I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Xiao Baiqi thought so.

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At the same time, the Xinyu Broadcasting Station three thousand kilometers away.

After solemnly saluting the Jinyiwei soldiers stationed there, Xia Jiang and Lianna walked into the broadcasting room with a stack of manuscripts in their hands, feeling a little apprehensive and a little bit excited.

Soon, male and female voices sounded in the studio along with soothing and beautiful music:

"Cross the Mississippi River and hear the voices of the civilized world."

"This is the Daming Royal Radio Station, the Voice of Daming."

"Listen to frequency AM549/765/837, FM102.3, and meet you."

Chapter 337 All Beggars in Ming Dynasty Smile

Suzanne is an ordinary southern white girl with a few freckles.

The name Susanna itself is the name of a common Dixie village woman, just like the Chinese Xiaofang and Erya.

This can be seen in the well-known country song "Oh, Susannah" in the South.

At this time, the girl Suzanne was helping her father arrange the hay in the cowshed as usual.

It's just that beside her, a dark box is making a sound.

As a village woman in the south, Suzanne had no education since she was a child.

Although she heard from her father that her grandfather was from the south of England, for Suzanne in the past, going to Europe was just a distant dream.

She never left the town of her birth, Florence, Mississippi.

Suzanne knew next to nothing about the outside world and wasn't interested at all.

Every day life is to help my father take care of the cowshed and complete housework.

As for the farming and harvesting of sugar cane and cotton fields, these were done by the black slaves under the command of the father.

Susannah's family was not a big planter, but they still kept three or four slaves.

This is the most important possession in the home.

Although Susanna has never traveled far, she doesn't even know where the capital of Millikin is.

But she knew that Mississippi was now at war with the Yankees in the North, and the war had lasted six years.

This is because Suzanne's two older brothers were called up to serve in the army and both were killed at the Battle of Bladensburg.

In fact, the whole town of Florence was like this, and almost an entire generation of young men went to war, killing more than half of them.

The death rate of the close-range shooting of the flintlock rifle is really terrible.

Fortunately, because of Da Ming's sudden birth, they lined up and were shot by Da Ming for more than a dozen rounds. No matter how stupid or stubborn they were, they understood that the times had changed.

Now both the North and the South have begun to dig trenches, pull barbed wire, and stragglers to fight.

It can be said that North America's war technology has actually surpassed that of Europe in some aspects, but neither Europeans nor North Americans are aware of this at this moment.

……

There are wars everywhere, and being alive is already very happy.

For this world, Suzanne's understanding was originally nothing more than that.

Until 2 months ago, a despicable, crossed out, a generous outsider came to Florence, and his arrival completely changed the trajectory of Suzanne's life.

This stranger with an oriental face came to the town under the humble service of a Memphis merchant.

In previous years, merchants from Memphis would come to Florence in late autumn to buy cotton and sugar cane, and to ship grain and industrial products in spring.

This time, though, they've got a strange new commodity in their fleet...

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[JU23 full-band hand-cranked generator radio for the elderly rechargeable FM FM medium-wave short-wave earthquake emergency lighting disaster relief alarm elderly old-fashioned portable semiconductor]

The wholesale price of this hand-cranked simple radio on the platform is about 30 yuan.

The monetary cost is basically negligible.

Moreover, the system judged that the technology penalty of this old-fashioned radio with the added hand-crank charging function was lower than that of agricultural vehicles, with only a penalty coefficient of 2.5.

So the culture value of each radio is only around 75.

That is to say, as long as someone is willing to listen to Daming's external broadcast, after only two or three months, the cost of cultural value can be recovered, and the subsequent cultural value will be positive income.

Such a lucrative business is naturally to be done.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui spent a lot of cultural value to order 24000 hand-cranked radios from the platform and distribute them to the Confederate area.

Daming's own business channels in the southern state are immature, and those Dixie red necks are extremely wary of eastern faces.

Therefore, without the help of acquaintances, it is impossible for Ming merchants to conduct transactions safely.

But if the radios were simply handed over to merchants in the southern state for sale, no matter how low the ex-factory price was from Daming, these unscrupulous merchants would sell them at sky-high prices.

Although this kind of old-fashioned radio has no aesthetic feeling in appearance, it is a magical "music box" after all, and it is reasonable to sell it for tens of hundreds, or even thousands of dollars.

At that time, those unscrupulous businessmen might hoard their goods, or even smash the excess radios to carry out hunger marketing, and sell a few radios to nobles and slave owners at high prices.

This is contrary to Zhu Fugui's original intention.

Although this method can increase the price of the radio and improve the quality of the radio to a certain extent, it is not conducive to the rapid spread of the Voice of Ming Dynasty.

What Zhu Fugui wants is cultural value, not money.

After thinking about it again and again, Zhu Fugui decided to suffer a bit and use a stupid method.

This is the so-called export subsidy.

Specifically, Zhu Fugui distributed hundreds to thousands of radios to each of the cotton merchants in Memphis, depending on the degree of close cooperation with Daming.

They also sent representatives of the Ming Dynasty to distribute these magical "music boxes" to young people, especially young women, along with the business group.

Every time a music box is successfully distributed, the Memphis merchant will be rewarded with 1 Ming Yuan.

Now that the whole world is on the gold and silver standard, Daming banknotes are also linked to silver or aluminum, and they already have a considerable circulation in North America.

After all, the money of the southern government is equivalent to waste paper, and it is difficult for the northern government to believe that they have enough gold reserves.

Although Daming did not display the gold reserves, the silver reserves are obvious to all, not to mention the aluminum goddess statue that is still standing.

A subsidy of 1 Ming Yuan for a radio, calculated in this way, although it is more troublesome than selling to the rich, but the businessmen still have huge profits.

So the sale, or giveaway, of radios was fairly quick and successful.

As long as the people of the Confederate States buy a certain amount of food or other commodities, they can get a chance to draw a big roulette.

The lucky ones will be given a mysterious magic box from the East.

Of course, like all roulettes on the street, this is a complete scam.

Daming's special commissioner can decide who will win the award with just a little movement of the mechanism.

As a result, the young and beautiful Dixie girls will always be favored by the goddess of luck, while the five big and three thick red necks will often only return home.

This kind of trick would not have been used in the scratch-off temple fairs in rural areas in the 90s, let alone in today's era of extremely underdeveloped information.

At least Susanna had no doubts at all, but happily accepted the prize, thinking it was the favor of the goddess of luck.

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Now two months later, Suzanne has fully mastered the use of this hand-cranked radio.

Every day at noon, she would spend a long time charging it, and then from working in the cowshed in the afternoon to falling asleep at night, she needed the company of the Voice of Daming.

Suzanne likes the two new announcers, Xia Jiang and Lianna.

Especially Lianna, her voice is crisp and her accent is nice.

Of course, if you say that New York accent is better than the southern accent in front of your father, I am afraid that your father will refute you angrily.

It didn't matter though, Suzanne had no intention of sharing the radio with her father.

After all, the content in it is so interesting, and what it says is so fashionable and philosophical.

An old-fashioned man like my father would not understand.

As for the male voice named Xia Jiang, it also caught Susanna's attention.

At first, his strange foreign accent was jarring to Susannah.

But I don't know if it was an illusion. As time went by, Susanna felt that the voice became more and more pleasing to the ear.

Perhaps, it’s not bad to have something exotic every now and then.

Through radio waves, Suzanne learned that Daming is a civilized, polite, and loving place where even beggars will smile warmly.

I really yearn for it!

Of course, it wasn't the introduction to Daming or other popular science programs that first attracted Susanna to listen to the Voice of Daming on time.

Come on, as a totally uneducated country girl, Suzanne doesn't give a shit.

The only thing she cares about is how to do the farm work well and marry the most handsome boy in town in the near future, if he doesn't die on the Virginia battlefield.

But the bedtime stories in The Voice of Daming attracted her.

Chapter 338 Three Lincoln Jokes

Suzanne still remembers her joy when she turned on the radio for the first time according to the demonstration and successfully listened to it, and the pleasant music came out of this small box.

But what really fascinated Suzanne was a gentle male voice.

At night, insects chirp in the countryside, and the voice speaks the story of Romeo and Juliet without haste.

Susannah had heard the story, but it was only a fragmented memory.

Suzanne's mother died early, and she has not been told a story since.

The voice of this man named Huang He is so gentle, pure and magnetic.

Although she felt sorry for her dead mother, Suzanne swore that the stories Mr. Huang He told were far more exciting than those told by her mother.

If possible, she hopes to fall asleep listening to Mr. Huang He's voice every night.

It's a pity that Mr. Huang He seems to be very busy, except for the first time, he hasn't appeared for a long time recently.

Fortunately, the two new announcers are also very good. Although they are far from Mr. Huang He, they are enough to accompany him.

Good music, charming male voice, easy to understand, very easy to accept, no cultural barriers to the story.

Susanna soon fell in love with it, or got used to listening to The Voice of Daming.

In addition to stories, she also fell in love with listening to jokes.

There were endless stories about the French, which made Suzanne laugh under the covers.

Of course, those Lincoln jokes are pretty funny too:

"An old man was walking by the river, accidentally fell into the river beside the road, and shouted for help!

When the two policemen heard it, they turned a blind eye and continued talking and laughing as they walked.

The old man was in a hurry, so he shouted, 'I always buy stocks that are completely opposite to President Lincoln'!The two policemen were shocked when they heard this, and jumped into the river, dragged the old man ashore, knelt down in front of him, and asked for his experience in getting rich. "

"A man yelled on the street: 'Araham Lincoln is an idiot.' He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. 2 years for: insulting the president, 20 years for: leaking state secrets."

"During a congressional discussion of the northern government, the moderator suddenly said: Next, please sit on the left side of the conference hall, Mr. MPs who support the slavery system, and sit on the right side of the conference hall, Mr. MPs who support the abolition of slavery system.

Most people sat on the right side, a few people sat on the left side, and only one person sat still in the middle.

Moderator: Sir, do you support slavery or oppose slavery?

He replied: I am opposed to keeping black slaves, but at the same time I also like to wear leather shoes made of Indian buttocks.The host hurriedly said: It turned out to be you, the great Mr. President! "

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The day's work is over.

Susannah was lying on the bed, the candle on the table flickered.

And the cash register is also telling a story about candlelight.