Lu Ming

Chapter 185
Before dinner, Cai Feiming and the three Japanese discussed the details of the future population trade again.

For the Japanese, due to the unique demand for goods from the Daguan side, many cabins should be empty when the Shuyin ship arrives at the port: Dazuan has a wealth of daily necessities here, so he is not interested in the handicrafts brought by the Japanese. .As for precious metals, these commodities are not bulky and do not take up many warehouses.

Now that they have figured out the appetite of the crossing people, the Japanese can use iron ore and sulfur to ballast the tanks, and then fill the empty tanks with some people.

The prices offered by the big staff to the women are quite generous. The most important thing is that the transporter still has "points" to accumulate. In the future, the in-demand products produced in the kiln area will need to be purchased with points.

As for those samurai who can't get along in the local area, the crossing party will also pay the boat fare in advance, and it will be deducted from the wages of these people in the future.Therefore, in the future, on the Zhuyin ship of the senior officers, some women with a relatively small number will be given priority, and the remaining seats will be reserved for beggar warriors.

After discussing with a few book dealers, it was getting late, so we broke up.After Cai Feiming came out of the office, he walked straight into the big cafeteria of the business hall.

Since the Chikan villa area on the other side was built, the once crowded dining hall has become deserted.Today is no exception. After Cai Feiming entered the door, he found that there were only a dozen people sitting sparsely inside.

After signaling with Liu Zhe, who was already sitting in the corner, Cai Feiming first went to the window to order two dishes: venison with green pepper and mouse spot in tomato sauce, and then a small pot of Jinpanlu, and then he took the dish and went to Meet Liu Zhe.

"Well, I don't know when I can drink beer. This local wine from the Ming Dynasty is either high or low, and I'm really not used to it." Cai Feiming sat down and saw the small pot of local wine on his dinner plate After that, Liu Zhe started to complain.

"Hurry up, I heard that the barley and hop farms have been planted, so let's keep it going for a few more months." Before Cai Feiming could speak, a dark and strong man with sharp edges and corners said with a smile.

The black man is called Pan Mingzhong, and he is the captain of the newly formed exploration team.

As the pace of a certain force's external expansion became faster and faster, an exploration team with outstanding comprehensive capabilities came into being.The Taipei mission this time is very suitable for the exploration team: low-intensity conflicts, diplomatic contacts, topographic records, and mineral exploration can all be completed by the exploration team.

Pan Mingzhong, who loves adventure, is a senior traveling friend and freelance photographer.Before crossing, this guy often organizes donkey friends to go to various poor places to find death, and take some landscape photos to sell to magazines.

Later, there was a time when the team got lost on the edge of Tibet, and Pan Mingzhong escaped with his own life.Facing the angry family members afterwards, as an organizer, he was really speechless, so after losing all his savings, he planned to go to South America to stay for a few years, and thus came to Dayuan.

"Why don't you just order rice and beer, the taste is similar, you guys are just too picky!" Commander Liu began to make fun of the civil servants in charge of the distribution of supplies in the big office.

"It's called rice wine. There's no such thing as rice beer!" Cai Feiming smiled and shook his head: "The main ingredient of the low-grade beer in the supermarket that contains rice is barley. The one mixed with rice is sour and bitter, while the regular barley beer is mellow." Bitter, thanks to the fact that you still drink beer every day, you don’t understand this!”

"There are no low-end goods that are sour and bitter."

"Rice inventory is highly sensitive information. Lao Xia is staring at one eye when he sleeps, so don't think about it. Brothers, let's wait for the mellow high-end dark beer with peace of mind. It tastes like Bavaria, and it's specially for you time-traveling gentlemen to drink. "

"Hey, what's wrong with the world, cheap goods are even harder to find than genuine ones."

"Ha ha."

The three chatted and ate, and it didn't take long for the dishes on the table to be wiped out.After finishing the meal, I ordered two more side dishes from the counter, and then poured half a bowl of Ming Dynasty homemade wine for each person, and then we started talking about the business.

It's business, but it's actually a bargain—the exploration team now only has two polished commanders and one ship, and they need to extort some resources from the army and diplomacy before they can set off.

The three discussed for a long time, and finally reached an agreement: the navy will allocate crew and weapons, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will provide native and Spanish translations, and the exploration team will go to Taipei to collect sulfur and survey the distribution of local iron placer and gold mines.

After everything was agreed upon, the three broke up. Cai Feiming hiccupped all the way and went back to the dormitory next to the cafeteria to sleep.

It's miserable to say that most of the people in the big office, including Cai Feiming, are still waiting for off-plan properties in the second district of the villa on the other side of the Taijiang River. It's not so easy to be a leader, especially in such a weird political atmosphere as a senior official.When assigning a house, you have to be brave, and if you are a beautiful girl, you have to be the first to pick the losers. This is the price of power!
Early the next morning, Cai Feiming first went to the big office for a tour.When he heard at the morning meeting that the mission to Fuzhou would leave tomorrow, Cai Feiming quickly came out of the big office.

After returning to the temporary villa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lao Cai ordered his staff to go down and invite the guests from "Room No. [-]".

Soon, a short, black and thin man came to Cai Feiming's office.

This person's name is Xu Duanwu, and he is a relative of Xu Xinsu, a big businessman/big comprador in Zhangquan area.

Xu Xinsu, the master of Xu Duanwu, according to the original history, this man was already dead at this point in May 1628.

As one of the culprits behind the collusion between officials, bandits and foreigners and organizing the coalition forces to deal with Zheng Zhilong, Xu Xinsu was supposed to be killed by Lao Zheng who raided Xiamen this month.

Yet history has changed here.

Due to the appearance of the traverser, Xu Da comprador got a warning and some precious intelligence analysis in time - this thing is called hindsight, but for the parties involved, it is nothing more than a guiding light.

Xu Xinsu, who was in the vortex at that time, after listening to the report from his family nephew, even though he was dubious about the analysis of this mysterious force, when he cross-examined his family nephew, he somewhat felt the strength and kindness of the crossing force.

So Xu Xinsu made a different choice than in history: he and Fucai left the crisis-ridden Zhongzuo Institute (Xiamen) and hid in Quanzhou Prefecture.

And not long ago, when Xu Xinsu learned that the imperial court had indeed sent Xiong Wencan to visit Fujian, before Comrade Xu had time to figure out how the cross-travelers knew the news a few months ago, he received another bad news.

Zheng Zhilong once again led the crowd to raid the Center Left Institute.Xu Xinsu soon learned afterwards that not only were all the shopkeepers and assistants he had left there killed, and the store was burned, but also that Zheng Zhilong's men were digging three feet to find him.

After that, Xu Da's comprador had an epiphany: the time-traveling force must be a chess piece laid by some big boss who can influence the government in advance in Fujian and Guangdong.

(End of this chapter)