The predecessor of Zhongzheng Canteen is the Jiangnan restaurant in Satang Town, before and after entering the courtyard, the two-story small building, there are 8 tables of eight immortals, and the signature dish is braised pork knuckle and stewed crab roe lion's head.

The business of this shop is good, and the shopkeeper is also a local, but after the Admiral Maritime Yamen settled in Sitang Town, the shopkeeper listened to the chewing tongue of the outsiders, saying that Wei Gelding and his eagle dogs are all rich wolves, tigers and leopards, and there will definitely be no peace in this Sitang Town in the future. So the shopkeeper put the restaurant at a low price and took his wife and children to Suzhou.

In June last year, in view of the growing scale of the organization, the problem of "staff" meals must be solved, otherwise scattered meals will not be conducive to work efficiency on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will also increase expenditures, so he asked Zheng Duo, who was in charge of logistics affairs at the time, to find a restaurant to improve it as a canteen for the commander's yamen and the large and small personnel of the town guard yamen. In this way, the Jiangnan restaurant became the property of the Admiral's Maritime Eunuch Yamen, and the name was changed to "Zhongzheng Canteen".

My father-in-law named the canteen "Zhongzheng", which means that the canteen must be impartial when cooking, whether it is an internal unit or an outsider, as long as they eat in the canteen, then the hand must not shake.

Of course, because of the problem of position and reception specifications, Zhongzheng Canteen still specially prepared a small private room for Wei's father-in-law, and tried to provide some delicious meals for his father-in-law when the economy was surplus.

The body is the capital of the revolution.

Although he knew that it was not good to open a small canteen, Gonggong Wei also considered that his body was the capital of the Ming Revolution, and if he collapsed, the Ming Dynasty would collapse, so he turned a blind eye to the special treatment of the Zhongzheng Canteen.

After all, the intellectual and physical strength expended by the father-in-law for the country and the people is not comparable to ordinary people.

After the expansion, the Zhongzheng canteen obviously has the triple role of canteen, guest house, and meeting hall, and the person in charge is Zhou Jinyi, the gun supervisor of the central official yamen in Jiangnan Town. This person is also professional, he is a messenger sent by the palace with Zhang Hua, who was originally a Fengyu who was not in the stream of Shangshan Prison, but when he arrived at Wei Gonggong, he was raised two levels, and became a town guard from the seventh grade. Further up is the sub-inspection of the seven grades and the garrison of the six grades, and the sub-guard of the six grades can be regarded as a positive result. Otherwise, I don't know how many years it will take to enter the stream.

The original courtyard with one entrance at the front and back has become a three-story courtyard, and the original two-story building has also become a two-story three-story building. One is called "People's Building" and the other is called "Xiansi Pavilion".

The names of the two small buildings were given by Gonggong Wei, and he hoped that the names of the two buildings could remind the maritime yamen and the lieutenants who guarded the yamen that they were all members of the people, and they should come from the people to the people, and they should be a virtuous temple worthy of the people.

The menu of the canteen changes regularly, but one thing remains the same, and that is that the official meals are always four dishes and one soup. Inside the Special Administrative Region, including the two major yamen and the Ming Imperial Army, all dine according to this standard. Outsiders, such as Beijing-central tolerance and locality, will make some corresponding adjustments according to the position and grade of the other party.

There are a total of 25 management personnel and staff members of the entire Zhongzheng Canteen, and the monthly payment is about 80 taels. At present, the canteen fund is set at 300 taels a month, and the funds are still very loose in terms of the current dining situation of the personnel of the various yamen institutions.

On the same day, Zhou Jinyi, the eunuch in charge of the Zhongzheng Canteen, arranged for someone to hang out all kinds of colorful flags that had been customized a few days ago, and hung a banner printed with the words "Warmly Celebrate the Grand Opening of the First Joint Conference of the Maritime Special Zones" on the upper floor of Xiansi, and at the same time invited dozens of gongs and drummers to blow and blow, and the scene was not unlively.

At the moment, Wei Gonggong's eight-lift sedan chair appeared in front of the Xiansi Building under the protection of the Jinyi Wei Baihu Tian Gang, the East Factory Baihu Qi Xiangfang and other factory guards.

In front of the Xiansi Building, there were already large and small lieutenant officials and staff members of the maritime yamen and the town guarding the yamen lined up to welcome them.

"Get off the sedan car!"

With the elongated shout of Qi Xiangfang, a hundred households in Dongchang, the sound of gongs and drums suddenly sounded, and then hundreds of people cheered together, making Wei Gonggong, who had not yet gotten off the sedan chair, look in a trance, and then an inexplicable excitement surged into his heart.

Kind, so kind!

Gonggong Wei glanced at the layout in front of him and the welcoming crowd, and felt extremely cordial in his heart. With a smile on his face, he got out of the sedan chair and waved to the crowd.

After that, he approached the crowd and shook hands with Zhang Hua and others, the lieutenant guard of the town, and the cordial voice of "good father-in-law" sounded in his ears from time to time.

"Hello everyone, hello everyone, hello everyone is really good..."

Grandpa Wei nodded from time to time, his kind eyes swept over the faces of his subordinates, and finally entered the hall of Xiansi Building surrounded by the welcoming crowd.

I saw that as soon as Father-in-law Wei stepped into the venue with one foot, there was warm applause in the venue.

A total of 15 yamen of the three types of fraternal units and about 100 people from the assignee and the military supervisor stood neatly in the venue, eager to witness the heroic appearance of Gonggong Wei.

Warm applause, excited hearts, all kinds of signs show that this conference must be a united conference!

Gonggong Wei didn't think this was formalism, he happily touched his Sanqi development type, waved his right arm and slowly walked onto the rostrum.

At the moment when his father-in-law was about to sit down, Zhang Hua, the guard of the central official yamen of Jiangnan Town, made a "receiving" action towards the crowd very appropriately, and suddenly, the crowd was quiet.

In the venue, there was silence, only more than 100 pairs of eyes looked at the center of the rostrum eagerly and excitedly.

Gonggong Wei did not sit down immediately, but suddenly bowed deeply in the direction of the Northern Jingshi, and then slowly sat down on the white tiger skin seat that Nurhachi gave him.

This move is unpretentious and undeliberate, but it shows the loyalty and respect of Grandpa Wei to His Majesty.

"Sit down, everybody."

Gonggong Wei inspected the colleagues of the brothers' units, although he had the largest official position in the audience, but the eyes he looked at everyone were equal, polite, and sincere.

"Do you know why we are convening you here for a joint meeting?" Father-in-law Wei's voice was loud and full of energy.

"Because, we want you to know the word responsibility!"

"What is responsibility? What are your responsibilities? What is the significance of this responsibility to you, to our family, to the princes of the inner court, and to the emperor, that is the purpose of our family to convene you this time! ”

My father-in-law's speech is not only full of energy, ensuring that everyone can hear it, but also paying attention to the use of posture and movements, so that everyone can concentrate and listen attentively.