Yao Cuo and others played cards, no one paid attention to Li Guolou, a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west chatted a few words, Li Guolou took out his pocket watch, it was already half past three in the afternoon, and said: "You play cards, I have something to do with the second brother!" ”

Yao Cuo played a picture of the east wind and said, "What's the matter! ”

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Borrowing the east wind, the road to wealth and nobility, playing with the scorpion and the tiger are two-faced, you don't understand or less involved, you want to kill the head!" ”

Yao Cuo snorted coldly: "You guys, calculate Lord Bao, drag Bao Qingtian deeper and deeper, sooner or later, Lord Bao will become a black heart!" ”

Li Guolou ignored the cynicism of the brothers, they were eating black rice, and they couldn't use their brains, this kind of high-level work only Wu Defu had a brain to borrow. In the lounge, Wu Defu was still grinding his teeth in a dream, so he woke up Li Guolou, there was a charcoal stove in the room, Wu Defu did not wear a coat and sat on the bed, and Li Guolou sat on the side and talked about things.

Li Guolou said: "Second brother, you sober up, I will tell you a road to wealth, which is a road to promotion and wealth, and if you succeed, there is no problem with your promotion to the second level, and you will be a seven-grade official, and I don't dare to do it, but when I didn't say it, I will be killed by Lord Bao in the future, and don't blame me for not reminding you!" ”

When Wu Defu heard this, he slapped his cheeks with his palms, hitting himself in pain, so that he could sober up, and said with a smile: "Okay, your kid has a trick again, last time I made a move to turn the sun into good fortune, what is a good idea to say this time, I will let my wife sleep with the chief when he is promoted to two levels, and I am willing to do it!" ”

Wu Defu was born in Xiucai, he was not admitted to the Jinshi, and he couldn't be promoted without adventures in the officialdom, Wu Defu became a cell leader, so don't think about taking the road of the imperial examination again, the official fortune has come to an end.

Li Guolou said solemnly: "Second brother is not joking, wealth and wealth are in danger, this transaction is to seek skin with the tiger, I said, I had a master when I was a child and later participated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and later became a little king, Yang Dongting, the king of poles, have you heard, he now has a national wanted warrant, a reward of 1,000 taels of silver!" ”

Wu Defu said: "Old-fashioned, this kind of little king is not unusual, where is he hiding now!" ”

Li Guolou said: "Where can the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom hide, it is not in the arms of their belief in Heavenly Father Christianity, this time I accompanied Yelia to the French Concession in Tianjin, and I met him on the street, he is now a Commonwealth citizen of Canada, and there are British devils on it to protect him, and he changed his name to Su Pre-Li to do shipping business, and the Shunli shipping company is opened by a group of opposition people, second brother, do you understand what these people are doing now!" ”

Wu Defu said with a smile: "Before the time comes, I will become a teacher and cultivate the next generation of counter-revolutionaries, and the reactionary slogans posted in the Beijing Division are these people's work!" ”

Li Guolou shook his head and said: "Second brother, you underestimate them, remember the last time Zhang Guozhi, the commander of the military department, was assassinated, it was their gang of people who did it, this is a group of people who like to assassinate national righteous people, it can also be said to be rebels, my master Yang Dongting knows that group of people, Yang Dongting is not a national righteous man with them, he belongs to the kind of people you said just now to train the next generation of counter-revolutionaries, Yang Dongting asked me to help, he said that a few others were imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, let me find a way to let them out, I promised him!" ”

Wu Defu said chicly: "The prison of the Criminal Department is not a sentence, as long as it is not a death row prisoner, I will turn my hands into clouds and cover my hands for rain, list the charges and re-verify them, and I can cover it alone." After saying that, the two crossed legs changed up and down.

Li Guolou glanced at it and said: "Second brother, if this matter is still going to be so serious with you, the prison people of the Criminal Department, there are people who are not guilty of trumped-up crimes, and they are a piece of cake when they lose their waists, I want to say that it is a matter of the future, Yang Dongting and those gangs of assassins do not deal with each other, and the two gangs of people compete for favor in front of the British devils, he wants to sell those people to us, understand, do you know who those gangs are going to assassinate next!" ”

Wu Defu's eyes widened and said, "Mo Fei! ”

Li Guolou nodded and said: "Wealth is in front of you, second brother, you have a seven-grade official hat, Master Bao will be much more polite to you, and you won't have nightmares in the future!" ”

Wu Defu said angrily: "you, I never have nightmares, I just can't sleep!" ”

Li Guolou said: "Is there a difference! ”

"Of course there is, but the difference is huge." Wu Defu quibbled, his face was full of yearning, the bluestone official uniform of the seven-grade official, and the red-topped official hat were already in front of him.

Li Guolou admonished: "Second brother, there must be merit, some people will lose their heads for this matter, so don't take all the credit, don't do it by jumping over the river and crossing the bridge, or report to Lord Bao!" ”

Wu Defu was seen by Li Guolou thinking of a way in his heart, and said with a roll of his eyes: "I will calculate it myself, don't talk too much, when will you contact Yang Dongting and talk to me, I will talk to him personally!" ”

Li Guolou said: "In the past two days, Yang Dongting will send someone to give me a list, you can take a look at half of him first, and the others, when we go to the Tianjin Concession to interview him after the New Year, we can't miss a penny, so I want him to think that we are greedy people, don't be polite to these famous people, they can scrape the ground better than us, and overseas Chinese are their food and clothing parents!" ”

Wu Defu stood up and said with a smile: "Third brother, we are originally greedy people, when have I been polite!" ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, their four hands clasped together, it is more difficult to be rich and noble than to be in trouble, at least Li Guolou has done it.

Wu Defu said with gratitude: "Third brother, the rich and noble official fortune was brought to me by you, I will not lose you, I have the opportunity to support you to the top, I am also willing, but you have such a good opportunity now, I think you should go to the exam, I think you have no problem with buying the examiner!" ”

Li Guolou said with a smile: "Second brother, I have also thought about this, but I have discussed it with my family, and I still don't want to be this official, and I have been mixed with Lord Bao for at least 20 years. ”

Wu Defu shook his head and said: "I can also see that you have no confidence in the Qing Empire, and you are ready to slip away at any time, I am right!" ”

Li Guolou rolled his eyes and said: "How can there be such a thing, didn't I come back from abroad, there can only be one sister of the foreign flower world, now I am a catch, and there will be one in the future!" ”

Wu Defu held his chin and said, "Oh yes, give me a dip at night, or I'll have to drink!" ”

Li Guolou was very annoyed, and followed Wu Defu with a bitter face, people can't get carried away, he is too unclean.

Yu Hanbing was the first to come among the fake foreign devils, and everyone agreed to greet him, Yu Hanbing is actually the eldest brother in the Beijing Division of the Elders' Association, doing tobacco business, and has his own smoke gun hall "Le Piao Piao Smoke House".

At this time, the Yunnan-Guizhou region of the Qing Dynasty had begun to grow opium poppies, and the middle and low-grade opium no longer needed to be imported, and it became a domestic business, and the business of the British East India Company plummeted, and if there was money, the British Congress had no right to speak, and the British had no longer dumped opium on the Qing Empire, but mainly sold heavy industrial products, and the Qing Empire became the bottom of the biological chain, exporting silk, cloth, and porcelain, and moving towards the road of light industry and the competition in the Japanese weaving industry was particularly fierce.

Yu Hanbing has his own textile factory and foreigners to do export cloth business, and when he came here, he began to scold Little Japan, because the fierce competition in the textile industry was that the Japanese were eating away at the body.

Yu Hanbing was indignant and said: "What's wrong with our Qing people, we have to use small Japanese things for food, and even the clothes on our bodies have to touch where they are produced, the workers in my factory work twelve hours a day, but the production cost is still higher than that of small Japan, don't the little Japanese sleep, they open the factory price so low, don't they want us all to die together!" ”

Everyone talked about it and scolded Little Japan for being shameless, how can there be a reason for businessmen not to make money and do loss-making business.

Li Guolou sang the opposite tone and said: "Mr. Yu, this is a management problem, not a sleeping matter, even if your workers start work for eighteen hours, they still can't compete with small Japan, people don't do loss-making business, you are outdated!" ”

Yu Hanbing said: "Aren't I messing with the big guy, I want to mix into the upper circle, it was very smooth in the past few years, but this year Little Japan went crazy, and the price was reduced one after another, I was going crazy by Little Japan, and I sold Wujiale Piaopiao Smoke House, but it still didn't get better, it seems that I can only close the Tianjin factory next year, and I won't play with Little Japan!" ”

Li Guolou shook his head and said: "Mr. Yu, in another two years, your business is guaranteed to be turned upside down, you have to cry after you close it, do you understand the cost of production, now small Japan is working twelve hours a day, but the business is prosperous and the people's lives have improved, workers will ask for a salary increase, and we will be cheap in the future, we are a large population, small Japan and we compete for the textile industry after the winner is us, my brother opened a textile factory in Shanghai, now it is a small scale, and in two or three years my brother is the textile industry boss, you can make a lifetime of wealth on this tailwind boat." , sooner or later, the smoking gun hall will be banned by the government! ”

Yu Hanbing glanced at it and said: "I don't believe your words, you will be demagogic, I came to visit your brother during the Spring Festival, or he is reliable!" ”

Li Guolou said: "Mr. Yu will not be wrong to hold on for two years, and in two years you will be the first among the fake foreign devils, don't listen to a few other fake foreign ghosts let you sell the factory to them, three years later, the textile industry in Tianjin in the north will be outstanding, and the cloth will be dumped all over the world, if it is not for this line of too tiring, I will not tell you!" ”

Yu Hanbing said angrily: "Xiao Lizi, I think you are lying to my Smoking Gun Pavilion, and I want to sell the Smoking Gun Pavilion to you again, right?" ”

Yao Cuo shook his head and said: "Mr. Yu, we don't do your business, we all hand it over to other gangs, we are a gang between black and white, we don't touch this kind of all-black business, we have a good reputation from the beginning, unlike you who turned from black to white, Xiao Lizi is our dog-headed military division, what business we do is decided by him, we have only become a scale in a few months, Mr. Yu, we don't understand your business, or we may steal it!" ”

Yu Hanbing said angrily: "I won't tell you, Xiao Lizi, you come with me." After speaking, he pulled Li Guolou out of the room.

Wu Defu in the room sighed: "The third brother is amazing, I can see what will happen in two or three years, if I have money, I will definitely buy Yu Hanbing Factory!" ”

Yao said wrongly: "Second brother, how many years have people been mixed up to have this little family background, don't dream!" ”

Wu Defu sighed: "The gap, the industrialist is not comparable to us who collect benefits!" ”

Everyone in the room sighed, they were nothing compared to fake foreign devils.

Yu Hanbing in the corridor said anxiously: "Little Lizi, my brother is helping you to be a superior, you can't be blinded by me, tell me the truth!" ”

Li Guolou said: "Brother Yu, why am I lying to you, you want to see the enemy's weakness, they are now crazy, you can't support it, which is bigger, industrialist or gangster boss, you should have a pole in your heart!" ”

Yu Hanbing retorted: "Then why are you involved in the underworld!" ”

Li Guolou argued: "Brother Yu, tell me the truth, we will be bankers when we do big things, and in the future, we will lend you a loan from the factory, and we will lend it to you, this is the reason why we go together, the gangster is either killed by the enemy, or betrayed by his brother, we will be whitewashed in the future and become industrialists like you!" ”

Yu Hanbing sighed: "Little Lizi looks at you, why do so many people believe you, others say the same thing, I won't believe it if you kill me, but it can come out of your mouth, I will fight for the last hand, and make a bet with Little Japan, and if I lose, I can only go back to my hometown in Sichuan to farm, and the fairy board is back to the square braincase!" ”

Li Guolou glanced at it, pointed to the sky, and said: "Brother Yu, you are sick, I think I don't understand that you scold me, I lied to you that you are your gray grandson!" ”

Yu Hanbing laughed non-stop, hooked Li Guolou's shoulder and walked to the gate of Baozhifang, to greet the real boss Du and others, he was actually very unwilling to withdraw from this duel with the little Japanese textile industry, someone gave him a bright future, this big gamble of life will continue to be staged,