It has been the time of the seal of the New Year, Li Guolou and Li Hongzhang separated, with more than 100 Goshha convoys, to Tianjin Wei to catch up, now Li Guolou's life is valuable, he has fought people, enemies are all over the world, afraid that someone will assassinate him, so he guards the work, does not dare to have a little slack, the fierce god Goshha rides a high-headed horse, holds a leather whip, sticks a rattan flat knife in his back, and hangs a revolver on his waist, more than a dozen carriages swagger before and after, ordinary people are not allowed to approach, even if he is called Huazi, he does not show his face.

In order to dispel the doubts of Emperor Tongzhi, Li Hongzhang used his hometown to bring old servants, and also spent money to hire a dart master to take care of the home.

Now Li Guolou has no scruples, he goes out and uses a sergeant to open the way, and more than 200 Goshha in his house are considered to be army establishments, and eating is the emperor's grain, Li Guolou has no low-key consciousness of being an official, and the representative of the benchmark Westernization faction will cause a sensation wherever he goes, and he has long been accustomed to hugging the big scene.

Li Guolou did not have the consciousness of avenging the people's grievances, he didn't want to take the case, if he was entangled in official affairs, he had to keep an eye on it from beginning to end, and now he is doing things, which has nothing to do with the people's livelihood, and he can't be busy, so from leaving Beijing to now, the banner of the imperial history of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has never appeared, but has hung the banner of "General Soldier Li" and "Wujun".

Li Hongzhang has promised to transfer Liu Mingchuan from the armed forces and hand over the armed forces to Li Guolou to be in charge, Li Hongzhang considered building Taiwan and Penghu into a province and becoming the fourteenth administrative province of the Qing Dynasty, and let Liu Mingchuan be the first governor of Taiwan Province.

The cold wind was bitter, there were few pedestrians on the official road, and the pennants of the "General Soldier Li" and "Wujun" were planted on more than a dozen carriages, and the grinning wind horse team was advancing against the northwest wind.

Li Guolou, Yelia, and Xie Xiuzhu rode in the same carriage, the two ladies were dressed in fur clothes, lazily leaning on the bearskin mattress, and the little maid Qiuye was playing with the charcoal stove to keep the temperature warm in the carriage.

The little maid autumn leaves were bought by Yelia Baoding Mansion, as long as you see the orphans who sell their bodies and grass along the way, Yelia bought them all and took in more than 400 orphans, Li Guolou could not let the beggars in the town disappear, so he could only make a modest effort to bear the life of these more than 400 orphans, so that these orphans would not freeze in the barren mountains and mountains.

As for the homeless people with their families, at this time the Qing Dynasty opened two openings, one is to "go to the west", and the other is to open the door to "break through the east", these two openings are open, driving the flow of hundreds of thousands of people, although the government gives some help to the displaced people, and when they arrive at which agricultural reclamation area, they will be given some food, farm tools, and simple land nests, but there are many difficulties along the way, freezing to death, starving to death countless people, "going to the west" and "breaking through the east" is the hope of the Qing Dynasty, there are no field farmers, marching to the unknown world, the Qing Dynasty people are ** bombing, It can only develop the three provinces of the great northwest and the east, and the other resettlement area, the island of Taiwan, is still on paper.

Li Guolou made a crisp sound in his hand, that is, the silver dollar made by the Baotong Money Bureau, and there was a crisp "ding" sound in the collision of the two silver dollars.

The little maid Qiuye took out a silver dollar from her pocket, looked at the white flowers in her hand, round things, this is a silver dollar, she has become a rich person, giggles, the master is a good person, let her feel like a dream.

This is the first batch of silver dollars made in the Qing Dynasty, with Prussian smelting technology, from the overall point of view, the silver dollar is made very exquisitely, the pattern is natural and clear, the color is delicate and rich, there is "Baotong money bureau made", there is "folded silver one tael", the middle is "Tongzhi Tongbao" words, Qian Wen Xiuyi, dignified strokes, is Li Hongzao's handwriting.

On the back of the silver dollar, there are two big characters of "one yuan", and then a coiled dragon pattern, and there are several small characters on the side: "containing fifty percent of silver".

Yelia gently stroked a silver dollar with her fingertips, felt the pattern on it, and the edge tooth pattern, and grabbed a handful of silver dollars from the silver box next to her, and let it fall, making a pleasant sound, the white flowers in the silver box were dazzling, she had long since stopped putting money in her eyes, just trying to make a fresh.

Xie Xiuzhu is too lazy to touch it, the metal is greasy, how dirty the silver dollar is, her hand is used to touch antiques, and the priceless treasure will make her eyes shine.

Li Guolou let a silver dollar roll between his fingers, and said triumphantly: "This is a gift I brought to the Qing Dynasty, completely changing the situation of silver outflow in the Qing Dynasty, and the people will benefit next year, and the incense of Zilong Temple is prosperous." ”

The little girl Qiu Ye rubbed her eyes, her mouth was wide open, and she couldn't believe the scene in front of her, could it be that the master was a god or a man, and a silver dollar actually had life jumping between her fingers.

Xie Xiuzhu lazily pushed Li Guolou and said with a smile: "Don't play Xiaolou, you can only deceive children, what does it matter to us whether Zilong Temple is prosperous or not, our family will not go in to burn incense." ”

"Ding." A silver dollar bounced into the air, and Li Guolou said with a hippie smile: "Second grandma, you don't know yet, Zhen Yuhuan was hooked by my hand, Xi Shi will also defect, I am infinitely charming." ”

"Snort." Xie Xiuzhu and Yelia laughed, they didn't admit that Zhen Yuhuan was Xi Shi, what precautions does the family have, how good it is to be frank and.

"Second lady, don't look down on this batch of silver dollars, it won't be long before this thing will become an antique, and Tongzhi Tongbao will be doubled tenfold." Yelia held a silver dollar in her hand and blew in front of her mouth, "Ding······" The crisp voice echoed in Xie Xiuzhu's ears.

Xie Xiuzhu pouted and said: "Forget it, money and other things outside the body, I'm not rare, I still collect your oil paintings, this thing will not be a problem in the future, but I will curse you to die early." ”

As soon as the words fell, Yelia stuffed a silver dollar into Xie Xiuzhu's neck, and the two of them started a fight in the carriage.

Li Guolou said dissatisfied: "Don't you want to double the money, the circulation of silver dollars will show their value, otherwise I will be a criminal of the Qing Dynasty, tomorrow when I arrive in Tianjin, I will hold a press conference to hype up the benefits of silver dollars, come to the reporter and let them subscribe to silver dollars at a 9% discount, I will make a loss-making transaction." ”

Yelia sat up from the blanket and said hurriedly: "Xiaolou can't do this, it will cause a big disaster, you have to set a limit, and each person will subscribe for an extra ten silver dollars, you don't know how cunning the reporter is, he was deceived to the bottom, and he doesn't know what to say." ”

"Oh, it's a slip of the tongue, I know the virtues of journalists, and I won't give silver dollars to reporters for nothing." Li Guolou defended that he is not a fool, reporters like to drill loopholes, no eggs, reporters will drill a crack like a fly, how can a big hole be opened when the silver dollar is issued, let the reporter dig the first pot of gold.

Xie Xiuzhu said in a low voice: "Xiaolou, I heard Sheng Huaixuan to issue dragon tickets, I don't know the importance of publicity, I will issue stamps as a simple business, he has no strategic vision at all, I want to sweep away the 20,000 dragon tickets in the market, a ten-wen dragon ticket, I want to copy ten silver dollars, how much money do you say I want to make." ”

Li Guolou kissed Xie Xiuzhu viciously, and praised: "Smart, Sheng Huaixuan is not interesting enough, I forgot to dig the well when I drank water, I just want to honor Master Fu Xiang, I have long wanted to take revenge on him once, second grandma, you have to be ruthless, let Sheng Huaixuan regret it for a lifetime, and when I see me in the future, I can't lift my head, a person who is one level lower, standing in the gutter forever, and I still want to be on an equal footing with me, and I don't take a look at it." ”

Sheng Huaixuan is very conceited, never said that the post and telecommunications bureau business is Li Guolou told him, but to the Qing Dynasty post and telecommunications industry founder of self-proclaimed, now the government and the opposition propaganda Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the Ministry of Railways will become the Qing Dynasty to create two ministries, this is clearly and Li Guolou to compete for interests, Sheng Huaixuan is also a master of fund-raising, fancy the railway this piece of fat, want to step in, a piece of the pie, between friends, there is also a conflict of interests, in front of interests, there is no forever friend, Li Guolou Sheng Huaixuan as a business competitor.

Li Guolou's business empire is a small gesture at a glance, he never thought of finding a partner on an equal footing, even he loves the woman Yeria, it is only a 10% lady name, the eldest brother and eldest sister only account for a small part of the business empire, Li Guolou considers his own interests, he never thought that his net worth and life are entrusted to others, even if there is a woman sleeping next to him, he also uses the art of checks and balances to minimize the risk.

The national hero Qi Jiguang became poor when he was old, because his wife returned to her parents' house with her family's belongings, taking history as a mirror, Li Guolou is a hand to guard against anyone, and the ladies also know Li Guolou's virtue, and the benefits must be handed over to Li Guolou first, which has become Li Guolou's family rule, "Eat me, you must be eaten by me." This is Li Guolou's mantra.

Yelia glanced at the shining silver box and sighed: "I thought that being a big banker, with a lot of money, and living in a mansion, was a great happiness in life, but now I know that this is a responsibility, to let thousands of children like Akiba live a good life, money, it's still not enough, the money to build a school building, I don't know where it came from, I am worried that a lot of my blonde hair has turned white." ”

Akiba made a cross on his chest and said reverently: "Lady Yelia, you are the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, and I pray for you every day before I go to bed." ”

Autumn leaves are a clever and intelligent child, this is the first to stand out from more than 400 orphans, a word made Yelia happy, casually stuffed a silver dollar into Autumn leaves' hand, reserved said: "Good boy, this is my reward for you, good things come in pairs, these two silver dollars will bring you a lifetime of good luck." ”

Autumn leaves kowtowed to thank her, holding two silver dollars in her little hand, she was actually not an orphan, her mother was still alive in Baoding Mansion, washing clothes for large families, and living a poor life, but her mother heard that the great philanthropist Yelia received news of orphans along the way, and only sold orphans, so she asked her daughter Autumn Leaves to pretend to be orphans and sell herself, and she really mixed into Yelia with Autumn Leaves' smart and well-behaved.

"Ten pennies dragon tickets are worth ten silver dollars." This news must be passed on to her mother Wang Zhang, Qiu Ye secretly swore that the lowly person did not even have a name, Qiu Ye would change her mother Wang Zhang's life, and the ten pennies dragon ticket would witness the road to wealth for the laundry woman Zhang.

Li Guolou didn't feel that the thin autumn leaves were a spies, and the detectives also looked away, so they didn't regard this kind of child as a brained person, and they were still immersed in Qingqing and me.

"yes, let me see." Li Guolou cared about Yelia's physical condition, and pulled up Yelia's hair, women want to coax, and they don't need to take Yelia's words seriously.

"Hmm······ It's okay, it's still blonde. Li Guolou gave Yelia a reassurance, it is normal for blonde hair to turn gray, and people always have to get old.

Xie Xiuzhu pursed her lips, she didn't expose Yelia's full of lies, where did the money go, it wasn't used to build a French manor, there are many hypocrisies and kindness in the Great Good House, if it weren't for the little maid Qiu Ye who didn't look good, there would be no threat in the future, would Qiu Ye be facing Li Guolou.

Li Guolou soothed: "Third lady, don't worry, there will be, there will be anything, not this year, and in the coming year, I still want to see you look sixty years old, and your gray hair is also very beautiful." ”

With a sigh, Yelia has fallen into Li Guolou's arms, she loves this man, she chooses to live in a big family, the system of three wives and four concubines in the Qing Dynasty, it has its own advantages, anyway, she will not write any memoirs, or let Eugene continue to write "The Legend of Yelia" and make her life in the Qing Dynasty into a fairy tale.

The woman's heart is needled, Xie Xiuzhu looked at Li Guolou with jealousy and hugged Yelia, she has also made significant contributions to this family, but it is worse than Yelia, but she is willing to admit defeat, Yelia has already grown gray hair and has become an old vegetable skin, and she is still young and beautiful, and she is also snuggled up to Li Guolou and enjoys the pleasure of the journey.

The box of silver dollars was closed, the silver brilliance was fleeting, wealth to Li Guolou, has lost its meaning, the silver dollar empire has become his bag, there are too many women in the family, temptation happens every day, as long as he is willing to be cheap, those officials will send their wives and concubines to his bed, the underage chison once confessed to him, even the imperial concubine saw him, she would take the opportunity to touch it, and after a good time, he was the dream lover of women in the Qing Dynasty.

But Li Guolou suppressed the evil thoughts in his heart, showing people as a righteous gentleman, Li Guolou only pursues power, and his dream is to be a national hero who is loyal to the country.

Li Guolou slept in the bumpy carriage, the convoy arrived at the Shuangqiao Town Pavilion Station, greeted him local officials, held the handbook respectfully, waiting for Li Guolou to meet, each official's face was bright, proud to see Li Guolou, the Qing Dynasty guide Li Guolou, will lead them to the road to rich, this is their honor, today to see Peng Shen.

Li Guolou stepped out of the carriage and greeted him with a group of officials who bowed down to give salutes, those officials who used to call him brothers and sisters, now they have become his subordinates, the world is unpredictable, and the changes are impermanent, Li Guolou reciprocates with a courtesy, and he also bows to the end, they are all old friends, why be polite,