Chapter 190: Sacrifice to the Heavens

Zhou Nan doesn't understand how to do business. He understands the laws of economics and the relationship between supply and demand in society, but he knows nothing about specific operations.

However, he has Yannick to help him control the overall situation, and Helder to help him operate. So many things, just need him to take the lead, and everything can be arranged in an orderly manner by them.

On the 26th, Zhou Nan's plane took off again and flew to Nanhua.

In June, Nanhua has already made preparations for this year's Spring Festival.

Nanhua was established last year, but there were too many trivial affairs last year, and the whole country was in ruins, and there was no energy to arrange this kind of thing.

In June, the Taiji Plaza of the University of South China was completed, and Mr. Cai proposed to hold a festival in the Taiji Square, and this was passed on to a complete set of procedures.

For this reason, a three-storey circular altar was rebuilt at the dot position of the yang fish pattern of the yin and yang fish pattern in Tai Chi Square.

After half a year of preparation, the Nanhua Cultural and Customs Committee studied a series of traditional ceremonies such as the Zhou ceremony, and improved them to conform to the current national conditions of Nanhua, and determined a complete set of rituals.

Worshipping the heavens is not for feudal superstition, but for the purpose of uniting national unity and using common rituals to closely connect the hearts of all Chinese people.

This is the first festival of the day, and of course Zhou Nan will also participate.

He didn't want to be in the limelight, he just wanted to express that although he was in Europe, his heart was still closely connected with all the Chinese.

This time he went to Nanhua with Zhou Nan, only Etinny and two telegraph operators were there, but the plane was still full.

Except for Audrey and Caroline, the rest of the seats were filled with staff from Nanhua's embassies and consulates in Europe.

In later generations, it may be known as a feudal superstitious act, but in this era, it is a move that everyone expects.

Everyone, as long as they have time, is not willing to miss this opportunity.

According to the news from Nanhua, as soon as the news of the worship of heaven spread, the Chinese circle in the entire Southeast Asia was boiling.

Not only South China, but also the Chinese people in Malaysia and Thailand have applied to participate in this festival regardless of the family reunion during the Spring Festival.

According to the sales data of Chinese clothing, it can be seen that in the month before the Spring Festival, the sales data of Chinese clothing rose by 50%.

The plane arrived in Nanhua on the evening of the 27th, and the students here in the university town had already had a holiday.

But in order to accommodate Chinese people from all over the world, several campuses around the square have been opened in the university town, and more than a dozen buildings have been vacated to accommodate these Chinese people.

There is no winter in Nanhua, it is summer all year round, so as long as there is a shelter from the wind and rain, everyone can be housed.

The only trouble is food, but because it is the Spring Festival, most people only come for a day or two at most, so many people bring their own dry food, which also reduces the pressure on the South China government.

However, according to predictions, the number of Chinese participating in this festival will exceed one million. Settling down the food, clothing, housing and transportation of these Chinese people is a great test of the South China government's ability to make overall arrangements.

When Zhou Nan returned to Nanhua, he fell into a busy social process. And Audrey, like him, she, a big star who is now internationally famous, is no worse than Zhou Nan in the minds of young people.

Zhou Nan was only immobile here in the university town, but Audrey was different, she was arranged to go to the war zone for a condolence performance, and even went to the current front line Pekanbaru.

Since the battle of expansion launched last autumn, the Chinese have basically achieved their strategic goals.

Starting from Palembang, the Chinese army was marching south, directly expelling the Javanese from South Sumatra province and driving them into the mountains.

Subsequently, the Chinese army advanced all the way to the northwest, step by step.

Jambi Province, Riau Province is now fully occupied by the Chinese, and has been pushing the defensive line to the Malinda River on the border with North Sumatra Province.

And with this river as a boundary, a line of demarcation of power was established with the British.

Although Sumatra is Dutch territory, in the province of North Sumatra, it is the traditional sphere of influence of the British.

For example, Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, the British are far more powerful than the Dutch.

The northernmost province of Aceh is occupied by the Acehnese, the province of North Sumatra is occupied by the British-backed Malaysians, and the Javanese, who were once the most powerful, now occupy only the mountainous areas of southern Sumatra, facing the Indian Ocean.

These places were later known as West Sumatra, Bengkulu, and Lampung, and most of them were mountainous and earthquakes were frequent.

Leaving three provinces for the Javanese, which is also what the Soviet Union and the United States meant, wanted to turn this place into a region of fierce multi-ethnic struggle, dragging the British, Chinese, Acehnese, Javanese into the whirlpool.

However, for the abundant oil fields and various resources here, the Chinese are not afraid of any struggle.

There are more than a dozen oil fields around Minas in Riau Province, and the reserves of one Minas oil field alone exceed one billion tons.

The reserves of Duli Oilfield, Sebangka Oilfield, Beiganbaru Oilfield, Bamadan and other oilfields together also exceed the reserves of Daqing Oilfield.

Until the turn of the millennium, it was one of the world's most important oil production sites, accounting for more than half of the oil supply in South and Southeast Asia.

Just for these oil fields, it is worth fighting a war for the South Chinese. What's more, this area is the most fertile land in Sumatra, and in the future, it will be the most important natural rubber cultivation base in the world.

During the war, countless Javanese were driven into the mountains, and only a few Javanese who had been screened and willing to be naturalized were accepted into the South China sphere of influence.

In the initial stage, they were not considered South China nationals, and they had to go through a five-year inspection period before they were gradually absorbed.

In order to facilitate their rule, their clan system was also disrupted and scattered in Malay settlements.

These populations are a resource, but they are also a burden. If the Chinese want to make full use of these population resources, they also need to go through long-term cultural cultivation.

At present, Sumatra has established a private education system much faster than Borneo. All races, whether Malay or Javanese, must start learning Chinese.

Literacy classes are set up in every village, and students also learn Chinese from an early age and receive Chinese education.

Those who did not agree with Chinese education were all driven out of the Chinese sphere of influence.

At present, the only thing that other ethnic groups can retain is freedom of belief.

Although the current situation looks good, the burden on the South China government is also very heavy.

Not to mention anything else, just the teachers needed for education, Nanhua can't get together here.

So much so that in many rural areas, it is simply some Chinese who are semi-literate who are carrying out compulsory literacy education.

The only way to solve these problems is to train more Chinese teachers.

In every Chinese settlement, there is a secondary school teacher, the purpose of which is to train Chinese teachers.

However, if you want to fully popularize Chinese education, it will not take a few years to meet the needs of teachers in Nanhua. If you want to fully popularize Chinese culture, it is a long-term century-old plan.

In the past six months, Zhou Nan has also "created" several songs that have been sung by thousands of people.

There are inspiring songs like "Men Should Be Self-Reliant", songs like "Country" that promote patriotic enthusiasm, songs like "Bloodstained Style" that comforted their relatives, and songs like "The Fifteenth Moon" that encourage soldiers.

Every song has been liked by the public, and the singers who have been selected to sing these songs have also become public idols.

On the first night of his arrival in Nanhua, Zhou Nan saw a Malay girl from the Malay tribe on TV, singing the song "Fifteenth Moon" on TV.

Seeing that her dark face did not have any Chinese characteristics, but she sang this song with full emotion, Zhou Nan always had a trace of awkwardness in her heart.

However, this also shows that the work of the cultural front in South China is not bad.

In fact, Zhou Nan's favorite red song is "My Motherland", but this song is really not good to plagiarize, and it does not conform to the national conditions of Nanhua, after hesitating again and again, he still did not come up with this song.

However, he will definitely have the opportunity to return to China in the future, and at that time, he will be able to make a good impression on him by taking out this song to dedicate it to the motherland.

Audrey went to Palembang and Pekanbaru to perform, and she performed three shows in both performances, one was a violin solo excerpt from Liang Zhu, one was a speech, and the other was a singing song.

Her voice condition is not good, the front and back notes are heavy, which leads to her voice being similar to that of ordinary people, but when she sings, she has a feeling of lack of energy.

So the best thing for her is slow songs, and it also needs to be songs that are in a small range.

In another life, the only song she sang was Moon River, and the other songs were all dubbed. Zhou Nan selected for a long time, and finally chose the song "Friendship Lasts Forever" for her to sing, which allows her to play her best.

In fact, there is another song that she can sing well, that is, singing "Farewell" with Zhou Nan.

Zhou Nan is just the opposite of her, she has a heavy front note and a light back tone, but Zhou Nan has a light front note and a heavy back note because of her throat injury, so when the two of them sing the song together, they cooperate very well.

However, Zhou Nan's current status is too high to sing in public. What's more, when he appears in crowded places, the security work will be very heavy.

On the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve, from the afternoon, countless Chinese people came from all over the world to open the passage to the University of South China.

Although this day is a day of family reunion, after the reunion dinner at noon, in the afternoon, people left their homes and flocked to Nanhua University.

The intercity railway, which opened just last month, is packed with people on every train.

Nanhua has suspended all trains on other routes, specifically running the line from Pontianak to Nanhua University, but there is still some short supply.

The square of the University of South China was already crowded with people in the evening. Several square kilometers of square kilometers of square meters are crowded with water, and even the surrounding campuses, the rooftops of those buildings, are all full of people.

Everyone is looking forward to the arrival of the child.

(Since I've been thinking about the development of international affairs in '49 some time ago, these transitional chapters feel unsatisfactory.) It was adjusted for a few days, and it was not adjusted well. So I decided to ignore these episodes, write another chapter to complete the foreshadowing, and get into the plot content that everyone is concerned about. )