went up to the second floor and entered a very spacious office, and under the greeting of Wu Hongyi, Xia Yu and others sat on the sofa on the coffee table.

Soon, two young girls wearing cheongsams put some pastries and peanuts and melon seeds in front of everyone, and then the two began to make tea with tacit understanding, and their movements were very skillful.

"Everyone drink tea, you're welcome!"

After waiting for the tea to be well-hydrated, Wu Hongyi picked up the teacup and said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, everyone is compatriots, just treat this place as your own home, feel free!"

Uncle Chang, who was sitting on the side, also echoed, with a very enthusiastic attitude.

The enthusiastic attitude of the two made Xia Yu feel very good, he nodded and said, "We will definitely not be polite, don't be surprised when the time comes." ”

"Haha, where to meet the monster, I will only be happy!"

Wu Hongyi hurriedly replied with a smile.

"This dim sum tastes really good, it melts in your mouth, come, let's eat dim sum together. ”

Xia Yu picked up a piece of mung bean cake and took a bite gently, the soft and soft, melt-in-your-mouth taste made Xia Yu's eyes light up, and his face couldn't help but show a look of enjoyment, and after swallowing, he exclaimed.

Hearing Xia Yu's admiration, Uncle Chang smiled and was very happy.

Li Qian also picked up a piece of mung bean cake, her pink lips opened slightly, her teeth bit lightly, her big eyes were bright and bright, and she said sweetly: "It's delicious." ”

"Eat more if it's delicious. ”

Looking at the beautiful and lovely Li Qian, Uncle Chang's eyes were full of kindness, and he said happily.

"Uh-huh!"

Li Qian smiled and nodded her head, and said obediently, this made Xia Yu can't help but smile, Li Qian is indeed very likable.

While eating and drinking, Xia Yu and Wu Hongyi also chatted.

"Hongyi, when did your family come to England?"

Xia Yu leaned forward slightly and asked.

"Our family has been in England for more than 100 years, and our ancestors came to England in 1828. ”

Wu Hongyi thought about it and said, his tone was very emotional.

It's 1978, exactly 150 years from 1828!

quickly calculated the result in his heart, not only Xia Yu was surprised, but even Li Qian and others looked at Wu Hongyi in surprise.

"It's been so long! Your family has been here since the Qing Daoguang period!"

"Yes, that's what the genealogy says. ”

Wu Hongyi said calmly, as if he was used to the surprise of others.

Suddenly, Xia Yu's heart moved, and he thought of something.

Why did Wu Hongyi's ancestors come to England from the Qing Dynasty and have settled until now?

It is a skill to exist in the UK for 160 years without disappearing, but considering that in that era, it is not easy to go abroad to work hard!

Wu family?surname Wu?

Xia Yu's mind turned wildly, and soon, his eyes lit up, he thought of a possibility, looked straight at Wu Hongyi, and blurted out and asked, "Your Wu family is the Wu family of the Thirteenth Lines?"

Wu Hongyi looked at Xia Yu with a surprised look, he didn't expect Xia Yu to be so sensitive and guess it so quickly.

However, this is not an unsightly thing, throughout the United Kingdom, many Chinese know about this matter, it can be said that it is a public matter, there is no need to hide it, and Xia Yu will know it in the future.

So he nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, it is the Wu family, our lineage, from the third son of Dunyuan Gong." ”

Hearing Wu Hongyi's admission, Xia Yu's face turned grim, and solemnly Wu Hongyi hugged his fists and said, "Disrespectful and disrespectful!"

Seeing Xia Yu so solemn, Wu Hongyi shook his head with a wry smile and sighed: "That is the glory of the ancestors, our children and grandchildren are incompetent, so that the family has fallen into this state." ”

"No, being able to pass it on in the UK is a manifestation of strength!"

Xia Yu immediately shook his head and said.

"Xia Yu, is Dun Yuangong very famous?"

Li Qian pulled Xia Yu's shirt and asked softly.

Xia Yu nodded solemnly and said: "Yes, Hongyi's ancestor was the richest man in the world at that time, and foreigners also recognized it very much!"

"The richest man in the world, so powerful!"

Li Qian covered her small mouth and exclaimed, involuntarily looking at Wu Hongyi, who shook his head and smiled bitterly, obviously Wu Hongyi also acquiesced.

"You should have heard this name, it is Wu Bingjian, the founder of Jardine House, one of the thirteen lines in Guangdong, also known as Wu Dunyuan. ”

Xia Yu explained.

The name of the Thirteen Lines of Guangdong, Li Qian, a highly educated person, naturally knows it, and it is precisely because she knows it that she is even more shocked.

Xiangjiang and Guangdong Province are separated by a sea, and many of the people in Xiangjiang are from southern Fujian or Guangdong Province, so the legend of the thirteen lines of Guangdong has been spreading, and the sentence "foreign ships compete for officials and businessmen, and the cross door opens to the two oceans." Five silk and eight silk satin are good, and the silver money is piled up with thirteen lines", the saying has been passed down from mouth to mouth and has been passed down to this day.

She had learned about it when she was studying history, and she learned that the tariffs paid by the 13 Guangdong Banks to the Qing government at that time accounted for 40 percent of the country's tax revenue at that time.

According to records, in 1822, there was a fire in the street of the thirteen lines, the fire was fierce, spread for several days, a large amount of property and 40 million taels of silver stored in it were destroyed, after the fire, there was a peculiar phenomenon, the street where the thirteen lines are located, "the silver melted into the ditch, long to one or two miles".

She also knew that the thirteen lines at that time were just a general term, not thirteen, sometimes up to dozens, and only four when they were young, among which a number of huge riches emerged, such as Pan Zhencheng, Pan Youdu, Lu Wenjin, Wu Bingjian, Ye Shanglin, etc.

It's just that what Li Qian didn't know was that Wu Bingjian turned out to be the richest man in the world at that time.

In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that Wu Bingjian was the richest man in the world at that time, Xia Yu really knew Wu Bingjian in his previous life.

In 1834, the Wu family counted the family property, and it reached 26 million silver dollars, and the assets of the richest man in the United States at that time were only 8 million silver dollars, less than one-third of Wu Bingjian!

And the business wizard Wu Bingjian has really created a big consortium.

At that time, Wu Bingjian was the "banker" and largest creditor of the British East India Company.

In terms of industrial management, Wu Bingjian not only owns real estate, real estate, tea plantations, shops, etc. in China, but also boldly conducts railway investment, securities trading, and even involvement in insurance business in the United States on the other side of the ocean, making Jardine a veritable multinational consortium.

It is a pity that, in the form of the state at that time, the merchant was destined to be a sheep and the power was supreme, rather than capital controlling the government, as in foreign countries.

Therefore, the Wu family suffered heavy losses under the repeated cutting of meat by the Qing government.

However, when Wu Bingjian realized that something was wrong, he took precautions and put many of his children overseas as early as possible to take care of his overseas business while increasing the family's ability to resist risks as much as possible.

The three holes of the cunning rabbit are nothing more than that!

This really made him do the right thing, otherwise the possibility that the Wu family would be wiped out by the clan really exists!

It's just that what makes Xia Yu sigh is that when he first came to the UK, the first person he met was from the Wu family, and he also knew for the first time that after one hundred and fifty years of ups and downs, the Wu family was still standing in the UK.

However, Xia Yu guessed that the Wu family should have declined as Wu Hongyi said, otherwise although Xiangjiang was far away from the UK, he would not have heard of the name of the Wu family.

Of course, there are other possibilities, such as the Wu family's business in Xiangjiang and Xia Yu's intersection, or the Wu family's business in Xiangjiang simply has no business.