Chapter 15 Li Beicang
"Master Li, please, please." Wang Peng, the butler of Wang Maoru, gave a pallet of 100 taels of silver to Li Beicang, the head of Yanzi Sect in Zhuozhou, Hebei, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, Master Cheng, the position of countless chief instructors of the security team of Huaxing Factory, is waiting for you."
Master Li is the master whom Wang Maoru asked from Cangzhou to find him. He knew that he still needed to ask some martial arts people to help him when dealing with Liu Laohu. Although Shuo and Ergen were good at Cangzhou, he had martial arts skills, but at most he was a small handkerchief on Hebei Road. He had no market experience and had little experience in the martial arts world, but he could not do anything. He asked them to secretly punish and deal with Liu Laohu, but Liu Laohu also had power behind him, so he had to find a way to subdue him. If he subdued Liu Laohu, he would have to hire a master. So Wang Maoru sent Lock to return to Cangzhou to invite people with high martial arts and powerful methods.
The locked master is a senior in the martial arts world in Cangzhou. He was too old to come out, so he recommended Li Beicang, the head of the Swallow Sect in Hebei. Yan Zimen is in Zhuozhou, Hebei. Yan Zimen is good at light skills and fist. In later TV series, the TV series "Swallow Li San" based on the Swallow Sect was once appeared. However, that happened after the tenth year of the Republic of China. Obviously, this middle-aged man is not the Swallow Li San ten years later.
After Li Beicang considered it, he decided to move Yanzimen from Zhuozhou to Beijing. First, living conditions here are higher, and secondly, the impact is greater. During the mutiny of the three towns in Beiyang, Zhuozhou was also ruined by these rebellious soldiers. In addition, this year's Hebei drought, the Yanzimen had no way to make a living. So Li Beicang wanted to move Yanzimen to Beijing, and the disciples of Yanzimen also followed him and relied on Wang Maoru, who served as the security guard in Huaxing Factory. Li Beicang took root in Beijing. In order to become famous, Li Beicang also picked up seven martial arts schools, which completely made the reputation of Yanzimen.
After investing the money he earned in the foreign fire factory and oil lamp field, Wang Maoru set up another free library with a hundred-time building, and he still had more than 900,000 US dollars. For him, the wealthy and powerful, the library's losses were only a drop in the bucket, and he made a lot of reputation for him.
That day, when Uraji came to Yanzimen, talked about the current state form with Li Beicang, and talked about the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, but the country became even more chaotic. Uraji sighed and said, "Whether the Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China, it is always a change of soup and no medicine." He wanted to boast about this if it was placed in the Qing Dynasty, he would have reversed the debt and guided the country, but after experiencing so many things, he also knew the importance of it. He sighed, shook his head, and said, "The country is a mess, a mess."
Li Beicang said: "Now there are more taxes, and the people can't survive anymore. There are countless people selling their children and daughters, alas."
"Zhuozhou is not a major agricultural county? Why do people there sell their children and daughters?" Wang Maoru was surprised.
"There are too many taxes, such as city gate repair tax, land tax, deed tax, tooth tax, assay tax, water source tax, road tax, manure tax..."
"Doing water tax?" Wang Maoru smiled, "Even if you are stool, you have to pay taxes?"
"Yes, everyone has a monthly tax of ten cents, but you say it's annoying." Li Beicang said hatefully. His family is a big family in Zhuozhou and can't stand it, let alone the common people below.
Wang Maoru remained silent. The Republic of China has come, and the country's life is as poor as ever.
Uraji suddenly asked, "Shuisheng, what are you going to do in the future?"
Wang Maoru thought about it, smiled and said, "What do you think I will be in the future?"
"Be an official, take power." Uraji said, "If a man does not become an official, he will be in a state of chaos."
"I want to be an official, but not for myself, but for the people," said Wang Maoru. "Maybe just because I am a scholar, I always have the idea of saving the country and the people. If I can save the people by being an official, I will be satisfied."
Li Beicang clasped his fists and said, "It would be better for all the officials in the world to be Mr. Xiusheng, and we can live a good life."
"It's a pity that I'm just a civilian, at most I'm a rich man." Wang Maoru said.
Urajihe direct sales. When Wang Maoru saw him looking at him with his eyebrows down, he asked, "What? He smiled so distortedly? What a mess he thought of?"
Uraji said: "Now, there are more people who spend money to buy officials. At worst, they can spend money to buy an official. "When you want to talk about officialdom, you have to ask my father. He was in the Ministry of Personnel when he was in the previous dynasty, and he knew the rules of the officialdom more than you and me. If you don't understand the tricks here, you can't walk this path even if you spend millions." Seeing Li Beicang's look incredible, Uraji smiled and said: "Don't think of being an official as tall as you have been doing all the time. This has been the case throughout the ages. If Brother Xiusheng really wants to be an official, just spend some money."
"If I wanted to become an official, I would have accepted Lao Yuan's invitation to the Ministry of Education long ago." Wang Maoru said with a smile.
Ura Ji smiled and said, "Don't lie to me, Xiusheng, you don't want to be an official, you don't want to be an idle official. I don't know the grandsons of the Ministry of Education, and they have torn apart for a few dollars of salary. What's the point of that place? Don't look at the specialists of the Ministry of Education, one by one, and I'm not sure about them. I'm not sure about them. I'm not sure about them. I'm the one who has seen them in the eight major hutongs, so they're the one who takes the initiative to do the trick." Wang Maoru shook his head and smiled bitterly, and Ura Ji said, "I know you want to have real power, and I have to take the initiative to do this. Although he is not in power now, he has been a member of the Ministry of Personnel in the previous dynasty, and he has seen some things much more clearly than you and me." Seeing Wang Maoru nodding in recognition, Ura Ji said, "Brother Xiusheng, some things are clearer than you. I
I help you, but I will go for you. If I become a bannerman in the future, don’t throw me away just because I am a bannerman.” Wang Maoru smiled and said, “You don’t trust me? Today, Master Li is making this certificate. Let’s become sworn brothers. How about you? If you don’t become sworn brothers, you will look down on me!” How could Uji refuse? Under the testimony of Li Beicang, the two became sworn brothers of the opposite sex, which is mutually beneficial. Although Uji is a bannerman, he is not the kind of ignorant and conservative person, otherwise he would not have cut his braids. This is an alien among the bannerman. Yuan Shikai did not force everyone to cut his braids. The bannermen and old people in Beijing have braids. Uji is the first to cut his braids in Longbeile Mansion, which shows that his mind is also very lively.
The two were drunk and drunk. When Old Beile came home at night, he heard two drunken juniors consulting him about the knowledge of buying an official. Old Beile was polite and said, "It's easy to be an official, but what is your purpose? If you want to be an official, you can spend a few hundred taels and live like your second brother with my face. It's just a clean yamen, but you can scare someone outside. If you want to do a big fight in the officialdom, it depends on your eyesight and who will be a staff member. I know Nephew Xiusheng, you are a talented person, but you must not use it. I think you'd better find a potential and recommend yourself as a staff member."
Uraji asked: "Ama, do you think who has potential now? How about Master Yuan?"
"Young Master Yuan?" Old Beile stroked his beard and pondered for a long time, and said, "Yuan Keding... Alas, it's also a good place to go." As for other words, he didn't say that Yuan Shikai was a thief and a recurring villain in the hearts of the bannermen. However, Yuan Shikai was indeed at the peak of the sky at this time, and even the Western foreigners called him Washington, China. Wang Maoru naturally knew that Old Beile hated and jealous of Yuan Shikai, and he was unwilling to evaluate Yuan Shikai, because of his hatred for Yuan Shikai. After a while, Old Beile said, "This Yuan Keding is impatient, simple-minded, and not calm. Now Old Yuan is here, Old Master Yuan is a good place to go. Moreover, it is not without benefits to join Yuan Keding to the throne, but this person is eager for quick success and instant benefits, but he is easy to deal with. However, at this stage, Yuan Keding is not in China."
"How?" asked the two.
Lao Beile said: "In the first half of last year, Yuan Keding returned to his hometown in Henan and broke his leg by riding a horse. He was not cured at home. He went to the West to treat his illness in June."
Uraji smiled and said, "This is really unlucky for Yuan Keding to break his legs just as he became the founding eldest son."
Wang Maoru thought he could take Yuan Keding's ride, but he didn't expect that it would be so unexpected. He smiled and said that Yuan Keding and I were not destined to be together.
Chapter completed!