America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Not long after, Stanford made two announcements in San Francisco.

First, he will endow a university in California.

The address of this university is located in the city of Palo Alto (Palo Alto) on the more than 200 hectares of California land he owns.

There is now a ranch.

Second, Stanford sold all his shares and assets in the Pacific Railroad Company to a mysterious person, including the coal mine in Stone Springs.

The coal mine originally belonged to the Pacific Railway Company, and later transferred the operating rights to Colonel Robert, and it was not recovered until Robert's death.

This is a big deal.

According to accountants' estimates, even if Stanford hadn't raised prices, it would have

tens of millions of dollars.

This is an astronomical number.

These, plus Stanford's fixed assets and cash, are his life's efforts.

Chen Jianqiu does not have so much cash, and he does not plan to sell the property or take the shares of the Santa Fe Railway Company as a payment.

That doesn't make sense.

He first took a part of the land near the New Mexico State Railroad.

These lands were gifted to him by the state government when the railway was built. During that time, he had a lot of wool on Scott.

Chen Jianqiu could have waited for these lands to appreciate in value and then sold them at a high price, but he decided to use them to replace several vacant lands under the Rocky Mountains with the state government.

These places will serve as the addresses of future Chinese schools.

Afterwards, Chen Jianqiu borrowed a sum of money from Sanjiang Bank with his assets as collateral.

The money is still not enough.

So he hooked up Astor Jr., and used his connections and guarantees to secure another sum of money at Citibank.

At Little Astor's suggestion.

He even set up a trust investment fund to eat Stanford's shares as the main body of the purchase and raise the rest of the funds.

It's not strictly an acquisition, but it is.

If the transaction is completed, the actual controller of the Pacific Railroad Company, the largest railroad company in North America, will change hands.

As a front-stage figure of the trust investment fund, Astor Jr. specially brought an accountant to California for a trip,
People thought that the New York real estate tycoon was about to enter the railway industry, but they didn't know that Chen Jianqiu was the man standing in the shadows.

Chen Jianqiu is going to conduct a preliminary integration of the Santa Fe Railway Company and the Pacific Railway Company after the acquisition is completed.

Transactions are complex and lengthy and need to be done in different batches.

Everything is in full swing.

However, the coal mine in Shiquan Town has already been under Chen Jianqiu's name in the first batch of acquisitions.

He still has this little cash.

But then, the strike solution he announced caused an uproar in the surrounding coal mining industry.

"What? Fully accept the union's strike conditions? Eight-hour work system, overtime pay? Equal pay for equal work? Is Boss Chen crazy?"

Mr. Lucas, head of Carbon County's Mining Association, was shocked when he heard the news.

And the other coal mine bosses have already started to curse.

"This person is crazy!"

"It's unreasonable, does this person know how to do business?"

"If you don't know how to do business, don't mess around, okay?"

Mr. Lucas felt the need to speak to the unreasonable boss.

Business, that's really not how it's done.

After finding out that Chen Jianqiu happened to be at the coal mine in Shiquan Town these two days, Lucas galloped over from Carbon County on horseback alone.

The coal mine in Shiquan town has resumed production.

Chinese and white workers entered the mine in an orderly manner.

Along the way, Lucas saw a lot of things that made him extremely puzzling.

For example, each of these miners wore a mask made of gauze.

This is the best anti-dust effect that Chen Jianqiu can find now.

For another example, a so-called safety production team was set up here. When Lucas entered the mining area, the leader of the team was popularizing coal mine safety operation knowledge for everyone.

Shouldn't you be working under the mine at this point in time?

"With this skill, it's better to let them dig more coal!"

Just as Lucas stopped by the crowd and whispered.

A voice came from behind him:

"Sharpening a knife is not a mistake for woodcutters."

Lucas turned his head and saw a young man wearing a cloth robe with his hands behind his back, looking at him with a smile.

"Are you Mr. Lucas?" he asked. "President of the Carbon County Mining Association?"

"Uh, um, yes, I'm Lucas." Lucas replied hastily, but quickly realized, "Eh? How do you know my name?"

"My people told me that a man in a top hat and a suit wandered around the mining area, and he seemed to be very knowledgeable." Chen Jianqiu still kept smiling, "There are not many such people in Carbon County."

Lucas was a little embarrassed.

"You, you are Boss Chen, right?"

Chen Jianqiu nodded: "I am."

"Is there a convenient place to talk?" Lucas winked at Chen Jianqiu.

"Then come with me."

Chen Jianqiu took Lucas to the cabin on the slope of the No. [-] mine.

This used to be Riley's office.

"Boss Chen, I heard that you agreed to all the conditions of the workers? Give them overtime wages?!"

After the door closed, Lucas took off his hat and asked eagerly.

"Yes, what else?" Chen Jianqiu sat down on the chair and lit a cigar for himself.

He pointed in the direction of the mine: "Do you see how hard they are working now?"

Lucas looked around and saw that there was no second chair in the room, only a bed.

He had to sit on the edge of the bed.

"Boss Chen, is this your first time doing business in America?" he asked.

Chen Jianqiu smiled:
"Well, it really didn't take long."

"I don't know how you do business in your hometown, but it's definitely not okay to do it here!" Lucas persuaded earnestly, "Didn't you find that the profit of the mine is pitifully low?"

Chen Jianqiu spread his hands: "No, I produce this coal for my own use, which is much cheaper than buying it directly from resource suppliers."

"But you could have made more money, couldn't you? You could have higher profits!" Lucas tried to convince the person opposite.

With a cigar in his mouth, Chen Jianqiu uttered a sentence that Lucas will never forget.

"Why do I make so much money?"

These words left Lucas speechless.

Why do you make so much money?Isn't business all about making so much money?Isn't it the pursuit of profit maximization?
It seems that this person's brain is really broken. Where did he get the money to take over this coal mine?
Seeing that Lucas was speechless, Chen Jianqiu continued to speak:
"I just need a reasonable profit, earn so much money, and do charity after death like Stanford? Hypocrisy."

Lucas felt that if he continued to entangle with Chen Jianqiu on this issue, he might be led astray.

So he changed the angle.

It is also the real purpose of his coming.

"If you do this, what about the other coal mines around Carbon County? The trade unions are all united, and they will definitely make demands on them according to your standards. What will they do then?"

"Then what does it matter to me?" Chen Jianqiu disagreed, "If you can do it, keep doing it, if you don't do it, close the business."

He took a puff on the cigar in his hand, and sat carelessly, looking like a nouveau riche: "Or, they can choose to sell the coal mine directly to me. I don't mind buying it, but the price may be lower."

Lucas was completely dumbfounded.

He has seen various ways of business competition, and this is the first time he heard of the practice of raising wages for workers to beat their peers.

These people are not skilled workers!Why?
But Chen Jianqiu didn't care at all.

Because he holds the union.

After Lucas left angrily, Holly appeared in Chen Jianqiu's cabin.

"Boss, my mission has been completed, can I go back to Roswell now?" Standing in front of Chen Jianqiu, Holly asked.

Chen Jianqiu also stood up.

He walked up to Holly and straightened the crumpled collar of the blond young man:
"From now on, you don't need to be so polite in front of me, and you don't need to call me the boss." Chen Jianqiu smiled and patted Holly on the shoulder, "Now he is also the leader of the regional trade union, and he always calls 'boss', 'boss' , what does it look like?"

Holly was stunned, he hurriedly asked: "Boss, is there something I did wrong?"

Chen Jianqiu waved his hand: "No, no, you did a great job!"

He smiled and asked Hawley: "How do you feel about getting along with the workers during this period of time?"

Holly thought for a while and replied: "I think they are impulsive sometimes, and cute sometimes. When we are together, we don't distinguish between each other."

"Continue to work in the trade union, they need you." Chen Jianqiu looked into Holly's eyes, "I give you the fame today, I hope you can make it to the top."

"From today onwards, don't call me boss, just call me 'big brother'."

Holly also stared at Chen Jianqiu intently.

After hesitating for a long time, he said what was in his heart:
"Brother, if one day we have to stand on opposite sides, what should we do?"

Chen Jianqiu laughed loudly:
"Holly, as a human being, I want a clear conscience."

Holly grimaced.

What a clear conscience.

Chen Jianqiu turned around and returned to his chair:

"Don't worry, if there is such a day, we can still talk. In the United States, what can't we talk about?"