Talent, this is what Hu Chuyuan needs most at the moment.

After dinner, Hu Chuyuan called Zhang Lingpu into his study, took out a money ticket with a denomination of 500 foreign yuan and gave it to him.

Zhang Lingpu said: "My lord, there are still 1,200 foreign yen left for the fees you gave me last time. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "The money I gave you last time was used to do errands, and I will continue to stay by my side, and this is your monthly salary." The shopkeeper Chen and I highly recommend you, saying that you are a rare all-rounder, I want to ...... He's someone who can't be mistaken, and since he said so, then you at least deserve the salary! ”

Zhang Lingpu was shocked, he knew that Hu Chuyuan's financial resources were amazing, and even He Jing, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, wanted to rely on Hu Chuyuan to achieve a career, but the monthly salary of 500 yuan was really amazing.

He was born in a solid family, and his ancestors have been operating Fujian tea for four generations, with more than 100 acres of tea fields and an annual income of less than 400 yuan. With this income, his family is already very wealthy in the township, and he also has the opportunity to read a wide range of books, participate in the imperial examination, and enter the ship master school to study.

At present, his monthly salary is 500 yuan, and his annual income is worth ten years of hard work for the whole family.

How dare he take it.

Zhang Lingpu hurriedly sent the money ticket back and said, "Thank you for your love, my subordinates don't dare to accept it." ”

Hu Chuyuan said with a smile: "You have always been by my side today, Second Master Gu did not frown after accepting 500,000 foreign yuan from me, it is not me gossiping behind my back, your talents and achievements will definitely surpass him several times, why can't you accept it?" ”

Zhang Lingpu replied: "My lord, my subordinates don't have such talent yet!" ”

Hu Chuyuan laughed again and said, "I have been paying salaries for more than half a year, and this is the first time I have met someone who thinks of high salaries. Think about it, what was I going to keep you for? ”

Zhang Lingpu replied cautiously: "At the beginning, the adults said that they would leave me by their side to help!" ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "That's not the end, you listen to things by my side, it doesn't matter what you know in the future, you have good kung fu, you can stay by your side and be my bodyguard, and you can act as a translator." If there is any urgent matter, I can also send you to handle it. If you think that this salary is too high, then you have to work hard and do something worthy of this price for me. ”

Hearing him say this, Zhang Lingpu could only hug his fists and say: "Then please rest assured, my subordinates will do their best not to disappoint my adults!" ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled with satisfaction, let him sit down, and asked: "Lingpu, as long as you are a talent, you have your own wishes and aspirations, I want to ask you what your ambitions are?" ”

Zhang Lingpu replied without thinking: "My lord, my subordinates want to join the army and serve the country and fight on the battlefield!" ”

"Oh...... Is that a good ambition? ”

Hu Chuyuan thought about it for a while, got up and walked to the window of the study to look at the night view of Shanghai Beach, and boasted to Zhang Lingpu: "Zuo Zhongtang once asked me what my ambitions are in this life, and I told him that I only want to do three things in my life, teach the people, enrich the country, and strengthen the army. It can be said that the two of us still have a common ambition! ”

Zhang Lingpu immediately got up and arched his hand and said: "How dare the ambitions of the subordinates be compared with the adults." The adult is in a high position, although he has no real position, but he is in power, and of course his ambition is lofty, and he is very accessible. The ambition of his subordinates is nothing more than to lead the troops to fight, resist the foreigners, and swear to serve the country to the death. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Leading the troops to fight is a good ambition, but ...... You have to strengthen the army first, otherwise you will just die in vain, and the lessons of the two opium wars are not in front of you? Although people have a death, they must die well, and the death is worth it, because the weapon is not enough to resist the thief and die, it is not a crime of war, this is really too unjust to die. ”

Zhang Lingpu didn't know how to answer, and waited for a moment before saying, "My lord, my subordinates actually know this truth, but I don't know how to start." ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "It's okay, I know how to do it, you just stay by my side and take it slowly...... You'll understand what to do. ”

Zhang Lingpu was overjoyed, knelt down on one knee and said: "Thank you for your success, your subordinates will do their best to serve the adults and horses!" ”

Hu Chuyuan turned around and pulled him up, and said with a smile: "This is not a military army, and I don't have a real job, you don't have to be so stubborn, you can usually call me the owner." Otherwise, you will be called a knight. If you really can't, you can also call me the general office. ”

Zhang Lingpu said: "My lord, my subordinates are not rigid people, but I am still in the military, because my lord is the general office of Jiangnan Commercial Bank, I have the opportunity to serve my lord justifiably!" ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded, thinking to himself, in the future, Suo surnamed will arrange a position for him in the firm.

Thinking about this, he gave the money ticket back to Zhang Lingpu, and casually asked him what he had learned in the Ship Master School.

After talking about it late at night, Hu Chuyuan felt more and more that Zhang Lingpu knew a lot of things, and he was also well-read in the Ship Master School.

Fuzhou Shipmaster School is divided into two types of courses, both of which were originally set up by Hu Xueyan with reference to the opinions of foreign consultants, one is English teaching, teaching driving, control and navigation, etc., and the other is French teaching, teaching mechanical manufacturing, maintenance and so on.

Zhang Lingpu majored in the former, but also studied the latter, so he knew a little French.

Because he is familiar with English, his family has extra money to spend, and he also bought a lot of foreign books through a few foreigners, just like Hu Chuyuan reading "On the Rich Country", which is not only to exercise his English ability, but also to increase his knowledge.

Such a person, in today's era, by Hu Chuyuan's side, is indeed many times more important than Gu Shouzang.

Of course, Hu Chuyuan spent so much money, and he had to take Gu Shouzang by his side and appoint him, but he still considered a propaganda effect, showing others that he had the ability to tolerate people, as long as he was a person with a skill, he was willing to use it, liked to use it, regardless of previous suspicions.

In particular, he has to show the merchants of Shanghai and Nanxun, and tell them that what Tang Tingshu said is not right, you have all been tricked.

Therefore, this is worthy of Hu Chuyuan's generous convincing Gu Shouzang.

Only he knows the calculations himself, and it is not appropriate to tell anyone else, otherwise, this matter will seem petty.

But while he was chatting with Zhang Lingpu, Gu Shouzang was also chatting with Shen Furong, asking what kind of person Hu Chuyuan was, and whether it was worth him to reduce his value to serve?

Unlike Zhang Lingpu, he, Gu Shouzang was born in a wealthy family, born with a golden key, and began to play with jade porcelain with his father and uncle at the age of six or seven, and learn calligraphy and painting.

In his early twenties, he became well-known in the collecting circles of Shanghai and Zhejiang.

To this day, as long as any ancient calligraphy and painting is stamped with his collection seal, others do not need to check it again, and it must be genuine. However, if the calligraphy and painting of the painter of this generation are stamped with his collection seal, the price can immediately rise by dozens of taels of silver.

He is a living signboard, and if he can enter his vision, it represents a level and attainment.

But he also knew that 500,000 foreign yuan was not a small amount, and without more than ten years of hard work, he would not have been able to help Hu Chuyuan earn enough money. What's more, whether to pull him at such a dangerous and depressed moment, or to complain with virtue, this kindness is not over in his life.