Chapter eight hundred and fourteenth acclimatization
"My lord, we have arrived in Guangzhou City, what should we do now?" Zheng Zhilong looked at Guangzhou City in the distance, and then asked Zhong Jinwei for instructions.
Zhong Jinwei smiled after hearing this, pointed to the clothes on his body and said: "We came here in casual clothes, naturally we don't want to reveal our identities. Although we have arrived at our destination, I still plan to pay a private visit incognito first. Let's see how the current situation of the Guangzhou Shipping Department is.
?Let’s see what the legendary Sun Chuanting is like?”
Although Zhong Jinwei heard about Sun Chuanting's mission to Japan, he admired his courage and wisdom. However, he had never had a face-to-face communication with Sun Chuanting, so he could not understand what Sun Chuanting was like.
When Zheng Zhilong and others listened to Zhong Jinwei's words, they thought Sun Chuanting was a great person and couldn't help but keep it in mind.
"Let's go, first go to Guangzhou City and find an inn to stay, and then go shopping around Shibosi to see the situation." Zhong Jinwei said with a little excitement.
Private interviews in private, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, a situation that only exists in novels, happened to me, and I felt pretty good along the way.
But the more important purpose is to see the true nature of a matter through incognito private visits. Just like the leaders of later generations can only know what is going on down there through surprise inspections.
As for Gu Baichuan and others, as long as the safety of the Duke is guaranteed, they don't care what happens to the Duke. Anyway, they just follow the Duke and obey his orders.
Zhong Jinwei did not enter Guangzhou City, but found a larger inn outside the city and stayed there.
Guangzhou is indeed a big city, an ancient city, and the place where it was founded as a port, with prosperous commerce. Even outside the city, the size of this inn is not small. There are many guests coming from north to south, and the shopkeeper and waiters are bigger than those in the north.
You need to be much smarter, reflected in your service attitude, and make your customers feel much more comfortable.
As soon as they saw Zhong Jinwei and his entourage wearing fine clothes and horses, and all of them having an extraordinary bearing, they knew they were high-profile guests.
The shopkeeper personally came out and warmly entertained Zhong Jinwei and his party.
After Zhong Jinwei returned to the south, he felt a sense of familiarity as if he had reunited after a long absence, and he was full of affection for everything.
When he saw the shopkeeper coming out, he asked for accommodation, and then said to the shopkeeper: "I have two guys who are not used to the hot and humid weather in the south and are sick. Please help the shopkeeper find a doctor with good medical skills. The consultation fee is not a problem."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he quickly called the waiter inside and asked him to ask for a doctor. Then he explained to Zhong Jinwei: "Don't worry, sir, this Dr. Hu has superb medical skills and is very good at treating cases where northerners are acclimated to the southern climate.
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After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he asked Zhong Jinwei to come in and reassured Zhong Jinwei: "Don't worry, sir. We here in Guangzhou often have people from the north who go south to do business. When they first come here, they will not adapt to the climate and get sick. Therefore, we have seen many such things.
, I guarantee that the guest officer’s guy will be fine.”
Zhong Jinwei nodded and said with a smile: "This is the best." Just after he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something.
Therefore, he no longer cares about these chores, and his own bodyguard will take care of them.
Zhong Jinwei went straight to his room, wrote down what he had just thought, wrote it into a memorial, and prepared to send it to the capital.
It turns out that he was reminded by the shopkeeper just now and suddenly remembered that the reorganized army is now in the north. If something happens in the south and the northern troops are transferred to the south, they are afraid that they will be the biggest enemy of the army if they are not acclimatized.
People in ancient times generally did not travel far because of transportation problems. Not to mention, they traveled from the provinces where the frontier troops were located in the north to the southernmost provinces on the seaside.
Especially since the northern army has gone from a dry and hot environment to a hot and humid environment, it is impossible to avoid non-combat attrition. Perhaps this kind of non-combat attrition is the biggest attrition.
The Ming Dynasty's next strategic goal also has an important area in the south, which is Southeast Asia.
Whether it is the Jiaozhi strategy or the protection of the southern part of the Ming Dynasty, an elite southern army must be stationed here.
Therefore, the best countermeasure is to reorganize the army in the south, at least to form a new army with sufficient deterrence.
However, this matter is not urgent, but it needs to be done. Zhong Jinwei made a detailed analysis of what he thought of in the memorial, and suggested that Emperor Chongzhen make decisions based on the actual situation of the court.
After finishing this work, it was lunch time.
At this time, the two sick guards had been seen by Dr. Nahu, and one guard was left to take care of them. The others escorted Zhong Jinwei and went to the inn lobby for dinner.
Nearly thirty people and about five tables occupied a corner of the lobby.
Zhong Jinwei listened to some gossip while eating, hoping to learn something useful from these passengers.
"I heard that Zhu Shangshu was seriously ill. Is there such a thing?" There was a table of tourists who seemed to be fellow villagers meeting fellow villagers. After some greetings, they ate together and chatted while eating.
"I don't know very well, but when I came, this news spread everywhere. I hope God bless this, this is just a rumor, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be in chaos." Another person sighed and responded.
The first person heard the news from the fellow countryman, as if the news was already close to home, and he was sure that Zhu Shangshu was ill. He lost his mind to eat, put down his chopsticks and complained to the fellow countryman: "Look, I have all the goods."
, I don’t dare to go back. I’m afraid that if Zhu Shangshu has an accident, chaos will start again.”
At the table next to this table, there were several taller tourists sitting. Listening to their discussion, one of the men turned his head and asked: "Brother, which Zhu Shangshu are you talking about? What's going on?"
?I heard that all the Jianlu were destroyed by Duke Xingguo, and now the world is at peace!"
The person who put down his chopsticks listened to the question from the next table, looked at it and said, "Are you from the north? I'm from Guizhou, and what I'm talking about is my side of things, and it has nothing to do with you."
Zhong Jinwei didn't hear what he wanted to hear about local Guangzhou. Instead, he heard about some situations in the southwest of Ming Dynasty. He was slightly disappointed, but he listened to their chat with open ears.
Seeing the dejected look of the Guizhou man, the visitor from the north comforted him: "It's okay. If there is any trouble, the new imperial army will surely put it down once it arrives."
The man from Guizhou didn't care about things in the north, so he didn't know much about it. When he heard what the man from the north said, he smiled to express his gratitude, then shook his head and said: "Water from afar cannot quench the thirst of the near! Now the southwestern part of the Ming Dynasty depends on Zhu Shangshu
Even if we are controlling those chieftains, there are still people who are ready to take action, and they are not very peaceful."
The northerner also didn't know much about the affairs in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty. After asking about the situation, he explained to the Guizhou man, then he stopped interrupting and ate by himself.
But Zhong Jinwei listened on the side and was very concerned. Seeing that they didn't discuss it anymore, he put down his chopsticks and interrupted.