"Potter? There's no such thing yet! Remember, this thing became famous later than Cognac!" Liu Xiang asked doubtfully.
Qian Shuixie leaned close to Liu Xiang's ear and whispered: "The owner of Luzhuang's vineyard has produced wine for the first time this year! The semi-fermented grape juice is directly mixed with the brandy shipped from Europe. I don't know that this port is considered a local product. It’s still considered imported, haha.”
Liu Xiang also knew something about wine. After hearing this, he immediately gave a thumbs up and praised: "Relentless! You are willing to put in the effort and money! But I remember that later Port, Sherry, etc. were all directly mixed with alcohol."
Qian Shuixie said with disdain: "Forget it, I don't like drinking that kind of black-hearted wine! Besides, 'brandy shipped from Europe' is a big gimmick, and special stores rely on it to withdraw currency. Minister Hong is jumping up and down, ready to do something big."
"You mean his No. 82..."
"Yes, it has been approved." Qian Shuixie nodded, "Of course, it is still an industry under the name of the General Office."
Hearing that it was Minister Hong's private work, Liu Xiang nodded and did not elaborate on the matter. He just joked: "We might as well 'invent' the glass bottle and the oak stopper and start a wine resale business! From now on, Porter Drinking will be fine!”
There was nothing to hide behind these words, so his voice became louder. Sonia, who was sipping the wine in her glass, picked her ears and heard the familiar place name "". She stared blankly at the two senators for a long time, then shook her head in disappointment and said: "(Porto and the entire Du... The Luohe River Basin produces good wine, but none with such a taste. Besides, I really can’t imagine transporting wine across half of the world to the Far East... Local wine is shipped from the port of Madeiraville, the nearest wine producing area to the New World. It takes about 60 days to get to Pernambuco by boat with favorable winds. It is a gift from God to ensure that half of the wine barrels do not turn into sour and smelly waste..."
Liu Xiang smiled slightly and said: "That's because you neither understand the reasons why wine becomes sour. nor do you master more advanced navigation technology."
Liu Xiang said as he took out a bone-in lamb chop from the plate. As a meat-loving foodie, how could he not eat meat with chopsticks first?
"We do have a way to transport wine over long distances. And it's either strong wine like brandy or newly brewed sweet wine. But this is a major commercial secret. You can probably imagine the interests behind this. Not to mention the Far East and colonies around the world, it is shipped to the UK and Northern Europe. The profits are enough to create countless rich people." Liu Xiang gnawed on the meat while boasting, "As for the navigation technology, Liang Teeth , Oh. No, the entire Iberian Peninsula has begun to completely fall behind. Just a dozen years ago, a medium-sized ship transported some Puritans from Plymouth who refused to recognize the Church of England to the northern frontier of the New World. It only took 66 Oh my god! And you are still using a heavy-duty galen like a turtle to climb the Atlantic Ocean..."
For some reason, Liu Xiang's desire for expression was particularly strong today, and the topic soon shifted from Galen's bulky appearance to earlier, the disastrous defeat of the Spanish Armada in the "last century", and then from the British-Nordic region. The development of ship type dates back to the Nordic trade during the Hanseatic period. Then he ridiculed the weird policy of taxing based on deck area currently in Europe, and then praised the fluyt ship invented by the Dutch "at the end of the last century" to specifically cope with this policy. Finally, we talk about the deep V-shaped cross-section design and the advancement of watertight cabins...
Qian Shuixie secretly wondered, why is Liu Xiang so desperate to show off these things? Do you have any thoughts about Sonia? Seeing the admiration and admiration on the naturalist's face, he couldn't help but secretly worry: Lao Lin couldn't just strike him with lightning.
When Liu Xiang said that he had brought back a "designed" model of a high-speed ship that would "take only 90 days from Lingao to London", Qian Duoduo finished the food in his bowl in just a few clicks, and then strongly demanded to go. Seeing the 66cm "Jumpy Number" model that Liu Xiang showed off just now, Sonia also said that she must take a look... Anyway, by the second half of the meal, only Liu Xiang, Qian Shuixie and Xiao Zhang Xiaolin were left on the table.
After blowing off the water, the topic stopped and it seemed to be a bit cold. What's even weirder is. Zhong Xiaoying was finally sent away by Zhang Yunmi. What was she going to do?
The scene was dull for a long time. It took about two mutton chops for Zhang Yunmi to organize his words.
"Teacher Liu. Remember you taught us economics before?"
Liu Xiang twitched when he heard this sentence - he "taught economics" at the time. Because of this issue, he was criticized several times in "Morning Star" and was accused of "poisoning the next generation of veterans."
"Why is this girl bringing this up now?" Liu Xiang wondered.
"Last week, Ma Tu...the uncle gave us a special weekend class on political economics. In the end, he left several economic articles for us to write our own thoughts after studying..." Zhang Yunmi became more and more embarrassed as he spoke. After all, this was I'm looking for someone to write my homework for me.
"Yes, yes, the original text of Birdsong was given to Xiao Zhang. It's so pitiful..." Xiao Lin helped.
"Special weekend classes?" Liu Xiang looked at Qian Shuixie doubtfully. Qian Shuixie explained a little bit that this special class is "weekend", which is actually a separate class for young elders every Saturday. You must know that naturalized citizens are entitled to two days off per month. The only ones who can treat Saturday as a weekend holiday are the children who came from the original time and space. This day is mainly about content that is not suitable for large class teaching, such as all political, economic, and technological content related to the "history that has not yet happened" in this time and space. It is not required that these young elders become more proficient in these things, but is only required to be cultivated so that they can be ideologically closer to other "older uncles" instead of becoming more and more like local naturalized people. Is this also considered "aristocratic education" in another sense, or "imperial studies"?
Ma Dugong attaches great importance to the ideological education of young senators!
"What aspect? Did you not understand it or have no ideas?" Liu Xiang responded.
I don't understand it because it's a matter of knowledge structure, or at least a matter of professional vocabulary - if it's a bird language document, it's basically difficult for non-professionals to understand it. If you don't have any ideas, just say it. Just hang out in some of the higher-level forums in the original time and space. Economics and other topics can be considered hot topics, so you should know a little bit about them. At least you can ask "Have you paid taxes?" after others have told the story about shit-eating economists very eloquently.
"Some of my English articles are about neoliberalism in South America." As soon as Zhang Yunmi finished answering, Xiao Lin rushed to say, "Some of my articles are about South Africa."
After listening to Lin Ziqi's description, Liu Xiang and Qian Shuixie looked at each other and found that there was confusion in each other's eyes.
"Duoduo also wants to write?" Qian Shuixie asked.
"Well, it seems to be a very biased question, what is it about?" Xiao Lin responded.
Qian Shuixie shook the silver bell on the dining table, and Qian Xuanhuang came in. Not long after giving instructions, thousands of Qian Duoduo returned to the restaurant alone and unwillingly.
"What was sent to me was the industrial decline of Wallonia and the separatist tendencies of the Flemish people."
Qian Shuixie was confused when he heard this: "This is probably a bit difficult."
"Who else do you know?" Liu Xiang did not answer Qian Shuixie directly, but asked again.
"Zhuo Xiaoshou... uh... what Min is talking about is the 'Prussian Road'." Xiao Lin accidentally let it slip.
Zhang Yunmi nodded and said: "A few other students have books about homestead law, Northern Italy and so on... Oh, by the way, Uncle Ma also told us that if we don't understand, we should go to the big library to read more information. , or ask other uncles and uncles who 'understand economics and history'."
Zhang Yunmi emphasized his tone in the second half of the sentence.
"The Governor is indeed a bit of a bully!" Liu Xiang called the nickname nonchalantly. "The logic is a little convoluted. Yunmi, you should write this article in reverse. Don't write about the medicine 'neoliberalism', but write about the disease that this medicine is intended to cure." Liu Xiang went on to explain in detail. I told Zhang Yunmi about the concept of "developmentalism" originally practiced in Latin America.
"...The fundamental goal is to industrialize and break the unequal 'center-periphery' international economic structure dominated by developed countries. Industrialization relies on three major means: massive investment, implementation of protectionist policies and strict foreign exchange controls, and adjustment of taxation Policies on wages, profits and employment are to encourage the development of domestic enterprises. In the process of industrialization, we must engage in 'import substitution' to get rid of dependence on the international market, especially on the products of developed countries, form our own production capabilities, and achieve economic independence. Here It should be noted that when Latin America began to engage in import substitution in the 1930s, due to historical reasons, foreign capital dominated, and it was not like China's revolution that completely ran away. Therefore, China started to learn manufacturing from scratch and had nothing to do with foreign investment. Latin America is a substitute, targeting foreign investment.”
However, in this time and space, it seems that this is the only “foreign capital” that can export industry right now! The status of the Senate in this time and space is not that of a Latin American country, but that of a developed country!
Has the Governor's thinking changed? !
For some reason, Liu Xiang suddenly had a strange image of Queen Du glaring in anger, raising her fist as big as a sand bowl, and billions of rays of light blooming from her fist.
In fact, Liu Xiang knew it from the beginning, no matter how much everyone publicly recognized the land reform. But in the final analysis, they are all willing to travel back in time. Liu Xiang would never believe it if he did not have any intention of "privately owning land". Although everyone says that land reform is the best, most people regard land reform as a "technique", a "technique" used to establish the "human empire" of the Senate. (To be continued)
