A special pompous event for something like a welcoming banquet.

What the show of the pompous place actually shows is face.

Since ancient times, China has emphasized etiquette, and what etiquette reflects is the inner world.

So it is very interesting that Chinese culture can actually be summarized as inner and face.

Sometimes the inner world is more important, and sometimes the face is more important.

Of course, for Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong at the moment, they have enough money and face.

The welcoming banquet is of course full of pomp, which is the result of preparations made by local officials and wealthy merchants for several days.

In order to satisfy Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, the local officials went around the hall to satisfy their joy, and they put their preferences, which made the reception banquet a very luxurious event.

Of course, this is not happy about Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong.

But there is no way. If others have prepared everything, what else can they say?

Say more and make more mistakes, say less and make less mistakes.

If you are caught by someone who is interested and write it out of context into the title book, it will inevitably cause a sensation.

At their age, they have sufficient energy and experience in dealing with things, and they will not make such simple mistakes.

Of course, they just follow the situation at the banquet, and what they care most about is the Spanish.

Although they had just arrived in Guangdong, they had already begun to consider dealing with the Spaniards.

I didn't know if I didn't ask, but I was really shocked when I asked.

It turned out that the Spaniards had arrived on the coast of Guangdong for several days.

At first they just wandered in the waters near the Haowen Realm, and later they even wandered around Guangdong, sometimes landing and looting.

His behavior is exactly the same as the Japanese pirates back then.

This made Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo very angry.

The two were worried on the way here, and their minds were full of thoughts on how to defeat the Spaniards without spending money.

But these local officials are very good. They are well-fed by the local people. They are all well-behaved and live a very greasy face.

But their conscience was really eaten by dogs.

The people were being robbed and harassed by Spanish invaders, but they had the intention to drink wine here, which was really hateful.

If Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong did not deal with it, these people would not have a good memory.

For a moment, Zheng Chenggong's expression changed drastically and he was directly smashed.

He shouted loudly: "You mediocre officials, do you do nothing if the people are harassed by the Spanish? You still have the intention to hold a welcome banquet here. Do you need this kind of welcoming banquet? Come on, take down the officials of each prefecture, prefecture and county, and beat the thirty pillars to warn others."

In the Ming Dynasty, except for the military generals who had the upper hand at the beginning of the founding of the country, they basically all civil officials suppressed military generals.

But in the middle of the Yongli Dynasty, the situation began to change.

In troubled times, only those who have military power in their hands will have the right to speak. Civilian officials do not know how to lead troops, and military generals are good at leading troops to fight, and their status suddenly rises.

Not to mention the two great Buddhas Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, they are superior to all military generals.

All civil servants dare not act rashly in front of them.

Because they knew that if they did anything wrong, they would be severely blamed by the two.

Now these Guangdong officials have hit the knife.

The 30th board said that there is more than more, and it is really not that much less.

These civil servants are already weak, and they are considered ruthless in a row to beat the thirty-four slap.

But Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong were determined to give them a memory, so they didn't mind beating them hard.

Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong's personal soldiers were in charge of the punishment and suddenly knocked dozens of officials to the ground.

There was no board at the banquet, so they took the banquet and started to hit it with the drum hammer.

For a while, the sound of crying and calling my parents was endless.

When did these officials suffer such grievances? They all cried loudly.

But Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong had no intention of being soft-hearted.

These guys really think that the lives of the people are not worth mentioning, so they must let these guys remember that the people are the most important.

After the thirty board was beaten, the officials were all beaten and their blood was oozing out, which looked very terrifying.

It’s okay for those who wear red robes to be the same as those who have blood, but those who wear green robes are affected by disasters.

At first glance, the blue and red are connected, which is very eye-catching.

"Let's go down, let's give up this matter. Today is a lesson for you. If you dare to have another next time, I will definitely not let you go."

After saying that, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong left.

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No one expected that a welcoming banquet that should have been extremely joyful ended in this way.

Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong didn't want to do so well, but these local officials were too much.

If they did nothing, they would be really sorry.

And they also want to take this opportunity to rectify the official atmosphere.

Since these guys came to the door, they didn't mind taking this opportunity to knock on them.

It turns out that the knocking effect is still very good.

These officials became much more low-key and soon sent people to report to Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong.

The Spaniards have been looting the coast of Guangdong for several days, and their activities are probably gathered in several wealthy coastal prefectures.

Among them, Shanwei is the hardest hit area.

After hearing this, Zheng Chenggong discussed with Li Dingguo and decided to send troops to Shanwei immediately.

Shanwei is coastal, and due to the numerous islands, many fishermen make fishing here.

Zheng Chenggong knew that these places would be seriously damaged. If they arrived one day earlier, the people would be able to live a good life one day earlier.

Therefore, it cannot be delayed.

The Ming army marched very fast, and it was the fastest marching step of the marching force.

No soldier had any complaints.

First of all, they were on a boat along the way and were not overworked.

Secondly, it is because they know that this matter cannot be delayed, and it is related to the lives and death of the people, so it doesn’t matter if they are tired.

Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo were very pleased with this.

Guangzhou is not far from Shanwei. After a rushing march, the Ming army arrived in less than a few days.

After arriving at the local county government, they learned that the Spanish had come to loot several times in the past few days.

They not only plundered gold, silver and jewelry, but even women.

Zheng Chenggong had seen the shamelessness of Japanese pirates back then, but he never thought that these Spanish people were more shameless than Japanese pirates.

"It's outrageous!"

Zheng Chenggong was furious and blamed the county government officials and said, "You just watch and do nothing."

The county magistrate was so scared that he said tremblingly: "Your Highness, King Zhong, is unwilling to do it if he is a subordinate. It's really impossible. There are only a few hundred old and weak soldiers in the county government. How can we deal with the Spaniards?"

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