Fights are normal for cowboys.

People who don't know the profession of cowboys, thinking of cowboys may be associated with rough westerns, is the chivalrous Zorro, or the wild and uninhibited jeans and cowboy hats, in fact, this is not the case at all, cowboys are a very hard profession, the living state is actually more similar to the homeless man, it is undeniable that some cowboys are very good, but most of them are struggling at the bottom of the society, and sometimes they are even forced to do something completely unrelated to the profession of cowboy, such as thieves, such as robbers and so on.

It's also understandable why so many cowboys come to sign up when the Far East company posts job postings, and some even come from the far southern states, and that's the case with Bad Bill, who is a Texan, and came to New York to try his luck, and since that's already the case, it's not bad to try it in the Far East.

Bearded Chinese are obviously more special, in fact, Chinese people have more choices in New York, in addition to entering the Junma Group as an industrial worker, if you want to have a more exciting life, you can also choose to join Springfield Company as a man in black, in short, Chinese people in New York have more opportunities than whites.

However, there are always people in this world who are more special, and this is the case with the bearded Chinese, who and his companions are not willing to accept the ordinary life, and the adventure in the Far East is obviously more exciting than being a man in black.

As a veteran cowboy, Rotten Bill has a wealth of experience in fighting, and this occasion is obviously not suitable for using weapons, so Rotten Bill immediately put on a boxer pose, hiding his face behind his fist to provoke the bearded Chinese, and the pace of his feet is not bad, at least quite flexible.

The bearded Chinese took off his coat and threw it to his companions, revealing the bronzed muscles of his upper body, and jumped on the spot a few times to warm up briefly, and then hooked his finger contemptuously at the rotten man Bill.

This action is very provocative, and the cheers of the guys around who are watching the excitement immediately raise a level, and the rotten man Bill stepped on small broken steps and was about to test the attack, and a voice suddenly came from the second floor: "If you want to fight outside, those who dare to fight in the company will be disqualified." ”

It's really disappointing, the hall suddenly booed, and someone secretly gestured to the second floor with the middle finger, the rotten man Bill reacted quickly, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief while not forgetting to shout: "You should be glad for this, otherwise you will definitely make a fool of yourself today-"

The answer to Rotten Bill was a big middle finger.

The registration work is still very fast, in view of the fact that many cowboys can not even spell their names correctly, Far East Company from the headquarters of the Horse Group "borrowed" more than 20 clerks to be responsible for registration, after a simple record of the name and place of origin, someone will review the qualifications of the candidates, and the audit is also very simple, as long as you can hit ten shots on the 50-meter chest target, or swim back and forth in the East River, you will immediately become an employee of the Far East Company.

"Name?" The person in charge of registering the bearded Chinese was a girl in her early twenties, although she was young, but she was already very skilled, and when she saw the skin color characteristics of the bearded Chinese, the girl quietly filled in the registration form of the bearded Chinese.

Considering that these people will go to the Far East to carry out missions in the future, so the color of their skin is still quite important, so don't talk about any discrimination or non-discrimination at this time, in principle, as long as there are Orientals willing to apply, they will be approved, regardless of whether they are Chinese or not.

"Jimmy, both the Chinese name and the English name are this." The bearded Chinese man had a calm expression and did not feel any preferential treatment.

If you can, the Chinese are still willing to find a name with a similar pronunciation to the original surname when choosing an English name, for example, a large part of the Chinese with the surname "Li" are called Liszt, and the surname "Liu" is called Lewis, and Jimmy's luck is not bad.

"What's going to happen? Have you ever been in the military? "The girl is businesslike.

"I was a member of the Springfield Rifle Association, fought in the Cuban War of Independence, and then served in the Army's 1st Cavalry Division and retired at the end of last year." Jimmy made a long story short.

1st Cavalry Division of the Army –

When Jimmy said these words, he immediately won an exclamation from the surroundings, the 1st Cavalry Division of the Army was formed on the basis of the Chinese troops that appeared in the Cuban War, most of them have dual citizenship of the United States and Cuba, it is said that they have the experience of participating in the Cuban War, and they should not retire at this age, and if they retire in time, they can also serve in the Cuban Army, so that they will not be reduced to the Far East Company to make a living, it seems that Jimmy has his own story.

The girl didn't say anything special about this, and after filling out the form according to the procedure, the girl motioned for Jimmy to go to the backyard for testing, and then looked up and shouted, "Next." ”

"Hey, man, I heard that the War Department is also expanding, why don't you try your luck there?" With the golden signboard of the 1st Cavalry Division, someone will immediately be close to Jimmy Set.

The news that the War Department was going to form two new divisions had also spread, and those who were interested in joining the army had already gone to California, and most of these people who came to the Far East Company to sign up did not want to be bound by military discipline, otherwise serving the country should be a more promising choice.

"Their uniforms are so ugly that I don't like them." Jimmy gives a surprising answer.

"Hahahaha, yes man, I think so too."

Unlike the magazine-type rifles that were already commonly equipped, the weapon used by the Far East Company to test was the Springfield 1875 lever-type shotgun, which had a large magazine of eight rounds, and a skilled snatcher could fire all eight rounds in two seconds, which was an insolvable close-range killer in this era.

It is precisely because the range of the lever shotgun is not far that it loses to the magazine rifle in the competition of standard weapons, but this does not mean that the lever shotgun has no merits, in fact, in the dense forests of the Far East, the range of more than 50 meters is almost meaningless, so the shotgun is the king, and it is for this reason that the War Department ordered a large number of shotguns from the Horse Arms Company to prepare for jungle warfare.

Jimmy, who participated in the Cuban War and served in the 1st Cavalry Division, successfully passed the test, Jimmy performed extremely well in rifle shooting, and the chest target 50 meters away was made into a hornet's nest by Jimmy, and the staff in charge of the test even skipped the swimming event directly, and gave Jimmy a big green stamp on the test form.

Well, in fact, because of Jimmy's skin color, even if Jimmy performs badly in the test, Jimmy can still enter the Far East Company, after all, the Far East Company needs more than just combatants, and non-combatants are just as important.

Walking out of the gate of the Far East Company, Jimmy touched the ten dollars he had just received in his pocket, looked at the Horse Plaza in the distance and sighed imperceptibly.

"Lao Ji, have you passed?" The Chinese who came to apply for the job came to inquire excitedly, and by looking at his look, he must have passed.

"Of course, pediatrics!" Jimmy laughed, his expression as confident as ever.

Governor Island, Yan Shun, who was dressed in formal clothes, walked quickly through the corridor, walked to the door of Li Mu's office, and cast an inquiring look at the secretary at the door.

The secretary smiled and nodded, made a "please come in" gesture, Yan Shun straightened his bow tie, and then pushed the door in.

Li Mu was flipping through the latest issue of Time magazine behind his desk, and on the front page was a large photo of James Garfield, in which James Garfield clenched his fists as if shouting, and his expression was extremely resolute.

"General George Dewey telegraphed back that the matter of the Liberation Society was a misunderstanding, after all, Pearl Harbor is also on Oahu, and it is said that the headquarters of the Liberation Society is less than a kilometer away from General George Dewey's office, and at this distance, General George Dewey will not allow any non-military organizations to exist, and Congressman Chen Guofang is ready to put the headquarters of the Liberation Society on Molokai Island, so that it is far enough away from Pearl Harbor that General George Dewey cannot see it even with a telescope." Yan Shun's report was not mixed with personal emotions.

Hearing the name "Restoration Society", Li Mu was inexplicably irritable, in Li Mu's impression, this name seems to have always been associated with some people, which makes Li Mu now have a sense of confusion that time and space are reversed, if a big man does not appear according to the original historical trajectory, it will be a big sin.

"Tell Chen Guofang, change the name, Tiandihui, Hongmen, even if it is called the Axe Gang, with such a name, for fear that the Qing government will not notice?" Li Mu changed it when he knew that he was wrong, this is not the same concept as stealing those well-known enterprises in the 21st century, after all, the beast is fierce, and there should still be taboos.

"Okay, Colonel Steven of the Far East Company called, hoping to get more information about the Spanish Far East colonies, and General Bai Qi also has news that the forward base has been prepared and can be settled at any time." Yan Shun subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, as a Chinese, although Yan Shun has joined the American nationality, Yan Shun has not forgotten those compatriots in the Qing Dynasty, thinking about the previous days in the palace, Yan Shun can't wait to overthrow the Qing government now.

Nominally, what Li Mu is doing now has nothing to do with the Qing Empire, but in fact it is not the case, whether it is the Ryukyus or Japan, it has now become a chess piece prepared by Li Mu in the Far East, at the right time, these chess pieces can play a huge role, and the Philippines will be the same in the future, just look at the map, if the Philippines becomes a colony of the United States in the future, then it is equivalent to the Junma Group setting up an encirclement of the Qing State at sea, and there is only one problem in front of the Qing rulers at that time, How can it be more dignified to die?

"Tell Steven that he will set off for California directly after gathering a shipload of men, and that the Pacific Company will send them to Ryukyu, and that the relevant training will take place in Ryukyu, and that the relevant training will take place in Ryukyu, and that as for the information about the Spaniards, let him go to Ryukyu and ask for it after he arrives at Ryukyu." Li Mu does not procrastinate, this is also the benefit of a private company, no matter what you do, you don't need to report, and the execution is more than a step stronger than the Ministry of War.

Since he still has his own little abacus, he must make relevant preparations, Li Mu has not forgotten that the Nanyang has always had an anti-Chinese tradition, and the Spaniards in the Philippines are also the vanguard in this regard.

Speaking of Nanyang's anti-China, in fact, there are many deep-seated reasons, standing on the white people's standpoint, they also have a reason to be opposed, otherwise with the strength of the Nanyang Chinese, it is not impossible to drive the white people out of Nanyang, for the sake of their own colonial rule, the white people can only impose those bloody tragedies on the Nanyang Chinese.

Well, it's still that sentence, understanding is understanding, unacceptable or unacceptable, this is also the inferior nature of human beings, if the white people deal with those natives in Nanyang, Li Mu may watch the fire from the other side, maybe he will help the abuse, but when the victim becomes Chinese, Li Mu will absolutely not accept it, to put it mildly, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, although the Chinese in Nanyang have actually joined the local nationality, and can also be classified as an indigenous column, but after all, it is still the same root and the same species, Since the Qing government did not treat the Chinese in Nanyang as its own, Li Mu had to seek justice for those innocent and unjustly killed Chinese.

On July 15, the Pacific Company's "Greenfield" migrant ship left San Francisco with 500 Far East Company mercenaries and their paragons, and their destination was 9,000 kilometers away in the Ryukyus, although the Greenfield was propelled by state-of-the-art propellers, a journey that would take about 25 days.

About a week after leaving San Francisco, the Greenfield arrived on Molokai Island, where it stayed for three days before continuing its journey to the Far East.

Jumping onto the stone docks on Molokai Island, Jimmy got used to it before he got used to the heaviness of the earth.

No way, I've been floating at sea for a long time, and I'm really a little unaccustomed to it after going ashore, although Jimmy has also experienced a long sea trip from New York to Cuba, but Jimmy still doesn't like this feeling, not at all.

Molokai Island, as Li Mu's private property, obviously has a distinct oriental attribute, the pier is full of signs written in Chinese and English, although Jimmy went to cram school in New York, he can't fully recognize those square words, but Jimmy is still very happy to see so many square words in this place.

There was even happier, on the other side of the dock, the rotten man Bill, who had just come ashore, was laughing wildly: "Whahaha, Far East, I'm coming, beauty, I'm coming, gold, I'm coming-"

This is probably the general mentality of adventurers, if it weren't for money and women, cowboys wouldn't want to run thousands of miles away to fight to the death with another group of unlucky guys, of course, some of them must not wait for the day of victory, this is the fate of cowboys.