"Master, there's a letter from Jinan" The old thief of Ronglu, who had already been disfigured, was forced to read the official document with his sick body, but he had to accept Tongrentang's prescription and rely on some ginseng pills to stimulate his vitality.

"Master, but Lord Duanfang has already solved the gap in Shandong's autumn tax?" Rong Lu's master saw that the adult pondered for a long time after reading the letter, and he didn't seem to be able to see his joy and anger, so he had to ask tentatively.

"Well, there is a result, the autumn tax of 1.8 million taels is not as good as last year, but it is not as good as one percent, and it is better than the two rivers and Guangzhou." Although Rong Lu spoke like this, he did not see any joy at all, but had a thick melancholy on his face.

"Master, do you think there are any hidden worries here?" The master also felt that it was wrong, Shandong's autumn tax had doubled in just ten days, and he didn't dare to think about the problem.

"Worried? Hehe, it's still a hidden worry, it's all hanging on the side of the road. This minion seems to be shrewd, fooling Wu Chenxuan to keep the imperial grain and national taxes, so that he can finally give an explanation to the imperial court. Wu Chenxuan, a thief, is cunning, retreats as advances, and is guilty of the crime, and he is the one who makes up for the dead, and the silver is really collected, even Lafayette has to read his good, and he will never be held accountable for the stumbling blocks in front of him. But if you think about it again, is this Shandong the governor of Duanfang in charge or his Wu thief in charge, is this not clear for the hundreds of officials and Lafayette in the court? Duan Fang is planted at home, just thinking about his coral beads, why don't you want to think about the importance in Lafayette's heart? After a tight cough, Rong Lu breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Forget it, the old man is already a person buried in the soil to the neck stalk, and this end is also a silver-like pewter gun head, and the affairs of Shandong should be left to the Han people to fight for it themselves." ”

"Do you mean to send those things to the Hanlin Academy and the Guozi Prison, and let those poor people add some blockage to the Wu thief?" The master has long been involved in the inside story of this, so please tell me if you want to use it secretly.

"Add to the block, hehe, I really didn't expect that the old man and I couldn't help this little thief, so I only had the ability to stumble on him. Anyway, you slowly spread people, let the Qingliu go to his troubles by themselves, there are a thousand days to be a thief and no thousand days to prevent thieves, we don't have to go into battle shirtless, the Qingliu people are all red at this Shandong oil and water, have been waiting for these crimes for a long time, and maybe someone is waiting for the Qingliu to explore the truth first and then move to kill, a good Bazhen on the table to others, I don't believe that he can have no mustard. After another cough digging out his lungs, Rong Lu was speechless, and the master hurriedly poured a sum of water for Rong Lu to pour the life-sustaining pill given by Tongrentang, and the dripping tea dyed some brown on the complement embroidered by Jinsi Su, like a shroud that had been in the soil for a long time.

According to the treaty, Jinan Mansion officially opened its port this year, although many foreign firms have set up agencies in Jinan through the relationship of the Chamber of Commerce, but the commercial development of Jinan Mansion has entered a new era. Shandong Chamber of Commerce has become a national capital giant across many industries, foreign commercial capital into Jinan, more active Shandong's industry and commerce, in two or three years, Europe and the United States in Jinan opened 18 foreign firms, including Germany 8, France and Britain each 3, Russia 2, the United States and Japan 1 each. The most scene in this is the Lihe Foreign Bank opened by the Germans, which bought 30 acres of land in the west of the Grand View Garden and built a four-story German small western-style building. But the most profitable to say that the old friend of the Chinese people should be Wu Chenxuan and Alfred Children's Shoes, an old friend of the Chamber of Commerce, opened the Montagu Commercial Bank, and has dealings with various enterprises of the Chamber of Commerce, plus is one of the major shareholders of the standard factory, the business is prosperous, the annual import volume of the foreign bank is about 1.5 million yuan of silver, and the export value is about 1 million yuan. The Japanese opened a Miki trading house, which also doubled as a pharmacy, inn, restaurant, etc., so business was also booming. The business of Shandong Chamber of Commerce is blooming everywhere, and there are Zhou Ruiji, Tiancheng, Fucheng, Licheng, Beiyicheng, Xiechengchun, Tianxiangyong, Gongjuhe, Yixiang, Longjuxing, Yuanjuhao, Dachanghao, Changxinghe, Hengjutai and other firms. There are more shops dealing in medicinal herbs, leather goods, clothing estimates, and antiques. In addition to Wu Chenxuan's standard system, there are also Miao Jia's Miao Enterprise Group, Meng Luochuan's boss Ruifuxiang and Huaxing Iron Co., Ltd., Wang Guangzu's Hendry Watch and Glasses Company and Deheng Precision Instrument Company, Jian Zhaonan, Jian Yujie's China Brothers Tobacco Company, Liu Jia and Han Jia's Dang Bureau reorganized the China MRT Company, Dadong Hat Company, Dingyu Salinization Company, and so on. According to the investigation of the Chamber of Commerce, at that time, there were 25 foreign shops, 13 bookstores, 78 Chinese medicine shops, 11 western pharmacies, 28 leather shops, 24 clothing shops, 16 scrap shops, 9 paper shops, 9 cotton shops, 587 grocery shops, 9 incense shops, 127 silk shops, 6 cloth shops, 9 pen shops, 9 pawn shops, 10 tea shops, 162 foreign goods shops, 22 Beijing goods shops, 17 iron shops, 28 clock shops, and 98 money shops. There are 10 banks, 8 silver buildings, 13 mountain fruit shops, 23 antique shops, 49 hotels, 27 silk shops, 6 paint shops, 83 charcoal shops, 35 stack industries, and more than 50 grain stores. Most of them also provide raw materials and labor for industry and commerce through orders or cooperation. The small landlords who live by guarding thirty or fifty acres of land have to find another way out because of the peasants who have flocked to the cities or industrial and mining enterprises, and during this period, the phenomenon of bullying and dominating the market and seeking to seize family wealth is not uncommon, but because the local chambers of commerce have set up patrol battalions in various places, and the Wuyi New Army has also gone to various places to move to suppress bandits, the public order is still good on the whole, at least the Boxer Fist, the White Lotus Sect and the like have no place in Shandong, and everyone has a chance to make a living, who will still carry their heads to rebel.

Now the Jiaoji line and the four branch lines leading to Lunan and southwest have become golden passages, and most of the industry and commerce are concentrated here. For example, in Zhoucun, in addition to the nearby silk concentrated here, there are also many imported cotton cloth and cotton yarn transporters. By the end of 1802, the value of cotton yarn and cotton cloth imported into Zhoucun reached 2 million taels. After the opening of Weixian, the midpoint station on the Jiaoji line, the bristle industry, the silk industry and the cotton textile industry arose. In addition to the railway and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, Yanzhou has also become an important commercial town in Shandong, producing local goods such as dates, persimmons, peanut cakes, oil, winter vegetables, cloth, grain, leather, etc., with an annual output of no less than one million taels, trafficking in various products such as cotton yarn, silk and satin, groceries, and the annual income is also about one million taels.

Shandong Chamber of Commerce has moved out of the Grand View Garden, selected a piece of land at the west end of the second major road, built a six-story modern building of prefabricated steel panels, although the interior and exterior decoration are designed and constructed by the Germans, but the top floor of the arch cornices and two pavilions across the bridge are typical Han Dynasty architectural style, the combination of soil and foreign modeling makes the old masters of the construction department have a headache, according to the system to card, one is not right, but it looks like it is overstepping, to be completed on the day, The red silk unveiled the gold-lettered plaque of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce handwritten by Lafayette, and these old masters simply pretended to be blind, and everything that exceeded the system became a floating cloud. The large yard in front of the door has more than 70 acres of land, in fact, it is convenient to plan parking spaces in the future, but now it has become a parking lot for carriages. The people of the Chamber of Commerce have more money in their pockets, so they also began to think about the enjoyment of the law, the four-wheeled carriage brought by the foreign bank is really more magnificent than the green sedan chair, anyway, they don't care about the money of the horses, so for almost half a year, almost every member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce has a Victorian two-horse four-wheeled private carriage, Meng Boss They also specially asked Alfred to hire Sikh guards and coachmen from India, this kind of luxury is like a fairy tale carriage on the road, if you don't open the door, I thought it was a visit from the British Empire.

"Old man, tell you the truth, how much money did your uncle earn with that standard system?" Miao Laosi pressed Alfred on the sofa, but he didn't let him get up, Alfred didn't dare to push too hard, for fear that the collar of his silk shirt would be torn into strips of cloth.

"Miao Se, you should be like a gentleman, it's rare that you don't know that the age of a lady and the income of a man are God's secrets, and no one should inquire about them?" Alfred tried to convince the fourth to behave according to the British gentleman's standards, and apparently he miscalculated.

"Come less, although you kid speak Chinese very authentically, you are not authentic as a person. How much silver did you earn, recruited from the truth, and didn't rob you, our Great Qing Kingdom has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to your family, shouldn't you take out some to invite your brother to eat a few Desheng Lou for a month? ”

"But hasn't Desheng Building already let your brother take control? Why do you want me to have a treat? "Lao Ah is really a real person, such a blatant rhetorical question made the fourth child even more annoyed and angry, and his situation was even more embarrassing, especially the surrounding Meng Boss, Wang Guangzu, and Le Dadong's family, one or two of them were happy to watch the excitement, but no one came to rescue this British gentleman. Sean, a close friend, was even more annoying, very gentlemanly put down the coffee cup, and motioned to Rong Desheng, who came to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday on business, to take a look, Rong Desheng probed the snort of the pressed Alfred with a wicked smile, and then shook his head sadly and spread his hands, Sean children's shoes shrugged his shoulders and began to draw a cross on his chest, as if he was praying for the children's shoes.

"Four million pounds eight hundred and seventy thousand." Alfred had to lie under Miao Laosi's obscenity, honestly spit out a number, and took advantage of Miao Laosi's mental calculation of the exchange rate, struggled from the sofa, and hurriedly combed his long hair, for fear of affecting his demeanor as the first British gentleman in the Far East.

When everyone was laughing, Wei Keren came in and said that the guest from the United States had arrived at the gate, Wu Chenxuan had just picked up a cup of black tea in his hand, looked left and right and didn't find a place to put it, simply threw the cup into the trash can, and hurried downstairs to greet him, and even forgot to put it on the Bund for a while.

Everyone in the room looked at each other, and they all hurried to the window to look, wanting to see what kind of divine could make Wu Daguan so anxious to greet him. Wu Chenxuan's carriage was parked in the courtyard between between, and a short young Chinese standing in front of the car was curiously looking at the chamber of commerce building, Wu Chenxuan stepped forward and held the man's hand tightly in a few arrow steps, shaking for a while, and couldn't hear what he said clearly, anyway, even the future people who were dragged into the building were invited into the building. After a while, the sound of the elevator sounded, the door was pushed open, and everyone had returned to their seats, seeing that Wu Chenxuan had brought a small man from Guangdong who was dressed in a dress and had a delicate face, Wu Chenxuan was overjoyed to introduce everyone to him one by one, and then pushed this young man who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old in front of everyone.

"This is the wings of our Martial Arts New Army, the chief instructor of the New Army Air Force, Brother Feng Rufeng."

Everyone looked at each other, what kind of god is this Feng Ru?