Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"Hey, I'm wearing a sandbag, but how come I can still sense that I'm dreaming?"

As his cultivation gradually improved, even the sandbags were not as effective. Because he was very familiar with his dreams, it was difficult not to notice some errors caused by his habits. For example, he saw Wen Yuan standing outside the Taimiao. He thought Wen Yuan was a Jinyiwei on guard. When he first met Wen Yuan, Wen Yuan had been on guard for him. So whenever he encountered a situation where someone was on guard in his dreams, he would dream of this guy.

"Eh~~"

He was a little tired because he had a dream about work. But then he thought, since it was in a dream, he could steal the tribute from the Taimiao. During the day, he actually wanted to eat the peach on the table, because the peach was bigger than a fist, and the shape was a very classic "fart peach". It was difficult to find such a regular peach. He looked inside and saw that the peach was indeed placed on top, right in front of Emperor Taizu Gao.

Shangluo knew that the peaches were actually edible. But the sacrificial meat was more advanced than the peaches. Only the sacrificial meat had commemorative significance, while fruits and the like were usually distributed nearby, such as what was taken home by the Jinyiwei. He also asked Wen Yuan, and Wen Yuan said that usually when they took it back, they would offer it to their ancestors for one night before eating it. It was just like the mooncakes that were distributed during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which were specially used for offerings.

But seeing such a standard-looking peach, it’s hard not to want to eat it.

"Oh, sorry~~ Anyway, we can eat after the sacrifice." He rubbed his hands and walked into the Taimiao again. He saw the offerings lined up, and it seemed that all the offerings had been made.

He walked up to the Emperor Taizu Zhu Hongwu and simply waved: "Sorry, since I have already offered it, let me eat it."

"Sure, you can eat it."

"Thank you." Shangluo picked up the peach and took a bite when he suddenly realized something was wrong.

He suddenly looked up and saw a fat old man with a round face sitting on the dragon throne, looking at him with a smile across the tribute table and the big nine-tier candlestick:

"If you eat my peach, you are a member of our family."

"?????"

Shangluo woke up suddenly.

I suddenly sat up from the bed and it was already bright outside the window.

Zhu Ling was standing in front of his window.

"????" Shangluo suddenly shrank to one side while holding the quilt, "Why are you here?"

"Ah, I'm so sleepy. But I didn't sleep well last night, and I kept feeling like I had something to talk to you about. But after I woke up, I forgot about it. So I asked Song Shanggong to bring me here. Hey, is there anything I want to talk to you about?"

"You ask me. Shouldn't you ask yourself this?"

Zhu Ling squinted her eyes and looked at the sky: "Yes, I should ask myself. But it seems that someone said something to me. It seems to be the fat old man sitting behind the candlestick. He looks so familiar. But who is that? Forget it." She shook her head:

"Since we're here now, do you have anything for breakfast?"

"Would you like some sacrificial meat?"

"No. I've already vomited. I can't finish it. Forget it, I'll make some myself. Do you have rice or flour at home? I'll go make some steamed bread and feed it to you."

“Isn’t this panda fodder to you?”

"Well, it's feed, but it doesn't stop me from eating a couple of them to fill my stomach. After all, I own Yuyuan, so eating my own feed doesn't count as stealing."

"Then I'll trouble you."

Zhu Ling was about to go out: "Hey, I remember now, that incident seems to be related to the sacrificial meat. It seems that in the place where the sacrificial meat was placed, I saw someone eating peaches there?"

[Hey, hey, hey, are you two still online in your dreams? ? ? ]

"Well, Zhu Ling! Do you think it would taste better if the sacrificial meat was wrapped in steamed bread?" Shangluo quickly changed the subject.

"Meat steamed bread?" Zhu Ling thought for a moment, "It sounds good. Wait, I'll go try it. Oh, by the way, I brought back the Tianyi nobleman you fed in the yard for you. He ate it so cleanly. Your Tianyi nobleman is really sensible."

Shangluo changed his clothes and went out. It was called a yard, but it was actually his patio, which was only two or three square meters in size, just enough to put a water tank. It was not a yard in any way, but Zhu Ling was used to calling the open-air part of the house a yard.

In the yard, Jianmu has grown tall, so the signal in his house is so good. When he was connected to the Internet before, he relied on Jianmu's help to communicate via video.

[Shangluo. You dreamed about online communication last night, right? Do you think it has something to do with Jianmu? ]

"Do you know what I dreamed about? I dreamed about the Zhu family's Taizu Gaohuangdi."

[Good fellow! Then I really want to see your dream. Is it the shoe horn or the fat face? ]

"Just like in the portrait, it's a fat face. Maybe it's because Jianmu was also used in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. I actually connected to it while I was dreaming."

Shangluo knew that many buildings in the Grand Palace were supported by Jianmu, and the Imperial Ancestral Temple must be one of them.

"But it seems quite fun?"

The taste of the "fart peach" was indeed delicious. The shape was exactly the same as the peach he had seen during the day, and the taste was also consistent with what he imagined the "big peach" would taste like.

[In fact, if the peach is really that big, it may not taste so good, and it may be a little hard. But Shangluo, do you still want to play with this? ]

"Can we play?"

[The night in Alexandria is like this. The students of the Palace of Muses also wander around in their dreams. If you want to build one here, it's not impossible. In this way, all of you can meet in your dreams and secretly plan to form a private army without delaying your daytime work. How about it, isn't it a genius plan? ]

Chapter 1300 Action Team Recruitment

"I didn't expect there would be such a secret base. Let's build a small one. Is it safe?"

Shangluo was quite satisfied with the plan to build a "private server". The main reason was confidentiality. It was quite easy to keep Moon Rabbit confidential. After all, there were no Moon spies on Earth - probably none.

The trouble is, recruiting a commando team would be difficult if it had to be done in secrecy.

Because if this commando can raid the surface of the moon, then it can certainly raid any place on Earth. When they set out, they didn't tell the location, and when they arrived at the scene, everyone was ready to go. After all, in a hurry, no one could see the situation clearly.

If such a force were exposed, even if Zhu Xianxun completely believed that Shangluo had no selfish motives, and others believed it too, people other than Zhu Xianxun would still feel resentful - after all, this was obviously competing with the sun, and there could not be two suns in the sky.

If people really knew about it, not only would Zhu Xianxin feel troubled, Shangluo would also feel troubled. After all, the Ming Dynasty was so big, there would definitely be a few opportunists. If someone came to Shangluo, it would cause misunderstandings, which would be secondary, but would only delay things.

When there are too many people, there are too many things to do. Especially when recruiting soldiers for military operations, there are even more things to do. After all, as long as you have a hammer in your hand, everyone will look like a nail, just waiting to be hit by the hammer.

So in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Shangluo chose all clean college students this time - high school students are exempted, as minors are not suitable for such high-intensity work. In addition, there are still many high school students with "second-year high school disease", and Xiao Han actually had this tendency before.

College students, only college students, will appear to be extremely innocent and pure when they are trying to earn credits.

Of course, Shangluo had not yet decided how many credits he would give out to attack the Moon Rabbit on the Moon. After all, he had not yet determined how large a range of recruits he would recruit.

There are several sources: Yingtian Artillery College, which is the top military college in the country. Although it is called the Artillery College, it is actually a comprehensive college for the Imperial Army, with many cutting-edge research institutes including rocket propulsion research. In addition, the aerospace propulsion research of Yingtian Artillery College is also very famous, and Shangluo also wants to recruit some people who can calculate orbits from it.

The second one is the Imperial College. To be honest, Shangluo himself didn't have too many expectations for the students of the Imperial College. After all, the people here are either born with Buddhist nature, or are forced to become Buddhist because of being worn down by studies. However, because he has many acquaintances, Shangluo still hopes to recruit some Qigong practitioners from there.

In fact, the proportion of Qigong practitioners in the Imperial College is quite high. Because this place accepts a large number of people who come here because of their fathers and ancestors' achievements, especially the Jinyiwei. Although the descendants of the Jinyiwei are not necessarily all Qigong practitioners, the proportion of them is not low. In particular, after a certain degree of spiritual energy increase occurred globally before, many people who were originally unable to enter the Qigong stage also broke through at this moment.

According to what Shangluo knew, Lu Liang and Squad Leader Qi, whom he knew, made breakthroughs in this process.

Shangluo actually planned to ask monitor Qi Yuan to come over to help, but she was scheduled to take the entrance exam to a school in Yingtian.

From the customs of the Imperial College, we can also know that it is very troublesome to take exams for colleges and universities outside the Ming Dynasty, because there will be a series of introductory courses and admission procedures to go through before the start of school, so that you can immediately enter the learning state after the spring semester starts.

Because the standards of national colleges are very similar, everyone tends to enroll in the nearest school, rather than traveling thousands of miles to the two capitals or other large cities. However, some special colleges are not available everywhere. For example, nuclear technology research only has a clear department in some colleges in the two capitals and the northwest, while advanced aircraft research is mainly concentrated in Shuntian, Shenyang and Chengdu.

Shangluo didn't ask Qi Yuan where she wanted to go, but she had already gone to Shuntian University. Since she had gone so far away, Shangluo didn't want to disturb her.

"Excuse me, is Shangluo here?"

"Hmm?" A familiar voice suddenly appeared at the door. Shangluo was waiting for someone to come for an interview in the Lei Department's activity room when he saw Qi Yuan knocking on the door first.

"Squad leader, didn't you go to Shuntian?"

"I haven't been there yet. I heard from them that you needed help? I heard it from my dad. Why don't you just come to me directly?"

"Ah, I was thinking that if you go north, it will be difficult to communicate."

[You can contact them online now, right? ]

"Yeah, that's right," Shangluo thought about it.

He asked Qi Yuan: "By the way, squad leader, what did you study at Shuntian University?"

"Mathematics. But what's the point of asking me which department I'm studying? I haven't even enrolled yet. Don't you know my usual scores?"

"That's right. I'm mainly wondering how I can give you the credits when the time comes. After all, you have to find a practical project related to mathematics to convert the credits."

"Aren't you guys going to the moon to hunt moon rabbits?"

"Oh, yes, yes, that's right." Shangluo nodded, "But because this plan is too outrageous, we plan to use credits to trick some people into joining, and then tell them the truth. Of course, you don't have to do that to the class monitor, I'll find a project for you when the time comes."

"Wow!" Qi Yuan was surprised, "You can actually add the credits?"

The university system of the Ming Dynasty completely inherited the Imperial College, and all universities in the country were established based on the Imperial College. Although there have been many reforms later, for example, most national colleges have actually abandoned the college system of the Imperial College, but the credit system has been retained. This is a good method that has been used since the Hongwu period. Even in the Hongwu period, Emperor Taizu Gao often used the method of adding and deducting credits to mobilize the "enthusiasm" of students in the Imperial College.

Credits, in theory, cannot be added casually. But it just so happens that the Imperial College is not just a school, it is actually the administrative body of all universities - although it is only in name, but if the Imperial College takes the lead in carrying out a research project, it will of course be recognized by all universities.

At that time, Shangluo only needs to recruit the people who have been interviewed and selected from various universities according to the list, and they can increase their credits. The specific amount of increase will be decided by Elder Wen, but it should be okay to allow students to have some tolerance for failing the course. If they do not fail the course, then these credits can probably directly push the B-class degree to the A-class degree category.

Chapter 1301 Job Interview

"Then let me see if there's anything I can do for you, monitor. You're in the math department, right? Can you use an abacus?"

"Abacus? Um, I can. But I'm very slow. We only had abacus classes in elementary school. When I was in elementary school, the school also taught recorder. Now, abacus and recorder have been forgotten for a long time."

"Then squad leader, can you keep accounts?"

"You mean double-entry bookkeeping? I've learned it, but I don't think I'll ever use it. We're in the same class, don't you know what we're teaching? We don't teach accounting."

"Well, let me see. Can you..." Shangluo thought about it and couldn't find any work to assign to Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan actually followed the path of Dan Xiu. But because her cultivation was too weak, it was difficult to find her a job that could earn her extra credits.

"Oh, I got it." Shangluo stood up and pulled Qi Yuan to his seat. "Please help me with the interview!"

"Me??? I'll help you with the interview? But it's you, Tianjun."

"I know, but you can just sit here and act as my deputy - that's what I think. As the project leader, I'm personally interviewing here, which makes us look like a makeshift team. So it's very necessary to find an HR here."

"H what?"

"It's human resource management. I saw that you, squad leader, were very skilled when you assigned me to sweep the floor. You should also assign some work to the Thunder Department's Heavenly Army!"

Shangluo immediately thought of this job that was very suitable for Qi Yuan. She was also the most suitable person for [management] among the people Shangluo knew. After all, it seemed that Qi Yuan was the only one who had really managed Shangluo.

Besides, it was not just because of his own relationship. Qi Yuan was the daughter of Qi Qianhu of the Jinyiwei. From the perspective of nepotism, he also wanted the people of Jinyiwei to come to the Leibu to help more. As long as he recruited his daughter, it would be difficult for him to refuse Qi Qianhu's help.

"Ah, this. I was just wondering if I could help out for a short period of time. I feel a little embarrassed that such an important task was suddenly thrown at me."

"Don't you want to do it? Then give you more credits?"

"Oh! It's not about the credits! It's so important that it's hard for me to decide. I rarely show up in Yingtian, and I stay in Shuntian most of the time."

Qi Yuan said responsibly. She did want credits, but she also wanted to do work worthy of them. If she stayed in Shuntian, she felt it would be difficult for her to cooperate with Shangluo.

"This is exactly what I want! Think about it, if you were in Shuntian, you could help us expand our network in Shuntian. Oh, by the way, please take care of these two people for me." Shangluo took out the resumes of Gao Shiyu and Gao Qingyu.

"You have met these two. They are now the heads of the Water Department. However, the Water Department has not yet been established, so you will take care of their work first."

"Gao Shiyu is not blind. Oh, isn't he blind?"

Shangluo waved his hand: "Not only can he see far now, he can also see clairvoyantly. But it seems that his dynamic vision is still a little poor. Anyway, after you go to Shuntian, I will communicate with the members of Shuntian through you."

"Then how do we contact each other? Through the Fetion group?"

"You're asking the right question! We plan to build a simple virtual reality system, and deploy it in Shuntian. Gao Shiyu and Gao Qingyu will be responsible for some technical work. We'll also need you to coordinate by then."

"Okay. I'll try my best."

"Then I'll let you meet him first. Wait a moment, wait a moment, Gao Shiyu wants to see me. Let's have a small meeting first."

Gao Shiyu's head appeared in the projection on the wall. Qi Yuan squeezed in next to Shangluo and squeezed into the camera.

"Wow, Shangluo." Gao Shiyu stared at him. "Why is it that every time I see you, there's a different cute girl around you? And sometimes there are several at once."

"Eh?" Qi Yuan asked in surprise, "Shangluo, are you always like this? Have you started to abuse your body so early? Do you want my dad to prescribe some tonic for you?"

"No! No."

Gao Shiyu tilted his head: "But I saw the one next to you before."

"Besides, your monthly data fee will be increased without any increase in data volume."

Gao Shiyu immediately shut up. He rummaged around on the table and pulled out a brown paper bag: "I've already done what you asked me to do last time. I borrowed some experimental high-performance fighters for you through my dad's connections. They're willing to pick out two of them for you, including this Baidi, and you can use it right now."

"White Emperor?" Shang Luo took a look at the picture. The fighter plane on it looked familiar. It was very large, especially the outline in the middle of the fighter plane, which was very similar to the engine compartment of the White Star. "Is this related to the White Star in some way?"

"Yes, it is a wide-range fighter modified from the detonation rockets on the White Star. Because the White Star overemphasized its transport capacity, it had a lot of unnecessary space. Now that it has been reduced in size and turned from a high-speed transport plane into a fighter, it will be much more convenient to use. Wen Yuan over there should be able to fly it."

"Can you bring anyone else besides him?"

"Yes, it is actually a two-seater fighter, and it can carry one person on the back."

"How could you borrow something so amazing?"