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"My children, there are many young people who are now facing exactly the same obstacles as you are, giving up on the life pursuits they hoped for. They were deflated and said that fate was too cruel and they gradually became timid, which is a pity. The important thing is not to create objective changes in our lives, but how we deal with these changes and build our own lives, and not be blocked by fate. When you are in a difficult situation, you have to challenge fate and refuse to fail. Of course, it's easy to die, and many people have proven this in their daily lives. However, these people are probably not the people who strutt majestically like the towering trees you would hope. If a person who fails to reject is turned away from a place, they will continue to knock on the next door, again and again, until there is a place to accept them. Those who learn this at a young age are bound to be extremely successful in the near future. Son, it's sunny outside, shall we go for a walk in the garden? ”

Seeing John Jr. nod in agreement, Rockefeller felt relieved.

The maid Calles was there, greeting them from afar: "Hello, sir, little John! Rockefeller said to John, "You see, Calles has always been so happy, son, we can't all be kings or queens, we really can't be, that's all." But if you are mentally prepared to deal with the 'twists and turns' of life, all other hopes are almost within your reach. 'I want to win, I want to win, I want to win!' Say this to yourself over and over again. Soon, your mind will automatically direct the next action you should take. Make the necessary decisions. ”

"You can ask successful people, how can they establish that 'status'? They'll tell you about endurance, challenges, and often the circuitous routes you have to take to get there. Perhaps it is this detour that leads to an unexpectedly good result, and the same can be said for all setbacks. For this reason, just remove the 'failure' from your heart and don't have 'failure' in your heart in the future. ”

"Let's find a detour. Although there are no road signs, they are sure to be found near the stones or tree stumps that have tripped you. ”

"Yes, father."

On November 17, 9086 (the twelfth year of Daqian Guangxu and the nineteenth year of RB Meiji), Lin Yiqing was the "Iron King" in the United States. At the banquet, Carnegie officially announced the order for two Chicago-class cruisers in the United States, to be built by Planck & Sons Shipyard and Foreriver Shipyard. On November 20, Lin Yiqing and his entourage set off for China. Due to the fact that he was going to travel across the United States by train, Andrew . Carnegie specially arranged a special train for Lin Yiqing and covered all the expenses for Lin Yiqing's return to China.

Watching the train leave the station, Carnegie Mrs. Louise whispered to the solemn Andrew Murphy. Carnegie said, "My dear, are you not afraid that you will miss Miss Carol's life by introducing Miss Carol to such an attractive man with so many women?" ”

"Believe me, dear Louise, Miss Carol will make the choice that suits her." Andrew. A smile tugged at the corner of Carnegie's mouth, "He's a respectable gentleman, and will be Miss Carol's best protector." ”

Qianguo, BJ Qingqiyuan.

Outside the window, snowflakes fluttered, but inside it was warm as spring, and Carol sat at her desk, writing a diary with an automatic ink pen.

“…… When the Empress Dowager Renxi listened to the government together with the Empress Dowager of the East Palace as the Empress Dowager of the West Palace, the Empress Dowager of the East Palace was called 'Zhenggong Niangniang'. All state affairs were lost to the Empress Dowager Xigong, who had a strong sense of decision, and the Empress Dowager Donggong herself devoted herself to the sea of literature and lived the life of a scholar. She had an excellent literary aptitude, and sometimes personally reviewed the essays of the highest literary honor seekers of the Kyosato Kunikojin. She is also a well-known writer. ”

"The widows of the two Emperor Xianfeng, and unusual women, lived the life of a scholar and a vigorous, aggressive ruler during their long period of reign together. The current Empress Dowager Renxi is the de facto ruler of the great Daqian Empire. If the Empress Dowager Donggong hadn't been so up-and-coming in literature, and if the Empress Dowager Renxi hadn't had so many other unusual features, the latter might have gone down in history as a 'talented empress', because her literary talent was also obvious to all. Her poems are beautiful and moving, and she can write and compose in both the bold and powerful Bo script and the elegant Xia language. She can write in classical Chinese, a talent that is rare as a woman. Even the most cultured people in the Qianguo country spoke very differently from what was written; There are so many imaginations and metaphors, and so much importance of literary form, that many good scholars have not been able to write this language to the point where it can be used in everyday life. In addition to the literary talent of the Queen Mother, she also has excellent tastes, reads many classic books, and is a good critic. She also loves poetry and heroic legends. One of her favorite historical figures is the Joan of Arc of Qianguo and the martial girl Mulan. Hua Mulan disguised herself as a man to join the army and participated in the war, and had many heroic experiences in her 12-year military career, and in the end, she was still able to maintain the purity of a virgin. ”

"The Queen Mother has an amazing memory. The Qianguo people attach great importance to memory and cultivate it very carefully. Usually their memory is more developed than ours, but the memory of the Empress Dowager is considered rare even among the Qianguo people. She can recite the classics and the works of her favorite writers, page by page. One of the concubines of her son (Emperor Tongzhi) came to the Empress Dowager every week to greet him, and he was a very smart person, very favored by the Empress Dowager, and his memory was also extraordinary. When this lady came, I often heard her and the Queen Mother reciting their favorite scriptures and verses. One person recites the other, sometimes for half an hour in a row, and sometimes the two of them read a favorite sentence in unison. Their appearance was unforgettable: the Queen Mother sat in front of the imperial clerkship, playing with flowers or some other light task, and her daughter-in-law stood next to her, both of them with a happy look on their faces as they recited line by line. ”

When the Queen Mother returned to her room to take a nap, the people who read for her would also walk in with books by her favorite authors. For the entire time she was resting in her room, I could hear his voice rise and fall regularly. If she was particularly interested in what she heard, she would ask someone to take the book with her when she went for a ride, and then take it out and read it after she got into an open sedan or boarded a boat. But it doesn't happen very often, because all the changes in nature make her happy, and she loves to read the book when she's outdoors. ”

"She is very fond of drama, and she likes classic plays, which are old plays, but not modern plays. When I was in the palace, she called for a new play, and seemed very pleased with it. She studied the play for several days before it was staged; When the first performance started, she stared at the stage intently, not sparing a sentence. On several occasions she sent her eunuchs to the stage to propose changes to a character's performance and the artistic treatment of a sentence. Performances usually start with a short play, mostly a light-hearted farce. She sometimes seems to be very fond of these, and laughs heartily when she hears well-spoken witticisms. Such quips are often improvisations by actors, alluding to a certain past. Contrary to the concepts I have formed in the past, the Qianguo people speak wittily and are also good at understanding the humor of others. The Queen Mother has a good sense of humor. Not only does she understand the crux of a joke, but she can also make up one herself. ”

She is very particular about the expression of Xia language, pursuing the purity of language and the elegance of form. Although the literati and the upper class of the society spoke the Xia dialect called Guanhua, some well-educated people from other provinces could not help but speak with a local accent. The queen mother has a strong ability to distinguish sounds, and she is always impatient to listen to people's words mixed with local sounds. It is said that all else being equal, when appointing officials, she will give preference to those who speak Xia fluently and have a good voice, especially when the errand requires frequent chauffeuring. However, although she took this very seriously, if a person was really a talent, Xia Yu's bad speech was not enough to prevent his promotion, because she favored the highly regarded Governor Li Shaoquan, and Xia Yu was said to be very flattering. ”

Regardless of whether the Queen Mother's beautiful, silver-bell-like voice helped to add to the power of her language, the Xia language she spoke alone sounded like rhythmic poetry. Her words are vivid, and her graceful gestures and the kind of expression on her face will make even those who don't understand Xia deeply infected. ”

"One day when she was out for a walk, a gardener brought her to explain what was going on, what was going on to change the layout of the new flower beds. She listened for a while, and I saw her brow furrowed, and she began to look impatient. The poor creature was obviously frightened, and spoke Xia language probably worse than usual, and after the queen mother heard him say a word or two more, she turned her face to the chief eunuch and said, 'Let him tell you what he can say, and you can tell me again.' Who can stand this? With that, she walked away, her brow still furrowed. ”

"Another day, I heard the Empress Dowager tell the Empress (her daughter-in-law, a Mongol), who was very particular about the purity of the language, that her own Xia language had been misunderstood by a eunuch. Many words in Xia are almost identical, and can be distinguished only by the difference in pitch or tone. Therefore, the pronunciation must be very accurate, and the ears must also be very smart. The Queen Mother gave a decree to a certain eunuch, and the fool misheard the tone, and ended up doing exactly the opposite of the will. When she found that even her voice had been misheard, she was amused and surprised, and it was not to blame that the eunuch was stupid. ”

"One day, she corrected the pronunciation of a word for a princess, and she said (narrator) that it was not surprising that the princess was saying this, because her father's Xia language was 'terrible.' In this way, even the prince does not always have to speak the language. ”

"One of the most precious gifts that the Empress Dowager gave to her courtiers, and which she regarded as sacred treasures, was a single large character that she personally wrote on the scroll. These characters were sometimes up to 4 feet long, and the Qianguo people thought it difficult to write them. One day we were invited to the throne room to see the Queen Mother's waving. When I walked into the main hall, the Queen Mother and the female officials were already there. The Queen Mother was stirring a big bowl of ink, because she was very particular about the right shades. When the ink was ready, she took one from the eunuch who was standing aside with a brush in his hand. These were huge pens with short barrels, so big that her little hands could barely hold them. She took it and tried it, and after trying two or three of them, she found the one she liked, and turned to me and said, 'Look, I have quite a few pens.' I want to tell her that I think her big pen is right for my hand, and my little pen might be better for her. She replied with a smile that she liked Qianguo's brush, and although her hands were small, it was more than enough to use it. This is not unrealistic self-aggrandizement. ”

After all the ready, huge scrolls were spread out on the table in front of her, she dipped her brush in the bowl of ink that the eunuch had served, and wrote the first stroke. Her handwriting is famous, and it is said that she is on a par with the best calligraphers in the Qianguo. I was amazed by the strength of her wrists and the beauty and brightness of her strokes. She wrote a total of 6 large characters on 6 scrolls, which meant peace, prosperity, longevity, and so on. After she finished writing, she said that she was afraid that her hands would not have the strength to write again. ”

As she wrote, the queen and the princess and the eunuchs stood around, looking at her intently. They all seem to take pride in the power of her brushstrokes and the precision of her lines. ”

"There is a fixed program for writing summer characters. The pen should start with the prescribed part, the strokes should follow certain principles, and the horizontal strokes should be mathematically accurate. The person who writes has absolutely no room for whim or individuality. Anyone who knows Xia can tell you whether these complex hieroglyphs started correctly and whether there were mistakes in writing. They may seem perfectly correct to a person with a good eye but no foundation, but they will still not be recognized by connoisseurs. ”

"The power of the Empress Dowager's brushstrokes is also very evident in her paintings. She has a strong artistic talent, and her paintings of flowers and birds are very attractive, and her fingers are surprisingly dexterous. She used to embroider, but now she doesn't embroider anymore, and she doesn't draw as much, because she says her eyes are not as good as they used to be, but she doesn't wear glasses, and she never wears them. Fake flowers were made in large quantities in the palace, because flowers were indispensable on the headdresses of the noble ladies of the Bo tribe. The Queen Mother had strict requirements for the production of these flowers, and when they were sent to her for her to see, she would flick her fingers lightly to make the flowers that were not up to standard exactly what they needed. ”

She often devised new patterns for the flowers, or ordered them to be woven into unique shapes, or asked for small flowers to be combined to make large flowers. She sometimes had a crown of fragrant, snow-white jasmine flowers adorned with leaves and other small flowers as jewelry. She'll literally throw her jewelry aside and wear this. ”

"She believes very much in one of the laws set by Confucius in order to achieve 'enlightenment', that is, 'self-cultivation'. She was always spotless. She designs her own clothes, and her jewelry is set according to her own instructions. She has an artistic eye for the arrangement of flowers and jewelry, paying attention to the harmony between them and her own dress. She was very good at choosing colors, and I had never seen any of her colors that didn't match her except for bright yellow. The bright yellow color was too abrupt, but she had to wear it at all the court ceremonies. She usually used her brains in decoration, and sometimes asked people to embroider it so densely that the original color was almost invisible. ”

"Today the Queen Mother rewarded me with 6 automatic ink pens, she knows that I have the habit of writing a diary, and is also happy for me to record the bits and pieces of life in the palace, she has always thought that the quill pen writing is very inconvenient, the quill pen is too thin, it is not easy to grasp, and it also needs to be dipped in ink frequently, the life is too short, the nib is easy to grind bald or split, and a pen can write thousands of words is good. When I left the United States, quill pens and dip pens with metal nibs were already in vogue, but every few words needed to be dipped in ink, and people were always thinking about further changes to it, so there were automatic fountain pens, but they were not universally used because the ink often condensed and clogged the nib, sometimes too much water, sometimes leaking, and so it was very inconvenient to use. The Queen Mother rewarded me with the latest automatic fountain pen made in the United States, and these problems are completely absent. I was surprised how the most advanced products in the United States could appear in the court of Qianguo, I asked about the quinoa, only to know that Earl Lin Yiqing had returned from the United States to BJ These automatic ink pens were brought back by him, one of the many tributes to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother chose 6 of the best styles and presented them to me, their nibs are made of an alloy of gold and brass, which is very precious. ”

"Everyone is happy for the return of Earl Lin Yiqing, I heard that Count Lin Yiqing's visit to the world this time has been a great success, it can be said that he returned with a full load, not only harvested the friendship of all the countries visited, but also brought back a dazzling array of overseas treasures and advanced products, everyone in the court has been rewarded by the Queen Mother to varying degrees, and the rewarded items are all from Count Lin Yiqing's tribute."

"The most amazing news is that Count Lin Yiqing has ordered a huge fleet for the Qianguo Navy, and when these warships sail back to the Qianguo, the strength of the Qianguo Navy will leap to the first place in Asia, and the RB and Russian navies will no longer be a threat to the empire. Many ministers are happy about this, but some are worried that the National Assembly will be burdened with a heavy economic burden. (To be continued.) )