Chapter 103: The Route to the North

"How are you going to live in the future, and how are you going to grow step by step...... the instructor took his notes and explained the course content to the students below.

Liu Hongxia is very interested in the content of life lessons, and she is full of expectations when she thinks that she will grow up. Although she took the pen and tried to take notes, Liu Hongxia was still attentive to listening, and rarely failed to record the notes for the first time.

"The kids have to go to school......"

"I have to go to work after school......"

"After working, you will have a salary, and you will have the opportunity to buy your own house......

"If you are sick, you can go to the hospital to see a doctor......

All kinds of descriptions made Liu Hongxia realize that the future described was her ideal life, and she originally thought that her life was very likely to be like her aunt doing housework at home and taking care of children. However, in the teacher's description, even if she is a girl, she can work like Liu Hongxia's uncle Liu Meng. Although there is a role model like Hu Yuelian, Liu Hongxia is still worried that it is just an accident.

The life department was followed by physical education class, and it was raining outside, so classes could only be held indoors. Physical education classes are divided between men and women, with the boys having equipment classes and the girls fan dancing. This is also a very popular course, and Liu Hongxia is looking forward to preparing for exercise with her classmates in the 'indoor playground' of the huge bamboo skeleton. Then Liu Hongxia saw Hu Yuelian walking into the indoor playground with light and powerful steps.

Liu Hongxia was not the only one who was surprised, she remembered that Hu Yuelian had many students. Hu Yuelian's words 'I'm just coming to see it today, and I'll only have classes next week' disappointed many girls.

Liu Hongxia was not so excited, she thought that she would not be able to see Hu Yuelian for a long time, just like Liu Hongxia's uncle Liu Meng always said that he would be back soon before leaving. Now that Hu Yuelian is back so soon, Liu Hongxia feels that she can also look forward to her uncle Liu Meng returning home as soon as possible.

At noon the next day, Liu Hongxia's homeroom teacher suddenly called Liu Hongxia to the office. When Liu Hongxia rushed to the office, she saw her uncle Liu Meng talking to the teacher.

Liu Meng had just returned to Fuzhou from Sado Island, and the fleet did not go to Fuzhou City, but docked at Mawei. At this time, Zhao Jiaren had not been able to come from Fuzhou, so Liu Meng went to the newly established school to inquire about the situation. He heard that a new cadre school had been built in Mawei, but he did not know the details of the school.

Unlike his excited niece, Liu Meng is already an adult after all, and he is still an adult in a high position. After he saw his niece, he just asked his niece to wait for him outside, and continued to ask the head teacher, "Teacher, listen to what you said, that is, in the future, regardless of men and women, if you refuse to serve in the military, you can't be a cadre?" ”

Zhao Jiaren's earliest cadres were all graduates of the sailor school, and Liu Meng himself was a member of the sports committee. The head teacher's grade is lower than Liu Meng's. Facing the senior, the head teacher nodded and said, "This is an order from above." ”

"Then none of the children in my family have agreed to serve in the military except for my niece, right?" Although he felt that he would be laughed at if he showed anger in front of outsiders, Liu Meng's face was still blue when he asked this key question.

Receiving a definite answer from the head teacher, Liu Meng lowered his head, his lips squirming. If it weren't for the teacher in front of him, probably this man who had been following Zhao Jiaren would have scolded him. He never expected that his wife would make such a judgment, Liu Meng's family could no longer rely on those few acres of fields in the mountainous areas of Fujian to eat, it was entirely because he defected to Zhao Jiaren and became a member of the strongest maritime group in the entire Great Song Dynasty. Now his wife actually asked Liu Meng's children to take the initiative to give up the opportunity to become a group cadre.

The head teacher, like Liu Meng, is a poor scholar who can only live a decent life after defecting to Zhao Jiaren, and after seeing Liu Meng's expression, the head teacher can fully understand Liu Meng's mood. The head teacher's family also has his own and relatives' babies, and the head teacher's wife is also worried that the dolls will be sent to the battlefield when they grow up. Unlike Liu Meng, the head teacher ordered his wife to shut up, and then forcibly made all the children in the family sign the documents.

These people originally followed Zhao Jiaren to study various science subjects, and seeing that Liu Mengqi's face turned green, the head teacher said sympathetically: "Senior brother, you don't have to take it too seriously. Now that you're back, just let the children submit their applications when you return to Quanzhou. Our cadre school is not only held this year, but also once a year in the future. ”

After getting this new news, Liu Meng was angry and found a gap. He said hatefully: "That stupid woman, it's just delaying the child's time!" A delay is a year. ”

It is difficult for a clean official to interrupt family affairs, and those who can be selected as class teachers are all shrewd people. For Liu Meng's catharsis, the head teacher didn't hear it.

After talking to the teacher, Liu Meng walked out of the office. Although Liu Hongxia felt that Uncle was very angry at this time, she couldn't help but throw herself into Liu Meng's arms and hugged him, and said at the same time: "Uncle, I miss you so much." ”

Liu Meng felt a lot better when he boarded, and reached out to pat his niece's shoulder, Liu Meng held back for a while before saying, "Hongxia, you are really angry." I heard from your teacher that you are all a member of the study committee, and you are angry with your uncle! ”

After leaving the school, Liu Meng returned to the sailors' camp by the river. Outside is still the non-stop rain in the plum rainy season, looking at the waves on the river, Liu Meng can't wait to go back to Quanzhou now to solve the matter at home, but Liu Meng knows that he can't go at this time. He could go to the school next to the camp to see his niece before Zhao Jiaren came back, but he couldn't leave Mawei before Zhao Jiaren came. The fleet sailed south this time with two specialties from Sado Island, gold and silver.

The Wakoku shogunate did not take Sado Island and Oki Island into account at all, and 3,000 men went up to Oki Island, and 3,000 people went up to Sado Island, and two groups of people set up camp on the island to build a fortress, and it took nearly a year to complete the minimum fortifications. In the past year, no Japanese ships have visited these two islands.

Liu Meng developed Zuodu Island in accordance with Zhao Jiaren's instructions for mining purposes, and the gold mining method was adopted for the gold mining mine, and the ash blowing method was adopted for the silver ore mixed with lead introduction, and 300 catties of gold and 1,000 catties of silver were produced in a few months. That is to say, after a few months of absent-minded mining, he made gold and silver worth tens of thousands of copper coins, and Liu Meng took these gold and silver back to Fuzhou to report.

In addition to gold and silver, the fleet also carried out a large number of surveys and mapping of the Wa Kingdom and the surrounding area of the Whale Sea. In particular, he found the 'Ezo Island' that Zhao Jiaren said, and set up a base on the south side of Ezo Island. Zhao Jiaren emphasized this matter again, Liu Meng did not dare to ignore it.

Zhao Jiaren came quickly, and he took an inland river warship, which was a majestic warship on the Yangtze River during the Battle of Ezhou. Because there were twenty sailors paddling, this boat was the fastest means of transportation on the Minjiang River. After a simple greeting, Liu Meng began to report. The matter of gold and silver did not make Zhao Jiaren particularly excited, and after hearing the news of the completion of the stronghold on Ezo Island, Liu Meng nodded heavily when he saw Zhao Jiaren.

Regarding the things that Zhao Jiaren cared about so much, Liu Meng hurriedly asked: "Zhao Zhizhou, I heard from the brothers who came back that there are no Japanese people on Ezo Island at all, and there are trees everywhere. You said it might be okay to cut down trees and build ships over there, but what's there to go in such a cold place? ”

"I've heard that the great monks of the Tang Dynasty once visited a continent to the east of us. If you want to go there from here, the nearest one is from the strait south of Ezo Island. Zhao Jiaren explained. After returning to the Great Song Dynasty for many years, Zhao Jiaren tried his best to get plants from Europe and the Middle East. Then he discovered pumpkins, sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and so on, all of which are still thriving in the Americas.

The current Great Song Dynasty has no need to colonize the Americas, but the current Great Song Dynasty has the need to get crops back from the Americas.