538 Nikolai
Perhaps the whole world knows that the Junma Group and the British are not in dealing with each other, but the people from the Qing Empire are not included, because the people from the Qing Empire and those outside the Qing Empire are two worlds.
There are many reasons why British people don’t like the Junma Group, such as the American background of the Junma Group.
Compared with Li Mu's Chinese background, the British hate the American background of the Junma Group more. After all, the Qing Empire could not pose any threat to the British, let alone a person who had left the Qing Empire.
The United States is different. The grudge between Americans and British people is that it is a long story for a child to talk about. If you spread it out, this chapter is probably not enough. Putting aside the previous grudges, it is enough to talk about the current development momentum of the United States.
Although the economic crisis broke out in the United States the previous year, in contrast, the British economy was affected even more. This is not only reflected in the industry and commerce of the United Kingdom, but also in the UK's financial industry.
As mentioned earlier, the economic crisis of the previous year can actually be regarded as a conscious action of Americans to cheat their fathers. The "father" is Britain. After the outbreak of the economic crisis, most British investors in the US financial market were forced to cut their losses and withdraw from the United States, which means that all the money they earned in the US market in the past ten years was forced to spit it out again. This gave some people in the United States the opportunity to buy at the bottom. After the efforts of the past two years, the US stock market has gradually improved a little. After text messages are used for a few years, British capital, which has healed and forgot the pain, will enter the United States again. At that time, there will be another round of pig farming action. When the pigs are fattened, I believe another economic crisis will break out.
So don't think that Americans will cut their flesh at any time. It seems that they are trying everything. In fact, this trick has already begun as early as the 19th century.
The British are not ignorant of this situation, but even the British realize that they can do nothing. After all, the United States is the largest emerging market in the world. If funds do not flow into the United States, will they stay in the ancient castle in Britain and become moldy?
Therefore, the relationship between Britain and the United States is very complicated, and it is standard love and hate.
Specifically for Junma Group, the British's fear is reflected in the endless new things of Junma Group. If Junma Group is willing to go public, then the British may be more friendly to Junma Group, because it means that the British may control some of Junma Group's shares and become shareholders of Junma Group.
But Li Mu is an extremely conservative person in this regard and has no intention of letting Junma Group go public, so the British only hate but no love for Junma Group.
As the only "sun never set" empire in the world, the British are also representatives of conservatives around the world. They refuse to change, or are afraid of change, and only want to keep their own position, and are unwilling to see or accept the emergence of challengers. Therefore, the British are all-round hostile to the Horse Group.
Since they are hostile, they must be disliked by each other. Therefore, as long as they have the chance, the British are willing to cause some trouble for Li Mu. Even if this is not even a trouble, as long as they can make Li Mu feel uncomfortable, it will be considered as achieving their goal.
Li Mu did not know these British people, nor did he care who these British people were. Li Mu could not help Yung Wing and others for his compatriots, but this did not mean that Li Mu could tolerate the provocations of the British.
So when the British man expressed his interest in the lacquerware in Chuxue's hands, Li Mu immediately showed his arbitrary behavior: "Don't think about it, everything here belongs to me, and you don't have a chance to get any of them."
After hearing this, Yung Wing's expression was both happy and sad. What was happy was that this trip was finally worth the trip. For that little worry, it was completely a worry of the mouse falling into the bellows.
Maybe it's just that both ends are angry.
"Is that true?" The British showed that the old god was there, and he didn't take Li Mu's stubbornly grabbed Yung Wing.
"Of course not, of course not, everyone has a chance..." Before Yung Wing could speak, a middle-aged official next to him was busy interfering.
"Brother Xiaochi, be careful..." Yung Wing didn't react slowly, and immediately cut off the conversation.
"Xiaochi" is Li Gui who wrote the inscription on the archway.
Li Gui is the founder of the modern postal service in Qing Dynasty. This time he took the opportunity to participate in the Independence Centennial Exhibition to inspect the U.S. Postal Service. This is Li Gui's first time coming to the United States, so he has no idea what Li Mu and Junma Group mean in New York.
Li Gui can be "a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger", but Yung Wing will not make such a mistake. Springfield where Yung Wing is now almost the world of the Junma Group. Thanks to his Chinese identity, Yung Wing's social status in Springfield has also risen. Therefore, although Yung Wing doesn't say it, he is not without a trace of gratitude to Li Mu in his heart. Of course, this kind of gratitude is never dared to show, otherwise Yung Wing's plan will probably die in the middle.
Although Li Gui didn't know who Li Mu was, he was not stupid. When he heard Yung Wing say this, Li Gui immediately shut up, then sued him, and pulled Yung Wing to the side and whispered.
"Mr. Li Mu, your doing this is not in line with what a gentleman does." The British shrugged and spread his hands, posing in a very high position of regret.
"Stop talking nonsense, how many years have you been ashore?" Li Mu is not polite. Don't look at the British in front of him. Eighty percent of his ancestors were also pirates. Now, when you have some money, you start to pretend to be gentlemen, and don't even look at whether your butt is wiped clean.
Although I don’t know who the British man in front of me was, Li Mu was not worried that he would be wrong. In fact, the British were so shameless. If it weren’t for the “private order” issued by the Queen of England, the British would not even be able to fight the Dutch, so no one from the UK had a clean butt from top to bottom.
What a person who claims to be a gentleman is most afraid of is that others will dive into his dark history. Li Mu put a light sentence and immediately made the British in front of him very angry.
This time, not only was my nose and neck red, but my forehead red.
Many British people have a red nose, which is a sign of alcoholism. This nose is also called rosacea by many Chinese people. As for red necks, it is generally a ridicule by northern Americans to southern Americans. In fact, many white people have red necks, and there are also many in northern United States.
"Don't you feel unhappy? You'll get used to it slowly." Li Mu didn't talk nonsense. This is New York, Li Mu's home court. As long as it is something Li Mu likes, no one can interfere.
Even if it intervenes, it doesn't matter. If Yung Wing really sells these lacquerware to the British, Li Mu will be confident that these British people will not be able to transport these things out of New York.
Even if the British could find the ship, Li Mu was confident that he would not be able to return to the UK.
It is now the 19th century, and there are many pirates on the sea, so it is normal for ocean ships to have accidents. Insurance companies will not insure such ships.
"Don't be proud, one day you will regret it." The British glared at Li Mu with a murderous gaze for a long time, but only said this.
Li Mu was about to retort, and Mike came to report: "This is Leonardo Albert from Yorkshire. He is a shareholder of Enfield. The Albert family is a prominent family in Yorkshire."
Oh oh, it turns out that there is still this relationship. No wonder he is so arrogant that he dares to assert that Li Mu will regret it in the future.
Then we have to wait until Enfield can kill the Mars Weapons Company.
Moreover, this is New Yorkshire, not Yorkshire, so Li Mu really doesn't care about the Albert family. Even Prince Albert Li Mu can ignore it.
"I don't care who you are. If you have the ability, prove it to me." Li Mu threw down his words casually, regardless of what the result of Yung Wing and Li Gui's discussion, and took Chuxue to leave.
Anyway, I have bought it all, so if you want to see it, you will take a look at it slowly after you go home.
After leaving the exhibition area of the Qing Empire, there was a Japanese exhibition area next to it. Li Mu originally wanted to go to the exhibition area of Japan. Even if he didn't buy anything, it would be good to show off, but after Mason's firm obstruction, Li Mu had to give up.
Mason's reason is that he cannot guarantee Li Mu's safety, because no one is sure whether there will be two fools attacking Li Mu when Li Mu is picking and choosing, even if this is the only possibility.
In fact, Li Mu is not worried about this problem. How could there be so many fools? If Li Mu was hit by Japanese staff in the Japanese exhibition area, the Japanese would wait for the revenge of Junma Group. Li Mu was sure that the Japanese would never give Li Mu a chance to attack. How stupid this would be to take the opportunity to take revenge.
After looking around, Li Mu finally came to the exhibition area of the US Patent Office.
The exhibition area of the Patent Office can be regarded as the largest exhibition area except the exhibition area of Junma Group. In order to participate in this Independent Centennial Exhibition, the Patent Office took out all the things that were in the box, exhibiting a total of about 60,000 pictures and 5,000 invention models. Of course, in terms of the number, it is the top of this Independent Centennial Exhibition, and even Junma Group cannot catch up.
In recent years, new things have emerged in the United States, especially since the Civil War, new immigrants came to the United States from ancient and conservative Europe, as if they were exposed to a new world. For the first time, they truly felt what unrestrained freedom is, so new inventions appear almost every day.
Not all inventors have the good fortune of Li Mu. Although more inventors have successfully applied for patents, because there is no start-up capital or the investors cannot be found, their inventions can only be crushed in the patent office's old paper pile, waiting for those who are destined to discover them.
The US Patent Office also considers that this situation is not good for the Patent Office and the inventor himself, so this time it is really full of things, hoping to sell these patents at a good price.
Li Mu will come to the Patent Office exhibition area in the past few days whenever he has time. Maybe he will find something good, and Li Mu will be able to make another gold-sucking monster.
Speaking of this, in fact, Li Mu himself is also a great inventor who has been registered in the Patent Office, so the staff are very familiar with Li Mu. As soon as Li Mu entered the door, more than a dozen staff members immediately rushed over, moving chairs, pouring coffee and coffee. The service was meticulous. Some people took the initiative to bring valuable pictures and models to Li Mu, hoping that Li Mu could donate generously.
Li Mu was indeed generous with the new invention. The day before yesterday, Li Mu just saw a new transmission structure. In order to obtain this transmission structure, Li Mu spent 10,000 US dollars in one breath. This money was insignificant to Li Mu, but it was an unexpected surprise for the Patent Office and the inventor himself.
The saying "knowledge is power" is not fully reflected these days. It is not that anyone will spend tens of thousands of dollars on a new invention in one go, even Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan will not.
Rockefeller now has his own laboratory, so Rockefeller wants to see the results in his laboratory more than buying patents.
As for J.P. Morgan, he is an investor, not an industrialist. If the inventor himself is interested, maybe J.P. Morgan will invest, but if J.P. Morgan himself needs to run it, he will not have this interest.
Compared with operating entities, it is too easy to make money by investing in finance. In the future, more and more Americans will fall in love with J.P. Morgan's way of making money.
Li Mu also likes finance, so he found the Bank of America. However, in comparison, Li Mu prefers industry, so the core industry of Junma Group has always been Junma Weapons Company, and Li Mu has always regarded himself as a successful "gun dealer".
There were quite a lot of good things in the patent office. Soon, Li Mu found another explosives patent and a telegram patent.
These two patents are actually not very valuable, but since they can obtain patents in the Patent Office, there are certain advantages. So Li Mu and others gave this explosives patent to Henry DuPont to see if Henry DuPont is interested, and then transferred the telegram patent to Junma Communications Company to see if there is any residual value to be extracted.
The price of the two patents is not high, and the Patent Office only offered US$15,000 in total. This price includes the rewards paid to the patent owner and the commission from the Patent Office, which is really similar to those that are free to pick them up.
"Reim, Mr. Nicholas is here." Yan Shun hurried over, his face full of joy.
"Nicolah" is the famous Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla has been studying at the Graz Polytechnic University in Austria. Last year, Nikola Tesla was forced to drop out of school because of the loss of scholarship. It was precisely because of the support of Junma Group that Nikola Tesla was able to continue studying. Nikola Tesla also vowed that he would definitely play for Junma Group after graduation.
Li Mu originally wanted to bring Nikola Tesla to the United States after completing his studies, but now it seems that there is no need. Li Mu is also afraid that there will be more dreams in the night, so he should bring people over first.
Chapter completed!