In the communal cafeteria, large groups of newcomers sit around tables and devour their dinners in the steam.

Xu Wenxuan and Chen Tingmei sat at a table, relatively speechless. Their wives and children sat next to them, silently watching the fairly sumptuous meal on the table. The child couldn't stand the temptation of food, and kept looking at the beef on the table and swallowing saliva, but because of his father's years of accumulation, he didn't dare to put down the chopsticks before getting permission.

"Brother Zizhen, it's all at this point, it's useless to think about everything, let's eat first, my nephews are hungry. I think these barbarians seem to have a certain law, so my brother doesn't need to worry too much. Xu Wenxuan, who was sitting on the left, said.

Chen Tingmei nodded silently, and several people began to eat. This communal canteen is very large and can also accommodate 1,000 people at the same time. The sweet and juicy beef imported from La Plata, paired with a delicious fish soup and salted fish, tastes great in terms of taste and nutrition.

Xu and Chen are okay, they have some surplus wealth at home, and they can eat a few meals of meat every once in a while, but the others are very unbearable. Some villagers find it difficult to eat meat even during the Chinese New Year, and at this time, they smell the breathy beef, and eat it one by one, almost swallowing their tongues.

Several Irishmen kept moving in large vats of steamed potatoes and yelled in broken Chinese, "Enough potatoes!" Enough potatoes to pipe! ”

Many of the villagers looked up at them in amazement, and then lowered their heads to eat, neither understanding what the Yi people were saying, nor interested in understanding what they were saying. Everything is fake, only your belly is full, God is pitiful, it's been more than half a year, and I finally have a full meal to eat. Even if these Yi people resell themselves to somewhere in the future, they will not lose by eating more at this time.

"What a luxury these barbarians do." Chen Tingmei gave the last piece of beef in her bowl to her son, and then sighed and said, "Hundreds of people here eat together, and people give four taels of beef and one pound of fish. It's really... Very extravagant! ”

Xu Wenxuan also finished his share at this time, touching his bulging belly, and he still felt unfinished. "Brother Zizhen, you still have a few acres of thin fields at home, and you can still live a leisurely life, but I can't. After being kicked out of the house by my brother, I was going to starve for a day without work, and I hadn't eaten this beef for years. ”

"Well, you have to mention these things again when the time comes." Chen Tingmei sighed and said with a little sadness: "You also know that I am waiting to take this huge deck ship to the country and leave my hometown, and I am afraid that this place is thousands of miles away. A little bit of the past is not to be mentioned again, which only makes people sad and emotional. ”

This Xu Wenxuan's mentality at this time was adjusted quite well, I saw him look around slightly, and then said in a low voice: "Brother Zizhen, you and I have long since stopped this way of studying and entering the world." At this moment, I see that these barbarians are quite lawful, and the royal majesty is also extremely strict. ”

"The state of barbarians is what it feels like to be a scholar and an old scholar."

"Brother Zizhen's words are wrong. There will be no secret words between your brothers, Brother Zizhen, your clan also has something to do with maritime merchants, you should know the power of this Franc, Risbamia and Hongyi's deck giant ship. These Franco-machine giant ships are still so honest when they arrive here, so the Yiren here should have some means and skills. If you are new to the city, you might as well make a false accusation first, and then plan for the future, so that your sister-in-law and nephew will not have a difficult life. Xu Wenxuan was tempting.

"There is some truth in what you said." Chen Tingmei nodded slowly, "Let's make a false accusation first, and then make other plans." Alas, this time, I was accidentally taken captive by Liu Xiang, which is really hateful. Hey, by the way, most of the people Liu Xiang plundered this time are my Wentai villagers, and some of them are my family's former tenants, should I contact one or two in case of emergency? ”

"Never!" Xu Wenxuan's voice rose suddenly, he looked around carefully, and found that he didn't notice him, so he said, "Brother Zizhen, don't be so reckless. I think that the chief of Nayi is not an unwise person, how can he not guard against our private collusion, this matter is taboo, and must be done with caution. ”

"Fortunately, the virtuous brother reminded him, otherwise the foolish brother must have made a big mistake."

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Anda Fifteen looked at the bowl full of beef and salted fish, and almost burst into tears of excitement. It's been years since he'd eaten something so delicious, he thought to himself.

Born into a low-ranking samurai family, Anda Fifteen has not had a full meal since his father died of illness. Samurai in this year are everywhere in Japan, and there are not as many as fifteen of them. After many years of stumbling in society, the depressed Anda XV simply gritted his teeth and boarded the thief ship of Captain Carvalho, preparing to go to the "South Seas" to make a fortune. Unexpectedly, he was cheated by Captain Carvalho this time, and people secretly changed the concept, this South Sea is not the South Sea, but the South Atlantic.

However, Anda Fifteen has a very good mentality, where is it not mixed rice. If there is someone here who can feed him every day, and eat some meat such as beef from time to time, he will treat him as his home, even if it is Tessie Hongyi.

There were a few more samurai who were tricked by Captain Carvalho with him this time, but none of them were as good as themselves. Those down-and-out guys didn't even have a katana, and they were embarrassed to call themselves samurai, and Anda Fifteen was a little disdainful. As for the remaining dozens of bankrupt peasants, Anda 15 would not even look at them squarely.

"I really hope that this day will pass quickly, and tomorrow there will be a master who appreciates me, and I will definitely show my due value." Anda Fifteen fantasized beautifully while eating the fragrant beef.

Half an hour later, just as everyone was about to eat, several tall officers walked into the cafeteria door. Leading the way was Army Reserve Lieutenant Wei Aiwen, and behind him were six rehabilitation veterans, all from Switzerland, who were among the first immigrants and belonged to the more trusted group of the Crossing Crowd.

Wei Aiwen was dressed in the regular uniform of a lieutenant officer of the Type 33 Mechanism, still a straight cotton military uniform, a snow-white canvas armed belt, and solid cowhide military boots, carrying a saber in his left hand and a pistol holster in his right hand, looking at the immigrants with a complicated expression as they looked at them blankly because of their sudden arrival.

"According to the latest order of the Executive Committee, new arrivals are required to undergo basic military cohort training and language learning during the quarantine period." Wei Aiwen looked around and found that the eyes of these people were still confused, and he didn't know if he couldn't understand or what was going on. So he raised his voice and said: "From today onwards, you will conduct military training during the day and language study at night. All actions shall be subject to commands, and shall not disobey the orders of the superiors, and if there is a violation, one warning and two sentences of hard labor will be sent to the north to dig coal. Women and children are exempt from military training during the day, but they must be responsible for cleaning the entire quarantine area. I don't care if you hear it or not, now, all the adult males are standing up and marching out! ”

There was no response, the immigrants looked at me and I looked at you, looking at each other.

"All stand up!" Wei Aiwen raised his voice, and several veterans behind him also shouted in Chinese.

"It's... This general, student Xu Wenxuan, a student of Wenzhou Mansion. Dare to ask this general, but he wants me to wait for the man to get up and go out? One of the immigrants asked as he slowly stood up, speaking the same plausible Mandarin as the Crossing Crowd, but Wei Aiwen barely understood.

Well, it seems that some of these immigrants can understand what they are saying. Wei Aiwen was secretly happy in his heart, but he still said with a straight face: "Not bad! Xu Wenxuan, yes, you are good, remember to raise your hand and shout 'report' before speaking next time, and now, you come to the front to relay my order. ”

With Xu Wenxuan's help, the group of male immigrants dragged their feet and began to line up outside the door. The whole process lasted more than half an hour, and after the last day, under the wooden sticks of the veterans and the police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the ignorant villagers barely lined up in a four-line horizontal line, but the formation can be said to be miserable.

"That's how it got to the beginning." Wei Aiwen thought secretly, and then he and the six veterans who served as instructors walked into the queue separately and corrected the postures of these villagers one by one.

"Hey, you're Japanese?" Wei Aiwen looked at the immigrant in front of him with his hair in a bun and asked with a look of surprise. This guy is less than 1.6 meters tall, with a bald middle and front of his head, and a bun, which looks a lot like the images of Japanese samurai on TV.

Anda Fifteen didn't know what Lu Dao, a tall, first-class figure who looked like a "general", was staring at him, although he couldn't understand what he was saying, but he must have done something wrong. Therefore, he could only bow slightly and shout "Hay! Pray for the other person's forgiveness.

"It's really Japanese." Wei Aiwen was a little speechless, and then said angrily: "These two old Portuguese liars! Those who are brave enough dare to fool us. Hmph, do you really think that we are Tatars so we can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese? Well, I'll have to report to the executive committee and deduct his mother's shipping after that! Damn, a man can buy 40 cows at wholesale prices from the ranchers of La Plata. ”

Anda Fifteen saw that Wei Aiwen had been muttering something in his mouth, and he felt a little uneasy, and he could only keep bowing "Hai" without knowing the reason.

"Alright, alright, don't bow." Wei Aiwen impatiently pressed Anda Fifteen's shoulder, preventing him from continuing to bow. Then he walked back to the front of the queue and shouted, "Starting today, you will have a fifteen-day queue training. Now, teach you the basic passwords, and I will remember them by heart, and whoever does it wrong will be punished in a while! The first password I taught, 'Lizheng'......"

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