A Western-style garden on the southern outskirts of Wuhu stands proudly next to a low and dilapidated shantytown around it, which looks abrupt and ostentatious, and the garden is full of fragrant osmanthus flowers. Inside, there are three small buildings with arches and cornices, but there are Byzantine-style oil paintings and Greek-style sculpture decorations in the house, and the Chinese and Western styles complement each other.

A group of servants prepared the dinner in an orderly manner under the command of an old butler in a Western-style dress with comical braids. The dishes are also a combination of Chinese and Western, but the world-famous Hui cuisine is accompanied by Western-style cold dishes and dim sum, foreign cigarette rolls and cigars are neatly stacked on the plate, and the hookah is also put on the table. A few slaves silently pried open the tightly sealed wooden box and took out bottles of champagne, whiskey, and Dutch water.

In the flower hall on the second floor, the most conspicuous thing is a small artificial fountain, and next to it sits an old man in good spirits. It was autumn, but he was wearing a light gray summer cool cloth gown, leaning on a white Western chair, the hem of the robe was lifted and resting on the back of the chair, his face was full of wrinkles, the two brooms were straight and pouting, and his eyes were half-open and half-closed. At this moment, his feet are soaked in the basin, the water temperature should not be low, the room is not cold, and white smoke can be seen. A young man of twenty-five or seven, with his head down, was pouring hot water into the mahogany footbasin with a baroque silver kettle, and when he had finished pouring it, he carefully tried it with his hands, and the water temperature was slightly hot, and then respectfully took off the old man's shoes and socks and put them into the water.

"It's good to let the subordinates do these things in Jintang, you are now the head of the Wu family, you shouldn't do this..." The old man's words were not finished.

Wu Jintang smiled: "Daddy, doesn't you think I'm clumsy? ”

The old man shook his head with a smile and said no more.

Wu Jintang carefully washed the old man's feet, carefully wiped it with a snow-white towel, and then threw the towel to the servant standing solemnly, and then waved his hand, and the servant took the back end and took the footbasin and retreated, closing the door.

"Father, are you still wearing your official uniform tonight?" Wu Xingzhou asked cautiously.

The old man closed his eyes, but his eyebrows raised for no reason, and he stopped talking with an "um" sound.

"Father, this Wuhu has changed flags, and it seems that you are wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty again..." Wu Xingzhou wanted to speak and stopped.

The old man sat up violently, his eyes flashed with fire, and he said sharply: "Xingzhou, you are so confused!" It's been almost 300 years since the Qing Dynasty, how many people want to rebel and make trouble, has it been successful? Don't talk about the White Lotus Sect and the Tianli Sect, which are far away, just talk about the near! When Hong Yang rebelled, a million soldiers swept half the country, what happened in the end? The twist is not bad, the horse team crisscrosses Anhui and Henan provinces, and even the monk king is lost in their hands, but what is the result... Let's talk about killing heads, this Qing court is a bastard, but I have seen it in the past few decades, these rebels are a hundred times more bastards than the imperial court..."

Wu Jintang was a little unconvinced: "Father, I think this revolutionary party is still better, and the soldiers also sweep the floor and dive into the water for the merchants on the street..."

"Hong Yang rebelled, and once said that he would divide the land to the people? Who has seen an inch of land? I have only seen long-haired thieves, and they have robbed the seeds and grains of the people's homes... Sweeping the floor, carrying water, Liu Bei dropped the child, and invited buyers to deceive ignorant women and children... Hmph, didn't you see the poor dagger yesterday! The old man categorically interrupted Wu Xingzhou's words.

Wu Jintang didn't say anything anymore, and yesterday's scene was vivid.

The newly established Military Advisory Office invited the leading figures of Wuhu to eat and watch plays, and as the president of the Wuhu Chamber of Commerce, Wu Xingzhou, the head of the Wu family, was naturally invited.

Wu Xingzhou didn't go to the banquet because he was sick, so he asked his son Wu Jintang to go to the banquet instead of him.

Sure enough, there was no good wine and no good banquet, and in the middle of the banquet, the military camp actually put up a soul-chasing cannon and killed an arsenal commissioner who was said to be stealing and selling military funds.

At that time, the bigwigs in the Wuhu shopping mall were dumbfounded, and they all looked at Wu Xingzhou for help. Although Wu Jintang is young, after all, he has seen a lot of the world with his father, and he will not be easily frightened by this method of killing chickens and police monkeys, but he also doesn't want to stiffen the relationship, so he excused himself to be unwell, so he fled the table under the pretext of being unwell.

"What does Father mean?" Wu Jintang asked.

"Give him a few dollars, isn't that surnamed Chai too little for 30,000? Then inform everyone, give him 50,000, and if 50,000 is not too little, give him 80,000! It's as if he was kidnapped by bandits for ransom... Hmph, who let the family have a gun in their hands! The old man's smile was full of disdain.

"What if 80,000 is too little?"

"Then turn your face with him! Don't think that with a few burning sticks in your hand, you can do whatever you want! The old man slapped the back of the chair and said fiercely.

After a while, the old man asked, "Have you invited all the guests I asked you to invite?" ”

"All according to my father's orders, I have been invited!"

"Hmm!" The old man closed his eyes in satisfaction, and seemed to have dozed off.

Wu Jintang quietly picked up the blanket and covered him, and then chased away.

"Tell your sister to stop messing around on the streets... The girl's house, going to school is enough to be out of line, and she is still showing up on the street to raise donations for the revolutionary party, what kind of system! The old man suddenly burst out of nowhere.

Wu Xingzhou shivered, and his face was cold!

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"Cigarettes, fire!"

“··· Zhang Sanye, you haven't been here for a long time, and the private seat on the second floor has been kept for you! ”

“·· Ma Ye, you are here, our little cui wants you to get sick..."

The street lamps glow dimly, and the market at night is more lively than during the day. Wuhu, a giant port in central Anhui, is also well-informed. Although the flag of Wuhu City has been changed, and the dragon flag has been replaced with the eighteen-star flag, the officials of the yamen and the officials who inspect the streets are still the same as before, but they have cut their braids. The only thing that surprised these businessmen was that the revolutionary party did not pay taxes on a large scale, but abolished many of the harsh taxes left by the Qing court and local governments.

Legend has it that the revolutionary party has red eyebrows and green eyes, and whenever they beat the city, they will burn and kill three days before sealing the knife to calm the people, and a gunshot is heard on the streets of Wuhu, and these revolutionary party soldiers not only do not kill people and set fires, but also rush to help the people work every day. It's just that after finishing the work, you have to ask the merchant to write a certificate with a sloppy face.

Since the revolutionary party is not a monster that kills people and sets fires and eats living people, then there is nothing to be afraid of, businessmen chase tithes, and everything is important to open and buy. The people of Wuhu calmly accepted the reality of the change of banners at the head of the city.

The horse's hooves stepped on the stone road, making a crisp sound, Chai Dongliang was full of worries and a little depressed, and whipped on the poplar tree on the side of the road, and the whip rolled down a large piece of bark.

It's no wonder he was angry, he set up a Hongmen banquet yesterday, and killed Fang Shouren, a member of the arsenal, as a snack, but he killed the chicken to show the monkey, and the monkey ran away!

Run, run, today, I sent someone to post for myself, please go to the banquet yourself!

Is this guy also planning to put on a feast for himself?

To be honest, Chai Dongliang still has a good impression of the young man named Wu Jintang. Among a group of salt merchants and pawnsters who rely on officialdom to join forces inside and outside to make a fortune by knocking out the bones and sucking the marrow of the people, the Wu family is an outlier. Wu Xingzhou, the head of the family, was born in poverty, went to Qianzhuang as an apprentice at the age of thirteen, and was promoted to the account office and manager by virtue of his diligence and vision, and then opened his own store.

Five years ago, he raised a huge amount of money to set up "Mingyuan Electric Light Co., Ltd." in Wuhu and started a national industry, which made Chai Dongliang a little awe-inspired.

You must know that at this time, rich people either buy land in the countryside to collect rent, or buy houses in the city to eat tiles, and those who are willing to invest in industry are rare!

In fact, the Wu family is not a great rich family in Wuhu, and those salt merchants are richer than his family, but the Wu family accumulates virtue and does good deeds, repairs bridges and roads, and provides relief to the victims.

If the Wu family does not cooperate, the wealthy businessmen in Wuhu will not open their money bags to support the Military Advisory Office, which makes Chai Dongliang have a headache, do they really want to learn from Li Zicheng to enter Yanjing? Arrest the rich one by one and torture them to force them to pay money?

If you do that, I'm afraid that the fate of my military advisory office will be like Li Chuang's Dashun court, which will not stumble in a few days!

Kuang Haishan and Lu Kai followed behind him, and Lu Kai's two eyes kept scanning around the street.

Kuang Haishan glared at him: "What are you looking at!" ”

Lu Kai said with a hippie smile: "Walking on Academy Street, naturally I am looking at a bitch... Brother Haishan, our handsome man is angry today, I see if there is anyone who is pleasing to the eye, looking for a defeated fire for the handsome! ”

Kuang Haishan took a sip, he couldn't help but laugh at him, and scolded with a smile: "What nonsense... In the future, don't call the commander, call the head of the regiment! We are now the Wuhu Regiment of the Anhui Revolutionary Army, and we want to call the regiment commander! ”

Lu Kai was used to being scolded by Kuang Haishan, and he didn't care, and said with a smile: "Our head is still soft-hearted, if he follows me, he will directly arrest all those annihilators who pick their eyes and instigate their fingers, and greet them with eighteen martial arts every day, I don't believe they don't pay for it!" ”

"What do you two say?" Master Gao Ming caught up from behind. But instead of riding a horse, he rode a big green mule.

"Didn't say anything!" Lu Kai hurriedly covered up.

Master Gao snorted and scolded with a smile: "Little rabbit cub, dare to take the regiment commander to make a shabu, be careful of the military stick!" With that, he urged the mule and chased after him.

Lu Kai stuck out his tongue and grimaced. Gao Ming participated in the Yue Wang Conference that year, and he was one of the leaders of the year, and he launched many anti-Qing uprisings, which can be regarded as a revolutionary old-timer! Xu Xilin assassinated Enming, the governor of Anhui and the son-in-law of King Qing, Xiong Chengji instigated the Anqing horse artillery battalion to attack the governor's yamen, and King Yue would bear the brunt, and Gao Ming also played a big role in it!

Although Lu Kai's surname is out of style, he is still full of respect for revolutionary old-timers like Gao Ming.

"Master Gao, where have you been? I've been looking for you for a long time just now! Chai Dongliang saw that the hem of Master Gao's robe was a little muddy, and his face was still a little weathered, so he hurriedly asked.

Gao Ming smiled: "Is Dong Weng still worried about military salaries?" ”

When Chai Dongliang heard this, he hurriedly pricked up his ears and said, "Yes!" Could it be that the old master has a way? Got the money? ”

Gao Ming smiled: "I won't drown gold and silver... But... ”

"But what!"

Chai Dongliang pricked up his ears and waited for the word "but" that he was going to say later! These staff and think tanks will do this, each pretending to be 2580,000, and he can clearly explain things in one sentence, but he has to spare a bend, as if he doesn't do this, he can't show his ability.

"But... Adults deal with this iron rooster in Wuhu, I'm afraid it won't work without steel tongs! Gao Ming twisted three rats in his hand to breathe, and sold the guanzi again.

"That's nature!" Chai Dongliang was anxious and just wanted to kick this old guy to death.

"I invited two guests for my lordship, and these two are plucked steel pliers!" Gao Ming said triumphantly.

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