The northern country is already a cold winter moon frozen for thousands of miles, but the South Seas are still hot with only a single coat, and the temperature is generally above 20 degrees.

It's time for the annual Boy Scout workout again. Chen Ming didn't let his eldest son go to the snowy mountains and climb the woods again this winter, but this did not mean that Chen Ding was lucky, he was sent to the South Seas thousands of miles away by Chen Ming's idea, and sent to a slave ship floating on the ocean.

If it weren't for the fact that the distance between the mainland and Nanmingzhou in this era was too far, and there were too many uncertainties on the road, Chen Ming would want to throw his eldest son away from Nanmingzhou.

At the same time, the younger brothers and sisters who were younger than Chen Ding were also time to train in the Boy Scouts. Since this year, this 'honor' is no longer a good day for Chen Ding to enjoy alone.

Chen Ding is now serving on a ship, the latter's pilots are of course adults, but the security guards are all boy soldiers of Chen Ding's size, all carrying muskets on their backs and with a serious attitude.

In addition to the internal guards who were secretly protected, only Zhang Fusheng, the leader of the entire team, knew Chen Ding's true identity, because although there were many 'little nobles' who went south with Chen Ding, they were all in Singapore, and it was very common for the slave fleet to change personnel, no old man would have thought that the person who suddenly got on the ship would be the eldest prince of His Majesty today, and those who were adjusted to positions were his bodyguards.

Zhang Fusheng is also an old man in the Chen Han transportation system. Initially working in a transport team, he moved to Hung Kai Pier and then to Singapore.

For the first five days, the road was very peaceful, and Chen Ding's troubles were limited to the turbulence of the sea ship and it was difficult to rest, which was not like the treasure ship they took when they left Nanjing, it was just a small tonnage slave ship. In the second half of the night of the sixth day, a fleet of ships suddenly appeared ahead. The fleet was still quite large, and the lookout officer on night duty reported that there was no end in sight.

The atmosphere on board immediately became tense.

It stands to reason that there are almost no pirates in the South Seas now, especially a large number of pirate fleets. Although there are many forces that can mobilize a fleet of this size in the South China Sea now, they can't go around Chen Han anymore. Compared to the huge fleet in front, the slave transport fleet with only five ships is really small.

The security regulations of the sea required them to be vigilant at all times, and the vigilant officers immediately notified Zhang Fusheng, the head of the small fleet.

Hearing the news, Zhang Fusheng hurriedly got on the bow of the boat. Looking at the dark shadow of the ship in the dark night in the distance, Zhang Fusheng, who had no combat experience at all, was still a little nervous. After searching his mind for the shipping regulations, before he could give the order to release the flare, three flames had flashed on the last ship of the opposite fleet.

In the night, the flag is useless. Messaging relies on traffic lights.

"Who are you?" The signalman of the flotilla translated the signal transmitted by the opposite ship through the signal light.

"Which part of them are?" It's not that you can send out traffic lights, it's your own people. In addition to the internal set, the signal light promoted by Chen Han has also been promoted externally in a public version, and now it is at least universal to the East.

Zhang Fusheng knew that the emperor's eldest son was on his own ship, and safety came first, and he couldn't be sloppy at all.

The signalman lit the light inside the glass cover, and then played Zhang Fusheng's instructions.

After a while, the fleet over there replied, "We are the second detachment of the Nanyang Naval Division, which part of you are?" And when he learned that Zhang Fusheng's department was a slave transport fleet, he no longer paid attention to Zhang Fusheng and them, and completely ignored Zhang Fusheng.

By the time the daylight sun shone down on the earth again, the slave convoy had left the second convoy far behind.

Chen Ding, who had been standing guard at the hatch of the ship with a musket on his back all night, had red eyes, and the sudden sea life made him not very adaptable, he had not rested well, and he had been on duty for a long time, but his eyes were red at the beginning. Moreover, the wind and waves at sea are strong, and a person who has never lived on the sea is naturally unsuitable.

However, no matter how uncomfortable he was, Chen Ding would not show the slightest bit, not only because he knew that this was a test for himself, but also because he saw those people in the cabin.

The cabins of the slave convoy were specially designed and reinforced. Seriously, the ship is really going to be finished, and in the minds of many Chen Han high-level executives, they would rather these serfs and labor prisoners drown in the sea than see them take the opportunity to escape.

The slave transport fleet transported prisoners and serfs in a family unit, with men and women separated, and young children were locked up with their mothers. The husband and wife were separated by a wall of the boat, with many holes in between, and each cage had a toilet with a toilet. Anyone who dares to peep is covered with straw mats, and is subject to heavy fines.

The people who are imprisoned, whether adults or children, have two bowls of thin rice porridge a day, plus a little pickle. It can ensure that people will not die of thirst and starvation, and at the same time, they will not have enough strength to resist.

Today is the sixth day of sailing, and we will soon be in Singapore, and all the detainees are also suffering from hunger. These people even have their stomachs rumbling, where do they still have the strength to resist.

Moreover, the cabin was full of people, the air was already dirty, and the smell of the toilet bowl made the smell really not ordinarily sour.

Holding a full amount of rice, pouring large pieces of braised hairtail taro on top, and a bowl of seaweed soup, Chen Ding swept away the food with a snort, no different from the night watch who came to eat together, but it made the people who were secretly observing him nod their heads.

Back in the cramped dormitory of the cabin, Chen Ding felt a heartfelt happiness. There is no harm without contrast, and there is the most sincere happiness with contrast.

Compared with those who were imprisoned, Chen Ding, who is now just a boy soldier, is so happy.

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At 5:30 a.m., when the morning mist was still shrouded in a children's camp in the northwest of Singapore, the melodious wake-up call had already been sounded by the trumpeters standing in the playground. The red cloth tied to a military horn swayed gently in the breeze, and the red glow of the dawn reflected the solemn figure of the trumpeter.

It didn't take long for the sound of footsteps, the shouts of the instructors, to begin to sound more and more in the camp.

These voices grew louder and louder, and eventually converged into a rumbling sound.

In the Boy Scouts, it is customary to have a daily morning exercise, and all officers and soldiers, including the head of the camp, must get up on time. Each team and battalion is organized into a phalanx according to its own organizational unit. The noise quickly subsided, and the sound of roll calls of the formations rang out in the camp.

The roll call was soon over. As soon as the officer in charge of the training gave the order, the gate of the camp was opened, and the various units were set up one after another, lined up in a neat line, stepping on neat steps, and one after another rushed out of the gate. The daily morning exercise run has officially begun.

This is the training of discipline, for organizational training, for physical training.

Chen Ding is used to this kind of life. In fact, when he was at Sungkyun Public School, he also had to run drills every morning, but the time was not so early and the distance was not so long.

The Boy Scouts are divided by 12 years old, with five miles before and ten miles after that. Sungkyun Public School doesn't even have half of this amount.

It's also a show of power.

There are thousands of dolls in a scout camp, and even though they are of all ages, the Boy Scouts have been following the regular troops in Nanyang, at least for post-war security.

You can despise the little doll before the age of 12, but if anyone doesn't treat hundreds of fourteen, fifteen or sixteen-year-old soldiers as real combat effectiveness, he is a good mallet.

The daily morning exercise is the beginning of the day, Chen Ding had dinner after the morning exercise today, and did not return to the team, but came to the regiment headquarters. He is now the military representative of their team.

In addition to the organization of the boy boy camp, there is also a representative council system, where a team can select two or three people to form a representative council and set up organs in the battalion-level structure; Five to seven members of the battalion are then selected to form the Standing Committee, and at the same time, they will also enter the regiment-level representative council, which will also set up a permanent organ, and then select five to seven of them to form the Standing Committee.

This is not an organ of power, but a mere auxiliary. It's a weakened version of the rabbit's Soldier Council. It is possible to supervise the day-to-day management of the army; Maintain team discipline, but do not have the power to punish; supervising the economy of the army; Promote political education in the ranks.

Chen Ding's identity is the representative of the regiment.

According to Chinese tradition, fifteen-year-old dolls will be sixteen years old in another year, and next year, it will be time for them to leave the camp and go to various locations.

Some of them joined the army, some were admitted to various colleges and universities, vocational high schools, and some entered the positions assigned by their counterparts, such as nurses corresponding to female soldiers.

As the Chinese New Year approaches, there are more things going on in the camp. Especially in the first group, these oldest children have long been accustomed to staying in the camp, and seeing that the day of parting is getting closer and closer, and it will soon be the last Chinese New Year's Eve spent in the camp, an illusion that they will leave home and never return will rise in their hearts, and some incidents will inevitably arise.

Last night, the regimental members of the first regiment talked to them about the various rumors that have been circulating in the ranks recently, as well as the opinions expressed by many military deputies on their own.

Singapore Boy Camp is a very young boy camp, and this year's 'One Group' is the first 'One Group' they are facing in the real sense, and the situation must be controlled and controlled.

Therefore, in the next time after the morning exercise and breakfast in the camp today, all the members of the Youth League Representative Council gathered at the Youth League headquarters to assist the adults in the Youth League headquarters to solve the problem of 'no military discipline' one by one, which was one problem after another. It may be an irresponsible rumor, or it may be a quarrel or even a conflict or brawl that occurs under irritability and mental tension. The general leaders of the battalions all went to the regiment in person and asked the leaders of the regiment to focus their energies on solving specific problems in the following days, and to the specific person in each squad and platoon.

Now that the Boy Scouts are 'extra' diverting more and more people, this is the problem that the rejection of individuals within the Scouts is increasing. In the boys' camp in other places, even in the past two years, there have been strange things where top students deliberately take poor exams, or they do not sign up for reference, but for the sake of not separating their partners.

The Boy Scouts of today are not like the Boy Scouts of the past. At the beginning, the Boy Scouts were all in the army, and if their military skills were not outstanding, they could also enter the logistics troops, and now the Boy Scouts are more like military primary and secondary schools under Chen Han, and the 'top students' that come out correspond not only to military skills, but also to cultural classes. The former entered the military academy and did not leave the army anyway; The latter entered a civilian institution of higher learning, and after graduation it was almost impossible to return to the army.

These children, who have lost their children and grown up in the camp and in the collective, have a strong attachment to the collective, and the camp is like their home. So when these children get to the point where they want to leave the collective, this 'resistance' is also very strong.

Chen Ding had never thought of this before, but after coming here, after really coming into contact with the Boy Scouts who were about to 'graduate', he thought of himself from these people.

Not to mention whether he can inherit the throne in the future, whether he wants to go to the mainland immediately, just say that after he gets married in a few years, he will move out of the palace, and the mansion is now under construction, and it is likely that his father will put him in the place to do things. As long as Chen Ding thought about it, he couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in his heart.

After the New Year, Chen Ding also went to the countryside.

It is Pulau Deguang on the northeast side of Singapore, bordering the Straits of Johor to the north and east, and is a small island in the narrow Straits of Johor. Located less than 10 miles from the main island of Singapore, Koh Dek Kwong is the second largest outer island in Singapore. The land area of the island is about ten miles in circumference.

There is a large mangrove forest on Deguang Island, and the island was very rich in ecological environment in the beginning, with more than 10 species of mammals and more than 100 species of birds. Early settlers often saw herds of wild boars in the mangrove forests, but that is now a thing of the past.

Mountains of all sizes have been carved out into orchards by immigrants, forests have been cut down, not to mention flocks of wild boars, and there are not a few birds left. It's a very small island, and in a few years it was completely crowded with humans.

But there was a period in between, and Tokuko Island was taken back by the imperial court in its entirety. Because the sailors felt that Dekuang Island was too close to Singapore, and if it was not restricted, it would form a major flaw in Singapore's secrecy.

However, this measure was only implemented for a period of time, and it was completely abolished.

Chen Ding's Dengdeguang Island is entirely because of the arrival of a new batch of immigrants.

These people were organized by the imperial court to come from the mainland to Nanyang, so it stands to reason that the two sides should establish a certain amount of trust, right? But on Deguang Island, Chen Ding saw what it means to be 'tricky with the people'.

"I have also told you about the statute of the division of land. The first thing to do is to divide the land, so that everyone has land to grow and have food to eat. We also have to build water conservancy, not to mention drought and flood harvest, we can still withstand some small disasters. The imperial court hopes that the big guys can live a better life, rather than simply moving everyone from the mainland to Nanyang. ”

"We'll talk about the division of the land later. Let's talk about what's in front of us now. Everyone has seen that this is a village, and the houses have only been built for a few days, but because of the collective evacuation of the last batch of immigrants, these lands that have been reclaimed for several years are deserted, and the houses have been picked up by the Singapore garrison. They got all the wood away. ”

"Our first task now is to clean up the accommodation, you can't stay in the tent all the time, right?"

"Let's score, who has more points in the end, who picks the house and chooses the land first......"

The official rules are very conventional, but the officials have forgotten the cunning of the Chinese peasantry.

In just ten days, a total of 100 households lost 22 axes, 35 saws, 29 shovels, 70 shovels, and 10 machetes......

Is this really 'lost'?

The person in charge of the settlement must be mad, otherwise he would not let the Boy Scouts supervise it. It's really overseer.

The two teams of one regiment and one battalion were the actual settlements where the dogs were led, and in one day they found more than 20 places around the settlements where axes, saws, shovels, shovels, machetes and other things were hidden.

Chen Ding was dumbfounded!