Happy Lantern Festival, everyone!

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In February of the sixth year of Chengtian, in the spring of 1780 in the Western calendar, China was a noisy day of gongs and drums, firecrackers, and the joy of the government and the people was at the extreme.

On 12 February, a memorable day and a milestone day in the long history of China, when Korea was officially incorporated into China's territory, the Nanjing Cabinet took the Han River as the boundary and divided the northern and southern provinces into the names of Lelang and Andong respectively.

Lelang is the name of the homeland of the Western Han Dynasty, and it is one of the four counties of the Han Dynasty set up on the Korean Peninsula after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed the Wei Dynasty in the second year of Yuan Feng. Andong was one of the six major prefectures of the Tang Dynasty, and it was the first time that China officially established a prefecture in the south of the Han River after the Tang Dynasty and the Silla coalition army destroyed Goguryeo and Baekje.

To rename Korea with these two names is to make it easier for Koreans to forget the names of Silla, Goryeo, and Korea.

Lelang Province is located in Pyongyang, and Andong Province is located in Seoul. Jeju Island was subsumed into Andong, but the Han army stationed in Korea increased instead of decreasing.

The two integrated divisions of the Northeast Military Region, which had been prepared long ago, will immediately enter the DPRK, and at the same time, some of the existing military forces in the DPRK will be selected to form two garrison brigades, and the rest will be changed into police and construction units. The soldiers of the DPRK cannot be disbanded on the spot, and no matter how weak their combat effectiveness is, these people have also experienced military training, and if they are agitated by people in the localities, it will be a scourge.

This day is a day that has been written about in the history of China, and it marks the first step forward in the process of the great reunification of the East Asian continent, and it is also a great step. The Korean Peninsula was historically 'reclaimed' by China, which made a good start for Annam in the future.

In the future, it was recognized as a turning point in history by scholars of world history in the East and the West.

It is believed that China's complete annexation of North Korea has greatly stimulated the appetite of the Chinese, and that in the future, China's behemoth's greedy and domineering hunting for food in the jungle of the world will not be the stimulus of North Korea's loneliness.

In the far run, it was China's strong attack on the world that made the Europeans lose the crown of the world that they had held in their hands for hundreds of years after the opening of the Great Voyage. The mighty Ottoman Empire failed to remove the crown from the Europeans, but the Chinese posed a mortal threat to European interests, and in the near future, they took away the centuries-old hard work of Europeans with a strong attitude.

It is also the Chinese who put on their heads the world crown that has withered from the hands of Europeans.

The long river of world history has changed from the dominance of the white race in the West to the revival of the yellow race, and to a certain extent, the world is a confrontation between the two races of yellow and white. Only the black people in Africa and the brown people who left South America still maintain their former world status.

This news was published in the "Central Plains Daily" and spread throughout the country as the fastest news, immediately causing a sensation and cheers throughout the country.

The current Chinese are not the Chinese of the past, and they are very aware of the wealth and interests contained in North Korea, and the internal attachment of North Korea has made countless Chinese people feel a sense of pride from the bottom of their hearts.

Heaven and the kingdom of heaven, this is the real kingdom of heaven and heaven! Let the small country around crying and shouting 'begging' to join.

At the same time, the excitement of opening up new territories is also mixed in.

As for the North Koreans in China, there are countless people who are crying and getting drunk, drunk and crying on this day. They don't need to drink, as long as they taste the humiliation they have suffered over the years, as long as they taste that they have become Chinese now, they are all drunk individually.

On 16 February, it had been three or four days since the news of the DPRK's annexation had arrived, and the atmosphere in Shanghai had not yet landed. On the contrary, it is getting higher and higher.

The streets and alleys are lit up, and goods and food from all over the country and the world are piled up in the market.

Zuo Fengsheng looked at the abundant materials on the market in surprise, and looked at the merchants who were clamoring for big discounts, big promotions, and big returns. The good news attached to North Korea seems to have become the source of the money for these businessmen.

I don't know this atmosphere, and I thought it was time for the New Year and New Year's goods.

Zuo Fengsheng looked at the lively street, the red bacon is his family's favorite food, the Zuo family who was born in Hunan certainly likes to eat bacon rice, the rice is washed, add an appropriate amount of water, a few sections of ginger, a small spoon of oil, put it in a pot to boil. Cut the bacon into thin slices, and when the rice is almost steamed, pour the bacon slices into the rice, and there is no need to serve any more dishes, just the bacon rice is enough for the stomach. Every time he made bacon rice, his children could eat three bowls of rice one by one.

There is also the bright red and emerald green cotton cloth, in spring, the air in the south of the Yangtze River is warm and warm, and it is time to tear the cloth for spring clothes. The cloth was so bright that he couldn't take his eyes off it, and he really wanted to pull a few feet from his wife and children. There are also dark wool and silk cotton, and my parents are over sixty years old, and they have never been able to wear decent clothes once.

Well, cotton clothes or something, they can only be regarded as ordinary clothes. I don't know when, the grade of decent clothes has risen to silk and wool. And all the common people naturally agree with this point of view.

Many families with better economic means that every time the elderly celebrate their birthday, they will buy a satin-faced casual dress for the elderly, and then buy a thick woolen casual dress for the elderly in winter, but Zuo Fengsheng's family does not have this condition.

Touching the money in his pocket, Zuo Fengsheng moved his steps, even though the items on both sides of the market attracted his attention and footsteps like magnets, Zuo Fengsheng didn't step forward to ask.

Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative! That's the cheapest thing.

He works as a clerk in Jiangnan Shipyard, and can buy ten yuan of things in the supply and marketing cooperatives every month, and his son also works as a clerk in the factory, and has an invoice of six yuan every month.

At that time, Zuo Fengsheng followed Gong Zhaolin, the minister of Hunan regimental training, to aid Hubei, and as a result, he and Zeng Yansheng, a fellow villager in Changsha Prefecture, as well as Tao Xiaoxin, Hu Duoji and many others, were prisoners of the Fu Han army in Wuchang City. At that time, the Fu Han army still recruited 'virtuous people', Zuo Fengsheng, Zeng Yansheng, Tao Xiaoxin and Hu Duoji and others were famous [Xiucai], and they were all won over by the Fu Han army. But at that time, Zeng Zuo, Taohu and others were very backbone, and they were all thrown into the Funiu Mountain mine.

After working in the mine for two years, they went to Nanyang to build roads, and then came to Shanghai to repair forts. Because several people were literate and hyphenated, they were promoted to be clerks by the labor camp, and when they were released, several people had job recommendations because of their honest behavior, and Zuo Feng Shengren was recommended to work as a clerk in Jiangnan Shipyard.

With a formal job, the salary is not low, and there is a cheap house to buy, Zuo Fengsheng has already brought his parents, wife and children to Shanghai. In this strange city, the Zuo family's life is not easy, although Zuo Fengsheng's income is not low, although Zuo Fengsheng's son Zuo Renjin also entered the Jiangnan Shipyard, and soon the intern became a regular employee, becoming a clerk like Zuo Fengsheng, but the eldest grandson Zuo Guanlan is already two years old.

Zuo Fengsheng gave his grandson a very atmospheric name, and this must be for his grandson to study in the future. The level of education in Shanghai is obviously stronger than that of Xiangyin, Hunan, especially in the choice of middle and higher schools. Therefore, for the sake of his grandson and the future of the Zuo family, the Zuo family must survive in Shanghai.

The biggest difficulty today is housing.

Now there are four generations of ancestors in the Zuo family, and the eldest family is crammed into a residential house, and it is necessary to buy another house. The benefits of Jiangnan Shipyard are very good, every year in the family building, Zuo Renjin to next year is also qualified to buy a residential house, to sell a large house, preferably a double-storey duplex structure, can live a large family. In addition to Zuo Renjin's son, his daughter-in-law has just given birth to a daughter. In addition to repaying the mortgage, the Zuo family is now saving down payment for Zuo Renjin to buy a house, and saving tuition fees for his grandchildren to accumulate capital for the Zuo family's future survival in Shanghai.

The efficiency of the factory is good, and the weavers are provided with preferential living conditions. There are not many companies in China that are qualified to do this, and it is impossible for ordinary real estate companies to have such discounts.

Zuo Fengsheng walked while imagining that his son would buy a new house in the future, so how happy the big guy would be when it came to the New Year.

When the little grandson grows up to five or six years old and is going to go to primary school, it is estimated that the factory-run school in the factory has been built for two years at that time. When he graduates from college, whether he is an official or something else, it will be the same as if he was admitted to the examination in the past, and he will no longer have to worry about his future.

In the past, there were only poor talents in the world, and there were no poor people. Now there are only poor high school students, not poor college students.

Times have changed, and so has the way of the world.

This university entrance examination is like the examination of people in the past, and the little doll will take the examination all the way after going to school, and she still has to take the exam.

There is a branch of the Bank of China next to the Huangzhong Road Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and Zuo Fengsheng, who is still wearing work clothes, walked to Huang Zhaojun's counter with a familiar car, this person's name is Ah Jun, Zuo Fengsheng has dealt with him not once or twice, and he is also called Ah Jun. In the past few years, all the 'deposits' he has given his son Zuo Renjin to buy a house have been stored by Huang Zhaojun. Huang Zhaojun also recommended bank wealth management for him before, and also introduced him to several bank bonds for sale, which he has always bought at Huang Zhaojun's counter. Although Huang Zhaojun didn't know what the reason was, he was also familiar with Zuo Fengsheng, a person who would come on the 16th every month, the day after the monthly salary.

"Mr. Zuo, are you here to buy bonds again?"

"Three hundred, old rules!" That's what his family can leave every month. He and his son received almost all of their salaries.

Zuo Fengsheng's current salary is one hundred and sixty-seven a month, and if he counts overtime pay, he can get two hundred yuan a month. This is definitely a high income level for the working class in China. Although this money is converted into pounds, it may not be possible to feed a family at all in the UK. But in China's bustling Shanghai, even if the price here is the highest level in the country, 200 yuan can make Zuo Fengsheng's family live comfortably.

But Zuo Fengsheng's neighbors all know that the life of this family is very simple, even stingy.

In the big city of Shanghai, Zuo Fengsheng has a family of eight, two old people, two children, and four laborers, and he works in the Jiangnan Shipyard with his son, and his son's salary is not as high as his, so he can get more than 100 yuan a month. His parents, wife, and daughter-in-law can earn dozens of yuan a month by pasting matchboxes and cigarette boxes at home, weaving and embroidering, and the total income can reach a small 400 yuan, but the total amount of all expenses each month does not exceed 100 yuan, plus a monthly mortgage of 20 yuan. In Zuojia, meat can only be eaten at the end of the month for a few days of the month, and most of it is cheap sea fish. However, Zuo Fengsheng saved 300 yuan in savings or bought bonds in the Bank of China every month.

The entire Zuo family is working hard to save money to buy a big house and pay off the mortgage, as well as to save tuition fees for the next generation. The cost of eating on weekdays depends on their wives to paste cardboard boxes at home.

Paste cigarette boxes, or matchboxes, and then there are the money that buys yarn on the street, weaves handkerchiefs, embroiders flowers, and sells them to the shop for money, which is almost the source of funds for the Zuo family to eat, drink and Lazar now.

Zuo Fengsheng took out a notebook from his arms, this is his family's household registration book, which is a necessary document for buying North American war bonds, and there is a booklet in the household registration book, which is similar to the bankbook for storage, which is also an alternative passbook. The expenditure of every war bond in and out has a bottom to be left on both sides.

The booklet contains 5 cards of 50 pieces of Chinese Dollar and 5 sheets of 10 pieces of Chinese Dollar.

Huang Zhaojun didn't take it, but pushed the household registration book back from the window. "Mr. Zuo, don't buy North American war bonds. Didn't you read the news in the newspapers? The Spaniards mobilized their navy and army to prepare for a big fight with the imperial expeditionary force in North America. North American war bonds on the stock exchange have fallen slightly. I think you can buy Treasury bonds directly. In addition, the family's North American bonds were also quickly sold. ”

Huang Zhaojun is not a bad-hearted person, and Zuo Fengsheng in front of him has known him for several years. In all fairness, Huang Zhaojun never fooled Zuo Fengsheng into going down the black road of losing money, and the few bonds recommended for him were very reliable.

Otherwise, he would be troubled.

Zuo Fengsheng has come to save money or buy bonds every month over the years, and the amount has changed from 100 yuan at the beginning to 300 yuan now, which is not low in Shanghai. In the past, 300 Chinese dollars were 30 oceans, which was 20 taels of silver. But Zuo Fengsheng is obviously not a rich family, he wears shipyard work clothes all the year round, a pair of shoes on his feet are tattered in winter and summer, and smoking has always been the cheapest Shanghai Fort, the price is only a dime.

But the savings he has accumulated over the past few years is not a small amount.

Huang Zhaojun and Zuo Fengsheng didn't have much outside communication, he didn't know Zuo Fengsheng's purpose of saving money, but he could roughly estimate what Zuo Fengsheng was going to do, and saving money so hard was either for his son to buy a house or to marry a daughter-in-law for his son. Intuition told Huang Zhaojun that the big brother in front of him, who was much older than him, was such a father.

Huang Zhaojun's father is also such a person, everything for the child, everything for this family. It's just that the sky doesn't follow people's wishes, and Huang Zhaojun's father didn't survive until the good days came. So Huang Zhaojun especially won't hurt such a person.

Huang Zhaojun respects such people very much.

Zuo Fengsheng walked out of the bank point a little dizzy, the street lights were already lit outside, the cold wind was blowing, and Zuo Fengsheng's dim mind was instantly clear. I was really dizzy, the work of the shipyard suddenly increased in the past few days, and the number of overtime workers at night increased greatly, and my brain was confused. Zuo Fengsheng walked back into the bank point, "Ah Jun, buy me North American bonds." Can little Spain still talk to me about the sky and the top cow? What is the temper of the emperor today? Whoever dares to fight him on the battlefield, the emperor will definitely kill him. "Maybe it's just an opportunity to make a little bit more money.

Zuo Fengsheng took the book and left. Huang Zhaojun's head was dizzy, he suddenly patted his head, his head was really faint.

Just reading the newspaper.

I can't believe everything in the newspaper, but I can't believe it all, I really should read a few more comprehensive newspapers, not just economic newspapers.