Zhu Jingyuan considered that this was a win-win choice, and finally accepted the gift from the Persian duke.

Suleiman finally breathed a long sigh of relief, it was the first time he had encountered such great difficulties when giving gifts.

Others are usually fake and polite about gifts, and that's easy to tell.

As long as he perseveres and repeatedly persuades the car to talk in a loop, the other party will soon accept it "reluctantly".

But the reaction of the Great Food Prince in front of him was obviously that he really didn't want these gifts.

Maybe it's because you're young and don't recognize the value of these things, or maybe you really don't need them.

No matter what the process is, now that it has finally been sent out, Suleiman's mission is complete.

After Zhu Jingyuan accepted the title deed and map, Suleiman beckoned two little Persian girls to come over for a formal visit.

Anahita and Flishta, two sisters, still feel like they're in a dream.

Although their families were also quite wealthy, they were only the daughters of Persian merchants.

Under the influence of their parents, the two sisters, who have been devoted to the Ming Dynasty since childhood, feel very honored to be a woman who can become the prince of the Ming Dynasty.

And the prince of the Ming Dynasty in front of him is more handsome and younger than what he sees in the picture, which completely exceeds the psychological expectations of the two girls.

In the future, I will usually serve him in his daily life, and after a few years, I will be able to start giving birth to him, which is simply a perfect life.

Both girls were thinking like this, and when they heard Suleiman's call, they immediately took two steps forward and made a non-standard blessing ceremony:

Fold your hands in front of your lower abdomen and bend your knees slightly while lowering your head slightly.

"The slave has seen His Highness."

Zhu Jingyuan listened to their voices, obviously with a Persian accent, but it was no problem to understand them:

"Okay, Ana...... Sita, with Fu...... Come to Shta, right? What are the last names of the two of you? ”

The girl from the merchant family was more daring, and now her mood was mainly excited rather than afraid, and her sister Anahita immediately replied instinctively:

"Your Highness, the Persian surname we use in our family now is Tehran.

"However, according to Persian tradition, the Persians living in the Ming Dynasty usually have the surname An."

When Zhu Jingyuan heard this answer, he immediately thought of the legend of the prince who migrated to Gansu during the Eastern Han Dynasty to settle down.

Rest was the Han Dynasty's name for the Parthian dynasty in the Persian region.

Now, when the Ming Dynasty was extremely strong in force and culture, this legend is well known in Persia.

When the Persians came to the Ming Dynasty and took the name of the Ming Dynasty, they often took An as their surname, obviously following the practice of the Prince of Anxi.

Something similar is also known by the name Persia, which did not originally call themselves the Persian state and the Persians.

Their earliest self-proclaimed Aryans corresponded to the Han people, or Yin Lang, corresponding to the Han Kingdom, or Parthia, Safavid, corresponding to the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

The Persians were originally what the Greeks called them, and they first came from Fars, the hometown of Cyrus the Great.

Now in their own language, they still call themselves Aryan or Yin Lang.

But in the external translation, it is all in the Persian language of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while and said:

"The names of the two of you are more difficult to pronounce in Daming Yayan, so you will be called An Xiaona and An Xiaofu in the future."

The two children obviously learned the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty from the Persian prince, but they may not be particularly proficient.

Now immediately and happily bow again and thank you:

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the name."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded again, and then turned to Shen Fu next to him:

"Mr. Shen, arrange for them to try at the middle school in Huangzhuang first.

"If you can't keep up with the curriculum in middle school, you will be sent to the appropriate grade in primary school.

"When the negotiations are over, I will transfer back to Beijing Normal School and go to school......"

Shen Fu's expression was a little strange, but he didn't expect Zhu Jingyuan to really send the two Anna sisters to school:

"Your Highness...... Okay, the minister will let them take them to school in the afternoon. ”

Sister An Xiaona was a little confused when she heard Zhu Jingyuan's order.

The more bold An Xiaona spoke directly:

"Your Highness, we don't have to go to school, we all already know how to read and write."

Zhu Jingyuan didn't expect them to refute, so he casually asked a question:

"Do you know how to count?"

An Xiaona immediately said:

"Yes, we will keep accounts, we will count."

Zhu Jingyuan immediately reacted, these two are the daughters of businessmen, and it is normal for them to count.

can speak Ming Yayan, and can also count and keep accounts, which is already knowledgeable among ordinary people.

If you don't want to be an official, there's no need to continue studying.

But Zhu Jingyuan had higher requirements for them, so he casually asked a series of questions:

"Do you know why the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty is the land of fish and rice, but there is only a desert in the Dashi area at the same latitude?

"Do you know how to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells? Do you know about the armor-piercing effect of shells? Will the ship's sailing resistance at different speeds be calculated?

"Do you know linear algebra and calculus? Will nitroglycerin and trinitrotoluene be produced? ”

At this moment, the two sisters were at a loss, and the more they listened, the more dazed they became, and finally they were completely confused.

I've heard more or less of the words in the first question, but I don't know why.

As for the shells in the back? Armor-piercing? Navigation resistance, isn't this a military thing?

What are the last few items, I really haven't heard of them......

The two sisters were confused for a few seconds, and finally replied very honestly:

"We won't, we haven't learned."

"But we can learn."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded with satisfaction:

"Okay, knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, it's wisdom, since you haven't learned, go to school and learn this knowledge."

The two sisters don't know very well what level of knowledge Zhu Jingyuan said, and they don't know why they want to learn military knowledge.

But the two sisters took it for granted that since it was requested by His Royal Highness, it should be the knowledge that His Royal Highness's women need to master.

So the two little girls agreed as a matter of course:

"We'll try to learn."

Su Laiman and Shen Fu next to them listened to these conversations, and the corners of their mouths twitched uncontrollably from time to time.

To master linear algebra and calculus, to be able to make the latest explosives manually, to understand ballistics and armor-piercing effects and fluid mechanics......

To become the servant of His Royal Highness, this is really a high demand......

In the eyes of Suleiman and Shen Fu, no matter what kind of identity they are in name, these two little girls are already Zhu Jingyuan's maidservants.

It's a bit outrageous to ask a maid to learn these things.

But in Zhu Jingyuan's view, they are all young students sponsored by themselves, as well as lifelong employees of the future Baku Manor.

It is possible to reach the level of manager or even shopkeeper, and the higher the level of knowledge, the better.

Such large estates must have their own defensive forces.

Military common sense must also be had.

After Suleiman left, Zhu Jingyuan asked Shen Fu to contact the person in charge of Persian news in the West Factory to investigate and confirm the family situation of An Xiaona's sisters in detail.

Although Suleiman and his son definitely did not have the courage to deceive themselves, the necessary caution was still indispensable.

In the afternoon of the same day, Shen Fu followed Zhu Jingyuan's instructions and sent two Persian girls to the school in Huangzhuang.

The Haijiao Children's School is a school run by the Western Cape Huangzhuang itself, and it was originally a school for the children of hired workers.

It is now the best school in the Cape of the Western Ocean, a school of indigenous immigrants as well as an indigenous dream.

Except for the children of Huangzhuang employees who can go directly to school, only the students with the best grades in the whole Huangzhuang can be enrolled.

Although the two sisters An Xiaona are Hu Nu, their nominal identity is Zhu Jingyuan, the servant daughter of the prince, and if they want to transfer to the class, of course, no one will stop them.

It's just that the head of the school is a little puzzled, why does His Royal Highness's maid want to go to school?

The key is that they are already able to listen, speak, read, write and settle accounts, and still continue to go to school? Do you want the two of them to be female officials?

But since His Royal Highness asked for it, the mountain chief could only help arrange it.

However, the two sisters did not attend a group school of the Ming standard, and their knowledge level must be checked before assigning grades and classes.

After verbal communication and simple test papers, the teachers thought that they were at a level similar to that of elementary school students and were able to go straight to secondary school.

After all the inspections and arrangements were over, An Xiaona finally couldn't help but open her mouth and asked Zhu Jingyuan her own questions.

Those who can be the mountain chief and teacher of Haijiao Huangzhuang School are all graduates of Daming Public University, and they are all high-level intellectuals in this era.

The environmental differences between Jiangnan and the Dashi area were explained to them by the mountain chief casually.

Then I thought that these two children were very studious and could think.

As a result, the two children immediately continued to ask, and asked Zhu Jingyuan a few questions at that time, one by one.

The mountain chief and the teachers slowly fell into a daze.

For the mountain chief and the teachers, those questions are actually not difficult.

At the very least, it's not difficult to explain to others what's going on.

But the problem is, these two orchid maidservants of His Highness...... Why learn this?

Now to be a servant girl for the prince, is the requirement already so high?

Sister An Xiaona didn't know much about the rules of the Ming royal family, and she didn't have any doubts about why she wanted to learn this knowledge.

They only felt difficulties from the introduction of the mountain chief, which was not at the same level as what they had learned before.

I still thought it was too simple before, it was really difficult to become a woman of His Royal Highness Prince Daming, and I might have to study hard for several years.

As a result, when the two sisters later studied in school, they were extremely serious and hardworking.

I don't hear anything outside the window, and I only read Gewu books.

Every day when I return to the palace, I can't put the papers in my hands, and the two sisters will also give each other questions to investigate.

Although the motivation for studying is a little biased, the result of earnestly studying is exactly what Zhu Jingyuan wants.

Zhu Jingyuan specially instructed the housekeeper of the palace to arrange a better place for the two Persian girls in the servant's courtyard.

The two of them are allowed to study with electric lights, and they don't need to do any chores except for learning etiquette from their grandmothers.

Both inside and outside the palace, they all regarded the two little girls as the people in the room booked by Zhu Jingyuan.

Although she can't be a concubine as an orchid, she is at least equivalent to the status of a girl in a room, and she is already the highest status among slaves.

After all, they are all sent to school, which is too rare.

While staring at the progress of the battleship design, Zhu Jingyuan observed the state of the two sisters a little every few days, and felt very satisfied.

They are all good children who are serious and eager to learn.

Ten days later, on May 13, the 34th year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, the capital of the Great Food Country was Liusha County.

Two large passenger ships flying different flags are slowly approaching the stream wharf on the shore.

On the Daming passenger ship leased by the Lucia royal family, there is Luo Yashan, the mixed-race son of Emperor Paul, that is, the future Duke of Xianbei of the Ming Dynasty.

Luo Yashan, with his wife and children, stood on the bow of the boat and looked at the scene on the shore.

The scorching sun, the scorched yellow earth, the low and crude earthen walls, the narrow and dilapidated docks, the sparse and decadent workers.

Luo Yashan's face was full of astonishment, and he subconsciously sighed in Daming Yayan:

"His Royal Highness Prince Daishi...... Why leave the capital here? Why don't you move to the Lianghe River basin or the coast of the Great Qinhai Sea......"

Luo Yashan's daughter, Sophia, who had just turned ten, grabbed her mother's arm and said with trepidation:

"Mother, Fei Fei don't live here, it's not fun here, there's only sand here......"

Luo Yashan's wife, Sophia's mother, Zhao Xinlian immediately smiled and comforted:

"Fei Fei don't worry, His Royal Highness Prince Dashi is only taking the ownership of this territory from afar.

"He usually lives in Daming Jingshi, which is the largest city in the world."

Sophia is still not entirely reassured:

"Then why are we landing here?"

Father Luo Yashan looked back and explained with a smile:

"After all, this is the fiefdom of Prince Dashi, and since we are passing by in the Persian Gulf, we have to come and visit.

"Fei Fei don't worry, let's take a look here and leave, we won't stop here to live."

At this time, another child of Roashan, Peter, who was twelve years old, looked at the big boat on the other side and asked:

"Dad, mother, look at the boat over there, is that the immigration ship of the Ming Dynasty?

"I should be going to the other side of the two rivers, there are only a few hundred kilometers left, why do you have to stop here?"

Luo Yashan and Zhao Xinlian were equally puzzled, and they didn't know why Daming's migrant ship docked here.

"Maybe the ship's machinery is malfunctioning, or maybe it's bringing some supplies here......

In fact, the destination of the boat that Luo Yashan's family was staring at was not the Lianghe River basin at all, but the destination was Liusha County in the Great Food Country.

Zheng Fuguang, manager of the raw material exploration department of Daming Aviation Fuel Company, a subsidiary of Daming Airlines, is on this ship.

Zheng Fu took his colleagues and employees to stand on the deck of the official Ming immigration ship, and looked at the shore with the same stunned expression:

"This is really the Great Food Country...... National capital? ”

The craftsmen around Zheng Fuguang have already started to talk about it:

"That's right, it's here, the name is Liusha County, I originally thought the name was freehand, but I didn't expect it to be realistic."

"Are we all going to drill here for oil in the future?"

"Shhhh

"When I came, I heard that this place was very desolate, but I didn't expect it to ......"

"My God, this place is obviously by the sea, why is it so desolate?"

"That's right, our local seaside in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the Jiangnan side, even Liaodong is 10,000 times better than here......"

"I didn't expect it to be so desolate."

Zheng Fuguang listened to these discussions, and he swallowed his saliva in a daze, and regretted that he came here for a business trip allowance.

Originally, I was also thinking, since it was in the bay, how bad the environment could be......

I didn't expect it, I never expected it......

I knew that I would go to Qintian to monitor the detailed climate survey report here, and I was careless......