After working overtime in the first month of the month and training some time ago, the newly recently civilian and guard officers who had completed the examination had gone to the counties of the occupied territories in order to assist the officials who had previously set out to stabilize the occupied territories. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's just that not all qualified personnel have been assigned to various counties, and some are directly arranged in the Hou Mansion and Sun Yu's "Zhexi Governor's Yamen", which has not yet hung up the sign. In addition, Lu Liuliang was also detained by Chen Wen, and on the first day of his detention, Chen Wen personally took him to the internal meeting of the Huaxia Revival Association to observe, and also granted him the status of a probationary member.

The reason for this is nothing more than to make the best use of people's talents, and others have been given a broader platform, while Lu Liuliang was directly given the task of studying the Manchu imperial examination questions and those examination papers that were made public directly after the assembly.

This is what he and Lu Wenxia began to do two years later, and they used the selection of Shiwen to promote that "the distinction between Huayi is greater than that of monarchs and ministers", which had a great impact on scholars and students. Chen Wen specially asked him to accept the new nationalist ideas in the Chinese Revival Association, and then selected the Manchu imperial examination by himself, in order to better attack the Manchu Qing in theory and propaganda.

According to the teaching that both hands should be grasped and both hands should be firm, while building spiritual civilization, Chen Wen naturally did not forget the aspect of material civilization.

In the first month, according to Charles's Englishman translation, the first hydraulic boring machine was built by several skilled old blacksmiths. Although this is not a machine-made machine, and there are traces of handicraft everywhere, it is an excellent start for Chen Wen, especially since from that day on, he can use the abundant water resources of southwest Zhejiang to polish the inner chamber of the newly cast artillery, instead of continuing to use time-consuming and labor-intensive manual polishing.

After the first hydraulic boring machine was produced, Chen Wen deliberately built a large water conservancy workshop on the bank of the Dongyang River, even if there was only one hydraulic machine at first, but the site must be occupied first. As for whether his sense of crisis came from the astonishing housing prices of later generations, it is unknown.

The manufacture of hydraulic machinery has been put on an extremely priority by Chen Wen, second only to the production of armaments, and he has long since stopped thinking about whether the convenience of manufacturing these hydraulic machinery can make up for the loss of labor before the next war.

At the beginning of February of the seventh year of Yongli, Chen Wen, who was almost open all year round, gave himself a vacation, not for anything else, but because Wu Dengke, a general under his command who had followed him for nearly three years, wanted to return to his hometown to get married, and he needed to attend the wedding, in the words of later generations, that is, as the leader of the unit to speak on behalf of the unit and eat and drink.

Wu Dengke's hometown is located in Wukantou, Yiwu, where the old house of the Wu family in Yiwu is located. Wu Dengke was born in poverty and his parents died, but after his career, he returned to his hometown and built a large mansion on the site of his family's old home, where weddings and wedding banquets were held.

Wu Dengke has always been one of the highest-ranking generals under Chen Wen's command, and under the rising tide, if the Xuanzhao envoy from the southwest comes again, he is likely to get a knighthood, and even if it is not to that point, there must be a seal general to conform to the practice of the Yongli court.

The status is getting higher and higher, and it can even be said that if this development trend continues, it will inevitably be higher in the future. But to the surprise of most people, the woman Wu Dengke married was not from a big family, but just a woman from a small family. However, this woman still has an identity, that is, her grandfather is the old gentleman who enlightened Wu Dengke in Dalan Mountain, and after learning this detail, even Chen Wen wondered if Wu Dengke's reading and literacy in the past two years was also related to this girl.

In fact, as we all know, Chen Wen once gave his subordinates, civil officials and non-commissioned officers half a month of long vacation in the first month, but according to tradition, they cannot get married in this new month, and they can't even marry in the lunar month.

There are many reasons for this tradition, such as the first month of Tai Sui's head, and there is a saying that it is not good for children and grandchildren; There is a saying that marrying a daughter-in-law in the first month is a nuisance to her in-laws, and Layue is engaged to her mother-in-law's family; There is the problem that the New Year is the world of underworld marriage, which is not festive and unlucky; There are also folk sayings of "marrying relatives on the third day of the first lunar month" and "Zhong Kui marrying sister" on Chinese New Year's Eve. All in all, you can't get married in the first month, just like shaving your head and killing your uncle in the first month. Tradition is not easy to violate.

Wu Dengke has followed Chen Wen for many years, and it can even be said that he is the earliest one, and Chen Wen will inevitably give this face, not only because of Wu Dengke's current identity, but more importantly, because of the friendship between the two.

In the same way, Chen Wen went with many high-ranking officers of the Ming army, but Li Ruixin and Yin Yue, who had been fighting side by side for more than two years, could not go for the time being, because they all needed to familiarize themselves with the defense of their town as soon as possible. However, in the words they said to Chen Wen privately when they got the news of the engagement, Wu Dengke's marriage was not worth it - Yin Yue thought that with Wu Dengke's current status, there could be a better candidate, and Li Ruixin said that Wu Dengke was originally a disciple of the old gentleman, but once he got married, he fell a generation and became his grandson-in-law, which is really not worth it.

The jokes of these two guys are really not like words, but Chen Wen just listened to it for a while. It's just that according to the original plan, Sun Yu will also come, but when it comes, he can't spare time, because last year's autumn tax collection didn't seem to go well.

Last year, Chen Wen made two large sums of money, but the construction of military facilities, the manufacture of weapons, the expansion of the army, and the investment in industrialization were like flowing water, constantly overdrawing the treasury of the Ming army in Zhejiang. The autumn tax is very important, and Sun Yu did not have the slightest complaint that he could not attend Wu Dengke, especially the congratulatory gift forwarded by Sun Yu on behalf of Chen Wen was embroidered by the Yi family himself, which moved Wu Dengke even more.

After many years of raising the army, strict military law and generous rewards are the tradition of the Qi family's army, and Chen Wen naturally inherited it. In all the wars, the soldiers under his command could get a lot of money and land, and senior officers like Wu Dengke would naturally rise to the top.

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At the same time as the wedding of Wu Dengke, the chief military officer of Chuzhou Town, Wukantou, Yiwu caused a sensation, a little-known soldier in Dongyang County also chose to get married on this day. It's just that I don't know if it's just like later generations chose to marry celebrities on the same day, not only to have some joy, but also to have more vanity.

After more than a year in the army, Zhang Yida finally fulfilled his wish - to have a piece of land of his own, move the graves of his grandparents and parents to his own land, and marry a daughter-in-law. To be able to get all of this was because he chose to join the army after escaping from Hengdian Town, otherwise he would probably be just a slave to this day.

The next step should be to leave a poster, Zhang Yida has great confidence and desire for this, because only in this way can the land and surname be passed on.

The wedding was still going on, and the two old men in the crowd watched all this and chatted without saying a word.

"Do you know, this kid used to be a slave of the Feng family in Hengdian Town, and later changed his surname back to the army after joining the army."

"Then he can't forget the kindness of the Hou Ye, otherwise he really has no conscience." As he spoke, the old man suddenly remembered something, and turned to whisper to the old man who was chatting with him: "I heard that the Feng family in Hengdian Town has been haunted since the house was raided, and I heard that it is the ghost of the old man Feng." ”

"Come on, my son is on an errand in the yamen, and they all say that Master Feng didn't catch him at all, who knows where he ran away, and he is still haunted."

The wedding was still in progress, and soon the two old men put what they had just said behind them, after all, it was really not like saying this on this good day. (To be continued.) )