It was just dark, and in the main house of the courtyard, Chen Xin was holding a bowl of noodles at the table, a dim oil lamp was lit on the table, and Liu Minyou was sitting opposite and also holding a bowl of noodles.

"Minyou, when Dai Zhenggang and Song Wenxian come back in September, I will go to Beijing, and I will take Lu Chuanzong, Dai Zhenggang, Zhu Guobin, and Hai Gouzi with me."

Liu Min was a little surprised: "You have already sent a Qin Lufang to Jingshi, and you still have to bring so many people, what is it to go to war." ”

Chen Xin chewed the noodles in his mouth twice and said: "It's similar to fighting, the apocalypse is going to die, I don't remember what month it is, anyway, it's this year, I'm going to see if there is any chance." ”

"Aren't you just going to pay the money, what can you do if the apocalypse is dead, can you arrest Wei Zhongxian and kill him, and besides, the store also needs manpower, you have taken it all away, what should I do here."

Chen Xin took a sip of the noodle soup, sighed comfortably and said: "It's so simple, don't you have Zhou Laifu's wife and Pan Jinlian in your store, by the way, I promised Lao Cai and Lu You, and let them come to work in the clothing store in the future, so many people are enough." ”

When there was a sound, Liu Minyou's bowl fell on the table, "You, who let you recruit so many people, the clothing store has less than 100 pieces of business this month, most of them are cotton, and they will earn thirty or forty taels of silver, you set a guarantee of three taels for Deng Keshan a few days ago, and now add two more people, what kind of silver do we earn." ”

Chen Xin hurriedly put Liu Minyou's bowl flat: "Lao Cai is two taels, Lu You is one tael, what's the matter, Deng Keshan can do things in Tianjin, that is also what should be given." ”

"It's not a matter of a few taels of silver, how many things can be done in the store, and you get so many people to come, and there is nothing to do. What are you doing all day with nothing to do. ”

"Brother Liu, don't worry, we are not a clothing store for a lifetime, there are many other businesses to do in the future, now we will train the team first, and when we want to use it in the future, we will not be short of talents."

Liu Minyou looked at him straight for a while, suddenly stood up, slammed the door at the door, and came back to sit down: "You have to make it clear tonight, what are your plans, don't keep me in the dark as a fool." ”

Chen Xin looked like a scoundrel, and reached out to serve the soup bowl again, but Liu Minyou took the first step and took the soup bowl aside.

Chen Xin spread his hands and smiled: "That's good, but don't laugh at me when you hear it." ”

"Say it."

Chen Xin cleared his throat and said, "I want to dominate the world!" ”

With a bang, Liu Minyou fell down from his seat, and he quickly got up and said angrily: "You still want to fight for hegemony in the world, you are just more than 10,000 taels of silver, why are you fighting for hegemony in the world, who is not a merchant in Tianjin who is doing canal business, they are not fighting, why should you fight." ”

Chen Xin hurriedly pulled him to sit down: "Brother Liu, don't worry, I'll tell you not to laugh at me, you have to let me say it." ”

"Brother Chen, can we not toss, now we have a boat, silver and business, can't we live honestly. I think you should have a home early, and you will be born, and several aunts on Erdao Street have come to kiss, or I will let you get married first. ”

Chen Xin shrugged and said, "Can An Sheng get it, the Tartar is here." ”

"Don't you have a private port in Weihai, let's go to Weihai first, and then run to Taiwan, if you can't do it, you will go to Ryukyu. What are you afraid of at the beach? It's that you're tossing so much, and you're still fighting for world domination, maybe before the Tartars come, you'll toss us all in. ”

Chen Xin said with a wry smile: "Boss Liu, this battle for world domination is just a dream now, and there is no roadmap to realize it." ”

Liu Minyou said angrily: "You already have a road map, you just hide it from us, from the day you entered the store, you have a road map, you just didn't expect to make so much money this time, now that you have silver and land, you can't wait." Dreams also have a price, I didn't look at Martin Luther King, Jr., as soon as I said that I had a dream and was killed. ”

"Brother Liu, don't get angry yet, listen to my reasons."

"Then you say."

Chen Xin changed into a professional smile and said tentatively: "If I say that it is to save Chinese civilization and not let it be interrupted by barbarism, do you believe it?" ”

Liu Minyou did not hesitate: "Don't believe it!" ”

"Well, then I'm actually saving civilization while realizing some personal values, such as getting a bigger stage ......"

"Come on, you are a power addiction, just like you are in the company, whether you are looking for the director's daughter to marry, or cooperating with Mr. Pan, it is all for power."

Chen Xin nodded again and again and said: "Brother Liu is really my confidant, and he is not bad at all, once you taste the taste of power, you will be addicted." ”

Liu Min stared at him, and Chen Xin hurriedly changed his words: "Okay, seriously, the chaos is just around the corner, Tianjin Weihai is not a paradise, since you can't hide, why not fight and change the fate of Dai Zhenggang Hai Gouzi, and also change the fate of China, I will be in charge, better than the half-slave, semi-feudal and semi-colonial freaks of the Manchu Qing Dynasty." ”

Liu Min looked at him suspiciously, "What do you mean by half-slave, half-feudal and semi-colonial." ”

"The Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were nothing more than a semi-slave structure under the command of military clans, and after entering the Central Plains, they established a colonial society with ethnic isolation through military superiority, but after some disguise, they appeared to be the same as China's usual centralized regime, a so-called feudal society. It is like a parasitic tree, wrapping around the big tree of China, robbing it of its nutrients, and by more than 200 years later, China has become a weak and ignorant freak. ”

Liu Min was silent for a while, Chen Xin may be right, but it may not be his real reason, although he is his friend, he is also easy to be deceived by him, "And what." ”

"Second, I think we have a chance to succeed ......"

Liu Minyou finally grasped his weakness: "There is a chance to succeed, and there is still a chance to kill yourself, and you can't make steel, iron, glass, or war, how can you fight Jiannu." ”

"We can't, we can learn, these are not, but I have learned hundreds of years more than them, and these are all products of the industrial revolution......"

Liu Minyou interrupted coldly again: "The two of us just read a few more books of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and now they have all been returned to the teacher, I don't even remember what the cosine value of sixty degrees is, do you remember the parabolic formula?" Calculus do you remember? Do you remember the periodic table? Do you know the gunpowder formula you use every day to pick up that gun? Not to mention steelmaking and ironmaking, I've only seen molten steel, and I don't know anything else. ”

Chen Xin opened his mouth and said half-loudly: "I really don't remember, but Huang Taiji and Li Zicheng won't either." ”

"They are not ordinary people, they can leave their names in history, no matter whether they are bad or good, they are not comparable to ordinary people like us, Huang Taiji has been fighting with the old slave since he was a child, and after so many years, ordinary qualifications have become qualified generals, just like me, who have been studying, how many lives do you need to exchange for this level." Fur seals, they follow us, not for us. ”

"Then Boss Liu, think about it, if we didn't come, what fate would they be, not that they would rise and fall in the tide of the times, they might participate in the rogues, they might join the official army, they might die in the massacre, who could escape the bloodshed of changing the dynasty?"

Liu Minyou still said firmly: "But they are in front of me, not the numbers in the history books, I would rather take them overseas than let them die for this, I don't like the Manchus, but I don't have the ability to change the general trend, and you don't have either." ”

Chen Xin quietly glanced at Liu Minyou, his face was strict under the faint oil lamp, Chen Xin's eyes rolled, and his hands were spread: "Brother Liu's words, wake up the dreamer, I decided to dispel this unrealistic idea, from now on I will be an honest official, let's do some sea trade, make some money, but in the future, since I want to go overseas, I still have to find some people together, otherwise how to survive on those desert islands, I plan to collect more displaced people in Weihaiwei, and when the Tartars come, let's take them to run away." ”

Although Liu Minyou didn't fully believe that he dispelled this idea, at least he expressed his attitude, so he let him go: "Okay, then you can remember what you said." ”

"Remember, remember, Brother Liu is bitter, how can I be heartless, but Jingshi still has to go on a trip, first admit a thousand households, now there are more than ten years before the Tartars enter the customs, we must make these more than ten years comfortable, and when the time comes, I will go overseas to be a savage, and I will always be an official in this life."

"You official addiction!" Liu Minyou sighed and asked him again: "Since you plan to have a good life, do you want those aunts to be a matchmaker and start a family earlier?" ”

"No, I have my own arrangements. Wait for the promotion and then find a beautiful one. ”

How much did Liu Min know about him and Miss Zhao, and laughed: "Is it decided by Miss Zhao?" ”

Chen Xin nodded: "His mother told me a few days ago, saying that she wants me to be their son-in-law and leave a queen for the Zhao family." ”

When Liu Min heard this, he said with a happy face: "Then set the time quickly......

"When is the time, his family has no son, so his daughter will keep the system, considering that Zhao Xiang is old, his mother said that it will only be for one year."

"Then you'll have to wait another year. That Miss Zhao is beautiful, she has been to our store, and you are very blessed. It's just a pity that you have to be a son-in-law again. ”

"What do you think, I didn't promise to be a son-in-law, I only promised my first son's surname to be Zhao."

Liu Minyou rubbed his hands and said, "That's great, better than your previous life." There is no need to wash your feet in the future. ”

Chen Xin smiled, not angry, lying on the back of the chair, with a hint of warmth on his face: "Zhao Xiang is still good, talk to her every day, watch her smile, she is in a good mood, and now it is not popular to have a barbaric girlfriend, even if I want to bring her foot washing water, she doesn't dare to agree." ”

Liu Minyou looked at this friend and was happy, and even began to plan how to hold a wedding for Chen Xin, although it was still a year away.

The gate suddenly slammed, and when Chen Xin walked to the yard, the sea dog had already opened the gate, and Deng Keshan hurriedly ran in, and said anxiously as soon as he saw the two of them.

"Brother Chen, Brother Liu, I heard that no, the emperor is dead."

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