In the early morning, the sky is bright. Liu Xian woke up from his sleep. glanced at Wang Luying next to her, her white and tender shoulders were exposed outside the brocade quilt, her black silk hair was attached to it, and her delicate and silky arms like lotus roots pressed against her chest.

She was tossed by Liu Xian last night, and now she is still sleeping deeply. Liu Xian carefully removed his arm and got out of bed gently. Every morning, his morning exercise is never stopped.

When she was dressing, her eyes inadvertently slid over Wang Luying's waist, and Liu Xian's hand paused violently. Oops, kid, kid. In the past two years, I have obviously tried my best, why don't I see anyone pregnant?

Wang Luying is like this, Liu Wanshu is like this, Wang Biyun is like this, and so is his wife Zhang Miaotong. The eldest daughter is about to turn one year old, and Zhang Miaotong has no signs of pregnancy at all.

Liu Xian is already thirty years old, he is really not young anymore, and he must really consider the issue of inheritors.

Fortunately, he has no parents, otherwise he would definitely force Liu Xian to take a concubine.

It's just that Liu Xian is not resisting the problem of taking concubines now, but he really doubts whether he has a problem. It's okay if one is not pregnant, two are not pregnant, three are not pregnant, and Zhang Miaotong is no longer pregnant, so it is very likely that it is a man's problem.

After ten years, Liu Xian really didn't expect that this problem would become a big problem that annoyed him.

If there is no heir, even if he pulls the flag and rebels, the minds of the people below will not be stable. The China of today is not the China of 34 years later, without the daily uproar and propaganda of the revolutionary and ordered parties, and the wave after wave of uprisings, the imperial ideology is still deeply rooted.

Of course, this matter is not something that Liu Xian is in a hurry about. Each of the four women in the back house is in a hurry.

With a silent sigh, Liu Xian strode out of the room. No matter how troubled you are, you can't rush this matter.

It was now October of the 10th year of Tongzhi, and Liu Xian set up the Nanyang Shipping Company a month ago, purchased six steamers from Britain and the United States, plus a number of barges and barges, and hired more than 100 foreign shipping personnel.

Of course, Liu Xian didn't need to worry about the wharf in the Pearl River Delta, but the investment in Hongji Port and Qinzhou Port, including the cost of purchasing ships, had already invested 200,000 taels of silver. From then on, the monthly salaries of Chinese and foreign employees were combined with the consumption of coal and other materials, and if Liu Xian's shipping company did not earn 10,000 taels of silver a month, it would be a pure loss-making transaction.

And time has come to this point, before the steel plant is built, Liu Xian's industrial layout is also roughly complete. Although a steamship and a warship are completely different concepts. But on the whole, there are similarities.

As it turned out, Liu Xian did not need to worry about the profitability of Nanyang Shipping Company at all. Only the coal from Hongji Port, the sulfur from Taiwan, and the sugar from Qinzhou made the steamers of the Nanyang Shipping Company busy. In the first month, he was completely transporting his own goods, and after the expenses were removed, there was a net income of nearly 10,000 taels left on the books.

Liu Xian has already asked Nanyang Shipping Company to set up an investment promotion office. Just like Hongji Port, which is now open to IPO, Liu Xian does not intend to hold it in the palm of his hand and purely make money. He has been in Guangxi for more than a year, and he has some influence, and it is time to integrate and guide local financial resources.

Not only the Nanyang Shipping Company, but also textile factories, match factories, soap factories, cigarette factories, and so on, all factories that are not compatible with munitions, will be opened to the outside world one after another next year. Of course, the sugar refinery Liu Xian still needs to hold on for a while to let it generate greater profits for itself.

Guangxi itself is a major sugar-producing province in China, and it is an important place for sugarcane cultivation, and there are many sugar workers. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there was a glorious history. But today's Guangxi is no longer the Guangxi of a hundred years ago. The perennial war has caused a heavy setback to Guangxi's local sugar industry. The reason why Liu Xian built a sugar refinery is that he is stuck on the front of the recovery and development of Guangxi's sugar industry, relying on his strong financial resources, power and strength, he occupies a leading position in Guangxi's sugar industry. Only one year after the establishment of the factory, it brought a heavy blow to the sugar industry in Guangxi, which was struggling to recover, and at the same time rapidly expanded the local sugarcane planting area in Guangxi.

Sugar refineries in Hexian, Guixian, Liucheng, Yishan, Yongning, Xilong, Yangshuo, Fuchuan, Gongcheng, Yongfu and many other traditional sugarcane growing counties in Guangxi have signed purchase agreements with local gentry and large households.

It was a very simple agreement, which set a minimum purchase price, and allowed the price to be increased according to the fluctuations in the market, and to receive as much as the output was received, which was a coveted agreement for the local gentry. And in the entire Guangxi sugar industry, except for Qin Jun's sugar refinery, who has the ability and financial resources to settle a trouble?

One year, just one year, the silver that Liu Xian invested was recovered, and there was a large balance.

So Liu Xian is also a little reluctant to use this sugar refinery now. Although Li Futai had already communicated the news to him, saying that there would be a second modern sugar refinery in Guangxi in the coming year, the backer behind it was according to the envoy Fuer Guochun.

This is obviously red-eyed, and it is going to be mixed in. Just like in Guangdong, new match factories have already been built. Liu Xian doesn't care, China's market is bigger, and he welcomes everyone to come and get involved. It's better than letting the money spent in vain be earned by foreigners, right?

After the morning workout, it is time to have breakfast. Liu Xianjue could sleep with Wang Luying, but the meal was returned to Zhang Miaotong to eat. Then it was time for the study. The lobby and the signing room of the Admiral's Yamen are almost furnishings, and most of the things Liu Xian solves in the study.

As soon as Liu Xian sat down in the study, he saw a stack of official documents and letters on the top of the left hand of the desk, and there was a striking red-headed letter. This is the meaning of the Qin military system that there is a heavy dà incident. It must have been an external emergency, otherwise the entourage would have woken themselves up last night.

Liu Xian does not have a decent staff now, but there are more than a dozen entourages and attendants, each with their own talents. The chief attendant, that is, the personal attendant, is called Ji Xiliang. The people discovered within the Qin army have no reputation in history, and they are just an inconspicuous talent. A native of Hanzhong, he participated in the militia and served as a small official, and finally entered the Qin army as a teacher, and then was left in the city of Dangar when the expeditionary army recovered Xining. In three years, he was promoted from the village chief to the town mayor, with twelve quarterly evaluations and three annual evaluations, all of which were excellent.

This person's talent is really not high, but he is cautious, careful, conscientious, responsible, and has a certain amount of experience in 'political struggle', so he is simply the first person to be the secretary of the leader.

Besides, Liu Xian is only looking for attendants and entourage, not for a think tank. Now all of Qin Jun's major policies are Liu Xian's ideas, Fan Debang is handling internal government affairs, and Zhang Shouyan is only referring to the officialdom. The decisions and plans that really determined the development of the Qin army were all made by Liu Xian. It may also be that his background is limited, China in the late Qing Dynasty was not without talents, but there was no one to vote for him. And Li Hongzhang's staff group, Zhou Fu, Chen Nai, Wang Kaitai, Ling Huan, Wu Rulun, Yu Shimei, Qian Dingming, Wang Dajing, Liu Hanfang, Zhang Shiheng, Sheng Xuanhuai, and even foreigners like Margery, are full of talents and heroes. If Liu Xian wants to say that he is not envious, it is nonsense.

Fortunately, Liu Xian is now only the governor of a province, and the territory of the Qin army is still only one Hanzhong in the final analysis. And Liuzhou, Qinzhou, and even Qiongzhou on Hainan Island are far from being the territory of the Qin army. The stall is small, and Liu Xian is still able to cope with it now.

"Taiwan!" Liu Xian looked at the label on the cover, and frowned. Recently, I have been staring at Qinzhou, and I have to be busy with the Nanyang Shipping Company, and I seem to have neglected and forgotten one thing.

Thinking about the current month, Liu Xian exhaled. If nothing is wrong, this red-headed letter from Taiwan should be about the Peony Society incident.

In the 10th year of the reign of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, a tribute ship of Ryukyu Miyako islanders encountered a typhoon while sailing back to Naha and drifted to the southern tip of Taiwan, with 69 passengers on board drowning 3 people, and the remaining 66 people landed on the island. Because of the intrusion into the Bay Aboriginal Residence of the Coats Buddhist Society, 54 people were killed by the Bay Aborigines, and the remaining 12 people who escaped were rescued by the local Han people and went to Tainan Fucheng, and then transferred to Fuzhou to return to China by boat. Three years later, Saigo Congmichi, the younger brother of Saigo Takamori, the patriarch of the Japanese Restoration, led more than 3,000 soldiers to attack Taiwan. Known as the Peony Society Incident in history!

There were many reasons why Japan sent troops to Taiwan, but it was not just because of the deaths of 54 Ryukyuan people. However, in the eyes of a large number of anti-Japanese elements, this incident is extremely noteworthy. Liu Xian in his previous life was one of them, and he knew the origin, development, cause, and result of things very clearly.

But he wasn't prepared to thwart it. Three years later, it was his wish to devour the pair of little devil soldiers. Therefore, Liu Xian did not ask the people stationed in Taiwan to pay attention to anything.

opened the letter, and what it said was that it was indeed the cause of the Peony Society incident. The death of 54 Ryukyuan people is indeed quite unjust. Because the aborigines of Taiwan are really 'disobedient to the king' in this era.

This incident did not have any impact on Qin Jun, except for secretly reminding Liu Xian that time was passing little by little. It has no influence on the Qin army, on China, or even on a small Taiwan.

At present, Japan cannot really threaten China. Domestically, no one would consider Japan a mortal threat.

……

In the 10th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, it is already the end of November in the Western calendar.

After almost two months of travel, Huo Guangzheng and his entourage finally arrived in Germany. They disembarked at Hamburg, because the German headquarters of Lihe & Co. was set up in Hamburg.

"Ho, this is the most prosperous port in Germany. Hamburg, an old and new city. ”

To be able to return to his hometown, Angra. Merkel is undoubtedly excited. The sparkle in his eyes is brighter than the sun in the sky.

As for Huo Guangzheng, at this time, he was already stunned by the dense steamers in the port of Hamburg. R1152