After reading the letters and documents, he continued to talk about things in the north for a while, and sent Zhao Xu and Wen Zao away, and the sky was already dark.

He Xuan was already waiting outside the door to urge Zhu Yuan to have dinner.

Leaving the Mingxin Hall, reflecting the light of the lanterns hanging on the shore of the garden rockery lake, strolling all the way back to the inner house, thinking about various things, seeing Freehand and blank leading a few little maids to meet at the door of the inner house, Zhu Yuan instructed: "Start preparing tonight, set off within three days, and return to Jinling." ”

Freehand knew that his little official had just met Wen Zao, and he also heard that Zhao Xu was back, but he didn't expect such a thing, and he was still surprised, and he had already said: "The little official is so anxious?" ”

It was a question, but it was full of joy.

His own petty officials were finally able to leave Mingzhou, which was busy all day.

"The ancestor is in a hurry," Zhu Yuan smiled and raised his hand to grab the blank chin, replacing the smile that the girl was about to overflow with shyness, and then said: "I also have to consider the delay on the road, so I can only leave as soon as possible." ”

I remember freehand, too.

His Majesty the Emperor's birthday was September 18, and he privately thought that he should go back before this, but he quickly calmed down the accident and turned worried: "Little official, three days, I'm afraid it will be difficult to prepare properly?" ”

As he spoke, he walked through the porch to the dining room in the west wing of the inner house.

Signaling to the young lady waiting here that they can bring the meal, Zhu Yuan then said: "It's just two things, people and things, which people to bring back, what things to bring back, make a list after the meal, and tomorrow is enough to prepare for one day." Moreover, it doesn't matter if you pull something down, and then send it to Jinling. ”

Thinking about it for freehand, I can only do this, I promised, and I helped my petty officials set up the tableware in my hand, and I had already begun to think about it in my head.

Qing Niang came in with all kinds of food, Zhu Yuan saw Nuan Niang, temporarily remembered one thing, and said to the woman: "You here, I will also give you a day tomorrow to select a hundred girls from the various schools that have been opened in Dinghai, and take the smartest and smartest ones to Jinling." ”

Nuan Niang put down the porcelain cup containing rock sugar bird's nest, and promised on her lips, but her expression was puzzled, and she even wanted to be crooked.

Zhu Yuan had already picked up the fast child and didn't explain much to her.

In the past few months, various schools near Dinghai have been opened, among which the primary school part has the largest number of students, because of the requirements of the Yinghai Division, in addition to boys, many people have also sent their own girls to read and write.

The main thing is not to ask for money.

The Camp & Sea Division is directly responsible for this part of the expenditure.

Correspondingly, the teaching conditions are also imaginably simple, Zhu Yuan has personally seen it, a classroom, full of forty or fifty children.

Can't be more, because it just can't be squeezed in.

In this era, resources are limited after all, and Zhu Yuan is very satisfied with being able to do this.

The order just now is to pick someone for Houhu Medical College. As for why there are only girls, because there is no shortage of boys in Jinling. Moreover, what Zhu Yuan wants is the smartest batch, which can be regarded as a kind of pinching, and the current educational resources are insufficient, so he cannot cast a wide net, so he can only keep improving.

Freehand handed over a bowl of bird's nest, and when Zhu Yuan finished instructing, he said another thing: "Brother Nu, and brother of the Li family, this time they all brought the letter back, and showed it to the junior officials after dinner." ”

In addition to Qiao An, Qingniang's fourth brother Li Zhen offered to participate in the transportation of grain before, and he has also stayed in the front-line army for the past few months.

This battle is still at an end, but after the follow-up, Qiao An jumped from the fifth grade to the fourth rank of the command deputy envoy is not a big problem. Li Zhen was a counselor of military affairs in the name of the official of the Yinghai Division, and his performance was decent, but if he was able to go on this trip, in addition to the commendation and reward of the imperial court, after he came back, Zhu Yuan would also give him a positive eight products.

After tasting a bite of bird's nest and not liking it very much, Zhu Yuan pushed the small bowl aside, picked up the fast and turned to the xiaolongbao that Qing Niang would make every day, and asked, "What did the letter say?" ”

Freehand took the bowl of bird's nest away a little, so as not to knock it down, and replied: "The family letter to the slaves is just to report peace, and to the petty officials, the slaves dare not open it without authorization." ”

Zhu Yuan reacted.

Thinking about it, it should be the various experiences of the two in the past few months, which can be regarded as a kind of war report from their personal perspective. Moreover, thinking of this, Zhu Yuan felt that it was most likely the letter proposed by Li Zhen, who had always been active. The previous battle reports were all generalizations from a large perspective, but the current one also made Zhu Yuan a little interested.

said about the letter, and the freehand continued: "Also, little official, Wutong's set of clothes is ready, do you want to see it later?" ”

Zhu Yuan nodded: "Go and call over." ”

I didn't expect my own petty officials to ask for it immediately, and I didn't object to it, I turned my head and ordered, Nuan Niang went out, and soon brought someone over, except for the tall Wutong, the other two girls with the Wutong, and a girl in the front yard, Zhu Yuan thought about it, remembered, called Loulan, and followed.

Glancing at the other women, Zhu Yuan's eyes turned to Wutong, dressed in a 'denim suit' with a bit of a later feeling, a blue canvas-style jacket, blue wide-leg jeans, and a pair of knee-length brown high leather boots...... Well, seeing this, Zhu Yuan suddenly shook his head: "Wrong, these boots ...... High boots should still be paired with leggings, and wide-leg pants are too mismatched. Take the time to make another pair of leggings for her, and in addition, make another pair of boots, change to a low-top, try black, and the sole should be thicker, so that it is at least an inch. ”

Freehand agreed to write it down.

Zhu Yuan looked at it again, and when he was inspired, he said, "Add another windbreaker and make it of black or brown thick tweed felt." Also, if you're a woman after all, try adding some embroidery to your clothes, or accessories like crystal or silver buttons. ”

After giving this order, Zhu Yuan looked up and down again.

Wutong still has long hair in a shawl, slightly covering her face, making her whole person look a lot softer, with this set of clothes, there is a feeling of a modern girl up and down.

It would feel even better if it was not an antique Ming Dynasty Jiangnan dwelling, but a modern studio hundreds of years later.

Supermodel.

All right.

There are also some places for drama.

For example, this girl is looking at the food in front of Zhu Yuan at the moment, as if she has been hungry for many days, and her light blue eyes seem to be a little green.

Also swallow saliva.

Goodu......

Zhu Yuan was helpless, beckoned, Wutong immediately stepped forward, knelt tamely at his feet without any command, raised his face, seemed to think about it, and opened his mouth to call: "My lord." ”

It's only been one day, and the pronunciation I taught yesterday is out of shape, weird and weird.

Then just open your mouth.

Zhu Yuan instantly remembered the little pets in his memory who begged for food from their owners, and they were still the kind that only made a move, so they would definitely not be able to roll around.

Tut!

I want a supermodel who can be arrogant, cold, strong, and ghostly......

Just give me this?!

sighed again in his heart, looked left and right, Zhu Yuan pointed to a bowl of rice balls opposite: "That, give it to her." ”

I don't like sweets.

Luo Shui smiled and picked up the rice balls and sent them to Wutong, seeing that the girl was about to grab it when she raised her hand, Zhu Yuan reprimanded: "Don't use your hands!" ”

Wutong didn't understand, but he could feel the emotions of the little master, so he was so frightened that he suddenly retracted his hand and knelt down again, his pitiful expression was full of hope.

Luo Shui put the rice balls on a round stool next to him, took a spoon and handed it to Wutong, the girl looked at Zhu Yuan again, got confirmation, and then looked at the spoon, probably understood something, took it, carefully lay down next to the stool, and began to eat.

Boom.

Zhu Yuan was helpless, and also glanced at the young lady.

Both are strong asymmetries of appearance and character, you ...... It doesn't make people feel cute at all.

Seeing that her own petty officials looked at her, the young lady, who should have been very queenly, stepped forward, shrank her body, and asked with her eyes.

Silly.

Obviously, I didn't understand the meaning in Zhu Yuan's gaze.

Shaking his head to indicate that it was okay, Zhu Yuan withdrew his eyes, reached out and touched the head of the girl next to him, feeling the brown hair that was not very good because of the lack of maintenance, with a joke: "It's delicious, eat it and become a big fat girl, so I will sell you and go to grind it." Well, no, why sell it, how cost-effective it would be for me to build a mill myself. ”

A chuckle rang out all around.

Wutong naturally still didn't understand, but immediately stopped eating, raised his face, and saw Zhu Yuan's little hand fall because of this, the girl opened her mouth flatteringly, stretched out her tongue and was about to lick it, but was blocked by Zhu Yuan, and pressed it back.

So I started eating again.

Boom.

Zhu Yuan: "......"

You can't really have a problem with IQ, right?

After thinking about it, he couldn't figure it out, so he didn't want to do it at all, turned to the table in front of him again, and began to deal with a roast goose leg, peeling it off and eating it in small bites with a fast child, Zhu Yuan motioned to the others: "What are you doing here?" ”

The warm lady who brought people lowered her eyes weakly.

The drizzle and a little bit naturally still didn't understand, Loulan took a step forward, and Wanfu said: "My lord, the slave learned to talk to them, and when he got some news, he wanted to talk to the adult." ”

Zhu Yuan nodded: "Let's talk about it." ”

Loulan pointed to the drizzle first: "This, she comes from a country far west and north from us, called 'Swich'......"

Seeing Lou Lan pointing to herself, and mentioning a certain word again, Drizzle nodded subconsciously, and echoed a more standard word: "sverige." ”

Interrupted by the drizzle, Loulan was a little dissatisfied, but took out a booklet from her arms: "My lord, the key words in it, the slave let the drizzle write it down in their words, and there are various other things to talk about today, and the slave tried to make annotations." ”

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Since Wutong entered the door, the sack girl who was unconsciously close to these bearded girls stepped forward, took the booklet, and sent it to her petty officials.

Zhu Yuan opened it with one hand, thought for a while, and instructed Luo Shui: "Go to the study and bring the trumpet globe." ”

When Luo Shui went out, Zhu Yuan looked at the words written with a pen on the booklet, and next to them were transliterated notes, such as the 'Swiche' that Loulan had just said, and some of them indicated their meanings, such as one of them, affarsman, followed by 'merchant'.

Loulan's voice sounded in his ears again: "My lord, I see that these characters are very similar to the pinyin letters you use." ”

"It's all Latin letters, of course it's like that," Zhu Yuan smiled and complimented: "You did a good job." ”

Loulan hurriedly blessed again: "This is the duty of a slave." ”

Zhu Yuan didn't take his eyes off the booklet, and pondered on the 'Swich' for a moment, and suddenly reacted that it was 'Sweden'.

Have traveled to Northern Europe more than once.

Several Nordic countries have different spellings than the more popular English names.

Just say Sweden, the English word seems to be 'sweden', but the Swedish spelling is 'sverige', as for the Chinese name, at first glance it sounds even more inconsistent with the pronunciation, Zhu Yuan happened to remember, once in Northern Europe travel, people around him mentioned a sentence, at first, the transliteration of 'Sweden', is actually from Cantonese pronunciation.

Moreover, Chinese have a habit of Western names, whether they are personal names, place names or country names, and they are elegant.

It's also a fairly old tradition.

The feudal dynasty continues to expand to the periphery, every time it takes a place, it will modify some unsightly local place names, typically, various place names in Yunnan, Kunming, Qujing, Lijiang, Pu'er, etc., look very beautiful, but, at the beginning, the corresponding place names are not like this.

For example, Kunming, the early name, was called Yachicheng.

Besides, a few hundred years later, it will still be the same for foreign countries. For example, the most typical Yahua name, Emermanek. Zhu Yuan felt that it was enough to give a neutral 'Emerrick', which translates to 'United States', which is really a waste of the word 'beauty' for a country that is unashamedly shouting 'we lie, we cheat, we steal'.

There is another word 'English' that has also been misrepresented.

Sweden, Finland, Norway and the like are similar, all of which are various elegant names for Chinese with good intentions.

Zhu Yuan disagrees with these very much.

Zhu Yuan has always felt that Chinese should be less kind to the outside world, more vigilant, and even malicious, which is the mainstream way of survival in this world.

Luo Shui brought the globe over and put it on the side of the dining table.

Zhu Yuan motioned for a few drizzles to step forward: "Look for it, see where your country is." ”

Where is Sweden in a few hundred years, Zhu Yuan knows. At the moment, things are not so certain, after all, the history of European countries is too chaotic, and the changes in the territory are very random.

Loulan reminded that the drizzle and a little bit stepped forward.

Looking at the globe up close, the drizzle carefully played with it for a moment, with obvious surprise on her face, of course she still didn't understand what Zhu Yuan said just now, but she quickly clicked on one of the positions.

Zhu Yuan looked up, recognized it slightly, and said: "That's Estonia, I didn't expect it to belong to Sweden now." ”

Estonia is the northernmost of the three small states on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.

Drizzle was reminded by a certain word in Zhu Yuan's words, nodded his head, his fingers were still pressed in that position, and spit out a word: "eesti." ”

Listening to the effort, Zhu Yuan motioned to Loulan: "Let's talk about it." ”

Loulan continued: "This drizzle, she came from...... Well, in this place called Estonia in Sweden, she was the daughter of a merchant, and when she was very young, because of the war, Drizzle moved with her family to another country called Novgorod in the East, and settled. ”

Speaking of this, Loulan pointed to the booklet in Zhu Yuan's hand again.

Zhu Yuan quickly found another word, novgorod, this word, the pronunciation is similar to the spelling, and then look at the side, Drizzle listened very carefully, and the slender fingers also pointed to the east to another place.

Probably on the territory of Russia a few hundred years later.

Loulan also continued: "Three years ago, when Drizzle was 20 years old, the city where she lived was raided by the troops of the southern Kipchak Khanate, her father and brother died in the war, and the rest of her relatives became slaves. ”

Loulan said this, and the drizzle next to her had been sketching with her fingers.

Zhu Yuan roughly saw a long route from Estonia east to Novgorod and then south to the Kipchak Khanate and even south from the Persian Gulf to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, Ming Dynasty.

It doesn't matter.

Think about the three Nordic girls in the dining room, who can travel tens of thousands of miles to Daming in this era, and still be alive, it is definitely a miracle. Zhu Yuan can even imagine that behind the miracle, there is a high probability that there is some kind of 'one in ten'.

It's brutal.

Thinking so, Zhu Yuan motioned to the little little dot next to the drizzle: "What about her?" ”

Loulan said: "The hometown of the little girl is in Novgorod, and she ...... It seems to be the daughter of a 'landowner'. ”

Zhu Yuan was puzzled.

The daughter of a landlord?

After thinking about it a little, Zhu Yuan understood that it should be a 'lord', or a 'noble' in Europe, but thinking about it, the aristocracy in Europe is really overflowing, and it is not uncommon to be counted as a noble lord by managing a hundred people in a small village.

The snorting stopped at his feet, and he remembered that there was another one.

Zhu Yuan put the roast goose leg that he had only eaten a few bites in a small bowl in front of Wutong and licked it cleanly, and his voice quickly changed to 'Kacha Kacha'.

You can't eat bones!

If you want to stop it, just raise your hand and grind your teeth more so that you don't bite anything else.

So turning to Loulan, Zhu Yuan gestured to his feet, and continued to ask, "What about her?" ”

Loulan didn't hide the disdain in her expression: "This ...... She is not from the same place as Drizzle and Dot, and Drizzle does not know where she came from, only that it should be more north of Novgorod...... Savage, she can't even say much, Drizzle can barely understand a few words, and then tell the slave, the slave doesn't know but understands correctly. ”

Glancing at the globe, Novgorod further north should be the later Finnish region. However, since Drizzle did not utter this word, perhaps Finland has not yet become a state.

Retracting his gaze again, Zhu Yuan motioned for Loulan to continue.

Loulan also thought about it again before saying, "A few words, roughly ...... Villages, plagues, flights. ”

Zhu Yuan pondered for a while, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Pestilence?!

What plague was most famous in medieval Europe?

The Black Death.

At a certain moment, Zhu Yuan almost blurted out, and quickly pulled the one out at his feet, filled the deep pit, and didn't forget to sprinkle it with thick lime.

Then I realized that I was overreacting.

can come to Daming from a distance of thousands of miles, if there is any epidemic, either he will die early, or he will be cured early, maybe he will bring antibodies.

However, this also gave Zhu Yuan a big wake-up call.

Daming will definitely maintain a fairly open foreign policy in the future, but while keeping it open, the matter of customs quarantine must also be done, and it must be very strict.

Immediately, immediately!

Tomorrow we will set up a department, recruit people, and quickly get out the charter, and make it the most important thing to do before leaving.

How did the Indians of the Americas get almost exterminated?

In addition to the massacre, there is also an important reason, that is, the Europeans are too dirty, the Age of Discovery, all kinds of infectious diseases have been brought to North America, which is almost a pure land, and even some colonists deliberately sent the shroud that collected the corpses of smallpox patients to the local natives, resulting in a large number of deaths of Native Americans who lacked resistance.

In any case, no matter whether the outsiders are intentional or accidental, Daming's side must make strict arrangements in advance.

After paying attention, seeing that a certain one at his feet had already eaten most of the roast goose legs quickly, he raised his face again and shouted in a strange tone, 'Adult', Zhu Yuan asked Luo Shui to put down a plate of pickled drunken mud snails, add two more flower rolls, and said to Lou Lan: "In this way, you are responsible for the three of them, and write a book on the experience of each of them in the form of biographies, don't use too complicated classical Chinese, write in the vernacular as much as possible, the more detailed the better." ”

Loulan hurriedly agreed.

Zhu Yuan turned to freehand: "The same is true for others, arranging literate girls to be responsible, mainly to learn languages from each other and compile character experiences." In short, I want to know everything you can get out of their heads. ”