Bai Siwen ...... The name is quite Sven, it doesn't look like a working person, medium height, white and clean, facial features are also upright, with a harmless smile on the face of humans and animals, I really can't see what the way is?

"I don't know where Mr. Zhu is from and how he got to England?" Bai Siwen spoke an official dialect, and he didn't have a Cantonese accent, and his expression was also a little curious, and he was touching Zhu Jishi's old bottom when he opened his mouth.

William. Jardine looked at the two of them with a smile, as if he was also waiting for Zhu Jishi's answer.

Zhu Jishi smiled, turned his head to look at Jardine and said in fluent English: "Mr. Jardine, I don't know how this Mr. Bai Siwen came to England?" Did you bring him from China? ”

The corners of Jardine's mouth hooked, revealing a disdainful smile, "Svensson was a Chinese nobleman and naval officer, and a devout Christian, and was persecuted by the Chinese government for this, and had to leave Canton for England under my protection. ”

"China...... Aristocrat? Zhu Jishi looked at Bai Siwen again, and asked in Chinese with some puzzlement: "Are you a nobleman?" What knighthood? ”

Bai Siwen smiled wryly, waved his hand and said: "Brother, what kind of nobleman is there, it's just a flag man, or the Han army with a white flag, and he had an errand to lead the command in the flag battalion of the waterproof division in Guangzhou, but now he has lost it a long time ago, if it wasn't for the lord of Jardine to take him in, he would have lost his life in Guangzhou......"

Zhu Jishi frowned slightly, and said in his heart: "This kid must be a traitor, uh, it should be a flag traitor, it is estimated that when he was a sailor, he helped the British opium dealers do bad things, so he lost his errand and fled in a hurry, and followed the tuberculosis ghost of Jardine to England." ”

"This ...... Master Zhu, when did you always come to England? Where is my hometown? Bai Siwen's gaze swept over Zhu Jishi, and then fell on Isabel beside Zhu Jishi. It has been several years since he came to England, and although it was the first time he was brought to a rich place like Blenheim Palace by Jardine, he had seen some high-class Western ladies, and he could naturally see at a glance what kind of woman Isabel was. Being able to hold such a Western lady in and out of a place like Blenheim Palace as a guest may already show the wealth and social status that Zhu Jishi has!

Zhu Jishi didn't answer Bai Siwen, just nodded at him slightly, and then led Isabel to continue to greet the other guests. At this time William. Jardine suddenly stopped him and said: "Mr. Zhu, my health is already very bad, I'm afraid it will be difficult to shelter this Svensson for too long, if you need a servant from China by your side, I think Svensson is very suitable, he can cook very delicious Chinese Cantonese food." ”

Cantonese cuisine! Zhu Jishi smacked his mouth, he hadn't eaten Chinese food in months...... Although Madame Duran's cooking skills are first-class, and French cuisine is also on par with Chinese cuisine, eating too much is always inferior to Cantonese food in her hometown!

Thinking of this, he smiled at Jardine, "Okay, just let Svensson follow me, I'm about to hire a few servants, and having a servant from China would be exactly what I want." ”

Bai Siwen could understand the conversation between Zhu Jishi and Jardine, and hurriedly walked up to Zhu Jishi and made a thousand, and said respectfully: "Master, little Bai Siwen, please say hello to you." ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, ignoring his new chef, and continued to work on Robert's . Churchill's introduction greeted the British celebrities present. He didn't notice that Blasven didn't follow him, but returned to William. Beside Jardine, two people were talking quickly and urgently in Cantonese.

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"Jason, this is my brother George." Zuihou, who was introduced to Zhu by Churchill, was George J. Brown, the 6th Duke of Blenheim. Spencer. Winston Churchill, who was also the Lord Chancellor of Oxfordshire.

"It's an honor to meet you, Your Excellency the Duke." Zhu Jishi looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, he looked a little similar to the fat man Qiu, but he was not so fat, just a little short and fat.

"Me too," Duke Churchill nodded with a smile, and handed Zhu Jishi something like a certificate from a servant beside him, "Doctor Zhu, this is your medical license, and the Medical Association's decision to return it to you is and entrust me to express my sincerest apologies to you." ”

Zhu Jishi took his medical license with both hands, put it in his suit pocket, and replied with a smile: "I also want to entrust His Excellency the Duke to return the humility to the colleagues of the Royal Medical Society to the Medical Association, because some of my previous remarks have indeed had a bad impact on the reputation of the British medical community. ”

Duke Churchill waved his hand and said with a smile: "I won't help with this, because you will soon be able to meet Sir Reed of the Royal Society of Medicine." So saying, he took another invitation from the servant and handed it over.

Zhu Jishi took this extremely exquisite printed invitation and looked at it, and was immediately stunned by the head of the invitation.

"Windsor Castle? Isn't this the official residence of the British royal family? ”

"Yes, it is an invitation from the Royal Residence, and His Royal Highness Prince Albert would like to invite you to Windsor Castle as a guest." Duke Churchill looked at Zhu Jishi with a smile, while the fat man and Isabel around him all had their mouths half-open and looked surprised.

Zhu Jishi, who had been in England for several months in 1840, already knew that Prince Albert was the husband of Queen Victoria, and the first husband of the British Empire was Ye.

"Excuse me, Your Excellency, do you know that Prince Albert Weishenme has invited me to Windsor Castle?" Zhu Jishi pressed down the surprise in his heart and asked.

"I don't know," said Duke Churchill, shrugging his shoulders and smiling as he diverted the subject, "Jason, may I call you that?" ”

"It is my pleasure, Your Excellency."

"Just call me George," laughed the Duke of Churchill, "and you will soon be a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Society." ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, a duke is not a monarch without a big character, there are still a lot of such people in Europe, although the status is high, but it is still the same level as the academician of the Academy of Sciences, and scientists in Europe are respected like this!

"Jason, I heard Robert, you recently set up a pharmaceutical factory and a rubber products factory?" The Duke of Churchill turned to business.

"That's right, there are two factories in Vincent Street, Manchester, but they are just opening small factories, and the business is very light." Zhu Jishi replied with a smile.

"Oh," the Duke of Churchill nodded slightly, but out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at William not far away. Jardine, and then turned back to Zhu Jishi, "Jason, does your company need funds?" I do have some spare money. Uh, can you invest £10,000 first? ”

£10,000 is not a small amount! But the smile on Zhu Jishi's face was a little unnatural, and his company was not short of funds now. It cost only £5,000 to buy the collapsed textile mill, less than £2,000 to buy raw materials such as opium, raw rubber and coptis, about £2,000 to buy equipment and tools, and less than £1,000 in salaries, and £300 for himself to buy a second-hand carriage and two horses. In this way, the £12,500 raised before has been almost spent. However, these days, the drugs of the Diyi X morphine, morphine hydrochloride and berberine hydrochloride series have also sold a lot, and they have also received many orders, and the payment and deposit received have exceeded 10,000 pounds, so Zhu Jishi's company is not cash-out.

Therefore, he does not want to sell his shares at a low price anymore, after all, the future development prospects of those industries are excellent. But rejecting Duke Churchill was not a good choice, and Isabelle, who was beside Zhu Jishi, hurriedly pulled him. Zhu Jishi seemed to remember something, smiled and said, "George, I won't tell you, my pharmaceutical factory and rubber company really don't lack cash...... But in addition to these two transactions, I also have a business related to scientific inventions, and I can make a lot of money by keeping them. ”

"And business?" Duke Churchill was stunned for a moment, "What kind of business?" ”

"It's dynamite!"

"Fried ...... Medicine? Duke Churchill thought about it and said, "Jason, you mean gunpowder?" ”

"No, it's not gunpowder, it's explosives! 10 times more powerful than black powder! ”

"10 times bigger than black powder? Jason, you're not kidding me, are you? "Duke Churchill and the fat man beside him have eyes bigger than bull's eyes.

Zhu Jishi smiled at Duke Churchill, waved the invitation card from Windsor Castle in his hand, and said with a smile: "The prospect of this business is not under the pharmaceutical factory and rubber, and the specific situation will be discussed when I have visited Windsor Castle?" ”

Duke Churchill nodded stunned, "Oh, well, say hello to Robert whenever you want to see me." ”