late Qing Dynasty arrest

Yao Cuo and others were playing cards, and no one had time to pay attention to Li Guolou. They chatted with each other with a hammer and a stick.Li Guolou took out his pocket watch, and it was already 03:30 in the afternoon, so he said, "You play cards, I have something to do with my second brother."

Yao made a mistake and said, "What's the matter?"

Li Guolou chuckled and said: "Take advantage of the east wind, the road to wealth and honor, and play with the two-faced matter of a tiger. If you don't understand it, you should not participate in it, and you will be beheaded."

Yao Cuo snorted coldly: "You guys, plot against Mr. Bao and drag Bao Qingtian deeper and deeper. Sooner or later, Mr. Bao will become a black heart."

Li Guolou ignored the cynicism of the brothers, they were ignorant, they could not use their brains, and only Wu Defu had the brains to use for this kind of advanced work.

In the lounge, Wu Defu was still grinding his teeth in a dream, so he pushed Li Guolou to wake him up. There was a charcoal stove in the room, Wu Defu sat on the bed without wearing a coat, and Li Guolou sat on the edge and talked about things.

Li Guolou said: "Second brother, wake up, let me tell you one thing about the road to wealth, which is the road to promotion and wealth. If you succeed, you will have no problem getting promoted to the second level, and you will be a seventh-rank official. Don't dare to do it." As long as I didn't say it, it will be destroyed by Mr. Bao in the future, so don't blame me for not reminding you."

When Wu Defu heard this, he slapped his cheeks with both palms, causing him pain so that he could wake up, and said with a smile: "Well, you have another brilliant move, last time I used Chaoyang Project to save me from danger, this time If you have any good ideas, hurry up and tell me, I will let my wife sleep with the officer after being promoted to two ranks, and I am willing to do it too."

Wu Defu was born as a scholar, he didn't pass the Jinshi exam, and he couldn't get promoted if he had no adventures in the officialdom. Wu Defu became a jailer, let alone take the road of imperial examinations, the official career has come to an end.

Li Guolou said solemnly: "Second brother is not joking, wealth and wealth are sought in danger, this business is to seek skin from a tiger. I said it. When I was young, I had a master who later joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and later became the little king, the pole king Yang Dongting , have you heard of it? He still has a national arrest warrant, with a reward of 1000 taels of silver."

Wu Defu said: "It's an old-fashioned thing, this kind of little king is not uncommon, where is he hiding now?"

Li Guolou said: "Where can the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom hide? It's not in the arms of Christianity, the heavenly father they believe in. This time I accompanied Yelia to the French Concession in Tianjin and met him on the street. He has now joined the Commonwealth A man of Singaporean nationality, protected by British devils, changed his name to Su Yuli to start a shipping business, and Shunli Shipping Company was run by a group of opponents. Second brother, do you understand what these people are doing now?"

Wu Defu said with a smile: "Become a teacher before the time comes, and train the next generation of ***. The reactionary slogans posted in the capital are made by these people."

Li Guolou shook his head and said, "Second brother, you underestimated them. Do you remember the last time Zhang Guozhi was assassinated when he joined the army? It was they who did it. They are a group of righteous men who like to assassinate. It can be said that they are rebels. My master Yang Dongting knows those people. Yang Dongting is not a national righteous man who is like them. He belongs to the type of people you mentioned just now to train the next generation of ***. Yang Dongting asked me to help, he said A few of his people were imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and asked me to find a way to release them, and I agreed to him."

Wu Defu said coolly: "It's not just a sentence to be locked up in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. As long as it is not a death row prisoner, I will turn my hands into clouds and rain, and the listed charges will be re-approved, and I can cover it by myself." The crossed legs changed up and down.

Li Guolou glanced at him and said, "Second Brother, if I'm going to tell you this seriously? Some of the people imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice are charged with trumped-up crimes, and it's a piece of cake to resort to it. I want to It’s about the later things. Yang Dongting and the gang of assassins are at odds. The two gangs are fighting for favor in front of the British devils. He wants to sell them to us. Do you understand? You know who the gang is going to assassinate next ?”

Wu Defu widened his eyes and said, "Could it be?"

Li Guolou nodded and said: "Wealth is right in front of you, second brother, if you have a seventh-rank official hat, Master Bao will be more polite to you, and you won't have any more nightmares in the future."

Wu Defu said angrily: "Fuck you, I never have nightmares, I just can't sleep."

Li Guolou said: "Is there any difference?"

"Of course, there is a big difference!" Wu Defu argued, his face full of yearning, the bluestone-colored official uniform and red-top official hat of the seventh-rank official were already in front of him.

Li Guolou warned: "Second brother, every meritorious deed must be demerited. Some people will lose their heads because of this, so don't take all the meritorious deeds, don't do the thing of jumping across the river and crossing the bridge, and report to Mr. Bao."

Wu Defu was caught by Li Guolou's inner thinking, and said with white eyes: "I can figure it out myself, don't talk too much, when will you contact Yang Dongting and tell me, I want to talk to him in person."

Li Guolou said: "Yang Dongting will send someone to give me the list in the past two days. You can see half of the people who released him first. For the rest, we will go to Tianjin Concession to have an interview with him after the Chinese New Year. Money can't be less. He thinks we are greedy people, don't be polite to these righteous people, they are better at scraping land than us, and overseas Chinese are their parents."

Wu Defu stood up and said with a smile: "Third brother, we are greedy people, when have I been polite?"

The two looked at each other and smiled, and held their four hands tightly together. It is more difficult to share wealth and wealth than suffering, at least Li Guolou did it.

Wu Defu said with emotion: "Third brother, you brought me wealth and official fortune, and I will not betray you. If I have the opportunity to promote you, I am also willing. But you have such a good opportunity now, I think you should go to the exam to buy people." Examiner, I think you have no problem."

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Second brother, I have thought about this too, but I have already discussed it with my family, and I still don't want to be an official. I have been mixed with Mr. Bao for at least 20 years. Gao'er beats Yuan'er, and Taiping Pingping is my third elder brother."

Wu Defu shook his head and said: "I can also see that you have no confidence in the Qing Empire and are ready to slip away at any time. I'm right."

Li Guolou rolled his eyes and said, "What's the matter? Didn't I come back from abroad? There can only be one Hua family sister in the Huahua world in foreign countries. Now I catch three, and there will be more in the future."

Wu Defu held his chin and said, "Oh, is that right? Throw it out to me at night, or you'll have to drink."

Li Guolou was very annoyed, and followed Wu Defu with a sad face. One should not get carried away, his background is too unclean.

Among the fake foreign devils, Yu Hanbing was the first to come, and everyone exchanged greetings tacitly.Yu Hanbing is actually the eldest brother of the Gelaohui in the capital. He is in the tobacco and soil business and has his own smoking gun shop "Le Piaopiao Smoke House".

At this time, the Qing Dynasty had already begun to grow opium poppies in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, and the middle and low-end opium no longer needed to be imported, and it became a domestic product business.The British East India Company’s business has plummeted, and money has a right to speak. The East India Company has no right to speak in the British Parliament. The British have also transformed from dumping opium to the Qing Empire, but mainly selling heavy industry products.The Qing Empire became the bottom of the biological chain, exporting silk, cloth, and porcelain, and the road to light industry was particularly fierce competition with the Japanese weaving industry.

Yu Hanbing has his own textile factory and exports cloth to foreigners. When he came here, he began to scold Little Japan. The reason is that the fierce competition in the textile industry has been eaten away by the Japanese.

Yu Hanbing was filled with righteous indignation, and said: "What's wrong with us Qing people? We use small Japanese things for food and use, and even the clothes on our bodies have to find out where they are made. The workers in my factory work twelve hours a day , but the cost of production is still higher than that of the little Japanese, don’t the little Japanese sleep? They set the ex-factory price so low, don’t they want us all to die together?”

Everyone scolded Little Japan for being shameless. There is no reason for a businessman to not make money and do business at a loss.

Li Guolou sang a different tune, saying: "Mr. Yu, this is a management issue, not a sleeping issue. Even if your workers work eighteen hours, they still can't compete with Little Japan. They don't have a loss-making business, so you are falling behind."

Yu Hanbing said: "Didn't I hang out with the big guy? I wanted to get into the upper class. It went smoothly a few years ago, but this year, Little Japan went crazy, and the price was reduced one after another. I was about to be driven crazy by Little Japan, and I sold five of them." The Le Piaopiao Smoke House still hasn’t improved, it seems that next year we can only close the factory in Tianjin and stop playing with Little Japan.”

Li Guolou shook his head and said: "Mr. Yu, in two years your business is guaranteed to be turned upside down. You will cry after you close down. Do you understand the production cost? Now small Japan works [-] hours a day, but the business is prosperous and people's lives If it is raised, the workers will ask for a salary increase. In the future, we will still have cheap labor in the Qing Dynasty. We are a country with a large population. Little Japan will compete with us in the textile industry. The final winner is us. My brother opened a textile factory in Shanghai, and now it is a small In terms of scale, in two or three years my brother will be a big boss in the textile industry, and you can make a fortune for the rest of your life if you get on this boat, and sooner or later the smoking shop will be banned by the government."

Yu Hanbing glanced at him and said, "I don't believe your words. You are the most deceptive person. I came to visit your brother during the Spring Festival. His words are more reliable."

Li Guolou said: "Mr. Yu will not go wrong if you last for two years. After two years, you will be number one among the fake foreign devils. Don't listen to other fake foreign devils asking you to sell the factory to them. After three years, you will be in the north of Tianjin." The textile industry in China is thriving, and cloth is dumped all over the world. I wouldn't tell you if it wasn't such a tiring business."

Yu Hanbing said angrily: "Xiao Lizi, I think you lied to me about the smoking gun shop and wanted to sell the smoking gun shop to you."

Yao Cuo shook his head and said: "Mr. Yu, we don't do your business. We leave it to other gangs. We are a gang between black and white. We don't touch this kind of business that is all black. We want to have a good reputation from the beginning. It's not like you changed from black to white. Xiao Lizi is our dog-headed military adviser. He decides what business we do, and we have grown to scale in just a few months. Mr. Yu, we don't understand your business, maybe Will grab it."

Yu Hanbing said angrily: "I won't talk to you guys anymore, come with me, Lizi." After speaking, he pulled Li Guolou out of the room.

In the room, Wu Defu sighed: "The third brother is amazing, he can see what will happen two or three years later, if I have money, I will definitely buy Yu Hanbing's factory."

Yao Cuo said: "Second brother, how many years have you been around before you have such a family background, don't dream about it."

Wu Defu sighed: "The gap, industrialists are not comparable to people like us who charge fees."

Everyone in the room sighed, they were nothing compared to the fake foreign devils.

In the corridor, Yu Hanbing said anxiously: "Xiao Lizi, brother is the one who will help you get to the top, you can't fool me, tell me the truth."

Li Guolou said: "Brother Yu, why am I lying to you? To see the weakness of the enemy, they are the last madness. It's not like you can't afford it. You should know which one is bigger, the industrialist or the gang boss. "

Yu Hanbing retorted: "Then why are you a gangster?"

Li Guolou argued: "Brother Yu, tell the truth, we are bankers when we do big things. In the future, we will lend you your factory loan. This is the reason why we are together. The gang boss was not killed by the enemy. , is to be betrayed by brothers, we will clean up in the future and become industrialists like you."

Yu Hanbing sighed and said: "Little Lizi, you look like a melon tree, why do so many people believe you? If others say the same thing, even if you beat me to death, I won't believe it, but when you say it from your mouth, I will fight hard. For the last time in my life, I gambled with Little Japan, and if I lost, I could only go back to my hometown in Sichuan to farm, and the immortal will return to the square head."

Li Guolou glanced, pointed to the sky, and said: "Brother Yu, you are so sick, you think I don't understand you are scolding me, I lied to you that you were raised by your gray grandson."

Yu Hanbing couldn't stop laughing, hooked Li Guolou's shoulders and walked to the gate of Baozhi's room to meet the real boss Du and others.In fact, he was also very unwilling to withdraw from this duel with the little Japanese in the textile industry. Someone showed him a bright future, and this biggest gamble in his life will continue to be staged.