Hu Xiaoyan's original 70,000 taels spent money like flowing water under a series of plans, and every day he watched one batch of students after another come to receive the money, but no one came to send the money.

Hu Xiaoyan was angry. His career in Huaibei has just begun, and the iron ore in Ma'anshan is really spending a lot of money.

However, Tao Chengzhang obviously expected it.

That morning, Hu Xiaoyan met several people.

"Shan Shi has seen the third brother."

"Little brother, get up." The third brother, Hu Pinsan, helped Hu Xiaoyan up with his own hands.

Speaking of which, Hu Xiaoyan has never seen Hu Pinsan since he went abroad, and now he only has some memories left, but with the recovery of Hu Xiaoyan's memory after being flooded, he still recognized his third brother at a glance.

Hu Pinsan sat down in silence, and then explained his reasons one by one. Then handed over Hu Xuansan's letter.

The letter was written by the second brother Hu Yusan as a novice, and many of them were written very thick and nagging.

It turned out that Tao Chengzhang still did not give up since he was rejected by Hu Xiaoyan. It's just that Cai Yuanpei and others raised a sum of money for Hu Xiaoyan, so they didn't have the first attack.

When everyone was about to return to Huaibei, Tao Chengzhang silently calculated and found that the silver taels were definitely not enough, so he sent a letter to the Hu family compound in Hangzhou.

The second brother Hu Yansan received the letter and did not dare to deal with it without authorization, so he invited the third brother and his wife to discuss together. The second and third brothers were against it. Because their current stable life is actually the shadow left by Hu Xueyan during his lifetime. If the Hu family goes to find the creditor according to what the letter says, then the former affection that is thinner than paper will be gone. When the time comes, people will really attack the Hu family, and the Hu family really has no room to fight back.

But Mrs. didn't think so, everyone used to live with fine clothes and food, but now they live a very miserable life. Don't think about yourself, think about your children and grandchildren. As a result, the whole family quarreled.

Everyone is clamoring to either ask for accounts or split up.

Hu Xuansan, the head of the family, did not have much appeal in the first place, and now he can't grasp the situation. In desperation, he sent the third child to ask what this youngest brother meant?

Hu Xiaoyan couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. The letter to collect the debt was not written by him at all, what could he say, and what made him even more sad was that the Hu family was already on the verge of falling apart.

Hu Yansan also had no choice, according to Hu Xueyan's will, he did not allow his family to do business, nor did he allow his family to take the imperial examination. A large family sits and eats empty, if it weren't for Wen Yu's charity. The Hu family's compound had long been starved to death.

After all these years, he is also tired. He didn't want to care anymore, he just wanted to break up the family. But where to stay after the separation is also a problem. Now he has given the question to Hu Xiaoyan.

Hu Xiaoyan looked at Hu Pinsan's slightly old lady's face, and couldn't help but feel soft in his heart.

Hu Xiaoyan said helplessly, "Divide it." I have a university hall in Shanghai, and if any of you are interested, I will write a letter recommending to teach. It's a stable job. ”

Hu Pinsan was speechless. If he could split up, he would have thought about splitting it up a long time ago. The key is that many people want to share the dividend shares of the Hu family's mansion and Hu Qingyutang! The Hu family's mansion arrived at Wen Yu together with Hu Qingyutang in more than ten years. As a powerful person in the Eight Banners, Wen Yu not only did not let the Hu family move out, but also gave the Hu family a large amount of Hu Qingyutang's dividend shares.

According to legal theory, the Hu family's mansion and dividend shares are actually Wen Yu's Fei Mo's. Therefore, it is not feasible for the Hu family to privately divide this property privately.

Although Wen Yu has been dead for many years, Fei Moshi still acted according to Wen Yu's arrangement that year. But herein lies the problem. There is no problem for Fei Moshi to give you a house to live in and dividends according to the master's request, and their family is not short of this money. But if your Hu family wants to divide these properties privately, it will be too much, right?

The two brothers are both sensible people, and they don't want to offend the Wen Yu family because of this incident. I don't want to make a fuss about this.

Although Hu Xiaoyan's letter detonated the contradiction this time, it also made Hu Mingsan see a solution to the problem. He is an old man, and he doesn't want to care about such messy things anymore.

Hu Xiaoyan listened to Hu Pinsan's explanation, and suddenly felt that countless alpacas were galloping overhead.

He counted his silver. There are still 50,000 taels left, and it's only been more than ten days. Winter is coming, and the cost is even greater.

Hu Xiaoyan bit his lip and took out 20,000 taels, called Liu Min, wrote a letter to Liu Min, and asked him to take it back and hand it over to Hu Minsan.

As for Hu Pinsan, Hu Xiaoyan didn't want to let him go. Schools are now being built quickly, and under the oppression of force, students are also arriving quickly, but there is a shortage of teachers. Hu Pinsan used to read the books of sages, so it was no problem for him to teach primary school students to read and write.

And Hu Pinsan has another purpose to make money.

The next day, Hu Xiaoyan rushed to Huizhou with Sun Lutang, Chen Xin, Tao Chengzhang and Hu Pinsan. Chen Xin is a disciple of Chen's Taiji and was recommended by Cheng Tinghua. Cheng is the successor of Sun Lutang's Baguazhang.

Hu Xiaoyan's legs and feet are not good, according to traditional Chinese medicine, it is the invasion of cold evil. There is no good way to govern Zizhi, I originally wanted to learn Tai Chi from Sun Lutang, but when I asked, I learned that Sun had not started to learn Tai Chi until now. So Sun found Cheng Tinghua, the gossip door in Beijing. Cheng then recommended Chen Xin of Chen's Taiji. Chen Xin's own martial arts are not very good, at least Li Shuwen can easily defeat him. But this person has a lot of theoretical knowledge and a solid foundation. Even Li Shuwen, the violent man, admired Chen Xin very much. Sun and Li discussed martial arts with Chen Xin from time to time.

Hu Xiaoyan also followed Chen Xin and Sun Lutang to learn art. Strange to say, after a few days of study, Hu Xiaoyan obviously felt that his legs and feet were much better, and he had improved a lot of martial arts, at least he could insist on two moves under Sun Lutang, who made one-handed moves. One of the moves is Sun's starting hand.

A few people then kept visiting the Hui merchants. But it didn't work out well. Although these people are open-minded and supportive of such things as mining, they all shake their heads when it comes to letting them invest. Only the Cheng family sent an unknown son, Cheng Lin, to bring 10,000 taels of silver into the shares. And a few big businessmen from the Jiang family and the Wang family donated 1,000 taels for the sake of the signboard of the Anhui Mining General Division.

He's meowing, when Lao Tzu is here to fight the autumn wind! Hu Xiaoyan was indignant. Even Hu Xueyan's face can't change the ending, he thought that these people would take care of Hu Xueyan's face more or less with Hu Pinsan!

Hu Xiaoyan adheres to Hu Xueyan's character and has always insisted that business is business, and officials can be backstage, but they can't be used to force others to do business. Therefore, he didn't bring Li Jingmai, and Li Jingmai is also busy all day long.

It turned out that his choice was wrong.

Hu Xiaoyan returned to Suzhou in a rage, and then received Li Hongzhang's envoy. The Li family brought 50,000 taels of silver this time, which solved Hu Xiaoyan's urgent need. At the same time, it also paid the price of two thousand acres of land.

Now almost all the paddy fields around Suzhou have been occupied by these three bigwigs and the land and wealth around Suzhou. As a result, the price of land around Suzhou has risen again and again.

Hu Xiaoyan's approach to Suzhou's land and wealth is not to talk about business at all, but to win the administrative power of Suzhou in one fell swoop. It is important to know that the authority of the county magistrate is only up to the big family in the village. As for how the village is managed or whatever, the county officials generally don't care. Obviously, this is unacceptable to Hu Xiaoyan.

It was Hu Xiaoyan's butcher's knife that solved the land and population needed for mining and large farm plans, but it also pushed Hu Xiaoyan to the opposite side of Deng Huaxi, the governor of Anhui.

So as soon as he came back, he met Deng Huaxide's special envoy. An arrogant guy.

Hu Xiaoyan is sullen and angry with Hui Shang, where can he still endure it. With a wave of his hand, he knocked this guy out of a mess. When he turned around, he ordered the security police to raid the homes of the few families who resisted to the end and came to Deng Huaxi to take revenge. The crime is to collude with the Twisted Army.

As for the evidence, it is, of course, forged. And the fact that the so-called Twist Army had been wiped out more than ten years ago, Hu Xiaoyan turned a blind eye.

After raiding the house, he not only received an income of 50,000 taels of silver and 3,000 taels of gold, but also obtained a batch of antiques. Hu Xiaoyan touched the account book that had just arrived, and couldn't help sighing: If you want to make a fortune, you still have to rely on copying your family.

There is a raid to get money and food.

The construction of the new town was unusually fast, and at the same time the large estate was already being built. Hu Xiaoyan doesn't know much about agriculture, but he still understands the benefits of farm fertilizer.

It just so happened that there were a few public toilets, and the fertilizer in them was enough, so they all pulled it and sold it to a few bigwigs. finally added a little pitiful income to Hu Xiaoyan.

The mining and construction sites are going very well, and the officials installed by the bigwigs in the DPRK and China are also working very cooperatively, and for the time being, everything is done according to the rules and regulations and is developing in a very orderly manner. Although there are some cases of corruption, Hu Xiaoyan has no time to pay attention to them for the time being.

Coal mines are already being mined. Chen Ronggui also returned from other places, and he only brought back the business with a total of no more than 500 tons of coal.

Chen Ronggui blamed himself very much for this, and Hu Xiaoyan had to comfort him softly. Chen Ronggui ran to find some big scenes. And these people had to buy a little bit for Chen Ronggui's previous face, and all of them added up to only 500 tons. And because the road surface has not been repaired, let alone the railway, transportation is a big problem.

Hu Xiaoyan then pulled out the people who repaired the embankment and asked them to repair the wharf. The docks were repaired, and the roads were repaired. Anyway, there's so much work to do.

A few days later, Hu Pinsan found Hu Xiaoyan again. Hu Pinsan became a principal in a primary school in Suzhou, and recruited a group of traditional teachers from among the local readers, plus a group of students from Shanghai to teach natural science classes. The entire primary school was run by him.

Originally, Hu Pinsan, as Hu Xueyan's son, no matter how poor his ability is, it is not easy to manage a primary school. What's more, Hu Xiaoyan has always been very generous in terms of school expenses. This primary school is currently one of the largest higher primary schools in Anhui Province. After all, not every school gives students three meals a day.

In fact, how much can primary school students eat in one meal? Is one pound of rice a day enough for a primary school student? How much grain did he eat that year? 365 pounds! So how much do you eat for a hundred? 36,500 pounds. What's more? That's a lot, 36,000 catties! But even 36,000 catties of polished rice can be exchanged for less than 3,000 taels of silver!

What can three thousand taels do for Hu Xiaoyan? Nothing can be done! The 8,000 soldiers under his command were paid almost 30,000 taels of silver every month! Of course, among the soldiers, the salaries of the security police, the miners and the elite soldiers are different. Wang Yue's most elite soldiers were only 1,000 soldiers, and the highest salary was 6 silver dollars. And the miners, who usually train, go to repair roads after training, 5 silver dollars. The last was the security police, with only four silver dollars. But Hu Xiaoyan knows very well what the security police are, and these people occasionally have to eat, drink and get cards. In fact, the salary is much higher than that of the elite soldiers.

In other words, the cost of three meals a year for a hundred children is less than one-tenth of the monthly salary of his soldiers.

If you don't compare, you never know how happy you are. In fact, Hu Xiaoyan prepared 20,000 taels a year, and these 20,000 taels are the salaries of the teachers in the three schools and the room and board expenses of the schools.

Hu Pinsan came to Hu Xiaoyan because his eldest brother's family came to Suzhou. The Hu family's compound eventually broke up.

has Hu Xiaoyan's 20,000 taels of silver as the base. In the end, the Zhiyuan built by Hu Xueyan was not burned.

Except for the eldest Hu Yansan and his wife and Hu Pinsan's wife, Hu Xiaoyan's other nephews all went to Shanghai.

Hu Xiaoyan has a big house in Shanghai. Ye Chengxin and Rong Hong saw that Hu Xiaoyan had been living in Shanghai that day, so they specially built a big mansion for him near the university hall in Baoshan. It's not a problem to live in a dozen or so households. Because almost all of the land in Baoshan is now a university hall. Old man Ye has been clamoring to build the largest university hall in Asia. The remaining land in Baoshan was also bought by him privately and then donated to the University Hall.

The house was built very quickly. With the presence of ash and the participation of the people of Baoshan, it was built in less than a month. But it's been empty all the time. Now it was handed over to Hu Yansan by Hu Xiaoyan.

And Hu Yansan didn't want to take care of things anymore, so he casually assigned this courtyard to his nephew. As for the Zhiyuan in Hangzhou, he officially returned it to Hu Qingyutang. also forgot about his thoughts.

The children and nephews all like to live in a prosperous place like Shanghai, but Hu Yansan prefers a quieter place, and he and Hu Xiaoyan have not seen each other for more than ten years. Even among the younger generations, no one knew that they had a young uncle. When Hu Xiaoyan went abroad, his eldest nephew Hu Caoqing was only a few years old. I haven't seen it for more than ten years, and I have long forgotten it.

Hu Mingsan brought his younger brother Hu Pinsan's wife to Suzhou together. Hu Xiaoyan naturally wanted to meet him. But there was no bloody crying scene, and the three brothers were just relatively speechless. And then a hangover.