In 1838, the eighteenth year of Daoguang, the year of Wuxu, summer and May.

In summer, it is early in the morning, not yet six o'clock, the eastern sky has already revealed the white of the fish belly, the sky is slightly brighter, a loud trumpet broke the silence of dawn, echoing in the sky above Yuan Qiyixue, this is the wake up number! Sixteen-year-old Fan Xiaodonkey quickly turned over and got up, quickly put on shorts and shorts, and then rushed out of the bedroom like the wind and ran to the big playground.

He didn't have a long time to learn righteousness, only four days, but he clearly knew that he would be punished for being slow in the morning assembly, and after the roll call on the big playground, it was a routine run, running around a wide dirt road outside Yuan Qiyi School for two laps, which was fatal, and it took half an hour to run.

Breathless after running two laps back to Yixue, Fan Xiaodonkey hurried up to wash, and then returned to the dormitory to tidy up his housekeeping, and then sat and waited for breakfast, he was a native of Jiangxi, this year's spring home disaster, he was sold to a passing tea merchant, and was sent here.

Through the understanding of the past few days, he knew that this was a Yixue run by the famous Yuanqi Bank in Guangzhou, but he felt that this was not like Yixue, although he had never entered Yixue, but he knew what Yixue was like, they had Yixue in their town, but this Yuanqi Yixue was very strange, and it was completely different from the Yixue in their town.

Here, they only have half a day to read and write, and the other half day is either training or working, in addition to running, they also have to learn to train swimming, climbing bamboo poles, and there are also some fresh tricks of training, what pull-ups, sit-ups and other training, in addition to work, building roads and planting trees, picking soil and carrying wood, etc.

Reading here is also different from the Yixue in their town, taking classes here, learning pinyin, learning to speak official dialect, learning to recognize and write, learning arithmetic, memorizing the three-character scripture, multiplication formulas, etc., and he also found that there are many foreigners in this Yixue, I heard that it is still Mr., Mr. Foreigner's doctrine, he is the first time he has heard of it.

However, the food here is surprisingly good, three meals a day, breakfast is two big white flour steamed buns, two eggs, a bowl of soy milk, and thick white rice porridge, white rice at noon and night, white rice without a little multigrain, four dishes for eight people, there is always a meat dish.

He has grown so big, since he can remember, he has eaten meat less than a slap in the face, but here he can eat meat every day, and the big families in their town are not so generous.

To be honest, he liked it very much, but he didn't know why the tea merchant who bought him sent him here, and he didn't know how long he could stay here, he asked a few classmates who were about the same size as him, everyone was in a similar situation, almost all of them were bought and sent over, and the places they came from were very mixed, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and from Yunnan and Guizhou, but everyone was confused, and no one said clearly.

He was in a trance, and the squad leader Wang Liqiu walked in in a hurry, and saw that he was the only one in the dormitory, so he hurriedly said: "Don't sit stupidly, hurry up and sort out the housekeeping, today the principal will come to check the housekeeping in person." ”

"Oh." Fan Xiaodonkey hurriedly got up, and asked curiously while cleaning up, "Who is the principal?" ”

Wang Liqiu said casually: "The principal is the mountain chief, the dean, the principal of our Yuan Qi Yi School is naturally the treasurer of Yuan Qi Yi. ”

Yida shopkeeper! Fan Xiaodonkey became excited, came to Yuanqi Yixue, and the most talked about by everyone was Yuanqi's big shopkeeper - Yi Zhicontent, he said curiously: "Yi Da shopkeeper wants to come to our bedroom?" I heard that he is only eighteen years old? ”

"Who told you that you are only eighteen years old, and this year is already twenty years old." Wang Liqiu said as he folded a quilt squarely like a piece of tofu, and said while folding: "Look carefully, all the quilts should be folded like this." ”

Wang Liqiu looks a year or two older than them, he usually doesn't smile, and it is rare to see him, everyone is a little afraid of him, seeing that he seems to be very good at talking today, Fan Xiaodonkey couldn't help but ask: "How long can we stay here?" ”

"I don't know." Wang Liqiu said sullenly, he really doesn't know, he himself doesn't know how long he wants to stay here, unlike the other teenagers, he was not bought, he himself is an apprentice of Yuanqi Bank, after Yuanqiyi began to take shape, he was sent to Yuanqiyixue, and followed the foreigners to learn Yiyu, an apprentice like him, Yuanqiyi has more than 100 people, all aged between thirteen or fourteen to seventeen or eighteen.

Seeing that he seemed reluctant to touch on this topic, Fan Xiaodonkey closed his mouth in interest and carefully studied how to fold the quilt, he really couldn't understand why he had to fold the quilt so squarely, but I have to say that everything in the bedroom was neatly placed and organized, and it looked really comfortable.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, a small boat slowly approached the pier outside Yuan Qiyixue, Yi Zhizu was dressed in a blue-gray robe, standing on the bow of the boat with his hands on his back, looking at Yuanqiyixue in the shade of green trees, and his heart was full of joy.

Although Yuan Qiyixue has only begun to take shape, but under his investment regardless of the cost, it will inevitably change with each passing day and develop rapidly, and after three or four years, he will be able to provide him with a steady stream of talents, and at that time, he can form his own private army, even in troubled times, he is enough to protect himself.

He selected more than 120 people from Qianzhuang's apprentices, and placed them in Yixue under the guise of learning Yiyu and further study, not only to cultivate talents for Yuan Qi, but also to cultivate the backbone of officers in the private army, only in this way can he ensure absolute control over the private army, and he doesn't want to make wedding dresses for others.

"Young Master" Li Wang stretched out his head and reminded: "There is a clipper boat coming from behind, it seems to be chasing us." ”

"Oh?" Yi Zhizu glanced back, recognized it as the Wu family's clipper at a glance, and immediately ordered: "Stop and wait." ”

The clipper boat behind came quickly, and after a while, Wu Changqing walked out of the cabin and said with a smile: "Brother Contentment let me chase down so hard." ”

Yi Zhizhi said: "Urgent? ”

"Grandpa, please tell Brother Zhizu to come over to the house." Wu Changqing said: "Robert wrote from the United States, saying that there was an economic panic in the United States last year. ”

An economic panic? Yi Zhi was content for a moment, is there an economic crisis in the United States? How many years has the United States been founded, and then there has been an economic crisis? If there is really an economic crisis, it will be a great opportunity for him, for Yuan Qi, and for the Qing Dynasty! Thinking of this, where did he still have the heart to go to Yixue, and hurriedly ordered: "Turn around and go to the Wu family's garden." ”