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Monday, November 21, 1628. Distant North America, China and the United States, Song State, Silver Valley Town.

In late autumn, the North American sugar maple planted in and around the town of Silver Valley turns into a sea of orange and red, and all kinds of oriental ancient or modern simple style buildings are neatly arranged on both sides of the street, and horse-drawn carriages full of goods come and go like dragons. Since the end of the National Day Capital Commodity Fair, a large number of large orders from several trading companies in Qingcheng City, Haizhou and Shuangwan City, Bermuda, have made the freight terminal in Yingu Town very busy.

The first of the latest commercial vessels ordered by the Manchester City Inland Waterway Transport Company has been put into operation and is now docked at the river terminal in Silvervalley, with its open hold and a large number of Silvervalley merchandise. In the coming years, the 440-tonne fully steam-powered merchant ship will be the next generation of workhorses in the Song River and offshore shipping, capable of transporting cargo directly to Bermuda in a single trip from the city of Porter, further north.

Porcelain, enamel home kitchen and bathroom products, and bottled kimchi have become the protagonists of the export of Yingu Town Wharf this year. The above three types of tons and boxes of goods make the dock porters tired, and the dock tax officials who inspect the goods and collect the domestic commodity logistics tax are even more dizzy.

The silver valley enamel company and the silver valley kimchi food company, which were put into production last year, once again made various investment institutions very satisfied. The development layout of the mayor Sun Hongyi and the market vision not only allowed Yingu Town to have two monopoly industries again, but also moved the cake of North Industries Company and Merlin Canned Food Company.

North Industries, which has made a lot of money on all kinds of iron products and stainless steel products for many years, was stunned to find that in just one and a half years, the domestic civilian market was occupied by the enamel products of Yingu Town, and even a large number of orders from Europe turned to this beautiful commodity integrating metal and porcelain.

From bathrooms to tableware, enamel supplies with colorful and floral patterns of plants, birds, and flowers have aroused great interest from the public almost as soon as they are put on the market. In China and the United States, where the aesthetic consciousness of the home is becoming more and more prominent, this kind of artistic and fashionable household goods are far more noble than the stainless steel products that look silver and shiny, and European merchants are even more surprised by this strange "porcelain metal" that is safer and more convenient than authentic porcelain.

The appearance of the Silver Valley Kimchi Food Company is even more bizarre, a Chinese housewife brings lunch to her miner husband, and as a result, some of her pickled vegetables are highly sought after by her husband's co-workers. Many inconspicuous vegetable leaves and roots have been made like this, which actually makes the mouth fragrant and appetite. Seeing that everyone liked it, the Chinese housewife simply rented a small stall on the street and sold her own kimchi. As a result, demand outstrips supply every day.

All kinds of crisp and salty with appropriate seasonal vegetable kimchi. It is a peculiar appetizer in the life of big fish and big meat today, and it has suddenly become a scenery on the streets of Yinggu Town, and even Sun Hongyi often visits one or two, and the fame of this Chinese housewife has greatly increased.

Sun Hongyi, who is well aware of the bottlenecks in the storage and processing of domestic vegetables and fruits. decisively found a position for this virtuous and ingenious Chinese housewife. A variety of flavors of family heirloom kimchi recipes, plus glass bottle packaging, to create a silver valley specialty food brand.

Kimchi is easy to make, salty, sweet, rich and flavorful, and the preservation time is not much less than that of canned fruits and vegetables from Merlin Canned Foods. The retention rate of various vitamins is far higher than that of canned food. The residents of Yinggu Town raised funds and took out bank loans, and the Silver Valley Kimchi Food Company opened last summer, and the Chinese housewife became the chief engineer, and the housewives of Silver Valley Town joined the kimchi company one after another.

Under Sun Hongyi's instructions, a number of samples of the Yingu Kimchi Food Company were directly sent to the army and navy for "tasting". The officers and men of the navy, who were tired of vomiting on canned military food and dry food on long-term voyages, immediately demanded that every time they prepare for war, they should have nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables. The ship is loaded with tons of kimchi, and there are many kinds of salty and light flavors.

The Army soon followed suit, and although the European dumplings of the Foreign Legion stationed in the Caribbean had long been immune to pickles, the oriental pickles, which were "so fresh and tender that they could bite their tongues", suddenly made them lose their ability to resist. A bottle of one-kilogram pickled crispy cucumbers, when supplies are inconvenient. Private transactions within the Foreign Legion residence are worth up to $1! Pickled cucumbers retail for only 20 cents in the domestic market.

The whaling team under the state-owned Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry Group also got some samples from the navy, and the workers of the state-owned construction engineering group, which is engaged in construction in Twin Ports on Butterfly Island, also ate once or twice at the Foreign Legion station. All the feedback from the customers who tasted it made the housewives of Silver Valley Kimchi Food Company excited.

At the beginning, a large number of glass bottle orders made William, the major shareholder of West Point Glass Company, confused, and thought that Silver Valley Town was doing something "unseemly". It wasn't until a large number of bottled kimchi poured into West Point's food market that Mayor William suddenly realized.

Although back a few years ago. Some Chinese residents brought pickled food, but most of them were made for their own use, and they never had such a precise level of taste, and no one thought that this "inconspicuous" food would be processed on a large scale. The army, navy, whaling companies, and major private shipping companies have become the largest demand for Yingu kimchi, and the domestic food consumption market is even more eager. The order received by the Silver Valley Kimchi Food Company almost made the shareholders gasp, especially in August this year, when the Navy ordered as many as 30 tons of kimchi separately at one time, and also required delivery within ten days, which made the housewives of the whole company tired and half dead.

However, before the large-scale listing, the board of directors of Yingu Kimchi Food Company still received a notice jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of National Defense, prohibiting the export of Huamei Kimchi packaged food in any way. Like Merlin's Canned Food Company's products, according to the National Security Law and the Military Defense Export Restriction Act, this long-term shelf-encapsulated kimchi must not be allowed to enter the European Navy.

Well, if you don't export, you won't export, anyway, with the domestic demand for nearly 100 tons of kimchi every month, Yingu Kimchi Food Company can't eat it, and it doesn't have the ability to export it. Sun Hongyi, who has another kimchi in his personal investment project, is indifferent to this restriction.

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Turning the lively wharf, Jenny, dressed in a simple and elegant Han skirt and a tulle sunhat, quietly walked into a quiet small river bay green forest in the southeast corner of Yingu Town.

stopped in front of the Taoist temple, and then silently drew a cross on her chest, and Jenny calmed down and stepped into the Xuanqing Temple.

Privately, Jenny accepted the advice of several Chinese female colleagues on the radio station, and it was her third time to come to Xuanqing Temple, in order to receive Oriental treatment from the Taoist Taoist head of Xuangu.

"Good. Mrs. Cheng is okay? ”

Just after sending away a Chinese resident who was seeing a doctor, Gengu Daoist was dressed in a classic white-washed robe, touched his long beard, and looked at the beautiful European woman sitting in front of him with a smile.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Michicho, thank you very much for your treatment. The medicine has been eaten. Jenny politely took off her hat and saluted. However, the title of Gengu Daoist is a bit ridiculous.

"Maybe I should buy more, you say?" Jenny looked at the Oriental missionary in front of her embarrassedly, and wanted to buy a few more decoction Chinese medicines at one time this time.

"Haha, there is no normalcy in illness. Water is impermanent, how can there be a long-term use? In response to the question raised by this European woman who didn't understand Chinese medicine, Xuan Gu couldn't help but smile, "Come on, come on, let's talk about it." Look at the tongue first, then check the pulse. ”

I didn't really understand the other party's oriental classical way of speaking, but Jenny already knew the other party's "routine", and when she saw that the other party raised her palm, she quickly stretched out her wrist and stuck out her little tongue.

"Hmm...... The moss is white and slippery, and the pulse is like sinking and weak, which is due to the lack of qi and spleen yang, and the middle is weak and cold. However, there is also improvement, and it is still soothing and conditioning...... This medicine is given once a day, and the drug must be stopped for one day every five days, and it will come back after half a month. ”

After asking a few more questions that made Jenny blush, Genya spread out his pen and ink. The dragon walked and the phoenix danced, and a prescription was introduced.

"Apprentice, go and take Mrs. Cheng to pick up the medicine." Summoned the little road boy Mingyue outside the door and took away Jenny with a curious face.

"It's all hard to get a lot of herbs. I'm going to go up the mountain again in a few days......" Skimming the prescription, Mingyue complained again in her heart. But seeing the singer idol who secretly admired next to her, the expression on Mingyue's face was very excited.

"There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest, this Mrs. Cheng is really eager to ask for a son......" Xuangu picked up the floating dust, danced in a semicircle in front of him, and looked at Jenny's distant back with a smile.

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In the afternoon, Jenny crossed the Song River and came to West Point.

Jenny hadn't been to West Point since she got married, and the moment she stepped off the ferry, Jenny felt like she was in the wrong place.

Today's West Point Town has long since changed dramatically, and the low, simple mixed wood houses near the port area have long been gone, and the boulevard is flanked by beautiful two-story buildings separated by snow-white wooden fences. The streets, horse-drawn carriages, shops, pedestrians, moving or still, are dizzying.

Walking slowly along the street, she could still hear her own songs playing on the radio in the square not far away, and Jenny couldn't help but laugh. With their sunhats and veils and the fact that they had been here for years, passers-by were unaware that the young woman walking by was a heartthrob in the country.

At the end of the street came a group of beautifully dressed children, singing a nursery rhyme. The oldest of the children was only four or five years old, and the team was followed by two middle-aged women with teachers' work cards around their necks.

Turning away from the street, watching these lovely children walk by, Jenny seemed to be distracted.

"Auntie." A childish female voice sounded in her ears, calling Jenny back from her trance, and when she looked down, she saw a little blonde girl in an autumn dress standing in front of her, and a small hand also grabbed the decorative ribbon hanging from the waist of her Han dress.

"Thank God, what a lovely little angel!" Seeing the innocent and splendid appearance of the child greeting herself, Jenny was sweet in her heart, and quickly squatted down and happily touched the other party's little face, "Little cutie, sue me, what's your name?" ”

"Alice." The little girl stuck out her tongue, grimaced, and giggled again.

"Oh, don't be left behind, honey!" A middle-aged female teacher in a European kindergarten walked over, first bowed slightly to Jenny politely, and then led the little girl who ran out of the line halfway to her side, "I'm really sorry, Alice wouldn't have been so naughty before." ”

"No, she's obedient!" Jenny quickly straightened up and subconsciously pressed her sunhat, "May I ask which direction is the town cemetery?" ”

"Miss must be her first time in West Point, right?" The kindergarten teacher was surprised, turned around and pointed in the direction, "Go west along the street." You can see it in about a quarter of an hour. ”

The children were far away again, and Jenny stood still, looking at the distant figure, and sighed softly.

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Soon after, a corner of West Point Cemetery. Jenny stopped under a North American sugar pine. Quietly look at the snow-white cross tombstone in front of you. The tombstone bears Brenda's name and is hung with a wreath of wreath that has withered for quite some time, and a small bow made of cloth.

Curiously, he reached out and took the bow in his hand, only to see a line written crookedly on it with a pencil: "Alice will always love her mother." ”

Alice...... Look up in a certain direction. Jenny slowly removed her visor, a smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.

"God will always care for you, Mrs. Scott......" Jenny drew a cross on her chest and placed the flowers in her hand in front of the tombstone.

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It was dusk, and the heating engineer from Manchester City's heating company was still walking around the villa. Make a final check for the ducted heating that will be turned on at the end of the month. The winter-heating facility, which was officially piloted last winter, has now been trialled for a year in the southern part of Manchester City, and people will gradually say goodbye to fireplaces and honeycomb coal, which are safety hazards in winter heating. However, like power engineering, such a high-cost home heating scheme is not available to ordinary national families.

After a dinner carefully served by the nanny, An Shaoqing sat on the sofa in his study, looking with interest at the letters that his student Frey had sent from Yueshan Island. A little girl in an autumn dress is obediently kneeling on the carpet by the sofa, holding a rag doll and playing.

The geological expedition of the new generation of honor otaku Frey on Moonhill Island made An Shaoqing full of praise. Although he knew about Reunion Island for an early age, this simple student letter reveals a lot of fascinating 17th-century Reunion Island flavors.

The "Indian Ocean String of Pearls" project was slowly brewing in an unwritten government cabinet vision, but the plan, which aimed to connect Portugal's Asian colony of Malacca, was hotly debated at the cabinet level. for a certain period of time. Supporting and making the best use of the Portuguese in the East Indies is a position that Foreign Minister Su Zining has strongly adhered to, a position strongly supported by Finance Minister Liu Xin and Minister of Civil Affairs Wei Zhen, while Minister of Homeland Security Liu Yun and Minister of Immigration Li Xiang. insisted on increasing the country's efforts to make independent immigration, emphasizing the importance of an independent control of the eastern route.

The once united government cabinet. It is the first time that there have been internal differences in national policy, and the occupation of Reunion Island is actually the result of a compromise between contradictions and escalation. Because of the dispatch of an expeditionary fleet, which occupies one-third of the country's current ocean-going capacity, Su Zining's prediction that the country's economic growth rate in the third quarter has dropped significantly, which has now become a reality, and has also calmed down those who hope to continue to realize the "Indian Ocean String of Pearls" plan.

Reunion Island, or the present-day Gassan Island, became the country's farthest overseas territory outside of the Natuna Island in Southeast Asia. However, at present, the state does not have the energy or ability to fully develop Wolsan Island, and at best it can only be used as a supply depot, and naturally there is no formal administrative structure.

But in the eyes of An Shaoqing, the minister of land and resources, this is a beginning for him to "realize the value of his life". An Shaoqing does not intend to give away all his knowledge, but allows students to "discover", "summarize" and "develop" on their own with the basic theoretical knowledge they have learned so far. Although this decision caused a lot of doubts and worries from people in the Congressional Commission of Science, Technology and Industry, for fear of delaying the future of the country, An Shaoqing insisted on his opinion.

The advanced application of scientific theories and technologies made the United States in the 17th century change with each passing day, but also exposed a kind of social outlook that was too "sitting back and enjoying the results". An Shaoqing does not think that this country needs to raise several generations of citizens without any intellectual curiosity and scientific enterprising spirit like a super genius nanny, and a group of Chinese and American citizens who only know how to passively enjoy the ready-made fruits of the time-traveler and "stretch out their hands" will not be able to take over the baton of the second half of the restoration project of modern science and technology.

Perhaps this line of thinking will cause concern for a period of time that the pace of the country's scientific and technological development will be slowed, but for China and the United States, which have been leading the world for more than 200 years, a national scientific enterprising spirit that remains vigorous may be more important. An Shaoqing's views finally made the bigwigs of the Senate and the Commission of Science and Technology fall into deep thought.

According to a hypothetical theory of Hong Changlin, the Minister of Industry, the scientific and technological development curve of this new country, which was created by a group of two-knife traversers, will be a strange "S" shape. Driven by the national science and technology restoration project, the scientific and technological development curve will rise in a straight line, but the gap in a large number of technical details and system knowledge, as well as the gradual aging of the current generation, the scientific and technological development curve will eventually stagnate at a certain stage, or even begin to decline. The time point is probably around 1650.

This situation must be reorganized after the popularization of large-scale higher education in the second and even third generations, and the systematic theoretical knowledge of various walks of life can be reorganized, and it is possible to continue to develop along the road, probably around 1670. The 10 to 20 years of stagnation and decline in the middle will be the most difficult period of exploration.

It does take courage to overcome the "persecution paranoia" in the depths of the human heart. And An Shaoqing is out of Xiàn. It is a truly responsible historical attitude towards this country created by time-travelers. The core ideas of the national science and technology restoration project have been revised and adjusted, and in addition to the core projects that are being carried out, in the field where the theoretical system knowledge is most comprehensive. It will no longer be "scientifically arranged" by the traversers, but will be released to a new generation of highly educated intellectuals in advance.

Including the entire set of periodic tables, a number of "historical plagiarism pleasures" that began to be set off this year were stopped, although this decision deeply hit some ** silk youth, but the opinion of the Science and Technology Commission was still recognized by the Senate. The periodic table ended up publishing only the first few dozen elements. There are even a dozen elements that are completely incomprehensible from the 17th century left blank for students to study on their own using the basics they have learned.

After flipping through the pages of the letter in his hand, An Shaoqing couldn't help but admire Frey's amazing scientific talent and academic attitude, because Frey proposed in the letter that the dodo, a strange bird, may be a species that has been "domesticated by nature", which has begun to be infinitely close to the "theory of evolution"!

"Daddy...... I don't want to go to kindergarten...... When will mom come back. ”

Just when An Shaoqing was thinking about it and happily clapped her thighs for her proud protégé, the girl who had been playing silently next to her raised her head and raised the ragdoll toy in her hand.

This little girl is one of the two baby girls adopted by An Shaoqing and Zhang Li more than three years ago, and the eldest is almost five years old. He was also the youngest of the children who were abducted and trafficked to North America by the Dutch. It is said that when Daming boarded the ship, the baby girl was supposed to follow her biological mother, but unfortunately, the mother of the baby girl died of illness shortly after arriving in North America.

The other second daughter is a baby girl of Portuguese origin. The orphan, who died of illness after her mother immigrated to North America, is not yet four years old this year.

The girl next to her is now named An Jie, the eldest daughter of An Shaoqing and Zhang Li, plus the second daughter An Shu. His wife Zhang Li's biological son An Yang gave birth to in 1626, and he had to be ranked third. Right now. Zhang Li, who is pregnant again, is taking An Shu and An Yangyuan on vacation in Shuangwan City, Bermuda, leaving only the old otaku An Shaoqing alone at home to guard his eldest daughter.

became the adopted daughter of An at the age of more than a year, and Xiao Anjie has almost no childhood memories, so no matter how you look at it, she is like the biological daughter of An Shaoqing and his wife.

"I'm coming back soon, Xiaojie misses her mother?" An Shaoqing took the eldest daughter into his arms, touched the other party's soft hair, and smiled with a smile on his face, "Dad will send you to kindergarten tomorrow and pick you up after work!" ”

"Okay!" Parents are usually very busy, and the poor child is taken care of by a nanny most of the time, and when she heard that her father was going to the kindergarten to pick her up in person, An Jie smiled and squinted.

Late at night, An Shaoqing was holding his sleeping daughter while writing hard in front of the bookcase, intending to speed up the writing of "Mineral Classification", and at the same time, several people with similar urgency were also staying up late.

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The first news from the Far East, which was finally made public in the domestic media at the end of November, also made the attention of 70,000 new and old Chinese citizens once again turn to the farther east. The transcontinental expedition of thousands of officers and men of the Navy and Army has always caused the families of the officers and men to go out on the expedition with a kind of worry that is not easy to express.

In the eyes of tens of thousands of old citizens, perhaps only their own country in the world has such exhausting and frequent military operations. It is unlikely that their sons or husbands will appear in the newspaper by name, but people still cling to the newspaper and look between the lines for possible shadows of their relatives. Now the headline in the newspapers, "The Expeditionary Fleet Opens to Victory" and the results of the zero casualties, finally make people breathe a sigh of relief.

Yang Xiaohua's "Malacca Experience", after being polished by the propaganda department, made most of the Europeans who had never had the opportunity to really go to the East to see the true face in their lives talk about it, while the Chinese nationals who had "luckily" settled in Malacca were skeptical with the newspaper and had reservations about the "heavenly wealth" depicted in the article.

In any case, as soon as the news of such an extensive expeditionary fleet activity was published, the attention and concern of the domestic import and export trade due to the deterioration of ocean shipping were diverted, and the Congress was optimistic that Zhang Chunrui and Yan Xiaosong would be able to transport back the long-delayed Ming immigrants. (To be continued)