People who have never been to the capital naturally don’t know what’s going on here. It can be said that the beggar gang has become a mudslide among the underground forces in the capital. It has become common practice to swindle beggars from other places in the capital and bully beggars from other places. Even secretly

, and also engaged in human trafficking, kidnapping and extortion.

Coming to Dong Laishun this time is actually to establish prestige. Isn't there someone who is covering the business of the Li family? But I want to ask you to do it. As long as I settle down with you Dong Laishun, I won't worry about others being disobedient.

Ai Husheng had never been around in the capital, so how could he know these things? At first, he thought it was his own clerk who was bullying others, but he didn't expect that it was his own clerk who was being bullied by others.

"Hmph! There is no law against beating people in broad daylight. We are going to sue the officials!" When the two beggars on the ground saw the person in charge coming, they immediately became aggressive. Lying on the ground, one looked like a butchered pig.

Screaming, the other pointed at Ai Husheng's nose and wanted to drag Ai Husheng to file a lawsuit.

Of course Ai Husheng would not say anything like, I am the King of Laws.

After thinking for a moment, he turned around and said something to the boy who was with him. The boy immediately turned around and left!

"Just let them sit here!" Ai Husheng glanced around. Sure enough, there were many beggars in the crowd, probably no less than a thousand. As long as you force yourself, these beggars will swarm up. When the time comes, the law will not punish you.

Even if they were beaten to death, the beating would be in vain.

All the clerks and stewards in Dong Laishun returned to the door and let the beggars outside make noises!

"Master Shen! What should we do?" On the wall not far away, the dog-headed military advisor saw Ai Husheng retreating with his men, and hurriedly asked Shen Lian, the leader of the Beggar Gang in the East City, Nine Bags Elder.

"Hmph! We can't afford to drag the men with them. Can we drag them with them? The door smells so bad that he can't do his business anymore. It's okay. If they don't make a fuss today, they will continue to make trouble tomorrow. Until they mess up his business.

Until I can’t do it anymore!”

"Boss, I heard that Donglai Shuntong went to the government. What if they report to the government and come to take someone away?"

"Then what are you afraid of? Our beggar gang doesn't have many other things, it just has a lot of people. Tomorrow we will find two more people from other provinces and let them continue to cause trouble here. Catch all our beggar gangs, hehe! I'm afraid it will fill up all the prisons in the capital.

Even if it’s over, we can’t catch it all. Besides, this is a matter assigned by the leader of the gang. If we don’t handle it with all our heart, neither you nor I will get any good results.”

"The gang leader also...!"

"Silence!"

"oh!"

Ai Husheng returned to the building and looked at the noisy crowd outside without saying anything. Xie Youcai came up to him, thinking that Ai Husheng had no choice. He whispered: "Master Ai, I still have some friends in the capital. Do you think...

…!”

"Haha! This matter is not that simple. Everyone in the capital knows that this Dong Lai Shun'er is the Li family's business. Knowing the lessons learned from Baiyun Temple, you still dare to come to our door to cause trouble. Do you think it is really a few beggars who dare to

Made?" Ai Husheng sneered.

"You mean...! There is another reason for this?"

"We haven't figured out the origin of the other party yet, so we have already gone to find the Fifth Master. I hope he can figure it out! The two masters Zhang and Wang need to return to the construction site as soon as possible. They have just asked Mr. Xu of the Jin Yiwei to take action. I believe Jin Yiwei will control the situation.

They don't dare to go to the construction site to cause trouble, just in case. The guards on duty are each given one tael of silver per day, so they can provide meat. If someone really makes trouble, let them take action."

"No!" Zhang Mazi and Wang Laosan agreed, and immediately left Donglaishun with their men and returned to the construction site.

Ai Husheng did not expect that the things he had to face were more difficult than he imagined.

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Li Xiao took the boat back to Changxing Island and did not come back for a year. Changxing Island has changed greatly. A transshipment terminal was built on the seaside. There is a lighthouse on the top of Tashan, and at the foot of the mountain there are small two- and three-story buildings next to each other.

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Only a hundred meters away from the dock is the military camp, where soldiers are practicing. The slogans are shouting loudly, and the "cracking" gunshots on the other side of Tashan seem to be firing off whips.

As soon as she stepped off the gangplank, Xiaoyu rushed into Li Xiao's arms like a cannonball.

"Bad brother, I haven't come back to see Xiaoyu for so long." Xiaoyu hugged Li Xiao's neck and hung on Li Xiao like a koala. Li Hao rubbed his hands beside him, his eyes very hot.

"Brother is back, isn't he? This time he will stay here for a while and stay with Xiaoyu." He held Xiaoyu with one hand and pulled the envious Li Hao with the other.

There were many people coming to greet us at the pier, including the fisherman and Yu Nao Inatomi who were wearing burlap work clothes, Tang Ruowang who was dressed in Western missionary clothes, and Sister Jiang who was wearing a skirt under her white clothes. The most eye-catching ones were, of course, her full beard.

Face of Ao Canghai.

Ao Canghai's big face came over and wanted to rub Xiaoyu's face with the beard on his chin. Xiaoyu immediately let go of Li Xiao and slipped to the ground, hiding behind Li Xiao. His little head was exposed and he made faces at Ao Canghai.

"You are so old, but you are still making trouble with your children." Li Xiao vaguely heard that Sister Qiao seemed to be unable to have children, so Ao Canghai loved Xiaoyu and Xiaohao very much, treating them as if they were his own children.

"If you don't make trouble with them, how can you make trouble with you? Where are the five brats around you?" Ao Canghai looked behind Li Xiao in confusion, but he didn't see the roast chicken brothers.

"Go to the capital and help Fifth Master do something." Li Xiao said vaguely, and Ao Canghai was smart enough not to ask any more questions.

The Li family's single-family villa is on the other side of the pier. The three-story building faces the sea. The midday sun shines on the white marble wall tiles, scattering dazzling light. There is a small courtyard in front of the building, and there are

There is a pond and a small pavilion.

There are lotus flowers in full bloom in the pond, and you can vaguely see red carp swimming among the lotus flowers. I guess this thing is used to please Xiaoyu, but I don't know if these things can survive in winter.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw Sister Qiao coming out to greet me: "I heard from Lao Ao that you were coming back, so we were ready early this morning. Yesterday we sent people out to sea to catch seafood, and today we are still making dumplings." Unique to Northeastern women.

His hearty laughter even drowned out the sound of the waves.

"I'm not at home. Xiaoyu and Xiaohao are very grateful to you." Li Xiao took Xiaoyu with one hand and Xiaohao with the other hand and bowed to Sister Qiao. Sister Qiao didn't know how to speak and stood there at a loss.

No matter where you put your hands, nothing feels right.

"Come into the house!" Ao Canghai slapped Li Xiao on the back, then pulled Qiaojie and the others into the house, chatting and laughing.

This was the first time Li Xiao came into the house on Changxing Island. He knew it was written by Ao Canghai at first glance. Entering the house is a large living room, and I think there is a staircase around the corner. There is a round table in the hall on the first floor.

It is the waterway that presents various kinds of seafood.

"I know you love to eat dumplings, so I made a few fillings. This is mackerel stuffing, this is prawn stuffing. This is chicken stewed with mushrooms, and this is roast chicken, my favorite roast chicken. What's wrong with that kid?

Come back?" Sister Qiao was busy arranging the seats, and kept talking to hide her excitement. Li Xiao is now the head of the Li family, and he is also a figure in Liaodong. He can bow to himself,

That's a huge honor. Sister Qiao is still very concerned about her origins.

"Okay! Bring it up when the wine is hot. Let's take two cups together." Ao Canghai pushed Sister Qiao to get the wine. Old couples know best what Sister Qiao is thinking. If she doesn't let her calm down at this time,

For a while, she would keep talking about whatever she caught. A woman's mouth is like this, mumbling like a machine gun, which often makes people's brains hurt.

"Hey!" Sister Qiao agreed and went into the kitchen to get some wine.

Xiaoyu Niwai stayed beside Li Xiao and refused to leave, looking at the dumplings on the table with mischievous eyes.

"How about it? The island has changed a lot." Ao Canghai happily poured a cup for Li Xiao.

"Not only is it big, I never expected that it would become like this in just over a year." The changes in Changxing Island really surprised Li Xiao. He thought that the construction of Changxing Island would take at least several years to complete.

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"The cement kiln in Lushun has never been idle. Just your house. It took less than a month to build. The old fisherman stayed in the arsenal all day long and did not know what the old Japanese devil was doing. You took it with you.

The foreign monk came back and built a place called a hospital to treat people.

I have all the tribesmen in Mangui moved to Jinzhou, where the water and grass are much more abundant than here. There are only a hundred or so Tatars there, and they still stay in the walled city all day long. It is estimated that they will have to withdraw in a few days.

Go to the north bank of the Liao River." Ao Canghai and Li Xiao had a glass of wine and started talking to Li Xiao.

Xiaoyu was very obedient and ate dumplings with Xiaohao without talking. They knew that the elder brother and Mr. Ao were talking about business.

"Have you told Mr. Man about the relocation?" Li Xiao was afraid that Ao Canghai would make his own decision, and it would be troublesome if Man Gui took it seriously.

"Master Man proposed it, but don't you even look at how big Changxing Island is. It builds buildings to house people and a hospital to treat people. The arsenal covers an area of ​​more than two hundred acres, not to mention a glass factory.

, quilt factory, match factory, etc. The space is all occupied, where do you let them graze?

Jinzhou has good soil and water. One bite of the apple is so sweet and sour that it will make you eat it. Besides, there are almost no people there who have been harmed by the Tatars, so the land can be put to good use. The Tatars dare not take advantage of it now.

What will happen to us? Let’s take possession first.”

"It's just what Master Man proposed." Regarding these things, Li Xiao is happy to see them come to fruition. Mongolian shepherds need pasture after all, so why are they always trapped on an island? Now he can have a broader world.

, I guess Mangui is also very satisfied.

Since everyone is satisfied, I have absolutely no reason to make irresponsible remarks.

"Smoke one?" Ao Canghai took out a box of large Qianmen and handed it to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao took it, Ao Canghai lit the match and they lit cigarettes facing each other.

"I don't know who the hell said it, smoking and drinking are not separate things. Don't tell me, taking one like this when drinking is really refreshing. The wine seems to be more fragrant, I don't know why.

What's going on? Where did you get this thing from? It's so damn amazing." Ao Canghai blew out a smoke ring and looked at it with great enjoyment as it spread in circles.

"This thing is produced in a very far away place and was brought here by the red-haired people. I met a family of red-haired people in Macau and they are now growing this thing in Yizhou. He Kegang is in Yizhou and is responsible for protecting them. He should not be able to survive.

In a few months, there will be ships delivering potatoes, corn and other things. This year we won’t be able to catch up, so next year we will plant corn here.”

"Potatoes? Corns? What the hell?" Ao Canghai has been hanging out in the city since he was a child. When he grew up, he was a soldier with a knife and hung out in the military camp. He has never planted land since he was a child. How does he know what potatoes and corns are?

He would never have known about these two high-yielding crops originating from South America.

"They are all high-yielding things. Potatoes can produce three to four thousand kilograms per acre. Corn is not as powerful as potatoes, but it can produce almost one thousand kilograms per acre. Potatoes can be eaten as vegetables most of the time. Corn

There will be no problem with food at all. As long as corn and potatoes are planted around Jinzhou, our food will be self-sufficient." Li Xiao knew that China's population began to surge after the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the history of China, there have been few times when the population exceeded 100 million. Many experts have found a lot of reasons. In fact, the most practical reason is that the yield of crops is too low. Without so much food, of course you can't feed such a large population.

Potatoes and corn that came across the ocean after the late Ming Dynasty were different. These high-yielding products not only had a short growing season, but also did not require land selection. Once these two high-yielding products were popularized, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, China's population had already

The base number is 450 million.

"Oh, that's not bad." Ao Canghai had no idea about yield per mu, but he also knew that three thousand catties or four thousand catties was a big number.

"From now on! Let's plant more potatoes and feed the pigs with potatoes. Find a place to raise tens of thousands of pigs. Then you will have to worry about having too many elbows to eat, instead of having to worry about eating just one elbow." Li

Xiao Xiao saw that Xiaoyu and Xiaohao were frantically attacking an elbow, while Ao Canghai watched from the side and swallowed, but did not stretch out his chopsticks.

Compared to seafood, carnivores like Ao Canghai definitely prefer fat and thin elbows.

Ao Canghai can be regarded as the highest military officer of Changxing Island, not to mention the status of Li Yu and Li Hao. They are both very lucky. It can be seen that there is really no spare food to feed the pigs these days.

As for feeding pigs with pig grass, can pigs that eat grass grow fat and strong?

"Oh no! It's such a good relationship. I eat fish every day until a bird comes out of my mouth. Look at the things here. This chicken was raised by Sister Qiao herself. You wouldn't be willing to kill it even if you came back. And those two

Smoked rabbit is all made by force. Now if you can have a meal of pork, it will be a New Year."
Chapter completed!