Lu Ming

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However, the aborigines were also very wronged.

In fact, in ancient times, except for those first-generation nouveau riche who were unscrupulous, and the "lower-class family members", the largest proportion of people in traditional industries seldom got involved in the entertainment industry.

In the ancient "entertainment industry", the first thing to do was to have a big backer.This one hard condition is enough to stop most people who want to get involved.After all, there are only so many bigwigs in a city, and many of them don't take this kind of "business" at all.

Then there are ethical considerations.Generally speaking, these industries such as court gambling stalls bear a bad reputation of forcing good people into prostitution, murdering money and killing people, seducing good people to ruin family property, and so on.

The gentry families who really relied on the imperial examination background, and even the traditional landlord class, were extremely vigilant about their children being contaminated with the bad habit of whoring and gambling, let alone letting these Taoists go to their own houses to open their own houses.Although romantic people often go to the courtyard to spend, but one size for one size is not...

Li Dazui made a mistake here.Among the rich people he summoned that day, only a few of them had actually been involved in pornographic gambling (drugs were not popular these days).Among these people, half are traditional businessmen who do business honestly, and the other half are landowners who live in their hometowns.

And these two kinds of people are mostly family business passed down from generation to generation.Regarding Li Dazui's "good idea", when these old landlords were still stupid sons, they were extremely disgusted by the education they received-"It is detrimental to morality, it is not a serious business, and it loses the face of the ancestors."

In the end, Master Li's grand plan failed shamefully.At least half of the guests left without saying goodbye after the meeting, and the rest made excuses to leave one after another within a few days. In the end, there were only brainless fans like Zongben left.

So Li Dazui was publicly ridiculed.

When he was still in Taiwan, Li Dazui provoked a lot of people seriously on the forum, otherwise how did he get the title of Dazui?Now when the news spread back to Taiwan at the speed of light, the "people" who finally caught up with this embarrassing incident quickly sent out all kinds of mocking posts and crowded the forum.

That's not the end.After the forum was maxed out, considering that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait did not have submarine optical cable communication in the 17th century, the "good-hearted people" specially printed out the live broadcast of the forum with imported A4 paper and imported laser printers, and then sent it to the Macao municipal government by express boat overnight. hall, and presented it to Mr. Li for viewing.

Li Dazui, who had nowhere to go online to fight back, was so angry that he was half dead.

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Ordinarily speaking, if this is done, Li Dazui will probably have no fun in Macau.Because if local investment cannot be attracted, construction will be carried out only with government financial allocations. Even if the applicant is Li Dazui, it will not be supported by the cabinet.Nowadays, there are too many places where resources need to be invested. A gambling city that is not recognized by the indigenous people cannot be ranked in the top 30 government work issues anyway.

However, Zhou Shuren said that God locks the door with his front foot and opens the window with his back foot.

During the past few days when Mr. Li was sulking in the city hall, the environment has undergone some subtle changes: the news of what happened in Macau has spread, and the news has already spread in Guangzhou, and it is spreading to the surrounding areas.

This morning, two luxury four-wheeled carriages with gold and embroidered new hardcover glass windows stopped in front of the Macao City Hall.

A few male servants in bright silk robes, green scarves, and new leather shoes got out of the rear car first.Immediately afterwards, he opened the door and waited for the three slender figures in the front car to get out of the car.

After getting out of the car, a woman took the lead and lifted the hood of the cloak.

This woman is 33 or [-] years old, with a plump face, heavy makeup for meeting guests, and a gold pendant on her head. She is wearing a blue Yizhou cotton jacket and a light white pleated skirt. She has an extraordinary temperament, is glamorous and mature, and looks very beautiful The image of a fine rich woman from the seventh century.

But the two figures behind her were both wrapped in wide cloaks, which were completely covered from head to toe.

Looking up at the gate of the city hall where the guards were stationed, the mature elder sister unbuttoned the cloak around her neck and said lightly, "Ma Ganer, go deliver the post."

Lean and lean, with a hemp stick, he immediately headed forward to ask for directions when he heard the words.However, when a group of people came to the gate of the city hall and saw a tall and straight officer on duty in military uniform with an armed belt that slender waist, everyone was inexplicably and a little scared.

Honestly handing over the post, Ma Gan'er changed his mind temporarily, took out an ingot of snowflake silver from his bosom, which was bigger than a regular door bag, and handed it over: "I hope the vice master can help me."

Unexpectedly, the snowflake silver handed out by the hemp stick was pushed to the ground by the officer with disgust on his face.Ignoring the hemp stick bent over to pick up the money, the officer shook off the greeting card and read it carefully from the beginning: "From the governor's yamen of Guangdong and Guangxi? Your master has a lot of background."

Having said that, the officer looked up at the beautiful woman carefully: "Wait."

The visitor was taken aback by this series of actions.However, seeing these soldiers with guns and shining bayonets in front of them, no one dared to say anything at this time.

After a while, there was a message from inside: Your Excellency is welcome.

The visitor, who breathed a sigh of relief, thought it was over and didn't want to enter the city hall, but was stopped at the second gate: a personal inspection.

Knowing that they would become the rulers of the world, the time-traveling crowd had long ago become a member of the team of fear of death, no different from the rich people of later generations.So the visitor was searched at the second gate.Fortunately, there was a female police officer, and the female customer did not express any dissatisfaction.

After that, the three female guests had the opportunity to meet with the Councilor of the General Military Office and the actual host of Macau City, Mr. Li Longli.

At this moment, Mr. Li's image is not very correct.With the collar of his checked shirt open, he lay on his back in the top chair, with his feet up on the desk, a cigarette in one hand, and a tin can of whole wheat light beer in the other. He stared blankly at the ceiling, seemingly Is wandering away.

"Folk girl Qu Qingqing pays her respects to your lord."

After hearing the soft and waxy female voice, Li Dazui came back to his senses.I turned my head and looked, okay, now my lord is in good spirits: "Oh? Pretty sister? Where did you come from?"

At this moment, Master Li finally picked up the greeting card on the table and took a serious look: "Oh, friends of Mr. Xiong Er of the Governor's Mansion, um, get up, watch the seats, and serve tea."

Hearing this, the three girls got up gracefully. After thanking them again, they twisted their waists and sat on the big brown buffalo leather sofa beside them.

Li Dazui also put his feet off the desk at this moment, and sat upright, assuming the posture of a parent official: "I don't know where Miss Qu is from? Why did you come to see me today?"

"To be honest, my lord, Minnv was born in Jiaofang, and now she runs a flower viewing building on Meihe Street, and there are two other courtyards that often receive elegant guests."

"Jiaofang? Flower viewing building? Yard?"

After Li Dazui chewed a few nouns in his mouth, the traveler, who didn't have a deep understanding of Ming society, came back with a little aftertaste: "Club? Brothel?"

Qu Qingqing chuckled: "Your Excellency says yes."

"Oh, hehe, yes, yes... That brothel is good, I like brothels." Li Dazui's face glowed, obviously recalling the years before time travel, he suddenly became interested: "I don't know Mummy Qu... Oh, Mother Qu came to see me today, why?"

"A few days ago, my lord invited a disciple of Daoism, and planned to set up a hundred courtyards in Haojingao. Is there something wrong?"

Qu Qingqing, Qu Mami, Qu Mama... In fact, this procuress who is called Sister Qu by people in the industry, after only a few lines with Mr. Li, she has turned against the customer, saw through the heart of Mr. Li, and confronted her in person. He questioned the adults.

However, this advanced technique is not everyone will use.While Sister Qu was asking questions, she covered her mouth with a brocade handkerchief in her slender hand, her beautiful eyes were flowing, and accompanied by her creaking and charming laughter, Li Dazui, an old nerd, immediately felt that he met a bosom friend today.

At this moment, Li Daguan didn't even feel ashamed of his previous embarrassment, he slapped his thigh: "Oh, there is such a thing. Oh, my lord, I was let go... But it's not as exaggerated as Bai Shizuo, My plan must focus on quality over quantity, of course, it is necessary to build a large luxury comprehensive hotel first!"

"Master Li!"

Qu Qingqing called out coquettishly: "You are really honest and honest, you don't know the way to do it! What's the matter with the screwdriver? You always want to go to the academy, and you are really looking for someone in the industry."

"Ah, an insider? How do you say it?"

"An insider is an insider!"

When Sister Qu said this, she stood up with a long smile, and waved her long sleeves: "You two, take off."

While Li Daguan was stunned, the two tightly wrapped figures untied their cloaks.

The two cardamom beauties appearing in front of Li Dazui, on the left is a city girl with long hair shawl, bow tie, white shirt, vest and skirt, while on the right is a black low-cut evening dress with suspenders and a charming girl with a bunny decoration on her head.

"This, this, this is not..."

"Isn't that the female farmer in your picture?" Sister Qu took another step forward, standing beside Li Guanren and asked with a charming smile, "My lord, how similar are my two daughters to the man in your picture?" Are they similar?"

"It's similar, it's too similar! Real-life cosplay, it's so high-end, I like it!"

"Then, my lord, can I share a piece of the business of the academy with the little girl, an insider in the industry?"

"Okay, that's fine!" Li Dazui rubbed his hands excitedly: "I'll give you a loan for the venue, and then I'll give you two years' exemption and three years' discount in half, and then I'll teach you a few exclusive cheats! Well, the vacuum naked selection on the runway, Guan One-stop style, passionate pole dancing... I am also an insider!"

Although she doesn't understand the technical terminology, Sister Qu has already fixed the pulse of this idiot Mr. Li.After thinking about it and rolling her eyes, Sister Qu made up her mind: "Since that's the case, these two nobles will stay with you today."

"Ah? Why is that?"

"Oh, it's just a superficial appearance. The appearance is not the same. My two daughters probably don't know how to shake the sieve to deal cards, and adults need to take the trouble to teach them."

"Hmph, don't think that my lord doesn't know what kind of evil idea you have, and this is starting to corrupt the state cadres!"

"That person shall I take back?"

"Oh... It's fine to stay here for now. After all, the croupiers need formal training. I plan to hold a class here... supporting services. I will bring any good seedlings back."

Chapter 563 Receiving ([-])

When the traversers and the power they brought crossed the sea and took root in Guangdong, the ancient and slow southern country became fast-paced.

The land with the new district at its core is like a vortex, attracting people and resources from all directions, and spit out all kinds of industrial products beyond the times.

Even the rudimentary industrial age brings about social change.All kinds of commodities, all kinds of new ideas and new cultures are impacting the natives all the time.Just like the steam locomotive is to the sedan chair, the slow-paced living habits of the aborigines are slowly and firmly speeded up without a sound.

Another characteristic of industrial society is "noisy".The originally peaceful Nantian City became restless and restless after that, and its muscles became stronger and full of vitality day by day.

In comparison, what Li Dazui did in Haojingao is insignificant.After all, there is no Internet these days, and everything that happens far away from the core area is difficult to spread to the public.

Even the heart of the Ming Empire knew nothing about it.

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At the end of May 1631, the capital.

Thousands of miles away in the north, at this time of year, even in the Little Ice Age, the weather has already turned hot.

More than a year has passed since the catastrophe last year.The ancient capital seems to have regained its bustling face of people and horses, but the internal trauma is far from healed.

The ruler of the city, who was also the ruler of the Ming Empire, was the industrious Chongzhen Emperor.

Since the emperor is diligent, early court is probably indispensable. In the early morning at the end of May, the young Emperor Chongzhen held an early court ceremony at the imperial gate as usual.

The imperial gate is the gate of the imperial hall.Before the name was changed in Jiajing 41, the Imperial Hall was originally called Fengtian Hall.In the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Imperial Hall will be renamed the Hall of Supreme Harmony, commonly known as the Hall of Golden Luan, which is familiar to later generations.

Not to mention the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, except for major political events and festivals, the place where the emperors of the Ming Dynasty opened their morning courts was not inside the Golden Luan Hall, but at the gate.This rule was established by Zhu Yuanzhang back then, and there is a name called "Yumen listens to politics".

Today is no exception.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, with the ringing of bells and drums on the Meridian Gate Tower, hundreds of Beijing officials who had been waiting for a long time entered the gate of the Forbidden City... Los Angeles at four o'clock in the morning?Please, see you every day in Beijing City at 4 o'clock in the morning.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen, who was wearing a black dragon robe, also walked out of the apse with a large number of eunuchs and court ladies.After the ministers were in place, the emperor sat on the dragon chair in front of the imperial gate on time.

Kneeling once and knocking three times, the mountain shouts long live.

After the routine was finished, with the slight morning light, the routine began in front of the imperial gate.

Today's morning is very ordinary, it seems to be another familiar boring scene.High-ranking officials will act in front of their Majesty, and low-ranking officials who are not qualified to go forward should make a background board and try to leave work early...

In fact, since Zhu Yuanzhang, the extremely inefficient governance model of the great dynasty's governance has been abandoned by later emperors.After Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor felt that the morning court was too tiring every day, so he changed to reviewing memorials to deal with various affairs, and the morning court was only held occasionally.Even more ruthless are Jiajing and Wanli, who have not been to the early court for more than 20 years.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was a model worker, he did not have the habit of detaining all civil servants in the capital in the Forbidden City and not doing practical work.So soon, in essence, it has been reduced to the regular court of the ceremony, the next court.

After the imperial court, with the dispersal of the numerous low-ranking officials, the real central government decision-making system of the Ming Empire began to operate: the small court meeting composed of a small number of officials such as the emperor, university scholars, and six ministers.

Today's small court meeting, the participants are relatively complete, basically all the big men above the second rank in Beijing are present, and even two or three honored and veteran ministers have come - although the honorables never speak, but if people want to listen, the emperor and the bachelor You can't push people out, right?

After the small court meeting began, the monarch and his ministers first talked about a few idle government affairs.After that, it was the highlight of the day: dealing with the memorial sent by Guangdong.

The content of the memorial mentioned here is naturally the document about the "conflict" in Macau last month.

In fact, from the day when the conflict occurred, officials from Guangdong have been writing memorials to the court one after another.Later, the governor's yamen of Guangdong and Guangxi, the local yamen, and even officials from all over Guangdong, Jinyiwei, even local gentry, retired officials, etc. all ventilated the court.So from the first ten days of April to the present, the imperial court has received a lot of memorials, and has a relatively clear understanding of the Macau incident.

However, the Yamen of Zhangchao General Army, the most critical in this matter, did not send the memorial to the capital until mid-May.In other words, it was at the end of April or early May, nearly a week after the end of the war, that Zhongyong Bo Cao Chuan slowly walked the ordinary post road and sent a memorial to the court.

After the imperial court received the memorial, they naturally had to study it carefully and savor it carefully: the rest of the people from all walks of life wrote their books early, but your chief surnamed Cao delayed the time. What's wrong with this?

In this way, when the various leaders of the imperial court figured out the cause and effect of the memorial through private channels, the time has come to the end of May.This is exactly the theme of today's Xiaochaohui: Huizhi.

After seeing that the rest of the trivial political affairs were almost dealt with, facing the rising sun, the Chongzhen Emperor, who squinted his eyes slightly, turned his face and nodded to Fang Zhenghua, who was on duty today.

Fang Zhenghua, who understood what he understood, immediately left his shift, raised his voice and said to the civil servants group on the left hand side of the steps: "There is an oral order: Do you have a receipt for the papers handed over from the south?"

Comrade Wen Tiren, who had been prepared for a long time, came out in a hurry, bowed and took out a document from his sleeve and handed it: "The ticket has been drafted."

The next moment, after the young emperor reached out to take the cabinet draft, he looked at it carefully from the beginning.

In other words, during the reign of Chongzhen, the power of the supervisor of ceremonies was greatly reduced.The reason is simple: Chongzhen was a workaholic. After the memorials sent to the capital from all over the country were drafted by the cabinet, the emperor often took them directly for imperial review and annotated instructions. There was no such thing as a supervisor.

The same is true today.After Wen Shangshu handed over the memorial drafted by the cabinet, the emperor directly began to review it.

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The memorial to Zhangchao Zongbing Yamen who arrived late is divided into three parts.

In the first part, a certain soldier told the onlookers that on a small island in the far south, there was a small "conflict" between the Ming army and the Franji.

Yes, according to the results of the cabinet's subsequent discussions, the traversers defined this war as a "conflict".

The reason for this characterization is very simple: if the Franji people (including all the colonists) are described as the enemies of the ferocious and barbaric country, the sentence "reform and opening up allows all foreigners to enter Guangzhou to do business" will be mentioned later in the memorial , will not be established.

It is also based on this that the memorial to Zhangchao General’s Yamen did not go through the military’s urgent delivery, but sent a plain letter: This is a small conflict, which does not reach the level of war that requires the court’s attention, so I sent a plain letter ... No matter how the rest of you make up the book, I will define it as a conflict here, anyway, if I believe it, it will be fine.

As for the specific content of the memorial, the master of the General Army Mansion naturally downplayed the scene that day in various spring and autumn styles: there was a little quarrel between the Ming and Fu families. In view of the previous years of friendly cooperation between the two countries, everyone agreed to use Macau City Take the outer bastion as a bet, and play a friendly match.In the end, the "Cao Jun" laid down the bastion, and although the loser was defeated, the two sides shook hands and made peace, and the Franji people peacefully handed over the city of Macau. The women and children were unharmed, and everyone was happy. This is a model of international relations...

The above is the content of the first stage of the memorial: report.

The content of the second stage is to announce the good news and give gifts to the imperial court.

After recovering the island, the first is the good news of "returning the government".After the first few days of military control, Cao Zongbing stated that he had handed over the jurisdiction of Macau Island to the Yamen of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Secondly, since the city of Macau, which the Portuguese have been operating since the Jiajing period, has been won, there must be some "gain".Simply because Cao Zongbing came from a reckless background, he is the most loyal. This time he opened the city, naturally he will not forget the emperor and court thousands of miles away. Everyone eats meat and drinks soup.So Zongbing Cao presented big gifts to the emperor and the court respectively.

The following is the bonus gift list for the imperial court, in total:

15 taels of silver;

General Franji has ten cannons, and several cannons and ammunition;

Thirty guns in the center of the Franc machine, and several guns and ammunition;

Francine cannons, a total of hundreds of mother and child guns;

100 Franco gunner instructors (for hire).