Lu Ming

Chapter 559 Receiving ([-])

Li Dazui's speech seems casual, but it actually fits the general ideology of the Transit regime.

Considering the long-term world structure in the future - the traversers did not intend to unify the earth and physically inactivate all "other people", so the future is bound to have such words as "international situation", and it is also fundamental for the East and the West to recognize each other's titles operate.

With the current ecological structure of the traversers, the monarchy is a certainty.Since it is an imperial system, there must be a clear and public noble/civilian social class.In this way, it's not good to be too unreasonable to this group of Francois, even if there are not even one-tenth of the nobles certified by the Portuguese royal family among these gangsters.

Of course, no matter what, the Francoids were the losers in this war after all, so they must bear their due losses.This is a plane where time travelers have the final say, and there is no such thing as a way for the defeated to make a profit through negotiations with an arrogant backhand.

In the end, with the so-called preferential treatment, the Franji people only kept their house and some private property.In fact, some of them can't even keep this little thing, because every noble lord has to pay the ransom fee, and those whose property was not in good condition before have now become paupers overnight.

No matter what plane or era, poor people will not end well.So in the next few days, a large number of Francine poor ghosts who were kicked out of their homes were quickly produced in the city of Macau.

In the early morning, Master Zong Benzong sat on a lychee wooden chair and stared at himself in the mirror.

Different from the bronze mirror used by the ancestors, the glass mirror on the table has a width of seven inches, and the mirror surface is crystal clear. With the morning light, the person in the mirror is meticulously reflected.Looking in the mirror, Master Zong's shaved face was radiant and energetic, as if he was more than ten years younger than before.

"En." After checking his clothes for the last time, Zongben stood up and straightened his tie: "It's getting late, let's go."

"Yes, sir."

The boy who had been waiting by the side brought a thin suit for the master to put on, and then used a soft brush to help the master gently brush away the non-existing floating dust on the back of the shoulders.

After tidying up, Master Zong stretched out his hand and took a popular gray tulle top hat, put on a popular quartz sunglasses, and finally picked up a machine-made mahogany walking stick by the door. The new area is called Civilization Stick.

At the moment outside the door, there are already seven or eight people of different ages, but they are all wearing canvas jackets and trousers, and their neat subordinates are waiting.Seeing the master fully armed and walking out of the room, there was a tidy voice: "I have seen the master."

Seeing these old fellows, Zong Ben felt a little emotional.He paced slowly, and said loudly: "The situation forced me a few days ago, my lord, I have no choice but to spend all my wealth in Macau. Brothers probably don't think so about this matter. I know all about it. .”

"But now it seems that my lord won the bet after all." Zong Ben laughed: "The money was exchanged not only for Nanyang's share, but also for the big backer of the General Military Mansion!"

When Zong Ben said this, his complacency was beyond words.Think of him as a concubine who was kicked out of the house, but now he has transformed into a guest of the General Military Mansion. "Hmph, let's wait and see, one day, the man will kill back, so that I can teach you how powerful it is!"

Thoughts flashed by.After regaining his senses, Zongben waved his hand when he saw his subordinates who were still respectfully waiting for him to speak: "What is that little foundation? With a big backer, what foundation can't be built?"

Having said this, Zong Ben paused for a while: "Look at this city of Macau, the owner has changed within seven days. Hmph, the one who will follow me to pay a visit today, my lord, will be the new lord of this city .Give it all to the master, I will stand up and remember, from now on, whenever we are in Mr. Cao's territory, we men will be masters!"

"Congratulations sir!"

Amid the congratulations, Master Zong walked out of the gate of the guild hall.

Since Zongmoto had already sold out all his properties in Macau before, and most of the hotel employees ran away during the war, after entering the city, Zongmoto could only take his entourage with him. Dongguan guild hall for left-behind personnel.

Now five days have passed since General Dasheng entered the city, and the guild hall is gradually gaining popularity.And Zongben contacted Mr. Li Dazui, Li Long, the mayor of the Macao Special Administrative Region, through a post three days ago.

After leaving the gate of the Dongguan Guild Hall, there was already an exquisite carriage parked in front of the gate.This car is a preferential gift from the government of the new district to the businessmen below, and the body is marked with a unique nanmu badge.

The content of this wooden badge is very simple: five rings painted and hand-painted.Later generations are familiar with this icon because it appears in the public eye every four years.

Now this badge is the monogram of the newly formed "Chinese Chamber of Commerce".

From the badge and name, it can be seen that this must be a thing made by the people who traveled through it.That's right, this newly opened Chinese Entrepreneurs Association is an official organization used by the people of Transit to attract "progressive businessmen".And the vanguard Zong Benzong is now half an official and one of the twelve permanent directors of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

After the attendants waited for the master to get on the carriage, they divided into two rows and followed the carriage, and followed the carriage slowly on the narrow gravel road in Macau in the [-]th century.

The city of Macau has just experienced a moderate war, so there are few pedestrians on the road, and it is far less prosperous than before the war.As the carriage passed by, half of the shops along the way were still closed.

Fortunately, the time traveler is now in power, so the special zone immediately mobilized a large number of migrant workers to enter the city.As migrant workers entered the city, it gradually became popular in the city, and some businesses that had business dealings with the Zongbingfu also opened their doors in time to start business.

After the carriage passed through the commercial street mixed with Chinese and Iberian-style buildings, it didn't take long to arrive at the center of Macau: the Portuguese area.

Most of the Portuguese quarters are relatively high-end European-style mansions. There are churches, church headquarters, and various municipal buildings here, which are the core of the city.

When the carriage passed by here, through the glass window, Zong Ben was pleased to appreciate the tragic scenes of "the country was ruined and the family was destroyed": armed soldiers surrounded in front of the mansion, holding registration books and wearing white shirts, responsible for inspecting the property The clerk, and the red-haired master who stood in front of his house with his arms outstretched and outstretched arms tragically, tried to stop the "thieves".

Watching the show all the way like this, Master Zong, Zonghuidong, arrived in front of the city hall in a carriage.

Since it is still in the stage of military control, there are not only registrars at the gate of the city hall, but also the platoon leader on duty.After getting out of the car surrounded by entourages, Master Zong first registered at the gate, and since he was a prominent member of the council, a special registrar led him into the gate of the city hall.

In just a few days, the old-fashioned building has changed its appearance.The windows have been replaced with large glass that transmits bright light. In the previous hall, there are now rows of desks, and behind each desk is a clerk with short shirt and short hair who is busy.

The corridors on both sides of the hall now have guards walking back and forth.These guards have firearms on their waists and short sticks in their hands-the attention of the guards is the people who come to do business sitting on the benches in the corridor.

Among the people who came to do business, there were Chinese businessmen and foreign businessmen.They uniformly wore temporary passes with white lacquered wood carvings on their chests, and many of them held a wooden box in their arms.

Master Zong knew that the wooden box was full of land deed documents. It seemed that these people were forced to "respond to the government's call" and "voluntarily" come to the city hall to register their property and exchange for a new version of the land deed.Coincidentally, Mr. Zong also saw his old acquaintances in it: the Portuguese translator, old broker, Mr. Niu Xijian.

In the past, Master Zong would definitely go up to greet Master Niu who bought his property.However, today is different from the past, the Zonghui Director is now a registered person in the Zongbingfu, and he is a big figure who can participate in the general implementation of the Zongbingfu's business. People like Master Niu are no longer in the Zonghuidong's eyes.

So Mr. Zong turned his eyes to the sky, leaned on a civilized stick, and walked past the front of Mr. Niu swaggeringly under the smiling service of the registrar, all the way to the back hall.

In the back hall, Comrade Li Long Li Dazui, the newly appointed Governor of the Macau Special Administrative Region, was chatting happily with several board members who had arrived earlier.

Li Dazui, who was half lying on the chair with his leather shoes turned up high, was sitting on the red cypress table made in Taiwan, when he saw Director Zong in a suit and trousers enter the door, he immediately laughed and offered his hand.

Li Dazui had a good impression of Director Zong.This Master Zong, after the ceremony on the day he entered the city, was the first Ming native to come forward to congratulate him.In front of Zongbing Cao, Mr. Zong dressed well and spoke nicely, which made Li Dazui feel a lot of face.

Seeing Mr. Li stretching out his hand, Zong Dong hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands across the table.Now the aborigines of the Ming who are close to the crossing people all know that these officials from the General Military Mansion do not like to receive gifts, and it is easy to receive gifts on weekdays. In Zongben's own words: "True people are people who do things."

After happily shaking hands, Zong Huidong also joined in the previous heated discussion.As for the content of the discussion, after several directors came in one after another, under the leadership of Li Dazui, it turned to such a big topic as how to develop Macau in the future.

When it was noon, seeing that the discussion was almost over, the confident Li Dazui stood up and said that he would invite everyone out for a meal first, and then take everyone on a field trip to understand the blueprint of Macau in his mind.

So a group of people chatted and laughed out of the back hall.

When passing by the front hall, a program suddenly appeared: I saw a figure in a copper-rust satin robe, suddenly rushed over and hugged Zong Ben's thigh and shouted: "Master Zong, you have to testify for my brother, this time The title deed was transferred from you before the war!"

(End of this chapter)