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During the Republic of China, a well-known tycoon once said a wise saying: "The general trend of my era is overwhelming. Those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish!"

However, even if he hated the filth and filth in the court, Li Yuanqing would never act rashly.

The country has been in dynasty for more than two hundred years.

The entanglement among civil servants has long ceased to happen overnight.

But they can "dog bite dog". After all, even if the bite is full of hair and someone's wound is still bloody, it is an internal contradiction within themselves and their class.

But if Li Yuanqing intervenes as a military attache, Li Yuanqing can guess the consequences.

This will definitely cause them to attack in groups.

If you want to change the general trend, or even change your destiny against the will of heaven, you still have to focus on what you can firmly grasp.

Before news came from Beijing, Li Yuanqing would never let himself act too 'positive'. But secretly, he would never sit back and wait for death.

Yang Jiao~niang's Wuyu Pavilion, including Chen Chuang's 'Warehouse No. 3', have all received secret orders from Li Yuanqing to keep a firm grasp of the capital's troubles.

Time passed by in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, it was already mid-July.

During these days, news from the capital, including western Liaoning, was constantly being collected towards Changsheng Island, basically once a day, and sometimes even twice a day.

However, the situation is still in a tangled state, and there is not much valuable news yet.

All Li Yuanqing's thoughts were focused on the internal affairs of Changsheng Island.

Although the harvest of this Haizhou battle was not great, Li Yuanqing wanted to distribute the rewards to the sons, including the pensions to the sons who died in the battle, first.

Fortunately, as Xihaerwei's furs and groceries were distributed to Qu Mingrui and Fan Yongdou respectively, Li Yuanqing had a lot of living silver in his hands, so he reluctantly dealt with the rewards and pensions first.

On the other hand, it is the resettlement work of these female relatives in Haizhou.

Unlike male slaves, who can be directly brought to the Central Island or West Island to work, most of these female dependents have children, and some of the children are still too young and are still in their infancy.

Li Yuanqing also had to consider these aspects, settle them first, and then find work for them to make a living based on their conditions.

Fortunately, Changsheng Island is now in a rapid take-off stage, both in terms of fields and commerce, and there is a huge demand for manpower. These female relatives do not need to build houses from house to house. The collectivized Datong Shop is enough. Although the affairs are complicated, they are

It's not unacceptable.

It was not until the beginning of August that all matters were finally sorted out and the dust gradually began to settle. Li Yuanqing also had more time and energy to consider Beijing's response plan.

According to past practice, when reporting a great victory, you will receive a reply regarding the reward within half a month or twenty days at the latest.

But at this time, due to the entanglement between the eunuchs and Donglin, almost two months have passed, and no clear news has been transmitted, nor is it confirmed whether Li Yuanqing, Mao Wenlong, and Chen Zhong should go to Beijing to participate in the award.

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However, through the channels of Yang Jiao and Niang Wuyu Pavilion, Li Yuanqing got a little bit of news in advance. This reward is very likely to be "loud as thunder but light as rain."

Mao Wenlong's side may continue to bless Shang Fang's sword, while Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong's side are probably gold medals, silver medals for arrows, and monetary compensation.

After all, whether it was Mao Wenlong, Li Yuanqing or Chen Zhong, the speed of their 'take-off' was a bit too fierce. It was not possible for the imperial court to directly reward these few people for their achievements such as setting the tripod heavy city and annihilating the main force.

The weather in Changsheng Island in early August was already a bit cold, especially since there was another heavy rain in the afternoon, and there was already a faint hint of autumn in the air.

The major government affairs have basically been sorted out. It was raining today, so Li Yuanqing did not go out. He stayed in the study, carefully analyzing the reports and intelligence sent from various parties over the past few days.

From Li Yuanqing's perspective, he was unwilling to enter Beijing at this time.

Since the eunuchs and Donglin have almost reached a compromise, it doesn't make much sense to go to Beijing if they are not willing to give them some fat and are only willing to throw away a few small bones.

It is enough for Wei Liang and Zhang Qiliang to go to Beijing to deal with things.

Li Yuanqing was also preparing to take advantage of this opportunity to take a trip to Japan and Nanyang.

‘Internal fighting is good for the inside, external fighting is for the outside’. It has always been the biggest pain for the Chinese nation.

At this time, Changsheng Island had a strong military but insufficient supplies. Li Yuanqing also wanted to take this opportunity to try his luck in Japan and Southeast Asia.

Look at the gap between his sons and the "advanced military force" in the world at this time.

If it succeeds, it is naturally the best. If it fails, with the support of a strong fleet, Li Yuanqing and his sons will have ample room to protect themselves.

However, Yang Xiaochuan's fleet has not returned yet, and Lao Sun has personally written several resignation letters to the young emperor Tianqi. Li Yuanqing can only calm down and wait quietly.

In terms of political affairs, although it was not very pleasant, in terms of domestic affairs, Li Yuanqing was very happy.

On the second day of August, Nian'er gave birth to another little boy for Li Yuanqing, weighing six pounds and eight taels. The little boy looked very much like Li Yuanqing, and he was also Li Yuanqing's fifth son.

As for Miss Rainbow, she is also about to give birth.

Although her current identity is a 'nun' who leads Buddhist practices, her nunnery is in Li Yuanqing's mansion, in Li Yuanqing's deep compound. How can outsiders know the secrets?

While thinking about it, Li Yuanqing traced it on the simple map he drew with carbon strips.

Now, the entire southern Liaoning, except Haizhou, is not completely controlled by Li Yuanqing because the geographical location is too close to the inland. Jinzhou, Fuzhou, including Gaizhou, are completely controlled by Li Yuanqing.

After the flood, Haizhou basically turned into Philadelphia, and the entire Liaonan Four Guards were in fact controlled by Li Yuanqing.

Together with Shen Shikui's Lushun, Chen Zhong's Guanglu Island, Shen Jin also captured the Big and Small Chenghuang Islands, and the Xiha'er Guard, Li Yuanqing's entire defense line had spread across the entire Liaohai Sea.

However, Li Yuanqing's power seems to be very large, but the connection is not close enough. It is good to say that within Liaohai, there are still too few connected supply points for Xihaerwei.

For the next step, Li Yuanqing is also preparing to station troops on the vast west coast of the Sea of ​​Japan, including several excellent ports in North Korea.

On the one hand, it is more conducive to strengthening control over this sea area. On the other hand, it is also more conducive for Li Yuanqing to export his voice to these small neighbors, especially North Korea.

Unfortunately, it is obviously very difficult to accomplish all this without 1.8 million taels of silver.

‘Silver, you still need money in the end.’ Li Yuanqing suddenly shook his head and laughed.

His current money is still too little.

At this time, Xiaolian came over with a hot small earthen pot and said with a smile: "Sir, the ginseng soup that the eldest lady just made, you can try it while it's hot."

Li Yuanqing smiled, took the ginseng soup, and tasted a spoonful. It was ginseng root stewed with pork ribs. It tasted quite good, and it was a famous nourishing pot.

The temperature of the ginseng soup was just right, and the ribs were all crispy and meaty. Li Yuanqing tasted a few pieces and drank up the ginseng soup quickly.

But he found that Xiaolian was secretly looking at him, her pretty face reddened, a little nervous, as if she had done something wrong.

Li Yuanqing couldn't help but smile, stretched out his hand to take Xiaolian into his arms, sniffed the fragrance of her hair greedily, and said against her earlobe: "I'm afraid this is not the fault of the eldest lady, is it? Which little girl is it?

Cooked for me?"

"Hate."

Being told what was on her mind by Li Yuanqing, Xiaolian let out a squeak and wanted to escape from Li Yuanqing's arms, but Li Yuanqing had anticipated this and held her tightly in his arms.

"Little goblin, where are you running?"

Li Yuanqing kissed her hard on her red lips, put his forehead against hers and said, "Are you jealous when you see Nian'er having a baby?"

Xiao Lian's pretty face immediately turned red with embarrassment, "How could that happen? People wouldn't be jealous."

But as she said that, she herself didn't believe that Li Yuanqing would believe her, so she simply closed her eyes, hugged Li Yuanqing's neck with both small hands, and resigned herself to fate.

Seeing her long eyelashes blinking nervously, Li Yuanqing couldn't help but smile even more.

Originally, the reason why Li Yuanqing had not eaten Xiaolian was because he was worried that she was still too young and might be in danger during childbirth if she became pregnant.

But at this moment, feeling her increasingly rounded body in his arms, Li Yuanqing suddenly realized that the little girl in his eyes had already grown up, like a ripe peach, ready to be picked at any time.

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Thinking about it, Li Yuanqing suddenly smiled and kissed Xiaolian hard on her red lips, "Xiaolian, I'm a little tired. Please rub your legs."

Xiaolian's pretty face suddenly turned red with embarrassment. Why didn't she understand the deep meaning of Li Yuanqing's words?

The two of them have played this kind of game many times...

But how could she dare to disobey Li Yuanqing's order?

He hurriedly got off Li Yuanqing and knelt down in front of Li Yuanqing obediently...

Not long after, feeling that the fire was almost done, Li Yuanqing picked up Xiaolian with his big hands and carried her to the big bed on the side.

Soon, with a cry of pain from Xiaolian, the temperature in the room instantly reached its peak.

But just as Li Yuanqing was about to increase his speed, soldiers outside suddenly shouted: "Report~~, urgent report from Western Liaoning!"

Li Yuanqing couldn't help being stunned. Xiaolian also forgot about the pain and hurriedly opened her big eyes and looked at Li Yuanqing.

Li Yuanqing suddenly kissed her red lips hard, "It's okay, let's continue."

With that said, Li Yuanqing said to the soldiers outside: "I know, put it on the bookcase outside the door. I'll go down and get it later."

"yes."

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The 'battle' lasted for more than half an hour, and then it came to an end.

Li Yuanqing also had great love and affection for this little girl whom he bought with his own hands and raised for so many years. She was almost a relative.

It's a pity that Xiaolian's ginseng soup was so angry that Li Yuanqing couldn't control it for a while...

This 'bitter fruit' can only be eaten by herself.

"Master, maid, maid will help you clean up." Xiaolian said, holding on for a few times, but she didn't get up.

Looking at the most familiar white and tender body in front of him, Li Yuanqing couldn't help but smile: "Just rest here well. I can do it myself. You can stay here tonight. If I have time in the evening, I will come over to accompany you."

"Um."

Xiaolian was shy and happy at the same time. She nodded obediently and got into the bed beside her. She only showed her two big eyes and looked at Li Yuanqing with affection.

Li Yuanqing has experienced this kind of look and gesture from women many times and has deep experience, but every time, he enjoys it.

However, there are official duties outside, and it is difficult for Li Yuanqing to stay nostalgic for Wenrou Township.

After briefly tidying up, Li Yuanqing strode outside the door, came to the bookcase, and opened the urgent report from Liaoxi.

But just for a moment, Li Yuanqing's expression suddenly turned gloomy, and he couldn't help but spit out: "Shu Zi! An Neng can conspire with you?"

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Chapter completed!