Qi Hongying got what she wanted, and she didn't pester Li Hongfei, but hurriedly took a boat to Jiangbei, so that the parents and officials in Jiangbei and other places came to discuss these plans with Wu Hao in person. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It seems that Baoshan will not be quiet in the future, so I'd better go somewhere else to hide and be quiet." After Qi Hongying left, Li Hongfei muttered to himself.

He made up his plan to open a branch factory in Jiangbei, if this was known by the bigwigs in other provinces, wouldn't they all come to him one by one?

Now is a serious shortage of production capacity, in Yangzhou and other places to open a branch factory, just to solve this embarrassing situation, at the same time the use of Yangzhou in all directions of waterway transportation, Suzhou goods sold to all over the place, this is a win-win good thing.

But if branches are opened in various places at the same time, Li Hongfei has not yet had such an awareness.

As the saying goes: strange goods can live.

If there are too many things, they are not worth much.

"I'm sorry, it's the concubine who makes my husband embarrassed." Chen Yuanyuan whispered.

In her opinion, Li Hongfei was hindered by her side, so it was difficult to refuse Qi Hongying.

"It's none of your business, Qi Hongying has helped me a lot before, even if you don't say it, I will definitely help her, in addition to hiding Qingjing this time, I have other important things to solve." Li Hongfei didn't want Chen Yuanyuan to have too much burden in his heart.

"I'll go wherever you go." Chen Yuanyuan said.

She was afraid that Li Hongfei would leave her again............

On the second day, Li Hongfei took Chen Yuanyuan and more than a dozen entourages, lightly armed, and secretly took a boat down the river, and came to the county seat of Shanghai in just one day.

"Sir, do you need to notify the Yao County Order?" The accompanying team leader asked in a low voice.

"No, let's go to Fanfang first." Li Hongfei said.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in Beijing, Nanjing, and coastal port cities, there were Fanfangs to accept overseas tributary envoys.

Since the implementation of the reform in Suzhou, Shanghai's Fanfang has been particularly lively, and many businessmen from small overseas countries have even sent special personnel to be stationed near the port in order to get the goods in Suzhou for the first time.

"These people look so strange, their eyes are blue!" Chen Yuanyuan looked at the pedestrians passing through the carriage and couldn't help but be surprised.

In addition to Asians from all over the South Seas, there are also Europeans from the West, mainly Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch.

These people were dressed in strange clothes, fair skin, brown hair, and blue eyes, and they looked like the ghosts described in the book, not to mention Chen Yuanyuan, and even the well-trained soldiers beside them were very curious about these Westerners.

Although today's Ming Dynasty has declined, in the eyes of these Europeans, it is a genuine "Heavenly Empire", and a group of foreigners are very disciplined when doing business here, and even when they are oppressed by local ruffians and hooligans, they are only willing to say anything.

The status of foreigners in Fanfang is not as awesome as that leased in later generations, foreigners here, there are almost no human rights at all, and a few foreigners die every day, which is a common thing, and the local government is too lazy to investigate these cases.

But if there are people of the Ming Dynasty who die in Fanfang, then the foreigners here will be unlucky, even if these foreigners don't do it, then they have to come up with a lot of money to settle this matter.

It is not so much that the government seeks justice for the people of the Ming Dynasty, but that it is better to take the opportunity to find foreigners to extort money.

But no matter what, at least the status of the local people is much higher than that of foreigners.

With such harsh conditions, why are there so many foreigners living here, there is no other reason, it is really that the Ming Dynasty is too rich.

A ship, only need to transport a shipload of goods back to Europe, then this person, including his family, will not have to worry about the life of several generations.

People die for money, birds die for food, and in this era, most of the Europeans who can cross half the world and come here are adventurous people, or more bluntly, pirates.

What the pirates had to do was to plunder, but after being subdued by the Ming sailors several times, they finally got honest and obediently started business with the Han people, even if they took advantage of the gap beyond the reach of the Ming whip to occupy Macao and Taiwan, in addition to fighting the maritime power of other countries, they did not dare to go too far with the local Han people, which is also the main reason why Li Hongfei did not recover Macao and Taiwan in the first time after mastering the sailors.

As long as these Europeans do not engage in territorial splitting, they will be left to them for the time being, and when the Manchu Qing opponent is resolved, they will be freed up to teach this group of Westerners a good lesson.

In this regard, the Portuguese did a good job, although in 1553, the Portuguese obtained the right of residence in Macau, but they have always said that it is only a lease, and pay a large amount of rent to Daming every year.

Historically, it was not until December 1, 1887, when Portugal and the Qing Dynasty government signed the Draft Treaty of the Sino-Portuguese Conference and the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peace and Commerce, that the formalities of diplomatic documents were officially passed, and Macao was occupied and turned into a colony.

Li Hongfei's guards were curious about these Westerners, and these Westerners, in the face of everyone's curious eyes, seemed to be accustomed to seeing them, but after seeing the Han people, they quickly bowed their heads, stood on both sides, and made way for Li Hongfei's convoy.

"It would be nice if in a few hundred years, the descendants of these Europeans could be so respectful." Li Hongfei couldn't help but sigh quietly.

Historically, about two hundred years later, everything in front of us will be reversed, the Han people will become slaves, the Europeans will become the most noble existence, and even the small Wa Kingdom will step on the head of China to and pee.

In the final analysis, all this was caused by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Li Hongfei secretly vowed in his heart: We must not let such a tragedy happen again.

"What are you talking about, husband?" Chen Yuanyuan didn't hear clearly.

"It's nothing, there's a restaurant in front of you, and it's about to be eaten, so you must be hungry too, why don't we try the food of the domain?" Li Hongfei changed the subject.

In fact, Chen Yuanyuan does not have too many demands for food, she not only has the cultivation and temperament of everyone's beautiful ladies, but also retains the thrifty character of ordinary people, whether it is delicacies from the mountains and seas, or coarse tea and light rice, for her, it is just food to fill her stomach.

But Li Hongfei is different, he was originally a foodie, every time he goes to a place, he always thinks about the local food, and now when he comes to Fanfang, he naturally has to enjoy the feeling of romantic Western food with Chen Yuanyuan.

Soon, Li Hongfei and his entourage came to this western restaurant called "Miro Sunshine".

"The name sounds great." Li Hongfei muttered to himself.

Although he didn't understand the moral at all.

"The chicken is crooked, and you are invited to face it objectively (a few objective people are please)"

At the door of the restaurant, a foreigner who spoke broken Chinese, imitated the appearance of the shopkeeper, and beckoned Li Hongfei and his party into the store.

The interior of this Western restaurant is almost the same as an ordinary restaurant, with seven or eight square tables distributed around, the only difference is that there are no chopsticks on the table.

This is too casual, right, what about the romantic Western food that is good?

After everyone sat down, Xiao Er of the Western store asked again: "Excuse me, what do you eat?" ”

Maybe it's because the number of words is relatively small, and it's not so tongue-twisting, but the little two of the Western store finally made this sentence clear.

"Bring you the most expensive and delicious food here." Li Hongfei said magnificently.

There is no way, he rarely eats Western food, especially in such a "strange" Western restaurant, he can only let the chef arrange it.

After a while, the second child of the Western-style shop began to serve the food.........

"Damn! Are you kidding me? Shaxian mixed noodles and scallion pancakes are also considered Western food? Well, even if this is Western food, what does instant noodles mean? Li Hongfei was amused.

Shaxian noodles and scallion pancakes, after Li Hongfei saw it, he thought of a possibility, that is, pasta and pizza.

There is even a legend in later generations that this pasta, along with Italian pizza, was learned by the famous Italian traveler Marco Polo when he traveled in China and introduced to the West.

As far as the origin of Western food is concerned, it can be called the mother of Western food, Italian cuisine inherited from Roman culture, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the cooking techniques of every European country originated in Italy.

So if you haven't eaten Italian food, you're really not a person who has eaten Western food.

Now I insist on saying that the Western restaurant Xiaoer serves Western food, and I can think so, but ........ What does this instant noodle mean?

Through the stumbling explanation of the little two in the Western store, Li Hongfei and his entourage finally understood.

Western food is now in Daming, there is not much market at all, plus Daming prohibits slaughtering cattle, the most famous and noble steak in Western food, is also listed as a forbidden meal in Daming, as for pork chops and lamb chops, raw materials are expensive, not to mention, the people of Daming would rather go to the Chinese restaurant to eat Dongpo meat and roast whole sheep, than come to this Western restaurant, eat the so-called pork chops and lamb chops.

So when Li Hongfei proposed to eat the most expensive and delicious things, this Western shop junior could only take out the best-selling pasta, Italian pizza, and instant noodles in their store.

It seems that Westerners in Daming are really not very good, and even they themselves have given up Western food and turned to the instant noodles produced by Suzhou Food Factory.

Li Hongfei wanted to continue to say something, but the guards who accompanied him ate instant noodles one after another, Li Hongfei didn't like instant noodles, it didn't mean that others didn't like this kind of fried food.

A good Western meal turned into instant noodles, mixed noodles and baked cakes, and Li Hongfei ate it tastelessly.

Just as Li Hongfei was eating sullenly, a Westerner walked in from the door.

This person was dressed like the rest of the Westerners, except for a big beard, there was no characteristic.

With Li Hongfei's face blindness to foreigners, I am afraid that if this person goes out for a walk, Li Hongfei will not be able to recognize who is who.

The person who came in didn't order, but began to look around, and the little two of the Western store seemed to know this person, and even a little disgusted, and didn't bother to come forward to greet the other party.

Soon, the Western bearded man stared at Li Hongfei and his party, and his eyes stayed on Chen Yuanyuan without moving.

"What do you mean? Want to rob me of a woman? I'm worried that I don't have a place to be angry! Li Hongfei thought to himself.

Just when Li Hongfei wanted to beat someone, the bearded man took the initiative to walk next to Chen Yuanyuan and said in fluent Chinese: "Honorable and beautiful young lady, hello." ”

is quite gentlemanly, Li Hongfei couldn't help but plan to do it, wanting to see what the other party was going to say next.

"You...... Hello. Chen Yuanyuan was accosted by strangers, especially Westerners, and was a little overwhelmed.

"Beautiful young lady, I don't have any malice, I just think that a beauty like you needs a beautiful piece of jewelry to bring out your temperament." Seeing the other party's response, the bearded man hurriedly took the opportunity to say.

Get....... Dare to be a salesman, Li Hongfei quickly understood, but although this person is fluent in Chinese, his sales level is not good, as soon as he comes up to praise people, he starts to sell things, who would be so stupid to sell you a stranger's things?

"Excuse me, I don't understand what you're talking about." Chen Yuanyuan replied politely.

Sure enough, Chen Yuanyuan didn't even understand what the other party was talking about, if it weren't for politeness, it is estimated that Chen Yuanyuan would not have bothered to continue talking.

"I have a sapphire necklace here, I am sure you can bring it, and the whole person's temperament will be greatly improved."

After the bearded man finished speaking, he quickly took out a necklace from his pocket and put it in front of Chen Yuanyuan's eyes.

The necklace is inlaid with a transparent "gem" the size of a pigeon's egg and a bright dark blue, which looks both elegant and extravagant, and soon, Chen Yuanyuan's eyes can no longer be removed.

There is no woman who doesn't like jewelry, Chen Yuanyuan is the same, the gold hairpin on her head and the pendant on her ear are all made by Li Hongfei to ask famous craftsmen, which is both beautiful and expensive, which may be the reason why the bearded man came to sell "gems".

"What kind of gem are you?" Li Hongfei asked with interest.

He had already seen the clues, but he didn't immediately break them, he just wanted to see what the hell this guy was doing.

"This is the Heart of the Ocean, a gemstone unique to southwestern India, and two have been found so far, one brought to France by Lord Tavermir and the other just happened to be with me." The bearded man explained mysteriously.

India in ancient China, was called "Tianzhu", or "body poison", later Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang, to the Western Regions to learn scriptures, according to the "Indu" pronunciation is named "India", after which Huaxia will "Tianzhu" changed its name to India.

And "Heart of the Ocean" is the dark blue diamond necklace worn by the heroine in the Titanic in later generations.

In 1642, the French explorer and jeweler Tavermeer first got his hands on this huge gem, diamond, weighing 112.5 carats, in southwestern India, which has an extremely rare deep blue color.

Tavermier brought the gem back to France and presented it to King Louis XIV of France, who conferred him an official position and rewarded him with a large sum of money in the price of the gem, which shows the value of the "Heart of the Sea".

Now, only three or four years have passed, and the popularity of the "Heart of the Ocean" has not dissipated at all, and many people have crossed the ocean in search of this similar treasure.

And this bearded man named Hopnauff, who claimed to have dug up another "heart of the sea" in southwest India according to the clues provided by Tavimir, originally planned to return to Europe by boat, but because of the leakage of news, he had to leave in the opposite direction by boat, and he was exiled to China.

"Now, in order to return to France as soon as possible, I can only reluctantly sell the Heart of the Ocean for some travel expenses back to China." Hopnav said in a deep voice.

"If that's the case, can't you sell it to other companions? Even if you are still in the pawnshop, you can get enough money for the journey! Li Hongfei retorted.

Li Hongfei's meaning is obvious, since it is a treasure, how can it be so public, just find someone to sell it, aren't you afraid of being snatched away?

"The Heart of the Ocean is priceless, I have to find a suitable owner for it, and this beautiful lady's temperament is worthy of the Heart of the Ocean, so I chose this young lady." Hopnauff snapped.

"Okay, okay, tell me the specific price." Li Hongfei said impatiently.

He didn't want to listen to the other party continue to brag, anyway, he already knew what this thing was, since Chen Yuanyuan liked it so much, as long as the price was not outrageous, he didn't mind buying it.