143. History of South Australian Ranches
"On August 11, 1938, my son came into the world, his name is Hans, and today is a day to celebrate, I want to open a bottle of wine!"
"August 12, 1938, yesterday was the worst wine I had ever drunk, it tasted worse than horse urine, and I threw up all night! The next day it was all poured into the toilet. ”
"On September 1, 1939, God, Germany attacked Poland, hoping that the flames of war would not reach Australia, I was tired of running!"
"On May 28, 1940, I had a big fight with my father, and I said that I don't like to run around!"
"On December 15, 1941, Christmas was in ten days, but today we were going to Darwin to deliver cattle to the quartermaster there, and the good news was that my father allowed me to bring wine!"
"On February 19, 1942, the Japanese army bombed the port of Darwin! God, damn brutes, one of our merchant ships was sunk!"
"On March 7, 1952, luckily, although the ranch was in crisis, my wine was successful!"
Emperor Wu reads Clervinson's notebook, which records the annual events of the ranch.
"Merchant ships? You mean they had a merchant ship in Darwin Harbor during World War II?" Frank got up from his single bed.
Emperor Wu glanced up at him, lowered his head and continued to look at the record book, "That's right, this ship was left by Clevenson's father, and it was an armed merchant ship that carried supplies to the Anzac stationed on the island of New Guinea. ”
In this way, their family has not only made a fortune in the country, but also contributed to the country. ”
Looking through the thick notebook, Emperor Wu found that Mr. Clevinson had intended to give the list on the barrel a gift of his own wine, and the year on the vellum paper was the time when the wine had been sealed in the barrel.
Out of their admiration for Mr. Hans and his father, the four of them decided to help him fulfill his unfulfilled wishes.
But why didn't Hans do it? He even locked the cellar and never opened it.
The mystery is on the last page of the diary.
From about eighty or ninety pages onwards, the handwriting and tone are obviously different from before, as if someone else is recording it.
Frank looked at it and said with certainty that Hans's notes were behind it. Perhaps it was Hans who came of age and began to take over the management of the ranch.
The last page of the diary was dated May 22, 1985, half of which was left and the other half torn out.
"Damn the freighter, cursed Staddell, it's all over!"
There was only a short sentence on it, and it was unknown who Stadle was, and it seemed that something very unpleasant had happened.
Since that day, Hans has not written anything down in his notebook.
Frank pondered for a moment, then suddenly slapped his thigh, "May 1985 is the day Clayvinson died!"
It makes sense that Hans and his son had previously managed the pasture and cellar together, and had made the list of grants.
But before the plan could be carried out, Levinson died first, which hit Hans so hard that he had no intention of continuing and closed the cellar, which he did not mention until his death.
Everyone agreed with this reasoning, and the idea was validated in a second notebook.
It is possible that Clivinson died in a shipwreck, as a cargo ship is often mentioned in the record books.
"No wonder Hans left the Flamingo there and didn't do much. ”
Emperor Wu planned to follow the list and send their own wine to those who were still alive.
This matter is not easy, except for a few familiar names, I have never heard of the others, and most of them should have passed away.
The other three books that record the wine-making process are very valuable, and Emperor Wu plans to take them back for study, which records the experience summed up by Hans and his son with half a lifetime of painstaking efforts, and with the inheritance of the old man Shennong, it will bring a lot of surprises.
The four of them returned to the ranch and told Mrs. Rachel about the situation, and she was surprised that the tiny South Australian ranch was hiding so many secrets.
Returning to the room with five notebooks, Emperor Wu sat on the windowsill on the second floor, carefully flipping through Clevenson's diary.
It records the rise and fall of South Australian ranches, which can be regarded as a history of ranches.
In 1903, a young London merchant named Charlton was exiled to Australia because he was involved in an aristocratic dispute.
Less than two weeks after arriving at Cini, who was in the midst of the Great Development, Charlton managed to get out of the Blue Mountains prison. Realizing that she could not return to her homeland, she decided to put down roots in the last continent to be conquered.
In the first half of the 19th century, Australia introduced a policy of "pastorals have their land". In south-eastern Australia, farmers used to compete with herders for land.
The "Stolen Generation" occurred during this period, when the Australian government implemented a White Australia policy, believing that the Aboriginal people were lowly and ignorant, and forcibly took their children away to be raised by white people or sent to white schools for boarding, hoping to assimilate the Aboriginal people.
At that time, the management of Australia was very chaotic, Charlton was a scheming businessman, and when a global war was imminent, he immediately realized that the imminent Australian Federation would definitely enter the war, and the capitalists in the far West needed a large amount of war supplies, such as beef.
Charlton sold all his possessions in London and bought a plot of land from a brown-skinned man for £24,000 and named it South Australian Ranch, hoping that one day the barren land would be known to the world.
The ranch was much larger than it is now, 20,000 acres, and Charlton employed five Gondongula cowboys and grazed 10,000 head of cattle.
On August 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany, and for a time, young people of school age from all over the Australian Commonwealth enthusiastically signed up to join the army.
Charlton drove five thousand head of cattle and sold them to the army, which gave him a taste of the sweetness. He had the privilege of meeting General Monash, who would later print the 100-dollar bill, and Monash University was also named after him.
On September 1, 1939, Germany launched a surprise attack on Poland, kicking off World War II.
Charlton, who already had 100,000 head of cattle, smelled a business opportunity, gathered a team and waited for the opportunity to drive all the cattle to Darwin Harbour, he knew that the big deal was coming!
Charlton was a money-oriented man, and Clevinson was in a state of turmoil until he was fifteen, and he longed for a peaceful and peaceful life.
When Hans was three years old, he followed his grandfather and father to Darwin, a two-month trek.
A team of 10 cowboys drove 100,000 cattle across most of Australia from the southeast to the port of North Australia.
After the war ended, Hans returned to Siney, Hans never left Pelican Town again, he was tired of his grandfather's desperate days for money, and he wanted to give his wife and family a peaceful life.
After passing the ranch to his son Clevinson, Charlton disappeared and has not been seen since.
Clervinson did the same thing when he got old, he went to Western Australia, started a freight business, and is said to have died in a shipwreck.
Flipping to a certain page at random, Emperor Wu suddenly saw the title of "King Kani".
This line of letters seems to be written very casually, as if practicing pen.
The mysterious "King Carney" had previously helped Emperor Wu take over the distant pasture, and the House brothers were also jealous of him, and Emperor Wu didn't even know who he was, but the name appeared in the Hans family's record book.
It took an afternoon for Emperor Wu to go through the whole book, and he never saw this name again, nor did he have anything to do with this name.
It felt like a ship was about to enter the harbor and suddenly there was a fog.