The night in Taibaiding gradually became quiet, and the sound of drinking wine could be heard in the distance in the night wind. Huniu was sitting next to Xiao Letian, gently wiping the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.
Today's Xiao Letian really scared the little girl. She didn't expect Xiao Letian to be so bold and dared to mint silver coins privately. She didn't know who the man named Wang Ye was. Anyway, her father and Brother Xiao respected him. . The little girl couldn't understand why the bandits who once besieged her were so docile and friendly now.
Although Huniu was not favored at home, she had seen the world after all. She understood everything about Xiao Letian's economic layout except overseas trade. She knew that this was profit-making from fire. Every penny and interest Xiao Letian earned was actually stolen from Huohuo, a tyrannical regime that harmed the people.
Huniu, who was born in a businessman's family, knew that cutting off people's wealth was like killing their parents. Xiao Letian was trying to find a way for corrupt officials in the world to make money. This was not bad. Please come to more and faster chapters.
Just when Huniu was worried about Xiao Letian, the door opened slightly and a half-drunk Fan Lian walked in. He looked at the sleeping Xiao Letian, patted his daughter on the shoulder and took her out.
"Father, is it really okay for Brother Xiao to do this? He is an enemy of all officials in the world! Once the court finds out, he will punish the nine tribes..."
Fan Jian smiled bitterly and said, "Daughter, since we separated from your uncle, I have already understood that there is no place for us to hide in the world. Since the separation, do you know how many people have cut off their relationship with us? Are they related? They look down on me. They think I am seeking death by leaving home. They don’t believe that I can start a business again empty-handed..."
"I don't believe in this evil yet. I want them to see with their own eyes that without a family, I, Fan Lian, am still the leader of Shanxi merchants who can make all the difference. I can still create a big family business. And Xiao Letian This is our hope..."
Fan Jian was a little afraid to look at his daughter. He lowered his head and said, "Daughter, I don't know whether the choice is right or wrong. I don't want you to be someone else's concubine. I'm saving you. But follow me, dad." This road is full of dangers, and I’m a little scared.”
"Don't ask any more questions about this copycat. Just pretend you don't know. Everything is rotten to your stomach...especially the prince's affairs. You can't even let the slightest leak out. Do you know why I didn't take A Chou over? Is it? Just because she has a big mouth, from now on you will say that you have spent the past few days in Yi County..."
The father and daughter discussed for a long time in the night. From time to time, Hu Niu would wipe her tears with a handkerchief. Behind the flowers, Shi Dakai looked at them quietly, sighing in his heart, "How can such a bold businessman look at the whole Qing Dynasty?" How many are there? Maybe only Hu Xueyan can stand shoulder to shoulder with him."
Shi Dakai didn't know that Hu Xueyan, who now had a net worth of tens of millions, looked very beautiful on the surface, but to the Manchus, he was just a pig that was getting fatter and fatter. Sooner or later, he would be killed for meat. Now all the forces are watching him with eager eyes. As long as there is a slight mistake, the wolves will naturally tear him to pieces.
And the real history is indeed like that. Hu Xueyan lost tens of millions of taels of silver after the raw silk war with foreign merchants. At that time, the Manchu and Qing government did not mention emergency blood transfusions to protect this big businessman who could compete with foreign merchants. Instead, various places Bureaucrats competed for deposits and gangs engaged in extortion.
Until the end, Cixi ordered a strict investigation, and all the tops of Hu Xueyan's body were stripped off. From then on, he was unable to afford it and eventually died of illness.
Xiao Letian didn't want to follow in Hu Xueyan's footsteps, and he wasn't even willing to let his father-in-law take this risk for him. Xiao Letian has seen very clearly what kind of virtues the top management of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties have in real history. They regard everyone as a slave, and they regard all Han people as lambs to be slaughtered. As long as you get fat and fall into their trap, Eye, your end will always be torn apart by wolves.
So if Xiao Letian wants to rebel, he will start with the corrupt financial system of the Qing Dynasty. Anyway, he doesn’t want to be a submissive citizen, so he first digs out a large piece of flesh and blood from Huo Huo. Anyway, the money will be wasted by giving it to you.
Early the next morning, Xiao Letian bid farewell to Shi Dakai and returned to Yi County. Now that he was well-known in the Qing Dynasty, he could not disappear for a long time. Magistrate Liu had already reported to him secretly. Now Yi County is full of mystery. The characters are initially estimated to be spies from all parties.
Thanks to the bureaucracy of Yixian County, which had collectively pledged allegiance to Xiao Letian, the news of his sneaking into the mountains was hidden. In the eyes of the people of Yixian County, Xiao Letian, a lonely overseas guest, had been living in Master Qing's house during this period. inside.
During the subsequent days in Yixian County, Xiao Letian began to write his own "The Journey to the West". Each chapter was delivered to the capital by fast horse. When Hanlin Luo Hao and military aircraft Zhang Jingwenxiu received the latest article After that, he immediately took more than a dozen writers to start copying and posted them in major bookstores in Beijing as soon as possible.
Nowadays, in front of the bookstores all over Beijing, there are all the readers who are waiting for updates and the housekeepers and servants of various families. Whenever the latest chapter is posted, the dark crowd will immediately surround the board. In this spring of the fourth year of Tongzhi, Xiao Letian truly became famous in Beijing. Please come to more and faster chapters.
Xiao Letian's verbal battle with Wang Lao Hanlin, coupled with the bizarre kidnapping case, and even the industrial zone plan that has the government and the public talking a lot, these things have pushed Xiao Letian's reputation to the peak, coupled with the inexplicable silence of the Manchu and Qing high-level officials , which made all forces smell something different. Gradually, the breeze of Western learning really began to blow.
The court remained the same, with the two empress dowagers listening behind the curtain carefully balancing the court situation. Yi? and Fu Qing no longer dared to discuss their plans for the industrial zone in the court. Instead, they opened it secretly under the cover of the Prime Minister's Office. After completing the preliminary inspection activities, God only knows what kind of inspection results those Eight Banners men will have.
The far west of the empire was not at peace either. In the early spring of this year, the military commander of the Kokand Khanate in Central Asia, Agub, began to intervene in the Hui rebellion in Xinjiang, and openly sent troops to invade with the support of Tsarist Russia. It seems that history The major incident of Zuo Zongtang's entry into Xinjiang was inevitable. Update as soon as possible
As for Zeng Guofan, who was said to be wiping out the remnants of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, he actually turned down his planned return to Beijing to report on his duties on the pretext of wiping out the long-haired remnants. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Zeng brothers were silently protesting to the court. It seemed that Jiangnan's industrial zone plan cannot avoid these two brothers.
Generally speaking, the Qing Dynasty was still not very peaceful, which made those aspiring scholars more and more willing to study Xiao Letian's Western learning. Some radicals even began to connect in private, wanting to collectively become the first batch of disciples of Western learning.
Although the weather in the late Qing Dynasty is dull, there are always some people who wake up first, and there are always some people who are willing to accept changes. But change is always painful, like Xiang Shaolong who let Xiao Letian go.
In the mountains of Yanqing County in the west of Beijing, there is a village called Xiangjiazhuang. This village is purely composed of clans. The patriarch and village chief are Xiang Shaolong.
In the threshing floor in front of the village, apprentice soldiers No. 30 and 40 were marching. Under the watchful eye of the master, no one dared to be lazy, and sweat dripped from their foreheads.
Xiang Shaolong, who was sitting on the stone roller, seemed to be watching the disciples, but if you look closely, you would know that he was actually in a daze.
Xiang Shaolong is recuperating at home these days. When he has nothing to do, he recalls what Xiao Letian said to him, as well as the things in the book "A Journey to the West". He is often distracted by the strange remarks in the book.
It is said that curiosity killed the cat, and Xiang Shaolong is a very curious person, otherwise he would not be tempted by Xiao Letian's deviant thoughts. It's a pity that just because of his mistake, his Xiangjiazhuang fell into a deep crisis.
In the fierce battle that night, not many of his disciples died, only four or five, but quite a few were injured. More than twenty disciples were pockmarked by iron sand, and only the deceased and injured were given compensation. Xiang Shaolong spent more than 10,000 taels of decoction and medicine during this period.
Xiang Shaolong is a hero who values loyalty over money. Xiang Shaolong looks like a big man on the outside, but his family is not rich. If he hadn't expected to get some protection fees from the trade road from Yanqing to Zhangjiakou, Xiangjiazhuang would have starved to death just by growing crops. . Now that more than 10,000 yuan has been spent, life in Xiangjiazhuang is really getting tighter.
However, Xiang Shaolong has no regrets. He is a powerful figure in the world and is known for spitting. Since he chose to let him go, he will never regret it. Now Xiang Shaolong was in a daze just because of the history of the development of foreign guns mentioned in Xiao Letian's book. He was attracted by the colorful world of firearms.
"Foreigners are so smart that they can invent a continuous-fire machine gun that fires thousands of projectiles in an instant. How spectacular is that scene?" Just as he was thinking, a crying figure suddenly came to Zhuangzikou.
"Uncle Long... wuwuwu, Uncle Long... I'm sorry for you, I was expelled from the county school..." The boy who ran over was a boy of 14 or 15 years old, and he knelt down in front of Xiang Shaolong with a thud. , burst into tears.
When people present took a look, wasn't this Xiang Ying, a scholar from Xiangjiazhuang and Lord Long's nephew? He is the Qilin son of the Xiang family who is highly praised by Yang Laoju in the county. There is no one who is not proficient in reading and writing. He is currently studying in Yang Laoju's private school. Doesn't it mean that he will be allowed to take the scholar examination next year?
As Xiang Ying cried, the people in Xiangjiazhuang were all furious. It turned out that as soon as Xiang Ying went to school today, he was scolded by Lao Juren in front of countless students, saying that the bandits in Xiangjiazhuang were of low origin. People are not worthy of reading the books of sages, so Xiang Ying was expelled on the spot.
"Let's go to the county to argue. When did our Xiangjiazhuang do the work of bandits? No matter how high-ranking Yang Juren is, he will never taint our innocence and go to court with him..." The crowd was in a commotion. He was about to walk out, but at this moment Xiang Shaolong yelled.
"Shut up, everyone. I have the final say here... Xiang Ying, please be more careful. What else did Yang Juren say?" Xiang Shaolong asked.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"He also said that someone from the county government has already sued us, saying that we blackmailed the caravan... And in the end, the master whispered to me, let me give up my ambition to study, and we... Our Xiang family will never have a scholar in another hundred years..."
Understood, Xiang Shaolong understood at that moment that the big shot in the capital was taking action. How cruel, you actually want to end our Xiang family’s century-old reputation? But Xiang Shaolong knew that the big shot in the capital definitely had this energy.
So fast, this revenge came so fast. Just when Xiang Shaolong was trembling all over, suddenly a black light came straight to his face. It turned out to be a hidden weapon.
"Who is he? You dare to show off in front of me!" Xiang Shaolong took a copy of his hand, and a small sleeve arrow fell into his hand, but when he looked closely, there was a letter wrapped around the sleeve arrow.
"Long Ye is so handsome in martial arts, but I wonder if you can handle thousands of troops? Hahaha, this means our military advisor has returned your favor..." The voice quickly disappeared.
Xiang Shaolong has a good memory and knew at that time that this was Sima Yun, Xiao Letian's subordinate, a young man with excellent Qinggong. He raised his hand to stop the disciples' pursuit and opened the secret message.
"Escape from Xiangjiazhuang immediately. Officers and soldiers are besieging this place tonight. There are guns and cannons. Remember not to use your arms as a chariot, absolutely."
