Chapter 624: Fan Yongdou
According to the plan of the management committee of the starting point city, in the beginning of 1640, the closed circuit television system will be launched in the urban area of the starting point city and the Shijingshan industrial zone to enrich the entertainment life of the people.
Every year during the Spring Festival, from the 30th to the 7th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the leaders of the military and political departments of the starting point city will arrange personnel to take turns on duty and carry out a series of New Year greeting activities.
Especially after the third year of junior high school, most department heads have to go down to the grassroots level to pay New Year's greetings. Among them, the power plant is the most important industrial facility in the starting point city, and the New Year greetings for the power plant personnel are usually arranged on the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day or two of the new year, and the top military and political leaders of the starting point city and the director of the industrial zone will go to the power plant to pay New Year greetings.
Wang Yue, as the head of the military and government of the starting city, also went deep into the army and factories to pay New Year's greetings during the New Year, and his Chinese New Year's Eve New Year's greetings were usually arranged in one place.
After Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Wang Yue and Zhang Zijun drove to a huge campus near Shijingshan to pay New Year's greetings, which is also commonly known as an "orphanage" by the people of the starting point city.
There are more than 3,000 orphans living here, most of them from former exiles, orphans who were taken in after the Battle of Arthur Island, and scattered orphans adopted from other areas.
This orphanage was named "Eagle Battalion" by Wang Yue, and they were centrally managed and studied intensively, and implemented a militarized management model. Wang Yue hopes that through strict and even somewhat cruel discipline, these characters who have become a little selfish, cold, infighting, and lazy in order to survive while wandering will be corrected.
The "Eagle Battalion" can be regarded as a junior military academy, and they have to learn not only the basics of general education, but also military knowledge and military skills. These subjects include knowledge of tactical training, platoon exercises, military topography, communications and contacts, and the army-wide operational regulations.
It is unlikely that all of these young students will enter the Tiance Army in the future, and some of them with a good foundation will learn other professional knowledge and enter various fields to give full play to their talents. Among them, the intelligence department will make a large number of use of cadets from the "Eagle Battalion".
Because they were loyal enough, they were later nicknamed "Wang Yue's children". Therefore, even if the main mother Zhang Zijun is already three months pregnant, she will still accompany Wang Yue to pay New Year's greetings to these children on the Chinese New Year's Eve.
The oldest child in the "Eagle Camp" is twelve years old, and the youngest is only two or three years old. Orphans over this age are scattered to various factories belonging to the starting point city.
These orphans are not child laborers, and each factory has a special department to take care of and educate them, in addition to basic education, that is, to learn the internal theories and skills of the factory, and to train and reserve workers for the factory.
"Children, Lord Wang and Mrs. Wang have come to pay you New Year's greetings." Principal Qin Guoyong said to the thousands of young students in the Eagle Camp on the playground with a megaphone.
"Eat the king's food, wear the king's clothes, and serve the king."
The young cadets of the "Eagle Battalion" on the playground were divided into dozens of phalanxes according to their age, and their voices shouted in unison. It can be seen that it has been rehearsed, which is why it is so neat.
This slogan is Wang Yue's slogan to emulate Yuan Shikai's small station training, a certain personality cult is necessary, especially for these children, the subtle personality cult will have an unexpected effect in the future. Something is better than nothing, especially in this era, people are still very simple-minded.
"Happy New Year, children, I have brought you holiday gifts, and I wish you to grow up strong and become the pillars of the country as soon as possible."
Wang Yue doesn't talk much, and the children won't be too patient to listen to your tirade.
Every year, the new clothes and snacks of the children of the "Eagle Camp" are brought by Wang Yue himself.
The new clothes are uniform style - black school clothes, made by the starting point city garment factory according to the size reported by the "Eagle Camp", snacks are all kinds of candy and fruit snacks, etc., regardless of age, the same amount, but enough for them to eat for the New Year.
The children are innocent, although they are orphans, they also hope for a prosperous New Year, and Wang Yue brings their joy every year.
There is no longer hunger and cold, no longer the threat of death, the "Eagle Camp" is already their safe home, all of which was given to them by Wang Yue, and gratitude has taken root in their hearts.
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On the second day of February in the twelfth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Taiyuan.
After the New Year's Festival, the weather of the Xiaoice River is still cold, and the deadly north wind blows, which immediately makes people's faces blue, their lips are purple, and a layer of fine snowflakes floats in the sky from time to time, but today is the ancient "February 2" dragon raising its head, and every household is making yellow rice cakes, commonly known as yellow cakes, or "gentian-eating", the joy of the festival dilutes some of the cold.
Taiyuan has a magnificent world, the splendid city is called, here is the location of the Jin Palace, at this time in the east gate Yinghui Gate Chaoyang Street in a house, is a burst of noise.
The appearance of this house is ordinary, there is a hole in the inside, a few out and a few in, all are gorgeously decorated, the red sacrifice of Jingdezhen, the sprinkling show of the capital, the gold ware of Suzhou, it seems that there is no money to place.
There are also fire-sandwiched walls one by one, which makes the whole house warm like spring, comparable to the air conditioning and heating of later generations, and even more environmentally friendly.
At this time, on the main hall, a banquet is being held, the dense maid and the woman are waiting, and all the guests are sitting, all of them are Huanghuali official hat chairs, Huanghuali eight-legged round stools, which are covered with Bozhou Yijin silk.
This kind of style is the cabinet elder who sees it, and he must bow to the wind.
On the main seat, at this time sat an old businessman who was not like to speak, his face was furrowed and horizontal, full of the vicissitudes of wind and frost, his trembling demeanor, and his face full of wrinkles.
He seems to be old and drunk, but the occasional gleam in his cloudy eyeballs lets people know that this person is not simple, just like an old fox.
The people here are full of people, and they do not despise him because of his old age, and all of them look respectful or respectful.
Next to him, there was also a person sitting impressively, middle-aged and shrewd, but it was the Fan family who appeared in the starting point city a few years ago, Fan Yongdou's cousin Fan Yongwen.
It turned out that this old man was the famous Fan family in the late Ming Dynasty, Fan Yongdou.
He had just spoken for a while, and he might be afraid of the cold in old age. The hall wall is a thick fire wall. On the delicate copper plates in the corners, there was also burning fiery carbon wood, and he still subconsciously tightened the eiderdown coat on his body, from the starting point city.
The products of the starting point city are very popular in Shanxi, and it has become a fashion and trend.
"Come on, come on, shopkeepers eat some yellow cakes." Fan Yongdou greeted.