Chapter 51: Storm meets Qiongya from all directions (5)
Centered on Manhattan Island, the Chinese American Republic occupied the northeastern states of North America in later generations;
The core territory is on the Atlantic coast, and it occupied the East Coast Republic of the later Uruguay region;
With Lingao County as the center, the "Australian Bandits" rule the entire Hainan Island and half of Taiwan Island;
There are also the "real Australians" who settled in Derby Port in northwest Australia in later generations - compared with these "pseudo-Australians" on Hainan Island who have never spent half a day in Australia in this time and space, they have been chewing kangaroo meat for two years. They seem to be more worthy of the title of "Australians".
These four modern Chinese traveler groups with a global reach have now dispatched their respective diplomatic representatives and gathered together in Lingao County, Hainan Island. For this still ignorant and backward world, it is simply a battle no less than that of Mars. A huge collision that hits the Earth!
——Just like the Tehran Conference and the Yalta Conference at the end of World War II, today's Lingao Conference is also preparing to determine the future world order!
The previous talks in Batavia, because they were on Dutch territory and they were very unfamiliar to each other, were basically just to communicate with each other and talk about some nonsense. It was not until after the meeting that the four-party talks finally began to enter into substantive content:
That is carving up the world!
——No matter which time-travel group they are, after overcoming the initial difficulties of survival, relying on the experience and insights from later generations, they will inevitably develop a heroic ambition to conquer new worlds: First of all, these time-travel groups are all based on young people. Most of them are men; secondly, brave boys are born to break into the world. The overwhelming number of Hollywood blockbusters and Japanese anime have clearly explained this core point of view to the world.
Therefore, as a brave man, you have to ride on a horse or motorcycle like a hero, wave the sharp blade in your hand, split all the thorns on the road ahead, and then defeat other competitors and laugh at their incompetence and Ignorance is how you become a true hero. Defeating all the opponents before you - from criminal gangs to aliens - is the meaning of your life, your destiny and your duty.
Of course, if you fail, you will lose your glory and pride, and you will fall from the favored son of heaven to nothing, just a defeated dog who can't find a way home, and be laughed at by others. Being despised and abandoned by others...until he comes back again.
Although most people are afraid that after a tragic failure, they will become depressed and never have the courage to start over. However, before that desperate moment arrives, the unbridled warriors still believe that their lives are bright, invincible, and wonderful.
As time travelers leading the trend of the times, most of these explorers who came to this world with innocent dreams and great ideals also lacked courage, vitality and adventurous spirit. After overcoming the initial panic and mental confusion of traveling to another world, they have already begun to formulate a grand blueprint for exploring this mysterious new world, conquering, transforming and building this new world!
Unfortunately, there is only one earth, but there is more than one time traveler who wants to conquer the world, or even more than one group. Instead, at least four groups of people have discovered each other... Therefore, in order to prevent their respective world conquest plans from starting. Stillborn, travelers from all over the world are not allowed to Not sitting down to start talks - firstly, to fabricate a self-explanatory story that at least can be used to deceive the natives of this time and space. At the same time, they must have a good tone with each other and avoid ganging up; secondly, they must divide their respective spheres of influence and discuss some needs of each other. Reach a consensus on things to do together.
Obviously, there are countless interest entanglements involved, enough to drive people to use all their energy to intrigue and manipulate.
——Like any multi-party international talks in the past and present, during the process of this high-level meeting, in addition to a few high-sounding plenary meetings, there were more private and secret meetings between the various forces. Conspiracy in secret... All the representatives are looking for opportunities to contact each other in private and constantly bargaining... Fierce games not only occur between the four forces, but also within each force...
In this series of conspiracies and wrangling, the Australian Crossing Group, which is the weakest and has the most unstable foundation, has strangely become the focus of competition among all parties - of course, it is not for the purpose of competing for Australia's land and resources. : With the current meager strength of "Australian Public" , simply can’t bear to see such a vast territory. As long as they are willing to invest capital and take risks, anyone can send people to establish a colonial stronghold on a piece of land in the Australian circle, without the need to obtain the approval of the Australian people at all - for example, the Republic of the East Coast is here Australia has established supply depots.
The real assets that are coveted by Huamei, East Coast and Lingao are actually the "Australian People" themselves - first of all, the modern sailing ship "Cosco Star" with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, which was on the ocean in the 17th century. , it is definitely the largest ship in the world! Then when the "Cosco Star" traveled through, it carried thousands of tons of modern steel and machinery in the cabin, a considerable part of which the travelers could not produce on their own in this time and space, because it required a complete set of industrial systems. support. Finally, the more than 100 passengers on the "COSCO Star" are also valuable human resources in themselves - among them, there is an expert research team that develops biodiesel, there are senior mining engineers, and there are people from the Agricultural Research Institute. Researchers...are all very useful technical talents when opening up a new world.
More importantly, in addition to the Australian people, several other forces, whether it is Huamei, East Coast or Lingao Senate, have already laid the foundation to found the country and dominate one side. It is basically impossible for them to give up their foundation, home, independence and imperial hegemony and move to the other side's territory to obey others. Only the Australians with a shallow foundation established a base in Australia that was nothing more than a temporary camp. There was not much of a population under their command, and there were no expansion targets nearby. Their lives were difficult, so they were able to give up their independence and go to other places. Under the command of power.
For this reason, the three parties of East Coast, Huamei and Lingao are now trying to take the Australian public as their own - although the East Coast Republic's global voyage fleet was the first to get on the line with the Australian travel community and initially reached some agreements. cooperate. However, Huamei and Lingao were not to be outdone, and each offered conditions of coercion and inducement, hoping to attract the Australians. So as a representative of the Australian public, Levi took the opportunity to wait for the price and worked hard to obtain a more favorable joining condition.
However, what Wen Desi and Li Wei didn't know was that their bargaining and bickering were completely useless.
Because, a certain supreme arbiter who is above all of them has quietly descended into this world at this time...
——On the occasion of a secret meeting between Wen Desi and Li Wei in a restaurant in Bobu Port. More than ten kilometers away, Baili City, where the "central government" of the Senate is located, has been plunged into a ten-magnitude earthquake because of a sudden clear-coded telegram... Some of the people were already in a state of confusion due to the wind. To the extent that they were unable to think, the other part of them who were still sober hurriedly went to their leaders to inform them of the explosive news.
It is very regrettable that although Lingao Chuanzhong had established a local area call wireless network using PHS in Lingao when they first landed. But the problem is that with the passage of time and the expiration and destruction of various consumables, there is no longer a PHS with a battery that can continue to be used in the entire Lingao Traveler Senate. All the remaining PHS phones that are still working rely on bulky external power supplies to maintain the ability to make calls, effectively turning them into landline phones. Even a giant like Wen Desi lost the ability to communicate instantly after traveling, and could only "communicate basically by shouting"... So, just as a time-traveling secret agent in Bairen City was pedaling very hard As a bicycle hurriedly rushed to Bobu Port to report to Wen Desi, a large group of uninvited guests had suddenly appeared at the end of the horizon...
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Lingao County, Bobu Port Dock Area
While the wind and snow were howling in the north, Hainan Island in January of the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign was still a beautiful scene with the sun shining brightly.
Li Meng, a former salt lord who was famous in Shandong for a while last year and a traveler who "bewitched the traitors and caused trouble in Jiaozhou" in the court newspaper, is now shaved bald and wearing a blue cloth dress, acting as The role of a coolie carrying a big bag.
"...Teams of ten people! Each team moves one kind of thing, and the things must be stacked together! Don't move the wrong thing!"
On the wharf trestle where thousands of sails gathered, accompanied by the shouts of the foreman, all kinds of goods were unloaded from the ship using steam-powered cranes and unloaded on the trestle, while the coolies began to carry these piled up like hills. The supplies were all being worked on in full swing, and a few lively guys were singing songs and ditties from their hometown while they were working. For a while, the dock was filled with a lively labor scene.
Due to their limited knowledge, most people on the dock could not tell what these strange overseas goods were. However, as a time traveler, Li Meng could identify the metal tools wrapped in straw and packed in wooden boxes. Cocoa beans and coffee beans in buckets from the sea in North America Otter skin and bison skin, Brazilian mahogany and penguin fur from South America, various spices from India and Southeast Asia, whale oil and canned whale meat from the Pacific... products from every continent in the world are all in this remote county on Hainan Island It’s really breathtaking to come together.
"...North America, South America, Australia... I never imagined that there are so many time-travelers in this world!"
Li Meng stretched out his hand and scratched his bare scalp. He sighed as he worked hard to carry the large and small bags of goods to avoid being stared at by the stern supervisor. He also took a peek at the groups of people next to him who were struggling to use the pulleys. He and the windlass dragged a small boat ashore, and then cleaned the bottom of the boat that was covered with barnacles and seaweed - this was definitely the hardest work on the dock, and anyone who watched it felt a little intimidated.
——At this time, half a month had passed since Li Meng was transported as a refugee from the north to Lingao by the Senate warship. Originally, according to the rules, he should still be in isolation and learn the rules in the purification camp. However, with the large number of visits from more than 300 foreign ships, there is a shortage of labor at the Bobu Port pier. These strong laborers who were still quarantined in the purification camp were temporarily laid off and came here to carry the heavy load. Bag.
And Li Meng, the former Jiaozhou salt lord who was arrested by the imperial court, also got a glimpse of some of the true features of this overly lively world.
Obviously, with so many people traveling all over the world, he, a single entrepreneur, is no longer so conspicuous. No matter what, at least it is impossible for the other party to adhere to the "Law of the Dark Forest" in "Three-Body", let alone firmly believe that "the biggest enemy of a time traveler is always another time traveler", and put himself, the time traveler who takes the initiative, to the doorstep. Get rid of it...because it makes no sense at all.
However, even so, Li Meng also had no idea whether he would receive better treatment after taking the initiative to reveal his identity as a time traveler...
So, with hesitation and hesitation, Li Meng continued to carry the goods with his companions, moving them from the trestle to the cargo yard, and covering them with huge linoleum to prevent rain. It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that a harsh copper whistle sounded, and they temporarily stopped tired of their work.
At this time, several large vehicles had been pulled to the pier, and a cadre with a shaved head announced loudly: "Let's have lunch now!"
The coolies on the pier lined up neatly at both ends of the car, ready to receive their share of meals: rice mixed with sweet potatoes and potato shreds, as well as cooked salted fish and pickles. Based on the miserable living standards of the people at the bottom of this time and space, this can be considered a good treatment.
Li Meng, who had experienced the hardships of life as a military household in Shandong, naturally would not be picky about this. He immediately picked up his rice bowl and ate it with big mouthfuls, preparing to take the time to finish eating and then add another bowl. No one on the entire pier realized that a group of uninvited guests were approaching from the sky - although the airship formation painted with the August 1st military flag had appeared at the end of the field of vision, it was so far away that it looked like just some unattractive black objects. point. And in the minds of those on the dock, they never thought that someone would attack from the air.
As for the time-travelers who received the notification telegram - well, please don't overestimate their reaction speed under extreme shock. And since there are several forces with radios gathered here, they are not sure whether this is a prank by one of them. So, amid the eerie calm, Lingao County welcomed another group of uninvited guests from the 21st century...