Chapter 40

Yin Qi probably understood Master Chen's thoughts and did not deny it, cupped his fists and returned the salute: "Junior Brother Shi! Master Chen, please invite the distinguished guests into the martial arts hall first."

Master Chen nodded, so he invited the eight hall masters and Yin Chengtao and others into the martial arts hall.

In the noise, the whole morning passed.

The guests all left, and the three Yin fathers and sons also got up to say goodbye.

Today, the Chen Martial Arts Hall opened, which can be described as a hit, with more than two hundred people signing up in the morning alone, and more people will come one after another in the next few days, estimated that at least five hundred people will sign up.

Fortunately, this courtyard is large enough; otherwise, it would really not be able to accommodate so many apprentices at once.

……

Yin Mansion.

Tingyu Study.

This was the first time Yin Qi had stepped into it since he was sensible.

This shows that Yin Chengtao's attitude towards him had quietly changed, and he was qualified to participate in the family's decision-making.

Yin Chengtao was full of joy and said: "I didn't expect this Caohe Gang leader Shi Zhongkui to worship Master Chen as a teacher so decisively. With this layer of relationship with Qi'er, the Caohe Gang will no longer be a concern, and can even be cited as help."

Yin Xuan was also happy and said: "Yes, Father, today can be described as double happiness, I just received Jason's letter, saying he has set sail for Shanyin, and will arrive tomorrow."

"Good!"

Yin Chengtao said excitedly: "Tomorrow I will go to the wharf with you to pick him up, and also take people to see the equipment."

Yin Qi asked curiously: "Father, what equipment, who is Jason?"

Yin Xuan explained: "Second Brother, Jason is a Brit, coming to our Great Qing to pan for gold, and brought five full ships of equipment, and it is a complete set of equipment capable of manufacturing steam engines. Our family has decided to buy it. As long as it is confirmed that there is no problem with the equipment, I will go to Shanghai with him to handle a loan from HSBC Bank to buy it."

Yin Qi just nodded slowly, because he didn't know anything about these, so he wouldn't speak casually, just reminded: "Eldest Brother, be careful when you go out."

Yin Xuan smiled lightly: "In our Great Qing, no one dares to trouble foreigners."

Seeing this, Yin Qi didn't say anything more.

Yin Chengtao's expression sank slightly, and he said: "Xuan'er, Qi'er, since Shi Zhongkui worshipped Master Chen as a teacher, should we still run that regiment training? The prefect is somewhat greedy, and sent someone to ask me for one thousand silver dollars, saying it was to open up relations."

Yin Xuan said angrily: "Father, naturally don't run it. That prefect is greedy, and I am worried about being hung by him, and no matter how much silver is thrown in, I can't hear a sound."

Yin Chengtao nodded slowly, looking at Yin Qi: "What do you think?"

Yin Qi naturally disagreed, and said solemnly: "Father, one's own destiny must be in one's own hands. Although Shi Zhongkui worshipped Master Chen as a teacher, he can quit at any time.

When the Caohe Gang finds trouble with us again, what should we do?

Also, this world is getting more and more chaotic.

Without the Caohe Gang, it is hard to guarantee that we won't encounter other crises in the future, so instead of hoping for others, we should hold the initiative in our own hands.

However, the prefect is greedy, and we can't keep feeding him.

Give it to him one more time, if it still doesn't work, we will go to Hangzhou to clear the relations.

Once the regiment training is done, how much he ate from us, he can naturally be made to spit it out with interest in the future."

Yin Chengtao thought about it and nodded: "Qi'er, what you said is good, if a person has no long-term worries, there must be immediate worries, let's give it to him one more time, one thousand silver dollars is not much for us, just treat it as feeding a dog."

Seeing this, Yin Xuan also nodded.

………

After coming out of Tingyu Study, Yin Qi returned to the courtyard.

He digested his food and prepared to practice martial arts.

At this time, Yin Hai walked in quickly, raising the letter in his hand: "Young Master, this is a letter from Mr. Tao."

"Oh, give it to me!"

Yin Qi took the envelope and pulled out the letter paper inside.

In the letter, Tao Chengzhang talked about the development of the newspaper office in the past few days, and finally said that Qiu Jin of the Jingxiong Society wanted to meet the three of them, so he wrote to ask for his opinion.

At the same time, Tao Chengzhang also wrote in the letter that Qiu Jin has progressive thoughts and hates evil like an enemy, and should have a certain anti-Qing consciousness, worthy of contact and solicitation by the Revival Society.

"Qiu Jin!"

Yin Qi's eyes lit up.

This is a character in history textbooks, one of the earliest female revolutionaries.

Although the uprising had not yet started, she was arrested because of a leak.

But before being arrested, she refused to escape, saying "revolution will only succeed if it bleeds," and finally died generously, leaving behind the sentence "autumn wind and autumn rain make people sad."

Yin Qi asked: "Has the person who delivered the letter left?"

Yin Hai shook his head: "Not yet, he is drinking tea in the side hall, saying he is waiting for the Young Master's reply."

"Mm. I'll go write a letter and let him take it back."

Yin Qi came to the study and quickly wrote a reply, agreeing to meet Qiu Jin and asking Tao Chengzhang and the others to arrange it.

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The night was dark, and the sky was full of stars.

Chen Martial Arts Hall.

Under the candlelight, two figures were reflected on the window paper.

Master Chen looked at Shi Zhongkui who came in the middle of the night, and asked somewhat suspiciously: "Shi Zhongkui, what is it that you can't come to find the old man tomorrow, why come in the middle of the night?"

Shi Zhongkui was emotionally agitated, he knelt down again with a bang, and said with tears: "Subordinate Shi Zhongkui, pays respects to the Prince."

Master Chen trembled all over, and two rays of essence shot out from his eyes.

In this instant, a savage beast seemed to be waking up in his body, and his whole body exuded terrifying blood evil Qi, as if looking at it, one would feel thousands of troops charging towards oneself.

However, this momentum was quickly restrained.

If there were outsiders present, they would be shocked that this Shi Zhongkui actually called Master Chen "Prince."

You must know that since Kangxi quelled the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories, the Manchu Qing had no more princes of different surnames.

Master Chen's eyes were like torches, his face was cold, completely different from the past, and he said in a deep voice: "Which team are you from, how did you recognize me?"

Shi Zhongkui replied: "Subordinate is from the Small Right Unit."

"Small Right Unit!"

Master Chen's expression was reminiscent, sighing: "At the beginning, I was too arrogant, involving you, otherwise you wouldn't have all died in the Battle of Chigang Ridge."

The Small Right Unit was the ace unit of the Ying Prince Chen Yucheng.

That's right, Master Chen is Chen Yucheng, who was the military pillar of the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom together with Li Xiucheng, and was also known as one of the two "brave princes" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom together with Shi Dakai.

Twice breaking the Jiangbei and Jiangnan camps, with great military exploits, fierce to a mess.

Shi Zhongkui's tiger eyes shed tears, shaking his head constantly: "How can this matter blame the Prince, the brothers died for the Heavenly Kingdom, died for killing the Qing demons, died for their place. I also woke up in the pile of dead people at the beginning, luckily escaped with my life. By the way, Prince, you...?"

He said, looking up at Chen Yucheng.

In the Battle of Chigang Ridge that year, he was seriously injured and raised for almost a year before he was well.

But when he was ready to return to the team, he heard the bad news that Chen Yucheng had been arrested and killed!

Although compared to more than thirty years ago, Chen Yucheng's appearance had changed greatly.

But he was once a member of the Small Right Unit, regarding Chen Yucheng as an idol, so he naturally recognized the other party at first sight, but still couldn't believe it, so he took action to test it.

During the day, he was just coming to join in the fun.

Brothers, this week is very important, please insist on reading every day, only if the reading is enough, will there be recommendations later.

(End of chapter)