Rebirth of the Super Landlord

"Damn old fox," Su Zhen cursed in his heart as he looked at the old Chinese man sipping tea leisurely in front of him.

After deciding that he was going to join forces with several established families to make money by taking advantage of the economic crisis, Su Zhen contacted John Rockefeller Jr. and J.W. Morgan, the contemporary helmsmen of Rockefeller and Morgan, through Dick Rockefeller, who they had met once.

The two agreed with the cooperation idea proposed by Su Zhen.

In fact, it is impossible to say that they do not want to suppress Su Zhen. If Su Zhen develops gradually like Buffett and Bill Gates, perhaps Su Zhen's industries have already been controlled by several big families, but Su Zhen's rise is too fast.

It's so fast that they can't react at all. Especially after Su Zhen starts to cooperate with the Dupont family, it will be even harder for them to suppress Su Zhen. Moreover, they are not fools. They must do it even if they know it is impossible.

It does them no good at all.

What's the best way to deal with an enemy that you can't completely eliminate after it grows up? Needless to say, it's natural to draw the opponent into your camp... So they have no idea about the cooperation proposal proposed by Su Zhen.

Reasons for rejection, moral integrity, etc., do not exist at all in the eyes of capitalists. There is only one thing in their eyes, and that is interest. Marx said in "Das Kapital": "Once there is appropriate profit, capital becomes bold.

If there is 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; if there is 20% profit, it will become active; if there is 50% profit, it will take desperate risks; for 100% profit, it will dare to trample all human laws; there are

With 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime and even risk being hanged."

But another old family, the Mellon family, still didn't like Su Zhen very much. They didn't send anyone to contact Su Zhen, but they didn't object either... In other words, they acquiesced, but they just couldn't lose face.

Su Zhen didn't care. Anyway, the goal had been achieved. However, not long after the Freedom Alliance and the three major families reached a tacit agreement, someone came to Su Zhen. It was Mr. Wu who represented the Hanhua Consortium in front of him.

"I wonder why Mr. Wu is here this time?" Su Zhen still couldn't bear it and asked. Mr. Wu put down his teacup and said softly.

"Haha, I am here to discuss cooperation on behalf of Sinhua Group and Mr. Su Zhen," Mr. Wu said with a smile.

"Hanhua Group?" Su Zhen frowned when he heard this. Su Zhen knew about Hanhua Group. It is also a very powerful consortium in the United States. Although Hanhua Group is not among the top ten consortiums, its strength cannot be underestimated.

Look, in fact, among all the financial groups in the United States, the one that Su Zhen is most unpredictable about is not the Mellon, Rockefeller and other financial groups with deep foundations, but the Hanhua Group. The Hanhua Group is really too low-key. Even low-key.

Almost no one knows the full background of this mysterious consortium.

"Haha, I wonder if Mr. Su knows about the Guangzhou Thirteen Tours?" Mr. Wu noticed Su Zhen's confusion and asked with a smile.

"The Thirteenth Party of Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty?" Su Zhen was a little confused. Does this have anything to do with the old man coming to see him today?

"Haha, I've already said it before, my surname is Wu," the old man said still pretending to be nonchalant.

Su Zhen frowned when he heard this, but then a flash of realization flashed through his mind. Guangzhou Thirteenth Line? Surnamed Wu? Wu Bingjian?

"May I ask who Mr. Wu Bingjian is?" Su Zhen asked tentatively.

"It's the ancestor." Seeing that Su Zhen had guessed it, the old man nodded and replied, with inexplicable pride in his tone.

But Su Zhen didn't care at all, because this old man had the confidence that made him proud, all because of Wu Bingjian.

Perhaps many people know about Hu Xueyan, the richest red-top businessman in the Qing Dynasty, but they don't know that before Hu Xueyan, there was another extremely rich man, that is Wu Bingjian.

As we all know, the Qing Dynasty can be said to be the most closed-door dynasty in domestic history. However, the Qing Dynasty was not completely closed. However, all foreign trade could only go through the Qing Dynasty designated by the Qing government (similar to modern brokerage companies).

, intermediary). And Guangzhou Thirteen Banks is one of them (although it is called Thirteen Banks, there is actually no definite number, it is just a general name).

During the Qianlong period, the Qing government ordered that Guangzhou would be the only foreign trade port in the country, allowing Guangzhou Thirteen to completely monopolize the foreign trade privileges at that time, thus creating a large number of wealthy people, among whom Wu Bingjian was the leader.

In 2001, the American "Wall Street Journal" listed the richest people in the world in the past one thousand years. Among them, four Chinese were selected. They were Liu Jin, He Shen, Wu Bingjian and Song Ziwen, and Wu Bingjian was the only one.

Selected as a businessman. As the general merchant of the Thirteenth Bank of Guangzhou at the time, Wu Bingjian had outstanding foresight. He not only owned huge industries in the country, but also boldly invested in the railway industry, securities investment and insurance business in the United States.

We know that it was still the end of the 19th century, and the United States had only been founded for a few decades. Even the famous Civil War had not yet broken out. At that time, the United States' international status was actually not even as good as that of the Qing Dynasty. Under such circumstances, Wu Bingjian

Dare to invest heavily in the United States... This shows his foresight.

At the same time, Wu Bingjian was also the largest creditor of the British East India Company. When the British East India Company had difficulty in cash flow, it would borrow money from Wu Bingjian... What was the East India Company? It was the most powerful country in the world at that time. Britain was in

The vanguard of resource plunder in Asia, it not only has commercial monopoly power in Asia recognized by the British government, it also has its own army. For a long time, the East India Company was the actual controller of the entire India.

, but for such an unfavorable company, it needs to borrow money from Wu Bingjian...

It is a pity that Wu Bingjian was born at the wrong time. Although he was already awesome, he was born in the feudal period when merchants had no status at all. Even though he spent countless financial resources to buy a third-rank official position from the Qing government, he served as a replacement for the Qing government during the Opium War.

The Qing government paid war reparations, but still could not save its own industry. Under the pressure of the Qing government, the Guangzhou Thirteen Banks eventually went bankrupt, and Wu Bingjian was completely disheartened by the Qing government. If it weren't for the fact that he was already very

He was old and could not withstand the hardship of traveling across the ocean. He really wanted to immigrate to the United States, but in the end, Wu Bingjian passed away suddenly in Guangzhou.

However, Wu Bingjian's death does not mean the decline of the Wu family. Because of Wu Bingjian's foresight, the business of domestic commercial houses is no longer the Wu family's only lifeline. During the Opium War, the money the Wu family sent to the Qing government and the war payments it made on behalf of the Qing government

The compensation was only over two million taels of silver, but how much was Wu Bingjian worth at that time? 26 million taels... With this net worth, Wu Bingjian was truly the richest man in the world at that time.

But after Wu Bingjian's death, Wu Bingjian's descendants and his huge assets were completely lost in history. Now, the old man in front of Su Zhen claims to be Wu Bingjian's descendant. How can Su Zhen not be surprised? If all this

All are true, which means that the Hanhua Group is a family group older than Mellon, Morgan, and Rockefeller. More importantly, this family group is controlled by Chinese Americans.

The longest-standing family consortium in the United States is actually a Chinese-American family consortium. This is really amazing news... No wonder the outside world has never been able to truly understand this mysterious consortium. A family that has existed for as long as the history of the United States has such a

It is not surprising that Su Zhen even suspected that the hidden strength behind this consortium far exceeded its actual strength. After all, the Chinese are famous for saving money, especially these established families.

What he likes is hiding gold and silver... Su Zhen cannot imagine what is hidden behind this.

But since there is such a rich Chinese family in the United States, why do the Chinese in the United States still have such a low status?

"It's a long story." When Su Zhen asked this question, Old Man Wu sighed and said, "It starts with the Civil War."

When Su Zhen heard this, he immediately had black lines on his head, I wiped it, more than a hundred years ago? This relationship still needs a history lesson?

PS: The content about Hanhua Group is purely fabricated by me. In reality, Hanhua Group is indeed quite mysterious. The specific information cannot be verified, so please don’t take it seriously.