Zhen Jian asked, "Which country's envoy is it, and when will it arrive?"
” Zhen Laosan said: "I don't know which country it is, I'll enter the city tomorrow." ” Zhen Jian thought for a while and said: "The lower officials hope that the envoys of the court can cooperate with the work of the lower officials, you must know that to welcome the foreign envoys, they naturally have to take care of the foreign envoy's food, clothing, and daily life, and also prepare gifts for the foreign envoys, all of which require money, but in the accounts of our protocol house, there are only twenty runs, and twenty times is not enough to cook a meal for the foreign envoys." ” Zhen Laosan asked, "How much does it cost?"
” Zhen Jiandao: "In the past, when receiving foreign guests, it took at least 6,000 guan, but this time there are princesses and dukes among the foreign envoys, and their status is noble, so naturally there are more than 6,000 guan, so let's give 10,000 guan first." ” Zhen Laosan nodded and said: "10,000 yuan, okay, don't worry, you write an official document of the expense account, and the official will hand it over to Master Jia for you, I believe you will get the money tomorrow." ” Zhen Jiandao: "In this case, there is an envoy from the labor court, and the officials are busy."
Then he turned and left.
Watching Zhen Jian leave, Zhen Laosan sneered and muttered to himself: "Want money?
It's so easy, I don't have any money for you, I see how you entertain foreign envoys. ” Zhen Jian took out Zhen Laosan's public office, took a long breath, and secretly snorted coldly: "It's really a monkey wearing an official uniform, anyone can be an official, a guy who relied on favoritism and fraud to take the imperial examination actually climbed on my head, it's unreasonable." ” Zhen Jian is indeed very speechless about the officialdom system of Da Chu, it is easy for people born in the imperial examination to be promoted, this is the ancestral system, as long as he is born in the imperial examination, even if he has no merit, as long as he does not make mistakes and saves a little hard work, he can be promoted, and he has made great achievements desperately, the emperor wants to promote him, but he has to have many scruples, and in the end he only gave him such a small official with sesame mung beans.
Zhen Jian didn't want to complain too much, he also knew that complaining couldn't solve any problems, just say it and make me feel better, next, Zhen Jian sent someone to invite the chefs of the concierge house to come back, and then began to arrange a big cleaning, cleaning the entire concierge house inside and out, and also applied to the Ministry of Industry A few craftsmen to re-get the toilet again, people, eat and drink Lazar, in eating and drinking, they take care of everything, then Lasa naturally has to take care of everything, sometimes, the details are very important.
The whole protocol was busy for a day, until it was dark, and finally cleaned the protocol, however, the thing that made Zhen Jian speechless came, Zhen Laosan called him to the public office and returned the official document to Zhen Jian to apply for funds, saying that the accounts written by Zhen Jian were not detailed enough, and the prices of many ingredients did not match the market price, so he asked him to rewrite it.
Zhen Jian frowned, the price of the ingredients he gave was a few months ago, even if it didn't match the market price, it wasn't much worse, the civil officials who had always had chaotic accounts were so serious?
This is not to find fault, besides, the application document he handed over in the morning was called back when it was almost dark, this is not playing people, the other party is obviously making things difficult for him, either Zhen Laosan or Jia Zheng, but now the time is urgent, and the other party is embarrassing him in terms of funds, which makes Zhen Jian feel very disgusting.
Zhen Jian lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Okay, I'll go back and make a new account breakdown."
With that, he left the concierge and went home, after all, it was already time to get off work.
When he got home, he invited the bookkeeper and the cook in the restaurant, asked them to make a detailed price account list for him, and made the official documents for applying for funds overnight.
Early the next morning, Zhen Jian came to the protocol house, went to Zhen Laosan's official office to find Zhen Laosan, handed him the official document, and said: "The foreign envoy will arrive soon, and within an hour, I want to see the funds used to entertain the outside." ” Zhen Laosan frowned and said, "What do you mean?"
Order the officer?
” "Don't dare."
Zhen Jiandao, "Receiving foreign envoys, it's a big matter, if you make a joke, you will lose the face of the country, and the first person to be punished is you, the envoy of the protocol house, and then me, you can do it yourself."
After Zhen Jian finished speaking, he left.
"Humph!"
Zhen Laosan threw Zhen Jian's official document aside, and snorted coldly, "What kind of thing, dare to point fingers at me, Qin Xiang and Master Jia want to get you, do you think you can escape?"
Am I the first to be punished?
I have the protection of Qin Xiang, even if I am punished, I will be able to reuse it soon, what am I afraid of, fool......"
After Zhen Jian returned to his office, he found Xu Qi and asked the chefs to meet him, and the five chefs came to Zhen Jian's office, Zhen Jian asked: "Head chef, yesterday you asked you to prepare a meal menu for receiving foreign guests, is it ready?"
” "Return, you're ready."
The head chef handed it over, the menu, Zhen Jian opened it and looked at it, they were all some palace-level dishes, the ingredients were of high grade, and they were not cheap, Zhen Jian made a list of ingredients according to the dishes, and then took out five thousand taels of silver tickets from his arms, handed them to him, and said: "Go buy the ingredients, remember, don't be shoddy, don't do anything, tell you, I am the shopkeeper of the Spring Breeze Proud Building, all of you cooking skills together are not as good as my toes, dare to use your hands and feet on the ingredients, I will skin you alive!"
” Several cooks were startled, they didn't dare to say anything, they took the list and the silver ticket and left, Zhen Jian said: "Xu Qi, you take a few people to follow them, they have so much money, if they are robbed, there is no place to cry." ” "Yes!"
Xu Qi immediately called out to the three servants and chased after the cooks.
After they left, Zhen Jian leaned on the chair and sneered to himself: "If you want to pinch me on money, there is no door, and Lao Tzu is not bad for money." ” Of course, Zhen Jian would not be stupid enough to pay out of his own pocket to entertain foreign envoys, and he was not his relatives, besides, those relatives of his......
Don't mention it, sooner or later, this money will still come with Zhen Laosan.
The foreign envoy team has arrived outside the city, and the emperor appointed the crown prince and the Honglu Temple Qing Jia Zheng as the welcome ambassador, leading the princes and the ministers of the Honglu Temple out of the city to welcome the foreign envoys, and the scene was very grand.
The team of foreign envoys who came this time was very large, there were thousands of people, almost a small army, but only two hundred people entered the city, and the rest were camped outside the city, that was the armed forces, such a large number of armed troops, no matter how polite the Great Chu was, it was impossible for them to enter the city.
At the front of the procession was a middle-aged man dressed in Western aristocratic costumes, with a curly beard, looking to be in his forties, with brown hair, a high nose, blue eyes, and a knight's sword at his waist, who looked very heroic, on his left was the crown prince, and on his right, Jia Zheng.
Behind him, is a carriage drawn by two white horses, this carriage is very distinct, and the carriage of Chu is completely different, the carriage of the Great Chu is either a flat carriage for pulling goods, or a carriage with a canopy, and this carriage has a tent roof, but the canopy is supported by four unique wooden pillars, without any cover, from the outside can be clearly seen, on the carriage sat a girl wearing a white gauze skirt, this girl, white skin, with slightly curly brown long hair, wearing a silver princess crown inlaid with rubies, Her eyes were big and bright, like a pair of black jade gems, exuding a ghostly light, this was the foreign envoy princess.
The princess was very excited at the moment, and frequently waved and smiled at the people on both sides of the street, and she smiled beautifully, like a fairy, and she shouted at the people: "Hello!
Although the pronunciation is strange, she does speak the language of Da Chu.
When the people heard that this was a princess from a foreign country, and that this princess was born so beautifully, and was generous, and smiled at them, how could they lose their manners, and they saluted and shouted: "Welcome to Dachu!"
At first, the shouting was chaotic, but soon someone started to do so, and all the voices became unanimous, and the whole street of Hangzhou was full of cries to welcome the exotic princess.
The Chaotian Gate opened, the team entered the Chaotian Gate, and drove towards the Honglu Temple, Zhen Laosan and Zhen Jian stood in the front yard of the Concierge with all the people of the Concierge Courtyard and waited in line.
After a long time, the foreign envoy team came in, Zhen Jian and they saluted together, and Zhen Laosan shouted: "Welcome to the Duke of Wales, welcome Princess Elizabeth!"
” Zhen Jian was stunned when he heard this, Wales?
Isn't Wales a place name, it seems that it is on the island of Great Blizzard, he suddenly remembered, isn't the title of the Duke of Chu also according to the name of the place, he himself is the Earl of Shaoxing County, is this group of foreign guests from the island of Great Britain?
At this time, Zhen Laosan took them to salute again, and shouted: "Zhen Wen, the envoy of the Protocol Academy, and the officials of the Protocol House will visit His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness King Wei, His Royal Highness King Qi, and Lord Jia." ” The crown prince nodded and asked, "Is the Quartet Hall ready?"
” Zhen Wen replied: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, he has already been sprinkled and cleaned. ” "Dismount!"
The prince spoke, and immediately a chamberlain eunuch came to help him dismount, and the others also dismounted, and finally the princess got out of the carriage.
When Zhen Jian saw the princess, he couldn't help but be stunned, when he came to this world, he saw a lot of beauties, but it was the first time he had seen a Western beauty in this world, it was so beautiful, it was like an angel.
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The crown prince welcomed the duke and princess into the living room of the Sifang Guild Hall, Jia Zheng slowed down, leaned in front of Zhen Jian and Zhen Laosan, and said in a low voice: "Prepare for tea." ” Zhen Jian's head: "Yes."
As he spoke, he glanced at Xu Qi on the side, and Xu Qi immediately took someone to prepare.
Jia Zheng said again: "Let's prepare dinner." ” Zhen Jian was stunned when he heard this, there is still an hour before noon, and now he will start preparing dinner?
He suddenly remembered a question, how many meals a day did the West eat in ancient times?
Do you have a habit of having lunch?
If a person has a habit of eating lunch, but he waits until the evening to arrange a banquet for others, it is a serious neglect of the guests.
The prince took the foreign envoy and his party into the living room, and then left many guards to guard outside, and the guards guarding the outside included foreign and Chu guards.
Zhen Jian was thinking about preparing lunch, and Zhen Laosan suddenly said, "Zhen Jushi, let the chefs prepare dinner." ” Zhen Jian frowned at him when he heard this, and said, "Lord Envoy, can you cut twenty catties of flesh from you." ” Zhen Laosan was stunned when he heard this, frowned and said angrily: "What kind of bastard are you talking about!"
” Zhen Jian raised his eyebrows and said: "There are no funds and no ingredients, how can you ask me to prepare dinner, I can only cut twenty catties of meat from you and entertain foreign guests for a [meat] banquet." ”