For a nation, what is the cornerstone of a nation? Many people will talk about education, money, resources, etc., but they often ignore one of the most important factors, and that is a good mother.

It is always said that the future of a nation lies in the younger generation, and in layman's terms, children are the flowers of the future of the motherland. So how did the child come about? Well, it's the two sexes who make man, and then the woman gets pregnant until she falls to the ground.

In addition to the necessary food, the mother needs to take care of the child, from the baby in her arms to be able to crawl all over the ground, and then learn to speak, learn to walk, answer the child's "100,000 whys", and establish a preliminary world view for the child.

Only a few fathers in society have enough time to take care of their children's daily lives, and in fact it is the mother who spends the most time with their children. In getting along, what kind of childhood a child should have is basically decided by the mother. Some mothers will teach their children what they think is the right life values from an early age, usually "that can't", "this can't", "what will be the consequences of doing that", "what will be the consequences of doing this", and the child simply calls this process "no".

Huaxia education is really everything carried out in "no", and very few mothers will encourage their children to do something to increase their knowledge. What is the cause of this? It is cultivated from an early age. To put it bluntly, it restricts children's natural desire for knowledge and adventurous spirit.

If you want to educate a generation of excellent children, you must educate your mother first, and the empire has been shouting this for more than ten years.

The empire is not only shouting, but in fact it is really doing, because the popularization of education for all includes both men and women, but quite a number of families regard girls as "money-losers", thinking that girls who disappear will marry out and become someone's daughter-in-law, so that it is better to let girls go to school than to let them help at home.

In fact, similar ideas have existed until the twenty-first century, and the reason for this deep-rooted belief is not other than the fact that every family is not in a good economic situation, one is that they cannot afford the education of their children, and the other is that having an extra working force in the family can really help a lot.

Universal education has been in the works for more than a decade, but a look at the roster of students shows that the ratio of male to female students is 10 to 3, that is, there are only three female students out of ten male students. And this is actually the ratio in the last year or two, in the early days, there were less than four or five female students out of a hundred male students.

The increase in female students in recent years is related to the propaganda of the empire, and the economic situation of the empire has more to do with the take-off of the empire, life has begun to get better, and there is no longer such an urgent shortage of labor, so that it seems that it is nothing for the daughter to send to study. In fact, what is more important is that the empire has changed from the previous education with some fees to completely free, and at the same time, there is a free nutritious lunch at noon when going to school. In other words, many families let their girls go to school purely to save time for care and the lunch meal......

Everyone will have their own temperament, some brains look stupid no matter how smart they are, and some people who look smart are actually stupid inside. However, one thing is absolutely true, that is, no matter how you look at it, there will be a kind of self-confidence that cannot be explained. Because, they know a lot!

This is a special era, which refers not only to the establishment of empires by the royal family, but also to the development of empires to strength. It is also because the empire is strong not only for a few groups to profit, but for a small number of people to make a profit, not on the basis of internal exploitation, they exploit foreign countries and aliens.

Now is a beautiful era, the army is constantly expanding its territory outside, all countries and foreign races are combed over and over again like miscellaneous hair, and national self-confidence is in an unprecedentedly strong stage.

In addition, because of the popularization of education, we basically understand how big the world is, and the world is no longer a corner of the Central Plains, but covers the whole world.

Only by knowing how miserable and backward others are will they know how happy and strong they are, and if you want people to know this, you can't just rely on propaganda, you also need to let people go out and take a look.

When Han Xue was a child, her family environment could only be said to be below poverty. Under normal circumstances, their family would be at most male farmers and female weavers, and they would not have a meal, they would not be hungry for half a bag, and they would die in a famine year, and they would not be able to eat two or three bowls more in a good year. It's the kind of thing that doesn't go out more than ten miles, and what is ten miles away can basically only rely on hearsay, or your own blind imagination.

However, Han Xue was more fortunate to meet two parents who were admired by the emperor of the land, and when others resisted and hesitated, the parents accordingly called for the children of the whole family to be sent to school.

Seven or eight years have passed, and Han Xue and several siblings began to bloom their own buds from Yaya's young buds. Because of learning and mastering knowledge, the family started the breeding industry under the advice of the child, and now from the previous poverty to keep up with the times, how can it be regarded as a rich family now.

If the trajectory of her life hadn't changed, Han Xue would have been like those extremely stubborn families, without a single decent dress, let alone wondering so much, she could only live a confused life in ignorance. Now, she is looking at Lantian Ocean with a youthful smile on her face and a satisfied look.

"The scholarship must have arrived!" The young and beautiful girl jumps and jumps, so there is no such hood in this year, and the little white rabbit that has kept up with the girl must be well developed, and the result is that it is jumping to attract the attention of men. She was completely unaware: "Write an article about Nanyang, and then participate in the discovery of the strait, not only will you get a scholarship, but you will definitely increase your credits!" ”

Almost all the female classmates are jumping around, and there is actually no family with too prominent status among them, if you want to say that she can be a little bit close to the prominent, it is Lin Wen.

A male classmate shouted "Yay! Yes! When they came over, the female classmates reacted, and a little more fierce was to kick Huang An away directly, and then looked at the other male classmates who wanted to come over angrily.

I have to tell the truth, now the defense of men and women is not as serious as imagined, that is, everyone is a civilized person, even if you want to do something that you are willing to do, then you also need to be reserved!

That's really a big truth, the two love each other in the countryside, and when they reach the age of male and female marriage, they really go to the thatched hut and straw pile without conditions, or use the sky as a quilt and the earth as a bed or something, and directly do something humane, as long as it is not loudly promoted, it is really not a big deal.

It's a shame that the empire's basic surnames have begun to spread, otherwise there will be some Tanabe, roadside, and Watanabe because of the tenri people...... Or the surnames of Inoue, Tanaka, etc., that's really ......

In addition, the threshold of scholarships is not so high, especially for some foreign ministers to write papers, which is basically equivalent to going out for a trip, not only the cost of the school package, but also an alternative salary when you go back.

Because of some customs and customs left over from the times, some things in the empire are actually quite indulgent, except for the requirement that adults can only get married, there are basically no rules and regulations in other aspects.

Not...... That's because the empire has always encouraged childbirth, and if there are many restrictions while encouraging childbirth, there are contradictions in propaganda no matter how you look at it!

Frolicking all the way, sightseeing along the way, accompanied by repeated inexplicable sunny days and heavy rain, the fleet returned to the naval base on Bird Island.

After arriving at the base, Lin Zeng asked the students to take a boat back to their homeland, but the students had not expressed any opinions, but the teachers who led the team had their own ideas.

"Taking the children out is just to give them more knowledge. Now, the most important moment of the Empire has come, the Empire's navy is invincible, and there will be no danger, so let them participate in this moment of history. ”

If the world is invincible or something, the Navy loves to hear it. It is true that they can't find any enemies, don't they see that some wild people who dare to demonstrate are bombarded with artillery?

Later, the student group also expressed their desire to participate in the "Historical Moment", and their statements were relatively straightforward, although they sounded a little naïve, but they made their demands clear.

Lin Zeng considered that it was only a preliminary crossing of the strait, and the main force of the fleet would stop on the other side of the strait, but he would send more reconnaissance ships to go around to find out the situation in the sea area, and the students would also stay during the period, so he agreed after thinking about it.

Before re-exploring the straits, they needed to get in touch with the mainland, at least by getting the command center of the South Ocean Fleet to send more ships.

Chen Xuan, the lieutenant general of the Nanyang Fleet, learned that it had been a month since the discovery of the strait, and he did not dare to slack off, and immediately reported the news to the center.

When the news was reported, the entire Nanyang Fleet fell into a cheerful excitement. They searched for the strait for several years, and finally found it!

Finding the strait is not only as simple as completing the task assigned by the emperor, but also means that the Nanyang Fleet will usher in a new round of rapid development, after all, if you want to cross another ocean, it is impossible to increase the number of warships in the fleet, right?

Speaking of which, whether it is the South Ocean Fleet or the North Ocean Fleet, except for the steam warships that have just been commissioned this year, the rest of the warships have not increased in recent years.

What the? Transport? A transport ship is not a battleship! Moreover, the transport ships were not actually under the control of the two fleets, and they were all rowed to the ruling government.

"Isn't there some Mauryan navy or Seleucid fleet in the other ocean?" Chen Xuan's face was depressed: "If the cabinet doesn't increase the number of warships, it can't be justified, right?" ”

Sitting next to Chen Xuan was Lu Shizhi, the emperor's brother-in-law.

Lu Shizhi has been the logistics director of the Nanyang Fleet for four years, and he knows very well what the situation of the fleet is, and he really has to be as boring as he wants to be in addition to bullying the savages and scouting around.

The problem is that the fleet is a fleet because it has powerful warships, even if there are no enemies, the fleet should always be as strong as possible, as for the cost of maintaining the fleet...... By the way, that's something the center should be worried about, right?

"That ......" Lu Shizhi is a member of the Nanyang Fleet, of course he hopes that the fleet can be stronger, but it seems to be a bit difficult? He hesitated for a moment before saying, "I found out that I found out the strait, so it should take a year or two to find out the situation over there." Before that, let's not mention the matter of asking for more warships, right? ”

"Don't mention it? How can that work! Chen Xuan continued to look depressed: "It is said that there is a Mauryan Dynasty or a Seleucid fleet, but no one knows what is going on." If the fleets of both countries are not very good, it will definitely be useless to ask for more warships. If the fleets of the two countries are strong, what kind of gunboats can they be stronger? ”

In other words, sometimes being too strong is really a distress, especially if there is no strong opponent, and reaching out for military spending is usually not agreed at all.

Take a look at the Beiyang Fleet, they are really strong to the point that they have no friends, and if they want to find some savages to shoot their guns, they can only go to some islands further east...... In fact, it is an island attached to the Japanese archipelago, so go over there and fire two guns to have a game. Compared with the Beiyang Fleet, the days of the Nanyang Fleet are actually quite colorful.

"I wish there was an opponent in that ocean." Chen Xuan looked frightened and said: "The Beiyang Fleet only has five poor warships now, and the Nanyang Fleet can't say anything like this." ”

"You didn't really listen to those bastards and plan to defeat the fleet, did you?" Lu Shizhi is talking about some people in the fleet, thinking about going to another ocean, no matter what kind of fleet they meet, failing it, and then exaggerating things. With an exaggerated face, he said, "There will be a court-martial." When the time comes...... Your title is definitely going to be gone, we have worked hard for half a lifetime, not for this! ”

Chen Xuan was a little embarrassed, he hadn't considered the advice of those fools at all, no matter how he thought about it, he didn't think that anyone could beat them.

The Nanyang Fleet needs to continue to be strong, but it can't be strong in this way, it's not a question of whether it's a title or not, it's really stupid to do that there's no cure.

"I'm thinking, since it's another ocean, how can it be rich in resources over there." Chen Xuan looked left and right, put his eyes on the map on the wall, and said worriedly: "What I am most afraid of now is that the things on this side of the South Sea have not been resolved, for example, the more southern sea area has been explored for some years, but still no results have been made, and the central committee will refuse to develop to another ocean." ”

"Don't worry, there's already a clue." Lu Shizhi obviously had a better source of information, he said: "The reason why I have been lost in that sea area is because of what latitude, the Imperial Academy will send personnel, and I don't know if His Highness Qi will come in person." ”

Chen Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then asked in surprise: "Really?" (To be continued.) )