In ten days, Liang Shan was going crazy with busyness. Check historical data, analyze recent weather conditions, make a three-day forecast and check it against the actual results. If something goes wrong, you need to re-analyze the data to find out why. But the reason was found somewhere for a while. In this era, weather forecasts cannot be 100% accurate, not to mention China, which is just starting out, and even the United Kingdom, which has the most complete equipment.

You can find all kinds of reasons, such as the equipment is not as good as the foreigners, and the experience is not rich. But it must not be this reason, otherwise you will be beaten in the mouth. Although it may be that the emperor personally slapped his mouth, it is not good to be slapped in front of everyone. The emperor hates others saying that foreigners can't do it, so we can't do this kind of thing. It seems that the Chinese are inferior to the foreigners, but this seems to have this meaning when it comes out.

You can find a reason with the emperor, and the emperor may understand you. But don't tell these soldiers for reasons, they will just do it. If the military operation is lost because of the wrong weather forecast, the sin is great, and it may go to court-martial. Especially in this kind of military operations that concern hundreds of thousands of troops.

Fortunately, the part of the information about the weather that came from Irkutsk every day tended to be stable, and Liang Shan had confidence in his heart, but he still decided to wait for the time to make it public, after all, the longer the time, the more sure he was.

The General Staff Headquarters was not idle, and orders were issued to the various units. Due to the Prime Minister's Office's combat readiness order, the troops opened their warehouses to prepare for the opening of the army. For a time, the whole of northern China was in a chaotic scene.

These days, the court is very busy, and the government affairs that have dragged on for a month and a half have finally been approved one after another, and all the affairs are piled up together to deal with. There's always room for error in this scramble, and all of this leads to reduced efficiency and longer overtime. It's just that no one has a heartache, and Li Ming, who is far away in Ningbo, can only sleep for less than three hours a day.

The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces was not idle. They climbed the Xiangshan Mountain and climbed the Great Wall hand in hand, and went to the Fengtai camp to watch the soldiers' drills. Even the two sisters left the capital for the first time and came to the dock in Tianjin, watching the freighters coming in and out loading or unloading the same materials. They walked the streets and alleys, bought snacks on the roadside, and drank tea in teahouses. They even went into ordinary people's homes, sat in the hall and listened to the women's families who couldn't read a single big word tell them about the most simple joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the people.

Only the governors everywhere are like no one, what should they do. The governor level was abolished because Li Ming intended to cancel it, so he was no longer appointed once he was transferred. The current officials at the level of the governor are still the ones elected by the Queen Mother back then. There was no reaction at the level of the prefectural government, and the political dispute between the court and the government belonged to the level of immortal fights for them, and they couldn't get along. The situation changes faster. There's always a process to reacting to their level. After the court settled down, they also knew how to choose. In addition to Liu Shutang, the prefect of Ningbo.

The Third Regiment of the Armed Police Force in Shanghai has actually become a local security force, and the independent division of Jiangning has been stationed in Ningbo. In the sea off Ningbo, the Pacific Fleet's Haichen, Haichou, Ninghai, and Jihai with four destroyers have already put the entire sea surface in a semi-blockade state. With the exception of small civilian fishing boats, which are free to propensate, all military vessels are constantly within the 12-nautical-mile range. The main thing was to defend against the two cruisers of the Russian Far Eastern Fleet, which were heading south. In case they said that they were invited by the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty to come to exterminate the traitors and beat up the Empress Dowager in Ningbo, and the Empress Dowager expressed her approval, the world would be really in chaos. Although Liu Shutang only knew that the Ningbo Mansion was rebellious, this posture was clearly a defensive posture, and this meant suppressing bandits and protection. And this posture is even bigger than the posture of the emperor's southern tour back then. Liu Shutang is now frightened to deal with the situation in Ningbo Mansion, and he can't run away if he accidentally estimates that he will be cut off all over the house. And the most headache is that tens of thousands of garrison food supplies inside and outside Ningbo Mansion have all been piled up on the desk of Ningbo Prefecture. Where did Ningbo get so much grain? Liu Shutang is crying, his father is suing his grandmother to look for food everywhere.

Liu Shutang's crime was caused by Li Ming, just because Li Ming wanted to see if the local officials had the ability to deal with sudden disasters. For example, there are a lot of refugees all of a sudden. Li Ming never asked how a prefecture should be governed, and the system of managing the country may not be suitable for a place. Anyway, if something happens to the underworld, the governor will be questioned for the crime. If something happens to the governor's office, he will ask the officials for the crime. In short, it is normal for Li Ming, who can be a good emperor, to be a county commander.

Finally, after all the folds that had been piled up for a month and a half were approved. Li Ming wanted to sleep well for a day, but how could he have this life as an emperor. Today's recital is once again piled on the desk. Being the emperor is this fate--Li Ming mourned for himself for three seconds and then continued to criticize the recital.

When the time came to August 25th, the Midyear Festival, when the imperial court was on holiday, Li Ming also put down the red pen and took his daughter-in-law and children to visit Ningbo City.

Ningbo is only a prefecture-level prefecture, and neither its population nor economic aggregate can be compared with large cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. The small bazaar is also filled with goods from all over the world, and the sound of people shouting and discussing bargains resounded throughout the bazaar.

Chinese have always advocated frugality, and many people may say that it is a fine national tradition. However, in Li Ming's view, this tradition is actually sad. There is a saying in the millennium, if you have enough food and clothing, you know etiquette, and if you have enough food and clothing, the world will prosper. The reason why there is such a statement is because the Chinese people have never had a surplus of food for thousands of years, and the agrarian people who have relied on the sky for thousands of years to eat cannot experience food shortages for a long time. Droughts, floods and locust plagues are playing out on the land of China, and millet wheat, a staple food for the Chinese, is not a high-yielding crop. Before the Han and Tang dynasties, whenever the king paid attention to preserving grain and storing grain, it was considered the year of great governance for several good years. Wenjing's official warehouse was plump, creating Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu in the north. Zhenguan's rulers are abundant, creating a prosperous chapter. Abundant food and clothing have been China's greatest hope for thousands of years, but such days are too short. That's why the people don't dare to squander, and they always want to save more for emergencies. In the Song Dynasty, rice began to be introduced to the Central Plains, and grain was finally abundant, so the economy developed extremely rapidly. The annual income of the entire Ming Dynasty's huge territory is only a fraction of the annual income of the Southern Song Dynasty court in the south of the Yangtze River. The first capitalist sprout in the world began in the Southern Song Dynasty. But the Mongol cavalry crushed all this. If the Ming Dynasty had introduced sweet potatoes fifty years earlier, it might have been able to eliminate the drought brought about by the Xiaoice River period in the Central Plains. But the sweet potatoes arrived in China late. By that time the Manchus had already ruled China. The Manchu rule was able to survive thanks to sweet potatoes, which at least fed the stomachs of the common people. The ordinary people who had been in turmoil for a long time no longer participated in the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. Under the butcher's knife of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he began to live tremblingly. So large-scale production began, the country's wealth began to increase, and there was a "prosperous era of Kangqian", in fact, this group of mud-legged people relied on sweet potatoes to create a so-called prosperous era, a prosperous era full of literary prisons, a prosperous era full of racial discrimination, a prosperous era full of the so-called kindness of the Holy Lord Ren Emperor, a prosperous era that allowed the Chinese to move from strong to weak, and a prosperous era that broke the backbone of the Chinese.

Now Li Ming is coming, and he has found a way for China to go out by taking advantage of the mutual restraint of the great powers. He used foreign hostile forces to decisively get rid of Cixi's constraints with iron-blooded means, and he deceived the trust of the lost Cixi with clever language, and finally let him grasp the supreme power of the country, and then selected a group of teams who were interested in the country's prosperity and strength, and began their road to a strong country.

When foreign loans entered China, when there were more and more factories, the number of goods produced increased dramatically compared to the agrarian era. With the extension of the road, more and more materials began to circulate on a large scale. And all this means a substantial increase in the wealth of the country, and the people have money in their hands. No matter how frugal he was, he would want to improve his life, so the volume of local trade naturally began to increase.

Don't look at a small bazaar, this is where the real economy of a country is reflected. With the abundance of national materials, with the increase in the income of ordinary people. There will be a significant increase in the flow of people and goods in and out of the market, and vice versa. It can be seen from the market in Ningbo that it is more prosperous and bigger than the year when Li Ming married. Not to mention that this can represent the whole country. But at least it represents that the life of the people around Ningbo is getting better and better.

Li Ming walked through the busy market with a smile, looking at the dry yellow that had gradually receded on his face, revealing a healthy red. Li Ming was happy. Looking at the sturdy children, it shows that the education food has not been invested in vain over the years. As long as it can continue for two more generations. The physique of the Chinese people will be significantly improved compared to the present, and what needs to be done now is to fix all these according to the situation of the law, so as to avoid changes due to human reasons.

Li Ming and Yan Fu, who had to come with him with a straight face, were discussing the governance of this government and a place, but Li Ming stopped at a pork stall. An elderly man dressed in simple but clean clothes took out a stack of banknotes from his bosom but only took a small denomination to buy three taels of pork belly, took the meat strips tied by the pig dealer with straw rope, and said happily: "Buy three pork and make a dish today, even if it is a festival." ”

Li Ming stepped forward and arched his hand: "Dare to ask this elder, seeing that you are also well-dressed, you must usually eat this pork, but why don't you buy more during the festival?" ”

The elder stopped and lit up the young man in front of him, and when he saw that he was well-dressed, he gave him a blank look: "It's only been a few years since this good day, and you're starting to lose?" What kind of meat do you eat when you don't celebrate the New Year? This year, I have a good life with a good emperor, but I didn't think it would be gone. Who knows what kind of emperor will come in the future. These are all blessings and sins. Young people can save some money. I'm afraid it's coming to an end—" After saying that, he left dejectedly.

"The people still have a sense of crisis, and they are always worried that the income will be low if the emperor changes in the coming year, so they want to save more first." Yan Fu sighed: "You better go back to Beijing earlier, so that you can calm the hearts of the people in the world." ”

"I'm not in a hurry for a while." Before Li Ming could go far, his daughter Tian Tian began to shout: "Dad, Dad." I'm going to buy this school bag. ”

Now that his daughter is calling, Li Ming has no heart to go to see this bazaar. Li Tian is already six years old, and it is time to go to elementary school. With seven days to go before the start of the new semester, it's time to purchase stationery for this class. But Li Ming talked for a long time, seeing that his daughter had to hold the ugly schoolbag, Li Ming had no choice but to pay for it.

"It seems that we have to set up a leather bag company, what kind of broken schoolbag." Li Ming said angrily. Is the aesthetic level of these years too low, or is my vision too high.

"It's not right for you to do that. They all say that you can't compete with the people. But you're doing it very hard. "Yan Fu is not happy, an emperor goes to actually run a company. This is a complete failure to do business.

Li Ming ignored him, saying that Yan Fu, the minister who did not do his job, was not the first. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty had opinions on the emperor's establishment of factories. It's really the emperor's appeal is too strong. It's just that in the name of the emperor's own design, the shit is all bought. This has seriously affected the development of private enterprises. At least sixty percent of the country's clothing comes from the first enterprise of the royal family, the Dasheng Garment Factory.

Li Ming doesn't care, Lao Tzu doesn't evade taxes, why can't he be bright, Lao Tzu is also short of money to spend. But now is not the time to think about these things, a pair of children are interested in roadside snacks.

Mille-feuille cakes, fragrant cakes, bean halva, these local specialties of Ningbo, Li Tian bought a bunch of them, saying that he was going back to Beijing. To buy that is not not in the capital, with the traffic becoming more and more convenient. Nowadays, goods are sold all over the country. It's just that when it comes to authenticity, it is still eaten locally, after all, there are not enough shelf life conditions this year. It's nothing to bring some local specialties back to Beijing, and the children are still very filial. It's just that they want to take it home and bring it to their grandmothers to taste, and I don't know if their grandmothers still recognize their grandchildren. Li Ming's smile was a little stiff, because looking at the smiling faces of his children, he didn't know how to explain this sudden change to his children.

While Li Tian and Li Chun were still buying food for their grandmother, they were in the Summer Palace in Beijing. Cihui looked at the roof in a daze boredly, while Cixi in the hall paced back and forth with a gloomy face. The priest has come to report. All the military horses are ready. He also contacted Dong Fuxiang's original detachment of more than 2,000 people who were willing to continue to serve the Queen Mother, but they had been incorporated into the local armed police force, and they could not leave the defense area unless there was an order from the imperial court. At the same time, there were also banner people in various parts of Beijing and Tianjin who began to secretly organize their families to purchase weapons and prepare to quell the rebellion. But this Li Ming is closely protected in Jiangnan. At this time, they did not dare to send assassins rashly, and once the assassination failed, they would inevitably suffer the most cruel retaliation. Cixi knew very well that the strength of the Qing Dynasty could not compete with Li Ming head-on. Only when he enters Beijing and then assassinates him in one fell swoop, this may be the last chance for the Qing Kingdom.

"Ding-ding--" The shrill voice of the phone rang. The two queen mothers looked at the phone together. Who called?

Cixi sat still, and Shiduo would not tell such important things over the phone. At this point, any phone calls made no sense to her. Ci Huili straightened his clothes, although the fall of the Qing Dynasty was imminent, before the official announcement of the death of the Qing Dynasty, he was still the queen mother of the Qing Dynasty.

The call was from Ningbo, and Tian Tian's immature voice was the only thing that could make him happy these days. Although she is not her own granddaughter, she has held this child more than her mother since she was a child, and it can be said that Tian Tian grew up in her arms. This friendship is always intangible.

On the other end of the phone, Li Tian called his grandmother sweetly and told her about the fun things he had at her grandmother's house. She told her grandmother that her father would take her to swim in the sea, and that her uncle would take them out to sea to catch fish. Tian Tian told her grandmother that she was going back to Beijing to go to school, and today she bought a beautiful schoolbag and a beautiful stationery box. Tian Tian also told her grandmother that she had bought a lot of delicious food and was going to bring it back for her grandmother to eat. Cihui couldn't hold back her sobs anymore.

"Grandma, why are you crying?" Tian Tian on the other end of the phone asked.

"Grandma can't see you after you've been gone for so long, grandma is crying because she thinks about you." Cihui touched her tears and said with a smile.

"Grandma doesn't cry, Tian Tian will come back the day after tomorrow."

Before Cihui could speak, Cixi, who had been holding back the fire in her heart for a long time, suddenly grabbed the phone and roared: "There is no your grandmother here, you are a wild seed, wild seed-"

Cihui snatched the phone with her backhand, and for the first time she shouted at Cixi: "What are you doing, you will scare the child." Then she immediately whispered to the conversation, but there was no echo there, and the cooing behind her failed to attract her attention.

Li Tian was indeed frightened by Cixi's roar, and the phone fell out of his hand. Li Ming, who was sitting on the side, reacted immediately, hugged Tian Tian and gently patted her back and whispered, "What's wrong?" Is grandma upset? ”

"The eldest grandmother scolded me for being a wild seed. Daddy, what is a wild seed? ”

"Wild seeds are children without parents, how can your parents be wild seeds when they are all in front of them? Daddy told you, it was Daddy who made a mistake, so Grandma was very angry with Daddy, and it has nothing to do with our Tiantian. ”

The horror on Li Tian's face disappeared, and he said with a look of blame: "It's all because Daddy is scolded for hurting Tiantian, hum-"

"It's all Daddy's borrowing, and Daddy apologizes to you. You're going home the day after tomorrow, go pack your bags, grandma is still waiting for your delicious food. Don't forget to say a few nice words for your daddy. After saying that, Li Ming nodded a little on Li Tian's nose and let her go back to her room, Li Ming, who was still smiling, suddenly had murderous intent in his eyes after Li Tian left. Is it a matter of great events in the court that children can understand? If you dare to be angry with the child, I will dare to vent my anger with the whole world.

Li Ming picked up the phone and put it to his ear, and Cihui over there was still calling Tian Tian. Li Ming took a deep breath and adjusted his mood and said calmly: "Tian Tian is fine, I've already gone to play." ”

"I just want to see Tian Tian again, okay?" The mercy on the other end of the phone was already pleading.

Li Ming smiled: "You are Tian Tian's grandmother, grandma can't look at her granddaughter." Your granddaughter has brought you bad food, and she doesn't even have a share in me as a father. Li Ming spoke to make the conversation easier, and this was the first time he had spoken to the Queen Mother since leaving the capital.

"Tian Tian is a good girl, you have to treat her well, don't let her be bullied. After all, you're not my son—"

"I haven't forgotten when you sold your wealth to the Grange to support me. To be honest, it doesn't matter if I'm your son or not, as long as you're still Tiantian's grandmother, that's enough. What do you say? (To be continued......)