In the warm pavilion, the slightly hoarse music fluttered, Ye Zhao was still thinking about Boss Su's affairs, listening to Boss Su's meaning, his British "girlfriend" was called Rose, his family background was excellent, his father seemed to have inherited an inheritance of tens of thousands of pounds, but his surname was adventurous, after his wife died early, he took his daughter to Australia to pan for gold, and Miss Rose had many suitors in Australia, Mr. Rose preferred one of the plantation owners, and strongly opposed the relationship between Rose and Boss Su.

But Ross has a deep affection for Boss Su, and this time, he ran to the capital with Boss Su.

In fact, it can also be imagined that Su Boss is full of arrogance, leading a group of rough and playful men to fight the world in the territory of the white people of Xinjinshan, I heard that the reason why the two met was that Su Boss rescued her from the hands of the natives, you can imagine Su Boss's heroism when he killed the Quartet, for Rose, this mysterious oriental man with chivalry must be full of unspeakable charm.

And after getting along for a long time, Ross will like Boss Su more and more, and even you can imagine, don't look at Miss Ross and Boss Su's "elopement", with Brother Su's surname, I am afraid that I have never touched her, I have not married, and I will be polite to the person I like.

How can I help Brother Su? Ye Zhao turned his mind.

"Father, father."

Ye Zhao looked back in a daze, in the East Warm Pavilion of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Concubine Jin was also there, she arrived yesterday and stayed in the West Garden of the Forbidden City (Zhongnanhai), and the small courtyard gentleman was tired of traveling, and was frightened by the train, crying and making trouble, which shocked Ye Zhao, but he couldn't help but sigh Concubine Jin is amazing, this daughter is scheming, it seems that the desire for power is not ordinary.

At this time, Concubine Jin stood in front of the gramophone with a huge horn, and said curiously: "This singing thing is so strange." ”

The phonograph is a derivative invention of the telephone, and after the appearance of the tube to improve the quality of telephone calls, the sound quality of the phonograph has been greatly improved.

Of course, to Ye Zhao's ears, this voice was still unpleasantly tight.

The phonograph was officially sold at the beginning of this year, priced at 20 silver dollars, and was immediately sought after by the middle class, and it is believed that with the improvement of craftsmanship and the decline in price, in the foreseeable future, it will gradually enter the homes of ordinary citizens.

However, it is unlikely that it will be popular in the citizen class for a short period of time, and on the whole, it can only become a luxury for the rich for the time being, because although the price of the gramophone is not high, in terms of average salary, it is equal to the salary of ordinary citizens in big cities for less than half a year, but a gramophone cylinder for a silver dollar is not something that ordinary citizens can consume.

Gramophone cylinders play the function of records, but now each cylinder can only record three minutes of recording, the first batch of gramophones, with two cylinders, is included in the "Universal Singing" signed dancer Bai Peony's songs.

Huanyu Singing, is a joint venture between Taihexing and Mingji Wire Company, no way, Ye Zhao, like Edison, will inevitably involve all aspects of emerging industries, the difference is that Edison needs the cooperation of large enterprises, Ye Zhao can directly invest capital.

White peony singing voice is beautiful, quite famous in Guangzhou, the first of the new four Oiran, was favored by Huanyu Sing, became the first signed singer, and will also be the object of Huanyu Sing, now, she has become famous in the capital, it is difficult to buy a smile for a person, now I am only afraid of rich businessmen, and it is even more difficult to get a kiss with Fangze.

In fact, in terms of music, the traditional music of the world, the kind of music that can reflect various artistic conceptions, cannot be so short, but the lack of time on the phonograph recording makes short music inevitable, that is, the prototype of pop songs.

When he first saw the recording cylinder, Ye Zhao sighed, he originally said, it turns out that the birth of pop songs also has its reasons......

Concubine Jin stood curiously in front of the gramophone, obviously not daring to touch her, and the matchmaker chuckled: "I just saw this strange thing, and I was also shocked." ”

Concubine Jin had heard of this legendary imperial concubine for a long time, and she was very well-behaved in front of the matchmaker, and what she said was political and state affairs.

At this time, she asked Ye Zhao with a look of inquiry: "Father, I heard that the troubled times only used heavy codes, and my daughter really doesn't understand, why such a high fine will be imposed in the case of female workers, I heard that there are also cases of people who are not sentenced to death in China, 130,000 silver dollars, depending on the daughter, why not kill her?" ”

Ye Zhao laughed, this case has been passed to North Korea? knew that she had only heard a small amount of information, and she did not fully understand the facts of the case. Pacing, pondering for a while, he said: "This is not a heavy code, let me tell you this, if it is the same case, the assets of the enterprise involved in the case are 10,000 silver dollars, hundreds of silver dollars, and the final consolation money may be several hundred silver dollars, of course, I am an example, the exact amount is not necessarily this number." However, the larger the enterprise, the more punishable the surname will be. Why? It is inevitable that a weak woman will sue for a weak woman to sue it, and a large enterprise can influence the administration, hire well-known lawyers, and even buy witnesses, and a weak woman who has no power will sue it? If you make a false accusation, I believe that it will not succeed 100%, and even if it is indeed a victim, it would be good to win one out of ten cases, and if you lose the lawsuit, you will have to bear the risk of defamation by the defendant in turn, and you will have to pay a huge price to deal with big enterprises, but the only lucky one among these ten, well, won the lawsuit, what is the result? Large enterprises were fined hundreds of silver dollars, you say, big enterprises, the powerful, why should you be afraid of this law? Why should I obey this law with you? ”

"Therefore, there will be a punishment of surnames, so that large enterprises will also bear the high cost of crime, so that even if only one out of ten victims can win the lawsuit, it will be a huge deterrent to large enterprises and those in power, and this is the spirit of our law!"

Concubine Jin seemed to understand whether she understood or not, faintly understood, and nodded silently.

The matchmaker smiled slightly, looking at Ye Zhao, the little pervert in his eyes back then, sometimes, he admired him. A few years later, when the citizens of the empire looked back, the emperor laid the foundation for the spirit of the imperial law by cutting off the imperial assets at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Ye Zhao waved his hand at this time and said with a smile: "Change your clothes, let's go and listen to this white peony himself sing, it's much better than this strange machine." He said to the matchmaker: "Make an appointment with the eldest brother and sister-in-law again, haha." ”

The matchmaker said helplessly: "I won't go." "My brother found a ghost sister, if it weren't for Shawa Zhuyu in front, the matchmaker would say nothing and wouldn't agree, it can be seen that my brother is also very weak-hearted, extremely unnatural in front of her, if she goes, she will inevitably live up to the meaning of the princess.

Ye Zhao thought about it, nodded slightly, and said, "That's okay, matchmaker, you are not allowed to object to this matter." ”

…… Boss Su and Miss Ross live in the New Town Maria Hotel, a five-story red building that is lit up at night, like a small oriental palace.

Concubine Jin changed into a light green embroidered silk shirt and silk pants, pomegranate embroidered shoes that were fragrant step by step, and the moth eyebrows were charming, and the style was graceful.

When he came to the outside of room 302, he heard the sound of quarrels inside, Ye Zhao was slightly stunned, and a plainclothes guard stepped forward and knocked on the door.

After a while, the door was opened, and the person who opened the door was a blonde and blue-eyed European girl, who was born sweet, but there were tears on her face, and when she saw a large group of people outside the door, she asked, "You, who are you?" "Very blunt Central Plains dialect.

Inside the house, you can already see a roaring white old man, probably in his fifties, his red face full of anger.

Boss Su sat on the Western couch, drooping his head and not saying a word, and he didn't know if he could understand the old man's English with slang.

At first sight, he knew that this was the future father-in-law of the eldest brother, Ye Zhao walked in with a smile, Miss Ross wanted to stop her, but was cleverly sent aside by a female guard, so that she unconsciously stayed away from Ye Zhao and did not feel offended.

"It's Mr. Rose, isn't it?" Ye Zhao hadn't spoken English for a long time, and he felt that his tongue couldn't let go.

The white old man looked at Ye Zhao angrily and said, "Who are you?" ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "I am Mr. Su's younger brother, Mr. Su is my wife's brother, Mr. Ross, don't be angry first, my big brother Su is not good at talking, but he is very loyal, otherwise, you can't find this place, right?" Ye Zhao knew as soon as he saw it, it must have been Boss Su who left a letter for the white old man or notified him through some way, so that the old man could come to the door.

Old Mr. Rose snorted and said, "Does he have the courage not to inform me?" Abducted the population, returned to Melbourne, and I sent him into the class room! ”

"Father, I said it wasn't he who abducted me." Miss Ross hurriedly helped Boss Su speak, and looked at Ye Zhao differently, not wanting the Oriental lover to have a younger brother who could speak the London accent.

Ye Zhao smiled and said: "Mr. Ross, you are a little arrogant, my big brother Su has thousands of acres of fertile land in China, what if you don't go back to Melbourne?" It's just that he is a good friend, and he regards his subordinates as his own brothers, and he can't bear them. Speaking of police detectives in Melbourne, if there is not enough evidence to arrest a Chinese citizen in a prison cell, I believe it will lead to diplomatic disputes. ”

Mr. Ross is stagnant, indeed, in the past two years, the status of Chinese in Australia has been very different from before.

Staring at Ye Zhao a few times, Mr. Ross snorted coldly: "You Chinese, like your country, are nouveau riche, nouveau riche without manners. Take my daughter, and instead use the cunning of you Orientals to quibble with me. ”

The guards behind Ye Zhao immediately changed their faces, the old man's heart sank, and he subconsciously took a step back, the eyes of the entourage behind this young man were too scary, and he had never seen such fierce eyes.

Ye Zhao was not angry, and said with a smile: "Mr. Ross is wrong again, as one of the oldest civilizations, China has never been a nouveau riche, but your country is ......" I didn't want to continue, I wanted to say that your country was still outside the civilized world during the Roman period, but it was just a barbarian. But he will not talk to others, let alone praise his ancestors all day long, which is the most unproductive performance. After a pause, he said: "The nouveau riche's tea, would the old gentleman be willing to taste it and give some advice?" ”

glanced at the female Shang Gong who came out to serve, but Concubine Jin hurriedly took the tea pot in the Sifang brocade box that Shang Gong carried with her, and Wan Ting went to the coffee table and sprinkled hot water to make tea.

Seeing Ye Zhao's posture, the old man couldn't help but be taken aback.

(To be continued)