Chapter 64 News Channels
Different people have different ways of dating.
As the saying goes, I will repay you with all my favors. If you give me a drop of water, I will repay you with a spring; if you throw me a stone, I will repay you with swords and guns. If you really kind, I will repay you with sincerity; if you really admire you with false and serpents, I will repay you with a false face.
Lu Heng responded more sincerity to his master, Jiuer and Gong Lan, Gong family, and Bai family; even Cheng Tinghua, Wang Zhengyi and others, Lu Heng was willing to be more sincere and was willing to think about them more.
But for Gao Dongyuan, Eunuch Zhang, or Yuan Gongbao, it is naturally a vain and slander. There is no sincerity.
I think that Gao Dongyuan and others are not very sincere to Lu Heng.
They are all wearing masks and exchanges on the interests level.
Therefore, Lu Heng used silver notes as a stepping stone, and he was not vague when he put them away.
Yuan Gong Bao was rich and powerful. After turning around, Lu Heng collected him 150,000 taels. This is not a small amount. Don’t look at Lu Heng who made silver notes, pearls, jade calligraphy and paintings worth two million in the Zhan’s mansion, you have to think that it was the Zhan’s mansion, the prince of the Qing Dynasty!
Of course, this money is not done properly. With Yuan Gongbao's background and official position, he is not allowed to save so much money in his life.
Lu Heng felt at ease when he got trapped.
The matter about Yuan Gongbao here has come to an end.
In the days that followed, Lu Heng rarely went to Sifang Garden. He occasionally went there and took a look. Although it was indeed quite interesting to observe the Beijing Opera carefully, Lu Heng was not an enthusiast after all, and he was just a hobby.
Mr. Bai enjoyed it. He held the garden and called friends every day, listened to operas and played with children, seemed to be back in youth.
Jiuer and Gong Lan's academic performance is progressing well. There are not many things taught in the school. Jiuer mainly studies arithmetic and also learns some Western languages. He goes to Sifangyuan every now and then; Gong Lan gets into Chinese studies.
According to her, Chinese studies are useful for practicing martial arts.
Martial arts are inherently integrated into many principles of Chinese studies.
Even Lu Heng, now he also has to read through the classics left by ancient sages every day.
Now more and more people are making a living with Lu Heng.
It snowed the night before Sifang Garden opened, and saw many people dead. Old Li was kind and asked Lu Heng for instructions, and then opened a porridge shed at the intersection outside Pingkangfang to help those who could not survive.
By the way, I took in more than a dozen boys and girls.
These children were either orphans or their parents could not afford to raise them. When Lao Li was serving porridge, he begged him to take him a way out. He also accepted them.
These children arranged two to go to the pharmacy shop. In fact, the pharmacy shop did not require any manpower at all, and the business was too deserted. But they had to arrange something. At the pharmacy shop, learning the skills of identifying medicine from the Baicao Hall was finally a way.
The others were handed over to Jiuer and arranged in Sifang Garden.
It is not said that it is completely pure goodwill - they are arranged in Sifang Garden, where they go to do odd jobs, become servants, and also have the function of collecting information.
Those high-ranking officials came to Sifang Garden to listen to operas, and occasionally talked, and some news was leaked. The servants next to them collected them and summarized them every three or five days. When they arrived at Jiuer, Jiuer would hand them over to Lu Heng.
With such a purpose, it cannot be said to be completely kind-hearted, because it has a purpose. But in the end, they are given a job, and they cannot be said to be without kindness.
As Lu Heng expected, the theater was a well-informed place. Li Hongzhang came back and went to see the old witch; Yuan Gongbao was promoted to the governor of Shandong, and several eunuchs and palace maids died in the palace, and so on.
But that's not enough.
What Lu Heng wanted to know was the news that the old witch was the shaman.
This is a bit difficult.
Fortunately, Lu Heng is not in a hurry.
Since killing a shaman, the old witch has not been moved. Lu Heng has also paid attention these days. Occasionally, he ran to the outer periphery of the Forbidden City at night. He could not always passively receive messages, and he had to take action.
Sometimes Lu Heng even wanted to arrest Eunuch Zhang and Gao Dongyuan for questioning - but thinking about it may not be able to question what he wants to know. Once he failed to question it, the old witch reacted quickly and the chance would be even smaller.
So I had to suppress it first.
Looking back, it is not easy to kill a dynasty in power that has existed for more than 200 years.
Have to wait.
Watching the New Year arrive.
A few days before New Year's Eve, Cheng Tinghua came to the door and said that he wanted Gong Er and Lu Heng to go to his place to celebrate the New Year.
Not long ago, the Bai family also invited him, so they had to reject Cheng Tinghua and said that they would go to pay New Year's greetings to Cheng Tinghua again on the second and third day of the lunar month.
During this period, Lu Heng and Miya Haneda wrote twice. The situation in the Northeast changed a little quickly, saying that there were more and more foreigners in Fengtian, especially those of the Easterners and Rakshasa Russians.
Very arrogant and domineering.
Especially the Eastern people. A few warriors came and posted a post to challenge them everywhere. Many martial arts halls in Fengtian area were selected by the Eastern warriors, and many people died.
Some people from the world visited Gong Haneda, intending to invite him to come forward, fight the Easterners and kill the Easterners' majesty.
But Miya Haneda did not agree.
Miya Haneda was a person who had been through the officialdom. He knew very well what kind of urination was in the Qing Dynasty. This was not a problem of fighting the ring. Winning and losing on the ring was not important. If you lose, you would lose the nation and win. If you win, the Eastern people put pressure on the government, and you would lose and lose without defeat!
No matter how you lose!
The Eastern people are both shameless and thief. Their warriors challenge them with great fanfare, but they just don’t challenge those powerful figures and just look for Xiaowu Pavilion to do it.
The Gong family's courtyard is outside Fengtian City, and it is well known, but the Eastern people turn a blind eye to it.
Their purpose is very obvious. It is nothing more than to hit people's spirit - look, your martial arts are garbage, your citizens are caterpillars, soft!
The no-no from Miya Haneda said that if he really stood up and wanted to fight with the Japanese, the government would definitely run out as soon as possible and suppress Miya Haneda.
The reason is very simple, diplomatic issues.
Where did the Qing Dynasty have any diplomacy? After signing so many treaties that were worthy of power and humiliating, they have long regarded foreigners as their ancestors!
The Japanese knew that they could not beat Miya Haneda, so they turned around and put pressure on the government to deal with Miya Haneda.
This is their way.
So Miya Haneda could only bear it, as if it couldn't be seen.
But between the lines in the letter, the afflictions are revealed, making people feel nervous.
This is a bullshit era!
Lu Heng replied that he was good here and said that Gong Lan was good, and there was nothing else to say. What could he say? Nothing means to say.
As for killing the old witch, this must not be on paper.
On New Year's Eve, Lu Heng took Jiuer and Gong Lan to the Bai family for the New Year's Eve dinner. He met a cousin whom he knew before but had never met.
It is called Bai Jingqi.
This guy is a rebellious person. He didn't know what he had done before, but his mother Bai Wen drove him out of the house. But he came back before the New Year.
He is also a very interesting guy. He is proficient in eating, drinking, and having fun, and is not inferior to Mr. Bai. But he is more strong-willed, more generous and more decisive.
If the good student adjusts the adjustment, he should be the best candidate for the next generation of the Bai family.
Chapter completed!