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In the following days, Wen Tiren seemed to be really at ease, and he didn't see Li Xiuwen's stubble again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhu Youzhen seems to have forgotten him, and he has never been summoned again. In the eyes of many people, Li Xiuwen has lost his holy family.

Li Xiuwen is happy to be idle, except for occasional visits to the barracks, most of the time he stays at home.

After a few days of preparation, the "Woman Flower" also opened. This women's goods specialty store is also a five-storey building, and each floor deals in different items.

Among them are jewelry, fashionable dresses, rouge gouache and other things for women. Due to the high purchase requirements, it is very popular with the ladies of the capital.

Li Xiuwen has been very idle recently, so he has served as a clothing taster specializing in women's flowers. With his knowledge in his previous life, coupled with the skillful hands of women in this period, all kinds of slightly trendy dresses with special trademarks printed on the women's flowers walked into the circle of noblewomen in the capital.

According to the concept of the shopping mall in later generations, the women's flower has completely become a shopping paradise for women in the Ming Dynasty, and it is specially stipulated that only women can enter this building, giving them enough face and respect.

During this period, such places naturally attract women.

There was nothing special about the publicity in the early stage, the only difference was that it was not publicized in the Qinglou venue.

Why?

Women don't go to green houses!

The opening of the women's flower once again drove the business of Sihailou on the side.

This daughter country was naturally handed over to Yang Yuxuan to take care of.

Li Xiuwen also wanted to call his daughter country at first, but he felt a little rebellious, so he changed his name.

Soon after the opening of the Women's Flower, the same five-storey building also began to operate.

In principle, gambling was forbidden in the Ming Dynasty. But what is above, there is a countermeasure below. Institutions are dead, but people are alive.

Li Xiuwen worked all sides before he quietly opened the gambling house, and this was not publicized.

There is no propaganda on the surface, but in private it is a lot of effort.

Although Li Xiuwen seems to have lost his momentum, in fact, many Beijing officials with small rank still want to give him face. As soon as he let out the news, it was spread by these people themselves, or by the sons of the family, and soon it was successfully spread among the eunuchs, nobles, and wealthy merchants.

The gambling house has a very meaningful name - cornucopia.

As for whether it is a guest gathering treasure or the owner collecting money, it is self-explanatory.

There are many patterns in the five-story building, some in this period, and only after hundreds of years, all of which Li Xiuwen found a craftsman to make them. Except for those that require electricity to play, everything else is basically complete.

It doesn't matter whether the guest will play or not, the important thing is the freshness. Li Xiuwen specially taught a group of people, and then they taught the guests on the spot.

In just a few days, it has attracted countless gentlemen, rich young masters. Even some idle officials changed into civilian clothes and came to patronize.

Xu Jiang transferred dozens of brothers who "made extra money" from Nanzhen Fusi, disguised as thugs, and Zhao Yuanliang led the team to watch the game.

The gambling house was handed over to Wang Bing to take care of, and her martial arts finally had a place to use. Of course, she still has to follow Yang Yuxuan and them to learn to settle accounts before she can be a good shopkeeper.

When Li Xiuwen relied on three businesses to make a lot of money, the imperial court encircled and suppressed the rebel army, and the good news was also spread from time to time.

Of course, the rebel army is just what Li Xiuwen called in private, and it was called so in the textbooks of later generations, and the imperial court called those people the rebel army.

When Cao Huachun came to count the accounts of the "Salted Fish Firm", he revealed to Li Xiuwen that Zhu Youzhen seemed to want to negotiate peace with the Manchus so that he could go all out to encircle and suppress the rebels.

It is a pity that the Qing Dynasty agreed, but the officials of the Ming Dynasty were all opposed.

During the court discussion, they scolded Yang Sichang, who made this suggestion, and said that he was spineless, I am a big country, and I am afraid that his small construction will not be successful?

In fact, this is not to blame them, from ancient times to the present, the Han people have always been the masters, and they are accustomed to contempt for the surrounding barbarians with the posture of a great power.

What they don't know is that it won't be long before the Ming Dynasty falls into the hands of the little barbarians, whom they despise, and massacres our Han compatriots.

They did not know that in more than 200 years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty would suffer the lesson of "being beaten if it is backward" for its practice of "closing itself off from the country."

Li Xiuwen knew this, but he couldn't convince them, and he didn't need to convince them. What he wants to do is to overthrow this court. History may change because of him, but what remains unchanged is the inevitable fate of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Xiuwen knew that if the peace negotiations were successful, he might be able to temporarily wipe out the power of the rebel army, so that the Ming Dynasty could survive for a few more years. But the symptoms are not the root cause, this ruling class is already corrupt, and the so-called "ZTE" is just a joke.

Break and stand!

This era is old and needs to be replaced with fresh blood. Li Xiuwen will not radically think about anything like "constitutional monarchy", which is difficult for people to accept at this time, and in fact, he can't play it.

Perhaps we can only change the dynasty again and enter the endless cycle of one dynasty in two or three hundred years. But that's enough!

As long as he does not experience the retreat of the Qing Dynasty, Li Xiuwen believes that with the current Han people, he will not give other countries a chance to invade!

Li Xiuwen has his own national feelings. No matter how much we fight among ourselves, it's all our own business. Those who dare to offend me in Huaxia will be punished even if they are far away!

The appearance of Yang Sichang, to a certain extent, took the place of Li Xiuwen in Zhu Youzhen's heart.

Now that the imperial court wants to fight, what Zhu Youzhen needs is military talents, and Li Xiuwen's background as a literati is naturally difficult to meddle in these things.

When Li Xiuwen was at home, Fang Ning came to the door.

"Why is Fang Qianhu free to come over?"

He quipped. The follow-up matter in Jiangnan was that Cheng Liangjun served as the chief envoy and Fang Ning served as the deputy envoy to arrest people.

With what Li Xiuwen found before, these two buddies went down to get credit. As soon as he was arrested, he was promoted to an official after he came back, and Fang Ning had officially turned from the original deputy Qianhu to a regular official.

"Teasing me again."

Fang Ning's tone was sour, and he complained: "Xu Jiang used to be just a chief flag officer, but now he has become the envoy of Nanzhen, and I am still a small thousand households!" ”

Li Xiuwen has an easy-going temperament, Fang Ning is familiar with him, so he naturally speaks more casually.

"Come on, you!"

Li Xiuwen shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm quite a big official, why don't I change you?" Your official position is small, but your power is great, can Nanzhen compare with Beizhen? ”

Fang Ning sat down on the chair and said, "I'm here to say goodbye today. ”

Li Xiuwen raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked, "Have an errand?" ”

Fang Ning nodded, leaned over and whispered something in his ear.

After Li Xiuwen listened, he frowned and thought for a while, and said happily: "This is good news!" ”

Then, he took out a few silver tickets from his arms, stuffed them into Fang Ning's hand, and continued: "Lord Fang has a long way to go to Jiangnan, so you still have to bring some tea. ”

Fang Ning knew that he was so rich now, so he was not polite to him, so he rolled up the silver ticket, put it in the hidden pocket in his cuffs, and grinned: "When I come back, I will invite you to drink!" ”

Li Xiuwen bowed his head lightly and said, "Then I'll wait for your Lord Fang's celebration banquet." (To be continued.) )