Chapter 15 Li Beicang

"Master Li, please, please." Wang Maoru's housekeeper Wang Peng saluted the tray of one hundred taels of silver to Li Beicang, the head of Yanzimen in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, and said with a smile: "Hard work Master Cheng, the position of countless chief instructors of the security team of Huaxing Factory is waiting for you." ”

Master Li is Wang Maoru entrusted the lock from Cangzhou to find a master, he knows that to deal with Liu Laohu, he still needs to ask some strong martial arts people to help him, lock and Ergen and other young men from Cangzhou Although they have martial arts, but in Hebei Road, at most, it is a small style, and they can't be on the stage, and they have little experience in the rivers and lakes, but they can't do things. It's okay to lock them up and secretly punish Liu Laohu, but there is also power behind this Liu Laohu, and he has to find a way to subdue him. If Liu Laohu was to be subdued, he would have to invite a master, so Wang Maoru sent a lock back to Cangzhou to invite someone with strong martial arts and means.

The locked master is a senior in the Cangzhou martial arts world, and he is too old to go out of the mountain, so he recommended Li Beicang, the head of Hebei Yanzimen. Yanzimen is in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, and is good at light skills and fists and feet, and there has been a TV series "Swallow Li San" based on Yanzimen in later TV dramas, but that was ten years after 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, where the living conditions were higher and the influence was greater. When the three towns of Beiyang mutinied, Zhuozhou also had the devastation of these chaotic soldiers, and this year's drought in Hebei made Yanzimen unable to make a living. So Li Beicang wanted to move Yanzimen to Beijing, and the disciples of Yanzimen also followed, relying on Wang Maoru, a celebrity, and serving as a security guard in Huaxing Factory, Li Beicang can be regarded as taking root in Beijing. In order to become famous, Li Beicang also picked seven martial arts halls in a row, which completely launched the fame of Yanzimen.

After investing the money he earned before and after into the foreign fire factory and the oil lamp field, Wang Maoru set up a free library Baihui Building, and he still had more than 900,000 US dollars in his hand.

On this day, he took Pu Ji to Yanzimen, and when he chatted with Li Beicang about the current state form, he talked about the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, but the country was even more chaotic. Pu Ji sighed and said: "Whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China, it is always a change of soup and not of medicine. I wanted to brag that if I put it in Qianqing, I would definitely reverse the arrears and guide the country, but after experiencing so many things, I also knew a little bit of severity, sighed, shook my head, and said: "The country is a mess, a mess." ”

Li Beicang said: "Now that there are more taxes, the people can't live anymore, and there are countless people who sell their sons and daughters, alas. ”

"Zhuozhou is not a big agricultural county? Why do the people there also sell their sons and daughters? "Wang Maoru is strange.

"There are too many taxes, what is the city gate tax, land tax, deed tax, tooth tax, pawn tax, water source tax, road tax, dung water tax, ......"

"Manure tax?" Wang Maoru said with a smile, "Even if you and poop, you have to pay taxes?" ”

"Yes, the monthly fecal water tax of ten cents per person, you say that people are not angry." Li Beicang said hatefully, his family is a big family in Zhuozhou, and he can't stand it, let alone the small people below.

Wang Maoru was silent, the Republic of China is over, and the life of the country is as poor as ever.

Pu Ji suddenly asked, "Xiusheng, what are you going to do in the future?" ”

Wang Maoru thought about it, smiled, and said, "What do you think of me in the future?" ”

"Be an official, be in power." Pu Jidao, "If a man is not an official, he will come to the world in vain." ”

"I want to be an official, but not for myself, but for the people," Wang Maoru said, "maybe just because I am a scholar, I always have the idea of saving the country and helping the people, and being an official can save the people, I am satisfied." ”

Li Beicang hugged his fists and said: "If only the people who are officials in the world are Mr. Xiusheng, we can live a good life." ”

"It's a pity that I'm just a commoner, at most I'm a rich man." Wang Maoru said.

Pu Ji he, Wang Maoru saw him looking at himself with low eyebrows, so he asked, "What?" Laughing so twisted? What's in mind about convulsions? ”

Pu Jidao: "In these years, there are more people who spend money to buy officials, and it's a big deal to spend money to buy an official." Seeing Wang Maoru shaking his head, he smiled again: "If you want to talk about officialdom, you have to ask my father." He was in the ministry when he was in the previous dynasty, and he knew the rules of this officialdom better than you and me. If you don't understand the doorway, you won't be able to spend millions of dollars on this road. Seeing Li Beicang's look of disbelief, Pu Ji smiled and said: "Don't think of being an official so tall, it has been like this throughout the ages, Brother Xiusheng, if you really want to be an official, just spend a little money." ”

"If I wanted to be an official, I would have accepted Lao Yuan's invitation to go to the Ministry of Education a long time ago." Wang Maoru said with a smile.

Pu Ji laughed and said: "Don't lie to me, Xiusheng, it's not that you don't want to be an official, you don't want to be an idle official." I don't know what kind of oil and water there is in that place for the sake of the salaries of the Ministry of Education. Don't look at those commissioners of the Ministry of Education, they are all sanctimonious, I haven't seen them for a long time in Bada Hutong, so they are the most angry. Wang Maoru shook his head and smiled bitterly, and Pu Ji said: "I know you want to have real power, and I have to make an idea of this matter, although his old man is not powerful now, but after all, he has been a member of the former dynasty, and some things are much more transparent than you and me." Seeing Wang Maoru nodding in approval, Pu Ji said: "Brother Xiusheng, there are some things that our flag people can see better than you." I'm going to help you, but I'm going for you, don't throw me away because I'm a flag man in the future. Wang Maoru smiled: "You still don't trust me? Today, Master Li makes this certificate, let's worship as brothers, how about it? If you don't bow down, you just look down on me" How can Pu Ji refuse, the two of them are brothers of the opposite sex under the witness of Li Beicang, but it is also mutually beneficial. Although Pu Ji is a flag person, he is not the kind of ignorant and conservative person, otherwise he would not cut his braids, which is an outlier among the flag people, Yuan Shikai did not force everyone to cut braids, the flag people and old people in Beijing City all have braids, Pu Ji is the first to cut braids in Longbeile Mansion, it can be seen that his mind is also very lively.

The two of them were very drunk, and when the old Baylor came home in the evening, he heard that the two drunken juniors consulted him about the knowledge of buying officials, and the old Baylor said like a river, "This is easy to be an official, what is your purpose?" If you want to mix up an official body, spend a few hundred taels, and with my face, you can also live like Lao 2. It's just some Qingshui Yamen, but it can scare people outside. If you want to do a big job in officialdom, it depends on your eyesight and who you put in to be a staff member. I know Xiu Shengxian's nephew, you are a great talent, but you can't be reused, I think you'd better find a potential and recommend yourself as a staff member. ”

Puji asked, "Amma, who do you think has potential now?" How is the eldest prince Yuan? ”

"Grand Prince Yuan?" Old Baylor stroked his beard and pondered for a long time, and said, "Yuan Keding...... Alas, it's also a good place to go. As for the other words, I didn't say it, Yuan Shikai is a thief and a repeated villain in the hearts of the flag people, but Yuan Shikai is indeed in full swing at this time, and even Westerners call him China's Washington. Wang Maoru naturally knew that Old Baylor hated and was jealous of Yuan Shikai, and he was reluctant to evaluate Yuan Shikai, naturally because of his hatred for Yuan Shikai. After a while, Old Baylor said: "This Yuan Ke is anxious, simple-minded, and not calm, now that Old Yuan is here, Yuan Dagongzi is a good place to go." And it is not without benefits to take refuge in Yuan Keding's position, that is, this person is eager for quick success, but he is easy to fiddle with. However, at this stage, Yuan Keding is not in China. ”

"How?" The two asked.

Old Baylor said: "In the first half of last year, Yuan Keding returned to his hometown in Henan, broke his leg while riding a horse, and was not cured in China, and went to the West for treatment in June. ”

Pu Ji said with a smile: "This just became the founding prince and broke his leg, Yuan Keding is really unlucky." ”

Wang Maoru thought that he could take Yuan Keding's ride, but he didn't expect it to be so unlucky, and said with a smile that I have no fate with Yuan Keding.

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