Chapter 108
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Lin Haifeng can smoke, and by feeling, he knows that the tobacco leaves must have a process of re-roasting, otherwise the cigarettes will not have the special aroma that the daily cool-dried tobacco does not have. But further down, he is also a two-five-eyed person, and he can't say anything. However, he firmly believes in one thing, that is, what the chairman said, the people, and only the people, are the driving force behind the creation of history.
As soon as he came back in the evening, he asked Wang Haiyang to find an old carpenter, and then, while chatting with the carpenter about his own ideas, he and the carpenter started to drum up in the house.
A few hours passed, looking at the shavings and sawdust in the house, Liu Xianghe came in a few times, and reluctantly retreated. She didn't understand what His Highness was tossing, but she knew that it was long overdue to eat. She sat down on the stone steps at the door angrily, Wang Haiyang and their guards had already finished their meal, and the tempting aroma of food was still diffusing in the courtyard, and her stomach couldn't stop rumbling.
When Su Sanniang saw Liu Xianghe who was wilting and drooping at the door, she pointed to the room strangely, "Liu Shangshu, isn't Your Highness here?" ”
"Yo, it's Sister Su," Liu Xianghe hurriedly stood up, looked up at the sky, and asked with a smile, "It's so late, haven't you rested yet?" ”
"Hehe, you're a busy mess, how can you have that leisure." Su Sanniang pointed to the young man who was escorted by several female guards behind her, "No, I haven't even eaten yet, I met this guy, and I have to come to ask to see His Highness." ”
"Your Highness, like my sister, is also a busy person, and when I come back at night, I work as a carpenter inside, and I don't know what I'm busy with." Liu Xianghe said sourly, changed his body and pushed open the door.
On the table in front of Lin Haifeng, there was a small rectangular wooden box that had just been made, and he was holding a wooden shaft slightly thinner than his little thumb. Then, he took a piece of thick paper, fixed one end, made a groove at the other end, evenly placed the cigarette dust on the table into the groove, and then used the wooden shaft in his hand to drive the thick paper to roll tightly. Then apply one side of a small piece of paper with starch glue and place it on a conveyor belt made of thick paper. After this qiē was done meticulously, he turned his head to look at the old carpenter beside him, "Again, again, again, again, God has eyes, out!" As his hand rolled the wooden shaft, the tobacco was rolled into the paper, and a half-finished paper cigarette was rolled.
Lin Haifeng carefully picked up the paper cigarette, picked up the scissors, and cut off the excess parts exposed at both ends, and a complete paper cigarette was born.
"Haha, haha, hahaha" Lin Haifeng lifted the cigarette, turned around, and smiled happily, "How is it, it's really done, right?" Come on, man, you try this first, and I'll roll a few more of it. ”
"It's all the credit of you, the prince, and the people have borne it." The old carpenter smiled and waved his hand repeatedly, "Besides, Xiaomin won't suck this." ”
"yes, don't you know how to suck or don't you dare to suck? If you don't suck it, I'll do it first. Lin Haifeng put the paper cigarette under his nose and sniffed, his eyes slightly closed.
"Your Highness, Su Anfu is here!" Looking at His Royal Highness's greedy cat-like appearance, Liu Xianghe was anxious. She hurriedly rushed over and pulled His Highness's arm, "Your Highness, you can joke for a while." ”
Lin Haifeng looked at Liu Xianghe as if he had just woken up from a dream, and then looked at Su Sanniang standing at the door. "Hehe, Sanniang is here." He smiled awkwardly, looked at the paper cigarette in his hand, and reluctantly put it back into the cigarette maker for a while. He looked at the messy ground again, and sighed, "These few of them are so lazy, why don't they even clean up a room in time, look, look, I don't even have a place to put my feet when I call Sanniang." I see, this tidying up of the house is not possible without a female officer. You say yes, Sanniang? ”
Your Highness actually wants to smoke? Su Sanniang was really surprised. His Royal Highness is a god, the king of the Celestial Empire, and a perfect saint, how can he violate the rules of heaven? She looked at His Highness silently for a while, and then vigorously dragged the cigarette dealer behind her, "Your Highness, here is someone who brings you tobacco leaves." ”
"Oh," Lin Haifeng felt the unhappiness in Su Sanniang's heart, and he looked at the person who was stumbled by Su Sanniang coldly, "Where did you come from?" ”
"Back to Chitose, Xiaomin was entrusted by Boss An to deliver a letter to Chitose."
Lin Haifeng immediately understood that this was someone sent by Sangyu from Shanghai. "Okay, okay, come, come with me to the back room." He pulled up the person and walked two steps, looked back at Su Sanniang, and then grinned at Liu Xianghe, and rubbed his stomach again, "I'm hungry, isn't it time to eat yet?" Hurry up and prepare something, and ask the carpenter brother and Sanniang to eat together. ”
The real name of the "cigarette dealer" sent by Su Sanniang is Paradigm, the word Wenrui, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and his ancestors all took the master in the yamen as their profession. As for him, although he has been influenced by this atmosphere in his home and has developed a meticulous, shrewd, and even cunning character, he does not like this profession. He was quite fond of business, so at the age of sixteen, he began to work beside his distant uncle Gu Tonglin in Zhenjiang for several years. Later, he went to Guangdong and Hong Kong, and worked as a foreign foreign firm for several years. He admired the new things of the West very much, and in order to seek greater development in the future, he deliberately followed the foreign businessmen of the foreign company to the United States for a year. After returning to China last year, he has been working as a comprador in Qichang Foreign Bank, and has won the appreciation of Taipan Jin Nengheng.
People are like this, when you don't open your eyes, you will think that the familiar qiē around you is natural, or go against the grain. And when you see the wonderful world outside, you will feel incomprehensible about what was before. Now, a big braid that any man has long been accustomed to has brought Fan Wenrui only one feeling, that is, humiliation. He couldn't blame people for their rudeness or lack of cultivation. An oriental giant who claims to be a big country in the world, in the eyes of others, is nothing more than a monster with hypochondriasis, a bunch of fat that can be slaughtered and shared by whoever is happy.
He is a very extreme person, if it weren't for his father and mother who gave him this yellow face, he would have stayed in a foreign country forever. Therefore, when he knew that there was a Tianping Heavenly Kingdom in Guangxi to expel the Tartars, and the Shanghai Knife Society that he had seen with his own eyes, he couldn't help but feel a sense of happiness.
Whether it is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or the Little Knife Society, although some people keep cursing them, Fan Wenrui doesn't see it that way. At least they don't have the power of the whole country yet, and he doesn't know what will happen in the future. But he really understood the squalor and cowardice of the Qing Dynasty. Didn't they all say that the lesser of two evils should be taken, then he would resolutely stand on the side of the rebels, expel the Tartars, restore the Han family, and finally cut off this ugly braid. Since it is a nascent regime, there is always hope. It was at this time that he got acquainted with Sang Yu and later Aihua.
After a simple conversation, Lin Haifeng had a good impression of the example. He also appreciated Sang Yu's work ability even more, and in two months, the development of the intelligence system of the Shanghai station was unusually smooth. Especially when he learned that the example had some understanding of the roasting and processing of tobacco, his eyebrows fluttered with joy, "Hehe, this Sangyu, this king asked her to do everything so quickly, what a rare talent." ”
"Your Highness, will I stay this time?" Paradigm asked with a smile.
"No," Lin Haifeng thought for a moment, "you better go back to Shanghai first." Sue your big boss Sang, you must be careful and careful in the matter of trying to get the black brothers to come to Zhenjiang by boat, and try not to do even the slightest danger, so as not to affect the entire work of the Shanghai station. Besides, I also heard you roughly say that the temperature and humidity control requirements for the roasting process of tobacco leaves are very detailed, and there is no testing instrument, and it is not possible to do it well in a day or two by exploring experience alone. ”
"Your Highness is right, when I come back, I can also get a few thermometers by the way." Paradigm chuckled.
"Okay, I won't keep you, you can go to Mr. Gu now, and your name will also be a pseudonym in the future, is there a ready-made one?" Lin Haifeng stood up, looked at the example and asked.
"Then it's called Fan Wenrui, right?" The example thought for a while, "I still came up with this word after I arrived in Guangdong, and I rarely used it, and most of the people I came into contact with were businessmen, and no one called your word." ”
"Hehe, it's a good name, like a tobacco king." Lin Haifeng smiled, "When you come back next time, you will first build a cigarette factory in Zhenjiang, and then you will go to Tianjin and Beijing to set up factories and kill the heart of the Qing demon." ”
"Can I?" Fan Wenrui's face flushed slightly.
"Of course," Lin Haifeng patted him on the shoulder, "You have been away from home for so many years, isn't it just a way of practicing business?" Now is the time to show off what you're up to. Hehe, don't worry, you're not alone at any point. We do this kind of work very specially, and it seems to be very lonely, but in fact, we will have a lot of our own people around us. Besides, behind us, there are millions of soldiers and civilians of the Celestial Empire. ”
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