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Chapter 1641 Stargazing

"This is the Big Dipper..." Under the night sky, in the arrow tower in his mansion, Zhang Han and his two sons were climbing up and watching the stars. Several extended telescopes sent by the Institute of Astronomy were on the arrow tower. The two children were not sleeping in the middle of the night. They had been sleeping for too long in the afternoon. At night, they pestered Zhang Han to listen to stories and go out to play, but they still didn't sleep until this time... Zhang Han was helpless and yawned and made a fuss with his two sons.

The sky is full of stars. Such night scenes are quite common in this era, so it is best to use them for stargazing.

There was a faint noise around. Many people in their sleep were not awakened and still couldn't wake up. Only the barking of dogs came, which made people feel upset.

Zhang Bin and Zhang Zhen were both interested and clamoring to exchange their experiences in stargazing. The children's language ability was well developed, but they were still childish words, and Zhang Han wanted to laugh when he heard it.

Neat footsteps came from all around, and the guards were changing shifts. Someone looked up at the arrow tower, and an old guard shook his head and smiled.

In any case, in the eyes of people at that time, Zhang Han was a little spoiled for his sons, and such a kind fatherly role was not consistent with Zhang Han's life experience and achievements.

When Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty achieved the same achievements as Zhang Han, he was afraid that his son had given birth to more than ten. As a lord, he had no time to coax children. There was not much affection between father and son, but more of the relationship between the lord and his subordinates.

Otherwise, after the Qin King died, Taizu would scold him for not cultivating virtue, so he encountered this retribution.

In Zhang Han, he could not see the aura of these "heroic rulers", but he was more like an ordinary person, that is, an ordinary father who loved his children.

"Sir, haven't you been sleeping yet?" The strong man Zhao Lide, who climbed up the arrow tower, was climbing up the black-faced man. However, he had a gentle and gentle image in front of Zhang Han. After staying here for a while, the gloomy aura on his body seemed to weaken a lot.

In the middle of the night, he was a rotating official of the Military Information Department. Seeing that Zhang Han was not asleep, he simply climbed up to the arrow tower to talk to relieve his boredom.

"These two are mixed up." Zhang Han pointed at his two sons and cursed with a smile: "I took a nap for more than an hour, and I'm still very energetic now!"

Zhao Lide smiled and said, "I have two sons, the older one is sixteen and the younger one is fourteen. I am no longer as annoying as the adults."

"How old are you?" Zhang Han looked at Zhao Lide, who looked in his thirties, and smiled, "I'm afraid you got married soon?"

"This year's 31st." Zhao Lide smiled and said, "The eldest son born at the age of fifteen."

Zhang Han shook his head and smiled. This age is so normal in this era. I remember that I was in my early thirties in later generations, and I was drunk and dreaming every day. I never thought of getting married and having children. These days, it is not surprising that people who are in their thirties hold grandchildren are quite common.

"Did your boss say he kissed?"

"No." Zhao Lidedao: "I studied at the Hutchison Junior Military Academy two years ago. I only graduated this year. Then I interned for a while and asked him to take the military official school. The second child was also in the military school and graduated in two years."

Nowadays, people talk about study, school, graduation, and internship. These words have been spoken very smoothly and there is no sense of difficulty. Even some later words, such as meetings, being late and leaving early, and cadres have gradually become popular in the memory of the Hutchison.

This is what Zhang Han said. Maybe Zhang Han didn't pay attention to it when he said it. Only after he spread it, he realized that there are no such words now. Many words were only found in later generations, and even circulated from overseas.

There is no word including China now. Now there are only words such as China, Zhuxia, China, etc.. Fortunately, when Zhang Han said it, people also knew what it means, and just thought it was a new word he thought of. Everyone followed it and accepted it after a long time.

"It's great to start a career first and then start a family."

Zhao Lide smiled and said, "If the words of the master are spreading, there will probably be fewer and fewer young men who get married early in my memory."

Zhang Han made a haha, changed the topic, and said, "Old Zhao, can you watch the stars?"

Zhao Lide was stunned and said, "When I was a child, I learned some of them, but I didn't learn much, so I just saw the excitement, which is incomparable to the people of the Imperial Heavenly Prison."

"Okay." Zhang Han called his master and hugged Zhang Bin and Zhang Zhen who were yawning.

The two boys were quarreling, and Zhang Han beat the two naughty boys one by one before coaxing them to sleep.

"The Lord is kind to the young master and the eldest son." Zhao Lide shook his head and said, "The lower official is just anxious and he also cares about holding his grandson or not. Thinking about it now, he still owes his son a lot."

"Childhood is the best time for a person's life." Zhang Han said calmly: "Like the new sun, there is a beauty that makes people unable to destroy. Since childhood, you should set your mind at the beginning of the day and set up good wishes. Don't be careless in character, and do not indulge in small details. The way to kiss is not a mouth. You should be the example of your parents and teach them in words. How can children accept it by words? In addition, teaching knowledge and learning the six arts of gentlemen, you may as well start until the age of six or seven. After the beginning, you must strictly require that you cannot have a beginning or no end, be lazy, and be indulge in it."

Zhao Lide, as if he had some enlightenment, stood up and bowed: "My lord is really a god. The military, political and business affairs have made people feel like a god. Even the way to raise children is unprecedented, which makes the officials admire him very much. The ruthlessness of the adults may not be a true hero. How can the pity for the son be a husband has been spread, and many families of scholars and officials have changed their courses."

"Don't just talk about welcome..." Zhang Han smiled and said, "Look at Ziweixing for me..."

Zhang Han was taking his sons to see the stars just now, but he only saw a bunch of stars. He knew about several famous zodiac signs. He learned it when he was in school, but how to distinguish the purple star and see if there is anything abnormal, he couldn't do this.

I happened to hear that Zhao Lide would watch the stars, so this guy came over by himself, of course he couldn't let it go. He caught Zhao Lide and called him to watch the stars. As for whether he could see anything, Zhang Han didn't care much.

Zhao Lide was quite nervous... In Taoism, Ziwei Star is considered to be the lord of all stars, namely the North Star, the main star of Ursa. This star is very large and bright. If the weather is good, you can see it clearly with the naked eye.

Those Taoist priests who are good at making trouble or those who are good at astronomy can often claim to see mysterious things on this star. Whether it is the emperor himself or the rise and fall of the dynasty, they seem to be able to be identified during stargazing.

This is the first time Zhang Han is interested in Ziweixing. Before that, no matter how undercurrents surging within Hutchison, Zhang Han himself was at most suggesting that he always kept a proper speech and gave people room for imagination.

He took the initiative to ask Zi Weixing that it was just a point of interest in astronomy in later generations. In this era, Zhang Han's identity and status were about to rebel!

"Don't be nervous..." Zhang Han said to Zhao Lide: "I heard that the emperor has not been in good health recently. The emperor is not bad to me. I am a little worried about it. It is true..."

This is even more damn nonsense.

Zhao Lide is a senior official of the Military Intelligence Department. He can't know any information. The emperor did not send any information about bad health. If there were any, Zhao Lide would definitely know it as soon as possible.

He looked at Zhang Han suspiciously, but he did not dare to question or doubt... Can't Zhang Han have other secret sources of information? Perhaps it was the Internal Information Department, or it could be a higher-level intelligence, or a single-line contact between a senior official of the Ming Dynasty or even a nobleman from Zhang Han?

If this is the case, it would be understandable that the Military Information Department would not know.

Zhang Han just smiled indifferently, and of course he could not explain it clearly to Zhao Lide.

According to memory, Emperor Tianqi only lived until August of the seventh year of the seventh year of the Tianqi, and he would definitely remember this as long as he was a little interested in history. Especially those who were interested in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, from the end of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to the Tianqi and Chongzhen periods, this decades of history was mostly particularly clear.

Even if there are some people or things that cannot be remembered, or even at all, such as some floods, droughts, earthquakes, some well-known writers of the world, or some awesome big shots, Zhang Han doesn't know about these... What he remembers is a big event, and he will never remember this mistake by Emperor Tianqi in August of the seventh year of Tianqi.

But there was really no news coming back, and Zhang Han inevitably felt a little anxious.

All arrangements are designed for the death of Emperor Apocalypse. If the history of this time and space change suddenly, the Apocalypse will still be alive and everything will be as usual, then the situation will really be frozen.

Zhang Han was not worried about delaying for a few more years. The military farms of Hutchison on the grassland were in full swing. If the Ming Dynasty was frozen, there would be no way to cut off exchanges and trade. The population, goods, gold and silver would continue to go up the grassland. The longer the time, the stronger the Hutchison on the grassland.

The scale of trade with the Russians will become larger and larger, reaching at least an annual trade volume of over 10 million taels or even 20 to 30 million taels. During the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court did not dominate the trade with Hutchison. Only small-scale spontaneous trade among the people reached over 10 million, which is only more than a hundred years ago. Now, Hutchison uses many consciously promoted fist products to trade with the Russians, tobacco and liquor, plus cloth, silk, tea, sugar, and porcelain, which are the favorite products of Europeans in this era.

Of course there are spices, but unfortunately Hutchison cannot get bulk spices. The origin of spices is controlled by the Dutch and the British, and it is too stupid to get spices from thousands of miles away to trade with the Russians. It is not easy to make money at all.
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