Chapter 75: Forging the remains of the "Australian Song Empire" (Part 2)
PS: Please explain why it is not possible to make every time traveler a senator, because the term senator has too strong a political connotation, and only the Lingao family of 500 people uses it. We cannot let thousands of other time-travelers accommodate these five hundred people. Secondly, the time-travel forces in the Americas have been here for eleven years and have been seriously integrated with the natives of this time and space. The identity of the time-travelers and the natives is relatively blurred. If the division is promoted rashly, it will create artificial barriers.
Therefore, the downgrade of Lingao's senators to citizens is just a change of name. Their property, power and founder status within the Lingao Group have not changed. They are still called chiefs and are still major shareholders - the name of the Senate will be changed in the future. The shareholders' meeting and the executive committee were renamed the board of directors.
As for other travelers who travel alone, they are only called citizens and have a benefit, but do not enjoy shareholder privileges to distinguish themselves.
There is a big difference between soldiers of the same military rank with medals and without medals. There is also a big difference between citizens of the same time traveler with shares and without shares.
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In an off-road vehicle next to this bustling desert construction site, Levi, the highest representative of the "Australian Travelers" and the "Supreme Advisor to the Preparatory Committee of the Australian Republic", was sitting in the passenger seat, holding a Holding a laptop computer, he introduced the construction situation to Wang Qiu.
"...You see, this is a design team that once planned the 'Fake Yin Ruins' theme park project in Henan. They secretly conducted survey and planning in the name of tourism development at the same location in Australia in the modern world, and extensively consulted with this team. Taking into account the opinions of various traveler countries in time and space, and adding some Southeast Asian and Indian style elements, the final design of the ruins of the 'Australian Song Empire' lost capital 'Song City' was finalized after several revisions..."
Li Wei pointed at the design renderings on the LCD screen and introduced to Wang Qiu with great interest, "...over there is the Daxiangguo Temple of the Australian and Song Dynasties. On the square platform is the Daxiong Hall. We are going to install a large stone statue. Buddha..."
Following the direction he pointed out, Wang Qiu squinted and saw that the construction workers had already poured cement into a square platform at that place. Then, an employee held a pile of stones that had been shrunk with the [Shrinking Light]. , carefully placed on the cement platform, spliced together to form a Buddha statue, and then restored to its original shape, it suddenly became as high as three stories! Under the scorching sun, the majestic giant Buddha looks quite majestic. Next, the construction workers placed several smaller statues of Guanyin, Arhat, Peacock King Ming, and even stone statues of Jigong, Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie in a certain order around the giant Buddha, as well as various Various stone tables, chairs, stone lanterns and broken stone pillars were randomly destroyed with a small amount of mining explosives, and some broken bricks and broken tiles were deliberately thrown around. It was done.
Wang Qiu, on the other hand, looked at it in the off-road vehicle and his eyebrows jumped. "...What kind of Daxiangguo Temple is this? A few random statues were placed on the foundation, and a bunch of rubbish was thrown away... Not to mention a decent house. It doesn’t even have a complete wall, so it can be considered a temple?”
"...This is normal! After all, it is a ruin!" Li Wei replied disapprovingly, "...According to the historical background, the wooden temple structures were all burned in the war during the collapse of the 'Auso-Song Empire' It was all gone, and only the stone carved Buddha statues remained... In addition, at the gate, there was a stone archway for the 'Edict to Build Daxiangguo Temple', plus a few stone tablets with inscriptions, which was enough. ”
Wang Qiu thought for a while after hearing this, took out the telescope and took a closer look, and found that there were indeed several holes left in the corners of each cement platform, pretending to be places for wooden pillars... And after the construction workers were finished, They also deliberately piled firewood around the Buddha statue, doused it with gasoline, and lit several blazing bonfires to create the illusion that the temple was burning down. I have to admit that this fake ancient city ruins was actually quite detailed.
But then there is another question, "...but...where did you get all these big Buddha statues? Although Sanya has been using Doraemon's black technology props in recent days. They produce various sculptures, but many of these Buddha statues don’t even look like they are new. On the contrary, it looks like it has been exposed to the sun and rain for a long time!" Pointing to a Guanyin statue that was obviously bumpy and full of traces of time, Wang Qiu asked with some confusion, "...should it be a real ancient Buddha statue? , just move to this desert to fake it!”
"...Just kidding, how could you throw real cultural relics into the desert? In the past few years, the domestic construction industry and tourism industry were overheated, and many Buddhist theme parks, Taoist theme parks, and Xianxia theme parks were built. An antique building theme park, and there are many man-made objects with unclear themes. Scenic spots suddenly bloomed everywhere like a plague, without conducting any market research in advance, regardless of whether there were so many tourists nearby... As a result, many theme parks suffered losses year after year and could not continue to operate, and finally became It has become an overgrown ruin..."
Li Wei replied very calmly, "...the central government just sent people to search those abandoned scenic spots, and they got so many stuff. These statues were littered everywhere before and no one cared about them, so they don't look good. Where to go, there is even a whole statue covered with grass! Oh, what a pity Dora A! Meng's [Shrinking Lamp] cannot be used in our 'main plane', otherwise there would be an illegal Buddha statue fifty meters high, which can be obtained from the top of a mountain in Guangdong - this Buddha statue It happens to block a highway and is currently being prepared for blasting..."
"...No wonder you have been passing through the time and space gate these days, transporting all kinds of messy things to the Sanya base, and pouring various reliefs and statues with cement on the spot in Sanya. I thought you were planning to use them in Sanya’s city decoration!”
The corner of Wang Qiu's mouth twitched as he saw more and more strange statues erected or randomly discarded in various corners of this fake ruins in the desert. Among them were relatively "normal" statues of Confucius chanting sutras and goddesses. Scattered flowers and portraits of ladies in ancient costumes are also obviously out of fashion. The Venus de Milo with ancient and cultural backgrounds, the stone statue of a cadre in Chinese tunic suit, the bronze statue of a boy holding a torch (seemingly from a demolished Children's Palace), the stone statue of Lu Xun sitting on an armchair, the statue of a muscular male athlete lifting dumbbells... ...It can be said to be all kinds of and strange. All kinds of smaller pottery statues, bronze statues and stained glass handicrafts were also pulled over in carts and randomly discarded in various corners of this "unfinished ruins".
Next, the things left by the construction team on this fake ruins became more and more weird. Even some large clay figures of costume characters from Japanese anime were pulled into the desert. . When Wang Qiu saw a statue of Lenin wearing a coat and raising his hands in a gesture erected in the large square in front of the "Aussong Palace Site", he finally couldn't help but start complaining to Li Wei again.
"...Hey, Buddha, Confucius and fairies are all related to the remnants of the Song Dynasty. But what are these statues obtained later? Lu Xun? Lenin? Athletes? Young Pioneers? Mechanic workers? This How mind-expanding is this? ”
"...So this is the Australian Song Dynasty and not the Southern Song Dynasty, Comrade Xiao Wang!" Li Wei lectured Wang Qiu with a proud look on his face, "...the Australian Song Empire in our setting is not a Southern Song Dynasty. A miniature replica, but an advanced country that has completed the industrial revolution, an Atlantis after AD. Naturally, it cannot be the same as the Southern Song Dynasty in all aspects, but must have a step-by-step development process... At least in Australia At the end of the Song Empire, the daily life of the residents should be similar to that of the traveling groups now entrenched in Hainan Island, Vladivostok, North America and South America. Therefore, the 'Song City' ruins we have created in Australia need both. It should have the characteristics of traditional Chinese civilization to show that the roots of China are not forgotten, and it should also have an atmosphere of industrialization and modernization so as to be in line with the daily style of those transnational groups. ”
He concluded this, which seemed to make sense, but the new statue that appeared on the construction site the next moment made Wang Qiu stunned again, "...I said...even if it has an industrial style , it’s enough to get some statues of workers, peasants, soldiers and young pioneers! But what about the cement-made Transformers over there? It looks like... it’s not Megatron! Right? ”
"...Ah, that's the planned Diamond Temple over there. In order to reflect the 'Australian-Song style', we just got a few Transformers statues, so we just brought them over and used them." Li Wei said sarcastically, "... ...After all, Transformers are also King Kong..."
...This is really... how incredible - is the Vajra Temple used to worship Transformers?
——Imagining a group of ordinary people dressed in Song Dynasty costumes, kneeling down with great piety to burn incense and pray at the feet of Transformer Megatron, Wang Qiu found that he didn't know what expression to make other than rolling his eyes... He just felt The nerves in my temples were twitching...
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Of course, the ruins of a city cannot contain only all kinds of statues and small artifacts - that would really turn into the ruins of a theme park. Therefore, the main task of the construction team or counterfeiting team is to build the city itself.
Because the workload of building a city wall was too arduous, according to the design drawings, this "Song City" ruins did not have a city wall, and the urban area was scattered directly on both sides of the dry river bed. In order to make the disguise more realistic, the construction workers also used Doraemon's magical props [Mole Gloves] to dig many trenches and artificial rivers on both sides of the river bed as the source of domestic water and sewage drainage channels for "Song City" , and even deliberately threw a few broken boats into the artificial river - although this place is so dry now that not a drop of water can be seen, except for scalding sand or scalding sand.
The next step is to build "ruined walls" one after another in the vast urban area. This is a very hard and repetitive work. Fortunately, as long as the foundation is leveled, the walls can be built in random directions, and the roofs It's completely unnecessary.
Then, one small pickup truck after another shuttled back and forth in the desert, collecting antique pottery pots, furniture, baskets, etc. that had been used by various extras for a long time from various costume film and television prop groups in the modern world. Baskets, bowls and chopsticks, broken Clothes, writing brushes, etc., were scattered scattered in the ruins of various houses (although these houses were never complete), as well as on the streets between the ruins of the houses. In addition, many broken porcelain pieces were scattered in the houses to show that Chinese characteristics here. Even fresh garbage such as leftover fish bones and kangaroo bones were collected from near the "Cosco" survivor camp in Darwin Port and scattered in various corners of the site in order to create a more realistic look.
In addition to private houses, in order to show the level of industrialization of this "Australian Song Empire", various abandoned factories scattered in the suburbs are also an important project in the construction of the "Song City" site. Huamei, Lingao and East Coast Republic all provided their Scrap machinery. After everyone deliberately smashed them to pieces and scattered the obtained parts in the mostly collapsed (actually uncovered) "factory", the abandoned factory became much more realistic.
Compared with the above-mentioned "private houses" and "factories", what is more important are the palaces and court ministries of the "Australian Song Empire". This is also the most expensive part of the entire heritage project. Even if it is just a foundation, there are all kinds of extremely complicated details in the layout, and there must be exquisite patterns on those steps, stone piers and tiles - luckily only a few temples need to be built, most of them The place only needs to be decorated with a few broken walls to make it interesting, otherwise the amount of work will be overwhelming even with Doraemon's black technology props.
On the several walls that were built, several propaganda experts sent by the central government, under the scorching sun in the desert, used various colors of paint and obvious mix-and-match styles to draw simple and vivid murals. , recording the origin, birth, development and growth of the non-existent country "Ausong Empire" - reflecting the Yashan Naval Battle , war scenes of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty; there are "remnants of the Song Dynasty" who cut through the waves and fled to the new land; there are pictures of the "ancestors" struggling to reclaim wasteland and build cities in Australia... and they are also mixed with steamships, trains, airplanes, and airships. Mural contents of various modern symbols, as well as modern military combat scenes using rifles and artillery.
In addition to the murals, there were also many pre-made exquisite relief panels, which were also transported into this fake palace and placed on the slightly empty foundation. Next, the construction workers took out many fake antiques that seemed to be bought from modern street stalls, ranging from snuff bottles, copper coins, copper paperweights to porcelain vases, and placed them throughout the palace, pretending to be royal luxuries... Come on In the end, the construction team buried explosives, piled firewood, and poured firewood inside and outside the palace they had just worked hard to build. Gasoline, and finally in the bursts of deafening explosions and fires, the "Aussie and Song Dynasty Palace" was engulfed by flames, thick smoke and splashing gravel and gravel - just like the urchin who spent hours carefully building a castle on the beach at the seaside, When he is about to leave the beach and go home, he will fly up and knock the sand castle down, just to satisfy his desire for destruction.
In addition, in the arid wilderness far away from the "urban area", the construction team also sporadically built several imperial tombs of "Emperors of the Australian Song Dynasty".
Of course, as the capital of an ancient country, it would be outrageous to have only private houses and palaces but no military camps and weapons. Therefore, the construction team built the ruins of military camps, fortresses, weapons depots, and even the cement pier of the military port some distance away from the "urban area".
As for the source of the required weapons, the modern troops of the Far East Company in Vladivostok raided the rear areas of Japan, North Korea and the Jurchens, and seized a large number of crude and cold weapons such as samurai swords, iron forks, and spears that were basically useless. The Fubo Army and the Funing Army of the Lingao Group also raided the local sieges of landlords and gentry in southern Fujian and the Pearl River Delta, as well as the forts of the Ming military guards, and seized a lot of local cannons and Ming dynasty weapons. There were shotguns, firecrackers, various swords, bows and spears, as well as slingshots that seemed to be used by children, plus a few tattered, rusty, semi-scrap armors with a long history.
Originally, the leaders of the two crossing groups, Lingao and Vladivostok, planned to recast these unused trophies and recycle the copper and iron inside. Unfortunately, most of the iron materials were of poor quality and contained all kinds of strange impurities. Recasting and refining is very troublesome, and until now, not much has been remelted. Now it's time to put these remaining useless weapons to use again, find someone to pick out those without inscriptions, throw them randomly on this artificial ruins, or place them in the fort's gun emplacement, and then use **** Blow them up together...
However, the number of discarded weapons that the two time-traveling groups could provide was still obviously insufficient compared to the scale of the ruins, so the personnel from the relevant departments had to raid the modern world's costume prop companies and collect many antique weapons used in movies. All children are lost We arrived in the Australian wilderness here, and deliberately cut off many spear shafts, chopped the sword blades, and pointed the muzzles of the cannons at the palace, thus creating the illusion of a civil war, in order to visit those foreign countries who did not know what was going on. The authors hinted at the final outcome of this "Australian-Song Empire".
Finally, although the ruins of the city are well built, a lost city cannot be without corpses and cemeteries. So the Lingao Travelers Group had no choice but to search everywhere on Hainan Island under the request of the central government and the decision of the Chinese League, and finally found several mass graves where poor people, refugees, and death row prisoners were buried. Then he pinched his nose and dug out the rotten bones, and brought them to the construction site to pretend to be dead citizens.
Although the above-mentioned fraud is still a bit blunt, and it is easy for savvy people to see the flaws, fortunately the almighty nature will help cover up any abnormal traces - the meteorological environment in the desert area near Darwin Port is very harsh, with sandstorms, tropical storms, thunderstorms and Tornadoes are commonplace. As long as they are destroyed a few times by tornadoes and tropical storms, and then buried in some places by sandstorms, it is probably enough to look fake. All in all, with the technological content of the ruins of "Song City", it is estimated that it will not be able to hide it from archaeologists hundreds of years from now. However, Huameng does not have such extravagant hopes - but only hopes that it will be completed in a few decades or even ten years. Inside, they deceived the Westerners who ruled the world's oceans and abandoned this "old capital of the Australian and Song Dynasty Empire" located in the seaside desert. The ruins believed it to be true: It is conceivable that when the Dutch and other European navigators learned of the location of this "Lost City" and swarmed there in their ships, a drama like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" were bound to be staged here. The wonderful scenes of "Tomb Raider", as well as the tragicomedy interspersed with various dramas of loyalty and betrayal, conspiracy and bravery...Eh? Why does it feel a bit like playing monkey tricks?
But no matter what, as long as the above scene can be realized, the purpose of forging the ruins of "Song City" in the Australian desert will be completely achieved.