My life skills in Daming Liver

Lorenzo and his classmates set off from Suzhou to Nanjing to participate in the expo.

For this expo, newspapers in the southeast have already prepared publicity.

Because it was the first expo, the exhibition this time mainly focused on Southeast Asia's own products. Only Ryukyu specially sent envoys to bring Ryukyu products to the exhibition.

Officially, only Ryukyu participated in the exhibition, but privately, many foreign businessmen came to the expo with their own products.

The reason why these businessmen come to the expo is not for the exhibition, but to be able to enter the expo for free and see the latest products from Southeast Asia.

This expo is free for people in the southeast, but there is a fee for foreign businessmen, and the price is quite high.

In order to be able to take advantage of the exhibition, Anthony, a former major shipowner in Macau and now the Plenipotentiary Trade Representative of Portugal in the Southeast, also participated in the expo with Portuguese goods brought from Malacca and got a few free tickets.

There are many foreigners like Anthony. For example, the Spanish Far East trade consultant in Manila, the noble Liguez, heard that an expo was going to be held in the Southeast. He left Manila three months in advance and brought Spanish goods to participate in the exhibition.

In addition to the Portuguese and Spanish, semi-official people from Korea, Japan, and Annan participated in the exhibition disguised as businessmen.

And those so-called envoys from the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals are basically businessmen from these countries who come to the southeast to do business. They participate in the exhibition with some of their country's specialties, basically just to make up the numbers.

Because the business travel between Nanjing and Suzhou was very developed, when Xu Wei was the governor of Southern Zhili, he spent a lot of effort to repair the roads.

The four-wheeled carriage was driving on the smooth road. Lorenzo looked at the weaving traffic outside the carriage and felt that the southeast was too huge.

His hometown Venice, including overseas colonial territories, is not as big as Suzhou.

Suzhou is just a province in the southeast, and there are provinces on it. Even the southeast only occupies half of this huge empire.

In addition to its land area, the population of the Southeast is far greater than that of Venice.

I am afraid that the combined population of the entire European continent can only be compared with that of the Southeast.

If such a country appears in Europe, all countries will be unable to sleep, right?

Lorenzo closed his eyes. This carriage can seat six people. It is a private passenger carriage from Nanjing to Suzhou. Although the price is more expensive than the public carriage, the comfort is indeed good.

The owner of the carriage is obviously someone who takes good care of his money-making tools. The chair is covered with a cloth cover, which is clean and can protect the carriage.

The windows inside the car were replaced with plate glass, so that the interior of the car can be kept warm and the passengers can see the scenery outside the car.

The carriage owner also thoughtfully placed the latest newspapers in the carriage so that passengers would not be too bored while riding the carriage.

Luo Lanzuo's bedmate Liang Mengyuan was reading the latest "Warning News".

Lorenzo listened to his classmates discussing the news in the newspaper.

"Do you think the Governor will come back from Xuzhou to attend the opening ceremony of the expo?"

"That shouldn't happen, right? This is a war. How could the Governor come back from the front line at this time?"

"Not necessarily. I heard from my senior brother that the war in Xuzhou didn't start at all. He had nothing to do in the military camp every day. The only patient he treated was someone who broke his leg while playing Cuju in the army."

"I've also heard about this. Li Chengliang in the Ming Dynasty didn't dare to attack. He was hiding in the city like a coward. The governor should be rushing back to attend the opening, right?"

Lorenzo felt a little confused about the relaxed attitude of his classmates talking about the war. When they were in Venice, he and his companions would not have been able to talk about the war so easily.

Once a war breaks out, young people like him will be on tenterhooks, fearing that they will be forcibly sent into the army.

The Venetians hated war because they had not achieved any victory worthy of praise for a long time.

Since the fall of the Byzantine Empire, Venice and the Ottoman Empire that replaced Byzantium have had three large-scale wars.

Little Venice was naturally unable to compete with the powerful Ottoman Empire. During these three Austrian-Austrian Wars, Venice lost its possessions in the southern Balkans, the islands in the Aegean Sea, and its stronghold on the Peloponnese Peninsula.

Venice has been in decline for a century, and war has never been an exciting thing.

But it’s different in the Southeast. Even in a place like medical school, which is relatively close to the war (many medical school graduates go to the military), students are also very keen to talk about the war in the Southeast. Some young and radical classmates even advocate war, thinking that The governor is still too conservative and should launch the Northern Expedition as soon as possible to unify the entire China.

They also claimed that Annan and Nanyang were also southeastern territories and that they would send troops to occupy these areas as soon as possible.

This kind of war fanaticism is certainly not unique to Li Shizhen Medical College. Many private schools in the Susong area are also filled with this trend of thought.

Lorenzo still hates war. Some time ago, his wife finally arrived in the southeast and reunited with him in Suzhou.

The couple had decided to stay in the southeast, and Liang Mengyuan also helped Lorenzo's wife Jessica find a job as an interpreter at the dock in Suzhou.

The couple fled from Venice to the Ottomans, and then to Safavid. They saw too many wars along the way.

Unlike these young people in the southeast who have never experienced a real war, Lorenzo understands the cruelty of war.

Liang Mengyuan closed the newspaper and said to Lorenzo: "We are the special case."

"?" Luo Lanzuo didn't understand Liang Mengyuan's meaningless words.

Liang Mengyuan said: "The tranquility and peace in the Southeast are special cases and the most abnormal place in the world."

"The generation that grew up in such an environment will be full of longing for something as cruel as war, and they all hope to establish their own achievements in war."

"Lolanzo, you have been to many places. You should know how people in other places view war, right?"

Lorenzo nodded. Most people in the world are afraid of war, at least ordinary people. War will destroy all the good things in the world.

"Nanjing has arrived!"

Through the window, Lorenzo saw the city buildings in the distance. He put aside his thoughts about the war and began to enjoy his vacation.

For the citizens of Nanjing, the influx of passengers into Nanjing due to the Expo has blocked this already crowded city into a new era.

The carriage stopped moving five miles outside the city, so Lorenzo and the others had no choice but to pay the bill and walk into the city carrying their bags.

Nanjing has already held tribute examinations and held a constitutional meeting this year. The people of Nanjing are already very experienced in congestion, but this time too many people poured into Nanjing because of the exposition.

The streets were full of people. Ying Tianfu sent all the government officials to the streets to maintain order, and the whole city was still blocked.

Lorenzo was completely shocked. He had never seen so many people even during the Carnival in Venice. If these people from Nanjing crowded onto the main island of Venice, the island would definitely sink, right?

Thanks to Liang Mengyuan's relatives in Nanjing, accommodation had been arranged. Everyone squeezed through the crowd and arrived at the arranged hotel, finally getting away from the crowd.

The hotel that Liang Mengyuan's relatives arranged for everyone was not particularly high-end, but the location was very good. It was no more than a fifteen-minute walk from the Crystal Palace.

However, when they heard that Liang Mengyuan's relative worked in the southeastern government and had no time to receive him, Lorenzo and the others felt relaxed.

Liang Mengyuan provided accommodation, and other students naturally shared the meal and travel expenses. Even Lorenzo, a foreigner, knew how difficult it was to book such a convenient hotel during the expo, and then asked Liang Mengyuan to pay for it. It's not polite.

The day after tomorrow is the opening day of the Expo. It is rare for everyone to come to Nanjing on vacation. No matter how crowded it is, it is impossible to waste time lying in the hotel.

Everyone went to the streets together again and went to several popular attractions according to the introductions in the local newspapers in Nanjing.

As a result, a group of people went to the Qinhuai River and couldn't squeeze in without even seeing the river.

When I went to Jiming Temple again, I didn’t even squeeze in through the mountain gate at the bottom of the mountain.

After a day of wandering, everyone returned to the hotel exhausted. Today they spent all day watching people.

Everyone was so tired that they took a rest immediately after eating the dinner provided by the hotel, waiting for the opening ceremony of the expo tomorrow.

To everyone's surprise, the Southeast Governor Su Ze actually rushed back to Nanjing from the Xuzhou front line and attended the opening ceremony of the first Crystal Palace Expo.

Under the gaze of everyone, Su Ze stepped onto the podium in front of the Crystal Palace.

This was the podium where the Constituent Assembly issued announcements. After the end of the Constitutional Convention, Su Ze retained the podium.

The square in front of the Constitutional Assembly was also specially designed. The circular walls could echo, and Su Ze could let some people in the square hear his voice through the amplifying cylinder.

This was already the best place for speeches in the era without loudspeakers. Of course, in such a large square, it was impossible for everyone to hear the speech clearly.

Lorenzo and everyone were thankful that they were relatively close to the Crystal Palace. Now standing at the front of the square, they could hear Su Ze's speech clearly.

“Citizens, we gather in this square, waiting to enter the Crystal Palace behind me to admire the amazing products made by our southeastern craftsmen. Here we can see the most exquisite products and the most sophisticated equipment in the world, And what I want everyone to see more is called 'progress'."

The square fell silent, and everyone was trying to listen to Su Ze's speech.

Su Ze's passive skills were fully activated, and his charm under the buffs of various passive skills increased to astonishing values.

"From stone to bronze, from bronze to steel, from steel to roaring machines, we've been through a lot."

"This is an unprecedented time!"

The crowd burst into loud applause.

"In this unprecedented era, we can no longer get clear guidance from the classics of the sages, because the sages never expected such an era."

"We can't get effective experience from our neighbors or any other country in the world because we are the leaders in this world."

"Even our nation's historical experience of thousands of years cannot be completely trusted, because the problems we face are problems that have never been encountered in any era in history."

"One might ask, how do we move forward?"

The scene was completely silent, everyone was waiting for Su Ze's answer.

Su Ze looked at everyone and said:

"It's up to you."

"Every rule we set today will be regarded as a standard by future generations and regarded as a scripture in the classics."

"Every invention we create today will become a blueprint and teaching material for future generations of research, and countless future generations will recite the formulas we summarized."

“We live in this day and age, and maybe we envy future generations who don’t have to worry about the way forward.”

"But our descendants will also lament because they missed the opportunity of this era of rapid change and rapid development."

"I won't say much today. Please enjoy the most splendid achievements created by our Southeast."

"This is the power of progress, and you are the progressives who promote the progress of the times."

After Su Ze finished speaking, he stepped off the podium directly, leaving only the audience in the square in silence.

As the first round of applause rang out, more applause followed.

"This wave of applause is like a huge wave, setting off the beginning of a new era!"

——"Warning News", "Speech to Progressives".

It’s a bit hard to write, I can only hold in so much, sorry.