Chapter 2174 Flower Struggle (82)

The fateful moment has arrived. The emperor issued an appointment edict, temporarily appointing an admiral to go to the southeast coast to monitor various major ports and report on the extent of smuggling and pirate damage. After this journey is completed, he will be transferred to Qingjiangpu to take charge of Jiangnan.

River Governor.

When receiving the emperor's edict, the admiral first set up a shrine on the altar, lit incense and candles, enshrined the edict, kowtowed nine times to the edict, and then read the edict in detail.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is divided into two sections, the north and the south. Yangzhou is the dividing city. The dredging and embankment of the Jiangsu River south of Yangzhou is the responsibility of the Governor of Nanhe. The Zhili River is the responsibility of the Governor of Zhili. The Henan and Shandong rivers are the responsibility of the Governor Donghe.

Compared with the Governor of the East River, the area under the jurisdiction of the Governor of the Nanhe River has less sediment, so it is a relatively easy task. Every year, the court allocates funds to the Nanhe River to build embankments, and there are other branches when the breach overflows. The Governor of the Nanhe River

Qingjiangpu, where the governor was stationed, was also very prosperous, but the successive governors of Nanhe engaged in wanton corruption, lowered engineering standards, and enriched their own pockets.

River transportation and water transportation have many overlapping responsibilities, both of which are to ensure smooth transportation of the Grand Canal.

While waiting, Nick came into contact with many European sailors. Even if an accident occurred, he could escape at any time. This news meant that he could continue traveling with a protector.

Cao Xi was congratulating the admiral. No, now it’s time to change his name to the governor. This young man’s character is hard to fathom. Sometimes he seems to be very friendly, but Nick always feels that he is using his status as a prospective son-in-law to stir up trouble in the admiral’s house, because the servants often go to the garden.

There were gossips. Nick felt that Cao Xi was dishonest in his treatment of others. Even though he gave Nick a jade Ruyi, it was because he wanted to gain Nick's trust so that he could deliberately stumble behind his back.

The Jade Ruyi is really useless to Nick. Firstly, it is shaped like a cloud and cannot be used to scratch his back. Secondly, Nick is not a monk. It is a bit similar to the wat used by ancient courtiers. If he is worried that he will not remember it, he must report it.

Things must be written on it, but what the monk wrote on Yu Ruyi was scripture.

If he wants to use it as a decoration, he must first have a fixed residence, so Nick plans to donate the jade Ruyi to Faxing Temple. As a condition, if something happens to him one day and friends from Europe come to find him, the host will ask Nick to

Tell him everything that happened during your stay in China.

Their first stop was Xiamen. The British were only allowed to operate in Guangzhou, while the Spaniards could go to Xiamen to import tea.

If the British also imported a large amount of silver and silver dollars to China like the Spanish, then they could also get this privilege. But even if the Spanish could enter the Xiamen Port normally, they would not get more favorable conveniences, so they had to limit their trading activities to

Macao.

This separation may be forever, unless a few years later, due to other opportunities, Nick comes to Asia from Europe again, or he simply stays in China and reduces contact with relatives in Europe.

When he returned to his residence and looked through the album, each scene was still fresh in his mind, whether it was the houses built along the hillside in Macau, the beautiful harbor, Camões Park, or the Gongyuan, streets and Mazu's temple in Guangzhou.

birthday celebration.

The journey is as long as life. Isn’t the journey a happy destiny?

Lin Gua gave Nick a stone-engraved seal, and Nick also planned to give him a copper-engraved seal, so he gave it to Nick the day before he left.

However, Lin Gua insisted on taking Nick to "practice". He met Hao Guan in a restaurant. He was so generous that he invited Nick to a sumptuous dinner. He drank a lot of wine during the dinner, which caused Nick to return home the next day.

I was a bit hungover and almost didn't catch the admiral's ship.

Captain Yao set off with their team. He felt that it was impossible for pirates to attack the official ship. The hangover and the bumps of the big waves made Nick vomit. He felt as if he had a serious illness.

Just as he was lying in the cabin, he smelled a very fresh smell, the smell of tea. He opened his eyes and found Miss Wanning standing beside his bed.

"Sobering up tea." She said in Mandarin, and then placed the tray and teacup on the bedside table.

"Thank you." Nick said in blunt mandarin.

She smiled and then left. After she left, Juren walked in and looked at him without saying a word.

Nick took a sip of the so-called hangover tea and almost spit it out. It was not what he understood as the taste of "tea".

"Swallow it, there is ginseng in it, it's very expensive." Juren said coldly, and then told Nick the truth:

If a Qilin talent wants to gain fame through literary achievements, he must give up the "red fragrance" and endure loneliness like the morning star, or at least associate with moral and knowledgeable people and listen to the teachings of excellent teachers. Only in this way can he achieve it.

The desire to "move forward smoothly".

Nick remembered the "Lone Star" mentioned in the last election. Is the morning star the "Lone Star"?

Then Juren took some spices from the cabin and made "Yuhua Wake-Up Incense" for him.

Take peony flowers and tea flowers, stir them with sake, wait until the petals have absorbed the wine, crush them with a pestle, add borneol, shape into cakes, dry them in the shade and stuff them in pillows.

Nick didn't know about its effect on waking people up. He only knew that the smell was much better than the smell of alcohol and vomit. He fell asleep for a while and felt much clearer.

Then he rubbed his eyes because he found a monk in his cabin.

"Have you been to Wakayama?" the monk asked.

"Been there." Nick replied, "Who are you?"

"So, have you heard the music played by Tanqin?" the monk asked again.

"I haven't heard it," Nick replied, "but I have heard wind chimes made of charcoal. I didn't believe them when they said they were made of wood."

"Me too." The monk smiled and said, "Why does charcoal make a metallic sound?"

Nick felt something was wrong, he seemed to hear a metal knocking sound.

It's not as sweet as wind chimes, but more like the sound of weapons clashing.

He stood up unsteadily, held on to the board wall and reached the deck, only to see an astonishing scene.

A group of pirates dressed in red boarded the ship, and Cao Xi and other Qing troops were fighting with them.

"What happened?" Nick turned around and asked the monk, holding on to the board wall and returning to the cabin door. At this time, a big wave hit, as if the entire ship capsized. He quickly got up and returned to the deck.

"There are pirates!" he shouted.

The admiral and Cao Xi, who were searching for the smuggling ship with binoculars, both looked at him in surprise.

Other officers and soldiers also looked at Nick in surprise.

Except for the people in the Admiral's Mansion, no one in the navy who escorted them this time knew that Nick was European because he usually wore a hat to cover his golden hair.

"There are pirates? Where are they?" Cao Xi asked immediately.

Nick opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. Could he say it was in a dream?

The deputy general said something in Cao Xi's ear, and the two of them looked at him suspiciously.

"You are sleepy." The admiral said calmly, "Go back to the cabin and rest."

Nick immediately turned around and returned to the cabin.

When he sat by the bed, he found that the sobering tea Wan Ning brought him was still emitting white smoke, as if he had just slept for a short while.

As for the monk, of course he disappeared, or he was just Nick's hallucination.

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