CHAPTER XVI
The governor bowed slightly at Liu Yeqiang and said, "Huang Qiusheng, the governor of Annan, welcome the envoy of Dongfang Port!" He made a gesture of invitation to the door, and was the first to take the lead. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Liu Yeqiang was stunned on the spot, the name Huang Qiusheng was too uncontrollable to laugh.
It is said that after the crossing, the Yuantong Huitong and other legal names have become the jokes of the elders after dinner, at this time he can't help but secretly congratulate Yang Muqin that he didn't follow, if Yang Muqin followed, maybe he would have to laugh now.
Huang Qiusheng took two steps forward, but seeing that Liu Yeqiang didn't follow, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Liu Yeqiang who was holding back a smile with a suspicious face. He couldn't help but muttered a little in his heart, the thief in front of him was only in his early thirties, and he was impressed by the calm and calm look of Mount Tai when he walked through the sword formation just now, this thief was indeed quite bold, and his behavior was also in line with his opinion-it belonged to the category of being able to win over Zhao'an. But right now, after hearing his name, this bearded man had a strange face, and seemed to be snickering, which made Huang Qiusheng feel a little bad, and his face was slightly gloomy and asked, "I don't know what's so ridiculous about the old man's name?" ”
"Neither nor not!" Liu Yeqiang hurriedly arched his hand and apologized, "Please don't mind, Lord Huang's name happens to be the same as a celebrity in our China, so when I heard Lord Huang's name below, my heart overflowed with happiness, please forgive me." ”
"Oh, I see!" Huang Qiusheng nodded and said with a smile, "It turns out that there is still this layer of origin, and there is no hindrance." As he spoke, he walked up a few more steps, lowered his voice and asked, "I don't know how Huang Qiusheng is in your place?" ”
"It's a great man who can do what ordinary people can't!" Liu Yeqiang pursed his lips and smiled after speaking, so that Huang Qiusheng in front of him couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, and took the lead to cross the threshold and walk towards the courtyard.
The courtyard is a large empty field, in the empty field about eight meters from the gate there is a shadow wall four meters long and three meters high, carved on some auspicious birds and beasts, there are some huts on both sides of the empty field, the huts are inhabited by some people such as servants and servants, at this time are required not to come out to disturb in the house, so they all gather in front of the window that opens a crack to quietly see what the "Chinese" are like. Liu Yeqiang glanced at it quietly, he really didn't know how many heads were there in front of the window, and many eyes were staring at him, which made him feel a little nervous. A large rat ran down the ditch by the drain not far away, and a tanuki was lying next to it, giving it a bored look and then staring at the approaching man with disdain.
Huang Qiusheng led the way in front, and walked into the door of the inner courtyard with Liu Yeqiang and Liu Chuanzhi behind, followed by a special investigator with a carbine, although those guards knew that the gun in his hand must be a weapon, but they thought that it should not be more threatening than the bayonet, so they didn't say anything. As for the other special investigator, he stayed outside to guard the car in the reconnaissance car -- you must know that the people of this time and space have already followed many people behind the car to look at this strange car curiously, and if they can't keep it, they will reach out and touch it, and if they damage the vehicle, it will be a troublesome matter, and the people's destructive power is the strongest.
As soon as he walked into the inner courtyard, Liu Yeqiang was stunned for a moment, it turned out that there were already ten large tables in the inner courtyard, and there were wine banquets on the tables, and many people in luxurious clothes were chatting in the open space of the inner courtyard in twos and threes. At this time, when they saw the governor come in with a short-haired man who was obviously dressed differently from ordinary people, they knew that it must be a bearded man, so they rushed over to greet him, and for a time blocked the entrance of the inner courtyard.
"Colleagues, squires, this is from Dongfang Harbor-" Huang Qiusheng couldn't help but stutter as he said this, he suddenly couldn't remember the name of this man, you must know that he was so excited when he got the gift just now that he forgot all the things he should remember.
Liu Yeqiang knew that he didn't remember, so he smiled and stepped forward and said loudly, "Below is Liu Yeqiang from the Science and Technology Department of Oriental Port, greetings to you." ”
The people below saluted him to welcome, Huang Qiusheng was very grateful to Liu Yeqiang for the speed of introducing himself, and relieved him, this group of people has courage and combat effectiveness, and now they speak and act quite decently, and their attitude towards them in their hearts has improved a few points.
But Liu Chuanzhi was a little uneasy here, you must know that he didn't plan to have dinner here, he prepared a dinner for this group of people who went north to Beijing in his house. But at the moment, Huang Qiusheng obviously put himself in his pocket, you must know that there are so many local squires and bureaucrats in Beihai in front of him, and it is impossible if he originally planned to secretly agree on some things with the people. Since the governor was deliberately welcoming the people to the governor's mansion, he must have a plan. Now that there are many mouths, if the governor sets a tone that is not very favorable to him, it will be difficult for him to carry out things with the people in the future, and if it is set today, there will be no way to change it in the future.
Liu Yeqiang followed Huang Qiusheng to the chairman, and sat on the main seat with Huang Qiusheng, located in Huang Qiusheng's right-hand position. Liu Yeqiang didn't really have much idea about where to sit, he saw a good thing he had missed for a long time - roast suckling pig, this roast suckling pig was golden all over, and he was biting a green apple in his mouth, and his limbs were spread out and lying on the plate.
This roast suckling pig is only about 12 catties, the master of the roast pig seems to be good, the pig is coated with a layer of honey, and it is exuding bursts of honey fragrance. However, what made Liu Yeqiang feel a little depressed was that the roast pig was sprinkled with a lot of peppercorns, and the peppercorns were sprinkled on the suckling pig's body like a starry sky. Liu Yeqiang couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva directly, this posture made Huang Qiusheng and the natives feel strange in their eyes. Now the people of the East have built new factories one after another, selling so many strange goods at amazing prices every day, and there should be money. Although this roast suckling pig costs more than ten taels, judging from the 2,000 yuan grant on the gift just now, it should not be unbearable, so why swallow saliva quietly?
As for Liu Yeqiang, he can be regarded as a healthy figure before the crossing, although he exercises less, but he doesn't eat much meat. This habit has been maintained until before the crossing, and after the crossing, after eating raw seafood with everyone every day, he began to have the same seafood rejection as everyone, and he still can't stand eating this every day, so his previous habit of not liking meat has changed in Dongfang Port, and basically no longer has this "bad habit".
First, as the main provider of meat, pigs are very prone to plague, and the infectious disease is very severe, there is often swine fever in one region after another, and a death is a piece, this situation is incurable even in the era of the abuse of antibiotics in the old time and space, and the source is not easy and the price is relatively expensive; Second, raising pigs is a long process in this time and space, you must know that many people can't even eat enough now, where is there enough food to feed pigs? There are no feed factories here, and even if there are feed factories, I am afraid that they will be directly eaten up by the hungry people. Therefore, even if everything goes smoothly and there will be no swine fever or anything, if you want to let the pigs be slaughtered, it will take at least about two years; Third, the current food hygiene department is very strict with the quarantine of pork, almost to the point of perversion, once a parasite such as pork tapeworm is found, then even if it is a pig bought, it can only be killed and burned, and it must not be eaten by the patriarch. In this way, even if Dongfang Port is now the richest place in the Annan Wu Dynasty, eating meat is still a very difficult thing, and being able to eat braised pork once can make the elders of Dongfang Port boil, just like the New Year.
But now this roast suckling pig has made Liu Yeqiang difficult, is this to eat or not to eat? As the head of the science and technology department, he still has a little involvement in food quarantine, after all, he participated in the compilation. Don't look at the pig in front of you roasted so beautifully, you want to drool when you look at it, but you don't know if there will be parasite eggs eyeing you under the cover of delicious meat.
Liu Yeqiang was in trouble here, so he saw Huang Qiusheng standing up, holding a cup in his hand and saying, "This time, there are distinguished guests from Dongfang Harbor here, and the governor's mansion is full of brilliance. But having said that, Huang Qiusheng still didn't have much gratitude on his face, and as Liu Yeqiang expected, he had a later text. I saw him turn to Liu Yeqiang with a wine glass and say, "Let you and I drink this wine to the fullest, and welcome the return of Dongfang Port to my Dawu Dynasty Annan!" ”
Liu Yeqiang smiled slightly, and Liu Chuanzhi, who was sitting opposite him, changed his face, Liu Chuanzhi never thought that Huang Qiusheng would throw this question at this time. Ever since the fall of the Beihaiwei Tower, the Beacon Tower has been occupied by the Bunkers and have been building and building the city. The current Beihaiwei beacon tower is now full of various houses and buildings for about ten miles, and it seems to be a huge city. The people of the Yan Dynasty did not use the bricks and tiles of the Wu Dynasty to establish this city, but on the contrary, they also used their own strength to contain the displaced people for the Wu Dynasty, so as not to let a large number of displaced people starve to death every year. To put it mildly, although the Yan people occupied the land of the Wu Dynasty, they made a great contribution to the Wu Dynasty, especially this typhoon, although Zhou Jinfeng sent a letter asking for help, but unlike other counties, he could think that it must be the Yan people who supported An Yun, and more often it was the Wu Dynasty that took advantage of Dongfang Port.
Now that Huang Qiusheng suddenly talked about this during the banquet, what was his intention? Obviously, he wanted to force the man in front of him to express his position, so that the Wu Dynasty could send officials to take over Dongfang Port and enjoy the benefits of the fisherman. This incident is the same as the rumor that Annan sent officials to take over Champa Port at the end of last year, but with the Champa Port Rebellion at the beginning of this year, and the subsequent successful attack against Annam's 100,000-strong army, the Yan people have been able to actually occupy and control the area of Champanggang. According to Cen Min, the vast majority of the people are Chinese people, and the language and writing are all from China, so they are polite to the Wu Dynasty, even if they are polite, of course, they are only polite, and when communicating with Cen Min and Liu Chuanzhi in private, this group of "thieves" does not have the slightest sense of thieves, and always regards themselves as a country, and negotiates with the officials of the Wu Dynasty on an equal footing. At present, Huang Qiusheng suddenly attacked, almost certainly angered this group of Chinese, this team was going to Beijing to give gifts, and now even Annan did not go out to meet this group of self-righteous bureaucrats, if this matter affects the relationship between the two sides and causes the relationship to deteriorate, it must be the Wu Dynasty who suffers.
Liu Yeqiang was stunned for a moment, then stood up, and said with a glass in his hand, "I don't have an official background here, so I can't accept it here, if the governor has this intention, you can send someone to Dongfang Port to discuss with our Senate Executive Committee." At this time, it is a matter of bilateral relations and a matter of national importance, and I hope that I do not have sufficient authority to agree to this matter. ”
"Huh?" Huang Qiusheng couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that the thief in front of him would shake this matter so cleanly, put the cup on the table and said, "This matter is very important, it is related to the national body of the Wu Dynasty, and the rules must be set here before we can talk about the following things." If Dongfang Port does not belong to our Wu Dynasty, then there is no need to go to Beijing to offer gifts! ”
"This," Liu Yeqiang was about to speak, but saw Cen Min, who had been sitting at the bottom and did not speak, and said to himself, "Cen Mou remembered something," Seeing that the people at the table all turned their heads to look at Cen Min, he picked up the wine glass on the table and took a sip lightly, and then said, "The matter of Dongfang Port's gift was urgently sent to Beijing by Jinyiwei for 800 miles, and it was Jinyiwei who commanded General Tian Ergeng to personally report to the emperor, and the emperor asked Dongchang Wei Gonggong to draft a decree to announce their entry into Beijing. ”
Cen Min's tone was slow when he spoke, as if he was talking to himself, as if he didn't care about his own business, but Huang Qiusheng in front of him turned pale for a while. If it is said that he did not know about this Dongfang Port gift incident, if it weren't for the fact that a subordinate happened to hear that a major matter was being discussed in the General's Mansion recently, he would have been kept in the dark at all. After all, he is the governor of Annan, and he has cultivated a lot of wings in Annan for a few years, and the collection of information even let him know that the people are preparing to go north to Beijing. Therefore, this time I sent someone to greet the people early, so that I could make more profits from it to subsidize myself, not to mention that even if I couldn't get any money, it would be a great achievement to be able to "regain the lost territory", and if I could do a good job in this governor, I might be able to be recalled to Beijing to be a Beijing official. He never expected that under his nose, the Jinyi Guard, the General's Mansion and the Beard Man had secretly reached such an agreement, and they could directly report to the emperor by passing him by, didn't this make him calculate in vain? He thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but laugh again, "Since it is the emperor's will, can there be a holy decree?" ”
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