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Chapter 626 King Qin's Cowardice

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A series of firecrackers set off the joyous atmosphere of Li Jinli's mansion. At this time, the entire Li Jinli's mansion, the inner three floors, and the outer three floors were all tables. Today Li Jinli's mansion will hold a water banquet.

And the table was full of people at this time, who would not want to be happy when the young master of Lantian held a full moon wine, and Li Jinli expressed his generosity in this regard, inviting people from all walks of life in Lantian, and strongly suggested not to charge a penny money.

You are very dissatisfied with the people from all walks of life who came to the banquet before. If you don't accept gifts, aren't you being unreasonable?How can this work? Finally, under the persuasion of everyone, the rules were changed to allow gifts and even donate money, but Li Jinli refused to accept the money. Instead, he found the county's Ministry of Finance, which set up a special fund called Gongzi Fund The professional foundation receives and manages the gift money received this time.

And this idea was born by Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng said that this gift money will not be used as official investment money in the future, but will be used as private capital to help those poor people, and the management of the fund will It can be said that Li Chaosheng's idea is very good. It refers to the form of the foundation later, and it is a pure foundation, unlike the beautiful country. What kind of asset transfer-shaped foundation are you doing like that?

Why are there so many foundations in the beautiful country, what Bill Gates Foundation, Buffett Foundation, are these top rich people really so keen on public welfare?
The answer is definitely no, there is something tricky about it.

The beautiful country has a very high inheritance tax. If the property of these rich people waits for future generations to inherit, it will be greatly reduced in the hands of future generations. Therefore, the smart rich people transfer the money to the foundation they established, and then hire professional Managers manage the foundation, and the internal operation of the foundation is entirely on their own. They can arrange their relatives to the foundation, and then pay high monthly salaries, which is equivalent to passing the money on to their descendants in a different direction.

Moreover, the foundation is a public welfare organization, and the taxes on them in the beautiful country are very low, so that their property can be guaranteed to a large extent not to be absorbed by the country, so the rich in the United States keep setting up foundations and so on, which is not like a certain As some people with ulterior motives say, rich people in beautiful countries have more conscience than domestic rich people. As capitalists, they are all the same. How can there be such a thing.

Of course, the people who came to Li Jinli’s congratulations this time did not have to give any gift money. Anyway, the original words are as long as they have their hearts, one silver dollar is also affection, and one hundred silver dollars is also affection.

However, no matter how poor the people who came here, they didn’t really give a silver dollar. Especially this time, there were a lot of merchants, large and small. Today, more than 120 tables were set up, and almost 1000 or [-] people from all walks of life in Lantian County were invited. people.

Among them, about 100 people are the Tanggou Town delegation of the old Li family. Let’s call these delegations the delegation of the folks in the village. These 100 people are now very impressive. Some of them who were killed with Li Chaosheng from Tanggou Town became the army. Some of their sons were admitted to the academy, and now they have become officials in the Lantian system, and the most important thing is that these people are all surnamed Li.

Because there are too many people coming this time, the big guys are very tacit to appoint a representative from the family, and the son who is in public office usually just sends someone from the family to attend. Can not be less.

In addition to the one hundred people surnamed Li, there are about five hundred people who are family members of officials from various systems in Lantian. Officials have their own jobs, so it is the same. No matter how big or small the official position is, they all receive five silver dollars per water. This gift amount was set by Guo Bao, because Guo Bao took the lead in offering five silver dollars on behalf of the civil service system.

He takes the lead, no matter how big or small the officials below are, what the hell, can you still surpass Guo Bao?So all five silver dollars are accepted by the county lord, but the fight against corruption and honesty still needs to be done.

On the military officer's side, Li Chaolong took the lead in offering a gift of five silver dollars, and then all the army representatives received five silver dollars.

The number of military representatives is much smaller, less than 100, and most of them are distributed in the Li family delegation in Tanggou Town.

As for the rest of the seats, they were allocated to outstanding talents from all walks of life, such as college professors, scientific and technological workers, and hospital doctors. In the end, about [-] seats were given to Lantian businessmen.

These people are the big gifts for this banquet, and the least one businessman also gave a grand gift of one thousand silver dollars. If you can come to have a meal on this occasion, you gave less, is it reasonable?
Of course, most of these people were arranged outside the hospital or even on the long street, but everyone was very happy, after all, they could have a meal with the county honorer, and some of them would be blown away when they went back.

As for those arranged in the house, they are all big figures in Lantian, such as the Minister of Commerce who businessmen need to look up to, such as Guo Bao, the head of civil servants, and those at the level of military generals.

These are arranged in the house.

However, these people still couldn't get on the main table, but were divided into two parts, such as a general, including Li Chaolong, Shi Dalei, Li Dezhen, Li Chaomeng, Shi Xiaolei, Guzi and others.

At the table of civil servants: Guo Bao, Yang Shubai, Bai Shoumin, Ma Tengyun, and others at the ministerial level.

As for the main table, of course Li Chaosheng was sitting in the center at this time, and Li Jinli was sitting on the side, as well as Mrs. Li Jinli (the eldest aunt) two daughter-in-laws, as well as King Qin and his old mother who rushed over from Xi'an in the morning. .

According to the old theory, women are not allowed to sit at the banquet on such an occasion, but in Lantian, Li Chaosheng broke the rules and not only allowed the two daughters-in-law to sit at the table, but also the elders of both parties.

Everyone sat down among the guests and the host, followed by the master and ran over to ask: "Is the county lord taking the food?"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "I'm the guest today, whoever spends the money has the final say."

After hearing this, Li Jinli said cheerfully: "Hahaha...Okay, okay, I spend money today, and I do what I say, master, let's go."

"Come on!"

In response, the master called to take the dishes away, and soon someone began to serve the dishes. Today's table is the same inside and out, a total of sixteen dishes, implying smooth and smooth.

Eight cold and eight hot, sixteen dishes, roast chicken with cold dishes, duck with sauce, pork head...

Hot dishes: braised prawns, ribs, beef stew...

The dishes are not very luxurious, but they pay attention to a large amount of food, and they are all hard dishes, and this is in line with the appetite of Lantian people. How long does it take for people in Lantian to eat, and they are not pampered enough to eat sea cucumbers, fish bones and bear's paws. Now, as long as it is a good meat dish, they all like it, even if it is a banquet hosted by Xian Zun's family, these meals and drinks are not bad.

Immediately after is the serving of wine. Today’s drinks are different. The main wine is Lantian’s specialty sweet potato burn. This is almost synonymous with Lantian wine.

The other is the yellow rice wine brought from the south of the Yangtze River. It is mild in taste and not too strong. It is for those who don't like spicy wine. As for the ladies, there is a third kind of wine, which is Lantian wine.

Wine is a good thing. Lantian Winery has newly developed grapes purchased from Wusi Tibetan. The grapes have been planted for several years and then made into wine. It happens to be drinkable this year.

The wine is really a high-end product. It is packed in a large glass bottle. Lantian Liulichang burns it itself. At this time, the wine is taken out to drink in a custom-made goblet. At this time, it is poured for everyone at the main table. The old princess Looking at the wine glass curiously and somewhat in amazement, he said, "Drinking a wine is so extravagant that it can be compared to a royal family. Look at this wine. Could it be the grape wine mentioned in the poem, the luminous glass?"

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "The old princess likes it. When Ah Qiang takes Dezhao home to visit relatives, I will bring you a batch. Drinking some red wine is good for your health and softens blood vessels to prevent heart disease."

"Ah, Ah Ruo can go home to save his feelings, and can he take Dezhao with him?"

The old concubine didn't expect Li Chaosheng to say this. Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "Of course, Dezhao is your grandson. Why can't I bring it back for you to see?"

"Ah, this feeling is good, good."

The old princess smiled and kicked King Qin, and King Qin quickly apologized and said, "Yes, we are very welcome to bring my little nephew back."

Li Chaosheng laughed after hearing this: "Okay, let's eat, don't be polite, by the way, Xiaozhu, go and see if Damei has cleaned up Dezhao. He is the protagonist today. He doesn't show his face." Not good."

After hearing this, Xiaozhu said: "Yes, I'll go and have a look."

Soon Xiaozhu and Damei came back together, and Damei was still holding Xiao Dezhao in his arms. As soon as Xiao Dezhao came out, the whole atmosphere reached a climax. In an instant, everyone's eyes were fixed on Xiao Dezhao. Zhao still didn't know what kind of terrifying existence was staring at him at this time. Any one of them who came out of this door would be admired by thousands of people. At this time, their eyes were all fixed on Xiao Dezhao. Zhao didn't know that he was receiving attention that he shouldn't have at this age.

Instead, he couldn't help giggling, his eyes curved like crescent moons.

"Hey, my little baby, come and let grandma hug you."

At this time, the eldest aunt couldn't help getting up and hugged Xiao Dezhao from Damei's hand, and then started teasing with a smile. Hug for a while."

After hearing this, the eldest aunt smiled and said, "Oh, look at my brain, old sister-in-law, don't be angry."

The eldest aunt and an old sister-in-law called the old concubine stupid. After all, the old concubine had never been called that way in her life, and she was a little at a loss at this moment.

"Oh, I forgot, you are the princess, you see, I still regard you as the same person as us."

The eldest aunt patted her head, looking embarrassed, and the old concubine shook her head when she heard this, and said, "Old sister, don't mind, this has been called the concubine for half my life. Old sister-in-law, I haven't reacted yet, blame me, blame me."

The eldest aunt shook her head and said, "No, no, your status is already noble, how can you be like us."

After hearing this, the old concubine said: "What is noble or not, old sister, don't scold me, Ming Dynasty is about to perish, and I am still a princess, I am a laughing stock in the world, come on, old sister, give Me, I'm here to hug this big grandson."

The old concubine naturally picked up Xiao Dezhao, and said dotingly, "Little guy, quickly call grandma, I am your grandma."

As he said, he put his face on Xiao Dezhao's face. It was such a warm scene. Li Chaosheng narrowed his eyes slightly to look at the old concubine, and then at the king of Qin who was just eating and drinking. He frowned. There is something wrong with this uncle and the old mother-in-law. Even though I didn’t dare to put on the airs of the old concubine and the prince in front of me before, I can see from the bottom of my heart that there is still some seriousness. The halo on his body has been knocked down, and he intends to integrate himself into the circle of Lantian.

In fact, Lan Tian used to look like a nouveau riche in the Qin Palace. They were a group of people who were not on the stage. They married their sister to Li Chaosheng because of Li Chaosheng's military strength, not because they believed in Lan Tian.

It's like a down-and-out aristocrat looking at a new upstart, that kind of feeling has a sense of superiority in his bones.

Just like when Zhu Yuanzhang said Liu Bowen back then, he just knelt in front of us, and we all felt that he looked down on us!
This is the sense of superiority that comes out of the bones, and it cannot be changed for a while. In the past, they did not intend to change, but now it is different. Li Chaosheng can feel that the other party really wants to change, wants to change. What changed the attitude of King Qin's family after leaving his identity back to the mortal world?
Is it the thriving Lantian, or the Fuwang family that was cooked in Luoyang?

Li Chaosheng felt that there was a high probability that it was the Fu Wang family. After all, they were of the same clan, and they were still princes. If one prince was cooked, the other prince would definitely be hit hard. After all, the death of a rabbit and fox hurts its kind.

Thinking of Li Chaosheng narrowing his eyes slightly, and drinking a glass of wine without speaking, Princess Changyu nudged Li Chaosheng with his elbow, and Li Chaosheng was slightly taken aback, Princess Changyu said: "My lord, don't Look at my brother with the eyes of a prey, you can see that he is sweating."

Sure enough, Li Chaosheng saw that his eldest brother-in-law was sweating on his forehead tonight. It turned out that he had seen the expression of scrutiny that he unconsciously showed just now, and thought he was going to do something to him. Li Chaosheng felt amused. At this time, he raised his glass and said, "Come on, uncle, let's have a drink."

Upon hearing this, the King of Qin quickly stood up, held his cup in both hands and said, "His Majesty, I respect you, you can do whatever you want."

Li Chaosheng nodded with a smile, touched the wine glass with King Qin, at this moment Li Chaomeng stood up from the table beside him and said: "I like this eldest nephew, come to me and have a gift for my eldest nephew!"

After hearing this, the rest of the people also stood up and said: "I also have a gift, I will come first!"

For a while, these bigwigs from Lantian all came to their spirits, and they all expressed their intention to present carefully prepared gifts.

(End of this chapter)