When the firecrackers exploded, Sophie shrank her neck suddenly.
Lin Youde couldn't help laughing when he saw the little girl's frightened look. He picked up Sophie, put it on his shoulders as usual, and strode towards the still bustling late night streets.
The entire Helang Yabo was filled with the sound of firecrackers, and fireworks were constantly shot into the sky, exploding into colorful patterns.
The newly built Mazu Temple near Subic Bay and the Guandi Temple on the other side of the city rang bells, announcing the arrival of the Lunar New Year.
At this time, the streets were full of people going out to pay their respects to their neighbors. Many clever vendors had been waiting for a long time and took out firecrackers and snacks to sell. Naughty children were running from one stall to another in groups with lucky money in hand.
stalls, clamoring for the vendors to bring out the best snacks and fireworks.
But when everyone saw Lin Youde, they would respectfully retreat to the side of the road and congratulate him in unison: "Shopkeeper Lin, happy new year, may you make a lot of money and all your wishes come true."
Since there were so many people congratulating him, Lin Youde could only simplify his responses, saying "make a fortune" and "share the same happiness" all the way, but his mouth was dry after all.
As a matter of course, Ba walked beside Lin Youde, so many women came forward to congratulate her. In the presence of female relatives, it was not in line with etiquette for the women to congratulate Lin Youde directly. If there was no man to introduce her, they had to congratulate the wife.
Although Ba was not Lin Youde's wife, she handled this situation very gracefully and gracefully. Perhaps because of this, she was rumored to be Lin Youde's first wife.
The senior officials of Lin Ji who followed Lin Youde were not as eye-catching as Lin Youde. After all, Lin Youde's portrait is in every house in Holland and can be seen everywhere. Some Western reporters even joked: "In Holland,
Wherever you go in Langyabo, you can feel what the Chinese call 'Brother Lin' watching you."
The improvement in reputation allowed Lin Youde to increase his business skills and start to focus on industry. He only invested two points and had a relatively significant effect. The inexplicable increase in the report gave Du Qifeng and his economic evaluation team a headache for a long time. Lin Youde
But he was snickering on the side.
The lively Chinese New Year scene in front of us reflects the economic prosperity of the area controlled by Lin Ji from one aspect.
After the economic boom, Lin Youde began to implement a series of people's welfare projects, such as the vegetable basket project. He established an official pig farm, and then rationed pork to Lin Ji's employees in the form of real-name meat tickets, making it rare to see meat and fish meat several times a month.
The workers in Linji can eat meat every week - in fact, all the workers in Linji can afford meat. Unfortunately, the supply of meat on the market is insufficient. Although the price of meat is still maintained at a reasonable level due to the iron fist of the Nanyang Army.
category, but the problem of insufficient supply has never been solved. In addition, he organized Lin Kee's official fishing fleet, equipped with self-produced steamers from Guangzhou's Lin Kee Shipyard, and used trawl nets to catch fish, thus greatly increasing the supply of fish.
Yield.
The abundance of food will increase people's satisfaction. This is something Lin Youde learned from the game, and it seems to be quite effective now.
Many people who had just arrived in Northern Luzon from the mainland were surprised by the affluence of life here, and then fell in love with Lin Youde's portrait.
Some radical white feather fans in the Nanyang Army are already promoting the idea of bringing the prosperous life here back to their hometown.
As long as you give Lin Youde time, the time to conquer the Central Plains will eventually come. Lin Youde, who has the right time, place and people, will be unstoppable. So amidst the sound of New Year's firecrackers, Lin Youde is full of confidence in the future.
With such confidence, Lin Youde entered the Japanese residential area of Helanggabo.
The buildings used to house Japanese expatriates here were all designed and built by Lin Kee. Although they adopt the design of a typical Japanese house, they do not use the traditional wooden structure of Japanese houses. In addition, the appearance of these houses is almost identical, making these houses
The blocks formed together give people a strange feeling, and the eighteen-star flags hanging in prominent positions at each intersection and the posters on the propaganda walls that are painted on each section of the road further deepen this feeling.
This is because Lin Youde is preparing to conduct another social experiment on the Japanese to test his observations and thinking about Japanese national character in the last time and space.
If the experiment is successful, he will actually have the most dedicated industrial workers and middle- and low-level technicians. Of course, these will not be told to the Japanese - except for Tomoe. Lin Youde feels uncomfortable hiding things related to girls.
, he doesn’t like this. When employing people, Lin Youde likes to give complete trust to his subordinates who have passed the test, let alone a girl like Ba who has an emotional connection with him?
So Lin Youde laid out his plan in full, and was prepared to terminate the implementation if the girl objected. Anyway, even if the optimal plan in Lin Youde's imagination was not adopted, there were many ways to rule Japan.
Unexpectedly, the girl simply nodded and agreed to Lin Youde's plan to use his compatriots as a social experiment. The reason was: "This is also to bring out the advantages of us Yamato people as much as possible. In that case, there will be no problem."
So Lin Youde started preliminary experiments in the small Japanese community of Helang Yabo.
The effect cannot be seen yet, and Lin Youde is not here to inspect the experimental effect at this time.
Like the Japanese people moving in the same direction on the street now, he went to the shrine for New Year's worship. As early as the last time and space, Lin Youde wanted to experience this famous scene that appeared in many love games and Japanese animations.
.Now this is the best opportunity, and there is a real Yamato Nadeshiko accompanying me. There is no more suitable time to realize my dream than this.
But in the Japanese community, many people still recognized Lin Youde, so Lin Youde had to face congratulations from all kinds of unknown people again. The Japanese here are all leftists, and they all regard Lin Youde as the leader of the yellow race to defeat the white race.
heroes, many of whom even believed that the Sino-Japanese War was a shame for the yellow race, because Westerners regarded this war as a civil war for the yellow race, and derided it as a pig-tail war. Therefore, Japan’s main war faction is
Disgraced all yellow people.
Lin Youde's Nanyang Army defeated the Spaniards, which attracted the attention of Westerners, and his economic reforms in Langgabo were also praised by Westerners. They compared the two sides and made judgments.
When he first discussed this issue with representatives of Japanese overseas Chinese, Lin Youde asked: "When the time comes when we counterattack Japan, won't it also be a civil war among the yellow race? It is very likely that I, Lin Youde, started this war. When the time comes, you will
Don’t you think I’ve also lost the face of the yellow race?”
As a result, the representative replied: "If you really launch such a war, it will be a holy war to correct the mistakes of the military pigs."
The double standards have reached this point, and as the beneficiary of this double standards, Lin Youde has nothing to say.
After arriving at the top of the mountain where the shrine is located, Lin Youde heard a familiar voice from a distance.
"Amulet for eliminating disasters! No matter how bad the lot is drawn, as long as you buy a guardian that has been personally blessed by Lady Kutsuhime, you can turn bad luck into good luck! Amulet for eliminating disasters!"
"Ah," Sophie, who was sitting on Lin Youde's shoulder, said, "It's Lan."
"I know," Lin Youde sighed and turned back to Ba, "Let's take a long detour and approach the temple from the other side of the sacred tree."
"Um."
**
On the fourteenth day after the Lunar New Year, news came from Guangzhou that Emperor Guangxu had issued an imperial edict to establish the country and begin the reform.
——Traveling with my family and taking three days off.