As soon as the sky was bright, Xing San, who was under Xu Mingshan, used a small boat to transport two large packages. Túrin stood on the Laolong Bridge with his hands in his hands, nodded to Xing San at the bow of the ship, and watched the soldiers pick up the goods on the shore. After returning to the pro-soldier camp, it was changed into two boxes and loaded into four pro-soldiers through the side door into the yamen of the feudal division and placed outside the crescent gate in the backyard.

The rest of the work was done by Tulin and Zhang Shun themselves, carrying the boxes one by one into Guan Zhuofan's west wing. was snorting and panting at the door, but was seen by Hu Qingqing.

"Tulin," Hu Qingqing said with a smile, "You are also a fourth-grade official, what are you doing with Zhang Shun?" ”

The backyard is naturally owned by Hu Qingqing, and the maid mother is also under her instructions, so she asked, but the two of them didn't know what to say. However, both of them knew in their hearts that this beauty, although she had never served their father, but one day, she was going to call her "aunt's wife", and Guan Zhuofan would not avoid her in everything now, so Túrin put his finger on his lips and "shhhh

"Miss Hu, there's something, let us sort it out," Thurin said softly, "Just look at it, don't shout." ”

Hu Qingqing didn't take it seriously, but when he said this, his curiosity rose, so he came over and smiled: "Don't shout." ”

said that he didn't shout, but as soon as the box opened, he still exclaimed, and quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

The box is full of ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, and jewelry. I don't know anything about calligraphy and painting, and it's okay, but the dazzling treasures of flowers are rare at a glance. A pocket watch studded with diamonds, a palm-sized gold chiming clock. Crystal warm jade Ruyi. A phoenix crest inlaid with red and green gems. Hu Qingqing was dumbfounded, so frightened that she didn't dare to squeak anymore.

She is not a person who has never seen the world, she has been in and out of the rich house in the past two years, and she has seen a lot of good things, but how can she compare to these in the box? thought in his heart, he said "three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", then it will take three years. This is our master. I was promoted to the feudal domain, why did I embezzle so many things and come back?

Thurin and Zhang Shun, because they had a bottom in their hearts, were not as surprised as her, took out the contents of the box the same way, and laid them out on Guan Zhuofan's bed, making a pile of books, calligraphy and paintings, a pile of foreign things such as pocket watches and table clocks, and a pile of jewelry. The silver ticket, the eagle, and some scattered pieces of silver were again in a heap.

Hu Qingqing was on the side, watching the two big men roughly. I was in a hurry, and I couldn't help whispering "Put it lightly, don't tear it up", and then "Slow down, slow down, pay attention to touching", but Túrin asked her to get it, but she didn't dare.

After fiddling with it for a long time, the sorting was finally finished, and the three of them looked at the things on the bed, and started to stay, but they heard the sound of boots outside the hospital, followed by the sound of the soldiers saluting, it was Guan Zhuofan who came back.

Zhang Shun and Túrin rushed to the door according to the rules of the family and stood with their hands down. Hu Qingqing has been a little embarrassed since she took Guan Zhuofan's face and Zaijian arrived at him, standing in the door at this moment, seeing him come in, her face was slightly red, in the end, she was still a blessing.

Guan Zhuofan was a little surprised to see Hu Qingqing also there, but he didn't say anything, nodded, walked to the bed, looked at the bed, and was silent. After a while, he bent down and picked up a small jade seal from the pile of jewels, which was dull and inconspicuous.

"There is water in the eyes of the master," Zhang Shun said smartly, "This pile of things is the most ugly of them, and they are probably worthless." ”

"It's worthless," Guan Zhuofan repeated casually, holding up the jade seal, and looking at the light for a while, "Sanxitang Jingjian Seal...... Any idea what this is? ”

“…… I don't know. ”

"Sanxi Hall is the study of Lord Qianlong, and this seal is the imperial seal of Lord Qianlong."

All three of them shrank in fright, and none of them dared to speak again.

"You go buy a big safe and come back," Guan Zhuofan said to Zhang Shun casually, "These things will be placed at Miss Hu's place first." ”

This is to make it clear that Hu Qingqing is treated as an inner room. Zhang Shun agreed, and Tulin looked at her secretly with a smile, Hu Qingqing was ashamed, couldn't stay any longer, and said "I'll go first" in a voice smaller than a mosquito, and hurriedly ran back to his house.

There are hundreds of national treasures here, and I got them back! Guan Zhuofan ignored Hu Qingqing's strange appearance, sighed like this, and suddenly stared at the pile of silver tickets and foreign money.

"Túrin, what's going on?" He frowned and pointed, "Didn't you say that the money would go to them?" ”

"Xu Mingshan brought a message, saying that this time it was purely to help me, and I couldn't take a penny." Túrin explained in a whisper, "Even the other reward is said to be something that you would never dare to receive. ”

"Oh?" Guan Zhuofan stopped talking, silently engrossed, as if thinking about an extremely difficult matter.

"Master, I think he is really a righteous man." Túrin waited for a long time before speaking cautiously.

"Really?" Guan Zhuofan seemed to have thought clearly, his face relaxed, and he smiled slightly, "I saw another thing-Old Lady Qi of the Songjiang Cao Gang probably won't live long." ”

"This ......" Túrin was startled and looked at this master in bewilderment.

Guan Zhuofan ignored him and said to himself: "The old lady's body is not good, and when he leaves, the two brothers will probably have to fight for the position of the gang leader...... This makes me a little embarrassed, I have fallen into such a great favor as him, should I help him or not? This Xu Mingshan is not simple......"

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Just when Guan Zhuofan was thinking about Xu Mingshan, in the palace of nourishing the heart in the capital, the queen mother of the two palaces and the king of parliament were trying to figure out Guan Zhuofan.

"I'll just say he won't mess around." In the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, the Empress Dowager Ci'an listened to Prince Gong's recitation of the noble recital, and said with a smile, "Isn't this a requisition of the telegrams set up by foreigners?" I didn't spend a tael of silver, how nice it was. ”

Regarding the words of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, the shrewd Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong did not think so, but it was not good to refute her words directly, and secondly, both of them had the heart to protect Guan Zhuofan, so they both nodded and did not speak for a while.

In fact, the main point is not in the word "requisition" -- the imperial court did not allow foreigners to open telegraphs, but in the original meaning, "they were not allowed to open telegraphs," regardless of whether they were Chinese or foreign. Now since it is said that it was erected by foreigners without permission, then it should be ordered to be demolished, and it is the right thing to do. Even if it is "requisitioned", it should be collected in the treasury, how can it really be used? This is equivalent to the emergence of two telegraph lines in China, and the grandiose began to send and send newspapers, in any case, it is also a disguised violation of the ban of the imperial court.

The sublime recital, avoiding the important and light, only took the levy to clear the charge of connivance. As for the benefits of telegrams to military affairs, it is not convenient to say more in the excerpts, but to have a very solid report with King Gong in private.

"This kind of disposal eliminates the need for external discussions, and of course it is also very good." As far as Cixi is concerned, Chonghou's attitude is not unexpected, it is naturally due to the instruction of Prince Gong, but since Chonghou has made a trip to Shanghai, she wants to ask what the telegraph is. However, in the sublime excerpt, when it comes to those two lines, there is some ambiguity. Sixth Master, in your opinion, can the telegram be handled? ”

King Gong engaged in foreign affairs, is on the rise, he naturally wants to do, but the voice of opposition is also very strong, as the prime minister's cardinal king, he can not help but make a comprehensive plan, so he thought about it, and said: "The telegraph, at least in military affairs, the benefits are obvious, in a word, 'a thousand miles of words', the transfer of troops and generals can be done immediately, nothing can compare with it." Guan Zhuofan was in Shanghai, and he relied on telegraphs to transfer the thousands of soldiers under his command, which was equivalent to treating one soldier as three envoys, and in the end he defeated tens of thousands of long-haired people. ”

This is a deliberate exaggeration on his part, and the defeat of the long hair is not something that can be done by telegram alone. But when the Empress Dowager of the two palaces heard this, her eyes lit up, and Cixi said: "Now only military affairs are a big thing, since it is so good, can't Weishenme do it?" ”

"The two Queen Mothers are Mingjian," Gui Liang spoke. The old ministers of the three dynasties, after all, should be more serious, not as radical as King Gong, and he is King Gong's father-in-law, even if there are differences of opinion, King Gong can't say anything. "A few days ago, the fold that Chen Yi gave to the matter once talked about the harm of copper wires, and most of the ministers in the court and the local governors at that time agreed with his statement."

Copper wires, wires, all refer to telegraphs. Chen Yi's excerpt can be regarded as a representative work of opposition to the opening of the telegraph, and he uses the general principle of Gangchang to talk about things -- "Westerners know that there is God and Jesus, but they do not know that there are ancestors." China regards death as life, and it has not changed for thousands of years, and the body is especially important. The setting of wires, deep into the ground, rampage, extending in all directions, the leylines are absolute, the wind invades the water irrigation, how can the hearts of the descendants be at peace? By making the Chinese people willing to ignore the ancestral tomb and listen to it to set up copper wires, Shang An hopes to obey the monarch himself? ”

This is to say that once the telegraph is opened, China will inevitably lose its morality, and even the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers will be gone, which can be regarded as an alarmist to the extreme.

Cixi felt that this statement was always far-fetched, but the ink in her stomach was limited, and she couldn't refute this big truth, so she didn't know what to say for a while. When King Gong saw it, he hurriedly said: "It's not in a hurry, anyway, Li Hongzhang is about to arrive in Shanghai, and when he arrives, let's see what he means." If he also advocated that it should be done, and it was beneficial to military affairs, and his teacher Zeng Guofan would not oppose it, then other governors could not say anything. ”

"That's it." That's a way to do it. Cixi nodded and asked, "That Li Hongzhang, when will he arrive?" ”

"I think it will be within two or three days," replied King Gong, "and his edict to Su Fu has already been sent." ”

Prince Gong was not wrong in his estimate. On April 20 of the first year of Tongzhi, the fleet transporting the Huai army landed in Shanghai.

*(To be continued......)