Zeng Jize appeared, Xuan Zonglu and Xuan Hongbo went to greet him in person, giving enough face and not daring to slack off.

Xuan Zonglu let Zeng Jize to his side, and after Zeng Jize and everyone greeted him, he immediately announced the start of the play, and the gongs and drums of the troupe remembered, and the mat music of carrying the flag and carrying the flag was played.

Zeng Jize saw Xuan Yuemeng and Zeng Siping playing not far away, and greeted Zeng Siping and Xuan Zonglu, who both sat beside him, and the two of them came over with little short legs, and sat down next to Zeng Jize on the left and right.

This can make Xuan Hongbo angry, Xuan Hongtao sat over, he was almost angry, but Xuan Hongtao is also the eldest son no matter how he says it, he is his eldest brother, where is the generation, there is a banquet at home, Xuan Hongtao is also reasonable to sit at the main table, and your youngest son who has gone out of Xuan Hongtao also came to sit on the main seat, and he is still sitting next to Lord Zeng Jize? Why?

"Master Zeng, will you order a play first?" Xuan Zonglu handed the excerpt to Zeng Jize.

Zeng Jize smiled and pushed it back to Xuan Zonglu, "I don't know how to play, let's order it for other adults, or give it to these foreign gentlemen, they don't listen to the drama much." ”

Xuan Yuemeng secretly said that Zeng Jize was amazing, and he rounded the scene with an understatement, no one should be offended, and it would not make people feel arrogant.

In fact, except for Xuan Yuemeng's bad impression of Zeng's mansion, Xuan Yuemeng admires Zeng Jize very much, and Xuan Hongtao and Xuan Hongbo are about the same age, so the demeanor and bearing are completely different things.

Everyone pushed and conceded, and in the end, Sheng Xuanhuai ordered the play, in addition to his identity, Sheng Xuanhuai is a veritable protagonist today, everyone is watching his face, Sheng Xuanhuai doesn't say much, in fact, he is also watching everyone! After all, it was with Li Zhongtang who had just arrived in Zhili, and he was not familiar with the situation, and he was very unfamiliar with the people, so he was very cautious, and Sheng Xuanhuai himself was a cautious and careful person.

The atmosphere at the main table is very bad, although everyone is very polite, but you can feel the invisible cold breath lingering on everyone's side, except for Zeng Jize, the eyes of the people at this table are all turned to Sheng Xuanhuai from time to time, and they all seem to want to talk to Sheng Xuanhuai about a lot of expansion projects in Beiyang Yamen, and it is inconvenient to speak in front of others, even Xuan Yuemeng feels very depressed.

Xuan Yuemeng's experience in working in the company is very rich, of course, I understand the importance of the first shot, whether Klinsmann can be born smoothly, it all depends on whether you can receive business, where is the business? It's right at this table.

What does business do? Do information, where does the information come from? Networking.

"Good!"

The crowd applauded, but the attention of the people at the main table was not on the stage.

As soon as the play ends, the people of the theater troupe come to see if the host will give a reward.

How much can you reward for six scenes? If it can't exceed eighty taels, Xuan Yuemeng will have to post money, but Xuan Yuemeng's pressure is not here, he knows that he will definitely not post money, what he is worried about is whether the drama he directed before can be staged smoothly, after all, letting Klinsmann show his strength in front of everyone is what Xuan Yuemeng urgently needs at present.

Zhilin slapped his face, "Okay, reward, this first game, I will reward twenty taels of silver on behalf of Lord Sheng!" ”

The person in charge of receiving the reward money from the troupe accepted the reward from Zhilin's servant, holding a silver ticket and reporting loudly: "Lord Sheng Xuanhuai has rewarded twenty taels of silver!" ”

The crowd applauded again, and those who watched the play did not have to pay, of course, they hoped that the more big households would give, the better, because the richer the reward, the harder the people of the troupe would work hard when performing! This kind of atmosphere is also needed to watch the opera, which is a characteristic of the Gyeonggi region, and the northerners of this era love to watch Peking opera.

Sheng Xuanhuai smiled slightly, "How embarrassing?" Let Lord Zhilin break the bank. ”

Although Sheng Xuanhuai said so, he secretly scolded Zhilin in his heart, if you want to reward, you can reward, what are you doing with me? It feels as if we are familiar to outsiders.

Hurd glanced at McMauff, the manager of Xintaixing Foreign Firm who was sitting at another table, and motioned for McMuff to give a reward!

McMarfoy immediately gave orders to his assistants.

The people of the troupe shouted loudly again: "Mr. Makamafu of Xintaixing Foreign Company has rewarded thirty taels of silver!" ”

This time, everyone did not applaud loudly, but boomed, and burst out into a huge exclamation, and all looked back at McMarfoy, and they all felt that this foreigner was crazy. Originally, according to the market price, a reward of 20 taels for a play is already a top reward! Those who can be here today are all some well-known figures on the streets of Tianjin, and naturally they all understand the market.

The astonished eyes of everyone made McMarfoy feel that the money was well spent!

The people of the drama troupe took the silver tickets and rushed to the backstage, and handed over the silver tickets to Xuan Dali, Xuan Dali has been guarding the backstage, this is all agreed between Xuan Yuemeng and Xuan Dali in advance, and Wu Laosan, the head of the troupe, just asked, it is indeed very disciplined, and it will be as if it is good, but Wu Laosan also regrets it in his heart, this is the first play, and he has already rewarded fifty taels, it seems that he will break one hundred taels casually today, and there is no suspense at all! The little young master of the Dark Dao Xuan family is really a villain, and everything is accurate.

In fact, Xuan Yuemeng didn't expect that these two would be so heavy, and he was also shocked.

Xuan Yuemeng has been here for so long, and now she is engaged in the exchange business, so she naturally has a very clear concept of the price of goods in this era, fifty taels, fifty taels is already a lot of money!

The feeling of surprise made Xuan Yuemeng's little heart and liver puff and puff.

Xuan vigorously put the two sums of money together, ran out in his pocket, and went straight to Timothy Lee's side, leaning down.

Timothy Lee himself felt a little inexplicable, he didn't summon Xuan Dali over, but Xuan Dali put his ear to his mouth, whether he said anything or not, it was as if Timothy Li was instructing Xuan Dali something.

Xuan Dali nodded and got up, and reported loudly: "Mr. Timothy Lee of Klinsmann & Co. has a reward of fifty taels!" ”

With a bang, this time the huge sigh was even louder, and everyone turned their eyes on Timothy Lee again.

Timothy Lee also enjoyed such a gaze for the first time, and he couldn't be arrogant, so he kept two big nostrils for the audience.

Zhilin, Hurd, Sheng Xuanhuai, everyone, immediately looked at Timothy Lee, and everyone didn't take this unknown foreigner in their eyes at first!

Although Sheng Xuanhuai first came to Zhili not long ago, since he was engaged in foreign affairs, he must first find out about these foreign companies in the Zhili area, and the Klinsmann foreign firm, which had just been registered and did not even have an official office location, was certainly not within Sheng Xuanhuai's grasp.

Sheng Xuanhuai and several people around him talked about Timothy Li one after another, and they were very interested in him.

Those who watch the play are not afraid of being lively, after the huge sigh is the thunderous applause, a one-time reward of fifty taels, not to mention that it is on the ground in Tianjin, even if it is put in Beijing, such a generous reward is rare!

Now even Wu Laosan, the head of the Wu family's class, was unusually excited, although this reward has little to do with him, no matter how considerable the final total reward can reach, he can only get eighty taels, but Wu Laosan has now come out of the regret just now, knowing that this is someone deliberately raising the price to fight for wealth, it should not be his own, it is not his own, people are often like this, he could have gotten one hundred taels, but he only got eighty taels, which will be very uncomfortable, But when you know that the price you may get is far more than eighty-two and many times, it is easy to calm down quickly.

Because the head of the Wu class knew that if it wasn't for the little son of the Xuan family who contracted the reward, it would never have been possible to give such a huge reward! Even if this reward has little to do with Wu Jiaban in the end, but under the witness of so many people present, there are so many dignitaries and nobles, and celebrities in the capital, once there is a higher reward amount again, so high that it is unheard of in the entire history of Zhili, he is really going to be famous in Wu Jiaban, and being famous is equivalent to making money! Wu Laosan seemed to have seen a large pile of silver tickets flying towards him.

Not to mention Wu Laosan, the head of the Wu family's class, even Timothy Li, who had already guessed the situation inside, was surprised, peeking at Xuan Yuemeng, Xuan Yuemeng was eating indifferently, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

Xuan Yuemeng asked Zeng Siping beside him with a smile, "Is it delicious?" ”

Zeng Siping: "It's not delicious, seeing that you eat the same as me, is it better to eat yours?" Why don't we change it? ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled, "Okay, I'll feed you a bite." ”

Zeng Jize looked at the children around him, they are thrilling over there, have you two lived a small life? I don't know how to feel.

At the beginning of the second scene, the atmosphere of the main table has completely changed, this kind of fighting for wealth is actually very embarrassing, this is not buying anything specific, of course it is not like an auction, this kind of reward, it is purely a fighting for wealth, nonsensical fighting for wealth, just to buy face, now the problem of Zhilin, Hurd, and Timothy Lee is that no one can retreat, because the atmosphere of chasing deer has been formed, who can be in the limelight today, tomorrow will be considered in the Zhili area, and even in the north of the entire Qing Dynasty, Even in the entire Qing Dynasty, the most powerful business representatives!

McMauff behind Hurd can be described as wealthy, Xintaixing is one of the best foreign banks in the whole of North China and even the whole of China, and even to a certain extent, it represents an overall image of the entire British business community in China.

Zhilin had the idea of retreating, he didn't want to have a hard encounter with foreigners, and he didn't dare to have a hard encounter with foreigners, especially for powerful business groups like Hurd and McMarfoy, Zhilin thought that if he was a little-known Klinsmann foreign company, he was still willing to fight for face and show his strength.

When the time for the second reward came, people simply couldn't even cheer after the play, and everyone's attention was focused on the Doufu performance in the direction of the main table, which was obviously more attractive than the illusory story on the stage.

Everyone looked at the main seat in unison.

Hurd pressed his hand against McMauff, motioning for the others to tip first, and they would tip last, the same is what Zhilin meant.

Timothy Li looked at Xuan Yuemeng, Xuan Yuemeng sat there seriously, like a little adult, all of this fell into the eyes of everyone at the main table, it was very strange, why did the general manager of a foreign company go to see the face of a few months old doll instead?

When Xuan Yuemeng is not talking, she is really no different from a normal little doll.

Xuan Zonglu really couldn't figure it out, and Xuan Hongbo couldn't figure it out even more, he just felt that since Xuan Yuemeng was born, he didn't go anywhere. In fact, even Xuan Hongtao didn't know what was going on, thinking that Xuan Yuemeng was just Timothy Lee's think tank, how much Xuan Yuemeng had ability, Xuan Hongtao was very clear, and he was almost superstitious about his youngest son who was a few months old.

The person in charge of the reward of the troupe was still waiting, thinking that there was no one to reward this scene, and was about to go down, when he came vigorously and glaringly, and lay in Timothy Lee's ear as usual, listening to something matter-of-factly.

Timothy Lee also learned to be obedient, obviously he didn't say anything, this time he actually put his hand to Xuan Dali's ear, as if he really said something, in fact, Timothy Lee just whined and made a few strange sounds, and everyone was eager to post it over to listen to what the two people said.

Xuan vigorously got up, took out the fifty taels he had just gotten, and showed it to everyone, "Mr. Timothy Lee, the general manager of Klinsmann & Co., has rewarded fifty taels of silver!" ”

Everyone was in a commotion again, although it was not as shocking as the first time, but it was also pleasantly surprised, so exciting, and fifty taels of silver? Everyone is thinking that this time the troupe is making a fortune! I was thinking that it would be nice if I could reward myself with so much money.

Hurd squinted at Zhilin, who had already stood up, planning to take advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, "Lord Zhilin, what?" You're not playing? Everyone is so happy, let's make a price? ”