Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2174 Flower War (eighty two)

The fateful moment has come. The emperor issued an appointment edict and temporarily appointed the admiral to go to the southeast coast to monitor the major ports and report the extent of smuggling and pirate damage. After this journey, he will be transferred to Qingjiangpu to take charge of Jiangnan. Governor of the River.

   When receiving the imperial edict, the admiral first set up a shrine on the altar, lit incense and candles, enshrined the imperial edict, bowed to the imperial edict nine times, and then read the edict in detail.

  The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is divided into two sections, north and south. Yangzhou is the demarcation city. The dredging and embankment of the Jiangsu River to the south of Yangzhou is the responsibility of the Governor of Nanhe. The Zhili River belongs to the Governor of Zhili.

Compared with the Governor of the East River, the area under the jurisdiction of the Governor of the South River is relatively less sandy, which is a relatively easy task. Every year, the imperial court allocates funds to the South River to repair the embankment, and there are other broadcasts when the breach overflows. Governor of the South River. Qingjiangpu, which is stationed in the festival, is also very prosperous, but the successive governors of Nanhe have been wanton corruption, lowered engineering standards, and enriched their personal pockets.

  There are many overlapping responsibilities between river transportation and water transportation, all of which are to ensure the smooth transportation of the Grand Canal.

   During the waiting period, Nick came into contact with many European sailors. Even if there is an accident, he can escape at any time. This news means that he can continue to travel with a protector.

   Cao Xi is congratulating the Admiral, no, now it's time to change his name to the Governor. The young man's character was elusive, and he was sometimes found to be friendly, but Nick always felt that he was using his status as a prospective son-in-law to gossip in the Admiral's house, because the servants were often gossiping in the garden. Nick felt that Cao Xi was dishonest in treating people, even though he gave Nick a Yu Ruyi, it was also for him to gain Nick's trust, so that he could deliberately stumble behind his back.

Yu Ruyi is really useless to Nick. First, it is in the shape of a cloud, so you can't use it to scratch your back. Second, Nick is not a monk. It is a bit similar to the wat used by ancient courtiers. Things must be written on it, but what the monk wrote on Yu Ruyi is scripture.

If he wants to use it as a decoration, then he must first have a fixed residence, so Nick plans to donate the jade to the Faxing Temple as a condition, if one day he encounters an accident and a friend from Europe comes to him, the host will give Nick the Tell him everything that happened during his time in China.

   Their first stop was Xiamen. The British were only allowed to operate in Guangzhou, while the Spaniards could go to Xiamen to import tea.

   If the English, like the Spaniards, imported large quantities of silver and silver dollars into China, they too would have this privilege. However, even if the Spaniards could enter Xiamen port normally, they did not get more favorable facilities, so they had to limit their trade activities to Macau.

   This time the parting may be a goodbye, unless a few years later, because of other opportunities, Nick comes to Asia from Europe again, or he simply stays in China and reduces his contacts with his relatives in Europe.

When he returned to his residence and flipped through the album, he still remembered the scenes one by one, whether it was the houses built along the hillside in Macau, the beautiful harbour, Camels Park, or the Gongyuan, streets and Mazu's in Guangzhou. birthday celebration.

  The journey is as long as life, isn't the journey a happy destiny?

  Lin Gua gave Nick a stone seal, and Nick planned to give him a bronze seal, which he gave to Nick the day before he left.

However, Lin Gua insisted on taking Nick to "practice". He met Hao Guan in the restaurant. He was so generous that he invited Nick to a sumptuous dinner. Got a little hangover and almost missed the Admiral's boat.

  Captain Yao followed their team and set off. He felt that the pirates would not dare to attack the official ship. The hangover and the turbulent waves made Nick vomit, and he felt as uncomfortable as a serious illness.

  Just as he was lying in the cabin, he smelled a very fresh smell, the smell of tea leaves. He opened his eyes and found that Miss Wanning was standing beside his bed.

   "Sober tea," she said in Mandarin, and put the tray and cup on the bedside table.

   "Thank you," Nick said in blunt officialdom.

   She smiled, then left, and after she left, someone came in and watched him silently.

  Nick took a sip of the so-called hangover tea and almost spit it out, it was not the taste of "tea" he understood.

   "Swallow it, there are ginseng in it, it's very expensive." Juren said coldly, and then gave Nick a big reason:

If a talented unicorn wants to gain fame by virtue of his literary achievements, he must give up the "red incense", endure loneliness like a morning star, or at least associate with moral and learned people, and listen to the teachings of excellent teachers. Only in this way can this be achieved. The desire to "step through the blue sky".

  Nick remembered the "Lone Star" that Juren said last time. Is the morning star the "Lone Star"?

   Then he took out some of the spices in the cabin and made "Yuhua Awakening Drunken Incense" for him.

  Take peony flowers and tea flowers, stir with sake, wait until the petals are full of wine, crush them with a pestle, add borneol, knead into cakes and dry in the shade, then stuff them in the pillow.

   Nick didn't know about its sobering effect. He only knew that the smell was much better than the smell of alcohol and vomit. He slept for a while and felt much clearer.

   Immediately afterwards he rubbed his eyes because he found a monk in his cabin.

   "Have you been to Wakayama?" the monk asked.

   "I've been." Nick replied "Who are you?"

   "Then, have you heard the music played by the charcoal piano?" the monk asked again.

   "I haven't heard of it," Nick replied. "But I've heard wind chimes made of charcoal, and I didn't believe it when they said they were made of wood."

   "Me too." The monk said with a smile, "How can charcoal make a metallic sound?"

  Nick felt something was wrong, he seemed to hear metal tapping.

   is not as sweet as wind chimes, but more like the sound of weapons colliding.

   He swayed and stood up, leaning on the siding to the deck, but saw an astonishing scene.

   A group of pirates in red got on the boat, and Cao Xi and other Qing troops were fighting with them.

   "What happened?" Nick turned back and asked the monk, leaning on the siding and back to the door of the cabin, when a big wave hit, as if the whole ship was overturned, he quickly got up and returned to the deck.

   "There are pirates!" he shouted.

   Admiral and Cao Xi, who were searching for smuggling ships with binoculars, looked at him in surprise.

   The other officers and soldiers also looked at Nick in surprise.

   Except for the people from the Admiralty's House, the sailors who escorted them this time didn't know that Nick was a European, because he usually wore a hat that covered his blond hair.

   "Are there pirates? Where are they?" Cao Xi immediately asked.

  Nick opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. Did he say he was in a dream?

The lieutenant said something in Cao Xi's ear, and the two looked at him suspiciously.

   "You're drowsy." The Admiral said calmly, "Go back to the cabin to rest."

  Nick immediately turned around and went back to the cabin.

   When he was sitting beside the bed, he found that the sobering tea Wan Ning brought him was still smoking white smoke, as if he had only slept for a while.

   As for the monk, of course, he disappeared, or he was originally an illusion of Nick.

   Bincho Carbon

   (end of this chapter)