Bai Nan has been staying in the special office of entrepreneurship support until dinner before leaving, at this time there is even nothing to eat in the canteen, outside his home, Bai Nan saw Xu Xin, this beautiful girl was holding a rice bucket in her hand, and saw Bai Nan smile at him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I know that you can't take care of eating when you're busy, I bought an extra one today and brought it to you, it may not be as delicious as your canteen, but you will also be fine." Xu Xinqiao stood there, like a cute little wife, and Bai Nan was also slightly stunned.

"Thank you." Bai Nan said that he knew that this girl was interesting to him, otherwise he would not have frequent contact with him, but she was generally a little reserved of a girl's family, and this kind of thing was always not good for her to take the initiative to confess to the boy. However, Bai Nan hasn't thought about falling in love for the time being, and Xu Xin is quite far from his expected girlfriend - Xu Xin is a little too beautiful.

However, it is still very pleasant to get along with this girl, men are visual creatures, even if you chat with such a pleasing girl, you feel refreshed, not to mention that this girl always takes the initiative to find and even take care of herself.

So, Bai Nan took the initiative to say to Xu Xin for the first time: "Come in and sit down." ”

Xu Xin smiled, not looking very happy, but still upside down.

"There is no tea at home, is it okay to boil water?" Bai Nan said.

Xu Xin nodded and said: "You don't have to worry about me, I'll just pour the water myself, you can eat your food, you are tired into a dog every day, even if I receive you so much salary, I don't want to do it." ”

Bai Nan blinked and said, "In the special office, I also get a subsidy, which is equivalent to the salary of the position." ”

Xu Xin snorted: "Then your salary this month is at least five hundred yuan." ”

Bai Nan took a few bites of rice and said, "Almost." ”

Xu Xin looked at his little bachelor dormitory and said, "Look, you make a lot of money every month, why don't you think about adding some furniture or anything to your home, just such a thing, how shabby." ”

Bai Nan said embarrassedly: "I don't care about it." ”

"I'll go with you another day, the top floor of the department store is now a furniture store, and I heard that there are some things that are very exquisitely made."

Bai Nan smiled: "This is true, I heard Zheng He say that there are some antique furniture over there, what Huanghuali's Eight Immortals table, sandalwood ornaments or something, all of them are exchanged from the fleet, but the price tag is a little scary, no one can afford it, Zheng He bought a sandalwood box, and he didn't say how much it cost." ”

Xu Xin said: "Who has nothing to do to buy those things, besides, buy these now, eighty percent will be lost, one day our fleet went to East Asia, in exchange for real Ming and Qing antique furniture, these things will definitely fall in price." ”

"Not necessarily, maybe after everyone has money, the demand increases greatly, and the price rises accordingly. Bai Nan finished a meal in two bites, drank a sip of water and chatted with Xu Xin.

Xu Xin said: "If you want me to say, the cabinet should quickly form a trade fleet to go to the Qing Kingdom, now there is no tea to drink saliva, and the cans of tea at home used to be good tea, I don't look at it, now tea bags have become a rare thing, and I feel very nostalgic for the taste of tea." ”

"It should be soon, Wang Jinghong is preparing for this, and he should be able to make the trip in the near future. The scale will not be particularly large, and there is still a discussion on what kind of identity to go to Qingguo to do trade. After all, we are a predominantly Han Chinese country established overseas, and if we trade in an official capacity, it may also cause the Qing court to be vigilant and ostracized. However, if you don't go as a Tang businessman, what is your identity? These are questions that are still being discussed. ”

Xu Xinbian flattened his mouth and said: "You bureaucrats, you are really troublesome, and politics is also the most complicated thing. ”

Bai Nan smiled lightly, but he did not mention to Xu Xin that he was the most radical in the political arena in terms of communicating with East Asia, because the solution proposed by Bai Nan was more direct - bombarding Tanggukou, rushing to attack Beijing, and directly forcing the Qing court to sign something similar to the "Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing".

Because of this proposal, Bai Nan was not less criticized, especially Xue Yue and others, who had experienced the history of a hundred years of humiliation, and even pointed at Bai Nan's nose and scolded him for being a bloody dog, thinking that Bai Nan was a wolf with ambition and a Chinese scum.

Bai Nan naturally knows that his idea still has a lot of immaturity, for example, the war against the Qing Dynasty will inevitably produce a large number of innocent compatriots who will be affected, although they are two countries in the Tang Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, but the people are still blood compatriots, and a war is likely to bring greater cracks, which will cause many tragedies.

When he was younger, Bai Nan was still a standard Emperor Han Party, and he hated Tatar Qingzhen, and the Emperor Han Party had always had a creed - wear Qing and not rebel, and chrysanthemum set electric drills. Even if it is not considered from the perspective of national feelings, the Qing Dynasty is not capable of leading an excellent nation forward, and its insanity and obsolescence are brewing a greater crisis for this nation. Bai Nan also thought about it more than once, if the 300 million people were the people of the Tang Dynasty and could promote various modernization measures, what would the world look like.

But for now, it's just a matter of thinking.

The two chatted for a while, and suddenly the phone on Bai Nan's desk rang. This thing was also transplanted directly from the fleet's off-the-shelf equipment, and only a few "busy people" in Los Angeles had the treatment of having a telephone at home, and now the telephone still needs an operator to connect the line.

"Hey, I'm Bai Nan...... Oh, I see, I'll go over it. Bai Nan put down the phone and glanced apologetically at Xu Xin.

Xu Xin was aware of the opportunity and said, "It's almost time for me to go back, otherwise I will be gossiped about." However, you are really busy, and there are still people looking for you now. ”

Bai Nandao: "Suddenly, the navy intercepted a Spanish ship in the waters near us. ”

Xu Xin became interested: "What, is it the ship sent by the Spaniards to negotiate with us?" Or are they coming to attack us? ”

Bai Nan shook his head: "No, this time it is not sent by the government, it is a civilian smuggling boat." ”

"Smuggling boats?" Xu Xin was even more surprised.

Bai Nandao: "I'll go and see first, I don't know the specific situation." ”

"Alright, you can go quickly."

Bai Nan hurried to the port of Long Beach, where he had been riding horses in recent months, such as Long Beach and other places a little far from Los Angeles, and now he was riding very well. However, after Datang Petroleum began to produce oil, he had a car to sit in. Now among the official cars, it is the warrior off-road vehicle and the classic car of the Republic of China. Among them, the warrior off-road vehicle is mainly used to run those places with poor road conditions, while the Cadillac, Buick, and Daimler Mercedes-Benz produced in the thirties and forties are used to run the roads in the city.

For example, the red-painted Cadillac that Bai Nan is riding in now claims to be Chang Kaishen's car, but Chang Kaishen arrived in Taiwan safely, but his car crossed through and became Datang's official car.

When the Cadillac arrived at the port of Long Beach, it was already dark and there were no workers on the docks, but the lights were still bright, and Bai Nan saw a group of people gathered there, apparently the military and government people who had come to deal with the matter.

The first thing Bai Nan heard when he walked into the crowd was, "Do you have tea here?" The price is negotiable. ”

The great eunuch Wang Jinghong was present in person as the Minister of Commerce, and when he heard the words of the translator who translated him, his nose was almost crooked, and he said: "The miscellaneous family still wants to find someone to exchange some tea to drink, you are dreaming like this." ”

Bai Nan approached and took a few glances at the Spaniard, who was full of philistine and adventurer spirit, his complexion was very dark, he should be a little mixed-race, his hair was messy, and there was a sour smell on his body, but his eyes were extremely bright.

Wang Jinghong nodded at Bai Nan and said, "General Counselor, you came just in time, it's really hard to talk to this ghost, you talk to him, and the miscellaneous family is watching from the side." ”

"Yes, Minister Wang."

"This gentleman, I am an official of the Datang Republic, please report your name, the name of your ship, as well as the port from which you departed and the purpose of your coming to Datang." Bai Nan said very officially.

The Spaniard bowed to Bai Nan, still looking very small, and said, "Haha, honorable official, thank God you speak Spanish." I am Alfonso Silva, my ship is called Holy Mary, and I and my crew have come from the port of Vallar to the great Tang Republic to do business with your country. ”

"Mr. Silva, the Tang Dynasty has not signed a trade treaty with Spain, are you sure that your commercial activities are permitted by the colonial authorities of New Spain?"

Silva said nonchalantly: "Those colonial officials are fat-brained and slow-moving fools, I heard that they did not believe in the strength of your country and provoked your country, and as a result, they suffered a huge military defeat, which is deserved!" How can they care about the lives and deaths of us small businessmen? We can only desperately find some livelihood on our own, Datang is on the back of Mexico, so close, and Datang produces all kinds of precious products, I was fortunate to buy some Datang goods before, it is really exquisite. I think that the people of Mexico need the goods of Datang, so let those colonial officials die, and I myself drove to Datang in a boat, with full sincerity and admiration for your country, hoping to be able to trade with your country. ”

As he spoke, this Silva actually took out a bag of gold and stuffed it into Bai Nan's hand.