The arrogance started from Chinatown

What does Chapter 783 have to do with me? (Happy New Year!)

"Weige!"

"boss!"

At the New York train station, hundreds of young men in gentlemen's suits stood upright on the platform.

Everyone has an aura that makes them look like someone who is not easy to mess with.

The passengers on other platforms all looked over here sideways.

Seeing this scene, you know that an important person is coming.

Chen Zhengwei got off the train and looked around: "You are making such a big fuss, are you trying to scare me?"

"Ah Hong said that Brother Wei likes pomp and circumstance, and he must let New Yorkers know how powerful Brother Wei is!" Xu Yan walked over and said with a smile.

Chen Zhengwei raised his hand and slapped Rong Jiahong on the head.

"Do I need this to let them know how powerful I am? While I was parading my troops here, you were still mining in the mountains!"

Although he said that, everyone could see that Chen Zhengwei was in a good mood and not angry.

He really did like the show.

"Ms. Cicely!" Xu Yan and others are very familiar with Cicely, who often stays in New York.

Cicely smiled at them.

"I haven't been to New York for a long time. I wonder if there has been any changes!" Chen Zhengwei asked as he walked out.

He always felt that the design of New York's train stations was unreasonable.

The carriage could not enter.

"It's still the same as before. How can things change so quickly? There are just more lights, more cars on the streets, and more telephones."

"After the telephone lines from Boston to New York were laid, there were a lot more telephones in New York. You can see telephones in any small company." Xu Yan said with a smile.

When Chen Zhengwei bought shares in Bell Telephone Company, the switch could only connect dozens of telephones. Now large switches can connect up to 2000 telephones and have practical value.

What's more, New York is a cutting-edge city with the most advanced technology. Installing a telephone is telling others that you are at the forefront of technology.

Very valuable for businessmen.

In addition, as the idea of long-distance calls began to be realized, telephones became a standard feature in the homes of the wealthy.

The only problem is that it requires manual transfer, which is slow.

But it is still much faster than taking a carriage.

"Why do they all sound like my companies?" Chen Zhengwei felt better after hearing this. "The technological development of the United States depends entirely on me!"

"Anything interesting happened recently?"

"There's a wave of immigration... A large number of European immigrants have been arriving recently... In addition, it's been quite hot in the past two months. Many people died of the heat last month... By the way, there was a strike at the dock last month. 2000 workers were on strike. Goods piled up like mountains. It was a spectacular scene! Many businessmen suffered losses... Many people are complaining and are looking for us to solve this problem and let those workers return to their jobs." Rong Jiahong said excitedly.

"They promised me some benefits, but I refused. The workers' movement is the wave of the future... Looking at these years, the workers' movement has become more and more frequent and more and more popular." Xu Yan took over and explained seriously.

"There is no benefit for us to participate in this kind of thing! In other words, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Wei Ge's image has always been to support racial equality and human rights equality! Participating in suppressing the workers' movement will push us Chinese to the opposite side of the workers!"

"You've matured!" Chen Zhengwei patted Xu Yan's shoulder.

"You can tell from looking at it that you've been reading recently!"

"Not only does he study, Brother Yan also got a degree in sociology from New York University!" the henchman next to him interrupted.

"Huh?" Chen Zhengwei was a little surprised. He really didn't know about this.

Then he turned to look at Rong Jiahong: "I remember you were auditing art classes at New York University, how is that going?"

After saying this, Rong Jiahong's face became somewhat stiff, and he said angrily: "Those people have no appreciation!"

Xu Yan glanced at him and Rong Jiahong immediately shut up.

After Chen Zhengwei noticed this, he became very interested. Rong Jiahong has never been convinced by anyone, not even Xu Yan.

Now he is so honest.

"What happened? This guy is so honest, did you catch him?"

"Nothing...it's just that my work caused some sensation at the exhibition..." Rong Jiahong looked sullen.

"That guy made the corpse into a statue and sent it to the exhibition. Then the statue fell down and the corpse was exposed, causing quite a stir. It took a lot of effort to settle the matter." Xu Yan didn't want to say it at first, but since things had come to this point, he just told the story.

Then Xu Yan sent him back to San Francisco to avoid the limelight.

It happened when Chen Zhengwei just returned to San Francisco from overseas last year.

"Who is it?" Chen Zhengwei asked as he walked.

"The boss of the Brooklyn police gang!"

The Brooklyn Police Gang is a gang composed entirely of local Brooklyn police officers. They do everything from extortion, kidnapping, murder, etc.

Their methods are even worse than those of ordinary gangs. After all, gangs are not as brave as them.

"That guy is playing tricks! I'll take people to catch him..." Rong Jiahong also whispered.

Chen Zhengwei nodded slightly. Since he was a gang member, it didn't matter.

Rong Jiahong has a bit of a crazy personality and doesn't have a brain yet, so he needs to be strictly controlled, otherwise he will easily lose his position and eventually become arrogant. Chen Zhengwei discovered this very early, so he asked him to help Xu Yan.

Xu Yan's methods could easily kill him.

"Brother Wei, I found an interesting thing at a technology exhibition a few days ago. It's a horse-drawn harvester that can cut and bundle automatically, and then throw it out by itself... One machine can do the work of several people. I have asked someone to obtain the patent, and there will be news soon."

“I think there is a market for this thing!”

Rong Jiahong said again.

He paid close attention to technology expositions in the eastern states, and had spotted this McCormick reaper at one of the shows before, and saw its potential at first sight.

Because he really farmed the land.

Such a machine only needs two horses to pull it and one person to drive it, which is equivalent to five people.

“And I think this thing can be combined with a car and get rid of the need for horse-drawn pulling.”

"I was talking to a professor at New York University about social change. He said that someone had designed steam agricultural equipment in the past, which could be used in the fields using crawler wheels... I wondered if we could replace car wheels with crawler tracks and install a harvester on the back?"

After hearing this, Chen Zhengwei patted Xu Yan on the shoulder.

This guy is really good now.

The main direction of the laboratory is four-wheel and six-wheel tractors, but crawler tracks will definitely be an important direction in the future.

Moreover, the track system and power system can be used for another thing.

tank!

Chen Zhengwei felt that with Xu Yan's ability and contribution, he could get some shares in the head office.

In this regard, Chen Zhengwei has never been stingy.

He never liked to talk about feelings or ideals with others, but preferred to talk about money and power.

As long as you have the ability and merit, he will never be stingy.

Leaving the train station, there were several cars and quite a few horse-drawn carriages outside.

Chen Zhengwei got on a car and looked at New York with interest. The development here is indeed fast.

But Xu Yan and Rong Jiahong saw these things every day and didn’t feel much.

It has been almost two years since Chen Zhengwei last came here, and he can feel the changes here even more clearly.

Arriving at the hotel, Chen Zhengwei walked in and said, "Arrange a banquet! Five days later! Mainly people in finance and railways and envoys from various countries, and for the rest, invite some of the leading figures in New York."

In addition to solving the funding problem of the Panama Canal, he also came to discuss cooperation in the railway field.

The railway on the Mexican side.

Xiucai has been in contact with that side for some time and has made good progress.

Mexican President Porfirio Diaz is a pro-foreigner president. Foreign capital comes first in everything, and domestic capital comes second.

His idea was to allow foreign capital to develop Mexico.

When facing foreign capital, he made great concessions, so many Mexicans ridiculed him as a benefactor of foreigners.

Xiucai is optimistic about two railway plans. One is the southern railway from Mexico City to Oaxaca. The advantage is that the southern population is dense, so this railway has great prospects. The disadvantage is that the operating prospects are good, so the amount of land that can be obtained is relatively small. In addition, it is too far from California.

Another railway is the Trans-Pacific Railway from Guadalajara to Mazatlan. This railway is located in north-central Mexico, running from Mexico's second largest city to the Pacific port. It has great strategic significance and is conducive to market expansion.

This railroad was also far from California, but through subsequent expansion it could be connected with the Sonora Railroad.

The Sonora Railroad is a railway from California to Mexico, invested and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company with American capital, and is almost completed.

After obtaining information about these two railways, Chen Zhengwei decided on the Trans-Pacific Railway.

When investing in Mexico, the most important thing is not future returns, but land and other strategic goals.

He could also obtain a batch of land from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company through exchange or acquisition, which would give him a retreat in Mexico and allow him to use it as a fulcrum to intervene in Mexico's economy and politics.

After checking into the mainland hotel, Chen Zhengwei spent the next few days mainly accompanying Cicely shopping in New York, and also received some invitations to banquets.

Three days later, Quincy Tucker, president of Pacific Guano Company, and people from several other fertilizer companies came to visit Chen Zhengwei.

As the name suggests, this fertilizer mainly uses guano as its product.

Originally, because of the war in South America, they could still buy some raw materials from Chile, although the price was very high.

However, as the mining area was taken back by Peru and Bolivia and the sea transportation lines were blocked by Britain, they stopped working several months ago.

In particular, at the end of last year, Xu Yan contacted them and they signed a fertilizer trade contract with Thailand.

If they continue like this, they will only end up going bankrupt.

Therefore, I had no choice but to go find Chen Zhengwei.

"So you came to me because you can't buy raw materials?" In the hotel lobby, Chen Zhengwei crossed his legs and looked at the middle-aged foreigners in front of him with a bit of sarcasm on his face.

"But you can't buy raw materials. What does it have to do with me?"

"Besides...you didn't come to beg me when I was in Los Angeles...it means you can still hold on! Now that I'm in New York, you all come to me to complain...if you don't know, you would think I came to beg you!"

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