Black and White Beast

Qin Ning smiled and nodded, "Sorry to trouble you to make this trip personally. Have the vehicles been arranged?"

Hearing this, Ding Guoguang felt flattered, "It's no trouble at all, Young Master Qin. The bus has already been arranged and is right outside."

Just now he was wondering why Qin Ning had asked him to arrange such a large bus, but now seeing that the other party had brought so many people, he finally understood.

However, who were all these people?

Why didn't he recognize a single one of them?

Anyone who could walk alongside Qin Ning definitely couldn't be simple.

But as for the prominent figures in the country, even if he hadn't met them all, he should at least have some impression of them.

Moreover, besides the adults, Qin Ning actually brought so many children with him this time.

How strange.

Soon, under Ding Guoguang's lead, the group boarded the bus.

Ding Guoguang himself also got on the bus heading toward the hotel, wanting to personally settle Qin Ning and his group in.

"Let me introduce you. This is Secretary Ding Guoguang of our Shu Province."

On the bus, Qin Ning introduced Ding Guoguang's identity to Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang.

This immediately made Ding Guoguang feel incredibly flattered once again.

Although he was the top leader of the province, he knew that in front of Qin Ning, he couldn't truly enter the other party's eyes.

To have Qin Ning personally introduce him like this was an absolute honor for Ding Guoguang.

"This is Zhu Yuanzhang, and this is Li Shimin."

What Ding Guoguang didn't expect was that when Qin Ning introduced these two, the names mentioned made him freeze for a moment.

Li Shimin?

Zhu Yuanzhang?

These names...

That can't be right, can it?

"The top leader of a province? This official position shouldn't be small, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously.

Qin Ning smiled and nodded, "Naturally. Placed in the Great Ming... it would be equivalent to a standard second-rank Provincial Governor. Oh, the official title of Provincial Governor only appeared in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu."

"Standard second-rank? That is indeed remarkable," Li Shimin said.

One must know that in their Great Tang, even the Minister of War, Du Ruhui, only held a standard third-rank official position.

Meanwhile, Ding Guoguang, who was listening on the side, was completely baffled.

What second-rank, what Provincial Governor.

This wasn't ancient times.

Why did the way they spoke with Qin Ning sound so awkward to him?

Amidst his confusion, Ding Guoguang seemed to suddenly think of something, "Young Master Qin, you just said... one of them is named Zhu Yuanzhang, and the other is Li Shimin. Could it be..."

"It is exactly what you are thinking," Qin Ning smiled and nodded.

How could that be possible?

As soon as these words came out, Ding Guoguang was instantly shocked.

He knew that Qin Ning's methods had already far exceeded normal comprehension.

But he never dared to imagine that the other party could actually bring these two figures to modern times?

This had completely shattered his understanding of the world.

Qin Ning continued, "A while ago, quite a few people from your Shu Province were transferred to the capital, right? You should know about this. The people who were transferred were actually dispatched to the Great Ming and the Great Tang to help them develop their technology. Oh, and now the Great Qin has been added too."

Hearing this, Ding Guoguang became even more astonished.

Previously, the capital had indeed issued an order transferring a large number of top-tier personnel from their Shu Province.

But Ding Guoguang only thought that these people went to the capital because of the cooperation needs with Wei Planet.

He never expected that they were actually dispatched to the Great Ming and the Great Tang, and even the Great Qin?

This was simply too magical.

And the most confusing part for Ding Guoguang was how exactly these ancients came here.

Was it because Qin Ning had the means to travel through time and space?

Or was it because the cooperation with Wei Planet resulted in the invention of a time machine or something?

Compared to the former, in his opinion, the latter was more persuasive and easier to explain.

Soon, the vehicle stopped in front of a top-tier five-star hotel in the city center.

Long before Qin Ning and the others arrived, Ding Guoguang had already arranged everything. He had reserved the entire hotel in advance, so besides Qin Ning's group, there were no other guests.

After handling the check-in, Ding Guoguang brought them to the second floor of the hotel.

This was a dining area.

Because there were many people, Qin Ning and the others chose to dine directly in the main hall. They pushed several tables together side by side and sat around them.

"I didn't expect later generations to be so prosperous. This is a true golden age," Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sigh with emotion as he looked at the street outside the window.

Everything he had seen and heard along the way seemed incredibly wondrous to him.

Although he had been to later generations a few times before, he had always stayed in the villa area of Liu City and hadn't really interacted with other places.

On this trip, the prosperous scenes everywhere they went made it unforgettable for him no matter what.

"Chongba, the Great Ming of the future will definitely be like this as well," Empress Ma said.

Chongba?

Hearing Empress Ma actually address Zhu Yuanzhang like this, Ding Guoguang couldn't help but look toward her.

He had guessed the identities of these people just now, and now it seemed he was pretty close to the mark.

"You must be Empress Ma, right? I've looked up to your great name for a long time. My wife is a history professor at the provincial university. She admires you very much and always says that you and Empress Zhangsun of the Great Tang can be ranked together as the greatest virtuous empresses of all time," Ding Guoguang spoke up.

The history professor part was true, and the admiration was also true.

"Haha, it seems my Guanyinbi has also earned the respect of many people in later generations," Li Shimin couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"My wife is the same," Zhu Yuanzhang spoke up, unwilling to be outdone.

"Your wife is indeed not bad, but compared to my Guanyinbi, she is still lacking just a tiny bit."

"Bullshit! My wife is the greatest of all time!"

"..."

As the two spoke, they actually started arguing directly.

This instantly left Ding Guoguang dumbfounded on the side.

"Don't mind them, just let them argue. After we finish eating, we will rest at the hotel. We'll go out for a stroll on our own tonight, so you don't need to accompany us the whole time. However, you can go ahead and arrange our itinerary for tomorrow," Qin Ning said.

"Alright, Young Master Qin. Where do you plan to go tomorrow? Are you going to see the pandas?" Ding Guoguang asked.

For a trip to Shu Province, pandas were naturally the biggest attraction. Plus, with so many children, one didn't even need to think to know that Qin Ning and the others came to Shu Province definitely to see the pandas.

"What is a panda?" Little Sizi came to Qin Ning's side, reaching out her little hands to ask for a hug.

Qin Ning naturally picked her up and said with a smile, "Pandas are our national treasure. When Sizi sees them tomorrow, she will definitely like them."

Little Sizi didn't understand the meaning of a national treasure. A question mark appeared on her face as she carefully imagined what a panda looked like in her mind.

"Sizi, this is a panda."

Ying Yinman also ran over and handed a keychain into Sizi's hand.

On the keychain was a mini panda.

"Wow, it's a black-and-white beast."

Looking at the keychain, Sizi finally realized.

When she was watching television back at the villa, she had naturally seen pandas and had grown extremely fond of them. However, she had no idea they were actually called pandas at the time, so she came up with her own name for them: Black and White Beasts.