Yue Shoushan respectfully put three incense sticks on the ancestral tablet, told the ancestors about the marriage in his heart, and then prayed sincerely for the blessing of the ancestors. The room where the ancestors were ranked was filled with cigarette smoke, and since Yue Shoushan decided to join forces with the British to attack the Governor's Mansion, the number of times he came to worship his ancestors skyrocketed.

Bow down, pray, and bow again. These complicated rituals were done carefully by Yue Shoushan without the slightest mistake. When he stood up after he finished doing it, his expression was extremely stern. Step out of the back hall where the tablets are placed. Yue Shoushan asked the butler standing outside the back hall, "Who cleaned the back hall today?" ”

"It's Ayu." The butler replied.

"Half of the ashes in the incense burner should be left, why did she pour them all?" Yue Shoushan Senran asked.

"This ......" The housekeeper didn't expect Yue Shoushan to notice such a detailed problem, in the past, Yue Shoushan only came to the back hall during the festival of worship, and when the housekeeper ordered his subordinates, he didn't completely explain and clear up these details.

Looking at the housekeeper's expression, Yue Shoushan sneered, "Beat Xiaoyu to twenty boards!" The next time you arrange someone, be sure to explain it clearly! After speaking, Yue Shoushan left the back hall without looking back.

Back in the study, Yue Shoushan immediately called his confidant Yue Rengui over, and he asked, "Is the ship to Hong Kong arranged?" ”

Yue Rengui listened to Yue Shoushan's emotionless voice, and shrunk his neck slightly, "Master! The Liberation Army is now strictly inspecting all ships that have not reported their purpose to sea to them will not be allowed to leave the port. So we had to take a fishing boat and carry it secretly. ”

Yue Shoushan was noncommittal to Yue Rengui's answer, and he continued to ask: "Is the road to Fujian arranged?" ”

Seeing that Yue Shoushan did not scold Yue Rengui because of his unfast progress, Yue Rengui's heart was a lot easier, and he hurriedly answered the second question, "The 6th road is impassable, and the passes are all stuck by the Guangfu Army." However, the sea route can still be walked, and we have secretly sent people to Fuzhou. ”

Yue Shoushan quietly listened to the arrangements for the back road of the Yue family, and thought about the arrangements for ships, personnel, and so on. After listening to the report and giving instructions, Yue Shoushan met his younger brother Yue Shousong. Yue Shousong said very anxiously: "Big brother, since Yin Xiaofeng has come to us, should we pull him into the gang first!" ”

"What's the hurry?" Yue Shoushan said, "At this time, if Yin Xiaofeng is brought in, if he is unwilling, he will simply find a way to push this family business, this matter is not good." Since this family affair is decided, then we might as well complete the marriage first. ”

"Isn't this cheap Yin Xiaofeng, let him have a daughter-in-law first!" Yue Shousong muttered a little unhappily.

Yue Shoushan couldn't help frowning, it was obvious that Yue Shousong was treating this marriage as a business. As Yue Lianyi's father, Yue Shoushan undoubtedly didn't like this attitude. And even if this marriage is regarded as a business, once Yin Xiaofeng marries Yue Lianyi and becomes Yue Shoushan's son-in-law. If Yue Shoushan wants to rise up and attack the Governor's Mansion, Yin Xiaofeng will be able to stay out of the matter? When the time comes, he won't be able to participate.

Of course, Yue Shoushan was able to be the head of this family, so he naturally knew his younger brother's careful thoughts. Yue Shousong is a narrow-minded person, and he seems to be able to only accept the obedience of others. If such a relationship could not be established, Yue Shousong would feel a little uneasy.

"The matter of Ripple getting married is so decided, and I won't do it first anyway. The British also made the first move, and when the British besieged the city of Guangzhou, the Guangfu Army naturally had to go to the rescue. At that time, when their forces were empty, we happened to start an incident. Yue Shoushan said his own arrangement.

Yue Shousong shook his head, but he didn't continue to refute his brother's opinion. When Yue Shousong talked to the British, he had already made psychological preparations, and he would not take the initiative to jump out to fight for the British. The British also very cleverly said that they had no intention of letting the big tobacco dealers take the lead, and what they needed was that after the British army broke through Weese's main force and occupied Guangzhou, the militias from all over the country would rise up and respond.

Yin Xiaofeng's marriage was also confirmed at this time, and at this time, Yin Xiaofeng himself did not know that he could marry a beauty. He hadn't been to Foshan for a long time, so he walked around the streets of Foshan casually.

Foshan has changed a lot, first in the west of the city, where a vast area blocked by the army has appeared. According to the accompanying Yue's family, some new steel mills have been built here, all of which are the property of the Governor's Mansion. A brigade of troops of the Liberation Army is stationed here, and the steel plant is surrounded by airtight winds. Without the road to the Governor's Palace, no one can go.

It's just that this area in the west is not a scenic spot in the first place, and it won't affect anything if you don't go. After the Governor's Office took control of Guangdong, social order was restored very quickly. Along the way, there are still several Cantonese opera troupes performing in public on the streets of Foshan.

Yin Xiaofeng just stopped and watched it for a while, and then he understood that this play was a play that has been frequently staged by the troupe recently. As the children of the Red Boat, the Cantonese opera troupe took refuge in the Governor's Mansion early, and in their recent repertoire, the repertoire accusing the smoke of poisoning the people of Guangdong is a must-perform project. There are many local smokers in Guangdong, and these plays don't even need special scripts, just put the normalcy of the smokers on the stage.

Selling land, stealing from home, cheating friends, selling children and daughters, and being addicted to cigarettes can indeed do such things. So the repertoire undoubtedly gave great resonance to the audience. The public opinion in Guangdong is becoming more and more unfavorable to businessmen who buy and sell cigarettes.

"Big smoke is a cure, why has it changed its character? Foreigners are not Chinese, they come across the ocean just for money......" In the section where Yin Xiaofeng stopped, an actor wearing the costume of the Governor's Mansion was singing on the stage, "The Manchus don't care about China, just because the Manchus are Tartars." Smoking big cigarettes is addictive, and going bankrupt is just for coolness. The Manchu Tatars collected tobacco taxes, not to mention the ...... of the Chinese."

In the whole drama, only three things are said, the Manchus are Tatars, the foreigners are foreigners, and only the Restoration Society is the Chinese who stand with the Chinese. This is the main content of the non-smoking repertoire. And Yin Xiaofeng has also seen several other plays, which are operas when the Ming Dynasty fell.

Those operas are about how the Ming Dynasty of the "Chinese nation" was brought down by the landlords and gentry of the Ming Dynasty. Including the Ten Days in Yangzhou, the Three Massacres in Jiading, and the Guangzhou Massacre. How did the landlords and gentry in it, for the sake of their own interests, finance the enemy, collaborate with the enemy, and join the barbarians to suppress the anti-Qing rebels in turn. When the people of Guangzhou rebelled in order to resist the Yi Decree, Yuan Pengnian of the late Ming Dynasty appeared on the stage as an actor with a clown face. Of course, Yuan Pengnian's classic remark "Money rat tail is the elegant government of the new dynasty; Eguan Bo belt, the bad rules of the real country" are even more indispensable.

In fact, the aesthetics of human beings are relatively consistent, and the traditional Chinese clothing style is indeed much stronger than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Especially the bun, the crown has been beautified, and it is much more beautiful than the money rat tail. It was the first time that the people of Foshan knew about the Yi Law, knew the type of their ancestors, and how much their ancestors paid to resist the Manchu Tatars.

Regardless of the feelings of ordinary people, Yin Xiaofeng himself was actually quite shocked. As an overseas Chinese, he was trading in Luzon overseas. The oppression of the Chinese by the Spaniards left Yin Xiaofeng with many painful memories. Seeing the concept of a modern nation-state propagated by the Governor's Office, Yin Xiaofeng felt greatly inspired. The idea of the "Chinese nation" and the elaboration of what the new country that the Chinese nation should form should be, at least Yin Xiaofeng, who has been bullied by foreigners, agrees with it very much.

China is composed of citizens who are also members of the Chinese nation, and this country should also have the obligation to protect its citizens. As a member of the Chinese nation, everyone has the obligation to serve their country, and the people should devote themselves to the new country and establish their own social status through their own labor. The state and the individual are not opposites, but should be one.

Foreigners, including the Manchu court, naturally did not need to talk about it, and the reason why they would allow the storage of the big tobacco trade was because they themselves were barbarians, they were not Chinese, and naturally directed the implementation of policies that were beneficial to them.

After embracing this idea, and having been oppressed by foreigners and the Manchu government, Yin Xiaofeng's acceptance of many of the ideas put forward by the Governor's Office of the Liberation of the Metropolitan Government continued to grow.

Walking forward again, Yin Xiaofeng saw that another troupe was also performing, but the content of the performance was a completely new repertoire. After standing there and watching for a while, Yin Xiaofeng realized that the new repertoire turned out to be about the land granting order. The land grant order aroused fierce opposition among the landlord class in Guangdong, and Yin Xiaofeng, as a landlord and head of the militia group, naturally could not support the land grant order with joy. So he just stood there and watched.

Looking at this, Yin Xiaofeng was quickly attracted. This repertoire does not blindly advocate the benefits of granting orders, but is intended to explain the reasons for the system of granting orders. In the play, the Grant Decree proposes the concept of "means of production". The decree upholds the responsibility of the government to protect the normal life of the people in the modern nationalist state, so the meaning of land in the eyes of the government is completely different. People starved to death if they had nothing to eat, and some people left agriculture and became soldiers and workers. These people want to eat and drink, and if the food is unstable, it will also cause chaos.

Therefore, if the state wants to stabilize the food supply, it has to control the land and grain taxes, and the old land system has become an obstacle. Most of the people who watched the play saw the concept of "national policy" for the first time, and after being fresh and shocked, everyone began to discuss it. There are various theories, some think that the land should be divided, and some think that the land should not be divided.

Yin Xiaofeng didn't want to discuss these things with strangers, he felt that if what was said in the play was the real idea of recovering the Governor's Mansion, then it would also touch on a lot of fundamental issues. The core issue in the play is the issue of grain prices, and a policy of "unified purchase and unified sales" is proposed. That is, the price of grain is fixed, and it is the same in good and bad years. In order to achieve this goal, the state needs to invest a lot of money in the construction of storage facilities, and it also needs to establish and maintain a set of systems and systems for the purchase and sale of grain.

These things were not absent in the Manchu era, but this system has long since become unrecognizable. The landlords and gentry joined forces and colluded with the government, whether in good years or famine years, as long as the price of grain fluctuated, they would make a lot of money. The Governor's Office undoubtedly saw this problem and proposed a completely new system to solve it.

As a businessman, Yin Xiaofeng naturally knows the huge business opportunities brought about by the fluctuation of food prices. Because of this, he can also understand the problems that are talked about and pointed out in this play.

Yin Xiaofeng suddenly felt that he couldn't help but contradict himself in his heart. He was able to accept the Governor's tough anti-smoking policy because some people in his family were suffering from it. But he now feels that the state ownership of land is not unreasonable, which is too inconsistent with his own origins. But Yin Xiaofeng is now, and he doesn't even object to this truth. Thinking about it, Yin Xiaofeng suddenly heard a sentence, "I am all Chinese, this meat rots in this pot in China, how can Chinese eat a few bites." If the meat is taken out of this pot in China, then what will I wait for the Chinese to eat? ”

These words were like a bolt of lightning, suddenly illuminating Yin Xiaofeng's train of thought. Yin Xiaofeng suddenly appeared, and he himself didn't know when he actually felt that he was a Chinese first.

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