Chapter 343: Leisure Time (1)
Zhen Qian's eyes lit up suddenly, the second thing he did when he came to the casino today was for this guy, in the words of later generations, this person is a navigator, who has been running the sea for thirty years, and knows the reefs, currents, and weather along the northern coast well.
Zhen Shi was ready to win over this guy, but unfortunately this person was a bad gambler, and he lost all the family property he finally bought, and his wife was also angry and returned to her parents' house, but she didn't change her life, and she also sold the goods on the ship, and was thrown into the sea and almost drowned.
This kind of person is looked down upon, the more this is the more bad the gambling, this time it is planted at home, if no one is willing to pay to help him pay off his gambling debts, he will be cut off his legs and hands.
"Five hundred! Is there anyone bidding! ”
The tall and thin man screamed, waited for a while, saw that no one around made a sound, glanced at the person who was pulled to the stage, stared at the person's hands and thighs, and continued with a smile: "Five hundred, is there a bid!" ”
The man stood indifferently on the stage, as if he was muttering something, there was no panicked expression on his face, and he might have his hands and feet cut off after a while, which was almost the same as execution, and he could still stand on the stage calmly, and he didn't know if he was already scared stupid.
Zhen Qian sighed, people who beg for a living at sea in this era are worthless, but people like this usually have absolutely no problem finding a job to support their families, but unfortunately they are gamblers, and no one dares to ask for them.
"I bought it!"
Zhen Qian said loudly to the tall and thin man on the stage: "I want this person!" ”
The tall and thin man had a smile on his face, glanced in the direction of Zhen Qian, and continued to say loudly to the surroundings: "Is there anyone else bidding?" ”
The tall and thin man was very disappointed, and wanted to tell the fool below that this person was definitely worth the money, and when he encountered a storm on the sea, the loss was definitely not five hundred, at least tens of thousands and dozens of lives, the thin and tall man's face began to become difficult to look at, and after waiting for a while, he didn't see anyone bidding again, and the anxious Zhen Qian almost scolded.
"Five hundred deals!"
Hearing the tall and thin man say this, Zhen Qian's heart went into his stomach, even if it costs a thousand yuan today, he will buy this guy and give himself another insurance for this mission to the country.
The gambler glanced in the direction of Zhen Qian, and the eyes of the two collided in the air, there was no industrial spark, and there was no trace of gratitude, just like looking at passers-by. The tall and thin man felt very bored, so he pushed the man next to him and continued to start the auction of his next item.
The warm wind smokes the tourists drunk, and only takes Yangzhou as a deer spring.
The spring in Yangzhou is breezy, the sun hangs high in the sky, but it doesn't feel the heat at all, lying under the large mulberry forest and shaking the fan in his hand has no artistic conception of prestige at all, some people are born without a happy life, Zhen Qian feels that he is a hard life.
Tomorrow he will leave Yangzhou and go to Runzhou, where he will board a ship to envoy the Japanese state.
Zhen Qian has been very busy these days, and participated in a farewell banquet for Wang Bo, this old guy heard that Zhen Gan was going to envoy to the Japanese Kingdom, and he didn't know what words to use to describe it, he took Zhen Gan's hand and asked why he wanted to go to the Japanese Kingdom, when the old man looked at himself in a daze, Zhen Qian felt a sore heart.
The wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man is gone.
Zhen Qian felt that Wang Bo was doing something for himself, and that kind of tragedy could not be expressed in words, and at that moment he even thought that his conscience had found out, and the blood of family affection had replaced the exchange of interests, which made a trace of warmth rise in his heart.
When Wang Bo said that Zhen Qian was willing to help manage his own industry during this period of his mission, that face made his murderous intent suddenly rise, and it was shameless, even if he really had three longs and two shorts, it would not be Wang Bo's turn to worry about this industry.
When he said that everything had been arranged, Wang Bo actually talked to him about the hardships and dangers of the world, people's hearts are not ancient, don't easily believe outsiders, and Zhen Qian, who said it, had goosebumps all over his body.
When he left the palace, Wang Bo's face was very ugly, and even said that before Zhen Qian was ready to leave the Tang Dynasty, he left a trace of Zhen Qian's blood with several daughters in the palace, and God knew that after he agreed, Wang Bo would not bring a few green hats to himself.
Lu Qiao said words of encouragement to Zhen Qian's envoy to the Wa Kingdom for a full hour, hoping that he would not be afraid of the dangers of the sea, thinking about the difficulties of Su Wu's mission to the Western Regions back then, not doing things that insulted the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, and spreading the glory of the Tang Dynasty in the barbaric land of the Wa Kingdom, so that more Japanese people would come to the Tang Dynasty to learn Confucian culture and so on.
Lu Qiao told Zhen Qian a lot about the previous greeting and sending off envoys, and expressed deep concern about Zhen Qian's current trip to the Japanese country.
The Japanese had serious resistance to the envoys from the Tang Dynasty, and many times the envoys of the Tang Dynasty found various excuses to prevent the envoys from entering Beijing after arriving on Kyushu Island.
Once, the Tang Dynasty sent Guo Wuyi to visit Japan. The number of people visiting Japan this time was as high as 2,000, including 600 Tang people and 1,400 Baekje envoys, who arrived at Hichi Island in the Wa Kingdom by 47 boats. Such a large visiting mission shocked the Japanese side as if they were facing a great enemy.
This time, it was the Tang envoy who offered to let Zhen Qian be the deputy envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and with Abe Zhongmalu, a Japanese envoy, as the chief envoy, it should be better than the previous times, and Lu Qiao had great expectations for this.
If it weren't for the fact that the entourage of the Tang envoy was injured because of the riot, the date of departure would have been more than 20 days earlier, even so, some seriously injured Japanese people had to stay in Datang to continue to recuperate, and wait for the next time the Tang envoy was sent to Datang to return together.
What Zhen Qian needs to do is to quietly wait for the time when the Tang envoy sets sail, this time is the most leisure time in Yangzhou, in addition to the banquet with Wang Bo, Lu Qiao and others, many maritime merchants took the initiative to come to the door to give gifts, hoping to follow the envoy to the country this time.
Abe Zhongmalu is very difficult to speak, those maritime merchants have no way to see and turn to find themselves, hoping to open up the door of Zhen Qian, he hopes that the more Tang people who go to the country to do business, the better, and they are willing to follow themselves and will never object, but I didn't expect to win the unanimous praise of the maritime merchants, and finally followed him to envoy as many as 30 ships, so Abe Zhongmalu has a worse impression of himself, thinking that Zhen Qian is a scum and insulting to the country.
Zhen Qian regarded Abe Zhongmaro's words as a fart, is it important for the country to eat? However, I think in my heart that there should be as many such Japanese people as possible, and that the Confucian system should take root in the Japanese country, so that this is the best effect of cultural dissemination.
The closer the date of the envoy is, the more idle everyone becomes, and the idle people have nothing to do, and they limit everyone to not go out at will, so as not to cause extraneous branches.