"Qi Rui, hurry up and eat. The oil is so hot that I got a few blisters when I was cooking, "Bu Ran said in the tone of a young girl who was making a fuss over nothing.
This lively voice interrupted Qi Rui's train of thought. Feeling a little helpless, Qi Rui stood up and looked at the back of his' fiancée 'who was about to turn 18 years old. There were a few reddish spots on the back of her snow-white and delicate hand. It really made one feel doted on.
"Yeah! Isn't that right? "Bu Ran continued to speak in an unforgiving tone. But after she finished, she laughed out loud. "Haha. You have to eat more. "
Qi Rui didn't have any illusions about his "fiancée's" culinary skills. For soldiers, the purpose of eating was to eliminate hunger and supplement nutrition. It wasn't that there were no gourmets in the military, but the proportion of gourmets was far lower than the proportion of other industries. So when the two sat down to eat, Qi Rui didn't comment on the dishes at all. Qi Rui's father, Vézé, only showed a slight preference for sweet food, but Qi Rui's two "mothers" were from Nanjing and Hangzhou. Qinhuai cuisine and Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine were famous for being exquisite. So Qi Rui, who was used to exquisite dishes since he was a child, couldn't comment on his fiancée's culinary skills. It would be unreasonable to say it bluntly, but flattery was never Qi Rui's personality. As a guy who was spoiled and had high hopes, Qi Rui could treat people as equals, but he didn't have the habit of lowering his head.
Bu Ran was also spoiled, but she was spoiled. Her mother was within the scope of the "low civil law", but she was able to marry a founding general. So when Bu Ran ate, she was very elegant. The kind of quiet demeanor that was shaped by strict education was pleasing to the eye.
Neither of them served too much rice. There were leftovers, but there were no leftovers of the main course. She put the leftovers in the fridge to heat them up for the next meal and washed the dishes without a hitch. Qi Rui sat back on the sofa, and Bu Ran also jumped onto the sofa. She leaned on one end and put her feet on Qi Rui's lap. Then she said, "I'm graduating from university next year."
"Oh? You haven't even finished your third year. Where do you plan to work after graduation? "Qi Rui asked.
Seeing that Qi Rui did not understand her words, Bu Ran rebuked, "I'm going to be eighteen soon!"
"Oh." Qi Rui responded casually, but he actually knew what Bu Ran meant. In the Min dynasty, some children started primary school at the age of four and a half. Bu Ran started primary school at the age of four, junior high school at the age of nine, and college before her fifteenth birthday. When Bu Ran graduated, she was nineteen years old. However, she was only eighteen years old when she graduated. This was something she was rather proud of.
Seeing that Qi Rui was pretending to be stupid, Bu Ran withdrew her feet from Qi Rui's lap and said seriously, "Let's get married."
The Marriage Law of the Min dynasty stipulated that men could get married at the age of twenty and women at the age of eighteen. The university did not prevent people from getting married at the right age. However, being forced to get married by a girl who was fifteen years younger than him, Lieutenant General Qi Rui, the political commissar of the North American Military Region, felt considerable pressure. He replied in a somewhat evasive manner, "Why are you in such a hurry? Let's talk about it after you graduate from university and find a job."
"I'm not in a hurry, uncle. How old are you this year? I don't want to marry a forty-year-old uncle in a few years. "Bu Ran's tone was full of disappointment.
Qi Rui said in his heart, "I'm only thirty-three years old, okay?" But he felt that he had no right to talk about this with a girl who was about to be eighteen years old. Bu Ran was the half-sister of Qi Rui's classmate, Bu Lu. The two met for the first time in the restaurant on the top floor on the day when Qi Rui last saw Chu Xue. The second meeting was when Qi Rui arrived at Vancouver Harbor from Beijing. Lieutenant General Qi Rui happened to meet his old classmate Bu Lu at the harbor and was invited to his father's house by Bu Lu. Major General Bu Zhengtu warmly entertained Qi Rui. At that time, Bu Ran, who was about fifteen years old, became very interested in her brother, who was about the same age as her brother but had a higher military rank than her father. Then Bu Ran was successfully admitted to Tokyo University with good grades and the policy for founding generals. During this period, Bu Ran went to play with Qi Rui when she was free.
It had to be said that Bu Ran was really a beauty, so beautiful that it was a little ridiculous. When she announced that she was Qi Rui's girlfriend at the age of sixteen, the two also tossed around a few times. Finally, the relationship between the two stabilized, and now they were going to get married.
"Then I have to tell my father and mother and find time to go back." Qi Rui finally decided to give in.
Bu Ran immediately smiled like a flower, but after a moment, two pink flowers flew up on her smooth cheeks. Seeing parents was a very big thing, just thinking about it made the little girl feel uneasy. Not to mention that the person she was going to see was not an ordinary person, but the emperor of the Min dynasty, Comrade Vézé. In addition to being shy, Bu Ran also felt a little flustered. Whether or not she could leave a good impression on such a big man, Bu Ran also felt completely uncertain.
When Qi Rui went to work, he was a little confused. Thinking of writing to his father, Qi Rui felt very uneasy. Although Qi Rui could now very calmly write letters or official documents about military and national affairs with his father, his own personal affairs still made Qi Rui feel uneasy. When he thought that his father Vézé knew very well about snow, Qi Rui felt even more uneasy.
When he felt uneasy, Qi Rui habitually turned his thoughts to work. In less than two minutes, he calmed down. The order to cancel the North American Unification Department in Tokyo had officially arrived, and the process was scheduled to be completed in two years. At this stage, the original six North American provinces and the four provinces on the east coast of the Pacific would be placed under the central management. The troops of the North American Military Region also began to be transferred, and the total strength of the army, navy, and air force was reduced to 1.1 million. However, Qi Rui found a problem. The army establishment of the North American Military Region seemed to feature a stronger long-range delivery ability. So he had to consider that the military region might accept the imaginary enemy plan to fight in Europe.
"What's the problem in Europe?" Qi Rui began to consider the issue of collecting European intelligence with his comrades in the military region. This was in May 1895.
There was a problem in Europe, not a military problem, but an economic problem. After the price of grain in the British bulk grain market plummeted for three months, as the harvest approached, the European market finally experienced a full-scale plummeting of grain prices. In this process, the places chosen by the suicides were no longer limited to the Thames River, the Seine River in France, the Rhine River in Switzerland, and the Danube River in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. These rivers were much better than the industrially polluted Thames River, so the suicides looked slightly better after being fished out than the suicides in the United Kingdom.
In Cyprus, Wang Mingshan came to take charge. In London, the young students in Uncle En's training class also received a lot of information. Many of Uncle En's students were not followers of Buddhism. What they wanted to learn was materialist dialectics. Dialectics was not created by Uncle Ma, nor was it created by Hegel. But to be able to combine materialism and dialectics was one of Uncle Ma's achievements. This group of students faced Uncle En, who had been the court scholar of the Min dynasty Emperor Vézé, and told him about the recent situation. "The price of grain in big cities has dropped a lot because too much food that can't be stored has begun to be sold at reduced prices."
"As long as it is in areas where transportation is inconvenient, the retail price of grain on the market has not plummeted. But the price of buying grain has begun to plummet. "
"The price of grain in the agricultural areas of Europe has plummeted. Only France is an exception. "
These introductions made this group of students more and more identified with Uncle En. If it was in the past, they would at most think that this was a very fierce price plunge. Now these people saw the inevitability behind the appearance, so a student couldn't help but ask, "Why is the agricultural situation in Spain worse than in Russia? No matter how you look at it, Russia is behind Spain, right? "
"Russia's steel production is close to that of France. A lot of French capital has been invested in the construction of factories in Russia. Spain looks more advanced than Russia, but that's the past." Some of the students didn't agree with Max Weber.
"At least Russia's traffic situation is worse than Spain's. Why is Russia not as bad as Spain's?" Some of the students did not agree with Max Weber. Some of the students didn't agree with Max Weber.
Max Weber continued to answer. "Whether a country is bad or not is related to the extent of transactions in the country's operations. Spanish farmers are small farmers, and more than half of the products they produce are for themselves to eat. Only the extra products will be sent to the market for sale. Russia's farmers cultivate a lot of land, and the purpose of their production is to send most of the grain to the market for sale. From this point of view, Russia's farmers are much more advanced than Spain's farmers. Even if they are affected, they are mentally prepared because of the previous experience of food prices, so they look better. "
Seeing that the students didn't see the core, Uncle En said, "A lot of Russia's exports are fodder that doesn't taste good. The price is not high to begin with. Now the price has plummeted. The meat production cycle hasn't appeared yet, and the fodder cycle hasn't arrived yet. "
This explanation dispelled the doubts of many students. After they took notes, a new question popped up. "If they can store their food and survive the current period of low food prices, they will be able to survive. Isn't this a good way? "
The students with rural experience showed a disdainful expression on their faces. The words of these city people were ridiculous in the countryside.
"Food has storage time." A student replied.
"The price of old food is much lower than new food." Someone added.
"Farmers often borrow money in order to produce more food. If they don't sell the food, how can they pay back the money? " Max Weber added.
Listening to the students' questions, Uncle En subconsciously touched the book in front of him. This book had a very accurate description of production costs. It could be seen that some students only wanted to learn the explanation of the current situation and didn't calm down to learn the theoretical basis. Uncle En was quite disappointed with some of the students.
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