Chen Zhiting was very angry, it was not that the French court did not pay attention to international etiquette and neglected him, to be honest, Napoleon III admired the glory of the past, made the court the same as the old era, and paid great attention to the demeanor of the aristocracy, he thought that this was the essence of France, and the British on the other side of the channel could not have this kind of background. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But after all, it's not the past, and the current aristocracy is no longer the aristocracy of the past, there are too many nouveau riche, and the favored ministers are full of court, and their style is bold, open, and spicy, which makes Chen Zhiting unbearable.

When Chen Zhiting found that every noble lady had to deliberately pass by him, and he wanted to glance at him, this was not a random sweep, but from his face to see his body, from his body, to see his-

Well, what made him angry was that there were already a dozen noble ladies with heavy makeup and dressed so that he could not look at his crotch, and he also saw a woman of no small age, and when she came to him, she deliberately set up a single eye to look at his crotch.

This is really unreasonable, Chen Zhiting felt that he had received a great humiliation, he couldn't help but think that the French deliberately called him to humiliate him, so he snorted coldly and walked away, and the translator who was still flirting with a noble lady just now saw it, and hurriedly chased him out.

After that, he saw Chen Zhiting angrily questioning him, why humiliate him, the French explained for a long time, he was just a second-rate translator, an amateur scholar who studied Sinology, but he had aristocratic blood and often mixed with the French court, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to be the translator of the Chinese mission, but with his knowledge, he could barely speak Chinese, and it could only be official dialect, and it was very difficult to communicate with Chen Zhiting's Cantonese accent, and at this time, seeing Chen Zhiting angry, he didn't understand what was going on for a while.

In the end, Wu Chongyao also chased him out, and then communicated in English to understand the situation.

Chen Zhiting was explained, saying that foreigners are very bold in this custom, and women's style is also very bold, but Chen Zhiting blushed and was embarrassed, so he decided not to participate in this kind of drinking party, and asked the French to arrange for him to go back to the hotel.

Although the translators did not translate very accurately, through some body language, they could also talk and laugh freely with French women, to be honest, this trip to Europe and the United States, it was this time that they were the first to feel at ease, not on the American railway, not on the British ships, not in churches and universities, but in the French court.

It's just that they actually found the feeling of visiting the Qinglou here, and I don't know how the French emperor would feel if he found out.

When these rich sons later returned to China, their experience in the French court became their biggest talking point, boasting about how they made French women beg for mercy under their crotches, in the garden, in the back of the house, in the no-man's corner, in the hidden stairwell.

Indeed, there are many handsome rich sons who slept with French noblewomen, or were slept by French noblewomen, they felt that they had government French noblewomen, why not French noblewomen try it, to put it mildly, the French people in this era actually discriminated against the Chinese, and the ancient Roman noblewomen still slept with slaves.

It is not impossible for the Chinese to really want the Europeans to throw themselves into their arms, but at least their efforts are not enough, although a nation that eats the old roots is stronger than the people who have nothing to eat the old ones, it is definitely not worth boasting, and the Chinese must rely on their own efforts to create a more brilliant culture than their ancestors if they want to become the first-rate.

Zhu Jinglun firmly believes that there will be a day when it will be realized at least earlier than another era, because this era has not yet fallen to the bottom, and it is easier to climb up.

But the process must have been hard, and he was already feeling it now.

The first is the lack of money.

It's not that he's short of money, he won't borrow the Wu family's money to speculate, it's not that he's short of money, and he won't even think of making extra money in the American Civil War.

The profit of one million taels of money from speculating in bills of exchange has been spent in batches, and the more than four million taels of silver collected by the bureau in the past few years have also been tossed up, but the funds are still tight.

The scale of trade in Chiwan has reached the limit, and the import and export are basically balanced, about 10 million taels each, and the tenths of the tame, that is, 2 million, have been drawn for more than two years, and less than 5 million taels.

But there are a few accounts that must be spent, the first is military spending, now there are two armies openly and covertly, more than 15,000 people, Zhu Jinglun insists on high salaries, this is also a helpless thing, the British entered Beiping this time, and the coolies recruited in Hong Kong have reached a monthly salary of nine taels, Zhu Jinglun still uses the salary level given by the British to coolies the year before last, which is already considered low, not high, how can the soldiers be made to die of heart, how can they be honestly trained, how can they let the officers concentrate on their work, and not think about other crooked ways.

A troop of more than 10,000 people would get at least 100,000 taels of silver a month, and in fact the military salary expenditure was 150,000 taels, because the salaries of officers were higher, which was 1.8 million taels a year, and basically these soldiers ran out of money.

In addition, there is also a need for additional food expenses for soldiers, although the soldiers eat food, although they can't make big fish and meat, but Zhu Jinglun always insists on feeding the soldiers, and the army that can't eat enough to fight a hairy battle, buy a pig every once in a while to kill and eat meat, so that everyone can make up for their bodies.

The food expenditure is at least about 10,000 taels per month.

Zhu Jinglun also had to provide for the expenses of the arsenal, which had a total of 100 technical advisers, and in the past two years they continued to recruit workers, most of whom were young children recruited from traditional artisan families such as blacksmiths and carpenters.

Consultants are highly paid, no one is 100 taels a month, and they alone have to pay 10,000 taels a month.

Apprentices are still highly paid, which is no way to do it, because if you don't give high salaries, you can't invite these apprentices with a certain technical foundation, and there is no attractive salary, so why let them put their skills at home and not learn to come to the arsenal as apprentices, Zhu Jinglun believes that these apprentices with a certain foundation of traditional craftsmen are easier to train into excellent skilled workers than a scholar who has no power to tie the chicken.

There is also Zhu Jinglun hopes that through them, can they combine traditional technology with modern technology, for example, after they complete their craft, they may not stay in the arsenal to work, but choose to go out to start their own business, in the past, carpentry, will they think of using mechanized processing of wood, in the past, they will not think about using machines to extract oil, in short, these people are apprentices now, and they may be industrialists in the future, so Zhu Jinglun insists on recruiting apprentices with traditional craft backgrounds.

Such apprentices have been recruited thousands at present, so that the arsenal has become quite large-scale, and even allows Zhu Jinglun to deal with a war that is not too intense, and Zhu Jinglun does not even have to go outside to purchase gunpowder and bullets at that level of warfare, and the arsenal is completely self-sufficient, but it is a pity that iron ore has to be imported from Europe, and coal is bought by the British in Hong Kong.

Zhu Jinglun insisted on purchasing his own production at a high price, the purpose of which was to train the workers, in fact, to pay them tuition.

But this kind of cost made Zhu Jinglun try his best to squeeze out the funds beyond his means, not only spent all the income of the bureau, but even he began to go into debt, he had already borrowed 300,000 taels from the Pan family, Pan Shicheng, who was bent on forming a good official government, was happy to lend money to the government, and he didn't even expect to pay it back, but Zhu Jinglun definitely had to pay it back, so he felt a lot of financial pressure, so he thought of speculating, but the speculative income could not be turned back in the short term, so he had to be short of money for a long time.

It was really a blessing and a disaster, and he was already short of money, but suddenly the Guangdong Provincial Government sent an official letter, asking Zhu Jinglun to hand over the tariffs in full and not a single cent to be withheld, which really cut off Zhu Jinglun's back road this time.

If it is Bai Gui, of course it will not be so ruthless, because it is not Bai Gui, but Qi Ling, the new governor of Liangguang.

What about? was transferred to Beiping.

This means one thing - Zhu Jinglun's backstage has fallen! (To be continued.) )