"The old man Wu is only half right, and the defeat of the Wu family in the Qing Dynasty may have something to do with the imperial court. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info However, Rong took the liberty to ask Old Man Wu: What did the Wu family rely on to be able to become a smash hit in the Qing Dynasty and be rich and rival the country? Lin Yizhe asked rhetorically with a smile.

"The Wu family's wealth rivals that of the country, and it is earned by doing business in a dignified manner!" Wu Xizhang replied confidently, he thought that Lin Yizhe might be charged with "smuggling opium", so he preemptively said, "The Wu family has never done anything that hurts nature and reason!" He has never sold opium to harm the people! ”

"Foreign ships are officials and businessmen, and the cross door is open to the two oceans. Five silk and eight silk satin are good, and the silver money is piled up in thirteen rows. Lin Yizhe smiled and chanted a nursery rhyme of the year, "The word 'official businessman' is not false, right?" ”

Wu Xizhang took a deep breath and nodded slowly.

"Before the Opium War, my Qing Dynasty was a one-port trade, and the overseas trade was monopolized by the thirteen merchants as officials and merchants." Lin Yizhe looked at Wu Xizhang and said, "If there is no imperial court to give the thirteen officials and merchants the right to monopolize a mouthful of trade, I am afraid that the Wu family will not be able to earn this huge share of the family business by just relying on legitimate ideas, right?" ”

"No matter how the court treats the Wu family, it is an indisputable fact that the Wu family has received a lot of gifts from the court. The prosperity of the Wu family is due to the imperial court! Even if the Wu family is defeated and forced to drift overseas, if the reason is all attributed to the imperial court, I am afraid that it will not be able to convince the public. Lin Yizhe said.

Hearing Lin Yizhe say such a thing, Wu Xizhang's face turned red all of a sudden, and he stayed there for a long time.

"Decay...... I want to hear about it! After a long time, Wu Xizhang said

"The general trend." Lin Yizhe smiled and said.

"The general trend?" After listening to Lin Yizhe's answer, not only Wu Xizhang was stunned for a moment, but the thirteen masters around him were also stunned.

"That's right! Trend! Lin Yizhe nodded and said, "At that time, the world situation had changed, and trade was the trend of the times, and the imperial court and the Thirteen Lines failed to distinguish the general trend in detail. If the imperial court had been able to recognize that the Westerners had come from afar, and that the people who were doing it were not opium, but in trade, if the Thirteen Banks had been able to appreciate the disadvantages of monopoly trade and follow the trend, there would not have been such a setback. ”

"What Lord Lin said is very true." After a long while, Wu Xizhang nodded slowly and sighed, "That's true......"

This is the words of the younger generation, and Wu Gong must not be obsessed. The past has become a cloud, and the future is long, when looking to the future, Xu Tu has a big plan. Lin Yizhe smiled and said, "If the Qing Dynasty can also be like England, France, and the United States, valuing business and industry, open and enterprising, I am afraid that at that time, I don't need me to rap, and Wu Gong will return to China to show his great plans." ”

"Lord Lin is young, but he doesn't want to have such knowledge, no wonder he is valued by the Queen Mother." At this time, Wu Xizhang had already admired Lin Yizhe so much that he bowed his hand and said, "The old man is old, and his words are offensive, and I hope Lord Lin will forgive me." ”

"Old Man Wu is polite." Lin Yizhe smiled and raised his hand to return the salute, "I didn't come here just to appease overseas Chinese, listen to what everyone wants to say, the suffering of overseas Chinese is not sure to be transferred to the Empress Dowager." ”

"In that case, then I will represent the Wu family and thank Lord Lin!" Wu Xizhang got up as he spoke, raised his glass and said to Lin Yizhe. Lin Yizhe smiled and raised his glass, and the two drank it all.

Seeing this, the heads of the other families also stepped forward to toast the envoy, and the atmosphere of the banquet became even more enthusiastic.

Xie Ruihan was about to join in the fun and say a few words to the young emperor's envoy, but suddenly found a young woman sitting at the leading table staring intently at Lin Yizhe.

It was a good-looking young woman in an English-style skirt dress, although she was dressed like a famous British lady, Xie Ruihan still saw that she was a Chinese woman.

Xie Ruihan felt that her face was very familiar, but for a moment she couldn't remember where she had seen her. It wasn't until he saw Lu Zhongheng, the head of the Thirteen Lines "Maoguan" Lu family, finish toasting Lin Yizhe and returning to the table to whisper something to her, that Xie Ruihan remembered who she was.

The eldest lady of the Lu family, Lu Yingyan!

Xie Ruihan noticed the strangeness in Lu Yingyan's gaze at Lin Yizhe, looked at Lu Yingyan for a while, and found that even when her father was talking to her, the eyes of the eldest lady of the Lu family did not leave Lin Yizhe's body!

Thinking that this 22-year-old "old girl" of the Lu family was really angry, this time she actually fell in love with the Qing Emperor's Qincha, and couldn't help but sneer in her heart.

Xie Ruihan thought about it, gave up his intention to toast Lin Yizhe, and turned around and returned to his seat.

"This junior Qin Cha seems to be quite eloquent, and he is stunned to fool the old men." Wu Xiande saw that even the head of the Xie family, Xie Siqiao, and the old man Xie had toasted with Lin Yizhe, and glanced at Xie Ruihan beside him. He noticed that the wine in the glass in her hand was still there, and couldn't help but laugh, "Why, didn't you have a drink with him?" ”

"I'm married, so it's not fun to drink with him." Xie Ruihan glanced at her husband, choked him, and turned her gaze to Lu Yingyan again.

"Stay for a while, the dance party will start, don't drink, just dance with him." Wu Xiande laughed.

"It's not my turn to jump with him." Xie Ruihan ignored her husband's boring jokes, looked at Lu Yingyan and said, "Someone is already staring at him." ”

"Oh? Which one is it? Wu Xiande asked her to say this, she became interested, raised her eyebrows, leaned over to Xie Ruihan, and asked in a low voice.

"The daughter of the Lu family." Xie Ruihan smiled coldly and said softly.

"Hehe, it's her!" Wu Xiande laughed, "I heard that this old man Lu's only daughter has a very high spirit, and the person who proposed her marriage broke through the threshold back then, but she disdained it at all, and now she has become an old girl." Unexpectedly, she actually fell in love with Lord Qin, this vision is really unusual. ”

Xie Ruihan snorted and stopped talking, just staring at Lu Yingyan.

Sure enough, after a while, Lu Yingyan got up and followed her father generously in front of Lin Yizhe.

Xie Ruihan saw Lin Yizhe happily take Lu Yingyan's hand, and went down to the dance floor, and then a pair of male and female VIPs also followed the two of them into the entrance, forming a circle, and soon the music sounded, and people began to dance to each other.

"It's amazing that Mr. Lin would dance this Western dance." Lu Yingyan's hand gently wrapped her hand around Lin Yizhe's waist and said with a smile.

"Why do you say that?" Lin Yizhe asked with a smile. He noticed that from the time he spoke to her, she referred only to herself as "sir" and not as "sir" as her father and others did.

At this time, the dance music reached the middle section, and his footsteps stopped with the music and stood in place.

Lu Yingyan caressed his waist with her hand, and with the music, her body circled around him lightly, Lin Yizhe felt the warmth in her eyes, and her heart couldn't help but move.

"Hehe, in my impression, the officials of the Qing Dynasty insist that men and women do not kiss, and they hate this kind of thing of men and women dancing together." Lu Yingyan turned to him, stretched out her wrist lightly, and handed it over, Lin Yizhe gently held her delicate and delicate twing, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Your dance is much better than I thought it would be." Lu Yingyan stared into Lin Yizhe's eyes, "Can you tell me, who did you learn from?" ”

"When I was in Paris, I didn't know how to dance, but Mademoiselle de Lisa, the daughter of the Duke of Louis, volunteered to teach me, she was a natural dancer and a good teacher, and I learned it very quickly." Lin Yizhe replied with a smile.

"Oh." A hint of regret flashed in her eyes, although it was fleeting, Lin Yizhe still keenly observed it, and couldn't help but smile slightly in her heart.

"Then she must be a very beautiful French girl, huh?"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because you're not only a fast learner, but you're a good learner. If it weren't for a beautiful girl teaching you, you wouldn't have learned it in such a short time. ”

"Hehe, maybe you're right."

"It was."

"Beautiful female teachers will make students learn faster and better, I remember. So next, I want you to be my teacher, okay? ”

"Me? Hehe, you're really kidding, what can I teach you? ”

"Zi said: 'If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher. Choose those who are good and follow them, and change those who are not good. 'There's a lot I need to learn from Miss Lu.' ”

She laughed when she heard that he had used the words of a saint here.

"You are the most humorous Chinese I have ever met."

"So, doesn't Miss Lu think that she is a descendant of Yan and Huang?"

"The imperial court treats us as outsiders who have turned their backs on the tombs of our ancestors, and my father is old, and he still thinks about his mother country, but this mother country is not a necessary thing for me."

"Miss Lu, please be careful." Lin Yizhe looked at the girl in a dress in front of him, his eyes were full of sincerity, "Although the Son of Heaven is infallible, if the imperial court really thinks that what was done back then is nothing wrong, how can this envoy appear here?" As the old saying goes: If you are forgiving and forgiving, why didn't Miss Lu give the court a chance to correct her mistakes? ”

"If the Imperial Court had appointed you as its permanent envoy to England, instead of an old man with a white beard, I might consider giving the Imperial Court such an opportunity." Lu Yingyan stared at Lin Yizhe and smiled.

"Would you like the Imperial Court to send a permanent envoy to England?" When Lin Yizhe heard her say this, he immediately understood.

"This is not only my own wish, but also everyone's wish," Lu Yingyan said, her eyes off his face and turned around, "It is the wish of thousands of overseas Chinese." ”

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