Xianheng Hotel did not become very popular at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, but a hundred years later, the trademark of Xianheng Hotel was once worth billions and became a business card of Shaoxing.

"Look, Hua Zhi is really good at speaking, much better than me, a big boss." Seeing Mr. He Qing nodding in agreement, Chen Qimei pretended to be jealous.

"..."

Just as he was talking, the door of the private room opened, and the waiter brought in four cold dishes and a pot of warm aged wine and rice wine.

The four cold dishes are duck in sauce, chicken in white sauce, dried beans with spices, and fennel beans.

These four cold dishes are all Shaoxing specialties, which are a must-have for many Shaoxing people when they drink rice wine.

Fennel beans are probably a specialty of Xianheng Hotel, loved by both rich and poor.

Kong Yiji liked fennel beans, and it seems that Mr. Heqing also liked them.

The rice wine is put in a tin pot, so it is very convenient to heat the old wine.

Tin utensils can purify water. In the homes of rich peasants and above in the late Qing Dynasty, there were many teapots and wine pots made of tin. They are easy to heat, resistant to high temperatures and not fragile.

A tin wine pot like this can usually hold two kilograms of rice wine. Four people can fill the pot first, and then add more as appropriate.

"Come on, let's pour some wine and start eating." Chen Qimei picked up the tin pot and started pouring rice wine into four small soup bowls.

In Shaoxing dialect, drinking wine is called eating wine, and rice wine is generally served in a small porcelain bowl instead of a cup or cup, which is somewhat different from the northern wine culture.

The small porcelain bowls are all lace and are used for drinking soup and rice at the dinner table. The locals call them soup bowls.

Chen Tianhua uses this kind of soup bowl at home.

"Come on, the three of us will serve you a bowl first," Liu Yufang suggested.

"I wish you health, happiness, and everything goes well."

"..."

After a round of drinks, everyone started chatting about current affairs. At this time, the door opened again, and this time three hot dishes were brought in: Shaoxing stinky tofu roasted pork, Dongpo pork elbow and a steamed mandarin fish.

The person who delivered the food was not the original waiter, but a young man about twenty years old, tall and thin with sharp eyes, wearing a blue cotton robe.

"I'm sorry to bother you. He is my nephew Yucai. He is currently studying at Jiangning Mining School. He just came back from the Nianguan School holiday today, so he went to the store to help. Hearing that Mr. Heqing was here, he has admired him for a long time, so he took the liberty to ask for a meeting.

Sir," introduced the shopkeeper Zhou Zhongxiang who came in behind him.

"Yancai paid homage to Mr. Heqing, and I have long admired his name." The young man in green robes stepped forward and bowed very respectfully.

"Oh, Jiangning Mining School is quite famous. In the future, they will be the mining experts needed by the country. Come to Yucai... sit down and have a bar together."

When Cai Heqing heard that he was also a student and a child of the Zhou family, he was very happy and immediately invited him to sit down and drink together.

"Come on, please sit down and have a drink, and let's chat together." Liu Yufang and Chen Qimei also warmly invited them and moved out of their seats.

"Thank you. It's better to obey than to be respectful." The young man asked for it, so he sat down without any further hesitation.

Shopkeeper Zhou went out and specially arranged for the waiter to come in with a bottle of wine and a plate of glutinous beef.

Through mutual introduction, this young man in a blue robe, his name is Zhou Shuren, with the courtesy name Hencai, and his family lives next door to the Xianheng Hotel, not far away at the Xintai Gate of the Zhou Family.

Zhou Shuren?

Isn’t this the famous Brother Xun later?

Chen Tianhua opened his eyes wide in surprise, not knowing how to describe his mood at this moment. He looked carefully at this famous historical figure.

With his youthful age and humble attitude, Chen Tianhua cannot feel that he is the brother Xun who wrote famous works such as "Kong Yiji" and "Diary of a Madman".

In his impression, Brother Xun was a literary giant, a cultural warrior, full of pride, passion, bright eyes, and aloof.

Maybe it took more than ten years for Brother Xun to change, but now he is still a young man who has just entered the world.

In fact, the current Brother Xun is only one year older than Chen Tianhua, and is now nineteen years old.

Chen Tianhua never dreamed that his first meeting with Brother Xun would be in his uncle's Xianheng Hotel, and he would still be so unprepared.

Mr. Heqing’s voice sounded:

"Yucai, you just said it was the Mining School in Jiangning. Is it the one jointly run with the Japanese?"

Brother Xun raised his hand and apologized:

"Mr. Report, the full name of the Mining School is Jiangnan Railway Mining School, which is sponsored by the Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Industry. Yucai is not aware of the fact that it is co-organized with the Japanese, but the deans and teachers of the entire school are definitely from

In Japan, only a few foreign teachers are German."

It didn't matter to everyone, only Chen Tianhua understood in his heart.

These Japanese people are drunkards who don't care about drinking. They have never had any good intentions. They are very enthusiastic about mining research because they just want to plunder China's mineral resources.

Since the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese have attached great importance to water transportation and mineral resources in Jiangnan, especially the gold mines in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

They send people everywhere to explore, prospect, conduct geological research, and jointly run schools, just to legalize their exploration activities.

Twenty years later, they know China's geological and landform conditions very well, and are much more familiar with them than the relevant local departments.

At this time, the Japanese had five concessions in China, one of which was in Hangzhou.

Liu Yufang immediately took the call and said, "Hey Yucai, how many years have you been in the Mining School?"

"Mr. Wenxiong, I have been studying at Yucai for one and a half years, and I will graduate in one and a half years."

"It's good to engage in mining. China is a vast country with abundant resources and minerals are everywhere. We have many mines in the Lishui Mountains of Zhejiang Province." Chen Qimei took over the topic.

"Brother Yucai, have you heard in school that there are gold mines in Suichang, Lishui?" Chen Tianhua suddenly said this, but his words were shocking.

It is incredible that a young fisherman knew that there was a gold mine in Suichang, Lishui, Zhejiang.

As modern people who came from later generations, of course they know about the Suichang Gold Mine, known as the "No. 1 Mine in Jiangnan".

He just blurted out this sentence casually.

Later generations excavated there the world's largest single gold ore weighing 45 tons, worth 10 billion.

The Suichang Gold Mine has now been established as a geological and mining park. It is said that a large mine cave was discovered with many bones and remains inside.

At the beginning, the Japanese occupied the Suichang gold mine.

Of course, this is a later story.

"Returning to the two of you, Yucai heard about the mineral resources in Suichang, Lishui, in the school. As for the gold mine in Suichang, I vaguely heard it mentioned by a Japanese gentleman, but this matter cannot be mentioned in public. People in the school

Japanese experts seem to go to Suichang for a period of time regularly." Brother Xun replied calmly.

He stared at Chen Tianhua specifically, wondering in his mind how this country fisherman, who was younger than him, knew about a gold mine that even Japanese gentlemen avoided talking about?

Of course, Brother Xun will not take the liberty to ask questions, it is a bit rude.

It is not surprising that Mr. He Qing and others have all learned from Chen Tianhua's unpredictable and unpredictable words and deeds.

"Yucai, in the Mining School, who teaches better, the Japanese teacher, or the German teacher, who teaches more thoroughly?"
Chapter completed!