Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 302 Restoration Parade
Zhou Congwen, a small clerk in the library, bought two big and fragrant shortbread cakes on Qianda Street. His salary has increased a little recently. Originally, his daily meals are settled in the canteen of his work unit. Now that he has a lot of money, he occasionally sees them on the side of the road. When I found something I wanted to eat, I bought it to satisfy my hunger.

Today, the streets were particularly noisy, both sides of the road were crowded with people, and it was originally Sunday, so Zhou Congwen didn't have to go to work.

He went out today and did not read at home because he was preparing for today's "Liberation Parade".

"After 20 years, the Ming Dynasty finally regained the capital and wiped out the Qing Dynasty." Zhou Congwen thought to himself as he looked at the crowd on the street.

Shanghai has really become more and more prosperous, and not only the wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River, but also wealthy households from other places, and even foreigners are coming to Shanghai more and more.Especially when Shanghai began to gather various large-scale factories, craftsmen who could not make a living or did not like farming were often recruited in Shanghai and became workers, and their living standards also improved significantly.It is hard to imagine that this city has a population of 60 in the more than a year since it appeared, and it is even growing.

Zhou Congwen thought: "Looking at the newspaper yesterday, it seems that His Highness the Crown Prince will not return to Shanghai from Suncheon. Shanghai has only been a residence of the Legislative Yuan from the beginning to the end, and has not been mentioned as the capital. Although His Highness the Crown Prince has repeatedly mentioned the importance of Shanghai, I think it is more of an economic center, and the capital of the country should still be in Suncheon. The Legislative Yuan has also set a timetable, within three years the Legislative Yuan will move back to Suncheon, and Shanghai will become a pure municipality directly under the Central Government."

Although no longer functioning as an administrative center, Zhou Congwen was still optimistic about the importance of Shanghai.Nowadays, Ming Dynasty only has two municipalities directly under the Central Government, one is Shanghai and the other is Shuncheon. Shuncheon obviously wants to be directly under the central government as the capital of the country, but the old capital Nanjing didn’t even earn the position of being directly under the central government. The provincial capital exists.

He was thinking about these things that had nothing to do with him, when suddenly the crowd became excited, and someone shouted: "Come on, come on! The float is coming!"

The so-called Restoration Parade is an event organized by the Shanghai Municipal Office. This is the first time in the history of the Ming Dynasty that such a mass-based celebration was held.As a model of the new city, new culture, new economy and new style established by Bai Mingxiu, Shanghai naturally has to do the first time in many places.

The huge floats are colorfully decorated. From an artistic point of view, these parade floats all have strong traces of traditional Chinese art. There is no modernism or European style, just pure Chinese style.

Float parades also existed in ancient China, but they are generally called street parades.

Various units participated, including schools, institutions, and factories. Of course, the main event was the Daming Restoration Army. Although the Restoration Army stationed in Shanghai was not the army that took back Suncheon, they were equally successful and respectable.

After all, Chinese people are still very reserved. Although they love to be lively in their bones, they will not change, but everyone will be together, but they just talk and talk, and few people make loud noises.When the floats passed by, they were inexplicably calm.

Fortunately, the organizer of the event arranged a special leader to applaud the floats as they passed by. Once everyone followed the crowd, the scene became a little more lively.

Zhou Congwen also looked at the various floats with special curiosity. He was impressed by a float of a theater troupe, which carried seven fairies. The seven beautiful fairies had wide sleeves and long sleeves.There are also students from Shanghai No. [-] Primary School, who are also good.The children wore school uniforms, held slogans and flowers, and shouted slogans as they walked.

"Learn from the heroic example of the uncle of the Fuguo Army, and study for the rise of China!"

Zhou Congwen felt that the spirits of these elementary school children were very good. There were boys and girls, and they looked about ten years old. They held their heads high, confident and honorable. dead air.

"That's great!" Zhou Congwen also has a general idea of ​​what the primary schools in the city are like. Many of the teachers in them are excellent, and they don't just study things like the Three Character Classic and Disciple Rules. Primary school students have to learn Chinese and mathematics. I also need to learn scientific knowledge, more contact with labor skills, and so-called sports.

Zhou Congwen thinks that such a child is much more powerful if he is physically fit and mentally strong.

"If Daming can really realize that every child in every household can study and learn science and culture, what will the situation of Daming be like? It's really exciting." Zhou Congwen thought in his heart.

The highlight of the parade was coming soon, and there was a neat stamping sound on the long street, and the people cheered up.

"It's the Great Ming Restoration Army!"

"Good job!"

"Mighty teacher, benevolent teacher."

In fact, many people have never seen the Great Ming Fuguo Army, but people know a lot about the Daming Fuguo Army.There is no need to say that the combat effectiveness is strong, otherwise there will be no fight from the south to the north, and finally the country will be restored smoothly.At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty was expelled from the country and exiled to Burma. It was the prince who gathered the Australian army and the few remnants of the army to build the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army, which finally broke through Yunnan, entered Guangdong, and is now sweeping the world.

Many people have read many newspaper reports, Bai Mingxiu is a person who pays attention to publicity.Therefore, what kind of good people and good deeds the army has done, and what role models they have, must be publicized.After a long time, the people will know from reading the newspapers that the National Restoration Army has three disciplines and eight points of attention. They will never embezzle any property of the people, and any help they get from the people will be paid.Newspapers often reported stories about the National Restoration Army helping fellow villagers.

Bai Mingxiu was deeply impressed by the harmonious military-civilian relations in China before he traveled through time.He has traveled to many countries and has never felt that way. The people trust the soldiers and the people's army.He also wanted to recreate this kind of military-civilian relationship in the land of Ming Dynasty.

In addition to promoting the story, he also wants to let the common people see more.

When the people saw the soldiers of the National Restoration Army walking in a neat row and walking forward with great power, everyone was excited.Every swing of the arm is uniform, and the height of every leg lift is surprisingly consistent. People always hear only one voice, as if it is not an army but a person who is walking forward.

Seeing such an army, Zhou Congwen was also surprised and admired: "This is really a hundred people as one, orders and prohibitions, the top and bottom have the same desire, all the generals are of one mind, the three armies work together, everyone wants to fight, and there is no way forward. With this god Army, Ming is invincible!"

(End of this chapter)