It's getting dark.

After two days and two nights of nervousness, people relax and get a half-day holiday to play ball and walk in the camp.

Five or six hours had passed since we returned to Changsheng Island, and the noisy port had gradually returned to calm. The last troops who had been withdrawn from Fort Yangguan had just begun dinner, and I and the other officers had finally finished finishing the work.

Although we were still far from fully completing the post-war process, we had some very precious time to relax. I hadn't slept for more than 36 hours, and I was exhausted and sore from running around and fighting. But I couldn't sleep, my head full of experiences from last night and morning. Sitting in my office on the west side of Changsheng Island, I lay in a chair. The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the window and sprinkled on my chest. The fuchsia glow had lost its noonday warmth and could not illuminate the room.

There was a knock on the door behind me, and I lazily said please come in. The lights in the office were turned on, and the tungsten filament was passed through by the current, emitting a bright white light.

"It's too glaring." I think. Reaching out to cover my face, I slowly turned the chair around, and saw Fang Hai standing in front of the table through the gap between my fingers.

"Sir, Lieutenant Colonel Wong Stone is back."

I nodded, put my hand down, grabbed the hat from the table and snapped it around my head. Huang Sitong returned to the island at noon, slept in the office for less than two hours, got up to comfort the wounded, worked in the barracks for an afternoon, and only now returned to the office area.

I stood up on the armrest of my chair, cheered up, and asked as I went, "Are they going to see Stone?" ”

"Yes, sir." Fang Hai walked briskly behind me, "They have been waiting outside Huang Stone's office since noon, not leaving an inch, as if they are determined to see Huang Stone. ”

Mr. Wongstone's office is not far from mine, a makeshift place for me to rest, just a vegetable patch. As I descended the stairs, I looked out the window and happened to see Stone Wong walk in through the office door. In front of him, a dozen internal guards were walking briskly towards him.

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Huang Stone had long been mentally prepared for what was going to happen next. He has been preparing for a long time, so long that he has been preparing for seven years, from the second year of the Apocalypse when he first learned about the Ao Song Dynasty, to the second year of Chongzhen now. This undoubtedly accounts for a considerable proportion of his life, whether it is the more than 20 years he has spent or the more than 50 years he will spend in the future.

Until when he talked to me about this, he still remembered very clearly the scene when he first came into contact with the Australian Song Dynasty during the Battle of Quang Ninh.

"There is a group of Australian and Song mercenaries participating in the war." He said. When he told this history, there was a mixture of looks in his eyes that I can't put into words. "It was the night when Wang Huazhen escaped from Quang Ninh, and I led my troops to chase him, but I didn't catch up. Wang Huazhen ran away, the army's morale was scattered, and Quang Ninh could not defend. I am going to set fire to Quang Ninh's baggage armaments to prevent them from falling into the hands of Jian Nu. ”

"Then I met a company of Auss-Song mercenaries at the gate of the city. Ha, you can believe it, mercenaries! Mercenaries of the Republic of Australia! me, I'll never forget how I felt at the time. I'm confused, my dear Davaris, I'm confused. Why is there one, the self-proclaimed Ao-Song republic? What is Aosong? I don't remember that there is a country in Europe called Australia Song! And they're all yellow! ”

"I tried to speak English with them, and I spoke a little bit of Russian, which I had left that I hadn't returned to the teacher, but they said they could only speak Chinese and asked me if I could speak Chinese! The time was so tight that I didn't have time to learn more from them. These mercenaries told me that they were from the southern hemisphere, and that they had made a fortune in Liaodong in the first year of the Apocalypse, and were hired by Xiong Tingbi as instructors. ”

"Later... They retreated with the large army to Shanhaiguan, and I led more than 100 people south to defect to Mao Shuai alone. ”

Coming back to his senses, Huang Stone looked at the Aosong internal guard who walked in front of him, and showed a somewhat stiff smile. This scene was imagined many times in his mind. Ever since he gained a foothold on Evergreen Island, he has been learning about Ao Song and this mysterious country that should not appear in history.

The captain of the internal guard, who came by boat, saluted him: "Comrade Huang Stone, please come with us." ”

Huang Stone returned the salute and walked to the office building under the leadership of the internal guard. In his spare light, Junior High School Colonel Li Ru, who led the army to rescue him, was walking out of the building with his adjutant, quietly watching him.

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When I met Wongstone, he was still talking to Captain Guard.

The Captain was shocked that I could walk into the office. When he saw me, he instantly drew the pistol from his waist and pointed it down at me. I have no doubt that he could smash my head in half a second if he thought it was necessary.

The internal guard who led me in stood in the doorway, his voice a little dry. He met the captain's gaze and said slowly, "Sir, there is one more." ”

There was some confusion in the captain's eyes. He withdrew his gaze from the hapless guard's face and looked at me steadily. After more than ten seconds, he seemed to understand something, his face changed with great surprise, and even his body trembled a little.

Finally, the captain let out a sigh of relief and retracted the pistol holster. He waved at the guard, who quickly closed the door with relief, leaving the three of us in the room.

"Please be seated, Lee... Homosexuals. The captain swallowed with some difficulty. He gestured to a row of chairs against the wall, then grabbed a cup of tea and drank it down, making a "gurgling" sound of water.

I nodded at Huang Stone, and I could see the level of shock on his face. After I sat down, the captain looked at me with a complicated expression and said in a low voice, "Comrade Huang, let's continue our topic." ”

"As we said before, the world has nothing to do with your... Your world is different. The cause of immigrating to Nanyang is no longer known, but at least it began during the period when Fang La dominated Jiangnan. At that time, only the poor people along the coast of Guangdong went to sea sporadically, accumulating valuable seafaring experience for China. When the Jurchens eliminated the Northern Song Dynasty, the court of Nandu began to organize the people to colonize the Nanyang in a planned way. At the time of the demise of the pseudo-gold, Luzon was already inhabited by more than two million Song people. ”

Later, the Mongol invasion intensified in the south. Emperor Shengzu Jiaren started with Fujian, reformed the Navigation Association, established a new navy, and accelerated the passage through the South Seas on the one hand, and organized an army to counterattack the Mongol Yuan on the other. ”

"It's a pity that Emperor Zhao Jiaren unfortunately fell ill and died, and no one in the Huanghuang Great Song Dynasty could receive Zhao Jiaren's inheritance. The army that counterattacked to Henan quickly collapsed, the Mongols broke through the fortress of Xiangyang in one go, and the life of the Southern Song Dynasty also entered the countdown. In the last three years, Emperor Shengzu's elder brother Zhao Jiaxin did his best to assemble the largest fleet in the world at the time, taking more than three million people away from the mainland and transferring them to Luzon. ”

"For the next hundred years, we were under the threat of Meng Yuan all the time. The ancestors have been going south and have been drifting, until the troubled times of the late pseudo-Yuan dynasty came, and the ancestors finally moved to Australia to establish a new homeland. ”

"Our country has tried to return to Shenzhou, but when the fleet arrived in Guangzhou, it was already the prefect of the Ming Kingdom who received us." The captain looked at Huang Stone in front of him and said lightly, "We don't want to disrupt the Han regime that has finally settled down in order to return to our homeland, and we don't have the ability to unify China again." So the ancestors went north to Nanjing, met with Zhu Yuanzhang, and reached a consensus. China will support a batch of grain in the Ming Kingdom within ten years, in exchange for the Ming Kingdom's consent to our country to recruit immigrants. ”

"In this way, from the eleventh year of Hongwu to the twenty-second year of Hongwu, China has gained more than six million people from the Shenzhou continent. After the death of Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Jianwen expelled our ambassador and broke off diplomatic ties with our country. At that time, the Nanyang island countries began a hundred years of war with our country, and the imperial court was unable to maintain exchanges with the Ming State, so it almost disappeared in the history of the Ming State. It was not until the Wanli period that China basically eliminated the Islamic countries in Nanyang and returned to Guangdong, which can be regarded as stepping on the stage of China's history again. ”

The captain said this, with a playful smile on his face. He took a sip of tea and continued: "Fifty years ago, something big happened in our country. The emperor was eliminated, and the emerging bourgeoisie seized power and established the great republic. ”

"Comrade Li Ruchu, who is here, has been to Chang'an, and he must have seen the majestic monument to the republic." He looked at me, and I nodded slightly. "Along with the republic was born the great and sacred Senate of our country."

"Five hundred veterans," the captain leaned forward and whispered, "all of them traversers." ”

"This is our country's highest secret, and no one knows it, except us."

The captain said softly: "My father is the patriarch, I am the child of the patriarch, and I have the blood of four hundred years in my body. ”