As night fell, as the main venue for the night banquet, dozens of huge glass lamps were lit in the huge curtain, and a lampstand made of fine hardwood was placed on it, on which were placed large candles as thick as children's arms, and the glass lampshade that had been carefully wiped on it suddenly made the light shine within a radius of three feet.

Above people's heads, on the metal tabernacle components, dozens of large horse lamps were hung, and the lampshades made of copper wire were wrapped in them, and the thick wicks twisted from cotton slivers in the same glass lampshades ate through the vegetable oil and burned vigorously.

As night fell, the deacons of the Reiti Division began to lead the people who participated in the year-end activities one after another. Different from the palace banquet that Wang Dehua and others were familiar with, it was not Shouhan who came out to meet everyone after the guests arrived, but Shouhan led a group of right-hand men in civil and military, industry and commerce, education, technology, scientific research and other aspects, dressed in ceremonial dresses and smiling at the door of the tent to greet this group of people.

The people of the Rite Division introduced everyone's merits and contributions to Shouhan and others one by one, and Shouhan had to be polite and encourage to appease them, so that the banquet members of hundreds of people would be delayed.

Wang Dehua and the others who saw it on the side were very surprised.

"Ancestors, slaves and maids have heard that under Ning Yuanbo, the four categories of agriculture and commerce are divided into five categories of workers, peasants, soldiers, and scholars, not only that, but the status of scholars is also quite delicate."

"You monkey cub, what's the difference? Look at it, aren't the few people around Ning Yuanbo all like scholars? And those red-haired people. Isn't it also a scholar? ”

"Ancestor, you only know one but you don't know the other. Uncle here, he has a different view of readers. Those who can understand the economy and people's livelihood are naturally treated as guests. Those book silverfish who can only find chapters and excerpt sentences, don't say that they were invited by Uncle Ning Yuan to have a banquet here, even their own jobs are not easy to find! ”

"Nonsense! Look at this! ”

A little unconvinced little eunuch took the list of people who drank the banquet from somewhere, the number of seats, and the deeds, and pointed to the deeds behind the names on them to ridicule his colleagues.

"They are all teachers in remote places, if Ning Yuanbo doesn't pay attention to education, how can he invite them all the way from the mountains and forests to his house to commend them?"

"Cut! You're the one who reads and reads stupidly! Don't you look at where these teachers go? ”

The little eunuch sneered at each other, and Wang Dehua looked at the few capable subordinates in front of him fighting here. But there were bursts of joy in my heart. The harder the men fight. The more stable the person is in the upper position.

I listened to the whispered bickering of a few of my subordinates, but my eyes fell on the guest list and the brief deeds. The news inquired by the little eunuchs was true, and among the people who came, except for the big farmers who were farming in the countryside. In addition to the roles of grain growers and animal husbandry kings. They are skilled workers in workshops, mines, forestry farms, and shipyards. Many people still have the title of craftsman, and there are many people who have one or two patents on them.

In addition, there are sailors, soldiers and sailors in the field camp. These people are much simpler, and they have military exploits here.

And those who seem to be a little weak, and even a little ignorant of the world, are a major feature of the Nanyue Army. The so-called scientific and technological personnel. According to the system and regulations of the mainland, he is also a lowly person from a craftsman household who wants to enter, but he does not want to become Ning Yuanbo's guest, and he is on an equal footing with this general who controls the fate of tens of millions of people and holds the money and food of the military talismans in his hands.

Only in those guests who were a little restrained, but with some curiosity, and a little bookish on their faces, Wang Dehua vaguely found the taste of familiar mainland readers.

These people are the little eunuchs' mouths of Mr. Teacher, some from Taiwan, some from Guangxi, some from the Chao Phraya River, and some from the mountains to the west. However, looking at their deeds, they all have one thing in common, that is, they went to the barbarians and savages in other people's mouths, popularized education, and taught the children there to read and write. Some of them are also barefoot doctors, agricultural technology promoters, etc., and are deeply loved in the local area.

There was one thing that surprised Shouhan and his system. The barbarians and savages in the mountains and wilderness, once they realized the importance of reading and writing, their thirst for knowledge was several times stronger than that of the Han people. If the child in the family is naughty and skips school, the parents at home don't say a word, just pick up a guy and beat it violently, and then take the child to the teacher's residence to apologize to the teacher after the beating.

There are also Fujian reclamation people in Taiwan who complain that why are they all studying the same, and those mountain barbarians not only manage rice but also distribute rice to their children in the school? Why do our children only take care of food? Taiwan's governor Li Huabao scoffed at such remarks. With a little rice every day, in exchange for harmony with the mountain people, hundreds of thousands of Fujian refugees can settle for land with peace of mind, and at the same time, those mountain people also know how to farm, how to weave, and gradually assimilate and submit, what is this rice?

There was a loud cheer, but Shouhan had already expressed his affirmation of their work achievements in the past year to these people, raised his wine glass to them, and was ready to start drinking the first glass of wine with everyone.

"Gentlemen! Raise your glass! For my birthday! ”

"For the birthday of the great tomorrow!"

Although Ning Yuanbo has a reputation for being arrogant among the civil officials in the capital, he has never lacked anything in terms of etiquette, and he made such an evaluation in his heart, stood up, picked up the golden cup in his hand, Wang Dehua also cheered in unison with hundreds of guests with a smile on his face, and then drank all the wine in the cup.

"This second cup, Zhujun, Shouhan is here to wish Zhujun a healthy parent, a virtuous wife and filial piety, and a harmonious family! Please! ”

Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher, this practice of guarding the Han is to take it to the Taimiao and to the Yushitai, but I am afraid that no one will be able to pick out a little bit of difference.

Lao Tzu invited his subordinates to dinner, blessed their parents at home when toasting, and Lao Tzu promoted filial piety. What's wrong with that? ”

After eating two glasses of wine, Wang Dehua suddenly felt warm all over his body, and the atmosphere in front of him became more and more enthusiastic with the entrance of the wine.

"Gentlemen, this official Wang Bao is the banquet official of today. Raise your glasses, please! ”

"This third cup of wine is to honor my lord, be in good health, and win all battles! Lead us to expand the territory and fight for the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Good!"

"Hah!"

Suddenly, the huge tent echoed with bursts of cheers and cheers. People picked up their glasses and drank them all with great enthusiasm!

This scene made Wang Dehua's heart chill.

In front of the people. There are people who followed the old foundation of the Han Dynasty, Hejing, and Qianhufu period. There are also barbarians who have been naturalized over the years, and there are sailors, gunners, and shipwrights who originally belonged to Zheng Zhilong's maritime business group, and even a few military attaches from Fujian and Guangzhou, and it cannot be said that there is no intrigue between these people. But when they faced Wang Bao's toast. That kind of cheering is from the heart. Far better than the attitude towards the initial toast towards reverence.

While cheering and feasting, the steward of the official room on duty outside hurriedly ran in and whispered a few words in the ears of Wang Bao and others. Wang Bao's eyebrows immediately twitched a few times, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Lord, the third prince has a good report! Now send an envoy back to the division to report the victory, and the envoy is on the dock outside the city at this time! ”

He walked up to the defender who was staggering with Galileo and the others, who had already lost their beard, and whispered to him about the latest military developments.

Galileo, an old man who had been poured a cup of hot wine by Shouhan, now has a new position similar to the one he envied in his hometown in Italy, and is also the president of the university.

The university opened by Nanzhong is a complete waste of the word university in the eyes of others. He does not teach the Four Books and the Five Classics, and the university books are still taught, but only some arithmetic, knowledge of things, refining and chemical elixirs, civil engineering, seed cultivation, pig breeding, and other techniques that cannot enter the stream.

Foreigners from Europe and the first generation of students who grew up in Nanzhong play the role of teachers and gentlemen in this new and vast world.

Not only should you teach students, but you should also have your own research direction. Shouhan, Zheng Zhilong, and Wang Dehua cooperated in the technical support of trafficking fresh fruits to the north and south of Beijing, which are two of the university's research results.

Clippers and fresh food storage.

We introduced the clippers, but fresh food is an extremely challenging problem without freezing technology or refrigerators. This is especially true of lychee, a fruit that is extremely difficult to store.

When the lychee is ripe, pick the lychee, that is, cut off the bamboo, give up the upper half, cut the lower half of the bamboo tube, put the lychee into the bamboo joint, and then tie the half of the bamboo tube tightly with iron wire, and apply yellow mud to the wound, which will not heal in the day. The lychees are hidden between the bamboo nodes, as if placed in a sealed box, which can be kept fresh for more than half a year.

However, this method of preservation belongs to the category of strict secrecy at present, and the lychees to be shipped on the flying shear ship are not the lychees packed with this method of preservation.

Even the most common farming activities have the shadow of these people.

Far away in the Qiongzhou Prefecture Yulin Hongsha Town, the Nanyue Army Seed Test Field, has become the entire Nanzhong, Fujian, Liangguang, Taiwan seeds, breeding poultry, breeding stock breeding center, all kinds of seeds, breeding poultry, breeding stock are selected and bred, gradually in the south of the country to carry out promotion, and then, was sent to Taiwan, and then to Fujian, Liangguang for expansion.

There is not a single acre of paddy field in Nanzhong that is not planted according to the optimal number of rice transplants proposed by the gentlemen in the university, so that the land area can be used to the greatest extent, and at the same time, the consumption of labor can be reduced to the greatest extent. Prevent those useless efforts from coming out. More seedlings are planted, but the yield per mu is reduced.

It's the product of a mathematician and a farmer coming together.

The same combination is carried out among civil engineers, surveyors, and physicists.

The surveying team members measured the flow and velocity of the river, and the impact strength, strength, and stress of the bridge piles were calculated by physicists, according to which the civil engineers calculated what technology and how many materials should be used in the construction, and then connected with the foremen who had many years of experience to erect the bridges on the river.

Not only stone bridges and wooden bridges, but also pontoon bridges across the wide rivers such as the Kowloon River, Chao Phraya River, and Ling River. Bridges of all kinds cross the river and connect the roads on both sides of the river. Make the moat into a thoroughfare.

Dozens of majors, large and small, in the university began to send all kinds of technical personnel they needed to various fields of the Southern Guangdong Army.

Not only that, when Shouhan issued a final military order to officials in Nanzhong, Fujian, Liangguang, Taiwan, and other places before the Chinese New Year, in addition to paying festive greetings to everyone amiably, he also proposed that officials below the prefect level (including those who were previously regarded as non-entry) must go to various schools in Nanzhong for no less than one year of return training according to the plan. If you don't want to come, you can also hand over the work, and you can go home and eat the old rice.

At this moment, it immediately caused an uproar among officials at the level of Fujian, Liangguang Prefecture, and prefecture and county. But. The arms can't reach the thighs. This Ning Yuanbo has the power to appoint and dismiss officials from the prefect's office, and after taking you down, he only needs to send a message to the officials. If you really leave this Lingnan and Fujian land and return to your hometown. I'm afraid it's not as comfortable as it is now!

There is no choice. The first batch of named state and county officials had to pack their bags. After the Chinese New Year, I was ready to leave for Hue to mess around.

"Our family thinks that Father-in-law Wei acted unthinkably back then, but this Uncle Li. It's even more deviant. Wang Dehua, who was already in Hue for the second time, couldn't help but sigh when he heard the little eunuchs around him tell him what they had seen and heard, "There is not a single official here who is from a branch of science, but he governs this place so well, alas! ”

After hearing the good news from Wang Bao, Shouhan drank the hot sugarcane juice in his hand fiercely! More than 20 years! After more than 20 years of painstaking management, it took a lot of effort, a lot of money, and the hard work and blood of countless people to finally bring the entire coastal area of the Indochina Peninsula under control, so that we can go deeper into the inland areas with peace of mind.

At the same time, although Bengal is barren and not as rich as Indochina and the Indian subcontinent, it is better because it is located at the junction of several regions, and in the terminology of Go, it is an eye. Take and control here, to the east you can enter Burma, to the west is Kolkata, directly take India, to the north, hehe! It's another piece of land!

"My lord! The messenger of the third prince is already waiting outside the palace gate with good news and loot! ”

The people in the whole tent fell silent, and although there was no longer a lively sound of drinking, the atmosphere became more enthusiastic, and the people who came to participate in the end of the tooth exchanged eager eyes with each other, and watched the Shouhan's every move with extremely hot expressions. It is a great honor in itself to participate in the tail end of the Lord's banquet as an outstanding representative of achievements in various fields, which can be written into the family tree and passed on, and in the battle to conquer Bengal, how can it not make them excited and look forward to the fact that they were the first to hear the news of victory at the same time?

"Open the door! Please let him in! Everyone! Please pause for a moment, how about we go to Ermen together to greet this messenger who has returned from afar? ”

The roaring cheers and promises were endless, and even those who were reluctant were swept by people's enthusiasm and poured to the second gate.

The one who rushed back from Barisar City to report the victory was Zhang Xiaohu's nephew Zhang Ergou. After many years of military career, he has become the guard battalion officer who followed Li Huaxuan to Bangladesh to recruit troops.

Several large carts were tightly surrounded by cloth, and dozens of guards with knives and guns surrounded the vehicles, and from time to time there were bursts of rushing roaring sounds, and there was a faint majesty that made the beasts bow their heads, and it seemed that there were extremely fierce beasts in it.

Zhang Ergou was not busy taking out the paperwork, but the military regulations solemnly saluted Shouhan and Wang Bao and others, loudly reported his position and military status, and then turned around and nodded to the guards around the vehicle, "I'm tired!" ”

After a burst of exclamations, an iron cage surrounded by cloth appeared in front of everyone.

In the middle of a large cart led by the leader, in the iron cage, there were a pair of white tigers.

"Good sign!"

"The Elephant of Good Luck!"

"Congratulations, my lord!"

The crowd suddenly burst into cheers and congratulations. Wang Dehua, who was surrounded by more than a dozen little eunuchs and Jinyi Banner School, was also dumbfounded.

It would be fine if it were any other beast, but this white tiger was different.

Needless to say, it is rare, and it has a very special place in the religious system and myths and legends of the Chinese.

First of all, he, like the three handsome guys Qinglong, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu, is one of the four most terrifying and powerful four divine beasts in ancient Chinese myths and legends.

It is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also made of the stars. It is formed by the seven Western Nakshatras among the 28 constellations: Kui, Lou, Stomach, Ang, Bi, Mi, and Shen. Therefore, it is a representative of the West, so it is called the White Tiger not because it is white, but from the five elements. According to the Chinese theory of the five elements, the West belongs to gold, and gold is white, so the white tiger is the god of the West, and the green dragon is the god of evil at the same time, he is also the god of war, with a variety of divine powers such as avoiding evil, fighting disasters, praying for abundance and punishing evil and promoting good, getting rich, and tying the knot, representing power and dignity.

On the occasion of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, Ning Yuanbo's son captured or hunted a pair of white tigers from the distant battlefield and sent them to everyone to report the victory, which was undoubtedly a great promotion to the people under Shouhan. Some people almost burst into tears.

Some simply fell to their knees, muttering to themselves, not knowing what they were talking about.

The news immediately spread from the royal palace, and suddenly, with the royal palace as the center, the city of Hue resounded with a deafening sound of firecrackers. (To be continued......)

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