As one of the famous tycoons in the late Qing Dynasty, the life of Wang Chi, a native of Maitreya in Yunnan, was full of miracles. Once upon a time, the name of King Qian Wang Chi resounded throughout the country. It is a pity that many people now only know Hu Xueyan but do not know that Wang Chi, and they do not know that the crown and first-class tycoon Wang Chi was unique in history, and the honors received far exceeded that of Hu Xueyan, a famous tycoon in the late Qing Dynasty.

No one knows how much Wang Chi has, but it is an indisputable fact that the money shop he opened, "Tongqingfeng", had influenced the financial market of the Qing Dynasty for a long time during its heyday. The British Times once counted the richest people in the world in a century, and Wang Chi ranked fourth. Moreover, he is the only Chinese who is famous on the list.

Although Wang Chi is rich in Yunnan, he is not a businessman who only seeks profit. He values ​​morality and righteousness, and does business with virtue. He is not self-consistent in business, and is good at learning from the world's advanced experience to fight for a strong country. In his personal life, Wang Chi is rich but not extravagant, and always maintains a thrifty family style. Integrity and virtue have won the respect of everyone, including competitors, and become a model in the business world. Not only that, Wang Chi also relies on promoting wealth, urgently for the country's urgent needs, taking it as his own responsibility to revitalize the local economy, develop local industries, and be enthusiastic about public welfare.

What is even more admirable is that Wang Chi spent a huge amount of money to buy back the road rights of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway from the French, making the road rights of Yunnan not dominated by the French. In order to protect local industries from being interfered with foreigners, Wang Chi took the risk of winning the bid and paid hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to prepare for Yunnan copper and tin mining with the government. In order to cultivate talents and revitalize local education and culture, Wang Chi also jointly organized the "Xingwendang" (later renamed "Xingwen Bank") with the local Fushen, using it as a "fund library" to donate to the development of local education. Yunnan Jingzheng Academy (now Yunnan University) also received its funding.

Unfortunately, Wang Chi passed away in 1903 and Chen Wenqiang was not seen. However, the son Wang Hongtu, who succeeded Wang Chi's career, also had an extraordinary business acumen and inherited Wang Chi's passionate public welfare style.

"...After Qingming Festival, the rain poured on the head, and the wormwood branches bloomed and the ghosts were worried. Ten people were sick and nine died, and one escaped to live on the hill...Dian Province has been a miasma area since ancient times, and the people lived in the world for a long time. The genius of Mr. wanted to develop new medicines. However, it seemed inappropriate to abandon Yunnan Province and choose Qiongzhou..."

Wang Hongtu, who was then an associate director of the Yunnan Business Association, said in the letter that the situation was not wrong, but he invited Chen Wenqiang to Yunnan to develop new drugs and was willing to donate all the funds needed. Obviously, he did not understand Chen Wenqiang's secret thoughts of going to Qiongzhou.

In response, Chen Wenqiang declined politely using Yunnan as an excuse that it is inland and transportation is inconvenient. But at the same time, in his reply, he still hoped that Wang Hongtu could make appropriate donations and optimistically stated that the development of the new drug was relatively smooth. If the funds were sufficient, it would likely lead to results within a few months. When the new drug was launched, he would give Wang Hongtu the exclusive sales rights in Yunnan to supply the drugs at a cost price.

One cent more money is one cent. Although the funds are not short of money, Chen Wenqiang still hopes to get more. Moreover, if he can make friends with Wang Hongtu, who dominates the Yunnan business community with both economic strength and business capabilities, the benefits he will obtain in the future will be huge, and it will be very beneficial for the development of Revival in Yunnan.

Wang Hongtu's reply clearly proves that he is not only enthusiastic about public welfare, but also has a business mind like his father, as well as a very new business awareness and extraordinary courage. It is proposed to launch Kunming Electric Lighting Company and Kunming Water Company. This kind of emerging industries with much difficulty and risk in investment and light industries is much greater than that of light industries. It is not something that ordinary industrialists dare to try.

In the society at that time, there was not only one national businessman who had the courage and vision of Wang Hongtu and had advanced to the difficulties. Since Chen Wenqiang established the Sino-German joint venture power engineering company, those who expressed positive intentions include the old top scholar Zhang Jian, the red-topped businessmen Zhu Lanfang, Zhou Shunqing, etc. Power investment is crucial to the country and nation and is a necessary path for the modernization of the country.

A sigh interrupted Chen Wenqiang's thoughts. He looked at the frowning Luo Deng and couldn't help but reach out and pat the American on the shoulder. He comforted: "There is a saying in China: A small separation is better than a newlywed. After a brief separation, when you meet Lina again, maybe she will hug you with great enthusiasm."

"Maybe?" A light flashed in Luo Deng's eyes, then dimmed again, and he shook his head and said, "You are not sure, are you?"

"It's worth looking forward to if it's uncertain." Chen Wenqiang smiled slightly and pointed to the distance. "Guangzhou, I'm sorry I just passed by last time. This time I must try the Dragon and Tiger Fight. I heard that those who dare to eat have courage. The courage when eating the first bite is not inferior to fighting on the battlefield."

"Dragon and tiger fighting?" Luo Deng showed a confused expression.

"Jiajun, come and explain it." Chen Wenqiang waved to Li Jiajun, "You are the guide, you must be dedicated to your duties."

"Haha, Brother Wen Qiang, you forgot that I am also from Guangdong." Zhang Rongxuan, a giant overseas Chinese businessman in official uniform, walked out of the cabin and said jokingly. There was a person following behind him, but Zhan Tianyou, a famous engineer sent by the Qing court, came to Guangdong for on-site surveys and investigations on the Chaoshan Railway.

"The dragon and tiger fight are delicious, and the Buddha jumps over the wall is mouth-watering!" Zhang Rongxuan walked closer and said with emotion: "I have been away from my hometown for a long time, but I remember these delicious foods in my hometown the most."

Chen Wenqiang nodded and greeted, and said with a smile: "Food, clothing, housing and transportation, the word "food" is the first, of course, and it makes sense. Which mortal can resist the temptation of delicious food? By the way, Juncheng is also from Guangdong, right?"

"My brothers are from Wuyuan, Huizhou, but they were born in Nanhai County, Guangdong." Zhan Tianyou replied with a smile.

Chen Wenqiang is born with a good impression of a railway specialist like Zhan Tianyou. Such professional talents are simple-minded and better deal with them. Similarly, Zhan Tianyou also feels that Chen Wenqiang has broad knowledge and new ideas, and has his own unique insights on construction, and he also feels happy to get close to it.

"It's a pity that Juncheng is a busy man." Zhang Rongxuan shook his head with some regrets, "After surveying and investigation of the Chaoshan Railway, he will return to Beijing to plan to build the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. It's a short time to get together!"

"Yes!" Chen Wenqiang also sighed softly and said, "If Juncheng has time, I would like to ask him to inspect the terrain of Qiongzhou to see if the railway can be built!"

"Wen Qiang's idea is similar to that of the governor of Huguang Zhang Zhidong." Zhan Tianyou was stunned for a moment and said, "Zhang Zhidong has written more than once, suggesting that the railway be built to the hinterland of Hainan, and later gave up because of being transferred to Huguang."

"Oh?" Chen Wenqiang expressed a little surprise, shook his head, and said, "The scale and purpose are different. What I want to build is a railway from Tiandu, Shilu Iron Mine to a port or iron smelting plant. The distance is short and mainly for industrial purposes."

"That's it," Zhan Tianyou pondered for a moment, looked up and said, "There are many talents on the railway, not only Tianyou. If Brother Wenqiang needs it, I can recommend one or two."

Chen Wenqiang thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Hainan iron ore, including Shilu Iron Mine Hetian Du Iron Mine, is a sedimentary metamorphic iron ore deposit and hematite, and is an iron ore production base with early development in my country. Its scale and high grade of raw ore is especially high. In particular, Shilu Iron Mine is one of the large open-pit mines in China. The iron ore reserves account for about 71% of the country's iron ore reserves, ranking first in the country. It not only has rich iron, cobalt, copper resources, but also a variety of mineral resources such as nickel, sulfur, silver, and gold, and is known as the "No. 1 rich iron ore in Asia."

At present, these two iron ore are still in the stage of private manual mining, and the reserves have not been fully discovered. The iron ore resources of Tiandu Mine have not been discovered for many years by local villagers. They were once mined by local methods for a period of time and were abandoned; while the Shilu Mine is now mined by Zhang Yan, a British Chinese businessman, colluded with local powerful forces. The methods are very primitive, and the ore is mined by the method of frontal drilling and chiseling, and then using livestock power, the ox carts transport the ore to the seatou, Danzhou, 80 kilometers away.

Whether to bribe the government with money, or rely on local Sandianhui's forces, and the force of his own organization to seize the robbery, it was not too difficult for Chen Wenqiang to obtain the mining of these two iron ores. Therefore, he hired exploration technicians from Germany, who had arrived in Qiongzhou in advance, and ordered mining, transportation and smelting equipment from Germany through Karl, and had loaded from Hamburg. Of course, this undoubtedly gave Karls a chance to dismantle a large number of guns and ammunition into parts, mixed into these equipment and machinery, and transported to Sanya Port together.

As for the gun production line, Karls swears that Chen Wenqiang will be given another half a year of grace, and he will definitely get it, and will give another discount on the price.

A fat man cannot become a fat man in one bite, but he can eat it one bite by one. Chen Wenqiang knew that some things should not be anxious. He is laying the groundwork now and has not yet obtained the mining rights. It is even more distant to have not yet mined or smelted, and to build guns and cannons.

When everyone abandoned their boats and entered Guangzhou City, it was already late. The sunset shone on a tower in the distance, and the alley was just a gray shadow. Occasionally, you could hear the sound of firecrackers deep in the alley. Li Jiajun introduced that it was probably exorcizing ghosts, and explained to several foreigners that he was not a lunatic when listening to dead people in China.

After the Opium War, Guangzhou's absolute advantage in foreign trade gradually lost. Shanghai and Hong Kong rose rapidly and gradually replaced Guangzhou's leading position. However, due to its proximity to Hong Kong, new things and new ideas of modern capitalism were introduced into Hong Kong, and after the "one transmission" of Hong Kong, it formed an important channel for Western learning to be introduced into mainland China. Therefore, Guangzhou in the late Qing Dynasty was still the southern metropolis that spread Western civilization, formed a consumption trend, and led the consumption trend. It is also one of the most avant-garde cities in foreign goods consumption.

Looking back on history, Guangzhou is not only the first place in China to light up electric lights, but also the founding place of the first power management company in China. In 1890, Zhang Zhidong, who was at the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, used a generator in his Governor's Office to generate electricity specifically for the Governor's Office, and encouraged overseas Chinese capitalist Huang Bingchang to set up an electric light company in Guangzhou.

Unfortunately, even when the electric light company was in its heyday, it only supplied 700 electric lights for electricity. Due to the line connection users, the electricity costs are expensive, and the high power consumption of electric lights in the old days, it is difficult for ordinary people to accept it.

As a result, from the successful establishment to the depreciation and failure of the machine, and the end of the shortage of funds, China's first electric light company operated by electricity only lasted for nine years and went bankrupt in nine years.

The Westernization Movement in history ended in the fifth year, which brought the living environment of the national industry into a severe winter. Although many Qing government officials who "learned the best" during the Westernization Movement made random decisions and paid tuition fees, the overall environment created in thirty years allowed many people to see opportunities. Huang Bingchang was just one of them, and after the electric light company ended, there was no news about him.

Zhang Rongxuan and Chen Wenqiang are not people who are short of money, so their residences cannot be simple. Someone has already set up a station in front of the station and arranged a Tianyi Restaurant, the first-class restaurant in Guangzhou. The hall was decorated with colorful pictures, Western furniture, and gold and silver tableware. In particular, in order to seek profit and novelty, it shows that the tradition of Guangdong people dare to "eat", Tianyi Restaurant also offers unique cuisines in Cantonese cuisine.

The supper was delicious, with a fight between dragons and tigers, but there was no sense of heroes. It made the faces of several foreigners change color, and they were so scared that they "because the smell of smell, swallowing the face and sweating". Of course, under the ridicule and demonstration of Chen Wenqiang and others, they still plucked up the courage to taste it, and some people made positive comments, and then feasted.

When Chen Wenqiang came to Guangzhou, of course, he did not want to satisfy his verbal desires. On the one hand, he wanted to establish a liaison relay point between Qiongzhou and Shanghai, and on the other hand, he also wanted to connect with the government so that he could get a better development environment in Qiongzhou.

After resting for a night, early the next morning, Chen Wenqiang and Zhang Rongxuan had breakfast and rushed to the Governor General's Office in Guangdong and Guangxi to pay tribute to Governor Cen Chunxuan, and were successfully received.

Chen Wenqiang did considerable homework for Cen Chunxuan, not only analyzing the person's temper and political tendencies, but also integrating the current situation in Guangdong and the interests of the factions in the entire Qing Dynasty officialdom.

On the surface, Cen Chunxuan himself was relatively honest. Wherever he was in charge, he launched an anti-corruption storm. When he was acting as the governor of Sichuan, he impeached more than 300 officials at one time. In the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he impeached more than 1,400 illegal officials and dereliction of duty. He was once known as "official slaughter"; Cen Chunxuan also advocated "constitutionalization", secretly sent close friends to contact Zhang Jian, and granted 10,000 yuan to establish a constitutional group in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and promised to donate 1,000 yuan a year to actively support the activities of the constitutionalists; for the new policy, Cen Chunxuan also worked in a prosperous manner, running factories, developing mining affairs, and building railways... He also submitted a report to the court, requesting that all the camps in Guangdong be revised to learn foreign catholics and re-edit new clothes, called Guangdong New Army...
Chapter completed!