Chapter 361: The Golden City of Australia

The Chinese Empire and the British Empire negotiated in Switzerland and fought all over the world.

The overall situation was favorable to the Chinese Empire, and the longer it dragged on, the more passive the British Empire became.

The situation in the Western Xinjiang Battlefield and the Indian Battlefield did not change much, and the Chinese Imperial Army and the British Imperial Army fished for three days and dried their nets for two days, and there were only small-scale clashes, and no large-scale battles broke out. This is because it is May again, and the cold and high altitude conditions in western Xinjiang make people collapse with cold and have difficulty breathing. India was dry and rainless, and in May, the temperature was close to 50 degrees, and the stones could be fried, and the soldiers of the Shence Army who came all the way from the Chinese Empire fell into a large area of heat stroke, and even the British troops who stayed in India all the year round could not stand it, and would rather soak in water than fight.

As a result, the Chinese and British armies tacitly agreed to cease fighting at the same time in these two places.

On the Australian mainland, with the continuous increase of troops in the Chinese Imperial Army, a large number of troop carriers set off from the mainland of the Chinese Empire and went all the way south. Previously, the British Navy's Asian Fleet intercepted in the Qizhou Ocean area, but now the British Asian Fleet has already fled, Singapore has also fallen, and the whole of Southeast Asia is under the effective control and deterrence of the Chinese Empire, and the Dutch East India authorities even have to send warships to escort and fight pirates, for fear that the Chinese Empire will not be happy and suddenly send troops to the East Indies.

The Chinese Empire wanted to maintain its image in the international community, so it did not take the initiative to invade the Netherlands, which made the Dutch relieved, but also relieved the Europeans, and the general public opinion believed that as long as they did not take the initiative to provoke the Chinese Empire, they would not be invaded by the military of the Chinese Empire. Invisibly, the argument that the Chinese Empire was going to rule the whole world propagated by Britain is untenable, and everyone knows that it was Britain that provoked the Chinese Empire first, and it deserved to be beaten.

Although the British army in Australia is getting smaller and smaller, Australia is too big, 7.7 million square kilometers of land, full of mountains, deserts, grasslands and forests, the British army has become a guerrilla force and continues to fight guerrilla warfare against the Chinese Imperial Army. This gave the Chinese Empire a headache, so it could only transfer troops to Australia on a large scale to encircle and suppress the British guerrillas as soon as possible.

Victoria City, New South Wales.

Since 1851, it has become the hottest gold panning mecca in the world, just pick up a stone on the ground and crush it, you will find glittering gold inside, dig forty or fifty meters deep underground, you can find shallow gold mines, instantly detonated the world's gold rush.

Australia's population can grow exponentially. Gold prospectors from Britain, Europe, the United States and Asia contributed the most, growing by hundreds of thousands of people each year, culminating in 1873, when the number of new gold miners entering the country exceeded one million. At the same time, merchants from all over the world also set their sights on Australia's gold business, and many merchants purchased goods from all over the world to sell in Australia, focusing on those gold diggers who had made a fortune in Australia, which made the Australian population reach 10 million in 1875.

Of course, this so-called 10 million people does not refer to Australia's resident population. In fact, Australia's resident population is less than four million, and the remaining six million are mobile populations, which will continue to decrease as the gold rush fever decreases. This is like the Daqing of China in later generations, when the price of oil was high. The population has skyrocketed dozens or even hundreds of times, and they are all businessmen who are ready to make money from the people of Daqing, but when the price of oil falls, the people of Daqing have no money. These people immediately went to the tea and cooled, and the population suddenly decreased by dozens or even hundreds of times.

People are such a mobile group, where there is wealth, there are many rich people. People will concentrate there.

When the Chinese Empire's Shenze Army invaded Australia, it was at the height of Australia's gold fever.

Therefore, the Imperial War Department of China quickly mobilized the entire army strength of 20 towns from the mainland and sent it to the Australian battlefield, seeking to capture Australia as soon as possible, creating a fait accompli and saving the negotiation process from variables.

Of course, the most important thing is to plunder all kinds of resources, such as Victoria City, where gold resources are concentrated, which is the first place to be controlled by the Chinese Imperial Army.

"Run, the Chinese are coming!"

"What? The Chinese are coming? Hurry up, hide the gold, and don't let them find it! ”

"Paralyzed, what are the British troops doing, how can they let the Chinese fight to Victoria?"

In Victoria, the gold diggers were panicking, and the merchants from all over the world who came here to rob the gold diggers were also tightly covering their money bags, they wanted to run, but unfortunately they couldn't outrun the Chinese Imperial Army.

"Sleep, why do the Chinese run faster than ostriches?"

A merchant who had fled on an ostrich cried out in grief, and soon he was driven back to Victoria by the Imperial Chinese Army, just like the others.

Lockdown!

This was the action that the Imperial Chinese Army would take every time it occupied.

I saw that the checkpoints set up on all the exit roads were patrolled by soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army with loaded guns and ammunition, and they were allowed to enter but not to leave.

Soon, everyone in Victoria was driven to an open field, and the Supreme Commander of the Occupation Army, Du Dawei, commander of the 9th Town Division, began to speak.

"Dear ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you on behalf of Victoria City!"

Well, after hearing this, all Australians and foreigners were immediately drunk.

Du Dawei said with a sense of humor: "In order to eliminate banditry and ensure the safety of everyone's person, life and property, we urgently need everyone's generosity. Not much, everyone only needs to take out half of your total property. ”

The crowd was in an uproar, where is this Nima fundraising, it is clearly a robbery of Chiguoguo, one mouth will ask for half of everyone's property, and let people live?

"Why should we give you half of our fortune?" An Englishman, Niu B, coaxed forward.

There was a bang, and the Englishman's head blossomed, and his body fell to the ground.

Du Dawei blew the green smoke coming out of the muzzle of the pistol, and said very calmly: "With my pistol, is there still a problem?" ”

Whoa......

The soldiers of the surrounding Chinese Imperial Army were pulling the bolts of their guns in unison, and all the foreigners were immediately frightened, and no one dared to stand up against it.

"Looks like everyone is smart! You should rejoice that I have only taken half of your possessions and left you half of them to live on, and how merciful I am, your God will be grateful to me. ”

At this time, an American stood up and said: "I am an American, not an enemy of your country. So I don't accept your offer, please let me go immediately! ”

Du Dawei was stunned for a moment, and then sneered: "You are an American, who can prove it?" I said you're British! ”

"I'm really American, I have a passport to prove it!" As he spoke, the American took out a passport, handed it to the soldier next to him, and asked him to transfer it to Du Dawei.

Du Dawei didn't even look at it, threw it directly into the fire, and continued to say to the American: "Can you still prove that you are an American?" Anyone else has a passport to bring to me and see! ”

The Americans were dumbfounded. Xiucai can't tell the reason when he meets the soldiers, so accept his fate!

Other foreigners doing business in Australia were also silent.

At this time, the president of the Victoria City Chamber of Commerce, Orlando, the honorary governor of New South Wales, stepped forward.

"General Du, I am willing to donate half of my property, I hope you can keep your promise and don't hurt civilians!"

"Of course, Lord Orlando, thank you for your cooperation!"

Du Dawei was very happy. Orlando was the first to cooperate with him, so the rest was much easier.

However, when Orlando walked to the next registry office to report his possessions, the crowd was in an uproar again.

"Orlando donates half of its fortune to £50,000!"

David Du didn't know how much property Orlando had. Fifty thousand pounds of wealth is already a lot of money, which is considered a wealthy class, and it is attached to the governor of Orlando.

"Orlando can't have only fifty thousand pounds of property, he has four gold mines. In the past twenty years of accumulation, he has at least one million taels of gold! ”

In the crowd, a man covered in black suddenly shouted. And it's in Chinese.

Du Dawei suddenly frowned, pointed at the whistleblower, and suddenly a soldier went up and brought him over.

"Do you speak Chinese? What is your name? What the hell is going on? ”

The man cried: "General, my name is Zhang Qiang, I am from the Chinese Empire, and I heard that there was a big gold mine in Australia more than 20 years ago, so I came to pan for gold with my fellow villagers. As a result, white Australians discriminated against us, not only robbed us of everything we said, but also forced us to work for them. This is Orlando, he's the governor here, he's making the law, and all people who aren't white, and they don't speak English, confiscate their personal property and send them into slavery. We dig gold for him every day, and we have been hoping that the imperial court will send someone to save us, and today we finally hope that you are here. ”

Hearing this, Du Dawei's face suddenly sank, and his eyes when he looked at Orlando and the other white people were full of coldness.

"Mr. Zhang Qiang, now I declare that you and your companions have been freed, and this will be the territory of our Chinese Empire in the future, and no one will dare to insult us Chinese again!"

Zhang Qiang cried even more miserably when he heard this, it turned out that his companions had been executed by Orlando's order an hour earlier. Because the Chinese Imperial Army captured Victoria, these Chinese laborers who had been enslaved by them were bound to turn over, and in order to prevent retaliation, the Governor of Orlando ordered the execution of all Chinese laborers in his mines.

"I see! Don't worry, I'll avenge your companions! ”

Du Dawei was completely furious and immediately ordered Orlando to be arrested.

"Orlando, now I declare you to be executed!"

"I protest, I am the Governor of New South Wales of the British Empire, you can't kill me!"

Orlando screamed, so frightened that he peed his pants.

Du Dawei handed the pistol to Zhang Qiang and asked, "Will you use it to avenge yourself?" ”

Zhang Qiang shook his head, so Du Dawei took off his sword again and handed it to him.

Zhang Qiang was holding a sword, trembling all over, he hadn't killed anyone!

Du Dawei suddenly said angrily: "Bad seed, you have been enslaved like a dog for more than 20 years, are you willing?" Your companions have been killed by him, and you don't even have the courage to take revenge? If you are so cowardly, don't go out and say that you are Chinese, and Lao Tzu will blush for you! ”

Zhang Qiang was scolded severely, his eyes were blood-red, he drew his short sword, and rushed towards Orlando with a roar.

With a pop, blood sprayed Zhang Qiang's face, and Orlando was killed in fear.

Retracting the saber, Du Dawei patted Zhang Qiang's shoulder and said with a smile: "Good, Chinese should be a little bloody, all of them have made Confucius education a sheep, no wonder they are always bullied." In the future, you will be Lao Tzu's soldier, would you like it? ”

"Yes!" Zhang Qiang responded loudly, he was scared like a dog before the killing, and after the killing, the momentum of the whole person suddenly became like two people, and it became bloody.

After dealing with the Orlando incident, Du Dawei immediately ordered the search for all the surviving Chinese. Not all whites killed the Chinese workers who worked for them as brutally as Orlando, these whites had planned to continue to enslave the Chinese workers to work for them after the war ended, but now seeing Du Dawei's murderous appearance, they don't know whether they should regret or be happy.

"All foreigners who have enslaved Chinese laborers shall be compensated tenfold according to the number of years of service, and anyone who causes the death of Chinese laborers or deliberately kills Chinese laborers shall be executed and all their property confiscated."

With this order, Hutom knelt down on the ground.

At the beginning, taking advantage of the corruption and weakness of the Qing government, after learning that Chinese workers were hardworking and resentful, businessmen from Europe and the United States were wantonly deceiving and smuggling Chinese laborers. Historically, during the period from 1840 to 1911, 8 million Chinese were illegally trafficked to all over the world as hard laborers, of which a large number died on the road and on the construction site, and were treated inhumanely, especially during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a large number of captured Taiping soldiers were privately sold to foreigners by the Qing army, becoming the main source of Chinese in South America and Australia today.

The founding of the Chinese Empire in 1866 put an end to this inhumane human trafficking trade, but before that, nearly 200,000 Chinese were trafficked to Australia, precisely because of the Australian gold rush, which required a lot of hard labor. However, white Australians discriminate against the Chinese, do not treat them as human beings, and take them from them, which is the same as the essence of Chinese exclusion in the United States during the same period.

"These damn white people are going to eat Xiang!"

The rescued Chinese laborers wept and cried, and he finally no longer had to live in the dark underground, and even angrily rushed at the white men who enslaved them, trying to tear them apart.

With the acquiescence of Du Dawei and the support of the Chinese Imperial Divine Army, the victimized Chinese workers have revenge and revenge, which is really happy.

Almost all the white Australian gold mine owners had Chinese laborers in their hands, but only one Frenchman, named Philippe, did not cause the death of the Chinese laborers, and he picked up a small life.

"Thank you for the general's grace of not killing, I will definitely compensate ten times, no, I will compensate the Chinese workers for their wages and mental losses a hundred times, and I will also donate half of my property to thank your army for saving their lives."

"Forehead ......"

Du Dawei was embarrassed and nodded sneeringly.

In the end, 99% of the gold mines in the entire Victoria City were directly confiscated by Du Dawei, and more than 10,000 gold miners and gold diggers were executed, and all their properties were confiscated, and 650,000 taels of gold alone, nearly 20 tons.

"Go and call the craftsmen and use this gold to build a golden statue for His Majesty the Emperor!"

Du Dawei smiled, seeing that it was the birthday of Li Weiguo, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, he was worried that there was no good gift to give, and now he happened to use more than 20 tons of gold to build a golden statue, which would definitely make His Majesty the Emperor happy.

"Congratulations to the general, I will definitely be promoted when I return to China this time, and I can't run away from the rank of lieutenant general!"

"Hahaha, I'm so smart!" (To be continued.) )