"Crackling, crackling............" Early in the morning, the deafening sound of firecrackers sounded in Nanjing, one after another. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info also pulled Chen Ming out of his sleep.

I glanced at the sky outside, and it was already white. Looking at Li Xiaomei lying in his arms again, Chen Ming carefully pulled out his arm. Li Xiaomei didn't wake up, the battle last night was too intense. There was hot water prepared next to the bedroom, and I jumped into the big wooden barrel and soaked it for a quarter of an hour, and then I jumped out.

Taking a bath in the morning is generally not a habit for Chinese, but it does help to promote more vigorous blood circulation, and the feeling of cleanliness itself can adjust the mood and make the spirit more full. Chen Ming didn't have this condition in his previous life, nor did he have this time, but now he has it. Is everything prepared by the people below, if Chen Ming is willing, he even needs to lie down on the water conservancy, rub his back and rub his shoulders and rub his body, and there will be a queue of beautiful women to do it for him.

Chen Ming returned to Nanjing five days ago, he took the Guards Brigade from Tianjin to Caofeidian, and then the Guards Brigade left two regiments to defend Caofeidian, which can be regarded as a point to balance the Qing army in Beitang, which can attack Beitang from the flank and threaten the army from the flank, while the others followed Chen Ming back to Nanjing.

Now that five days have passed, the smell of the New Year in Nanjing is getting stronger and stronger.

A simple breakfast was placed in front of Chen Ming, along with a thick stack of newspapers, and on top was the "Central Plains Daily".

Chen Han moved the capital, and the Central Plains Daily also moved. Chen Han did not create a new national newspaper from scratch, and in Nanjing, a place where there is no talk of the Central Plains, the "Central Plains Daily" continued its career as the first official mouthpiece.

The opening headline is nothing else, but it is the recent noisy and well-known division of military cooperatives, and the 'Great Division' has finally arrived.

Chen Ming's eyes swept over the word Fangzheng, and there was no expression on his face, because he had already expected this scene at the beginning of the establishment of the military cooperative. Just thinking of the news from the national security, the quarrels at the big meeting are really sad.

Of course, this cannot be said that the comradeship-in-arms between military personnel is just as fragile in the face of vital economic interests. It can only be said that after several years of continuous losses, the patience of the soldiers has reached the extreme. So when the autumn harvest season ended, a tide set off, and then it unstoppably broke the embankment called 'comradeship'.

Brother, do you settle the account?

The matter was very big, and fortunately, when Chen Ming fought in Beijing and Tianjin, there was Qianlong's braid, and the continuous blockbuster news grabbed the headlines, which has not been on the front page of major newspapers. Otherwise, the image of the military will be somewhat hit.

From the quarrel at the beginning, to the tearing war at the end. When all the contradictions have completely erupted, the result of waiting for the military cooperatives can only be separation. From a behemoth covering half of China to an independent economy limited by provinces, ordinary people may only see glittering money from the newspaper revelations, but in the eyes of another group of big businessmen, it is scratching their heads. This range also includes those foreigners!

The latter attaches more importance to the newspaper revelations than to local Chinese businessmen, because it is an important source of information for estimating China's economy and income level.

In addition to "Zhongyuan Daily", there were more than a dozen other newspapers in Chen Ming's hands, all of which were of various types, and even two were tabloids related to football and horse betting. The latter has rough paper, poor printing quality, and is cheaper to a copper portion. Copper points are a new small metal currency added by the Fu Han army, the Fu Han army canceled the silver points, changed to copper horns, a copper horn is a silver cent, ten copper horns top a silver horn, ten copper points into one copper horn.

Although Chen Ming was very pleased to see that football and horse racing had taken root in Nanjing in just over a year, and he was also very happy to see the development of the newspaper industry, he was very clear about the harm of tabloids, and he had urged the government to promulgate a "Press Law" with corresponding rules and regulations for newspapers and newspapers. There is no need for a 'free press' in this era!

Reading the newspaper while eating in the morning, Chen Ming seems to have developed a very bad habit. But he really didn't have time to read the newspaper leisurely after dinner. Riding in a carriage, dozens of guards on both sides arrived from the Prince's Mansion to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in a few minutes.

"Your Highness, Britain, France, Prussia, and Austria have all forwarded requests for the formal establishment of consulates."

"What did Father say?"

"It's too early for the king to say, it's better to postpone it for another year."

As soon as Chen Ming sat down in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Wang Huizu came in with a stack of thick documents, obviously to report countless things. In fact, as the long history of Chen Ming staying in the Dadu Governor's Mansion after the expedition, the most important link in Wang Huizu's eyes is Chen Hui's health. He showed up so early today because he had just received a secret report half an hour ago.

"My dad passed out? Or is it in the concubine's bed? Chen Ming's face was very exciting, very exciting.

"Your Highness, the news is true."

"But the letter from my mother?"

"It's not the queen's mother, it's Zhao Erxi's line. The minister has sent someone to contact the queen. No matter how good Wang Huizu is, the corners of his mouth can't help but smile at this time.

And Chen Ming's feelings at this time were very complicated. On the one hand, what is that, but on the other hand, he wants Chen Huijian to occupy a healthy position. Otherwise, when it was his turn to sit on the dragon chair, how could he easily lead the troops into battle?

There is nothing to say about the allure of imperial power, but the battlefield is also Chen Ming's love. Commanding thousands of troops and horses, rampaging the world, what a pleasant thing is that?

The tree flew into ashes and was annihilated, and the enemy chieftain fled in a hurry.

Counting the age of his previous life, plus the time traveled at this moment, Chen Ming is only in his thirties. How much less does war tempt men than the imperial power that is in the bag?

Compared with the founding emperor, there is nothing wrong with being a 'Tang Taizong'.

But he must also admit that if Chen Hui's health is really bad, Chen Ming's own status will become more and more solid. And his psychological side is also faintly pitying Chen Hui, Chen Ming doesn't know when it started, Chen Hui and Gao's relationship has reached the point of respecting each other. Being treated like this by his wife and 'children', why is Chen Hui not a pitiful person?

This is the heavenly family without father and son.

"What about Chen Gang?"

"Master Chen and Peng Zhongrui are more closely connected. It's just that the opposition between these two and Neo-Confucianism is becoming more and more acute. "Wang Huizu used to be worried about Chen Gang's identity, but as a result, this Chen family uncle cut off his future and did not mix with the promising 'new Confucian', although the latter probably didn't take him to play with him at all, Shen Guozhen is Chen Ming's hardcore, but he has to stand in the pit of the old Confucianism with Peng Zhongrui, then it is inevitable that he will be buried little by little by the times.

After Wang Huizu stepped back, Chen Ming sat in his position for a long time, and in the end, the complex emotions in his heart turned into a long exhale......

On this day, everything was as usual, Chen Ming spent half a day in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and in the afternoon he took a trip to Chengjun Public School. His baby son is four years old and should be enrolled in school in two years. For this No. 1 aristocratic school in China, Chen Ming is very concerned. Of course, it's also to distract yourself.

The school is a 'paradise', and you are indispensable to fight for me, but compared to the outside, it is gentle like a spring girl. Besides, Sungkyun Public School is still just an elementary school.

As soon as he walked into the school, Chen Ming heard the laughter of the children. Now there are only three grades in Sungkyun Public School, and the third grade is still empty.

There are a considerable number of foreign teachers in Sungkyun Public School, and while they are handing over students' foreign languages, they are also doing their best to learn Chinese, because the Chinese level 4 exam can bring them additional salary bonuses after passing each level. These teachers have a strong desire to learn Chinese.

Of course, the playground is the place where children can enjoy the most. The third class of the first grade is taking physical education class in the large playground.

Chen Ming can see several acquaintances from it, such as Chen Jiqing's son, such as Su Luhou's grandson, and Chen Gang's son.

As an aristocratic school, morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor are the basic positioning of the teaching purpose. It would be a shame for the school to have a nerd born in Sungkyun Public School, and nature and sports seem to be more prominent than traditional knowledge transfers. The former broadens the students' horizons, while the latter exercises the students' physique and will.

Listening to the laughter of children is indeed a great way to dissipate your inner troubles. It's just that Chen Han now only has such a Chengjun public school, and in the local states and counties, many public schools in the state and county are not fully matched, and even if there are teachers, few students go to study. In the eyes of many people, the Jinshi department, which has the highest gold content in the imperial examination, still relies on the 'Four Books and Five Classics'!

Chen Ming was not in a hurry. This is a little bit of a change. Moreover, the number of qualified 'teachers' in their hands is also worrying, although all provinces have established teacher training colleges, it is still too early to wait for qualified students to leave the school.

Just when Chen Ming, who was brisk and brisk, was wandering around Chengjun Public School, at the same time, he was in a small street shop outside the dock in Xiaguan.

Two young people in the younger grades sat opposite each other, with only two ordinary dishes, one cold and one hot, and a bowl of rice on the table. There is a teapot and two water cups on the side.

"Shen Yuan, do you really want to go to Sichuan to work? The current situation there is still unclear, although the first division is overwhelming, it still has to take care of Yunnan, in case of twists and turns in the war, it is a public officer like you who suffers. ”

Huang Dingyou felt that his classmates were too rash. Even if his family is in difficulty, he shouldn't easily go to Sichuan. If you can't persevere when you go to Sichuan and give up halfway, it is equivalent to having a big stain on your body, and it will be difficult to have a bright future.

Shen Yuan is not yet satisfied at the age of eighteen, he put down his chopsticks, his face is bitter, if there is another way to go, how can he be willing to risk going to Sichuan? But his father fell ill in the first half of the year, and the family's belongings were sold out in order to buy medicine for his father's medical treatment. And his mother can't get up in bed because of grief, and his younger siblings are not very old, if he, the eldest son, can't pick up the pillar of the family, it will be in vain as a son of man.

"Dingyou, I really can't open the pot at home. My mother is frail, and I have a pair of younger siblings, and as the eldest son and eldest brother, I must support this family. "It's dangerous to work in Sichuan, but the salary is also good, and the inclusion conditions are low.

"The salary of the civil servants in the provinces of the war zone is already one level higher than that in other places, and the salaries of the government's expatriate work teams, such as mobile courts, are one level higher than those of the public servants staying in the cities, and with subsidies and allowances, I can get fifteen silver dollars a month, so that the family can not only have food expenses, but also save a sum of money. After a few months, when my family's economy improves, I will ask for a salary. After a few years of hard work, my Shen family will be able to stand up again. ”

Shen Yuan calculated the material allowance he could get to his classmates in addition to silver dollars a month. Including two pairs of shoes, 20 catties of rice, 5 catties of oil, 2 catties of sugar, 10 catties of fruit, 5 feet of cloth, 5 catties of eggs or five fish, all together can be worth more than a silver dollar! The oil, rice, eggs, fruits, candy or something, just to replenish his mother's siblings.

Small households, these in-kind subsidies are taken home to supplement the family, and a lot of money can be left for the family every month!

"But I've heard that you have to study at a political and law school for a few months before you go to the countryside!?"

"There's such a thing. Our group of people are all studying in Wuhan. During the study period, I ate and lived in the school every day, and I had a day off every ten days, and the treatment remained the same. Shen Yuan said that he felt very relieved here. But Huang Dingyou sneered, "You kid really got into the eyes of money." Although the food and housing treatment in the school is first-class, the system is strict, and everything is based on the discipline of the army. Every morning at 6 o'clock, I have to get up to run and exercise, and run three laps around the school field. Then there was the morning reading, and at seven o'clock, the whole school had dinner on time. Classes start at eight o'clock punctually. ”

Why does Huang Dingyou know so clearly? That's because one of his cousins was admitted to the School of Political Science, and instead of going to the central campus in Lushan, he was assigned to the branch in Wuhan.

"The books we learn every day are not like classics. Nowadays, the imperial court is still miscellaneous, and the teaching of the School of Political Science is based on this, which is said to expand students' knowledge and broaden their horizons. I have never heard anyone mention it in terms of law, but I think it is indispensable to read that thick tome, as well as mock teaching and classroom practice. "Huang Dingyou said these words not to show off his 'well-informed', but to give Shen Yuan a wake-up call.

Hearing Huang Dingyou talk about the course, the expression on Shen Yuan's face was bitter. Chen Han's rules and regulations, it doesn't mean that if you sign up for the school, everything will be fine. During the study period of three months to half a year, the monthly exam is a ghost gate. If you can't get out of school after six months, you can only be demoted or expelled.

Of course, although Shen Yuan's face was very bitter, he had extremely resolute confidence in his heart. He doesn't want to be dismissed, he won't be dismissed! They will not be kicked out of the school directly and filled in the organs under the jurisdiction of the local government, so as to be the bottom grassroots of the real future.

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In the palace of the Han king.

Chen Hui, who was only wearing a Chinese coat, endured the fishy smell and drank the deer blood in the jade bowl. As a treasure since ancient times, the taste is only a trivial aspect of deer blood, and what matters is its efficacy. There are no red deer in the south, only sika deer, in order to ensure the supply of Chen Hui's drinking deer blood, a deer park has been built outside Nanjing.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......" Chen Hui coughed, picked up a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth. His face was a little hesitant, but the illness that soon 'coughed' made him close his eyes, and finally made up his mind: "Spread the decree, I am not in good health, and I will make a big sacrifice on the front day, and the prince will sacrifice to the ancestors and ancestors." ”

............As soon as he said a few words, an unbearable itch rose from his throat, and Chen Hui coughed violently again. (To be continued.) )