Chapter 626 King Qin’s cowardice

Author: Taofu

Chapter 626 King Qin’s cowardice

Perak bala, perak bala...

A series of firecrackers set off the jubilant atmosphere of Li Jinli's residence. At this time, the entire three floors of Li Jinli's residence and the three exterior floors were all filled with tables. Today, Li Jinli's residence will hold a flowing banquet.

The table was already full of people. Who wouldn’t want to be happy when the young master of Lantian held a full-moon banquet? Li Jinli was very generous about this, inviting people from all walks of life in Lantian, and strongly suggested not to charge a penny.

money.

I was very dissatisfied with the people from all walks of life who came to the banquet. Aren't you unkind if you don't accept gifts? How can this be done? Finally, with everyone's persuasion, the rules were changed to allow giving gifts or even donating money, but Li Jin refused.

To receive the money, I went to the county’s Ministry of Finance, which set up a professional foundation called the Gongzi Fund to receive and manage the gift money received this time.

This idea came from Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng said that this gift money will not be used as official investment money in the future, but will be used as private capital specifically to help those poor people, and the management of the fund will

There are specialized personnel from the Ministry of Commerce to take care of it, carry out investment and financial management, and promote the development of Lantian. It can be said that Li Chaosheng's idea is very good. It refers to the form of the later foundation, and it is a pure foundation, unlike the beautiful country.

What kind of asset transfer-type foundation is there?

Why are there so many foundations in this beautiful country, such as the Bill Gates Foundation and the Buffett Foundation? Are these top wealthy people really so keen on public welfare?

The answer is definitely no, there is something fishy about it.

The beautiful country has a very high inheritance tax. If the wealth of these rich people waits for future generations to inherit, it will be greatly reduced in the hands of future generations. Therefore, smart rich people transfer the money to the foundations they set up and then hire professionals.

Managers manage the foundation, and the internal operations of the foundation are entirely up to them. They can arrange their relatives to join the foundation, and then pay high monthly salaries, which is equivalent to passing the money to their descendants in a different direction.

Moreover, foundations are public welfare organizations. The beautiful country has very low taxes on them. This can ensure to a large extent that their property will not be absorbed by the country. Therefore, the rich in the United States keep setting up foundations and so on. It is not like a certain person at all.

As some people with ulterior motives say, the rich in beautiful countries have more conscience than the rich at home. As capitalists, they are all the same. How can there be such a thing?

Of course, there is no compulsory gift for those who come to congratulate Li Jinli this time. Anyway, it is as long as the original words are expressed. One silver dollar is also affection, and a hundred silver dollars is also affection.

However, no matter how poor the people who came were, they would not really give a single silver dollar, especially since there were many merchants, large and small, who came this time. Today, more than 120 tables were set up, and almost everyone from all walks of life in Lantian County was entertained.

More than 1,200 people.

About a hundred of them are the Tanggou Town delegation of Lao Li's family. Let's call these delegations the township folks' delegation. These one hundred people are now very impressive. They once fought with Li Chaosheng from Tanggou Town. Some of them became

He became a senior officer in the army, and some of his sons were admitted to academies and now became officials within the Lantian system, and the most important thing is that these people all have the surname Li.

Since there are so many people coming this time, everyone has a tacit understanding that one representative will be appointed from each family. As for the son who is currently in public service, usually the family will just send someone to attend. In fact, it doesn’t matter if the person is not present. The main thing is to be polite.

Can not be less.

In addition to the one hundred people named Li, there are about five hundred people who are family members of officials in various major systems in Lantian. Officials have their own jobs, so they are all represented by a family member, and these officials

Regardless of the size of the official position, all officials were given five silver dollars per gift. This amount of gift money was set by Guo Bao, because Guo Bao represented the civil service system and was the first to receive five silver dollars.

With him taking the lead, no matter how big or small the officials below are, how can you surpass Guo Bao? So all five silver coins were given. The county official accepted this offer, but the fight against corruption still needs to be done.

The same goes for the military attache. Li Chaolong took the lead in giving a gift of five silver dollars, and then all the army representatives received five silver dollars.

There are much fewer military representatives, only about a hundred or so, and most of them are distributed among the Li family delegation in Tanggou Town.

As for the remaining seats, they were allocated to outstanding talents from various walks of life such as college professors, scientific and technological workers, and hospital doctors. The last approximately 300 seats were given to Lantian businessmen.

These people are the majority of the gifts for this banquet. At least one businessman also gave a heavy gift of one thousand silver dollars. I can come to have a meal on this occasion, but you gave me less. Is it reasonable?

Of course, most of these people were arranged outside the hospital or even on the long street, but everyone was very happy. After all, they could have a meal with the county magistrate, and they would be able to boast about it when they went back.

As for the people arranged in the room, they were all important figures in Lantian, such as the Minister of Commerce who the businessmen needed to look up to, such as Guo Bao, the head of the civil service, and those at the level of military generals.

These are all arranged in the house.

However, these people still could not go to the main table, but were divided into two parts, such as the military generals section, including Li Chaolong, Shi Dalei, Li Dezhen, Li Chaomeng, Shi Xiaolei, Gu Zi and others.

The table of civil servants: Guo Bao, Yang Shubai, Bai Shoumin, Ma Tengyun, and others at ministerial level.

As for the main table, the person sitting in the middle of the table was of course Li Chaosheng, and sitting next to him were Li Jinli, his two daughters-in-law, Mrs. Li Jinli (eldest aunt), and the King of Qin and his old mother who came over from Xi'an in the morning.

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According to common sense, women are not allowed to attend the banquet on such occasions, but in Lantian, Li Chaosheng broke the rules and not only allowed the two daughters-in-law to attend the table, but also the elders of both parties.

The guests were seated separately, and the master chef ran over and asked, "Does the county minister want to take away the food?"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "I am the guest today, and whoever spends the money has the final say."

After hearing this, Li Jinli said cheerfully: "Hahaha... Okay, okay, I will spend the money today and I have the final say. Master, I will take care of the dishes."

"Okay!"

In response, the master chef called for the dishes to be taken away, and soon someone started to serve them. Today's banquet was the same both inside and outside, with a total of sixteen dishes, which meant everything went smoothly.

Eight cold and eight hot, sixteen dishes, cold dish roasted chicken, sauce duck, pork head...

Hot dishes: Braised prawns, pork ribs, stewed beef...

The dishes are not very luxurious, but they are big and filling, and every dish is hard. This is suitable for the appetite of Lantian people. How long does it take for Lantian people to have enough food? They are not so pampered that they need to eat sea cucumbers, fish bones and bear paws.

Nowadays, as long as it is good meat dishes, they like them all. Even if the county family holds a banquet, the food and drink are not bad.

The next step is to serve the wine. There are two types of drinks today. The main wine is the sweet potato roast, a specialty of Lantian. This is almost synonymous with Lantian wine. It focuses on being strong, spicy and enjoyable.

The other is the rice wine shipped from the south of the Yangtze River. It has a soft taste and is not very strong. It is provided for people who don’t like spicy wine. As for ladies, there is a third type of wine, which is Lantian wine.

Wine is a good thing. It is newly developed by Lantian Winery. It uses grape seeds purchased from Uzang. It took several years to grow grapes and then make wine. It just so happens that you can drink it this year.

The wine is really a high-end product. It comes in large glass bottles. Lantian Liulichang makes it by itself. The wine is taken out to drink from custom-made goblets. At this time, it is poured for everyone at the main table. The old princess

Looking at the wine glass with curiosity and a bit of amazement, he said: "Drinking wine is so luxurious, it is comparable to royalty. Look at this wine, could it be the grape wine mentioned in the poem, the luminous cup?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said: "The old princess likes it. When A Ruian takes De Zhao home to visit the bride, I will bring a batch back to you. Drinking some red wine at ordinary times is good for the body, softening blood vessels and preventing heart disease."

"Ah, Ah Ruan can go home to save his love, and can he also take De Zhao with him?"

The old princess did not expect that Li Chaosheng would say this. Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Of course, Dezhao is your grandson. Why can't I bring him back to you to see?"

"Ah, this feeling is good, good."

The old princess laughed and kicked King Qin with her foot. King Qin quickly smiled and said, "Yes, we would really welcome you to bring your little nephew back."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said: "Okay, let's eat, no need to be polite. By the way, Xiaozhu, go see if Da Mei has cleaned up De Zhao. He is the protagonist today. He won't show his face."

That’s not good.”

After hearing this, Xiaozhu said: "Yes, I'll go take a look right away."

Soon Xiaozhu and Damei came back together. Damei was still holding Xiao Dezhao in her arms. As soon as Xiao Dezhao came out, the whole atmosphere reached a climax. In an instant, everyone's eyes were fixed on Xiao Dezhao. Xiao Dezhao

Zhao still didn’t know how terrifying the existences were that were staring at him at this moment. Anyone here who walked out of this door would be respected by thousands of people. But at this time, their eyes were all fixed on Xiao De Zhao. Xiao De

Zhao didn't know that he was receiving attention that his age should not receive.

Instead, he couldn't help but giggle, his eyes as crescent-shaped as crescent moons.

"Hey, my little baby, come and let grandma hold me."

At this time, the eldest aunt couldn't help but stood up and took Xiao Dezhao from Da Mei's hand, and then started teasing her with a smile. The old princess poked her head to look, and Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Auntie, let me give you to grandma too.

Hug her for a while."

After hearing this, the eldest aunt laughed and said: "Oh, look at my brain, sister-in-law, please don't be angry."

The eldest aunt and an old sister-in-law called the old princess silly. After all, the old princess had never been called that in her whole life. At this time, she was a little at a loss.

"Ouch, I forgot, you are the princess. Look, I still treat you as the same person as us."

The eldest aunt patted her head and looked embarrassed, but the old princess shook her head after hearing this and said: "Old sister, don't mind, I have been calling you princess for half my life, you just called me princess

Old sister-in-law, I haven’t reacted yet, blame me, blame me.”

The eldest aunt shook her head when she heard this and said, "No, no, your status is already noble, how can you be the same as us."

After hearing this, the old princess said: "What is noble or not? Old sister, please don't scold me. The Ming Dynasty is about to fall. If I am a princess, I will become the laughing stock of the world. Come on, old sister, give it to me."

I, I’m here to hug this grandson.”

The old princess naturally picked up little Dezhao and said with a doting look on her face: "Little guy, please call me grandma. I am your grandma."

As he said that, he touched Xiao Dezhao's face affectionately with his face. It was such a warm scene. Li Chaosheng narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the old princess, and then at King Qin who was sitting there just eating food and drinking. He raised his eyebrows and said to himself

There is something wrong with this uncle and his old mother-in-law. Although he did not dare to put on the airs of the old princess and prince in front of him in the past, it can be seen from his bones that there is still some element of pretentiousness. But looking at it today, it seems that he is trying his best to

The aura around me has fallen, and I intend to integrate myself into the circle of Lantian.

In fact, Lan Tian used to be regarded as nouveau riche in the eyes of the Prince of Qin. They were a group of unworthy people. They married their sister to Li Chaosheng because Li Chaosheng had strong soldiers and horses, not because they believed in Lan Tian.

It's like a down-and-out aristocrat looking at a new upstart. The feeling is that there is a sense of being higher and higher in his bones.

Just like what Zhu Yuanzhang said about Liu Bowen back then, even if he kneels in front of us, we all feel that he looks down on us!

This is the sense of superiority that comes from the bones, which cannot be changed in a short time. In the past, they had no intention of changing, but now it is different. Li Chaosheng can feel that the other party really wants to change and wants to change.

After returning his identity to the mortal world, what changed the attitude of King Qin's family?

Is it the prosperous Lantian, or the devoured King Fu family in Luoyang?

Li Chaosheng felt that there was a high probability that it was Prince Fu's family. After all, they were from the same clan and were princes. If one prince was cooked and eaten, it would definitely have a great impact on the other prince. After all, a rabbit dies and a fox grieves for its own kind.

Thinking of Li Chaosheng, he narrowed his eyes slightly, said nothing, and drank a glass of wine. At this time, Princess Changyu touched Li Chaosheng with her elbow. Li Chaosheng was slightly startled, and Princess Changyu said: "Husband, please don't

Look at my brother like a prey, you can see he is sweating."

Sure enough, Li Chaosheng looked at his uncle and saw that cold sweat was pouring from his forehead tonight. It turned out that the scrutinizing expression he had unconsciously shown just now made him look at it and thought he was going to do something to him. Li Chaosheng felt funny.

Then he raised his glass and said, "Come on, uncle, let's have a drink."

Upon hearing this, King Qin quickly stood up, holding a cup with both hands and said: "Your Majesty, I respect you, you can do whatever you want."

Li Chaosheng smiled and nodded, and clinked the wine glasses with King Qin. At this moment, Li Chaosheng stood up from the table next to him and said, "I like this nephew. Come to my place to give me a gift!"

After hearing this, the others also stood up and said: "I also have a gift, I come first!"

All of a sudden, these big guys in Lantian became energetic and expressed their intention to present carefully prepared gifts.
Chapter completed!