Vol 2 Chapter 1782 sharpen the knife

  Chapter 1782 Sharpening the knife

   No more foreign enemies dare to invade, no more days of war, the war is really over.

  People can finally let go of their tense emotions and start to face their own lives.

  So many veterans became teachers.

  Of course, a place that has gone through years of war cannot be rebuilt right away, so the schools for teaching knowledge can only be located in many ruined walls that have been barely repaired.

  The environment for studying is indeed not very good, but when all industries are waiting to be boomed, immediately recruiting children to study is what Fang Jifan thinks should be done.

   A group of uneducated children is terrible, they are the source of disaster.

  So in order to encourage the children who come to study, a ration is distributed to all the children. Naturally, the food is very attractive!

  A work shed was also rebuilt. Here, the printing workshop in Xishan Northern Province was established. They collected old paper everywhere, re-melted it, re-engraved it, and printed rough ‘textbooks’.

   Teachers are war veterans, after all they have to find something to do.

  All salaries are treasures of Ming Dynasty.

  The supply of canned food can temporarily allow Baochao to establish credit, and then… other food and daily necessities are needed to supplement it.

The French were quick to do things, and they sent the wheat very quickly. Of course, the Spaniards wanted to send the wheat but they couldn’t get it. As the most powerful emperor in the sea today, Zhu Houzhao sharpened his knife and sharpened it to an extremely sharp point. Obviously, he wanted to cut a large piece of meat from the hands of the Spaniards.

   Judging from the frustrated expression of the Spanish envoy, this time, it may be very painful.

  Wheat is also a staple food, and its best use is to make bread.

  Fang Jifan is very interested in bread.

  You know, the so-called bread in this era is just a **** steamed cake, but if you add some sugar and some yeast, its texture and taste will be completely different.

  In the past, sugar was actually an extremely scarce resource in this era.

  But since the seizure of Luzon, Daming has had a steady stream of sugar supply channels. This time the fleet came here and brought a lot of sugar, so… new bread has also begun to appear on the market.

  The price is also maintained at a level that people can still accept.

  Of course, ordinary bread is still necessary, not everyone is willing to spend money to buy new bread.

  Many measures have been taken, and with food as the anchor, Daming treasures have begun to be accepted by more and more people.

   With some people taking the lead, people gradually became accustomed to using precious banknotes for transactions.

  The large amount of treasure brought by the fleet can be used to purchase all commodities in any place in the Northern Province, in addition to some relief.

  After experiencing the economic crisis and war, most of the land in the northern province was controlled by Xishan, which played a lot of convenience!

  ………

  The weather was getting colder and colder, but on this day, little Joseph came to school early in the morning.

   This is a school transformed from an old church. Because of the war, it is difficult to find traces of God in the world. After some simple repairs, it is used as a school for children.

   Today, little Joseph came to school for the first time. He got a simple book and two breads.

  He stuffed the bread into his book bag, and like all the children, he was shivering in the cold winter wearing shabby clothes.

  However, with Fang Jifan’s attention, the school got a large supply of coal, and the teachers built a simple stove by themselves. Slowly, the classroom became hot.

  The teacher, like Joseph’s father, was a veteran who had served in the Ming army, so he already knew Chinese, but his Dutch was terrible, he could only listen but not write.

  Of course, this is the norm in this era.

Even for the vast majority of people, ordinary people do not have a language, and the languages ​​of nobles and commoners are completely different. For teachers who were commoners before the war, he can teach here now, and he can get a salary of two taels of silver every month. Then I feel very content.

  This salary, according to the current price of food, can barely support a family.

  He was not in a hurry to start teaching the children how to write, or even teach the children how to pronounce in Chinese.

Although there is already a general consensus in the education circles in the northern province that learning Chinese is of great benefit to children. Knowing Han Chinese books, and even… being able to understand Chinese in official documents is extremely beneficial to a person’s future development.

   What’s more, even the treasure notes in his hand are written in Chinese characters.

  And this teacher is special, he looks stern, with a certain arrogance of all veterans, he looks at the children on the desk, and the first thing he starts to teach is war.

  This is a long history of wars, from the division of Rome, to the Gothic War, to the Hundred Years War, Thirty Years War, Seven Years War, between Britain and France, and between the Holy Roman Empire. There was war after war in the Northern Province.

   For generations, countless wars have never stopped.

  How the fathers and grandparents died, how the plague caused by the war spread, and then to the massacre of the Crusades…

  Little Joseph opened his eyes wide, and there was a little panic in his eyes.

   “This is what the Ming emperor said.”

  The words Daming Emperor and Zhen Guogong are already familiar to many people in the Northern Province, and even Little Joseph already knows them well.

“We don’t want this damned war. The war has passed. From today onwards, we will spurn the war. All our future struggles will come from exchanging wealth with our own hands. Or use our The sword of the Ming Dynasty to defend peace. Based on this concept, His Majesty the Emperor will recruit a peace army in the northern province. In the future, we will station with the Ming army in Gibraltar, Egypt, and maybe even Austria to defend peace. We will There is a fleet to keep the peace of all Europe, to keep our peace.”

  When the teacher said this, his expression was serious, and his eyes were shining brightly. He was convinced of this

  His Majesty the Emperor only trusts people from the northern provinces.

   At least for the time being, this is the case, so although many veterans have retired,… a considerable military force will still be guaranteed.

  He believes in any promises made by the Ming Emperor, or in other words, thinks it is the grace of the Ming Emperor.

  Little Joseph and his partners still have fresh memories of this class.

  Because…they also experienced one after another war. After the war, everything began to get better.

  Without the flames of war, the once sluggish market has begun to become lively. On the way home from school, merchants can be seen bringing a lot of wood along the way. Men with hammers climbed onto the roof and began to repair houses!

  Every family’s house, at noon, began to ignite cooking smoke, and even some muddy places, workers began to lay gravel, and the road became smoother and smoother!

   Next, a large number of buildings began to be constructed.

  I heard that the French selflessly supported the new construction of the Northern Province. Of course, this was guaranteed by Lord Zhen Guo with the Peace Fleet as a bargaining chip.

  Therefore…the new Xishan Bank, as well as Xishan Jianye, reopened here.

The nobles from all over Europe seem to have sent people here. They temporarily succumbed in this dilapidated inn. Some of them went to the negotiating table, and more people were not even qualified to be on the negotiating table. Outside the Governor’s Mansion, anxiously waiting for the latest news.

  Zhu Houzhao is too lazy to negotiate with people.

  Fang Jifan made an excuse that he was sick, and the maids of the governor’s mansion, Wang Xizuo, carefully served and recuperated his illness.

  So this matter fell on Liu Wenshan and Xu Jing, so they received foreign envoys from all over the world every day.

Naturally, this negotiation cannot be settled in a few words. The initial agreement was very difficult to draw up, especially the Habsburg special envoy was the most noisy. Of course, they left the meeting several times in anger, but soon It was discovered that no one persuaded them to stay. When the others continued to talk with Liu Wenshan and Xu Jing in detail, after two days, they gradually understood the situation and returned to the negotiating table obediently. Much better.

  This agreement includes many items, such as how many troops need to be abolished to maintain the balance of power, there are strict regulations on the maximum number of warships that can be built, and it even requires that the enslaved peoples should be allowed to separate from the rule of the suzerain.

   Among them, the most harmful one is Habsburg.

   Through marriage, the Habsburgs occupied almost half of Europe.

  This is tantamount to… The Emperor Daming used a hammer to knock them into pieces very rudely.

Under the title of the Holy Roman Empire alone, there are hundreds of German princes, all of which need to be separated from the influence of the Habsburg family. Not only that, the Habsburg family cannot have a branch, and rule Austria and Spain at the same time , which is even more unacceptable.

   Not to mention the destruction of the Armada, which led to the loss of all Spanish and Portuguese overseas territories.

  The French actually strongly support this.

  Because it can dismember the Spanish Empire, it is not a bad thing for the French!

   As long as Daming’s status in the Northern Province is recognized, it means that France will become the leading power! Although this big country is very watery, after all, Xu Jing does not allow them to build warships, and all ports can only be opened to the northern province.

However, this is not unacceptable to the French. Their biggest motivation now is to encourage Ming to dismember the Spanish Empire. Every time they see harsher conditions, they are overjoyed, as if to It’s the same as Chinese New Year.

   Even Fang Jifan, who still kept a clear understanding of the external situation, couldn’t help being a little confused, what were these people thinking.

  (end of this chapter)