"Giggle······ Master Li, why don't you come to sit with me? A gust of yin wind blew, the Yin people of the Internal Affairs Office, the head of the Internal Affairs Office Xiang Gangdi was uninvited, but he saw a big fat man about fifty years old, with a round head, a pair of mung bean eyes, and he seemed to be a child, wearing a first-class official uniform, but it was a first-class official uniform in the eunuch level.

Li Guolou turned over and bowed, and said loudly: "Coming to the lord, the lower officials have not greeted him from afar, and I hope to forgive my sins!" ”

According to the state system of the Qing Dynasty, Li Guolou should not bow down to the great eunuch to Gangdie, but Li Guolou still bowed and respectfully worshipped, this person must not be offended, he would rather be a villain than a gentleman, this is the principle of Li Guolou's promotion and wealth.

Xiang Gangdie's eyes narrowed, a smile hung on his face, and he was proud, as the palace eunuch Liu Deyin said, Li Guolou is a smart person, and he really wants to cooperate with the Internal Affairs Office, so he stepped forward and helped Li Guolou up, as if he was unhappy, and said angrily: "Lord Li, aren't you killing the old man like this, oh giggles!" ”

Li Guolou dusted off the sofa and sat on the sofa chair, and said affectionately: "Lord Xiang, you sit, the official originally arranged an errand, and he will come to greet you!" ”

"Well, Master Li is busy, there are so many errands, I can't be busy." Xiang Gangdi sat on the sofa chair as steady as Mount Tai, and his fat body seemed to crush the sofa chair.

"Xiaguan, knowing that Lord Xiang is from Baoding, specially purchased a pair of Baoding iron balls, and I hope to smile." Li Guolou naturally took the teapot from the smiling face of the eunuch next to him, doing the work of the two eunuchs in the right place, his movements were skillful, his expression was not twisted, and the bazi next to him was also smiling and holding a brocade box, where was the iron ball inside, it was clearly a box of Dongzhu, shining with dazzling white light.

"Oh, Lord Li is polite, since you came to the Internal Affairs Office, I should be the east, go, I have a treat, I have a lot of business matters, I want to ask Lord Li for advice." Xiang Gangdi grabbed Li Guolou, like brothers, and the group hooked shoulders and backs, they couldn't tell each other apart, they were all people without long beards.

Although the eunuchs are greedy, they are very disciplined, everyone is in a circle, abide by the principle of getting rich together, share according to proportion, and use power to arbitrage interests, which is also to look at people, Li Guolou sits in this position, and must collude with the eunuchs and use each other.

Xiang Gangdie's official position is like the commander of the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guard, specifically for the emperor to inquire about the news, the Yongzheng period sticky pole is the internal affairs of the house, folk rumors of blood drops, is their gang of people, there is a group of masters, for the internal affairs of the government, is the emperor's private eyes and ears, but at this time the emperor raised this group of people, will only do damage to the public fat private things, where will do to worry about the country and civil, an interest group to get rich together, Jiangsu and Zhejiang three weaving officials, Guangdong Customs, Chongwenmen supervision and other fat shortages are controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, In the final analysis, it is to make money for the emperor, all the expenses of the palace are produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there is the ability to produce and sell all over the sky, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has opened stores all over the rich areas of Gyeonggi, and is also in charge of the business of the Imperial Village, and a group of people who evade national taxes collude with Li Guolou.

After some bargaining, Li Guolou opened a "Please Come to the Bank" in Xishiku, and outside the city, the Haidian District of the Old Summer Palace also opened a "Please Come in the Bank", and the profit was divided in half, and the guaranteed base was 100,000 taels of silver.

At this time in the Qing Dynasty, all walks of life rules, dividends are mostly put in June, not the New Year's season, even the financial audit of government departments is like this, the eunuch said that he believed in Li Guolou, but the eunuch deceived the master and was used to it, where would he believe that Li Guolou was an honest gentleman, Xiang Gangdi sent people to settle in the two banks on the site of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, supervise the bank accounts, Li Guolou and Xiang Gangdi were satisfied with the initial cooperation intention, and everyone tacitly said goodbye.

"Nabazi, when you get married, the house is decorated, don't use those craftsmen in the Old Summer Palace, those people will make a trick to help you bury something under the ground, and you will be eaten in the future, and your life will be over." Li Guolou explained to Nabazi and prepared to leave the Internal Affairs Office.

"Ah, there's such a thing." When he was full of wine and food, he rolled up his big tongue and said.

"You think you're smarter than me, you say that you're talking to you, when it's not allowed, this is called keeping a hand, guarding against you at any time, don't get scared, forget what your surname is, bury your head in work, practice for me every day, practice well, I really lack official hats, practice badly, give me step down after three years." Li Guolou pointed at the nose and frightened.

"Zha, when the slave goes home, he will hire a private school teacher to teach me how to practice calligraphy." Na Bazi no longer dares to call Li Guolou a brother, the status difference between the two is too far, people must be self-aware, and at different stages, they need to play different roles.

Li Guolou took a carriage to see his girlfriend Du Yingying, changed into a suit on the carriage, and wanted to invite the big guy Du's family to dinner.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, when he came to the Peth West Restaurant, Li Guolou took Battle and four guards to be stopped by two Indian Asans at the door.

A hairy bearded Indian Ah San said: "Mr. Mack, you can go in, they can only go to the lounge, only civilized people are welcome to enter here!" ”

Li Guolou was extremely dissatisfied, and shouted: "Cheng Kun, you go to the dress shop next door, buy a suit at will, put a bow tie on me, and I will invite you to eat Western food in the evening!" ”

"Pierce." The five guards said in unison, and several guards knew that Li Guolou would not allow them to quarrel with Indian Ah San, and the foreigners would have to buy suits according to the rules of the foreigners and according to the instructions.

The venue of the Pace West Restaurant has been chartered by Li Guolou, and the hostess is Du Yingying.

Du Xianyu, Tang Jiaye, and Luo Lin's family came to more than 20 people, old and young, some are still milky, and fake foreign devils came to more than 30 people, most of whom are partners in the Chaoyang Development Plan, many of them came from Tianjin, and there are more than 40 people Li Guolou doesn't know, anyway, there are more than 100 people, Li Guolou asked the big guy Du to invite him to celebrate together.

"Brother Xiaolou." Du Yingying stretched out a hand with affection, and asked Li Guolou to kiss it with Western etiquette, which immediately won a burst of boos.

Li Guolou was immersed in the love with Du Yingying, and wanted to chat for a while and complain to each other, Du Xianyu grabbed Li Guolou's arm and yelled urgently: "Mike, something is wrong, go, I'll tell you!" ”

Li Guolou also saw that the atmosphere in the restaurant was not right, and asked, "Big guy Du, you have a fatal scene!" ”

Du Xianyu didn't let go of Li Guolou's arm, and said hurriedly: "No, something big happened in Tianjin!" ”

Yu Hanbing walked out of the crowd and said, "Lord Li, do you know that Tianjin Wanghailou Church is surrounded by ordinary people!" ”

"Ahh Li Guolou already knew why Li Hongzhang wanted to go to Tianjin with him, and it turned out that something big happened in Tianjin.

When they came to a private room, Du Xianyu, Yu Hanbing Huangguang, Chen Bulei and others looked solemn, and they talked about the ins and outs of "Tianjin Wanghailou Church Case".

After the "Beijing Treaty", the French Catholic missionaries Tianjin Wanghailou set up a Catholic church, the church has a nursery, some time ago the nursery suddenly broke out of a strange disease, thirty or forty infants and young children fell ill and died, I don't know what the French missionaries thought, thought of a bad idea, spend money to buy a batch of babies and young children as a façade, since it is a valuable thing, the Chinese under their hands will use the way of abduction, Tianjin large-scale abduction of infants and young children, make people panic, the local people suspect that the Wanghailou church people did, this kind of cause and effect, smart at a glance to know, There is a folk legend that the missionaries in the church used the abducted babies and young children to dig out their hearts and lungs and use them as medicine primers, and the people passed them on to each other, making people believe that it was indeed happening.

A few days ago, the people caught an abducted infant, and the abducted and trafficked infants and young children were sent to the Yamen of Tianjin County, after the interrogation of Liu Jie, the magistrate of Tianjin County, the trafficking of infants and young children admitted the crime, and the person was instructed by a man in the church, the news came out of the crowd of excitement, and they condemned the behavior of Wanghailou Catholic Church, Liu Jie, the magistrate of Tianjin County, personally escorted the abducted infants and young children to the church to testify, nearly 10,000 people gathered in front of the church, demanding to hand over the real culprit, but the church door was closed, ignored, and its momentum has reached a touching situation, It's terrifying to watch.

Li Guolou's face turned pale when he heard this, he sat on the couch in frustration, and said: "It's over, I don't know what will happen in one night, Tianjin is going to turn the sky upside down!" ”

I have all the flavors in my heart, I feel that the opportunity is rare, he has a chance to make money, he is going to make a fortune, and he is as shameless and despicable as those fake foreign devils who betray the motherland around him.

Li Guolou circle money to do what business can make a fortune, only to speculate on the land, he wants to speculate the price of the land in the Tianjin Concession, of course, the value of the land must fall into the deep valley, the original move is to let Fan Dahui present a letter of 10,000 words as a person, take advantage of the good opportunity to eliminate the East Twist, take advantage of the victory to pursue, looking forward to Li Hongzhang leading the Huai Army to take back the Tianjin Concession and defeat the "Eight-Nation Alliance", but also to encourage the students in the Gongyuan and those people in the Hanlin Academy to petition the Yamen of the Prime Minister's Office, which made the people in the Tianjin Concession panic and panic. Sell off your real estate.

Unexpectedly, he didn't make a move, there was already turmoil in Tianjin, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the Tianjin concession winter came, and he came early in spring, Li Guolou's face was blue and white, being a man like him, whether he was a national hero or a traitor.

Li Guolou looked forward to the chaos as much as possible, like the fake foreign devils around him, it was difficult to make a fortune, his face had become bad and ugly, and he said very sadly: "Liu Jie is really stupid, and he should be punished with a thousand cuts!" ”

"Yes, the court should be allowed to punish Liu Jie." Several fake foreign devils thought they had met a bosom friend and regarded Li Guolou as a raccoon dog.

Li Guolou said calmly and forcefully: "Tomorrow I will go to Tianjin with Li Zhongtang early in the morning, I hope it is still too late to clean up this mess, hey······" looked up at the people in the room again, smiled and said: "Don't be bitter, Tianjin is messy, the Beijing division is like a flower, our business is like the rising sun, the Eight-Nation Alliance will not hit the Beijing division, scare the Tongzhi Emperor more, do you think, Li Zhongtang's 100,000 soldiers and horses have just been arranged in the Zhili area, and the foreigners will be ** flying eggs at this time!" ”

The traitor Chen Bulei hurriedly asked: "Mike, is there really 100,000 soldiers and horses!" ”

Li Guolou Zheng'er said: "What am I lying to you about, I now have many official positions, there are third-class guards, the post of minister in the study, and the chief scholar of Wutang, this chief scholar of Wutang is the reorganization of all kinds of soldiers and horses in the Gyeonggi area, which now has 8 people in the Baoding Army, 9 people in the Xuanhua Army, 9 people in the Gubeikou Army, 9 people in the Daimyo Army, 6 people in the Zhengding Army, 6 people in the Tongyong Army, a total of about 5 people, more than half of these soldiers and horses are the Zhongtang adults to train the Huai Army to disrupt the formation and reorganization, plus the Gongwei Nine Gate Admiral Soldiers and Horses, that is another establishment, I have no way of knowing, but it shouldn't be less than 5 people, and those people are the real Eight Banners elite soldiers! ”

Li Guolou counted with his fingers, deceived the fake foreign devils, there are people who betrayed state secrets, it doesn't need to be in the morning, the French minister Luo Shuya will learn the news tonight, who will take these fake foreign devils as confidants, it is really blind, it is to deceive their family and ruin people, Li Guolou also has a clear conscience, tonight is just a small test, let them all plan to plant and fight in the future,