Thirty-one, the last leisure time

Thirty-one, the last leisure time

As the fresh rain curtain had just dissipated, the beautiful and gorgeous summer morning light leaned from the shy green space on the wide rattan lounge chair, enjoying the beautiful beauty and beautiful scenery in front of you, while bored reading the books in your hand.

On the round table beside him, there were fragrant local special dishes and pastries, and a bottle of 30-year-old Ryukyu soaked wine. This was the greedy Feili tried her best to win a long time, and almost shamelessly used the trick of "crying, making a fuss and hanging" to get a special approval from a vampire friend... Because wine will seriously affect the quality of blood...

Although the food culture of the Celestial Kingdom on the other side of the sea is really incomparable, it has been extremely monotonous since ancient times. Compared with the Japanese Islands where pickled radish, sashimi, and seaweed can only be seen on the table, the types of Ryukyu-style dishes are already so rich that they are eye-catching. At least the people in this place have always liked raising pigs and eating pigs since ancient times. They claim that they are apart from pigs and the sound of pigs. No matter what kind of pigs are, they can be put into the pot and made into huh, especially the ones who are best at cooking braised pork and stew pig trotters, etc.

As a result, the oily Ryukyu-style pork meal made the Westerners who had been tired of grilled fish and sashimi and had been unable to taste the flavor for more than a year and also greatly increased their appetite. The entire army had only been mooring for more than ten days to eat hundreds of domestic pigs on the island that survived the war, and even the breeding pigs, sows and pigs were left.

——It seems that after these poor Ryukyu people survived this famine, they could only import pig seedlings from abroad...

In addition to various pork dishes, Ryukyu's bitter gourd is also a famous dish. The two special dishes, scrambled eggs and scrambled tofu, are very good. As desserts, sea grapes (dessert made of squid eggs) and Jinchu cake (similar to cookies), have a wonderful taste.

There is also the specialty of Ryukyu, although it is made of rice fermented like Japanese sake, but because it is distilled liquor, it is much stronger. It looks like ice when it is drunk, but it looks like fire when it is drunk. It tastes clear and refreshing, which really lives up to its reputation as the famous Donghai wine.

Moreover, the longer the soaked wine on Ryukyu Island is stored, the better the charm is. The locals often have the custom of storing wine jars. In order to please the new owner, the king of Ryukyu endured his heartache and dug several jars of aged wine from the palace secret room and offered them respectfully. Not only did the dwarf artillery soldiers in the legion who were addicted to alcohol and satisfied, but even the picky priests of Zhuoerjing Ling NV were amazed.

Delicious Ryukyu cuisine can certainly make people feel full of food, and the beautiful scenery of this island is also pleasing to the eye.

On this island with mountains and dense forests, there are almost picturesque scenery everywhere - hexagonal pagodas, pavilions and towers with carved beams and painted buildings, ancient and vicissitudes of temples and steles, and towering pines and cypresses surrounding them all, all of which give people endless poetry. There are also strange peaks and stones covered with moss and shrubs, which are often shrouded in drizzle and mist, which make Ryukyu Island look charming. It is like an enlarged bonsai, and a fairyland that descends to the mortal world... It is really dazzling and lingering.

On the afternoon of that day, Feili suddenly got up and took a group of people to a picnic in the woods outside Naba Port.

It was raining at this time, and the mountains and forests were lush. Under the golden sunshine, there was an indescribable tenderness and charm: the shimmering stream water reflected the clear blue sky, and there were white clouds floating casually in the wind. The lush jungle was filled with pleasant birds and insects. The white sand beach stretched to the sky in the distance kept coming from the sound of huge waves slamming the shore.

——Immerse yourself in such a comfortable and peaceful atmosphere, savor the intoxicating and mellow fragrance that overflows from the wine glass, and experience the unique lazy charm of summer afternoons, which is really an elegant and infinite supreme enjoyment...

On the other side of the sea at the same time, hundreds of thousands of demon thugs were pouring into the prosperous Shanghai Concession, quickly turning the land into a bloody hell. The overseas Chinese and local old residents of all ethnic groups were burned, killed and looted. The overconfident Black Sun Lich Governor was even more forced to humiliately endure the repeated torture of the black dog blood and menstrual belt after being unfortunately captured.

However, in that miserable vortex of blood and fire, the only savior that Western expatriates could count on, General Ferry Taylor, who was nominally in charge of all war affairs in the Far East, is still thousands of miles away, and knows nothing about this tragedy.

Therefore, he was still leisurely immersed in this beautiful and beautiful Ryukyu scenery like a bonsai, enjoying the beautiful figure playing in the water, flipping through books and magazines to relieve boredom, and tasting a series of Ryukyu cuisines with unique flavors... If he was unfortunately caught by the "angry youth" and reporters in China, he would probably be called a corrupt and depraved stupid general!

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Overall, General Feili Taylor received the land of Ryukyu Island, which is easily forgotten, quite smoothly.

For such a country with only 80,000 people and even food is difficult to be self-sufficient, independence and other things have always been extravagant talks. Basically, since the founding of the country, the Ryukyu royal family has actively or passively paid tribute to the Central Plains Celestial Empire, the Satsuma vassal state, the Edo Shogunate and the Admiral Perry successively, and they have long been very accustomed to being a vassal state.

What's more, in the past year, Ryukyu Island has just finished a "civil war in a teacup". Although the troops of all parties are usually only double digits, basically not many people died, after a terrible battle in such a half year, Ryukyu's already bad national economy is now basically over. Because of the delay in agricultural farming, the large-scale harvest of rice was caused by the war, and the islanders had basically no food to eat. Seeing that the old ones were not over and new disasters arose, the tragic people on this tragic island had to find ways to ask for help from the sect leader.

Therefore, after I heard that the new commander of the Naserel Far East Fleet arrived in Ryukyu on a giant ship that was as tall as a mountain, the king Shanglong, who had just fought a civil war for a year, immediately led all civil and military officials to Naba Port to collectively take the lead in the ceremony of kneeling three kneelings and nine kowtows, and kneeled down to welcome Feili, Taylor, the new "Supreme Emperor".

The miniature concession on the island, which is not much larger than the front deck of the Xiangrui, and the "concession garrison" with only three people left, have no intention of armed separatism. They just want to "confront the central government" with respect, but they all have shy faced with a shameless face to request the repayment of the military pay that has been owed over the past year, and strive to be transferred to other positions, and leave this poor, broken and boring place as soon as possible.

So, General Feili Taile happily accepted the attentive banquet from King Shanglong in the miniature palace of Shuri Castle, and in his mood, he was extremely generous in agreeing to His Majesty the King's plea to issue food for relief.

However, although he agreed to distribute relief food, in order to save money and trouble, Feili, who was doing the careful calculation, did not send a fleet to pay for food overseas from his own pocket, but instead adopted the most convenient method - to dig out a few surplus endless grain packs from the old warehouse that had been covered with dust, and forcibly violated the rules of cào, directly connected the endless grain packs to the magic circuit of the Miser energy core... As a result, before these endless grain packs were burned due to energy overload, Feili successfully created a salt-filled rice noodles that could fill a warehouse, but the taste was really a nightmare than a nightmare.

Next, although the amount of these foods is already large, it seems that it is not enough to fill the food gap in the entire Ryukyu Island. Feili led people to rummage boxes and cabinets and found a bunch of everlasting feed bags that were never used after the war horse died of navigation... Then he continued to draw a cat and tiger, and once again connected to the magic circuit of the Miser energy core. Relying on the endless magic power, he quickly synthesized a lot of barley, oats, bran and other livestock feeds, which were enough to fill three large warehouses.

I really don’t know what kind of expression will the King Shanglong, who is full of expectations for relief food, look after seeing these inferior fried rice and flour that tastes comparable to nightmares, as well as barley, oats and bran that should have been used to feed horses... Well, it should be better than gnawing on tree bark and grass roots!

——Anyway, it’s all for the poor to fill their stomachs. Some of them will not die if they eat them. The quality is a little worse! No matter how miserable the rice yield is, it will never be short of the white rice of all the great masters...

But this can also show how omnipotent the Miser energy core is - it is not only the power source that drives ships to ride the wind, but also a clean fresh water source that connects the water element plane, and can also artificially synthesize a large amount of food out of nothing... As long as you are not afraid of suffering from anorexia, scurvy, beriberiosis and malnutrition syndrome from now on.

No matter what, the problem of food shortage on Ryukyu Island has been barely solved successfully.

General Feili Taylor, who took office as a new official, has fulfilled his obligations to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

As for the remaining rest time, the irresponsible Feili pushed all her daily work below, but she was busy visiting the scenic spots of Ryukyu, tasting Ryukyu flavored dishes and soaking wine.

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Of course, while resting and visiting, Feili did not forget to check some books and materials to provide a certain degree of rough understanding of the current Ryukyu Kingdom and the next jurisdiction where Xiangrui was about to inspect - the Shanghai Concession of the Xianglong Empire.

For example, at this moment, he had just read a volume of the latest publication of Ryukyu in a glance - a famous exiled revolutionary of the Xianglong Empire completed the manuscript in Naha Port, and published by the Ryukyu royal family. He was gloating about this extremely funny super-mini war and a series of hilarious farces and comedies...

Then, Feili picked up the "Records of the Golden Kingdom---The Rich Country governed by the Sages" on the round table beside her. A certain book had long lost its cover and back cover, and even the pages had turned yellow and had many pages of old books missing, and she frowned and started reading.

This is the only historical and geographical introduction book about the Eastern world that General Feili Taylor finally found in the Battleship Library of the Xiangrui. An unknown traveler who wrote this book used exaggerated styles and full of praise in the article, and praised almost everything in the Xianglong Empire from multiple perspectives such as politics, economy, military, culture, morality, and law.

In order to express his love for this country, the author even compared it to the most beautiful "Golden Country":

"... The Xianglong Empire, which dominates the Eastern World, is what we usually call "Shaolang", is probably the most powerful empire in the world. Its strength, prosperity and civilization are enough to make any country in the Feren continent obscure. It can be called the most beautiful and great "golden country" in human history...

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...This empire has a huge population of more than 200 million, equipped with more than one million regular troops, and ruled at least 2,000 large cities. Among them, there are more than fifty super-cities with a population of more than 100,000. Even in the heyday of the ancient Nairer Empire, there was never such a vast territory and ruled so many people.

The great capital of this empire is a brilliant city with a scale far exceeding our poor imagination. It is said that the permanent population has exceeded one.5 million. The palace shinv alone serves the emperor and the people he loves, and nearly tens of thousands of eunuchs as slaves from the emperor's family...

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...The entire Xianglong Empire is ruled by a wise monarch living in the imperial city and his wise wise men. The soul of the superior monarch often descends to the mortal world through some special rituals to give his own suggestions to the current monarch...

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...As far as I know, these Oriental people who regard dragons as their own symbols are the most just, benevolent and rational nations in the world. And the great empire they established is the most beautiful, oldest, most vast, most populous and best-governed country in the world... In my eyes, this dreamy and beautiful country looks like the most beautiful porcelain, as delicate and miraculous as it is...

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...In this golden country with progress in civilization, the slave trade has been extremely opposed since ancient times, and those who engage in the slave trade will be sentenced to death. On the other hand, in our West, until today, the cruel and bloody slave trade is still an important pillar industry in some of the most prosperous countries...

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...This empire is vast and prosperous, with a peaceful country and a peaceful country. The subjects live in buildings and dress beautifully. Countless fragrant strange grasses grow on the ground, as well as high-end spices that are indispensable to the upper class of Western society, and the underground is filled with gold and silver and other items that Westerners dream of. It produces exquisite and exquisite porcelain, silk as soft as baby's skin, and various magical elixirs... Compared with the infinite wealth produced in this Eastern Empire, all the gems in the world are worthless...

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...In this golden country in the far east, the emperor selected officials at all levels under his command, not by relying on his bloodline and merit, nor by his wallets and deceiving votes, but by passing a series of complex exams to select the most talented young people to serve as officials.

Every few years, the imperial court would convene young scholars from all over the country in the capital to hold a large-scale examination called "big competition" to test the participants' comprehensive qualities and abilities in politics, strategy, management, literature and law (in some special years, the empire would also add "Enke" that mainly evaluates the rest of the miscellaneous studies), among which the most outstanding group of people will be awarded a title called "Jinshi".

Of course, in the wonderful art of politics, book knowledge and practical experience may not be completely integrated. Therefore, these new officials will not be entrusted with important tasks immediately, but some will be left in the capital, follow experienced officials to work, and increase relevant knowledge and governance experience. The other part will be sent to other places to become local officials or their deputy in a relatively large area for on-site training and learning.

When these young officials accumulate sufficient governance experience through various means, based on their political achievements and reputation during their term of office, some of them will be gradually promoted and eventually be able to participate in the imperial meeting and enter the center of power of the empire.

Generally, every few days, the emperor of the Xianglong Empire would hold a royal meeting called the "court meeting". The ministers of various officials, under the emperor's personal presidency, put forward memorials (equivalent to a proposal), and were debated and revised by the ministers.

----In fact, as the power of the "Prime Minister" (equivalent to the Western Prime Minister) and the cabinet became increasingly greater, the imperial power of the Xianglong Empire has been slowly being reduced. In the tradition of not killing scholars and officials, the monarch could only derogate the ministers at most, thus creating a tolerant political atmosphere.

Thanks to this excellent official selection system, this golden country has maintained a large number of well-educated and experienced professional scholars for a long time, and has relied on them to form an efficient civil servant group, thus effectively ruling its huge population and vast territory…”

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Chapter completed!