In the early morning, the sun in the east sprinkled brilliant sunlight on the earth, and wisps of cooking smoke floated over the entire city of Nanjing, making the air seem to be filled with a light veil of mist. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the morning sun, Chen Ming, who finished a bowl of shaved ice in one go, didn't feel the freshness of the morning at all, and turned a blind eye to Chen Ding, who was salivating beside him. This Nanjing really deserves to be the furnace of the Great T Dynasty in later generations, and it is really hot in summer.

"Your Majesty, the frame is ready." Li Xiaomei's voice came.

"Let's go, go and say hello to my grandmother. And then we're leaving. Chen Ming wiped a handful of sweat oozing from his forehead, he couldn't stay outside this morning. So, it's better to leave early. Although if he entered the house, there was an ice basin and a hair dryer, Chen Ming would never feel the heat. But didn't he just want to take a turn and be a little still. He's been in Nanjing for a year!

Go to Jiangxi and go to Lushan for a turn.

It's just that the old lady really doesn't have the heart to wander around, so she is willing to stay in the palace quietly, and have nothing to do with a few old sisters or children to talk to......

The carriage drove out of the palace gate, and Chen Naruto played checkers with his wife and son in the slightest impermeable royal car. There are only Chen Ming, Li Xiaomei and their children in this tall royal car, and the little girl is still sleeping.

After this royal car, there is also the queen's phoenix. The dragon car and phoenix are at the head, and the bottom is a series of imperial palaces ridden by concubines. Under the protection of 3,000 Praetorian Guards, surrounded by thousands of guards, palace maids, and eunuchs, the mighty team drove to the Xiaguan Wharf.

At this moment, a large number of relatives and dignitaries who accompanied the car had already arrived at the dock, and stood neatly on the left and right according to their status. Countless policemen and soldiers have tightly controlled the entire dock, and a large number of imperial boats on the river are also preparing.

"Ho, I see. This is the style of the Chinese emperor's travels. We were so lucky to have met the Emperor on a trip! ”

On the Yangtze River, on a passenger ship separated by a guard ship, Georg from Munich pointed to the flag, and the crowded Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf greeted Ekdal loudly. Next to him stood Kubière from London, and these three men were on a passenger ship bound for Wuhan from Shanghai, and the goal of the three men was of course not Wuhan, but to come to Nanjing to take the Chinese language test in five days.

In China, which has just 'opened up', the 'special level' level of Chinese language test is already a very rare level. There are only higher exams in Shanghai, and if you want to take the special Chinese test and the best specialization to the next level, you need people to come to Nanjing.

Georg and Ekdal are teachers in the same school, and the relationship is naturally very good, but Kubier is an external teacher at Shanghai Maritime College, and Georg's secondary Chinese exam was done with Kubier before and after. Through the 'bridge' of Georg, Ekdal and Kubière can be regarded as acquaintances.

"Spectacular trip. The grandeur of the Duke of Bavaria is compared to that of the Chinese emperor as a schoolboy compared to a university professor. "Georg's personality was somewhat unexpected by Ekdal, he was very enthusiastic and very talkative, and he felt less like a German than an Italian or a Spaniard.

Although he had not been in China for a long time, Ekdal, who was already very familiar with Georg, directly rolled his eyes at his words to express his disdain. "The Duchy of Bavaria is only a small country in the Holy Empire, while China has been the dominant country in the Eastern world for thousands of years. There's no contrast between the two, right? ”

Ekdal has been in China for a while, and it was a month in quarantine where they also had newspapers to read. Ekdal still remembers his shock when he saw the newspaper that China has a population of 20,000.

Ekdal has imagined China to be strong enough. But in fact, China is far more powerful than he imagined.

What is the concept of 20,000 people? In particular, at least 98 per cent of the 20,000 people are from the same ethnic group. It's completely incredible.

If the Swedes have a population of 200 million, it will not be that they have been humiliated by Tsarist Russia again and again, but that Sweden will easily flatten the Slavs.

But what really is true. When they learned that the news was indeed true, the people of Ekdal were stunned. He could not imagine a nation whose population could be larger than that of all of Europe. But what he can be sure of is that a country with such a great nation as the main nation must be a great and powerful country.

In the days that followed, Ekdal suddenly became interested in Chinese history books. And he also caught up with the good time, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Education, a large number of historical books have been interpreted into vernacular, which have been published and printed.

Ekdal has not read all the history books until now, but he has been overwhelmed by the long tradition of Chinese historiography, and by the Chinese nation. Sweden, no, the whole of Europe. It's all too bad to do that.

In Ekdal's view, the Han Chinese people, like the Roman Empire of its time, were unrivaled in a regional context.

Then the incredible Romans, who were also powerful in Europe, finally decayed, and the city of Rome, with black hair and black eyes, became the now blonde Italians. The Chinese, who had also experienced the trampling of the barbarians in the north, stubbornly persevered in the relatively barbaric areas south of the Yangtze River at that time. And ushered in a new bloom!

The strength of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the prosperity and decline of the two Song dynasties, the economic prosperity and the humiliation of dignity, the invasion of the powerful nation of Mongolia, and the pride of the sun and the moon reopening the Great Song Dynasty!

Although the two powerful monarchs who dominated the Ming Empire were absolute tyrants in Ekdal's eyes, one person who founded a dynasty as a commoner made Ekdal truly realize what it means to be a 'prince and a prince?' The other went to Mongolia five times and the West seven times. It is known that China, which is almost defined as a continental nation in Europe, once stood above Europe on the ocean.

Although the great rout at the end of the Ming Dynasty was so incredible in the eyes of Ekdal, the Chinese were completely defeated by the Chinese themselves. After more than a hundred years of humiliating rule by the Tatars, the current Chen Han Dynasty once again overthrew the alien race sitting on top of its head......

This nation is incredibly resilient and cohesive.

This time, the Chinese emperor can also use his life experience to preach to the entire Western world what a prince and general Xiangning is. Although he is not really destitute like Zhu Yuanzhang, the enemy he faces is also a Tatar dynasty that has entered its heyday, not the smoke that rose everywhere at the end of the Yuan Dynasty!

It is certainly admirable that a nation has always been strong; But a nation that can get up again and again after falling again and again, and then stand again and again to the top of the world, is even more terrifying.

"To understand a nation, you must first understand its history." This statement is really true. Just to learn the Chinese language and writing, it is too shallow for the country of China and the Han nationality.

Ekdal didn't know how long he would be in China, and he was now more curious and fond of the country than he liked the Orient or anything about the country. He only came here because he could give his family a better life, just like many Chinese people in later generations went to Lao Mei, do they really love Lao Mei? It is not excluded that there are really some fools who use Lady Liberty as a lighthouse, but it is more for a better life and a rich life. This is the case with Ekdal. Even if you are eager to delve into the understanding of Chinese history, in addition to satisfying your curiosity, there is no plan to survive after returning to Sweden.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't know that a certain passenger ship in the distance was carrying three external teachers from Shanghai universities, and the Chinese proficiency of these three people had all reached the special level of Chinese.

After getting on the boat, he immediately changed out of his uniform, of course, he will no longer accompany his wife and children to play checkers, now Chen Ding is leading his sister to marbles, and Li Xiaomei is reluctant to leave the two babies.

The mighty river breeze sandwiched the coolness of the ice basin, and the inside and outside of the ship were two completely different worlds, and Chen Ming also needed to turn his resting brain again.

He was not thinking about the ongoing fighting in the North-West, North-East and Baikal, but about the economic fluctuations after the downward adjustment of the banknotes in the previous period. There is also the immigration work of the four northern provinces to the northeast!

There are still aftermaths of the former, and the 20 percent reduction in the exchange adjustment at once is very fatal, either in the ordinary market economy, or in foreign trade. But all opposition was suppressed by the imperial power. For the latter, the Cabinet has made very good preparations. But it's very difficult to say about immigration, and now it's not a bad life under Chen Han's rule, although the conditions given by immigrants to the Northeast are very preferential - regardless of men, women, and children, each person goes to five acres of land, and one acre of land has a paper bill of 40 yuan, and you can choose to repay the year in installments, which is the mortgage of the 21st century. The longest is twenty years!

Of course, this can tempt many poor people to go to the Northeast, and there are not many people in history who have broken into the Kanto region? But it is also very difficult to gather 100,000 households in a short period of time. Even if there are five people in a household, 500,000 people go to the Northeast? Natural migration is not so fast.

Moreover, some old and young people fell ill or even died on the way to immigration, and as a result, a lot of trouble happened.

Although the newspaper gave control, a lot of news was still spreading, and the speed also made Chen Ming obviously feel that someone was stirring up trouble.

The old opponent at the sticky pole, following the assassination of Li Yu, once again flooded his mind.

Chen Ming can express his understanding of these things, even if he punishes some officials who mishandled them and local responsible personnel for national security, there is no one who will never be able to turn over.

This stuff takes time to grind.

It's just that Chen Ming was a little surprised that there are more and more landlords who take 'hired workers' instead of tenants in this world. In particular, the small landlords in the south of the Yangtze River, according to the materials collected by the local government, this figure is much higher than that of the previous cabinet and the others.

"Your Majesty, the number of acres of cultivated land in the Jiangnan region that is still engaged in rice and grain cultivation is seriously declining. In the past few years, the price of grain has been getting lower and lower year by year, and the rice transported back from Nanyang, Siam, and Annam has had a great impact on the grain price of our DPRK.

Many landlords in the south of the Yangtze River began to plant cotton and mulberry instead of growing grain.

The latter two require much less labor than rice cultivation, and the profits are much higher. The assets of those small landlords are not large, and it is difficult to resist such temptations. Wang Huizu shook his head as he spoke, he was not sighing at the small landlords in Jiangnan, but he was embarrassed.

Since the change of dynasty, his Wang family has become a famous family in Shaoxing. Although Wang Huizu himself has no blood brothers, there are many other members of the Wang family, and then Wang Huizu's light, even if he did not do anything illegal and undisciplined, he has more or less made a fortune. But the current reputation of the Wang family in Shaoxing is quite bad, because the Wang family has left the farm one by one, and they do not pity the villagers at all.

The Wang family pooled their fields, planted mulberry trees and cotton, and set up oil mills and winemaking workshops.

Shaoxing's Huadiao wine, that is, daughter red, is the top-notch famous wine among rice wines. There are many local breweries in Shaoxing, but there are few that can withstand the impact of changing dynasties. The vast majority were abandoned in the war. Among them, many famous workshops have the background of Manchu eunuchs, but after the change of dynasty, they became Hades stickers.

The Wang family took the opportunity to take Wang Huizu's savings and the money borrowed by Wang Huizu with his face, bought more wineries, and hired a number of masters who were unemployed at home. With a famous master at the helm, and a good spring in the wine cellar for hundreds of years, the Wang family's brewing workshop is not developed.

Moreover, after the "Patent Act" came out, the Wang family immediately applied for the two trademarks of "daughter red" and "Huadiao", which can be regarded as a disgusting Shaoxing liquor store. In the end, the Wang family did not do anything and 'sold' the right to use it to their peers in Shaoxing, but they not only did not spend money, but also made a fortune in vain. All these things were spread so loudly that they were almost stabbed in the newspapers.

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The passenger ship that Ekdar was on was 'quarantined' outside the dock for a whole morning, and there was no way, this was the majesty of the Chinese emperor. It wasn't until the last imperial ship left the Shimonoseki pier that the passenger boat they were on docked ashore.

"The Chinese emperor is too domineering and really treats everyone as if they are servants. No matter how strong such a country is, if it does not have a trace of free air, I will not like it here. ”

Ekdal was surprised to find out that Kubière was still a freedom fighter!

Georg said to Ecdal, "He is a disciple of Montesquieu!" ”

With Georg, who often comes to Nanjing, leading the way, the three of them rode very much in a horse-drawn carriage and soon found a hotel very close to the test center. Medium and lower, of course not expensive!

"It's a bit of a bad environment here." Finding that there was only a square table of eight immortals in the room, Ekdar, who had put his luggage away, complained to Kubière. The income of the three of them was enough to live in a medium-grade hotel, and the current situation was beyond his expectations.

"There is no way. The money in our friends' hands is going to be spent somewhere else. So the hotel you live in can only be rudimentary. ”

"Another place?" Ekdal was puzzled.

"Qinhuai River." Kubière looked at Ekdar, who opened his mouth wide and shrugged his shoulders pleasantly. "You see, the people of this place have a ...... for all alien races Discrimination born from the bones. If he wanted to have a pleasant night with the girl on the Qinhuai River, Georg would have to pay at least twice the price. ”

Kubière and Georg have not known each other once or twice, and he knows that the Munich who brought the family to China has a merry heart. And he never went to the port, but liked to come to the Qinhuai River in Nanjing. This was an obscure word, and Coubier can now say it proficiently. He didn't understand what kind of 'cultural vibe' that kind of place could have!

"Let's go. Let me take you to something delicious. The catering industry here is more developed than in Shanghai. There's even an authentic French restaurant in Shokan Street. But I think Wuxi food is more delicious, especially the meat and bones. "Coupier, who came from a dark culinary world, can see that he likes Chinese food very much, but he doesn't know how he uses chopsticks.

"We need to wait a minute, Georg."

"No, we don't have to wait for him. He doesn't like to eat Chinese food, whether it's the sweet Wuxi cuisine, or the super spicy Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, he doesn't like to eat it. Chinese food: He only eats sausages and braised pork......"

"Like someone doesn't necessarily like everything about her! Isn't it? ”

"It's really hard to be inclusive." Ekdar shrugged. It's not a contradiction, he likes China, but he definitely doesn't like Chinese baijiu. (To be continued.) )