[Chapter Word Count:3556 Last Updated:2014-09-1818:00:00.0]

Between the flickering candlelight, Fan Yao leaned on the bed and quietly thought about the rise of the Fan family, since his father began to embark on the road of business, he has been following the left and right, and the people who made the Guangde a little bigger were the father and son.

What was Fan Ru doing at that time? He was studying behind closed doors, reading the Four Books and the Five Classics. According to his father, the eldest son is to inherit the family business, and it is best to let him gain a reputation so that he can be honored. As for the second child in the family, then follow the business, make more money, and then supply his brother to get famous.

It's a pity that his brother is a fool who reads and reads stupidly, and he doesn't make the slightest inch of progress when he reaches the step of lifting people from his studies, and all he thinks about all day long is to use the money earned by his brother to buy a house and buy land. And he spent money like flowing water to make friends with the powerful people in Beijing, wanting to restore the status of the imperial merchant in the Fù family.

Not only that, but when he became the head of the family, he became more rigid and self-serving, and he had to dress up his family as a poetry and book heirloom.

In the past, Fan Yao endured it for the benefit of the family, but this year, this eldest brother actually intensified and forced his favorite concubine to death, and now he even stretched out his magic hand to the tiger girl.

"Is it tolerable or unbearable, I didn't continue the strings for the sake of the tiger girl and the girl, and now the main room is empty, and they are my heart! You killed the tiger girl's mother, and now you want to use 110,000 silver to blackmail me? Isn't it just not going to the public account, I don't care......

Fan Yao thought of this and slammed the bed hard, and he even said what he said in his heart, "It's a big deal to split up, it's a big deal to start all over again......

As he was talking, suddenly a low sigh came from outside the window, "Alas...... If Shopkeeper Fan had already had this awareness, why would he be like this!"

"Who?" Fan sat up, and then pushed the door and a familiar face entered.

"Mr. Xiao!" Fan Yi shouted out at that time, so frightened that Xiao Letian covered his mouth, "My old shopkeeper, are you trying to kill me......?"

Shopkeeper Fan was excited at that time, coughing vigorously, Xiao Letian hurriedly helped him and gently patted his back, "Needless to say, the old shopkeeper, I know the situation, I came this time to solve the crisis in front of the old shopkeeper." But...... I would like to ask Shopkeeper Fan, how bold are you, and how much courage do you have?"

Fan Yi coughed dryly for a while, and looked at Xiao Lotian with a flushed face, "Mr. Xiao, what do you mean by this?"

"The meaning is very simple, I have a set of great wealth that I want to give away, but it takes a very brave businessman to eat it. If the old shopkeeper doesn't even dare to divide the family, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat this set of great wealth!"

"Da Fugui, how big is it?" When it came to business, Shopkeeper Fan was three points better when he was sick.

"How big, hehe, so big that foreigners have to be polite in front of you, so big that you can sit with the foreign government to talk about business, so big that in the end, even the Manchu court doesn't dare to kill you......" Xiao Letian almost gritted his back molars and said this sentence. At that time, Fan Yao was scared into a cold sweat.

"Divide the family, foreigners, the imperial court, my mother, sir, are you kidding me?" Fan Yao was obviously frightened by Xiao Letian's tone.

Not to mention any foreigners and the imperial court, in ancient etiquette, the separation of families was considered unseemly, and even rebellious. In the society of the late Qing Dynasty, it was impossible to separate the family until it was absolutely necessary, unless the poor could not survive, or the family was too large, so that some people would consider the matter of separation.

If Fan Yao proposes to divide the family now, not to mention how much property he can share, he can be drowned with the spittle of the people in the four miles and eight towns, and countless partners, that is, partners, will also re-examine Fan Yao. Or even cut off the relationship, because they feel that you are unfaithful and unfilial.

To put it bluntly, once the family is separated, the sin is stricter than the peeling of the skin, what the shopkeeper Fan said just now is actually just angry words in the illness, but I didn't expect Xiao Letian to hear it.

"Shopkeeper Fan, let me tell you the truth, this set of wealth is too big, I don't want to give your brother a star and a half, and this set of wealth needs people to keep secrets, the fewer people who know, the better......" Saying this, Xiao Lotian suddenly took out a big black bag from his arms and poured the contents on the bed.

At that time, Fan Yao's eyes widened, the good guy's bed was full of Dongzhu, all of them were top-level Dongzhu, and there were also large pieces of jade and mutton fat jade. Fan Yao's family also runs a pawnshop business, and his vision is no less than that of a high-level courtier, and he estimates in his heart that this bag of treasures is worth at least 30,000 taels.

"Mr. Xiao, what do you mean by this?" Fan Yi hurriedly collected the Dongzhu rolling on the bed one by one, touching the warm touch, the old man's heart was a little trembling, this roundness and such a large one, are about to catch up with the standard used by Wang Jue Chaozhu, if this is sent to Beijing City...... The old man didn't dare to think that this was so much more sought-after.

"I brought out five bags of such a treasure today, I think it's enough for you to escape this difficulty, right?" Xiao Letian looked at Fan Yao with a smile, as if he knew that this old man couldn't escape from the palm of his hand if he was killed.

Fan Yao is still a little sick now, as a top professional businessman in the Qing Dynasty, he has absolute professionalism. At this time, the old man regained his usual shrewdness in business, and he got up and stood on the ground and bowed deeply to Xiao Letian.

"Mr. Xiao saved the entire caravan in the mountain temple, it is said that we owe you a favor, and now you have to help the old man and me through this difficulty, to be honest, I am scared...... Sir, you better lift the lid happily, I can't guess this stuffy gourd at all......"

Xiao Letian accepted Fan Yao's gift with a big grin, the wealth he was going to give him was too great, even if he was his future father-in-law, he had to distinguish between priorities and priorities, which was the principle of business negotiation. Fan Yao gave me a salute, which was already an acknowledgement, and he was already in a weak position in this negotiation.

"Don't be like this, the old shopkeeper is broken, it's broken, it's broken...... Xiao Letian waited for everyone's waist to bend at 90 degrees, and then he stepped out to help.

"Shopkeeper Fan, don't be impatient for a while, help me take a look at this thing first. After saying that, Impermanence pulled out a wad of paper from his bosom, which was the first ten chapters of the novel he had written, the chapters of Prince Enrique's Adventure.

Fan Yao took this draft in surprise, and only then did he see the beginning, and the old man's hands trembled, "Sir...... Sir, do you sue me, is this a fantasy?

Xiao Letian tapped his fingers on the armrest of the Taishi chair, and said very stinkyly, "The real history, this is what really happened in the countries of the Europa Continent, I just described it with the technique of commenting on novels, in fact, I also want hundreds of millions of people at the bottom of the Qing Dynasty to know the details of foreigners!"

"Why are foreigners strong? Why are we weak? When we are full and messing around, how do those people living overseas, what are they learning, what are they doing? Why can they repeatedly knock our Qing Dynasty to the ground? These answers are explained in the book......

"Even the filth between foreigners is recorded here. Who has enmity with whom? Who has kindness with whom? Who is closer to whom cultural inheritance, and even the most beautiful women in that country are recorded here. Hahaha, you're welcome, this is even if it brings out the old bottoms of foreigners......"

Xiao Letian is confident, he firmly believes that this Qing Dynasty is simply unable to refuse the incense bait he throws out, and there is no one in the literati and doctor class in the late Qing Dynasty, even including the more enlightened businessmen, who does not want to know the details of foreigners. As early as when Lin Zexu Humen sold cigarettes, he entrusted his friend Wei Yuan to sort out the information and write a book about overseas in detail, which was the famous "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" in the late Qing Dynasty.

But Wei Yuan has never been to the West after all, he only passively translates some Western works, and in the process of writing the book, he will inevitably add some of his own subjective guesses or translation mistakes. What's even worse is that Wei Yuan is a scholar who came out of the soil of Confucianism, and he put forward a slogan of 'mastering the skills of the master to control the razor'.

Let's see, in fact, this kind of thinking has the same root and origin as the theory of 'middle school as the body, and Western learning as the application' put forward by Zhang Zhidong later. The rejection of the Western world by the Chinese literati has almost been seared into the bone marrow.

"Old shopkeeper, I can tell you clearly, once this book appears, the world will never be confused, from now on any enlightened person who wants to understand the West will read my book, and they will bow down under my door, hehehe......" Xiao Letian's laughter was extremely cold, and Fan Yao had goosebumps when he listened to it.

"Hehehe, because there is no second person who can write a more comprehensive, more specific, and more practical article than me, the Qing Dynasty who studies Western studies, I should be the master of this grandfather......"

With a snap, Shopkeeper Fan knocked over all the cups on the coffee table, and his hands and face turned yellow. He knew that Xiao Lotian was not bragging, if this book was really as he said, then Xiao Letian was really not bragging as an ancestor of Western studies. If others are not convinced, you can write one if you are not convinced!

"Open a sect, sir, you want to start a sect!" Fan Yi felt that his knees were weak, although he hated his brother's rotten Confucianism, but he respected the great sages who could open a sect from the bottom of his bones. In ancient times, the people's admiration for the top literati could simply be described as fanatical.

Xiao Letian straightened the teacup and smiled slightly, "I'm writing a book, but this printing work is too cumbersome......"

"In me, in me, I don't know how to repay the kindness of Mr., now I can do a little effort, even if I do my best to die, I want to do a beautiful ...... for you" Fan Yi felt that he was about to float, and he funded a great writer who founded a sect, and he might leave me a sum in the history books in the future.

Xiao Letian nodded, "This is the first thing, and the second thing has something to do with money." The jewelry I brought today is actually to return the 110,000 silver to you in disguise, I think with your wrist in business for many years, it shouldn't be difficult to fill this little hole with these jewelry......" Xiao Letian clapped his hands, and a big man in a night robe walked outside the door, holding the rest of the jewelry in his arms.

When it came to doing business, Fan Yao was in high spirits at that time: "The jewelry given by Mr. can be turned into at least 150,000 cash silver in my hands, and those friends and friends in the capital can gather the money by scraping together." I can even hand over the treasure directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, anyway, for them, the treasure is more useful than the silver tael......"

"That's good, that's good. After this batch of jewels is sold, I will have new ones for you. I need the old shopkeeper's connections to turn these treasures into cash, preferably in pieces...... Remember, I don't want gold or silver tickets, I want the scattered pieces of silver that I can see with my eyes and touch with my hands......"

Shopkeeper Fan was stunned at the time, he didn't know what kind of medicine Xiao Letian was selling in the gourd, and just when he wanted to ask carefully, suddenly there was a gentle tapping sound from the window lattice.

"Mr. Xiao, something has happened, you have to leave immediately...... Erliang pot shop let the people of the yamen surround ......"