"The plains of North America are our cornfields, the Rocky Mountains are our wooded areas, Oceania is our pastures and our gold mines, the South Sea Islands are our sugarcane, coffee and spice plantations, and Africa and Siberia are our hunting grounds...... The world is ours! ”

On New Year's Day of the eighth year of Kaihong, a newspaper once commented on the world in such arrogant words, and it is true that the current Chinese are conceited and proud. They witnessed and experienced the rise of a vast empire and single-handedly built it.

Now almost every Chinese will proudly say that "the sun and moon flag will never fall", a pride that has never been seen before, and for Chinese students, they even have a painful feeling because of this, and dozens of unheard of colonies have been added to the newly added colonial wall charts, as well as those colonial specialties. Of course, they may be full of hope for the future, and they believe that they will one day leave the colony that raised them, and take the ferry tickets provided by the Colonial Ministry - two years ago, before the first secretary of the Colonial Ministry, Li Hongzhang, left office, he submitted the "Subsidy Immigration Fold" to His Majesty, according to his suggestion, the colonies provided immigration loans to domestic immigrants by the banks to buy tickets and settle down when the nationals emigrated overseas, and encouraged private shipping companies to open immigration routes and provide additional subsidies for their migrant ships.

It is precisely because of the government's legal support and promotion that millions of immigrants have flocked to the colonies in the past two years, and as the colonies are changed, the domestic climate is also changing. Through the literacy of war, people knew that the colonies were rich and that they meant new opportunities and beginnings.

Millions of people, especially the teenagers, yearn for the colony, and they yearn to leave the crowded villages of the Midlands or the rolling hills of the South and go to the colony, where they will have their own farms, laborers, and, of course, a life of abundance that they never imagined.

At the same time, almost every year, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, adventurers, merchants, and administrators leave their homeland on steamships for the imposing territories of the Chinese Empire, where they enforce the Chinese style of indoctrination and spread the Chinese laws in the conquered lands, each of them convinced that they were a people who were born to rule, and that the empire they possessed would be passed on from generation to generation, and that they would never decay, no one doubted.

The colonies of the empire need officials!

The vast territory had been in trouble from the beginning, and the colonies had been developed for the purpose of immigration, and each colony required a large number of officials to administer it, which was why the selection of officials to the colonies had been an extremely important task for the past two years.

This kind of selection is not only limited to civil officials, but also includes military officers, and as the top school of the domestic junior military academy, those young students of the Imperial Capital Junior Military Academy naturally responded positively and went to the colony. Everyone who went to the colony had their own reasons.

"I'm here for change!"

Liu Guohua looked at Zhao Hongwen and Yan Jinzhi, as a sixth-grade student of the Junior Military Academy, he was already sixteen years old, and he was about to graduate from school, perhaps a few years ago, when the two of them first entered the military academy, he had taught them more than once, but it did not prevent them from becoming friends.

"I'm different from you!"

Liu Guohua, who had a dark face, looked at the two friends and said in a serious tone.

"After you graduate from the military academy, in addition to the military academy, you can also study in high school, and then enter university, even if it is ......" originally wanted to say that even if they were not admitted to college, they could choose to go abroad to study abroad, or manage the family business, but when the words came to his mouth, he still changed his words.

"You have a lot of choices, but I'm different, I don't have too many choices, in fact, there is no other choice than to go to military school, my family pays the tuition fees of other schools, as for scholarships, the competition is too fierce......"

After saying this, he took a sip of beer.

"Guohua ......"

opened his mouth, and originally wanted to say that Zhao Hongwen, who could sponsor him to go to school, knew that his friend was an extremely strong person, and he would never accept his friend's funding. For Zhao Hongwen, he has never considered the issue of money, whether it is his mother's family or ...... His background meant that he did not need to think about these issues.

"Cheers, I wish you a nice trip!"

The reason why they left the school today was to see Liu Guohua off, and in a week, he would go to the North American colonies to join the colonial defense forces.

"Yes, Senior Guohua, I wish you a smooth journey!"

Yan Jinzhi also raised his glass.

Seeing that his friends' expressions were a little depressed, Liu Guohua suddenly laughed, and then said,

"Hey, you two are really, as if we are going to live and die, you know, this is a good thing, if you follow the normal path, even if I am admitted to the military school, I will not be able to graduate from the military school until I am at least 21 years old, and then I will have the rank of second lieutenant. But now, I am a probationary warrant officer in the defense army, and after the one-year probationary period is over, at most another year, I will be promoted to the first level, and after five years, maybe by then, I will already be a captain, and when I am a general, I can also take the army university, maybe, when the time comes, we will still be ......classmates."

As soon as the words came to his lips, Liu Guohua suddenly realized that it seemed that it was impossible for them to become classmates, and his two friends did not seem to have the will to continue to study in military school, for them, military school was just a place for them to receive life experience.

Perhaps this is the inequality of life! For Liu Guohua, he needs to work hard for the future, and they have a future that he can never grasp.

"Actually, I'm lucky!"

Suddenly, Liu Guohua looked into the distance and said.

"The North American colonies are the best among all the colonies, the environment is the best, there are the most vast grasslands, the climate is also very close to ours, I heard, there are still a lot of American ginseng in the mountains there, when the time comes, I will send you some, anyway, military mail, you can send a free parcel every month......

When Liu Guohua was talking about his luck, Yan Jinzhi suddenly, as if he remembered something, said in a low tone.

"The environment there is very good, but it seems that our relationship with the United States is very tense right now, you must be careful when you get there!"

"Nervous, the situation is tense, it's good, a good man has made great achievements in the future, if there is a war, maybe, I can be promoted faster......"

People will always look for excuses for themselves this, that, and finally, the three teenagers finally got drunk. When they left the hotel, Zhao Hongwen's footsteps were already light, because it was a weekend, so he did not go back to school, but walked in the other direction, as for Liu Guohua, they had long been accustomed to him not spending weekends at school.

After walking along the sidewalk for more than ten minutes, a Mercedes-Benz sedan - last year's fresh vehicle that does not need to be pulled by horses, but as soon as it was put into the market, it was sought after by the imperial capital and domestic wealthy businessmen, and the reason why they sought after this Mercedes-Benz sedan was very simple, because this kind of car was designed by His Majesty himself, and the production was directed, and the first batch of cars called Mercedes-Benz Type 1 were produced only 150 cars, and they were not put into the market, and they had been carved up by domestic dignitaries and dignitaries, in the current imperial capital, Owning a Mercedes sedan is a status and status symbol.

Even in the imperial capital, the appearance of a Mercedes-Benz sedan on the street is enough to attract people's attention, when the car stops, listening to the sound of the siren, when the window is rolled down, Zhao Hongwen's eyes instantly widened when he saw the people in the car.

How is this possible?

"Don't blink, let's go, I'll take you for a ride outside the city today, and teach you to drive by the way!"

Zhu Yizhong, who was dressed in casual clothes, even wore a peaked cap, looking no different from an ordinary driver.

Father's words, Zhao Hongwen's drunkenness suddenly woke up a little.

"Ah, I ......"

As soon as he got into the car, he smelled the smell of wine on his body, Zhu Yifeng's brows furrowed slightly, no one in this era mentioned the harm of drinking alcohol to the body, but this is his son after all.

"Drunk?"

Zhu Yifeng, who started to accelerate in 2nd gear, asked.

"It seems like you've drunk a lot, how old are you this year?"

"13 years old!"

His son's answer made Zhu Yifeng nod and said.

"If you want to drink, wait for another five years, your current age is not suitable for drinking and hurting your body!"

While admonishing, driving this car of his own "design", although this kind of car is not comfortable to drive compared to the cars of later generations, it does not prevent Zhu Yifeng from enjoying driving, especially on such a road that is impossible to get stuck in traffic, and more importantly, there is no speed limit.

Because of this, whenever he has free time, he will quietly leave the palace and drive this car with the body of a classic classic car from the twenties, the actual technical level is equivalent to that of the 10s, and enjoy the feeling of speeding on the wide roads outside the imperial capital, although the speed is less than 80 kilometers.

"Since you've been drinking today, I'll teach you to drive next time! After drinking, you can't drive! ”

Although there is no drunk driving in this era, it does not prevent Zhu Yifeng from bringing this habit to his son.

The father and son, who could only see each other a few times a month, did not speak, so Zhu Yifeng drove the car to the bank of the Han River in the south of the imperial capital, and on the reed field by the riverside, Zhu Yifeng, who had parked the car, took out a fishing rod and other fishing equipment, and then came to the riverside, while Zhao followed aside, and when the father and son were fishing by the river, the two cars were parked dozens of meters away.

"Dad, one of my seniors is going to the colony next week......"

While fishing, Zhao tries to explain to his father why he was drinking.

"Oh? I see, I see, is it the Defense Force? ”

Nodding his head and expressing understanding, Zhu Yifeng stared at the fish floating on the surface of the water and asked,

"Yes, the 3rd Regiment of the North American Defense Forces!"

"Oh, I've heard of this unit, it's a good unit, although it's a defense force, but its combat effectiveness is no worse than that of ordinary army units, this classmate of yours, the results should be very good."

The Colonial Defence Force and the Imperial Army have always been two sequences, but this does not prevent the colonies from having some elite troops, especially now less than two years after the end of the war, when 90% of the overseas troops have been reorganized into the Colonial Defence Force, which on the one hand defends the colony and on the other hand enriches the population of the colony. And the 3rd Regiment of the North American Defense Forces is one of them.

"Yes, father."

Liu Guohua's academic performance has always been at the top of the whole grade, which is why he can be assigned to North America, the better the grades, the better the regional environment of the assignment, and of course, the location of the colony is also the most important.

"Father, now...... I read in the newspapers that we protested to Washington again and demanded that they withdraw their troops from the American Union, and now that our relations with the United States are so tense, will it ......"

"You're worried about war!"

Seeing the fish float a few times, Zhu Yifeng hurriedly retracted the line and hoisted up a fish of more than two catties, in another time and space hundreds of years later, it is difficult to catch such a big fish in the river, but in this era, it is easy to catch a big fish, and even in Wuchang, he has caught a Chinese sturgeon weighing more than ten catties more than once. But now, most of the time, he just enjoys fishing by the Han River.

Putting the fish into a net bag made of Manila hemp and looking up at his son, Zhu Yifeng said with a smile.

"What? Worried about your friends going to war? ”

His son's worry about the situation in North America made Zhu Yifeng sigh slightly in his heart, the situation in North America is indeed very tense, as in history, the American Union is not the opponent of the North at all, after the North gives full play to its industrial strength, the defeat of the American Union has almost become a foregone conclusion, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly protested to Washington - two years ago, after the end of the war, China recognized the American Union, but only limited to diplomatic recognition.

"If that's the case, I can have someone privately send him to other regions, like, well, Singapore, which is a colony, but it's almost indistinguishable from the mainland."

"Father, if that's the case, I think he'll be disappointed!"

Shaking his head, Zhao Hongwen said seriously.

"I think for soldiers, in their bones, they actually want war. Actually, I envy him, he can work hard for his ideals, my father ......"

Suddenly, Zhao Hongwen looked at his father and asked.

"If I wait until I am an adult, when the time comes, and the war breaks out, will you agree to let me go to the front?"

Faced with his son's question, Zhu Yifeng was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said.

"A few years ago, when you first asked me this question, I said, I want the war to end in our generation, you ...... The battlefield of your generation is not there! ”

War...... Perhaps, this is the last battle!

When he threw the pole, Zhu Yifeng thought silently in his heart.

But if that's possible, it's best not to even fight this battle...... But is it possible?

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