Not only did Wang Qianli make up for the gap, he was also promoted to Tongzhi on the north bank of Yongding River, becoming a genuine fifth-rank official in the court. Yu Qinghuai, who was unwilling to go to the capital together, was really envious.

Living in my hometown is leisurely, but I am leisurely and a little lonely.

Zhengjing was very moved, and Ren Yuer asked someone to send a letter from Shanghai, wanting to ask him and Dean Gu to arrange a few group heroes to send Yu San's aunt and his son to Shanghai to reunite with her, and even asked someone to bring back fifty yuan.

Silver dollars are used as travel expenses.

President Gu went to ask Yu Sangu, who was really worried that Ren Yuer was alone in Shanghai, and thought that the child was almost three years old, and that he would not have a great future in studying at Mingdao Academy in the town.

I just wanted to take the child to find Ren Yuer.

Yu Qinghuai hired a boat and called six honest and reliable young men to personally escort Yu San's aunt and his son to Shanghai.

I looked for Ren Yuer at the address in the letter and found that Ren Yuer did not live in the county town, but in a newly built small western-style building in the English Concession.

The yard is not big, there is a small garden in the yard.

The courtyard wall is very high, and it is not that easy for people outside to climb in.

The foreign building has three floors, the first floor is the living room, dining room, kitchen and the house where the servants live. The second floor has a small living room, a study room and two bedrooms. The third floor is full of guest rooms. There is also a small garden behind the foreign building, and it is also a small garden.

A back door was opened. So the furniture and furnishings were all Western styles, so it was not pleasant to see them anyway.

Yu Qinghuai sat in the living room and drank tea for a while. When Ren Yuer helped Yu Sangu and Ren Yaen's posthumous son Ren Chengzhi settle down the stairs, he asked with a smile: "Yuer, why do you live in the foreign concession? Why don't you live in the city?

inside?"

Ren Yuer squatted slightly and said with a happy blessing. While greeting Yu Qinghuai for snacks, he said with a smile: "Mr. Yu doesn't know that although the county town of Shanghai has been recovered, it has been almost destroyed by the war. If it weren't for the governor's departure

Instructing Lord Lan Weiwenlan of Shanghai and Mr. Huang Fang, the Shanghai Zhengtang who took office before the New Year, to threaten the ship king Yu Taifeng to donate 200,000 taels of silver to the city wall destroyed by the war.

, the county government and the school palace (Confucian temple) may not have money to build."

"There is no one living in the city?"

"It's not that I can't live, but it's easier to live in the concession."

"Convenient?" Yu Qinghuai asked in confusion.

Ren Yuer is grateful to Yu Qinghuai and Dean Gu for helping Yu Sangu and his younger brother Yu Chengzhi in the past two years, and explained with a smile: "Master Yu, you may not have noticed when you come here. I am the house at the door.

The Sichuan Guild Hall, which I invested in when I was an official in Shanghai. He is now back to his hometown in Sichuan. Even if he doesn't go back to his hometown in Sichuan, he can't take care of the guild hall. So I can take care of him and help him stay in Shanghai.

industry."

Yu Qinghuai reacted and thought about it and asked again: "What about this foreign building? Whose industry is this foreign building?"

Ren Yuer said proudly: "It's my fourth brother, but I just bought it for him a few years ago."

Yu Qinghuai asked, "This foreign building is worth a lot of money, where did you get so much money?"

This foreign building was originally a foreign businessman. Not only did Wu Jianchang pay the money, but even the "ship king" Yu Taifeng paid 4,000 silver dollars to escape the crime. In addition, the Shanghai County Magistrate Zhou Xingyuan also paid 1,000 taels. Ren Yuer is really

I don’t know how to explain to Yu Qinghuai, and said a little embarrassedly: “This matter is not clear for a while. Master Yu, the room is cleaned up for you, and you will live on the second floor. What you brought

My brother has also made arrangements to let them live in the opposite guild hall. I guess Su Jueming should come back, and wait for him to come back and let him have a drink with you and welcome you."

Yu Qinghuai realized that this foreign building was probably given by someone else, so he immediately changed the topic: "Jueming is okay, is the job done smoothly?"

"He is pretty good. As for the errands... He, the Jiang Customs Assistant Commissioner, did a little bit of a reputation. He almost didn't have to go to the yamen to do it. Even if he went there, he wouldn't be able to interfere in the customs affairs."

"How do you say this?"

"This matter is a long story. When Liu Lichuan and other remnants of the Tiandihui began to cause trouble, foreign merchants stopped paying taxes to Jiang Customs. Later, the consuls of England, France and the United States even set up a tariff management committee, respectively

We appointed Weituma, Shi Yashi and Jia Liuyi as the Taxation Department to collect tariffs on behalf of the people."

Ren Yuer paused and continued: "Later, the new American minister Mai Lian took office. Taking the opportunity of requesting the court to revise the contract, he and the French Consul Aliguo, Ma Hui and others asked the National Taiwan Master and the Governor to cancel the checkpoints in various places.

Helika. The National Taiwan National Taiwan National Taiwan National Taiwan National Taiwan National Government and the Governor were worried about military expenditures, and it was dependent on tariffs, and this was not the final say, so they had to let Lord Shanghai Daolan and Wu Jianzhang talk to the consuls of the Three Kingdoms in Kunshan.

Finally, an agreement with nine clauses was concluded, allowing Britain, France and the United States to continue to recruit on their behalf.”

"Isn't it a shame to let foreigners collect tariffs on their behalf?"

"But there is no other way for the National Taiwan Master and the Governor, let alone the benefits of letting foreigners recruit on their behalf."

“What are the benefits?”

Ren Yuer said helplessly: "As far as I know, the number of tariffs in the past was a confusing amount. How much tariffs were paid to the court depends on the mood of the Taoist master who served as the supervisor of Jiang Customs. If he was in a good mood, he would pay more. If so, he would pay more.

If you are in a bad mood, you will have less. In a few years, you didn’t even pay the tariff for one or two taels, and you will still have a deficit of more than one or more taels.

It is different for foreigners to collect on behalf of others. Since the remnants of Liu Lichuan and other heavenly associations committed rebellion in the third year of Xianfeng, to the resolute revenge of the foreigners, the tax department controlled by foreigners helped collect more than 700,000 taels, and each transaction was accounted for.

It can be found that the court was in a hurry to use the silver, so it just let the foreigners continue to collect the money."

Thinking that the personal tax officials were not as "intact" as foreigners when they were officials for thousands of miles, Yu Qinghuai said with a laugh and cry: "It's ridiculous to think about it."

"There are many ridiculous things. You will get used to it after staying here for a few days."

"Then what is your livelihood here alone?"

"The guild hall built by the fourth brother not only has a few rooms, but also has more than a dozen shops. The room money and rent alone are enough for me to live." Although Ren Yuer said that, she thought to herself that she didn't think I was a good friend.

The female, but like the officials ordered by the court, has an official salary, and helps the "Houyi Hall" inquire about foreigners. The "Houyi Hall" not only gives 50 taels of silver a month, but also gives an additional reward if it finds the urgent military information of 100,000 yuan.

Yu Qinghuai was confused, and then asked curiously: "So Su Juemingguang doesn't have to do anything to receive an official salary?"

"Absolutely, he lived a life of mercy. Every day, he either went to Qichang Foreign Store, which had already been invested in by Wu Jianzhang, or went to have wine with local gentry and merchants such as Yu Taifeng, who had been invested in Shanghai. He went out early every day.

Going home late is really like a drunken life and dream of death.”

Yu Qinghuai said half-jokingly: "I knew that even he could have a job, so I should have gone to the capital with Qianli to join Mr. Han."

"Master Yu is really good at speaking."

"No kidding, Yu'er, is there any bandits you just mentioned?"

"How can I say this? When Liu Lichuan and other rebels occupied the county town, they threatened their family's property in the city, and he couldn't bear to watch the people in the city starve to death, so he did smuggle some food into the city.

However, he did not donate the 200,000 taels in vain. The court not only rewarded him with the second-rank top belt, but also rewarded him with a salt transport troupe. He turned into a red-topped businessman, and had two more pieces at home.

The 'Silent' sign is said to have the family carry the sign in front of him and shout and tell him. He is so majestic in the sedan chair."

Ren Yuer smiled and said, "In addition, the emperor also approved the report of the Governor of Liangjiang and the Jiangsu Academy of Education and Administration, adding ten literary and nine martial students to Shanghai County. Songjiang Prefecture also takes more money every year.

There were ten people in the literature and martial arts, and a total of 39 new ones were added. Shanghai and even Songjiang Prefecture Shilin Junction praised him, and no one dared to say that he was not."

"After all the time, no matter how big the matter is, money will break the law in the end!"

"You're saying that as long as you have money, there's nothing you can't do."

Ren Yuer got up and walked to the bookcase, took two silver dollars, and gently placed them in front of Yu Qinghuai: "Master Yu, look, this is Yu Taifeng just joined forces with several local merchants, and was approved by the National Taiwan Master and the Governor

, The silver dollar cast with foreign machines is one or two taels, and this one is half tael."

Looking at the silver dollar cast with "Shang Yusen footprint silver cake in the sixth year of Xianfeng" and the silver dollar made by "Zhu Yuanyujian's five-coin silver smith Wang Shou" on the other side, Yu Qinghuai sighed: "If it were someone else, I would be private.

If you cast silver coins, you will lose your head!"

"He is not considered private casting," Ren Yuer smiled and said thoughtfully: "But I think he has not been doing this for a long time. The casting is too rough and it is easy to be imitated by others. Once it is someone else's

If you imitate casting, add some fakes when imitating casting, then no one will dare to collect and use his silver dollars."

“That’s true.”

As he was talking, Su Jueming rushed over in a hurry.

Ren Yu'er had already asked her mother to arrange a banquet. She felt that it was not suitable for a girl to have a drink with two older men, so she simply apologized and returned to the upper floor, teased her younger brother for a while, and then closed the door and whispered to Yu Sangu.

"Yu'er, you are not young anymore, so you should think about it for yourself!" Yu Sangu took out the photo of Ren Yu'er asking someone to take back from the package and said sadly: "This photo was taken by a foreigner,

I don’t dare to show it to others. If it spreads, it might be said to be like that.”

Ren Yuer knew very well that Yu Sangu had been very strict after experiencing so many things. She took the photo and said with a smile: "How can I get a tiger's son if I don't go into the tiger's den? If I don't go to the girls' school run by foreigners, I won't make friends with foreigners.

, how can I help my fourth brother get the job done, and how can I repay my fourth brother's great kindness to my Ren family."

"I heard from Mr. Yu that Mr. Han has returned to his hometown in Sichuan. He has no longer been an official. Why do you have to help him?"

"The fourth brother returned home and fell into pain."

"That's it. If Mr. Han knew that you, a woman, were still showing up for him, you would definitely not be happy."

"San Aunt, you don't understand some things."

Yu Sangu was really anxious about Ren Yuer's lifelong affairs. She didn't want to see her giving up so much, and asked anxiously: "Why don't I understand?"

Ren Yuer looked at her with a smile and said meaningfully: "It is because my fourth brother has returned to his hometown and is worried that he has to help him with the errands in Shanghai. As the saying goes, tea is cold when people leave. The fourth brother used to be in the Emperor's heart.

, The Holy Reunion is not the same as the future. I am here to help him with the spread. As long as I finish the errands, the princes and ministers in the capital will not forget him. When he finishes the system, he will return to the capital. Naturally,

You can be entrusted with the same important task as before."

"All the princes and ministers in the capital know the errands and errands you do here?"

"I should know."

"But what should you do?"

"What should I do?"

"Your lifelong event!" Yu Sangu held her hand tightly and said in a pleading tone: "A man should marry a woman if he is old. If you don't marry, you will be unable to find a good family if you continue to drag it down!
To be continued...