Chapter 409: Hope (II) (22/30)

"No, our Huaxia Kingdom doesn't pay attention to kneeling, even if you usually see His Majesty the Prince on the street, just bend down to show respect, we pay attention to freedom of speech, even if you think His Royal Highness the Prince is doing something wrong, you can criticize it directly in person!" Fulong opened his mouth and said, although it has only been more than two years, under the propaganda of Liu Yi and others, these details have been slowly accepted by these ordinary people who have been transferred to Australia.

They are also accustomed to the fact that there are no landlords, no gentry here, it is a completely different world, a world that they did not dare to think of before, and they are slowly accepted by them if they do not kneel, because in the words of His Royal Highness the Great Prince, throughout the thousands of years in China, the reason why it has been surpassed by foreigners is because it has been kneeling, kneeling and kneeling, there is a kind of servility, and now we want to throw this servility away from the bones.

In Erdan's head, he couldn't imagine why he didn't have to kneel when he saw a prince, but after more than 20 long wanderings on the sea, he heard from too many people around him that the territory of the former Ming Empire, now called the Huaxia Empire, a place full of hope, a place where everyone can eat well, Erdan has no other ideas, he just hopes that Erya can live well, and then when he grows up, he can marry Erya as a wife, and then give birth to a bunch of children.

Of course, the most important thing is to eat well. Erdan felt that he had never eaten enough since he was so big, and he heard that in this place called Huaxia, everyone can eat a full stomach.

But now, Fulong and they are going to postpone entering the port, because the emperor is going to enter the port first, and the port has made all the preparations to welcome His Royal Highness the prince, when the people on the pier can be seen in the line of sight, Liu Fei's whole person was completely shocked, the entire dock can be crowded with people, and the dense crowd almost fills the entire dock.

But no one was crowded, everyone stood there silently, and it was not until the Emperor, a steel monster of this era, that it was almost a supership for this era, stopped above the harbor, and a loud cheer came from the dock below, and you can't imagine what it was like to cheer at least seventy or eighty thousand people.

Liu Fei has never seen such a scene when he is so old, let alone that all these people are cheering because of him, and at this moment, Liu Yi is standing quietly behind Liu Fei without saying a word. The gangway above the Emperor began to descend to the dock, on which 600 T800s dressed in slightly altered PLA Type 07 regular uniforms lined up in two rows, separating a two-meter-wide passage from the crowd.

There is a red carpet on the top of the passage and all the way to the gangway, looking at the dense heads below, although Liu Fei has seen countless big scenes, but in the face of tens of thousands of people, or even 100,000 people, Liu Fei is a little shocked, and he doesn't know how to walk.

"Young master, you can go down." Liu Yi reminded behind Liu Fei.

Of course Liu Fei knew that he could go down, but these people below, Liu Fei had a kind of shock, Liu Fei didn't expect that he hadn't appeared for two years, and there were already so many people here!

Taking a deep breath, Liu Fei raised his legs and walked down, when Liu Fei appeared on the gangway, Liu Fei, who was dressed in a black tunic, was immediately seen by everyone, at this time, you don't have to think about who the first person to appear on the gangway is. The crowd below, which had been cheering, suddenly fell silent, and then, the crowd that had completely quieted down, not knowing who took the lead, suddenly knelt down on the one standing at the front, and when the first person knelt down, immediately after, everyone behind knelt down.

One after another, there were no superfluous words, no cheers, no hooray, nothing, they all knelt down quietly, until the entire square of the wharf, nearly 100,000 people knelt down and stood on the gangway, because Liu Feike, whose body had been transformed, could clearly see that everyone below was wearing brand new clothes, and obviously these people had deliberately changed into brand new clothes in order to welcome him.

Where he can, except for T800 and some people wearing police and military uniforms, no one is standing, even if it is the dock next to it, some porters put the goods aside, kneeling there quietly, the atmosphere is extremely silent, but this atmosphere is rare solemn and solemn, Liu Fei felt heavy for the first time, the heaviness from a nation, maybe this is just a parallel time and space, not the real world where Liu Fei is, but everyone here is also a living person.

Liu Fei didn't know what to do, and the original laughing and relaxed mood disappeared, and his heart was full of heaviness. Liu Fei slowly walked down the gangway step by step, under the gangway, Liu Da in a Mao suit was already waiting here, seeing Liu Fei coming down, Liu Da followed the dozen or so people dressed in various clothes behind him bowed in unison and said: "Welcome to His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"Liu Da told them all to get up." Liu Fei pointed to the kneeling people outside.

"Your Highness, please atone for your sins, although you have been preaching that kneeling represents a kind of servility, but please forgive me." It was not Liu Da who was talking, but an old man with gray hair behind Liu Da.

"Who is this?" Liu Fei hurriedly spoke.

"Your Highness, this is Mr. Liu Chongwen, who is now the mayor of Hope City." Liu Da introduced Liu Fei.

"Hope City?" Liu Fei raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, this is our common name, all the inhabitants here, Your Highness, please forgive the old man for his blunt words." Liu Chongwen bent down and spoke.

"You." Liu Fei nodded and said.

It's just that Liu Fei didn't expect that as soon as he opened his two words, Liu Chongwen knelt down directly, and as soon as Liu Chongwen knelt, more than a dozen officials who followed him immediately knelt down.

"Old man, ...... are you" Liu Fei was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took two steps forward to help Liu Chongwen up.

"Your Highness, please let the old decay end." Liu Chongwen first kowtowed to Liu Fei, and then straightened up and spoke. And a young man behind him handed over a microphone, seeing this microphone Liu Fei was a little speechless, feeling that Liu Da had made this thing out.

Liu Chongwen directly took the microphone and said: "Your Highness, please forgive the old man for being blunt, we people, are not disrespecting Your Highness's propaganda, you kneel, kneel on the ground, kneel down to your parents and elders in the middle, and everyone else is not worthy of kneeling, but Your Highness, please allow all of us to kneel to you." Lao Yu is a native of Nanyang, in the early years because of the turmoil of the Qing court and fled to Nanyang, we are in Nanyang Luzon, the whole village has a total of more than 300 people, but because of those natives attacked and slaughtered several times, in the end there are less than 120 left! ”

"And most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, it was Your Highness that you let the army save us people, and the other people, a considerable part of them were bought back from the Qing Dynasty by the young master, yes, although Your Highness you bought them in the name of buying slaves, but everyone here, many of them bought back are children, and some are seriously ill, and some are disabled, what are you buying back these people for?"

"And here, Your Highness, you didn't use anyone to do the work, you gave everyone the land to live on, the dignity of all people's survival, and the way to live, even those children who can't survive on their own, the elderly, Your Highness, you spend money to support. For those of us, Your Highness, you are the reborn parents, and we will listen to Your Highness's teachings in the future, kneel up, kneel on the ground, and kneel down to the parents and elders in the middle, but this time, please allow us to kneel to you once! Please go forward, Your Highness! Liu Chongwen said loudly.

"Your Highness, please!" With Liu Chongwen's words, nearly 100,000 people shouted loudly at the same time, and a huge wave of sound surged directly onto the dock, using the sky, and the loud voice shocked Liu Fei beyond measure, a person living in modern times, it is difficult to understand such emotions, but with Liu Chongwen's voice, "Please Your Highness go forward!" Everyone leaned down again.

Liu Fei was silent for a moment, and then walked directly along the red carpet that had been laid on the pier. "Salute!" With the roar of a T800, all the T800s arranged in two columns directly saluted Liu Fei with a military salute, while the rifles in their other hands slammed into the ground with a "bang", making a crisp sound.

Liu Fei walked silently along the passage formed by the crowd, it is difficult for you to imagine that there is no sound at all on a dock square with more than 100,000 people, there is only the sound of the sea breeze blowing, until Liu Fei walked out of the entire square and got into a carriage prepared in advance, Liu Da followed in, and Liu Chongwen's voice sounded outside, let everyone get up.

Seeing from the curtain of the carriage that the people outside began to stand up, Liu Fei breathed a sigh of relief, smiled bitterly and said, "Liu Da, don't do such things in the future." ”

"Young master, this is not something I made, but all the people spontaneously." Liu Da said seriously.

"Okay." Liu Fei took a deep breath, and then said seriously: "Since they have all come here, let's introduce their situation, we must be responsible for them." ”

"Yes, young master, at present, we have transferred a total of 320,000 Chinese from Nanyang, that is, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and other places in the future, and about 470,000 Chinese purchased from the Qing Dynasty and voluntarily came to us, and now we have a total population of about 800,000." Liu Da immediately said respectfully.

800,000? Liu Fei gasped, "You got 800,000 people in more than two years?" "You know, this is thousands of miles away to get here, and it's not as convenient as a modern transfer.

"Yes, young master, 800,000 people are still limited by our limited transportation strength, in order to ensure that there will be no deaths at sea, we will ensure the safety of everyone, and then start transportation, but even so, in the past two years, there have been 129 cases on the ocean due to disease, weakness and other reasons have not been treated." Liu Da opened his mouth to report.

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The third update!

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