"Oh! There are still people in this world who make Tang Sheng look away! ”

In the dining room of the first-class box, an old man who was nearly a foot long, wearing a blue background gold flower silk robe and an elegant black tweed horse coat, heard Zhao Fengchang say this, and immediately became interested.

Zhao Fengchang, who only regarded what happened in the restaurant just now as an interesting story, continued to talk.

"In the evening, I went to the restaurant for dinner, and as soon as I entered the restaurant, I heard a burst of laughter, and then this young man and another table of more than a dozen foreigners were talking, Xiang Shuai, if I talk about Chinese studies, I naturally do not fall behind others, but this foreign studies...... I didn't understand a word of what he said, so I didn't know what they were saying. I saw that the young man kept talking, dancing with his hands, and those foreigners nodded frequently, always showing a knowing smile, sometimes laughing, and it could be seen that those foreigners admired this person very much. I wondered in my heart, and when I saw a waiter coming over, I quietly pointed to the foreigners and asked him. The waiter told him that since there were British, French, Germans, and an Italianate among these people, he was surprised to hear it, this young man could talk to foreigners from all over the world so briskly, and let those foreigners like iron roosters take the initiative to invite him to dinner, this person is not simple, just at this time, Gu Hongming came. ”

Zhang Zhidong was gently stroking his long beard with one hand, with a slight smile on his face, obviously, he was also attracted by this young man who could not only chat and laugh with people from all over the world, but also make those foreigners appreciate.

"Towngson, what was he talking about at that time?"

"Xiang Shuai!"

Gu Hongming smiled, and then he told a few jokes he heard in the restaurant and what the man said about European customs.

“…… The Caucasus mountains backed by Sochi block the cold current in the north, facing the Black Sea, so the four seasons are like spring, the green shade is covered by many aristocratic estates, in the Krasna Polyana Snow Mountain, the sight is full of snow, entering the mountains as if a world away, a European-style building sits next to the mountain, and the Russian nobles ski and hunt here...... If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's hard to imagine the magnificence of the snow-capped mountains......"

Gu Hongming's relays made Zhang Zhidong nod and said quite approvingly.

"Since those foreigners have been blinded, let alone others?"

He looked at Zhao Fengchang again and asked with a smile.

"Zhujun, why do you say that he is deceiving foreigners' food?"

There are many people who rely on the benefits of their tongues to deceive their food, but on the ship, the food of foreigners who rely on their tongues to deceive foreigners in the first class is not only fresh, but also rare.

As I sat down, I looked at the table across from me, and when he walked out of the dining room after saying goodbye to the foreigners, I followed him. But I saw him walk to the deck, and then said with a long sigh of relief,, it's not easy to eat! If I didn't have anything to eat, I wouldn't ......"

"This kid!"

Zhao Fengchang's quote made Zhang Zhidong and Gu Hongming laugh again and again.

"It's really ...... to say a common saying"

Hearing him say this, I couldn't help but be stunned, after all, Tang Sheng had just praised him before, so I quickly took a step forward and said to the man's back, Hey! The young man turned around, smiled at me and nodded. At this time, I saw this young man clearly, but he was only twenty-two or three years old, and he looked at that appearance, his complexion was fair, and he was all like a deputy scholar. This foreigner is too blind! ”

Gu Hongming laughed out loud, he really hadn't noticed this detail before, Zhang Zhidong also listened to it interestingly, and couldn't help but interject.

"If you expose this person, how will he answer you? Is it not possible to be angry and ashamed? ”

"Xiangshuai, good question! When the man saw that he had been exposed, not only did he not feel embarrassed, but he laughed loudly, revealing a mouthful of snow-white and beautiful teeth, which looked whiter than Tang Sheng's......"

Zhao Fengchang laughed at Gu Hongming again, and Gu Hongming smiled disapprovingly, at this time, the Chinese people have no habit of brushing their teeth, their teeth are burnt yellow, just by virtue of their tooth color, Gu Hongming also feels that even if the person has not traveled abroad, he has lived in the ocean for a long time, and his family background is quite good, otherwise his teeth will not be so white, even many British nobles can not be compared.

"Then he used official language, Xiang Shuai, although he was wearing a dress and had short hair, but his official language was far better than mine, and then I only heard him say that those foreigners in China are either foreign medicine dealers who use tobacco to poison our people, or they are foreign business generalists, buy low and sell high, and pit my officials and people, he is just one of the hundreds of millions of sufferers, looking for foreigners to ask for some interest, what is the crime?"

"Good!"

Zhang Zhidong stroked his beard and sighed.

"Although this son's words are strong and reasonable, but his sentences are all true, just by saying these words, it can be seen that this son has a pure heart!"

"Xiang Shuai, I was happy when I heard it, so to speak, this person is still a little worried about the country and the people. So he asked, young man, in that case, why didn't you refuse when the foreigner class invited you to join the foreign bank? ”

Gu Hongming hurriedly added on the side.

"Earlier, when he said goodbye to the foreigners, a foreign merchant invited him to join the foreign company and promised him a salary of three thousand two years."

"And how does this son answer?"

Zhang Zhidong, who was more interested, hurriedly asked.

"The young man listened to my question, and then smiled and pointed to his lower abdomen and said, helplessly, the eldest husband can bend and stretch, the ancient prince was in Cao Ying, and today he has no livelihood, I am afraid he can only follow the sage!"

Zhao Fengchang's words made Zhang Zhidong laugh suddenly.

"In that case, it's his reason anyway."

Thinking of the righteousness and strictness of this man's deception of foreigners, Zhang Zhidong couldn't help laughing.

"This guy is so funny. Anyway, on this ship, there is nothing to do, you bring him over, I will meet him, if it is appropriate, let him do things here with me, I really lack such a person around me! ”

Putting away his smile, Zhang Zhidong smiled again.

"It also saves him from following Guan Yunchang's grievances."

Then Zhang Zhidong and Gu Hongming instructed him one after another, asking him to take two foreign books, one in French and one in Russian, and he would take these two foreign books to meet this Tang Haoran with him, and Gu Hongming naturally agreed.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Tang Haoran found that he seemed to have changed, more precisely, he seemed to have become a little younger, looking at himself, it looked like he was in college.

"Could it be the white light?"

Again, Tang Haoran, who was alone in the work cabin, remembered the white light in the molten iron, maybe it was the white light that was produced somehow that brought him to the sea and to this time and space.

“1889！”

Thinking about this time, Tang Haoran's brows furrowed again, he glanced at the narrow cabin with only a few narrow bunks, and that thought appeared in his mind again.

Since I have come to this era, I should achieve a career, so that I can be worthy of myself, but the question is ...... How did you achieve that career?

Penniless, foodless, unauthorized, unauthorized, friendless, how can we live in this era? Even after today's meal, whether you can eat the next meal tomorrow is still a matter of time, and those foreigners are just curious about themselves.

"Or accept the invitation?"

Thinking of Andrei's invitation, with an annual salary of three thousand taels, plus a profit commission, this is indeed an extremely tempting job, but being a comprador of a foreign bank? He couldn't help but hesitate when he thought of the extremely bad reputation of compradors in history.

"Hey, it's really not good, one step at a time, first promise not to starve to death!"

With a long sigh of helplessness, the hatch opened, and an employee wearing a white waiter costume walked in, and when he saw Tang Haoran, his eyes were full of envy.

"Mr. Tang, I, I heard that a foreigner invited you to a foreign company?"

When looking at Tang Haoran, Wang Yuqin's eyes were full of envy, this person's situation was different, but there were some things that he couldn't envy.

"It's just an invitation, it's still a matter of whether it succeeds or not!"

Tang Haoran just smiled, and then sighed.

"Even if I go, if I can't satisfy him with the table in the foreign bank, maybe this job will be gone in a blink of an eye!" "That's not it, those foreigners don't know anything about people!"

Nodding in response, Wang Yuqin hurriedly said again.

"But Mr. Tang, you have studied and studied in the West, and you are a person who has a university question, and you will definitely make foreigners look at you differently in a foreign bank......

"Let's hope so......"

muttering like this in his heart, Tang Haoran thought about it, what would he do, doing business? Do you understand this? Well, at most, I set up a stall in college, metallurgy? Were there steel mills in China in 1889?

Steel mill?

Thinking of this, Tang Haoran's brows jumped, and his mind came to mind Qingxi Iron Works, China's first modern steel plant, but that steel plant is far away in Guizhou, thousands of kilometers away from Shanghai, if it can be closer, maybe he can find a job there, perhaps, it can avoid the fate of failure? But so far away, how can I get past myself who is penniless?

In the middle of his thoughts, an official voice with a Jiangsu accent reached Tang Haoran's ears.

"Brother Tang, it's really hard to find this place for you!"

As soon as he turned his head, Tang Haoran saw that he met the person outside the door of the first-class restaurant, and he didn't seem to introduce himself.

"Who are you?"

"Blame me,"

With both hands clenched into fists, Zhao Fengchang introduced himself.

"The contemptible surname is Zhao, the name is Fengchang, the word is Zhujun, and he is now serving as a copywriter in the curtain of Zhang Daren, the governor of Huguang......"

Governor of Huguang? Lord Zhang?

Could it be Zhang Zhidong?

Who is the most famous former governor of Huguang, and who else can there be besides Zhang Zhidong? Don't...... Thinking that this ship is called "Yuexiu" and is sailing from Guangzhou to Shanghai, could it be that Zhang Zhidong was transferred from Liangguang to Huguang?

Looking at Zhao Fengchang in surprise, Tang Haoran almost couldn't believe his ears, what, Zhang Zhidong is on this ship, he wants to see himself?

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