Chapter 57: Fooling Mom

On the way to the mansion with Alexandra and Fabio, Zhao Lie carefully observed the changes in Shidao in the past two months, the street was basically renovated, and the military and civilian housing had been built according to Zhao Lie's requirements, which was the first residence built for the craftsmen, divided into large and small houses, and distributed according to the merits, which also reflected Zhao Lie's idea, who has the technology who enjoys it first, in order to stimulate the enterprising spirit of the craftsmen and change the lowly status of the craftsmen for thousands of years. Next is the residence of Mr. Teaching and the Army. As for ordinary people's homes, they can only be built slowly, after all, the time is limited.

These construction activities can ensure the income of the Liao people, improve their lives, and give them hope in life.

At that moment, Zhao Lie saw more smiles from many Liao people passing by, and even heard some Liao people singing small songs while working, Zhao Lie understood that they had a belonging, so they could be in the mood to laugh.

Alexandra also looked around, and at a glance she understood that many people here were homeless, because many of them were ragged and disheveled, but compared to the dull and desperate eyes of many homeless beggars in Macau, the mood of the homeless people here was much happier and cleaner. The main thing is that they are organized and busy, not desperately sluggish.

"That's what you're talking about refugees, a lot." Alexandra asked. In her opinion, it is quite a few to see nearly 1,000 refugees on and off.

"Not much, more than 10,000 refugees have already entered the army, sailors, workshops, and many more in the refugee camps." Zhao Lie replied.

In Macau, Zhao Lie talked about hundreds of thousands of refugees, that is a number, in Shidao, Alexandra just saw more than a thousand refugees already felt a lot, thinking of hundreds of thousands of huge numbers, Alexandra was silent, what kind of human tragedy this is, it is unimaginable.

Zhao Lie was also stunned, in Macau, he told Alexandra that there were hundreds of thousands of refugees, indeed, but if you count the hundreds of thousands of people who have been buried in the white mountains and black waters, there are more than one million.

The mansion is not big, it is just a courtyard of Sanjin, according to the rules, the guests are arranged in the middle, the maid Wang Yue came to help Alexandra place the items, and Zhao Lie was found by Zhao Qin to admonish.

"Let's talk about it, Lie'er, what does this girl have to do with you, don't say some nonsense that prevaricates me. Your connection is almost written on your face. Zhao Qin asked with a straight face.

"Mother, this daughter is a nobleman of the Kingdom of Portugal, equivalent to the daughter of the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, this time she is really the ambassador of the Portuguese to our side," Zhao Lie saw Taishang's eyebrows rise, and immediately changed his route. "However, it is also true that the child admires her very much."

"Lie'er, this is what I am a Ming man for...... This Yi people have a lot of contempt, and in the future, there will be a lot of rumors, you can understand this. "The Ming people have always been arrogant, and all the non-our races are Yidi, but they are just Dongyi, Xiyi, Nanyi, and Beiyi. Zhao Qin's clan couldn't turn this corner.

"Mother, this is a thing of the past, now the Western maritime power has invaded my Ming Dynasty, the former's father and you have also heard that they attacked my Fujian, and my Ming Dynasty's most powerful Fujian naval division suffered heavy losses, while the enemy Dutch only had four or five giant ships, and they could not hold on to hundreds of warships of the Fujian naval division." Zhao Lie said.

This news, Zhao Qin's family heard Zhao Haiming say that it was just a joke to coax the imperial court and the emperor's great victory, and the real situation was just that dozens of people in Yidi were killed and injured and a big ship was destroyed.

"Instead, the Portuguese forcibly occupied our Ming Dynasty and Macao, opened a government in the local government, stationed troops, and collected taxes." Zhao Lie said carefully.

Zhao Qin's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Lie'er, don't coax your mother, how can the cabinet and the Long Live Lord agree."

"Mother, the most important thing is that the Ming court, including the cabinet, has a request from the Portuguese, and their other name is Franco." Zhao Liexin said, how do I know that the Portuguese occupied Macao for nothing without a single shot, it must have been a bribe to the local officials, this is the simplest and most effective means, ancient and modern.

Oh, Zhao Qin's suddenly realized, as the family of the sailor general, he is very familiar with the Franco machine, and the Ming Dynasty is either imitating the Franco machine or purchasing the Franco machine. It turns out that there is a request for people.

"The Portuguese also look down on our Ming people very much, they don't pay attention to hygiene, their armaments are backward, and they call us natives." Zhao Lie said.

"What, natives," Zhao Qin roughly understood what this meant, similar to Yi Di. Eyebrows immediately raised, "Da Ming is also what they commented on arbitrarily." ”

Although Zhao Qin's disdain, however, the superiority of the Ming Dynasty has become much lighter.

"The point is, the children also have a request for them, such as giant ships, cannons, firearms, mother, you have also seen their warships, one can carry dozens of cannons, ours can only carry a few giant cannons. If you form an alliance and know its skills, my Zhao family will build dozens of giant ships and hundreds of huge cannons, and who else can counterbalance them. Zhao Lie said that he couldn't say that the Portuguese were captured by him and semi-forced.

"That's right," Zhao Qin's small account, which is good at running a family, crackled and calculated, and he understood the trade-off. It seems that the status of the woman that this son likes is very important.

At this point, the biggest resistance in the family disappeared, and Zhao Lie was also relieved.

On that side, Wang Yue was half under the inducement of Alexandra, and half under the heart of showing off, and sold Zhao Lie to the bottom.

When she heard that the northeast of the Ming Dynasty had fallen to millions of people, hundreds of thousands of people died, and millions of people fled, Alexandra was shocked, and the whole of Portugal was only a few million people, and she also understood the cruelty of the war to destroy the country in the east, and Portugal also lost the country, but there was no major military disaster. When he heard that Zhao Lie led people to defeat Jiannu in person and brought back tens of thousands of refugees, he was worried and excited. When he heard that there were still hundreds of thousands of refugees waiting to be rescued, Alexandra probably understood the purpose of Zhao Lie's desire for giant ships and cannons, the road was far away, there was only a sea battle, and the northern barbarians should also have a large navy, so Zhao Lie's idea of wanting to build Western-style ships could be understood, defeat the enemy army, open the sea route, and save the people.

It seems that this great Ming man who made her heart flutter did not deceive her, he was a brave and kind knight, Alexandra thought sweetly. She took it for granted that the building was crooked, if she knew that Jiannu's sailor was a scumbag, I don't know how to feel.

Next, it is time to relax the mind, and it is time to exchange Eastern and Western clothing, dress, and customs.

The dinner, Zhao Qin's family was very rich, Zhao Lie's family, Li Mingyu's father and daughter, Fabio, Alexandra gathered together, Zhao Lie first gave a welcome speech, Alexandra and Fabio returned the salute, and the dinner officially began.

Early the next morning, Zhao Lie led Zhao Meng, Huang Han, Li Hu, Zhao Da, Tang Xianwen and other people, came to the Martyrs' Shrine, Shidao Martyrs' Shrine covers an area of dozens of acres, composed of the front yard, the main hall, the left and right wings, and the backyard. The contrast between black and white is more solemn and solemn.

Zhao Lie came to the main hall, there are ten stone walls in the middle and back of the hall, sacrifices such as rice and meat are placed on the offering table in front of the stone wall, there is no statue of Guan Gong and other statues in the hall, Zhao Lie does not think that Guan Gong has anything to do with the good war under his command, and only the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country are worthy of incense in the main hall. However, only a stone wall is carved out of the soldiers fighting the enemy artillery at sea.

Zhao Lie took the lead in lighting incense in turn, placed it in the huge incense burner before the confession, and everyone knelt down in front of the case to give a salute. After the ceremony, everyone turned to the side hall.

In the west wing room is placed is the water division tablet, Zhao Lie led everyone into the spacious wing room, at a glance saw the lonely fifteen black tablets placed on the altar in the middle, because the water division died at sea only sea burial, so only the identity plate was recovered, if it is the land division after cremation, it can be brought back to the backyard cemetery.

Zhao Lie and the others still offered incense, and the master of ceremonies said: "Enter the offerings." ”

Yu Dabao led ten guards to present rice, meat, dishes and other vegetables.

"Incense."

Zhao Lie and others lit incense in turn.

"Bow down."

Zhao Lie was in front, and everyone knelt in front of the case.

"Three prostrations."

Zhao Lie and others kowtowed three times to show respect.

"Finished."

Zhao Lie waited for him to get up.

Zhao Lie took a few steps forward and looked at the fifteen tablets, only to see that it was written:

Wang Fu, born in Haizitun, Liaoyang, Liaodong, was lost in the sea off Xiaoliuqiu in the fifth year of the Apocalypse

Xia Donggang was born in Donggang Village, Haizhou, Liaodong, and was submerged in the sea off Xiaoliuqiu in the fifth year of the Apocalypse

Cao Jiu was born in Phoenix City, Liaodong, and the five-year battle of the Apocalypse was not in the sea off Xiaoliuqiu

Fang Hai was born in Weihaiwei, Shandong, and was submerged in the sea off Xiaoliuqiu in the fifth year of the Apocalypse......

Zhao Lie looked at the empty hall and was speechless for a long time, he knew that with his own expedition, sooner or later there would be a black and white tablet here, but he just hoped that there would not be a day when he couldn't put it up.

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