On the third floor of the Dynasty Restaurant, inside the box of the Listening Tide Pavilion.

According to Cheng Gong's usual dietary preferences, Ning Ningru ordered eight dishes of Australian lobster, abalone with oyster sauce, crystal shark fin, vermicelli scallops, crab tofu soup, honey eel, loofah shrimp, and winter melon and clam soup.

Then I ordered a bottle of Lafite in 1905 and a bottle of Moutai in 1890.

The dishes were served quickly, and within fifteen minutes of Ning Jingru finishing ordering, all the dishes and wines were not ready. It's no wonder that the business of this dynasty restaurant is so hot, and even the speed of serving food can retain customers.

Looking at the glass of red wine and a small cup of white wine that Ning Jingru poured for him on the table in front of him, Cheng Gong couldn't help but laugh jokingly: "I said Jingru, you are red wine and white wine, do you want me, the boss, to make a mistake after getting drunk!" ”

"The Emperor...... Boss, I remember when I was in Chongming Island, you said a word to me. Ning Jingru said as she picked up the white wine glass with both hands and toasted to Cheng Gong.

"What?" Cheng Gong flipped through his memories, but he didn't remember what he had said on the night he first harmed Ning Jingru.

Ning Jingru gently touched the wine glass on Cheng Gong's cup, took a sip gently, and then leaned over and exhaled in Cheng Gong's ear and whispered: "You said, if a man is not drunk, a woman has no chance." ”

That's not right! It should be that women are not drunk, and men have no chance! Cheng Gong couldn't help muttering to himself in his heart.

Supposedly, women of this era have never heard of such things. Is it really what I said?

Cheng Gong raised his glass and drank all the Moutai in this eight-coin cup, and looked at Ning Jingru with great interest, "What else did I say?" ”

Ning Jingru held a small wine cup in one hand, got up and sat down on Cheng Gong's lap, gently put her left hand around Cheng Gong's neck, and said in his ear: "You also said that there is something to do for the secretary, nothing to do for the secretary, this is the happy life of the buddy." ”

No way! Looks like I'm really talking about it!

"Anything else?" Cheng Gong muttered in his heart while asking, I didn't spit out the truth when I was drunk, and revealed the secret that my brother is a traverser!

"You said, wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beauty, a man should be a man."

"Go on."

"You said that you want to build a big harem and collect all the beauties in the world. Say you're never going to be a dead otaku anymore. ”

I・Day! I've even said the word dead otaku!

"Anything else?" Cheng Gong asked worriedly.

"Nope." Ning Jingru sat on Cheng Gongda's lap, her face flushed, and said in a coquettish voice: "But you sang a song, this song has never been sung by anyone, and the lyrics and tunes have an indescribable lonely mood."

Especially when you sing, 'Loneliness is unbearable, loneliness is unbearable, love is a hard wait, love is the most distant future, time is no more, time is no more, only you cheer for yourself, only you are sad for yourself', people find that your heart is really lonely, lonely and sad......"

At this time, Tu Zhiqiang had already given Zhang Chunrui a look, quickly got up and came out of the box, and called the young and beautiful waitress out by the way.

In the aisle in front of the box of Tingchao Pavilion, Yang Zhiyong accompanied an old man in his fifties, dressed in a satin robe and horse coat, wearing a melon skin hat on his head, and with an extraordinary bearing, walking calmly in the direction of Tingchao Pavilion.

Seeing Tu Zhiqiang, dressed in a dark green jacket, come out of the box, the old man raised his voice from afar and said, "Mr. Tu, Mr. Tu!" ”

Tu Zhiqiang followed the prestige and frowned slightly, but he still smiled on his face and nodded lightly, which was regarded as a greeting. Then motioned for Zhang Chunrui to guard the door of the box, and he walked towards the other party.

"Chairman Zeng, long time no see." Tu Zhiqiang shook hands with the noble old man without being rude, and said with a smile indifferently: "Your business is becoming more and more prosperous, and your wealth is wide!" ”

"That's not thanks to the fact that the Holy God has given us businessmen a great environment!" As he spoke, Chairman Zeng clasped his hands into fists in the direction of the Imperial Palace, and said solemnly: "Without this paradise on earth created by the Holy Lord, our Zeng family would not be able to create the current commercial prosperity. ”

As the chairman of Dynasty Restaurant and the chairman of the Zeng Group, Zeng Guangjie has created much more wealth for the Zeng family in the past two years than the entire Shonan Zeng family has accumulated in the past 60 years. Of course, this is inseparable from the resources and rights controlled by Zeng Guanghong, the former foreign minister of the Donghui Kingdom, but all the clansmen of the Zeng clan understand better that without His Majesty Cheng Gong, it would be impossible to have the glory of the Zeng clan today.

At the beginning, the Xiangnan Zeng family decided to bet on Cheng Gong, and since this step was taken, there was no turning back.

Although Zeng Guanghong was in the important position of foreign minister in the Donghui cabinet at that time, all the businesses that Zeng invested in Paradise Island and Shuguang Island adhered to Zeng's family motto, strictly abided by business ethics, neither engaged in opportunistic shortcuts, nor took the shortcut of collusion between officials and businessmen, and adhered to the business philosophy of honesty, and made steady progress step by step.

It turns out that the Zeng family did the right thing!

In the purge launched by Cheng Gong, not only did many people lose their heads, but also a large number of illegal and illegal private capital was nationalized and confiscated. Only a few law-abiding businessmen and families have benefited from the blessing of misfortune, and the scale of their assets has skyrocketed. It has created the eight major consortium families of today's Donghua Empire, and the Zeng family is naturally one of them.

Zeng Guangjie knows very well that if Zeng's Group wants to continue to develop and grow, it must always keep up with His Majesty Cheng Gong's development ideas, principles and policies. Therefore, he pays special attention to Cheng Gong's every word and deed.

Since he learned from Zeng Guanghong that Tu Zhiqiang was the commander of the Cheng's Fort Guard Battalion, Zeng Guangjie secretly attached great importance to Tu Zhiqiang, and with Zeng Guanghong's introduction, he successfully established a good personal friendship with Tu Zhiqiang.

During the time when Tu Zhiqiang went out with Cheng Gong, Zeng Guangjie would go to Tu Zhiqiang's home every once in a while to visit Tu Zhiqiang's parents and younger siblings.

The ancestral home of the Tu family is Cangzhou, Hebei, and Tu Zhiqiang's father, Tu Zhankui, studied under Guo Yunshen, the great master of Xingyi, and won the true biography of Xingyi and Baji. Tu Zhiqiang has followed his father to practice martial arts since he was a child, and he is better than the blue with a body of Xingyi, Baji and half-step collapse boxing. During the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, he resolutely joined the 29th Army to defend his family and defend the country, and after the 77 Incident, the 29th Army was dispersed, and Tu Zhiqiang, who was 28 years old at the time, was discouraged and returned to the field.

However, as soon as he entered the house, he was kicked out by his father Tu Zhankui and asked him to continue to fight little devils in the army. At this time, it happened to be the Panshi mercenaries recruiting in Shanghai, and Tu Zhiqiang was attracted by the recruitment notice of the rock and became the first batch of elite mercenaries to join the rock. By the way, the family also migrated to Dawn Island.

By chance, Tu Zhiqiang was selected by Cheng Gongxiang, and Tu Zhiqiang was appointed as the commander of the Cheng's Fort Guard Battalion, and the elite was selected from the Rock Mercenaries to form the Cheng's Fort Guard Battalion. Tu Zhiqiang's parents and family also came to Paradise Island from Dawn Island and became one of the first citizens of Paradise Island.

Now Cheng's Fort has become the Imperial Palace, and the original Donghui Kingdom has become the Donghua Empire with the entire Oceania colony, Tu Zhiqiang, the head of the Imperial Palace Guard Regiment, is the real head of the imperial guard, and the emperor's close minister.

In fact, it is not only Zeng Guangjie who has made friends with Tu Zhiqiang, but also the Donghua Empire, from cabinet members and military bigwigs to governors and governors of various states, no one does not want to have a good relationship with Tu Zhiqiang.

It's just that Tu Zhiqiang has always been clean and self-conscious, and he knows Cheng Gong's personality very well, so he doesn't dare to cause unnecessary trouble to himself and his family.

Cheng Gong's ******** policy toward imperial officials and the iron-faced selflessness of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) fundamentally eliminated the source of corruption among the founding members of the Donghua Empire for the sake of money.

The crowd at the time of the purge also made these founding members deeply feel how ruthless and terrible Cheng Gong's determination to have zero tolerance for violations of law and discipline was.

(To be continued.) )