Chapter 21 New Officials Take Office

Nancheng Jinyun Building, the golden and brilliant room on the second floor can be described as a cluster of flowers, gold and silver utensils are brilliant, Jinyun Building is not a big place, but there is a universe inside. In particular, this "Golden House Banquet", its luxury can be called the first in Guangzhou, the utensils used are royal style, the dishes are the best in the delicacies of the mountains and seas, "roasted bear's paw", "braised raccoon lips", "dragon and tiger fight", "roasted monkey's head", "ice flower shark's fin", "crab roasted black cucumber" and so ......on, etc., can really see people's eyes fall out, the selected materials are all selected superb, but in the future generations can not eat if you want to eat.

is so luxurious, the price of this table of "Golden Mansion Banquet" is naturally extraordinary, and the cost is three hundred taels of silver, so it is no wonder that Feng Tingzheng was dumbfounded.

Feng Tingzheng was the new deputy commander of the Han Army Banner in Guangzhou, and he was transferred from the Chengdu military account, although he was a second-grade official, but the military attache raised much less incorruptible silver, not to mention that the incorruptible silver came from local fire consumption or taxes, so depending on whether the place was rich or not, the amount of incorruptible silver was different. Feng Dutong added miscellaneous items such as raising incorruptible silver and additional expenses, and it was only six or seven hundred taels of silver a year, not to mention that Chengdu Qicheng was remote, and the incorruptible silver was often stopped, Feng Dutong did not receive the incorruptible silver last year, only if it was just a few hundred taels of silver, this meal almost ate him for two years, how could Feng Tingzheng not be dumbfounded?

And the military attache makes money, which is not as much as the means of the magistrate, and often only falsely reports the number of soldiers, and risks the salary of the leader, but Feng Dutong's superiors are extremely strict, Feng Dutong is from the assistant leader and co-leader, and from the co-leader and deputy commander, almost two sleeves are clean, and the benefits of not a penny of silver have been earned.

Finally out of Xichuan came to the land of flowers in Guangzhou, Feng Tingzheng heard that the deputy capital of Guangzhou raised 1,500 taels of silver, and he was overjoyed, but he didn't want people to use 300 taels of silver for a meal.

Sitting at the same table were Ye Zhao and co-leader Gang'an, naturally Ye Zhao invited guests to pick up Feng Tingzheng.

"After a few days, each of the three battalions dispatched half of their soldiers to take the Yiren steamer to the islands along the coast of Hong Kong to exterminate the water thieves." Ye Zhao pinched the bear's paw with the rich fragrance of chopsticks, but he didn't put it in his mouth, remembered something, and turned his head sideways to Gang'an and said.

Gang'an was stunned for a moment and asked, "Yingyi's steamer?" He is calm and shrewd, others think that Lord Dutong is just relying on the identity of the prince and elder brother, he observes carefully, but he knows that Lord Dutong is cautious, and everything has a charter, but he is not a simple character, coupled with the identity of the son of the iron hat king, I am afraid that the temple will carry the crown in the future. is to Ye Zhao, he obeys his words, and wants to follow this "prince" to make a name for himself.

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "The governor of Hong Kong Island is willing to help us, and fifty percent of the silver money for leasing the steamer will be raised by them." "Every time you train in the barracks, you can't train a single elite soldier, especially if you are new to Western firearms, from this point of view, it can be said that this is a recruit of the third battalion. With the current technical conditions, it is impossible for them to form any red and blue teams for actual combat training, so Ye Zhao set his sights on the pirates in the waters near Hong Kong Island, these pirates are not strong in combat, and some of them are even more rabble, but most of them are equipped with firearms, but they are just used to train the recruits. What's more, taking a steamer and having more contact with the British sailors on the steamer is not an opportunity to increase knowledge, and the more close contact with the foreigners, the more mysterious the foreigners and the ships will be, and the fear of them will gradually fade.

The merchants of all countries hated these pirates, and it was okay for the big merchant ships to have armed sailors, but the common merchants were often harassed. However, whether it was Hong Kong Island or Macao, there were not many garrisons, and it was difficult to allocate manpower to round up pirates, so the officers and men of the Qing Dynasty were willing to come forward and were happy to see this happen. However, Hong Kong Island's current fiscal revenue and expenditure are barely balanced, and Ye Zhao and the Governor of Hong Kong Island, Bao Ling, exchanged letters several times, and finally Bao Ling agreed to provide half of the charter fee, which is a good answer.

Gang'an bowed his head lightly and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will carefully select the soldiers and brave, so as not to fall into the majesty of my Qing Dynasty." He could obviously guess some of Ye Zhao's thoughts.

Ye Zhao smiled slightly: "Let's say it, it's nothing to give Yangyi a little majesty now, but this dealer always has to take turns to do it, is it really a hundred years and a thousand years for their gunboats to come and go in our harbor on their own?" It doesn't make sense. The smile gradually faded, looked at Gang'an, and said lightly: "Gang'an, one day, we can also wear armor and walk in London Harbor." ”

After following Ye Zhao for a long time, Gang'an knew what kind of place London Harbour was, and he said it plainly, but Gang'an's heart was shocked, and his blood was surging, and he heard Dutong's heartfelt complaint for the first time, but he didn't want him to have great ambitions, Gang'an clenched his fists unconsciously, and said in a deep voice: "If there is this, Gang'an is willing to overcome thorns for adults and set the sea frontier." No regrets! ”

Ye Zhao smiled, put the bear meat in his mouth, chewed it slowly, and said, "It's really delicious." He turned his head to look at Feng Tingzheng and said with a smile: "Lord Feng, come, I will toast you, when you come to Guangzhou, we will all have to help each other." ”

Feng Ting was busy raising his wine glass and clinking glasses with Ye Zhao, and said with a smile: "Please take care of me." "The same is the deputy commander, but in front of this prince and elder brother, he can't help but feel that he is half a head shorter, he didn't hear the conversation between Ye Zhao and Gang'an just now, but he heard what he said about requisitioning foreigner steamers, Feng Tingzheng secretly said, sure enough, it is Guangzhou City, but anything new can be encountered, so can Yangyi's ship be used casually?

Ye Zhao and Feng Tingzheng talked very happily, and Gang'an occasionally interjected, but it was always the icing on the cake, and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious.

Seeing that he was almost finished, Ye Zhaozheng was about to propose to disperse, but suddenly heard a noise outside the room, and after a while, Rui Si and Feng Tingzheng's followers hurriedly came in, and each came to his master and whispered a few words.

Feng Tingzheng's face was not good-looking, but in front of Ye Zhao, he couldn't attack, so he said to his subordinates with a calm face: "Don't you send people away?" ”

It turned out that Feng Tingzheng came to Guangzhou Huahua World, and there were people who pouted him, so he couldn't help but go to Penglai Courtyard to fool around for a night, who knew that he was startled when he checked out the second day, and he was accompanied by Qing Qi people at night, plus flower wine and other miscellaneous items, it cost a hundred taels of silver, Feng Tingzheng was furious, isn't this an immortal jump? But it was not good to entangle in the Memory Courtyard, and after a few perfunctory words, he went back to the Dutong Mansion, because his subordinate had premature ejaculation, and the old bustard in the Penglai Courtyard did not stop him.

But in the next few days, the old bustard sent people to the Dutong Mansion to count, but they were all blocked back, and the old bustard felt that something was wrong, and he went to the Dutong Mansion in person but was scolded. The bustard is not a fuel-efficient lamp, what's wrong with you being the vice-capital? What an official, I haven't heard of the scoop not giving silver! Not to mention that it was a Qing man who had been cultivated as a cash cow for many years.

Today, the old bustard found out that Feng Dutong was invited to eat in Jinyun Building, and his heart was horizontal, so he chased after him to ask for a count, and now he is crying outside, and he has the momentum of not being willing to give up if he can't get the money back.

Rui Si knew the old bustard, and when he whispered in Ye Zhao's ear, he couldn't help but laugh in his stomach, I heard that there are all kinds of officials in our Great Qing Kingdom, but can you rely on the scoop? It's the first time I've seen it, and it's a long time since I've seen it.

Over there, Feng Ting was annoyed and angry, and scolded his subordinates vigorously, asking them to drive them away.

Ye Zhao smiled slightly, and said with a smile: "Yuting, don't be angry, this Guangzhou City, the world of flowers, but there are many bastards, knowing that we have a lot of taboos in wearing black yarn, they will change their tricks to harm us, pit us, if you are angry with them, I won't be angry to death?" Today, my host, you just listen to me, dissipate your anger, I will send this bastard thing away. Saying that, he glanced at Ruisi, and Ruisi lowered his head and withdrew.

Soon, the commotion outside subsided, and since Ruisi went to reward the silver, the old bustard left with a thousand thanks.

"W-that's embarrassing." Although people talk to take care of their own face, Feng Tingzheng also knows that this young man has settled the accounts, and he is ashamed and grateful, and said in his heart that the prince and brother are different.

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "When you come to Guangzhou, you are your own family, we don't have to say kind words, and if you can use your brother in the future, just open your voice." After a pause, he said, "Try the desserts and snacks here, and we should disperse." ”

Feng Tingzheng nodded again and again.

……

Incense couch pillows, screen tassels, and gorgeous bedrooms.

The soft curtains on both sides of the big red sprinkled flowers are raised, and there is a short couch with a transparent carved dragon screen in front of the bed, covered with white velvet bear skin. At the head of the bed, there is a very light lacquer painted gold table, and there are tea hangers, tea bowls, gargles, foreign towels and the like on the table.

A beautiful beauty reclined on the incense couch, she held a book in her left hand, and the other snow-white Kodan small hand picked up a purple grape from the fruit bowl with a small table of gold, and gently placed it in front of the cherry mouth, the red lips slowly took it, sucking it a little bit elegantly, and the pink fingers were even gently choked by the red lips.

Her skirt is gorgeous, but she has faded her red shoes and socks, enjoying this rare coolness, the delicate soft snow feet without a trace of flaws, gently stepping on the short couch, in the snow-white fluff of the bear skin, the snow feet are looming, and the beautiful toenails are coated with bright red rose juice, exuding a silent charm and enchantment.

Such a stunner that makes men crazy is naturally Jinji's grandmother, held in her little hand, and she is Ye Zhao's "plan" about the iron factory, writing the idea of building the factory, future prospects, market analysis, etc.

Seeing that the evil young man is not only staring at the Daqing market, but also defining the sales scope of foreign iron as the East, Nanyang, and Australia, the more she looks at it, the more surprised she becomes, she also has contact with foreign businessmen, and knows a little about the outside situation, but Ye Zhao's "plan" is much more detailed about the Quartet economic and trade place with Hong Kong Island as the hub, but the more Jin Er's grandmother flips down, the stronger her interest, but she flips through it, and she leaves the "plan" on a few, but she remembers the humiliation that the evil young has brought to herself.

How to think of a way to cut off his head! Grandma Jin Er hated to think, she had never been bullied like this in her life, how could she be willing if she was obediently at his mercy like this?

Railroad? This is a taboo thing, if you have a mistake in your power, I am afraid that you will not be able to please it, and if you want to frustrate this evil young man, I am afraid that the only way to fall on this is to fall on it.

Grandma Jiner's soul-saunting Danfeng eyes gradually smiled, as if she saw the evil young man crying bitterly to herself when his head was cut off, if there is such a day, I don't know how happy.

Unconsciously, Grandma Jinji's pink snow feet were slightly forced, outlining a seductive curve, as if the white bear skin was the head of the evil young man, and he was trampled under his feet.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Ticket ......