After the two talked and laughed for a while, Grantham couldn't help but speak:

"I heard McCall tell me that General Fang is going to buy land in Taiping Mountain to build a manor?"

Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled slightly, and said indifferently:

"Indeed, staying in the port city for such a long time this time has made me discover the development potential of the port city, and I would like to visit the port city more often if I have the opportunity in the future.

In addition, my private museum is located in Hong Kong City, which houses my favorite Chinese antiques, and I will definitely come here often in the future.

Considering that it is very inconvenient for me to have no permanent residence in Port City, I am going to build my own estate in Port City. ”

The idea made sense, and Grantham had no reason to say no. In addition, the two of them just talked about the topic of combining Chinese and Western cultures, and if Grantham refused on the grounds that Chinese people were not allowed to live in Taiping Mountain, it would be a slap in the face.

He could only groan slightly, then nodded slowly:

"In that case, I will ask the Lands Department to choose a suitable location for you to build a house on the Victoria Peak."

Grantham's attitude did not surprise Fang Lang, he knew that it was a matter of time.

"Haha...... Thank you, Your Excellency, the Governor. ”

After speaking, he spoke directly:

"Then I don't know where Mr. Governor is going to arrange my private museum!"

Fang Lang did not continue to hide, since Grantham had taken the initiative to find out, and Financial Secretary McCall had told him that he wanted to build a house, it meant that the other party already knew about his meeting with McCall. There is no need for me to continue to pretend to be stupid, as if I don't know that Grantham has made arrangements for his museum.

Hearing Fang Lang's outspokenness, Grantham was not surprised, smiled slightly and said directly:

"General Fang doesn't ask me, why do you want to help you choose a place?"

Fang Lang glanced at Grantham strangely, and said indifferently:

"The city of Hong Kong is the territory of Mr. Governor, and I originally wanted to find it myself, but I did not want to trouble Mr. Governor, but yesterday I heard from Secretary McCall that the Governor had chosen a place for me, so of course I was disrespectful.

How? Didn't Mr. Governor take the initiative to help me find a place to build a museum, because we are good friends? Could there be any other reason? ”

At this time, Grantham choked in his throat and almost lost his breath. Okay, you Fang Lang, in order to prevent me from choosing a place for you, I paid off the favor of helping me to spread the word, and insisted on choosing the land by myself, saying that helping to spread the word is based on the friendship between the two parties.

Now that he knows that he has helped him choose the land, he said that he helped choose it because he was a good friend of the other party, and he couldn't say anything if he wanted to pay off the favor, which was really shameless.

Compared with the other party helping him take the risk and passing the word to the other party, he only gave him a piece of construction land on his own site, which really couldn't offset the feelings. Thinking of this, he had no choice but to smile bitterly, shook his head and said:

"Alright! You're right, we're friends, and it's only natural to help you choose a suitable place to build a museum, and I also saw that you couldn't decide on it for a long time, so I took the initiative to intervene. ”

Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and arched his hand at Granthong:

"Haha...... I knew that you were a good friend! In the final analysis, this port city is your territory, you must know better than me, and the place you choose must be better than me!

As soon as I heard that you helped me choose, I knew that you must have your own plan for the cultural area of your port city. ”

Fang Lang's words made Grantham smile bitterly, now not only did he help him choose the land and no favor could be left behind, but even the other party directly said that he was making plans for the cultural and art center of his port city.

In this way, the completion of his private museum became a support for his own cultural and artistic center. Instead of thanking himself for helping him choose the land, he wanted to thank him for his contribution to the cultural and artistic revival of the port city.

I have to say that this kid is young, but he can't slip his hands anymore.

"You kid is really amazing, you saw through my plan so quickly, and indeed as you said, I am indeed ready to set up an art and cultural center in Port City, which is also the inspiration that your idea of building a museum has brought to me.

Originally, there was an assembly hall in our port city, which could be regarded as the cultural and art center of our port city, but it was demolished in 1933 and the land was sold to HSBC as a headquarters building.

Now that the war has ended, peace has also ushered in the port city. There is a real need for us to revive arts and culture in the port city. So, I plan to set up a Cultural Revival Committee to build a new cultural and arts center in Port City around your private museum.

The address is located near Central, and in addition to your private museum, you will also plan to build a museum of the history of the port city, as well as a series of buildings such as a concert hall, a grand theatre, an art gallery, and a gymnasium. What do you think? ”

Hearing this, Fang Lang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, good guy! Grantham is an old boy with a lot of ambitions! If it is really built according to this plan, it will definitely become the cultural and artistic center of the port city in the future.

"I said Brother Ge, you're not authentic! I said, why are you so kind to help me choose a plot! It turns out that you have bad intentions! My museum is a private museum, and I never thought of opening it to the public, but now you want to use my museum as a guide to develop the cultural and art center of the port city. Not quite right! ”

As soon as Fang Lang said this, Grantham, the old fox, couldn't help but blush slightly, indeed as Fang Lang said, he had this idea in his heart, and now it was directly pierced by Fang Lang. He could only laugh awkwardly to hide his embarrassment.

"Huh...... Brother Fang! I know you're a private museum. However, if you think about it, do the museum's collections have to be maintained by people on a regular basis?

The usual management cost of the museum is not low! In this case, isn't it cost-effective to maintain it at your own expense? I'm also thinking I can help you lighten your load!

As long as you open to the public, you can collect tickets, and the income from these tickets can ensure the normal operation of the museum, in this case, your maintenance costs can be equal! If you run it well, you might even be able to make some extra money! ”

Looking at Grantham's expression, Fang Lang couldn't help but laugh in his heart, as a soul of later generations, of course he knew that opening the door to the outside world was the best way to run a museum.

Besides, opening up to the outside world is not necessarily completely open to the outside world, you only need to take out a part of the place to exhibit to the outside world, and the other place can be completely kept secret from the outside world, so that you can not only maintain the operation of the museum, but also facilitate your own interception and collection of lost cultural relics, why not?

As long as he can ensure that he has absolute ownership of this museum before the return of the port city, he will not allow any Hong Kong British government personnel to participate in the management of the museum. When the time comes, it is natural that this museum will be donated to the hometown in its entirety.

It's not that Fang Lang wants to deliberately pretend to be great, the Grand Duke selflessly returns these cultural relics to his hometown, in fact, if there is such a meeting gift, the benefits that Fang Lang can get from his hometown will definitely not be lower than the value of this museum.

Since he had a plan in his heart, Fang Lang still said to Grantham like this, of course, just to get greater benefits! He pretended to think seriously for a while before he slowly spoke:

"Brother Ge is not unreasonable, but I still have a lot of money to maintain the operation of this private museum.

But since my brother wants to build a cultural and art center in Hong Kong City around my museum, such a big thing, if I don't support it, it seems a little unreasonable. ”

After speaking, his tone paused, and his eyes looked at Grantham who was still smiling bitterly opposite.

Seeing this, how could Grantham not understand what Fang Lang meant, and shook his head helplessly:

"Okay, okay, no wonder your kid can have such an achievement today in such a short period of time, this bargaining effort really makes me ashamed.

I understand what you mean, so be it! The land on which you built the museum will be provided free of charge by our Hong Kong government, so it's all right! ”

Hearing this, Fang Lang was not the slightest bit happy, but frowned, and looked at Grantham with a slight suspicion. He didn't believe that the British would have such good intentions, and he came from later generations to understand a deep truth, that is, "free things are often the most expensive." ”

If his museum land is really given free of charge by the British government of Hong Kong, if he changes the governor of Hong Kong and proposes to take it back in the future, he will be in trouble. He didn't believe that Grantham didn't understand this, so now he couldn't help but suspect that Grantham had any bad intentions.

Fang Lang's eyes were so blatant, of course it was impossible for Grantham to pretend not to see, under the gaze of this kind of eyes, Grantham felt a little uncomfortable, and after coughing lightly, he explained softly:

"Brother Fang, don't worry, I have no ill will towards you, the reason why I propose to provide the land for free is to let your private museum open in the cultural and art center we planned;

Second, I hope you can open the museum to the outside world; Third, thank you for helping me spread the word and contributing to the peace and stability of the port city. ”

For a while, Fang Lang couldn't judge whether the other party's words were true or false, but he would definitely not be willing to take any unnecessary risks. Therefore, he did not shy away from speaking directly:

"Brother Ge, it's not that I don't believe you, if I really get the land for free, now that you are here, I don't have to worry, but what about after you leave! The next Governor may not necessarily approve of your approach.

If you really want to thank me, then according to the relatively favorable price, the area is as large as possible. Since your brother wants to build this place into a cultural and art center in the port city, I will not lose face, and when the time comes, I will open some of the museum's venues to the outside world.

And, in order to show my support for Brother Ge, I can bid for the construction of this museum around the world to find the best design plan and build it into a new landmark building in the port city, what do you think? ”

Grantham obviously didn't expect that Fang Lang would be lifted high and gently put down. He was ready to be slaughtered by the other party, but he didn't expect that the other party would agree to his proposal so easily, and he also strongly supported his art and cultural center.

This made him feel grateful to the young Chinese in front of him. In order to express his gratitude, Grantham got up directly without hesitation and stretched out his right hand to Fang Lang.

"Thank you, Brother Fang, for your support to me, you are my true friend."

Seeing this, Fang Lang also smiled slightly, got up and shook the other party gently, and said with a smile:

"From the words that your brother Ge asked me to bring to the other side, I can hear that you are really thinking about the future of the port city, which makes me very impressed.

Therefore, I naturally want to give my full support to your plan to build a port city.

If Brother Ge is really willing to take someone from us as a friend, I will ask Brother Ge to take more care of my Chinese compatriots during the management of the port city. ”

Hearing this, Grantham was obviously stunned, he didn't expect Fang Lang to make such a request. As a colonial official, to put it nicely, he was a herdsman for the British royal family.

To put it mildly, he was the bandit leader responsible for plundering resources from the colonies for the British royal family. To make him take care of the colony was obviously to go against his job.

If it was before World War II, he would have refused Fang Lang's request directly without hesitation, but now with the end of World War II, the colonies of the British Empire around the world have become independent, and the royal family can do nothing about it, so they can only pinch their noses and admit it.

Now, through negotiations with the new government in the mainland, the port city can continue to maintain its rule here. He really couldn't directly refuse Fang Lang's request.

After a little hesitation, Grantham took a deep breath before slowly speaking:

"As the Governor of Hong Kong, it is my duty to help everyone living in Hong Kong City to get a better life, and it is also my goal for the Chinese to make their lives better as the largest group in Hong Kong City.

There are some things that I don't need to bring up Brother Fang, I will take the initiative to do them. ”

Although Grantham did not say anything about improving the status of the Chinese in Hong Kong City, he also indirectly accepted Fang Lang's request. In this regard, Fang Lang has nothing to say.

Holding the other party's hand that had not yet let go, Fang Lang directly gave the old guy a hug and whispered in the other party's ear:

"Okay, Brother Ge's words, I made a note of it, and in the future, if there is anything that needs my brother's help, just ask."

After speaking, I didn't forget to slap the other party hard twice in the back.

Fang Lang seems to be bold, but in fact, if he warns, Grantham can only smile helplessly, he knows very well in his heart that the other party will definitely watch his actions, if he breaks his promise, this guy will definitely find a way to retaliate against himself.

As far as a young man like Fang Lang who has achieved such achievements at such a young age, he owes him a favor, and if he doesn't pay it back, the other party will not let him go easily.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Fang Lang had no intention of continuing to stay in the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion for a long time.

"Brother Ge, about the museum, I will ask someone from the Global Group to come forward to contact you, and if there is anything that can't be done at that time, you can also contact me directly.

I'm going to have to deal with some fleet affairs in the past two days, and I won't be here to say goodbye to my brother when the time comes. If my brother has the opportunity to go to Brazil to play, I must inform my brother, and my brother will accompany him in person. ”

(End of chapter)