The real time and space here are only six days away from the Spring Festival.

Zhu Daolin was not idle, he also had to hurry up to buy a large number of telescopes and sextants, and send the 35,000 sets of black police uniforms and Dengzhou Battle medals stacked in the company's warehouse back to Shangyuan Port in advance.

According to the statistics of the height and waist circumference of more than 16,200 naval officers, Zhu Daolin planned to take out 35,000 sets of formal uniforms, badges and armbands from the inventory of new military uniforms according to the standard of two sets per person, and then led all the warships and officers and soldiers down the river to Baoshanwei to hold a grand army building ceremony on time on the morning of New Year's Day.

Of course, the New Year's Day of the Ming Dynasty was not the first day of January every year in the later Western calendar, but the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

New Year's Day is also known as "three yuan", that is, the yuan of the year, the yuan of the month, and the yuan of the time. The term New Year's Day first began with the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and the Book of Jin written by Tang Fang Xuanling and others was uploaded: "Emperor Zhen took the first month of Meng Chun as the yuan, and it was the spring of New Year's Day." That is, the first month of the year is called Yuan, and the first day of the new year is Dan. The poem "Jieya" by Lan Ziyun, a Liang man of the Southern Dynasty, is also cloudy: "The New Year's Day of the Four Qi, the beginning of longevity."

In order to establish the navy of the Ming Empire, Zhu Daolin made long-term and arduous efforts, invested a huge amount of money and effort, and finally gave the young Ming navy a high starting point.

In order to shorten this gap, Zhu Daolin not only increased investment regardless of the cost, but also formulated a complete set of scientific and rational rules and regulations, summed up a set of advanced and reasonable training methods based on historical data and the rich experience of the Franc machine instructor corps, and greatly improved the treatment of naval officers and men. Every effort was made to close the gap with the European naval powers.

Up to now. Zhu Daolin did a good job.

Stimulated by huge capital investment, the young Ming Imperial Navy has initially possessed the prototype of the blue-water navy, and has been ahead of the navies of all countries in the world in terms of regularization, institutionalization and treatment of officers and soldiers, and the sense of honor and cohesion of the army is forming, although the number of warships and weapons and equipment still need to be increased. But in terms of quality and sophistication, it has already surpassed the standards of naval equipment of various countries of the same era.

Zhu Daolin believed that as long as we continue to work unremittingly, we will be able to build a powerful navy within three years, change the outdated and closed ideological concepts of the Han nation with brilliant achievements and real war interests, and then occupy a favorable position on the road of human development.

In order to achieve this goal, Zhu Daolin is willing to invest more money and effort, before he has the strength to expand aggressively. He can only use money to forge the young navy's sense of honor and mission, even if it brings some potential harm to it, he will do it without hesitation.

Zhu Daolin firmly believes that as long as he grits his teeth and holds on for another year, he will embark on the road of high-speed development with sunrise and brilliance in Yunkai.

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After Zhu Daolin's repeated pleas, he solemnly promised to go home with Chu Mei for the New Year on the fourth day of the new year, and finally obtained the permission of his parents, when there were still four days before Chinese New Year's Eve. Carrying a large number of military supplies, more than 20,000 books and 5 containers of New Year's goods, he quietly returned to Hushan Manor in the north of Jinling City at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

All the supplies, more than 20,000 books and New Year's goods that Zhu Daolin will carry. Put them all into the only free B-shaped warehouse, follow the hidden path behind the warehouse, and return to the long-lost Hushan Manor.

As soon as she walked out of the rugged and dark intersection under the hill, her dog Mulan had already pounced excitedly, stretched out her hot tongue and licked Zhu Daolin's face and hands, and her mouth kept whimpering like a coquettish.

Zhu Daolin hugged Mulan's head. Keep reassuring: "I'm sorry! It's too late to come back with too many things, but I don't feel at ease without you to watch the house! ”

"Fortunately, your two children are slowly growing up, and they are estimated to be able to take over your class, and they can help me take care of the back study. Ha ha! ”

"If you want, I'll take you with me wherever I go in two months, and I'll take you back to the place where I brought you if you can bear it, how about it?"

Mulan screamed excitedly, stood up again, and licked Zhu Daolin's face violently, making Zhu Daolin couldn't help laughing.

It was one o'clock in the morning when Zhu Daolin and Mulan returned home.

To Zhu Daolin's surprise, the candlelight in the tea room was bright, the charcoal fire was blazing, and Xiaoying and Xu Fu, Ruyan, Ru Yi girl, and Mei Ya even got together to drink tea and chat.

Seeing the smiling Zhu Daolin suddenly arrive, Xiaoying, Xu Fu and the others couldn't help cheering after being stunned, and soon ran over and hugged Zhu Daolin in the middle, laughter, greetings, and blame were endless, and the whole courtyard was shocked.

"Great, the general is back!"

"Don't look at the dead girl, come with me to the kitchen to cook."

"Don't forget to warm up two jugs of wine."

The subordinates ran out in a hurry, and after seeing Zhu Daolin with their own eyes, they happily returned to the backyard and got busy.

Zhu Daolin sat in the middle of a group of smiling wives and concubines, and gently touched Liu Ru's beautiful face, then took the hot tea she offered with both hands, took two sips, and listened to Mei Ya want to talk about the battle of Dengzhou herself, and couldn't help but be a little surprised:

"Didn't the fleet come back early? I also brought back a letter from General Tosimeno to you, didn't you receive it? ”

"I received it ten days ago, but in the letter, the husband only said that he had defeated the rebels and successfully captured Dengzhou City, but he didn't say how to capture it."

The charming girl who was so touching complained.

Zhu Daolin turned to Xu Fu, who was silent with a smile beside him: "At the same time, I wrote a letter to Mr. Ruan Dayue, the director of the Jiangnan Times, detailing the process of counterinsurgency in Dengzhou, didn't it be published?" ”

Xu Fu said with a smile: "The day after the fleet's triumphant return, the "Jiangnan Times" used a red headline on the front page, publishing the good news that the general led his troops to exterminate the rebels and recover Dengzhou, and also described in detail the tense battle in Dengzhou to suppress the rebellion at the bottom of the front page, which caused a sensation in the whole city. ”

"The storytellers in the city have stopped all kinds of romance and romance stories, and changed the Dengzhou counterinsurgency into a script, but I don't know what Mr. Ruan thinks, it was divided into three issues of serialization, and it was not until yesterday that the Dengzhou counterinsurgency was published, which made countless people inside and outside the city wait for ten days."

"Many anxious people ran to the Zizhuyuan newspaper office and begged the Jiangnan Times to issue a special issue, and some people asked Mr. Ruan if he was crazy about money and wanted to sell a wonderful story in three parts.

The crowd couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Zhu Daolin also smiled, and found that Ruan Dayue was really a shrewd, capable, and scheming talent, and he could rest assured that he would hand over the public opinion position to him.

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PS: On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve reunion, Xiaohuo wishes everyone a smile, good health, and all the best in the coming year! (To be continued.) )