Chapter 561: Prosperous Mukden
Zhang Tinglan's big hand gently stroked Zhou Xinyao's jade feet, the delicate skin, white and smooth, touched in the palm of the hand, like nephrite. Zhou Xinyao's feet are extremely beautiful, very small, and they can be held in the palm of their hands, like treasures, which makes people love them.
There are the most acupuncture points on the soles of the feet, which are connected to the five internal organs of the human body, and a gentle press can make the body extraordinarily relaxed. Zhou Xinyao has also walked a lot these days, and it happened to be when she was tired, with the soothing and orderly pressing, it was so comfortable that she couldn't help but let out a soft moan.
"Miss Zhou, no wonder many literati like to praise the three-inch golden lotus, it's really unusual."
"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't bind my feet! Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to walk a long time ago. Zhou Xinyao hurriedly said: "If you really like the three-inch golden lotus, and you can't find it, there are still many girls who bind their feet, and their feet are half smaller than others!" ”
"Everything pays attention to the word natural, the kind of hard wrapped little feet is the destruction of women, how can there be any beauty, but this kind of natural exquisite little feet is a gift from God!"
"No, people almost wrapped their feet when they were young!"
"Oh?" Zhang Tinglan hurriedly took a closer look, and didn't see anything wrong, so she laughed and said, "Miss Zhou is not joking, right?" ”
"Of course not, my grandfather is an old stubborn, the girls in the family have to start binding their feet when they are ten years old, and I am no exception, but my mother is distressed, and sometimes she will secretly let go, and it has lasted for two or three years, and as a result, the Manchu Dynasty has fallen, and the old man has nothing to do, and we are free. Several of my sisters' feet have been characterized, and my bones are not broken. However, it is also a little smaller than the average girl, and when it rains and clouds, it hurts to the bone, and when I first started studying medicine, I wanted to treat my feet. ”
Zhou Xinyao is usually reluctant to mention things at home, but today under the extra relaxation, he babbled about the previous story, Zhang Tinglan also listened quietly, with a smile on his face: "The old man's approach is also good, at least he has created a famous doctor." And a pair of jade feet! While speaking, Zhang Tinglan gently kissed the full instep.
The dragonfly touched the water, but Zhou Xinyao was like being struck by lightning, and her body trembled uncontrollably, and she also woke up. From his face to his neck, he blushed all the time. It's ripe!
I was stunned for a long time. Zhou Xinyao struggled to get up, lowered her head, and said nothing, letting Zhang Tinglan sit on the wide mahogany chair, the basin of water she had prepared was already cold, and she changed the basin of hot water again. And took a pack of medicine bags with configuration, put them in hot water, and a strong medicinal fragrance wafted out.
Zhou Xinyao gently rubbed the medicine bag with both hands, and the hot water quickly became a layer of crimson. The flavor is even stronger.
"Miss Zhou, I knew that you were a master of this way, so I wouldn't have made an axe in the class, just getting some mugwort leaves, isn't it a bit perfunctory!"
"No, you're specially prepared for me, I carry it with me, and my mind is different!" While Zhou Xinyao was talking, she helped Zhang Tinglan pull off her boots, and suddenly a stinky smell came out, and Zhang Tinglan was also a little embarrassed.
"I'm sorry!"
"It's okay!" Zhou Xinyao grabbed a pair of sweaty feet and put them in the hot water, Zhang Tinglan's body suddenly trembled: "Miss Zhou, is the water a little too hot?" ”
"There are medicinal materials with the same tendons and active in the medicine bag, and it can also remove cold and dampness, just use it in autumn, bear with it, it's good for the body!"
Zhang Tinglan had no choice but to let Zhou Xinyao fiddle, a pair of jade hands gently pressed on the soles of her feet, and bursts of comfort poured out of her bones, Zhang Tinglan was almost drunk.
"Humble words, my father is about to go to Mukden, have you thought about how to answer him correctly?"
"What's so difficult, let's measure it from all aspects, it's a god-given marriage, your age, my age, although your family has a stronger background, but I'm not bad, my father is also the overseer of a province. And I can rest assured that I can tell you, don't look at your family has been running a business for so long, known as Nanzhang and Beizhou, but your family's property is probably less than a fraction of mine, where do you say such a son-in-law can be found! ”
"Bragging!" Zhou Xinyao's face was full of disbelief, and she said angrily: "You know how long you have been in business for me, and you have such a family business, so you can believe it!" ”
"Silly girl, doing business does not depend on the length of time, but on what kind of business to do, you can count with your fingers, what am I doing, real estate, smuggling, finance, arms, food, which are all industries with amazing profits, and the speed of making money is of course amazing. Back then, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said that the gold house is hidden, I don't know how much gold this guy has, but I can tell you that I have at least a dozen tons of gold in my hands, and I can build you a gold house! ”
Hearing Zhang Tinglan's words, Zhou Xinyao was also taken aback, she hadn't seen gold before, but she had never heard of someone actually using tons to calculate, and she was completely shocked!
"Since you have so much money, do you want to buy our family off with money, and then buy me home?"
"How can there be, the beauty is priceless, I say this, just to let my father-in-law agree!"
"It's really thick-skinned, and now I dare to call my father-in-law."
"I'm honest, whatever I have in my heart, I'll say anything, Xin Yao, in fact, I have one of the biggest secrets to tell you!"
Zhou Xinyao's eyes suddenly widened, and she listened to the following very curiously.
"This secret, when I came, I was only going to deliver water, but I didn't think to wash your feet, you took the initiative to take the bait......"
Zhou Xinyao suddenly shouted, her two hands were fiercely strengthened, Zhang Tinglan only felt a sharp pain in the center of her feet, and suddenly both legs were a little numb, it seems that teasing beauties has to pay a price!
In the turn of the day, they left Liaoyang and rushed back to Fengtian, Wang Yongjiang gained a lot from this trip, and he had to start formulating a number of new policies, Zhang Tinglan was relatively idle, at most he went to the lecture hall to see, and the students studied new tactics together, and paid attention to the situation in Europe.
Li Jinglin has become a martial arts instructor in the martial arts hall, although he knows that Li Jinglin's kung fu is not weak, but Zhang Tinglan is also a little skeptical about the true effect of martial arts, Li Jinglin is powerful, probably because he is in good physical condition and has exercised in place, if an ordinary person follows the martial arts routines to practice, can he become a master, this is a very doubtful thing.
After all, those so-called martial artists in later generations have become a laughing stock because they have worn too many goofs, and they have become a laughing stock, in order to figure out this matter, Zhang Tinglan sent Li Jinglin a lot of wine, of course, dog meat can not be less, and wrote a check for 200,000 yuan to Li Jinglin, asking him to gamble casually.
Under the powerful money offensive, Li Jinglin can only tell the truth, Chinese martial arts have been inherited for many years, and there must be merits, but the vast majority of people who have practiced martial arts routines have actual combat effectiveness that is not much stronger than ordinary people.
With Li Jinglin's confession, Zhang Tinglan completely dispelled the idea of training a group of martial arts masters, and instead adopted a more prudent method, Zhang Tinglan suggested that Li Jinglin summarize a set of simple and practical boxing skills, and then design some bayonets and sapper shovels to fight jishu, these are real dry goods, simple and easy to learn, and practical and effective, as for those useless flower shelves, they are all abandoned, the army is a place to pay attention to practicality, absolutely do not want those embroidered pillows.
When these things were being implemented, Fan Xudong finally rushed over from Tianjin, and he was accompanied by Zhou Xueyuan, the fifth master of the Zhou family.
Two years ago, Fan Xudong set up China's first refined salt factory, Chinese began to eat pure refined salt, before that, the quality of salt on the Chinese market is actually not good, especially ordinary people eat worse, salt mixed with a lot of soil, sand, stone, grass and wood debris and the like, a handful of salt, half of it is garbage, the real salt is only half.
But it is such garbage, and it can be sold at an astonishingly high price, in fact, the cost of salt is not much, and the cost price of ordinary sea salt may not even be half a penny, but how much do ordinary people have to spend to buy salt, the current market price should reach more than 90 Wen, and some areas can reach about 100 Wen, and in some remote areas can reach even higher.
A person has to eat about ten catties of salt a year, and a family of three will have to pay thirty catties, according to the price of salt, these salts will cost about two silver dollars, don't look at only two silver dollars, many people can't earn one or two silver dollars all year round, and even have a deficit in some years, so now most of the rural people are busy for a year, pay all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, pay land rent, and leave a little ration, and the rest of the money is enough to buy some salt.
Later generations have house slaves, car slaves, and now the common people are authentic salt slaves, of course, from another point of view, salt is a profiteering industry, Zhang Tinglan pulled Fan Xudong over, and also used his factory to produce refined salt in large quantities, and snatched the huge profits of the salt industry into his hands.
Fan Xudong didn't expect that Shili, a warlord in the northeast, would pay attention to his factory, and promised to almost make him faint, everything hit the nail on the head, which was what he had been looking forward to for a long time, but there was no way to get it, from loans, to taxes, to talent training, product underwriting, Fengtian almost helped solve all business problems.
If it can be fully implemented, take a step back, even if half of the implementation is implemented, Fan Xudong can wake up with a smile in his dream, so he decided to go to Fengtian without hesitation to investigate, but at this time, the Zhou family also came over, to go together, although Fan Xudong did not know the inside story, but also readily agreed, if the Zhou family is also ready to invest in Fengtian, it proves that Fengtian is indeed very potential.
Fan Xudong and Zhou Xueyuan took the train, and as soon as they came out of the train station, they saw an endless stream of people, and there were endless storefronts on both sides of the street, which were very prosperous, and both of them showed expressions of disbelief. (To be continued......)