To say that this Tang Jing's guest secretary position is not given for nothing. Compared with Qingke, who is only responsible for praise and funny, Keqing's status in the owner is equivalent to that of a master, a person who is qualified to participate in the decision-making of certain things and is given important responsibilities.

Fang Tangjing is like this. He is not only a literati funded by the owner, but also married a distant niece of the owner, so he can be regarded as a real person...... Otherwise, the owner would not have given him the task of investigating the thief's lair. You must know that this represents the future strategic investment direction of the family, and it is an important thing.

can shoulder this burden, Fang Tangjing is naturally the kind of person who is old and sophisticated, sleek and shrewd. So when he learned the reason for the incident, he hurriedly ran to persuade Master Bu, who was about to go away from the crowd.

Fang Tangjing had many reasons to persuade the master. This is one of them: a commodity like Xiong Wencan, if he scolds, he will be scolded, anyway, Lao Xiong is a rogue official, and he will get out of the house in a few years, and he can't do anything to the local natives.

But others should be cautious when scolding: Master Bu is outstanding, and it is true that he is elegant and noble, but after all, the family wants to live here, and it is a troublesome thing to offend those half-sized indigenous officials by firing a map.

In the days when Fang Tangjing was in the Bu family, because he was quite good at talking and insight, Master Bu liked this young man very much, even though Fang Tangjing was already thirty years old.

Therefore, after listening to Fang Tangjing's advice, Master Bu also sobered up slightly. He was a bit angry, but he wasn't angry enough to ignore the interests of his family.

After thinking about it, Master Bu generously said: Then let those miscellaneous insects go, sir, I will write to the emperor this time, and only impeach the two bastards surnamed Xiong and Jiao.

In the next step, Fang Tangjing gave Master Bu another idea: Since he wants to spray the surname Jiao, it is better for the master to go to the master in person. The so-called tiger can get a tiger if he doesn't enter the tiger's den, in this way, maybe Master Bu will be able to find some handles in the arms procurement case, and he will have the strength to spray it in the future...... After all, there is nothing wrong with that official document on the bright side, sir, if you really want to poke the chrysanthemum of your boss, then you also have to have empirical evidence in hand to poke it cool, right?

Sometimes it's important to think differently: that's how the same problems are often solved. So when Fang Tangjing interpreted this official document from a different angle, Comrade Daxing, the old indignant Qingbu, suddenly felt that this was reasonable: he needed to go to the thief's lair in the black hole, and then kill the scum after he came back!

As a result, a group of visitors with different minds was formed. The members of the group are as follows: the head of the regiment, Mr. Bu, the deputy head of the regiment, Fang Tangjing; Members: Master Bu's elder and one servant, and one of Fang Tangjing's servants.

After packing up and making preparations, the group of five officially set off on June 1, 1629. Everyone first took a boat from Xinghua Mansion to Quanzhou, and then easily got on the boat to Dayuan. The liner departed from Quanzhou and first went south to Xiamen, and after arriving in Xiamen, it was organized together with other merchant cargo ships, and then sailed directly.

In addition to some black smoke workshops in Xiamen Port, which made Master Bu feel uncomfortable, everyone had a relaxed time along the way.

The upper class cabin of the liner is very comfortable. There are not only clean beds, but also curiosities such as thermos pots and watertight thermos cups. can make hot tea on a rocking boat, although it is inevitable to mumble two sentences of "strange lewd skills", but Master Bu is not less tea after all. In addition, the red tomato sauce fish with rice is also full of praise.

Enjoy the sea view all the way, and go out of the cabin to see the bright lighthouse of Penghu at night. After talking with Fang Tangjing in this way, Master Bu entered the Taijiang channel at noon.

The bustling Taijiang River always dazzles people who arrive for the first time. However, people's attention is not the same: just when Fang Tangjing and his subordinates pointed to the "Haidilao" on the left side of the ship, Master Bu had a gloomy face and looked at the imperial city on the right side of the ship's side with his back.

The Imperial City, located in the middle of Dayuan Island, is full of folds. In the 17th century, the building, encased in blue light and red brick reflected by a large glass façade, was majestic and fantastical.

However, it was this building, which was known locally as the "General's Mansion", that made Master Bu look at it with a cold face for a long time. It wasn't until the boat entered the Taijiang River that he turned around and said to Tang Jing: "Red bricks wrap the wall, this is an act of trespassing!" ”

"Hehe, Song Weng, don't ask for full blame. This place has always been a place to turn outside, and the Cao family is also recruiting An, how can savages know about those taboos in the imperial court? ”

Fang Tangjing was dissatisfied with Master Bu's nitpicking. Now it is no longer the atmosphere of the founding of the country, and now the world is extravagant, and the rich people who have no fame are wearing silk Luo, cars with two horses, and the high walls of the Zhu Gate, which have already thrown the rules set by Zhu Taizu out of the clouds.

Even in the Xinghua Mansion where Master Bu is located, there are also people who overstep the system in the clothing house, and everyone can see luxury cars and wealthy businessmen in multi-person sedan chairs shouting and shouting rampant under the support of wealthy slaves......

And Master Bu usually ignores these things, but now he has run to this place where he doesn't understand the rules of the Ming Dynasty at all, but he wants to accuse others of overstepping the rules...... Fang Tangjing couldn't help but shake his head in his heart: about this Song Weng has long been unaccustomed to General Cao, and now he has to pick some thorns to come out before he will give up.

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After smiling and calming down the old man, Fang Tangjing hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to pack up their salutes and prepare to get off the boat. He fooled Master Bu to come here in order to borrow the light of Master Bu's office - so that he could conduct an in-depth investigation of some projects that are not open to the public. Now it seems that it is not so easy to get wet, this old man is too worry-free.

After the fleet entered the inland sea of the Taijiang River, it followed the buoys of different colors. The passenger boat taken by the visiting group crossed the sea to the Chihkan Wharf on the other side.

When Master Bu saw the cranes, railroad tracks and smoky wagons on the dock, this time he was silent, probably because there were too many enemy troops.

The newly renovated customs hall on the Chihkan Wharf is very magnificent. The long-span building with the same specifications as the various payment halls in later generations made the new Ming people look up vigorously: they couldn't figure out why such a tall and transparent house had no columns and beams? Why didn't this top fall?

The newly disembarked passengers lined up at the entrance of the hall, and under the guidance of a few large caps with various police equipment hanging from their waists, the visiting group came to the public window according to the big characters marked at their feet.

After seeing the female clerk who was also wearing a big cap, a sky blue short-sleeved shirt, and a blue epaulette in the public window, Master Bu, who was queuing up to register, was obviously a little uncomfortable. Avoiding the exposed neck and arms of the short-haired girl opposite, Master Bu silently recited "Don't look at indecent things" while bowing his head and filling out the form.

However, the gentleman is a creature after all, so the rest of the group is quite curious about female civil servants. Needless to say, the portrait of Brother Pig when Changsui and Xiaowu registered, even Fang Tangjing shook the folding fan a few times before he began to fill in the form.

After filling out the form, there are some routine inquiries and infrared thermometer checks. After seeing the strange man in a green robe and a mask hit a beam of light on his head, Master Bu was startled again.

Temporary guests like them don't need to be locked up in quarantine camps, but routine daily infrared temperature checks and designated accommodations are a must.

After learning that Fang Cai's strange thing was that Lang Zhong was visiting the patient, Master Bu couldn't help but curse a few more words in his heart - he didn't know anything about infrared, so he naturally regarded this kind of behavior as an indigenous evil art such as witchcraft.

After all the processes were completed, the group was finally brought to the meeting room.

The meeting room is dedicated to official receptions, with sofas and coffee tables in it, which is actually the VIP waiting hall of the station in the future.

It's no secret that sofas are a thing. Due to the low technology content, sofa shops have now been rolled out in big cities like Fuzhou. Through the core technology of the thick spring shares, Mingren shareholders are responsible for recruiting and producing.

The people in the visiting group were naturally knowledgeable, so they didn't make a fuss.

Soon, two receptionists walked in through the side door. The man with the head is tall and also wears a large-brimmed hat. As soon as this person came, he smiled and stretched out his hand and shook hands with Master Bu, who was not very used to it. The other ordinary-looking, wearing a gray linen suit, did not say a word from beginning to end, looking like a follower.

The visiting group now knows that anyone who wears a big cap is a "public man" here.

The first person who introduced himself as Ma, is the reception section chief of the customs. After inspecting Master Bu's official documents and investigations, Section Chief Ma nodded, and then communicated with Master Bu in Mandarin with a bit of Min accent.

Section Chief Ma first indicated that he already knew the news that Master Bu was coming, and he had already made preparations. Therefore, with regard to this arms purchase case, the two sides will be able to enter substantive operations starting tomorrow.

Master Bu has no objection to this.

There's not much to talk about next. Section Chief Ma warmly took the members of the delegation out of the customs and led them to the Taijiang Hotel, which was specially used to receive VIPs.

The Taijiang Hotel is at the back gate of the customs, and there is only one main road between the two sides. The four-story Taijiang Hotel is the best located building in the accommodation area, and you can overlook the Taijiang style from the window. Most of the guest rooms inside are suites, which are specially prepared for the wealthy people of the Ming Kingdom with their subordinates.

After helping Master Bu and them check in, Section Chief Ma told the guests: There will be a military staff officer to deal with this matter tomorrow, so that everyone can rest at ease. Before leaving, Chief Ma also kindly reminded everyone: Please read the accommodation guide carefully.

Accommodation guides were common in later generations, but in the 17th century they were a rarity. Therefore, after Master Bu entered the door, he let his subordinates busy, and he himself picked up the beautifully printed accommodation guide with great interest, sat on the sofa and read it.