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Abel Tasman said: "Returning to the general, I am a senior employee of the Dutch East India Company's expedition team. My ideal is to be a great explorer."

Fei Ruhe was rather puzzled: "What is an explorer?"

Abel Tasman said: "It is driving a sailboat to find islands and continents in unknown seas. You can also explore unknown mountains, forests, and rivers after landing."

"What's... what's the use? Which craft do you rely on for a living?" Fei Ruhe still couldn't understand.

Abel Tasman replied: "I renewed a ten-year senior employment contract with the Dutch East India Company. I help the company find continents and islands, and help the company explore known land. I can survey and draw maps, and I understand astronomy. I also know about navigation, and I can also explore mineral deposits. Three years ago, I assisted the expedition commander and discovered a large copper mine in the Spice Islands."

"Oh, you can still prospect for mines? It seems that you are a useful talent." Fei Ruhe finally became interested.

Seeing the change in Fei Ruhe's attitude, Abel Tasman quickly said, "Yes, General, I am an expert in prospecting. I can explore natural treasures for you."

Fei Ruhe nodded and smiled, "I'll send you to Ji'an. You are in charge of prospecting, and those Japanese pirates are in charge of mining. Haha, they complement each other."

Dutch, Japanese, and Malay soldiers were captured more than 800 people this time.

Except for a few with special skills, all the others were thrown into mining.What a waste to kill directly, you must make the best use of it.

Zhao Han lacks everything now, except for all kinds of mines.

Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong are full of mountains and mines!

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Lianzhou, Nangang Pai.

Zhao Tianwang had already sent someone to bring the betrothal gift, two big fat pigs, two geese, ten chickens, five hundred catties of grain, and a large jar of good wine.

The bigger dowry is that the whole of Guangdong does not collect autumn grain this year.In Lianzhou, Lianshan, and Yangshan counties, not only will there be no autumn grain collection this year, but the summer grain tax will be halved next year.

When the news came, the Han, Yao and Zhuang people were full of lively scenes of singing and dancing everywhere.

In fact, it has nothing to do with Zhao Han's marriage.

But Guangzhou is too miserable, with three years of drought, three years of military disasters, and a serious shortage of food for the people.Even though the government was short of food, Zhao Han also announced that this year's autumn grain would be exempted, giving the people of the province a chance to breathe.

Pan Qimei was sitting in front of the dressing table, while her mother and sister-in-law were wrapping her head and wearing jewelry.

The turban is embroidered with the seal of King Pan, supplemented by silver leaves, silver drums, silver hairpins, bells, necklaces and many other jewelry.The top is mainly red, with indigo and white embellishments. This is a Pai Yao costume and is only worn three times in a lifetime.

The lower body is a knee-length embroidered skirt, and below the knees are leggings.

There are not only leggings, but also knee pads, which are convenient for climbing uphill and collecting work.However, the leggings and knee pads used for weddings are embroidered with colorful patterns, and a pair of shoes are also embroidered cloth shoes.

The neighbors were having a wedding banquet, Pan Qimei finished dressing, ate something to fill her stomach, and then followed the welcoming team and the sending team down the mountain.

The wedding ceremony was incomplete without the groom.

Yao women should walk when they get married, and the groom will carry them when crossing the bridge.Pan Qimei was sitting in a palanquin this time, and Zhao Han hired the bearers. In front of her was the welcoming team of blowing chuidada, and behind them was the sending team carrying the dowry.

The dowry is very simple, including embroidery, buckets, foot basins, simple knives, hoes, bedding, and sun umbrellas.

Also, more than ten loads of dry firewood... It means that the bride is a diligent and thrifty housekeeper.

When leaving home, the father sang and toasted, and the other elders sang in harmony.Pan Qimei sang the "Crying Marriage Song" and left. She kept crying and singing until she came down the mountain and suddenly laughed, full of longing for her future life.

Pan Qimei is an ordinary girl of the Yao nationality. She has been doing housework since she was a child, and she can sing and spin. The Yao brocade she weaves is very beautiful.

She also often goes up the mountain to hunt hogweed, collect herbs and mushrooms, and helps cut rice when farming is busy.

Her normal life trajectory should be to marry a man of the Yao nationality, move out of her husband's house a year after marriage, and start a family by herself to live a small life.If her husband's family had no extra terraced fields, she would have to help her husband open up wasteland, or simply go down the mountain to work, either as a tenant for others, or as a homeless person in the city.

She has to do a lot of housework and farm work, raise chickens and ducks, spin and weave cloth, and have many children.

Just three months ago, Tian Changgong in the platoon suddenly announced the election of the most beautiful and virtuous Sha Yaomei.She passed all the way, stood out from Nangang platoon, and finally entered the finals of Ba Pai Yao.

It is not only better than beauty, but also better than weaving cloth and brocade.

In the end, she was on par with Deng Sanmei of the Junliao platoon, and the Yao elders in each platoon argued endlessly.An elder Yao suggested that if they had more calluses on their palms, whoever had more calluses would be more industrious and virtuous, and would definitely be more loved by King Zhao.

Pan Qimei had more calluses on her palms, so she won with honor.

On the night of leaving home, the welcoming team lived in the village by the river.This is a village of Han people. When they learned that King Zhao Tianwang was welcoming his relatives, they had already cleaned up the house.

Pan Qimei tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. She got up and looked at the stars through the window.

I heard that Zhao Tianwang is a great hero, stronger than the most heroic fighters in the Nangang platoon, and he can wield a Dapu knife as easily as a straw.Zhao Tianwang can eat three catties of rice and two catties of meat every day, and he is stronger than a plowing buffalo, but he doesn't know if he can sing folk songs duet.

Pan Qimei heard a lot of stories about King Zhao. Corrupt officials in Jiangxi extorted violently. King Zhao led the peasants to raise troops and killed thousands of officers and soldiers by himself.

How strong and heroic that is, must be blessed by King Pangu.

What is Jiangxi like?

Pan Qimei lived in the mountains since she was a child and had no exposure to the outside world. She guessed that the house in Jiangxi must be bigger.People who came back from Ji'an said that the mansion of the General Army Mansion is very large, and Pan Qimei thought that she could use a yard to raise chickens.

In the next few days, they took a boat all the way, and the welcoming team finally arrived at Yingde City.

The walls here are so tall!

Pan Qimei entered the city in a sedan chair, and many passers-by watched along the way.She was a little shy, but she didn't hide it, and waved to passers-by very generously.

Zhao Han ordered that the officials of Yingde County not go out of the city to meet him.

If you are not allowed to go out of the city, you can be greeted in the city.Yingde magistrate was afraid of making Zhao Han angry, so he didn't organize any manpower, and only stood at the gate of the city as an escort in his personal capacity.

Zhao Han was reading the military newspaper at this time. Huguang completely occupied Baoqing Mansion and Yongzhou Mansion a month ago.

In the Hunan border south of Yuezhou Prefecture, only Chenzhou Prefecture, Baojing Xuanweisi, and Yongshun Xuanweisi remained unconquered—they are all rolling mountains, poor and remote, and there are especially many ethnic minorities.

Zhao Han put down the military newspaper and wrote to Huang Yao and others, planning to send troops after the summer harvest next year.

At that time, the Jiangxi Navy will also be dispatched, and Huang Yao's North Academy soldiers will attack Yuezhou Mansion and Changde Mansion from north to south, and take down the entire Dongting Lake Plain.

As for the remote mountainous areas in the western part of Hunan, don't attack those places for the time being.

"Chief town, the bride is here!"

Zhao Han put down his brush and came to the courtyard. Pan Qimei had already been carried in and was looking around curiously.

That is King Zhao?

Sure enough, she was tall, mighty, and handsome, and Pan Qimei blushed immediately.

Zhao Han was very curious about the beauties selected by the Yao people. When he saw them, he immediately knew the aesthetic tendencies of those Yao people.

Seeing Pan Qimei, Zhao Han's first reaction was that her breasts were so big, and her second reaction was that she was really short.When he got closer, his face was tender enough to squeeze out water, and his round face was still covered with baby fat. At this time, his face was as red as a red apple.

The aesthetics of the Yao elders can be summed up as: big breasts, big buttocks, good fertility.The face should be fair and the skin should be tender.There are calluses in the palm of the hand, which means that you can work.

A little girl about 1 meters tall, with a round face and big breasts.

Four words to describe: Tong Yan Ju X.

Zhao Han swears that he is definitely not a lolicon, and he has never thought of accepting a concubine of this type.

Chapter 275 [Three Loyalties of Lingnan]

After the reward was given, the crowd dispersed.

Zhao Han smiled and waved: "Come here."

Pan Qimei studied Mandarin for a month, and her vocabulary was within a hundred.She imitated the appearance of a girl from the Han family, bent down and saluted and said, "All blessings, my husband!"

The accent is a little weird, but interesting.

"Stop standing there, go into the room and talk." Zhao Han said with a smile.

Pan Qimei didn't quite understand, but she followed along and crossed the threshold generously.

Zhao Han picked up the teapot by hand, and just as he was about to pour tea, Pan Qimei walked over immediately, grabbed the handle of the pot and said, "I...I..."

"Pour tea?" Zhao Han asked.

Pan Qimei nodded repeatedly: "I'll pour... tea."

Zhao Han sat down and asked, "How old is this year?"

Pan Qimei was a little dazed while holding the teapot. This Chinese sentence seemed to have been taught by her husband, and it seemed that she hadn't.

At this time, Ba Pai Yao had a high level of Chinese, and the closer to the county town, the more Yao people could speak Chinese.However, Pan Qimei is an authentic mountain girl who has never left the village since she was a child.

Zhao Han had a headache, so he immediately called the guards, trying to find someone who could speak Chinese from the escort team.

I quickly found one, but he could only speak Cantonese, so I had to add a Cantonese translator.

The concubines that Zhao Han has just accepted need two translators if they want to communicate with each other...

"What's your name?" Zhao Han asked.

The Cantonese translator immediately relayed it, and the Yao language translator relayed it again.

Pan Qimei replied: "My surname is Pan, and my name is Pan Qimei."

"Only a surname, but no first name?" Zhao Han asked.

This time, Pan Qimei didn't need to answer. The Yao translator explained: "There are not only women in Zongzhen, but also many men from the Yao family who only have surnames. They are named after their ranking in the family."

Zhao Han recruited Hu Mengtai and told him: "Write it down, the teachers who will be sent to Yao Village in the future... not only Yao Village, but also Tong Village (Zhuang) and Miao Village. Teachers must give the local people Chinese names. Otherwise, This household registration must have a lot of duplicate names, which is extremely unfavorable to government household registration management."

As a secretary, Hu Mengtai immediately took out a small notebook to write down.

Zhao Han said: "You will be called Pan Yao from now on, Yao from the Yao nationality."

"Pan Yao, Pan Yao," Pan Qimei repeated in Chinese, and said with a smile, "Okay, the name Pan Yao sounds very nice."

The little girl has dimples when she smiles, and she looks even cuter.

Zhao Han asked again: "How old are you?"

"Sixteen." Pan Qimei replied.

Zhao Han directly asked the Yao translator: "Do you talk about false age or actual age?"

The Yao language translation said: "Xian Sui."

Well, the girl who is only 15 years old is really mature.

Do you eat papaya every day?The chest is so big.

Moreover, the waist is not thick, and I don't know how to grow it.

"How many people are in the family?"

"Eight people, all the older sisters are married."

"..."

After some homework, Pan Qimei completely relaxed, and felt that this Zhao Tianwang was very easy to get along with.

After dinner in the evening, the rest dispersed, leaving only Zhao Han and Pan Qimei.

I don't know whether it was the etiquette teacher's random teaching, or the traditional customs of Ba Pai Yao, Pan Qimei stood at the dining table and dared not sit down.

The two sides couldn't communicate, so she could only stand there stupidly.

Zhao Han smiled and took her hand: "Sit down and eat."

"Okay." Pan Qimei laughed happily after she sat down.

Zhao Han held her hand tightly, opened his fingers and saw that there were many calluses in the palm of his hand.Looking at the back of the hand, there are also some scars, which left very shallow marks after healing. It is estimated that they were scratched by rice leaves when cutting rice.

It seems that he often does farm work, but his face is very fair, maybe he is wearing a straw hat or something, and his face is not exposed to the sun much.

Zhao Han pulled up her sleeves, the skin color of her wrists was similar to the back of her hands, much darker than her face.

"You Yao elders, you have a heart." Zhao Han couldn't help laughing.

Pan Qimei couldn't understand, so she just laughed along with Zhao Han.

"Have a meal."

Zhao Han was afraid that she would not know how to use chopsticks, and was about to cover up, when Pan Qimei had already picked up the chopsticks to pick up vegetables.

Seeing that Zhao Han didn't move the chopsticks first, Pan Qimei put down the chopsticks again. This kind of etiquette was probably taught by my husband.Ba Pai Yao specially invited a teacher to teach etiquette and speak Chinese at the same time.

Zhao Han smiled, and picked up a peanut for her.

Peanuts and broad beans have been introduced to China for hundreds of years, and the planting areas at this time are very extensive.

Zhao Han invented "Kung Pao Chicken", which not only quickly became popular in Jiangxi, but also popular in Jiangnan provinces.Jiangxi is called "Zongzhen Chicken", and Jiangnan is called "Scholar Chicken". Anyway, some regions like this stuff.

Dinner for two, three dishes and one soup.

One meat and two vegetables are not extravagant.