Before the banquet today, Xuan Yuemeng had already taught Timothy Li in the afternoon, so he could do whatever he wanted. However, temperament is really not something that can be pretended casually, and identity is not something that can be pretended just by pretending. Please read the book Wｗ∫Ｗ∮.

∫ＱingＫanＳhu．

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When Timothy Lee went up, hello to Hud and Decilin in English and German.

Hurd is a serious British man, while Decuilin is a German man. The two of them work together in the General Taxation Department. Hurd asked Decuilin to come to Tianjin to be the General Taxation Department. It was not that he regarded Decuilin as a confidant, but because there were very few people in this era who could understand the Chinese and foreign market conditions and language customs. Hurd had no choice but to do it. Otherwise, Heard would definitely put all important positions in the British and his own confidants. Hurd saw that the Qing court itself also had a good impression of Decuilin, and saw that Decuilin could not stop it, so he simply followed the flow and gave Decuilin enough face to him, and personally sent Decuilin to that position.

Hurd took the business card handed over by Timothy Lee, glanced at it, put it aside, and asked in English: "Clinsmann Foreign Company? American Foreign Company? Have you heard of it? Which country are you from? Did you run this foreign company?"

Seeing Hurd's arrogant behavior, Li Timothy did not feel as humble as Xuan Hongbo, raised his head and chest out, and replied in Chinese that he had become much fluent: "I am a dual nationality in English and German. Our Klinsmann Foreign Company is very strong. I am a shareholder of this foreign company."

For Chinese people, it is a great thing to be able to speak foreign languages, and for foreigners, on the ground of China, who speaks Chinese well is naturally a thing that knows how to boast. Just based on Li Timothy's current Chinese level, it is completely worthy of being cool. Of course, this is also inseparable from Xuan Yuemeng's contribution.

Xuan Yuemeng couldn't help but praise Timothy Li. In fact, there was no benefit in talking to Hurd like this. After all, Hurd was in the upper class. He was very good at speaking to the Qing court or the British consulate. He also held the customs. There was no benefit in offending him. However, Timothy Li's attitude was the best way to pretend. This was what Xuan Yuemeng hoped that Timothy Li would do. It would rather be scared than to be disgusted.

In fact, Timothy Li himself had imagined how to pretend. What should a real nobleman do? Timothy Li was just not good at socializing, and was not really stupid. Seeing Hurd's arrogant look just now, Timothy Li was determined to pretend to be the most!

Deculin had a good impression of Timothy because Timothy said she was German. Deculin immediately communicated with Timothy in German and asked where the family of Timothy was in Germany. He casually talked about some customs and cultures in Germany.

Timothy Lee was able to handle it easily.

Decuillin knew that Timothy Li was a businessman, and the businessman came over, and must have come for Sheng Xuanhuai. She smiled slightly: "Will Mr. Timothy Li sit here? Dear sirs, Mr. Xuan, can I invite Mr. Timothy Li sit here?"

Xuan Zonglu didn't understand foreign affairs. Seeing that Li Timothy was also a foreigner, of course she had nothing to say, "Of course, this foreigner, please read the book W÷ｗ∫Ｗ∮．∮ＱingＫanＳhu．cＣ"

In fact, the hierarchy distinction among foreigners is not inferior to that of Qing people, nobles, poor people, people with status and status, and people with many levels. There are also several foreigners who come with Hed and Decuillin, but they are not qualified to sit at this table.

Hurd was secretly unhappy with Decuilin's arrangement, but looking at Decuilin's attitude, it didn't seem like he was deliberately annoying him. He seemed to want to talk more about his hometown with Timothy, and Hurd was not inconvenient to say anything. After all, it was a very gentlemanly thing to drive people away directly.

Timo Li was too arrogant, "This Mr. Xuan Hongtao is my friend. Can he sit here?"

In fact, Sheng Xuanhuai had seen Xuan Hongtao a long time ago, and Chen Baojing also saw Xuan Hongtao. However, this is Xuan's family. They were all very surprised why Xuan Hongtao was not sitting at the main table, and both of them were several levels higher than Xuan Hongtao. Xuan Hongtao not only had a low position in Li Hongzhang's system, but was also a marginalized person for the time being and did not enter Li Zhongtang's power circle, so of course the two of them would not take the initiative to greet Xuan Hongtao. If Xuan Hongtao came over to say hello to them earlier, they would naturally talk to Xuan Hongtao.

Sheng Xuanhuai heard Timothy Li say this and laughed, "Hong Tao, this is your house. Are you not the eldest son of the Xuan family? Come on, sit here, and have a drink of two more drinks with your Master Shen from the creation bureau."

When Chen Baojing heard Sheng Xuanhuai say this, he waved and said a few similar words, "Hong Tao, come here, are you still so irrelevant at your own home?"

Even if Xuan Hongtao didn't know how to flatter, he was named by Shangguan. How could he still be like a piece of wood? He was so flattered that he laughed with him, and took a chair and sat down at Chen Baojing.

In front of so many people, Xuan Zonglu and Xuan Hongbo naturally did not make any sense. They couldn't say anything about Xuan Hongtao, don't sit here, right? The two of them said some polite words and ordered someone to invite Zeng Jize over. The banquet was started first but not the show. When Zeng Jize came over, the show was started, which was to give the Zeng family face and pomp.

During the meal, Xuan Hongbo wanted to go out to toast, and guests from each table would come to the main table to toast the officials. This was a bargain for Xuan Hongtao. Today he met many people. Everyone thought that Xuan Hongtao was the eldest uncle of the Xuan family and the commission of the Manufacturing Bureau. He could sit with Lord Sheng Xuanhuai and Lord Shen Baojing, which was of course a great deal, and no one dared to neglect him. Please read the book Wｗ∫Ｗ∮. ∫ＱingＫanＳhu． cC

Timothy Li was very polite to deal with people. He would have a business card if anyone came over.

Looking at the performance of Timothy Li and Xuan Hongtao, Xuan Yuemeng breathed a sigh of relief. Most of the task has been completed, and this wine should not be in vain. It would be more convenient to ask Timothy Li to find Sheng Xuanhuai and Shen Baojing to start a business in the future, right?

On the one hand, Hurd accompanied De Cuilin to Tianjin for his post, but he also had his own other purposes. The largest foreign company in Britain in Tianjin is Xintaixing. Hurd brought McMahmou, the manager of Xintaixing, to help the Beiyang Yamen business!

The young master Zhilin of the Minister of Military Affairs Jinglian came over, of course, similar to Hed's purpose. Zhilin helped the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works to win the business of the Beiyang Yamen. Zhilin's father was Jinglian, the Minister of Military Affairs. As long as the business was in the hands of the court, it was equivalent to his hands. He would rely on interpersonal relationships to do these things to attract business and get dividends. Zheng Beile and General Shouchuan were just Zhilin's drinkers, who were the ones who were the ones. What kind of identity was Zhilin? How could he come here to give face to someone like Xuan Hongbo?

After a while, Timothy Li saw the movements on both sides and found an opportunity to go over and talk about Xuan Yuemeng who was playing with Zeng Siping. He told the situation roughly and quickly.

Xuan Yuemeng nodded, showing that she understood, let Timothy Li act according to the opportunity, and praised Timothy Li's good performance today.

Li Timothy originally had the intention of treating Xuan Yuemeng as a child, but after signing a formal contract with Xuan Yuemeng, he had already obeyed Xuan Yuemeng conscientiously. Xuan Yuemeng did not misunderstand. The manager Li Timothy is good on a large scale. After all, foreigners are hard to tame. Find someone who is more capable than Li Timothy, but he is not a good person. Li Timothy has no big problem, but he is often vain and suffers from face. However, he is still quite upright and will not cheat and cheat. This is very appreciated by Xuan Yuemeng.

After listening to what Timothy Li said to her, Xuan Yuemeng quickly went to Dali to find out more about what he could pretend to be. What are the things he could do today?

Of course, Dali didn't know what pretending was. After being understood by Xuan Yuemeng for a while, he smiled and said, "Then I'll only have to wait and give me a reward."

Xuan Yuemeng was shocked, "Reward? What does it mean?"

When Xuan Yuemeng used to write books, people often gave rewards, so naturally they knew what rewards were for, but they didn’t know how to give rewards for a meal or a play? Now it’s not about drinking flower wine. Xuan Yuemeng knew about rewards in ancient times, when he was drinking flower wine, he gave rewards to beauties.

"When the opera troupe is performing, the main family also needs to give rewards in addition to the examples of the opera. This is the time to show their status and wealth. Usually, the number of customers with status is said, and they usually don't have to pay for them themselves, because someone will rush to pay for these customers. This money is the extra money obtained by the opera troupe." Dali explained to Xuan Yuemeng.

Xuan Yuemeng nodded, "How many are usually there? Who gave it?"

Zeng Siping originally thought that Xuan Yuemeng was just a child younger than him. He heard that Xuan Yuemeng and Xuan Dali kept talking and talking, but he didn't know what the two of them were saying. He felt that Xuan Yuemeng knew more than him, and his self-esteem was hit to a certain extent. He was very depressed, "Yuemeng, let's go and play for a while. Didn't you tell me to pick up firecrackers?"

Xuan Yuemeng looked at Zeng Siping, who was over five years old, and smiled, "It's going to be fine soon. I will not only take you to pick up firecrackers, but also take you to the backstage to watch people and perform!"

Zeng Siping patted his little hands, "Okay, this is the first time I've come out to play. From now on, you will have to play with me every day."

Xuan Yuemeng casually said something perfunctory to the little loli, ignoring Zeng Siping, looking back at Dali, waiting for Dali to answer his questions.

Dali scratched his head, "My young master, I'm not very clear about the rewards. The troupe's headmaster should be directly responsible for the rewards. Outsiders don't know it. However, our Xuan family often holds banquets and invites opera troupes every time. The rewards are divided into songs. The guests think that the singing is good, so they can reward more. If they don't sing well, they can reward less, or they don't sing. Generally, there are six scenes in each session, at a time, about two taels of silver, three taels of silver, four taels of silver, five taels of silver, ten taels of silver, and fifteen taels of silver. It's rare to have twenty taels of silver. Twenty taels of silver can be bought for two tables and waiting for the banquet. About a troupe will be less than sixty taels of rice every time after a sings a troupe, and I roughly know so much."

Xuan Yuemeng nodded, "Very good, come with me to the backstage to find their headmaster, and tell them that we will contract the project that the troupe rewards this time!"

Xuan Dali is a big kung swearing, rewards are also a project? He has been with Mr. Meng and Timothy Li these days. I heard from the two of them that one word for doing too much is a project. This project, that project, and that project. Now Dali knows what the project means. For Dali, the explanation of the project is to trade. Dali just can't figure it out, and even rewards can become a project?

Xuan Yuemeng no longer explained anything, "Go, just tell the master directly, saying that I am the young master of this family, the old man's favorite young master. The old man told you to go and tell them that the contracted the reward for this time, and that no matter how much the reward is, it has nothing to do with the opera troupe. The church is over, and we will pay them eighty taels of silver to the head. You said that if he doesn't believe it, I can now write a document with him!"

Xuan Dali nodded, "I understand, Master, don't worry! But... Master, what if you don't get a reward of less than 80 taels of silver? The reward price of 80 taels of silver is very high. If it's less than 80 taels of silver, wouldn't we have to pay our own capital? It's not cost-effective? This must be a loss-making project?"

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and said, "Don't worry about this."

This opera troupe is called Wu Family Ban, and the headmaster is Wu Laosan. The headmaster himself is a martial artist and has two unique skills. He has a troupe. Because the headmaster is tactful and smart in business, he has made a small team of several people one of the best opera troupes in Tianjin in less than a few years. This Wu Family troupe has come to Xuan Mansion many times and is familiar with Xuan Dali.

When Wu Lao San, the headmaster Wu was shocked after hearing Dali's statement that he had to contract and reward, "Dali, this is your young master, I know. Your young master wants to contract and reward? He is willing to give us 80 taels of silver? I have no problem, but why do you do this? There was no such rule before? Are you not afraid of losing money?"

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and said, "Don't worry about other things. This time it's special. Don't tell anyone about the things we contract and rewards. Do you understand? Just remember this, otherwise you don't have to expect to do business in our Xuan Mansion in the future."

When Wu Laosan saw Xuan Yuemeng a few months old, he could speak so easily. He thought to himself, no wonder it was said that the Xuan family had a child prodigy, and it was indeed well-known! No wonder the old man of the Xuan family loved his grandson the most! According to the conditions proposed by Xuan Yuemeng, this is a matter of only making a profit without losing money. There is no problem, "No need to establish any evidence, we are all old customers, we are all nailed to each other, and I agree."

In addition to Xuan Yuemeng and Xuan Dali, there were also several people from the Wu family backstage. Seeing that Wu Laosan agreed readily, Xuan Yuemeng secretly said that he would not break the appointment when he went to Wu Laosan, so he said generously: "Okay! Then just say it! When the hall is over, I ask Dali to bring you silver. You only remember one thing. Except for my old man asking you, anyone who asks you, including my uncle, can't tell you that I will contract and reward you for money."

Wu Laosan smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm so old, I'm so meticulous and sophisticated, and I feel like an adult, and it's interesting."

Seeing that the matter was done, Xuan Yuemeng took Xuan Dali and Zeng Siping away from the backstage of the Wu family class, and whispered to Xuan Dali to do what he should do later.

Zeng Siping kept listening with his little ears curiously, but he felt that Xuan Yuemeng was much more interesting than anyone she knew, and he didn't even bother to play any more. He was honestly like a little follower of Xuan Yuemeng.
Chapter completed!