Chapter 5 "Where Are the Manchu Officials Going?" 》

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When the simple Yang Xiaoli may be lamenting for her man in her heart, lamenting that he is just trying to make money to support her family, she can't imagine that her man is no longer the good gentleman Zhang Zuguang in the past. What she could not have imagined was that her man was engaged in a dangerous profession that might bring them infinite light, and at the same time, it might lead to death.

Zhang Zuguang became a member of the Beijing station of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Taiping Tiantian. Some things that seem to be accidental often have a lot of inevitability hidden in them. Zhang Zuguang's grandfather and father were both doctors who served in the Dinghai Navy that year, and they both died under the guns of foreigners, and his mother was overly sad and died. From this point alone, after he accidentally became friends with Xue Jiang of Angel Trading Company, it was completely inevitable that he could finally devote himself to the torrent of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Zhang Zuguang got what he wanted to know from his daughter-in-law, and hurriedly turned back to Dashilar.

Several houses in the north of the east entrance of Dashilar have been bought by the wealthy Angel Commercial Company, and a two-story building is being built, which makes their temporary shop next to the construction site look a little crowded and messy. However, business does not seem to be affected, and the open-air stalls at the entrance and the lobby are bustling with people.

In the living room, Fan Wenrui and Xue Jiang were receiving several merchants from other places. Angel's cigarette business is not only a firestorm, but also a one-stop supply. From the low-grade retail that can be bought and sold by a big child without any packaging, to the whole box of white packaging cigarettes that only indicates Angel's own production, to the "Big Golden Dragon" brand high-end paper cigarettes with a flying dragon printed on the cigarette box, there is everything. "Cigarettes bring you comfort after hard work!" This famous saying of Angel Commercial Company spread in Beijing's Sijiu City and also spread to the surrounding areas. Savvy businessmen from Shanxi and Zhili provinces have come to the city, hoping to be Angel's distributor in the local area.

"Yo, it's Zhang Dacha who is here, please inside." Seeing Zhang Zuguang come in, Xue Jiang hurriedly stood up and let him into the inner room.

"As expected, Yishan signed the Aihui Treaty with the Russian devils, and the content is more than what they plan to sell." As soon as Zhang Zuguang closed the door, he whispered to Xue Jiang the information he had just learned.

"These demons, for their own interests, really dare to sell anything. Sell it, it's all sold out, see what else they sell? Xue Jiang, that is, Gu Xuejiang in the past, showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, "Russian devils, hehe, as long as they dare to come, sooner or later they will know the power of our heavenly army, and they will have to pay a greater price for it." ”

Zhang Zuguang smiled and nodded, "There is another thing, when our shopkeeper Le came back from the palace today, he talked about Xianfeng. His health is not very good, and Shopkeeper Le felt from the discussions of several imperial doctors that Xianfeng probably won't last for a few years. ”

"This situation is very important, an emperor like him can reign for one more day, but it will be of greater benefit to us." Xue Jiang smiled slightly, "Now I'm afraid that the big shopkeeper called us to pay attention to Concubine Yi, as well as your old friend Prince Gong, are going to become hot figures." You have to climb the big branch of Prince Gong. The big shopkeeper he was talking about was not Ai Hua and Sang Yu, but naturally referred to His Royal Highness King An who was far away in Shanghai.

"Haha, I've almost become King Gong's internal medicine now, and even our shopkeeper Le is full of praise for my methods." Zhang Zuguang smiled proudly.

After dealing with the outside affairs, Fan Wenrui also came to the inner room. After listening to the introduction of the situation, he thought about it carefully, looked at Xue Jiang and said, "Starting tomorrow, through other channels, we will verify the relevant treaties and the strategic deployment of the Qing Demon this time, and then, you can go back in person, and you can coordinate the production of paper cigarettes pre-purchased by several large merchants with the old gentleman by the way." ”

"There is one more thing, while you two shopkeepers are here, I have to say it quickly." Zhang Zuguang mentioned that Tongrentang planned to buy a batch of musk, but because the turnover at hand was not effective for a while, the shopkeeper Le wanted to invite the two of them to a banquet in the evening.

Fan Wenrui and Xue Jiang looked at each other and smiled. "In my opinion, there is no need to eat this meal, of course we can borrow the silver," Fan Wenrui smiled hehehe, "The shopkeeper is a person, there is no one in the capital who does not know, can maintain health, can help the world, but medicine is the most." This favor should be helped, as for the interest, I think it's okay, the affairs of our business house are also a lot of help, everyone is each other. Besides, as soon as our shabu shabu shop opens in the future, we will have him cheering for it. ”

"What, is this new house going to open a restaurant?" Zhang Zuguang asked strangely.

"Haha, of course." Xue Jiang smiled, "We are all law-abiding businessmen, of course, the bigger the business, the better." The newly built house is intended to be divided into two parts, a small part is used as a commercial shop, and most of it is used to open a Yufeng Lou shabu shabu factory, which operates all-halal shabu mutton. This is something that will require a lot of help from your dude. We've only heard the big shopkeeper describe it, but we haven't actually seen it yet. However, it must be done well, and the elegance and vulgarity to be appreciated, the big shopkeeper said that the first thing he will do when he comes to the capital in the future is to eat the mutton shabu-shabu here. ”

At the same time, the "New Tianjing Daily" and the "Shanghai Oriental News" published the details of the "Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty" between the Qing government and Tsarist Russia under eye-catching headlines on the first page, and distributed Lin Haifeng's article "Where Are the Manchu Officials Heading?" 》。

Lin Haifeng wrote in the article, "There are two ways in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu government in Beijing: one is to insist on losing power and humiliating the country, to move closer to the Manchu government, and to be a slave of the Manchus and foreigners, that is, to continue to be the enemy of the people, and in the great war of the people's recovery of the Han family, they will die together with the Manchu slave group and the foreign masters; One is to move closer to the people, that is, to break with the Manchu foreign slave clique and the foreign masters, and to make meritorious contributions and atone for their sins in the great war to recover the rivers and mountains of the Han family, so as to seek the people's forgiveness and understanding. There is no third way at all.

Among the Manchu civil and military officials, there were three groups of people. Some people insist on going the first way. No matter how good the words they used to beautify themselves, and how viciously they attacked the Celestial government, they completely forgot their ancestors in their actions, continued to betray the country, and continued to oppress and massacre the people who demanded the restoration of the Han family to its original appearance. They are the sworn friends of Manyi, and they are unforgivable traitors and traitors. Some people are willing to take the second path, but they are not yet able to take decisive action. The third part is some people who are wandering astray and whose movements are unknown. They do not want to offend their masters, but they also want the people's understanding and tolerance. But this is fantasy and impossible.

The birth of the so-called "Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty" once again revealed the ugly face of this ignorant and brutal Manchu government, which 'would rather give foreigners than domestic slaves'. Xianfeng regarded the Han rivers and mountains they forcibly seized as his own private property, and regarded the vast number of people as their domestic slaves...... I also ask you to bring a message to your foreign masters, no matter how many tricks they play and how much scheming they try, those so-called treaties will be turned into waste paper under the feet of the heavenly army and the people......"

In the end, he wrote, "Whether it is the Fengtian crusade against Hu Weiwen of our Celestial Empire, or the marching crusade order of the Celestial Army to Changsha and Shanghai, it has repeatedly warned you to be a traitor and traitor, or to repent and awaken as soon as possible, you have your own freedom to choose between the two." But there is not much time to choose, the heroic and invincible Celestial Army is marching forward, and when the Celestial Army arrives, it will be too late to regret it. ”

These two kinds of newspapers spread not only in the Celestial Empire's control area, but also through various channels in the Qing area.

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