Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 260: Stinky Man
Subtitle of this chapter: You are such a beautiful lady, why do you have a mistress? !
"This Wang guy... well, this Yuan guy is really going too far!"
Huang Huilan gnashed her teeth as soon as she read the Pinkerton Detective Agency report, not caring about maintaining her ladylike demeanor. She was so excited that she almost made a mistake in saying her name.
After getting off the ship, these two Southeast Asian beauties did not go to the Consulate General of the Republic of China in New York, but directly stayed in the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
This hotel is so famous, and it has something to do with the Seres. At the end of the 19th century, Li Hongzhang, then the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang in the Qing Dynasty, visited Europe and the United States by ship. In New York, the hotel Li Hefei stayed at was the Waldorf Astoria, becoming the first Chinese politician to stay at the hotel in history.
In the 1880s, John Astor, the head of the Astor family, was recognized as the richest man in the United States at that time. When he was alive, he made a will, leaving all his wealth to his only son, William Waldorf Astor, and asked him to build a hotel "to serve the rich".
In 1893, William Waldorf Astor, as his father wished, demolished his mansion in Manhattan, New York, and built the most luxurious hotel in the United States on the site. Business was booming after it opened, and four years later his cousin John Jacob Astor opened a similar hotel next door, Astoria. The two hotels were connected by a corridor, so they were called Waldorf Astoria, which later became the Waldorf Hotel.
The hotel is currently located at 350 Fifth Avenue, between West 33rd Street and West 34th Street in Manhattan. In the original timeline, the Empire State Building, representing "American Speed", would be built here nine years later, and the Waldorf Astoria would move to the side of Central Park.
If they were not the wives of the current ROC ambassador to the United States, they would not be able to live here at all; similarly, if they were not the daughters of wealthy families in Southeast Asia, they would not be able to afford to live here at all.
"Aunt..." The wife of the Chinese ambassador to the United States was just about to ask Miss Wei Mingzhu to read the report that cost a lot of US dollars, but she saw that she was reading a magazine very enthusiastically, as if she was not listening.
She couldn't help but walk forward and asked curiously, "Aunt, what book are you reading?"
Wei Mingzhu finally came to her senses. Her face turned red and she stammered, "Nothing, I was just reading a... well, a recreational novel."
Now in New York... well, the entire East Coast of America, A Song of Ice and Fire has become a huge hit. Less than a week after it was released, the 10,000 copies of the first issue of SCP that published this novel have been sold out, and Ai Shouyi is contacting the printing factory to work overtime to print it. And with this momentum, at least 4,000 to 5,000 copies have been sold.
In addition to the fact that this book is indeed good, the marketing methods that Master Yuan prepared in advance also played an indispensable role. He used both hard advertising and soft marketing to fool .
Because he had established a good relationship with Le Monde, he agreed to the commission from Le Monde's literary supplement to continue writing the Di Gong An series, and as a condition, he asked this newspaper, one of the four major newspapers in New York, to advertise SCP for several days. He also did not let go of other major newspapers and tabloids, and spent real money to do advertising for a period of time.
Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Fitzgerald and TS Eliot also said a lot of good things about him in newspapers and magazines like The New Yorker, and Master Yuan also bribed some critics to improve his reputation.
Besides, he is now quite famous and has a group of loyal fans.
All these factors combined made A Song of Ice and Fire feel like a hot commodity as soon as it was published. However, the communication methods were too backward in those days, and the market reaction and readers' feedback were a little slow, so it had not yet attracted the attention of the whole society.
This magazine was given to Wei Mingzhu by Luo Puxiang. This "Tianjin Big Shrimp" is getting more and more confused about his old friend, but he is also increasingly admiring him in his heart. A few days ago, he actually took out 5,000 US dollars to buy one share of Seris Investment Company.
He took out this magazine and gave it to Miss Wei, which was also a favor to President Yuan, and this favor really hit the mark. Wei Mingzhu, who had a good command of English, was fascinated by A Song of Ice and Fire after reading the beginning, and started reading without paying attention to anything else.
Huang Huilan, who was angry, did not notice her aunt's strange behavior. Instead, she apologized sincerely, "Aunt, I was wrong."
"You are wrong? Where does this come from?" After hearing this, Wei Mingzhu could only put down the "SCP" in her hand and asked in confusion.
"Ah..." The ambassador's wife sighed, handed over the report in her hand and said, "Aunt, take a look at it yourself."
Miss Wei saw her niece's expression and knew something was wrong. She took the report from Pinkerton and read it calmly.
It is worthy of being the largest detective agency in America... well, the world, and worthy of Agent Aiden's professional level. This report not only contains our Master Yuan's past experiences in New York in recent years, and some clues related to the BOOOOOM case on Wall Street, but most importantly, it records in detail his whereabouts and actions in the past half month.
And our Master Yuan has been very busy these days.
Miss Wei Mingzhu read the report with her lips tightly closed, without saying a word or making a sound. However, Huang Huilan noticed that her aunt's long eyelashes were trembling constantly, and the ambassador's wife knew that she was not at peace at the moment.
In fact, this rich girl who yearns for revolutionary heroes is not really out of touch with the world. She also knows that it is normal for men to have affairs these days, so if Yuan Yanshu occasionally goes to a brothel or has some ambiguous relationship with other women, she is not going to care. After all, she has completely recognized the talent of this man.
But this stinky man actually had no scruples and openly kept mistresses, not even two at a time, one of whom was a movie star... No one would be able to remain calm or accept this.
"You are a beautiful woman, but what can you do..." Miss Wei Mingzhu sighed deeply and said half a sentence in a low voice.
She stood up and smiled, then raised her voice to the maidservant beside her, "Ajuan, prepare the bath water for me."
"Yes, young lady."
Miss Wei pointed at the half-read SCP magazine and said, "Oh, Juan. Help me get this magazine... Hey, take it to the bathroom."
Wei Mingzhu, who was still reluctant to give up "Game of Thrones", turned around and said in a bleak tone: "Huilan, I won't go to the consulate's welcoming banquet tonight. Just say that I am tired from the journey..."
"Hongjian, let me introduce you to this, this is Minister Gu's wife..."
