Liang Yuanxia took a hard puff of cigarette and motioned for Liang Pengfei to continue. Liang Pengfei began to analyze the benefits of the old Liang family's establishment of ethnography. The old Liang family opened a family study, and the benefit was naturally these Liang children, teaching them to read and write, and increasing their knowledge, and this favor naturally fell on the head of their old Liang family.

In addition, it can also provide a large number of talents for the gradually expanding business of the old Liang family, and at the same time, it can also cultivate a group of excellent interpreters for the Liang family to prepare for international trade, and there is another point, those Western scientific classics that Liang Pengfei scavenged from Luzon also need a large number of translators...... "In a word, running a family study will bring us the old Liang family not only immediate benefits, but a century-old plan." Liang Pengfei's expression was solemn, like a gardener who was weeping blood.

Liang Yuanxia looked at his son, his green and faint gaze was nailed to Liang Pengfei's face, and he saw Liang Pengfei's hair standing upside down. "Daddy, what's wrong with you?"

"Yes, yes, it seems that you think more than Daddy and me." Liang Daguan clapped his hands, with a look of relief: "Cheng, let's build a clan school, these children of the Liang family will be enrolled in batches, so that they can all have a long experience and understand what it means to be reasonable." ”

"By the way, in addition to the children of the Liang family, we are also open to the outside, so that those poor children can also come here to read and write, grandma's, if you want to play, you can play bigger, our old Liang family, we also have to earn some fame."

"Dad, you're really my own father, this is a great thing." Liang Pengfei slapped his thigh and stood up. "Yes, in addition to our Liang family's children, if there are those poor children who are interested in knowledge, our family's genealogy will also be accepted, and we can also select some smart and capable people from among them, and then use them for my Liang family. In addition, there are also those old people of our Liang family, as long as they are willing to learn, they can be enrolled in batches, and in addition, the children of those subordinates can also be stuffed into the family study, in this way, wouldn't those subordinates be more dedicated to our old Liang family? ”

What Liang Pengfei thought in his heart was that when the time came, he could select a group of students with excellent character and learning from these ethnologies, and send them to the West to study or do business, in short, let them become the first batch of people to come into contact with and learn Western science and technology culture, and when the time comes, through them absorbing and digesting those knowledge and technology, it will be of great help to the re-emergence of the Chinese nation in the future.

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"Hehe, yes, that's what it means. Do you know that Lu Maoguan, the Lu Maoguan of Guangli Foreign Bank, in the city of Guangzhou, whoever mentions Lu Maoguan has to nod, why does he have such a good reputation? Relying on kindness, he has donated more than 700 acres of land for the Shilu people's Yixue and Yicang funds; donated more than 500 acres of land to Xinhui County's Yixue and Yicang funds...... Let's just run our own clan school, we will pay all the expenses, which is only tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, and buying a good reputation is not only for our Lao Liang family, but also for your career. ”

"Daddy is far-sighted, and children can't reach it." Liang Pengfei said to Liang Yuanxia with a sincere heart, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, this is really not wrong.

Early the next morning, Mr. Liang went to the state school to inquire about various questions about running a family study, and Liang Pengfei took the white scholar and Monk Chen out of the city and went to a grange in the Liang family at the foot of Baiyun Mountain on the outskirts of Guangzhou.

Because Liang Pengfei doesn't want to run the family school in the bustling city, there are actually two reasons, one is that he is worried that the prosperity of the city will disturb the ordinary heart of these students, and the second is that Liang Pengfei's family school can teach not only the four books and five classics, but also arithmetic and various foreign languages, as well as some other special subjects. If you want to annoy them, it doesn't have to be a storm, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's favorite thing to do is the prison of words, Liang Pengfei doesn't want to ruin his great future and long-term plan for this.

Therefore, after synthesizing the above ideas, Liang Pengfei persuaded Liang Daguan and decided to go outside the city to build a family.

"This house is quite spacious, but sometimes the lord occasionally comes to see for a night or two. It is surrounded by a field that our old Liang family bought thirty years ago, and now there are a total of 800 acres of land outside, all of which are handed over to those farmers to take care of. The steward stationed here took Liang Pengfei to walk in this slightly old, but still very tidy house.

Finally came around in a circle, Liang Pengfei nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, but there are fewer rooms, and I'm afraid it's enough to live in more than 300 people, and this is not counting the teachers to be invited." So, when we came over, was the large piece of barren beach on the left also our house? Liang Pengfei walked out of the courtyard gate and came to the left side of the house, where there was a large barren beach with lush artemisia grass adjacent to the river, and from time to time there were one or two wild birds in it.

"Yes, that barren beach land is also our family's, from the river to our house, to the right is near the foot of the mountain, because we don't have many farmers here, so we have not reclaimed the field, about 80 acres or so." The steward replied respectfully.

Liang Pengfei nodded: "Okay, in this way, anyway, there won't be too many students and teachers at the beginning, let them squeeze in this house for the time being." In the future, after the new family school is built, this house will be given to those teachers to live in. ”

"New ethnology?" The steward didn't react at once, but Bai Shusheng already understood what Liang Pengfei meant. "Young master, what do you mean by using that barren land for the construction of ethnology?"

Liang Pengfei nodded, walked forward for more than ten meters, and found that the land was getting softer and softer, and the artemisia grass was getting taller and taller, so he had to stop and say, "This barren beach is the site of our Liang clan school. Scholar, when I go back, I will recruit manpower, first level out half of this barren land, and then go and find me some craftsmen, and then I will give them a design drawing, so that they can build according to my planning and layout, since they want to build a family, they must build the best and latest. ”

Just when Liang Pengfei was drawing a blueprint for the future for himself and for those who will become his subordinates, a galloping horse came in the distance, the smoke and dust rising, and the sound of hurried hooves made Liang Pengfei can't help but raise his eyebrows and look at the past.

"It's Wu Qianjin, that kid." Monk Chen's eyes were sharp, and he quickly saw the rider clearly, and Liang Pengfei also recognized the person, who was the little pirate leader he sent to report the good news to Pan Youdu last time.

"What's wrong, is there something going on at home or is there something wrong with the business?" Liang Pengfei saw Wu Qianjin jumping off the horse and asked lightly, but he also beat a small drum in his heart.

"No, young master, it was Boss Pan who sent someone to the house, saying that he wanted to invite you to his foreign bank to discuss business, but the master went to the official office and was not at home, so Mrs. urged me to rush over and report to you." Wu Qianjin raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his head, and gasped.

"Did the person sent by Boss Pan say what he meant?" Liang Pengfei rolled his eyes and asked thoughtfully.

"At that time, the little one was waiting on the side, and it seemed to be a cigarette, and what kind of patent was there?" Wu Qianjin racked his brains and recalled for a long time before saying.

"I see." Liang Pengfei's face couldn't help but show a smile: "Okay, there's nothing to do here, let's go back together, I didn't expect that my Uncle Pan Shi is really sharp enough." ”

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In less than an hour, Liang Pengfei rushed back to Guangzhou, and arrived at the gate of the Tongwen Foreign Store on the famous Thirteen Hang Street in Guangzhou.

After passing through the lively front shop and passing through the long corridor, Liang Pengfei came to Pan Youdu's office in Tongwenxing, a chic Western-style small western-style building, standing in front of a small pond, the yellow color of the climbing plants on the walls of the small western-style building did not make the small building look desolate, but set off a European style.

"Virtuous nephew, I'm waiting for you to be anxious, hehehe......" On the balcony on the second floor, Pan Youdu, who was dressed in a decent dress and holding a glass of red wine in his hand, stood up and smiled slightly at Liang Pengfei, who was walking on the small wooden bridge above the pond.

Pan Youdu's dress made Liang Pengfei, who was in a long robe and horse jacket, stunned, but Liang Pengfei's eyes soon fell on the other two Xiyi people who were dressed the same as Pan Youdu.

"Hello, dear Mr. Liang, I am an English merchant named John? Smith, it's a pleasure to meet you. One of the tall foreigners stepped forward first, stretched out his hand to Liang Pengfei, and introduced himself to Liang Pengfei in his somewhat stammering and strange Chinese, but there was a faint pride and reserve in the gray-green eyes under the high eyebrows. This is my assistant Thomson, a good accountant and a good lawyer. ”

"Mr. Smith, Mr. Thomson, it's a pleasure to meet you both, and I apologize for keeping you waiting for a long time because of business matters." Liang Pengfei used pure London English to keep the two Britons in place, and closed their mouths for a while.

"My God, you are the most English-speaking Qing man I have ever met." John? Smith looked really surprised, but Pan Youdu sat down at the small round table with a smile and watched the excitement.

"You are also the Englishman I have seen so far who speaks our most standard Chinese, and I wonder if Mr. Smith is English, Scottish, or Irish?" Liang Pengfei asked kindly with a gentleman's smile on his face.

"I'm English, and my assistant is Scottish." John? Smith had already put away his pride, and he felt that he seemed to be underestimating this young partner of Pan Youdu.

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(To be continued)