In March, the spring light sprinkled over Guangdong, the main hall of the Tianwang Mansion, and in the face of the Cantonese businessmen who gathered together, Li Xi also smiled as bright as a spring breeze.

"You should see clearly. I am a country of Yinghua, industry and commerce are the roots, you must not enter Hunan and Fujian, Yinghua soldiers use artillery fire and blood to open the way for you! You can't go down to the South Seas, the Yinghua warship is by your side! All in all, from Qingpu Business Covenant to Yinghua Business Constitution, I, Li Shi, want to take you to run a prosperous business! ”

With such a declaration, he ended the explanation of the "Anglo-Chinese Commercial Constitution", this set of promises, is the principle of the program discussed by Peng Xianzhong and An Jinzhi in the past ten days, the core of which is extracted from the original "Qingpu Commercial Covenant", that is, to protect the freedom of industry and commerce, allow it to show its own strength, of course, this freedom is also the freedom of force, and then the industry and commerce, in addition to the specific support in accordance with the Anglo-Chinese national policy, whether the harvest is good or bad, everyone has to swim on their own.

"Good! ――”

An Jinzhi hurriedly clapped his hands and congratulated, he was persuaded by Peng Xianzhong to no longer be entangled in his dream of "Wang Shang Guozhang". Under the new policy, the industries he was engaged in such as sea trade and glass were all supportive industries, which were beneficial and famous, which also reinvigorated his ambition and pulled the Cantonese Chamber of Commerce back to Li Shi's side.

Hundreds of businessmen clapped their hands, and the atmosphere was at its most enthusiastic, but some people shouted loudly.

"You exempted the stove households, let them cook salt at will, and also divided our property with our family, so that our salt merchants could not survive, and you are embarrassed to say that you protect our merchants!? Li Shi, don't be too hypocritical! ”

After this scolding, there were sporadic echoes, and the whole hall suddenly fell silent. The crowd was crowded, and in a moment, a dozen or so merchants with red faces and angry faces were isolated.

"Eleven families, one is not missing, this king is the leader."

Peng Xianzhong whispered to Li Xian, his face still full of shame, he failed to persuade all the salt merchants to accept the new policy.

"Wang Twelve, I, Shen Shisheng, am still here, don't you pull a dozen or so people to represent hundreds of salt merchants in Guangdong, the Heavenly King Salt Zheng is in line with the way of heaven! If you work hard, you people who always want to get something for nothing, you can't live if you are full of all kinds of tricks to cling to the government! ”

Shen Shisheng led more salt merchants to reprimand.

"I can't believe Li Shi's words! Do you remember that when the Cantonese Chamber of Commerce was established last year, he swore that he should not be a thief? How is it now!? It's the founding of the country again, and it's the Jiyuan again, the next step should be to ascend the throne and become the emperor, right!? ”

That Wang Twelve was obviously so angry that he lost his mind, and even exposed Li Shi's shortcomings to his face.

"Anti-thief...... When did I become a thief? ”

Speaking of this, Li Xian couldn't help but stand up and make a statement, of course, his response was to play Laipi.

"Am I against Huaxia? I reversed the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties? Am I against the Han Chinese? ”

Li scoffed disdainfully.

"You...... What are you doing now? Isn't it a rebellion against the imperial court? ”

Wang Twelfth is also out of the way, even if the others can't please him, he always has to occupy a winning place on his tongue.

"I'm Han! The court of the Tartars is not my court. ”

Li Xi patted his chest, his eyes blazing.

"I'm not rebelling now......"

He held his head high and his posture high.

"I'm just cleaning up the rivers and mountains!"

Seeing that Wang Twelve's face was purple and red, and it seemed that he still had something to say, Yu Hanyi on the side stretched out his hand and pointed: "Take it!" ”

Can't let this guy continue to shout, Li Shi is a talent in the Tartar court, and he even hung up the official status of the magistrate of Nanhai County...... Li Shi waved his hand to stop: "Get out!" I am a country in Britain and China, and I don't punish crimes with words! Ren Dexiao shouted, justice is in the hearts of the people. ”

While saying righteously, he glanced at Yu Hanyi very dissatisfied, why interrupt, he had already prepared a speech.

At the ceremony when the Cantonese Chamber of Commerce changed its name to the Anglo-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, this little episode was also compiled into a joke, which soon spread among the people, similar to the phrase "The king of heaven was originally in Han, and he raised troops to restore the rivers and mountains", which was spread throughout Guangdong in an instant.

This is already Yuan Tiepan Yuan Yinggang's routine work, and Li Xi naturally won't care. At the internal summary meeting after the ceremony, Peng Xianzhong worriedly mentioned that four of the eleven salt merchants who fiercely opposed the change in salt politics were expected to make big moves, and Li Xian only snorted inadvertently.

The general merchant plus the larger field merchants, among the more than 100 salt merchants, only this person jumped out, far under Li Shi's estimate. Peng Xianzhong readjusted the salt political reform, which not only moved Shen Shisheng, but also appeased most of the salt merchants, and the rest were these stubborn guys.

"I've been keeping an eye on them for a long time."

Yu Hanyi, who was dressed in a black uniform, said coldly.

"Then why don't you ...... on the spot?"

Peng Xianzhong was surprised.

"Liu Xingchun has been busy for so long, it's time to look at his results. Besides, the changes of the past generations are indispensable for bloodshed, and it is better for us to decide who should shed the blood than to wait for that blood to come from nowhere. ”

Li Xian said lightly, Peng Xianzhong snorted, and said in his heart I should just deal with money.

"Let them mess with it!? They have a lot of salt under them, and the three armies are outside, where are the soldiers? ”

An Jinzhi couldn't sit still, he saw Li Xian's intention to make those salt merchants jump harder, so as to uproot them, but Guangdong Province has just been pacified, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, if there is a fight inside, the trade route will not work, but it will be troublesome.

"Army? We, the British and Chinese Army, will never do anything to our own people! ”

Li Yan made a loud noise, and waited for a long time, but he didn't hear the sound of admiration and emotion.

"My own people!? That's the anti-thief! ”

"Isn't raising an army just to quell the chaos!?"

"Tune the dragon army back!"

There was a lot of chaos in the ceremonial hall in the back hall, and Li touched his nose boringly, it seemed that he had made a mistake.

"Don't worry, the soldiers have already been prepared, I'm not worried about those beam-jumping clowns, I'm worried about Kangxi Lao'er, why don't you do it, who is angry with you?"

With the promulgation of the Anglo-Chinese Business Constitution, the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the smooth implementation of the reform of the salt administration, the salt administration and even the affairs of industry and commerce have been on the right track. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry recognized the industrial and commercial tax of 4 million taels, which was first apportioned, and then calculated in the next fiscal year according to the detailed tax rules, and the excess was refunded and the deficiency was compensated, thus transitioning to a real industrial and commercial tax system.

Li Xian's heart was half relaxed, and the remaining half was pressed on affairs other than Yinghua, Kangxi and the Qing court seemed to have been wilting, which made him very puzzled.

He was puzzled by this, and everyone was not very confused, anyway, in their opinion, how many Qing soldiers came were in vain. After so many battles, the Anglo-Chinese army won with a pair of tens, and now the guns and cannons are being produced from Foshan, and the fear of the Qing court has long been eliminated.

On the contrary, they are worried that those salt merchants are making trouble in Guangdong, and now the British and Chinese army is heavy on the outside and light on the inside, except for the recruits in the training camp, plus the black-clothed guards of the Praetorian Guard Department, there is no regular army available at all.

"We're the Praetorian Guard! Hear me clearly, Praetorian Guard! Although the name is not called Praetorian Guard, it is actually a Praetorian Guard! ”

Fengwei Bay, Haifeng County, Zhou Ning, who was dressed in a gray and blue uniform, was arrogant, and repeatedly emphasized to his subordinates, his subordinates were awe-inspiring, but they were muttering in their stomachs, what kind of Praetorian Guard, we are the internal guard battalion, is it the people's bravery, okay? The internal guard only paid two taels and five cents of silver a month, which was one or two less than the lowest-ranking soldiers...... But then again, who made them reluctant to leave their homeland and fight bloodily.

Behind this group of officers, there are blue-clothed soldiers carrying muskets of various styles, different lengths, and dragging all kinds of small cannons. The two or three hundred gray-clothed men who followed them were all Haifeng patrolmen.

When Wang 12 returned to his hometown from Guangzhou, he gathered a crowd to "rebel", first attacking Haifeng County, but was repelled by Haifeng Zhixian County, who had already received the news. After escaping back to his old house, a battalion of Yinghua internal guards personally led by Zhou Ning arrived and arrested him together with Haifeng's patrol.

This Yinghua internal guard is actually the former green camp town standard reorganization, by Liu Xingchun and early acquaintance, after Li Shi raised the flag, the original Shaozhou town standard guerrilla Zhou Ning will be the same superintendent. The previous green battalion soldiers in Guangzhou Province had countless places to go, some of them had the courage to join the Anglo-Chinese army, and some of the captives went to Qiongzhou to build a city and mine. There is also a part of the sinking to the state and county, as a post guard and a patrolman, and finally this part is organized into an internal guard.

At present, the internal guard has set up a battalion in Shaozhou, Guangzhou, Zhaoqing, Huizhou, Chaozhou, Gaozhou and other places to replace the former green camp town mark and serve as an internal mobile force to stabilize social order. Each battalion is about 600 people compared to the Fubo army, and the weapons are all replaced with flintlock guns, and the cannons can only use the previous small cannons, and the training is so-so, there is no high standard, but it should still be no problem to deal with bandits.

"The king of the twelve gathers salt and Ding stoves to make a mess, and the king of heaven can't bear to step on the seedlings and disturb the people, and our Praetorian Guards do this kind of delicate work! Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first battle of our Praetorian Guard, show your courage and let the Heavenly King know that we have also recovered the backbone of the Han people! ”

Zhou Ning drew his sword and pointed forward, his posture full of energy.

"Goal, Wangjiazhuang, forward!"

Seven or eight hundred people raised a mess of smoke and dust and swept towards Wangjiazhuang, and at the back of the team, several black-clothed people looked at each other.

"It's all the old green camp, and it's a bad guy who doesn't want to move his nest in Guangdong, can they really be trusted!?"

"There are only three or four hundred people on Wang Twelve's side, and there are not many guns, so they can't be defeated, and there is no need for any Praetorian Guards."

"Don't worry about it, something really went wrong, there are two wings of recruits available."

The man in black muttered, and sporadic gunshots were already heard in front of him.

"Dozens of people have died in a small village, and you're too bad a guard, aren't you......?"

A few days later, Li Xi received a report from Haifeng and unceremoniously ridiculed Liu Xingchun.

"They are all the most useless bunch of miscellaneous soldiers in the Green Battalion before, and it's good to be able to reach this level."

Xiao Sheng, who temporarily returned to the Tianwang Mansion to report on his work, said good things for Liu Xingchun.

"Speaking of which, we are also helping the miscellaneous pieces, establishing a country, but there is no emperor, and we still use the name of the Yongli year, alas, ......"

It turned out that Li Shi had other sorrows, he was struggling with the era name set by Duan Hongshi, for the purpose of clarity and complexity, Duan Hongshi suggested that the Yongli era name should be used, and this year is exactly the seventieth year of the Yongli calendar.

Li Shi only called the king, and now he is pulling the name of the Yongli year, which is very much like turning into a foreign domain, and he is very unhappy. However, Duan Hongshi said that through the Xinhui incident and a series of good governance of the Yinghua New Dynasty, the scholars under his rule have begun to change their minds. But most of them just returned to the origin of China, and they did not recognize the new Yinghua Dynasty very much. With the name of the eternal calendar, you can collect their hearts. Anyway, he hasn't been called the emperor yet, even if it's awkward, it's just a transition.

"Fourth brother speaks, when we take the whole territory, you will be the emperor, my old Xiao still wants to be a general, by the way, the fourth sister-in-law ......"

Xiao Sheng knew that his brother was pretending to be worried, so he casually perfunctory, and then asked Yan Sanniang about the situation.

"She couldn't hold back, she always had to run towards the bustling area, so I threw her back to Yingde Baicheng and locked her up."

Li Xi said heroically, but he didn't know how much effort he wasted.

"Yingde, I really want to go back and go around."

Xiao Sheng was extremely emotional.

"I'm so tired! Let me die! ”

In a mansion in Yingde Baicheng, Shi Yizhi gritted his teeth and muttered, his eyes kept looking at the wall of Baihuahua.

"Don't make any noise, this issue of the newspaper is very important."

Cellmate Tang Youzeng's eyes kept staring at the "Yuexiu Times" in his hand.

"Seventy years of eternal calendar? Is...... What a mess! ”

I don't know what news I saw, Tang You scolded indignantly.

(To be continued)