After the ceremony, the four of them sat down to drink tea, Wu Jianzhang picked up the black tea in front of him and took a sip, his brows furrowed involuntarily.

"But this tea is not to Brother Wu's appetite?" Zhao Dagui asked strangely.

"It's nothing, I just think this tea is a little shoddy, I don't know where it is?"

"This is the Keemun black tea I just bought, sixty taels of silver a load of high-grade tea, I usually drink this all the time, it should be no problem. Zhao Dagui couldn't help but feel strange, he just wanted to deal with Wu Jianzhang, and he wouldn't use the usual tea to do tricks.

"Sixty taels of tea, my brother usually drinks this kind of tea?" Wu Jianzhang made a fuss as if he had discovered a new continent.

"Well, this is a high-quality tea, and even if it is exported to the UK, it is also great. ”

"That's just fooling the foreigners, according to the identity and net worth of the elder brother, even if you don't drink the tea picked by the original tea tree of Zhengshan Xiaozhong, you should at least drink sixty taels of tea. ”

"Oh, my brother is really overestimating me, I can't afford to drink that expensive tea. ”

Zhao Dagui laughed, Wu Jianzhang frowned and looked at him, but shook him.

Although Wu Jianzhang was also a poor figure in his early years, after decades of extremely rich life, he had already cultivated a lot of luxury, and he was very particular about eating, drinking, and drinking tea, that is, drinking porridge in the morning required porridge made of seventy or eighty kinds of delicate grains, and it was accompanied by fifty or sixty kinds of side dishes.

In comparison, Zhao Dagui is dirty.

"My brother went south for a few months, and it was said that he was buying a ship and a shipyard in Guangdong, and there was a lot of movement, and many of my old friends praised Shanghai for having a big businessman.

I don't know how my brother has gained this trip?" Wu Jianzhang decided to suppress the words to persuade Zhao Dagui to pay attention to the style of life first, and it was important to talk about it first.

"The harvest is quite big, I always thought that the British shipbuilding industry has not yet reached the time when it is really developed, but I didn't expect to go to Hong Kong this time to know that people have even built iron-hulled propeller ships, and the tonnage is not low, the one I bought is only more than 1,000 tons, but the British have 3,400 tons of Britannia.

I have carefully studied the parameters of the Great Britain, which can reach speeds of more than 10 knots per hour, carry 360 passengers and 1,200 tons of coal.

In comparison, our existing boats in the Qing Dynasty are equivalent to small boats fluttering in the rivers, and we need to struggle to catch up..."

At the mention of ships, Zhao Dagui suddenly became energetic, and talked endlessly about British steamships, and commented on the gap between the shipbuilding industries of China and China, the difference between wooden and iron hulls, and the leap from the bright wheel to the propeller.

Wu Jianzhang couldn't help but be stunned, he just greeted him very usually, he didn't expect Zhao Dagui to react so much, and then looked at Zhao Dagui's enthusiastic appearance, which was very different from the usual polite and courteous scheming of the world.

Wu Jianzhang was thoughtful, and then carefully observed Zhao Dagui, only to see that Zhao Dagui was wearing decent Western-style clothes, but this should have been changed in a hurry to meet guests, there were a lot of oil stains on the English leather shoes on his feet, and there were also black oil stains on his fingers, indicating that Zhao Dagui was actually doing something in a factory or something like that before meeting guests.

"My brother turned out to be a man who liked boats. After Zhao Dagui finished speaking, Wu Jianzhang nodded, and said thoughtfully, feeling that he had finally found Zhao Dagui's true interests.

People in the world say that radish and cabbage have their own advantages, this Zhao Dagui is usually frugal and thrifty, wine, wealth, gambling, money, smoking, and does not have any bad habits, it turns out that he likes to build ships.

I used to think it was strange, I don't know what he spent a lot of effort to buy a shipyard and an iron ship, so it makes sense, it's hard to buy a thousand dollars I like.

Wu Jianzhang felt that this was somewhat of a weakness, so he planned to write it down, and maybe he could use it in the future.

"It's Brother Wu who understands me best. Zhao Dagui said happily:

"I do like boats the most, especially the big ones that use a lot of machinery.

Whenever the steam engine turns and the machinery is running, I think that the ship will cleave the waves and move forward at high speed under such a powerful force, I can feel the strength of human beings, feel the future of human beings, and my heart will be filled with an inexplicable sense of mission.

In particular, the sense of rhythm when the machinery roars, the sense of rhythm when the gears turn, everything is in line with the rigidity of beauty, and the heaven and earth are filled with an unprecedented sense of beauty.

Every time I feel an eternal sinking, I want to give up everything and sleep in the greatest power that man has ever created..."

Zhao Dagui didn't know what was crazy, so he opened the conversation box and praised the power of the machine, the beauty of the machine, etc., but Wu Jianzhang had a momentary feeling of bewilderment, I just praised you at will, is it necessary to pour out so many gorgeous words that I can't understand at all.

Besides, that machine, isn't it just a few lifeless iron lumps, what beauty is there, do you think I haven't hooked up with the top brand of Yihong Mansion.

Just when Wu Jianzhang was secretly complaining, he seemed to feel that he was not thundered enough, and the male secretary sitting next to him, named Xu Wenqiang, actually opened his mouth and intervened.

"It turns out that the owner can also feel the beauty of this kind of machinery, and that's right, when I saw the Vostok for the first time, when I saw the orderly rotation of the shipyard's machine tools, I also felt that sense of excitement, that sense of excitement.

I think the nineteenth century was the age of the steam engine, the age of machinery, the greatest age ever seen by mankind..."

Zhao Dagui and Xu Wenqiang didn't know what they were stimulating, so they talked for half an hour, all praising machinery and steam engines, which made Wu Jianzhang and the housekeeper drowsy, and almost wanted to get up, say goodbye, and leave.

Fortunately, Zhao Dagui was not completely dizzy, and finally stopped after saying inexplicable words for half an hour, and confessed to Wu Jianzhang embarrassedly.

"Please also ask my brother to confess, I like machinery too much during this time, and when I talk about it, I can't stop being excited, but I snubbed my brother.

By the way, how is my brother doing this time, are you still busy?"

"Thanks to my brother, it's very good. By the way, I see that my brother has started construction in Wusong Jiangnan and built a lot of Western-style houses, but do you want to sell houses instead?"

Wu Jianzhang is an experienced businessman, and he likes to hit the nail on the head after a while, so he would not have said the main point so directly.

It's just that he was worried that if he didn't tell the matter quickly, Zhao Dagui would have to post a tirade again, but Wu Jianzhang still decided to get to the point.

"Oh, I had a little spare money in my hand, so I wanted to buy some land so that I could retire in the future.

Unexpectedly, an Indian approached me and wanted to build some land on my land and rent it out to earn some rental money.

I didn't want to deal with him, but he was very attentive and willing to rent land at a great price, and I reluctantly agreed.

My brother came over today to ask about the house, I don't know what business he does?"