Of course Zhang Xiaowen would not refuse anyone who wanted to eat, drink, have fun and travel around, but as long as Simpson asked about government affairs, economics and other issues, Zhang Xiaowen refused to speak as far as Wang Gu was concerned!
In the end, Simpson was forced to open up the topic, "Mr. Zhang! You are not bold at all tonight! You have impeached Ryukyu ministers, and I heard in Shanghai that you once planned a very huge financial strangulation. war!"
"Although the head of state stopped it in the end, I admire your big plan and generosity very much!"
"Do you really have nothing to say? I'm just a traveler. I don't want to interfere in the internal affairs of the Qing Dynasty and the Chinese people. I just want my article to be more in-depth!"
When he mentioned the previous financial strangulation battle, Zhang Xiaowen's face suddenly darkened. The awning boat was rocking on the water. There were two small boats following the boat. The bodyguard and the Indian servants all followed to admire the moon. .
There are only the boat girl, the translator and the two of them on this boat! When no one spoke, the scene became quiet. The boat girl was a charming young woman in her thirties. She had been in the cruise ship business and knew that she couldn't stay silent at this time!
Putting down the oar, the boat girl smiled and squatted beside the low table, "Senior adults, let alone these unhappy things... This is the best Zhuangyuanhong that has been saved for eighteen years. I need to try two more glasses..."
"My father-in-law told me before... If I make a few adults unhappy, I will hit my head with a rolling pin when I get home!"
The woman deliberately pretended to be pitiful. In addition, this young woman did have some charm. When she smiled and frowned, even if she touched the hair hanging down by her ears, she was very fragrant!
With a woman in the middle to smooth things over, Zhang Xiaowen can't get angry no matter how bad his temper is!
"Ahem... don't make me drink. You boat girls are all good at persuading people to drink. I don't have the capacity you have..."
"Mr. Simpson, let's open the skylight and speak frankly! I don't like you European journalists... Do you know why?"
Simpson sat upright and said, "Sir, please speak!"
"Because you people look down on China to your core, including any other nation and country that is not as powerful as you... I haven't read those reports in your country?"
"Now, of all the foreign newspapers that come to Shanghai, someone will send me a copy... Do you think all the reports involving China are so messed up?"
"Either it's pure fabrication, even reporting ghost legends as news...or it's just reporting on the dark side of China!"
"You like to read everything that is bad, and you ignore everything that is good...I know why, isn't it just to sell more newspapers?"
"Human nature is like this. Good deeds never go out and evil deeds travel thousands of miles away. People are willing to consume other people's suffering as food and wine!"
"What's even more annoying is that many Chinese literati are so cooperative with you... deliberately writing about the dark side and getting it published by you!"
"Haha... You all regard all the articles that consume the suffering of the Chinese people as treasures, and those people have become literary giants? You don't even look at the ones who really say a few fair words..."
Zhang Xiaowen said with a sneer, "If the head of state hadn't spent a lot of money in Europe to do a series of Eastern reports and desperately promote some good sides of China, I'm afraid Western readers would regard China as hell!"
"There's no need to blush, and there's no need for you to refute...I saw this with my own eyes, didn't I?"
Simpson was poked in the weak spot by Zhang Xiaowen. He knew that this was really the mainstream of European journalism at the moment, and he had no intention of changing it at all. But as a British man, he naturally had to defend his country!
"Mr. Zhang, it's not that serious. There are still many enlightened scholars and elites in Europe who are rational..."
"But the people are irrational!" Zhang Xiaowen put the wine glass on the table and said angrily, "What you are doing is brainwashing the people of Europe! You are instilling inherent thinking, and you just look down on all other ethnic groups except your own!"
"In your eyes, other ethnic groups are even beasts that have not evolved well, right?"
"Do you still want to deny it? What's going on with the 'human zoos' that are so popular in big cities in Europe? Do you still want to deny the existence of these things at this time?"
This sentence made Simpson very ashamed, and his face was as hot as if he had been burned with an iron. Fortunately, it was not so obvious at night!
The human zoo was a very popular exhibition in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. It captured primitive tribesmen in many tropical rain forests in Africa, South America, including Oceania and Southeast Asia, like elephants and orangutans in the zoo. exhibition!
Europeans can unscrupulously observe what these races that look different from them look like, how they live, what they eat, what they wear, and even being naked are a unique exhibition.
Everything satisfies the idea of white supremacy, and everything advocates the correctness of European colonial expansion!
This is not something that happens in a year or two. This is a bad habit that has lasted for nearly two hundred years. Simpson himself is very disgusted with this kind of thing!
Today in China, a Chinese was exposed, how could he not blush!
"I do not deny what you said...but you must also understand that the more this happens, the less you can avoid it! The voice of justice cannot be stopped no matter how small it is!"
"I can assure you that my reporting on the East will be fair and will not be extremely biased... No matter whether it is good or bad, I will report it fairly..."
"The more you refuse, the smaller the voice of justice will be, right? The Führer's Oriental series has made a good start...don't you want to continue?"
Zhang Xiaowen drank a glass of wine. "What can I do? What can I influence? I'm just a teller in a Suzhou bank..."
"No! Sir, you are wrong... Maybe you were punished by the head of state for various reasons, but your reputation in the wealth circle in Jiangnan is still very high!"
"The fact that you were able to make such a huge plan before shows that you already have a very large number of fans around you. Those are the people who support you. Those people are your strength..."
"With all due respect, you will be able to soar into the sky in a few years!"
Simpson has a very high emotional intelligence and is very observant. He can figure out many things once he analyzes them!
Everyone in Jiangnan's financial circle knows why Zhang Xiaowen was assigned, and it was not the financial strangulation. But the head of state doesn't like Zhang Xiaowen, but it doesn't mean that other businessmen don't like him!
Who can have trouble with money? An outstanding person who can gather the power of many capitalists to jointly carry out such a big thing is a source of energy in itself!
At the moment, no one dares to challenge the head of state or confront Xiao Letian, but what if the head of state loosens his tone in the future?
People like Zhang DaDa can't be held down. A capable person is like an awl, and even if he hides it in his pocket, it will stick out!
Apart from anything else, a teller has European newspapers delivered to him for free every day? What kind of treatment is this? Is this the treatment of ordinary tellers?
Simpson will never hesitate to say kind words to a person who will fly into the sky sooner or later!
