Chapter 1130: Quebec City
The largest city in Quebec is now Montreal, which is also the capital of Quebec, but the real core of this region of Quebec is indeed in Quebec City. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It was the first settlement established by the French after colonizing Canada, and if we were talking about the years, it was five years before Manhattan and twenty-two years before Boston was opened by the people on the Mayflower boat.
After the French settled here, in order to occupy this place, it took a lot of thought, and many prisoners and landless people came over, but so many people came, how to marry a wife also became a problem, and finally the king of France at that time even had to recruit the people from the people, and then recognized these people as goddaughters, and the last person was a gold franc, so he deceived those poor women to this place, and married the farmers here.
It's a pity that even so, there are still few women here, so in the end polyandry had to be derived, and in this way, the French multiplied in this land.
Later, the British also came to colonize Canada, and of course no one on either side obeyed anyone, and finally the head of the British colonial governor, with his soldiers, simply fought with the French governor of Quebec.
It's a pity that this time, the French soldiers, like the French during World War II, only resisted for half an hour, and were made dumplings by the British, of course, the British also suffered heavy casualties, and their governor was killed directly in this battle, and the same was true for the French...
The British conquered it, and five years later, the British signed a treaty and Quebec was transferred to the British by the French.
Later, Quebec also had several times of independence, but most of them were after World War II, because the concept of democracy and human rights had not yet emerged before World War II, so the British were not accustomed to the French.
At that time, if the French were clamoring for independence, they would have been beaten by the British.
And after World War II, the concepts of Hades and human rights began to rise, and the French descendants here began to behave again, clamoring for independence today, and clamoring for a referendum the day after tomorrow.
However, at the beginning, it was always thunder and rain, until the seventies of the last century, after the discovery of a large number of oil fields and various mineral resources in the north of Quebec.
Now the Quebecers are shaking, they have money in their pockets, and of course they are not willing to follow in the footsteps of the descendants of the British, so at the end of the seventies of the last century, a referendum was held in the Quebec region.
It's a pity that the Canadian government at that time threatened to move many companies out of Quebec, plus many large banks and resource companies, and did not want to see Quebec independent, which brought them operating costs, and it was under these pressures that the referendum did not succeed.
Later, in the nineties, Quebec once again clamored for independence and held a referendum, and this time Canada's prime minister was very witty, and simply just before the vote, he granted amnesty to the world, so that those black households who have come to Canada and have not yet applied for Canadian passports have obtained PR cards, but the premise is that the location where they get PR cards is at the immigration office in Quebec, and another prerequisite for them to get PR cards is that after they get PR cards, Be sure to participate in the referendum in Quebec, and at the time of the referendum, you must vote for the reunification of the country.
It was such a bad move that ruined the Quebecers' dream of independence, and in the end, the province could only stay in Canada again with grievances.
Rosa drove all the way, explaining some interesting facts about Quebec to Mike and Jenny along the way, which can be regarded as helping the two relieve their tension.
And after arriving in Canada, because there were no pursuers behind, Mike and Jenny's emotions unconsciously relaxed.
Although their future is still uncertain, they have finally thrown off all the pursuers, which is also a thing worth celebrating.
After driving for more than an hour, the car finally drove into Quebec City, which is not large, because the economic center of Quebec has long been transferred to Montreal, so this ancient city with history has gradually declined.
The small city is built along the river, on the left side of the riverbank, there is a small hill-like place, there is a star-shaped castle built by the French in those years, it can be said that this kind of castle was very famous in France and even in Europe, and it is famous for its strong defense.
At that time, many people in other European countries learned from the ancient castles built by the French, and then went back to resist the attack of the Turks, and the results were good, so that when the French built the Maginot Line, there were many bunkers, which were built according to the model of the star-shaped castle.
The British colonial army and the French colonial army fought on the high ground in front of this ancient castle, and later many people, when they looked at that historical data, said that the French governor was a brain-dead.
In fact, at that time, the French did not have an advantage in numbers, but the advantage of geographical location was complete, and in their area, only the hill where they built the castle was built, and their star-shaped castle was built with two floors, high inside and low outside, and there was surplus land inside, which could be cultivated completely, and there was no shortage of fresh water.
At that time, if he led the French peasants to stay in the castle, then the British governor and the British colonial army, even if they besieged it for three or five years, would not have thought of breaking through their city.
They can be in the city, open up wasteland and farm, and be self-sufficient, but they don't know what the brainless thinks, and in the end they actually led the soldiers out of the city and the British hard steel, but in the end they were broken in the head...
It is also a real tragedy for France to lose such a large number of overseas territories.
Rosa drove Mike and Jenny past the castle heights, and explained to the two of them a history of the place as they drove back, which fascinated Jenny and Mike, and finally Jenny couldn't help but ask.
"Boss, don't you see that you are so familiar with this place in Quebec? Have you been here a lot before? ”
Jenny's words stunned Rosa, and it took a moment for her to sigh, and then she said, "Yes." ”
In fact, this is also related to Rosa's past, her first boyfriend was from Quebec, and the relationship between them was very good, and even later reached the point of talking about marriage.
It's a pity that in the end, her boyfriend suddenly died in the 911 terrorist attack in the United States, which hit her hard, and after she returned, she directly joined the British Military Intelligence Agency and has been working until today.
Even now, she doesn't have an official boyfriend, she later bought a house in a small city in Quebec in memory of her boyfriend, and usually only comes to live when she is on vacation, and no one knows about this house except herself.
That's why she dared to bring Mike and Real You over this time, Quebec City is a small town full of French style, there are still 20 percent English speakers in Quebec, and here in Quebec City, it is 100 percent French-speaking.
The road signs on the road are not in English, they are all in French, so if you don't know French, if you come here, you are forced to do so.
Rosa drove with Mike and the two of them, and soon drove past the Fonteil Castle Hotel, and then drove all the way north, driving another seven or eight kilometers, and seeing that the car was about to drive out of the city, then turned and went up the mountain, and then drove on the twisting mountain road for about twenty minutes, and then came to the front of a villa hidden in the woods.
I don't know why, when Mike and Jenny saw this villa, their mood was inexplicably relaxed, Rosa parked the car in the yard, then opened the door, and took Mike and the two of them into the house.
The house is a brick and wood structure, not too old, the house has a basement, and a semi-underground, the other two floors are on the ground, a total of five bedrooms, four toilets, a semi-underground fitness area, and you can also lay on the floor, enough to entertain Mike and his group.
When they entered the house, it was already past three o'clock in the morning, and it was about to dawn again, so that since the day before yesterday, they had been sleepless for more than thirty consecutive hours and nearly forty hours.
Mike and Jenny couldn't help it, and they didn't even have time to shower, so they found a room to sleep, and Rosa knew that she couldn't sleep at this time, because she had to contact her companion in the other car and tell them the address.
She took out a disposable phone, entered the other party's phone number, and dialed it out, the first time the other party didn't answer, which made Rosa a a little worried, could it be that there was something wrong over there?
You must know that they set off at a staggered time, and they set off more than half an hour earlier than those people, plus they had different encounters along the way, who knows where those people will go wrong?
Rosa suppressed the doubt in her heart and dialed it a second time, this time after a long ring, and finally picked up the phone.
"Thank goodness you finally called, sorry we blew a tire here in Montreal, damn it, it's so cold in here...
A voice came from the other end of the phone, and Rosa couldn't help but be unusually happy when she heard the other party say this.
"By the way, you are...
"Hello boss, I'm Eric...
As soon as Rosa heard this, she immediately rang out the ten red berets she had brought with her when she came to New York, this Eric seemed to be the youngest of the ten, and this young man seemed to be very taciturn and very introverted, but he was an unscrupulous demolition expert. (To be continued.) )