In view of the fact that the city of Nanjing has been occupied by the Hongguang puppet regime, the plan to return to the capital was postponed, and the convoy changed its route back north to Xuzhou Prefecture, Liu Ziguang's base camp.
Xuzhou Prefecture is a great place. It was the place where Liu Ziguang made his fortune. The common people are proud of the fact that there is a prince in the place. The ruffians and street gangsters in Xuzhou Prefecture and the six counties all wear a half-worn red robe and a pair of canvas military boots.
The most fashionable clothing, coupled with the aforementioned advantages in folk customs and industry, is simply the paradise of the Red Shirt Army, an army known for its ferocity and technical weapons.
In terms of topography, Xuzhou Prefecture is located at the junction of Shandong, Henan, and Nanzhili. To the east is the fish and salt of Haizhou, to the west is the food and manpower of Henan, and to the north is Liu Ziguang's more stable base of Shandong Province.
With the convenience of railways and canals, it is a treasure land that can be attacked when advancing and defended when retreating.
There is Yunlong Mountain in the south of Xuzhou City, and at the foot of the mountain is the sparkling Yunlong Lake. The Royal Palace is built among the lake and mountains. It is said to be a palace, but it was actually transformed from the villa of a retired local official. Although it is not as good as the Imperial Palace in Beijing.
It is magnificent, with white walls and black tiles, but it is also very elegant. There are bamboos planted inside the walls, and outside the walls there are blooming mountain flowers and green grass. It is a perfect place for the Empress Dowager to recuperate.
As for other clan members, they did not receive such generous treatment. Liu Ziguang rented several hotels in the city for them to live in. Each family had a room, and all food, drink, and clothing were provided by the government. The clothes of these people had not been changed since the day they were captured.
, stained with blood, mud and sweat, more tattered than a beggar, my hair and body have not been washed for more than half a month, my hair is in clumps, my body smells terrible, and there are bunches of dirt in it. Now I finally live in it.
When they entered the formal house, they all cheered and jumped for joy.
Boil water to take a bath and change into new clothes. Although Xuzhou Prefecture is a big city, it can only provide clothes made of ordinary silk and satin fabrics. Materials such as Jiangnan satin that are only used by the royal family are not available. For a while, they did not care about these and changed clothes.
We quickly started the dinner. The food was also provided by the hotel. The long table was filled with local dishes such as pork head meat, spicy chicken, braised grass carp, and pot sticker pancakes. Xuzhou cuisine is unique, with so much soy sauce and chili peppers, and it's salty.
It was spicy and dark, and was extremely ugly. The clan members were used to eating exquisite Jiangnan side dishes. How could they eat this kind of food? They resisted eating some and then called the waiter over and asked to cook it for them again.
A table.
This hotel is no different from an ordinary hotel. It is Liu Ziguang's property. It is a chain store of Shandong Guihe Restaurant. From the shopkeeper to the waiter, everyone pays 250,000 to 800,000 yuan. When he heard that the guests complained, the cook got angry on the spot and rushed out with a kitchen knife.
He chopped it on the table and said, "If you want to eat something weird, go ahead and cook it yourself, I don't know how."
The clan members were also furious. How could a servant speak to the master like this? In fact, they wrongly blamed the cook. People in Xuzhou have such a temper. They would do the same if other guests complained about the bad taste of the food. You know this
But the top chef in Xuzhou Prefecture is telling the truth when he says he can’t cook. If you don’t let him add soy sauce and chili pepper, he really can’t cook. These days, unlike later generations, various cuisines are available everywhere. Xuzhou Prefecture
This place is not an area with dense foreign population, so it is not easy to find a few Jiangnan cooks.
The clan members were not sure what to do when they first arrived, thinking that this was Liu Ziguang's deliberate arrangement to embarrass them, so they just swallowed the meal and ate it, not to mention rolling the black vegetables with Xuzhou's specialty steamed bun.
As soon as I ate it, it was really delicious! It was so fragrant and spicy that my mouth was full of saliva. I wanted to eat more. I ate until my belly was round and my lips were blistering from the spicy food. When I saw how delicious they were eating, the guys smiled and offered me watermelon.
Herbal tea relieves them from the heat.
Jiangnan people have delicate stomachs. After eating this meal, there was a long queue at the latrine that night. My stomach, which had not seen oil and water for more than half a month, was stuffed with so much fish and meat at once, and it was so spicy. I ate seven or eight slices.
Watermelon, can your stomach handle this? Everyone held their stomachs and cried out in pain. Those who really couldn't get their turn to squat in the latrine used a spittoon to deal with it in the room. For a while, the hotel was filled with sobs. Poor these nobles of the clan, they made a fool of themselves.
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The next day, what was put on the table were Beijing dishes such as pan-fried pan-fried pork, siu mai, salted duck, dried artemisia, and dried shredded chicken sauce. The clan members were moved to tears. When they found out that it was the Lord Supervisor who had given the order,
They wanted to serve these royal relatives well, so one by one they became swollen and tentatively asked the supervisor to return the gold and silver treasures taken away by the Xixia army to them. This request was not too much.
Wasn't it just snatched from their home? But since it was snatched away by the Xixia Army and taken back by the Red Shirt Army, it was the spoils of the Red Shirt Army. There was no reason why they had not spit it out. When Liu Ziguang heard the reaction of the people below
After making this request, he rolled his eyes and said: "Let them go to the Xixia people." Even so, for the sake of humanitarian spirit, he still distributed pocket money to the clan members, five taels per person.
Five taels. In the past, this little money could not even be used to send servants, but now it is all the wealth. Although the elders of the clan are not satisfied, they can understand that the supervising country needs military expenditures to fight the war, and the treasure is
I can't pay them back. I can just wait until I return to the capital and gradually accumulate wealth. Anyway, this world belongs to the Zhu family and cannot change the world.
Thinking of this, the clan members became more balanced and went shopping on the streets of Xuzhou Prefecture with their money.
In the Xuzhou government office, the supervisor is handling state affairs. Nowadays, telegrams are flying all over the sky. The Hongguang regime in Nanjing, the Tianqi regime in Shanghai, and the supervisory regime in Xuzhou. People say that there are no two suns in the sky, but now there are three suns in the sky of the Ming Dynasty.
, the local governors were all confused, they didn’t know which one was Zhengshuo of the Ming Dynasty. Going to war would cost money and kill people. At that time, the three families were not prepared, so there was this telegraph war flying all over the sky.
In the Ming Dynasty, every provincial capital had a telegraph room, which was responsible for receiving and forwarding services. Sometimes telegrams from the capital were sent to a specific province, and the header of the telegram would have words such as Henan and Shandong written on it. The relay station north of the capital
After receiving it, it will continue to forward it. There is no need for relay stations south of the capital to forward it. However, power on is different. It is a notice issued to the world. It does not have a header. After receiving it, all relay stations must continue to forward it to its adjacent stations.
Until all telegraph rooms around the world receive it.
Not everyone can send electricity. It stands to reason that only imperial edicts can send electricity. But now there are two emperors Chaoguang in the Ming Dynasty, and there is also the national leader Liu Ziguang. Everyone among these three families is qualified to send electricity.
When it comes to verbal sparring, the Hongguang regime in Nanjing is the most powerful. Who dares to challenge the situation? He is a great talent, and the words he writes are as smooth as flowing words, which is amazing.
In comparison, the Tianqi regime in Shanghai was a bit weak. Huang Zongxi, Zhu Youxiao's royal pen holder, was nowhere to be found, so he had to find a few literati to write manuscripts. The strength of the power written in this way was naturally much lower than the level of Mao Pizhang.
But it is dozens of times stronger than the power supply of the Xuzhou supervisory regime, because Liu Ziguang has no intellectuals at all. Apart from arms experts and poison masters, several local old scholars really can't do it, so Liu Ziguang has to do it himself.
The Knife Goes to Battle has changed the tradition. What others have published is the classical Chinese version of the power of electricity. Starting from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and continuing to talk about the general trend of the world today, they are full of words, and they criticize Fang Qiu. However, Liu Ziguang is not like that. He only publishes the plainest vernacular texts.
, which made the pen writers in Nanjing and Shanghai laugh out loud for a while.
Facts have proved that the article was well written but useless. After a few days of power war, all provinces understood the situation, but it was the Xuzhou regime that supported the most.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were sixty-three provinces in the north, seven in the south, and some foreign vassals. The only one who supported the Hongguang pseudo-regime was the Liu Han regime entrenched in Nanjing, which was a vassal regime established by Liu Zongmin. To put it bluntly, these two families are simply the same species.
For pants, even the radio uses the same one, so there is no difference in whether it is supported or not.
There are more supporters of the Tianqi regime in Shanghai, including Zhejiang, South Zhili, Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Hebei, Shaanxi and other provinces. In addition, the troops of Yuan Chonghuan and his son are included.
There are many people who support Liu Ziguang, including Sun Qichao from Shandong, Zhao Zhangcheng from Shanxi, Zheng Chenggong from Taiwan, Huo Lingyao from Ningxia and Chahar Khan from Northern Mongolia.
There are also some provinces that do not dare to support openly and express their support in the name of sending congratulatory messages to congratulate Liu Ziguang on his tolerance of the country. The provinces that sent congratulatory messages are: Henan, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Jiangxi, and Fujian; the foreign vassals and friendly neighbors include: Lu Song
Queen Zhao Jing, King Temasek and King of the Golden Wheel of Tubo Buddhism Liu Kuangwang, Chief Magotou of Zambia, Emperor Xingzi of Japan, Lee Myung-bak and Kim Cao-sung of the North and South Korea regime.
In addition, there are friendly countries such as Tianzhu, Java, England, Spain, Rakshasa, France, Prussia, etc. that have good relations with the China Merchants Bureau. They all entrusted local agencies of the China Merchants Bureau to send sincere greetings to Liu Ziguang, the Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty.
This electrification battle will determine the outcome. The Hongguang regime is a joke. Their only support is the Xixia people, who are far west of Tongguan and cannot be relied upon. The Tianqi regime can compete with Liu Ziguang, but their army
Far away on the front line of Shaanxi and Hebei, water far away cannot quench the thirst of the people nearby. It would be a mystery if we really fight. The world is probably going to fall into the hands of the Supervisory State.