Section 103 Transformation

After reading it, Liu Dalin was a little difficult to figure out the meaning. In the front, there was obviously a self-complaint, expressing the "last resort" of fighting with the officers and soldiers, but in the back, they were showing off the great martial arts of this great victory. This ambivalence baffled him.

He himself is conflicted. In his opinion, it is logical for the government to send troops to suppress it -- the so-called whole world is not the king's land, and although the Australians did not pull the flag and set off cannons in Lingao, they openly rebelled, but they did not attach it to the table, and they acted like an enemy country.

But the Australians, whether locally or in Guangdong, have never done anything wrong, and the people have also benefited from them. Especially in Lingao, in recent years, the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment - this is all due to them. As far as the situation is concerned, the government's attack and suppression will not be able to raise the will of the people.

The imperial court occupies the reason, and the Australians occupy the hearts of the people.

He suddenly thought of Mencius's remarks about "the people's heart", and his back suddenly felt cold. He didn't want to think about it anymore, but he no longer imagined that he would simply think of the thief as an "overseas barbarian" or something like that.

While she was pondering, Madame sent a servant to ask:

"Madame said that tomorrow is the day to go to Jasmine Xuan to give lectures, and asked the master if he wants to go?"

Liu Dalin pondered for a moment, and the Australians were already at war with the officers and soldiers, and the most haode was Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhilong and other "giants". Whether I should continue to lecture at Jasmine Xuan has become a big problem.

Madame and his friends and classmates meant that he should not go any further, lest he be involved in the future.

After thinking about it again, he still nodded: "I will still go tomorrow." ”

The servant had a look of hesitation on his face: "Tomorrow?" ”

"If you go, you have to go," he accentuated. Jasmine Xuan is not an Australian-run school: it is a century-old Yixue inherited by Lingao, and since he has taken up one of the teaching positions, he can't help but go.

After speaking, he continued to look at the pillar of light in the distance, and after a while, he woke up like a dream and said, "Go back to the room."

The servants respectfully pushed his wheelchair back to the upper room to rest, and when the master rested, the servants dispersed to their own devices. A young subordinate was packing up the old man's wheelchair. The housekeeper took care of him: This wheelchair is a little "tight", and he will be pushed to Dongmen City tomorrow to find the Tiandihui store to clean up.

"Buy me a few boxes of cigarettes by the way." After he finished instructing, he took out a stack of negotiable coupons from his arms, and carefully counted a few for the young man, "I want to buy 'Bairentan', not 'Gaoshan Ridge', remember?" Give you extra money for this twenty-five cent ticket. ”

Steward Zhao smiled proudly. This kind of fortune is really a no-brainer.

When the officials and troops were about to fight, there was a period of depreciation in the negotiable bills, and everyone was anxious to spend the money, and there was a small "rush to buy" in the markets everywhere, and many people were anxious to exchange the negotiable bills in their hands for goods, silver, and copper coins. The crisis was quickly quelled by the strong intervention of the Finance and Finance Commission and the Planning Institute. However, some anxious people lost a lot in this small financial storm because they threw out the negotiable bills at a low price.

Steward Zhao made a lot of extra money in this trend. On the contrary, he used the copper coins in hand to buy negotiable bills, and when the turmoil passed, he actually made a small fortune. Steward Zhao trusts Australians so much because his son is now working for Australians, and he has become a "cadre", in a yamen called "General Office". Dedicated to taking care of the lives of the "chiefs". And his grandson is studying in Yerba Chowena. Therefore, Steward Zhao is very clear about the affairs of the Australians, this time the officers and soldiers came to encircle and suppress, although he kept his mouth shut about who won and who lost, he already had a bottom in his heart.

Everything was arranged for the night, he sat in the concierge on the middle door and prepared to go to night, took out the cards while smoking, and played "Australian customs clearance". This kind of card game has just become popular recently, because it can be played alone, there is no suspicion of gambling money, so it is very popular with people with strict family style.

The singing outside was getting louder and louder, and it was about Nanbao's procession heading to Bairen, and the housekeeper knew that they were singing Australian Protestant songs, which his grandchildren also sang, and often practiced at home. The grandchildren, like his father, now have short Australian hair and wear a cardigan, looking very energetic, and their mouths are full of neologisms he doesn't understand.

Steward Zhao was very pleased. He often said: "The feng shui of our old Zhao family should also be changed, and we can't always give people the current person." "Since he didn't know which of his ancestors, their family has been a long-term servant and servant for generations. Steward Zhao was the father who followed Liu Dalin to be an official when he was young, and came to high school from the mainland. From a scholar to a housekeeper in the past few decades. Climb to the highest level of slavery.

The arrival of Australians unexpectedly gave the family a whole new possibility. Steward Zhao's son went to work for the Australians because he couldn't make up for the lack in Liu's house - many people thought that this son of the Zhao family was too bold. Now not only has his identity changed, but even his house has been purchased, and his enjoyment of food is no worse than that of the local landlord. It makes the people around him very red-eyed. People who talk cool are now starting to ask how they can be errand for Australians.

He listened to the singing outside, thinking that several of his grandchildren were probably also singing in the team, and the eldest grandson was also ten years old, and in a few years he would be able to work as an errand for the Australian master. My own life is getting better day by day.

He played cards and hummed the tune of "March of the Grenadiers".

The procession gathered from all directions to the main stadium and in the center of the stadium was piled up a hill-high firewood pile, which was already burning brightly, and the two rows of torch cages on the pillars were also lit. And the huge torch cage on the torch stand burned with huge flames. The entire stadium was shrouded in flames. Many small stage searchlights dance in the air all around. On the black background of the sky, eight huge pillars of light shot at the bottom of the low clouds like a tangible body, as if they had penetrated the clouds and reached Xiaohan.

Weapons captured from the Battle of Chengmai: A variety of cannons, one by one, are displayed around the fire, and the light of the fire reflects the light in the bronze and black iron cannons. Knives, guns, armor, firearms...... All kinds of armor were piled up into huge triangular pyramidal piles. The most terrifying of them all was a large pile of thousands of helmets in the shape of a triangular cone, which glowed strangely in the light of the fire.

Under the pillars hung flags - they were the flags of the Ming army captured in Chengmai, all kinds of flags, torn, stained with blood and mud, hanging in rows under the pillars on both wings.

Columns of students, militiamen, policemen, garrison companies, and marines, armed with torches and flags, marched along the runway, changing formations in rhythm. Although the incident was rushed and could not be changed into too complicated formations, the effect was enough to shock the crowd participating in the parade. They lost all senses and judgment, and only kept waving the lanterns and torches of the book with loud cheers to the rhythm of the music.

The ordinary people who were not organized to participate in the parade but just came to see the excitement stared at them in amazement, and such a spectacular scene was far beyond their imagination. They kept their distance one by one trembling and fearful, but they looked at it with great fascination. The uniforms, the processions, the firelight, and the majestic march stirred up the hearts of the young men with strong blood.

"This scene is so familiar, a fake and shoddy copy. You are missing a crisp black and brown uniform. The blonde woman who was filming in DV in the corner of the rostrum made a mocking sound.

Tintin immediately stopped his girlfriend's comments. But this comment has already fallen into the ears of several people.

Wei Aiwen nodded again and again: "I think it's very good, based on the existing conditions, and has made the most haode effect." ”

The others did not speak. This familiar scene made them feel a lot of emotion, and they also knew more and more what kind of role they played in this new shijie. Some people are terrified of the new society and new order that they have suddenly created with their own hands, and which have now sprouted and begun to grow. There are also people who are full of ecstasy and anticipation for the future.

Fang Fei was one of those who suddenly felt a little frightened. He is the creator of all these rituals. He didn't innovate anything, he just transplanted and adapted it to fit this new environment. Although the scene in front of him was spectacular, he felt that he actually preferred the scene of many beautiful girls in CHINAJOY wearing very little fabric clothes and scratching their heads.

Fang Fei quietly glanced at the people standing on the rostrum in order of power. Wen Desi, Ma Qianzhu, Wu De, Cheng Dong, Ma Jia...... One by one, they stood in the center of the rostrum in crisp uniforms. The spotlight shone on them, as well as on the huge wooden badge on the stone wall behind them, the huge bow of the holy ship, the halo, the gears, the ears of wheat, the swords and the shields. These people stood under the huge badges, gilded with a layer of light from the beams of the spotlights, making them look tall and extraordinary. The lens of a camera swept over their faces. Some are smiling and waving, while others are serious, as if they are thinking about something important.

Huang Yukun also crowded into the crowd, watching this never-before-seen scene. In addition to being extremely shocked, he still secretly said: "It's really a group of demons dancing" He originally didn't believe that the officers and soldiers would be defeated in Chengmai, thinking that it was just a small advance team that defeated the officers and soldiers. But the piles of armor, cannons, and flags under the colonnade in the center of the square are not fake. It is impossible for even a thief to get so many weapons, armor, and banners. The Huang family has coordinated with the officers and soldiers many times and knows the equipment of the officers and soldiers well. These things cannot be faked, and there is no need to be faked.

He silently squeezed out of the crowd. Get on a sedan chair and go to the county seat. Ever since it was rumored that the official army was going to enter to suppress the thieves, he had been staying at Li Xiaopeng's house. At the beginning, Li Xiaopeng followed him to make trouble in Zhangtian, and the two of them formed a "deep combat friendship", and the two of them dreamed of welcoming the restoration of the official army together, and secretly and quietly moved.

Li Xiaopeng was originally very radical, and was willing to sponsor a few hundred taels of silver to make up his salary, so that Huang Yukun secretly organized the villagers to attack the ox carts on the highway; assaults on individual police officers and cadres; Send people to set fires and so on.

But to deal with the thieves by force and to deal with the officials and soldiers, Huang Yukun knew that it was absolutely impossible. Unless the thief escapes on his own, he pulls hundreds of men and horses behind him to follow the boom, and if he fights hard, he is looking for death. So their covert activities are nothing more than colluding with disgruntled elements against Australians, and they have held several meetings in a row. Huang Yukun is quite a strategist, and if he talks about pulling the team, he is afraid that he will not be able to arm the township to respond to the officers and soldiers, but he can spend some effort on spying on the news. At that moment, some people were assigned to investigate the military situation of the thieves, some people went to Bairencheng and Bopu to draw maps, and some people went to teahouses and other places to chat with "cadres" to inquire about the reality of the thieves. Huang Yukun planned to summarize the news from these spies and send someone to Chengmai.

But he soon knew what it meant to be a rebellion for ten years. A student sent to the military camp near Bairen City to investigate, originally imposing, with an impassioned appearance of sacrificing his life for righteousness, but after going a few times, he was suddenly stopped and asked a few questions, and he was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and he immediately stopped showing up after coming back. Huang Yukun was originally glad that although this person was not helpful, he didn't say anything. Unexpectedly, in the next few days, several people complained of illness or claimed that there was something at home, and no longer came to participate in this cause. And because Li Xiaopeng fell in love with a female "cadre" under the thief, he suddenly became cold about the expulsion of the thief. Huang Yukun's strategy to take over the officers and soldiers was also ruined.

Huang Yukun was helpless, Huang Shoutong sent someone to find his son back, and the father and son talked for a long time in the secret room. Huang Shoutong warned his son not to act rashly, let alone go out to meet the official army by himself, lest the official army really come to Huangjiazhai and bear too much burden. In case the official army loses the battle and the thieves retaliate, Huangjiazhai will be razed to the ground.

It seems that my father thought it through, and he could see that Huang Yukun was secretly thinking in the sedan chair, if he really had to let go of it according to his own ideas, I am afraid that this time Huangjiazhai would be wiped out. He couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

It seems that if you want to fight against the thief, you have to be soft and soft. As my father said in the past, if you want to "delay", you can only wait for the opportunity secretly.

But where does this opportunity come from? After this defeat of the official army, it is impossible to mobilize a large army to fight back in three or five years. And looking at the appearance just now, a group of fools and fools have already thrown themselves to the ground and worshiped them like gods. Huang Yukun pondered and meditated, and when the sedan chair arrived at Li's house, he hadn't come up with an ugly man.

In order to be able to monitor the movements of the thieves at any time, he still lived in the Li family for a long time. When he returned to the west study where he was staying, he saw that it was dark and dreary, and he didn't even have a light, so he couldn't help but scold his little servant Huang Ping for being too slack. So he went out of the house and lit the lamps and candles.

Just as he was about to call someone to fetch water and wash, Huang Ping had already come in from outside, he was only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old and a half-year-old child. His face was full of excitement.

"Where have you been? It's getting late, and I don't even have the lights," Huang Yukun reprimanded.

Huang Ping didn't have time to admit his mistake and ask for forgiveness, so he hurriedly told the master a big news:

"The second son, the fourth son, went to register today, and he wants to go to school in Fangcaodi"

"What did you say?" Huang Yukun was taken aback. Li Sigongzi is the youngest brother of Li Xiaopeng's concubine, and he is only eleven years old this year. I've been studying at home, why do you suddenly want to go to the thief's school? He knew that in that place, everything he taught was Australian knowledge, and it had nothing to do with the way of Confucius and Mencius.

Australian knowledge can indeed be called the study of knowledge through the world, but learning this kind of thing cannot be examined.

He almost blurted out that "Master Li is crazy", but after thinking about it, he already understood that the Li family was ready to sell himself to take refuge, and sending the inconsequential concubine to school in Fangcaodi was tantamount to losing his sincerity.

The thieves did not ask the gentry to do so. Now that the Li family has done it first, they will definitely get the attention of the thieves and will definitely get a lot of benefits.

Thinking that the Li family had quietly made such a big 180-degree turn, Huang Yukun not only felt resentful but also frightened -- if the Li family sold out the matter of secretly organizing people to prepare for the uprising of the official army, Huangjiazhai would be completely finished.

He was silent for a while, feeling that the Li family would not do this. This is illustrated by the fact that they sent a concubine. The Li family just wants to step on two boats. Indeed, anyone who can make a gesture of refuge in a thief is now rich. This is something that no one can afford to remain indifferent.

But this thought also inspired him. Since the thieves will not be able to defeat them from the outside for a while, they can only go deep into them to truly grasp their reality and reality. For example, the thief's firearm weishenme can be so sharp? And what can they do to make many things that they couldn't think of become a reality? Huang Yukun felt that as long as he inquired about these things one by one, he would be able to know where the key points of the thieves were, and then he would be able to expel them in one fell swoop, or even eliminate them.

Thinking of this, his gaze fell on Huang Ping. The boy was looking at him with some uneasiness.

"The young master of his family went to Fangcaodi, what are you happy about?"

"The little ones aren't happy about it......" he said a little hesitantly. Huang Yukun asked for a long time before he realized that the Li family had just come to a few thieves, and one of them turned out to be a female thief, who was talking to someone in the flower hall.

"It's a real female Australian," Huang Ping accentuated.

"Oh?" Huang Yukun was interested, and the Li family and the thief had no relationship. What is the purpose of the thief's sudden visit to the Li family tonight? Contacting the Li family to send his concubine to Fangcaodi to study, he couldn't help but be very curious.