The sparkling waters of the Elbe River lead to the North Sea, and Hamburg, a famous German city with a history of more than 1,000 years, is presented in front of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in a bright light.

The sound of horse-drawn carriages running over stones was everywhere on the cobblestone roads on both sides, and the soft glow of the bright gas lamps made the city feel like a dream. The streets are filled with men and women in dresses holding hands, and diners can be seen drinking and smiling in the soft candlelight of the restaurants along the street.

The Elbe route was so wide that Dutch clippers sailed straight up the estuary to the city centre, and although Jonas strictly forbade the new troops to go on deck for unnecessary trouble, the officers were not allowed to do so.

Xiao Hexin and other middle- and high-level officers stood at the top of the deck and looked at the lights of the Western civilized city, and they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.

"***, we have a lot of big cities in China, but I have never seen it so bright at night, and the road is actually lit up with lights, how much lamp oil does this have to burn......" Luo Huo, this soil bun, showed timidity with a mouth.

"Don't be ashamed, it's a street lamp that burns gas, the pipes are buried under the road, and the required expenses are all taken from the city's taxes, but it's not like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they don't dare to ...... anything just collecting taxes," Xiao Hexin said indignantly.

At that moment, Hyotaro stretched out his hand and pointed to the pipes on both sides of the river and shouted, "What is that? Why are the rivers buried in the ground?"

"Silly boy, that's not a river, that's the sewer of the city!" Mr. once said that to prove the civilization of a city, it is not only to look at the present, but to look at the unseen, and the urban sewer is the conscience of a city......

"Underneath the city, around the foundations of countless houses, there are countless drainage pipes connected into a grid, and the rain and snow from the sky, as well as the sewage from the people's lives, can be dumped into the underground river, and then enter the river and the sea through the guò outlet. There is no sunny day and no soil here, and there is no mud and ...... on rainy days."

The brief chat on the deck can already see the highland of these people's achievements in Western learning, Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun and Luo Huo are the first disciples to follow Xiao Letian to contact Western learning, among them, Xiao Hexin and Sima Yun have the deepest knowledge and the best foundation, and the highest achievements in Western learning, so they naturally became the teachers of the people present.

The history of urban development in the West can be traced back to the ancient Greek and Roman periods, and the urban construction of these two nations paid great attention to the construction of infrastructure, especially the jaw-dropping water diversion system and drainage system in the Roman period, as well as the very developed public health facilities, which directly influenced the ideas of Western urban design in later generations.

In front of these young men of the new army, this is a wonderful world, this is a dizzying civilization, perhaps in the light of the gas lamps shining on the whole city, the doors of these soldiers' hearts have slowly opened, they are the first to open their eyes to the world.

The clippers moved slowly on the Elbe, as if deliberately stalling for time, and it was not until the end of the day that the boat crossed the city, and in the silence saw the barracks on the east side of the city.

"Gentlemen, our destination is approaching, the Hamburg Army training camp has vacated a barracks, and you will live here until the agreement is signed......" Under the guidance of Jonas, a brightly lit riverbank pier appeared in front of him, and in the distance was an endless barracks.

The clipper boat docked steadily on the trestle, Sima Yun took the lead with a company to jump ashore, and in the stunned eyes of countless Germans, two walls of people with guns led to the barracks, and all the Prussian soldiers were stopped outside.

The soldiers on the dock and the barracks should have received the order, and none of them stepped forward to stop them, but they just looked at the human wall from a distance in confusion, silently providing the second realm.

A hundred men lined up in two rows of human walls and led directly to the barracks, and then the new troops on the pedals trotted all the way to the barracks with heavy wooden boxes, one group after another.

One million taels of silver, with a total weight of 35 tons, according to the calculation of 26 grams of an eagle, the total number of silver coins unloaded this time is as high as 1.35 million silver coins, such a huge amount of money, it is no wonder that these new troops have to protect it with their lives.

The bright gas lamps on the docks illuminated the oriental faces, and none of the Prussian soldiers could have imagined that the protagonists of the secret military order would be a group of Asians, at a time when Germany had not yet begun its plans to colonize the world, and the Far East was still synonymous with mystery in their eyes.

Countless soldiers held torches aloft as supplementary sources of light to the Orientals, and they whispered to each other.

"Could these Asian faces be Chinese? How are they different from those in newspapers and pictures? Why don't they have braided ......?"

"It should be the people of China, right? What other country in Asia is more powerful than China? It is impossible for any other country to have such an elite ...... other than China."

"But I heard the British and the French say that the Chinese people have changed the name of their country, what is the name of the Qing Empire, God knows what the meaning of this name is......"

"Guess what's in these chests? I guess it's porcelain and silk, definitely a gift for the king......"

Before the words were finished, as if intent on refuting the frivolous speculations of the group, a group of new soldiers carrying boxes toe on the stones, and a heavy silver box fell to the ground, the iron hinges were broken, and a box of white Huāhuā Mexican eagles fell to the ground.

"Oh God! it's money, it's innumerable silver coins...... "The Prussians present were dumbfounded, at this time Germany did not have full circulation of marks, and now their mainstream currency was a crude silver coin called thaler.

Now Prussia, under the iron-blooded rule of three generations of emperors, the whole nation has become a big military camp, and the economy has been crushed to the verge of collapse. This is not the high-welfare Germany of later generations, and the Prussian people at the time of the rise of the nation did not live as well as the Manchu people.

Workers may not be able to touch a few silver thalers after a year of hard work, and daily life is to use low-quality silver bilongs, to put it bluntly, silver coins with very low silver content, it is said that the issuer is embarrassed to mark the proportions.

The people who can afford the silver Bilong coin are also considered to have a good life, and more people use copper coins. The German economy gradually improved, in fact, it was still after the Franco-Prussian War and before the First World War, this period was the period when Germany accumulated wealth, after all, after the Franco-Prussian War, France compensated Germany with 5 billion gold francs, which was equivalent to the silver taels of the Qing Dynasty at that time, a full 720 million taels of silver.

It will take four years for the Franco-Prussian War to break out, and the current Germans will not be able to enjoy this huge wealth, and their suffering is far from over.

But a hundred years of military cultivation of the whole people is not in vain, the greed in the eyes of all soldiers is only a moment, and the strict discipline makes these people quickly calm down, just light a few more torches in the place where the silver coins are sprinkled.

The two soldiers squatted down and began to pick up the silver coins, but the angry Luo Huo gave two whips: "Go back to the boat immediately and continue to carry, what are you doing with the money at this time......?" Damn, what a delay!"

The soldiers ran back to the cabin and continued to carry them, and the silver coins were scattered on the ground, trampling back and forth with pairs of soldiers.

This is a play, a play that has been planned for a long time, they want to use this little 'accident' to let the gossip fly all over Germany, on the one hand, to let the people guess this loan plan, and on the other hand, to show the German aristocracy Xiao Letian's strong financial strength.

You'd better not use your brains, if you want to continue to cooperate with my prime minister, and if you want to get benefits in the future, then obediently follow the contract and be less clever. Don't throw away the whole watermelon for the sake of a sesame seed, a few million taels of silver is really nothing, in the face of the big plan of Sino-German cooperation, this is not even a sesame seed.

It took the new army two hours to move the 1.35 million silver coins to the barracks, and in the end, Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun and the others were all standing around the dirty silver coins.

"Pick them up, this money is enough for room and board before the agreement is reached, invite the logistics officer in the German ** battalion over......" After a while, a bearded quartermaster trotted all the way over, although he didn't know what the rank of the several [Chinese] people on the opposite side was, but looking at the few golden stars on the collar, he felt that he should be bigger than his own officer.

Stand upright and salute. The quartermaster didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, "My lord, I have received an order from the Prime Minister in advance, and I will be in charge of your logistics during this time......"

Xiao Hexin nodded to Jonas, meaning to let him translate. "Mr. Quartermaster, here are 10,000 Mexican Eagles, first deposit them with you, please help us exchange them into the currency of Germany, and our food and lodging problems during this period will be rid of you......"

The quartermaster turned and departed, and Jonas said, "You have arrived at your destination safely, and you will rest here in peace, and if nothing else happens, you will be able to receive an answer from the king and the prime minister in three days." In addition, you have an eyebrow to get rid of the good reporters and writers I am looking for, and I will get back to you in a few days......"

Jonas left, and the three hundred new troops entered the barracks in silence, and soon the fixed and mobile posts were on duty, and a small country within a country appeared on the east side of the city of Hamburg, on the banks of the Elbe.

Xiao Hexin didn't know that at the moment they settled in, the area around the barracks had been isolated by the Prussian army, and the most elite Imperial Forest Army had replaced the ordinary army and surrounded the barracks of the Chinese people, and all internal and external news were isolated.

Not only that, but at noon on the second day of their stay, there was another quarrel in the Berlin Imperial Palace.

"Prime Minister, I will never accept the conditions of the Chinese, these Asian cowards have been defeated by Britain and France twice in a row, and even the Russians have ceded their huge lands, such a nation is not worthy of cooperating with the noble German nation......"

"Your Excellency, you don't seem to know how difficult the empire's finances are, do you know how much great things you can do with this $2,500,000 war loan......?

"Hahaha, honorable Prime Minister, when did I say that I didn't want this wealth? We can accept it, and don't we just give interest to these [Chinese] countrymen in the future? As for military cooperation, it's better to be exempt......