The spring rain outside the window is pouring down, adding an ambiguous taste to this late spring night.

But Secretary General Yang Youxing is more interested in the honey-roasted quails sent up, he uses a knife and fork, skillfully cutting the food sent, this is the first wave, eat it while it's hot!

The knives and forks made a soft collision sound on the porcelain plate—

Minister Shen Qianqian was holding her cheek in one hand and gently pounding it in the quail soup with a small spoon in the other, her eyes looking at him tenderly.

It was a charming night of spring rain, it moisturized things, it was like a whisper between lovers.

Say something, Secretary General Yang, her eyes are talking.

Secretary General Yang Youxing's eyes were just shining, and when he cut it carefully, he was just about to fork a piece to eat, but it turned out that Minister Shen Qianqian was drinking soup in small sips, and her movements were very elegant.

Secretary-General Yang Youxing hurriedly picked up his plate, replaced Minister Shen Qianqian's plate, and said, "Look, I forgot, the deboning of this honey-roasted quail requires a little skill——"

Minister Shen Qianqian smiled softly and expressed his gratitude.

In order to show his superb skills, Secretary General Yang Youxing raised his head and talked to Minister Shen Qianqian while cutting, and the knife and fork touched the porcelain plate:

"You're right to drink the soup first.

Soup is the primary part of ancient food culture.

Or as early as the Warring States Period, the nobles and doctors at that time dined according to the rule of "soup" to eat, only when "soup" was served, the banquet could begin, and the guests could be seated.

In that world, it is best for you Cantonese people to inherit the customs of your ancestors, and drink soup first, and the taste of the dishes is relatively light and slightly sweet.

"Soup" is still the matching style of the two dishes that the ancient family had in each round, and the words "one dry and one wet" and "holding the soup" said by Wang Xifeng in "Dream of Red Mansions" reflect the form of each round of serving dishes in the imperial diet.

Therefore, this quail was a sought-after food ingredient in the Tang and Song dynasties, and if it is not made into soup, it will definitely be inferior to the cooking standard for the cook. ”

Minister Shen Qianqian said: "I have been taught. Sister Shen Leyi is from Guangdong, I'm not, I'm from Qingdao-"

After taking a big bite of a piece, Secretary General Yang Youxing said: "Qingdao is a good place, and it was called ——"

Minister Shen Qianqian hurriedly interrupted him and said, "It's not a good place or not, it doesn't matter anymore, I heard that you came here as a writer, tell me about your experience, I'm curious-"

Secretary-General Yang Youxing's eyes began to vomit hatred, and he told all kinds of tearing battles with pirated websites and people who watched pirated copies!

Minister Shen Qianqian was a little scared at this time, she thought, how can she be hateful to this extent?

She had to make a dignified gesture to show that she was listening, and it was supposed to be a good night.

Secretary General Yang Youxing gulped down on beer, this alcoholic beverage is now popular in places under the rule of the Hantang Group, you think, Dingyuan Marquis Zheng Lian uses it to quench his thirst in the morning.

Minister Shen Qianqian said: "Won't drinking beer have side effects? ”

"Hehe, as long as you don't drink too much, it's one of the few drinks that doesn't have any side effects, and in that world, it can be used as a culture medium for vaccines! It's definitely better than liquor, that is to say, better than a hundred years of solitude. ”

But the taste of beer in Hantang Group is always inconsistent, which makes people who like beer painful, and they have to keep adapting.

This has to do with the barley that is transported here.

If it is made in India, the beer tastes lighter; If it's in Persia, the beer tastes stronger, and I can't say which one is better, but it always changes.

Professor Wu Yongmei once said: "No way, the barley they send is always from a different place, and I can't guarantee that the quality of the barley malt is consistent." The fermentation process is controllable, but the taste is definitely different depending on the variety, and it cannot be uniform. ”

Secretary-General Yang Youxing once complained, how many years has India been in business? Can't afford a stable supply of barley from producing areas?

Director Jianguoan said: "Now on the Ming Continent, food is still in short supply, and we can extract barley to make wine, to be honest, it hurts the heavens and the peace!" If I really go deep into the interior of the Ming Continent, then I may have cut off my barley's investment in the beer industry and drink a hundred years of solitude, which is a mixture of cassava alcohol and sugarcane alcohol! ”

Secretary-General Yang Youxing was taken aback at the time, he could say it and do it.

Uncle likes to drink a stimulating drink like Hundred Years of Solitude!

Moreover, they also hate that beer is too diuretic - hehe, Secretary General Yang Youxing doesn't dare to say anything anymore, and drinking beer will hurt the heavens.

How expensive is the beer sold by Hantang Group? How many tickets did they recover from Fujian? And how many horse tickets were recovered from the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Dutch?

Otherwise, they would not have been able to consciously join the grain transportation brigade.

After Secretary-General Yang Youxing felt the urge to urinate, he smiled apologetically at Minister Shen Qianqian, saying that it was convenient.

Minister Shen Qianqian watched Secretary General Yang Youxing get out of the box, picked up his wine glass, and drank more than two taels of a hundred years of loneliness in one sip, not like tasting it in small sips just now.

And I two in a row, and then I felt a little bit.

The wine of more than 30 degrees is nothing to her, a woman who has fought in the financial industry in that world, but when she saw that Secretary General Yang Youxing only drank beer and showed a proud look, she had to taste it in small sips and give him face.

This kid is still quite sincere, but his ability to take responsibility is a little worse, and he has less knowledge, so it's not too appetizing.

Minister Shen Qianqian opened his little whale skin bag, took out a small mirror, made up some lipstick for himself, and then took out the Hongta Mountain cigarette and lit it himself.

However, if you adjust it, it will work, and the bottom version is not bad.

She spat out a few smoke rings into the air, which were round and set towards the seat of Secretary General Yang Youxing just now.

Sister, I also have to think about personal problems, what about Sister Yanting, it doesn't matter - maybe this is providence.

After Secretary General Yang Youxing got out of the box, he saw that the other seats were full, and they were all white, which was really interesting.

On a rainy day, do they Portuguese businessmen have a party?

But he ignored the respectful glances of the white men at him, and went to the bathroom.

His mind was full of thinking about Minister Shen Qianqian, he thought, this Shen girl is obviously more obedient than Director Li Yanting, if she trains her well, she will definitely not be as willful as her!

My god of heaven has three different types of weddings, especially Western-style church weddings!

Although there is no Boxer Rebellion now, some people in the Han and Tang clique are still there - convert to Catholicism, my god, just for a wedding?! I'm going to be sprayed to death-

Women are not afraid, I am afraid.

When he thought that maybe Li Yanting, the factory director, crossed his waist and scolded Jiang Tiesheng, he was really happy and sad.

But Minister Shen Qianqian is now indifferent, she is a person who speaks ruthlessly on the Internet, but after meeting, I feel that she is too introverted and not passionate enough.

The girl is introverted and good-looking, and she is beautiful, so let's train it well-

Secretary-General Yang Youxing's vision is keen, and his judgment is accurate.

It was indeed the Portuguese merchants who were negotiating things.

Macau's commercial status is now completely marginalized, and its former advantages are gone.

The reason is simple: originally the Macau area was the only open place on the Ming mainland, where Portuguese merchants could trade silk, porcelain and tea, which were easy to sell in the West.

It can also be bought in other places, but it is in the form of smuggling, and there is no way to scale and normalize.

So the position of the Macau area is quite important, which is why the Portuguese are desperately trying to crowd out the Dutch, British and Spaniards.

He even does not hesitate to use the methods of war to defend his core interests.

However, when the Hantang Group inexplicably appeared, the situation changed.

At the beginning, they watched the Hantang Group get rid of the shameful and despicable Dutch pirates with the mentality of watching the excitement, and the sea transportation was really much more peaceful!

Pirates are the sworn enemies of maritime trade, and their disappearance is a celebration of God.

But then things changed.

The port of Xiamen was unexpectedly fully open, and so was the port of Geranza in Taiwan.

Everybody can go to the port of Geranza to do business, or buy, or exchange—

They even allowed them to go ashore to build a merchant house, and allowed merchants to settle down, but the name was somewhat discriminatory, in their words, it was called Hongfan District.

Just follow their rules and you can do anything!

However, there are significantly more patrols in Hongfan than in other places.

In the Hongfan area, there were the most Portuguese merchants, and they felt very convenient, because when there was a war in Guangdong, they could easily buy the three major commodities on the Ming continent from an earl on the other side, silk, porcelain, and tea, which were always bestsellers.

And more importantly, Hantang Group's products seem to be easier to sell!

Snow sugar, pure as white clouds, and their snow salt, and all kinds of absolutely useful goods, such as the magic dyes, spices, and matches from before, in fact, also glass, and most importantly, mirrors!

But to the pain of the Portuguese merchants, they were able to allow anyone to do business with them, without showing the Portuguese advantage at all!

the vain and arrogant business of the Spanish merchants, whom they do; the business of the lewd and savage Dutch lowlanders, whom they also do; Even the business of the English, who have always been sneaky, they do.

They are a group of mercenary businessmen, but obey their rules.

The Portuguese merchants who first came to the Red Fan district of the city of Geranza had to watch as white people from other regions settled in one after another, even Persians.

They once wanted to monopolize the business of the Han Tang Group, and they actually sent people to negotiate, just like they did in Macau.

However, when they brought it up, Chairman Wu Dapeng of Hantang Group happily agreed, and when they only asked for cash or goods to be exchanged, they immediately apologized politely.

Their envoy swore that no merchant group in any region could buy the products of the Han Tang Group alone, except for the legendary Earl Zheng, who always changed the customs tariff!

Things slowly changed, and when the war in the Guangdong region subsided, and they could normally buy the three major pieces on the Ming Continent, Fujian produced more.

Even if their customs tariffs are always changing, that's better than not doing business at all!

The Portuguese merchants of Macau were saddened to find that merchants from other regions could also buy goods that they had previously dealt exclusively, and even of better quality than those in Canton.

What's more, you can also buy more profitable and smaller transportation volume from Hantang Group!

It wasn't until the merchant ships that came back from India that they all felt the need to stop in Macau, and they went straight to Sanya on Hainan Island, the two newly built ports, and then went directly to the city of Geranza, which was more profitable.

When the local merchants of Macau did the same, the Macau region declined.

Most of the merchants there went to the Hongfan district of the city of Geranza to set up shops, and they thought that it would be a waste of time and money to go back to the Macao area.

Since the emergence of the Hantang Group, everyone has transported much faster and more than anyone, and there has never been goods that are not easy to sell, so turn around and stop again, delaying time.

And it's better to buy their sailboats, and you can also take out a loan.

Today, at the time when Secretary General Yang Youxing and Minister Shen Qianqian were having dinner, it happened that the Portuguese businessmen really had a party, and they wanted to discuss how to do their best to turn the Hongfan District into a Macao area, after all, the past methods seemed to be not good for the Hantang Group.

The people of the Hantang Group are not afraid of the entry of other white people at all, they are not the confidence they shout, but anyone can come, and they are not closed!

Originally, their methods of dealing with the Ming Dynasty couldn't fool them, so they had to find another way, but who knew that there were people from the Hantang Group in the box?

They had chosen a more remote place, and it was a rainy day.

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