Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 155 Immediately, Immediately

After reading the letters and documents, we continued to chat for a while about the affairs of the north, and sent Zhao Xu and Wenzao away. It was already dark.

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

Leaving Mingxintang, walking back to the inner house reflecting the light of hanging lanterns by the rockery lake in the garden, thinking about various things, seeing Xie Yi and Liu Bai leading a few maids to welcome the door of the inner house, Zhu Yuan ordered: "Tonight Let’s start preparing, we will leave within three days and return to Jinling.”

Xieyi knew that her petty official had just met Wen Zao, and also heard that Zhao Xu had returned, but she didn't expect this to happen, she was still surprised, and Liu Bai said: "Your official, are you in such a hurry?"

It's a question, but it's full of joy.

My petty officials were finally able to leave Mingzhou, where they were busy all day long.

"My ancestors are in a hurry," Zhu Yuan smiled and raised his hand to catch Liu Bai's chin, replacing the girl's smile with shyness, and continued: "We still have to consider the delay on the road, so we can only leave as soon as possible."

I also remember the freehand brushwork.

His Majesty's birthday is September [-]th, and he planned to go back before then in private, but he quickly recovered from the accident and turned to worry: "Little official, three days, I'm afraid it will be difficult to prepare?"

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

Indicating to the young ladies waiting here that they can bring the meal, Zhu Yuan then said freely: "It's just two things, people and things, who to bring back, what things to bring back, make a list after the meal, and tomorrow will be a day." It’s enough to prepare. Moreover, it doesn’t matter if anything is pulled down, and it will be sent to Jinling later.”

This is the only way to think about it freehand, agreeing, helping his own petty officials to arrange the tableware, already starting to plan in his head.

Qing Niang came in with a variety of meals. Seeing Nuan Niang, Zhu Yuan suddenly thought of something, and said to the woman, "I will also give you a day tomorrow to choose one from the various schools that have been opened in Dinghai. Out of a hundred girls, the smartest one should be taken to Jinling."

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

Zhu Yuan had already picked up the chopsticks and didn't give her any further explanations.

In the past few months, various schools near Dinghai started classes one after another, among which the primary school had the largest number of students. Because of the requirements of the Yinghai Division, in addition to boys, many people also sent their own girls to read and write.

The main thing is no money.

The company is directly responsible for this part of the expenditure.

Correspondingly, the teaching conditions are as simple as one can imagine. Zhu Yuan went to see it in person. A classroom is full of [-] to [-] children.

No more, because it is too crowded.

After all, resources are limited in this era, and Zhu Yuan is already very satisfied with being able to do this.

The order just now was to pick someone for Houhu Medical College.As for why only girls are needed, because there is no shortage of boys in Jinling.Moreover, what Zhu Yuan wants is the smartest group, which can be regarded as a kind of pinching. The current educational resources are insufficient to cast a wide net, and can only strive for excellence.

Xieyi filled a bowl of bird's nest and handed it over, and after Zhu Yuan finished giving orders, he said another thing: "Brother from the Nu family, and brother from the Li family, they all sent letters this time, and I showed them to the little officials after dinner."

Besides Qiao An, Li Bie, Qingniang's fourth younger brother, offered to participate in food transportation before, and has remained in the frontline army for the past few months.

This battle is still in the end, but after the follow-up work, Qiao An jumped from the fifth rank, Qianhu, to the commander and assistant envoy of the fourth rank.Li Nie was a military counselor in the name of an official of the Yinghai Division, and his performance was quite satisfactory, but he was able to make this trip, in addition to the commendation and rewards from the court, after returning, Zhu Yuan would also give him an official eighth grade.

After taking a bite of the bird's nest, he didn't like it very much. Zhu Yuan pushed the small bowl aside, picked up the chopsticks and turned to the steamed buns that Qingniang made every day, asking, "What did you say in the letter?"

Xie Yi moved the bowl of bird's nest away again so as not to knock it over, and replied: "The family letters for the slaves are just to report safety, and the ones for the small officials, I 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 there was a high probability that Li Nie, who had always been active in his mind, suggested writing the letter.All the previous battle reports were summarized from a large perspective, but the current one also made Zhu Yuan a little interested.

After talking about the letter, Xieyi continued: "Also, little official, Wutong's suit is ready, do you want to see it later?"

Zhu Yuan nodded: "Go and call."

I didn't expect my little official to want it right away, and Xieyi didn't object. She turned her head and ordered, Nuan Niang went out, and soon brought people over, except for the tall Wutong, the other two girls who were with Wutong, and the people in the front yard. A girl, Zhu Yuan thought about it for a while, and remembered that her name was Lou Lan, and they all followed.

Glancing at the other women, Zhu Yuan turned his gaze to Wutong, who was wearing a 'denim outfit' with a sense of later generations, a blue canvas style jacket, blue wide-leg style jeans, and a pair of knee-length brown leather boots. Boots... Well, seeing this, Zhu Yuan suddenly shook his head: "Wrong, these boots... High boots still need to be paired with tights, wide-leg pants are too bad. Find time to make another pair of tights for her. In addition, the boots Also make another pair, change to low-top, try black, thicker soles, at least an inch."

Xieyi promised to write it down.

Zhu Yuan looked again, inspired again, and said: "Add another windbreaker, made of black or brown thick woolen felt. Also, are you a woman after all, you can try to add some embroidery to the clothes, or, Crystal or silver button accessories."

After giving such orders, Zhu Yuan looked him up and down again.

Wutong still has long hair in a shawl, which slightly covers her face, making her look softer. With this suit, she has the feeling of a modern girl from top to bottom.

It would be even better if the present is not the antique Jiangnan dwellings of the Ming Dynasty, but a modern studio hundreds of years later.

supermodel.

Ok.

There are also some places to play.

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

Also swallowed.

goooo...

Zhu Yuan had no choice but to beckon, and Wu Tong immediately stepped forward, knelt down at his feet obediently without any orders, raised his face, seemed to think for a while, and called out: "My lord."

In just one day, the pronunciation I taught yesterday was out of shape, and it was weird.

Then just open your mouth.

For a moment, Zhu Yuan remembered those little pets that bowed to their owners for food in his memory, and they were still the ones who could only bow, so they would definitely not be able to do it if they rolled.

Gee!
I want a supermodel who can be arrogant, indifferent, powerful, or crazy...

Just give me this? !

Sighing again inwardly, looking left and right, Zhu Yuan pointed to a bowl of glutinous rice balls on the opposite side: "That, give it to her."

Don't like sweet ones.

Luoshui smiled and brought the glutinous rice balls to Wutong. Seeing the girl raised her hand and was about to grab it, Zhu Yuan reprimanded: "Don't use your hands!"

Wutong couldn't understand, but could feel the little master's emotions, so scared that he immediately retracted his hand and knelt down again, with hope in his pitiful expression.

Luoshui put the glutinous 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, then looked at the spoon, she probably understood something, took it, and carefully lay down on the stool Beside, start eating.

bark bark bark bark.

Zhu Yuan had no choice but to look at Qing Niang.

Both of them are strongly inequal in appearance and personality, you guys... don't make people feel the contrast is cute at all, okay?

Seeing from the eyes of her little officials, the young lady who was supposed to be a queen stepped forward, lowered her body, and asked with her eyes.

Silly woman.

He obviously didn't understand the meaning in Zhu Yuan's eyes.

Shaking his head to show that nothing happened, Zhu Yuan withdrew his eyes, touched the head of the girl next to him, felt the brown hair that was not so good due to lack of maintenance, and joked: "It's delicious, eat it and become a big fat girl, Just sell it and go to grind for others. Well, no, why sell it, it would be more cost-effective for me to build a mill myself."

There were chuckles all around.

Naturally, Wutong still didn't understand, but immediately stopped eating, raised his face, and seeing Zhu Yuan's little hand dropped, the girl opened her mouth flatteringly, stretched out her tongue to lick, but was blocked by Zhu Yuan, and pushed it back.

So I started eating again.

bark bark bark bark.

Zhu Yuan: "..."

It's not really a problem with IQ, is it?

After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't figure it out, so he simply didn't want to, turned back to the table in front of him, and began to deal with a roast goose leg, peeling off small bites with chopsticks and eating, while Zhu Yuan motioned to the others: "What are you doing here?"

Nuan Niang, who brought someone here, lowered her eyes guiltily.

Xiaoyu and Diandian naturally still didn't understand, Loulan took a step forward, and Wanfu said: "My lord, I'm learning to talk to them, and I got some news, so I want to tell my lord."

Zhu Yuan nodded: "Tell me about it."

Lou Lan first pointed to Xiao Yu: "Well, she comes from a country far west and far north from us, called 'Swich'..."

Seeing Loulan pointing at herself and mentioning a certain word, Xiaoyu nodded subconsciously, and echoed a more standard vocabulary: "Sverige."

Being interrupted by Xiaoyu, Loulan was a little dissatisfied, but she took out a booklet from her arms: "My lord, I let Xiaoyu write down the key words in their own words. , I tried to make an annotation."

Ever since Wutong entered the door, the sack girl who was next to these bearded girls stepped forward unknowingly, took the brochure, and handed it to her little official.

Zhu Yuan freed one hand to open it, thought for a while, and told Luo Shui: "Go to the study and bring that small globe."

When Luoshui went out, Zhu Yuan glanced at each word written with a pen on the booklet, next to which there were transliterated notes, such as the "Swich" that Lou Lan just said, and some of the meanings, such as one of them, Affarsman , followed by 'Merchant'.

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

"They're all Latin letters, of course they look alike," Zhu Yuan smiled, and then praised: "You've done a good job."

Lou Lan quickly blessed again: "This is the duty of a slave."

Zhu Yuan didn't take his eyes off the pamphlet, he pondered for a moment on that 'Switch', and suddenly realized that it was 'Sweden'.

Have traveled to Northern Europe more than once.

In several countries in Northern Europe, the spelling of their own country names is different from the more popular English country names.

Speaking of Sweden, the English word seems to be 'Sweden', but the Swedish spelling is 'Sverige'. As for the Chinese name, it does not match the pronunciation at first glance. Someone mentioned that at first, the transliteration of 'Sweden' actually came from Cantonese pronunciation.

Furthermore, Chinese people have a habit of elegantizing Western names, whether they are names of people, places or countries.

It's also a fairly old tradition.

The feudal dynasty continued to expand to the surrounding area. Every time it won a place, it would modify some unsightly local place names in the local language. Typically, various place names in Yunnan, such as Kunming, Qujing, Lijiang, Pu'er, etc., look very beautiful. However, at the beginning, the corresponding place names were not like this.

For example, Kunming, its early name was Yachicheng.

Besides, hundreds of years later, it will still be the same for foreign countries.For example, one of the most typical elegant names is Omerik.Zhu Yuan thinks that it is enough to give a neutral 'America', translated as 'America', for a country that brazenly shouts 'We lie, we cheat, we steal', it is a waste of a country The word 'beautiful'.

There is another 'English' character that is also spoiled.

Sweden, Finland, Norway, etc. are also similar, and they are all kinds of elegant names given by the Chinese with good intentions.

Zhu Yuan disapproved of this very much.

Zhu Yuan has always believed that Chinese people should be less kind and more vigilant and even malicious to the outside world. This 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 signaled Xiaoyu to come forward: "Look for it, and see where your country is."

Zhu Yuan knows where Sweden will be hundreds of years later.At present, things are not so sure. After all, the history of European countries is too chaotic, and the changes in territory are very random.

With Loulan's reminder, Xiao Yu and Diandian stepped forward.

Looking at the globe at close range, Xiao Yu fiddled with it carefully for a moment, with obvious surprise on her face, of course she still couldn't understand Zhu Yuan's words just now, but she quickly clicked on one of the positions.

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

Estonia is the northernmost of the three small countries on the east coast of the Baltic Sea.

Xiao Yu was reminded by a certain word in Zhu Yuan's words, nodded her head, still pressed her finger on that position, and spit out a word: "Eesti."

Listening to the effort, Zhu Yuan motioned to Lou Lan: "You should talk about it."

Lou Lan then continued: "This Xiaoyu, she comes from... Well, this place called Estonia in Sweden, she is the daughter of a merchant, when she was very young, because of the war, Xiaoyu moved to another place in the east with her family. A country called Novgorod, and settled down."

Having said that, Lou Lan once again pointed to the brochure in Zhu Yuan's hand.

Zhu Yuan quickly found another word, Novgorod. The pronunciation of this word is similar to the spelling. Looking at the side, Xiao Yu listened carefully, and her slender fingers pointed east to another place.

Probably in Russia hundreds of years later.

Lou Lan also continued: "Three years ago, Xiaoyu was 20 years old. The city where she lived was attacked by the southern Kipchak Khanate army. Her father and elder brother died in the war, and other relatives became slaves. A year later, Xiaoyu was sold to a merchant from the southern Ilkhanate, and after two resales, a merchant from the Kish Kingdom took them from the Persian Sea to our court.”

While Loulan was talking, Xiao Yu was also drawing with his fingers.

Zhu Yuan roughly saw a long route from Estonia to the east to Novgorod, then south to the Kipchak Khanate and then south from the Persian Gulf to Quanzhou, Fujian, the Ming Dynasty. The statement about the Ilkhanate should be It is wrong. According to previous understanding, the country founded by the descendants of Genghis Khan, one of the four major Khanates, should have collapsed. Later, the area that mainly belonged to Iran is currently in a state of separatist regimes.

It does not matter.

Thinking about the three Nordic girls in the dining room, it is absolutely a miracle that they can travel tens of thousands of miles to come to Daming in this era, and they are still alive.Zhu Yuan can even imagine that behind the miracle, there is a high probability that there is some kind of "one out of ten".

very cruel.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuan motioned to the little girl next to Xiao Yu: "What about her?"

Lou Lan said: "Miss Diandian's hometown is in Novgorod. She seems to be the daughter of a 'landlord'."

Zhu Yuan was puzzled.

Landlord's daughter?
After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Yuan understood that it should be a 'lord', or a 'noble' in Europe. However, considering that there are so many nobles in Europe, it is not uncommon for a small village to manage a hundred people to be considered a noble lord.

The sound of squeaks stopped at the feet, and only then did I remember that there was another one.

Zhu Yuan put the roasted goose leg that he had only eaten a few mouthfuls into the small bowl that was licked clean in front of Wutong, and the sound quickly became "Kacha Kacha".

Bones cannot be eaten!

If you want to stop it, just raise your hand and forget it, grind your teeth more, so as not to bite others.

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

Lou Lan didn't hide the disdain on her expression: "This...she doesn't belong to the same place as Xiaoyu and Diandian, and Xiaoyu doesn't know where she came from. She only said that she should be a savage farther north from Novgorod, She doesn't even know how to speak too much, Xiaoyu can barely understand a few words, and then passed it on to Nu, who doesn't know but understands correctly."

Glancing at the globe, Novgorod is further north, which should be the later Finnish area.However, since Xiao Yu did not say this word, perhaps Finland has not yet established a country.

Looking away again, Zhu Yuan signaled Loulan to continue.

Lou Lan also thought about it again, and then said: "A few words, roughly...village, plague, escape."

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

plague? !
What plague was the most famous in medieval Europe?

The Black Death.

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

Then I realized that I was overreacting a bit.

Being able to come to Daming from such a distance of thousands of miles, if there is any epidemic disease, he will either die early or recover early, and he may even have 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 maintaining openness, customs and quarantine must also be done, and it must be very strict.

immediately!
Set up a department tomorrow, recruit people, and quickly get out the charter, and do it as the most important thing before leaving.

How did the Indians of the Americas become almost extinct?

In addition to the massacre, there is another important reason, that is, the Europeans are too dirty. During the Age of Discovery, they brought all kinds of infectious diseases to North America, which is almost considered a pure land. Some colonists even deliberately recruited smallpox patients. The shrouds of the corpses were given to the natives, resulting in mass deaths of the defenseless Native Americans.

In any case, regardless of whether the outsiders were intentional or careless, Daming had to make strict arrangements in advance.

After making up his mind to pay attention, seeing a certain goose at his feet has quickly finished half of the roasted goose leg, raised his face again and called "Master" in a strange tone, Zhu Yuan asked Luoshui to put down a plate of pickled drunk mud snails , add two more scrolls, and said to Lou Lan: "In this way, you are in charge of the three of them, and write a book about each of their experiences in the form of biographies. Don't use too complicated classical Chinese, but use as much as possible Write in vernacular, the more detailed the better."

Lou Lan quickly agreed again.

Zhu Yuan turned to Xieyi: "Others are the same, arrange for girls who can read and write to be in charge, mainly, to learn languages ​​from each other and compile characters' experiences. In short, I want to know everything you can get out of their heads."

(End of this chapter)