After thinking about it for a while, Lord Zhizhou still didn't believe that there would be such an easy thing, what that group of people did last night was definitely the arrival of the Heavenly Evil Star, how could he change his face and even visit him, Zhizhou, who had been frightened.

In disbelief, he asked the porter again, "Is it really a gift list?" Did you read that right? ”

Although the porter vaguely heard about last night's incident, and he is also one of the most cronies in Zhizhou, he is just a janitor after all, and he doesn't know more specific insiders.

He was completely confused about his master's performance today, seeing that the master still didn't believe what he said, in order not to lose the master's trust, and in order to keep the porter's very oily errand, he just hurriedly came up with evidence.

In the meantime, he searched his clothes, and then took out a big red gift list from his sleeve, and then took out a silver ticket from it and handed it to Lord Zhizhou.

Zhizhou took the silver ticket and saw that the silver ticket exchanged by Huaxia Bank was worth 3,000 taels of silver.

Then he took another red gift slip, with jewels, jade, silk, and some strange knick-knacks.

After seeing this, Zhizhou finally breathed a long sigh of relief, he didn't care about how much silver and how many treasures the shopkeeper of Weihai Trading Company in Huaxia had sent.

This time, he didn't care at all about the numbers on the gift list that he originally regarded as the basis for dealing and speaking, this time, even if there were only a few dozen taels of silver on the gift list sent by the other party, it was good.

According to his understanding, as well as the experience summed up in the officialdom for so many years, as long as the other party uses the strategy of bribery against him, then, as long as he does not turn his face again, he will not choose to solve the problem by force for the time being.

Thinking of this, Zhizhou, who was greatly relieved in his heart, slowly straightened his body and said to the porter, "Hurry up and invite the guests in." ”

However, after Zhizhou stood in place and watched the gatehouse and walked a few steps out, he hurriedly shouted to stop the other party, and while taking a step, he re-issued the order: "This time, the official will personally welcome the distinguished guests into the door, and quickly let people open the middle door." ”

"Huh? Master, open the middle door? It's not appropriate, right? When the porter heard his master's order, he was immediately a little confused, and asked rhetorically at a loss.

That's right, the middle door of this era is completely a symbol of power and status, and in ordinary mansions, opening the middle door means that the most distinguished guests in the house are coming.

And in the mansions of the officials, as well as the high-ranking ministers and nobles, the middle gate is only opened when the head of the family goes home to receive the whole family's visit, or to receive the holy decree.

But now, his master actually asked him to open the middle door? Isn't this transgression?

Zhizhou reacted again and realized the mistakes and omissions in the orders he had given. If he really opened the middle gate of the state government to greet a few merchants, it would not be a few days before he was impeached, and it would be all over the Ming court.

He paused slightly, and then re-launched, "Then open the side door widely, and the official will personally go out to welcome the distinguished guests in." ”

"Yes, sir." The porter hurriedly ran out in advance to carry out the order.

When Lord Zhizhou hurried to the gate, he saw a middle-aged man with an extremely sturdy physique, who was already waiting at the door, and beside him, he thought that his face was extremely ugly and his stature was a little short.

Lord Zhizhou thought it was an errand servant, so without saying a word, he greeted him directly, and said to the sturdy middle-aged man, "This is the shopkeeper of Qinda?" You have been waiting for a long time, I am really sorry, hurry, please come into the house, the house has prepared high-quality tea, and the shopkeeper of Qin must taste it well today. ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then reacted, quickly shook his hand, pointed to the short, ugly man next to him and said, "My lord admits that he is wrong, this is the general manager of our Weihai Trading Company, the treasurer of Qinda." ”

Zhizhou turned his head a little stunned and looked at it, it was short. The ugly man also happened to turn his head to look at him, his expression was very calm and calm, and he didn't seem to feel the embarrassment of the atmosphere at all.

The shopkeeper of Qin said to Zhizhou: "After the end of school, I entered Qindu, and I am the big shopkeeper of Weihai Trading Company, and I have not thanked my lord for being able to deign to meet me and other businessmen today." ”

"It turned out to be the shopkeeper of Qinda." Lord Zhizhou was also stunned for a long time before he said a word. He really didn't expect that Huaxiaguo, which is well-known abroad, and the official trading company opened outside, would actually hire such a person, a really indescribable "weirdo" to be the general manager.

In the past few years, Daming's qi has been really changeable, and it is really full of demons, a person who looks so ugly can actually manage such a big business, and he can also make such a big move last night.

Zhizhou hurriedly readjusted the rhythm and welcomed the people into the mansion.

It wasn't until everyone was polite for a long time and sat down separately that Zhizhou still felt a little awkward, after all, the Ming government paid great attention to the appearance of officials when selecting officials.

Of course, the officialdom of this era doesn't like things like sissies, people with that kind of appearance can only do some pastime for officials in private, and on the bright side of officialdom, the best face is definitely the national face, which is the kind of person who is upright.

If a person's upright spirit is not angry and arrogant, then, as long as this person is not too stupid, even if his ranking in the exam is a little worse, then his official fortune will definitely not be the bottom of that group of jinshi.

Even, there are many times when the official with the favorite national character face of the imperial court can always be a Beijing official in the capital.

The Ming officials who grew up in this environment attach great importance to their appearance, and it is conceivable that they attach importance to their appearance. As a Zhizhou who grew up in this way, he was also deeply affected by the atmosphere of officialdom, and he had never received such an ugly person in such a formal place in his main hall.

However, even if he is not used to it, he has to endure it, after all, after experiencing the incident last night, he knows very well that the other party is definitely not a character he can arrange at will.

In view of Lord Zhizhou's fear of the power controlled by the Qin shopkeeper, as well as the Huaxia forces behind him, he also specially arranged for four selected elite servants to stand in the hall.