Sending Han En and Ai Xiaomei away, before Qin Chuan returned to the small building, he heard a commotion outside the gate, and when he looked back, he saw five or six workers in blue coarse cloth uniforms standing outside the gate, negotiating with the factory guards who blocked their entry. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Qin Chuan faintly heard them say that they were here to pretend to be a telephone, and then he remembered that Wu Tiaoqing said yesterday that he would let him install a phone, and now Qin Chuan is very urgently needed.

Hearing the noise at the gate of the factory, Shi Feng, who had just returned to the factory guard team after training, had already led more than a dozen factory guards to rush out, Qin Chuan waved his hand to signal that it was okay, asked Shi Feng and the others to go back, and called Chu Yunfei and Xu Tong to the gate.

Seeing that Qin Chuan was alarmed, the factory guards on duty at the factory gate couldn't help but be a little nervous, and they were anxious to explain to Qin Chuan.

"The owner, they said they came to pretend to be some kind of Hotline for the owner, you see。。。。。。"

Qin Chuan nodded and looked at a young man who seemed to be the leader: "Who asked you to come to my dyeing factory to install a phone?" ”

The young man in the overalls knew that Qin Chuan was the main master, so he nodded with a smile: "This is the shopkeeper of Qin, right?" ”

Seeing Qin Chuan nodding and said: "We are the electric light company in the concession, and the manager assigned us to install the Hotline in your Aurora dyeing factory early this morning, and the manager said that the shopkeeper Qin can install a few telephones in this dyeing factory, and there is no need for the Qin shopkeeper to pay, so naturally someone will go to the electric light company to settle the accounts." When we came, we have seen it, you are equipped with electric lights, and you have already set up a telephone pole, we just need to pull the telephone line over, there are already people outside from the concession to pull the line here, we are here to install the cabinet in the Qin Zhangchang Telephone, I don't know how many Qin Zhangbao to install, where are they installed? ”

Qin Chuan had already seen that several people behind the young man in the workwear were carrying several cardboard boxes in their hands, presumably inside were telephones.

Qin Chuan knew that there was no telephone company now, and the telephone company in the concession was the electric light company, and this matter should have been done by Wu Tiaoqing, who was well-eyed in the concession. Qin Chuan thought to himself, this Wu Tiaoqing was an anxious person, and said that he wanted him to install a telephone, probably because he was afraid that he would forget or procrastinate, so he contacted the electric light company in the concession early in the morning to install a telephone for him, and Wu Tiaoqing paid for it.

Qin Chuan turned back to Chu Yunfei and Xu Tong and said, "The two of you take them to install the phone, one in the living room on the second floor, one in Manager Li's account room, and then one in the room of your factory protection team, and then let these masters teach you how to use it." ”

Although Chu Yunfei and Xu Tong have never seen anything about Hotline or telephone, they have heard of this thing a long time ago, and they know that through this thing, the two of them can hear each other's voices from afar, which is very magical. At this time, when he heard Qin Chuan say that he would install one in the house of their factory protection team, he immediately smiled happily, and the two of them agreed in succession, and happily led these people from the electric light company into the dyeing factory to install telephones.

Qin Chuan also wanted to go back, but when he looked up, he saw four rickshaws running down the street in a hurry, and it was Li Mingfang who was sitting in the first one or two cars, so he couldn't help but stop.

If you look closely at the second car, it is a tall and thin foreigner wearing a tall black top hat, blond hair and blue eyes, with a neat mustache with two trimmed trims, and the third car. It was two very young foreigners, and the one sitting in the fourth car was an old acquaintance Ye Ziqi.

The five people got out of the car at the gate of the dyeing factory, Li Mingfang came to Qin Chuan with Ye Ziqi who was carrying a heavy and long leather suitcase and the foreigner led by him, Qin Chuan smiled and Ye Ziqi nodded and looked at the foreigner, Li Mingfang hurriedly introduced Qin Chuan.

"The owner, this is Mr. Henry, the architect of the British-owned Xiangtai Foreign Company in the concession, who was invited by us to design the new factory building and the bank building."

At this time, it is not that the country can not build buildings, but it is mainly wooden buildings, at most it is a brick and tile structure, and the most important thing is that the domestic craftsmen carry out the construction, there is no mechanical calculation at all, the craftsmen are just based on experience, Qin Chuan is not admiring the foreign in this regard, but I really feel that we still have to respect science, especially the safety of the house must be taken seriously, and it must not be neglected.

"Oh, hello Mr. Henry, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Qin Chuan stretched out his hand as he spoke.

Henry smiled and took off his top hat with one hand, while reaching out to shake Qin Chuan's hand.

"Mr. Qin, it's an honor to serve you."

Henry speaks Chinese fluently, and it seems that he has been in China for a long time, and Qin Chuan has a good impression of Henry, who is a typical English gentleman.

Qin Chuan knew that Ye Ziqi had something to do, so he said to Li Mingfang: "Lao Li, you first accompany Mr. Henry to your tent to wait for a while, and I will go over after talking to Mr. Ye." ”

Qin Chuan led Ye Ziqi back to his second floor, those workers were installing phones in the living room on the second floor under the arrangement of Chu Yunfei and Xu Tong, and Qin Chuan pulled Ye Ziqi directly into his bedroom.

As soon as he entered the bedroom, Ye Ziqi put the heavy suitcase in his hand on the floor, and then sat on the chair.

Ye Ziqi gasped as he took out a few pieces of paper and a silver ticket from his arms and handed them to Qin Chuan.

"Minghong, William agreed to act as an agent for the sale of soap in Europe, and he agreed to the matter of 800,000 agency fees you said, this is the contract and 100,000 agency fees, and the remaining 700,000 yuan, he will wait for your soap to be put on the market before giving it to you."

The contract brought by Ye Ziqi for the sale right of Xiao William to act as an agent for soap in Europe is in duplicate, and Xiao William has already prepared it, with Xiao William's autograph and fingerprints on it, Qin Chuan looked at the content and there was no problem, so he found a pen dipped in water and signed it on it, and took out a box of cinnabar and pressed his fingerprints on it and handed it to Ye Ziqi.

William Jr.'s down payment agency fee is a 100,000 Eagle Ocean Deutsch-Hua Bank cashier's check.

This Deutsch-Hua Bank is the only bank in Tianjin opened by Germans, and the Germans here are willing to use this bank opened by their own people.

Qin Chuan put away the cashier's check, and smiled secretly in his heart: "This little William seems to be very concerned about this soap agency, for fear of recurring, this is to do things first." ”

After collecting the promissory note, Qin Chuan anxiously asked Ye Ziqi: "Old Ye, how is the gun I want?" ”

Ye Ziqi, who had already breathed his breath, said with a smile: "Look at your urgency, don't you just want to bet with Hannagan to try shooting, there is still a month to go, and it is not bad for this effort." ”

Ye Ziqi took out a small tin box, took out two cigarettes from it, took one in his mouth and handed the other to Qin Chuan, who hurriedly took a match from the bedside table and lit it for the two of them.

Ye Ziqi took a puff of cigarette and said to Qin Chuan: "The two thousand rifles you asked for didn't promise William. ”

Hearing that William didn't agree to buy him a rifle, Qin Chuan, who was about to sit down, couldn't help but be stunned.

"Why? Can't he get his hands on a rifle? ”

Ye Ziqi smiled bitterly and said: "Ming Hong, you also know that Xiao William is a businessman, and he has never done such things as smuggling arms and selling opium. ”

Hearing this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and said loudly: "What kind of smuggling arms, Lao Tzu is going to hold a group exercise." ”

Ye Ziqi "fluttered" out loud: "Holding a group exercise, where is the text of the Yamen according to the inspection?" ”

When Ye Ziqi said this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly.

Qin Chuan was afraid that Ye Ziqi would not believe it, so he said to Ye Ziqi with some pride: "Old Ye, I was in a hurry when I said this. However, when I held a group exercise, it was said by the direct subordinate envoy Zhou Fu Zhou himself. Moreover, Li Zhongtang's eldest son also promised to donate an alternate official position for me, tell me, whether my group training is reliable or not. ”

"Zhou Fu promised you personally?"

"You also have a relationship with Li Jingfang?"

"Just a few days after leaving the concession, you got in touch with them?"

Qin Chuan's words made Ye Ziqi somewhat unconvinced.

Qin Chuan nodded affirmatively and said with a smile: "Lao Ye, we've known each other for half a year, when have you ever seen me do something I'm not sure about?" ”

Ye Ziqi looked at Qin Chuan for a long time, and when he saw that Qin Chuan didn't look like he was lying, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Ming Hong, to be honest, when I first met you, in addition to making me feel very special, different from the people who usually stayed in the ocean or came back from Nanyang, you didn't take you too seriously, I just thought you were a talented young man. But I didn't expect that as soon as you got out of this concession, you would be like a fish in water, and you would be much better than those of us who have worked hard in Tianjin for many years. ”

Ye Ziqi shook his head and said, "Ming Hong, I, Ye Ziqi, am really ashamed of myself in front of you!" ”

Qin Chuan shook his hand and said: "Okay, Lao Ye, don't hurt me anymore, you go back and tell Xiao William quickly, prepare guns for me as soon as possible, according to the words of the Yamen in the next few days, I am still anxious to wait for those rifles." ”

Hearing Qin Chuan's words, Ye Ziqi not only didn't get up, but leaned back and leaned back comfortably on the back of the chair.

"I came to you in a hurry early in the morning, and you were in a hurry to catch people without even drinking a glass of water, this is not such a thing as you!"

Qin Chuan couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Okay, okay, I'll go make you tea." ”

Qin Chuan turned around and was about to go out to make tea, Ye Ziqi hurriedly grabbed Qin Chuan: "Laughing with you, don't take it seriously." Sit down, I have something to discuss with you. ”

Seeing Qin Chuan sit down, Ye Ziqi also sat up straight and put away his smile, but his expression was a little timid。。。。。。