After Zhao Dagui came back this time, he saw Wu Jianzhang, Lin Aqin, Yang Fang and others again, and found that these three people had also made a fortune and broadened.

Wu Jianzhang also repaid, he was a huge rich man before, although he made a lot of money, and he didn't show it much, but Lin Aqin and Yang Fang, in the past two months, acted as an agent for the business of several ocean-going merchant ships, sold a lot of foreign cloth and opium, and helped the British buy tea and other local products, and each of them also made a huge profit of more than 100,000 yuan.

Just looking at how Zhao Dagui made money a few months ago, it is not difficult to understand how they could tremble so quickly.

Yang Fang was very happy when he came to visit Zhao Dagui, his body was full of silk and satin, and he wore seven or eight rings on his left and right hands, and the materials ranged from gold to jadeite, gemstones, and agate.

Zhao Dagui talked to Yang Fang for a while, and then politely sent the person out, feeling a little stunned in his heart, understanding that the former silk village guy who looked like a few months ago was gone, and there was a powerful comprador Yang Fang in this world.

It's just that no matter how polite Yang Fang is, eating in the comprador industry in the future will inevitably have an impact on Zhao Dagui's business, which makes Zhao Dagui think about it for a long time.

However, Zhao Dagui had a property of nearly 680,000 yuan at this time, which could be exchanged for more than 40,000 taels of gold, far more than the original expectation of 10,000 taels of gold, and he could smoothly upgrade the library to the golden age.

Therefore, Zhao Dagui settled all the accounts with other commercial houses or merchants in the name of taking inventory, and deliberately did not take on new business to avoid future accounts being entangled.

In addition, Zhao Xiaohu and Zhao Xiaomei should also be properly arranged.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Dagui decided to let Zhao Xiaohu and Zhao Xiaomei learn English and the necessary socioeconomics and natural sciences under the Western missionary Maddox as their teacher.

At this time, the Qing State was facing great changes, and Zhao Dagui did not let his younger brother learn the Analects and moral articles, full of words, and then became an official in the imperial examination, but wanted him to receive a systematic and comprehensive scientific education.

In this way, the scholars of the entire magic capital can be excluded, and even Gong Mujiu Daotai, who has a reputation for being honest and capable, does not meet Zhao Dagui's requirements.

Of course, with Gong Mujiu's identity and his perception of Zhao Dagui, even if Zhao Dagui sent hundreds of thousands of yuan of family wealth as a teacher, it was impossible to ask Lord Daotai to guide his younger brothers and sisters.

In this way, Zhao Xiaohu and Zhao Xiaomei's teachers should be selected from dozens of foreigners in the magic capital, Consul George Bafur was originally a good candidate, as a former artillery captain, he must be proficient in mathematics and science, and his position is high enough to shelter two children;

And as long as Zhao Dagui is willing to offer thousands of pounds of teachers, Bafur is probably willing to make a cameo appearance as a teacher.

It's just that, considering that Bafour is busy with official business, it is impossible to find time to teach students every day, and as far as Zhao Dagui knows, Bafu was about to be removed from his post by the British Foreign Office in 1846 on trumped-up charges and recalled to London, England.

In this way, the most suitable candidates can only be a few missionaries led by Maddos, and as for those foreign bank staff, they may also have real talents, but when they think of their face of making money first, Zhao Dagui excluded them.

If you think about it carefully, Maddox is a very suitable person, he himself has a good education, he is also the founder of the famous "Mohai" library and Renji Hospital, and has a deep relationship with famous scholars such as Wang Tao and Li Shanlan in early modern China, as well as Xu Shou, Hua Yufang and Hong Renji (yes, that Ganwang), who appeared a little later, and are also inextricably linked with him.

Thinking that the education level of Maadox should be good, and the son Mai Huatuo taught is a successful teenager, and will become a consul in Shanghai, Hankou and Fujian in more than ten years, it can be said that from the perspective of teaching ability, or from the perspective of finding a backer, it is a very good choice.

Zhao Dagui visited Maddox with a rich gift and put forward the idea of hoping that the other party would teach his younger brother and sister, Maddox was a little surprised, but readily agreed.

When missionaries go to China, their favorite thing to do is to accept the children of rich and powerful families as disciples in order to expand their influence, Zhao Dagui currently happens to be the oldest comprador in the entire magic capital comprador circle, and has hundreds of thousands of taels of family property, and is willing to contribute rich teachers, Mai Dusi feels that there is no reason to refuse such a good proposal.

Of course, Zhao Dagui's practice of letting his younger siblings learn from Western missionaries caused an uproar in the circle of scholars in the magic capital, and even the more enlightened scholars felt that Zhao Dagui's move was too shameless, and that it was a move to curry favor with foreigners with the future of his younger brothers and sisters.

One of the side effects is that after Zhao Dagui became developed, many large families proposed to the three brothers and sisters of the Zhao family, but after that, there were many fewer such proposals;

Especially Zhao Xiaomei, under the connivance of the original owner and Zhao Dagui, has not bound her feet, she was originally rejected by the gentry class of this era, and now she has learned a bunch of inexplicable things from Western missionaries, and immediately no decent people come to propose marriage.

In this case, Zhao Dagui can only spit on himself, fortunately this novel is not a female frequency article.

Another important thing is that the three brothers and sisters of the Zhao family finally have a chance to end the cause and effect with Huo Daya.

In the past, when he was in Sanlipu Village, Huo Daya took the usury borrowed by the Zhao family to force debts, and threatened to sell Zhao Xiaomei to a money and grain household as a maid, so that Zhao Dagui didn't say anything on the surface, but secretly hated it, and he always wanted to find out people and clean them up after he made his career.

It's just that Huo Daya doesn't know whether it's unfortunate or lucky, and soon after he went to the Zhao family to threaten him, he was dragged to the sea to do big business, leaving Sanlipu Village to sell opium in Dinghai or something, and just missed the stage when the Zhao family sold the secret recipe for making white sugar to make money, and also missed the outbreak plot behind.

However, Huo Daya went to sea to do business, but he overestimated himself a little, in the area of Sanlipu Village, the magic capital, he was a famous gangster, and he had stinky feet when he went out, once he went out to do business, who would care what a village-level bully looked like.

Huo Daya went out to do things, his fists were not as hard as others, his vision was not as good as others, and he was not as good as others in terms of hardship, and he had a good opportunity to make some money at the beginning, and then he grabbed the supply of goods and sales with others, but he couldn't compete with others, and he also provoked some real outlaws, chasing and killing all the way.

Fortunately, Huo Daya was still clever, and when he saw that the wind was not good, he immediately ran away, and finally fled back to his hometown, but the two hundred taels of silver he brought with him when he went to sea were all lost.

This is also a microcosm of the business field in this era, relying on the contacts accumulated over the years in his hometown, he can still make some money, but once he arrives in a foreign country, he will lose money or even lose his life at every turn.

Huo Daya went back to Sanlipu Village to rest for a few days, and started the promising business of loan sharking, and found that Zhao Dagui's family of three was gone, and he couldn't help but be angry, thinking that he was afraid of being called for debts, so he ran away with his family.

After inquiring with the people in the village, I learned that the Zhao family seemed to be improving again during this time, first cooking something at home and selling it to the county seat, making a lot of money, and then renting a house in the county seat, and actually moved to the city to live, it is said that they are living quite well, and they can eat three meals a day.