Chapter 43 Expo

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With these tasks, Yu Zixun got on the boat with everyone. The delegation arrived in San Francisco on April 17, because this is the first time that the royal blood of the Qing Dynasty has reached the Americas, for the Americans who have never been noble, it is very surprising to see a Manchu prince with authentic royal blood, plus there are many overseas Chinese gentry in the United States, and for a time the crowd of people welcomed at the pier was surging, everyone competed to see the Manchu Beizi Pulun, Yu Zixun saw this scene on the boat, in the end, he was young, and he had a revolutionary idea, and muttered: "Damn, what royal blood, More than 200 years ago, it was still a barbaric lander outside the Guanwai......"

Yu Zixun said in a small voice, but Xu Huafeng next to him immediately heard it, hurriedly grabbed his arm, and whispered: "Why should Zixun be angry, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has run out, what Beizi Baylor and the prince and emperor are all dry bones in the grave, why bother with them." ”

Although he knew that this was the truth, Yu Zixun was angry, and sighed: "I don't know what God thinks, this great country has been reduced to a foreign race for more than 200 years, and the Han nobles have been cut off from their bloodlines since then, and it is really difficult to sleep and eat." ”

"How can you say that the Han nobles have broken their blood, so what kind of gold are they panning?" The longer Xu Hua has been in the club, the more and more things he knows, and he is one of the seven committee members, he has the authority to know most of the secrets in the club, and the more he knows, the more confident he becomes, and he is full of hope for the gold rush plan. "Besides, the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, and after a few decades, you and I will be nobles in the eyes of future generations."

Thinking of the gold rush plan presided over by Yang Rui - although he and Xu Huafeng are both committee members, this plan is really secret. I also know what is going on, but I don't know the location and details - and my heart is calm. After all, Qianming's bloodline has not been severed, and he was silent for a while. Although the former Ming royal family was not a nobleman, the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang also worked as a beggar monk, but the Ming Dynasty has accumulated prestige for hundreds of years, and future generations will inevitably look at the past and mythology. Thinking of this, Yu Zixun was a little fluttering. But he soon turned his thinking to these tasks this time, the revolution is arduous and long, and it is necessary to do it well step by step.

After going ashore, taking advantage of the moment when the Americans entertained Bei Zi Pulun, Yu Zixun visited Huang Sande, the Hongmen boss, Huang Sande had already received the news that Yu Zixun was coming, and his face was full of joy after seeing Yu Zixun. Suddenly swept away the gloom of more than ten days, and said with a smile: "Mr. Yu is here, and Sande has been waiting for a long time when he received a telegram from your association last month. ”

From the briefing in the meeting, the handsome man Yu Zixun in front of him knew his weight, and he was a great figure among the overseas Chinese. At the moment, he also said with a smile: "I thought that Prime Minister Domeng would take care of it before, and now the plan has reached a critical period." He also asked the prime minister for his help. In addition, remembering that the prime minister had been away from his hometown for a long time, he specially asked He Qin to bring a lot of Mr. hometown's specialties. With that, he took a gift slip out and offered it to the past.

Huang Sande shirked but took it. After reading it, my eyes were red and I was greatly moved. Said: "Hey. It's really heartfelt. Sande has been away from home for more than 20 years, and he is homesick when he sees things. Huang Sande's ancestral home is Xinning, Guangdong, and he has never returned home since he went abroad to the United States when he was young, and things in his hometown are even more amiable. In fact, none of the things on this gift list are valuable things, they are all some Sijiu sweet potatoes, Beikeng straw mats, Beifeng Baiyun tea, Doosan bamboo shoots and other Xinning native products, which are common things in Xinning, but at this time in the United States is rare, although the Chinese have also smuggled into the United States, but who still brings these things with smuggling.

The gift was in place, Huang Sande was more and more relieved, and soon he said: "Zixun, don't you know, some time ago, Sun Wen of the Xingzhong Society also went to San Francisco, but the Qing court made it bad, Sun Wen could not go ashore but was detained in the tax customs cabin, it has been several days now, Sande has sent someone to Meijing to find a master to rescue, but ...... Hey"

Who Sun Wen is, Yu Zixun knows, but he didn't expect that he was also in the United States, and it took a lot of money to rescue this person Hongmen, and took out the envelope he had given when he was ready to leave, "Zixun came here, and Brother Cheng specially asked the younger brother to hand this over to the prime minister." ”

Huang Sande thought it was a letter and other things, took it and opened it, but it was a cash check from Citibank, with a full 20,000 US dollars on it, he hurriedly put the check back in the envelope and pushed it back to Yu Zixun, and said absolutely: "The last time to help is within the responsibility of Sande, your talent plan costs a lot, it is the time of lack of money, and this money is useless for Sande, it is better to recruit more people, build more guns and guns to expel the Manchu Tartars from China, and restore my Huaxia is the right reason." ”

Yu Zixun already knew that it was 20,000 US dollars, this money was a huge amount of money, it was Yang Rui when he returned to Shanghai at the beginning of the year to explain what Wang Jitong wanted to prepare, this time it was brought to Yu Zixun to hand over to Huang Sande, seeing that Huang Sande did not accept, Yu Zixun said: "Although the money in the meeting is not abundant, but you can always think of a way, besides, in addition to rewarding the prime minister for helping, there is also the intention of funding the revolution, and now Mr. Sun is in a cage, it is the time to use the money, the prime minister must not shirk." ”

After repeating this several times, Huang Sande finally accepted it. Now in order to save Sun Wen, the church has spent nearly 10,000 US dollars to get through the relationship, especially the cost of hiring a lawyer from Meijing is extremely high. In fact, the detention of Sun Wen this time is not because the United States does not welcome the revolutionary party, the United States has always welcomed the revolutionary party members, the previous Kang Youwei was "gifted" by Japan after he settled in the United States, not only built a royalist party everywhere to cheat money, but also organized a royalist army in Los Angeles. This time the United States detained Sun Wen in fact because the Qing court Pei Zi Pu Lun happened to go to the United States to participate in the World Expo, the time for the two to go to the United States was too close, the Americans were afraid that Sun Wen would make trouble, so they were ready to detain him for some days, and when Pu Lun Beizi went away, Sun Wen would be released, it was because Huang Sande spent money Sun Wen did not release it, and the big people who asked for advice got the news and had a big appetite and were scary, Huang Sande was just a leader of the Hongmen, and he didn't know anything about politics, and he didn't know the joints inside. For more than ten days, I have been spending money blindly but it has no effect, so I am very worried.

Yu Zixun left after a one-day stay on Sacramento Street, and there was still a negotiation on the Expo side for him to preside. He's going to get ready early. After that, the relationship between the Revival Society and Hongmen became more harmonious, Huang Sande also said. After rescuing Sun Wen, the remaining funds will be used to increase the efforts to mobilize overseas Chinese, so that more overseas Chinese can join the talent training program of the Renaissance Association.

At the end of April, the delegation finally arrived at the World Expo site, which was specially invested to host the World Expo to commemorate the purchase of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleon of France 100 years ago with 15 million US dollars. The venue is located in the Forest Park of St. Louis, with more than 60 countries exhibiting and more than 1,200 acres of land. A total of more than 1,000 buildings have been built, which can be described as unprecedented in scale. Yu Zixun can be regarded as having seen the world, he participated in the Osaka Expo in Japan last year, but this is the first time he has seen this kind of world-class event, and he was stunned at such a scale, Xu Huafeng was even more shocked, just those Krupp cannons in the German Pavilion. It made him surprised and sad for several days. It took a few days of wandering around to figure out what to do, and they spent a day at the hotel reconstructing a plan to better collect information about the hall.

Every expo has a theme, and this expo is no exception, but the theme of this expo is very unreliable, because the theme is ice cream. What was popularized in later generations was a rarity at the time, of course. In addition to ice cream, AOL's wireless broadcasting is also a big surprise at the World Expo, according to Yang Rui's plan last year, the wireless real room finally came up with an amplifier, and wireless broadcasting can finally broadcast unlimitedly. This new product conquered the organizers as soon as it appeared. They did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money to build a public address system throughout the venue, and the entire Expo venue suddenly had a sound. And in order to start the new thing of broadcasting. McNeil specially invited a symphony orchestra to play in the studio, and beautiful music often wafted through the venue.

The beautiful music in the venue sounded, everyone was stunned, but the audience did not find the performer, immediately caused a huge sensation, the opening of the afternoon of the Ming family Edison followed the sound to come, after three days of close conversation, AOL's parent company Tianyin and Edison-owned General Electric Company reached a number of patent exchange and compensation agreements, the two sides formed a close strategic cooperative relationship in the field of radio technology. At the same time, the AOL booth in the U.S. Pavilion was surrounded by all kinds of people all day long, and McNeill was dressed as a successful person, in addition to negotiating patent matters with Edison's representatives, he also frequently negotiated financing matters with representatives of various banks - he did not understand why Yang Rui strictly demanded to sign a contract with the cooperative bank group in a short period of time, but under the supervision of Yu Zixun, the shareholder representative of Yang Rui stationed in the company, and the legal commissioner, McNeill was completely unable to object, after all, he was not a major shareholder, The decision is completely out of his hands, and the negotiators and negotiation outline with the bank group have long been arranged by Yang Rui, and in just a few days, he can't play tricks at all even if he wants to play - Yang Rui's movements are too fast, and the fruit here is picked as soon as it is ripe, although there will be losses, but the losses are much better than losses. As a result, the cooperation agreement was signed immediately after five days of intensive negotiations.

After signing the contract, AOL finally has a backer. Especially for businessmen from other countries who want to buy this patent, AOL, which has a backer, has made a fierce offer, and in a few days, more than $1 million has been collected just for the patent licensing fee and the deposit for the establishment of the broadcasting station. Such a gain made McNeil forget about his previous unhappiness and began to be ecstatic, and pulled Yu Huizu is a fierce kiss. Yu Huizu was also dumbfounded by this, although he didn't have any opinions on Yang Rui's hard investment in the real room, he still had an idea in his heart, and at this time, he saw that he had earned more than one million dollars in a few agreements for this thing, and his heart was immediately convinced.

Yang Rui, who was in Tonghua, was relieved to receive the telegram signed by Shun Lì of the cooperation agreement, but fortunately there was no accident, his pig's foot halo flashed, and he had a golden finger again. In fact, in Yang Rui's view, although the sales of these patent fees and equipment are a lot of money, they are only pediatrics compared with the benefits of packaging the company to go public. Although AOL has a very high profit prospect, it has a lack of innate background and only retains a 51% stake in the extremely favorable competition of the banking syndicate. However, once the company cooperates with the consortium, with the support of the consortium, the future of AOL after the listing is limitless, although at that time as the original shareholder will be slaughtered, the shares will be further diluted, and the interests will be further embezzled, but this is the best result at present. Yang Rui understands very well that if it were not for the sudden appearance of the World Expo broadcast, it would have formed a competitive benefit. If it is not for the fast selection of buyers to bundle interests, then the company's patents are seized. The likelihood of McNeill being killed is extremely high. The point is that from now on, in addition to being just familiar with Mobil Oil and American cotton spinning people, I began to have an intersection with the real upper class in the United States, which is the most important thing.

Yu Zixun was also shocked by AOL's deep-seated game and fierce negotiations, but fortunately, he fought quickly, taking advantage of the lack of tacit understanding between the bank groups, and some of his usual methods did not have time to be used. Luckily, he managed to meet his previous booking goal, and after signing as a signatory he fled the hotel, resting for a few days and recovering to see the money printing machine. Xu Huafeng has finished reading the military equipment at this time, but it is not easy to negotiate rashly, and this exhibition is different from what Yang Rui thought, there are not many military equipment, and there are a lot of cannons and guns. The revival will have those old guns in South Africa, and there will be no shortage of arms for a while, so it will end without seeing anything. And in addition to military equipment, this money printing machine is the focus.

The next step of the Fuxing Association is to lay out the financial field, and the bank is to be opened, and the bank will only rely on deposits, deposits and withdrawals. You can't make a lot of money, the best way is to collect other people's silver, and then turn it into paper money to go out, and the paper money printing machine is indispensable. Yu Zixun watched it for a few days and had a general understanding of the current situation of the international money printing machine. At this time, the ancient Chinese technology of engraving wood is being eliminated by lithographic printing technology. According to the news from the Commercial Press, they are now preparing to print banknotes for the Daqing Household Bank. It is the stone printing technique that is used. The banknotes produced by this printing technology have fine patterns, clear lines, and are still upright and beautiful after color overprinting.

Of course, this is not the latest international technology, and now the latest banknote printing technology is engraving intaglio printing, which is similar to woodcut engraving, but the substrate of engraving is not wood but metal. Because its plate-making and printing are extremely complex processes, the investment is huge, and small enterprises and small capital cannot do it; And because of its unique printing effect, the pattern line has a strong three-dimensional effect, the banknote has a good outstanding feel, not other printing methods can achieve, so there is a strong anti-counterfeiting function. This technology is divided into two major factions, one is the copper plate engraving intaglio, represented by Italy and Japan; The other school is the steel plate engraving technology, represented by the United States. The longer he got along with Yang Rui, Yu Zixun, who knew his thoughts well, put aside the copper plate and went straight to the steel plate after understanding the situation.

After learning about the printing equipment in the hall, I went straight to Washington at the invitation of the manufacturer to visit the Washington Banknote Printing Factory. In view of the current chaotic situation of paper money in China, the printing house does not care whether Yu Zixun is a representative of the Qing government or not, as long as Yu Zixun is willing to pay for the machine, then they are willing to sell.

Tossing for almost a month, the printing press is settled, although the steel printing technology is good, but the investment is huge, even if it is to run a small printing factory, it has cost more than 200,000 US dollars, ready to build a small banknote printing factory in Shanghai according to the model of the Washington banknote printing plant, although it is small, but there are a lot of machines inside, universal engraving machines, stereotyped machines, cameras, proofing machines, gravure printing machines, printing machines and so on. In addition, technical training was also agreed with the U.S. side, especially to learn the technology of engraving and plate making. As soon as the matter of the money printing machine was over, the two of them visited the National Cotton Spinning Association and Mobil Oil as representatives of the Tonghua Railway Company, and then everyone took a ship to Germany, and as for the matter of cotton spinning and silk spinning, Yu Huizu and the people were in charge.

In the Revival Society, German has become the first foreign language of everyone, under Yang Rui's flickering, Zhong Guanguan and Yu Zixun learned German well because they wanted to study in Germany before, especially when Yu Zixun was in Tokyo, he specially found German missionaries to learn. When they arrived in Hamburg, Christian and his arms dealer cousin Knabé, and at Yang Rui's request, the chief engineer of the military academy's weapons room, Ludwig, were already waiting at the docks, and after a brief greeting, they went straight to Düsseldorf.

Düsseldorf, a city on the Rhine, was rarely known even in later generations. Düsseldorf is rarely heard, but the Ruhr industrial area is well known, and Dusseldorf is in the heart of the Ruhr industrial area, known as the Ruhr industrial area desk.

After a few days of travel, I arrived in a city and stayed in a hotel under the arrangement of Knabe. I thought it was to get to Dusseldorf, but Yu Zixun inquired and learned that Dusseldorf still had to go 40 kilometers south, which was called Aisen, and the hotel where he stayed was called Aisen Hotel, which was opened by Krupp and was specially used for reception. At that moment, Christian was called over to inquire about the reason, because he wanted to arrange an internship for the personnel of the steel plant, and the information from Tonghua let Christian know that Yang Rui was going to run a steel factory, and the iron-making and steel-making blast furnace of the steel plant were indispensable, plus his cousin had been instigating him to bring people to Krupp to see the cannons, so Christian thought that it would be good to come to Krupp to see it anyway, so he took everyone to live in Aisen.