"Stupid Spain, stupid Madrid, stupid Carlos IV, pigs are all smarter than them......"

Newton, who had decided to die in China, was lying on his desk and writing down his diary, he was already very old, he was over 70 years old, and he had become accustomed to everything in China after nearly 30 years in China, and he was unwilling to return to the 'strange' society in England.

Although the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, where he once worked (this is a university in Scotland, not England, there are two universities in England, Oxford and Cambridge), they are willing to welcome his return with a very high salary, and even the British royal family and cabinet sincerely welcome his return.

——Newton was by the side of the Chinese emperor for so many years, and he also educated His Royal Highness King Yu of China, and served as the personal teacher of the Chinese imperial family, he not only had inextricable connections with the Chinese imperial family and the high-level, but also truly understood Chinese politics and understood His Majesty the great emperor of China. This is a valuable asset for the Kingdom of Great Britain in China, and for all of Europe.

But Newton just didn't want to go back, he didn't care about Great Britain anymore. He only allowed his notes, his own biographies and perceptions of China, his research on China's present and history, etc., and only allowed his countless manuscripts to return to England on a sailing ship.

Newton, who is in his seventies, still maintains a good habit of keeping a diary, and the diary he has written over the years has now become an important basis for senior officials of the British Central Cabinet to study China's politics, economy, culture and other aspects.

It was precisely because of his thorough understanding of China, a huge country, that Newton hated Spain's 'rashness' so much. For Spain is indeed an ally of the British.

The British will be punished for this.

Compared with the day the news came, now more than a month has passed, and more detailed information has been sent to Chen Ming's hands, and it is also well known to the general public. At the same time, His Majesty the Emperor's small adjustments to India are also known to many, many people. Everyone knows that the British are really innocent in this matter, they are innocent, but this is useless.

The reason why rumors spread a month ago can only be blamed for the fact that this news so coincidentally bumped into Robert' and his party, and with Newton's understanding of Emperor Chen, China would definitely make trouble in India. And so it is. And the root of all this, Newton did not blame the British, but the Spaniards.

In Newton's mind, the Kingdom of Spain was just a second-rate country in Europe, and it had no capital to compete with the current Han Empire, even after they had been in business for more than 200 years, and Chen Han had just set foot in the Americas for more than ten years.

But their rashness made the British have to pay for it. Newton didn't know how many times he scolded Madrid!

"A bunch of pigs!"

The tip of the quill in Newton's hand kept running across the paper, making a rustling sound. He wants to use his pen to satirize the stupid Madridians, the stupid Bourbons.

After living for such a long time, Newton had not seen a stupid person, but it was the first time he had seen such a stupid fool, and a chick had to challenge the eagle. Of course, Robert is also a big fool, so he shouldn't come to Nanjing.

John Shaw, the Anglo-Indian governor, did not know the temper of the Chinese emperor, nor did Robert? He has been dealing with China for 20 years. The Chinese emperor was not bad-tempered, but he would never see anyone playing rogue with him. If anyone is unreasonable to him, he will be even more unreasonable to him.

China has the capital to support him in doing so. Even if the one who provoked him was the Kingdom of Great Britain, the number one power in the Western world.

"Grandpa, it's three o'clock, it's time for us to go to the playground......"

Outside the study, the voice of a clear boy whose Chinese name is Niu Pu, a Portuguese and an orphan, sounded outside the study. His father was one of the Portuguese who chose to stay in China, and his mother was a slave girl from the Ottomans, a Russian to be exact.

His father, who followed the customs of the country, supported his mother, but unfortunately, his father, who believed in one god, still did not dare to break through the 'obstruction' and took his mother as a concubine.

The boy's mother died eight years ago, and the boy's father died three years ago. Before his death, this Chinese-Portuguese ancestor, who also had some friendship with Newton, sent his illegitimate son, who was only 12 years old, to Newton.

Newton, who was really lonely, thought twice about it, officially adopted the twelve-year-old child, and named him Niu Pu.

Pu, in Chinese, refers to uncarved jade, or to a stone containing jade.

Newton wanted the child he adopted to be an unpolished piece of jade. At the same time, the pronunciation of this character is also 'Portuguese'.

Newton, whose heart was full of anger against Spain, heard the crisp, cheerful voice of his grandson outside the door, and the clouds turned clear in an instant. The cheerful voice was like a dark cloud that spread across the sky, allowing the sunlight in the sky to shine instantly on every inch of Newton's heart.

People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless?

Newton has been alone for more than twenty years, and now he has a child under his name, although it is not really blood, but it has also made him pour a lot of affection.

"Okay, Dias." Newton looked at the table clock, and it was really time to have to go, and there was no need to go to the playground any later.

Newton immediately stopped writing, "I don't have time to speak of my anger against the Spaniards anymore because I have to go to the playground with my lovely grandson, but I will continue to write it tomorrow." Stupid Spaniards, my anger against them is far from exhausted. ”

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China in the tenth month of the lunar calendar has officially entered the early winter, and even in the Jiangnan region, as the temperature drops, the wild is a bleak scene. The land of Qilu on the Shandong Peninsula is even more deciduous, and everything is withering.

However, in Yantai Port, the market is still lively.

The development has not been long, and Yantai's fame and prosperity have been comparable to Jinan.

As one of the two most important foreign ports in Shandong, Yantai has a population of more than 200,000, and the increasing population has led to a sharp increase in consumption here every day. Every day, villagers from all over the country bring their own goods and commodities to the large and small markets in Yantai to sell, and then buy some things they need to take back: it may be thick cotton cloth, or it may be metal utensils, meat, wine, or salted fish, whale meat, kelp, seaweed, etc.

Huang Youtian sat in a corner of the market, and in the morning he had already sold three pots, and at the same time sharpened kitchen knives and shovels for five people. In addition, some small knick-knacks such as sesame gardens, peanut candy, and whale jerky contained in canvas pockets were also sold. It is conservatively estimated that his income this morning is at least more than three yuan, which should be satisfactory.

But it's in the city market after all!

Now it's a bazaar, and there is a caretaker, and it's a day's expense of five dimes. Huang Youtian sighed and leaned against a pot behind him. The flow of people in the bazaar is concentrated, whose pot is broken, the knife is blunt, and what is missing will come here to find a way, Huang Youtian made a living by mending pots in his early years, and finally saved some money to start a business of buying pots, which seems to be a lot more decent than the pot tinker, but this money really earns no more than the pot tinker.

Although tinkers have to work harder, when business is bleak, they often have to travel long distances to many villages before they meet a single customer.

But the cost of the tinker is small.

That's like buying a pot, all the capital is smashed.

Huang Youtian once again felt regretful.

He didn't regret that he had started the business of buying pots, but he regretted why he didn't kick on the door of that house with a cheeky face. After Zhang Jin became a professional kid, he became the chief of the police station in the town, and his family had a good life.

Except for the little sister who was not blessed, in the year he left that price, I didn't know what he was eating, he was poisoned, vomited and diarrhea, and had no money to treat her at that time, so he watched her die. And that Zhang Laifu is also a small business, but he bought a shop in the town, the wind can't blow, the rain can't hit, and no one goes to trouble him and bully him. Now that his son has given birth to a big fat grandson, he doesn't know how comfortable his life is.

After Huang Youtian established himself in Yantai, he returned to his hometown several times and walked outside the door, but he just put down his things and did not enter the door of Zhang's house. Although it wasn't his home, the people in it were his real brothers.

Half-brother.

Zhang Laisheng was bold enough to follow the court early, although he did not become an official, but now he is the chief of the police department in the town, which is also a glorious ancestor. The Zhang family also trembled.

The brothers are living a good life, with children and daughters, and they both have grandchildren.

Unlike him Huang Laohan, he is fifty years old, and he is sixty years old, and his son is less than twenty, let alone a good daughter-in-law.

He left the Zhang family back then, firstly because his surname was Huang, and his stepfather was not too aggrieved to him, but he couldn't kiss him; The second is because the family has no money to tell him that his daughter-in-law is really poor.

But Huang Youtian was almost twenty-five when he married his daughter-in-law. And finally married a daughter-in-law, finally had a son, and was brought to disaster by the Tartars, and the real stability is in the thirties, and the current court has conquered the whole country.

Huang Youtian has no nostalgia for the Manchu Qing Dynasty at all, not to mention the family feud, but only to say that the current life is much better than the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Although his business is very hard, he can't wait to catch the market every day, and he doesn't stop when it rains, snows, and winds. But Huang Youtian's hard work has really paid for success, he has made money.

In Chen Han, as long as you work hard, not to mention making a fortune, at least you don't have to go hungry. In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, even if you worked hard all day and night, you still couldn't even fill your stomach.

Huang Youtian was a hard-working person when he was young, and his current life is not as good as Zhang Jinlai or Zhang Laifu, but he is really much stronger than the original Zhang family.

He is still working hard, not because his family does not have overnight food, but because his son is in college.

Yes, it's not a junior college, it's not a college, it's a real university, Hallym Academy. That's a lot of money.

And except for his son's accident that he is a little unfamiliar with Huang Laohan in the matter of taking the test for fame and becoming an official, in other aspects, his son really has no choice.

It's just that his son is just a sophomore this year, and he is three years younger than he is graduating. But the future of their family is bright, and everyone can see it.

At present, the 'gold content' of China's higher education population is depreciating a little, but it also depends on which institution it is. Is Hallymin University a general university? Where did someone come from, even if he was a pure nerd, he could find a place in a school, a publishing house, or a newspaper.

It's just that Huang Youtian can't deny that the good life of itinerant hawkers like them who go from village to village is really over, and it is becoming more and more difficult to do business. Now in the Yantai area, there are more and more small shops in the village, and they sell everything.

From needles and threads, to pots and pans, farm tools, plus snacks and candies, there are all of them, and they are getting more and more complete. The living space of itinerant traders like them is becoming more and more compressed.

Moreover, the management of large and small markets in the urban area of Yantai, which has a larger population, is becoming more and more strict, and even when you go to the village, you have to pay a venue fee. Huang Youtian belongs to the category of 'department stores', which is a step higher than the management fee of vegetables and fruits, just like the market in front of him, jumping from two corners to five corners at once.

As for the fixed stalls in the market, Huang Youtian was reluctant to lease them, and always felt that the risk was too great.

Of course, in the inland areas of Shandong, small traders like Huang Youtian still have a lot of room for survival, but Huang Youtian's home is in Yantai, and if he can persevere, he is not willing to learn from his stepfather.

As a last resort, in order to increase his income and fully explore his advantages in all directions, Huang Youtian also engaged in the trading of small traders such as sesame orchards, peanut candy, and whale jerky. These things are not heavy, so his income is a little bit more. But this does not change the overall situation of the river, or the good times will not be too long, and it will become worse day by day.

As an emerging seaport city, Yantai has more and more goods circulating here, not only from outside, but also from abroad, which can be said to be a large collection market. Although the city was built in a short time, the commercial economy is really developed.

It is said that in the interior of Shandong, some places along the banks of the Daqing River and the canal, those traditional essence areas of Shandong, the current countryside is not as good as Yantai. On that day, countless small traders and vendors like Huang Youtian carried flat poles and baskets into the village, and then placed them along both sides of the road.

The old business order in the inland areas is gradually beginning to disintegrate, and a new business model is gradually beginning to take shape.

However, this new business model is about to be phased out in Yantai.

Huang Youtian believes that sooner or later, haberdashery stores will appear in those villages, and then this golden age of small traders and hawkers will be gone forever.

Chen Ming worries about those things, Huang Youtian and other ordinary people really don't care much, many people don't know that the war between China and Spain has started again, and they don't know that the Spanish Navy took the initiative to intercept the Chinese fleet a few months ago.

That's what a huge country is.

The focus of the middle and upper classes is completely different from that of the lower classes, and the perspectives of urban dwellers and rural peasants are completely different.

If you want to mobilize a country in the real sense, in the current era, it is really difficult and difficult.