China's merchant class has been an oppressed group since ancient times, and in the traditional Confucian morality, merchants do not produce but transport goods from east to west, and from south to north, in exchange for fine clothes and fine food.

They don't produce the food, and the goods are made by the craftsmen, so why do they make several times the profit empty-handed?

No one wants to study the positive role that businessmen have played in human history, and no one wants to study what benefits the world has for people's livelihood, anyway, in the eyes of Confucianism, businessmen are a group of liars, even if there are a few righteous businessmen occasionally, it can't change the overall appearance of this group.

In the face of the suppression of the merchant class by the whole society, the merchants bowed their heads and tried to integrate into the value system advocated by Confucianism, in addition to enduring humiliation and burden.

Don't you advocate picking chrysanthemums under the east fence to see the idyllic scenery of Nanshan, then we can buy land and build a house like this, and the local master will do it.

Don't you literati think that wealth is all a blockage, then I will dig a cellar and hide all the gold and silver, and even if I die, I will not let this wealth flow.

Didn't you say that everything is inferior only if you study high, then it's better I won't let my son learn business, let him also go to the scientific examination, regardless of whether it is that piece of material, there is a shortcut to donating officials.

In China, the merchant class has completely compromised with the bureaucratic class, and even a powerful businessman like Hu Xueyan has to rely on the huge entity of the Shangxiang Army to survive and develop.

How much bitter water there is in the hearts of the businessmen is really not enough for outsiders, so after seeing the olive branch thrown by His Majesty the emperor today, Hu Xueyan suddenly burst into tears.

Not to mention that the old man in his forties is crying and crying, you must know that it was the Qing Dynasty with the strictest monarchy for thousands of years, and the people's fear of imperial power for thousands of years was unimaginable.

The idea of the Heavenly Grant of Monarchy has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the little worry in Hu Xueyan's heart just now has been replaced by fanatical enthusiasm, even if the emperor takes away all his property, he will not say a word.

The little emperor has really been trained, or maybe because he is at an age where it is easy to accept fresh ideas, he can actually see at a glance what Hu Xueyan is thinking in his heart.

"Do you think that I just want you to ask for money? Do you think that I want to kill chickens and take eggs? You are wrong, what I want is not for you to send your family wealth, but for you to shelter you from the wind and rain, so that you can make a lot of money and then support me to train an iron army......

"Look at how the prime minister's new army was trained? Isn't it the army that was first established by the Lotte Foreign Company and equipped with the windfall profits of the foreign company?"

"Aiqing, you must know that I am nominally the lord of the Qing Dynasty, but I have very little power in my hands, and I don't even have the right to transfer thousands of taels of silver before I have a pro-government...... Besides, even if I become pro-government in the future, do you think that all the officials in the world will listen to me?"

"You are the God of Wealth in Jiangnan, you should see things in the officialdom more clearly than me, a lot of dirty and filthy things that I can't see, you can see clearly, are those officials really loyal to me? Wrong, they are loyal to the silver, the power, and the small group!"

Zaichun sighed, "Hu Aiqing, thanks to the master who rescued me from that Quartet Heaven, I only know today that I was in prison for more than ten years before, and I was chained by lies and couldn't move!"

"So I'm going to stand on my own, and you've seen me go into the training camp to experience the new army training for myself, and I'm going to be a master of pioneering change who can go on the horse to govern the army and get off the horse to settle the people......"

"My guards have also entered the training camp, and I was rewarded by the prime minister a few days ago, my eunuchs are rushing to Sijiu City, and my officer corps has begun to assemble in the Ryukyus, the master taught me never to hide my selfishness, and the master can bring out a new army that is invincible and invincible, and I can't train an iron army if I have the entire Qing Dynasty?"

"But the army has not moved the grain and grass first, you Hu Xueyan understand this truth, and I can only rely on you if I think about it......"

Zaichun smiled bitterly and said, "Counting on the Eight Banners and the Green Camp, I have been completely disappointed in a few battles, and counting on those Hanchen Confucian students, they will only let me die in the Forbidden City and learn all kinds of rules...... Shi Nong Industry and Commerce, City Farmers and Workers can no longer be counted on, and now I can only borrow the power of your merchants......"

Hu Xueyan was already stunned, he trembled with excitement, Emperor Tongzhi said this, this is to give himself a great support.

The little emperor is the cleanest and purest inheritance among all the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, he has no brother and brother, he is the only son of Emperor Xianfeng, and this inheritance can not be more correct.

No one can say anything about the name of righteousness, the face is firmly in the hands of the emperor, and now what the little emperor wants is the lining, what he wants is the real right, isn't this just right?

"Your Majesty!" Hu Xueyan slammed his head on the ground, "How dare the minister not use his life, and the minister will fulfill His Majesty's wish even if he dies!"

Zaichun stood up and stretched out his hand to support Hu Xueyan, "Okay, if you don't leave, I won't give up!" I am definitely not the kind of monarch who will only give problems to his subordinates, in fact, I have already made a plan for you......"

At this time, the big Sixi and the little Sixi had already called from the cafeteria, and they also gave Hu Xueyan a copy.

"Master Hu, you can just make do with a meal, rough food can't get into your eyes, but this is the meal that Your Majesty eats every day......"

Hu Xueyan looked at the two trays placed by the eunuch on the table, and he was shocked by the simplicity of the food on them: "A chicken leg, a tea egg, a spoonful of roasted eggplant, a small portion of ancient pineapple meat, a bowl of rice, and a bowl of seaweed egg soup...... You eat these things every day?"

Zaichun pushed Hu Xueyan's share over, and then took a sip of soup, "It's a pity that there is no wine, so I can't entertain you, but the old shopkeeper will definitely have a banquet for you in the evening, and there will be wine to drink at that time......."

"Do you mean to dislike these poor meals? You Hu Xueyan is also from a poor family, you were able to eat these meals every day when you were a child? I haven't seen the people's suffering in the Forbidden City before, why don't you eat minced meat and say a few words, you Hu Xueyan was born in cattle herding and still looks down on such food?"

Hu Xueyan didn't expect that he was actually taught a lesson by the eleven-year-old little emperor, and he sweated like pulp, "No, the minister means that this kind of meal is too simple for His Majesty, the minister...... It's distressing!"

As soon as this sentence came out, the emperor didn't say anything, but as a result, the two eunuchs cried, and there were more than 100 dishes to serve the emperor before, and when it was the most humble, he had to make 18 dishes, and set a table full of them.

But today, the emperor eats the same meals as the big soldiers, and there are no leftovers, you can ask for less but you must not waste it, if you waste two or two meals, you will be hungry for a meal and ten laps of long-distance running.

"Your Majesty has had a hard time...... Woooooooo

The little emperor is really big, and the child can eat it when he grows up, and with the high-intensity exercise every day, he can eat the taste of pickles and rice at this time.

"Xue Yan! Our Qing Dynasty said that the rich are also rich, and the poor are also poor, and the people have been miserable for years of war, and there are also things like selling children and daughters, so how can it be extravagant and wasteful now?"

"There are a lot of arrogant and lascivious people in the court, but I don't do that, more than a hundred dishes at a meal, hundreds of taels of silver, do you know which silver is enough to arm how many recruits?"

"I sue you, the prime minister is arming a new army, from military uniforms to weapons plus fragmentary equipment, a total of only 200 eagles, I will eat a future recruit in one meal, don't you feel sorry for me......"

"Even if I eat the equipment of two recruits in one day, it is the equipment of more than 700 recruits in a year, and one reinforced battalion will be eaten by me......"

At this time, the little emperor was already excited, "Do you know? The prime minister went on an expedition to Europa, and only brought three hundred people, only three hundred!"

Zai Chun's roar shook Hu Xueyan, he finally understood that the emperor was really here, and the emperor who could speak such an insider could only prove that His Majesty really had to cheer up.

"O Holy Monarch! Holy Monarch...... Your Majesty can think like this, that is the blessing of all the people in the world, and the minister is willing to break his family to support His Majesty's military training......" Hu Xueyan burst into tears with excitement.

Hu Xueyan didn't believe that the little emperor was acting, if an eleven-year-old child could have such skillful acting skills and deceive himself by putting on a show, then such an emperor would be more worthy of refuge, and his future career would be unimaginable.

Looking at the little emperor eating brown rice so sweetly, Hu Xueyan knew that this could not be a show, this qiē was the emperor's true words.

"Aiqing, I have nothing to help you, I begged the master many times, and finally the prime minister ordered that the silver coin exchange business in Jiangnan will be contracted to you. In the future, Lotte will only exchange huàn silver coins with you alone......"

"You also know how popular the Eagle Ocean contracted by Lotte & Co. is in the market, with exquisite patterns, uniform weight, and durability, and the business of redeeming huàn silver coins will be contracted to your Fukang Money Village in the future, and you can take 10% of the money from it, which is the start-up capital I gave you......"

"You have to take this money and make more money for me, and how big my career will be in the future depends on how strong your ability is......"

Without waiting for Hu Xueyan to thank him, Zaichun took out a bright yellow jade wrench from his arms and pointed out, "Hu Xueyan, this is the jade wrench left by Emperor Gaozu, I will give it to you today, when you are in danger, it can save your life...... And with this treasure, it means that you are doing things for me......"

"Within the Great Qing Dynasty, no one is allowed to interrogate you unless you commit the crime of treason and the five major crimes of rebellion!"

"Your Majesty's ......" Hu Xueyan knelt on the ground and choked unbearably, today's surprise has overwhelmed him, and being able to underwrite Yingyang's exchange rights in Jiangnan is already a big deal without capital.

Now that he has even been rewarded with Gao Zu's bright yellow wrench, isn't this a gold medal for avoiding death? When did a businessman have such a political status, and with the protection of imperial power, what else am I afraid of?

From this day on, Hu Xueyan became Emperor Tongzhi's most loyal lackey and a member of Emperor Tongzhi's secret court.

The cunning Aixin Jueluo Zaichun wants to establish his own civil and military team in a hidden place that others can't see, and he wants to establish a small invisible court of his own.

One day, he will hold high the banner of righteousness, return to the Forbidden City with tens of thousands of iron troops, he will use his strength to ascend to the throne of power, he will use the iron-blooded stick to transform this declining dynasty.

"What the master can do, I can do the same!"