"There are many people sending telegrams in the Jingzhao Telegraph Bureau, and the Xiyang Telegraph Bureau has as many people sending telegrams. Now, the newly launched telegram building in the Telegraph Bureau is not enough, and it will not be enough."

"How can it be? Isn't it that if the Fanyu Line is open and the business volume has increased sharply, the Xiyang Telegraph Bureau can still follow."

"That may not be possible. I don't think there will be less telegrams on Fanyu Line. When Xiyang Telegraph Bureau gets busy, I'm afraid it won't stop."

"If you don't have to stop, just work three shifts. How come you can't be busy with the transfer and reception?"

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The sound of the whistle interrupted the conversation of several young people. Everyone looked out the porthole and saw a cargo ship on the water "passing by" with the passenger ship they were in and swimming upstream of the Han River.

The cargo ship has a deep draft and seems to be full of cargo, but the speed of the ship is not slow. It can be seen that it is full of power. When the two ships intersect, the roaring sounds overlapped together, making people's ears buzzing.

As both sides gradually drifted away, the cabin returned to its original quietness (relatively speaking), and the interrupted conversation continued.

"From the flag, it is to transport white sugar to the north, and the Lingnan crushing season just ends, so the sugar price in Beijing is probably going to rise slightly."

"I don't think so, the southeast wind is blowing, and the sugar in Tianzhu has almost reached the shore. After refining, the sugar price will not rise."

"Not necessarily, some of the refined white sugar will probably be sold to the South China Sea, or to the countries in the east of the Beiyang Sea... I tell you that the general of the Japanese conquering the barbarians is now very powerful, and the attack on the Sheiyi is unstoppable. He urgently needs white sugar as a reward and praises his soldiers."

The attendant pushed the cart in and brought drinks and snacks to several people, including canned lychees with open lids. Several young people stopped talking, and one of them looked at Fang Xuanling, who was sitting on the other side reading, said: "Fang Jun, please have a meal."

Fang Xuanling quickly replied: "Oh, General Tian is polite."

The young "General Tian" smiled and said, "You're welcome, this is the canned lychees from Lingnan, try it."

Canned lychee and canned longan from Lingnan are now the best-selling foods in Beijing. However, because they are expensive, ordinary people do not have the financial resources to eat them as snacks.

Fang Xuanling looked at the crystal clear lychee pulp in the glass can, and felt a little dazed: Is it a waste of money to transport Lingnan fruits to the capital for sale?

It seems not, after all, it is a business act, not a forced levy by the government.

Next to them, the young people continued to chat, and Fang Xuanling looked at these "Huangzhou children" with interesting interest.

These people in front of them belong to Huangzhou children, such as the "General Tian" Tian Minglang, who is the second son of Tian, ​​Duke of Tan, and his sister Tian, ​​married to Princess Han at the beginning of the year.

The other people, whose fathers are all the old friends of the emperor, are considered familiar with Fang Xuanling, who has lived in Xiyang for many years.

Fang Xuanling's name is Qiao, and his courtesy name is Xuanling. He is now the prince's assistant, and he joined the army in the record room and was ordered to go out for business. Because when he was young, he lived with his father in Xiyang, Huangzhou, so he was quite familiar with his children in Huangzhou, so he could integrate into this strange "circle".

Huangzhou is the place where Zilongqian is today. Its Yuan Dynasty belongs to the old and old, and is mostly the army and political talents of the emperor's residence. These descendants of Yuan Dynasty belong to the old and old are "children of Huangzhou", but it does not mean that their hometown is in Huangzhou.

The characteristics of the children of Huangzhou are that they always call Huangzhou (Xiyang), or Xiakou, Wuchang, Daye, or Xiangyang, Shangwan, Rangcheng, and Anlu, which are closely related to Huangzhou.

For example, just now, the reason for the chat was that "there are many people handling telegraph services at the Jingzhao Telegraph Bureau", but it quickly turned to "there are as many people in the Xiyang Telegraph Bureau."

Before, when Fang Xuanling and these colleagues went out of Sanmenxia, ​​they saw that the water and land transport port was extremely busy. After sighing, they also went around to "Huangzhou Bakou Port is not inferior at all."

Secondly, most of his fathers or parents' families were Jingxiang's military honors. When it comes to the past, the emperor (Qiandi) or the old King Qi used troops to a certain place, and they could be related to "my father followed the army to fight and served in front of the formation."

For example, when passing by Weikou, Tian Minglang said, "When the emperor attacked Weikou, his father and Hulin Jianer had few enemies and had many enemies. He burned the Weikou Cang in a fire, and the enemy was in chaos in an instant."

Third, the family is well-off and knowledgeable. In addition to manors, the family operates many industries, such as shops, workshops, and workshops. They talk about various market conditions well.

For example, sucrose, overseas incense medicine, and paper market current market conditions, such as Hetao, Liaodong, Lingnan, and Nanzhong, and even discussing Shengkou trading.

In Jiaozhou, it is better to capture the "savages" from the South China Sea; in Liaodong, is it better to buy slaves from the four countries of Haidong, or to capture the "Hayi land"?

When it comes to strange stories, there are some strange flowers and plants found in the South, Beiyang, and Australia, and rare invading strange beasts. It seems that God knows half of the things in the world, and the earth knows half of them.

Fourth, since his enlightenment, he has received at least ten years of continuous high-quality education. At the same time, he has been practicing martial arts since childhood and is skilled in archery and horses, and is an alternative civil and military craftsmanship.

The so-called alternative, first of all, from the perspective of "literature", these Huangzhou children also learned the Four Books and Five Classics and knew all kinds of allusions, but they disdained to recite poems and essays, and regarded them as complaining without any illness. It seemed that they had learned scriptures and classics for many years, and were simply eating two meals a day.

In terms of "martial arts", the daily exercise methods are completely different from those of ordinary people. They are "squats", "bel rolls", "plane support", and strange. Then when it comes to fighting in battle formations, it is often said that "hand gun revolving and rotating" and "three-stage strike".

Fang Xuanling, who was born in Shandong, has been in contact with his children from Huangzhou for many years, so he has the most detailed observation and understanding of this group.

Although these people, although their fathers were born in a slightly cold and had no county or a family to speak of, their arrogance was no worse than the children of Shandong and Jiangnan. The inexplicable sense of superiority of these young people is no less than that of the children of the powerful and nobles in Guanlong.

There is no admiration for the noble families and no rejection of merchants. Although many people are skilled in bows and horses, they are more keen on firearms and show off their wealth. Their many tricks make people speechless.

From a traditional perspective, the children of Huangzhou are "non-school, not farm, not employed, not business" but have the characteristics of both scholars, farmers, workers, and business.

It can be said to be a mixture of scholars, farmers, workers and merchants. Most of their fathers were military men, civil officials, children of common people, clans, merchants. The marriage and economic exchanges between them meant that there were deep interests.

Taking the generals of the Hulin Army at that time as an example, they knew that they were humble from their backgrounds. Even if they succeeded, they knew that they could not be promoted to the gentry. Therefore, most of the marriage partners were colleagues, or commoners, clans, merchants, minor officials, and poor students who were sponsored by themselves.

These common people, clans, merchants and officials also married each other, and over time they formed a group of forces in Jingxiang.

As the Jingxiang power spread to the two lakes (Dongting Lake, Pengli Lake), Lianghuai, Lingnan, Jiangnan, and Henan, the group of marriages gradually expanded, and a huge interest group that was basically based on common people gradually took shape.

The children of Huangzhou are actually the new generation of this interest group. They are "freaks" who have neither county nor politeness, but their parents hold important positions and are mixed with scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.

Such "freaks" are the vast majority of Shandong gentry's children disdain to interact with each other, and Jiangnan gentry's children stay away from them. The powerful and noble children of Guanlong are not rejected, but there is always a subtle gap between the two groups of people together:

Children from Huangzhou like to talk about overseas and are interested in maritime trade. There is nothing to say about the powerful and noble children of Guanlong: after all, for the Guanlong area, the sea is too far away.

In recent years, Fang Xuanling has witnessed various "Huangzhou weird situations" and has become more and more aware of the Huangzhou children. He knows that the emperor has been vigorously cultivating these Huangzhou children.

So if this continues, a group of "upstarts" will appear.

Although these "future upstarts" have the protection of their parents, they mostly graduated from military academy and joined the army or planned to relied on the imperial examination to enter the government. They received a good education since childhood, had knowledge, and did not despise the art of merchandise. They mostly made profits from their industries and made a fortune in their families.

These "future upstarts" inherited the "resentment" of scholars and common people's differences with the common people's "resentment" towards aristocratic families will not be as proud as the common people admire the five surnames and seven hopes.

In their opinion, it represents the "family families" of the past. The style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties has become outdated. The five surnames and seven hopes are nothing but a dilapidated house that cannot be maintained for many years and cannot keep up with the manor.

These "future upstarts" believe that those large estates that were closed-door and self-sufficient in the past should go bankrupt, so there is nothing wrong with the long-term decline in grain prices and cloth prices; instead of being tenant farmers, landless farmers, should go to the city to work.

There is nothing wrong with the development of industry and commerce. There is nothing wrong with the people leaving their hometowns and working in cities. It is better to have population mobility in various places. Only in this way can the owners of factories in various places recruit enough labor.

The court should promote maritime trade, expand externally, and organize the immigrants of the Central Plains people. Only in this way can business opportunities be increased and more workshops and businesses make profits.

The court should appropriately reduce commercial taxes to stimulate the circulation of goods. Local governments should also provide preferential policies to encourage workshops and workshops to expand production capacity, participate in foreign trade, provide more "employment opportunities", and feed more landless people.

There is nothing wrong with the frontier, otherwise there will be no reason to catch the sacrificial slightest. If the government army is not convenient for the operation, the merchant armed forces can serve. Of course, the court must be kind to the people in the country, but there is no need to give a good face to the barbarians in the foreign countries.

The barbarians fear power but do not have virtue, so it is more efficient to communicate with the other party directly using a musket!

Fang Xuanling looked at these Huangzhou children who were talking a lot, and suddenly felt mixed emotions. What he saw and heard over the past twenty years made him a little confused about his future development.

The telegram was informed that the steamship that traveled thousands of miles a day sailed in rivers, lakes and seas, and the use of various steam machinery in large quantities, as well as the imperial examinations that could be applied for without officials and famous scholars. The times have really been different.

When these "freaks" (children of Huangzhou) become upstarts and control power, the existing policies of the court will no longer be changed, and will even become more "radical".
Chapter completed!