When Tayinbu died of Lutou River, the whole city of Guangzhou was decorated with lights and colorful flowers, and it was very happy. Today is the fiftieth birthday of the wife of Bai Jia, General Jingnan, Hahamu.

Bai Jia had just arrived in Guangdong and was unwell and didn't want to hold this birthday party. Hahamu was also unwilling to hold it because the Taiping Army raided Guangzhou and the local area was unstable. However, the family members of the family started to make trouble and said that which sister of our bannermen could live as long as the general's wife? Therefore, this birthday party must be held and must be held in a special way. In this way, all families and all over the city can take advantage of the general's wife's birthday to enjoy the joy and rush to the fatigue of the way south, so that adults and children can enjoy it once. (Author's note: Women in Manzhou have a short lifespan, most of which are only forty.)

The families under the country are having a big fuss, hahamu thought about it, it is rare for his wife to have a fifty birthday, and I don’t know if she can live to sixty. If she doesn’t do this time, she may not be next time. The couple is also loving, so they asked the mansion to start arranging, and how many gifts are received is secondary, and they mainly want to celebrate once. After all, everyone traveled thousands of miles from the capital to Guangzhou to guard the imperial court. No one was unwilling to feel wronged. He took this opportunity to comfort them a little.

For this reason, Hahamu specially allocated 30,000 yuan to his subordinates to distribute it, and each of them had wine and food for the birthday party. Of course, the money spent was naturally not his private house of General Jingnan, but it was provided by the government in Guangdong, the outer city.

General Jingnan treats guests naturally. This list of guests is of course very particular. In addition to the leaders of the eight banners in the city and the elderly over 60 years old in the banner, all civil and military officials in the outer city who are above the fifth rank must be invited, regardless of whether they are on the flag or not.

The most important figures in the outer city are of course the King of Pingnan, Monk Kexi, and the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Li Shutai. These three people are all from the Han army flag. They are also vassal kings and governors. Their official positions are larger than those of Hahamu, General Jingnan, so the three people's invitations were written by Hahamu. The rest are handed over to the master to write.

All the officials under the leadership of Jing Erfan were invited. Those who could come must come. Those who could not come must prepare a generous gift to send them. Zhaoqing General Xu Erxian and Chaozhou General Wu Liuqi could not come, but the gifts they sent were dazzled by Hahamu's wife Bai Jia. It was really dazzling, with unique styles and very expensive.

After receiving Hahamu's invitation, Shang Kexi didn't say anything, and asked someone to prepare a generous gift and just wait for the banquet to go to the whole city. However, Geng Jimao said a few strange words, but Hahamu used the name of a birthday party to make money. However, he did not give the same things to prepare. He also specially asked his wife to pick the gifts he gave him to, and he would choose one-of-a-kin's best-selling items. It could be worth thousands of taels of silver if he took them out.

Li Lutai was very dissatisfied. First, Hahamu asked him to raise the money distributed to his subordinates, and second, in the war, the soldiers of Manzhou and Han army were fighting against the Taiping gang, but the city was holding a birthday party, so how would the soldiers on the front line feel?

But like Geng Jimao, even though he was dissatisfied, Li Shutai still prepared generous gifts. General Jingnan Hahamu was not that he could not afford to offend him. But there was no need to offend him. After all, he was a real Manzhou. And he was a fake Manzhou (Han Army). Besides, the war to encircle and suppress the Taiping Army requires the cooperation of the Eight Banners of Manzhou, so this face must be given, and the big ones must be given.

For this reason, Li Shutai specially invited his wife to attend the birthday party of Bai Jia. His wife was the daughter of Shulhazi, the younger brother of Taizu Nurhaci. Although Shulhazi was killed by Taizu because of his offense, his daughter was still a woman from the Aisin Jueluo family and an authentic royal princess. Otherwise, people outside would not have called Li Shutai the prince-in-law.

In terms of seniority, the current emperor must call Li Lutai's wife an aunt and call him Li Lutai an aunt. Now the emperor's aunt is here to celebrate the birthday of General Jingnan's wife, and this face is so great. Hahamu and Bai Jia knew about this, and they were very happy and felt that they were particularly proud.

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There were so many guests invited, and it was General Jingnan's wife to celebrate her birthday. The show would definitely be big, and she would probably not be less than a hundred tables. In addition, the wine and food in the flag and red envelopes for the servants, the number was very large.

The Jingnan General's Mansion has just moved from Jiangning. The mansion is in urgent need of staff and cost, and it is easy to handle it. I just select smart women from each family in the banner to help, but the cost cannot be adjusted from the banner.

Just when Bai Jia was worried about this, the governor of Guangzhou Zhu Guorong came forward to contact the Han merchants in the outer city and asked them to provide all the expenses for the birthday party of the General's Mansion for free. As a result, when the Han merchants in the outer city heard that they could have a relationship with the General's Mansion in Jingnan, they all sent the good things in the store to the General's Mansion in the whole city for free, and were happy that Bai Jia was sent to Zhu Guorong for his message to do things.

Hahamu also praised Zhu Guorong very much after knowing this and rewrites Zhu Guorong's invitation with his own hands, and was so happy that Zhu Guorong held the post in his arms like a family heirloom.

Among many businesses, the newly opened Dadong Rice Store in Nancheng also supplied a batch of newly arrived Chameng fragrant rice to the Jingnan General's Mansion for free.

According to the Eight Banners system, Mancheng and Seoul did not communicate with each other. Han people were not allowed to enter Mancheng for no reason except officials and gentry. Therefore, when Song Ying drove a carriage full of fragrant rice to the gate of Manzhou in the name of Dadong rice shop, he was stopped by Manzhou soldiers guarding the gate.

"What are you doing?"

The Manzhou soldiers guarding the gate saw that the carriage was loaded with rice and knew that it was delivered to General Jingnan's mansion, so they did not deliberately investigate it, but just asked casually.

Song Ying replied with a smile: "Reply to the words of the Junye of Manzhou, I am the clerk of Dadong Rice Store. I came to the general's mansion to deliver fragrant rice to the general's mansion at the order of the shopkeeper."

The leading Manzhou soldiers looked up and down at Song Ying, and reached out to signal, "Tell me the sign?"

"brand?"

Song Ying was stunned: What brand?

Seeing that Song Ying had no sign, the Manzhou soldiers looked down and cursed: "The General's Mansion is purchasing outside, so how can I not give a sign? You don't have a sign or a member of the General's Mansion, and you can't enter the whole city, so leave quickly!"

After hearing the words of Manzhou soldiers, Song Ying realized that it turned out that the officials in the city would go to the outer city to buy things, either with the people in the mansion to accompany them or with the signs on the mansion to verify them. This would prove their identity. Without the signs and without the people in the city, they would not be any officials and gentry. How could the Manzhou soldiers guarding the city let them live?

There were also some servants sent by Guangzhou Prefecture who guarded the city with the Manzhou soldiers. They were responsible for maintaining order in the city gates. They had no status or power here. From time to time, they were shouted by the Manzhou soldiers, so they all hated the Manzhou soldiers. When they met Song Ying standing in a difficult face, the Manzhou soldiers were about to get angry again, the leader of the battalion rushed forward and waved his hand to Song Ying, and whispered: "Let's go, don't stand, the iron system of the court. No bannermen in this city must enter for no reason. It's not the Manzhou soldiers who are embarrassed. Go away quickly and don't be too slow. If you move slowly, be careful that the Manzhou people stole your things. Your shopkeeper is really. If you want to curry favor with the Jingnan General's Mansion, you have to find someone to find a way first. Why just send the things like this?"

"Yes, yes, what I said is that my shopkeeper was careless."

Song Ying nodded and pretended to leave, but was anxious. He couldn't enter the city, so how could he investigate the defense situation in the city?

Just as he was panicking, he saw several more carriages coming from behind. On the front carriage were sitting a young man dressed in a bannerman. Seeing Song Ying and the carriage containing fragrant rice in front, and looking at the appearance of the Manzhou soldiers, the young man couldn't help laughing, knowing that this must be another business that wanted to please the General's Mansion but had no way to get a brand.

The young man stood in the carriage and asked Song Ying: "What is the carriage loaded?"

Song Ying didn't know who he was, but when he saw that those guys were very respectful to him, he thought that this person might be the servant of the General's Mansion, and said, "A batch of fragrant rice that I just arrived in Zhancheng wants to send to the General's Mansion, but the Manzhou Jun refused to let me in."

"Fragrant rice from Chameng?" The young man's eyes lit up when he heard this, he jumped out of the carriage and walked over. He reached out and grabbed a handful of fragrant rice from the carriage and smelled it. He nodded and said to the Manzhou soldiers: "Madam General likes to eat fragrant rice the most. You can put him in, I'll guarantee him."

"this..."

The Manchu soldiers looked at each other. They knew the young man and knew that he was a Baoyi slave in the General's Mansion, so they made way aside and signaled Song Ying to drive the carriage into the city.

"Thank you, the men of Manzhou!"

Song Ying felt relieved and hurriedly drove the carriage to the city. Soon after, the young man suddenly stopped, turned around and smiled and said to Song Ying: "I helped you, how do you thank me?"

Song Ying didn't know what he meant, so she quickly took out two silver ingots from her arms and handed them over: "Please accept some thoughts!"

"Ha, you are a good person." The young man laughed, "My name is Qin Yi, my father is the manager of the General's Mansion. In the future, if you have any trouble with Dadong Mixing, you can contact me."

When Song Ying heard that the young man was from General Jingnan's Mansion, she was also happy and smiled and said, "Then I will take care of Mr. Qin in the future."

In the General's Mansion, Qin Yi was just the son of Baoyi's slave, but now he was called Mr. Qin, which made him very happy. He nodded and said, "It's certain that you take care of him, but it depends on whether you can be a human being."

"Don't worry, young master, I know how to be a human being, and my shopkeeper is even more good at being a human being. If I can understand the path of the General's Mansion, my shopkeeper will definitely thank Mr. Qin heavily!"

"That's it, Xiangmi will be sent to the mansion in person later. I will also tell my father that he will ask him to say a few words to your Dadongmixing for his wife. You will be inseparable from your family. Let's go, follow me, don't follow me, don't follow me. Without me, you can't walk around this city. Be careful not to lose your head."
Chapter completed!