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Yue Shoushan respectfully lit three joss sticks in front of the ancestral tablets and reported the marriage to the ancestors in his heart. Then, he piously prayed to the ancestors for blessings and blessings.
The room where he worshipped the ancestors was filled with incense smoke. Ever since Yue Shoushan decided to join forces with the British to attack the Recovered Governor's Office, the number of times he came to worship the ancestors had increased exponentially.
Kneeling, praying, and kneeling again. Yue Shoushan performed these complicated ceremonies carefully and without any mistakes. When he was done, he stood up with a solemn expression. He walked out of the back hall where the ancestral tablets were placed. Yue Shoushan asked the housekeeper standing outside the back hall, "Who cleaned the back hall today?"
"It was Ah Yu," the housekeeper answered.
"Half of the incense ash should be left in the incense burner. Why did she pour it all out?" Yue Shoushan asked coldly.
"This …" The housekeeper didn't expect Yue Shoushan to notice such a detail. In the past, Yue Shoushan only came to the back hall during festivals. The housekeeper didn't explain this detail to the servants.
Seeing the housekeeper's expression, Yue Shoushan laughed coldly. "Flog Xiao Yu twenty times! Next time you arrange people, make sure to make it clear! "With that, Yue Shoushan left the back hall without looking back.
Returning to the study, Yue Shoushan immediately called his trusted aide Yue Rengui over. He asked, "Has the ship to Hong Kong been arranged?"
Yue Rengui listened to Yue Shoushan's emotionless voice and shrunk his neck slightly. "Master! The Liberation Army is very strict now. Any ship that doesn't report its destination to them is not allowed to leave the port. So, we can only board a fishing boat and secretly move it bit by bit. "
Yue Shoushan didn't comment on Yue Rengui's answer. He continued to ask, "Has the route to Fujian been arranged?"
Seeing that Yue Shoushan didn't scold Yue Rengui for his slow progress, Yue Rengui relaxed a lot. He quickly answered the second question. "We can't go by land. The Liberation Army has blocked all the passes. But we can still go by sea. We've already secretly sent people to Fuzhou. "
Yue Shoushan quietly listened to the arrangements for the Yue Family's escape route, calculating the arrangements for ships and people. After listening to the report and giving instructions, Yue Shoushan finally met his younger brother, Yue Shousong. Yue Shousong said impatiently, "Big Brother, since Yin Xiaofeng is here, should we pull him in first?"
"What's the rush?" Yue Shoushan said, "If we pull Yin Xiaofeng into our group now, and he is unwilling, we might as well think of a way to reject this marriage. Since this marriage has already been decided, we might as well complete the marriage first. "
"Isn't this letting Yin Xiaofeng off easy? Let him have a wife first!" Yue Shousong muttered unhappily.
Yue Shoushan could not help but frown. It was obvious that Yue Shousong was treating this marriage as a business. As Yue Lianyi's father, Yue Shoushan disliked this kind of attitude. Moreover, even if they treated this marriage as a business, once Yin Xiaofeng married Yue Lianyi, he would become Yue Shoushan's son-in-law. If Yue Shoushan wanted to attack and restore the military manor, would Yin Xiaofeng be able to stay out of it? At that time, he would have no choice but to participate.
Of course, as the head of the family, Yue Shoushan naturally knew what his brother was thinking. Yue Shousong was a narrow-minded person. It seemed that he could only accept other people's obedience to him. If he could not establish such a relationship, Yue Shousong would feel somewhat uneasy.
"The matter of Lianyi's marriage has been decided. In any case, we will not make the first move. If we make a move, it will be the British who will make the first move. When the British besiege Guangzhou, the Liberation Army will naturally go to the rescue. At that time, when their military strength is empty, we will rise. "Yue Shoushan said his plan.
Yue Shousong shook his head, but did not continue to refute his brother's point of view. When Yue Shousong discussed with the British, he was already mentally prepared. He would not voluntarily jump out to fight for the British. The British also very cleverly expressed that they did not intend to let the big tobacco dealers be the vanguard. What they needed was for the British army to defeat Vézé's main force and occupy Guangzhou. Then, the local militia groups would respond.
Yin Xiaofeng's marriage was confirmed at this time. At this time, Yin Xiaofeng himself did not know that he would be able to marry the beauty. He had not been to Foshan for a long time, so he casually walked the streets of Foshan.
Foshan had changed a lot. First, there was a large area in the west of the city that was blocked by the army. According to the accompanying Yue family members, there were some newly built steel factories here. They were all properties of the Recovered Governor's Office. The Liberation Army had a brigade of troops stationed here, surrounding the steel factories tightly. Without the road to the Recovered Governor's Office, no one could go.
It was just that the west area was not a scenic spot, so it did not affect anything even if they did not go. After the Recovered Governor's Office took control of Guangdong, social order was restored very quickly. Along the way, there were a few Cantonese opera troupes performing in public on the streets of Foshan.
Yin Xiaofeng only stopped to watch for a while before he understood that this was a play that was frequently performed by the troupes recently. As the children of the red boat, the Cantonese opera troupe had long sought refuge with the Recovered Governor's Office. Among their recent plays, plays that accused the people of Guangdong of being poisoned by the big tobacco were a must. There were many local heavy smokers in Guangdong. These plays did not even need a special scriptwriter. They only needed to put the smokers' normal behavior on the stage.
Selling their land, stealing from their homes, deceiving their friends, and selling their children. Heavy smokers were indeed capable of doing such things when they were addicted to smoking. Therefore, the play undoubtedly resonated with the audience. The public opinion in Guangdong was becoming more and more disadvantageous to the merchants who did the big tobacco business.
"Smoking is supposed to cure diseases. Why did it become harmful to people? Westerners are not Chinese. They came from overseas only for money … "While Yin Xiaofeng was walking, an actor wearing the Recovered Governor's Office costume was singing on the stage." Manchu Qing completely disregarded China, just because Manchu Qing was a Tatar. Smoking will lead to addiction. They will lose their family fortune just to feel good. Manchu Qing collected taxes from the Tatars, not to mention the Chinese … "
In the whole play, there were only three things. Manchu Qing was a Tatar, Westerners were foreigners, and only the Recovered Governor's Office was a Chinese who stood with China. That was the main content of the anti-smoking play. Yin Xiaofeng had also seen a few other plays. They were plays from the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Those plays talked about how the "Chinese nation" of the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the landlords of the Ming Dynasty. Including the Ten Days of Yangzhou, the Three Massacres of Jiading, and the Canton Massacre. In those plays, the landlords funded the enemy, colluded with the enemy, and joined the barbarians to suppress the anti-Qing army for their own interests. When the people of Canton rebelled against the Yi Decrees, the late Ming Yuan Pengnian played by an actor with a clown face appeared on the stage. Of course, Yuan Pengnian's classic saying, "Money Rat's Tail is the new dynasty's elegant policy; High Crown and Wide Belt is the corrupt rule of the subjugation of the country", was not to be missed.
In fact, human aesthetics were more consistent. Traditional China's clothing style was indeed much better than Manchu Qing's. Especially the hair bun, which was beautified and looked much better than the Money Rat's Tail. It was the first time the people of Foshan learned about the Yi Decrees. They learned about their ancestors' hairstyles, and the price they paid to resist the Manchu Qing Tatars.
Regardless of the feelings of the ordinary people, Yin Xiaofeng himself was actually quite shaken. As an overseas Chinese, he did business in Luzon. The oppression of the Chinese by the Spanish had left Yin Xiaofeng with many painful memories. Yin Xiaofeng felt greatly inspired when he saw the concept of a modern nation-state promoted by the Commander-in-Chief's Office. The concept of the "Chinese nation" and the description of the new country that the Chinese people should form, at least Yin Xiaofeng, who had been bullied by foreigners, agreed with it.
China was made up of the people of the Chinese nation, and the country should also have the obligation to protect its citizens. As a member of the Chinese nation, everyone had the obligation to serve their country. The people should devote themselves to the new country and rely on their own labor to establish their own social status. The country and the individual should not be opposed, but should be one.
There was no need to talk about foreigners, including the Manchurian court. The reason why they allowed the tobacco trade to exist was because they themselves were barbarians. They were not Chinese, so naturally they would carry out policies that were beneficial to them.
After accepting this concept and having the experience of being bullied by foreigners and the Manchu Qing government, Yin Xiaofeng's acceptance of many of the ideas put forward by the Commander-in-Chief's Office continued to rise.
As he walked forward, Yin Xiaofeng saw another troupe performing, but the content of the performance was a completely new play. After standing there and watching for a while, Yin Xiaofeng discovered that the new play was actually about the Land Order. The Land Order had aroused fierce opposition among the landlord class in Guangdong. As a landlord and the head of the militia, Yin Xiaofeng naturally could not happily support the Land Order. So he just stood there and watched.
Yin Xiaofeng was quickly attracted by this one look. The play did not blindly advocate the benefits of the Land Order, but was intended to explain the reason for the Land Order system. In the play, the Land Order proposed the concept of "means of production." The Land Order upheld the obligation of the government to protect the normal life of the people in a modern nationalistic country, so the meaning of land in the eyes of the government was completely different. People would starve to death if they did not have food to eat, and some people left agriculture and became soldiers and workers. These people needed to eat and drink. If the food supply was not stable, it would also cause trouble.
Therefore, if the country wanted to have a stable food supply, it had to control the land and food taxes. The old land system became an obstacle. Most of the people watching the play saw the concept of "national policy" for the first time. After the novelty and shock, everyone began to discuss it. There were all kinds of opinions. Some thought that the land should be divided, and some thought that the land should not be divided.
Yin Xiaofeng did not want to discuss these things with strangers. He felt that if what was said in the play was the real idea of the Commander-in-Chief's Office, then it had touched on many fundamental problems. The core problem discussed in the play was the problem of the price of food. A policy of "centralized purchase and marketing" was proposed. The price of food was fixed, and it was the same in good years and bad years. In order to achieve this goal, the country needed to invest a lot of money to build storage facilities, and it also needed to establish and maintain a system of purchasing and selling food.
These things did not exist during the Manchu Qing era, but the system had long become unrecognizable. The landlords and gentry joined hands and colluded with the government. Whether it was good years or bad years, as long as there was a fluctuation in the price of food, they would make a fortune from it. The Commander-in-Chief's Office undoubtedly saw this problem and proposed a new system to solve it.
As a businessman, Yin Xiaofeng naturally knew the huge business opportunities brought by the fluctuation of food prices. Because of this, he could also understand the problems discussed and pointed out in the play.
Yin Xiaofeng suddenly felt that he could not help but feel conflicted in his heart. He could accept the tough anti-smoking policy of the Commander-in-Chief's Office because there were people in his family who had suffered from it. But now he felt that the system of state-owned land was not unreasonable. This seemed to be too inconsistent with his own background. But Yin Xiaofeng found that he did not object to this principle. As he thought about it, Yin Xiaofeng suddenly heard a sentence. "We are all China people. This meat is rotten in the pot of China. Chinese people can eat a few mouthfuls no matter what. If the meat is taken away from the pot of China, then what are we Chinese people going to eat? "
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