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Chapter 816 Daming's Moon Is the Roundest (First update, please subscribe)
1876 ​​seemed to be a very unusual year for the world.

As time enters this year, the world seems to be very peaceful. Except for the British invasion of Egypt and the French occupation of Libya, the whole world seems to be at a standstill.

Not many people know that, in reality, all this is just the calm before the storm.

For almost everyone, the years are quiet and good.

Even in Dongpu, a new territory that has just been included in the Ming Empire for less than a year, it is also a peaceful and beautiful time.

"Has this month's "Life" pictorial arrived?"

Like many people, as soon as the end of the month Mieko comes to the bookstore to look through the pictorial "Life", although not everyone can afford it, but at least in the bookstore, everyone can read it.

"It's a coincidence that you came here, the magazine that just arrived!"

Although the bookstore owner knew that the girl in front of her couldn't afford the "Life" pictorial, she didn't stop her. There would always be someone who could afford it. After all, this was the most popular magazine.

"Thank you."

Mieko found the "Life" pictorial in a prominent place, and Mieko flipped through it. As a pictorial magazine, it naturally has more photos and less text. With many people, she prefers the photos in the pictorial, and likes the life revealed in the pictorial.

"This is real life!"

The entire pictorial has about 50 pages, and there are many advertisements in it, but even these advertisements will make people read with gusto. Women will look at perfumes and clothes, and men will look at cigarettes, bicycles and even cameras. Most of it is just longing. Now when a bicycle passes by on the streets of Edo, I don’t know how many people will attract envious eyes.

But what Mieko and many people really yearn for is the life shown in those illustrations. The houses there are beautiful, the boys are handsome, the girls are full of youth, and the air is full of midsummer, without any burden of life.

"It would be great if I could go to Daming one day!"

Fifteen-year-old Mieko, looking at the people playing in the pictorial, her eyes are full of longing, not only her, but also the girl next to her is full of longing, she longs for Mieko to put down the pictorial, and then she will have a good look .

This is the latest "Life" pictorial!

In life, everyone yearns for a better life, and the "Life" pictorial presents a beautiful and affluent life to the world, and it is not enough to just exaggerate a better life, but also through some chicken soup for the soul, Subtly conveying the Ming Dynasty's way of life to people.

It can be said that the pictorial created by Emperor Zhu was a success. It successfully aroused people's yearning for a better life, in fact, it was the yearning for Ming Dynasty.

This is even more so in Dongying. Although it has been less than a year since it was merged into Daming, many Dongying people are proud of going to Daming, and even take going to Daming as their life goal.

Go to Daming, live a good life!

Daming's moon is round.

Finally, reluctantly putting down the magazine in her hand, when Mieko left the bookstore, she seemed to have made some decision.Half an hour later, she came to the admissions office of "Shude Maid School". Looking at the school gate, Mieko hesitated for a long time.

The maid school is a new thing that just came out last year. The school is dedicated to training maids, but the maids who graduate from the school will be sent to the mainland of the empire.

Compared with "contract workers", the introduction of maids is actually the tradition of Daming. As early as the early days of the company, the company introduced a large number of Japanese and Annan maids.They took care of the master's daily life, waited and waited, and then went to the master's bed, became the bed warming maids of the master, and finally married a Daming man.

"Whoever marries a Daming person is naturally a Daming person..."

Thinking of her friend Sako's longing words when she entered the school last year, Mieko took a deep breath and walked into the school without hesitation.

There were a lot of people in the admissions office, and they were all girls as young as her. Some of them wore shabby clothes, some of them wore new clothes, but all of them seemed to have carefully dressed up, even the girls in old clothes, the clothes Also washed very clean.

"Line up, everyone needs to measure the height of 1.45 meters below the direct elimination..."

Amidst shouts from school staff, the girls lined up to have their heights measured.

The maid school is said to train maids, but in reality?
As we all know, maids will marry Daming people in the end. The aesthetic taste of Daming people in South America is naturally influenced by Hispanics—tall, long legs, thin waist, big breasts, and big eyes are the most popular.Therefore, the maid school will formulate corresponding standards based on this, and the height is only a rough selection.

There are two height standards: "standard height" and "alternate height". The former is 1.50 meters and the latter is 1.45 meters.The latter's alternate size can be compensated by the bust, waist and hip comparison.For this reason, the relevant institutions of Ming Dynasty, which advocated scientific standards, also specially formulated a comparison table of height and measurements, listing the qualified standards.

Generally speaking, limited by the height characteristics of Dongying people, the standard set by Da Ming here is quite low. With a height of 1.50 meters, it is considered tall in Dongying. After all, 1.45 meters is almost the standard of Dongying women. Average height.As for the bust size, skin color, and eye size, they are all guiding standards, not rigid indicators.

"1 meter 57..."

Finally, when she heard this number, Mieko's face showed joy. Her height had reached the standard, which meant that she had obtained the qualification to enter the school.

What are you going to do next?
Of course, there was a physical examination. Unlike the previous examination in the hall, they even had to take off their clothes for the next examination and undergo a comprehensive physical examination by the doctor.Confirm whether there are malignant diseases and various chronic diseases, especially the latter.

After going through five checks and six checks, Mieko was so excited that she almost cried when she got the admission permit. In fact, someone has already cried.

"I can go to Daming, I can go to Daming..."

Not far away, a girl named Songmei was crying and laughing loudly, and most of the other people were also very happy, they can go to Daming!

Go to Daming and live a life like in a pictorial.

"It's all like a dream!"

Stepping briskly, Mieko walked towards home full of joy. When she was about to get home, she saw Taro from the neighbor Komatsu's house standing there, as if waiting for her.

"Ah, Mieko, you're back!"

As soon as Taro saw Mieko, he greeted her with joy, and then said to her a little excitedly.

"Mikeko, let me tell you some good news. I've signed up, and I can go to Africa, and the junior soldier can get four yuan in military pay!"

Taro looked happily at the girl in front of him. They were childhood sweethearts, barely lovers. Facing the joyful Taro, Mieko's heart sank slightly, and she said calmly.

"Then, congratulations Taro,"

"Meihui, wait for me, when I come back from Africa..."

Before Taro finished speaking, Mieko spoke in an extremely calm tone.

"Taro, I'm going to Daming!"

"what?"

Taro looked at the girl in front of him in surprise.

"What did you say?"

"I'm going to Daming, Taro."

Mieko repeated.

"Taro, you are going to Africa too, we all have to work hard! For our respective new lives! We must work hard!"

(End of this chapter)