"The warbler in the waste garden is exhausted, and the oats are born in the barren platform. Shaohua is like passing water, and Fan Dai remembers the city. Wild chrysanthemum Jin Tian is small, and the stone mirror of Qiutan is clear. Who pities the old days and the moon, has been bright to the sun. After inscribed this poem with the meaning of sorrow on a painting, Bai Yutang looked at the woman in the painting in a daze for a long time, and then sighed gloomily, carefully put away the scroll, and put it in his safe.

The painting depicts his deceased wife who died of illness less than a year ago, originally the daughter of Xiao Mingli, the first generation veteran of the East Coast and a member of the Civil Affairs Committee, after marrying Bai Yutang, she has been husband and child, and the relationship between husband and wife is harmonious.

The woman in the painting is quite tall, wearing a noble mink hat on her head, and a braid on each side of her ears, which seems to have a steppe style, and resembles the common hairstyle of Eucontinental Slavic women, which may have something to do with the fact that her mother was of a different race. However, except for the development style, her clothing is almost Chinese-style, wearing a half-sleeved silk tunic on the upper body, a straight-necked long-sleeved top underneath, a belt, and long pointed scalp boots.

Admittedly, these styles are not all common clothing styles for women in Chinese mainland in this era, because they seem to be more masculine and have some strong and feminine styles, which may be related to the environment, climate, geography and folk customs of the east coast. Men and women on the East Coast, especially those who lived on the prairies of the East Coast, almost no one had never seen a horse, and even most of them had ridden it when they were young. Such a cultural and custom background, nature and the scope of activities are narrow, and the personal freedom is limited by traditional etiquette, and the young ladies and ladies who do not go out of the door are very different, so they are reflected in the clothing, and there are many differences between the two.

In Chinese mainland, not to mention the country, Shun and Qing, that is, Ningbo, Denglai and other places ruled by the East Coast people for many years, when have you seen women wearing long leather boots swaggering through the city? Occasionally, a few are also the families of officials on the east coast, who have lived on the prairie on the east coast since childhood, and their customs have not changed after coming to Ningbo or Denglai.

Of course, the influence of traditional Chinese clothing on the people of the East Coast is also very huge, especially at a time when the proportion of Ming people in this country is increasing (including the second and third generations born locally), the penetration of traditional Chinese clothing is also ubiquitous. For example, the style of the half-sleeved and long-sleeved clothes on the painting has a very strong women's style in the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty, and it looks like it is well-made.

Compared with these, in fact, the traces of clothing brought by the original crossing have faded over the years. Especially those modern women's clothing, to be honest, except for the early days of the popular for a while, now you go to see, except for some that can still be seen on the Qingdao Expo Street (but it has changed a lot from the beginning), basically disappeared. This proves that no matter how wise and martial the traversal is, they still do not have much advantage in the face of the aesthetics of millions of population groups.

An interesting fact is that the popularity of men is much stronger than that of women's clothing. In particular, the white shirts and tunics of government officials, and the tweed coats of military officers are still popular among adult men because they give them a professional aura, and the price of such clothing is not too expensive, so it has become popular.

In addition, the jewelry of East Coast women is more similar to that of Middle-earth, but there are differences. Because of its proximity to silver production and the average income far exceeding that of Chinese mainland, silver jewelry is very popular here, and almost every woman has a few pieces, so the silversmiths' business is very hot and has become a high-income family. Silver jar, silver hairpin, silver hairpin, silver earrings, etc. are the most common, in addition, jewelry products such as tortoiseshell, ivory, black pearls, diamonds, gemstones, etc., due to the developed overseas trade on the east coast, the import volume is large, relatively cheap, so the application is also very wide, which is not comparable to Chinese mainland.

Of course, Chinese mainland also has the advantage, that is, in terms of men's jewelry, raw materials are more abundant, such as the famous jade. Bai Yutang took his wife to find someone to customize the lotus swan accessories all the year round, and the whole body was carved with good Hetian jade, which cost a lot of money, and it was his more cherished thing.

Jade is a thing that men and women on the east coast love very much, which may be due to the influence of traditional culture, and the things in the bones will not change. However, due to the scarcity of raw materials, it has been the patent of high-ranking officials or wealthy businessmen for many years, and they have opened high prices in Chinese mainland to find people to order, which once raised the market price of jade in many places, and there is no one.

However, in recent years, with the gradual deepening of overseas trade, there have been more merchants visiting Russia, North America, India and the East Coast colonies. Coupled with the efforts of the Dutch East India Company, a trading giant, all kinds of jade and jadeite from all over the world began to flow into the East Coast vigorously, which greatly reduced the cost of jewelry for men on the East Coast. In addition, the news of the discovery of jadeite ore in eastern Brazil has caused the market price of jade to plummet, making this kind of jewelry affordable and more widely spread. From that point of view, it's not a bad thing.

All in all, the East Coast Republic of China has been established for almost 60 years, and due to the role of geography, environment, climate and other factors, it has gradually formed its own various cultural characteristics. And with the development of the economy and the strength of the country, the cultural self-confidence of the people on the east coast has become stronger and stronger, so that they now have a downward attitude towards many people in the old continent, even in Chinese mainland, the source of the mother culture.

Who called them weak at present? In this world, weakness is the original sin, that is, there are no human rights. When the gunboats of the people on the east coast can sail freely in the Yangtze River with impunity, you want to expect the people of the east coast to have much respect for the people on this continent, that is definitely thinking too much. You must know that in today's East Coast, but most people think that the orthodoxy of Chinese culture should be inherited by their East Coast people, because only they can carry forward this culture and spread it to all parts of the world. Because of this kind of thing, relying on the Ming, Shun, Qing and other countries with many internal problems and years of war, it is obviously impossible to do it!

Disliking the poor and loving the rich, bullying the weak, is the right principle of this world. When the peddlers and pawns on the east coast can wear decent cotton, woolen cloth and even silk and cotton blended clothes, so that they are openly denounced by the newspapers as "extravagant", but people in Chinese mainland are struggling to survive because of years of war, it is difficult for people to have any respect and admiration for them at this time, how impossible.

Bai Yutang's perception of Chinese mainland is almost the same. And it just so happened that he had just recently received an order from his superiors to take up important positions in the Far East, so he planned to go over and take a good look (by the way, leaving South Africa, a sad place with unpleasant memories), to see what the origin of Chinese civilization was. Of course, before leaving, he first needs to deal with the beginning and end of this side and handle the handover with the new commissioner of the Hezhong District Administration.

The first thing to do is, of course, the South African Transoxiana. In order to build this railway, the Hezhong area was burdened with a heavy debt burden, which was about hundreds of thousands of yuan. This may not be a lot of money at the national level, but for a region with a population of only 300,000, it is really deadly! It is impossible to say that the local government has to cut back on food and clothing every year, make a repayment plan, and then reduce the debt step by step – for the sake of a fashionable thing (the railway), the people of the riverside region have already paid the price. In the future, we can only count on the economic development of the Hanzhong region, and the profits from the railways and other aspects will offset this part of the loss, and there is no other way.

The second thing is the urban redevelopment of Cape Town's Freeport. Needless to say, this is also a big project and costs a lot of money. But as a free port and a developing commercial city, these are necessary for Cape Town to grow further in the future. Therefore, the District Administration and the Cape County Government must work together to raise sufficient funds to build the city's water and sewerage facilities, sewage treatment facilities, gas lighting systems, urban light rail, etc., otherwise Cape Town will have a ceiling on development, which no one wants to see.

Of course, the layout of the city in the Dutch era was messy, the docks were not big enough, the facilities were outdated, and many things needed to be updated and improved, so this was also an expense. Fortunately, there are more and more ships from various countries docking at Cape Town Freeport, and the number of goods available in the market is also increasing, so the government's revenue is also rising, which is undoubtedly a good thing for various municipal construction projects.

The third – and indeed the most important – is that a new round of regional expansion in South Africa is on the agenda. Yang Liang Yang Marshal was not a dry man after all, he sometimes commanded troops to fight in the Yicheng area, and sometimes ran to the Great and Small Karoo Plateau and the desert area in the north, leading the cavalry to carry out a large-scale sweep, basically sweeping away the local indigenous forces. In this way, it has become very necessary to send a small number of farmers and herdsmen to occupy these vast new lands -- this is also the consistent policy of the local people, that is, the land in southern Africa should be occupied as much as possible, all blacks should be relocated, and the red line of the yellow-black dividing line must be maintained, which is a major matter related to the survival of the nation, and there is no room for sloppiness.

In fact, the above three things have been carried out by the previous and current Hanzhong regional governments (the commissioners of the administrative office are all from him). What Bai Yutang needs to do now is to hand over the new regional governor and let the next government continue along the current line, in fact, there is nothing big about it.