When Lin Youde heard this, Qiu Fengjia? The hero who led the Taiwanese rebels to resist Japan?
Now Lin Youde was short of manpower, so he immediately ordered to be invited in. After the maid took the order, Lin Youde thought for a while and turned to Xuedeba. As a result, before he could speak, the girl put away the piano, stood up, bowed and exited the flower hall.
Who would have thought that after Qiu Fengjia came in, the first thing he asked after the greetings was: "I heard that shopkeeper Lin favored a Japanese geisha and stayed with her every day. Why is she nowhere to be seen today?"
Lin Youde did not hide it and said directly: "Brother Qiu led the rebel army in Taiwan and fought fiercely with the Japanese army for many days. He is a famous anti-Japanese scholar. How can I, Lin, let a Japanese prostitute spoil my brother's mood?"
Qiu Fengjia picked up the tea cup, snorted in his nostrils, and said: "To tell you the truth, half of the time I came to my house to experience the feeling of being served by Japanese slaves. The Japanese pirates bullied people too much. In my opinion, Qiu, you can see
The Japanese are humble and humble, but they still lose one of the joys of life."
Well, Lin Youde looked at Qiu Fengjia, who had a righteous look on his face and made these remarks, and thought that this man was indeed as patriotic as what people would say about him a hundred years later. If Lin Youde really wants him to lead the army to land in Japan in the future, he said
There might be a massacre in Tokyo, a massacre in Yokohama, or something like that, which would be a threat to Lin Youde's policy of supporting puppet Japanese people to rule Japan.
While Lin Youde was thinking about this, Qiu Fengjia was enumerating impassionedly everything the Japanese had done in the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1896 that had just ended, from Dadonggou to the fall of Lushun and Weihai, and from Liu Ming's resistance to the French to Liu Yongfu's resistance to the Japanese.
Lin Youde wanted to complain: Liu Mingchuan defeated the French, Liu Yongfu fought the Japanese until the end in Taiwan, how could you, who led the army to escape halfway, have the face to meet these two seniors?
Lin Youde shook his head secretly, thinking why the man who came to vote for him was not the national hero Liu Yongfu? Liu Yongfu was also in Guangzhou at this time, and Lin Youde had wanted to visit him for a long time, but he was a playboy with a bad reputation, and he was not popular even if he wanted to come and go.
See, then I gave up.
However, after all, Qiu Fengjia was a talented person who won the Jinshi at a young age, and he also raised a rebel army in Taiwan. Lin Youde is now hungry for talents. What's more, with this person's path, he will also have a way to win over Mr. Liu Yongfu in the future, right?
What.
And with Mr. Liu Yongfu, it will be much easier to do business in Vietnam and expand our power in the future.
Lin Youde was very proud of sketching out the future, but Qiu Fengjia had just finished talking. Qiu Fengjia, who had been talking eloquently, changed the subject of his visit: "Taiwan is occupied and Japanese pirates are rampant, which makes Qiu feel powerless.
Promoting foreign affairs cannot enhance the prestige of our country and defend powerful enemies overseas. Qiu thought about it one day and night, and felt that only by enlightening the people's wisdom and promoting reforms can we save the Qing Dynasty. Qian Kang Youwei opened Wanmu Thatched Cottage in Guangzhou to give lectures and spread the word
Regarding the great significance of the reform, the two gentlemen of Kangxi and Liang are now discussing the reform in Beijing. Qiu is willing to open a class in Guangzhou and echo the two gentlemen from north to south."
Lin Youde understood that he was here to ask for money to open a school. What he didn't understand was why Qiu Fengjia came to him.
"This, Mr. Qiu." Lin Youde thought about it for a while, and then slowly said, "Lin already understands the purpose of your visit, but what Lin doesn't understand is why he ignored so many gentry in Guangzhou and only came to see me.
Lin discussed this matter?"
"To tell you the truth," Qiu Fengjia lifted up his gown and sat back on the chair opposite Lin Youde, picking up a tea cup and replied, "When I was running around giving lectures in Guangzhou, a friend told me that Shopkeeper Lin looked like
Even if he is unbearable, he actually understands the righteousness and will definitely donate generously."
Lin Youde couldn't help but was speechless. It seemed that the revolutionary party still had important members lurking in Guangzhou. Miyazaki Tomazō might be the nail in his side. At that moment, Lin Youde decided to pay more attention to Miyazaki Tomazō from now on, and
You need to build up your reputation as soon as possible and use the Summoning Goddess skill of the self-defense system - if Miyazaki Torazou is a hidden stumbling block, then your life is equivalent to being in the hands of the Revolutionary Party. How can this happen?
After making up his mind, Lin Youde grinned and said to Qiu Fengjia: "Lin deeply agrees with what Mr. just said. How about I give Mr. 100,000 taels of cash first and provide a place to run the school in addition?"
Qiu Fengjia was overjoyed when he heard this. It seemed that although this man was a Jinshi of the Qing Dynasty, a member of the officialdom, and was over thirty years old, the city might not be as good as Lin Youde, a young boy. It was right to think about it. In another time and space, although Qiu Fengjia
He won the Jinshi, but he didn't want to be an official in the government and wanted to go back to Taiwan to establish education. No matter how you look at it, he is a very scholarly guy.
Now that he agreed, Lin Youde was unambiguous. He immediately called the cashier and drew a large banknote. As for the venue, Lin Youde was planning to open a casino in Guangzhou these days. He happened to find a few pieces of land and randomly ordered a piece of land for him.
Qiu Fengjia was in trouble.
"Shopkeeper Lin is really refreshing."
Lin Youde just laughed at Qiu Fengjia's praise, but said in his heart: Isn't this nonsense? I'm just trying to gain reputation.
After everything was done, Lin Youde personally took Qiu Fengjia all the way to the outside of the Longyuan Pavilion garden. When he said goodbye, Qiu Fengjia bowed to Lin Youde with more respect than when he came.
After sending Qiu Fengjia away, Lin Youde immediately replaced him with Xuedaba and asked: "Are there any other important members of the Revolutionary Party lurking in Guangzhou?"
Unexpectedly, Xuedaba replied simply: "Yes, Mr. He Ziyuan is still in Guangzhou."
Lin Youde searched his memory, okay, he is one of the big men of Hongmen, no wonder the Qing court did not dare to touch him.
"Are you in contact with him?"
Xuedaba shook his head: "Since Ba arrived in Guangzhou, he has only heard the leaders mentioning Mr. He in their conversations, but has never seen him in person."
Lin Youde nodded and put the matter down.
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March was over in a blink of an eye. At the beginning of April, Du Qifeng brought back thirty 13- and 14-year-old children from Lu Feng, about ten more than what Lin Youde had told him. Lin Youde immediately bought a small courtyard next to Longyuan Pavilion and put the
These children were all arranged to stay together there, and when they went to work every day, they would line up and drive to several venues under Lin Youde's name.
Chen Haihui, who was sent to buy guns, didn't have any good news back. Some of the telegrams he took from Hong Kong were all about additional working capital. Fortunately, Lin Youde didn't have a lot of money at the moment, so he could still get tens of thousands of customs treasury silver.
There is no harm in letting Chen Haihui do more activities in Hong Kong and develop connections.
Besides, Lin Youde didn't expect to get the gun back after sending Chen Haihui out for a few months. Even if he went to Hong Kong and immediately found someone to place an order, wouldn't the gun still have to be shipped back from abroad?
As a response to the lack of guns, Lin Youde paid for a martial arts master from Foshan and asked his boy scouts to practice boxing and kicking for a few hours every night before going to see the venue, and then armed with some big knives, spears, and other things, which was pretty good.
Use it to bluff people with their fighting power.
In mid-April, Lin Youde's casino opened. Gambling has been a custom in Guangzhou for a long time, but this foreign casino is still a new thing. Most Guangdong people only know Pai Gow but not poker.
There are different theories about the origin of this playing card. One theory is that it originated from the "leaf play" in ancient my country, and was then introduced to Europe by Marco Polo, and then evolved into modern poker. But based on what Lin Youde saw with his own eyes at this time, At least in this dimension, poker has nothing to do with China. In the vast city of Guangzhou, only a few fake foreign devils and bananas who have returned from studying abroad have seen this thing.
No matter how it is, all foreign things will be popular these days. Lin Youde made his fortune by blindly admiring foreign things and favoring foreigners among the upper class in the late Qing Dynasty.
With the foundation laid in the previous few venues, the casino business was naturally not mentioned, and the school opened by Lin Youde, funded by Qiu Fengjia, was successfully launched after nearly a month of preparations. For a time, shopkeeper Lin was unparalleled in Guangzhou.
No one could have imagined that something unexpected would happen at this moment.
On May 1, 1896, Lin Youde followed the custom of later generations and closed all his stores for one day to celebrate the Labor Day, which had not yet been born. However, at noon that day, Lin Youde was practicing tortoise shell binding in the backyard, and Du Qifeng hurried in.
"Why are you panicking?" When Lin Youde opened his mouth, he smelled like a big boss. Without raising his head, he continued to study the stimulating effect of the turtle shell knot on the female corpus cavernosum, and continued, "Don't be anxious, speak slowly.
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"Brother Lin, Miss Xia Fanglan ran away from home. She left a letter saying that she was going to the Revolutionary Party to continue Wang Tianlin's unfinished business. The old man of the Xia family mobilized all the servants to come to us to ask for someone. Now they are all