Suzanne is an ordinary, white southern girl with a few freckles.

The name Suzanne itself is a common Dixie village woman's name, just like Xiaofang and Erya in China.

This can be seen in the famous southern country song "Oh, Susanna".

At this time, the Suzanne girl was helping her father to sort the hay in the cowshed, as usual.

It's just that beside her, a pitch-black box is making noise.

As a village woman from the south, Suzanne had little education since she was a child.

Although she heard from her father that her grandfather was from the south of England, for Suzanne in the past, going to Europe was just a distant dream.

She never left the town where she was born, Florence, Mississippi.

Suzanne knew almost nothing about the outside world and was completely uninterested.

Every day was spent helping my father take care of the cowshed and do household chores.

As for the sugar cane production and the cotton harvest, these were all done by the father under the command of the black slaves.

Susanna's family was not a big farmer, but they still had three or four black slaves.

This is the most important property in the family.

Suzanne had never traveled far and did not even know where the capital of Milicon was.

But she knew that Mississippi was now at war with the Yankees of the North, and the war had been going on for six years.

This is because Suzanne had two older brothers who were drafted to serve in the army, both of whom were killed in the Battle of Bradensburg.

In fact, this was true throughout the small town of Florence, where almost an entire generation of young men were involved in the war, with more than half of the death rates.

The death rate of flintlock rifled guns at close range is terrible.

But fortunately, due to the birth of Daming, they lined up and were shot by Daming for more than a dozen rounds, no matter how stupid and stubborn they were, they understood that times had changed.

Now both the north and the south have begun to dig trenches, pull barbed wire, and fight with stragglers.

It can be said that North America's war technology has actually surpassed Europe in some aspects, but at this moment neither Europeans nor North Americans are aware of this.

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There are wars everywhere, and I am already happy to be alive.

Susanna's knowledge of this world was originally nothing more than that.

It wasn't until 2 months ago that a mean, crossed-out, generous foreigner came to Florence, and his arrival completely changed the trajectory of Susanna's life.

This stranger had the face of an Oriental, and came to the town under the humble service of a Memphis merchant.

In previous years, Memphis merchants would come to Florence in late autumn to buy cotton and sugar cane, and in the spring to bring in grain and industrial goods.

This time, though, they have a strange new merchandise in their fleet......

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[JU23 Full Band Hand Crank Generator Radio for the Elderly Rechargeable FM FM Medium Wave Short Wave Earthquake Emergency Lighting Disaster Relief Alarm for the Elderly Vintage Portable Semiconductor]

The wholesale price of this hand-cranked simple radio on the platform is about 30 yuan.

The monetary cost is negligible.

Moreover, the system judged that the technological penalty of this old-fashioned radio with the addition of hand-cranked charging function was lower than that of agricultural vehicles, with a penalty coefficient of only 2.5.

Therefore, the culture value of each radio is only about 75.

That is to say, as long as someone is willing to listen to Daming's external broadcast, after only two or three months, the cost of cultural value can be recovered, and the cultural value after that is a positive return.

Such a lucrative deal is naturally to be done.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui spent a lot of cultural value and ordered 24,000 hand-cranked radios from the platform to be released to the Southern Confederacy area.

Daming's own business channels in the Southern States are not yet mature, and those Dixie red necks are extremely wary of the eastern face.

Therefore, without the help of acquaintances, it is impossible for Ming merchants to buy and sell safely.

But if the radios are simply handed over to the merchants in the southern states for sale, then no matter how low the factory price of the Ming side is, these black-hearted businessmen will sell them to sky-high prices.

Although this old-fashioned radio has no aesthetic appeal in appearance, it is a magical "music box" after all, and it is very reasonable to sell it for tens or hundreds, or even thousands of dollars.

When the time comes, the shady merchants may hoard their goods, even smash the surplus radios, carry out starvation marketing, and sell the few radios to the nobles and slave owners at high prices.

This backfired on Zhu Fugui's original intention.

Although this method can raise the price of the radio and improve the quality of the radio to a certain extent, it is not conducive to the rapid spread of the voice of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Fugui wants cultural value, not money.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Zhu Fugui still decided to suffer a little loss and use a stupid method.

This is also known as export subsidies.

Specifically, Zhu Fugui distributed hundreds to thousands of radios to each of the cotton merchants in Memphis, depending on the closeness of their cooperation with the Ming Dynasty.

And sent representatives of the Ming Dynasty, along with the business group, to distribute these magical "music boxes" to young people, especially young women.

For each successful distribution of a music box, the Memphis merchant will be rewarded with 1 Ming Yuan.

Nowadays, the world is on the gold and silver standard, and the Daming treasure banknotes are also linked to silver or aluminum, and have a considerable circulation in North America.

After all, the money of the southern governments is the equivalent of waste paper, and it is difficult for the northern governments to believe that they have enough gold reserves.

Although there are no gold reserves on the Ming side, the silver reserves are obvious to all, not to mention the aluminum statue of the goddess that still stands.

The subsidy of 1 Ming yuan for a radio, although it is more troublesome than selling it to the rich, but the merchants still have huge profits.

As a result, the sale of radios, or giveaways, was quite quick and successful.

The people of the Confederate could buy a certain amount of grain or other goods for a chance to win a big roulette draw.

The lucky winner will receive a mysterious box from the East.

Of course, like all roulette on the street, it's a complete scam.

The special commissioner of the Ming Dynasty only needs to move the mechanism a little to decide who the award will be.

As a result, the young and beautiful Dixie girl will always be favored by the goddess of luck, and the red necks with five big and three thick can often only return with feathers.

This kind of trick would not be worn at the scratch and color temple fairs in the countryside in the 90s, let alone in today's era of extremely underdeveloped information.

At least Suzanne had no suspicions at all, and happily accepted the prize, believing it to be the favor of Lady Luck.

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Now, two months later, Suzanne has fully mastered the use of this hand-cranked radio.

Every day at noon, she would spend a long time charging it, and then from working in the cowshed in the afternoon to sleeping at night, she needed the company of the voice of Daming.

Suzanne is very fond of the two new announcers who have recently arrived, Xia Jiang and Lianna.

Especially Lena, she has a crisp voice and a nice accent.

Of course, if you say that New York accent is better than a Southern accent in front of my father, I am afraid that my father will angrily contradict himself.

But it didn't matter, Suzanne didn't mean to share the radio with her father.

After all, the content in it is so interesting, and the words are so fashionable and philosophical.

An old-fashioned man like his father wouldn't understand.

As for the male voice named Xia Jiang, it also caught Susanna's attention.

At first, his strange exotic accent struck Suzanne as harsh.

But I don't know if it's an illusion, as time passes, Suzanne feels more and more that voice is becoming more and more durable.

Perhaps, it's not bad to have some exotic occasional visits.

Through the airwaves, Suzanne learns that Daming is a civilized, polite, and loving place where even beggars smile warmly.

It's really a bit of a yearning!

Of course, what initially attracted Suzanne to listen to the voice of Daming on time was not the introduction of Daming or other popular science columns.

Please, as a completely uneducated country girl, Suzanne doesn't care about any of this at all.

The only thing she cared about was how to do the farm well and marry the most handsome young man in town in the near future, if he hadn't died on the battlefield of Virginia.

But the little bedtime story in the voice of Da Ming attracted her.