Having said this, Yang Chen took the wine pot and poured wine for Jiang Dahai.

Yang Chen's expression was very unnatural, and something was wrong with Jiang Dahai. Jiang Dahai knew Yang Chen's character. He had a very strict mouth. If he wanted to say something, he would definitely say it. If he didn't want to say something, he wouldn't say it even if asked.

He also wouldn't talk about being tortured.

After three rounds of wine and five delicious dishes, Jiang Dahai and a few old friends said goodbye and left.

After everyone left, Yang Chen's wife, Yang Zhou, took the brewed tea and poured a bowl for Yang Chen: "Dad, what's wrong with you?"

"If something happens, call the boss and the boss's wife over!"

Yang Zhou could only go and call for help.

"Dad, master!"

Yang Chen's eldest son Yang Qing and his daughter-in-law Li were actually not from a family of officials, but Li Shengnan, the daughter of Li Jinsong, a scholar who supervised the imperial censor Xia Zhiling.

Because Li Jinsong's family was poor since childhood, he was sold to the Xia family as a servant. Li Jinsong followed Xia Zhiling as a bookboy. Later, Xia Zhiling offended Wei Zhongxian, and Li Jinsong was implicated and died in prison. As Li Jinsong's eldest daughter, Li Shengnan returned to

On the way to the countryside, they were robbed by bandits again.

Li Shengnan panicked and jumped off a cliff to protect his innocence. However, he did not die and was rescued by Yang Chen and his son Yang Qing. Li Shengnan's appearance could only be regarded as ordinary, but Yang Qing was average-looking, so Li Shengnan promised to marry him.

After thinking for a long time, Yang Chen said: "Boss, my wife, I have something to discuss with you!"

"Master, please give me your instructions!"

Yang Chen told everything that happened when Cheng Shijie summoned him this time. In the end, Yang Chen concluded: "I'm old and it's too late for me to learn to read. Dalang's skills are good now and his qualifications are still high."

Qian, besides, we don’t have hereditary practices in Liaonan anymore. Boss, wife, you can read and do arithmetic. From tomorrow on, you will follow me to the salt factory. You will first get familiar with the salt factory. Once you are familiar with it, I will

I recommend you to be the general manager of the salt factory!"

Li Shengnan looked surprised: "Master, I'm just a woman..."

"What's wrong with women? We don't do this in southern Liaoning. Women can also be officials. Yang Yunniang of our management committee, General Manager Jin of the textile factory, and Mr. Wang of Jinzhou Girls' School. These are

It’s a good opportunity, you have to seize it!”

In Yang Chen's opinion, Cheng Shijie was dissatisfied with his abilities because he was an old man and had not been given the position of general manager. If new talents came over, he would definitely give up his position.

Instead of letting Cheng Shijie drive him away, he might as well make room for himself and push his daughter-in-law up first.

The daughter-in-law is not a son, she is always one step behind. But the problem is that the meat is rotten in her own pot, but she can still have a sip of broth.

In this way, Li Shengnan wears men's clothing. In fact, this is a cover-up. Women who can hide their feminine features in men's clothing tend to be androgynous or masculine in appearance.

…

Miss Xu Si, Maldina, who was in Zhenhai City, found that she had fallen in love with Liaonan.

There is no comfort of etiquette here, no nagging from the elders, and more importantly, she can go to Li Zhenli's newly opened Meixiang Building to play openly.

Meixiang House is a special feature of Zhenhai City. Although it has not been open for a long time, it has become the most famous brothel in Zhenhai City. This brothel seems like a club in later generations. No one can come in without being recommended by an acquaintance. This brothel only covers an area of ​​three meters.

Entering the Meixiang Tower with more than 20 rooms, there are more than a dozen famous prostitutes famous in Qinhuai River, who are proficient in playing, playing and singing.

Every day, she can only sleep until dawn, and she will definitely be awakened by the noise around her. This is the academy of Zhenhai City, not far from the courtyard where she lives. There are three to four hundred of these children. They start to gather at dawn every day and enter the school.

The first thing I did was not to walk into the classroom for morning reading, but to walk to the playground and start lining up.

Standing in front of the attic window, Maldina could clearly see that these children began to box under the guidance of their instructors. The instructor was Meng En, Cheng Shijie's personal guard and the second disciple of Wu Sheng, a master of Bajiquan.

The young voices of these children made loud shouts, advanced and retreated at the same time, and punched and retracted their fists and feet at the same time, full of vitality.

Bajiquan is a highly practical martial art. So far, three schools in southern Liaoning, namely Jinzhou Academy, Zhenhai Academy, and Jinzhou Girls' School, have adopted militarized management. They start practicing in formation as soon as they enter school.

The training is the same as Ning Haijun's regular military training, but the standards are not as strict.

Martina has a sense of having fun and not thinking about Shu.

Because it was so close to the school, the aroma of the school cafeteria became stronger and stronger. Needless to say, the breakfast in the school cafeteria was ready, and as the instructor said "dismissal", the children cheered loudly and ran back to the school quickly. When they

When I came out again, I had an extra food box in my hand.

The old servants carried out several large wooden barrels. The barrels were steaming with steam and the aroma was fragrant. Needless to say, this was the children's breakfast. From the smell, today's breakfast was sauerkraut noodles, a spoonful of noodles and a spoonful of sauerkraut.

, add an egg, and it’s all ready. It’s very simple, but the children ate sparingly and snored without raising their heads. The sound was so loud that I accidentally thought I had entered a pig farm.

The Maid of Martina is Catherine of Venice, a Catholic she met when she was in the Golden State.

Both children of God, Martina took in Catherine.

Because Catherine has good cooking skills, if European cuisine is dark cuisine, the only one that is still edible is Italian food.

Maldina doesn't know whether spaghetti is authentic or not, but since she came to Liaonan, she has changed from a Jiangnan person who is used to eating rice to a northerner who likes to eat pasta.

Eating the same pickled cabbage noodles from Zhenhai City College, Catherine devoured them.

There was only Mardina's maid, Xu Lian'er said with some emotion: "These children are so happy!"

"Really happy?"

Mardina wondered: "Why are they happy? They get up before dawn, and then do morning exercises for half an hour, until they are exhausted and sweating profusely. Then they eat breakfast. After breakfast, they go to class. They go to school all morning and until dark in the afternoon.

Only then can I get out of school...what is happiness?"

She thought of her old days. At that time, she didn't have to practice boxing and could sleep until she came naturally. She would have class for half an hour in the morning, rest for a quarter of an hour, and then work for another half hour. The same was true in the afternoon. She had two hours of class every day.

They all felt extremely tired and had to spend two hours doing their homework.

Mardina has never felt that going to school is a happy thing.

Xu Lian'er sighed: "They can go to school for free, eat for free, get new clothes for free, shoes for free, books for free..."

At first, Cheng Shijie did not consider giving shoes to students because it was difficult to prepare children's shoes. Because children's feet grow so fast, a round-neck Confucian shirt will outgrow it after half a year. The same goes for shoes.

However, when these children were barefoot or wearing shoes with exposed toes, Cheng Shijie felt that it would affect the perception, so he changed the rules. Each student was given two pairs of cloth shoes and two pairs of cotton shoes.

Originally, he had never thought about taking care of breakfast, but only a lunch. Cheng Shijie also discovered that many children brought bran and wild vegetables to the school to eat. He changed his mind and started to provide free breakfast to the children.

.

Maldina had to admit that what Xu Lian'er said made sense.

Everyone has a different definition of happiness. In Xu Lian'er's eyes, having new clothes to wear, food to eat, and books to read is happiness.

But Miss Xu Si has never worried about basic life. Her definition of happiness is completely different.

Miss Xu Si said: "General Cheng is a good person!"

"What does it mean to be a good person?"

Xu Lian'er was a little anxious, her little face was as red as an apple: "More than just a good person, a kind person is nothing more than that! Miss, think about it, who can give tens of thousands of people free medical treatment like him?

, tens of thousands of people study for free?”

Catherine stared at Xu Lian'er's red face and chuckled.

Xu Lian'er said in confusion: "Why are you laughing?"

Catherine smiled and said: "Lian'er, you keep praising people, are you looking at General Cheng?"

Xu Lian'er's face turned red to her ears, and she stamped her feet and said, "You bitch, you... what are you talking about? Who is interested in him? You are attracted by General Cheng!"

"That's right, I'm attracted to him!"

Catherine said without hesitation: "Let me first state that I fall in love with him not because he is a general or the governor of the East. I fall in love with him because he is tall, handsome, and heroic... It would be fine if he is not the governor of the East.

Now, I will take him back to Venice and ask my father to make him a baron of the Republic. If a baron is not too young, he should be a count..."

Xu Lian'er was a little confused by Catherine. Her little face was bulging with anger, and she gritted her teeth and cursed: "So shameless, shameless..."

Martina smiled narrowly: "Lian'er, don't be angry, even if General Cheng is not a general, he still looks down on Catherine!"

Xu Lian'er had no scheming and her expression softened.

Miss Xu is right, the Ming Dynasty is an iron-blooded Ming Dynasty. Even in the sunset, there is still arrogance in the bones. Even a beggar will not marry a foreigner. Zheng Zhilong marries Maeda Kawamatsu as his wife.

The laughing stock in everyone's eyes.

The universal values ​​of the Ming Dynasty were completely different from those of later generations. They would rather marry a woman from Le family than a barbarian girl.

Maldina looked at Xu Lian'er's performance and said dumbfounded: "Lian'er, you exposed yourself and said you didn't like him, so why are you praising him so much? I have never seen you praise a man like this.

.”

Xu Lian'er's face bulged: "Why are you praising him? Isn't what he has done worthy of being praised?"

Mardina:......

…

Entering July, Jinzhou discovered huge changes. The originally planned Jinzhou City, the outer city that was nearly ten times larger than the original Jinzhou City, was already so packed that it was about to explode. The city wall had not yet started to be built.

By that time, the outer city was already full, so Cheng Shijie simply and rudely built a zigzag-shaped ring road along the original plan to build the city wall, and continued to expand the outside.

Jinzhou City is 3,300 meters long from north to south and 2,900 meters wide from east to west. It continues to expand and becomes 8,500 meters long from north to south and 6,700 meters wide from east to west.

Song Xiance, director of the management committee, said with some uncertainty: "My lord, is this too radical? For such a big city... it will take a lot of money and food to build a city wall."

You know, the current Beijing city has undergone three large-scale expansions, with a total area of ​​62.55 million square meters. But the problem is that the outer city of Jinzhou City expanded by Shi Shijie has a circumference of more than 40 miles.

The area is close to the current area of ​​Beijing.
To be continued...