Chapter 67 Zhang Lingpu is also a talent

Talent, this is what Hu Chuyuan needs most at this moment.

After dinner, Hu Chuyuan called Zhang Lingpu into his study, took out a money ticket of 500 yuan and gave it to him.

Zhang Lingpu said, "Your Excellency, there are still 1,200 yuan left in the expenses you gave me last time."

Hu Chuyuan said, "The money I gave you last time is for business. I continue to stay by your side, and this is your monthly salary. Manager Chen and I strongly recommend you that you are a rare all-rounder. I think... he is a person who can't be mistaken. Since he said so, you at least deserve this salary!"

Zhang Lingpu was shocked. He knew that Hu Chuyuan's financial resources were amazing. Even He Jing, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, wanted to rely on Hu Chuyuan to achieve a career, but the monthly salary of 500 yuan was really amazing.

He was born in a family of Yinshi. His ancestors have been engaged in Fujian tea for four generations. He has more than 100 mu of tea fields and an annual income of less than 400 yuan. With this income, his family is already very rich in the countryside, and he also has the opportunity to read a lot of books, participate in the imperial examination, and enter the Ship Administration School to study.

At present, his monthly salary is actually 500 yuan, and a year's income is worth ten years of hard work for the whole family.

How dare he accept it?

Zhang Lingpu hurriedly sent the money ticket back and said, "Thank you for your love. I dare not accept it."

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "You have always been by my side today. Second Master Gu took my 500,000 yuan and didn't frown. It's not gossip behind my back. Your talents and achievements will definitely exceed several times. Why can't you accept it?"

Zhang Lingpu replied, "Your Excellency, I don't have such talent at present!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled again and said, "I have been paying a salary for more than half a year. This is the first time I have met someone who thinks the salary is high. Think about it, what did I want to keep you for?

Zhang Lingpu replied cautiously, "At the beginning, my lord said that he would keep me by my side to do it!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "That's over. You listen to me and do things by my side. It doesn't matter what you know in the future. If you are good at kung fu, you can still be my bodyguard and act as a translator. If something urgent happens, I can also send you to deal with it. If you think this salary is too high, you have to work hard and do something worth it for me.

Hearing what he said, Zhang Lingpu could only hold his fist and say, "Then please rest assured that I will do my best not to let you down!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled with satisfaction, let him sit down, and asked, "Lingpu, as long as you are a talent, you have your own wishes and ambitions. I just want to ask what your ambition is?"

Zhang Lingpu replied without thinking, "Your Excellency, I want to join the army to serve the country and fight on the battlefield!"

"Oh... That's a good ambition?"

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment, got up and went to the window of the study to look at the night scene on the beach, and boasted to Zhang Lingpu, "Zuo Zhongtang once asked me what my ambitions were in my life. I told him that I only wanted to do three things in my life: teaching the people, enriching the country and strengthening the army. It can be said that we still have a common ambition!"

Zhang Lingpu immediately got up and arched his hand and said, "How dare your ambition be compared with that of adults? The man is in a high position. Although he has no real position, he is in power in the south of the Yangtze River. Of course, his ambition is high and within reach. The ambition of the subordinates is just to lead the army to fight against the foreigners, and vow to serve the country to the death.

Hu Chuyuan said, "It's a good ambition to lead the army, but... You have to strengthen the army first, otherwise you will die in vain. Isn't the lesson of the two opium wars right in front of you? Although people have a death, they must die in their place. It is worth the death, because the weapons are not enough to fight against the thief and die. It is not the crime of war. This is really a pity to die.

Zhang Lingpu didn't know how to answer. He waited for a moment before saying, "Your Excellency, I actually know this truth, but I don't know how to do it."

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. I know how to do it. Just stay with me and help me. Slowly... you will understand what to do."

Zhang Lingpu was overjoyed and knelt down on one knee and said, "Thank you for your success. I will do my best to serve you!"

Hu Chuyuan turned back and pulled him up and said with a smile, "This is not a military force, and I don't have a real job. You don't have to be so rigid. You can usually call me the boss. Otherwise, you can call yourself a cavalry lieutenant. If it really doesn't work, you can also call me the general office.

Zhang Lingpu said, "Your Excellency, I am not a rigid person, but I am still in the military, because I am the general manager of Jiangnan Commercial Bank, so I have the opportunity to work for adults!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded and thought that he would arrange a position in the business for him in the future.

Thinking about this, he gave the ticket to Zhang Lingpu again and casually asked him what he had learned in the Ship Administration School.

Talking about the late night with his surname, Hu Chuyuan felt more and more that Zhang Lingpu knew a lot of things, and he was also widely read in the Chuanzheng School.

Fuzhou Ship Administration School is divided into two types of courses. At the beginning, it was set up by Hu Xueyan with reference to the opinions of foreign consultants. One is English teaching, teaching driving, control and navigation, etc., and the other is French teaching, teaching mechanical manufacturing, maintenance, etc.

Zhang Lingpu mainly learns the former, but also the latter, so he is slightly fluent in French.

Because he is proficient in English, he has more money to spend at home. He also bought a lot of foreign books through several foreign teachers. Like Hu Chuyuan's reading The Wealthy Country, he not only exercises his English ability, but also increases his knowledge.

Such a person, in today's era, around Hu Chuyuan, is indeed many times more important than Gu Shouzang.

Of course, Hu Chuyuan spent so much money to accept Gu Shouzang and appoint him. He still considered a publicity effect to show others that he had the ability to accommodate others. As long as he had a skill, he was willing to use it, liked to use it, regardless of the past.

He especially wants to show it to Shanghai businessmen and Nanxun merchants, and tell them that what Tang Tingshu said was wrong, and you were all fooled.

Therefore, this is worthy of Hu Chuyuan's great efforts to convince Gu Shouzang.

Only he knows the calculation in this, and it is not appropriate to tell anyone else. Otherwise, this matter will be very stingy.

But when he was chatting with Zhang Lingpu, Gu Shouzang was also chatting with Shen Furong to inquire about what kind of person Hu Chuyuan was and whether it was worth him to reduce his value to work?

Unlike Zhang Lingpu, Gu Shouzang was born in a rich family with a golden key. At the age of six or seven, he began to play with jade porcelain and learn calligraphy and painting with his father and uncle.

In his early twenties, he became famous in the collection circles of Shanghai and Zhejiang.

Today, as long as any ancient calligraphy and painting is stamped with his collection seal, others will not have to test it again. There is no doubt that it must be genuine. However, if the painter's calligraphy and paintings of today's generation are stamped with his collection and seal, the price can immediately rise by dozens of taels of silver.

He is a living signboard, which can come into his eyes, which represents a level and attainment.

But he also knows that 500,000 yuan is not a small amount. Without more than ten years of hard work, he can't help Hu Chuyuan make enough money. What's more, he pulled him at such a critical moment, or complained with virtue. This kindness will never end in his life.