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The Empire's Spring Festival holiday is only three days long. Except for the winter vacation of the school, the government departments and factories are only busy after a short break. The current empire was in the midst of a war, and at this stage, in order to avoid extravagance, even the annual New Year's dinner of the emperor at the imperial palace was canceled. The Imperial Cabinet and the departments under the General Staff did not even take a holiday. Many imperial ministers and military generals only had time to have a reunion dinner with their families on Chinese New Year's Eve, and then rushed to their respective posts.

Spring Festival is a traditional festival for Chinese, and even during the war, everyone celebrates the New Year. This is especially true for the vast number of peasants who are living better and better year by year. Unlike renting land from landlords to farm, now that they own the land, they only have to pay less agricultural taxes to the empire, and the rest of the harvest is their own. Coupled with the development of family farming, the life of the vast number of farmers is getting better day by day. Once the peasants, who made up the vast majority of the empire's population, were able to live, the whole country would develop well.

The war, which began in September last year, has had little impact on the lives of the vast majority of the people. The prices of various materials in the empire are also quite stable. In particular, food does not rise like a problem because of the war. After the empire occupied the South Seas and Indochina Peninsula, it gained a huge two-market territory. The grain produced in these areas alone can already feed most of the Chinese. In addition, the grain produced in Chinese mainland has made it even more difficult to eat all the grain in China. There is food in the hand. Don't panic in your heart, in such a situation, the entire empire is in a state of stability.

Merely. Occasionally, families receive a letter stamped with the postmark of the Imperial General Staff, after which the whole family is plunged into grief. Among these letters, there are death notices. Once it is determined that a soldier at the front line has died, the General Staff sends a notice of death, as well as a letter of condolence from the General Staff to the families of the fallen soldiers.

There is war and there is death, even though the Imperial Army is much better equipped than its opponents. But in the midst of war. Casualties are inevitable, and the families of the empire are inevitably in misery. However, there is no way around it. The country needs to be strong. You have to fight hard, and you have to have someone to sacrifice. And this is precisely for the strength of the country and the nation. This is also the reason why the families who are getting better and better in those days send their sons to the battlefield. Life now comes from not easy. They need to desperately protect their current lives. Once the empire is defeated in a war. I am afraid that the whole country will have to return to the dark period of Manchu rule. The people of the empire, who have finally lived a good life, are no longer willing to live like that, whoever wants to take away their happy life will kill them, of course they will fight back desperately!

Overall, the casualties of the Imperial Army were not significant. From the beginning of the war to the time of its abandonment, the total number of casualties of the Imperial Army was only more than 50,000. Of these, only more than 15,000 were killed. In addition, there were the same number of serious injuries, and the rest were only minor injuries. These tens of thousands of casualties. In exchange, the Manchu army of millions was less than 300,000. In addition, more than 200,000 Russians fell under Shengjing and on the road from Shengjing to Beijing. Of course, most of these Russians were frozen to death by the cold weather, which cannot be counted as a military achievement of the Imperial Army.

In addition to the casualties of the armies on both sides, civilians have also suffered heavy losses in this war. Originally, the common people under the rule of the Manchus lived very hard. After the war began, in order to maintain the war, the Manchu government increased taxes, adding a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which made the common people even more miserable. In addition, in war, it is inevitable that there will be routs and looting. Compared with the well-disciplined Imperial Army, the Manchu army had no discipline at all, and many ordinary people were harassed by them and even brutally killed. In addition, the Russians, the barbaric and rude Russians, killed all the way from the Mongolian steppe to the Shengjing city, and the common people who died at their hands were not 100,000 but 80,000.

In war, life is undoubtedly very fragile. Just like the mustard in troubled times, no one cares. They will only be protected after the war is over. In addition, many of the people displaced by the war also froze to death in the cold winter. Although the empire launched a large-scale rescue effort, mobilizing large quantities of food and warm clothing from the south to the north, it was still not perfect.

Soon the war will end, though. After the fall of the Imperial Army to the Manchus, the Empire would begin to rebuild the north. A large amount of money and materials will enter the north, and the common people in the north will also enjoy the benefits brought by the new imperial policy. Those landless peasants will be given land. You can also migrate to Nanyang, Australia and the Northeast where the next step will be developed. Once the empire had bought large swathes of territory from the Mexicans, they had the option of sailing across the ocean to North America, in search of a new happy life, and so on. For these people, these days are like the darkness before the dawn. As long as you get through this time, you will be able to live a good life.

After the Chinese New Year holiday, the government and military of the empire continued to get busy. After the Spring Festival, spring is approaching. The temperature in the north will also start to rise gradually. When the snow melted and the earth rejuvenated, the Imperial Army would once again attack the Manchus. This attack will be a fatal blow, and it will completely destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has only two provinces, Shanxi and Zhili. Among them, the Manchu government placed most of its troops near Beijing, intending to hold on and wait for reinforcements. However, their reinforcements were still thousands of miles away in Russia. Although the Russians have organized a large expeditionary force, the whole of Russia is still in the snow. If the Russian expeditionary force wants to go to the Far East, it is estimated that it will have to wait about two months. By the time they arrived in the Far East, it was estimated that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already perished!

Guangzhou No. 6 Primary School is one of the hundreds of primary schools in Guangzhou, and it is not well-known among the many primary schools in Guangzhou. Unlike the No. 1 Elementary School, where the children of officials, generals, and big businessmen were concentrated, the No. 6 Elementary School was nothing more than a civilian school. However, no one could have imagined that the crown prince would actually attend this elementary school. This is related to the civilian education that Emperor Long Yufei has always advocated.

Empress Luo Yuhua originally planned to follow the example of the previous dynasty and hire talented scholars to teach the crown prince Longhua. However, this so-called elite education was rejected by Long Yufei. He didn't want Prince Longhua to grow up to be a person with low eyes and low hands, detached from reality. Only by letting him grow up with the children of the common people since he was a child, will he know the real life of the common people, and will not become a faint monarch after inheriting the imperial throne in the future, and discard the country that Long Yufei has worked so hard to build at will.

According to Long Yufei's plan, Crown Prince Longhua's primary and secondary schools will attend civilian schools. However, if you are a university, you will choose a military school. Although Long Yufei himself is not a soldier, he believes that only after the education of a regular military academy can Prince Longhua become a real man. In this regard, although Queen Luo Yuhua was a little dissatisfied, she did not dare to disobey Long Yufei's intention on this issue. After all, although Long Yufei now has a lot of concubines, he has no other heirs except for the crown prince Longhua. The blood of the royal family is thin, which makes the crown prince Longhua have to become a talent. Otherwise, to whom will the empire be entrusted in the future?

Of course, the safety and security work of Crown Prince Longhua when he was in school was also particularly important. In the vicinity of the 6th Primary School in Guangzhou, a battalion of the Imperial Army Gendarmerie was stationed. In addition to the usual training, the main task of this battalion is to be able to rush to the No. 6 Primary School in Guangzhou within five minutes to control the situation in the event of an emergency. In addition, in the school, except for the identity of Long Hua other than the principal, the rest of the teachers did not know that the imperial crown prince was actually in their school. Except, of course, for some intelligence officers from the Imperial Security Department who deliberately infiltrated the school to protect Longhua. The mission of these people is to protect Long Hua, he is the hope of the future of the empire!

Because he was often admonished by Emperor Long Yufei, Long Hua was also very low-key in school. However, even so, because of good family education, Longhua's academic performance in all subjects is among the best in the school. Whether it is a cultural test score or a sports score, it is very good. In order to improve the physical quality of the people, Long Yufei deliberately required all students to undergo militarized training from elementary school. Of course, this is all training in physical qualities, and only after middle school will you receive training in combat quality. When girls enter secondary school, they are trained in wilderness first aid and nursing. All of this is to lay the foundation for the future.

Although the crown prince Longhua's appearance is very good, however, he also has an obvious shortcoming, that is, he is not social, and he likes to play with other friends. He's just over eight years old now, and he's not even nine years old, and it's time to play. But the one who looks like a little adult, which is a freak in the eyes of other teachers and students!

Therefore, after school today, the homeroom teacher of Longhua's class deliberately kept him, in order to educate Longhua in this regard. (To be continued......)