Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

The Dragon Lord could understand the reasoning behind their words, because he had personally experienced the entire process of the rise of the Xiang Jia Village from nothing to a little.

The Xiang Family was originally just an ordinary village in the Swallow Mountain Range. More than twenty families were farming and hunting for a living, relying on the roads deep in the mountains and also exchanging goods with caravans. They lived a poor life.

The Xiang Family could only date back to the founding of the Ming Dynasty, when the end of the Yuan Dynasty was chaotic and the north was massacred to the point of being thousands of miles in radius. In order to restore the economy of the north, the Ming Dynasty began a decades-long migration from the south to the north.

Many families in Shanxi, Shandong, and Shanxi had written down the first generation of their family tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, which was the last place to register immigrants from the official organizations of the Ming Dynasty.

The family that had travelled all the way from the south received a small amount of money and grains from the government under the Pagoda tree. Taking out the residence certificate given by the government, they told their families that they would live in Zhengding, Yanqing and Cangzhou.

From that moment on, a new clan was born. Perhaps there were only three people, or only two husband and wife, and they were all ordinary citizens. Those who could read were rarely able to remember the names of the ancestors of the previous three generations.

However, there were always exceptions. Many families that emigrated back then, some of them were literate, and some even had a broken family tree. This was very rare, they could trace their roots back to the Song Dynasty or even to the Tang Dynasty, and some would even travel to the distant Han Dynasty …

The Xiang Family had always claimed that they were the descendants of the overlord of the West Chu, Xiang Yu, while the Xiang Family was a well-known aristocrat of the Chu Country back then. According to the level that Zhou Tianzi had given them, they were not any lower than the imperial family of the Qin Empire.

To outsiders, these legends were nothing more than a smile after a meal. Perhaps a few well-fed scholars would verify these legends, but due to the long history, there was no way to verify these legends. In the end, those so-called scholars were just scammers who swindled mountain goods and drank wine.

However, to the members of Xiang Shaolong's family, this was a heavy responsibility. Several generations of Xiang Jia Village followed the devil, and there was always a ghost that restored the glory of their family that kept bewitching them.

Even when the Dragon Lord went out to learn martial arts, he was actually raised by all the families in the Xiang Jia Village. There was a need to pay attention to the poor and the rich.

Dragon Lord was immersed in deep memories. He remembered clearly that when he had just started learning, he didn't complain at all about how much suffering he had suffered at his master's place. At that time, his dream was very simple, to let herself and the rest of his relatives in Xiang Jia Village have their fill.

There was meat and wine at the table, and the granaries at home had food that he didn't have to worry about for two or three years. His uncle's stupid brother was able to marry the silly girl at the Liu family's house next door … This was Dragon Lord's dream back then, to be simple and honest.

However, humans changed. After he returned from studying, he gradually gained the reputation of a Northern Dragon Lord. The ghost that was previously hiding in the depths of his heart to restore the glory of his family once again came to disturb him.

He controlled the trading road to collect protection fees for the travelling caravans, to hand over to the officials of the yamen to settle the grudges on the martial way, to widely accept disciples to practice and expand the Xiang Jia Village … Even the Dragon Lord didn't know why he was doing this, but at that time, there was a voice that was trying to confuse him, forcing him to do so.

Eventually, Weng Tonghe ignited the devil in his heart. The leader of the Qing Liu faction was going to act as his guarantor, to prove that their Xiang Jia Village was truly a descendant of a noble family in Chu. Furthermore, their family was going to produce a real scholar.

Let alone letting him kill Xiao Letian at that moment, even if Xiang Shaolong sold opium to poison the Chinese people, he would still do it! Because by then, he was already lost inside.

Fortunately he still had a little bit of good intentions in his heart, and luckily he had met the talkative Xiao Letian. In his two lifetimes of being a human, he keenly understood the little bit of good intentions in the Dragon Lord's heart, and then, taking advantage of the flaw to attack, he relied on his perfect tongue to subdue Dragon Lord, the great general.

From that moment on, the Xiang Jia Village was also sent flying by the Eastern Wind. The current Xiang Jia Village no longer existed, but the Xiang clan had already become a powerful force that belonged to Xiao Letian that could not be underestimated.

The group of bodyguards for the were officially under the control of the CIA, but everyone knew that the Dragon Lord was the direct leader of the team, and the Dragon Lord only listened to Xiao Letian's orders.

Right now, the leadership of the Far East's volunteer army was in the hands of the Dragon Lord. After three or four years, there might be an army that had always been strong, and once the Far East Region was established, the influence of the Dragon Lord on this land would be shockingly large.

And there was also Xiang Ying, the child who completely disregarded the Great Qing, who had already been reborn and became a young naval officer. The authority over the first Iron-armored Ship in the Ryukyu was in his hands.

Forget about Xiao Letian, even if Xiang Ying's grades were right there, the contributions made by Xiang Ying in the war between the Ryukyu and France could not be ignored.

The other Xiang Family clansmen all had their own businesses now, the two silver furnaces that were forged into silver coins on the Mongolian Prairie were still under the charge of the Xiang Family. A large rum brewery on Ryukyu Island, as well as a canning factory and a sugar factory were all part of the Xiang Family's businesses.

The Xiang Family had already completed their initial capital accumulation, and officially stepped into the ranks of the Ryukyu's elite families.

How many times would Dragon Lord wake up from his dream? He always had the same recurring dream. In his dream, he had killed Xiao Letian and Hu Niu. The mountain was engulfed in flames, and the new army was taking revenge for Xiao Letian with guns in their hands. The young and old of Xiang Jia Village were beaten into a sieve, their blood flowing like a river.

"So suspenseful! "Life is actually a few steps at a crucial moment. If you walk the right path, you will be able to change your fate. If you walk the wrong path, your life will also go down …"

Dragon Lord let out a long sigh as he looked at the warriors who had awkward expressions on their faces. I can understand what all those little plutocrats are thinking right now, and I've gone through the stages they went through before … "

"A family is both the most stable and the simplest after it has been formed. On the way to starting a new business, the two sides of the human heart were all upturned … "In the beginning, people would smile from the fact that there was food, wine and meat, but after the family set a type of career and discovered that one could already look forward to wealth for a hundred years, people would naturally choose to be steady, and even amass good deeds!"

"Only the period of time in the middle is the most painful! At that time, the door to desire had just opened, but reality was filled with all kinds of frustrations … The process of breaking through the cocoon and becoming a butterfly sounds good, but how painful is that process of breaking through the cocoon's shell, you all have no idea! "

"Zhu Shanchou! You say that someone has already died because of me? "Then bring me over to take a look. I won't believe a single word of yours …"