When the empire was first established, although the royal family held some activities every year, there was no fixed tradition, sometimes the Mid-Autumn Festival, sometimes the Dragon Boat Festival, sometimes the early spring, in short, there was no fixed place.

However, although the empire has been established for a longer and longer time, Lin Zhe has always paid more attention to the communication with his courtiers to promote the natural closeness between the upper class and the royal family, so he pays more attention to holding some state banquets, cocktail parties and other activities.

Over time, several fixed traditions have slowly formed, such as the Lantern Festival State Banquet, the Early Spring Garden Party and the Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Appreciation Banquet.

These activities have basically become a must-have program for the royal family every year, and these three activities are also different.

For example, in the early spring garden party, the political connotation is mainly inclined to the diplomatic level, and the initial invitation personnel will not only be military and political dignitaries in Beijing, but also foreign envoys of various countries in China, their wives, and representatives of foreigners in China. At the same time, the spring garden party is nominally organized by Queen Chen Jing, the family entertainment component is relatively strong, men, women and children can participate, not to say that a man and a woman are matched alone, usually the people who are invited can bring their wives and one or two children to come, and the royal family In addition to Lin Zhe and Queen Chen Jing, some princes and princesses and a small number of concubines will also attend.

It's just that in the early years, the political meaning was still relatively strong, but in the past two years, there has been a development towards blind dates sponsored by the royal family, because when many military and political dignitaries bring their children to participate, this gives those young people a chance to get acquainted, and sometimes many military and political dignitaries simply regard this occasion as an occasion to find children from various families.

In a few decades, the early spring garden party will become a purely social occasion. It became an important occasion for the children of those aristocratic families to enter the social circle.

The Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing banquet is mainly for those young and talented people in China, mainly inviting middle-level outstanding officers and officials. This Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing banquet is also the most politically meaningful, many young officers and officials of the empire are very much looking forward to coming to the occasion, on this day, Lin Zhe is generally alone to attend, and the people who participate in the banquet are also alone, a group of big men say that they are drinking and admiring the moon. But in fact, because there are no outsiders or ordinary people here, they are talking about some major political topics.

The Lantern Festival State Banquet, which is now being held, is the Lantern Festival State Banquet. At the beginning, the original intention was to have fun with the people, so the people invited were mainly representatives from all walks of life in the empire, and the show component was relatively large.

Since it is a show, Lin Zhe naturally wants to play the play well. This day. Lin Zhe will put down the high-flying shelves on weekdays, but will talk cordially with those ordinary people's representatives.

When Lin Zhe stepped into the venue, the people in the hall had already consciously divided a passage, and then they all bowed half-bowed, Lin Zhe held Chen Jing with one hand, and gently raised the other hand, and the secretary next to him immediately sang: "Flat!" ”

At this time, everyone raised their heads to look at Lin Zhe and his wife who slowly walked into the venue. I saw Lin Zhe wearing an ordinary black Chinese costume, the only thing that was different from ordinary people's Chinese costumes was. His Chinese outfit is in the direction of the cuffs, embroidered with a golden dragon with teeth and claws.

Lin Zhe walked up slowly, walked to an elderly man next to him with a smile on his face, and then said, "Principal Song, welcome to the palace as a guest!" ”

The old man's expression at this moment seemed to be a little excited, he is actually not an ordinary person, but a well-known educator in northern Jiangsu, was a former Qing Ju but never entered the scholar in his life, after the establishment of the empire to encourage private education, this person because of the prestige in his hometown, plus a little family capital, so he pulled a vote to establish Xuzhou Higher High School in Xuzhou, and served as the principal of the school.

And Xuzhou High School is also the earliest private high school in China!

Not only that, with the experience of founding Xuzhou Higher High School, he also pulled a vote of wealthy gentry who were willing to fund the development of education, and raised up to hundreds of thousands of yuan to establish Subei University in one fell swoop, which is also the earliest private university in China, and its development is quite rapid, and now it has surpassed some newly established government universities and higher normal schools in China, and has become one of the universities that domestic high school graduates choose to apply for.

If there is a ranking, Subei University should be in the top ten in the country, and there are only two military schools in its signature, as well as several prestigious government-run universities, such as Imperial University, Jiangnan University, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai University, Zhili University, and Nanguang University.

The rest of the universities that have been newly established in the past two years, as well as those higher normal schools, such as Huguang University, Anqing Higher Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, etc., are still inferior to Jiangbei University, a private university, in terms of scale and teachers.

It is not difficult to understand that such a capable folk educator can be invited to the palace to participate in the Lantern Festival state banquet.

It's just that Rao is Principal Song is also a person who has seen the world, and he talks and laughs with those prefects and even governors on weekdays, but today in front of Lin Zhe, he is completely reserved, and he can't help the excitement in his heart like a child.

Seeing his gaffe, Lin Zhe didn't care, he didn't know it in the early years, but the longer he spent in this era, the more he understood the thoughts of some contemporary people.

In their subtlety, the emperor is an existence that can hardly be looked up to, especially in the hearts of traditional scholars, the status of the Son of Heaven is even beyond that of God.

Later generations, when people see people like the president, they will be very excited, but after all, future generations are people who are more open-minded and receive more information, and they may be nervous when facing the president, but in fact, they can't talk about how excited, there are really those who are so excited that they cry, and most of them are acting in front of the camera.

I guess after leaving the camera, he will mutter: "What a thing!" ”

In the nineteenth century, when the feudal era was still in the feudal era, the title of Son of Heaven still had a natural magic, and there was a natural fear and respect for the royal family, especially among traditional Confucian students.

Lin Zhe saw that the Principal Song in front of him was obviously out of shape, but he didn't show any impatience, this show, naturally he wanted to look better, so he took a step forward, and then patted Principal Song's shoulder: "It is precisely because of people like Principal Song that the private education of the empire can reach a higher level!" ”

"Please continue to work hard to provide more and better educational opportunities for students all over the world!"

Principal Song nodded at this time: "The students must live up to their hopes!" ”

There are a lot of people here today, and although Lin Zhe will not talk to them one by one, the secretariat has also selected one or two dozen more important representatives from all walks of life, and they have to say a few words more or less.

When Lin Zhe went to see these people, the accompanying secretary next to him approached from time to time and reminded Lin Zhe in his ear, for example, when he came to an old woman: "This is the Du Li clan of Ningbo Prefecture, a family of four heroic martyrs, his husband was the eldest husband of our army in his early years, and was martyred in the Battle of Changle, and then his eldest son and third son joined the army successively, and were martyred in the War of Unification, and his eldest grandson served in the Northeast after graduating from the military academy, and was a captain of the army, and was martyred in a battle with Russia last winter. ”

"Mrs. Du, please mourn, it is precisely because of the dedication and sacrifice of your husband and children that the empire can rise and bring happiness and stability to the people of the world!

That Du Li didn't reply, but the old eyes revealed a lament!

Lin Zhe didn't say much, then continued to walk forward, and asked the secretary beside him: "How is the funeral of the Du family arranged?" ”

The accompanying secretary naturally didn't know about Du Li's situation, but as Lin Zhe's accompanying secretary, he had checked the list of all the people who attended the state banquet today and the basic information in the past few days, and even checked the detailed background information of some of the more important guests.

The people who can serve as Lin Zhe's accompanying secretary are not simple roles, not to mention the rest, at least Bowen and good memorization are necessary conditions, at least when Lin Zhe asks some questions, they must be able to answer them at any time.

The accompanying secretary thought for a moment and immediately replied: "The army has listed the Du family as a first-class military family, and the annual pension has been increased by 50 percent on the original basis, and has borne the expenses for the follow-up education of Captain Du's eldest son, and at the same time promised to give him a place to enter the army military academy without examination. ”

Such privileges may not seem like much to later generations, but they are actually quite good in modern times! Not to mention the pension, except for the empire, other countries have not issued any pension to ordinary soldiers in recent years, and it has been paid steadily for a long time.

Under normal circumstances, if a soldier dies in battle, his family will pay a one-time pension of varying amounts to his relatives according to the rank and position of the deceased soldier during his lifetime, and the disability is also a one-time payment of a certain amount of pension, of course, this is an ordinary situation, if the soldier made a suicide note before his death, such as designating the recipient of the pension, and choosing to pay the pension on a monthly or annual basis, the military will also follow the advice of the soldier to make relevant changes.

However, apart from the pension, there is no other preferential treatment, only in some very special circumstances will be arranged, for example, if the soldier dies and his family has no other main labor force, the military will arrange some work for the family after the family takes the initiative to apply.

As for paying for the children's education, and even granting them exemption from examinations to the army officer school, this is a special case.

Lin Zhe frowned slightly after hearing this, although the military arrangement was quite appropriate, it was still not enough, and he immediately spoke: "The situation of the Du family, you turn back and make people pay attention to one or two, you can't make the soldiers of the empire chill!" ”

There are not a lot of military families and grassroots soldiers who came today, and there are more than a dozen of them in total, and this is also Lin Zhe's consistent performance of preferential treatment of soldiers.

Lin Zhe needs to use occasions like today to continue to send a message to the outside world, that is, whether it is now or in the future, the military will still be the cornerstone of the empire, and the military will continue to maintain a high social status. (To be continued.) )