"The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is officially completed and opened to traffic. One bridge flies from the north to the south, and the natural chasm becomes a road!"
"Good news, good news, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is officially completed and opened to traffic. A great project of the century. Long live the Ming Empire!"
Along the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, accompanied by the shouts of newsboys, the news that the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was officially completed and opened to traffic spread quickly.
Suddenly, the entire Ming Dynasty was discussing the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.
A teahouse here.
"Pa~"
As the newspaper reader woke up, the originally noisy teahouse immediately became quiet. Everyone looked at the newspaper reader, looking forward to his interpretation of today's newspaper.
"Yesterday, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was officially completed and opened to traffic. This century project, which cost 40 million taels of silver, was officially completed in just a few years."
"Its completion will profoundly change the history of our Ming Dynasty, and will also profoundly affect the future and history of our land in China!"
"In history, there were many dynasties that relied on the natural dangers of the Yangtze River to divide the country from north to south. The Soochow, Chen, Southern Song, etc. relied on the natural dangers of the Yangtze River to form a natural line of defense."
"But from now on, the Yangtze River will no longer block the north and south. The travel between the north and the south of the Yangtze River only takes a few minutes to pass. Trains, cars, and horse-drawn carriages can all pass through. It will greatly facilitate travel between the north and the south, and at the same time, it will communicate with the richest people in the Ming Dynasty.
The Beijing-Tianjin region and the Jiangnan region.”
"From now on, taking a train from the capital can directly reach Songhu, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Jiangxi. In the future, with the continued construction of trains, it will also be possible to reach Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, and Jiaozhi and Xianglin in Southeast Asia."
"We should be grateful to live in such an era, a great era!"
“We have the most sage emperor, all the princes in the court are loyal and patriotic, virtuous ministers and good generals, and the people of Ming Dynasty are the most diligent and intelligent. With the joint efforts of everyone, this has created the glorious age of Ming Dynasty today!
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"The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is so majestic and vast. It was something that all dynasties would never dare to think about. Now our Ming Dynasty has made it bigger."
"Of course, in our great era, we not only have the great Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, but also have more great projects, such as the Great Wall Railway to Sichuan, the Jiangxi-Guangdong Railway through Lingnan, etc. We will also create more
Brilliant and miraculous, we will leave huge wealth and the confidence and pride to stand on top of the world to future generations!"
As the newspaper reader finished speaking, the entire teahouse suddenly erupted with applause and cheers like a tide.
Those who can afford to drink tea and come to listen to Mr. Reading the newspaper can be considered the middle class of the Ming Dynasty. They can be considered the intellectual class. They are the most concerned and concerned about joining the world.
This is very different from that of later generations. Those who care about state affairs in later generations are ordinary people and the so-called elites of the middle class. They are more concerned about their own interests and how to make more money. Even if they don't care about it,
, but they still ridiculed the people at the bottom who care about national affairs, thinking that they are only worrying about national affairs while eating pickles and carrots.
Isn’t it true that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world? At any time, the people at the bottom have the greatest bearing on the rise and fall of a country.
The economy is bad, and the people at the bottom are the most miserable. If there is a war, the sons of the bottom will go to the battlefield. What about the rich people? They have already immigrated abroad, and I want to tell you that national events and shit
The people have nothing to do with it.
Then tell me, all the contributions are made by the common people at the bottom, why does it have nothing to do with the common people?
When did it become a mistake to care about one's own country's major affairs?
Of course, this is a strange phenomenon in later generations.
In this matter, everyone in the Ming Dynasty has the mentality of a hero, and everyone believes that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.
The same is true for the views and spirit promoted by various newspapers. Even if they are pedantic Confucian newspapers, they still advocate family and country, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, loyalty to the emperor, loyalty to one's boss, and loyalty to one's family.
Be loyal to your family and your career!
It is this kind of thought and sentiment inside that has lasted through thousands of years. No matter how many ups and downs we have experienced, we can always stand firm.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty still has the national spirit and strong backbone that have been passed down for thousands of years.
Unlike later generations, which experienced three hundred years of slavish education and ignorant domestication in the Qing Dynasty, the spirit and backbone of the nation were interrupted. Later, they experienced a hundred years of turmoil and faced the explosion and development of science and technology in the new era.
So that we lose more and more precious spirit.
Nanjing.
Here at the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, Wen Zhengming, Tang Zhen, Chen Chun, and Cai Yu traveled to Nanjing together again.
In the last scientific examination, as expected, everyone fell behind again. They lost consecutive battles. They watched helplessly as their former friend Tang Bohu was already the governor of Hong Kong and a senior official of the fourth rank. Maybe he could work for a few more years.
It is possible that Tang Bohu can become a third-grade official.
Zhu Zhishan and his son took part in the imperial examination together. His son won the Jinshi exam but he failed. He felt that he had no face left, so he angrily decided to become an official as a juren. Now he should be in Heitu Province, in an immigrant village.
I work as a seventh-grade official at the town's immigration office.
Zhu Zhishan can still be a minor official. Although there is not much hope for promotion in the future, he will be an official at the state level after a long time, but he is still an official after all.
Wen Zhengming, Tang Zhen, Chen Chun, Cai Yu and others could not even look down upon them. At their age, they were just scholars and could not even become officials. They could only work as clerks and junior officials in the Yamen.
Something like that, or find a private school and become a teacher.
There is no doubt that they despise both of them. They all think that they are highly talented and knowledgeable, and they all think that one day they can leap over the dragon gate, be a farmer in the morning, and ascend to the emperor's hall in the evening.
The imperial examination failed and they were depressed. Naturally, their favorite thing was to travel around. This may be one of the reasons why they were never able to pass the examination.
The traditional imperial examination is even more terrifying and difficult than the college entrance examination in later generations. The seats for the three-year imperial examination are very rare. If you don’t show a high spirit and attitude, even if you are a talented person, you will fail.
of.
"One bridge flies from north to south, and the chasm becomes a thoroughfare!"
"This bridge is really majestic and majestic, like a giant dragon. It is truly the project of the century!"
Wen Zhengming stood on the bridge, looking at the river, looking at the north and south of the bridge, looking at the busy traffic on the bridge, people coming and going, from time to time he heard the sound of whistles, and in the billowing black smoke, the train rumbled past.
Come.
Looking at the bridge, there are many people. There are many scholars like Wen Zhengming and others, wearing long gowns and holding fans. They are also here to play. There are quite a lot of them.
When they met each other and told each other their identities, it turned out that they were both well-known talents in the Jiangnan area. Naturally, it was inevitable to feel sympathy for each other.
It was just a short exercise, but hundreds of scholars had already gathered on the bridge. Everyone shouted to each other, Brother Liu, Brother Li, Brother Wang, and Brother Zhang, and they came to greet each other casually. Someone suggested that they should do it right here on the bridge.
Above, we use this bridge as the theme to play some word games among literati.
Couples, poems and inscriptions, etc., naturally won a positive response from these literati and poets.
Scholars in ancient times were actually from very wealthy families. There were very few truly poor scholars. Even if they were poor scholars, they were only poor relative to the rich. For ordinary people, they
Scholars are all wealthy people.
Even if they are doing nothing and just looking for inspiration and materials, they are still noble scholars, and they are a group of people with status and status wherever they go.
Only then can I play with words and poems in a leisurely manner, instead of being busy and rushing about life like the passers-by on the bridge in a hurry.
After some dialogue and poem recitation, everyone learned that Wen Zhengming, one of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River, was also present, and they immediately asked Wen Zhengming to use pen and ink to draw the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in front of them.
Wen Zhengming has always found it difficult to refuse such requests.
Wen Zhengming immediately asked his boy to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and spread out a long roll of rice paper. Wen Zhengming then splashed ink, and a majestic and majestic Yangtze River Bridge soon appeared on the paper.
"good!"
"It is really as majestic and majestic as the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge!"
"I admire Brother Wen's talent!"
“To be able to see this masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages today is truly a blessing for three lifetimes! I’m a blessing for three lifetimes!”
"Brother Wen's paintings are unique in the world!"
When the many literati and poets around them saw it, they couldn't help but give thumbs up and admired it. Wen Zhengming's paintings are also very famous, maybe not as famous as Tang Bohu's paintings, but his level is obviously at the same level as everyone else's.
