Sheng Xuanhuai said and pointed to the official in the four-grade civil official costume and said: "Ming Hong, this is the general office of Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, Zhang Shiheng and Lord Zhang, and Lord Zhang is still the nephew of Lord Zhongtang." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

When Sheng Xuanhuai introduced, he specifically mentioned that this Zhang Shiheng was Li Hongzhang's nephew, which was obviously to remind Qin Chuan not to offend this Zhang Shiheng, how Qin Chuan couldn't understand, and hurriedly gave a salute.

"I snubbed Lord Zhang, and asked Lord Zhang for forgiveness."

Zhang Shiheng hurriedly stepped forward and held Qin Chuan's arm who was about to bow down, and said with a smile: "Minghong must not be like this, we are also colleagues, and we must not be like this." ”

Although it was Wu Tiaoqing who promised to donate officials to him, but there has been no shadow of that incident so far, in the end, he Qin Chuan is still a cloth cloth, how can he be called a colleague with Zhang Shiheng, Qin Chuan thought that this Zhang Shiheng was hinting at him, his relationship with Li Hongzhang.

Qin Chuan was thinking about it, Sheng Xuanhuai suddenly clapped his hands and said with a smile: "If it weren't for Chu Bao's reminder, I would have forgotten about the business." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai waved his hand, and the errand officer holding the tray behind him took a few steps forward.

Sheng Xuanhuai looked at Qin Chuan and said with a smile: "Ming Hong, Lord Zhou and I went to Zhongtang last night, and it happened that Wu Tiaoqing and Jing Fang were talking to Zhongtang about you. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai said enviously: "Minghong has a good mind, the method you said about not paying salt tax for alkali production has already given the emperor a discount. Your donation to the official, not only Wu Tiaoqing paid for it, but Zhongtang and Lord Zhou also wrote letters to the officials to recommend them, and now this messenger should be on the way. ”

"Also, the matter of running a salt group promised by Lord Zhou was also agreed by Zhongtang. This salt group is a matter within the Zhou people's division, and it does not need any approval in the capital, but only in the Zhou people's inspection of the yamen and the Zhili governor's mansion for the record. You can form a salt regiment now, and the size is only one battalion. Lord Zhongtang said, you must take care of your own salary, guns, and clothing, and you must train diligently, and you must not slack off in daily inspections of private salt to maintain local law and order. ”

"In addition to these two happy events, there is one more thing to tell you, Hannagan has already found Zhongtang, and Zhongtang not only allows you to test shooting with Hannagan in the monthly school of Tianjin Martial Arts Academy, but also wants to see your factory protection team。。。。。。 It's supposed to be a salt ball drill now. Today, Mr. Zhou has official business, and I ask you to inform you that your future future is in the monthly school, so you must deal with it carefully. ”

"In addition, you said that you want to send people to the Martial Arts Academy, and the middle hall has also agreed."

Qin Chuan has been thinking about this for a long time, and when he heard that Li Hongzhang also agreed, he couldn't help but feel happy again, and hurriedly bowed his hand to Sheng Xuanhuai: "More Lord Sheng and Lord Zhou." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai said with a smile: "Don't be happy first, Zhongtang said that the Martial Arts Academy is only for people in the army, and the quota is full this year, so I shouldn't have promised you, but what is the matter with your salt regiment, you can be regarded as a person from Beiyang, and you are authorized to send twenty people to school, but their military uniforms and guns also have to take care of themselves." Entering early and returning late every day, not staying in the school, and learning is also your salt group. These 20 people will enter the school tomorrow and return at the end of the day. ”

Li Hongzhang's arrangement was exactly what Qin Chuan thought, he was really afraid that these children would not return to his salt group after studying in the martial arts academy. As for firearms, it's not even a problem.

Li Hongzhang promised to compete with Hannagan when he was reviewing in the Martial Arts Academy, this is probably not only the credit of Hannagan alone, Qin Chuan knows that Li Hongzhang is very fond of this Martial Arts Academy, and he will not easily agree to others to test what shooting at that time. This is likely to be agreed after listening to Zhou Fu and Sheng Xuanhuai's words. Qin Chuan will naturally cherish such an opportunity, even if there is no Zhou Futuo Sheng Xuanhuai's advice, he will actively prepare, so that his salt ball will leave a positive impression on Li Hongzhang when the time comes.

Sheng Xuanhuai said as he stretched out his hand to remove the red silk covering the tray in the officer's hand, and saw that on the tray was a set of folded new four-grade civil official clothes, and an official hat with flower feathers was buttoned on the official uniform.

Sheng Xuanhuai said: "Ming Hong, this is your official uniform, this donation official has Zhongtang and Lord Zhou come forward, this is just a procedure, the approval is a matter of time or time, you can wear the official uniform today." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai stretched out his hand and took out a document with the big red official seal from his sleeve and handed it to Qin Chuan: "This is the approval document of the Zhili Inspectorate Yamen on the salt group, you can take it." ”

After receiving the approval document from Sheng Xuanhuai, Qin Chuan couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy in his heart, with this approval, from now on, he could justifiably form such a paramilitary team to train the regiment, and his salt regiment could hold weapons in a grand manner.

After finishing the business, Sheng Xuanhuai clapped his hands and was thinking about turning around to leave, when he saw Zhang Shiheng who was looking at him with an anxious look on his face, he suddenly remembered that Zhang Shiheng came with him today, but he had something to ask him to do, and he couldn't help but smile.

Sheng Xuanhuai thought for a while and said to Qin Chuan with some embarrassment: "Ming Hong, Master Zhang listened to the scriptures talk about you, and admired you very much, but he is not familiar with you, he ran to my house early this morning to let me introduce him, and it just so happened that I was going to come to give you this document today, so I brought Master Zhang to meet you." ”

Qin Chuan looked at Zhang Shiheng, who was laughing with some embarrassment, and sneered in his heart and thought, "What do you admire Lao Tzu, what do you admire Lao Tzu?" Lao Tzu is not a big beauty? To put it bluntly, it's not that I also want to get some oil and water from Lao Tzu. It's just that it seems that this Zhang Shiheng didn't pull Li Jingfang to come, but just came with Sheng Xuanhuai, which also shows that the relationship between Zhang Shiheng and Li Jingfang is not very close, at least he didn't dare to ask Li Jingfang to explain the problem, otherwise he wouldn't just stay in this position of the General Office of Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau that is not very popular in the Qing Dynasty. ”

Thinking of Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, Qin Chuan's heart couldn't help but move, his mind was racing, and he was secretly ruthless.

Qin Chuan smiled and said with Zhang Shiheng.

"Master Zhang is wrong to love, fortunately I will be lucky."

Now Qin Chuan and these four-grade officials are full of confidence, because in the Qing Dynasty, whether you are a real official or an alternate official, you are considered a Qing official, and you can see the official without kneeling.

Zhang Shiheng joined hands and said with a smile: "Ming Hong is a good means, come to our Tianjin Wei in a short period of time, and make this business so prosperous, as Sheng Daren and Jing Fang said, it is really my Qing Dynasty foreign affairs talent, Ming Hong is young and promising, and he will help him more in the future." ”

Zhang Shiheng was polite with Qin Chuan, and glanced at Sheng Xuanhuai from time to time from the corner of his eyes, looking preoccupied.

Sheng Xuanhuai thought that he had something important to do, so he was no longer polite, and said to Qin Chuan bluntly: "Minghong, I'll just say it directly, Master Zhang also wants to buy some shares in you, I told him, your dyeing factory, salt factory, soap factory, and pen factory are all sufficient." Mr. Zhang originally thought that he would come to you today to say hello, and if there are any good projects in the future, he will be counted as a share, but it just so happens that after he went to the concession with me to see Henry, he knew that you still have a few new factories to open, so he asked me to come, do you see if you can pick up one of the remaining new factories and let Yicheng shares be given to Mr. Zhang? ”

Sheng Xuanhuai's words couldn't be more direct, that is, this Zhang Shiheng can't be offended, but his appetite is not big, he is not qualified to participate in any salt factory, soap, and pen, you can just give him shares in that factory.

Qin Chuan pretended to hesitate for a while before he grinned as if he had made a lot of determination: "Lord Zhang, in this way, I will give you 10% of the shares of this cannery, and how about the share according to the number of Lord Sheng?" ”

Looking at Qin Chuan, who was unwilling to do so, as if he had cut off a large piece of meat on his body, Sheng Xuanhuai couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, and said in his heart: "It seems that the shares of this canning factory are more than 10,000 Yingyang, listening to Qin Chuan's words, Yicheng shares also cost more than 100,000, and Qin Chuan only asked him for 10,000, which is obviously Qin Chuan secretly showing favor to make friends with himself, and then giving this Zhang Shiheng shares, it is not easy to change his mouth, so he has to grit his teeth and endure the pain." In this way, I came to talk to this Zhang Shiheng today, but it was a bit abrupt, and it was a bit of a waste of money. ”

Not to mention what Sheng Xuanhuai thought, as soon as Qin Chuan agreed, Zhang Shiheng's face suddenly bloomed, and he said with a smile: "Thank you, Brother Minghong, I will personally send the shares over tomorrow." In the future, the elder brother has a need, as long as the brother can do it, just open his mouth. ”

Qin Chuan didn't want to let go of this opportunity, so he immediately followed the conversation and said, "Brother Zhang, don't you say that I forgot about it。。。。。。 ”