Chapter 17 Fascinated by Peking Opera

Although Hua didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen still had one last trump card in his hand: that is, to take out all the money from the treasury and his own small treasury, half of which was used to reward and motivate the soldiers of the three armies to fight bravely to kill the enemy, while the other half was used to buy food from the princes and other nobles and rich tyrants to give relief to the poor people in the world.

However, Hua Bu also knew in his heart that the emperor, eunuchs and those ministers would never listen to him, because they were all misers who "money is life but life is dung", and if they don't get it right, they will be killed.

He is an "old turtle" who can live hundreds or thousands of years (aliens live many times longer than earthlings), but he doesn't want to be a "scapegoat" who has been wronged and short-lived.

Because of this, he adopted the most conservative strategy of "Mingzhe to protect himself", and fled with Hua Bukai to the most fertile place in the south, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and lived a hermit life without revealing mountains and waters.

Hua must have been a wealthy man who knew how to do business, and had the knowledge and skills of ultra-modern aliens that the ancients did not have, and could make not only simple small daily necessities such as matches, soap, soap, perfume, and toothpaste, but also simple gadgets such as building blocks, kaleidoscopes, and telescopes.

However, the modern and futuristic cars, airplanes, and spaceships could not be produced without those conditions.

He and Hua Bukai had a unique vision to make money, and soon embarked on the broad road of prosperity, but they were afraid that the big tree would attract the attention and suspicion of the government, so they did not dare to produce these things on a large scale, so they could only produce them in small batches and sell them secretly and in other places.

When they have accumulated enough capital, they will start to do serious big business such as medicinal herbs, grain, salt, etc.

In order to avoid the suspicion of others (because they are aliens), they do not dare to stay in one place for too long, staying for ten or eight years at most before moving, changing their names and surnames as soon as they move to a new place, and often going out in disguise.

They are businessmen who do business, and it is very normal for them to move around a lot, so they do not arouse suspicion and special attention from others.

In the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, when the situation was completely stabilized, their hearts slowly settled down.

They have purchased a lot of real estate in various parts of the country and have to travel to all parts of the country every year to inspect or discuss business.

From now on, there is no need to move in a big way, as long as you find something bad in the wind, just run away in disguise.

What's more, they send money to the local government yamen every year, and almost every local yamen has a reliable internal response that they buy, and in case of a crisis, they can obtain accurate information in advance, so that they can escape in time.

At the same time, they also divided the work between them, taking charge of business and financial management and business negotiations, and intelligence (including economic, military, and political) and personnel management (including personnel recruitment, training, appointment, and dismissal).

Now they have so much money that they can't spend for years.

In order to reflect their current identity, they decided to change their name: the flower must not be renamed "the flower is not finished", and the flower cannot be renamed "the flower is blooming".

Of course, these new names and old names are given to themselves in private, and no one can know about them, and only when they return to their original planet "Hua Laizi" can they come up with new names to register their accounts.

Here, of course, they only use the names of ordinary people, in the north they use the names of the Manchus (the names of the dead people bought with money or picked up on the road), and in the south they use the names of the Han people (in the same way as in the north), and they often change their names or disguises.

When they became rich, some local gentry and local tyrants who coveted their wealth and matchmakers who did good things almost broke through the threshold, wanting to marry their own or their relatives and friends' daughters to them, sending away wave after wave, making them annoyed.

Can I find a wife if I can't finish flowers and flowers are in full bloom? Not to mention that they are blue-blooded, it is still unknown whether the offspring born of the combination of blue-blooded and red-blooded people will survive. Besides, once someone knows that they are blue-bloods, can people not treat them as monsters and sue the government to arrest them?

Therefore, they had long expected that this problem would arise, and began to adopt the "ostrich policy" to avoid it, and if they happened to encounter it, they said that they were planning to become a monk and believe in Buddhism, and no longer be polluted with the fireworks of the world.

In the end, they were forced to be anxious, so they simply went to a famous temple to register and shave their heads to really become monks.

However, because they have money, they can send some incense money (such as 5,000 taels of silver) to the temple every year, so they don't have to stay in the temple all the time, and they can move freely and even travel all over the world.

Since then, they have wanted to open, no longer manage specific things, and hand over all business operations to the prime minister (i.e., general manager) in charge of business and trade, and be the big boss of the background (i.e., the chairman) and live happily. If you have nothing to do, you can wear a monk's robe and walk here and there with a shiny bald head.

Once, they walked to the door of a large theater and found that there were many people gathered here, and people walked into the theater in groups of joy, and then inquired, only to know that the famous Peking Opera drama "Dingjun Mountain" was being staged here.

It's like smoking opium, and you can't quit anymore!

Do you think, in ancient times, there were no movies and television, no mobile games to play, and no computer network, people's cultural and entertainment life was too poor and monotonous.

In this way, they ran to the theater every three or five days, and if they didn't watch the play one day, they couldn't eat and sleep, and they learned to sing a few words in Peking Opera when they had nothing to do.

Since then, they have become die-hard Peking Opera fans.

Of course, in order not to reveal their alien identity (too long life will arouse suspicion), they will often change monasteries, whenever the old monk or the head of the temple passes away, they will leave before the new head of the temple takes office, and they will live in the local temple wherever they go, and generally do not live in the inn, so as to avoid the investigation of the government and the disturbance of the people in the rivers and lakes.