenheim Palace, one of the oldest castles in Britain, Charles Churchill (not the Churchill who commanded World War II).

This marriage is actually a game of exchanging money for status, there is no emotion to speak of, and life after marriage is self-evident.

This empty transnational marriage was not unique to that era.

At the end of the 19th century, the once noble and arrogant British aristocracy had long been economically reduced to a fragile showmanship. The rapid development of the U.S. economy has given birth to a large number of business tycoons.

The American rising star rich used money and women to exchange a bunch of titles from the down-and-out British, and whitewashed the foundation of the nouveau riche.

"Downton Abbey", "The Heiress" and a series of films are portrayals of that era.

When Zhu Fugui saw this history, he thought to himself: "Don't look for the British to buy a title, their throne is still passed down from the Mongols (Womor Empire), and our Dameng's title is more valuable!" Ask for wholesale! ”

……

There's a reason why Steve stepped up his discipline of his own daughter.

Because not long ago, daughter Julie's best friend, a girl from an officer family, actually developed a relationship with a Chinese.

It is said that this happened when the family was serving as military attachés in the American Concession in Shanghai (which will be merged with the British Concession into the Public Concession in September this year).

Later, the shameless woman actually smuggled the Chinese back to the United States, and even staged an elopement scene.

The major had always suspected that Julie had played an inglorious role in his daughter's elopement.

However, with the name of the Vanderbilt family, the major would not come to trouble.

But even so, Steve felt that he had to be strict with his daughter.

If, like her best friend, she fell in love with a Chinese, it would be a disaster.

Steve knew how much his father hated people of color.

Conversely, if the daughter is able to meet a European nobleman, the marriage will give her a high score in the competition for property with 12 other siblings.

After all, Steve knew that his father was 70 years old.

And he is far less good than his younger brother William.

……

Under the watchful eye of the butler, Julie Vanderbilt returned to her bedroom.

It was a large and bright room.

However, the furnishings in the room are not complicated and contrast with the rest of the villa.

Julie, who has been smart and studious since she was a child, loves sports and knowledge, and is not interested in the jewelry that aristocratic ladies are passionate about.

After asking the maid to confirm that the butler's men had left, Julie jumped on the queen bed and wrapped herself in a blanket.

Then, she pulled a slightly curved magazine from her girdle.

The Monthly Magazine is a British magazine, and it is not easy to buy in New York.

Julie also asked a lot of friends to buy this original.

Julie's cousin is studying at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

In his letter, he told a lot about Britain.

One of them piqued Julie's interest.

The originally obscure third-rate magazine "Science and Technology Monthly" has recently become a well-known reading material in the streets.

It's all because of a serialized novel that was published in the Science Bent Monthly.

This "Detective Zhuge Watson" should be the first detective novel with a mystery theme in history.

It didn't make much of a splash at first.

But in the recent football match between Cambridge and Oxford, a dispute over the understanding of the rules led to a conflict between the two groups of young people.

Seeing that a martial arts fight was inevitable, but somehow, the captain of the Cambridge football team mentioned the Chinese kicking method in "Detective Zhuge Watson".

According to the book, it was a football genre invented by the first ball king of the Great Song Empire, the famous iron-blooded general, General Qiu Gao.

Its rules are quite strict and extremely operable.

Coincidentally, the captain of the Oxford football team opposite is also a loyal reader of "Detective Zhuge Watson".

found out that each other was actually a detective fan.,The atmosphere that was originally full of gunpowder flavor suddenly became like Kudo and the black chicken.。

In fact, it's normal to think about it.

This kind of work that tends to be close to ontological reasoning is indeed difficult to get started in this era without a certain amount of knowledge and logical thinking ability.

And the top students in Cambridge and Oxford are much easier to accept such novels.

It was this coincidence that not only did the Cambridge and Oxford football match be successfully held under the rules of "Chinese football", but the fame of "Detective Zhuge Watson" also rose all at once.

All of a sudden, the "Science Bent Monthly" was sold out of stock.