Shanghai, public concession.

After Wen Desi and his friends came out of the jewelry store, they did not look for a hotel, but instead asked the coachman to go to the Yangtze River Road in later generations.

The other team he sent out in the morning was divided into three groups, one of which was specifically responsible for buying a house, and had already bought a small, single-yard-style western-style building here. This villa is close to the Huangpu River, with a three-story European-style building with a construction area of ​​about 700 square meters and a garden of about 1,000 square meters, surrounded by walls on the outside.

This was confirmed during the previous investigations. The original owner was a European businessman. Because he was about to return to China, he was in a hurry to take action. The biochemical man sent by Wen Desi ate it at a price of 30,000 silver dollars.

"Mr. Wen, the housing prices in Shanghai Concession are much more expensive than those in Neijiang, so they spent 30,000..." Biochemical Renhui, who is responsible for buying a house, reported.

"Well, almost the same, the housing prices in Shanghai are one of the most expensive in China, and they have been like this until the 23rd century..." Wen Desi didn't care about this price, and tap water and electricity were connected here.

Wen Desi walked around the villa and found that the furniture and other living facilities here were basically complete, and at most, you could live in a bedding.

Then he took out a drawing and ordered: "Jabhuxiong, you will find a builder tomorrow and renovate part of the garden outside... and, buy some of the surrounding land... We also need a warehouse at the dock. Whether you buy or rent it, you will get me a few, which will cost at least 5,000 square meters."

"Yes, Mr. Wen, we will do it tomorrow..." Jia Buxiong is the biochemical person in charge of buying a house.

Wen Desi was planning to build this place into a base in Shanghai, but a villa was definitely not enough.

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By the evening, two other groups of people also came back.

"Reporter Wen, we have consulted seven foreign companies for the weapons and machinery you ordered. This is the information I have compiled..." After one of the biochemical people reported, he handed over a storage card.

"Mr. Wen, this is the market information for raw materials such as light industry, chemical industry and metals that you want..." Another group of people in charge also took out a storage card.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work..." Wen Desi took the memory card and put it in his handheld computer to browse.

After watching for a while, Wen Desi couldn't help but sigh: "The market in this era is really different from that in the future..."

Compared with later generations, industrial products at this time seemed very expensive, and agricultural products and raw materials seemed too cheap, and the difference between industry and agriculture was too big. This was in a coastal metropolis like Shanghai. If it were in the mainland, the price difference would be even more outrageous.

The unit price of the M1903 Springfield rifle is 38 yuan, and the unit price of the bullet is 45 yuan per thousand, the unit price of the M1900 pistol is 40 yuan, and the unit price of the bullet is 42 yuan per thousand, the unit price of the Maderson light machine gun is 260 yuan, and the unit price of the Maxim heavy machine gun reaches about 1,000 yuan. This new thing is also very expensive. Although in Wen Desi's eyes, this kind of car is extremely crude, it costs 2 to 3,000 yuan, while a luxury European carriage was only 500 yuan at that time.

Wen Desi thought for a while and said, "Xia, tomorrow you buy a batch of weapons. You need 300 rifles, so choose the M1903 Springfield type, with 300,000 bullets. It's a pistol, but unfortunately there is no M1911 yet, so you need Browning M1903, which also requires 300 bullets, and 300,000 bullets. Maderson light machine guns require 40, 200,000 bullets, and the caliber is the same as Springfield. Maxim needs 10 bullets and 100,000 bullets..."

"In addition, there are ships. If you buy 5 steam boats for inland rivers, you must drive to Neijiang."

"There are machines that need the latest generators, steam engines, sugar presses, paper machines, brewing machines... and various machine tools that need the latest ones now..."

"There are also animal animals, large cold-blooded horses in Europe, Arab horses used in cavalry, 200 stallions and mares, various breeds of pigs, cattle and sheep..."

Wen Desi opened the plan and assigned procurement tasks to the biochemical people.

His money came quickly and went quickly. He just got £2.12 million, but in the blink of an eye he went to a quarter.

In the end, there were still three people left without receiving the mission. At this time, he said: "Banazar, you guys will go to the United States when the weapons are back and take Antelope 670. This is the plan..."

Wen Desi said: "The household registration management in the United States is very chaotic now, especially in several border states such as Montana, where there is almost no concept of household registration management. As long as you have money, you can get real identity proof. Of course, if necessary, you can make the insider shut up forever..."

"Yes, Mr. Wen. Ensure the completion of the task!" Banazar is a biochemical man with a Germanic appearance.

That’s right, Banazar and others went to the United States this time to solve the identity problem. Of course, it’s okay to use fake passports now, but if they become bigger in the future, it will definitely attract the attention of all forces. If there is no real identity, it will be difficult to explain. However, it is not too difficult to get an identity in this era. There is no Internet now, so DNA identification is not a problem. As long as you have money, it is not a problem at all.

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A month later, Wen Desi led a fleet to Sichuan.

This time he spent a lot of money in Shanghai and bought a large number of machinery and weapons, which caused a slight turmoil in the Shanghai market. Now the goods here are only part of them, and the remaining parts are not in stock, and they have to be shipped from Europe, and some have to be made in stock, and they cannot be arrived in two or three months.

Wen Desi had a lot of things. He didn't have the time to wait in Shanghai, so he asked Cromi to stay in Shanghai and went back to Sichuan by himself. In addition, he sent a few people to Beijing to sell some artificial diamonds and artificial gems. The Tartar princes and nobles there were rich wealth and did not let them get some blood. How could they be embarrassed?

"However, this business will be almost done..." Wen Desi thought with some unsatisfactory thought.

Luxury goods like diamonds and gems will not be too big. If you invest too much at a time and cause depreciation, it will definitely attract the attention of all forces. Wen Desi is not strong enough now, and it will not be fun if it causes trouble. The batch of diamonds sold in Shanghai this time have attracted the attention of some people who are interested. If he hadn't had the sign of American citizenship, someone would have come to the door. Therefore, although he still has a lot of inventory in his hands, he would not dare to continue to ship in large quantities.

However, the funds obtained this time are already needed to farm and develop.

Now that Banazar and the others have not come back, Wen Desi has to take a boat back despite his unwillingness. Fortunately, the fleet is now all steamboats, at least faster than sailing and oars.

He is now sitting on a 500-ton passenger ship rented. In addition to him, he also recruited a group of talents in Shanghai, mainly engineers, technical workers, agronomists, crew members who drive steamships, as well as several doctors, veterinarians and lawyers. His nationality is both Chinese and foreign, with a total of more than 300 people. In order to ensure the safety of this batch of goods and people, Wen Desi also hired two inland gunboats from the US Navy to serve as escort work.

When they were about to leave Jiangxi, something unexpected happened.

"Mr. Wen, we caught a smuggling..." Jia Buxiong came in and reported.

"What? Smuggling? Our boat is going to Sichuan..." Wen Desi was a little curious. Don't this smuggling guy have a brain?

Jia Buxiong said, "Yes, judging from the accent, he is from Jiangxi..."
Chapter completed!