Huiqiong and Huijian are good sisters, so Li Xin naturally wants to give him a favor. Since he has recognized Huijian as his sister, he has also accepted Huiqiong.

In short, his current kinship is quite complicated. Gao Yigong is his elder brother-in-law and Zhang Nai is his brother-in-law. Shuangxi once had a Jinlan with Huiyingyi. He was originally his younger brother-in-law, but he married Huijian and had the identity of a brother-in-law.

Three days later, Li Shuangxi left with the reluctant Huijian. Gao Yigong also threw down one million taels of silver and bought 10,000 flintlock rifles to take them away. To be honest, it is still quite taboo for the people of Nanjing to stay in Nanjing. After all, the reputation of the Chuangjun was not good, and now he left, he was relieved, and some people even set off firecrackers to celebrate.

At present, Li Xin mainly does three things: one is to recruit soldiers. He doesn't want the urban soldiers in Nanjing. He mainly recruits soldiers in poor rural areas, and the other is to build ships. He basically watches them every day and explains the key points for craftsmen. The third is to prepare for the establishment of the Tobacco Corporation.

Tobacco is a powerful tool for taxation, which is more than a hundred times stronger than salt tax. It is no exaggeration to say that once the tobacco tax is released, half of the country will be settled, but Li Xin cannot engage in it rashly. First of all, he must investigate the tobacco business in Nanjing clearly. If he can be incorporated, he should try to incorporate as much as possible. If he is unwilling to change, he will deal with it with tough means.

Secondly, Nanjing does not produce tobacco and is not suitable for growing tobacco. Tobacco is produced in Zhejiang and the place of origin is in the hands of Sun Chuanting. This involves the issue of smuggling. While establishing the tobacco headquarters, it is also necessary to establish a tobacco inspection brigade and establish a monopoly license system.

In this way, the days passed day by day. By the end of December, it was snowing. The snowflakes in the sky were dancing, the ground was white, and the north wind was tighter. Li Xin stood in his own garden and thought it was almost done. Then he turned to Liu Rushi and said, "Today I will give you a day off, so I don't have to follow me anymore."

"Hmm? Where are you going, Mr. Li?"

Liu Rushi didn't understand the truth.

Li Xin smiled mysteriously: "Huiying and I go out for a walk."

This reason...it's really impossible to say.

In recent days, Liu Rushi has become accustomed to staying with Li Xin. Working is a relationship between superiors and subordinates. She usually lives like a friend and talks about everything. Li Xin also knows the little interest in life and uses it from time to time on Liu Rushi. In addition, Li Xin is clean and neat in his work and does not have all kinds of bad habits in the Ming Dynasty officialdom, which triggers ripples in her heart.

This is exactly the kind of relationship between men and women that Liu Rushi is most looking forward to. Although it has not reached the level of platonic spiritual love, it is very comfortable to get along with Li Xin and feels like I wish I had met too late.

Today, I felt a slight discomfort in my heart when I saw Li Xin not taking her and wanted to take Huiying out.

Li Xin took Huiying's hand and left the yard. Erfu came over in front.

Li Xin asked, "Have you brought it?"

Erju nodded and said, "I brought it. I'm in the car outside the mansion. These two old guys were locked up for a while and seemed to be honest!"

"Let's go!"

Li Xin waved and stepped onto the war horse with Huiying.

On a snowy day, there are few pedestrians on the road. Huiying and Li Xin walked side by side and asked, "Young Master Li, where are you going?"

"Go to visit Qian Qianyi, the leader of Jiangnan Shilin, Mr. Qian."

"Um?"

Huiying looked at Li Xin and felt that it would not be so simple.

Dozens of riders were slowly advancing in the snow, and there was also a carriage, gradually approaching Qian Mansion.

"Old Qian is here?"

Erfu stepped forward and knocked on the door.

In fact, someone was staring at Qian Qianyi's home two days ago and knew that he hadn't gone out.

Sure enough, a small window opened on the mansion door, and the doorman poked out his gray head and asked, "Who?"

Erju said: "The commander-in-chief comes to visit."

"Oh? Please come in quickly, Mr. Rong, please go and report!"

The concierge was startled, quickly opened the door and ran back.

Soon, Qian Qianyi welcomed Li Xin into the mansion, his eyes full of shock and doubt. In addition to more than ten personal guards with live ammunition, there were two people familiar with him. After a closer look, one of them was Lu Weiqi, who had been the Minister of War in Nanjing. He had dated several times, but the other one could not recognize him no matter how he looked at it.

Fortunately, the man smiled bitterly and bowed to Qian Qianyi, "Brother Muzhai is afraid he doesn't recognize the student. Student Zhao Jiuzhen has been famous for his long time."

"Zhao Jiuzhen?"

Qian Qianyi remembered that he was the original governor of Gaoyou?

Since Gaoyou's fall, Zhao Jiuzhen's life and death have been unclear. It turned out that it fell into Li Xin's hands. After a closer look, both Lu Weiqi and Zhao Jiuzhen were blind and could not hide their deep fatigue.

After all, I have been detained for so long and I can't see hope. I don't know when I will be released. It's like being sentenced to life imprisonment and not being released for life. For some people, it's better than the death penalty.

This is true for Zhao Jiuzhen and Lu Weiqi. At first, they still had hatred in their hearts, but gradually they could no longer hate them.

They accompanied Li Xin all the way, watching Li Xin grow rapidly, watching the end of the morning, the faith in their hearts was gradually destroyed, and they had to think about whether Li Xin's actions were right or wrong.

According to their traditional thinking, Li Xin was a rebellious demon heretic, but under Li Xin's rule, the people lived and worked in peace and order, and became a hot land in troubled times.

What's wrong with this?

With the influence of Ming Pao and the negative teaching materials of Fu Wang family, their inner beliefs gradually shook. Spiritually, the old ideological system showed signs of collapse, and the new ideological system was clueless and fell into a period of confusion.

"It turned out to be Governor Zhao, can you tell what Commander Li wanted to come?"

Qian Qianyi was frightened and said in a low voice.

"Brother Muzhai, don't be anxious, you'll know in a while."

Zhao Jiuzhen suddenly felt a sense of gloating. His own beliefs were almost wiped out by long imprisonment. If Li Xin forced him to write "The Book of the Great Righteous Awakenings" at this time, perhaps he would pretend to be righteous and ruthless, and then find a way to write them.

Since he was about to be dragged into the mud pit, out of human instinct, he naturally hoped to see more people being dragged in, especially Qian Qianyi, who is the leader of the Shilin in Jiangnan. He wanted to see if Qian Qianyi would rather die than surrender under the pressure of Li Xin, or... change the party?

This is also the fundamental reason why traitors are more hateful than Japanese.

In order to whitewash themselves, traitors will drag more people into the water. Everyone becomes traitors, and no one is better than anyone else. Isn’t it just that there are no traitors?

Lu Weiqi also had similar thoughts and had bad intentions in his smile.

"Commander Li, please go into the house for tea!"

Qian Qianyi felt even more uneasy and reached out to Li Xin.

Li Xin waved his hand and smiled, "I heard that Qian Lao's backyard is full of wintersweets. The snow is shining with frost is a scenic spot in Jinling. It is a heavy snowfall. How can I miss it? The commander is impatient. Qian Lao should lead me to enjoy the snow first."

"Commander Li, please!"

Qian Qianyi introduced Li Xin and his group to the back garden.

Sure enough, wintersweet is planted everywhere in the garden, and white snow falls on the strange plum branches. The wintersweet is either in full bloom or in bud, and a wisp of fragrance is refreshing.

"Yeah~~"

Li Xin waited and realized Qian Qianyi's character even more. Just like Hong Chengchou, how can those who cherish clothes do not care about themselves? Qian Qianyi is also, and his exquisite and elegant life has not been enjoyed enough. He originally planned to slowly bring the topic to "The Book of the Great Everlasting Awakening". It would be best if Qian Qianyi could write willingly, but from now on, there is no need to do it. So he smiled with satisfaction: "I didn't expect that there would be other than heaven in Qian's hometown. This time it would be worth the trip, but Li still had something to invite him."

"What's the matter?"

Qian Qianyi said calmly.

Li Xindao: "Please write a memorial record of the great righteousness for me."

"What? You rebellious... don't even think about it!"

Qian Qianyi didn't know whether he was angry or frightened, and his whole body trembled.

"Li Qing rebelled?"

Li Xin said lightly: "Old Qian, you are a person who is greedy for life and fear of death. I won't tell you the truth. I just ask one question, do you write or not? If you don't write, you will die!"

"Do you dare to kill me? Are you afraid that the Shilin will be infuriated and the world will be despised?"

Qian Qianyi said sharply.

Li Xin shook his head and said, "Maybe, but what if you die by accident, such as...studying and drowning?"

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but turn his head to look at the pond. The pond was not big, about ten feet in radius. He dug it very deeply to plant lotus flowers. In the cold winter, heavy snow was blowing and drowned in the cold water. Thinking about it, a cool feeling came from his heart.

"There is no airtight wall in the world, how can the world be deceived by you?"

Qian Qianyi said in a sarcastic manner.

Li Xin waved to an old servant who looked like a housekeeper: "Come here and talk, how did your master die?"
Chapter completed!