After a day in Junzi Port, Huang Zongxi said goodbye to Chen Zilong with a heavy heart, and left some money for Chen Zilong before leaving. Niu Yu admired this very much, Huang Zongxi said that his friends have the friendship of wealth, but he really practiced it.

Then they went to Xinxiang, the city has not continued to expand, and the steel smelting and other industries have been relocated, but it is still one of the most important cities in China, because the shipbuilding industry and various research institutes are still here, and the city is still prosperous. And here, Niu Yu and the ministers saw the electric light for the first time, when night fell, on the street against the sea, ten thousand lights were bright, looking like a string of night pearls, reflected in the blue waves of the sea, decorated with the beautiful scenery that the candle chalk of the Great Church could not reflect.

Such a night gave Niu Yu and the ministers a great shock, and the same shock made them forget the mustard between each other, and couldn't help but discuss it excitedly.

Even Huang Zongxi, who had never seen the electric light with his own eyes, couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he saw such a situation

"Why haven't I seen electric lights in Zhenghe City or Junzi Port?" He couldn't help but ask the sailors on board.

"According to Huaxia's "Technology Diffusion Law", all first-class science and technology cannot leave Huaxia's chalk." The sailor smiled: "Mr. has been away from Huaxia for a long time, I'm afraid I don't know this chalk law?" ”

"I really didn't notice it...... When did this law appear? ”

"In the third year of Huaxia, it was announced that the Chalk Court had set up a practical technology evaluation committee under the Grand Research Institute, and all patented technologies must be evaluated under the evaluation committees at all levels, and if they were rated as first-class patents, they could get a large bounty from the Chalk Court, and at the same time it was forbidden to spread beyond the Chalk. If it is rated as a Class B patent, it needs to be approved by the standing chalk mechanism under the evaluation committee before it can be spread to the newly attached areas and dependent countries of China. The C class may spread to the subject countries of China at will, but it shall not spread to areas outside the subject countries. D and others can be recognized and spread to the whole world. Power generation in China is a first-class patent, light bulb is a second-class patent, so the power plant can only be built in the Chinese cetaceous, some of the land neighboring countries, in the border cities close to China, can attract wires from the territory of China, the use of light bulbs this class B invention. ”

"Isn't this a suspicion of self-cherishing of a broom? Is it to keep the secret for a while, and not afraid to rest on its laurels? ”

After turning around in Europa, Huang Zongxi realized that the Chinese civilization had been brought into a misunderstanding by some people before, that is, it was complacent and did not want to forge ahead, which was contrary to the core of Chinese civilization "unremitting self-improvement".

"Mr. Huang said with a smile, these practical techniques will be re-evaluated every three years, like steam locomotives, which have been re-evaluated twice, and it is said that this year it is very likely to be changed from first-class to second-class, if so, in Borneo, Wa country, Xian country and other places, it can also be built railways."

It would be prudent to do this, Huang Zongxi nodded, but Niu Yu and the ministers were a little gloomy, they originally wanted to be able to learn this kind of chalky technology and bring it back to Europa, but now, at least in a short period of time, they don't want to touch this magical practical technology.

However, this makes them look forward to the chalky sea that is about to arrive in the capital of China.

After leaving for more than seven years, Huang Zongxi finally returned to the Upper Chalk Sea. He had thought that he had long been accustomed to his life in exile, and he had also suppressed his excitement when he set foot on Xinxiang, but when he stepped on the dock of the Chalky Sea, a wave of emotion made him unable to stand on his feet, and he had to fall to the ground and began to cry bitterly.

There are not many seven years in a person's life, like Huang Zongxi, who has entered the last one or two chalk years of his life, and the life of exile has made him think about many things.

Originally, he thought that he could continue to persevere, but when he actually set foot on his homeland, he found that his insistence was very ridiculous.

cried as much as he did, as well as Ma Shiying.

Although one is Donglin and the other is a eunuch, one is exiled and the other is actively asking for an envoy, but at this time, the two are in the same mood.

"What's going on?" Someone on the dock asked, seeing them kneeling on the ground and weeping bitterly.

"Since Europa came back, I can't help myself, one of these two is Ma Yaocao, the first assistant of the previous dynasty, and the other is Huang Taichong, the pillar of Donglin!"

"Shousuke of the previous dynasty, isn't that a waste of waste? The pillar of Donglin, isn't that the bastard of the bastards? ”

Such whispers would not reach the ears of Ma Shiying and Huang Zongxi. Eight years, it has been eight years since the Huaxia Dynasty Dingcheng, such a long time is enough for Yu Guozhen to send his working group to every corner of China, even including the deep mountains and old forests of Shu Province and the plateau snow-capped mountains of Tubo Province.

An important role of these working groups is to make the chalk people forget the previous dynasties that were heavily taxed and repeatedly defeated, and constantly infighting, including those influential figures of the previous dynasties. Don't say that Ma Shiying and Huang Zongxi are Li Zicheng, if you go to Henan now and ask people if you remember, others will answer: "That rogue who was exterminated by the saint?" I still seem to remember, but who cares about him, but the fertilizer in the field has not been ordered today, and I still have to go and get some fertilizer......"

Among the inventions currently listed in Huaxia as first-class, chemical fertilizer is probably one of the most inconspicuous, but it is also one of Yu Guozhen's most important people, the Institute of Agronomy has been researching since the Xinxiang era, and it has now taken ten years to do so, and some simple chemical fertilizers, such as phosphate fertilizer, can be produced in large quantities from guano in the South China Sea Islands. These fertilizers have greatly promoted the development of agriculture in China, and the development of agriculture means that the price of grain has fallen, and simple agriculture has become unprofitable.

From the beginning of the fourth year of China, Yu Guozhen implemented the "Enriching the People Plan" to guide small and medium-sized landlords in the countryside to use land as capital to become shareholder, so that they could vigorously develop cash crops and small industries. Some tenant farmers turned into chalkers, and the scattered yeoman farmers were unable to resist the tide of commercialization on their own, so at the instigation of a working group sent by Yu Guozhen, they organized themselves into groups according to the place of their household registration, and entered the rising industrial towns one after another.

It can be said that the bumper harvest of agriculture has provided Yu Guozhen's large-scale industry with enough agricultural product resources and cheap labor, thus allowing China to enter the channel of the large-scale industrial era in a short period of eight years.

Just when Huang Zongxi was howling to the extreme, a pair of feet appeared beside him.

Because the chalk sea was hot at this time, cowhide sandals were worn on these feet, and Huang Zongxi felt that a pair of hands were on his shoulders and held himself up. He looked at it with tears in his eyes, but it was a familiar face.

Compared with eight years ago, Yu Guozhen has hardly changed.

He still looks young, as if he is only in his twenties, his eyes are still sharp, his eyes are flexible, his bearing is calm, and his smile is kind.

"Brother Taichong Xian has returned from thousands of miles, just as he is celebrating, why do you want to cry?" After Yu Guozhen picked him up, he patted him on the shoulder, and on the other side, it was Ma Shiying.

"Your Majesty!" Ma Shiying originally wanted to kneel, but when he thought of Yu Guozhen's ascension to the throne on the first day, he abolished the kneeling salute, he bent down and bowed, but Yu Guozhen stretched out his hand to hold him up.

"Hugh wants to be polite, both of them are polite, the two of them have been gone for seven years, thousands of miles of wind and waves, serving Huaxia, it is Yu who salutes the two."

When Ma Shiying heard this, her heart moved, and she secretly gave her a thumbs up.

These warm-hearted words were really moving, even if he was an old fox who had been up and down in the official chalk for many years, he couldn't help but be moved.

"Serving the country is the duty of a scholar, and it is a great merit of me to promote the Tao overseas, and it is a great merit of my Confucianism. When Ma Shiying was still pondering, Huang Zongxi took a step back and looked deeper: "Back then, Taichong was stupid, didn't know His Majesty's Sacred Heart, and did things that were contrary, but today Taichong knows his mistakes!" ”

The first half of his sentence showed that he did not regard the eight-year exile career as a stain and punishment in his life, but the second half of the sentence was to formally admit his mistake to Yu Guozhen, which made Ma Shiying stunned, and then Ma Shiying sighed secretly: This Huang Taichong has finally been rounded and chalky.

Yu Guozhen was also a little stunned.

He had a lot of public affairs to deal with every day, and he didn't pay too much attention to Huang Zongxi, but judging from the news from the military attache stationed in Europa, although Huang Zongxi had changed, he insisted on Donglin's stubbornness. Unexpectedly, after he returned to the Chalk Sea, he would admit his mistake.

"I often say to my ministers that most of the time, we have to stand up straight and look forward, and we can't always look back on the past. The hero does not mention the courage of the year, and the gentleman does not talk about the old time, and the same is true for the past, and it can be changed. ”

Yu Guozhen helped Huang Zongxi up again, and had some doubts in his heart, but he didn't ask carefully.

Huang Zongxi glanced up at Yu Guozhen, and when he saw Yu Guozhen's sincere expression, he didn't hide: "The minister has been to Junzigang and seen Chen Wozi, and finally knows that he is useless and is a scholar, a gentleman is not a party, and a party must not be a true gentleman!" If the minister comes back this time, if His Majesty forgives the minister's old sins, he is willing to ask for an idle job and concentrate on writing the "Ming Yi Interview Record" to clearly state the cause and effect! ”

Yu Guozhen listened to him ask for a spare position, and laughed: "The skill of Brother Taichong, the official of a history museum, or the position of the director of a Bo Garden, should be idle, and there is time for Brother Xian to plough - but this is put in the back in advance, Brother Xian and Ma Lao come back, first rest well, today I will feast two in Changchun Garden, please enter the palace with me!" ”

Ma Shiying couldn't ask for it, but Huang Zongxi was also disrespectful. After saluting the people accompanying Yu Guozhen one by one, although Huang Zongxi admitted his mistake, he still spoke very straight, and said with some surprise: "What is Your Majesty coming to the dock for at this time?" ”

"Naturally, it's to welcome you two." Fang Yizhi, who followed next to him, laughed.

"Greet me and you?" Huang Zongxi was surprised: "How did Your Majesty know that the two of us are here today?" ”

"On the day you two arrived in Xinxiang, Your Majesty knew that you had returned to China, and last night you were berthing in Ningbo, and Your Majesty received a telegram that the time was early this morning, and you should arrive, so he called us to greet you."

"Telegram?" Huang Zongxi was surprised.

He suddenly realized that in the more than seven years he had been in Europa, there had been many changes in Huaxia, and these changes were so great that he couldn't keep up with Huaxia's pace. (To be continued)