After being busy for a few days in a row, Xiaoxi and Xiaozhi's affairs are considered to have an eyebrow, and they will soon go to a girls' school and St. Francis's church respectively. In order not to be much worse, Ah Fa hired a tutor to tutor his sister and younger brother first.

Both schools are Western-style halls, although they are not the most advantageous in Shanghai, but the enrollment is relatively relaxed, and they are bilingual. 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 the year 190.

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

During this time, Ah Fa either personally reconnoitred, or Jin Ye provided information, disappeared and prepared for a few days, and he finally made another move. This time it was no longer a land robbery, but a direct destruction of the Chaozhou Gang's warehouse where the crows and × pieces were stored, as well as the business firm. Compared with the last time, the damage caused by the arson belt killing was even more heavy, and a large number of crow × pieces were reduced to ashes. Although these crow × pieces are worth tens of thousands, 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 is much more than that, as he assassinates and destroys, the price of the crow × will rise, and the value of the tobacco and soil he loots will also 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 for business with foreign ocean banks.

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 his 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 handwriting. 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 have to return to his hometown with broken dreams, and in order to continue to learn what he loves, it is 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 from Shanghai, and his grandparents 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 go to private school again, he wanted him to read poetry and books, 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 were keenly aware of this change went to Shanghai, Nanjing and other places one after another to enter the Western-style halls run by foreigners or the new-style halls run by Westerners, and some even crossed the sea to stay abroad. Most of these people have made considerable achievements since they became adults. 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. There is no need to kowtow to the statue of Sage Kong before class, and there is no gentleman to play the board, 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 hard work.

With the opening of Western courses such as Tiangeohua, Wang Zhuoran became fanatically obsessed with Huahua again. If he hadn't seen it with his own hands and with his own eyes, he wouldn't have been able to believe that he could make the first thing by putting together things that were out of touch with 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 dream has just begun, but he has to face a broken ending. Since all provinces had opened new-style halls with the west as the main educational content, Zhou Fu, the governor of Liangjiang, believed that the imperial court needed enough translators, and that "there was no progress in all industries of industry and commerce", so he petitioned the imperial court to change the Guang dialect hall into an industrial hall, focusing on cultivating industrial talents. Now, Emperor Guangxu has been allowed to play, and the Canton Dialect Museum will change its signboard and recruit new students in the near future, 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. Because, in the Cantonese dialect hall, students can live in the hall for free, and they are also given food and ink expenses every day, which allows Wang Zhuoran, who has a difficult family, to study hard.

And dismissal means that he has to give up his job 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.