After being busy for a few days, Xiaoxi and Xiaozhi have an eyebrow about going to school, and they will soon go to school at Trinity Hall Girls' School and St. Francis School respectively. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn order not to be too bad, Ah Fa hired a tutor to tutor his sister and younger brother first.

Both schools are Western-style schools, and although they are not the most advantageous in Shanghai, they have relatively liberal enrollment and are bilingual teaching. As for religion, Ah Fa doesn't believe in it, but he doesn't oppose it. It doesn't matter if his sister and brother are religious in the future, he respects the beliefs of others.

New Year's Day passed in a blink of an eye, and time entered 1903.

"A fire broke out at the 16 Pu Wharf last night, and many warehouses were burned down; The big merchant Tongfa and Guo Yuanmao were attacked and destroyed by strongmen......" Ah Fa sneered, turned over the page of the newspaper, and the ten big local merchants of the Chaozhou Gang were burned and killed, and he knew it in his heart, so he didn't need to look at it carefully.

During this time, Ah Fa either personally reconnoitred, or Jin Sanye provided information, disappeared and prepared for a few days, and he finally shot again. This time it was no longer a land robbery, but a direct destruction of the Chaozhou Gang's opium storage warehouse and business house. Compared with the last time, the damage caused by the arson belt killing was even more severe, and a large amount of opium was reduced to ashes. Although these opiums are worth millions, Ah Fa is not distressed at all about destroying these harmful things, let alone a pity.

Now, Ah Fa still has a blacklist in his hand that records the addresses of several big tobacco shops and the names of several big local merchants, and the elimination plan has been brewing for a long time, and the war against all drug-related criminals has begun.

Moreover, his plan goes far beyond that, as he assassinates and destroys, the price of opium will rise, and the value of the tobacco he loots will double, so that when the black eats the black, he will earn more.

After reading the newspaper, Ah Fa came to the office and took care of his work.

Qin Manguo's idea was creative and very effective, and through the efforts of Ah Fa and Neumann, they sent samples and instructions to foreign merchants in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other places, and lowered the price to compete with foreign ocean companies for business.

Although they enjoy priority, Ah Fa has also established contacts with other Chinese commercial banks to undertake agents, and the supply of goods can be guaranteed to be sufficient, and there will be more and more buyers. This is the benefit of independent agents, and they don't have to be tied to Qin Ji's family.

"These invoices are going to be sent out today." Ah Fa basically finished today's work, explained to the secretary Caifeng, turned around and walked back to his office, and looked at his face in the mirror.

There seemed to be no change, only eyes, with a contemplative aura, gazing at themselves from unfathomable places, like a vigilant beast snooping.

There was a soft knock on the door, and Caifeng came in to tell Ah Fa that a young man had come outside, saying that he had seen an advertisement in the newspaper and applied for a job.

"Oh, that's the thing, let him in!" Ah Fa sat back in the chair and kept touching his face, as if he could change into a different look.

For Caifeng, the female secretary, Ah Fa is still quite satisfied. If it is said that it is writing, Caifeng has practiced, and it is much stronger than his cockroach words. When it comes to receiving people and things, Caifeng is no stranger to it, and she has done a good job.

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Wang Zhuoran was a little nervous, and under the guidance of a little girl, he went upstairs to Ah Fa's office. In order not to return to his hometown with broken dreams, and to continue to study the chemistry he loves, but also to make life more and more difficult for his family. Wang Zhuoran took a deep breath and stepped into the office.

Speaking of Wang Zhuoran, it can be said that he grew up in a scholarly family. His hometown is Jiading, a stone's throw away from Shanghai, and his grandfather and father are both teachers, and he has shown extraordinary intelligence since he was a child. At the age of ten, he was admitted to the Tongsheng Examination. But as his grandfather was at home, the livelihood of the family of nine was all on his father, who was a teacher, and the family was embarrassed, and he was also kicked out of the private school by his husband.

Although his grandfather wanted him to study in a private school again, he wanted him to read poetry and books, so that his son would inherit his father's business in the future and be a respected teacher. But Wang Zhuoran's heart has already flown away, and he has his own love and yearning.

After the history entered the 20 th century, after the Opium War, the Westernists who were determined to change and strive for strength for more than half a century and the increasingly strong European wind and rain blew Jiading, like Shanghai, are quietly changing.

Some Jiading people who are keenly aware of this change have gone to Shanghai, Nanjing and other places to enter the foreigner-run foreign schools or the new-style schools run by the Westerners, and some even crossed the ocean to study abroad. Most of these people have achieved considerable success after completing their studies. And these things that happened around him undoubtedly had an "irresistible temptation" for the young and smart Wang Zhuoran.

After being kicked out of the private school, despite his grandfather's opposition, Wang Zhuoran resolutely left his hometown and came to Shanghai alone, and was admitted to the Cantonese Dialect Museum.

In the Cantonese Dialect Museum, Wang Zhuoran seemed to have entered a new world. Before class, there is no need to kowtow to the statue of Sage Confucius, and there is no board for Mr. Confucius, and those blue-eyed and white-skinned "foreign teachings" do not have the strictness of Mr. Private School at all, and they are as kind to the students as if they are friends. All of this greatly stimulated Wang Zhuoran's desire and interest in studying hard.

With the opening of Western courses such as astronomy, geography, and chemistry, Wang Zhuoran became obsessed with chemistry again. If he hadn't seen it with his own hands and with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that he could make a third thing by putting together things that were not related to each other in a certain proportion and giving them the right conditions. It was a completely new world for him, full of alluring magic.

However, the young Wang Zhuoran's chemical dream has just begun, but he has to face a broken ending. Since all provinces had opened new-style schools with Western studies as the main educational content, Zhou Fu, the governor of Liangjiang, believed that the imperial court needed enough translators, but "there was no progress in all industrial and commercial industries", so he petitioned the imperial court to change the Guang dialect hall into an industrial school, focusing on cultivating industrial talents. Now, Emperor Guangxu has been allowed to play, and recently the Canton Dialect Museum will change its signboard and recruit new students, and the students of the original Canton Dialect Hall will be dismissed.

When Wang Zhuoran heard the news, he seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar all of a sudden. Because, in the Cantonese dialect hall, students can live in the hall for free, and they are also paid food and ink fees every day, which allows Wang Zhuoran, who has a difficult family, to study hard.

And dismissal means that he has to put down his studies and find a way to make a living. It's not just about his own livelihood, his younger siblings are growing up day by day, and he has to lighten the burden of the family's increasingly difficult life.