Many years later, a woman who was born in Australia, who spent her third birthday on a boat, and who had gone through all the twists and turns to England, wrote in her famous novel "The Thorn Bird": "Legend has it that a bird sings only once in its life, and that song is more beautiful than that of all living beings in the world." From the moment it left its nest, it searched for the thorn tree until it got its wish. Then it plunged its body into the longest, sharpest thorns, and let go of its singing voice among the wild branches. In its dying moments, it transcended its own pain, and the song eclipsed both the lark and the nightingale. It's a beautiful song, and it's a dead end. Yet, the whole world is quietly listening, and even God is smiling in the firmament. Because the most beautiful things can only be exchanged for the deepest pains...... This is the legend of the thorn bird. ”

and this family novel, which is called Australia's "Gone with the Wind", has another translation title, called "The White Slave Boat".

To be sure, the human transport vessels, known as the "white slave ships", were much better off than the black slave ships. In "The Thorn Bird", the author describes this "human transport ship" as such.

"It has a blue-gray shell, and it is so tall that it looks like a castle made of iron. At the sight of it, Father Ralph remembered the Bastille......"

The ship, described as the "Bastille of the Sea", was custom-built by China before the war. This is also considered evidence of China's premeditation before the war. A total of 240 ships of this type have been built, and as standard ships, China has also carefully designed them, each with more than 1,600 "human transport" cabins. Each compartment is 2.5 meters long, 1.8 meters wide and 2.7 meters high. Built-in with running water and bidet toilet.

There are two types of rooms: those with portholes and those without portholes. The door to the room is an iron fence with burglar-proof hinges and locks. Each room has six beds fixed to the wall. The entire ship has a total of 9,600 places for transporting people. A fleet of 240 vessels of this type is capable of transporting 2,304,000 people at a time.

Not only does China have to transport people from Australia and New Zealand, but it also has to transport people from China to Australia and New Zealand. If you want to resist a possible attack by the United States, New Zealand and Australia, which have no personnel, will certainly not be able to do so. China must have millions of people in both regions and be able to operate an industrial system.

In the worst-case scenario, the United States would cut off mainland China from New Zealand and Australia, but with a population of several million, there would be enough land to fight a multi-year war with the U.S. landing force of about half a million.

The United States had a population of 130 million in 1939, and the United States mobilized more than 12 million troops. Theoretically, the United States is capable of transporting these 12 million troops across the vast Pacific Ocean to Australia and New Zealand and China in a life-and-death war. Chen Ke did not know how much the Americans could bear, and the only thing he could be sure of was that if the United States died 12 million strong in the Pacific, the United States would basically be doomed.

The only way to stop the Americans from running into the Pacific Ocean and acting stupidly is not to build a fleet capable of covering the entire Pacific Ocean, but to complete China's de facto control over New Zealand and Australia as soon as possible. As soon as possible, let the various regions liberated by China establish their own political power, so that the people in these areas can be truly liberated. Only in this way will the United States not be able to meddle in the affairs of the Western Pacific.

The cost of these 240 ships is very small compared to the huge sacrifices that may arise in the future. From the perspective of "practical theory", these 240 ships have also greatly promoted the development of China's sectional assembly and flat-ground shipbuilding. These ships are carefully designed, and when the function of transporting people in large numbers is over in a few years, the hull is disassembled and converted into container ships in no time.

Australia had a population of 7 million in 1939 and New Zealand had a population of 1.6 million. In the original plan, China had fulfilled its plan to transport 8 million people. But for a number of reasons, the volume of transportation has been greatly reduced.

New Zealand and Australia are worthy of being exiled to the British, where every family has a gun and the people are fierce. There was a huge difference in the appearance and clothing of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and the locals, and fierce battles broke out in every town, every farm, every factory and mine. The descendants of these criminals did not listen to any advice and insisted on fighting to the end. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army could only fulfill them.

Even after the captivity, the New Zealanders and Australians in the camps fought a "stubborn struggle", and over the course of two months, there were more than a dozen large-scale riots in the New Zealand and Australian prisoner of war camps. Various small-scale rebellions have emerged one after another. The process of these riots is described in detail in "The Thorn Bird".

The war took its toll on the unprecedented, with the 8.6 million people suffering a staggering number of casualties in the course of the battle against the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. The total number of casualties, including those who died after being wounded, exceeded 3 million. You must know that there are still hundreds of thousands of natives in Australia, and removing these natives is equivalent to three out of eight white Australians and New Zealanders killed in battle.

Resistance was fiercest in New Zealand, a white supremacist country with 1.12 million killed out of 1.6 million and almost all adult women. Women also paid hundreds of thousands of lives in the fighting.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army sent a total of 500,000 troops to attack these two places, and the casualties reached 50,000.

The public security battle hurt morale the most, and Chen Ke couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing the news of the enemy's fierce resistance. Killing each other in war is acceptable. Both sides went to war to kill each other. It does not involve slaughter, it does not involve abuse, and the battle is just and bright, and it has little impact on people's thinking. What's more, most of the fighters on the Chinese side do not know English. There was no verbal exchange, only the exchange of guns, and the sequelae of the law and order war were finally solved.

The last thing China lacks now is people who obey orders, and New Zealand is the highest priority in the immigration program. This area is not large, but there are many pastures, iron mines, and coal mines. A convoy of 400 ships, unprecedented in human history, set off. 2.3 million young Chinese people boarded ships to their future homes in batches. Of course, they also have some apprehension in their hearts, but these young people are more of a sense of mission.

The migrant forces are under military administration, and most of these young people are under the age of 25 and many are not married. When the head of the army asked them to line up in a neat queue, the neat queue of 100,000 people looked exciting.

In the end, it was not the head of the unit who appeared on the high platform, but another person. The man that young people have met in picture books, in newspapers, on television. The voice of the person who had been heard on the radio or on the TV came out of the loudspeaker, and Chen Ke said in a standard ordinary voice: "I am Chen Ke, today I am here to see off the comrades on the journey, the comrades obeyed the call of the country, and when I came here, I want to say to everyone, the comrades have worked hard!" ”

The whole scene was crazy, and these young people did respond to the call of the People's Party and Chairman Chen Ke to participate in this action. The distant land that has never been set foot on will be the home of these young people in the future, and many of them will not return to their hometowns several times, but the young people still accept this future.

However, it was not only his relatives and leaders who came to see him off, but also the god in the young man's mind. Every young man strives to lean forward, to get closer to the founder of the republic. I want to be closer to him.

The commander in the team immediately tried his best to stop everyone from messing up the queue. After all, these young people have been taught strict discipline since childhood. In the end, everyone stabilized the formation.

Chen Ke didn't say much, he just rode by in front of the phalanx one by one and inspected the young people going south. Finally, there is an hour-long review.

In 1939, China entered the normal age of death as long as it was over 50 years old. In many later records, Chen Ke, a 59-year-old man, stood there steadily, standing in front of the microphone. A procession of 100,000 people passed in front of Chen Ke in a column of 10 people. According to the average speed of passing through a row in two seconds, plus the review and speech before and after, Chen Ke stood for a full eight hours.

And there was no tiredness in the leader of the republic, even if there was a jubilant queue below, and Chen Ke's exuberant vitality and that tough upward attitude left a deep impression on those who participated. Many people recorded, "After only standing with Chairman Chen Ke for two hours, the physical exhaustion made the spirit feel numb." That alone made me understand why this man was able to become the leader of China. He's too powerful. And this review is just the beginning, Chairman Chen Ke went to every starting point to see off the comrades who went south, and every time he had to completely review the team that was about to go away. Twenty reviews of at least eight hours each. Chairman Chen Ke always seemed to be full of vigorous vitality as always, and the revolutionary predecessors who were over 50 years old who participated in the review with him all survived. And most of us in our twenties, thirties and forties have not been able to persevere to the end......"

As the southbound fleet passed through the South China Sea, the American fleet reappeared. During these days, the U.S. Pacific Fleet has been frequently present on the sea communication arteries through which China passes. As before, the Chinese side is friendly to the American fleet, while at the same time turning a blind eye to its actions. As before, the Americans, after a long march on the sidelines, also opted for a peaceful disengagement.

Of course, the Chinese fleet relayed the information it had received back home, and the American fleet also passed on what they had discovered to the American side.