On October 14 of the twenty-fourth year of Chongzhen, Li Tianyang was already fifty-one years old at this time, and he was already in his rare years in this era, and even his cheeks were full of wrinkles.

On this night, Li Tianyang did not fall asleep for a long time, but tossed and turned in bed, and finally in order not to disturb his wife Chen Yumo's sleep, he quietly got up, walked out of the bedroom, picked up a cigarette by the window and smoked it slowly.

After the cigarette was discovered in the hands of the American Indians, it spread from the hands of white Westerners to the East, and soon became a habitual hobby of ordinary people.

Even Li Tianyang, who didn't smoke in his previous life, gradually began to have a bit of addiction to smoking, but he still has some self-control, plus he knows the harm of cigarettes, and he doesn't smoke so often.

Of course, because the promotion of cigarettes seems to be a matter of course, when Li Tianyang tried to stop it, this thing already has a group of loyal fans among the Chinese people, who makes this thing do have the invisible effect of soothing emotions and relaxing the mood.

Especially in the Hongtang army, almost every soldier is smoking cigarettes, because the Hongtang military rules are strict, and there are many taboos, the soldiers' spare time activities are wonderful, but it is rare to relax by smoking a cigarette when they are nervous or in their leisure time.

The only thing Li Tianyang could do was to take back the power to purchase and produce cigarettes, just like salt, and the Hongmen specialized agency could only be responsible for it, and at the same time set a reasonable price to control the smoking audience.

The side effect of this is that the Hongmen government has another extremely profitable method, and at the same time, the private farmers also have an important source of income, but in his heart, Li Tianyang actually does not like to use this way to obtain private wealth, and at the same time, he does not want the people to grow tobacco crops with things that could have grown more beneficial crops.

However, Li Tianyang also knows very well that if there is no monopoly operation by Hongmen, it is very likely that the tobacco manufacturing industry will become a tool for private wealth grabbing, which will not be conducive to the management of the government in the future.

Of course, these are all later words, although the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce have some interests in the production and sale of tobacco leaves, but now that the tobacco industry is still in its infancy, no one would have thought that the future may be the most profitable industry in the whole world.

"Something, right?"

Although Chen Yumo is also fifty-three or four, except for following Li Tianyang and them to struggle together in the early days and building the foundation of Dayuan from scratch, the rest of the time is to make silent contributions behind Li Tianyang's broad shoulders.

Therefore, although she is a, she still has charm, and no one can tell that she is fifty years old.

After Sanniang passed away a few years ago, the power of the entire inner room of the Li Mansion was completely in the hands of Chen Yumo, and as he got older, Chen Yumo also had less busy affairs outside, and took his mind back to the family, but he became more and more graceful.

"It's nothing, it's just a little nervous!"

Li Tianyang waved the smoke lingering around, and at the same time snuffed out the cigarette butt and looked back at his lover beside him, it has always been with Chen Yumo's help that Li Tianyang can develop Hongmen without distraction and without distraction.

At the same time, Chen Yumo also trusts Li Tianyang very much, for Li Tianyang to raise a group of children, throw them to Bengang School to crawl and roll, and when they grow up, they are sent to the military camp, Qixintang business, medical institute and other places for exercise, although the heart hurts the children, but Chen Yumo did not stop at all, the husband and wife understand each other, but they let the children under their knees all be very independent and talented.

The upper echelons of Hongmen have begun a major operation, Li Tianyang did not inform Chen Yumo, naturally it is for secrecy, at least before the operation starts in Liaodong, Hongmen and even many middle-level backbones are kept in the dark; Second, Li Tianyang also didn't want Chen Yumo to worry, there would be no way back when this arrow was shot, and then for them Hongmen, for him Li Tianyang, there were only two final roads, one triumphantly entered the Central Plains, and the other was defeated.

"Can you tell me, what is it that makes me feel nervous about my husband, isn't it because I have a concubine outside?"

In order to ease the atmosphere, and at the same time, there was a little bit of caution in the woman, the sly color in Chen Yumo's eyes flashed, and he asked jokingly.

"Hey, look at me now, a bad old man, even if he has that thief's heart, but he is also weak!!"

was interrupted by Chen Yumo, Li Tianyang was a little less nervous, but his mouth was not light, and he quickly explained.

Woman, her mind turns a thousand times, anyway, Li Tianyang doesn't dare to say that he has 100% understood the mind of the pillow person in front of him until now, so even if he knew that the other party was joking, he was busy explaining so as not to burn himself.

"Oh, really?"

Chen Yumo leaned towards Li Tianyang with a fragrant body, feeling the masculine atmosphere exuded from him, and the sense of security that he had long been accustomed to.

"Well, the heart is beating normally, which means that you are not lying, so I will believe you once!"

The innocuous little joke between husband and wife quietly calmed Li Tianyang's worried mood, and his right hand habitually hugged Chen Yumo's willow waist, allowing him to continue to snuggle on his shoulder, enjoying the rare warmth of the two.

"If my decision is the next step that may lead our family down an unknown path, and various risks may arise at any time, will you still support me?"

Li Tianyang couldn't help but whisper his worries in his heart.

"Marry a chicken and marry a dog, in the early years, when you were a pirate, I still waved the flag and shouted for you, I support you for this kind of head-killing thing, let alone now?"

Chen Yumo snuggled up to Li Tianyang's shoulder, closed his eyes and replied in the affirmative with attachment.

"No matter what difficulties and dangers there will be in the future, as long as it is a decision you make, I will always support it."

"It's just that I hope that before you make a decision, you can think about our family first, and be able to ask your conscience, then it is enough!"

Even if Li Tianyang didn't say it explicitly, but based on his understanding of Li Tianyang for so many years, Chen Yumo didn't know about the plans that he had been planning for a long time in his heart at this time, and I was afraid that what they were going to do next would shock the world.

Even at this time, the uneasiness in Li Tianyang's heart meant that they had taken the first step and opened Pandora's box.

(End of chapter)