"Lord Qiyu, the green battalion of the Han army suddenly sent soldiers out of the camp this morning to purchase, buying a total of 50 live pigs, two carts of cabbage, a few rice and white noodles, and half a cart of soju......"

"Lord Qiqi, the Tongzhi Yamen has begun to prepare for today's dinner, and the cooks and men from the coastal building have entered the Tongzhi Yamen......"

"The first company has been prepared, all the equipment has been checked, and now it has been ordered to rest......"

"Report to your lordship, from last night to this morning, three waves of messengers of the Qing Demon have been intercepted and killed, and the corpses have been hidden, this is the secret order they carry......"

"My lord, our falcon outside the city has taken to the air, and a total of ten eagle players have been mobilized to ensure that not a single carrier pigeon can fly out......"

Early in the morning, in the courtyard of the Xiao family's mansion, the sky had just dawned, and Xiao Letian, who was following Long Ye to play Tai Chi, had already been surrounded by the heralds, and a piece of information was gathered here for approval, and every move in the entire Tanggu City could not escape Xiao Letian's eyes.

When Xiao Letian finished his two sets of punches, his head was sweating, "Bring breakfast here...... Go back and inform Sima Yun, what's going on with the second company, don't you rest? If you have a task at night, you will sleep for me during the day......

For a whole day, Tanggu City fell into a state of restlessness, Xiao Lotian handled official business in the morning like no one else, soaked in the foreign bank in the morning with Matthew and Mike to study the affairs of the Special Economic Zone that will start construction in the spring of next year, and even went to the bathhouse in the afternoon to take a beautiful bath, and when it was more than five o'clock, the refreshed Xiao Lotian was finally ready to go to the banquet.

In addition to Long Ye and a few guards, the person who went to the banquet with Xiao Letian was Fan Yao's shopkeeper, and Zhou Mingkui's post before was also written clearly, and the excuse used was to sit down and have a drink together to mediate the conflict between Fan Yao and Fan Ru, the two brothers.

Not to mention, Zhou Mingkui's excuse is really good, it's not a problem for Fan Ru to pester Xiao Letian like this, it's good to be able to solve everything today, so as not to have to do it twice.

"Hello Lord Zhou, Lord Zhou is auspicious..."

"Oh, the shopkeeper of the foreign bank, I haven't seen you for a few days, I drank two more cups at night, your eldest brother has already arrived, please go into the back garden flower room to serve tea......"

"Mr. Xiao... You can come, please hurry up, you are really a fairy method, I and Qing Sanye are tired and tired and have not been able to convince these Diao people, and as a result, you are invincible as soon as you make a move......"

Zhou Mingkui stood inside the second gate to greet him, and when he and Xiao Letian looked at each other, he quickly blinked a few times and warned him very obviously. After Zhou Mingkui looked at Xiao Letian, there were only four or five guards behind him, and his face turned white in an instant.

"Why did you bring such a few people? Don't think that Long Ye is omnipotent, there are many good subordinates surnamed Sun..."Zhou Mingkui said softly in a low voice.

Xiao Lotian patted his chest, and swaggered into the second door. Lord Zhou looked at Xiao Letian's indifferent expression, and his anxious head was full of sweat.

The dinner was placed in the conservatory in the back garden of the Yamen, Mr. Zhou is a person who loves flowers, the flower room he designed himself is a little famous in Tanggu, there are all kinds of flowers in the flower room at four o'clock, and people are hit by the fragrance of flowers as soon as they enter the door.

Fan Ru and Sun Sanhu had been waiting inside for a long time, and when they saw the protagonist entering, they both stood up and bowed their hands, originally wanting to say a few polite words, but found that Xiao Letian didn't answer this conversation at all, but instead went to see the flowers by himself.

"Oh, this chrysanthemum is blooming beautifully, Lord Zhou is so Yaxing...... Look, these pieces of glass windows can let in light and are warm, which costs a lot of silver......, right? What a beautiful potted plum, I want this pot, and I'll send my daughter-in-law ......to play with it when I go back."

Zhou Mingkui wiped his sweat with a handkerchief in a hurry, "Okay, okay, if you like it, you can move away, let's sit down, Mr. tell us about the West, and we will also open our eyes......"

Xiao Letian's rudeness almost didn't make Sun Sanhu's nose crooked, and said in his heart that this kid really didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he was so leisurely when the ghost door was closed. It's okay to let you be arrogant for a while, and I have a hundred ways to kill you when I turn around.

At this time, Sun Sanhu looked sideways at Xiang Shaolong, "Oh, this is Mr. Xiao's bodyguard, right?

Xiao Lotian glanced at him, "Who are you? Do you have a part to talk here?" The crotch of your pants is tightened, don't always jump out and make a random statement......"

"You ......" Sun Sanhu was so angry that he was about to make a move, and his fists were crunched and rattled. At this time, Long Ye stepped forward obliquely, and just the position where he was standing changed, and he had already blocked all the directions in which he might attack Xiao Letian.

Not only is the protection strict, but the angle is very tricky, which does not affect Xiao Letian's sight at all, and it is indeed the famous Northern Dragon on the rivers and lakes.

At this time, Fan Ru spoke, "Ahem...... The old man is the oldest at this table, so let me sell the old one, everyone can drink calmly, why is it so big the smell of gunpowder..."

Xiao Letian is most annoyed by this kind of relying on the old and selling the old, and this old coffin still wants to sell the tiger girl, which makes Xiao Letian even more indignant. If Fan Ru hadn't been a little affectionate towards his brother, Xiao Letian would have cleaned him up a long time ago.

"Fan Ru, Fan Huangshang... You really did an errand for the royal family, we can't compare this bearing, and one of the stewards under him is so domineering? The bosses didn't speak, did you have the right to speak first? Your grandmother's ......"

One sentence made Fan Ru and Sun Sanhu blush, especially Sun Sanhu's face was red when Xiao Letian was scolded, he looked down on two devils like Xiao Letian in his heart, a well-known palace guard with a knife, a royal secret protector, and today he was actually humiliated by a second devil?

Okay, okay, wait for me to clean you up, I will put you to death when I turn around, use the meat on your body to string fish hooks piece by piece, Lao Tzu use your meat to go fishing by the Haihe River, Sun Sanhu scolded in his heart.

Just when the atmosphere in the conservatory was tense, the guards in the small courtyard outside seemed to hear a slight sound, they didn't know that in the room around the flower house, Sun Sanhu was hiding more than thirty martial arts masters, one by one with bows and knives out of the sheath, and even someone inside prepared a shotgun, and the arquebus flashed with a dark red light in the dark.

At this time, it was already more than six o'clock in the evening, the sky was already completely dark, and dense footsteps suddenly sounded on the official road outside the city, and many curious villagers went out to look, and at a glance they saw countless green battalion soldiers marching towards Tanggu City, and everyone was silent.

The farmer did not dare to get involved in these things, so he quickly locked the gate and became a turtle with a shrunken head, and even blew out the oil lamp.

The encirclement network against Xiao Letian has gradually closed, and at this time, Xiao Letian is still arguing with Fan Ru and others.

"Mr. Fan Ru, you are an imperial businessman, and you are not the same road as us, if you have to get involved in our water, I am afraid you will not be able to adapt to it, and doing maritime business with foreigners is not the same as doing business outside your mouth, and the doorway here will not be clear for a while, I can only understand your kindness......" Xiao Letian tore off a chicken leg and gnawed it oilily while speaking.

Fan Ru frowned slightly, "Mr. Xiao, I talk about business with my brother, it's not good for you to be so involved?"

"Mixing, how can it be called mixing..."Xiao Letian threw the bones in his hand to the ground, "Lotte has my share, don't forget that the name of the foreign company is still my name..."

"Hmph... Your shares? You tricks don't want to hide from me......" Fan Ru's eyes were full of disdain, "Mr. Xiao, don't take our people in the Qing Dynasty for fools, you say you have shares, you sue me how much principal do you invest?"

"You have been abducted and deceived by pits along the way, and even the bandits in Taihang Mountain have been coaxed by you, all of which you want to hide from me. I've calculated for you what ways you have to make money, that group of bandits has a family of 120,000 yuan at most, and it is impossible for you to earn more than 30,000 taels from writing books...... Of course, you also snatched Huang Juren's family property during the Tanggu riots, and it is estimated that you can have two or three hundred thousand......

Fan Ru tapped his fingers on the table and said sadly, "Look, I didn't make any mistakes in your calculations, right? All the silver taels together can have five or six hundred thousand, which is already up to the sky...... Oh, I almost forgot, you probably didn't scavenge in the Ryukyu Kingdom, but the Ryukyu Kingdom is only a county, even if you scrape three feet high, how much silver can you have? Don't forget, at that time, the foreign company had already been established......"

Xiao Lotian was stupid when he heard it, Fan Yi's old face turned red when he heard it, and Long Ye, who had always been strict, also laughed out. This ignorant old man is full of the thinking of a rich man in the countryside, how did he know Xiao Letian's means of accumulating money.

Fan Ru didn't realize the ridicule of others at all, and still worked for nothing, "Five or six hundred thousand taels of silver can definitely not support a huge foreign bank, so the biggest share in this foreign bank is my younger brother, and you are a scheming liar......"

The more Fan Ru spoke, the more angry he became, "You kid is relying on how to learn from the West, relying on a good skin, coaxing the tiger girl to coax my brother, isn't your purpose just to occupy my brother's property?" At this time, Fan Ru looked at his own brother and said with hatred.

"And you... Are you so willing to let him be oppressed? Are you so willing to be a coolie for him to make money and give him flowers? You are so confused......

At this time, Xiao Letian couldn't hold it back, he snorted and laughed, "Hahaha, you are amusing me, you are really amusing me...... Hahaha, look at your strict sù energy, what you say is the same as the truth, hahaha......"

"You, you, you..." Fan Ru's blood pressure soared, he really had never seen such a shameless person, the conspiracy was exposed, and he still laughed, do you still know what shame is?

Fan Yao kicked his brother's foot vigorously under the table, "Don't say it, stop talking for a while......"

"Kick Kick, what are you always kicking me for? You are really a ghost, why did the Fan family come up with such a fool as you..."

"Shopkeeper Fan, hurry up and report to your eldest brother, just tell me how many big deals our foreign bank did last month, let him know how much money it costs to open a foreign bank, and let him understand how high the sky is and how thick it is..."R405