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Chapter two hundred and seventieth in exile

Qian Qianyi, who was sitting at the bow of the boat, was having a happy chat with the boss. A young woman in the palace dress came out of the cabin, holding a child over one year old. It was Liu Rushi, "Hedong Jun".

"Master, have you arrived in Zhoushan?"

"Ah, madam, I'm just here in Zhoushan, and I'm waiting to enter the port now!"

While Liu Rushi was leaving the cabin, he happened to see the Guangdong Navy's warship passing by, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Master, where is this big ship?"

"Haha, this majestic warship belongs to the Guangdong Navy!"

"I didn't expect that the King of Chu created such a big business in Guangdong!"

Qian Qianyi was very unhappy when he heard his wife say this. He was really unhappy to praise another man in front of one man!

"What do women know about their homes? They still don't retreat!"

When Liu Rushi saw that Old Man Qian was angry, he hurriedly retreated into the cabin with his child in his arms.

Qian Qianyi had nowhere to emit an evil fire, and said to the boss of the ship: "Boatman, send a sailor to inform him, and then say that the father-in-law of the King of Chu is here!"

Hearing this old man say this, the boss of the ship quickly bowed. He knew that there was such a big man on the ship!

Li Zhi in Dinghai’s tent heard someone report outside: “Master Taiwan Master, there is a person outside Hong Kong who claims that the father-in-law of the King of Chu wants to enter Hong Kong in advance, please give me some advice!”

The King of Chu’s father-in-law? Isn’t the King of Chu’s father-in-law Ma Jiyuan? Didn’t he work hard for the King of Chu in Leizhou? Why did another father-in-law come up?

"Among people, go out and have a look. It's our lord's cheap father-in-law who is here to fight Qiufeng!"

Chen Zilong also knew that Zhu Hongsan was very lustful. He heard Li Zhi say this and held back his laughter and said, "Master of Taiwan, I'll go out and have a look!"

The name of King Chu is very good. Zhoushan is the king of Chu. Officials from all over the world naturally welcome him when they hear the King of Chu's father-in-law arrive.

When Chen Zilong came out to greet him, Qian Qianyi had already arrived. Chen Zilong had served as an official in Hongguang Dynasty, so he naturally recognized Lord Qian and couldn't help but get angry.

Chen Zilong stepped forward and asked, "Is this a gentleman who is too cold to take a look?"

When Qian Qianyi heard the young man in front of him revealing his scars, he blushed and bowed and said, "Sinner Qian Qianyi, please go to Guangdong for refuge!"

Seeing Qian Qianyi's virtue, Chen Zilong could not investigate his fault. If he didn't look at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, the Princess Chu would have to give him the face.

Chen Zilong stepped forward to salute and said, "It turns out it is Shangshu Qian. Let's meet with me to meet the Governor!"

"Governor General? That Governor General?"

"It is Lord Li Zhili, the governor of Nanzhili and Zhejiang!"

Qian Qianyi had never heard of Li Zhi's name. It was true that Old Man Qian was a member of the Central Committee in the past and had heard of a mere Taoist priest. But now there is no way. He is the governor, and a second-rank senior official is on the same level as him. Now he is a traitor, so he can't bow his head!

Qian Qianyi followed Chen Zilong to the big tent and kowtowed.

"The criminal Qian Qianyi meets with the Governor!"

Li Zhi was very despised Qian Qianyi's character. Now he saw that the King of Chu could accomplish something and rushed to surrender, without any integrity as a scholar.

"Please ask for it. Your fault is judged by the King of Chu. I am loyal to the King of Chu. You are the father-in-law of the King of Chu, so I won't make things difficult for you. There will be a ship to Guangdong in three days. You can follow the ship!"

"Governor General Xie!" Qian Qianyi, who was a traitor, dared to take advantage of the king of Chu, got up and came out to arrange his residence with a minor official.

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but sigh when he went out: "A person cannot do something wrong in his life. If he does something wrong, he has to repay it for the rest of his life!"

Following the small official at the door, he came to a shack in the private camp. The small official said, "This is your residence. The camp is filled with porridge twice a day. You must abide by the time, otherwise you will have no food to eat, so don't blame us!"

The man had to bow his head under the eaves. Qian Qianyi bowed and said, "Thank you, sir, this is a little bit of intention, please accept it!" After that, he took out ten taels of silver from the cuff and handed it to the little official.

The little official weighed the ten-two silver patterns and said, "It depends on your awareness of the promotion. I will give you a benefit. Every day, the kitchen in front of you is given to the powerful refugees to cook dry meals. You can go there to eat, which is said to be the one who gave it to me."

After the little official said that, Qian Qianyi couldn't help but feel angry. He had never suffered such anger! But there was nothing he could do!

Qian Qianyi looked at the refugees around him and said that he was pretty good. At least he had an independent shack without Hedong Jun showing up.

At this time, the cloud sign rang, and it was the lunch mouth. Qian Qianyi quickly ordered his family to come to the front to make the meal with the rice jar he had sent.

My family came back soon after I went there. The food was pretty good, with white rice and sweet potato rice, which could at least make people full. The food was boiled with salted cabbage without any oil. The food was served in unlimited quantity, which was probably for those refugees who expanded the port.

Lao Qian would not have to eat this kind of boiled cabbage. He brought a ham when he left home.

Qian Fa, a family member who was making food, said, "Master, I saw that the soldiers ate better than the landlords in our family. They had fish and meat, and enough rice. In this way, those Qiu Bas were not satisfied. He said that braised pork every day, and ate like a pig's head! It was so annoying!"

Lao Qian didn't believe what Qian Fa said, the King of Chu was rich, but he couldn't give the soldiers such good food. He should have gone out to fight and gave these Qiu Ba a good meal.

Lao Qian was about to instruct his family to prepare meals when Chen Zilong came.

Chen Zilong held a food box in one hand and an oil paper bag in the other. Seeing Qian Qianyi preparing to eat this kind of refugee meal, he stepped forward and said, "Mr. Qian, this is a dereliction of duty. I forgot to order to prepare meals for Mr. Qian's family."

After saying that, I opened the food box and put down the oil paper bag. It turned out that the food box contained a large bowl of braised pork and two tomato sauce fish, and the food box below was two bowls of rice. The oil paper bag contained a roast chicken.

"Mr. Qian, there is really nothing good to eat on the deserted island. Our Governor also eats this kind of military meal. The King of Chu has an order that generals leading troops must eat the same meal as ordinary soldiers."

Qian Qianyi looked at the food. He liked light food and had no appetite for such braised pork with thick oil and red sauce. However, Chen Zilong's kindness had to give face. He ate a few chopsticks and tomato sauce fish. Unexpectedly, this strange fish was very delicious. Qian Qianyi ate a big bowl of rice with the sweet and sour sauce.

"Mr. Chen, how do you make this fish? It's really delicious!"

"Oh, the way to make this fish was passed down by the King of Chu for thousands of years. After steaming and cooking, the fish bones inside have been softened, so any kind of sea fish can be used as tomato sauce fish."

"Why is it called tomato sauce? Is it made of eggplant?"

"We use a Western vegetable called tomato here. I have never seen it before. I heard that it is grown in a large number of people in Guangdong!"

Qian Qianyi nodded, asked his family to take out the rice wine he had collected, and began to drink with Chen Zilong.

"Mr. Chen, I heard from my family that your ordinary soldiers are eating so well, but are you going out to fight?"

"That's not. The King of Chu has an order. The army has three meals a day. Each meal must have a meat and a dish, and the main esophageal tube is full."

"It will cost a lot of money to raise the army like this!"

"I don't understand the specific details very clearly, but each of the more than 10,000 garrisons in Dinghai spends ten taels of silver every month on meals."

Ten taels of silver are enough for an ordinary farmer’s family of three in a year. Unexpectedly, the King of Chu is really rich, and the monthly food expenses cost 100,000 taels of silver.

"Mr. Chen, isn't it a waste to raise an army like this? No one can afford to support such an army!"

Qian Qianyi has decided to defect to his unlucky son-in-law, and now he has started talking on his side.

"Don't worry, Lord Qian, the King of Chu said that investment will be rewarded. The army in Dinghai looks very expensive, but its combat effectiveness is very strong. When Lord Qian was at home, he had never heard of the 3,000 people who destroyed more than 50,000 Qing troops in Jiangyin?"

"What? Three thousand to fifty thousand?" Qian Qianyi was completely frightened. He knew the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, and he was said to be invincible. He did not expect that so many of them were destroyed by the foodie army in front of him!

Chen Zilong bragged a little. The navy was the one who made great efforts in the Jiangyin Battle, and half of the Qing army fell under the naval artillery fire. In addition, the new affiliated army attacked the city, which was still a certain distance from the authentic Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

"Mr. Qian doesn't know yet. This time, the battle between the Qing Dynasty Berenican, King Kong Youde was killed outside the city! This is the first big victory for our Ming Dynasty to kill the old slave with one shot from the commander Yuan!"

Qian Qianyi nodded. If the result of the battle is really like what Chen Zilong said, it would be a great victory.

"Mr. Chen, since Guangdong soldiers are so powerful in combat, why don't you restore Nanjing?"

Chen Zilong was also very depressed when talking about this. With the strength of the southern Zhili Expeditionary Army, it is entirely possible to conquer Nanjing, but the King of Chu has been suppressing Li Zhi's actions. He didn't understand before, but after Li Zhi's explanation in the morning, he had already understood. Now when he heard Qian Qianyi's question, Chen Zilong, who was still a little fritters in the officialdom, blushed.

"This is because the King of Chu has a military order, and this unit costs too much, and Guangdong has no money, so it is not ready to counterattack Nanjing."

Qian Qianyi was a man of a good spirit. When he saw Chen Zilong, he knew that something was inside. After a moment of thought, he immediately realized that the King of Chu wanted to use the Qing Dynasty to eliminate the opposition forces of King Lu and King Tang.

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but slander himself in his heart, "This Zhu Hongsan is indeed cruel and ruthless. In order to eliminate his opponents, he would not hesitate to send the Qing Dynasty to the south. In this way, the people of Jiangxi and Fujian will be affected!"

Although he thought so in his heart, Lao Qian had decided to go to Guangdong and had to think about his unlucky son-in-law. From Zhu Hongsan's side, this move was a good move. Zhu Hongsan played it very well with the trick of killing people with a knife.

Chen Zilong accompanied Qian Qianyi for a while and stood up to say goodbye. Lao Qian stood up to see him off, and agreed that Chen Zilong would take them south to Guangdong in three days.
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