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- 535 Everyone is different every year (Part 2)
After only two days of rest, the Qin Huaifeng Song and Dance Troupe held a fundraising party. It's not quite right to call it a party, because except for the first few performances, it turned into a drinking party. Travelers dressed in formal attire, carrying either beautiful or charming partners, shuttled back and forth between various small circles. Seeing that the Spring Festival is approaching, most of the traveling people in various places put aside the matters at hand and returned to Central and South China. For Chinese people, the greatest significance of the Spring Festival is reunion. At the current reception, except for Han Xu who was still on his way back and McClan who was dismissive of the Spring Festival, everyone else was present.
Shao Bei came with a complicated mood, and now his mood is even more complicated. On the stage, Bian Yujing, who couldn't hide her natural beauty even without makeup, was gently stroking the piano. There was always something inexplicable in her eyes when she glanced over. Beside him, his wife Jing Hua was holding her arm in one hand and holding a wine glass in the other, her gaze full of amusement.
The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder, but nothing happened. At the end of the song, chaotic applause broke out. Bian Yujing gave a light salute and calmly stepped down. Afterwards, some eloquent sisters came out holding a box, smiling sweetly, and asked everyone to raise funds.
"Minister Shao, please support the great cause of conquering the Qing Dynasty." The person who came to Shao Bei was Bian Yujing's maid Rourou. The little girl became more and more beautiful, and she looked at Jing Hua with eyes that seemed to be scrutinizing and hostile.
Shao Bei couldn't stand this weird atmosphere, so he quickly took out his check book, scrawled a check of 100,000 Australian yuan and stuffed it into the donation box.
"You are too stingy." Jing Hua said playfully.
Shao Bei frowned: "One hundred thousand yuan is enough for eight months of my salary."
"When will the major shareholders of Blackwater Company have to live off the poor government salaries?" Jing Hua handed the wine glass directly to Shao Bei, took out the checkbook from his bag, and wrote a check in elegant handwriting.
"One million?" Rourou was startled. As early as when she was in Nanjing, Rourou, who was forced to deal with firewood, rice, oil and salt all day long, knew the approximate ratio of silver coins to Australian renminbi. One million Australian renminbi, regardless of the heat consumption and color loss, is at least 5,300 taels of silver. How can Minister Shao's female companion be so generous?
After stuffing the check into the box, Jing Hua quickly took Shao Bei's arm and said with a chuckle: "Your young lady plays the piano well. You might as well come to our house for a meal when you have time. I am personally very interested in the guqin." "
Rourou was knocked unconscious by Jing Hua¡¯s generosity, nodded confusedly, and then quickly ran away. The little maid's current mind is probably not on fundraising, but on telling the young lady as soon as possible that Minister Shao's wife seems to be very difficult to deal with.
"Are you declaring sovereignty?" Shao Bei asked with a wry smile.
Jing Hua raised his eyebrows: "It's ownership. Just like necklaces and scarves, no one can take my things away without my consent Don't think of yourself as the protagonist of a romantic drama." After that, He grabbed the wine glass, glanced at Shao Bei strangely, and then stepped on high heels and joined the circle of Xu Nanying and other girls. Shao Bei was left standing alone in a daze.
Ownership It¡¯s a shame this girl can speak out!
A hand was placed on Shao Bei's shoulder. Chu Bai appeared beside Shao Bei with a smile: "There's a fire in the backyard. I didn't expect that Shao Bei would also be involved in a scandal."
"Forget it Is Xiao Baitu's guy coming?"
"You want to take revenge? But I advise you to find another time." Chu Bai pointed to the distance: "Mr. Xiao doesn't have time now. If you want to take revenge on him, you have to queue up."
Following Chu Bai¡¯s direction, in the corner of the reception, Mr. Xiao was nodding and bowing like a grandson. In front of him, Sister Yu was holding Mrs. Xiao who was wiping her tears, and was spouting spittle as if lecturing her grandson.
As the Minister of Education, Sister Yu Lihong not only puts most of her love on the children, she is also a strong feminist. Xiao Baitu's typical stallion behavior of three wives and four concubines seriously challenged the psychological endurance limit of Sister Yu Lihong. In addition, Sister Yu Lihong happened to have stepped on the threshold of menopause, and she had a temperamental temper. You can imagine how angry Sister Yu Lihong is now. This can be felt from Mr. Xiao's sadness and Comrade Wu's evasive eyes.
"If I were you, I would never add insult to injury now." Chu Bai said meaningfully.
Adding insult to injury? I'm afraid that if Shao Bei is on the front foot, innocent people will be affected on the back foot, and Mr. Xiao will bear part of Sister Yu Lihong's anger. Shao Bei would never do this kind of thing that harms himself and benefits others. At least not now.
Thinking of this, Shao Bei shrank his neck and instinctively turned back to prevent his presence from being discovered by Sister Yu Lihong.
"Sowhen will your kid marry Bian?"Are you coming to Beijing? "
Shao Bei looked at Chu Bai angrily: "How come I didn't realize you were such a bitch before? There's no such thing as a shadow at all."
"It comes out of nowhere, there must be a reason." Chu Bai joked, then made a gesture, and the two of them walked outside and chatted.
Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can vaguely see the Capitol Hill to the south and the Eiffel Tower farther away. Amidst the sound of silk and bamboo, the roar of the train entering the station can be vaguely heard.
"I haven't been back for a year. Zhongnan has changed a lot, right?" Chu Bai said with a sense of accomplishment. The infrastructure construction in Central and South China is indispensable without him, a giant in the construction industry. Twenty years later, he will personally supervise the construction of half of the buildings in the capital of the most powerful country in the world. Thinking about it gives people a sense of accomplishment.
"There is a lot to see, but even more not to see." Chu Bai said meaningfully: "Qin Wei's arsenal has designed and finalized the latest firearms From now on, we can say goodbye to paper shells."
"Starting to pull up the bolt?" Saying goodbye to paper-cased bullets and switching to metal fixed-loading bullets is equivalent to crossing an era.
"It's so easy." Chu Bai shook his head: "Now we can only use the edge of the reel to fire ammunition, so the rifle designed is a lever rifle. The military has great objections to this. Using this m1646, the original tactical movements Changes need to be made.¡±
Compared with the current m1644, the performance of the lever rifle has been greatly improved. It has more ammunition and can store 7 bullets in the magazine. But the terrible thing is that it must push the lever through the guard ring around the trigger to load and eject the shell. It's okay to shoot while standing or squatting. When shooting lying down, loading will become very awkward.
When the entire army switches to lever rifles, the infantry drill code must be revised. But this is only a minor problem, as the lever rifle is simply an over-the-top product. Furthermore, the super firepower of the m1646 and the use of rimfire Gatling bullets will definitely shut up the military brass who complain about the inconvenience of shooting in the prone position.
"So the military is about to change its uniform?" This is good news. This means that the Australian army's combat effectiveness is becoming more and more powerful, and the safety of these traveling troops is becoming more and more guaranteed. By the way, the previous generation rifle m1644 has been completely reduced to a product that can be dumped. Australia does not have to worry too much about foreign troops who also hold Australian rifles, which will cause Australia to suffer a big loss.
"Well, it's coming soon. At the latest by the end of next year we have to wait until the ammunition production line is installed."
After Chu Bai rambled on about some changes. For example, the expansion of the factory, the new ship model at Hollywood Shipyard, or the accident that happened at the chemical plant some time ago. All in all, under the unremitting plagiarism of the time travelling, Australia is moving closer to the era they are familiar with. But Fei Lao said that it would be good if the energy of this generation could eventually push Australia's overall technological level to the late stage of World War I. The industrial system of modern society cannot be easily copied by more than 140 ordinary people.
"The most troublesome thing is the power. If a steam engine is used to drive it through a transmission shaft, the mechanical energy is unevenly distributed and the accuracy is never improved. When a steam engine is used to drive a generator, the conversion rate is ridiculously low. Coupled with the shortage of coal resources, so Now most projects are stuck. It will probably get better after the construction of Darwin's hydropower station is completed." Chu Bai smacked his lips, then suddenly slapped his forehead: "Oh, I almost forgot to mention it. Last night McClain sent a letter to Congress The telegram said that the country of Siam has been opened. It¡¯s so fierce"
McClain is indeed very fierce. This guy led a dozen or so armed merchant ships and walked a small circle around the Indochina Peninsula, including Annam, Nanzhang, Myanmar, and Siam. After an armed parade, it suddenly opened the borders of most countries in the Indochina Peninsula. Just like what the British did at the beginning, the fleet directly blocked the entrance of important ports and fought if they did not agree to conclude a treaty. One port was reduced to rubble, and another was destroyed. Arrogant, domineering and unreasonable, the indigenous people of Indochina learned what it means to be a colonialist hundreds of years in advance.
At the same time, Zheng Cai's nearly 10,000 private troops, equipped with 2,000 m1644s, casually found an excuse to declare war on the Annan Zheng family dynasty in the north. If there are no accidents, Zheng Zhilong will set off from Qinzhou Bay and land in northern Annan in one month at the latest, and will attack from both sides with Zheng Cai. This move can not only settle the forces of Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Cai and promote the unity of the Nanming regime, but also has the purpose of killing chickens to scare monkeys and frighten the young. The reason why the target was set at Annan was that, in addition to the occasional national sentiments that came out to cause trouble, the most important thing was that Annan during this period was divided into two dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which were constantly attacking each other. They were weak and pitiful and could not resist the Australian and Erzheng coalition forces.
"At the end of the telegram, McClan said that he didn't have time to come back to attend the annual meeting this year." Chu Bai sneered: "I don't know if he can't come back, or if he doesn't want to come back."
Shao Bei chuckled. I'm afraid that guy McClan really doesn't want to come back. ?After three years of getting along with each other, drug dealer McClain is still out of tune with everyone. Chen Yu, the only one with whom they shared a common language, was not willing to talk to him. If he were McClan, he would be better off fighting in that vast world, far away from the right and wrong of Central and South China.
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