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After eating the buffet lunch, Li Yongji asked people to remove the long table in the center, and only replaced the two small coffee tables with drinks and fruit snacks, and the background music also changed to light music such as "Blue Danube", and then continued to hold a more relaxed salon pie in this living room.

It's already the middle of July, it's the hot weather, Zhujiajiao is humid and humid, and almost all foreigners are wearing formal clothes when they come over. But in Li Yongji's house, because of the air conditioning, everyone felt very comfortable, which made many foreigners who were well fed and drunk feel quite satisfied, and naturally they were willing to continue to escape the summer here, rather than leaving in a hurry, so as to dissipate heat shirtless in private.

In this comfortable and cool environment, Li Yongji chatted with businessmen from Britain, the United States, France and other countries who attended the meeting one by one, and negotiated verbal trade contracts or business intentions one by one in the chat.

In fact, the people who came to this banquet today, except for the three consuls who had special political purposes, everyone else came for the special goods in Li Yongji's hands.

For example, those aluminum products, or Alimei clay products, those stainless steel products, those exquisite opal gemstones, fine pearl jewelry, and all kinds of fine perfumes, soaps, alabaster ......

To be honest, these luxury goods are definitely much more attractive to these foreigners than porcelain and silk. And most importantly, Li Yongji asked for settlement in gold, not silver. It also makes them like it even more.

You must know that at this time, Europe and the United States generally implemented the gold standard system, and gold coins were the real currency in circulation, on the contrary, silver was not regarded as mainstream currency in other countries except for Asia and the United States.

Other words. When these foreigners do business with the Chinese, they must first exchange the money they have for silver or trade silver dollars, and then come to China to buy supplies and go back. This conversion process will cause them to suffer a certain amount of loss, and now they pay directly in gold, so there is no such trouble.

It doesn't matter if it's the pound or the franc. Or dollars or something. At this time, it is directly a gold coin, or it can be exchanged for huàn equivalent gold, and it is definitely too cost-effective to pay in this way.

In the past, although they were also very interested in these things, because the amount released by Li Yongji was not large before, and because their own strength was not strong at that time, they didn't want to provoke foreigners too early. Therefore, his materials such as pearls are mainly sold internally, not directly to foreigners. These foreigners had to pay a high price. Also buy from those Chinese who can buy the goods.

That is to say, the reason why Li Yongji's Dai Mengde jewelry and CITIC Money House were doing hot business was due to the contributions of foreigners, and the purchasing power of foreigners accounted for more than half of the total sales, but at that time they were indirectly purchased through Chinese compradors, so on the surface, the main force of buying goods was still Chinese.

This situation has continued for a long time, and these foreigners naturally can't bear it, but at that time, the British and French coalition forces had just suffered a big defeat, and they didn't dare to be arrogant, so now they have the opportunity to buy goods directly from Li Yongji, the source wholesaler, so it's not unwanted?

In this way, one is willing to buy, the other is willing to sell, the two sides hit it off, even if it is just a cooperation intention, the specific contract has to be negotiated with the people below, but this is satisfactory enough.

After the party was over, Li Yongji shook hands with these people one by one and said goodbye, and at the same time sent a carriage to send them back in person, as for the unlucky guy who had been wounded by a gunshot before, he could only continue to recuperate here for the time being.

However, after these foreigners got into the carriage and walked away one after another in the afterglow of the setting sun, they looked back and found that there was still one person who had not left, and this person was the Chinese translator in his thirties who had served as a translator for Mai Huatuo and helped him play the round.

"Hey, isn't the gentleman gone yet?" Seeing the other party standing in front of him with a smile, Li Yongji nodded thoughtfully, "Is there something you want to tell me in private?" Why, what else did the British want to do? ”

"No, no, no, my lord is too worried." The other party shook his head, and then said with a smile, "Actually, it is my own intention to stay, and it has nothing to do with the British." ”

"Oh." Li Yongji nodded again, "Then what advice does Mr. have?" ”

"To tell you the truth, I want to join the adults and serve under the command of the adults." The other party looked at Li Yongji fixedly, "I don't know if the adults are willing to accept me." ”

"Take refuge in me?" Li Yongji was taken aback again this time, "You want to come with me as a soldier?" ”

"I definitely can't be a soldier, and besides, the elite soldiers under the adult are like rain, and the fierce generals are like clouds, and there is no shortage of me." The other party shook his head, "So I want to be an adult's staff member and give advice to adults." ”

"It's kind of interesting." Li Yongji smiled, "Well, if I'm not mistaken, Mr. calls himself Huang, so I'll call you Mr. Huang in the future?" ”

"Your Excellency, forgive your sins!" The other party suddenly hugged his fist, "Actually, my surname is not Huang, the one who claimed to be before was just a pseudonym." Under his real name, his surname is Wang Mingtao, and his name is Lanqing, and he is currently working as a translator and proofreader in Mohai Library. ”

"Wang Tao? The name is so familiar. Li Yongji muttered a few words, and suddenly remembered that this Wang Tao seemed to be still a celebrity, and it was not possible to figure out that Wang Tao, who was nicknamed "Long-haired Zhuangyuan" in history, plus Wang Tao, the first Chinese to watch the World Expo.

asked about the other party's experience again, and sure enough, he was indeed born in Fuli Village, Changzhou County, Suzhou, at the age of eighteen, he was the first in the county examination, and he did call Wang Libin and Wang Han's names, and even ten years ago, his first wife died unfortunately.

All of them are right, so it seems that the other party is the famous thinker Wang Tao of the late Qing Dynasty.

Li Yongji was amazed there, but Wang Tao was also very shocked, he never expected that this Lord Li, who was still a half-old child, would understand his affairs so thoroughly.

"Your Excellency. How do you know so much about my business? Having doubts, Wang Tao simply asked.

"Ah, this one. It's easy to say. Li Yongji smiled, "I have been famous for a long time in the Mohai Book Museum in Shanghai, although I have not seen all the great sages who work in it, but I have heard your names." Speaking of which, you should still know Li Shanlan, Xu Shou and Hua Hengfang, right? It's the ones who are good at mathematics and physics, can you invite them along with you? The salary is very good, and I promise to provide them with the best learning and working environment! ”

"I see." I heard Li Yongji say the names of these people. He also believed Li Yongji's words, "Back to my lord, I do know Li Shanlan, Xu Shou and Hua Hengfang. They happen to be in Shanghai now, and if you really want to invite them, I can go back and persuade them. ”

"Good, good, good!" Li Yongji is really happy this time. It's finally a bit of a celebrity to get started. "If that's the case, Sir will make a great contribution first. However, I have a question, why did you take the initiative to take refuge in me, the second devil in the eyes of the world? ”

"Those are just some slanderous words spoken by a group of corrupt people who sit in the well and watch the sky, how can I be like these people." Hearing this, Wang Tao pursed his lips, obviously exuding a sense of arrogance, and then continued passionately. "The so-called world has changed with each passing day. It was the time of the world's revolution, and the group of guys who read to death didn't know how to adapt to the times.

On the contrary, it is you, an adult, who is not a few years older than my daughter, but you have already made such a big career, although everyone says that you have risen so fast by borrowing the momentum of foreigners, but because of this, Lan Qing admires the abnormality even more, this is the advantage of the situation, not everyone can do it.

And although I think adults are young, they have social intentions and lofty ambitions, and although what they do is shocking, they do not lose a pure heart. So after thinking about it, I still think that I should come over in advance when you are not up to recommend yourself, otherwise, I will come again when you are about to fly, it will not be worth it. ”

"Well, you're using me as a strange commodity." Li Yongji nodded.

"Exactly!" Wang Tao agreed, "My lord is a strange commodity at this time, so I came to defect, I don't know if you are willing to accept me." ”

"Hey, a talent like you came to me, how can I have a reason not to accept it." Li Yongji smiled, "Even if you don't invite Li Shanlan and them, I will ask you to come over and help me." ”

"In this way, Lan Qing thank you for taking it in!" After speaking, Wang Tao decisively hugged his fists and bowed.

After the other party finished saluting, Li Yongji smiled and nodded: "Okay, this is considered a ceremony, right?" In that case, you don't have to see the outside, and don't say anything about the lord, what age is it, you still call me by my name. ”

"Then how to write, the so-called etiquette cannot be abolished, and the upper and lower must always be clearly distinguished." Wang Tao said decisively, "Since you don't like to call your lord below, it's better to call you the owner." ”

"Okay, whatever you want." Li Yongji shrugged his shoulders indifferently, anyway, he knew that these people sometimes insisted too much on certain details, if you also insisted, it would be a pure idle pain.

After the name was officially established, Wang Tao seemed to be even more excited, and as a result, he took out a thick booklet from his arms: "The proprietor, this is the ten thousand words that Lan Qing painstakingly wrote, which contains Lan Qing's carefully planned strategy, I hope that the proprietor will check it carefully, I believe that as long as it is implemented, in time, the proprietor will sweep the world!" ”

"Okay, okay." Li Yongji smiled bitterly and put it away, fortunately he knew the problem of these people, that is, he liked to speak out, so he didn't blame it, "Don't worry, I will take a closer look at your strategy when I go back." ”

"Great." Wang Tao was even more happy, and his slightly chubby face began to glow red, "If you don't understand something, you can ask me directly, and I promise to explain it clearly for you." ”

"Mm-hmm, that's better." Li Yongji hurriedly said, "But if it's late today, you see that I'm also very tired, and you don't know much about our situation, so it's inappropriate to talk about your strategy now...... In this way, I'll let someone arrange for you to go down to rest first, and I'll go to rest and rest, and deal with a little military affairs by the way, and when everyone is rested, how about we talk about your strategy another day? ”

"It's fine." Wang Tao also reacted at this time, feeling that it was indeed a little abrupt just now, after all, people are still young, they must be in a high position and busy with affairs, and they have been obviously busy for a day before, this is the dark sky, and it is indeed inappropriate to talk to him about his military and political strategy, after all, he thinks that his article is very good, and it is not something that can be explained for a while.

It was with this in mind that he agreed to go and rest first, and then talk another day.

"Mm-hmm, yes, yes." Seeing the back of Wang Tao leaving, Li Yongji subconsciously regained his habits in his previous life, and touched his smooth chin, "Foreigners want to rush to give me benefits, and historical celebrities are also rushing to be my staff...... It seems that since I became this admiral, good things have come one after another. Is this a side effect of being in a high position? Indeed, the big husband can't be without power for a day, and the little husband can't be without money for a day, only when you have a high status can you be powerful and powerful, and everyone can look at you squarely! (To be continued......)