Chapter 12: Around the world

Wang Maoru did not have the idea of ​​coming to Japan to teach sincerely, but Yokohama University in Japan treated him very enthusiastically. It was just that the Japanese's humble and active learning spirit made Wang Maoru even more afraid. The characteristics of the Japanese's national learning are the reasons why they are powerful.

Taking advantage of the excuse of seeing Japanese ronin bullying Chinese people on the street, Wang Maoru rejected the invitation from Yokohama University and took a group of people and 50,000 pairs of stockings, saying that the Japanese Ninomaru ship headed south to Shanghai. He did not stay in Shanghai, but took a boat directly to Hong Kong, nor did he miss the prosperity of Hong Kong. Then he passed through the Malacca Strait in Malaysia, arrived in India, crossed the Indian Ocean to Europe, and finally arrived at the Marseille Port in France.

It took a lot of time to go back and forth, but after coming to Europe, the stockings storm was completely blown. Although the smell of gunpowder in Europe is very strong at this stage, Wang Maoru and his group of Chinese businessmen selling luxury goods were sought after. Especially French women's crazy pursuit of trends and beauty, for a time, starting from France, the stockings storm became popular in Europe.

After making money, several people were going back to China, but Wang Maoru said to go to the United States to see if there was any chance to make a fortune. This little money was not enough, so he took these people to the United States to speculate. However, at this time, the United States launched an anti-Chinese bill, and Chinese people were discriminated against in any job. These people were considered to have traveled in New York City and traveled from the East Coast to the West Coast. However, New York was not completely rewarded. Wang Maoru took out the only document in his arms and registered a patent for nylon fiber stockings at the US Technical Patent Office.

Previously, he was selling stockings to his consular wives in the embassy district of the eastern suburbs. Someone here sent him news that stockings were popular in Europe, but they could not find the materials for stockings but could not be developed, which caused the stockings he sold in Europe to rise sharply. The stockings, which were originally luxury goods, have now become the weather vane for noble women and the upper class, and the price of stockings that remained have also risen again and again.

Wang Maoru only had the production process of nylon fibers for making stockings. He originally wanted to monopolize the production of stockings, but at this time, China's craftsmanship and technology did not meet the requirements at all. He thought that it would be better to go to the United States to find a manufacturer to cooperate.

Historically, nylon fiber was invented in 1937, but Wang Maoru's approach to this invention was nearly twenty years earlier.

The invention and registration of nylon fiber has allowed several American consortiums to see the future prospects of the stockings industry.

Soon, several American consortiums found Wang Maoru and persuaded him to cooperate. Wang Maoru also knew that although the United States claimed to be democratic, it was not democratic in its core. It was okay to cooperate. If it didn't cooperate, it might be assassinated somewhere. Even the US president dared to assassinate, let alone a Chinese?

Wang Maoru refused to sell the patent with full authority. He chose a company called DuPont to cooperate with it, requiring a stake in nylon stockings with patented technology, accounting for 65%. DuPont will not calculate this way, requiring that the shares must be less than 10%. Wang Maoru knew the prospects of stockings, so he naturally refused to agree. After several negotiations, DuPont also conducted several private investigations and found that the sales prospects of stockings were unprecedented, so he made a suggestion to buy out the shares with money, so that Wang Maoru's shares would be reduced to less than 20%, and finally at the cost of 800,000 US dollars, Wang Maoru's nylon shares would be reduced to 15%.

After the negotiations were completed, Wang Maoru calculated that this trip to Europe and the United States had earned millions of dollars himself. However, after learning that Wang Maoru's Chinese patent was sold in the United States, some local gangs and white communities in the United States came to blackmail. Wang Maoru took more than 20 subordinates to drive them away with guns, and a team member was shot and killed while still clashing with the gang. Wang Maoru decided to return home. Under the current circumstances (the United States seriously anti-China), it would be safer to return to China.

Before going back to China, Uraji found Wang Maoru and said, "We just go back to China empty-handedly. It's not okay if we don't do anything."

"What do you think we can make money?" Wang Maoru found several people and asked.

After all, Ma Xiaoshui and Cui Zhou have worked in foreign companies. Ma Xiaoshui suggested: "I work in foreign companies, and I know what we lack in China, such as foreign nails, fire, light bulbs, etc. It's better for us to make some of this." Cui Zhou added: "There are foreign oils, and foreign lamps can be sold once, but foreign oils can flow slowly."

Wang Maoru suddenly asked: "Is it a huge profit to rush the arms?"

Several people were so scared that they sat on the ground. Uraji smiled bitterly: "This arms deal is not something that ordinary people can do. The arms business from foreign countries to China is controlled by major overseas banks. I have never heard of Chinese people who can do this."

Ma Xiaoshui shook his head and said, "If you do this job, the foreigners will send someone to blow up your ship tomorrow. The arms transaction is a monopoly of major central banks."

"That's true." Wang Maoru had no choice, "Then let's make some common goods." But his vision was broader than that of people in this world. He bought several sets of matches and lamps, and prepared to return to China to open a match factory and lamp factory.

In a blink of an eye, after leaving China for half a year, Wang Maoru and others returned to China by boat in Los Angeles. When they were in Tianjin, Wang Maoru went to visit former Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi, but learned that Tang Shaoyi was heading to Japan. It was a coincidence that Tang Baoqi also returned to Beijing to continue studying, so she returned to Beijing.

After returning from Europe and the United States for half a year, Beijing started spring, but everything in the ancient Beijing has not changed, and it is still full of the vicissitudes of history and the smell of cows and horses in the air.

Something happened to the Pu family in the past few months. Pu Na, the eldest son of the Pu family, was arrested for participating in the restoration of the royal family. Old Beile lost all his money and rescued the kid. Pu Na, because he was imprisoned for these days, quit drug addiction, but the Pu family was completely degenerate. The servants in the family were dismissed and left, leaving only a few old servants in their fifties who grew up in the Beile Mansion, and they were used to the old masters who could not bear to leave.

Old Beile sat alone at home, very desolate. When Uraji returned home, he couldn't believe it. The bustling home was now so lonely and lonely.

Because he was doing business with Wang Maoru, the business circled around the earth and received 80,000 US dollars, which made his family live more affordable. He also added some items. Several old men who left returned to Baylor's mansion and became more popular at home.

After this battle, the Pu family finally understood its position. What is a phoenix that falls off the gear is not as good as a chicken. Old Beile finally made the monthly money of thirty oceans every day, just like his wine money. Even the gatherings of the old and the young people in the past, he stopped going to the party. When his family was in trouble, these people escaped faster than rabbits.

After the stockings point was closed, Wang Maoru came back and did not let Ma Xiaoshui and Cui Zhou go idle. He consulted the two of them about how much it would cost to open a foreign fire factory and an oil lamp farm in Beijing and where it was. He heard the two of them talking very well, Wang Maoru thought both of them were good and suitable for being a manager, so he opened two factories in Beijing, one for producing fireworks and the other for producing oil lamps. The two were managers and factory directors respectively.

Named Huaxing Match Factory and Huaxing Oil Lamp Factory. Match and oil lamp are simple to make, artificial mechanical stamping and assembly, with a short production cycle and no time limit. Wang Maoru personally took charge of the factory and hired twenty workers with a salary of four oceans. However, what everyone did not expect was that Wang Maoru found more than a dozen sales personnel and asked these people to carry out door-to-door sales and sales to customers. This is the main method of modern sales. At this time in early 1913, no one would use this method. At most, they would display their products at the expo.

Waiting for others to come to the door. At this time, the merchants all adhered to the principle that wine is not afraid of deep alleys, and integrity is the basis. Everyone has this model. Wang Maoru's sales model has made these sales personnel suffer and suffer. It is true that there is no way to save sales personnel four yuan a month, but it does not include the car and horse fees, and the sales personnel have commissions. A salesperson went to Shanxi with his verbal skills to get an order of 1,000 oil-distribution lamps and 100,000 boxes of matches. The commission was twenty taels of silver. How could everyone not be motivated?
Chapter completed!