Those two women are here for the second time? Jin Ying was anxious and blurted out: "They can't like the young master, right?" ”

"What do children know, don't talk nonsense." Yi Zhishu hurriedly reprimanded softly.

"Who are the little ones? I'm a senior sister. Jin Ying muttered softly, her heart was full of worry, Yi Zhishu is not only handsome, but also has endless means of making money, and people are easy-going and generous, he is really a good man who is difficult to find with a lantern, she is in line with the idea that fat water does not flow into outsiders' fields, she ******** want to match him and Senior Sister Bai, but the two occasionally meet but are very cold, and now two women who are not inferior to Senior Sister Bai have appeared, it seems that Senior Sister Bai is not much of a show.

Yi Zhixin knew her thoughts, and went straight into the room, seeing him come in, Xu Yixuan and Jin Lanxiang hurriedly got up and bowed their hands, Xu Yixuan was reserved, and Jin Lanxiang said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Yi is hot now, and all businessmen are vying to open a machine silk reeling factory." ”

Yi Zhishu stretched out his hand to sit down and quipped: "Aren't the two of you also here to buy a silk reeling machine?" ”

"Shopkeeper Yi laughed." Jin Lanxiang said, took out a stack of manuscripts, and said: "These are a few articles written by the sisters to call for women's freedom and support the silk reeling women, and I also ask the shopkeeper Yi to look at them." ”

Xu Yixuan said: "I heard that Westerners don't have poetry at all, and they can't rhyme, that self-poem is Yi Gongzi's masterpiece?" What is the name of the poem? ”

"I don't have such a good literary style, I can't write such a good poem, the poem is called "Freedom and Love". Yi Zhizu waved his hand at Jin Lanxiang as he spoke, and said with a smile: "These manuscripts should be handed over to your cousin Brother Zecheng, he is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and it is up to him to decide whether the manuscript is used or not." ”

"My cousin doesn't have the vision of a shopkeeper." Jin Lanxiang said as she got up and put the manuscript on the desk. He arched his hand and said: "I hope that the shopkeeper Yi will not hesitate to give advice." ”

Thinking that he was going to the newspaper early tomorrow morning, Yi Zhizhi was not hypocritical, and said with a smile: "Don't you dare to give advice, tomorrow I will take it to Brother Zecheng and palm my eyes, and if I can use it, I will publish it directly, is it feasible?" ”

"There's the shopkeeper of Laoyi."

Yi Zhishu said with a smile: "Xiguan Weekly may be changed to a daily newspaper in the next two days. One issue is released every day, and I hope that all talented women will write more articles and support them. ”

Before he finished speaking, Li Wang reported outside the door: "Young Master, General Humen Mai is out asking to see you." ”

Humen, General Mai? Yi Zhizhi was content, and then remembered that it should be the guerrilla of the left battalion of Humen Promotion-Mai Tingzhang, this person is Guan Tianpei's henchman, I don't know what happened to him? He immediately got up and said, "Sit down for a while." I'll come when I go. In the study room where he came out, Mai Tingzhang, who was dressed in military uniform, had already strode over, and said with a solemn face: "Yida shopkeeper, early this morning, two English warships were cruising outside the Humen Gate and firing their guns. ”

Fire? Yi Zhi's heart sank, and he hurriedly asked, "Shoot at the Humen Fort?" ”

"That's not true, the British ships are firing at the sea."

What does this mean in the UK? Show off force? No way. Guangzhou has not yet begun to enforce a ban on smoking, what kind of force is Britain showing off? A change of thought. He reacted that Yilu was most likely two warships transferred by Yilu, the chief superintendent of commerce in China, in order to strive for equal opportunities for dialogue.

Thinking of this, he put his mind at ease, the other party is just showing force and will not fight. He then asked, "This is military affairs, who asked the general to come and tell his subordinates?" ”

Mai Tingzhang glanced at him and said, "Guan Junmen urgently reported to the Governor's Mansion and the Governor's Department, and by the way, informed the shopkeeper of Yi Da, and the Lord of the Taiwan Dynasty also instructed the last general to make a detour to tell you." ”

Yi Zhishu nodded. Guan Tianpei told him about this, it is estimated that one is to urge him to buy artillery as soon as possible, and the other is to ask for silver **** or to boost the morale of the army.

After a slight groan, he spoke: "Please also return to the military gate, the move of the Yingyi military ship is just intended to show off its strength, don't pay attention to it, if there is a war, Yuan Qi will definitely support it." ”

"The last general will take the Humen defenders to thank Yi Da for the shopkeeper." Mai Tingzhang arched his hand as he spoke, and said: "Military affairs are in the body, and it is inconvenient for the general to stay for a long time, so I will invite the shopkeeper of Yida to drink and say goodbye in the future." ”

In the study, Xu Yixuan and Jin Lanxiang heard the conversation outside clearly, both of them were secretly frightened, although Yi Zhishu said that he had the top of the four grades, but it was just a false title used to pretend to be decent, he was just a businessman, but he was so valued by the Governor and the Admiral, he had only heard about it before, but now he really saw it once.

The footsteps were far away, and Xu Yixuan said: "It seems that he is busy again, let's also leave." ”

There is a garden covering an extensive area in the Thirteen Merchant Pavilion District, known as the English Garden, which is not a public garden in the Merchant Pavilion District, and the surrounding fences and the rice flags fluttering high in the garden silently show that this is a private garden belonging to the British Pavilion.

The sun is nearly noon, the sun is poisonous, at this hour there will be no one to walk in the garden, a four-person sedan chair slowly came, fell outside the garden gate, Yi Zhizu opened the sedan curtain to take a look at the quiet garden, and then glanced at the row of buildings full of European neoclassical style, and then put down the sedan curtain, and asked in a deep voice: "Did you send a famous post?" ”

Seeing that no one came to greet him, the little servant Li Wang was also quite surprised, and hurriedly accompanied him and said: "Back to the young master, the name sticker has been sent in, and the little one saw the porter take the name sticker in it." ”

I sent a famous post, but I didn't even come to greet him, what does this mean? Based on his impression of righteousness, it seems that the other party is not so arrogant and rude, and he doesn't know what to do, is someone obstructing him, and he didn't send the name sticker in to report at all? Or did the arrival of the two warships make Yilu feel stiff?

Yi Zhifu frowned, this is really the first time he has encountered this matter, with Yuan Qi's current momentum, with his current name, he has really never encountered such an embarrassing situation, he groaned slightly, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Get up and go to the American Merchant Hall." After a pause, he instructed again: "Go and post again, meet Ma Ruhan, hand over the post to him, and say that I am in the American Merchant Mansion, give them a quarter of an hour." ”

"The little one understands." Li Wang hurriedly bowed and said.

In a room facing the garden gate on the second floor of the British Merchant House, several British businessmen secretly watched the movement at the gate, and when they saw the sedan chair slowly leaving, one couldn't help but say: "The joke seems to be too big." ”

"It's not a joke." He said in a deep voice: "Two naval warships are demonstrating in Humen, these arrogant Qing Guoyan actually let this guy come, what is he?" An official official of the Qing court? Thirteen Lines of General Merchant? This is too little to take into account of our British Empire. (To be continued.) )