The city of Kaohsiung, located in southern Taiwan, is now the largest city on the island of Taiwan after Taipei. However, in the early summer of '29, this great city, which will accommodate nearly a million immigrants from Fujian in the future, is still a small city of 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Huang Zongxi, who travels all the way to Kaohsiung along the plains of western Taiwan, is eating at a breakfast restaurant near Xiziwan. After more than a month of traveling, this originally thin scholar has become more vigorous, and the young man's body has also radiated a healthy vitality.

The proprietor in an apron brought a large casserole, then scooped out a bowl of steaming white porridge into the bowl, sprinkled chopped green onions on top, and added a small spoonful of sugar, before handing it to Huang Zongxi, who was sitting near the door.

Huang Zongxi thanked him, blew lightly, and then took a porcelain spoon and stirred the white porridge to break the top layer of oil film. As a layer of heat wafts through the early morning sea breeze, a few pale yellow scallops gush out of the porridge, exuding a faint aroma of seafood.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and was afraid that the white porridge was still hot, so he had to look at the sea not far away to pass the time, and his right hand kept scooping up the porridge and putting it back.

A newsboy with a satchel caught his eye, and he called him over and pulled out a dime coin to buy a newspaper.

"The price of newspapers has gone up again." He muttered a sentence in his mouth, remembering that he bought it in Tainan last week for nine cents, and he didn't know if it was because the newspaper partnered to raise the price or the price in Kaohsiung was relatively high.

The front-page headline was as usual a brief introduction to the affairs of the Viceroyalty of China, including economic, military, agricultural, political, and other sections.

Huang Zongxi skillfully grasped the corner of the newspaper and flipped through the second and third pages together, thinking that this part must be the various instructions and the spirit of the meeting of His Excellency the Governor, but then he felt as if he had seen something else, and turned the newspaper back.

Sure enough, today's second and third editions all gave the Japanese war situation thousands of miles away. Huang Zongxi was surprised to see that the Japanese army in the administered territory, which had been in a state of retreat last week, suddenly counterattacked on all fronts, and in a few days the aggressive shogunate coalition army was crushed, and now the western side of the Kumamoto-Kitakyushu line has been firmly controlled by the expeditionary force, and the situation in Kyushu has been settled.

Huang Zongxi blinked, and subconsciously looked at the date in the upper left corner of the newspaper.

"Today is May 9th, and the news on this is Taipei on the 7th." He scratched his head, "Did you defeat the shogunate so quickly, didn't it take a long time to fight?" ”

The boss who was cutting pickles on the side sneered: "Are you going to fight for a long time, with those widows?" ”

Seeing Huang Zongxi looking at him curiously, the boss simply put down the kitchen knife and sat down, and said with a proud face: "Hou Shengzi, let me tell you, it's easy to beat the widows, those people are only one meter five and four meters tall." ”

He stretched out his hand and compared, indicating that one meter five was only to the position of his mouth: "What kind of Honda Tada, have you heard of it, he is only one meter four!" When I was younger, this kind of dwarf could fight ten! ”

Huang Zongxi nodded blankly, looking at the boss who was born five big and three thick, and said in his heart that the thick arm full of hand hair, he didn't know if he could beat Honda Zhongsheng, but he shouldn't use the second trick to clean up himself.

So he hurriedly praised the boss with a crackle, saying that it was fortunate that Honda Tadakatsu didn't meet the boss, or he would have been chopped by the boss with a knife to cut pickles.

Where can the boss listen to the rainbow fart of the reader, although he doesn't understand a lot of crepe passages, but he is always happy to listen to it, so he let out a rough laugh: "Little brother, if you want me to say, what kind of ghost Yuan Chonghuan is in Liaodong of the Ming Kingdom, don't do it, go back to Guangdong as soon as possible to eat old rice, and let Mao Dashuai of Dongjiang Town or Li Dashuai of the National Defense Force (Note 1) be the governor, I think I can kill all Jiannu within this year." ”

Huang Zongxi listened to the boss's words and said with some hesitation: "You are from the Australian Song Dynasty?" ”

The boss slapped the table, blew his beard and glared: "Hugh said this, although Lao Tzu's ancestral home is Xiamen, he loves me more than Mingguo!" ”

So Huang Zongxi nodded, and lowered his head and began to drink porridge despite the fact that the porridge was still relatively hot. The boss knew that the scholar probably still had some thoughts, and he didn't want to say more, so he returned to the board and began to chop vegetables.

There was a moment of silence in the breakfast shop, but soon a new guest broke up the awkward atmosphere.

"Hey, have you heard, the new governor has arrived in Kaohsiung!" As soon as the guest sat down, and before he could take off his hat, he couldn't help but say it loudly, and his face was full of light.

Huang Zongxi raised his head and glanced at the man, and asked softly, "Sir, where is the new governor now?" ”

"I arrived in the middle of the night, and I'm still in the port." The guest said as he took off his hat and raised his eyebrows.

"I arrived just before the night shift, and I could only see the warship from afar, but I didn't see the Governor with my own eyes."

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"Boss, pack twenty cakes and add spicy."

When Huang Zongxi finished breakfast and was about to leave the store, a young man in a gray military uniform walked into the store and said to the boss.

Huang Zongxi looked at the man with some curiosity, and accidentally looked at him, and his heart jumped, as if he saw a tiger lying on the ground.

The man immediately lowered his head after looking at him, and when he raised his head again, he no longer had the momentum he had just now, only a pair of ordinary eyes.

After receiving the large paper bag handed by the boss, the man smiled apologetically at Huang Zongxi, turned around and trotted away.

Huang Zongxi didn't know what to think, so he also got up and left the store and followed the man towards the beach.

The man trotted all the way, but the paper bag he was carrying in his hand was almost motionless, as if it had been separated from the man's hand and existed on its own. Seeing that the young man in the shop had been following him, the man stopped and said, "Comrade, do you have anything to do?" ”

Huang Zongxi stopped a little embarrassed, bowed and said, "Xiao Ke came from the Ming Kingdom and traveled here... Seeing that the gentleman had an extraordinary bearing, he was deeply curious, so he took the liberty to follow..."

The man laughed: "What an extraordinary bearing, I don't deserve such words." You can follow if you want, just wait a while to get to the place, and you can't follow anymore. ”

Huang Zongxi smiled embarrassedly, so he slowly followed the man and followed him all the way to the wooden plank road by the sea.

Seeing that the man had all the way to the few people who were sitting on the wooden plank road blowing the wind, Huang Zongxi stopped, found a place to sit down dozens of meters away, and quietly looked at the other party with his spare eyes.

After a while, the person who had bought breakfast before ran over again and saluted Huang Zongxi: "Hello, comrade, my commander wants to talk to you, would you like to come with me?" ”

Huang Zongxi stood up and returned the salute respectfully: "Of course, it's a great honor." ”

The man's chief was an elderly man in his fifties, dressed in a gray-white Hanfu, with short hair and a short beard, and his deep facial features and gray beard hair, which looked not angry and arrogant in the light of the rising sun.

Seeing Huang Zongxi coming, the elder nodded at him and did not get up. He patted the empty seat beside him and said, "Young man, please sit down." ”

Huang Zongxi observed several young men in military uniforms beside the elder with his spare eyes, and waited until he felt like he had been stripped naked, then he sat down and respectfully vacated the front half of his buttocks.

"I heard that you are a scholar from the Ming Kingdom." The elder looked at the sea, took the cake handed over by the young man before, stuffed it into his mouth, and asked Huang Zongxi with his eyes if he wanted to have it.

Huang Zongxi hurriedly waved his hand to indicate that he had eaten, and replied: "Yes sir, I took a boat from Hangzhou to Taipei, and then traveled all the way to Kaohsiung." ”

The elder nodded and asked lightly, "What do you think is the difference between my Ao Song and Ming Kingdom?" ”

"The people of Ao Song, well, how to say it, are very confident, very..."

Huang Zongxi held back for a while before squeezing out one word: "Dignity, yes, dignity." They are very dignified and proud, which is the biggest difference between them and the people of the Ming Kingdom. ”

The elder glanced at Huang Zongxi in some surprise, and after a while said, "You are different from other Ming scholars, young man. At least you look a little deeper and see clearly. ”

"What's your name?"

"The kid is a native of Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang, with the surname Huang, the double name Zongxi, and the small character Taichong."

"Oh, Huang Zongxi, you also have that name. I've heard that there is a Huang Zongxi in Jiangnan before, and it seems that the words are too rushing......"

The elder's eyes widened suddenly, and he suddenly turned his head to stare at Huang Zongxi, and threw the cake in his hand to the young man in military uniform before: "Wait a minute, your kid's name is Huang Zongxi?" Is that Huang Zongxi at the end of the Ming Dynasty you? Your father's name is Huang Zunsu, and your teacher is Liu Zongzhou? ”

Seeing that Huang Zongxi nodded a little dumbfounded, the elder who was still dignified and elegant before suddenly grinned: "Hey, it turns out that you are Huang Zongxi." Okay, good, it's really good luck to meet Huang Zongxi in Kaohsiung. ”

The elder simply stood up as he spoke, took out a stack of business cards from his pocket, and handed one to Huang Zongxi: "Take the kid, take it, if you have anything in the future, you can take this to the government, or go directly to Taipei to find me." ”

"You kid have to study hard and think hard, find something to write some works, and keep your name in history in the future."

Huang Zongxi nodded blankly, and subconsciously glanced at the business card in his hand.

"Senate of the Republic of Australia and Song Dynasty ; Head of the European Military Advisory Group ; Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht Zhu Mingxia "

He raised his head even more dumbly, and the elder was looking at him with a red face: "I'm sorry, this is the previous business card." The new business card has not yet been completed, and the above 'European Military Advisory Group' will be changed to 'Governor of the Viceroy of China'. ”