Chapter Eighty-Six: The Ming Times
"The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find Da Ming!"
- "A Generation", author: Zhu Fugui, a famous contemporary poet
"Rocky long clouds dark snow mountains, lonely city looking at Denver Pass.
Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and if it does not break New York, it will never be returned.
Serve on the west coast and capture the Rocky Mountains.
The piano plays a sad song, and the gun opens the bright moon ring.
The drums sounded on the sea, and the soldiers were in the clouds.
I am willing to behead the chief of the United States and drive through the elm pass for a long time.
Why don't men take ninety-five and collect North American yellow soil.
Please go to the Cabinet of Parliament for the time being, if you are a white armor Baturu.
The fate of the earth should be mixed, and North America should not be different.
Tens of thousands of soldiers on the five lakes, the first peak of Leshi Loki. ”
——"Mountaineering Feelings", author: Zhu Fugui, a famous contemporary poet
Looking at the inaugural issue of "Daming Times" in his hand, Zhu Fugui frowned: "Zhao Qing, Yin Qing, didn't I say it?" Why didn't you do it when you wanted to be open and choose the best manuscripts, and you didn't have to put my article on the front page? ”
Zhao Aqian, a member of the Daming Rite Department, and Yin Hu, director of the Cultural and Propaganda Department of the Daming Rite Department, will turn their heads into rattles.
Zhao Aqian hurriedly said: "Long live the lord, it's not that the ministers are flattering and inviting pets, it's really long live the lord, you Wumai Qin Han, Wengai Tang and Song Dynasties, the heroic feelings in the article are not comparable to ordinary sour Confucianism, and the ministers really can't find a better article!" ”
Zhu Fugui nodded, and said reluctantly: "I heard that the Holy Son of Heaven should be Ming Cha Weimo, this time it seems that I am too anxious, so let's write a poem in every issue of the newspaper in the future, and leave a way for my Ming Confucians." ”
Zhao Aqian sighed with emotion: "Long live the mind, although the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty are martial, they can't reach it!" ”
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The daily life between the monarchs and ministers of the Fourth Ming Empire is so simple, straightforward, and sincere.
Zhu Fugui reviewed the sample and ordered Zhao Aqian and Yin Hu to print and publish it.
To tell the truth, Zhu Fugui remembers that the highest education in Daming is a Xiucai named Xia Zhixin, who is also working in the magazine company.
As far as the level of copying is concerned, it is a proper first stroke.
That's the truth!
After reading Daming's own newspaper, Zhu Fugui picked up a few newspapers from the United States and the United Kingdom.
These newspapers recorded the news that happened a week or two ago, and they were another major source for Zhu Fugui to understand the world's major events in addition to Baidu.
This time along with the newspapers came a new batch of Virginia cotton, as well as letters from the Confederate Army.
Zhu Fugui ordered someone to inform Ma Er to come to harvest cotton.
This Ma Erma factory director played a good cotton, and the quilts of the new Chinese workers were made by him himself.
In fact, he didn't save Zhu Fugui a few dollars, but after all, it was a heart, and Zhu Fugui went with him.
When a medical death squad was formed to eliminate the plague from the Raven Tribe, Ma Er was the only important minister who became a shrunken turtle.
So during this time, he has always wanted to make amends and do some new tricks to save his image in the heart of His Majesty the Emperor.
It's a pity that the nails on the board are removed, but the pit will remain.
Can't go back, can't go back!
Ma Er may be a successful businessman, but he will never enter the inner circle of Zhu Fugui Group.
After sending the cotton away, Zhu Fugui opened Robert Lee's handwritten letter again.
To tell the truth, this is the first historical celebrity that Zhu Fugui has officially come into contact with.
It is estimated that this old slave owner should not have known that the person he wrote to was a colored person, and thought that he was a northern factory owner who cared about freedom.
In his letter, Robert Lee warmly called Zhu Fugui a fighter for freedom, a brother from the northwest.
Zhu Fugui agrees with such an evaluation.
I'm old and free!
I resolutely defend the freedom of Citigroup's southern states to secede from the federal government!
This is the freedom of "States"!
In addition to compliments, the letter also praised the quality of the military uniforms provided by Zhu Fugui.
This lightweight, washable uniform has been praised by almost the entire regiment.
Especially that cute cartoon character, it is even more a stroke of genius.
The animals chosen were pigs, not cows, sheep, or horses, which must have been carefully chosen.
Because in the southern states, where there are no large pastures, pigs are the representatives of animal husbandry here, while cattle, sheep and horses are the representatives of the northern states.
The pink color of the pig represents the red skin of the southern farmers on the plantations, showing their industriousness and a silent mockery of the northern capitalists.
As for Petge's maverick revolver, it represents the national character of the South that is brave and strong, not afraid of power.
In short, this cartoon image full of allegorical has now become the spiritual totem of the Southern Army, especially the Northern Virginia Legion, and has also become a nightmare for the Yankees!
Zhu Fugui was dumbfounded and looked at Robert Lee's evaluation of this batch of school uniforms.
To be honest, the quality of the school uniform is good, and Zhu Fugui knows it.
But what is the pile of things behind him, he Zhu Da can understand every word separately, how can he not understand it at all?
But that's not the point.
The key is that Comrade Lao Li has placed an order again!
The order is good, the order is easy to say!
Zhu Fugui saw Robert Lee wave his hand, order 100,000 sets of summer military uniforms again, and asked if your factory would undertake the winter clothing business, Zhu Fugui couldn't help but smile.
Through the previous newspaper, Zhu Fugui also generally understood the origin of the new order.
The Northern Virginia Regiment won a major victory and should have marched quickly into Pennsylvania and Maryland to encircle Washington in one fell swoop.
However, Stonewall Jackson, the number two man in the legion and the actual general who led the troops, was seriously ill, and the Northern Virginia Legion had to rest.
During this period, General Robert Lee, who was better at building relationships and raising funds than fighting wars, and mobilized soldiers, was not idle, and he took advantage of the great victory to crowdfund and expand the army in his hometown of Virginia, North Carolina and other places, and the number of troops soared to 70,000.
It was also the pinnacle of the Northern Virginia Legion in history.
It's also thanks to Robert Lee's long-sleeved dancing that he can bring in so much military spending.
Since everyone has taken out real money, Zhu Fugui naturally satisfies such a small request as buying clothes.
The reply to Robert Lee was prepared together with the second episode of "Detective Zhuge Watson", and Zhu Fugui called a correspondent to send the letter to Prash.
"Wait!"
Zhu Fugui suddenly called out to the correspondent and took out a letter from the drawer.
This is a letter from a lady from New York.
Zhu Fugui has forgotten the content of the letter, but remembers that it was urged.
However, the $30 sent with the letter, Zhu Fugui was still impressed.
"Let's reply to her too, you can't offend anyone these days!"
Thinking like this, Zhu Fugui took out the letter paper, thought about it, and replied in the tone of "a mysterious oriental businessman".
The final payment is naturally still Yellow Crane.
After writing the letter and handing it to the correspondent, Zhu Fugui rubbed his wrist and began to continue reading the magazine.
In this era, in addition to news newspapers, there are also many lace magazines, which should be good to pass the time.
In order to further understand the spiritual life of the decadent American imperialist people, Zhu Fugui also had to spend money to subscribe to several such magazines.
It's just that at a glance, Zhu Fugui was disappointed.
Not to mention that it is better than his own "Korean Comic Collection", it is not as good as the fashion and health magazines in the Chinese region in later generations!
These cover girls are tightly wrapped one by one, look at a hammer!
How dare you sell it for 15 cents a piece?
Zhu Fugui was very angry and felt cheated.
In contrast, as the only official reading book in the Ming Dynasty, "Daming Times" not only has a printing quality far beyond these third-rate magazines, but also the appearance of the cover character ("His Majesty the Emperor is at the Shooting Range") kills them in seconds.
Crucially, each magazine costs only 1 cent.