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Chapter 43 Expo

With these tasks, Yu Zixun and others boarded the ship. The delegation arrived in San Francisco on April 17 because this was the first time that the royal blood of the Qing Dynasty has arrived on the American continent. For Americans who have never had a noble, it was amazing to see a Qing prince with authentic royal blood. In addition, there were many overseas Chinese gentry in the United States. For a time, the dock was welcomed by the dock. Everyone was scrambling to see the Qing Dynasty Bei Zi Pulun. Yu Zixun saw this on the ship. He was young and had another revolutionary idea and muttered: "Damn, what royal bloodline? More than two hundred years ago, he was a barren land man outside the pass..."

Yu Zixun spoke in a low voice, but Xu Huafeng next to him immediately heard it, hurriedly grabbed his arm and whispered: "Why should Zixun be angry? The Qing Dynasty has ended, and the princes and emperors are all dry bones in the tomb, so why bother with them?"

Although he knew this was the reason, Yu Zixun was so angry that he sighed: "I don't know what God thought. This great country has become a foreign race for more than two hundred years. The Han nobles have cut off their bloodlines since then. I think it's really hard to sleep or eat."

"How come the Han nobles have cut off their bloodlines? Why don't they buy gold?" The longer Xu Hua was enthroned in the meeting, he knew more and more things. In addition, he was one of the seven committee members. He had the authority to know most of the secrets in the meeting. The more he knew, the greater his confidence and was full of hope for the gold digging plan. "Besides, are there any king, prince, general, and minister? Decades later, you and I are nobles."

Thinking of the gold digging plan hosted by Yang Rui - although he and Xu Huafeng were both members, the plan was really secret. He knew it was true, but he didn't know the location and details - his heart was calm. After all, the bloodline of the former Ming Dynasty had not been cut off and he was silent for a while. Although the former Ming Dynasty royal family was not a nobleman, and the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang had also been a beggar monk, but after hundreds of years of power in the Ming Dynasty, the future generations could not help but have a myth. Besides, the revolution was really successful but he was also a nobleman. Thinking of this, Yu Zixun became a little fluttered. But soon he turned his thinking to these tasks. The revolution was difficult and long, and it was still necessary to do it step by step.

After getting ashore, while the Americans were entertaining Bei Zi Pulun, Yu Zixun visited the Hongmen leader Huang Sande. Huang Sande had already received the news that Yu Zixun was coming. He looked happy when he saw Yu Zixun. He immediately swept away the gloom that had been around for more than ten days and said with a smile: "Mr. Yu is here. Last month, Sande was waiting for you after receiving a telegram from your association."

From the notice in the meeting, the gentle and handsome man Yu Zixun knew his weight. He was an amazing figure among overseas Chinese. He also smiled and said, "The meeting planned to take care of Prime Minister Domestic, but now the plan is at a critical moment. He also asked the Prime Minister to help him. This time, President Cheng specially sent his younger brother to chat with him. In addition, he thought that the Prime Minister had left his hometown for a long time, so he specially asked He Qin to bring a lot of specialties from his hometown." After that, he took a gift list and presented it to him.

Huang Sande refused but took it. After seeing it, his eyes were red and he was very moved. He said, "Oh, I really have a heart. Sande has been away from home for more than 20 years and misses his home." Huang Sande was from Xinning, Guangdong. When he was young, he never returned home after going abroad to the United States. Things in his hometown are even more worthwhile. In fact, the things on this gift list are not valuable, all of which are 49 fragrant potatoes, Beikeng straw mats, Beifeng Baiyun tea, Doushan bamboo shoots and other local products. This is a common thing in Xinning, but it is rare in the United States at this time. Although Chinese people also smuggled into the United States, who can smuggle these things?

Huang Sande was even more heartfelt when the gift was given in place. Soon he said: "You don't know that, a few days ago, Sun Wen, the Xingzhonghui, also arrived in San Francisco. However, the Qing court made bad things. Sun Wen could not get ashore and was detained in a wooden house for tax customs. It has been several days now. Sande has sent someone to Meijing to find a lawyer to rescue him, but... hey... "

Yu Zixun knew who Sun Wen was, but he didn't expect that he was also in the United States. He wanted to save this person, and he spent a lot of money to rescue the Hongmen. He took out the envelope he had given when he was ready to say goodbye. "Zixun is here, and Brother Cheng specifically told me to hand it over to the Prime Minister."

Huang Sande thought it was a letter or other item, so he took it and opened it and saw it. It was a cash check from Citibank, with a total of 20,000 US dollars on it. He quickly put the check back into the envelope and pushed it back to Yu Zixun, and said absolutely: "The last time he helped was within the Sande. The talent plan for your association was very expensive. It was when you were short of money. This money was useless to give Sande. It would be better to recruit more people and create more guns and cannons to expel the Qing Dynasty from China. The reason for regaining our Chinese."

Yu Zixun knew that it was 20,000 US dollars, and this money was a huge sum. It was something that Yang Ruinian told Wang Jitong to prepare when he returned to Shanghai at the beginning of his life. This time he brought it to Huang Sande. Seeing that Huang Sande was not accepting it, Yu Zixun said: "Although the money in the meeting is not abundant, he can still think of a solution. Besides, these are not only rewarding the Prime Minister for help, but also the intention of funding the revolution. Now Mr. Sun is in a cage, and it is time to use a lot of money. The Prime Minister must not refuse."

This repeated several times, and Huang Sande finally accepted it. Now, in order to save Sun Wen, nearly 10,000 US dollars have been spent in the hall to build up relationships, especially the cost of hiring a lawyer from the United States and Beijing is extremely high. In fact, this time, Sun Wen is detained, not because the United States does not welcome the revolutionary party. The United States has always welcomed revolutionary anti-government elements. Kang Youwei was "gifted" by Japan before, and he fell in the United States. Not only did he build a royalist party everywhere to cheat money, but he also trained a royalist army in Los Angeles. This time, the United States detained Sun Wen because the Qing Dynasty Beizi Pulun was just right.

When they went to the United States to attend the World Expo, the two went to the United States too close. The Americans were afraid that Sun Wen would make trouble, so they planned to keep him away for some time. When Pu Lunbeizi walked away, they would release Sun Wen. So, Huang Sande did not release Sun Wen, and the big men who asked for advice were all very frightening to be heard. Huang Sande was just a leader of the Hongmen. He didn't know anything about politics, so he didn't know the joints inside. He spent more than ten days to spend money on it but it was useless, so he was very worried.

Yu Zixun stayed in Sacramento Street for a day before leaving. There was still a negotiation on the Expo that he had to preside over. He wanted to go and prepare early. After this, the Restoration Association had a more harmonious relationship with the Hongmen. Huang Sande also said that after the rescue of Sun Wen, the remaining funds will be used to increase the efforts to mobilize overseas Chinese, so that more overseas Chinese can join the Restoration Association's talent training plan.

At the end of April, the delegation finally arrived at the Expo venue. The Expo was to commemorate the United States' spending $15 million to buy Louisiana from Napoleon, France, and invested $15 million to host the Expo. The site is located in the Forest Park in St. Louis, with more than 60 countries participating in the exhibition and more than 1,200 acres of land. A total of more than 1,200 buildings were built, which is unprecedented in scale. Yu Zixun has also seen the world. Last year, he participated in the Osaka Expo in Japan, but this was the first time he saw such a world-class event. Xu Huafeng was shocked. The Krupp cannons in the German Pavilion alone made him surprised and sad for several days. It took several days to walk around and figure it out, and stayed in the hotel for a day before he made a new plan to better collect information on the hall.

Every World Expo has a theme, and this World Expo is no exception. However, the theme of this World Expo is very unreliable because the theme is ice cream. This thing that was popular in later generations was a rare item at that time. Of course, in addition to ice cream, the wireless broadcast of the American Online Company was also a big surprise. According to Yang Rui's plan last year, the Wireless Laboratory finally took out an amplifier, and wireless broadcast can finally be broadcast infinitely. This new product conquered the organizers as soon as it appeared. They did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to build a broadcast system throughout the venue, and the entire World Expo venue suddenly had sound. In order to start the new thing of broadcasting, McNeil specially invited a symphony orchestra to continuously perform in the studio, and beautiful music often floated in the venue.

Everyone was shocked when the wonderful music in the venue sounded, but no player was found in search of the audience, which caused a huge sensation. On the afternoon of the opening day, the inventor Edison came with the sound. After three days of close conversation, Tianyin, the parent company of AE, and General Electric Company of Edison, reached a number of patent exchanges and compensation agreements. The two parties formed a close strategic cooperative relationship in the field of radio technology. At the same time, the booth of the AE in the United States was surrounded by all kinds of people all day long. McNeill dressed in a successful person. In addition to negotiating patent matters with Edison's representative, he also frequently had banks.

The representative of the company negotiated financing matters - he didn't understand why Yang Rui ordered a contract with the cooperative bank group to be signed in a short 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 and the decision-making power was not in his hands. The negotiators and negotiation outlines of the bank group had long been arranged by Yang Rui. In just a few days, he couldn't play tricks at all. Yang Rui's movements were too fast, and the fruits were picked as soon as they ripened. Although there would be losses in this way, the losses were much better than the loss. Therefore, the cooperation agreement was signed immediately after five days of intensive negotiations.

After signing the contract, Ai.com finally had a backer. Especially for other merchants from all over the country who wanted to buy this patent, Ai.com, which had a backer, offered a fierce offer. In more than ten days, the patent authorization fee alone and the radio station construction deposit was charged more than one million US dollars. Such income made McNeill forget his previous unhappiness and began to be ecstatic. He pulled Yu Huizu and kissed him fiercely. Yu Huizu was also stunned. Although he had no objection to Yang Rui's money in the laboratory, he still had an idea in his heart. Seeing that he earned more than one million US dollars at the signing of several agreements, he was immediately convinced.

Yang Rui in Tonghua was relieved to receive the telegram signed by the cooperation agreement. Fortunately, there was no accident. His pig's feet shone with a halo and another golden finger. In fact, in Yang Rui's opinion, although the sales of these patent-free equipment is a lot of money, it is only a pediatrician compared to the income from packaging and listing of the company. Although, American Online has extremely high profit prospects, but its inherent background is ineffective, it only retains 51% of its shares under the fierce competition of bank groups and is not more. However, once the company cooperates with the consortium, with the support of the consortium, the future of American Online after listing is unlimited. However, once the company cooperates with the consortium, with the support of the consortium, the prospect of American Online after listing is unlimited.

Although as the original shareholder, he was going to be slaughtered again, the shares were further diluted and interests were further occupied, this is the best result at present. Yang Rui understood very well that if it were not for the sudden appearance of the Expo broadcast, which formed a competitive benefit. If it were not for the quick selection of buyers to bind interests, then the company's patents would be seized. McNeill was extremely likely to be killed. A little less money would be less, and it would be okay if there was no profit. The key is that from then on, in the United States, in addition to being familiar with Mobil Oil and American cotton spinning people, he began to have intersections with the real upper class in the United States, which is the most important thing.

Yu Zixun was also shocked by the deep-seated game and fierce negotiations of the United States Online. But fortunately, his side fought quickly and took advantage of the fact that there was no tacit understanding between the bank groups, and some common methods were useless to use. He was lucky to achieve his previous reservation goal through hard work. After signing as a signing representative, he fled from the hotel. After a few days of rest, he returned to the money printing machine. Xu Huafeng had finished watching the military equipment at this time, but it was difficult to go up to negotiate. Moreover, the exhibition was different from what Yang Rui thought. There were not many military equipment, and many cannons and guns. The Revival would have those old guns from South Africa, and there was no shortage of arms for a while, so it ended without seeing anything. In addition to military equipment, the money printing machine was the focus.

The next step of the Revival Association is to lay out the financial field. Banks must be opened. Once the bank is opened, they only rely on storage and withdrawal. If they cannot make a lot of money, the best way is to collect other people's money and turn it into paper money to send it out. The ability is to issue paper money printing machines. After reading it for a few days, Yu Zixun and others have a general understanding of the current status of international money printing machines. At this time, the ancient Chinese technology of wood panels, such as woodblocks, is being eliminated by lithographic printing technology. According to the news from the familiar Commercial Press, they are now preparing to print banknotes for the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of Revenue Bank. The stone tablet printing technology 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. The latest money printing technology is engraving gravure printing. This technology is similar to wood carving, but the base material of the carving is not wood but metal. Because its plate making and printing are extremely complex, the investment is huge, and small enterprises and small capital cannot do it. Because of its unique printing effect, the pattern lines have a strong three-dimensional effect, and the banknotes have a good highlighting feel, which cannot be achieved by other printing methods, so they have strong anti-counterfeiting functions. This technology is divided into two major factions, one is copper plate engraving gravure, represented by Italy and Japan; the other is steel plate engraving technology, represented by the United States. The longer they have been with Yang Rui, the more they are familiar with his thoughts, Yu Zixun left the copper plate and went straight to the steel plate.

After learning about the printing equipment in the guild hall, he went straight to Washington to visit the Washington banknote printing factory at the invitation of the manufacturer. Given the current chaos in paper money in China, the printing factory did not care whether Yu Zixun or others were representatives of the Qing government. As long as Yu Zixun and others were willing to pay for the machine, they would be willing to sell it.

After almost a month of hard work, the printing press was decided. Although the steel plate printing technology is good, the investment is huge. Even if you set up a small printing factory, you have spent more than 200,000 US dollars to build a small printing factory in Shanghai according to the model of the Washington Bank Printing Factory. Although it is small, there are many machines inside, including universal engraving machines, stereotype machines, cameras, proofers, gravure printers, code printers, etc. In addition, you also agreed with the United States on technical training, especially learning machine engraving and plate making technology. As soon as the money printing machine was completed, the two visited the National Cotton Spinning Association and Mobil Petroleum as representatives of Tonghua Railway Company. After that, everyone took a boat to Germany. As for the cotton spinning matter, the people brought by Yu Huizu were responsible for it.

At the Revival Society, German has become the number one foreign language for everyone. Under Yang Rui's deception, Zhong Guangui and Yu Zixun studied German well because they had been determined to study in Germany, especially when Yu Zixun was in Tokyo, he specially learned German with German missionaries. When he arrived in Hamburg, Christian and his cousin Knabe, and at Yang Rui's request, the chief engineer of the Military Academy's Weapon Laboratory, the three of them were waiting at the dock. After a simple greeting, everyone headed straight to Düsseldorf.

Dusseldorf, a city on the Rhine River, is rarely known even in later generations. Dusseldorf rarely hears about it, but the Ruhr Industrial Zone is well-known. This Dusseldorf is located in the center of the Ruhr Industrial Zone and is known as the desk of the Ruhr Industrial Zone.
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