Li Yijian is also in the import and export business, and because he has lived in the same manor with Zhao Dongyun for a long time, there are many talents in the third town and Zhao Dongyun's subordinates, and he either listens or sees a little bit of understanding that the difference between international students is also very big, if it is a foreign university, it is naturally a talent, if it is only a middle school or even just a language school, then there is no need to introduce, it is just a waste of feelings.

Fang Liantong looks about twenty-four or five years old, like other returned international students, he shaved off his braids, kept an inch of hair, wore a suit, and stepped on leather shoes, which is the most common image of international students in this era. ”

Li Yijian heard that it was the Meiji Law School, to be honest, he didn't know what this school was, in his cognition, the famous university hall should be the two imperial universities, and there were those military Lu Shi, well, he had also heard that Zhao Dongyun's younger brother was at Waseda University, but he had not heard of other universities, so he immediately asked: "But the university hall!" ”

Fang Liantong said: "Yes! ”

After hearing the affirmative reply, Li Yijian showed a satisfied look: "Since you are from the university hall, I will help you introduce you with my old face!" ”

Although he has not heard of the Meiji Law School in Fang Liantong's mouth, as long as he is a college student, it is fine, regardless of whether it is a famous school or a second- or third-rate university, as long as he is a college student, he is an elite talent in this era, so Li Yijian will let go of his heart and recommend it.

The Fang Liantong in front of him is not a big problem in terms of background and education, and it is not a big problem to serve Zhao Dongyun, as for whether he can be valued by Zhao Dongyun, it depends on his understanding and true ability.

After saying that, he looked at Fang Yunzhou again: "Brother Zhicun, I heard that you set up a flour mill in Tianjin last month, what's the matter, has the flour made any money, and when will we also partner in Jinzhou or Fengtian to build one?" ”

Fang Yunzhou naturally laughed and said: "This is easy to say, if Brother Li is interesting, we will run one in Jinzhou, and I will have people come over to discuss this matter when I go back!" ”

From time to time, there are distinguished guests outside the Li manor, because the identity of the visitors is not low, so Li Erjian personally went to the front yard to greet him, and a few families sent their right-hand men and nephews to meet them due to the distance or the inconvenience of the head of the family.

When the lights were on, compared to the north and west courtyards of the Li Manor, which were already brightly lit and slightly noisy, the south courtyard was indeed much quieter.

Since Zhao Dongyun became the general of Shengjing, he could not go to Shengjing due to the Russo-Japanese War, so he could only continue to stay in Jinzhou to work, so the Jinzhou Mansion planned to first use the contribution of the government as the temporary yamen of the General's Mansion and the residence of Zhao Dongyun and his wife, but Zhao Dongyun did refuse.

On the one hand, there are too many people who follow Zhao Dongyun's side to work, and a dilapidated Jinzhou prefect's yamen can't provide office space for so many people, and on the other hand, Zhao Dongyun feels that the Li manor is not bad to live here, and it will be easy to move around after living for a while.

So he simply continued to live in the Li manor, in order to solve the problem of more and more yamen office staff, he asked the soldiers to do it themselves, and built a vertical row of brick houses outside the manor, serving as the office space of many institutions under him, although the environment is relatively simple, but everyone knows that this situation will not be too long, and after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Zhao Dongyun will eventually take them to Shengjing to take office.

However, Zhao Dongyun's General's Mansion and the Third Town Headquarters have more and more personnel, but they are all concentrated in the front yard of the South Courtyard, and the office staff in these front yards naturally leave after work in the evening, and some rush back to the residence in Jinzhou City, while some simply borrow the barracks of the barracks or nearby houses, so after those people leave this night, the South Courtyard will be relatively quiet.

In the backyard, Zhao Dongyun had already put on his military uniform at this time, and after leaving the side hall, he asked the maid next to him: "What about Madam, isn't it okay yet?" ”

However, without waiting for the maid to answer, Fang Ruolian's voice came from behind: "Isn't this coming!" ”

Zhao Dongyun looked back and saw Fang Ruolian wearing a traditional skirt and shawl, which was rare for her: "Why did you change into this?" ”

Fang Ruolian shook her head: "They in the province say that I am a fake foreign devil!" ”

In the past, Fang Ruolian was mostly Western-style, wearing a foreign skirt, silk gloves and a soft-topped sand hat, but today she changed into this traditional skirt, which made Zhao Dongyun slightly unaccustomed to it.

Zhao Dongyun bent his hand to let her hold it, and said as he walked out: "How come, who dares to say?" ”

"I definitely don't dare to say it to my face, but I will definitely say it behind my back!" Fang Ruolian said casually, and at the same time, she also followed her husband's pace and went out.

After the two of them left the South Courtyard, they soon arrived at the West Courtyard, which is the place where the dinner was held tonight, and before they went in, they could hear a voice from inside: "Lord Zhao and his wife have arrived!" ”

Zhao Dongyun also consciously waited for this sentence to be heard before stepping into the gate, as soon as he entered the door, he could see dozens of people standing on both sides of it, some were wearing horse coats, some were wearing Western-style dresses, some were wearing new-style military uniforms, and some were wearing traditional official robes.

Beside or behind these male guests, there are also various female dependents, these older women generally wear large skirts, but a considerable number of young women are wearing Western-style skirts, which shows that the social atmosphere in the late Qing Dynasty, especially the atmosphere of the upper class, no longer excludes the wearing of foreigners.

In addition, before the banquet, Li Erjian knew that Zhao Dongyun liked to bring his wife to attend the banquet, so Li Erjian mostly reminded the guests one by one, don't run over alone, you have to bring your wife, well, it can't be a concubine, it has to be a wife, otherwise who will talk to Mrs. Zhao at that time, it will be difficult for a group of old men to say compliments around people!

Since today's banquet was a traditional banquet, the female dependents in the venue did not stay for too long, and they soon went to the courtyard next to it, where there was naturally a banquet specially entertained by the Li Mansion.

The rest of the male guests are all worth more than millions, except for a few young people who attended on behalf of the head of the family, most of the others are in their forties and fifties or even sixties, but they dare not come out in front of Zhao Dongyun, who is in his twenties, and they are all very restrained.

However, Zhao Dongyun has experienced a lot of this kind of scene, and immediately put on a harmonious smile that has not changed for thousands of years, put on a kind face of an elder and walked towards a few people in front of him, and Li San didn't know when he arrived at Zhao Dongyun's side, and at the same time quickly said in Zhao Dongyun's ear: "This is Lin Baodai of Yingkou Baolong Commercial Bank!" ”

And Zhao Dongyun walked in front of Lin Baodai and asked, "Boss Lin came from afar, and the journey was smooth!" ”

Lin Baodai is already sixty-five years old, but he is the oldest person in the scene, to be honest, he has seen more senior officials in this life, and he has also seen several times when he was appointed as General Shengjing, but it is the first time that he has been so cordially greeted by such a prominent feudal minister, for a while, as if he had Zhao Dongyun's image on his chest, he almost didn't have his feet soft down, but fortunately, he was full of concentration in the business sea for decades, so he couldn't help but said in a slightly trembling voice: "Thanks to the escort of the guards photographed by the adults, This road to the west is very smooth! ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded immediately: "That's good, take good care of your body when you're old, your body is the capital to make money!" ”

Zhao Dongyun made a rare joke, and a group of people next to him naturally made a small voice very interestingly, this compliment to the leader also has to be skillful, the leader said jokes, witticisms and other things If you don't laugh, how embarrassing it will be for the leader, so you have to laugh, but you can't laugh too loud and too out of line, otherwise the leader will think that you don't understand etiquette.

Then Zhao Dongyun was 'cordial' greetings to the rest of the merchants, under the kind care of Lord Zhao, the representatives of the merchants in the three eastern provinces expressed their deep touch!

Immediately after everyone fell to the table, Zhao Dongyun naturally sat on the top without a doubt, originally according to the management of Zhao Dongyun left and right should be other senior officers or officials, but today since the signboard is to attract investment, in order to further reflect his attention to businessmen, so the position of the left and right heads are arranged to businessmen, the left hand is Li Yijian, who provides catering and accommodation for this meeting with a selfless spirit and does not charge a penny. And he is not very old, but he is barely half a landlord, so he sits in the first place on the left. And the first place on the right is arranged for the Yingkou Lin Baodai who was given to Fang Cai, this person's financial resources are in the top three among today's people, and his age is also the top three, as the so-called rich people who are richer than him are not as old as him, and those who are older than him are not rich in him, so this robs the first place on the right.

Although China has a tradition of talking about things at the wine table, it pays more attention to food and sleep, so after everyone sat down one after another, Zhao Dongyun simply said a few nonsense words and then announced the opening of the banquet.

Although there were a few whispers and conversations from time to time during the meal, most people still buried their heads in eating, because they all knew that after eating the main meal, the highlight of tonight was about to begin.

It didn't take long for everyone to finish the meal, and soon the maid came up to remove the leftovers, and then the maid served the fruit and all kinds of snacks after the meal, which naturally inevitably had the best wine, and the maids serving next to it were also skillfully pouring wine for you.

From this time on, in fact, this dinner party really entered the stage of talking about things!

After Zhao Dongyun poured himself a small sip, he glanced at Li San next to him, Li San, who had followed Zhao Dongyun for many years, naturally knew what he should do at this time, and immediately coughed lightly.

Li San coughed lightly, everyone below didn't know yet, Zhao Dongyun was about to start talking about business, and immediately sat upright and pricked up their ears!