Lu Ming

Chapter 362
It should be said that Fang Tangjing's position as guest minister was not given for nothing.Compared with Qing Ke, who is only responsible for making jokes and making jokes, Ke Qing's status in the Dong family is equivalent to that of a master. He is a person who is qualified to participate in the decision-making of certain things and is given important responsibilities.

Fang Tangjing is like this.Not only is he a literati funded by his boss, but he is also married to his distant niece, so he can be regarded as a real person of his own, otherwise the boss would not have entrusted him with the task of investigating the gangster's lair.It is extremely important to know that this represents the future strategic investment direction of the family.

To be able to shoulder this burden, Fang Tangjing is naturally a sophisticated, tactful and shrewd person.So when he learned the reason of the matter, he hurriedly ran to persuade Master Bu who was about to run away and make fun of the crowd.

Fang Tangjing had many reasons to persuade the master.This is one of them: a guy like Xiong Wencan, if you scold him, you scold him. Anyway, the old Xiong is a low-ranking official, and he will leave in a few years, and he can't do anything to the local aborigine Master Bu.

But other people should be careful when scolding: Mr. Bu is outstanding, he is magnanimous and noble, but the family wants to live here after all, so it would be a troublesome thing to offend those half-sized native officials by firing map guns.

During Fang Tangjing's lingering in the Bu family, Master Bu liked this young man very much because of his good conversation and knowledge, even though Fang Tangjing was already 30 years old.

So after listening to Fang Tangjing's advice, Master Bu also regained consciousness a little.He is a bit old and angry, but he is not angry enough to disregard the interests of the family.

After he figured it out, Master Bu generously said: Then let those bastards go, master, I am writing a letter to the emperor this time, only to impeach the two bastards surnamed Xiong and Jiao.

In the next step, Fang Tangjing gave Master Bu another idea: Since the surname Jiao is going to be sprayed, it is better for the master to go to the senior officials in person.It is said that if you don’t enter the tiger’s lair, you won’t catch the tiger’s cubs. In this way, Master Bu may be able to find some clues in the military purchase case, and it will be more effective in spraying it in the future. After all, there is nothing wrong with that official document on the surface, sir. If you really want to poke the chrysanthemum of your immediate boss, you need to have evidence in hand to do it well, right?

Sometimes it is important to change the perspective of thinking: the same problem is often solved in this way.So when Fang Tangjing interpreted this official document from a different angle, Comrade Bu Daxing, an old cynical youth, suddenly felt that his words made sense: he needed to go to the dark den of thieves, and after he came back, he would kill all the scum!
Ever since, a visiting group with different ideas was formed in this way.The members of the regiment are as follows: Master Bu, the head of the regiment, and Fang Tangjing, the deputy head of the regiment;

After packing up and preparing, the group of five officially set off on June 1629, 6.Everyone first took a boat from Xinghuafu to Quanzhou, and then boarded the boat to Dayuan easily.The liner departs from Quanzhou and goes south to Xiamen. After arriving in Xiamen, it forms a group with other merchant ships and then sails directly to Dayuan.

Apart from the fact that some workshops in Xiamen Port were emitting black smoke, which made Mr. Bu feel uncomfortable, everyone had a relaxed time along the way.

The upper class cabin of the liner is very comfortable.There are not only clean beds, but also such wonderful things as thermos pots and water-proof thermos cups.Being able to make hot tea on a rocking boat, although it is inevitable to mutter a few words about "extraordinary skills", but after all, Master Bu drinks a lot of tea.In addition, the red tomato sauce fish cubes poured over rice also made everyone full of praise.

Enjoying the sea view all the way, and at night, I went out of the cabin to watch the bright lighthouse of Penghu.After chatting with Fang Tangjing like this, Master Bu entered the Taijiang Passage at noon.

The bustling Taijiang River can always dazzle people who arrive for the first time.However, people's attention is different: just as Fang Tangjing and the servants were pointing at the "Haidilao" on the left side of the ship and clicked their tongues, Master Bu had a gloomy face and looked at the "Haidilao" on the right side of the ship with his hands behind his back. city.

Located in the middle of Dayuan Island, the imperial city is full of folds and brilliance.In the 17th century, this building wrapped in blue light and red bricks reflected by large-format glass curtain walls was very majestic and majestic, with some fantasy colors.

However, it was this building known locally as the "General's Mansion" that Master Bu looked at with a cold face for a long time.It wasn't until the boat entered the Taijiang River that he turned around and said to Fang Tang Jing, "Wrapping the wall with red bricks is an act of arrogance!"

"Hehe, Song Weng (Bu Daxing's name is Songming), don't ask for full blame. This place has always been a place for outsiders, and the Cao family just recruited them. How can a savage know about the taboos of the court?"

Fang Tangjing didn't take Master Bu's faultfinding seriously in his heart.Now it is no longer the style of the founding of the country. Now the world is extravagant. Rich people without fame all wear silk, cars with two horses, and rich families with high walls. Those rules set by Taizu Zhu have long been thrown out of the sky.

Even in Xinghua Mansion, where Master Bu lives, there are people who violate the rules in clothing stores and mansions everywhere. When you go out, you can see wealthy businessmen with luxury cars and multi-person sedan chairs shouting at the fans of luxury slaves. rampage
However, Mr. Bu usually turned a blind eye to these things, but now he went to this foreign place where he didn't understand the rules of Ming Dynasty at all, but he insisted on accusing others of overstepping the rules and arrogating others. I just can't get used to it, and now I have to pick some thorns out before I give up.

After placating the master with a smile, Fang Tangjing hurriedly called his servants to pack up and salute to prepare to disembark.He tricked Mr. Bu into coming here to take advantage of Mr. Bu's work—so that he could investigate some projects that are not open to the public here.Looking at it now, it is not so easy to be famous. This old man is too worrying.

After the fleet entered the Taijiang Inland Sea, they went their separate ways along buoys of different colors.The passenger ship that the visiting group took here crossed the sea to the Chikan Wharf on the other side.

When Master Bu saw the cranes, railroad tracks and trucks emitting black smoke on the pier, he was silent this time, probably because there were too many enemy troops.

The newly built customs hall on the Chikan Wharf is very impressive.The large-span buildings with the same specifications as the various payment halls of later generations made the new Ming people keep looking up: they couldn't figure out why there were no columns and beams in such a tall, spacious and transparent house?Why didn't the top come off?

The newly disembarked passengers lined up to the entrance of the hall. Guided by several big caps with various police equipment hanging around their waists, the visiting group followed the big characters marked under their feet to the public window.

After seeing the female clerk who was also wearing a big cap, a sky blue short-sleeved shirt, and blue epaulets in the public window, Master Bu, who was queuing up to register, was obviously a little uncomfortable.Avoiding the exposed neck and arms of the short-haired girl opposite, Master Bu silently recited "See no evil" while filling out the form with his head bowed.

However, gentlemen are rare creatures after all, so other people in the regiment are quite curious about female civil servants.Needless to say, the long-time follower and the boy looked like Brother Zhu when they registered, and even Fang Tangjing waved his folding fan a few times before starting to fill in the form.

After filling out the form, there are some routine inquiries and the inspection of the infrared thermometer.Seeing the weird man in a green robe and mask hitting his forehead with a beam of light, Master Bu was taken aback again.

Temporary guests like them do not need to be locked up in quarantine camps, but daily routine infrared temperature measurement and designated accommodation are necessary.

After learning that the strange thing happened just now was that the doctor was visiting a doctor, Master Bu couldn't help but cursed a few more words in his heart—he didn't know anything about infrared rays, so he naturally regarded this kind of behavior as a kind of indigenous magic like witchcraft.

After all the procedures were completed, the visiting group was finally brought to the living room.

The living room is dedicated to business reception, with sofas and coffee tables inside, and it is actually the VIP waiting room of the future station.

Sofas are no secret.Due to the low technical content, sofa shops have been spread in big cities like Fuzhou.Traveling through the public takes the core technology thick spring as a shareholder, and Mingren shareholders are responsible for recruitment and production.

The people who visited the group were naturally knowledgeable, so they didn't make a fuss.

Soon, two reception staff came in through the side door.The man at the head is tall and also wearing a big-brimmed hat.As soon as the man came, he stretched out his hand with a smile, and shook hands with Master Bu who was not used to it.And the other ordinary-looking man, wearing a gray linen suit, remained silent from beginning to end, acting like a follower.

The visiting group now knows that anyone wearing a big cap is a "gentleman" here.

The person at the beginning introduced himself as Ma, and was the head of the reception section of the customs.After reviewing Master Bu's official documents and surveys, Section Chief Ma nodded, and then communicated with Master Bu in Mandarin with a little Min accent.

Section Chief Ma first stated that this side already knew the news that Master Bu was coming, and had already made preparations.So with regard to this arms purchase case, the two sides can start substantive operations starting tomorrow.

Master Bu has no objection to this point.

Then there is nothing to talk about.Section Chief Ma enthusiastically led the members of the visiting group out of the customs, and led them to the Taijiang Hotel, which is specially used to receive VIPs.

Taijiang Hotel is at the back gate of the customs, and there is only one main road between the two sides.The four-story Taijiang Hotel is considered the best building in the accommodation area, and you can overlook the style of Taijiang from the window.Most of the guest rooms inside are suites, which are specially prepared for the rich people of the Ming Dynasty with their servants.

After helping Master Bu and the others to complete the check-in procedures, Section Chief Ma told the guests: A military staff officer will come to deal with this matter tomorrow, so that everyone can rest at ease.Before leaving, Chief Ma also kindly reminded everyone: Please read the accommodation guide carefully.

Accommodation guides were common in later generations, but in the 17th century Daguan was a rarity.So after Mr. Bu entered the door, he let his servants be busy, while he himself picked up the beautifully printed accommodation guide with great interest, and sat on the sofa to read it.

(End of this chapter)