Lu Ming

This means that Master Mei is not short of money—noodles and pot knuckles are common in Tianjin, but they are precious ingredients in Tainan, because flour is transported from the north of the Yangtze River, and the price is high in small quantities, and ordinary people cannot afford it.

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Here I want to talk about Taiwanese wheat.

In the early days, Taiwanese did not eat noodles. For thousands of years, local people have eaten rice.As a result, after a large number of rout soldiers flooded in that year, they first had the social conditions to eat pasta.Then just at that time, the US emperor aided a large amount of unsalable flour, so braised beef noodles became popular in the whole region from this point on.

At the same time, Taichung, Taipei and other places have also started the history of growing wheat. Although not all islands can grow wheat, wheat can be grown in some places, and the yield is not low.

Later, due to industrial structure problems, Taiwan began to export high-value fruits, reduce farmland, and import flour, so wheat cultivation once disappeared.

After the 21st century, due to unsalable fruits caused by irregular economic crises, local farmers began to try to grow wheat again to increase their food self-sufficiency.

Due to the limitation of climate and environment, Taiwan can only grow highly spring-sowed wheat varieties in winter, so it cannot be grown in Tainan, and it must be planted on land with a temperature difference between the central and northern parts.

In short, wheat can be grown in Taiwan, and the yield is not low after planting.

But right now the time travelers can't plant this.

Taichung is now dominated by savage malaria and primeval forests, and Taipei is the same and worse, it rains all year round.At the moment, Crossover has only set up the ore industry in Taipei, and it is impossible to consider opening up wasteland to grow wheat—the price paid for two mouthfuls of noodles is really too high.

So for a long time to come, everyone who wants to eat beef noodles will still have to rely on imported flour.

This is also the only food crop that has been imported from Daming since this year: Since a large number of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corns have matured, this side no longer buys rice from Daming, and the saved empty space is used to accommodate people.

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After eating hot pot, Mei Fuxi and their happy day continued.Chikan District is not something that can be visited in one day. The commercial street, wharf, government affairs hall, Taijiang viewing yacht, and the most lively night market with colorful lights at night, make the Ming people linger and forget to return, and say that the trip is worthwhile.

Early the next morning, Mei Fuxi went to the kiln area to look at the factory.

When he was in the north, he had heard many general descriptions of the factory from different sources.The speaker was always mixed with some interjections at that time, and there was such a taste of "you are not a hero if you don't reach the Great Wall".

It's finally here today, why don't you hurry up and see it?

The result was completely different from what was expected.Ming people's concept of workshops, even if they have heard the news beforehand, what comes to mind is actually the picture of thousands of craftsmen working together.

As a result, after coming to the real factory, the ice-cooled steel assembly line with huge power is bound to have a huge impact on the visitors.

Meifuxi and the others are no exception.

The sledgehammer roared, the slag shot out, and the red-hot steel block was flattened and rounded like dough. This kind of scene made the young people's blood boil.

In addition to watching the excitement, Mei Fuxi also carefully observed those dizzying production lines.

It is said that he is a general, but in fact, Master Mei, who was born in a merchant family, naturally would not despise the skills of a hundred craftsmen.So when he roughly estimated the production capacity of the assembly line, the young master's first reaction was that this wave has stabilized... It seems that Mei's betting on the handsome is a good bet.

Different from the argument that "the virtuous live in" that scholars are used to talking about, what May Fuxi regards as his standard is the truth that "the rich is the master".

If there is money, there will be soldiers, there will be armor and food, there will be heroes and advisers to vote, and "the strong soldiers and horses will live there."On this point, Young Master Mei of the Merchant's Family firmly believed in it.

And Marshal Cao is no longer a matter of being rich.Sitting on so many magical skills, I can't complain that wherever I go, I look like a rich man, full of soldiers and horses, and I am completely different from those beggar soldiers and horses of the court.

Unlike the two silly followers, who also had a smile on their face when they came out of the kiln industrial base, Master Mei had a confident smile.

In this way, the three of them danced and talked about the mechanism ironware, while walking through the boulevard leading from the kiln area to Chikan, preparing to go to the beautiful Xiehu area in the distance to see the natural scenery that is not available in the north.

The next moment, trouble came.

"stop!"

With a sweet shout, the three of Young Master Mei just crossed the road when they were surrounded by four or five girls!

These girls were originally sitting in the gazebo by the road and playing around, but for some reason, when the leader saw Young Master Mei, he yelled and stopped the trio.

Young Master Mei was dumbfounded.

Although his previous occupation was a young hero, but that was a high-profile heroic route, and it has nothing to do with the street tigers who talk to girls on the street.So Mei Shaoxia actually doesn't have much experience in dealing with strange women, let alone such a situation that he never expected... In Daming, young girls always walk around when they see him like this. Dare to come up like this?

The other two attendants were not much better.They looked at the young lady who surrounded them in horror, at a loss, not knowing how to deal with this strange situation.The only thing left in my mind is the regulations before going out-no flirting with women.But the regulations didn't tell them what to do if they were molested by a girl?

The trio stood there dumbfounded and dumbfounded, as if they didn't know where to put their hands and feet.Unexpectedly, the next moment, one of the girls who had been jumping up and down couldn't help it, and laughed.

With this smile, the tense atmosphere disappeared, and a group of people burst into laughter.

Then Master Mei and the three were even more dumbfounded.

The one who took the lead among the girls was a round face with a ball head, and it was this young master Mei who stopped her with a coquettish drink just now.

This girl has a pretty face, pink complexion, wearing a light yellow shirt with a knot at the hem.The legs are denim cropped pants, revealing healthy wheat-colored skin, and the whole body is full of youthful flavor.

In this short time, Wanzitou had put his hands behind his back, walked around Master Mei with a smile on his face, and finally walked up to him, raised his head and asked in Mandarin with a Wu Nong accent: "Big man, where did you come from?" ?”

Mei Fuxi has been able to wield knives since she was a child, and she is not short of nutrition, so she has a height of 1.73, which is a proper big man in the eyes of wise people.

Having been puzzled just now, and being ridiculed by these girls for no reason, Master Mei's head was about to break out in cold sweat.Hearing the girl's question now, he immediately relaxed a lot.However, when the four eyes met at the next moment, Young Master Mei blushed inexplicably: "Oh, Xiaosheng... that... next..., oh, from Tianjin."

Young Master Mei's incoherent reply immediately drew a chuckle.

"Tianjin? Where is Tianjin?" The girl blinked her big eyes a few times.

"Oh, this, Tianjin... thousands of miles away to the north, near the capital."

"It's so far away!" Seeing Mei Fuxi's still puzzled expression, the next moment, the girl smiled and said to Young Master Mei: "Don't worry. Even those who come from Tianjin have to pay tolls... Big man, this mountain is I drive, this tree is my load!"

"Ah!" Mei Fuxi was shocked, he looked around at the flat coastline: "Is there a mountain here?"

Chapter 486 The black tour guide

The reason why the three young men couldn't understand the situation was because they overlooked one thing: the so-called bustard loves money and sisters love beauty, whether it is in later generations or in the seventeenth century, this is an eternal truth.

Mei Fuxi is tall and well-proportioned, her face has the cold and hard lines of a northern man, which is very different from the local Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong faces, so she will naturally attract people at first sight.

In later generations, when Fatty Lu hadn't become a greasy man, his frowns and smiles were really followed by millions of masters licking the screen behind his back. That was real traffic, not just brushing.Later, when I got old and fat, and was kicked out of the ranks of fresh meat since I was a child, this movie would hit the street... Retouching pictures alone couldn't attract my teacher, and my face was swollen.

Girls in the seventeenth century were also carnivores, and they would post upside down when they saw handsome scholars. Otherwise, how could there be so many stories about talented scholars and beautiful ladies?

The reason why the ancients were not as unrestrained as the later generations is mainly due to the low social productivity.

Thought must be matched with productivity.In the seventeenth century, the East had feudal ethics, and the West also had religious teachings that imprisoned the mind.Women in the East who steal men will be soaked in pig cages, and women in the West will also be grilled. This is all in line with the slow-paced agricultural society at that time.

The history of human development is actually a history of ideological emancipation.Since the beginning of nature worship in ancient times, human beings have been struggling with their own thoughts. This process is closely related to the process of understanding nature: Bruno's burning to death is a typical example.

The root cause of the 30-year war in Europe, which is crossing all planes and fighting each other fiercely, is also here.Because ideas are linked to reality, the Holy See controlled ideas at that time, so the priests were all rich and the churches were all big landlords.

So if the king and the great nobles want to live a good life, they must promote the 30-year war to destroy the right of the Catholic Church to collect tithes and interfere in the secular world.

This is a painful cocoon out of the shell, self-evolution.This process will inevitably appear with the development of productivity, and it is a cruel competition between species. The difference is that some people are always in the budding state, while others have completed this process.

Freed from ideological imprisonment, Europe ushered in the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.And all other ancient populations failed to break through the shackles of their minds to achieve self-evolution, and fell behind in the competition.

In short, the renaissance of thought is linked to the era of colonial industry after the [-]th century, and it is also a key period in which the world pattern will be established in the long years to come. The most elite sites on earth are occupied by colonists and their descendants. This is a dividend that can be enjoyed for generations.

Whoever can get out of the shell first will be rewarded, even if it is bloody when it comes out.Those that cannot be drilled out are either suffocated in the shell, or others will forcibly break it out for you.However, help comes at a price. Let the colony understand?

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On this plane, history has bifurcated.After several years of time and hard work, the traversers have built an industrial society in their memory in Taiwan.

Although the scale of this small society is small, although there are still many things that are lacking, this small and sophisticated society already possesses the production factors of the industrial age.

Thoughts are naturally included.Countless people who came here, while being forcibly shaved off their hair, were also forcibly loaded with the way of life and behavior in the industrial society.

Facts have proved that human beings can adapt very quickly, especially under the premise that the quality of life has been greatly improved.Under the rule of the crossing crowd, there are many old-minded people who are not used to the social atmosphere, but if they want to let them go back to the life where they will starve to death at any time, they will not go to death.

In the end, what such people think can only be held in their stomachs in the end-no one cares what they think.The lifespan of the ancients was short, and in another 30 to [-] years, the old people will die, let alone pose any threat.

Therefore, in today's Tainan, according to the will of the time-traveling people, urbanized dense crowds appeared, young men and women who conformed to the perception of the time-traveling people appeared, and new-age girls who dared to boldly stop handsome guys appeared.

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After hearing the cool guy in front of him ask such silly words as "Is there a mountain here?", the ball-headed girl burst out laughing.

The kiln area is full of coastal beaches and plains, so naturally there are no mountains.But at the moment, this matter has nothing to do with Shan.

"There is no mountain and there is a lake. It seems that you newcomers just want to go to the lake, right?" After the girl laughed, she changed the phrase: "The lake over there was also dug by the sisters. If you want to play, you have to Hire us as tour guides!"

Mei Fuxi finally came to his senses, and couldn't help being angry and funny.But the next moment, when he looked into the girl's hot eyes, his IQ disappeared again: "How much is the tour guide?"

The girl replied cheerfully: "Eat hot pot!"

As soon as the girl finished speaking, there was a burst of booing behind her, and the companions shouted at Mei Fuxi: "You are so big, do you know how many people want to invite Zhu'er to eat hot pot?"

Poorly, he was frightened for a long time, and it was only now that Young Master Mei knew that this big-eyed girl was called Zhu'er.Then when Zhu'er's face turned red and she turned around to spit on her accomplice, the black tour guide and the tourist reached an agreement.

In this way, young men and women formed a temporary tour group, and everyone went to the lagoon to play together.

The seventeenth-century lagoon is naturally scenic.In the pearl-like brackish lake, there are fish, shellfish, crabs and shrimps everywhere.Occasionally, a small fishing boat fishing for oysters passes by, which will startle a large number of egrets and black-faced spoonbills.Surrounding the lake are lush mangroves.Under the warm sunshine in the afternoon, the sea and sky in the Xiehu District are beautiful.

The young man quickly became acquainted with the girls.Only then did Mei Fuxi and the others know that the girls were all textile factory workers, and they also came out to play on vacation.

Once I started playing, I let go of my restraint.A group of young men and women were playing and playing, hip-hop, not only hanging around the lake, but also hired a boat to run to the lake, and finally bought oysters from fishermen and roasted them.

Not to mention the two effervescent attendants, even Young Master Mei had never played with a girl like this before, so he couldn't think of it anymore.

The happy time is very short, and before you know it, it is evening. Master Mei saw that it was getting late, so he had no choice but to fulfill his promise and invite the girls to eat hot pot.

I don't want the young master to be cheated by the black tour guide again - the hot pot in his mouth is the newly opened high-end Baxi ice cream hot pot.

The sweet and greasy ice cream represents three achievements: sugar, refrigeration and milk.This is also the reason why the ice cream shop can only open a pilot in Chikan this year.

However, this kind of cold and hot cheese is naturally not to the appetite of northerners, so the three men ate very hard, which formed a sharp contrast with the smiling girls.

At the end of the day, everyone had to go to the brightly lit night market to have a supper before giving up.

In the end, Master Mei sent Zhu Er back to the dormitory for female workers alone. Well, dog licking is everything... But when the young man rushed back to the barracks and sat on the hardwood bed, he suddenly discovered that in this short half a day, He fell in love without his parents' orders?

Chapter 487 Prince Charming and the New Flagship

After a hasty three-day holiday, the barracks began to work normally.

This made Young Master Mei very painful: the young man who felt the taste of love for the first time couldn't stand parting.

Fortunately, the purpose of running this student camp was to show the advanced nature and use the industrialized society to frighten and infect the natives, so there was no closed training.

The normal training time for trainees is from six to seven, and they can ask for leave after dinner and on weekends.

During this process, the battalion will also take the initiative to organize students to go to the kiln area arsenal, naval battleship, large agricultural demonstration base, and the Central Mountain Reservoir Group under construction and other places to play and study.In short, any project that can demonstrate the "advanced nature of the empire" will bring newcomers to visit.

So Young Master Mei and Zhu'er lived a hard life as a salaryman, getting tired of getting off work at night, and only going out on weekends.

But these are impossible.Soldiers, defending their homes and the country, may not even have to guard the border in the future.Unless you switch back to the rear, meeting at this frequency is already very good.

Mei Fuxi naturally knew this, but he didn't worry too much.Young people who are in the stage of passionate love can't care about the future, Young Master Mei doesn't even plan to ask for the marriage that his father prepared for him... Who knows if the daughter of Ma Baihu's family is a salt-free ugly woman?

I want to fall in love freely, and here in Yizhou, it is Cao Dashuai who has the final say!

In this way, after Mei Fuxi came to Yizhou, half a month passed in a hurry.

It is already June of 1630, the temperature in Tainan has risen slightly, and the scenery is beautiful, which is the best season of the Little Ice Age.

Mei Fuxi also became more and more busy.

Because he has received cultural education since he was a child, he is ahead of most of the students in military knowledge.Including map recognition, communication, geography, weapon parameters, etc., which require cultural subjects, Master Mei learned quickly.

This led to his early exposure to the next advanced subject: riding.

Most of these students from the north will return to the north to form a cavalry unit in the future.In the process of training, how to fight cavalry units that mainly use hot weapons is a key subject.

On this point, Mei Fuxi also learned quickly.Because in the previous Battle of King Qin, he was responsible for playing cold shots, so he had already mastered the small-scale Musketeer cavalry tactics.

What he needs to learn now is how to command a large cavalry force to fight a decisive battle with the enemy on the frontal battlefield.

This kind of subject is actually an officer course, because it needs to learn how to command and manage troops.In fact, if there is no accident, Mefusi will be awarded the official imperial rank after the training camp is over.And because of his previous military achievements, he will be awarded a lieutenant by skipping a grade.

The process of learning cavalry subjects is very novel.Mei Fuxi and some companions sat in the projection room and saw the magical projection screen for the first time.Accompanied by voiceovers and real camera shots, the young cavalry officers of the empire saw a novel tactical concept for the first time: cavalry wall attack.

Seeing the neat rows of cavalry on the screen holding their sabers high, colliding with the scattered formation of traditional nomads, and then winning a big victory, Mei Fuxi felt the horror of this tactic while being shocked.

After putting himself in his shoes and thinking about it, he immediately realized the key point of this tactic: Soldiers must have long-term training and extremely tenacious fighting will to fight the enemy in this formation.

Sure enough, in the subsequent tactical class, the instructor also made it clear that at present, only their forces are qualified to train and use this kind of wall-riding tactic.

But it's a pity that the wall-riding tactic is untimely in the plane of crossing the crowd-with a breech-loading gun, it is difficult for the opponent's primitive cavalry to rush to the front, so there is no need to put up a melee formation.

So the fence-sitting tactic is not important in the current syllabus, it belongs to the kind that needs to be mastered, but the priority is low.

After the theoretical class in the morning, in the afternoon, Mei Fuxi changed her identity and became a riding instructor.

There are not only soldiers from the north in the training camp, but also many southerners.Mei Fuxi, who is skilled in riding, can understand the syllabus and knows what skills to train soldiers, has become an auxiliary instructor since the riding subject began.

Being an assistant teacher has its perks, of course: Mayfushi has a thoroughbred Arabian.

This pure white Arabian horse is called Lexus. It is tall, muscular, and well-proportioned. It is one of the excellent stallions that Emperor Cao bought from later generations.