In January, the weather in the north has already become very cold, and a wave of snow has just fallen to make the mountains, rivers, land, towns, and villages in JH County, southeast of TJ, a piece of silver, and the vast land is shining silver under the sun. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe cold north wind blows in the open fields, and from time to time it rolls up a cloud of snow and mist in the snowy fields, and occasionally a colorful halo is cast in the daylight, and from a distance, some of the pale sky is almost connected with the white earth.

In this season in the north, as the saying goes, it is called "cat winter", not to mention that the farmers are hiding at home, even the porters who are generally trafficking in long-distance traffic will not go out again, which also makes the cold winter the quietest season in the north.

"Woo", a dry and cold north wind blew the snow mist across a hill, blowing off all the snow on the few lonely trees on the top of the mountain that had already lost their leaves and were only bare and dry branches.

The forty or so people standing under these trees were dressed in the uniforms of the Salt Regiment, with brown cowhide armed belts around their waists, and carrying shell guns on their backs, or revolver short guns on their belts, and many others with slender sabers on their belts, and the most striking thing about them was the telescope with a shiny brass mirror around their necks. The snow on the trees covered the heads of these soldiers with cold snow powder.

"Phew".

Zhou Dajing, chief of staff of the Yamen Salt Patrol Regiment, spit out the cold snow particles blowing in his mouth, and at the same time slapped the falling snow on the black cowhide coat with his hands with black cowhide gloves.

"Commander".

The commander in Zhou Dajing's mouth naturally refers to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan was very disgusted that the people of the salt regiment called him an adult, but he was extremely reluctant to give himself the title of regiment commander, thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and simply proclaimed himself the commander, anyway, he didn't take anyone's salary as a commander. And what makes Qin Chuan most satisfied is that the official title of commander can be big or small, and in the later generations of the Anti-Japanese War, whether it is the head of a team of 180 people or the general of the corps who commands thousands of troops, he can be called a commander.

Zhou Dajing, who had a dark complexion and a very strong figure, put on his big-brimmed hat again, looked at the snow and still pressed the eight-fold German Zeiss military telescope with the brass mirror body tightly to his eye sockets, and stood straight to observe the Qinchuan under the mountain.

"This Jinghai is much stronger than TJ Weifeng, the temperature is more than minus 20 degrees, the brothers have been training in this ice and snow all morning, is it not this way to close the team, lest it freeze, tomorrow will be New Year's Day, you see 。。。。。。"

Here is more than 40 miles away from TJ, it is a training ground where Qinchuan specially asked Zhou Fu to come to Yantuan, although there are no high mountains here, but there are fewer people here, not only there are undulating hills around, there are large river valleys and alluvial plains in the middle, there are more than 80 miles in a radius, it is really a good place for soldiers to train.

Since the beginning of winter, Qin Chuan has to take a heavily armed salt regiment to come here early in the morning for a 20-kilometer armed cross-country journey, then bury the pot to make food, and start training on the spot after the meal, all in accordance with the conditions of wartime in the field.

Qin Chuan took the personnel of the staff unit of the Yan Regiment every day, either to inspect and guide the training of each battalion and company, or to inspect the training of each training unit from a high position on this hill, and occasionally to convene the commanders of each battalion and company and the staff officers of Zhou Dajing's staff unit to explain field tactics and staff courses.

The New Year's Day mentioned by Zhou Dajing is not the New Year's Day of later generations, but the Spring Festival of later generations.

As for why the Spring Festival is called New Year's Day, Qin Chuan was also very confused at the beginning of the crossing, but in later generations, New Year's Day and Spring Festival are their own days, and Qin Chuan, who was confused, still found out what was going on after checking many history books.

The Spring Festival has a history of more than 4,000 years in the Han nation, but due to the different calendars of various dynasties and generations, the specific day of the Spring Festival is not uniform. The Xia Dynasty was the first day of the first month, the Shang Dynasty was the first day of December, the Zhou Dynasty was the first day of November, the Qin Dynasty was the first day of October, and the Han Dynasty returned to the first day of the first month, and it has continued ever since.

Not only are the days of the Spring Festival different in the past dynasties, but the names are also different, in the pre-Qin period, it was called the first day, the first day, the new year, the new year, etc.; When it came to the two Han Dynasty, it was also called the Three Dynasties, the New Year's Day, the Zhengdan, and the Zhengri; During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was called Yuanchen, Yuanri, Fuhrer, Sui Dynasty, etc.; In the Tang and Song dynasties, it was called New Year's Day, New Year's Day, Xinzheng, Xinyuan and other names; In the Qing Dynasty, it was called New Year's Day or New Year's Day.

As for when the name Spring Festival appeared in later generations, Qin Chuan certainly can't find it in books. After thinking about it for a long time, Qin Chuan suddenly remembered that before he crossed, he seemed to have heard of the Spring Festival and came again, which seemed to be related to Yuan Shikai. Isn't it Yuan Shikai who determined the name of purity? If this is the case, it was also when Yuan Shikai became the president. Since then, Qin Chuan has secretly made up his mind to determine that the glory of the name Spring Festival must not be left to Yuan Shikai.

Qin Chuan did not answer Zhou Dajing's suggestion immediately, and held the telescope to check the training ground for a while, then put down the telescope and turned around, glanced at the more than 20 staff officers behind him, and turned his gaze to Zhou Dajing.

"Mingru."

Ming Confucianism is the word of the Zhou Dajing.

Zhou Dajing These people, only a few people used to have words, and most of them only had names, so for the sake of convenience, Qin Chuan gave these people words. At this time, basically only the children of the family of people who have read books have words, and this is not because of anything else, but most of them are that the word and the name should take care of each other, and it is not something that can be called casually.

For example, the word Zhou Dajing, the word Jing originally refers to the thread of weaving, and it can also refer to the road, which means the way of the north and the south in ancient times, or it can also refer to the scriptures in the subset of the scriptures and history, and the author of the Great Sutra is also a Ming Confucian. Whether a person's word is good or not depends not on the meaning of the word, but on whether it matches his name.

After crossing, Qin Chuan was very interested in words at this time, and after studying the names and words of the ancients, he was now a little addicted to giving people words, and he had to try his skills when he found an opportunity.

Qin Chuan looked at Zhou Dajing: "Is it cold in your hometown in winter?" How about this? ”

Zhou Dajing didn't understand why Qin Chuan suddenly asked about the climate of his hometown, and hesitated for a moment: "The climate in my hometown is much warmer than here, and I heard that the north of SX Yulin is similar to here." ”

Qin Chuan nodded, looked up at the pale sky, and his tone became a little heavy.

"In the Zhili area, such a temperature, even if it is a cold winter, can be outside the Guan, where the temperature in winter is much colder than here, in the coldest weather, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as dripping into ice, and the further north, the lower the temperature, people who are active outside for a long time in winter are common to freeze their ears."

can freeze off his ears, which makes the young staff officers around him who are all in their twenties a little surprised, even Zhou Dajing, who has always been steady, can't help but change color a little. However, Zhou Dajing thought about it and was a little unimpressed.

Zhou Dajing smiled and said: "Commander, we are the regimental training of the Changlu Salt Transport Envoy Yamen, and we are responsible for maintaining the order of salt affairs in the area under the jurisdiction of the Changlu Salt Transport Envoy Yamen, and the ghost weather you said has nothing to do with us." ”

"I ask you."

Qin Chuan looked at Zhou Dajing with a solemn expression: "You say, we have fought with the aggressive Britain and France, and it is easiest to start a war with those powers?" ”

Zhou Dajing thought for a moment and said: "In my opinion, it is unlikely that we will fight with Germany and the United States, and it is even more impossible for small countries like Europe, whose gunboats are far worse than ours." The only thing that is possible, is the Russians. The Daqing River is connected to the west and the northeast of Russia, and the Russians have been eroding the territory of the Qing Dynasty since the Kangxi period, and they have long committed evil deeds. And, in the event of a war, most likely, in the Northeast. ”

Qin Chuan nodded and said, "Mingru, you are only half right. ”

Chu Yunfei, who was standing beside Zhou Dajing, was a little stunned and asked, "Big brother, is there still that small Western country that dares to come to our Daqing to pick up the tiger's beard?" ”

Qin Chuan ignored Chu Yunfei and stared at Zhou Dajing: "Why don't you think that the Oriental RB will start a war with the Qing Dynasty?" ”