In the past year, Zhou Lang and his wife Chen Sanmei have gathered less and left more, because before stabilizing Fujian, Chen Sanmei has been reluctant to let her children in Fengshan County, until Zhou Lang occupied the whole of Fujian and stabilized, and only then took her to Fujian in the name of letting her take care of the nurseries in Fujian.

After Chen Sanmei arrived in Fujian, she immediately took over the work of resuming the Nursery Hall, the main means was to ask Zhou Lang for money, the Nursery Hall was not destroyed in the war, the abandoned baby girls in the Nursery are still there, and the people who take care of them are also there, and there is no fixed source of funding for the Nursery in the past, mainly because the magistrate called on the local squires to raise donations, so the funds are very unstable, and the willingness of the Nursery to accept abandoned babies is very low.

After the war, the administration of the government fell into chaos, and the funds for the nursery were even more unfunded. Chen Sanmei's constant management of Zhou Lang's asking for money is not a solution, this kind of Chinese-style charity based on the most virtuous part of traditional morality has always been maintained by local spontaneous fundraising, and the government has never given fixed allocations. But Zhou Lang is willing to allocate funds and give 1 million taels of silver every year to maintain, but it is up to Chen Sanmei to figure out how to do it herself.

She is doing a good job, and the current funds are very sufficient, and the reason is actually inseparable from Zhou Lang. Since Zhou Lang came back from a walk around Beijing, there have been more people who value him. Those local clans with big surnames in Fujian, landlords and famous families, began to hope to get closer to Zhou Lang. However, some of the systems and policies formulated by Zhou Lang, although they cannot be said to discriminate against them, do not give them privileges, such as the children of famous families, they also need to start from the grassroots officials, which makes them a little difficult to accept. But Zhou Lang's power is growing day by day, and he is becoming more and more powerful in the world, and it will be too late if he doesn't actively participate in the effect.

But Zhou Lang is not easy to see, but Chen Sanmei is easy to see, Chen Sanmei, who is running around for the nursery, needs funds, and the local tyrants need to get in touch with the powerful, and the two sides have common needs, so one by one the landlord families sent their wives and daughters to do lady diplomacy, so that these women asked to see Chen Sanmei under the pretext of fundraising, and offered some of their jewelry at the same time, not forgetting to emphasize their identity, as well as their family's support for the generalissimo and so on.

It is not clear how much political benefit can be obtained from Chen Sanmei, but it is better than nothing, too many landlords have sent their children into Zhou Lang's regime, and they all have to be sent from the bottom, and the family does not make a little trick from the plate, when will their children be able to get through, and the future of these children is related to the future of their family, so they don't even care about the rule that women don't show their heads.

There are constantly daughters, wives and concubines of the landlord's family to send all kinds of jewelry, so that Chen Sanmei can get a lot of money. At this time, Zhou Lang told her that it would be too cost-effective to melt the donated gold and silver jewelry directly for money or sell it, so it was better to hold a charity auction.

Charity auctions are very popular, not only because of the support of the landlords, but also because a large number of wealthy businessmen have joined in, because there are really good things in the auctions. From time to time, Zhou Lang took out a batch of treasures from Heshen or the captured Old Summer Palace, as the finale of the charity auction, which caused everyone's scrambling.

As a result, this kind of charity auction has almost become a stable source of income, because the treasures that Zhou Lang snatched from Qianlong's house, even if they are auctioned off 10,000 pieces a year, are enough to be auctioned for a hundred years.

used the people's fat and people's ointment looted by Aixinjueluo's family to do charity, which can also be regarded as Zhou Lang's accumulation of yin virtue for their family.

With the stability of Guangzhou, there are obviously more wealthy people in Guangzhou, and Chen Sanmei's charity auction has also been auctioned in Guangzhou.

Zhou Lang is also here for the time being, just to talk to Chen Sanmei about this matter.

Just ended an auction, in order to support Chen Sanmei, Zhou Lang rarely attended the auction in person, and the result attracted the wealthy and wealthy businessmen present to bid like crazy, and a thousand pieces of ordinary jewelry plus a hundred treasures such as jade Ruyi, coral trees, and Dadong pearls of the Shen family were sold for 500,000 taels of silver. One of them, which was obviously very ordinary, was sold for a high price of 5,000 taels, which was obviously for Zhou Lang's face.

Zhou Lang did not hesitate to use his identity to support his wife, of course, there was something difficult to say.

Seeing that Chen Sanmei was very satisfied with the harvest, Zhou Lang felt a little less guilty.

"Third sister. I have something to tell you. ”

Chen Sanmei put down the account book and said, "Is it important?" ”

Zhou Lang nodded and said in one breath: "It's very important." I'm going on the Northern Expedition. ”

Chen Sanmei is a little complaining, she is going to fight again, it is rare to get together, she doesn't want to be tired of being with her husband every day, but she can't let go of those children, and the babies in Fujian are even more pitiful, now it's easy to straighten out, but her husband goes to war one after another.

She sighed faintly: "This is a big deal for your men, you didn't tell me before, how can you ...... this time?"

She paused, as if she had guessed something.

Zhou Lang nodded: "I'm going to fight Zhejiang." ”

Chen Sanmei stopped talking, is it really going to come to this point, men are fighting for the world, can they only be so ruthless.

She hadn't begged her husband for anything before, she hadn't begged her husband to save her brother, she knew that these were the choices of people like her brother and husband, they only had the world in their eyes, and the most she could do as a woman was not to drag her feet, so what she did to Zhuo Lang and what her brother did has been silent, and it is not all the reason why women do not interfere in politics.

But her husband and brother fought against each other, which was still beyond the limit of her patience, and tears fell down her eyes.

Zhou Lang has no choice, no one can easily accept this kind of thing, the most fierce contradictions between the closest relatives, and the people caught in the middle will always be the most hurt. Zhou Lang could only accompany his wife silently, waiting for her to release her emotions, just handing her a handkerchief and wiping her tears.

After a long time, Chen Sanmei finished her tears and asked softly, "Can she not die?" ”

In the face of the huge power contrast, Chen Sanmei knew very well that her brother was by no means her husband's opponent. Now everyone said that her husband had the power to reign over the world, otherwise there would not be so many people who would give her silver.

Zhou Lang sighed: "I won't kill him." But the soldiers are in danger, and it is difficult to ensure that there is a mistake. ”

Chen Sanmei said: "If he is willing to surrender in the end." ”

Zhou Lang said: "I will ensure that he will be rich for the rest of his life!" ”

Chen Sanmei was comforted in her heart, although the result may not be satisfactory, but with her husband's guarantee, she felt much more comfortable.

But she suddenly said something very hurtful to Zhou Lang: "Will you treat him as King Xiao Ming?" ”