Chapter Thirty-Four: Zheng Xiujing

  "Now the light crude from Texas is $1.85 a barrel, and with freight it comes to over $100,000. Mr. Gao, Mobil can guarantee delivery of the oil to wherever you specify on time." Andrews said.

  "Well, 500,000 barrels is just the initial request, and I may notify your company to increase the supply at any time. Please ensure that Mobil guarantees sufficient supply, and as for payment, let's go through Citibank transfer." After finishing speaking, Gao Yang stood up to see Andrews off.

  Gao Yang came to Citibank and deposited a portion of the gold paid by various countries for sulfonamides in recent days, exchanging it for approximately $4 million in deposits. After Gao Yang handed over Gao Feng, he said that the sulfonamides sold later could be collected in US dollars, all of which were stored in Citibank.

  In the afternoon, Gao Yang visited General Lu Yongxiang. In the mansion of Lu Gong, Gao Yang had tea with General Lu. Originally, General Lu was supposed to flee to Japan, but now he was in high spirits and very polite to Gao Yang. "Zi Hou, this is your first time here, let's have dinner together tonight and drink a few cups." General Lu was in a good mood.

  "General, you are our senior in Anhui province, it's been so long and you've finally come to visit me, I'm truly ashamed." Gao Yang said with a smile.

  "Haha, what's with the 'senior' and 'not senior' stuff? I'm only a few years older than you, Zihou. From now on, let's just call each other brothers, how about that?" Lu Dajun said with a smile.

  Gao Yang took a look at Lu Gongzi standing behind Lu Dashi and thought to himself, "Your son is even older than me! And you still want to address each other as brothers? Don't you have any shame?" But he said out loud, "That's great then, I'm honored. From now on, you're my big brother. If anyone bullies me, I'll just report it in your name."

  "Haha, okay, okay, from now on, if you need any help from your big brother, just let me know. Xiaojia, hurry up and pay respects to your Second Uncle." Lu Dajiang turned his head and gently scolded Lu Gongzi.

  Lu Gongzi, with a slightly awkward face, reluctantly came forward to pay his respects to Gao Yang, who smiled and responded. One of the four masters of the Republic, Lu Gongzi, had become his own nephew, how interesting.

  In the evening, Lu Dashi hosted a banquet at home to entertain Gao Yang. The host and guest were delighted. Gao Yang proposed to Lu Dashi a plan to jointly build a railway from Nanjing to Shanghai, suggesting that Lu Dashi only needed to contribute land and personnel, and the shares of the railway company would be divided equally between them. Lu Dashi hesitated for a moment, indicating that he needed to consider it carefully.

  Gao Yang left, and Lu Gongzi hastily said to his old father, "We don't need to spend any money, but we can get half of the railway shares. Such a good thing, why are you still considering it? After the railway is built, won't the money be earned like flowing water?"

  Lu Dashi looked at his son and sighed, "You're even older than Gao Zihou, how can you be so stupid? Does anyone in this world get to make easy money like that, with someone else paying for the railway repairs and then splitting the profits with them?"

  "Really?" Lord Lu said, and General Lu was taken aback. "I often encounter it, and someone always sends me money, what's the big deal."

  Lu Da Shuai stared at Lu Gong Zi for half a day before muttering, "How did a hero like me give birth to such an idiot?"

  Lu Gongzi curled his lips and said, "You still consider him a brother, and you want me to call him uncle! He's so young, if the news gets out..." Lu Gongzi's words were cut off by Lu Dashi, "If the news gets out, people will say that I, with the surname Lu, have taken advantage of him! He's young, but did you have his status at his age?"

  Lu Dashi got angry, how could his own son be so stupid! He took a sip of tea and continued to say "Gao Zihou started from a small security team, but within a year he was able to drive out Ma Lin's army, kill Qi Xuan's army, sweep through Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. The Northeast's Feng Zhang was arrogant, even Wu Ziyu was defeated by him, wasn't he defeated in one move by Gao Yang in Xuzhou? This man has great talent! One day when I'm gone, you can just be a rich idle young master, you're not his match."

  In the evening, Ronger visited Gao Yang and expressed that the German Schiller Construction Company was willing to undertake the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge project. Relevant technical personnel have set off. Gao Yang said he looked forward to their arrival.

  Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Gaoyang has been shuttling back and forth between 1925 Nanjing and modern-day Africa, taking a few days to accompany his parents in Bern. The Mobil company has also delivered the crude oil.

  Gao Yang spent $29 million in modern times to buy a second-hand 74,000 DWT Panamax oil tanker with a five-year ship age. All the crew members on the ship were biochemical warriors whose identities had been forged by the original point.

  Gaoyang signed a crude oil supply contract with the North Capital and National Petroleum Corporation. On April 8, this tanker named "Ba Xia Hao" by Gaoyang docked at the Tanggu Port's tanker terminal, delivering 500,000 barrels of crude oil to the National Petroleum Corporation. According to the international light crude oil transaction price of that day, 90% was paid, bringing in over $40 million in revenue for Gaoyang! In exchange for this crude oil, Gaoyang only spent a few hundred million RMB on sulfonamide! And this is just one part of it.

  At the same time, during this period, Gaoyang issued a large order to several factories in the south through the network under the name of SC Trading.

  Almost a hundred million pairs of silk stockings, the order value plus shipping costs only just over 100 million RMB. But once they are taken to America and Europe in 1925 to be sold, they can be exchanged for tens of billions of dollars! It's 1925 US dollars! In an era when a barrel of crude oil was only $1.85, how much oil could Gao Yang buy? And how much would it sell for if taken back to the modern era? Gao Yang calculated the numbers and his eyes turned into dollar signs, he felt great.

  In addition, many small machinery factories also produced a large number of fake Rolex mechanical watches, but all of them were stamped with the traditional Chinese Casio brand. Gaoyang searched online and found that almost all world-renowned watch brands had been established before 1925. Only Japan's Casio was founded after World War II, so it was easy to copy. Although Casio didn't have mechanical watches, people in 1925 wouldn't know! Each piece cost around 500 RMB including shipping, and Gaoyang directly placed an order for 30 million pieces.

  There are only a few days left before going to Korea to receive the rails, and Gaoyang starts the time-space shuttle to arrive in Nanjing in 1925. Although I regret it now, I had already decided to pay with gold before, so I couldn't back down, besides, it's not like I'm short of that amount anyway.

  Just as he returned, a biochemist came to report that the newly built power plant had been completed. Gao Yang temporarily postponed his return time and went to inspect the power plant. The four 220MW thermal power units have started grid-connected power generation, and the substation next to the power plant has also started working. The steel mill couldn't be ignited because of the lack of electricity! Moreover, the thermal power plant consumes a large amount of coal every day. Before the completion of the Yangtze River Bridge, it can only rely on Gao Yang's storage space for transportation. But with many people and eyes around, this cannot be done all the time. If discovered by others, he will definitely be treated as a monster!

  The workers in the power plant are all from Fengxian Power Plant, and after such a long period of practice and learning, a large number of qualified workers have been trained. The factories in Fengxian Industrial Zone have now been transformed into training bases by Gaoyang, and the products produced are only sold locally.

  "Well, now that the electricity problem is solved, the steel mill's blast furnace can be ignited." Gaoyang felt that the Yangtze River Bridge project had to speed up.

  After putting the $860 million worth of gold in storage, Gao Yang returned to modern times. The process was the same as when he delivered the gold last time. Modern Steel Company, which had received full payment, said they had already contacted an ocean transportation company and could ship the steel at any time. That afternoon, at Modern Steel's headquarters, Chairman Jin expressed his hope that they could continue to cooperate with Gao Yang.

  Gao Yang smiled and said to Jin Shouzhang, "It just so happens that I have a bridge project here that requires hundreds of millions of tons of steel. I don't know if your company is interested." Jin Shouzhang's eyes lit up and he immediately replied, "Mr. Gao, our Modern Steel Company will definitely satisfy you."

  Gao Yang said that he would let the staff of SC Trading send the detailed requirements to Hyundai Steel as soon as possible. He then said, "Director Kim, an oil field was recently discovered in my mining area. If I want to pay for the goods with petroleum, what do you think? Of course, I will give your company a discount."

  "Mr. Kim was quite surprised and after a moment of thought, said "I will report this matter to the company's president, and the specific decision will be made by the board of directors, but it's not a big problem." Mr. Kim paused for a moment and smiled, saying "In order to thank Mr. Gao for his support to our Modern Steel Company, we will hold a welcome banquet for Mr. Gao at the Seoul Newro Hotel's banquet hall tonight."

  Gao Yang smiled slightly and looked at President Jin. President Jin also felt a bit embarrassed, coughed lightly and said: "I'm really sorry for what happened last time. It was our Modern Steel Company's arrangement that caused you trouble. I've already handled the matter, and tonight, President Kim of DNS Company will bring his son, Kim Xinyang, to apologize to you in person."

  Gao Yang didn't say anything, pulled out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep drag and said "I don't want to see that guy again." Jin Shouzhang nodded slightly and said "Understood, Mr. Gao, please rest assured I will give you a satisfactory explanation." After finishing speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, chuckled lightly, wanting to say something but didn't say it out loud. Gao Yang also didn't pay attention, both sides started talking about some meaningless small talk.

  At 7 pm, Gao Yang arrived at the New Luo Hotel banquet hall accompanied by Jin Shazhang. Before coming, Gao Yang endured heartache and spent 6400 energy points to learn Korean. At the wine party, Gao Yang became the center of attention. Gao Yang had invested $1.2 billion in Modern Steel! This news couldn't be hidden within high society circles, only the Golden matter was strictly controlled and didn't leak out.

  Jin always accompanied Gao Yang and introduced him to many company presidents and chairmen. Of course, only those with enough weight are worthy of Jin's introduction, and those who feel unworthy will not approach him.

  After the most cordial exchange, Gao Yang walked to a position close to the corner and slowly started drinking from the wine glass he picked up from the waiter. Just as it was quiet for a while, Jin Shouzhang accompanied by an elegant middle-aged woman came to Gao Yang's side with a smile and introduced "Mr. Gao, this is Ms. Li Fuzhen, executive director of New Luo Hotel."

  Gao Yang was slightly stunned and looked at Li Fuzhen, whose slightly curly long hair, black lady's coat with exquisite jewelry on her body, and a faint smile at the corner of her mouth. Time seemed to have left no marks on her, giving people the first impression of being elegant and dignified.

  Go Yang was serious about measuring Li Fu because he knew that the New Luo Hotel was a subsidiary of Korea's Samsung Group, and as the executive director of this hotel, Jin Shouzhang's slightly awkward attitude made Go Yang understand that she must be a member of the Samsung Lee family.

  He smiled slightly and extended his hand, saying "Ms. Li Fuzhen, hello." "Mr. Gao, hello." Ms. Li Fuzhen's face remained smiling all the time.

  The deal with the modern steel company was nothing big, but Gao Yang paid in gold, which was enough to shock the Li family. Gao Yang's one-time payment of tens of tons of gold! To know that even the Bank of Korea's gold reserves are less than 100 tons! Previously investigated Gao Yang's gold mine in Africa, it is impossible to have such a large output, and even the Li family is very interested in Gao Yang.

  This time, Lee Boo-jin just made a simple contact and greeted each other, and after a brief exchange of pleasantries, she bid farewell and left. Chairman Kim was also somewhat embarrassed, as the Lee family's status in Korea was something he couldn't resist. Fortunately, afterwards, no one came forward to disturb Gao Yang again, but most people's gazes would occasionally sweep over him.

  Holding his wine glass, Yang walked out of the banquet hall and found a spot in the garden to sit down. He gazed at the view of Seoul, savoring the high-society gathering that was beyond anything he could have imagined before.

  At this time, a slender figure quietly came to Gao Yang's back. Gao Yang quickly reacted and turned around abruptly, letting out an "ah" of surprise, startling the other person. With the help of the light, Gao Yang clearly saw the girl in front of him.

  Her long hair was dyed a light golden color at the ends, and she wore a pale pink semi-transparent long-sleeved top and a black mini skirt. Her chubby cheeks were flushed red from being startled, and her beautiful eyes sparkled as she looked up at Gao Yang - it was Zheng Xiujing, whom he had met at the last dinner party. She patted her chest to calm herself down, opened her mouth to say something but suddenly couldn't speak.

  "Gao Yang smiled slightly and said, 'Sorry about that, did I scare you? Are you okay?'"

  "I'm fine, sorry I shouldn't have suddenly appeared behind you." Zheng Xiujing said with some embarrassment as she was stared at by Gao Yang.

  "Is there something you want from me?" Gao Yang withdrew his gaze and asked lightly. A beautiful woman has an advantage wherever she goes.

  "Well, I came to thank Mr. Gao. Thank you for what happened last time." After finishing speaking, Zheng Xiujing bowed to Gao Yang.

  "Really want to thank me? A bow would be enough, wouldn't it?" He said with a somewhat strange tone, rubbing his nose. After saying that, he regretted it, thinking the words were too frivolous.

  Jung Soo-jung was slightly surprised, and she tightened her hands in front of her chest as she looked at Gao Yang. "Cough" Gao Yang coughed awkwardly and said, "I mean, you should at least treat me to a meal, haha."