At noon on this day, Zhu Si invited Gonzalo and Bi Fangji to have lunch together, accompanied by Pang Tianshou, a Western military supervisor. And for this meal, Pang Tianshou finally ate the two and a half catties of lobster he had asked Zhu Si for. Spain and Italy are both maritime countries, and people in both countries love to eat seafood. However, when the Spaniard Gonzalo and the Italian Bi Francis ate the water and land and sea delicacies on the Chinese table, they agreed that they should immediately go back and kill all the cooks in their country. What do you think the British chef would think if these two did do it?

Faced with a large table of delicacies, the two Western elites didn't even want to speak, and they didn't raise their heads and just cared about the wind and clouds. completely disregarded the royal etiquette of the Ming Dynasty and the face of their European ancestors. It tastes like two natives or refugees without chopsticks or knives and forks. It was difficult for Zhu Si, who couldn't eat such a sumptuous meal on weekdays, to swallow.

Gonzalo's plate had a pile of lobster shells, and in both hands he held two crabs of a hairy crab. A pair of dead fish eyes stared straight into the eyes of the dead crab, he actually wanted to overcome his fear first, and then eat the. Fortunately, the elegant Bi Francis was not as vicious as Gonzalo, and he was trying to grab the slippery sea cucumber with his hands to taste it. But the sea cucumber was not very willing to cooperate, and whenever Bi Francis grabbed one with a little force, the sea cucumber would always escape from his tiger's mouth. He's not eating, he's juggling. With the graceful dance steps of the sea cucumber jumping out of the tiger's mouth, you can always see Bi Francis's raised hands and his neck stretching up and down with the rise and fall of the sea cucumber. After some hand-to-hand combat, the two gentlemen finally wiped out all the dishes they could get their hands on. After eating, he took away the exquisite utensils that served the dishes, and said that this was the etiquette of Westerners.

Zhu Si scolded in his heart: These people are taking Lao Tzu as an idiot, right? But forget it, just take the plate and take it, just as they are poor relatives in the country. Money can solve problems that are not problems, if money can't solve their problems, then treat them as problems.

After packing the porcelain plate and letting the guards take it away, the two foreign devils didn't leave, and they still had to drink with Zhu Si. I thought that Zhu Si didn't have much alcohol, but I didn't expect Zhu Si, who often drank with the martial artists, to pour the two foreign devils into a daze. I drank a little too much, and the two foreign devils began to blow the bull again, and there was a joke among the Northeast gentlemen: 'I was from the Northeast before drinking, and the Northeast is mine after I drank high.' Not necessarily people in the Northeast like to brag, after all, the author is also a Northeasterner, but after drinking high, the Northeast will sometimes be the author's. Today's Northeasterners are much more restrained than in the previous century, obeying the law, not fighting or fighting, and have an innate sense of humor. However, when drinking, it still shows the boldness and uninhibited nature of the traditional character.

In the author's heart, the Northeast people when they are sober are righteous, and the Northeast people when they are drunk are lovely. It's not our fault that we like Hu Kan when we're drunk, but it's actually the fault of the wine. Compared with the strange neighbor who shouted that the Republic of Korea was the strongest in the universe when he was sober, we are actually too modest.

Zhu Si'er heard Gonzalo talk about his great achievements in broken Chinese, and Bi Fangji slipped for him on the side, only feeling funny in his heart, and did not want to reach out and slap them in the face because of the pretense of the two foreign devils. Who knew that the two foreign devils began to talk about the difference between the maritime nation and the mainland nation, and then began to ask Zhu Si a lot of questions.

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, why do you often say that you are rich all over the world, but you can't arm a modern army?" Bi Fangji said with a drunken face flushed, and Zhu Si pondered for a moment and replied: "After seeing your results, there are indeed ministers in the DPRK who do not understand why Shu has not been able to form a modern army full of Chinese. In fact, I also want to have such an army, but the Ming Dynasty does not have time to train such an army. This war between the Ming and Qing armies was not a small-scale war. In the final analysis, what the two armies are fighting for is not advanced equipment, but national strength and the ability to integrate their own nation. Whoever has a strong national strength and a well-organized army will win victory in the end. An all-firearms army needs educated soldiers who have received a lot of training, strong national strength and logistical support, and a large amount of financial and material resources. And the phrase rich all over the world only represents the past of the Ming Dynasty, and the proportion of firearms and equipment in the Ming army at that time was also very large, but there was a problem with the integration of the Ming Dynasty at that time, so even if we had more advanced equipment at that time, we still lost the war. ”

After staying in China for so long, Gonzalo's Chinese is still very lame, but there is still not much problem in listening to others. Bi Francis is now more like Gonzalo's staff officer than a general officer, Bi Francis praised Zhu Si and said: "I admire His Majesty the Emperor's overall situation and grasp of the nature of this war, so it is not surprising that you have achieved this great victory today." Zhu Si said modestly: "Hehe, to achieve the final victory in the decisive battle of the Central Plains, the main thing is to rely on the soldiers' lives." The Western army is brave and commendable, and it is very comforting to be able to advance and retreat with friendly forces and fight strong enemies. Today, in addition to having a few drinks with the two gentlemen, I also want to reward all the members of the Western Army. It was a silver coin worth 130,000 taels of silver, and each soldier could receive a value of four hundred taels. The officers received a total of two thousand taels worth of two taels, and the soldiers who died in battle received a total of five thousand taels, His Excellency the Commander received two thousand taels, and Mr. Bi Francis received one thousand taels. ”

Zhu Si's generosity made these two overjoyed and thanked them again and again. He immediately ordered every member of the Western Army to go to the designated place to receive the reward. It's still a silver coin, the silver coin can be mixed with forty percent of other metals, which makes Zhu Si's reward seem more valuable, and it also echoes the international practice of Teniang. Gonzalo thanked: "Your Majesty the Emperor is so polite, our military pay is already a lot, and you have given us a salary equivalent to one year as a reward, I am afraid that we will have to work harder to fight for you in the future to be worthy of His Majesty the Emperor's generosity." ”

Zhu Si nodded and said, "Two gentlemen, this is nothing, I'm afraid you will have a long time to get rich." I wonder if Your Excellency the Commander is interested in making this business bigger? Seeing this sentence made Gonzalo's blue eyes glow with several red lights, Zhu Si already had an answer.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, we are your slaves, no matter what orders you give us, we will carry them out conscientiously, and I will give you the most affirmative answer and the deepest trust on behalf of all the Western Army."