When Yan Fei met Brooks, CEO of Pacific United Railway, again, in the company's luxurious conference room, and this meeting was a formal meeting between the two sides.

When he came here this time, Yan Fei brought the temporarily hired accountants from PwC and several lawyers from several well-known local Wilson law firms. In addition to them, there were several investment bank negotiation experts who were dedicated to negotiations. This large number of people sat opposite to the people from Pacific United Railway Company on both sides of the long table.

Yan Fei invited these professionals at a high price, and his request was very simple, with a minimum price of 500 million US dollars to win all the projects. If these professionals can negotiate, the bonus will be very generous. If they cannot negotiate, they can only receive basic remuneration.

Normally, a 1,000-kilometer-long eliminated basic railway track plus a full set of supporting facilities is not expensive even if it is retired. The problem is that it can provide these companies more than Pacific United Railway Company.

This is not a high-tech restricted by Batumi. It’s just that everyone has eliminated items that want to sell to save processing costs.

So during the negotiations, these professionals firmly grasped this point and, under Yan Fei's direct prompt, said that if they do not agree with this price, they will seek cooperation intentions from other companies.

There is no long tug-of-war and war of words, there is only a unilateral buyer market.

Faced with the fact that you don’t agree to sell at this price today, we will terminate the negotiations and find someone else’s threat. Although Brooks is very unwilling, there is no other way. If you can’t convince Yan Fei, everything will be nothing more than empty talk.

Even if the Pacific United Railway has a big business, it is impossible to refuse such a valuable business that is stable but has no profit. At most, it is just not able to make more money.

Brooks knew very well that if Yan Fei went to find another railway company, there was a high possibility of winning it at this price. So he finally agreed to Yan Fei's request. The only condition was that if Yan Fei had to buy the corresponding materials in the future, he would give priority to Pacific United Railway under the same conditions.

The whole negotiation lasted all morning. Yan Fei, who was almost unspeakable, sat on the chair and nodded drowsy from time to time. This was the case with Yan Fei, who had a meeting in the company before without getting the time and space channel. Now he has money and becomes a boss. As long as he has a meeting, he feels heavy eyelids and wants to sleep.

"Mr. Yan, happy cooperation." The negotiations ended, and the rest were left to the lawyers and accountants with high salaries. Pacific United Railway held a small cocktail party to celebrate the successful end of the negotiations. Brooks came to Yan Fei with a glass of wine and joked, "Even Ms. Scarlett's charm cannot make Mr. Yan excited."

"Ms. Scarlett is very charming." Yan Fei smiled and raised his wine glass and said, "Business is business, I don't like to mix too many other things."

"By the way, I have something private to ask Mr. Brooks for help." Yan Fei changed the topic casually. "I wonder if there are any good ranches for sale in California recently?"

"Rain?" Brooks was stunned at first, then thought about it and responded, "If you buy ranches in the United States, you are mostly in Texas or Montana. The terrain and climate there are very suitable."

"It's too far away. I don't like remote places very much." Yan Fei waved his hand. "And I buy ranch for leisure, not for business. Hunting and riding horses when I have time."

"There are also such ranches in California." Brooks smiled and said, "I'll ask for you."

After the formal contract is signed, Pacific United Railway will gather various materials to transport them to the port in Guinea, Africa as quickly as possible. They also expressed their desire to invest in Yanfei's newly built railway in Guinea, Africa.

These things were indeed used to build railways, but they were built in the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. Yan Fei had no intention or action to build railways in Guinea, Africa, so where could they invest?

After the matter was completed, Yan Fei said that he was going to the East Coast to discuss business, and temporarily comforted Tiffany, who had been obsessed with him recently. After that, he did not return to China but went directly to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.

After returning to the Ming Dynasty, I learned that Chen Xuan had been waiting for him these two days. After meeting, I realized that he was coming to spread news that the Imperial Heaven Supervision had selected auspicious days, and that the emperor would marry his daughter on the sixth day of the lunar month two months later.

Yan Fei was actually very curious about Chen Xuan’s thoughts. You should know that his daughter was a concubine by his side. However, Chen Xuan was busy with the matter of Yan Fei marrying the princess like his own daughter.

Yan Fei didn't think he was grateful for his life-saving grace. Perhaps he could only explain it by the desire for power too much.

After instructing Chen Xuan to be fully responsible for this matter, Yan Fei found Shi Kefa, who was ordered to go to Beijing to report his duties.

Shi Kefa, a well-known name.

Yangzhou was bloody and brutal in ten days, and hundreds of thousands of people could escape only dozens of people. Shi Kefa refused Duoduo's surrender and fought to the end, and adhered to his national integrity and brought huge damage to the Qing Dynasty. In the end, he fought hard to die and died, which was definitely one of the examples of national heroes.

Yan Fei also attaches great importance to such figures who have left their names in history. He specially held a banquet that night to prepare to entertain Shi Kefa.

However, what made Yan Fei feel helpless was that Shi Kefa was absolutely loyal to the emperor.

He directly rejected Yan Fei's hospitality and said that the two had no friendship and there was no need to treat them to dinner. In fact, after Shi Kefa returned to Beijing, he had already entered the palace to meet the emperor, and his attitude towards Yan Fei was completely determined by the emperor's attitude.

In other words, Shi Kefa's reputation is very famous, and Yan Fei admires what he did in the history of time and space. If this were someone else, Yan Fei would definitely throw him into the quarry to work as a coolie.

Since I couldn't leave my personal relationship, I could only go through the formal process. Yan Fei directly asked Emperor Chongzhen to issue an order to transfer Shi Kefa to serve under his command. Emperor Chongzhen, who was threatened by Yan Fei to cut off the supply of the palace, had no choice but to agree to Yan Fei's request.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was actually divided into three parts. The north of the Yangtze River to the Northeast Plain, including some areas in Shanxi and Henan were all under the control of Yan Fei.

In the areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan, south of the Yangtze River, except for the orthodox Prince Mu's mansion in Yunnan, who is also loyal to Emperor Chongzhen, other regions basically defected to the feet of King Fu in Nanjing. This was especially true after Yan Fei implemented the policy of land acquisition.

As for other places, including Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places, they are all in the hands of bandits. For example, Li Zicheng from Shaanxi, Henan, and Zhang Xianzhong from Sichuan, etc.

The territory of King Fu and the bandits naturally would not send taxes and tributes to the court. The territory controlled by Yan Fei directly adopted the military control method, and all the income was directly added to the account book of the Beijing camp and was supervised by Yan Fei himself. The source of income for the entire court and the palace had been cut off.

At this time, Yan Fei was the one who supported so many people in the court and the entire palace. It was entirely due to the silver provided by Yan Fei and various materials that could maintain the operation of the court and the palace.

If Yan Fei cut off the supply of nearly 100,000 people in the palace, let alone the eunuchs and palace maids who rebeled, they would starve them all to death without food.

He raised the emperor and the court to hold righteousness in his hands, so that Yan Fei could first smash it with the stick of righteousness no matter what he did. This thing was very popular in this era.

If Yan Fei had no title of righteousness in his hands, it would be impossible for these national heroes to enter Beijing this time.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was short of money, had no resistance to Yan Fei's threat and could only accept Yan Fei's request in a frustrating manner. The emperor issued an order to Shi Kefa to serve Yan Fei's account.

Yan Fei found Shi Kefa not to ask him to lead troops to fight. To be honest, Shi Kefa's ability to fight is really unsatisfactory. Yan Fei values ​​Shi Kefa's selflessness and a firm personality. People with this personality are the best choice to be the general manager of railway plans.

The cost of repairing railways is just about money, and a kilometer costs hundreds or even tens of millions. It will also be a rich and good job in the Ming Dynasty.

The early survey and demolition alone have countless benefits that will flow through your hands. Where the railway passes, how much money to pay for the demolition, or where to change the land, how many acres of land will be exchanged, or how many acres of land will be exchanged, or sand, etc., all of them are silver!

Yan Fei attaches great importance to railways because it is a sign of true industrialization. He does not want his railway construction plan to become a feast of sharing spoils, so he directly appointed Shi Kefa, a clean historical celebrity in his hands, to take charge of this matter.

Shi Kefa himself must have been full of doubts, because he didn't know what the railway was. He had never heard of it.

Then Yan Fei asked Shi Kefa to come to his study and took out the DVD to play him a railway science popularization film for more than an hour.

Compared with those people who face the loess and backs to the sky, it is difficult to leave home for a hundred miles in their entire lives. As scholars, Shi Kefa, who has been an official for many years and has also been in contact with Western devils, was shocked by the fact that this magical instrument in front of him could show a world, and he also vaguely felt that railways were very important.

Although he still didn't understand what was specifically, Shi Kefa could feel the importance of the railway. It seemed that he had opened a corner of the curtain of an era, and this stimulation made him feel a little impulsive.

Yan Fei gave him several related books for him to take home for careful study, and said that this matter should start as soon as possible.

The routes planned for surveying follow the general route of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway in the modern world, avoiding mountains and rivers as much as possible. In the subsequent demolition, land acquisition, labor force, and various related materials must be moved quickly.

Although Shi Kefa was influenced by the emperor, he believed that Yan Fei was a hero who was like a rash man. However, no matter from any aspect of the railway construction, it was a great thing that benefited the country and the people, and Yan Fei paid for it himself. So he accepted this work and started the preliminary preparations with the information given by Yan Fei and the large amount of money.

There are still two months left before marrying the princess. Yan Fei did not plan to wander around all day for these two months. He decided to use this time to expedition to Japan and give the island country a fatal blow!

The hatred between China and Japan was formed from the Battle of Baijiangkou a thousand years ago. The Japanese Navy, which had the advantage at that time, was almost wiped out by the powerful army of the Tang Dynasty. It was a blow to them with one stick. From then on, they were extremely worshipped and began to learn comprehensively.

However, volcanoes occur frequently on island countries and countless earthquakes. It is extremely difficult to survive in scarce resources. People in this country have always wanted to get rid of this natural tragedy, and their yearning for a peaceful and peaceful continent has penetrated into their bones.

This can be seen from the movies of island countries in the modern world where they often shoot Japanese lands and monsters invade. To put it nicely, it is called being prepared for danger in times of peace, but to be ugly, it means never forgetting to invade outside at all times.

As long as the empire on the mainland continues to decline, they want to stretch out their claws. Until that full-scale war that will be unforgettable to the Chinese, it is a continuation of this millennium expectation.
Chapter completed!