Chapter 730: Feelings Under the Stars (Affectionately Calling for a Monthly Pass)
I smiled and waved my hand at Bo Naljin: "It's okay, they are all children, they are at this age, they have great curiosity about everything, it's good to let them take a good look, anyway, it's okay now, if you don't feel well, go back to the warehouse and lie down." ”
Bonnard's head shook quickly: "No, I promised Brother Fang Cheng that I wouldn't leave you a single step." "After listening to Bonarjin's confession, I just nodded, it was useless to say superfluous words, the two of them were as important to me as I were to them, and although this Turkic rapper sometimes made me want to cut his throat, he was a true warrior and a man of great commitment, which is what I admire most about him.
Their movements are very slow, and even a little helpless, because their eyes are curious to look at everything around them, almost every few steps, they will stop and look around excitedly, look at the sea, look at the huge dock, or look at the majestic warships of the Tang Dynasty, or pick up the beautiful shells on the coast, or kick the sand on the beach, as if everything makes them look so fresh and surprised.
Xianyun, a teacher who is a few years older, is more like a naughty boy, Fang Cheng is the most helpless, but he is quite patient, just casually following behind, looking helpless, and looking at these half-grown children with a gentle face.
Two strong-willed sentinels stood in the watchdog on the ship's mast, their eyes vigilantly watching the sea in the distance, which was their duty, and the night herald relied on a lantern made of oiled paper. This is not my invention, as early as the Han Dynasty in China, the method of relying on lights to transmit signals at night has long been popular in the military.
Of course, our Navy Department has further refined it, and hanging lanterns of different colors represents different meanings. From tomorrow day, the intense and orderly training will begin soon, but now General Zhang is in Dengzhou to deal with other affairs, and there is no way to personally inspect our exercise, but it doesn't matter, anyway, from tomorrow onwards, our exercise will continue until the day we land on Wajima.
It took them almost half an hour to get on the boat from the dock, and when Liu Yue and Xianyun boarded the deck of the gunboat a few feet higher than the dock by the light of the torches, they finally noticed me who had been standing on the edge of the ship and waiting leisurely for nearly half an hour.
--------------------------------------------------- "The student has seen the teacher, I'm sorry, the student is the first time to ......" Liu Yue lowered his head a little uneasily.
I smiled and shook my head: "It's okay, this is a new place, when I was as old as you, I was also full of curiosity about everything unknown in this world, but unfortunately it's night, you can't see the magnificent scenery of the sea, but have you ever seen this sky above our heads." I stretched out my finger and pointed to the inky black sky, the vast starry sky, my students, including myself, as well as Fang Cheng and Bo Narjin, all raised their heads, on the ships in this military port, looking up at the Milky Way that cut the inky black night sky in half, the slender stars made the endless night sky bright, and even the half of the moon seemed to be much darker.
It took me a long time before I reluctantly withdrew my gaze, yes, and it was only then that I remembered that it seemed that I had not been so focused on the starry sky as I was today.
Liu Yue looked at the starry sky, his mouth opened unconsciously, and there was a deep awe in his eyes, as well as admiration and an indescribable desire, or the kind of attachment that human beings have for the starry sky, a very complicated gaze. Zhao Hong on the side let out an unconscious exclamation, and gradually they finally woke up from their intoxication and set their eyes on me, they knew that I, their master, had been waiting here for so long, not just to let them take a look at this beautiful starry sky.
After their attention fell on me, I smiled first and said to Liu Yue: "Yue'er, looking at the starry sky, what is your first feeling?" ”
"Shocked!" Liu Yue answered me without thinking. "An unprecedented shock, the student never thought of it, nor did he pay attention to it, it turned out that the starry sky above our heads would be so beautiful, the student really couldn't find the words to describe his vastness, that boundless to infinite feeling." As my student, he didn't fool me with classical Chinese, and he also spoke his mind very clearly.
I nodded deeply: "I'm the same as you, whenever I look at the night sky, I always think that there will always be an end to the earth, and the ocean, that unknown world seems to be more vast than the earth, and when you look up at the sky, there's only a deep, irresistible allure that seems to attract our attention to it." It can make anyone who stays on it feel its magnificence and brilliance, and we are as small as a sea in front of them, and perhaps only then can those who are arrogant feel awe from the bottom of their hearts......"
I glanced at it, and not only my students, Xianyun, but also some of the pro-soldiers, and the faculty and staff had all converged on this side from all sides of the deck, and they were also looking at me with an inquiring gaze. The size of the audience does not affect me much, on the contrary, the more people there are, the more my thoughts can flow.
I raised my head, looked at this vast and beautiful starry sky with the gaze of a poet philosopher, and said slowly: "You must remember that any person, if they always keep their eyes only at their feet, at their own side, that person, it means that he lacks courage and upward spirit, and a person, or a nation, if they are not willing to look up at the starry sky, will not feel the greatness of this world, and that endless hope, hope, is there, in the distance, at the end of the starry sky, but he is also at your feet. ”
I lowered my head again, looked at the people in front of me, and said word by word: "No matter where your future path is, you must firmly remember that our Chinese nation, our Tang Empire, is a thriving and powerful empire, and a promising country and nation!" I hope that you will know how to look up at the sky, learn to think, learn knowledge and skills, master your destiny, and be a person who cares about the destiny of the country and the nation. ”
"Thank you for the teachings of the master, and the students will definitely remember the painstaking efforts of the master." Liu Yue and the others bowed to me in unison, and the rest of the people also lowered their eyes, if they were enlightened, or thoughtful, and after I led the students into the cabin, they still stayed on the deck, as if they were still thinking about something, I am not only educating my students, I am also educating these teachers and students of the Datang Military Academy, I need them to understand that they are also a part of the Datang, and every Datang person should make their due contributions to their country and nation. No matter how big or small your contribution is, do your best, and then you can be worthy of the land that gave birth to you and raised you.
--------------------------------------------------- anyway, I'm not afraid of being listened to, there is absolutely no selfishness in these words, and in the era of Datang, it is not like a later generation, because of words in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it is simply a joke, my words are definitely not bragging or farting, nor is it shameless self-promotion, but a fact.
The real prosperity is not only the economic development and the people's livelihood, but also a kind of weather. It should not only be an economic indicator, but also a human indicator. In this society, there is an atmosphere of tolerance, generosity, and freedom, which allows every citizen to maintain his or her own surname, and allows them to make their true voice heard, whether or not it sounds discordant to the authorities. Measured by this standard, only the Tang Dynasty can be called a prosperous era.
Why? Because only in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai could "the Son of Heaven could not get on the boat, and claimed that the minister was a fairy in wine", Du Fu could write his "History of Xin'an" and "History of Shihao", and Li Shen could write "Who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard work", "There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death", while the literati of the Qing Dynasty can lead to text prison for a sentence such as "Qingfeng is illiterate, why do you flip through the book" and other verses, but the imagination is very rich, so they lost a lot of heads for these four words. This is the classic of the prosperous era of the pigtail dynasty.
If Li Bai and the others were born in that pigtail dynasty, I am afraid that they would have been punished by the nine clans a long time ago, and there would still be a fart poet and immortal poet saint in China. Thinking of this, I was so angry that I almost spat in the sky.
Without the publicity of individual life, only uniform thinking, and only one voice is allowed, such an era, even if it is rich, it cannot be called a prosperous era. Not to mention the pigtail dynasty called the Qing Dynasty, the prosperous era of Kangqian was completely blown out of the literary prison, except for the increase in population, nothing else has increased, and it has even regressed countless steps compared to the Ming Dynasty. And the main reason for this population growth is the massive promotion of American plants corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.
(To be continued)