The smoke of the northern country is rising, the people are not living, and they are miserable!

Countless people have died, and families have been ruined.

All parts of the mainland have not been captured by the north*, but life is also sad.

Famine, war, banditry, additional distribution (tax collection), etc., the people suffered.

There may only be a happy place in the southeast province in the world, where horses run and dance without any influence!

Although people work hard, they are happy to collect money, and more importantly, they live a safe life without being afraid.

Yan Dashao does what he says, the two achievements of rent collection are two percent, everyone has food, and there are many opportunities for "part-time" in Southeast Mansion, everyone has money!

On the morning of 28 July, Liu Zhifeng, the prefect of Taiwan in the Ming Dynasty, and Liu Guangshi, the prefect of Tainan County, both received invitations inviting them to attend the New Year's party at the Kaohsiung Officers' Club.

Such a New Year's party with the characteristics of the national dynasty is of course Yan Changwu's masterpiece, and at the end of each year, it is a grace for Yan Changwu to summarize and invite everyone to have a big food party and have fun with the officials and the people.

As a Taiwanese official with a bit of status, when the time came, they did not move to the place on their own, but were picked up by a carriage sent by the Southeast Fleet!

After arriving at the point, the two Lius wore the official robes of the Ming Dynasty, got into a carriage, and were sent to the officers' club.

The Kaohsiung Officers' Club is a tall Western-style building with huge columns carved with the grandeur of a three-deck battleship setting sail.

There was a lot of traffic in front of the door, and people were all brightly dressed and beaming.

The officers combed their heads with spirits, and they all wore the uniforms of the Southeast Military Administration, and they were majestic and majestic.

The administrative officials are "overalls" ----- tunics.

The other social elites were all sorts of things, looking, combing their hair and wearing a wide robe and coat with a Ming crown, their clothes fluttering in, and the guards at the door checked the invitations and let them go.

My "China" is tolerant and large, simple and complex, and the people can't help but wear clothes and hair at all, but some bad habits are still prohibited, such as binding feet, and the southeast government issued an order to prohibit it.

Yan Changwu does respect history, and the New Year's choice is the "lunar calendar", but the New Year's Day festival.

Unlike other places, many of the guests who enter the club come in pairs with their wives (or concubines), as well as children.

For example, the defense of men and women on the mainland is serious, for example, the emperor and his subjects have fun, and the wives of ministers and generals enter the palace to be entertained by the concubines, and will not meet the emperor.

If it weren't for everyone knowing that Yan Changwu is not a good woman, he would almost be able to slander his reputation.

However, the Southeast Mansion really has its characteristics!

Quite respectful for women, after all, its protector is the goddess Mazu!

In the southeast province, women do things and show their heads everywhere.

Women do business, such as Yan Changwu's side chamber Yan Chang Clan, who presides over the silk head office of the Southeast Province and earns silver for the export trade of the Southeast Province.

More women were doing business and farming, their men were going to the sea, fishing, or serving, and women were running their homes and opening shops outside to trade and farm.

There are also a lot of part-time workers, first of all, the "public family", the administrative center of the southeast prefecture openly hires women to do things, and then various companies and shops also hire women, many women have been promoted to senior positions, and more women are working on construction sites.

Even in the key departments of the military and government, there are traces of women.

The head of the intelligence bureau is Yan Changwu's concubine Shuang'er, she must appoint women to participate in secrets (at least the secretary next to her must be women, the reason is clear), the simplest one is to recruit the wives and concubines or daughters of the officers of the Southeast Fleet and middle-level and above cadres in the administrative center to work in the bureau, they are one of the vested interests, and their loyalty to the southeast regime is absolutely first-class, and outsiders cannot buy them at all, so that the secrets they participate in must be kept secret---- this method is still taught by Yan Changwu.

Yan Changwu is lucky, the customs of southern Fujian, women do things, as a matter of course! (The men of southern Fujian are all outside, how can they not be a wife?) Compared with the "unfilial piety" that keeps the in-laws busy, the women have to reluctantly embarrass it)

The people of the time were full of praise for the achievements of the Southeast Mansion, but they didn't expect Yan Dashao to copy the successful strategy of the Taizu of the Red Dynasty: to liberate the female productive forces!

Don't abuse women! No female infanticide!

Women can go to school, do literacy, literacy;

Women are not allowed to bind their feet;

Women can work, the money from the job belongs to the private sector, and it is protected by the government (otherwise who will work), men want to eat soft rice, and the social atmosphere is condemned!

Of course, this kind of liberation is still incomplete, after all, Yan Dashao is a staunch defender of polygamy, but compared to before, compared to the mainland, there has been a huge leap!

Moreover, he engages in the equality of all beings (he is a son of God, or is he on top), unlike Ah San's one, two, three, and four levels, the society rises smoothly, and completely releases the power of all classes!

For example, there are 1 million adult population on the mainland, half male and half female, and perhaps even fewer men (the war has caused many men to die), and the ratio of men to women is four to six, and in fact there are less than 400,000, or even less, after all, there are many officials, many talents, and many servants, and there are many servants who serve them, and they are not engaged in production.

And the 1 million adult population of the Southeast Province, both men and women are doing things, and the firepower is exhausted!

One year of work is equivalent to three years of work for others, and with their enthusiasm, it may be equal to four years, and how can the economic construction of Southeast Province not change with each passing day!

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Everyone enters, but you can see that the hall is a large area, the decoration is luxurious, the ground is paved with granite, the top is lit up, there is a fish pond in front of the hall, and the carp is in the middle.

Before it got dark, the lights were already lit everywhere, and there were huge candles and large oil lamps, which were so bright that even in winter.

Everyone knows "Imagami" (after Yan Changwu defeated the Dutch, everyone respectfully called him Imagami!) He likes the light (not that he is afraid of the dark), and there are often headlights in the house to make him feel comfortable.

Everyone found a place to sit according to the station number on the invitation, and the people were bustling, because the children were fighting and fighting, and the waiter did not stop it.

There were high-ranking officers and middle-level cadres of the Southeast Fleet Headquarters, captains, deputy captains, and senior officers of various ships, senior officers of the Marine Corps, and middle- and high-ranking officials of the administration of the Southeast Fleet.

There are also meritorious soldiers with higher-ranking military merit medals on their chests!

The southeastern province did not have officers and soldiers, and the officers formed an officer corps, and the soldiers were incompatible with them.

But meritorious soldiers are different, for the sake of military merit medals, they can also be regarded as alternate officers (soldiers who have made meritorious service must be promoted quickly), and they can be allowed to participate in the party.

Then there are social elites (such as teachers, big businessmen, big landowners, etc.), as well as old peasants and workers with labor medals on their chests.

In a word, there are hierarchies in society, except for those who have rules.

It was close to 6 o'clock in the evening, and almost all the stations were full, and everyone knew that the concept of time was the most important thing today, and those who were late for the meeting of the officers were punished by him!

There was a commotion at the door, the stars held the moon, and I saw Yan Changwu dressed in a white and dazzling uniform, four gold stars flashing on his shoulders, and a medal on his chest, holding a scepter, surrounded by Chen Xinji, Hong Sheng, Chen Hebin, Li Ying, Li De, Gan Hui, Yan Donglai, etc., and there were several red-haired devils behind, and then his two concubines and children also came together.

Everyone didn't have to kneel, they all stood up and clapped their hands warmly in welcome.