346 Soldiers enter the Lion City
The Lion City, near the equator, has no four distinct seasons and only a year-round summer, where the scorching sun brings abundant produce, not to mention the rice, which grows three times a year, even the fruits grown in the wild.
No matter where the Chinese go, the habit of celebrating the Spring Festival will not be lost, Chinese New Year's Eve firecrackers, reunion dinner, lion dance are all common scenes in the Lion City, and the habit of greeting each other on the first day of the New Year has also been retained at all, and the sky has not completely brightened, countless Chinese have already taken to the streets, holding fists and saluting each other.
But this year's Spring Festival is destined to be unforgettable, and a Dutch merchant ship docked at the dock last night brought guests from afar that everyone didn't expect.
The trestle was full of the sound of big leather boots, the soldiers in thin military uniforms ran down from the merchant ships one by one, and the platoons began to assemble on the wharf, and the slogans were so loud that all the natives and foreigners who listened were dumbfounded.
"Who are these people? Why are Asian faces wearing American uniforms? How did they set foot on a British colony?"
"Are these Chinese? No, where are there such unruly people among the Chinese?"
The people on the dock were talking, and before Xiao Hexin could give the order to enter the city, the British captain guarding the port ran over with several army and indigenous guards out of breath.
"All stand still, no one is allowed to enter the city, who are you, where are you from?" the British captain held his pistol at his waist in his right hand, as if he was going to fight in the next second.
The corners of Xiao Hexin's mouth curled up and began to refute his fallacy in English: "Not allowed to enter the city? Why, isn't this a free port open to all nations? Voyagers all over the world can land and rest, why can't we Chinese?"
"Oh God... Chinese I'm sorry, but you must not enter the city, go back to the ship at once, and let your captain come and talk to me......"
"Why? The law of nations prohibits sailors and crews from resting in a free port, and what right do you have to stop us?"
"You are not sailors or sailors, you are soldiers, you are an army, I will never let any dangerous people into the city, this is my duty..."
"The army... We are bare-handed and unarmed, so what do you care who we are? Brothers, let's line up to enter the city, and if they dare to stop us, we will fight ......."
While the two sides were in a state of confusion, Jonas, the Prussian envoy, ran down from the deck, took out a document and began to negotiate with the captain.
The two muttered on the edge of the trestle for a long time, and the captain reluctantly waved his hand to let the soldiers get out of the way, and when Xiao Hexin led the team away, he vaguely heard the captain muttering in English.
"Hell, when did those weak sheep of the Qing Kingdom become so energetic? I'll only give you one day, and if they stay after dark, I'll expel ...... military"
Xiao Hexin clenched his fists tightly, his fingernails were embedded in the flesh, and his palms were wet and I didn't know if it was sweat or blood.
"Everyone cheer up, let the overseas folks see our majesty..."Xiao Hexin straightened the patent leather big-brimmed hat on his head and led the team towards the city.
Three companies, three torrents, three hundred people, uniform dress, unified pace, unified spirit, the moment they set foot in the main city, the whole Lion City was a sensation.
The traffic on the street stopped instantly, and even the most leisurely foreign adults on the road subconsciously leaned on both sides of the road, and those Western women holding small flower umbrellas and wearing wide skirts looked at such a group of masculine and vigorous men, and they all exclaimed, and hurriedly blocked their blood basins with folding fans.
The foreigners have all lost their temper to this extent, not to mention the natives of Malaysia, this group of black and thin jungle monkeys actually lost the ability to speak in an instant, and the iron-blooded murderous aura that had experienced the battlefield came to their faces, and they couldn't say a word after suppressing it.
Diametrically opposed to the expressions of foreigners and natives are those overseas Chinese, who look at the familiar faces in front of them and can't believe their eyes.
"How is this Chinese? How is it possible, when did China have such an army? What about their braids? Isn't it the army of the Qing Dynasty?"
Countless Chinese began to pour out from the storefronts and residences along the street, and they rushed up to touch it, but they didn't dare, they wanted to say hello but didn't know what to say.
The crowd grew larger and larger, and as the three teams advanced, thousands of onlookers gathered on the street. Thanks to the continental policy of the British in Bismarck, the relationship between Prussia and the British is very good now, so Jonas's guarantee worked, and if it had been in normal times, the British garrison would have been dispatched long ago.
As the procession marched to a market where Chinese gathered, Xiao Hexin raised his hand and shouted, "Everyone has ...... Lizheng..."With a bang, the sound of 300 pairs of leather shoes hitting the ground shook the onlookers.
"Ancestors, it's really our Han army, what they speak is Chinese..." An old man in the crowd suddenly burst into tears, trembling and pointing at the new army and shouting, "It's our army, it's our Han army......
This cry was like pressing an emotional button in the hearts of all the Chinese present, and everyone burst into tears, which was the best New Year's gift given to them by their mother country.
Xiao Hexin rubbed his red eyes with his palm, held back his tears, and ordered all the soldiers, "All of them have it, move freely in the class, and do not drink, gamble, or find women...... Meet at the pier before 4pm...... Let's celebrate the New Year too..."
"Oh...... Oh...... Oh......" The young men suddenly became excited, and they all forgot to salute the chief, and a group of people dispersed as a group, and they wanted to enjoy the exotic customs.
Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun and Luo Huo wanted to scold with a straight face, but when they looked at the scene again, they couldn't say the dirty words in their mouths.
The young men were free to move there, and they were instantly surrounded by enthusiastic Chinese, surrounded by countless hands touching them, and eagerly asking questions, and all the Han people had fallen into madness.
"You're from your home country, where are your braids, where are you from that general, where are you from?"
"What? You're from Ryukyu, and you're all Han Chinese from Ryukyu...... Are you still from the mainland?"
"Xiao Letian, who is Xiao Letian...... Oh, I remember, in July, a foreign businessman once said that there were Chinese scholars who brought Han Chinese to fight the Japanese in Naha, aren't you ......?"
"A journey to the west... I know, Xiao Letian is the scholar of the mother country who wrote the manga of the journey to the west, and he is the grandmaster of Western studies in the Qing Dynasty...... We also have this book in the Lion City..."
As soon as the mystery was revealed, people finally knew that this army did not belong to the Manchu Qing who dragged the pig's tail, this army nominally belonged to the Ryukyus, and the real control was in the hands of the Han people, this was a new army that really represented the interests of the Chinese...
Look at the admiring eyes of the foreigners around you, and then look at the awe-inspiring eyes of the indigenous monkeys, everyone's waist is stiff. All the grievances suffered by the Chinese overseas were vented at this moment.
"Let's go and sit in my shop, I have the best rice wine...... Come to our chamber of commerce, we have a banquet and invite you to come with us...... This is the fruit of my orchard, and I will give it to you to eat, and tell us more about you......"
The crowd rushed up to pull and ask, flowers and fruits and various special souvenirs did not need money to stuff them desperately, and after a while, the three hundred new soldiers were tired and sweating.
Xiao Hexin and several of their senior military officers have now become the target of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce's key 'siege', all the influential Chinese businessmen want to climb the relationship with them, the businessmen are shrewd, they have long known that there is a new God of Wealth in the north of the Qing Dynasty, and even the influence exceeds that of Hu Xueyan.
These armies were all formed by Xiao Letian, and these soldiers will definitely be able to get in touch with the big names in the mother country.
Although Xiao Hexin's body swayed back and forth among the Chinese crowd, their sharp eyes kept observing their surroundings, and they clearly saw that a large number of white police officers and indigenous police officers gradually appeared around the market, and even the figure of Jonas was running around.
They knew that Jonas would definitely break his legs and wear out his mouth today, and that the old powers like Britain and France would never allow the Chinese to become strong, let alone allow the Chinese to show off their might in their colonies. If there had not been a German envoy to mediate, this matter would have been a big problem today.
Sima Yun stared at the white police officers fiercely, gritted his back molars, and said, "Let the brothers calm and restraint, today's activity area is in the bazaar, and it must not be dispersed, and we can't give the foreigners any excuse to expel them...... Damn, when we Chinese have a battleship, I'll be the first to come here......"
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the Chinese in the Lion City never imagined that a new army belonging to the Han people would come from thousands of miles to come here to greet everyone.
The army is indeed an army, and the colonizer police force, which used to be empty-eyed, has now become the little brother of the new army, and the market is surrounded by white police officers and indigenous police officers who maintain law and order, and the smell of food comes from the market.
Today, the Chinese people are free of their hands and feet, they actually occupy an entire street, and the banquet tables are blocked at the entrance of many Western shops, and those foreign businessmen have to laugh and hurriedly say that it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
In the past, these high-nosed foreign merchants were looking at the Chinese? Whoever blocked the door of his shop, without saying a word, called the police to expel him, and even took out a civilized stick and beat you, and no one reasoned with you.
But today, only 300 new troops have changed their appearances, and they are smiling and flattering, and after hearing that this new army was built by Xiao Letian, the grandmaster of Western studies, they even brought a few bottles of wine to have a toast with the officers.
There were more than 100 tables on the long street, and at this time it was impossible to distinguish what dishes were there, and almost all the Chinese hotels were closed, and all the manpower and material resources were concentrated on the banquet on the long street. The foreigners and natives of the entire Lion City stared at the endless stream of dishes like flowing water, smelling the aroma in the air and being dumbfounded.
If you don't get drunk, everyone gets drunk, and the new army has the discipline of iron, saying that if you don't drink too much, then everyone will definitely not have more than three glasses, but the enthusiasm of the Chinese in the Lion City makes them drunk. It was only at this time that these young soldiers really understood Xiao Letian's good intentions in letting them go on an expedition to Europe.
China is too weak, the Chinese have been reduced to an inferior nation in this world, and those Westerners really look down on it. Just the appearance of 300 new troops without any weapons overseas can make the Chinese such a sensation, which shows how much this imperial court owes the Chinese people in the world.
Strong army, China needs a strong army, needs a modern army that can fight foreign wars instead of only knowing civil wars, in the jungle of beasts, if you want to be respected, you must show your minions.
"This trip to Europe can only be successful, not failure..."
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