It's the New Year.

This is Zhou Lang's arrival in this era, the first time An Ansheng spent a year, the first year was spent in India, without any feeling, the second year was spent in Guangzhou, and there was no atmosphere, but this time it was after gaining a firm foothold, and it was lived steadily.

If you want to have an atmosphere during the New Year, you must have a family, and Zhou Lang's family is only Chen Sanmei alone.

Chen Sanmei wants to have a few more people, she wants a child, but Zhou Lang is very scheming to avoid all her dangerous periods, women in this era have no concept of the reproductive safety cycle, so on the surface, Zhou Lang seems to be working hard, and she will work hard whenever she has time, in fact, whenever she is in danger, Zhou Lang must have "something".

The wish of wanting a child was not fulfilled, which made Chen Sanmei blame herself very much, she felt that she had not been able to give birth to a child for the Zhou family, which was all blamed on her lack of ability, and secretly asked the doctor to prescribe a lot of unpalatable Chinese medicine to eat, Zhou Lang knew it, but she was very guilty.

The reason why he didn't want children was that Zhou Lang himself had not settled down, and after giving birth to a child, he would inevitably be distracted by the child. The most important thing is that he is not absolutely sure of the career he is engaged in, the rebels in ancient times died nine times, and every hero walked on the road was full of the white bones of the loser, Zhou Lang was not sure whether he was the white bones on the road to the top of the hero, or the hero who went to the end, so he was afraid of affecting future generations.

Just like someone commented later, he has no money, no one, and the only bit of power he has is still borrowed, so why should he succeed.

But now it's different, he has gained a firm foothold in Fengshan County, and through various factors, he is now in a good situation, putting himself on the second line of the Qing court's attack, as long as Chen Zhouquan and Zhu Hao in the north are not exterminated by the Qing court, he will be safe, and when these two people are exterminated by the Qing court, Zhou Lang is confident that his strength will grow through this time.

So he can now consider having a child.

But Chen Sanmei no longer seems to be so persistent, and her mind is divided into the 50,000 orphans.

Now the scale of the Sergeant Charity Hall has been unprecedentedly large, and more than 20,000 orphans have been adopted in Fengshan County alone, but when refugees from the north migrated over, there were even more orphans. A total of 30,000 orphans were adopted by the Charity Hall, and these 30,000 children were able to follow the army of more than 100,000 refugees to Fengshan County. And the orphans who can go all the way south from north-central Taiwan are already relatively old, most of them are teenagers, and most of them are boys, young children and girls, either died on the road, or fell into an extremely miserable situation, Zhou Lang didn't even want to think about whether some children were reduced to food.

The people are suffering and the people are suffering, it has been the same since ancient times!

Zhou Lang was very sympathetic to these children, Chen Sanmei's behavior gave him great comfort, this woman who was not pregnant, and suspected that she could not conceive a child in her belly, pinned all her enthusiasm on these orphans, she recruited thousands of women to take care of these children, and did not refuse these children to call her mother.

These are also Zhou Lang's children, so during the Chinese New Year, Zhou Lang and Chen Sanmei went to the charity hall to visit these children, Zhou Lang planned to send a red envelope to each child, and he was ready to give a silver dollar as New Year's money, but Chen Sanmei refused, she refused to send red envelopes, but did not refuse the money, but asked Zhou Lang to give her all the money. For her, more than 50,000 silver dollars is a lot of money.

At this time, Zhou Lang knew that it was actually very difficult for Chen Sanmei to feed these orphans, and Zhou Lang promised to give her enough funds, but she always thought that Zhou Lang was difficult to start a business, and she would never waste even a copper plate, she even sold her dowry, and devoted herself to the cause of raising orphans.

Zhou Lang's red envelope, the orphans did not receive it, and the fifteenth prince Aixin Jueluo Yanyan, who was far away in the Forbidden City, did not receive the red envelope sent by his father Qianlong.

On the second day of the first month of the 60th year of Qianlong (January 22, 1795), the inside and outside of the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City were full of flowers, brilliant tops, and melodious music. Eighty-five-year-old Qianlong held a family banquet to entertain family members and close branch clans who came to pay New Year's greetings. Since the first day of the first lunar month coincided with a solar eclipse, it was postponed to today. The prince, grandson, great-grandson, and great-great-grandson gathered together to salute the emperor in turn.

The eunuch brought several large boxes full of silver ingots, and Emperor Qianlong wanted to give red envelopes to his descendants. Those who received the red envelopes were busy kowtowing to thank them, and those who had not yet received them were looking forward to it.

In fact, as a prince, no one cares about this money, but this is the emperor's reward, and the meaning is different. The fifteenth prince Yan Yan also has this mentality, waiting to receive the reward and thanksgiving, and then tired to cope with the day, every year. Yan Yan was the last in line to receive the reward, he was used to it, every year!

It seems that among all the princes and grandchildren, Yan Yan is the least valued and has the least sense of existence. Yan Yan has honestly played such a prince who has no sense of existence for more than 20 years, and he doesn't dare to slack off for a day.

But this year, the neglect of Yan Yan seemed to be particularly eye-catching, because when the box of silver dollars was sent to him, it was empty. If you don't have a sense of existence, you won't be so ignored. The money is fixed, and everyone has a share, but it leaked.

This situation made Yan Yan a little at a loss, was the Internal Affairs Office that paid the money miscalculated? Or is it intentional? If he really miscalculated, even if he was an unpopular prince, he would have to kill a few minions. But the question is, how to get back the lost face.

This situation made Yan Yan, who has always been very low-key, a little unable to get off the stage, he rarely looked directly at his father and wanted an explanation!

Qianlong seemed to be very satisfied with Yan Yan's attitude, everything was expected by him, but he was a little dissatisfied with Yan Yan's gaze.

In a slightly stiff tone, he asked, "What do you want for silver?" ”

Yan Yan was stunned.

All the clan relatives and magnates present were stunned.

Who wants silver to be useless?

Only the emperor who is nominally rich in the world wants money useless!

After everyone's short period of consternation, they also understood a result, that is, Qianlong made a statement!

Qianlong was telling everyone that Yan Yan was his heir.

Most people thought of this result, Qianlong put Yan Yan by his side for more than 20 years, watching, cultivating, and inspecting, and today he finally made it clear to everyone in this way.

After Yan Yan was stunned, he didn't think as much as the others, but instead rose into endless panic, kneeling on the ground and trembling, unable to say anything.

Qianlong was very satisfied with his statement and shocked everyone. But he suddenly felt a little excited, waved his hand, and the eunuch shouted, telling everyone to kneel in peace.

Yan Yan didn't receive a red envelope, but everyone knew that he received the biggest red envelope in the world.

And this news, at an unprecedented speed, spread within the Manchu Empire.

At the same time, it also spread to Guangzhou, which was originally good news for Zhou Lang, because Zhou Lang had established a good relationship with Yan Yan's brother-in-law Sheng Zhu, but now it is useless, because the fat shortage of Guangdong Customs has been replaced, and the new customs supervisor is called Su Leng, who is also a powerful child.

Fortunately, Su Leng'e was also a greedy magnate, so the foundation established by Wei Lianli in Guangzhou did not suffer, but because of his strong financial strength, he continued to be a guest of honor in the customs yamen.

But other merchants are not so lucky, after the siege of Guangzhou, more and more merchants are in financial difficulties, to meet Su Leng'e, the new customs superintendent, is not the rolling of rich businessmen filial piety, but the bankruptcy tide of thirteen merchants!