Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Chapter 46 - The Xiang Jia Village Cataclysm

The Taibai Top's night had gradually quietened down, and the scattered shouts of wine could be heard from afar amidst the night wind. However, Hu Niu sat right beside Xiao Letian and gently wiped the sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief.

The Xiao Letian of today had truly frightened the little girl. She did not think that Xiao Letian would actually have the guts to make silver coins in private, and she did not know who that "Prince" was. In any case, her father and Big Brother Xiao respected him a lot. The little girl could not understand how these bandits, who had surrounded her before, could be so docile and friendly now.

Although Hu Niu was not favoured at home, she had seen the real world. Other than the overseas trades, Xiao Letian did not understand the economic layout, she understood everything else. She knew that this was a profit from the fire. Every single cent that Xiao Letian earned was actually taken from the fire that was being consumed by this evil people as a result of their tyrant's mistreatment.

As for Hu Niu who came from a merchant family, she knew better. Breaking off a person's wealth was like killing their parents.

Just as Hu Niu was worried for Xiao Letian, the door opened gently, and a half drunk Fan Lian walked in. He looked at the sleeping Xiao Letian, then patted his daughter's shoulders and brought her out.

"Father, is it really okay for Big Brother Xiao to do this? He was going against all the officials in the world! "Once the imperial government finds out, there will be nine familial exterminations …"

Fan Lian laughed bitterly and said, "My daughter, ever since your uncle and I split up, I knew very clearly that there is no place for us to hide anymore. Do you know how many relationships have broken with us since we split up? "They are looking down on me. They think that I would be courting death if I were to go out to clean myself. They don't believe that I can start my business again empty-handed …"

"I still don't believe this evil, but I want to let them see with my own eyes, without a family, I, Fan Lian, am still the head of that stormy Jin Shang, and can still create a huge family. And Xiao Letian is our hope … "

Fan Lian didn't dare look at her daughter's eyes as he lowered his head and said, "My daughter, I don't know if my choice was right or wrong. Not letting you be someone's concubine, just looking at things face to face will save you. However, I'm a bit afraid to follow father here on this dangerous road. "

"Don't ask too much about this mountain stronghold, just pretend you don't know. Everything is rotten to the stomach …" Especially regarding the matter of which prince, you can't even let a single shadow out. Do you know why I didn't take A Chou over? Just because of her big mouth, in the future you can just say that you spent these few days in Yi County … "

The father and daughter duo discussed in the darkness for a long time. From time to time, Hu Niu would use a handkerchief to wipe her tears, and from behind a bush, Shi Dakai would silently look at the two of them, and she sighed in her heart: "Such a bold merchant, how many people exist in the entire Qing Dynasty? Maybe only Hu Xueyan can be by his side. "

Shi Dakai did not know that, that Hu Xueyan who was currently reputed to be a billionaire, although he looked incomparably majestic on the surface, to the Qing Dynasty, he was just a pig that was getting fatter and fatter. Sooner or later, he would be killed and eaten alive. Right now, all the other powers were staring at him like he was a tiger. If there was even the slightest mistake, the pack of wolves would tear him to shreds.

Hu Xueyan had lost more than ten million silver taels after his battle with the foreign merchants, and at that time, the Qing Dynasty did not say that it was an emergency blood transfusion to protect the merchant, who could compete with the foreign merchants. Instead, it was the local officials who were trying to collect deposits and start extorting and extorting them.

Until the very end, when Ci Xi had given the order to investigate more strictly, and all the roof on Hu Xueyan's body had been stripped off, from then on, he could not afford to fall and finally die from illness.

Xiao Letian did not want to follow in Hu Xueyan's footsteps. He was even unwilling to let his father-in-law take the risk for him. Xiao Letian had seen clearly in the real history of the Qing Dynasty. They treated everyone as slaves, and they viewed all the Han people as lambs waiting to be slaughtered. If you get fat, in their eyes, you will forever be torn apart into pieces.

So if Xiao Letian wants to rebel, he will first start with the decaying financial system of the Qing Dynasty. Since he does not want to be a civilian, he will first dig out a large chunk of flesh from the fire.

The next morning, Xiao Letian bid farewell to Shi Dakai and returned to the Yi County. Right now, he was already rather famous in the Great Qing Province, and there was no way he could disappear for a long time. Previously, the Liu County Order had already secretly reported this to him.

It was only because the officials of the Yi County were all loyal to Xiao Letian that they hid the news of him sneaking into the mountain. In the eyes of the people in the Yi County, Xiao Letian had been living in the house all this time.

After that, in the days at Yi County, Xiao Letian quickly finished writing every chapter of his《 Journey to the West s》 and used a horse to deliver them to the capital. When Han Lin, Luo Hao and the military computer, Zhang Jing and Wen Xiu received the latest article, they immediately brought over 10 writers to write it down and began to post it in all the bookstores in the Beijing.

In front of the entrance to the library of Beijing, there were students and servants waiting for the update. Whenever the latest chapter was posted, the black mass of people would immediately surround the wooden board. In this four years of spring, Xiao Letian had truly made a name for himself in the capital.

Xiao Letian's war of words with the Wong Lao-Han Lin, the bizarre kidnapping cases, and even the Industrial Zones's plans that caused a flurry of discussions in the imperial court, all these things pushed Xiao Letian's reputation to the peak. In addition to the strange silence of the upper echelons of the Qing Dynasty, all the other forces smelt a different scent.

In the imperial court, everything was still the same. empress dowagers, who was in charge of the imperial court, carefully balanced the imperial court. did not dare to discuss the plans of their Industrial Zones in the imperial court anymore. On the contrary, he secretly started the early stages of the investigation under the cover of the Head Office.

In the spring of this year, the military leader of the Central Asia, Yaqub, had begun to meddle in the rebellion of the pars dorsalis in Xinjiang, and under the support of the Tsar Russia, he openly dispatched troops to invade the western part of the empire.

As for Ceng Guofan, who was exterminating the remaining evildoers from the Heaven's Balance, he actually made an excuse to exterminate the long-haired remaining evildoers and pushed away his original plan to return to the capital. Anyone with a discerning eye would be able to tell that the Zeng Family brothers were silently protesting against the imperial government, it seemed that Jiang Nan's Industrial Zones plan would not let these two brothers off scot-free.

Generally speaking, Great Qing was not at peace, this caused the ambitious scholars to become more and more willing to study western knowledge of Xiao Letian. Some of the radical people even started to connect with each other privately, wanting to be their master to be the first batch of Western students.

Although the days in late Qing were heavy, there were always some who woke up first, and there were always some who were willing to accept change. For example, Xiang Shaolong who let Xiao Letian go.

In the mountains of Yanqing County in the west of the capital, there was a village called Xiang Jia Village. This village that was formed purely by the clans, the patriarch and the village head were Xiang Shaolong.

In the threshing floor in front of the village, thirty to forty apprentices were riding on horses. Under the gaze of their masters, no one dared to be lazy, and sweat dripped down from their foreheads.

As for Xiang Shaolong who was sitting on the millstone, although he seemed to be paying attention to his disciples on the surface, after a careful look, one could tell that he was in a daze.

Xiang Shaolong had been recuperating at home these past few days. When he had nothing to do, he recalled what Xiao Letian had said to him, as well as the matters in the《 Journey to the West》 book.

Everyone said that curiosity killed the cat. Xiang Shaolong was just a person who was too curious, otherwise, he wouldn't be enchanted by Xiao Letian's rebellious thoughts. Unfortunately, it was precisely because of this mistake that his Xiang Jia Village fell into a deep crisis.

In that fierce battle that night, not many of his own disciples died, only four or five of them were injured, and many of them were truly injured. More than twenty disciples had been beaten into pockmarks by the iron sand seed, and had spent more than ten thousand gold in that short period of time just for the dead person's pension and medical fees.

Xiang Shaolong might look like a big place outside, but his family did not have a lot of money. If not for the protection fees he received from the trade road leading to the Zhang family from Yanqing, the Xiang Jia Village would have starved to death just by growing crops. Now that he had spent more than 10,000 silver, the days in Xiang Jia Village were getting tighter and tighter.

However, Xiang Shaolong did not regret it, the tyrant, the tyrant, would never regret if he kept spitting out words like this, since he had chosen to let him go. Right now, Xiang Shaolong was in a daze because of the history of Gun s that was written in Xiao Letian's book.

"How spectacular would it be for a foreigner to be so smart as to invent a machine gun and fire thousands of bullets in an instant?" Just as he was thinking, a crying figure suddenly ran into the manor.

"Uncle Long …" Wu wu wu, Uncle Long … "I'm sorry, I was expelled by the county's school …" The one who ran over was a boy that looked like he was 14 or 15. He kneeled in front of Xiang Shaolong and cried loudly.

Everyone present looked, wasn't this Xiang Jia Village's Elementary Scholar, Dragon Lord's nephew, Xiang Ying? He was the Xiang Family's qilin, who had been praised by High Scholar Yang in the county. He was proficient in reading and writing. Right now, he was in High Scholar Yang's private school. Didn't this mean that he was allowed to take the Elementary Scholar examination?

Amidst Xiang Ying's sobbing, the people of Xiang Jia Village were enraged. It turned out that the moment Xiang Ying went to school today, he was scolded by the old High Scholar in front of countless students, saying that Xiang Jia Village bandits had low morals and that this kind of person did not deserve to be read in the Book of Virtue, so Xiang Ying was immediately expelled.

"Let's go, let's go to the county to argue. When has our Xiang Jia Village ever done bandit work? "No matter how high High Scholar Yang's status is, don't even think about sullying our innocence and going to court him …" The crowd started to move, but at this moment, Xiang Shaolong shouted out loudly.

"All of you shut up, I'm in charge here …" Xiang Ying, speak more carefully. What else did High Scholar Yang say? " Xiang Shaolong asked.

"Wuu, he also said that someone from the county magistrate court has already sued us, saying that our extortion caravan …" And in the end, Master even told me in a low voice, "Let me give up on reading, let's …" "Our Xiang Family won't have any scholars in another hundred years …"

I understand, Xiang Shaolong immediately understood that it was the great man from the capital who took action. How vicious, you actually want to break the Xiang Family's century-old reputation? However, Xiang Shaolong knew that the great man in the capital had this power.

So fast, such a fast revenge! Just as Xiang Shaolong was shivering all over, suddenly a ray of black light flew straight at his face, it was actually a concealed weapon.

"Who is it?" "How dare you put on airs in front of me!" Xiang Shaolong waved his hand, and a small sleeve arrow appeared in his hand. But when he looked closely, he saw that there was a letter wrapped around the sleeve arrow.

"Dragon Lord has such handsome skills, but I wonder if you can handle thousands of soldiers and horses? "Hahaha, we'll consider it as our strategist returning your favor …" The sound quickly disappeared.

Xiang Shaolong had a good memory. At that time, he knew that this was the Sima Yun that was under Xiao Letian's command. He raised his hand to stop his disciples from chasing and opened the secret letter.

"Escape Xiang Jia Village immediately, and the soldiers will attack this place together tonight. Remember, you must not block our way with your mantis arms, tsk, tsk."