Chapter 147: Greater Hong Kong, Small Fishing Village Ask for Collection
At the beginning of a new volume, the story will gradually reach its climax, but why are there so few recommended votes and collections of Da Luoluo? Is it because Big Rollo isn't working hard enough? Is there too little for four? Well, after it hits the shelves, Big Rollo will try to explode again! Call for collections, call for recommendation votes!
Hong Kong, Zhu Jishi has been to many times in later generations, and his impression is that it is extremely prosperous and noisy, which is in great contrast with the small city in northern Guangdong where he lived and grew up. However, today, Hong Kong, which he saw for the first time in this era, is still a place similar to a fishing village, which is much inferior to the cities of Lan Fang, such as Dong Wanlu, Pontianak and Dagang.
But Zhu Jishi's mood was very excited, because this was the first time he was about to set foot on Chinese soil since he came to this era, although it was now occupied by the British.
It is now March of the Gregorian calendar in 1846, and the climate along the coast of Guangdong is very cool, which makes Zhu Jishi, who has been in the tropics for a long time, feel very comfortable. The armed merchant ship Daming Shan did not dock at Victoria Bay in the future, but at Tai Shue Wan in the south of Hong Kong Island, which will later become a yacht marina for Hong Kong's wealthy to play in the sea. However, it has now been opened up into a wharf and a warehouse by the Nanyang Trading Company, a subsidiary of the Jesan World Bank, where the Jason-Cobay shipyard has built two docks, stockpiled a lot of timber cut from Lantau Island, two 3,000-material Canton ships have been formed in the dock, and three other similar Canton ships have been built on the temporary slipway next to the dock, and many Chinese workers with braided hair and shirtless and tanned skin are busy in the shipyard, dock and nearby construction sites.
Waiting for Zhu Jishi's ship on the dock were dozens of teachers from Jishi University and Jishi Academy. There were also more than 100 officers and men of a company of the British Army stationed in Hong Kong and the Governor of Hong Kong, John Murphy. Sir Davis.
These British lobster soldiers had probably heard of the name of Viscount Zhu Jishi, and they were all curious to set their eyes on the armed merchant ships of Daming Mountain, which were flying the rice flag and the sun and moon (red background gold sun and moon) flag. A great scientist, a millionaire, a viscount of the British Empire, a descendant of the Ming Dynasty royal family of China in exile in Europe, and now the king of a small Nanyang country. Such an experience can really only be described as legendary!
Louis. Brother Trigo, still dressed in Jesuit black, waited in the sea breeze with a Bible in his hand. In the past few months, Zhu Jishi has shone in Nanyang and established his own Grand Duchy of Lanfang. He diligently helped Chu to establish a college and a university in Hong Kong. A group of teachers from Europe, or Brother Trigo, who had come from Europe with Zhu Jishi, or Brother Trigo from Asia and China, were following him, and they also craned their necks to look at Viscount Zhu, who was wearing a gray military uniform and a tricorne hat slowly coming down the gangway.
This time, there were thousands of attachΓ©s and guards who came from Lanfang with Zhu Jishi, and they were divided into six armed merchant ships. Among them, mainly students recruited from Singapore and Lanfang (there was a group of about 1,500 people who had already arrived in Hong Kong, and 800 people would come after a while, most of whom were children of the Lanfang family). There are also about 100 people who are Zhu Jishi's newly established guards, and they have a very popular name called "Jinyi Pro-Army", which was given by Luo Xiangmei.
She and her sister Luo Xiangju followed Zhu Jishi down from the boat, both proudly holding their stomachs, and both of them were pregnant with the flesh and blood of Viscount Zhu. Looking at the very desolate port in front of her, Luo Xiangmei was a little disappointed in her heart, can this be the base for Zhu Jishi to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty? It seems that it is not as popular as Dongwanlu. But such thoughts were thrown away by him in a blink of an eye, because she was very confident in Zhu Jishi.
"Welcome to Hong Kong, Your Excellency the Duke."
Zhu Jishi's feet had just stepped on the soil of Hong Kong. Sir Davis couldn't wait to greet him.
If the Hong Kong of later generations is "Li Jiacheng", the current Hong Kong is undoubtedly "Zhu Jiacheng"! Now Zhu Jishi is the largest investor in Hong Kong, and his investment in Hong Kong is more than the second largest investor to the smallest noodle stall combined! Therefore, even the Governor of Hong Kong cannot help but give Zhu Jishi face, and even when it comes to Zhu Jishi's title in the United Kingdom, it is two levels higher than Governor Davis's baron.
Zhu Jishi nodded at the tall and slender British gentleman, holding up a noble and elegant British gentleman, stretched out his hand to shake him, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, thank you very much for taking care of our Jishi Bank, Jishi University and Jishi College. But...... I'm really tired from the journey, and my two ladies are pregnant, so I want to go to the pavilion to rest first, and then I will visit the Governor's Palace tomorrow. β
A few words of greeting were sent away by Sir Davis, the Governor of Hong Kong. Then Zhu Jishi took a group of his subordinates, accompanied by Brother Trigo, and got into the carriage that had been prepared for Haode and headed for the mansion in Deep Water Bay.
"Sir, this is Tang Qiwen, the comprador of Jishi Bank, and also an English teacher of Jishi Academy."
In the spacious and bright living room of the Zhu Mansion in Deep Water Bay, Andrew who arrived in Hong Kong one step earlier than Zhu Jishi. Jones is introducing Zhu Jishi to the newly hired senior executives of Jishi Bank in Hong Kong, as well as the faculty members of Jishi College and Jishi University.
"Tang Qiwen, do you speak English? Can you write? Zhu Jishi asked in English about the honest-looking little fat man in front of him.
"I studied English for three years in the academy of Tongfu Xing, and I can speak and write." Tang Qiwen replied in fluent English, "Especially after the late students got the "English-Chinese Dictionary" and "English Grammar" compiled by you, their English proficiency has been greatly improved. β
"Yes, yes, let's do things well in Jishixing and the Academy." Zhu Jishi nodded with satisfaction and turned back to ask Andrew. Jones said, "Are all my books printed?" β
Andrew. Jones laughed, "It's all published, there was originally an Anglo-Chinese College here in Hong Kong, which was supported by the London Missionary Society, and it merged with Jishi College at the end of last year. They had a small printing house, and Mr. Basser Mai helped this small factory improve the printing press, and made a lot of lead letters, and now the printing house of Jishi Academy is Hong Kong, no, it should be the largest printing and publishing institution in the whole of China. β
"Sir Chu, it's an honour to meet you in Hong Kong. Kobai, the manager of the Hong Kong shipyard, now I work for you. At this time, a white man with a scruffy beard came up again and shook hands with Zhu Jishi, his hands were very rough, but very powerful, and at first glance he looked like a person who had done work.
"That's your honor, because you're going to get rich, and all the people I work with are rich, Andrew, don't you think?"
Andrew. "I can't wait to read the 1845 annual business report, I think it will wake me up in the middle of the night," laughed at Jones. β
Then he pointed to a tall Protestant priest beside Tang Qiwen and said, "This is Pastor Lee, the former president of Anglo-Wa College, and now the president of the Deep Water Bay Branch of Jishi College. β
Jishi Academy now has a Deep Water Bay Branch and a Ap Lei Chau Branch, the former is an ordinary academy, equivalent to a secondary school in later generations, and the latter is a military school!
"It's an honor to meet you, Mr. Pastor." Zhu Jishi shook his hand, exchanged a few words, and then turned his gaze to the two Chinese in long shirts and horse coats beside him.
"He Jinshan, a late student, has seen Jazz." The Chinese who called himself He Jinshan was about thirty years old, with a white face and elegant manners, as if he were a showman. "The late student is also the gentleman of the Deep Water Bay Branch, the pastor of the Fuhan Society, but the late student still wants to go to Jishi University to study medicine."
"Haode, I've taken you as a student." Zhu Jishi smiled and nodded, the dean of the medical school of Jishi University is concurrently served by Zhu Jishi, and he will personally formulate teaching materials and teach for the medical school.
"In Xia Liangfa, he is a pastor of the Fuhan Society and an English teacher at Jishi Academy." The elderly Chinese was quite kind, and Zhu Jishi also greeted him politely. Zhu Jishi, who has little knowledge of history, does not know that the two Chinese priests in front of him have some relationship with the Hong sect leader who almost overthrew the Qing Dynasty in history. The "Good Words for Persuading the World" used by Sect Leader Hong to preach was compiled by Liang Fa, and Sect Leader Hong himself dreamed of God and his old man after reading this book. The Hong Kong Fuk Hon Society, founded by Pastor Ho Chun-shan, also had a very famous catholic named Hung Yanji, who is now also a student of the Hong Kong Chai Shi College.