Xuan Yuemeng listened to Timothy Li's words, looked at the blueprint he had designed and planned, frowned, clasped his hands, and was thinking about countermeasures, he also felt that he was in too much of a hurry? This step is really too big! He considered his investment in the light of Tianjin's commercial status and location in the modern north, and he did not expect that various investors would not buy his account, and are you not optimistic about the development prospects of the US concession?

Xuan Yuemeng and Klinsmann are in a huge predicament! And, this dilemma was drawn by Xuan Yuemeng herself, and she jumped into it by herself!

Xuan Yuemeng knows very well that if the construction of the wharf and the construction of the river embankment are stopped at this time, as well as the land widening and leveling project of the entire French Concession, the negative impact will spread quickly, and he will want to recruit workers, buy materials, and restart the project, it will become a fantasy, in that case, these projects will be completely unfinished, and next year it will be time to pay for the land of the US Consulate, if he can't pay, all the money will be wasted, and all the efforts will be wasted. He and the big house can't even live in the small courtyard, because the small courtyard is now occupied by three rooms! They can't live in Zeng Jize's house for the rest of their lives, right?

This is almost an unsolvable problem, and Xuan Yuemeng has a feeling that she is about to collapse!

Maybe after he came to this era, if it wasn't too smooth, he wouldn't have pushed himself into such a desperate situation!

Xuan Yuemeng: "Mr. Timothy Lee, please don't worry, you just do what you should do, I will solve these problems." ”

Timothy Li sighed, "Mr. Yuemeng, don't hold on any longer, how much money does the foreign bank have, how much money do you have, I probably know that when the money is spent, it is when the project is forced to stop, and the wharf cannot be stopped. Hurry up and sell the land cheaply, and hurry up to lower the standard to recruit franchisees, right? Giving up most of the wharf's share and cooperating with powerful foreign companies is the only way out for us. ”

Xuan Yuemeng said angrily: "If that's the case, I'd rather throw all the money into the water!" Let the U.S. consulate terminate the contract and take back all the land, don't you say, isn't it not that far yet? Now it can be supported for at least more than a month, and there will be no problem until the Chinese New Year! ”

Timothy Lee: "Then you asked me to apply to the German government to host the celebration of Germany's victory in the war against France, should we still host it?" The German government has approved our request through the German Consulate. ”

Xuan Yuemeng sweated, almost forgetting about it, "Of course I have to do it, I was thinking about undertaking it to the German government in order to start the popularity of our Klinsmann Foreign Company, if I don't do it, won't it affect the reputation of our Klinsmann Foreign Company?" ”

Timothy Lee sighed, "But how famous is our Klinsmann & Co. now?" Did you know? Even Germany knows that we are a foreign company, so what do we want to do with such a big reputation? What we want now is money. ”

Xuan Yuemeng: "Mr. Timothy Lee, when will you understand that reputation is actually equal to money, such a simple truth?" ”

Timothy Lee muttered, "Anyway, I saw that our Klinsmann & Co. has been throwing money outside, and its reputation is so big, why haven't we made a little money?" ”

Xuan Yuemeng pursed her lips, lowered her head and sulked, not wanting to deal with Timothy Li, Timothy Li saw that Xuan Yuemeng was really angry, sighed, shook his head, and walked out of Xuan Yuemeng's office.

There is still a gap of more than 2 million taels of silver for the construction of the wharf, and 400,000 taels of silver will be needed to pay the purchase cost of the US Consulate for land next year, and the two together will be more than 3 million taels of silver. Three million taels of silver is enough to buy several ironclad ships!

The reason why Xuan Yuemeng put Klinsmann's first project on real estate development at the beginning was mainly because he thought that it could attract foreign investment, and it was built independently, and it would be much less affected by the siege of the British business group.

The U.S. Concession Wharf has given Klinsmann & Co. enough attention, but if it can't find a 3 million funding gap to complete this huge project, the U.S. Concession Wharf will also become the source of Klinsmann's failure, and Xuan Yuemeng is really forced to a dead end.

After seeing the ******** built by Klinsmann & Co., Hurd laughed, "Mr. McMarfoy, is that German from Klinsmann & Co. crazy?" Such a person, who actually has our British nationality, is simply a disgrace to the British business community, and I guess that before the Lunar New Year of the Chinese, this Klinsmann foreign firm will go bankrupt! He overestimated Tianjin's development potential. ”

McMarfoy smiled slightly, "Yes, but I still think that this Timothy Lee is very courageous, and he dares to make such a big move, and his investment in the construction of the wharf alone will exceed the construction investment of the entire British Concession, I really don't know what this German thinks?" With such a large amount of money, it would be better to do something that would have immediate results, and if he had opened a factory, he would not have been in the current situation. ”

Hurd smiled: "Mr. McMarford, we still have the most stable business, and we cooperate with the Chinese Imperial Court and the Beiyang Yamen, and their projects are sure to make money, but without me, except for Xintaixing Foreign Company, it is impossible for others to get the projects of the Chinese Imperial Court." ”

McMarfoy raised his glass, "Thank you Mr. Hurd for your efforts, come, let's have a drink, and wait to take over this Klinsmann Dealers, I have to prepare some money, haha." ”

Hurd was very happy, smiled and clinked his glass with McMauff, "Here, Mr. McMuff, cheers." ”

So far, Xuan Yuemeng doesn't think that he has done anything wrong, but the steps he has taken are too big, beyond his control, but life is like this, slow swallowing, it is not easy to wrestle, but it is difficult to have great development slowly, not to mention that in this era of rapid change, the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, it is definitely an era of human science and technology and economy, and various industrial indicators exploded, Xuan Yuemeng knows that if you want to do a little bit in this era, you can't be too conservative, not to mention, the money he gets now, All of them can be classified as a fluke, he is a child less than a year old, and he can get what he is now, he didn't show much personal level, or didn't show much personal strength, mostly relying on practical opportunities and luck. Thinking that he had nothing in the first place, he had lost everything, and it was a big deal to continue to have nothing, and now that he was Zeng Jize's future son-in-law, he would not have nothing to eat, and after figuring out this truth, Xuan Yuemeng raised her head and smirked.

This time, Xuan Yuemeng wanted to forcibly pretend.

Xuan Yuemeng took Xuan Dazhi and Xuan Dali and other domestic slaves out of the concession, planning to return to Zengfu, Xuan Yuemeng suddenly thought of something, and said vigorously to the side: "Divert and go to the north of the city to see the Tianjin Xigu City Construction Project!" ”

When they were separated in Xuanfu that day, Xuan Yuemeng remembered that when Zeng Jize hugged him, he and Zhou Fu talked about the Xigu city construction project, which was a military project and very important, so it was ranked first by Li Hongzhang, even before dredging the Yongding River and building an arsenal and military station.

Xuan Yuemeng remembered that when Zeng Jize talked to Zhou Fu that day, the information he got was: This Zhou Fu should be a big person in charge, and his status under Li Hongzhang is on par with Sheng Xuanhuai's wealth-collecting businessman, but Sheng Xuanhuai's status at the business level is higher, and Zhou Fu, as Li Hongzhang's confidant, mainly does some specific things, and is considered a doer, Xuan Yuemeng now knows that it is difficult to follow Sheng Xuanhuai's path, and he should try more other aspects, after all, he wants to make a career, No matter what, you can't get around Li Hongzhang, Xuan Yuemeng once thought about going directly to Li Hongzhang, but then thought that even if he went directly to Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang must have discussed with Sheng Xuanhuai, or dispelled the idea of looking for Li Hongzhang directly, and his heart suddenly brightened.

People are like this many times, when there is no way out, the thinking will be dull, the more I think about it, the more I feel that there is no way out, now Xuan Yuemeng let go of the burden in her heart and decided to start over, so she suddenly thought of other ways to contact Li Hongzhang.

It is difficult to see Li Hongzhang, but it is not difficult to see Zhou Fu, the Xigu city construction project is directly responsible for the Beiyang Yamen, because Li Hongzhang is now the minister of Beiyang, so people are now accustomed to treating the Beiyang Yamen and the Governor of Zhili as a unit, and Xuan Yuemeng is also like this.

Xuan Yuemeng's luxury carriage went out of the city, and it couldn't be driven far away, and the construction site was stacked everywhere, obviously chaotic management, and the construction was obviously stagnant.

Xuan Yuemeng had to let Dali carry himself to find Zhou Fu, and as soon as Zhou Fu's subordinates saw Xuan Yuemeng's luxury carriage, they knew that there was a terrible person, and immediately took Xuan Yuemeng and others to see Zhou Fu.

Zhou Fu was very strange how Xuan Yuemeng came, everyone who experienced the separation of the Xuan Mansion that day was very impressed by Xuan Yuemeng, of course Zhou Fu also remembered Xuan Yuemeng, the prodigy, "Yuemeng, what are you doing here?" ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "Uncle Zhou, just play casually." ”

Zhou Fu sighed, "What's so fun here?" ”

Xuan Yuemeng saw that Zhou Fu was obviously depressed, and asked, "That day, I heard Uncle Zhou and my great-uncle talk about the construction project in Xigu, and it seemed that I had encountered any difficulties?" ”

Zhou Fu sighed again, originally he didn't want to say too much to a child, but Xuan Yuemeng happened to ask Zhou Fu's thoughts, so he couldn't help but say, "What else can I do?" Lack of silver, this project is very important, Zhongtang is not at ease to hand over to the Ministry of Industry to do, planning to do it ourselves in Beiyang, but the Ministry of Household has not allocated silver, and the construction of the city needs large stones, so stopped. ”

Xuan Yuemeng sighed and said with a smile: "I can help Uncle Zhou solve this matter." ”

Zhou Fu was taken aback, this is a matter of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, where can you go to help solve it? "Yue Meng, don't be kidding, there are no fun in the barren mountains and mountains here, hurry up and go home."

Xuan Yuemeng smiled, "Don't believe it, I can really help you solve it, you can let Klinsmann & Co. donate, Klinsmann & Co. has just purchased a large amount of cement and lime, you have to go to a distance to purchase large stones, it is better to use cement to irrigate, it is more trouble-free, and more cost-effective, if you don't believe it, you can go to the leased dock to see." ”

Zhou Fu nodded, "I've been to see the concession wharf, and the foreigner's method does work, but why should the foreigner help us?" The benefits of foreigners can never be occupied, why should foreigners donate such a big project to us, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver! How? Yuemeng, are you here to be a lobbyist? ”

Xuan Yuemeng shook her head, "It's not a lobbyist, I also saw Uncle Zhou worried just now, and I thought of it temporarily, Klinsmann wants to set up an industrial zone, and the concession also needs electricity, so it is necessary to open a power plant, the power plant mainly uses coal, the quality of coal in the Qing Dynasty is not good, they are all small coal kilns, and the quantity cannot be supplied, and the mineral resources are controlled by the imperial court, if you want to open a power plant, the basic conditions are not enough, there must be a nearby coal mine with sufficient support!" ”

Zhou Fu somewhat understood, "Foreigners want to open a coal mine in Tianjin?" This is not good, the imperial court will never agree, in the past, those unequal treaties were forced by foreigners to sign the imperial court with guns, and now there is no war, how can the imperial court allow foreigners to mine coal? Absolutely not. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and said: "Uncle Zhou, you misunderstood, it was not the foreigners who started it themselves, it was Klinsmann & Co. who donated a coal mine to the Beiyang Yamen and gave one away for nothing." ”

Zhou Fu was completely confused, "Then unless that foreigner's brain is broken, why did he throw so much money to us?" Child, don't talk about it, such a big person, how can he just toss some strange things, and, let me tell you, I know that you know how to speak foreign, and it doesn't matter if you learn a little foreigner, but it's better to mix less with foreigners, foreigners don't have a few good things, and if something happens, your great-uncle can't help you. ”