Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Chapter 13 - Xiao Letian is about to establish his own sect

As the candlelight flickered, Fan Lian leaned on the bed and quietly pondered on the rise of Fan family. Ever since his father started walking down the road of business, he had always followed by his side, and the people who were slowly making the Guangde grow were the father, son and son.

What was Fan Ru doing at that time? He was studying in seclusion, reading the Four Books and Five Classics. According to his father, the eldest son was going to inherit the family's business, so it was best for him to get a good title. Only then would he be able to make a name for himself. As for the number two in the family, he would do the same. He would earn a lot of money and then supply it to his brother to take the exam to earn his reputation.

It was a pity that his brother was just a fool who had read books but had never made the slightest progress in his studies as a High Scholar. All he thought about was how to use his brother's money to buy a house and land. Furthermore, he spent money like flowing water to befriend the rich and influential families in the capital, wanting to regain the status of the Royal Merchant in his family.

Not only that, but after he became the family head, he became even more headstrong and insisted on pretending that his family was a family heirloom. He did not care about the strict rules at all and copied them in his own home, even going beyond that.

In the past, Fan Lian had already endured it for the benefit of the clan, but this year, this big brother of his actually became even more fierce, forcing his beloved concubine to death.

I didn't renew the chord for the sake of Hu Niu and her mother. Right now, the main house is empty, the two of them are the flesh in my heart! You killed Hu Niu's mother, now you still want to use 110 thousand silver to threaten me? "Isn't it just not taking the official accounts? I don't care …"

When Fan Lian thought about this, he fiercely smashed the bed, and even spoke out everything that was in his heart, "If worst comes to worst, we can just split the family, if worst comes to worst, we can start over from the beginning …"

Just as he was talking, a low sigh came from outside the window. If Manager Fan had known about this beforehand, he would have never known about this! "

"Who?" Fan Lian immediately sat up, following that, the door opened, and a familiar face entered.

"Mr. Xiao!" Fan Lian immediately shouted out, scaring Xiao Letian to the point that he had to cover his mouth, "My old shopkeeper, are you trying to kill me? "I haven't even left my braid out yet, why don't you invite the officials over …"

Manager Fan was immediately excited and coughed continuously. Xiao Letian hurriedly supported him and lightly patted his back, "old shopkeeper doesn't need to say anymore, I know the situation. I have come here to resolve the crisis in front of old shopkeeper. However … I want to ask Manager Fan, how much guts do you have? How much courage do you have? "

Fan Lian coughed for a while, his face flushed red as he looked at Xiao Letian: "Mr. Xiao, what do you mean by this?"

"The meaning is very simple, I have a set of wealth that I want to give to others, but I need extremely brave merchants to be able to eat them. If the old shopkeeper does not even dare to go to the branch families, I am afraid you will not get this wealth! "

"How big is a fortune? How big is a fortune?" Speaking of business, Manager Fan was better.

"How old? "Hehe, it's so big that even foreign people have to be polite in front of you, so big that you can talk business with the foreign government, and so big that even the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court, would not dare to kill you …" Xiao Letian gritted his teeth and said these words. At that time, Fan Lian was already covered in cold sweat.

"Divided families? Foreigners? The imperial government? "Oh my mother, sir, are you joking with me?" Fan Lian was obviously shocked by Xiao Letian's tone.

Not to mention the foreigners and the imperial court, it was considered disgraceful, even outrageous, to divide the family in ancient ceremonies. In the society of late Qing, unless there was no other choice, no one would be able to split their family unless they were extremely poor or their family was simply too huge.

If Fan Lian now suggested that they split the wealth between them, not to mention how much of it they could split, just the saliva of the people of the four cities and eight villages would be able to drown him. Even break off the partnership because they think you're unfaithful and unfilial.

To put it bluntly, if the branch family were to suffer worse than losing their skin, what Manager Fan had said just now was just an infuriated statement from the sick, who would have thought that Xiao Letian would hear it.

"Manager Fan, I'll be honest with you, this wealth is too great, I don't want to give your brother even a little bit of it, and this wealth requires people to keep it a secret, the less people who know, the better …" After saying that, Xiao Letian suddenly took out a big black bag from her bosom and poured the contents of the bag onto the bed.

At that time, Fan Lian's eyes were already staring at them, what a guy! The entire bed was filled with Semen Orientale s, all of them top grade, and there was even a big piece of jade with goat fat and beautiful jade. Fan Lian's family also ran a pawnshop, his eye for business was not inferior to a senior executive, and in his heart he estimated that this bag of treasures was worth at least thirty thousand gold.

"Mr. Xiao, what do you mean by that?" Fan Lian quickly gathered the Semen Orientale s that were rolling around on the bed. Touching the warm feeling on his hands, the old man's heart trembled. This degree of roundness and comfort coupled with such a huge pellet was almost up to the standard of Wang Jue's Chao Pearl. The old man didn't even dare to think how popular this would be.

"I brought five bags of this kind of treasure today. I think it should be enough for you to escape from this crisis, right?" Xiao Letian smiled as she looked at Fan Lian as if she knew that this old man would never be able to escape his grasp even if he was beaten to death.

Fan Lian didn't have a trace of sickness left in his body. As a top merchant of the Great Qing Dynasty, he had absolute professional attainments. At this time, the old man had regained his usual business shrewdness. He stood up and bowed deeply towards Xiao Letian.

"Mr. Xiao saved the entire caravan in Mountain Temple, logically speaking, we owe you a favor, but now you are going to help me out and tide me over it. To be honest, this old one is afraid …" "Mister, it's better if you just open the lid. I can't guess anything from this stuffy gourd …"

The wealth that he was going to give Fan Lian was just too great, even if he was his future father-in-law, he still had to differentiate between the two, this was the principle of a business negotiation. Fan Lian bowing to me, I have already admitted that, in this negotiation, he is already at a disadvantage.

"old shopkeeper, don't be like this. You have lost, you have lost …" Xiao Letian waited for the youth's waist to bend to ninety degrees before helping him up.

"Manager Fan, please calm down. Help me take a look at this thing." As he spoke, Wuchang pulled out a stack of papers from his bosom. It was the first ten chapters of his novel, the chapters of Prince Enrique's adventure.

Fan Lian took the draft in astonishment, and after looking at it, the old man's hand started to tremble. "Sir … Sir, tell me, is this some kind of fantasy? Or is it all real? "

Xiao Letian tapped his finger on the arm of his teacher's chair, and said extremely arrogantly: "Real history, this is what happened in all of the countries of the Europa Continent. I have only described it once using the method of evaluation novel, in fact, I also want hundreds of millions of people on the lower levels of the world to know the true history of the foreigners!"

"Why are foreigners strong? Why are we weak? When we were three people a day, how did the people living in the outer seas live? What were they learning? What are they doing? How did they manage to beat our Great Qing Dynasty down to the ground time and time again? These answers are all in the book... "

"Even the squalor among the foreigners is recorded here. Who has enmity with who? Who was the benefactor? There were even records of the most beautiful women in that country. "Hahaha, to put it bluntly, you have already exposed the strength of the foreigners …"

Xiao Letian was confident, he firmly believed that this Great Qing Dynasty would never be able to reject his bait. In the late Qing era, there were scholars and scholars, and even enlightened merchants, all of them wanted to know the details of the foreigners. Back when Lin Zexu was a prostitute, he had asked his good friend Wei Yuan to organize the information and write a book that would introduce them to the world. This was late Qing's famous《 The Atlas of Sea Nation》.

However, Wei Yuan had never been to the West. He had only passively translated some of the works of the West. In the process of writing the book, he would inevitably add some subjective guesses or mistakes in the translation process. What was even worse was that Wei Yuan was a scholar who had come from the Confucian soil. He had come up with the slogan of 'long skills used by teachers to suppress enemies'.

Take a look, actually this kind of thought and the later Zhang Zhidong's "secondary school for the body, the west study for the use" theory is the same root. Chinese literati's rejection of the Western world from the bottom of their bones has almost reached the bone marrow.

"old shopkeeper, I can tell you clearly, once this book appears, the world will no longer be at a loss. From today onwards, any enlightened person who wants to understand the west must read this book of mine and bow down before my door, hehe …" Xiao Letian's laughter was extremely cold, to the point that goosebumps appeared on Fan Lian's skin.

"Hehehe, because there is no other person who can write more comprehensive, concrete, and practical essays than me. I will be the patriarch of the Great Qing Dynasty, no matter what I do …"

With a "pa" sound, the Manager Fan overturned the cup on the tea table, causing his hands and face to turn yellow. He knew that Xiao Letian was not bragging. If this book was really as he said, then Xiao Letian being the Western Ancestor would really not be a braggart. Others aren't convinced? Why are you so unwilling to accept this!

"You want to establish your own sect? Sir, you must start your own sect! " Fan Lian felt that his knees had gone weak. Although he hated the decadent look of his brother, he still respected and respected him from the bottom of his heart that was able to establish his own sect. In ancient times, the admiration of the common people for the top scholars could simply be described as fanaticism.

Xiao Letian adjusted his teacup, and laughed: "I'm writing a book, but this printing and printing work, is too complicated …"

"It's me, it's me! "I don't know how to repay you for what you've done to me. If I could spare no effort, I would do everything I can to help you …" Fan Lian felt that he was floating, supporting a rich and powerful man who founded his own sect, in the future, he might even leave a mark for me in the history books.

Xiao Letian nodded his head, "This is the first thing, the second thing is related to money. "The jewelry that I brought today is actually giving back the 110 thousand silver to you. I believe with your many years of business experience, it shouldn't be difficult for you to fill this hole in the jewelry …" Xiao Letian clapped his hands, and a burly man wearing night clothes walked past the door with leftover jewellery in his arms.

When it came to doing business, Fan Lian became spirited immediately. "If you were to place this small amount of jewelry given by Sir in my hands, it would at least turn into 150 thousand silver. I can gather all the money I have with my good friends in the capital. I can even directly use my treasures to hand over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In any case, for them, a treasure is better than silver taels … "

"That's good, that's good. I will also have new jewels for you after this batch of jewelry has been sold. I need the old shopkeeper's connections to change all these treasures into silver, and the best way is to break even two silver taels … "Remember, I don't want gold, and I don't want silver notes. I want my eyes to see the scattered silver taels that my hands can touch …"

Manager Fan was stunned, he did not know what Xiao Letian was up to, but just as he wanted to ask, there was a light knocking on the window.

"Mr. Xiao, something has happened. You must leave immediately … "Two taels of silver for the cooking pot shop to be surrounded by the yamen …"