[Chapter Word Count:3531 Last Updated:2014-10-0307:00:00.0]

The night was gradually quiet, and there was a scattered sound of wine orders in the distance in the night wind, and the tiger girl sat next to Xiao Letian and gently wiped the sweat from his head with a handkerchief.

Today's Xiao Letian really scared the little girl, she didn't expect Xiao Letian to be so bold as to mint silver coins privately, and she didn't know who the person called Wang Ye was, anyway, his father and Brother Xiao respected him very much. The little girl couldn't figure out why these bandits who had besieged her were so docile and friendly now.

Although the tiger girl is not favored at home, after all, she has also seen the world, and Xiao Letian's economic layout is not understood except for the overseas trade, and she understands the rest. She knew that this was profiting from the fire, and every penny of interest earned by Xiao Letian was actually snatched from the abuse of the people

And Hu Niu, who was born in a businessman family, knows that cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents, Xiao Letian is going to dig the wealth of corrupt officials in the world, and this is worth it.

Just when Hu Niu was worried about Xiao Letian, the door was gently pushed open, and the half-drunk Fan Yao walked in. He looked at the sleeping Xiao Letian, patted his daughter's shoulder and took her out.

"Father, is it really good for Brother Xiao to do this? He is the enemy of all the officials in the world! Once the court knows, this is the ...... of the Nine Clans."

Fan Yao smiled bitterly and said, "Girl, since we separated from your uncle, I have already known very well that there is no hiding place for us in the world." Since the separation, do you know how many of them have cut off relations with us? They look down on me, they think that I am looking for death when I leave the house, and 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, there is no family, my Fan Yao is still the head of the Jin merchants who call for wind and rain, and I can still create a big family business. And Xiao Lotian is our hope......"

Fan Yao was a little afraid to look at his daughter's gaze, lowered his head and said, "Girl, I don't know if the choice is right or wrong, I don't let you be someone's concubine, I saved you on the surface." But following my father on this dangerous road, I was a little scared. ”

"You don't have to ask more about this cottage, you should not know, every qiē is rotten in your stomach...... Especially the matter of which prince, you can't even leak a shadow to the outside. Do you know why I didn't take Ah Chou over? Just because she has a big mouth, you will say that you have spent the past few days in Yixian County......

The father and daughter discussed for a long time in the night, and from time to time the tiger girl wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and Shi Dakai looked at the two of them quietly behind the flowers, and sighed in her heart, "Such a bold businessman, how many can there be in the Qing Dynasty?" Maybe only that Hu Xueyan can stand side by side with him." ”

Shi Dakai didn't know that Hu Xueyan, who now has a net worth of tens of millions, looks extremely beautiful on the surface, but for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this is a pig that has become more and more fat, and sooner or later he will be killed and eaten meat. Now all forces are watching him with fierce 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 war with foreign merchants, and at that time, the Manchu government did not say that it carried out emergency blood transfusions to protect this big businessman who could compete with foreign merchants, but bureaucrats from all over the country competed for deposits and extorted money.

Until the end, Cixi ordered a strict investigation, and all the tops on Hu Xueyan's body were stripped off, and he couldn't afford to fall ill and finally died.

Xiao Letian didn't want to follow in Hu Xueyan's footsteps, and he didn't even want to let his father-in-law take this risk for himself. What are the virtues of the Manchu high-level leaders, Xiao Letian has seen it very clearly in real history, they treat everyone as slaves, they regard all Han people as lambs to the slaughter, as long as you are fat, into their eyes, your end will always be a pack of wolves.

So Xiao Letian wants to rebel, first start the rebellion from the corrupt financial system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, anyway, he doesn't want to be obedient to the people, first dig out a large piece of flesh and blood from the fire, anyway, it will be a waste of money to hand over to you.

Early the next morning, Xiao Letian said goodbye to Shi Dakai and returned to Yi County, now he is already famous in Daqing, it is impossible to disappear for a long time, before Liu County Ling has secretly reported to him, now Yi County is full of mysterious characters, and it is initially estimated that they are spies from all sides.

Thanks to the bureaucracy of Yi County, which has collectively pledged allegiance to Xiao Letian, this is the news that he secretly entered the mountain is hidden, and in the eyes of the people of Yi County, Xiao Letian, an overseas lonely guest, has been living in Qing Sanye's house during this time.

Later, in the days of Yi County, Xiao Letian began to hurry up to write his "Westward Journey" After each chapter was written, it was passed to Beijing with a fast horse, when Hanlin Luo Hao and the military machine Zhang Jingwenxiu, after receiving the latest article, he immediately took more than ten writers to start copying, and posted it in the major bookstores in Beijing City for the first time.

Now in front of the bookstores in the city of Beijing, there are all waiting for updated readers and housekeepers, and every time the latest chapter is posted, the black crowd will immediately surround the wooden board. In the spring of the fourth year of Tongzhi, Xiao Le really achieved the name of Jinghua.

Xiao Letian's tongue battle against Wang Lao Hanlin, coupled with the bizarre kidnapping case, and even the special industrial zone plan that made the government and the opposition talk about it, these things pushed Xiao Letian's reputation to the peak, coupled with the inexplicable silence of the Manchu high-level, it made all parties smell a different taste, and gradually the breeze of Western learning really began to blow.

The court is still the same, the queen mother of the two palaces who listened to the government carefully balanced the court situation, Yi and Fuqing no longer dared to discuss their plans for the special industrial zone in the court, on the contrary, under the cover of the prime minister's yamen, secretly opened the preliminary inspection activities, as for what the eight banners can be inspected, God knows.

The far west of the empire was not peaceful, and in the spring of this year, the military commander of the Kokand Khanate in Central Asia, Aguba, began to intervene in the Hui rebellion in Xinjiang, and openly sent troops to invade with the support of Tsarist Russia.

As for Zeng Guofan, who is purging the remnants of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, he even pushed off the original plan to return to Beijing to report on his work under the pretext of purging the remnants of Changmao, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Zeng brothers are silently protesting to the imperial court, and it seems that the special industrial zone plan in Jiangnan can't get around these two brothers.

In general, the Qing Dynasty was still not very peaceful, which made those aspiring scholars more and more willing to study Xiao Letian's Western studies, and some radicals even began to secretly join forces, wanting to collectively apprentice to become the first batch of disciples of Western studies.

Although the sky 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 change. But change is always painful, such as Xiang Shaolong, who let Xiao Lotian go.

In the mountains of Yanqing County, western Beijing, there is a village called Xiangjiazhuang, which is purely a village united by clans, and the patriarch and village chief are Xiang Shaolong.

In the threshing floor in front of the village, the thirty or forty apprentices were stepping on their horses, and no one dared to be lazy under the watchful eye of the master, and the sweat on their foreheads was dripping down.

And Xiang Shaolong, who was sitting on the stone mill, looked like he was watching the apprentices on the surface, but if you took a closer look, you could see that he was actually in a daze.

Xiang Shaolong has been recuperating at home for the past few days, and he recalls the words that Xiao Letian said to him, as well as the things in the book "Journey to the West", and he is often disturbed by the strange remarks in it.

It is said that curiosity kills cats, Xiang Shaolong is a person who is too curious, otherwise he would not be bewitched by Xiao Letian's deviant thoughts. It's a pity that it was precisely because of his thought that his Xiangjiazhuang fell into a deep crisis.

In the fierce battle that night, not many of his apprentices died, only four or five, and there were really a lot of injuries, more than 20 disciples were beaten into pockmarked faces by iron sand, and Xiang Shaolong spent more than 10,000 taels during this time.

Heroes in the rivers and lakes, emphasizing righteousness and ignoring money, Xiang Shaolong looks like a big scene outside, but his family background is not rich, if he didn't expect to get some protection money from the trade road from Yanqing to Zhangjiakou, Xiang Jiazhuang would have starved to death just by planting crops. Now that more than 10,000 silver has been spent, Xiangjiazhuang's life is really getting tighter.

However, Xiang Shaolong has no regrets, the heroes of the rivers and lakes who stand up to the sky, spitting is a nail, since he chose to release people, he will never regret it. Now Xiang Shaolong is in a daze just because of the history of the development of foreign guns told in Xiao Letian's book, and he is attracted by the colorful world of firearms.

"How spectacular is it that a foreigner is so clever to invent a repeating machine gun that fires thousands of projectiles in an instant?" Just as he was thinking, a crying figure suddenly ran from Zhuangzikou.

"Uncle Long...... Woo woo, Uncle Long...... I'm sorry for you, I was expelled from the county school......" It was a fourteen or fifteen boy who ran over, and he knelt in front of Xiang Shaolong with a poof, crying loudly.

The people present looked at it, isn't this Xiang Jiazhuang's Xiucai, Long Ye's own nephew Xiang Ying? He is the Xiang family's Qilin who was praised by Yang Laoju in the county, and there is no one who is not proficient in reading and writing, and now he is studying in Yang Laojuren's private school, doesn't he say that he will be allowed to take the Xiucai exam next year?

In Xiang Ying's crying, the people of Xiangjiazhuang were angry one by one, 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 Xiangjiazhuang bandits were born with low character, such people are not worthy of reading sage books, and Xiang Ying was expelled on the spot.

"Let's go, let's go to the county to theorize, when did we Xiangjiazhuang ever do the work of bandits? No matter how high Yang Juren's status is, he doesn't want to tarnish our innocence, and go to a lawsuit with him......" The crowd was about to go out in a hurry, but at this time Xiang Shaolong roared.

"Shut up, I'm in charge...... Xiang Ying, be careful, what else did Yang Juren say?" asked Xiang Shaolong.

"Woo woo, he also said that someone in the county government has already sued us, saying that we are blackmailing the caravan...... And in the end, the master whispered to me, let me die of the heart of reading, let's ...... Our Xiang family will be able to come up with a scholar in another hundred years......"

understood, Xiang Shaolong understood at that time, this was the big man in the capital who made a move. It's so ruthless, you actually want to cut off our Xiang family's century-old fame? But Xiang Shaolong knows that the big man in the capital definitely has this energy.

So fast, this revenge came so quickly, just when Xiang Shaolong was trembling, suddenly a black light came straight to his front door, it was actually a hidden weapon.

"Who is it, dare to show off in front of me!" Xiang Shaolong copied it, and a small sleeve arrow fell into his hand, but when he looked closely, there was actually a letter wrapped around the sleeve arrow.

"Master Long is so handsome, but I don't know if you can deal with thousands of troops?" hahaha, even if our military advisor returns your favor......" The voice quickly disappeared.

Xiang Shaolong has a good memory, and he knew at that time that this was Sima Yun under Xiao Letian, a young man with great light skills. He raised his hand to stop the pursuit of his apprentices and opened the secret letter.

"Flee from Xiangjiazhuang immediately, the officers and soldiers are besieging here tonight, there are guns, remember not to use your arms as a car, cut it. ”