I am one year older than Chongzhen

The beauty is playing with a gun under the candlelight, and she is half-covered and half-exposed.

Huang Yi, who had been through several storms, felt it again. He said: "You like my blunderbuss. How can I not reward you? I'll give it to you."

"Ah!~, Master, slave family, slave family..."

A long absence is better than a newlywed. Whenever Huang Yi is found to have no business to deal with in the evening, Aqi Dolan will stay with him for more than an hour after evening classes.

Huang Yi must be tireless in teaching, and the base area needs too many loyal soldiers who are educated and have national pride.

Since accepting Huang Dayong and Huang Dazhi, Huang Yi has to start classes whenever there is nothing important at night.

At the beginning, it was just about literacy, teaching literacy, arithmetic, and Chinese pinyin to Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, Qi Dashan, He Shouye, Liu Shifu, Qi Xiaoshan, Zhang Dong, etc.

Nowadays, it is no longer necessary. Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, Zhangdong, etc. can already teach newcomers to read, write, and arithmetic.

Huang Yi spent nearly an hour every night talking about the glorious history of the Han nation, astronomy and geography, stories about protecting the homeland and the country, and instilling the idea of ​​loyalty to the base area.

Education is not slackened just because there are women waiting.

Aqi Duolan, who rides back and forth like the wind, is bright and heroic in front of outsiders, but is as docile as a kitten when next to Huang Yi.

She also likes to listen to Huang Yi's lectures and stories. There are many people in the class who don't understand clearly, so they have to ask for clarification before saying anything.

Of course, Huang Yi couldn't just talk about Aqi Duolan as soon as he saw her. He had to answer her questions and answer her questions. He also liked to listen to her explain things in the base in detail.

Aqi Duolan told Huang Yi that when the reinforcements set off, Ye Huiling also led the crew to set off, and the first destination was Tongzhou.

The Li family invited the crew to perform in Tongzhou for ten consecutive performances.

Of course the introducer was Li Weida, but he didn't need to pay. It was his cousin who paid.

It was my cousin's fiftieth birthday, so he spent three thousand taels of silver to invite the base theater crew to perform the most popular drama at the moment - Majestic Mountains and Rivers.

Of course, the Li family also did this with the intention of deepening their relationship with Xinghejun.

The base area is developing, and so are the theater groups. Not only are there two troupes capable of performing magnificent performances, but there is also a troupe rehearsing a new play - the oil seller monopolizes the oiran.

Dramas cannot be the same, they cannot all be about fighting against the slaves and Tatars, they must be diverse.

The oil seller monopolizes the courtesan, a drama in which diaosi counterattacks are most likely to attract audiences.

This is originally a comedy, and Huang Yi inserts many witticisms and funny jokes from later generations into the dialogue, which will definitely make the audience laugh when they see it for the first time.

The Xinghecheng Auditorium and Dongshanbao Auditorium in the base area can accommodate seven to eight hundred people for meetings and theater performances.

After the busy farming season, under Zuo Fanglian's arrangement, three major plays were staged in the two auditoriums every day, and the venues were full.

However, the ticket price is much lower than that of performances in Guanhai. It is not that the prices are divided into three classes, and the first-class theater tickets are as high as one tael of silver, but the unified ticket price is ten cents per person.

This shows that the crew can earn at most seven or eight taels of silver for a performance in the base area, which is not profitable at all.

Is performing for the military and civilians in the base area just for profit?

It is for the purpose of entertaining and educating, to promote the Mandarin of the base area, and to show the cohesion of the organization...

How can the ordinary people of this era have any entertainment?

Entering a warm auditorium to watch a play can keep you talking about it for months.

However, theater tickets are in short supply, and many people have never heard of it but have never seen it.    This cannot be blamed on Zuo Fanglian and Wang Baishan for not doing well.

Just because even if there are three performances a day, the two auditoriums can only accommodate 4,000 to 5,000 people watching the theater, only 150,000 people a month.

Today, the population of the base area has already exceeded 600,000, and is still increasing rapidly.

Of course, many people don't have the opportunity to go to the auditorium to watch a play.

Ye Huiling led the crew to go to Damingfu after completing the performance in Tongzhou, and then to the capital. She might not return to the base to celebrate the New Year.

Aqi Duolan is very smart. She guessed that if the master celebrates the New Year in Xinghe City, Ye Huiling should be able to make it back in the twelfth lunar month.

Neither Geng Yueru nor Geng Yueling returned to the base, but they sent back many orders for four-wheel carriages. Aqi Duolan had shipped more than 80 carriages before departure.

Not only are cars selling well, steelmaking and ironware are selling even better. The sickles, plowshares, scissors, guillotines, etc. produced in the base are already famous far and wide.

Most of the sweaters, cotton coats, down coats, sheepskin hats, cowhide riding boots, wool blankets, etc. produced in the base areas are supplied to the army, and only a small amount is sold to the private sector.

Because the quality is reliable, demand exceeds supply!

The population in the base area has more than doubled, and more wasteland has been reclaimed this year. Next spring there will definitely be more than two million acres of irrigated land sown.

Aqi Dolan is not worried that people in the base will starve to death this winter.

Not only because the base area can ensure that every soldier and civilian has a warm house to live in and enough charcoal and coal stoves to survive the winter, but also because the base area has achieved a bumper harvest.

The soil chemical fertilizer factory has achieved results. The 150,000 acres of wheat fields in the base area that used fertilizer fertilizer have achieved high yields. On average, one acre of wheat fields costs two stones and one bucket.

Because the output of fertilized field powder is insufficient, the yield of 180,000 acres of wheat fields without soil and chemical fertilizers is only one stone per acre.

With such a sharp contrast, workers in the collective farms in the base areas all attach great importance to scientific farming and are accumulating manure in exchange for fertilizer powder.

Literary teachers and town governors from several farms have organized dung convoys and personally led the teams to collect human and animal excrement in Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu.

Dung can accumulate nitrate and can be boiled into fertilizer powder, which can immediately reflect its economic value. Of course, some people don't mind it being dirty.

Especially the refugees from Denglai and Liaodong who just arrived in the base area this year.

They learned that they could earn twenty-five cents a day for collecting excrement, and they were all eager to do it.

Wang Baishan, Zhang, He Shouye, Lan Jinkui, etc. have become accustomed to accepting and resettling refugees.

The large Kang can accommodate more than 20 people sleeping in collective dormitories. Xinghe City and Dongshan Fort have built tens of thousands of them this year.

Not all of them are in the city. Some dormitories are near factories on the outskirts of the city, and some are in mining areas and on farms.

Well-drilling teams, construction teams, quarries, coal mines, iron ore mines, fertilizer plants, as long as they have strong laborers, they can only receive apprentice wages, which is twenty cents a day.

With twenty coins in hand, we can guarantee that the three of us will not go hungry as long as there is a dormitory.

After working for half a year, the salary of most hard-working people can be increased to 30 or even 40 cash per day.

Those who have special skills or can write and do math are not treated like this!

Those who are educated and skilled can quickly get jobs in farms, steel factories, vehicle factories, gunpowder factories, clothing factories, etc. The wages are at least 40 cents a day, and they are not part-time workers, and the wages are paid monthly.