From Gao Lin and Little William's introductions, Qin Chuan knew about the situation of these guests. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Most of these people in the hall were German businessmen in Tianjin, senior staff members in German foreign firms, Germans in Tianjin Customs, and some European and American priests.

De Xuanlin is a British-German, that is, the foreigner who wears the four-grade official uniform of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, there are Li Hongzhang's personal adjutant in the hall and Hannagan, a teacher at the Tianjin Wubei Academy; German engineer Bao Er of Tianjin Wubei School; Tianjin Wubei Academy teaches Schmidt, Ed, Chichaeffen and Frank; American pastor and Jingshi Tongwenguan teacher Ding Yunliang and Ming Enpu, as well as missionary Ding Jiali, who is also Li Hongzhang's personal English secretary, and the major shareholder of Li Shunde Hotel, British pastor Yin Sende,

In addition, there was also a German Hann, a waterpilot from Dagu Port, who was not very trimmed, with silver-gray hair and a little messy, sitting alone on the side, sipping beer, which attracted Qin Chuan's attention, and Gao Lin introduced that this was his friend who had come to China with him.

Although Qin Chuan saw Cui Delin for the first time, he already knew about him.

Because the Qing court did not realize the importance of the customs at all, and even many court officials thought that the customs collected foreigners' money anyway, and it was normal for foreigners to manage it, so when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was pacified, under the coercion of Britain and France, and because they wanted to use the customs tariff to mortgage and repay the compensation, they handed over the customs power to the Europeans. Fortunately, Hurd, an Englishman in the Department of Customs of the Qing Dynasty, was not only very honest and honest, but also very capable, and not to mention the orderly management of the customs of the Qing Dynasty, the customs revenue has also increased from more than 1 million taels at the beginning to more than 30 million taels now, and now the customs tariff has become the most stable and important source of tax revenue in the Qing Dynasty.

In order to ensure that customs officers are not corrupt, they adopt ******** policies, such as Cui Delin's annual salary of 8,000 taels of silver. The current customs can be said to be the most in line with the West, the most efficient and the most honest department in the entire Qing Dynasty.

Due to the very successful customs managed by Hurd, not only Hurd is trusted by the imperial court officials and Li Hongzhang, but this De Xuanlin is now also a celebrity around Li Hongzhang.

Qin Chuan had long heard that this Cui Delin was very good at gambling, and he was willing to talk about pomp, and the racecourse in the concession was built by De Xuanlin. Qin Chuan also heard of one thing, Hurd and De Xuanlin bought a horse at the same time, Hurd was only willing to spend twenty taels to buy a pony, but De Xuanlin actually spent thousands of taels of silver to buy an authentic racehorse.

And that Hannagan also has an identity, he is the husband of De Xuanlin's eldest daughter, and this is the first time Qin Chuan has heard of this.

Four Chinese-looking people, except for Ye Ziqi, a middle-aged man in his forties is Ning Xingpu, the manager of Xintaixing Foreign Bank. However, the other person surprised Qin Chuan, because he was not Chinese, but a staff member of Matsuchang Yoko in Zizhulin Japan, a Japanese who was very kind and always smiling, named Ishikawa Wuichi, for the name Ishikawa Wuichi, Qin Chuan always felt that he had heard of it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it after racking his brains.

The last Chinese in a suit, that is, the fat man who talked and laughed with Ye Ziqi, was Wang Minghuai, the famous comprador of the German business Tailai Foreign Company.

After this lap, Qin Chuan drank more than a dozen beers, and when he greeted almost everyone, he would talk about his color cloth and marvel at how young he was.

What made Qin Chuan a little unhappy was that almost every time William would take the trouble to tell the other party that the reason why his colored cloth was dyed well was because Qin Chuan had advanced knowledge of chemistry and had many invention patents that were more clever than European and American scholars in dyes.

According to Qin Chuan's meaning, he still has to hide the details of science and technology for as much as possible for a period of time. However, since Xiao William had already said it, Qin Chuan had no choice but to push the boat down the river and pretend to be humble.

Fortunately, at this time, scientific knowledge was not popular, and even foreigners did not understand much about those advanced knowledge, but no one sought to get to the bottom of it. It's just that when introducing Bao Er and Ding Jiali, the questions asked by these two people were slightly more professional.

Little William's introduction aroused the interest of these people even more, and the hall was full of admiration and inquiry. Only Hann, who was unkempt and had messy silver-gray hair, didn't seem to be interested in anything, and was somewhat indifferent to Qin Chuan.

Finally finished the turn, and while Gao Lin greeted other guests, Qin Chuan pulled Xiao William and Ye Ziqi to the corner.