Soon after, the Northbound Fleet, which arrived near Guangzhou early, also received news of Xiao Lang's troops dispatching troops. Compared with the previous ones that just left, this time the Northbound Fleet's action was much more delayed - there was no way, the team was confused.

After entering the Ming Dynasty's army and ships, I couldn't get up quickly even if I wanted to.

This time the officials of Guangdong and Guangxi were very enthusiastic towards them, because after the "Shenwei Dingyuan General" was repaired in Luzon, the 500 quota of sailors assigned to the ship were all from the Navy of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. The Zheng family of Taiwan also joined them.

First, provide a number of auxiliary ships and sailors, so that when reporting to Beijing, "Qiongzhen, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and guerrilla general Zheng jointly serve the court to form the Jinmen Navy" - the anchorage of the General has been set at

After entering Tianjin Port, it will be merged with the remaining forces of Dengzhou Navy to form the new Tianjin Navy.

In the past few days, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, hosted banquets almost every day to entertain the group of people heading north. The governor of Fujian also sent a very close representative, and Zheng Zhilong personally came to the Zheng family. Of course, these people also had to hold banquets to express their gratitude.

Their passion and sincerity as hosts.

The hospitality was so great that everyone from the northbound team had to wander between the gardens every day - these days, dignitaries are accustomed to borrowing the private gardens of local wealthy families to entertain guests. And since you have eaten from others, of course you have to go back here.

Please, so we held a reception at the Guangzhou branch of the trading company, that is, at the manor of Liu Mingqiang and Mr. Liu... After such delay, the northbound fleet, mainly composed of four large ships, stopped in Guangzhou Port for seven days.

It has been eight days and there is still no sign of leaving.

Standing on the top terrace of Little Fatty Liu Mingqiang's "Tianshou Pavilion", which is the tallest building in Guangzhou, he can overlook the whole port not far away - Qionghai Trading Company's various branches are extremely dependent on shipping. Liu Mingqiang

Naturally, the site of this manor was chosen as close to the port as possible. Since the castle tower was built, one of his personal hobbies has been to sit here and observe the port situation with a telescope to judge the business situation. In most cases,

Pretty accurate.

However, there were many guests on the terrace today, and Liu Mingqiang naturally gave up the best seat for everyone to enjoy the surrounding scenery. However, everyone looked around and generally felt that the best view was from the port.

.Especially when there are four large Western sailing ships moored in the port, it makes them feel proud no matter how they look at it.

"I'm afraid there have never been so many Western sailing ships gathered in Guangzhou Harbor at one time, right? If we go by normal history, I'm afraid this kind of scene wouldn't happen until the end of the Qing Dynasty."

Wang Chen, a master of painting, suddenly suffered an occupational illness when he saw this scene. He couldn't help but take out a pen and paper to draw this scene. At the same time, he became more and more proud of their collective achievements.

But Liu Mingqiang, the fat man next to him who was more familiar with the local situation, immediately started to argue with him:

"We don't know what happened in history. But in this time and space, when Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, united with the fleets of Britain, the Netherlands and Spain to attack our Hainan Island, they gathered in Guangzhou Port. The scale of the fleet must be larger than it is now -

Later, our Qionghai came in after us. The number of Western ships sunk in this port alone was almost equivalent to the ones parked today - look at the warehouses at Xiguan Pier. They were all made of salvaged Western ships.

It is made of wooden planks from the wreckage of the ship, look at the scale... I have always wanted to argue that it should be the spoils of our Qionghai Town, but old man Cheng Zhong thinks we can't be too greedy..."

Wang Chen curled his lips and said to himself that it would be strange if you dare to openly make such a request in the local area without being slapped. He ignored him and just sketched lines on the drawing paper. While another buddy next to him

Then he remembered something from this, and smiled with emotion:

"Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi! When we first came to the Ming Dynasty, when we heard the name Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, we felt like such a great official! It has only been three or four years now, but the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is standing at our feet. Let's

Going to socialize with Guo Yi is already giving him face..."

After hearing what he said, everyone couldn't help but look towards the garden below the castle tower - Xiong Wencan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was chatting happily with Mr. Guo Yi, the current management committee member and head of the delegation. There were also a circle of people from Guangzhou around.

Officials and gentry, Guo Yi's experience and conversation are actually not enough to deal with those Jinshi candidates, but what does it matter - now it is Xiong Wencan who needs to please them, not the other way around. So it doesn't matter what nonsense Guo Yi talks about, anyway, maintain the conversation.

The responsibility for the atmosphere lies with Xiong Wencan and his group.

Not far away, there are female members such as Hu Wen, Wang Jiaojiao, Zhu Yueyue, and Su Muxue. There are really many lesbians in the delegation this time. They really treat this as a trip. What they need to entertain are those who

Officials’ families. This task is also not difficult, because those official wives and noble ladies also shoulder the same mission as their husbands or elders. So no matter how they dislike these gorgeous short-haired women, no matter how they feel about this group of women in their hearts.

The fancy clothes on the short-haired girls were full of the aura of promiscuous women, but their faces had to show a look of joy and admiration, praising the many new tricks the short-haired girls had come up with.

In addition, on the other side of the garden, there is a third small group, but it is a circle of foreigners centered on Jack and Anna - not only Westerners, but also several Central Asian faces, from Ottoman Turkey and

Hu businessmen in India.

As one of the few port cities in the Ming Empire that has been open to the outside world for a long time, Guangzhou still has a large number of Hu merchants. Some of them have even settled here for many years and have long been registered as local residents. However, according to traditional habits, they have their own contacts.

The circles and business channels basically had little to do with the so-called "farming, reading and heirloom" gentry groups in the Ming Dynasty. Officials were only bribed with gifts, as long as they didn't do anything bad.

But here Liu Mingqiang has a lot of interactions with them - Qionghai Company's main focus is on foreign trade routes, cotton, silk, sugar, porcelain, glassware, spices and the like are the favorite products of foreigners, not just Westerners, those

Arab merchants from the Islamic world are also eager for these things. You must know that the seventeenth century is the heyday of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The gold and silver in the hands of the sultans, caliphs and pashas are far more than that of the Europeans.

Pure, and Guangzhou is where these people are concentrated. The rapid development of the Guangzhou branch of the trading company headed by the little fat man Liu Mingqiang is largely due to the fact that it has taken advantage of this trade route to the Islamic world.

Liu Mingqiang held a banquet this time, and also invited many Arab businessmen with whom he usually has good relations to come together, so that they can see the power of Qionghai Trading Company - even the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty wants to please us.

Be more knowledgeable!

But at this time, the group of people around Old Jack were talking about medicine. The cultural level of the Islamic world has always been high, and it is especially good in medicine. Modern European medicine largely absorbed

The development results of Arab medicine. Especially among this group of Arabs, there happened to be a famous doctor from afar. When they talked with Old Jack, the "short-haired miracle doctor", both of them were immediately surprised - they talked so well

Very speculative.

On Jack's side, since he came to this era, in addition to the group of modern companions, he finally met a colleague with a slightly modern medical concept. Especially when it comes to surgery, Arab doctors' tolerance for human dissection is comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty

He was much more sensible than the Europeans. Old Jack talked to him about various parts of the human body, and there was absolutely no need to worry about being looked at as a butcher or a pervert.

In the eyes of the Arab doctor, Jack's knowledge and level far exceeded his imagination. He only had preliminary concepts for many medical ideas because of years of research, but this colleague in front of him had them.

The main points and results can be clearly pointed out, and additional problems that may arise are pointed out in advance, which is really amazing.

The two of them were talking so congenially that everyone around them was a little dumbfounded - this topic was too professional to get involved in, and these two were still talking in Latin! There were very few people nearby who could understand this language. It was Anna who was still here

I worked hard to translate for my husband, so as not to make everyone around me stare.

But it was precisely because what they were talking about sounded so high-end and classy that a group of talented people gathered around them regardless of whether they could understand it or not. The key was that although there were not many words translated by Anna, most of them related to the human body.

The organs in the body. People are always most concerned about their bodies. Those Hu businessmen are rich and powerful. Who doesn’t want to live two more years?

The lively conversation here gradually attracted several other people, including Governor Xiong Wencan, Governor Xiong, and the female dependents of the Governor's wife, who also came over out of curiosity. After hearing what they were talking about,

When talking about human health, most people can't help but want to listen to a few more sentences. Although the two people who are talking loudly are not natives of the Ming Dynasty, and the theories they talk about are also very weird, they cannot stand up to the reputation of these two people.

Ah - the famous Arab doctor is said to have been a royal doctor in the Sultan's palace, and is extremely popular among the Hu businessmen in Guangzhou. And Old Jack's reputation as the number one short-haired miracle doctor has long been in Guangzhou.

Word spread inside and outside the house. Even though the content of their discussion sounded very different from the traditional Chinese medicine theory, since those Hu Shang and Short Hair could accept it, these Ming gentry had to act like they were listening with interest. (Unfinished)
Chapter completed!