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What changes could have taken place in two years in the grand and slow-paced 17th century?

A newly planted pepper plant in India or the Moluccas, which can blossom and bear fruit after two years, has been seducing Europeans with its pungent fragrance of "black gold".

After two years, the Governor of Portugal finally received a reply to the letter sent to Lisbon before deciding whether to continue sending a fleet to support the dying colony of Timor.

In two years, a long-priced North Sea sail galen was able to set sail from deck to railing, laden with cannons, stinking bacon, and stone-like black bread on its way to the other side of the world.

For two years, Spain's silver fleet galleons could only circle the earth once and circulate the goods of the two worlds in the eastern and western hemispheres for one week, quietly accumulating the power of the entire world's oceans to change.

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Friday, July 6, 1628.

Another year's summer harvest began, and the total planting area of spring wheat across the country hit a record of 100,000 mu in 1628, and the harvest is expected to exceed the 30,000-ton mark. This year's summer wheat harvest alone is enough to feed the current population of the country for two whole years!

In the vast farms and fields of North America, rows of heavy pack horse-drawn accumulator combine harvesters sweep across the golden earth like a huge brush, steam-powered threshers spit out golden wheat grains, and horse-drawn carts go back and forth between the barn and the barn. In the livestock farm, flocks of sheep are driven by the peasants and workers in the pens, one by one they are shaved and then continue to chew under the guidance of the sheepdogs.

In the north, Porter City once again accounted for more than half of the national production of summer wheat harvest, while Jersey Town, which is committed to agricultural development with Porter, continued to set a new record for the number of pigs, cattle, sheep and livestock slaughtered in a single month. In the past month, more than 3,000 pigs, cattle and sheep have been slaughtered from livestock farms in Jersey Town, and there are more chickens, ducks and eggs.

Large-scale farms may not necessarily have a higher yield per mu than the intensive farming model of Daming small-scale farmers, but combined with more advanced agricultural machinery, scientific planting and intensive management, their total output and cost are enough to crush any family-based smallholder economy.

The phased agricultural development plan formulated under the leadership of Minister of Agriculture Wu Linyun is the most fruitful government decision since the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the past few years, with the use of the limited agricultural population, the problem of domestic strategic food security has been basically solved. With the exception of rice and edible oil, which are still dominated by European imports, domestic wheat prices are 30 percent lower than 1,626, and the prices of other non-staple foods are also reduced by between 15 and 40 percent. The volume of grain imports and trade dropped to less than 10 percent of that of previous years in an instant after the beginning of summer this year, but on the contrary, the call for increasing domestic wheat exports became louder and louder.

The second national census had ended, and the national population ended in June 1628. More than 66,000 people. Among them, there are more than 38,000 Chinese, more than 20,500 Europeans, and more than 7,500 Indians. There are more than 52,000 adults over the age of 16, and the number of minors under the age of 16 continues to rise, reaching more than 14,000.

A few years earlier, the Minister of Health and Education, Qi Yu, had estimated a "digital catastrophe" when the total number of newborn babies across the country in June 1628 reached a terrifying peak of 700. If this state of affairs continues, it is within a few years that the number of minors will exceed one third of the country's population.

Someone in the government cabinet once joked about it. The biggest source of noise in the country is not the river steam carriers on the Song River, nor the factory floors in industrial parks, but the maternity wards of the obstetrics and gynecology departments of hospitals.

It has to be said that the chaos of the Thirty Years' War in Europe has indeed benefited the American Republic of China a lot in the past two years. The stable internal peaceful development environment and the sustained and steadily growing export trade make every family live a dreamlike life of stability and prosperity.

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At noon, there was a long queue in front of several newspaper kiosks in the commercial street of Twin Ports on Butterfly Island. The latest issue of "Huamei Literary Weekly" has just been shipped from China and has begun to be sold and distributed to the outside world.

Since the end of last year, the "Chinese American Literary Weekly" has been officially launched. It is an affiliated publication of the Manchester City Weekly news agency, and it is full of hilarious jokes from the start.

After several years of national literacy education and literary fashion guidance, all kinds of gorgeous literary works have sung against European-style literature on the other side of the Atlantic from the very beginning. The combination of literary fashion brought about by the European Renaissance and the aesthetics of Oriental literature, and then forcibly mixed with modern cultural factors, has created a large number of peculiar works of the "bull's head is not the horse's mouth", and cross-species thriller love poems similar to "Your dog and my sheep are intimate" are endless.

A group of 17th-century writers who were close to the glamorous fashion of the 17th century were happy to submit their posts, not minding that a few years ago they were illiterate people who could not even write letters. Most of the submissions are of poor quality, and the fundamental reason is that Zhang Ruohan, the editor-in-chief of Manchester City Weekly and Huamei Literary Weekly, is too avant-garde.

"Whether the work is good or not is a matter of ability, and whether or not to write is a matter of attitude. Ability can be insufficient, but the attitude must be correct! ”

This is Zhang Ruohan's "shout" to the whole society when the "Huamei Literary Weekly" was founded. As long as the manuscript of the work is adopted, the manuscript fee is very generous, so there are always a group of people who are sullen in their bones among ordinary citizens who will write some incredible "literary works" "with no conscience".

After publishing several issues in a row, after facing the fact that a large number of "Chinese classes are taught by physical education teachers", Zhang Ruohan himself was a little unable to sit still, and he must know that every issue of the publication must be kept in the archives for future generations to admire. In accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Culture and Education, which was reorganized in the latest work of the government department of the government, the Huamei Literary Weekly, a cultural publication of historical significance, must be archived in the National Library every issue.

If people see these early things in the early days of the journal a hundred years later, the image of Zhang Ruohan, as the editor-in-chief, I don't know what people will laugh at in private. For the sake of his image in later generations, Zhang Ruohan had to raise the threshold for the review of works, which also led to a sharp decline in the number of manuscripts.

It is estimated that it will be a few years before the local writers of Huamei are born, but the "Huamei Literary Weekly" cannot wait for the emergence of the great writers before it is founded, and it is not yet known who is the chicken and who is the egg. So Zhang Ruohan, who "adheres to the original spirit", finally compromised with fate.

After the Spring Festival in 1628, the "Huamei Literary Weekly" began to serialize the short story "The Soul Breaks the Blue Bridge". Editor-in-chief Zhang Ruohan personally wrote the author.

"Broken Blue Bridge" is naturally plagiarized and adapted from the plot of classic romance movies in later generations. A fictional U.S. Army officer in West Point meets a bar dancer in Twin Ports, Butterfly Island, and the poignant love story is heartbreaking. The Blue Bridge is the Saltwater River Bridge on Butterfly Island, because the bridge deck and railings are painted blue, so the citizens of Butterfly Island Twin Ports call it "Blue Bridge".

The love affair between a gorgeous officer and a bar dancer who falls in love is forcibly separated by a war against the barbarians, and the heroine gets the error message that her lover has died after months of waiting...... At the end of the story, the innocent heroine dies in the Blue Bridge, and the tragic ending of love is tear-jerking. Several issues of serialization are over. Letters poured in from all over the country, especially the people of West Point, who sent representatives to the publishing house to "ask for explanations" and strongly protest the tragic ending of the story. In their eyes, an Army officer from West Point could not face the cruel fact that his lover had lost his life in Huangquan no matter what. The West Point representatives, who had lost their minds for a while, also besieged the publishing house. If it weren't for the police coming to disperse and arrest a few young boys, it would have been the first "literary prison" in the history of the United States.

The emotional fluctuations of popular literature set off by "Broken Blue Bridge" have not passed, and the Chinese-dominated people have ushered in a more shocking long-form literature "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"! It is said that when Su Zining first saw this title, his first comment was "shuddering".

How did "Guo Jing", one of the ancestors of the former Song Dynasty in the United States, punish evil and promote good in the turbulent Southern Song Dynasty, traveled north and south of the river, and worked hard to safeguard the dignity of the country and the nation. In the end, he was unable to return to the sky, and when the country was broken, he did not die as a slave to the country, and fled overseas with hatred and beauty. The content of the story is heart-wrenching and makes people's blood boil. The confidante "Huang Rong" made the young Chinese in China fascinated and imaginative. Although the vulgar plot that deviates from the original work of later generations has just begun, every week on the release day of "Huamei Literary Weekly", a large number of Chinese citizens will rush to it, and the period will be out of stock. "Brother Jing" and the like are also very smooth among Chinese girls.

In order to adapt these two masterpieces, Zhang Ruohan lost a lot of hair. The pressure of being despised by the insiders is also great, but seeing that the sales are so hot and the rave reviews are overwhelming, I am also relieved.

Popular literature has immediately formed a new cultural trend in China, and popular science educational publications have naturally not lagged behind. In April 1628, the "geographer" An Shaoqing's professional book "Geological Exploration" was officially published, in which the theory of geological plate drift was put forward for the first time, which caused a public outcry including the crossing public.

In May, "metallurgist" Lin Youde's university engineering textbook "How Steel is Made" was officially published, and Jiang Zhaolong, the CEO of General Industries, was admitted to the hospital on the same day because of a moderate coma caused by choking on the trachea.

In June, the Science and Technology Commission and the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education jointly published the popular science book "A Thousand Whys" for teenagers, which was quickly adopted as a compulsory extracurricular book for primary schools in national primary schools in 1628......

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Sitting on the green slope on the side of the military port, Yan Xianping slowly put down the current issue of "Huamei Literary Weekly" in his hand, and the scenes in the story were still swirling in his mind. Guo Jing was forced to cut off relations with Huang Rong by several masters, which made Yan Xianping feel a little bad.

In the camp of the Foreign Legion garrison far away from the naval base, the "March of the Foreign Legion" (March of the British Grenadiers) accompanied by piccolos and strong drums floated in the distance, which cleared Yan Xianping's mind. Slowly getting up, looking around at the Twin Ports Naval Base, her hair blown by the sea breeze reflected her youthful and beautiful figure.

After graduating last summer, Yan Xianping became a midshipman logistics officer on the Navy's first ocean-going sail transport ship "Gray Whale" with the rank of temporary second lieutenant in the navy, managing the storage department on the transport ship. Now, the one-year probationary period has finally passed, and last Friday, Yan Xianping was officially awarded the rank of second lieutenant in the navy, becoming a regular officer in the country's navy and the first female officer to board the ship.

The Gray Whale sail transport ship with a full load displacement of 2,800 tons, using iron bone and wooden shell technology, can be called the best performance of the navy's ocean-going large transport ship, an 800 horsepower triple expansion steam engine can provide a cruising speed of 8 knots under pure steam power, plus sails, the cruising speed can exceed 11 knots, and the maximum speed of the sail can also reach more than 13 knots. The Gray Whale sail transport ship can be loaded with more than 1,200 tons of military supplies at a time, departing from the twin ports of Butterfly Island and arriving at the "Nanshan" port of the United States in southern Africa within two weeks. However, such an advanced large naval transport ship only needs less than 40 officers and men to operate, and in extreme cases, even 20 officers and men can complete the transportation task.

I've been on board the Gray Whale for almost a year, but according to the Navy's personnel regulations, even if it's an officer, women are still not allowed to serve on a combat ship. Looking at the majestic and beautiful "Black Crystal" sail light cruiser and the "Yueji" sail frigate painted in black and white camouflage in the military port, Yan Xianping was melancholy.

"Yan Xianping, it's time to go!" In the distance, a blonde teenage officer was waving frequently, it was Navy Lieutenant Tang Hannah, who had served as the first mate and navigator of the Gray Whale at the end of his probationary period.

"Got it, Sister Hannah." Yan Xianping hurriedly coiled his hair, then put on his military hat, and then walked towards the military port down the slope with his officer's satchel.

This time, Tang Hannah and Yan Xianping will transport a batch of military supplies, ship maintenance parts, and thousands of tons of high-quality anthracite coal to the Nanshan Overseas Territorial Naval Base to increase the logistics reserves of the local naval base. According to the naval command's logistics construction plan, the Nanshan Port Naval Base in Cape Town, which will later be in Cape Town, must maintain the ability to complete a coal-fired replenishment at all times, so the Gray Whale has to make a round trip to the twin ports of Butterfly Island and Nanshan Port once a quarter.

The lid of the cargo hold of the Gray Whale transport ship had already been closed, first checked the list of transported materials, then took a few sailors to check the safety measures of all the cargo compartments one by one, and then signed his name on the transportation management record, and finally Yan Xianping came to the captain's room and routinely reported to the European captain. After receiving an affirmative answer, Yan Xianping returned to his officer's cabin, spread out the letter, and began to write a letter home for his father on the distant Dayuan Island of Daming.

Looking at the charts on the desktop that once made him feel incredible, Yan Xianping could read the sailing distance and sailing time of the Gray Whale from Butterfly Island, through Nanshan Port, and to Daming Macao almost instantly. If you don't take into account the breakdowns or breakdowns, it will take less than 50 days, which is more than enough to complete an ocean-going voyage based on the considerable amount of coal carried on board the Gray Whale. But in fact, the distance that was once unimaginably far away, and now it is so close, has never been able to be crossed.

"My father is in charge, and a few days ago, Ping'er was awarded the rank of second lieutenant in the Chinese and American Navy, and the children of the Chinese and American families are also living safely and worry-free...... The daughter is not filial, and she has not been raised by her father's side for a long time, and now she looks east to the sea for thousands of miles, and she can't wait to ...... the morning and evening."

As he wrote, Yan Xianping turned his head to the side of the table and took off a pair of photo frames. It was the first time that people were able to draw black-and-white photographs with a peculiar "camera" when they graduated last year. In the photo, three young girls in summer navy uniforms are leaning together, and Yan Xianping in the middle is smiling very sweetly.

As for the other two girls who were supposed to be in the same picture, they dropped out of school early after the end of the sea training in the summer of the previous year because they couldn't stand the training of the navy.

A high-pitched whistle sounded, and there was a slight shaking of the ship's hull. Yan Xianping quickly wiped away his tears and carefully packed the photo and stationery into an envelope, which would be sent thousands of miles away by a Portuguese merchant ship in the near future.

The huge body of the Gray Whale began to slowly leave this important overseas town of China and the United States, which has a permanent population of 4,000 people, and headed alone towards the deep sea in the southeast. With her speed and the 75mm gun at the stern, no pirate ship in the waters would ever touch the corners of her clothes. (To be continued)