The Boy Scout Academy began in the seventh year of the Eternal Calendar, and now it is in its fourth year. In four years, for www.biquge.info the first batch of military children, literacy and reading, basic mathematics, and basic military training for the Scouts have been taught, and they can graduate from the academy after completing the assessment at the end of this year.

Jinhua's Boy Scout Academy was the first to be established, and now it is also one of the largest schools in the city, and there are several campuses in Fucheng alone, and recently the Department of Missions is planning to build a larger campus outside the city, not only to ensure the continuous blowout of students expected to be caused by the expansion of the army in the next two years, but also to cope with the increasing land prices in the city.

"Brother Ding, do you have time?"

"Have time, what's the matter, Brother Niu?"

Ding Junjie was the first batch of Boy Scouts to enter the school, and Shi Daniu, the brother of Shi Xiaoniu who spoke to him, was the auxiliary soldier of the team when his father was alive, but Ding Junjie's father died on the battlefield very early, but the previous auxiliary soldier is now expected to be promoted to the head of the first bureau of the Nantang Battalion.

Because of the existence of such a relationship, the two are classmates, and they are naturally excellent on weekdays. Because Ding Junjie's father died early, Shi Daniu asked his younger brother to take care of him as much as possible after learning that the two were classmates. However, Shi Xiaoniu is the youngest son in the family, and he is already favored, no more than Ding Junjie, whose father died early, his mother was widowed, and the children of the poor were in charge of the house early, and he was extremely hard at school, but Shi Xiaoniu had more trouble with Ding Junjie on weekdays.

"I know that Brother Ding is not busy, hehe."

As he spoke, Shi Xiaoniu smiled and spread the textbook on Ding Junjie's desk, pointed to the after-school exercise left by Mr. in the morning and said to Ding Junjie: "Brother Ding, this question is really disgusting, it is a chicken and a rabbit, how can I have time to go home and count this for my husband." ”

The title is very simple, only one sentence: "There are pheasants and rabbits in the same cage today, with thirty-five heads on one and ninety-four feet on the bottom. ”

Chickens and rabbits in the same cage, this is a very famous number problem in ancient China. Now that it came to Shi Xiaoniu's mouth, it became the gentleman who taught arithmetic and asked him to really find a group of chickens and rabbits to count together, which was like chickens talking to "rabbits".

As soon as these words came out, Ding Junjie also smiled helplessly. The Ding family only had the dozens of acres of land that his father had been given to the guard, but he received some silver money every time he harvested, which was really not as good as the Shi family's military merit fields that already had hundreds of acres of land in Jinhua, Quzhou and Jiangxi.

However, this classmate of his is not showing off his wealth, he is like this on weekdays, he can say whatever he wants, Ding Junjie had to shake his head, pointed to the title and said: "You see, the rabbit and the chicken are both in the cage, the rabbit and the chicken have only one head, but the rabbit has four legs, and the chicken only has two legs." This is the difficulty of the problem, but the solution is also here. ”

"I know that Brother Ding will, hurry up and tell me about it."

"Hmm."

Turning out the whiteboard and charcoal, Ding Junjie began to explain the topic: "Now I know, there are a total of thirty-five chickens and rabbits in this cage, I think, if we assume that the rabbit stands up like a chicken and does not lie in the cage, then the thirty-five should have a total of seventy legs, and the legs of the chicken and the hind legs of the rabbit are all counted in it, and there are twenty-four extra legs, aren't they all the front legs of rabbits?" ”

Seeing that the number of heads, the number of legs, and the front legs of the rabbit just got written on the whiteboard successively had twenty-four, Shi Xiaoniu immediately reacted, slapped it on his thigh, and his face was full of sudden realization.

"So that's the case, twelve rabbits, twenty-three chickens, why didn't I think I could lift my legs."

"That's because you don't usually do too little farm work."

Shi Xiaoniu was favored at home, Ding Junjie naturally knew it, and after a joke, he took a cloth to wipe off the carbon characters on the whiteboard, and then put it away. On the contrary, Shi Xiaoniu was not very satisfied with this explanation, and quickly emphasized: "That's what my mother didn't let me do, my mother said that I only need to read good books, and I don't have to worry about anything else." ”

Ignoring things outside the window and only reading the books of sages and sages is the way of a scholar, Chen Wen expressed disagreement in the Boy Scout Academy.

However, how the Shi family educates their children, Ding Junjie has no intention of criticizing, after all, it is a family affair, and the Shi family has always been good to him, every time he goes into the city to give his son something, without exception, he will also give him a copy, this robe has lasted for many years, and even he, a junior, is also very moved.

Unlike Shi Xiaoniu, who has to live in school, Ding Junjie's widowed mother is guarding in the city, and he wants to go home after class. And although there are dozens of acres of military fields, but the widowed mother is always thinking about saving him a dowry, weaving cloth on weekdays, being a female celebrity has to be busy until late, he knows that it is not easy for his mother, and he has long developed the habit of completing homework in the school and going home to help work.

After teaching Shi Xiaoniu, Ding Junjie took out his homework book again and wrote today's homework as usual. However, this time he did not stop, and Shi Xiaoniu's new topic quickly attracted his attention.

"Brother Ding, Mr. said that we will graduate at the end of this year. Your grades are so good on weekdays, Nanjing University Hall should be fine. ”

Nanjing University Hall is a place to teach more advanced knowledge, and it is naturally even more different after graduation. As far as they know, many of their classmates are working hard there, but the results are decisive, and Ding Junjie is naturally more likely to be among them.

However, hearing this, Ding Junjie shook his head, but did not continue to write his homework, but became a little silent. On the contrary, Shi Xiaoniu pulled it up again.

"Brother Ding, if you go there, then our brothers won't see each other for some years. My mother said that I should go to the civil official training class to report, and when the world is peaceful in the future, civil officials will be popular again, and my eldest brother is about to be promoted to the head of the bureau, and the family thinks that it is safer to walk on two legs. ”

Shi Xiaoniu said to himself, but he quickly noticed Ding Junjie's silence, and as his voice became deeper and lower, he stretched his neck and asked Ding Junjie tentatively, "Brother Ding?" ”

The tone of inquiry and concern awakened the silence, Ding Junjie sighed, and then said to Shi Xiaoniu: "Brother Shi, I don't plan to go to Nanjing University Hall. I want to join the army, go into battle to kill the Tartars, and avenge my father! ”

At this point, it is clear to anyone with a discerning eye that the war is likely to be largely over in the next two to three years.

This is obvious, either the northern expedition of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Ming army wiped out the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or the Manchu Qing Dynasty successfully counterattacked and eliminated the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Ming army, the time required for the former can be imagined, and if the latter can really eliminate the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Ming army, then the Yongli court in the southwest is estimated to not be able to bear it for long. As for what loses both, the possibility of the Yongli Imperial Court profiting is really very small, after all, the current confrontations are all heavyweights, and the only person that the Yongli Imperial Court can count on is a famous general like Li Dingguo, and there is really a big gap in hard power.

This is not a secret, the middle and senior officers in the army have long whispered, whether it is Shi Da Niu or An Youfu, who has a close relationship with the Ding family, they know this very well, and even Shi Xiaoniu and Ding Junjie can also know a thing or two from such channels.

"Brother Ding, now that you are in the army, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch up with any battles."

The existence of the system of awarding land for military merits, if there is military merit, there will be land rewards, and if there is no military merit, you can only eat military salaries, and the military fields also have a time limit, compared with the Nanjing University Hall, there is a technocrat to do the worst, and there is really a big gap. Shi Xiaoniu knows the affairs of the Ding family, his second brother was very good to him when he was alive, and he can also empathize with Ding Junjie, but the family sent them to school, isn't it just so that they can glorify their ancestors in the future, no matter what, they always have to find a more promising way to go.

Shi Xiaoniu persuaded hard, but he still couldn't shake Ding Junjie's will. These two teenagers talk about everything on weekdays, but whether in terms of grade or mental maturity, Ding Junjie is greater than Shi Xiaoniu, and it is even more difficult to persuade each other. However, although Shi Xiaoniu is not as good as Ding Junjie in terms of grades, he knows very well that there is someone who can still talk about his big brother Ding, and now he is still a few months away from graduation.

This topic ended without a hitch, and there was no accident in the afternoon class, after class, Ding Junjie ran to the Ningbo snack shop on Dongshi Street before he had time to go home.

This restaurant is the one that Ni Liang Xu often came to and brought Liu Cheng to the shop. Its taste is authentic, and there are many repeat customers in Jinhuafu City, and there is an endless stream of diners every day, so that the shopkeeper of the shop began to regret why he didn't occupy a few more shops in the first place.

The business is booming, and the guys themselves are indispensable, Ding Junjie works here for a short time, and he pays his salary every day, although it is not much, but it is always good to subsidize the family, so that his mother can do less work.

He has been working part-time in this restaurant for a long time, and the shopkeeper, the proprietress and their only daughter are all very familiar with each other. After storing the schoolbag, Ding Junjie picked up a tray with two floating yuan seeds on it, and according to the guidance of the proprietress, he deftly shuttled through the crowd of diners, passed through the narrow aisles of tables and chairs, and came directly to a table on the side of the street.

"Guest officer, your Fu Yuanzi."

When the tray fell off the table, Ding Junjie quickly brought the two bowls of floating yuan to the two men sitting opposite each other, then picked up the tray again, and asked the two: "Just out of the pot, the guest officer is careful to burn, I don't know what else the two guest officers need?" ”

"Let's have a black sesame crisp, the black sesame crisp in this store is the only one in Jinhua."

The first half of the sentence said to Ding Junjie, and the second half of the sentence The man obviously said to his companion. And his companion probably also came, nodded, and then said to Ding Junjie: "Let's have a pine nut cake, and two more pine nut cakes are wrapped and taken away." ”

"Wait, officer."

After answering the words of the two diners, Ding Junjie turned around and went back. The number of diners today is no less than usual, and there is still a lot of work to do, so the pace needs to be accelerated. However, these two diners, although the one who wants to pack and take away is dressed in Han clothes, but the accent is a little weird and a little stiff, at least he has never heard of it here.

Ding Junjie hurried away, but the conversation between the two men was interrupted by the delicacy in front of him, until the man with a strange accent bit a floating yuan and ate it little by little, and the topic just now was reconnected with this delicacy.

"To say that the Chinese are still ingenious, the same ingredients can make a thousand different foods, and they can also achieve their own advantages." In other words, it was my hometown, and I was a junior samurai who didn't have the honor to know what the shoguns and daimyo ate, but most of the other samurai could only buy brown sugar from the Ryukyu from the merchants of the Satsuma Domain, so how could China be so comfortable. ”

Ichiro Ono, who speaks, speaks some stiff Chinese, but the volume can be lowered. He is Japanese, and his ancestors sent Sui envoys, which is also prominent, but that was thousands of years ago. In Japan, it is difficult to say whether he can keep his family crest as a low-level samurai, let alone take the salary of the Ming Army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang like now, go with the sailor several times a year, and live a good life in Zhejiang for the rest of the time.

"Brother still said that the lower-level samurai is not a lower-level samurai, don't forget, you are now a naval officer of our Jiangsu-Zhejiang Wang Division, so don't mention this again."

"What my brother taught me is that it is exactly what it is. Besides, I still plan to become a Chinese citizen in the future, isn't that smooth? ”

Ono Ichiro's desire to become a Han citizen has long been spread by the sailors. However, this is also normal, East Asia in the Ming Dynasty, after entering the Han nationality, its status and situation can be earth-shaking changes, and the surrounding countries can be said to be eager to follow, and there is no shortage of him.

However, in recent years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has swept the world, and those who want to become Han nationality are considered extinct. After all, if the Tartars win the world, the Han people are just slaves and fourth-class people, and instead of dragging a pig's tail, it is better to stay in their hometown, and save that disgust.

"Your advice this time, the king's side is very satisfied, Ryukyu has not been going recently, and the goods on the ship are still close to Japan and Korea, and the markets of the two countries are larger, and they can indeed swallow these goods."

Although Ichiro Ono is a low-ranking samurai, he knows some inside information. Today's politics and economy of the Ryukyus are all shadowed by the Satsuma Domain, which is small and has a small market, but all the goods that have been dumped have been sold, and there is a Satsuma Domain in it.

The Satsuma Domain's control of the Ryukyus was not a day or two, and the tributary trade during the Wanli period could be manipulated, and now the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang took the initiative to dump goods into the Ryukyus, in fact, they were all purchased by the Satsuma Domain, and then changed hands to the Japanese mainland. This second-level agent sells goods from Jiangsu and Zhejiang without greetings, which is really not enough, and after a long time, it will not be good to get the impression of trade with Japan. In Chen Wen's words, it is easy to say anything if you are obedient, and now you are not used to the problems of the Satsuma Domain.

In the first half of the year, Ichiro Ono and Zheng Qi in Ningbo have already run a round, Ryukyu, Japan and North Korea have gone, and a large number of goods have entered the port, in exchange for either real money and silver, or various raw materials.

Not to mention the former, the latter was transported back to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, put into those workshops supported by Chen Wen, and after processing, the price was ten times and a hundred times the price and then sold back. Huge profits are not to be mentioned, and being able to continue to start work, and even continue to expand the scale, is also very beneficial for industrialization.

"I heard that His Royal Highness the King of Yue is planning to move the palace to Nanjing?"

Swallowing the black hemp crisp in his mouth, the man took a sip of soup before answering: "It's not a plan, the Yue Wangfu has already ordered it." In fact, since the recovery of Nanjing last year, the construction of the new Yue Wang's Mansion has been started, but the king's dispatch of troops to Fujian and Guangdong has been delayed. ”

"Oh."

Hearing this answer, Ono Ichiro nodded, and then said: "Then it seems that there will be few opportunities to come to Jinhua, and I have to ask for a few more pine nut cakes to bring." ”

"No, your sailor base is in Ningbo Mansion, and you can't eat this?"

"What you don't know, the taste of this house, I think it's better than the local one in Ningbo. At least none of the ones I've eaten can compare to the pine nut cake here. ”

The world of foodies is incomprehensible to ordinary people, and even the worlds of different foodies are very different. Ono Ichiro's companion didn't say anything, and his mind turned, but he remembered another thing.

"By the way, what is the scale of the workshop in Ningbo?"

Licking his lips greedily, Ono Ichiro put down the spoon that had been lifted, and then said to the companion: "There is no scale of Jinhua, I heard General Zheng say that in addition to the king's support, there are also many handicraft workshops tossed by the local gentry, which seem to be a lot, but the actual output is too different. Of course, they take their own goods, and we don't care. ”

"Sure enough."

The companion nodded, and when he looked again, Ichiro Ono had already put the floating motoko in the spoon into his mouth and was savoring it. Seeing this, he also swallowed his words for the time being, and turned to Fu Yuanzi in the bowl.

The two chatted while eating, and occasionally asked for something else, and it took a long time to be satisfied. Compared to his companions who have been transferred back to the Martial Arts Academy, and are expected to be assigned to the South China Sea Fleet after they come out, Ono Ichiro has come to Jinhua to report on his work, and after his debriefing is completed today, he will return to Ningbo as soon as possible, because the fleet will soon set sail again to sweep away the precious metals and raw materials of Japan and Korea with manufactured products.

This is his most important job today, and it should not be neglected. What's more, at this moment, Ichiro Ono, who is carrying those few mentions of pine nut cakes and burping as he walks, has a great dream waiting to be realized one day.

"It's good to be able to eat so many good things in Japan, or to be Chinese."