I smiled and waved my hand at Bonahrjin: "It's okay, they are all children. At their age, they are very curious about everything. It's good to let them take a good look. Anyway, it's okay now. If you feel uncomfortable, just go back to the warehouse and lie down first."

Bonnarjin's head shook quickly: "No, I promised Brother Fang Cheng and never left you." After hearing Bonnarjin's confession, I just nodded. It was useless to say extra words. They were as important to me as I did to them. Although this Turkic rapper sometimes made me want to cut off his throat, he was a real warrior and a man with great promises. This is what I admire most.

Their movements were very slow and even a little helpless, because their eyes were curiously looking at everything around them. Almost every few steps, they would stop and look around excitedly, look at the sea, look at the huge dock, or look at the towering warships of the Tang Dynasty, or pick up the beautiful shells on the coast, or kick the sand on the beach, as if everything made them look so fresh and amazing.

Xianyun, a teacher who is only a few years older, is more like a naughty boy. Fang Cheng is the most helpless, but he is quite patient, just following behind casually, both helpless, and also looks gentle as these half-aged boys making trouble in front of him.

There were two determined sentries standing in the watchtower on the main mast of the ship. Their eyes were vigilantly watching the sea in the distance. This was their duty, and the command at night was built with lanterns made of oil paper. This was not my invention. As early as the Han Dynasty in China, the way of relying on lights to communicate at night had already become popular in the army.

Of course, our Naval Army Department further refined it, and hanging lanterns in different colors represents different meanings. From tomorrow during the day, intense and orderly training is about to begin. However, General Zhang is now handling other matters in Dengzhou and cannot come to inspect our exercises in person, but that doesn't matter. Anyway, from tomorrow, our exercises will continue until the day we board the Japanese island.

It took them nearly half an hour to get on the boat from the dock. When Liu Yue and Xianyun took advantage of the torch to climb onto the deck of the gunboat several feet higher than the dock, they finally noticed that I had been standing on the edge of the boat and waiting leisurely for nearly half an hour.

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"Students have seen their master, I'm sorry, this is the first time they have..." Liu Yue lowered his head uneasy.

I smiled and shook my head: "It's okay, this is a new place. When I was as big as you, I was full of curiosity about everything unknown to this world. Unfortunately, it's night now, and you can't see the magnificent scenery of the sea. But have you ever seen the sky above our heads?" I stretched out my fingers and pointed to the dark sky, the vast starry sky. My students, including myself, Fang Cheng and Bornarjin, all raised their heads, and on the tower ship in the military port, looking up at the bright Milky Way that cut the dark night sky into two halves. The slender stars made the endless night sky bright like a shining light, and even the half of the earth and moon seemed to appear much more gloomy.

It took me a long time to retract my gaze and reluctance. Yes, I remembered that I hadn't looked at the vast and deep starry sky so focused like today.

Liu Yue looked at the starry sky, his mouth opened unconsciously, with a deep awe in his eyes, as well as a sense of admiration and an indescribable desire, or the sense of attachment that humans have naturally developed to the starry sky, and a very complicated gaze. Zhao Hong next to him made an unconscious amazement. Gradually, they finally woke up from their intoxication and turned their eyes to me. They knew that I, their master, have been waiting here for so long, not just to let them take a look at the beautiful starry sky.

After their attention fell on me, I smiled first and said to Liu Yue: "Yue'er, what's your first feeling when you look at the starry sky?"

"Shock!" Liu Yue answered me without thinking. "An unprecedented shock that students have never thought or noticed. It turns out that the starry sky above our heads is so beautiful. Students really can't find words to describe his vastness and endless feeling." I am worthy of being my student, who has not fooled me with classical Chinese, and he also clearly expressed his thoughts.

I nodded deeply: "I am the same as you. Whenever I look at the night sky, I always think that the earth will always have an end, and the ocean, the unknown world, seems to be more vast than the earth. When you look up at the sky, there is only a deep, irresistible temptation, which seems to attract our eyes. It can make anyone who keeps his eyes on it feel its magnificence and glory. We are in front of them as small as the sea. Perhaps only at this time can those who are arrogant and arrogant feel awe from the bottom of their hearts..."

I glanced at me and found that not only my students, Xianyun, but also some personal soldiers, and the faculty and staff gathered here from all directions on the deck, and they also looked at me with an inquiring gaze. The number of audiences had little impact on me, but the more people, the more my thoughts would be.

I raised my head and looked at the vast and beautiful starry sky with a poet-like philosopher's eyes, and slowly said: "Remember that if any person, if they always only keep their eyes at their own feet and beside themselves, that person means that he lacks courage and spirit of upwardness. A person, or a nation, if they do not want to look up at the starry sky, they will not feel the greatness of this world, and there is the endless hope, hope, right there, in the distance, at the end of the starry sky, but he is also at your feet."

I lowered my head again, looked at the people in front of me, and said word by word: "No matter where your future path is, you must firmly remember that our Chinese nation and our Tang Empire are a prosperous and powerful empire, a country and nation with great hope! I hope you must know how to look up to the sky, learn to think, learn knowledge and skills, master your destiny, and be a person who cares about the destiny of the country and nation."

"Thank you for your teachings, students will definitely remember your hard work." Liu Yue and others bowed to me together, and the rest of them also lowered their eyes, as if they had some insights or thoughts. After I led the students into the ship warehouse, they were still on the deck, as if they were still thinking about something. I am not only educating my students, but also educating these teachers and students of the Tang Military Academy. I need them to understand that they are also part of the Tang Dynasty. Every Tang Dynasty man should make his due contribution to his country and nation. No matter whether your contribution is big or small, do your best to do it, so that he can be worthy of the land where you gave birth to you and raised you.

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Anyway, I am not afraid of being heard by others, and these words are definitely not selfish. Moreover, in the Tang Dynasty, it was not like later generations. Being guilty for words in the prosperous Tang Dynasty was simply a joke. My words were definitely not bragging or farting, nor shameless self-proclaiming, but facts.

A true prosperity is not only about economic development and people's livelihood, but also about a meteorological phenomenon. It is not only an economic indicator, but also a humanistic indicator. In this society, there is an atmosphere of tolerance, generosity and freedom. It allows every citizen to maintain his own personality and allow them to make their own true voice, regardless of whether this sound sounds a bit disharmonious to the authorities. By this standard, it is probably only the Tang Dynasty that can be called a prosperous era.

Why do you say so? Because only in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai could "the emperor called him not to board the boat, and he claimed to be a fairy in the wine", Du Fu could write his "Xin'an History" and "Shi Haoshi", Li Shen could write "Who knew that every grain of food on the plate was hard to work", "There is no idle land in the world, and the farmer still starved to death", while the Qing Dynasty literati could lead to literary inquisition for a irrelevant sentence "The breeze is irresponsible, why do you flip books randomly" and other verses such as "The wind is irresponsible, why do you flip books randomly" and have a lot of imagination, so they lost a lot of heads for these four words. This is a classic work in the prosperous era of the Braid Dynasty.

If Li Bai and others were in that braided dynasty, they would have killed nine clans long ago, and there was a nonsense poet in China. Thinking of this, I was so angry that I almost spit into the sky.
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