Section 75 Dual Base [continued]
Garcia. De La Vega was busy giving haircuts to Chinese laborers tied to chairs. www.biquge.info Sometimes, he would stop working for a while, fiddle with the laborer's head for a while, and then shake his head dissatisfied.
"You shouldn't have asked me to make the heads of your fellow citizens into pots." He told Qin Lang, "Even if these compatriots of yours have a pot lid, they can't find a fierce feeling at all. ”
Qin Lang would have simply nodded and counted as an answer, but now he was busy explaining something to Yi Shui.
"Not everyone will take the barber's opinion." De La Vega muttered, a little depressed, "Anyway, I've made it clear, now I just need to get this annoying job done as soon as possible." You should have hired more barbers. ”
He walked back to his chair and went to get back to work, where more than a hundred Chinese laborers were waiting for him to give them a haircut—though reluctantly, as docile as sheep under the threat of bayonets from the rifles held by the Umbrella mercenaries.
Qin Lang explained this problem to Yi Shui. Yi Shui disagreed with his approach and forced laborers to cut off their braids under the threat of force from mercenaries. Something like this had happened to him, and he could relate to their current feelings: the pain of fear, anger, and powerlessness.
Moreover, these people went to the United States to work as coolies only to make money so that they could return to China and marry wives. Their understanding is very shallow, and Qin Lang and Rachel will not find time to enlighten them like they did with him, and it is almost impossible for them to return to normal in a short period of time like him.
They will be miserable for a long time, and their situation is already terrible. As long as he thought of the two locations that the laborers were about to go to, the desolate desert and the small island far from the land, Yi Shui felt that Qin Lang's approach was very lacking...... Humanitarianism.
"Humanitarianism?" Qin Lang wanted to laugh. This is what Yi Shui learned from him, and he didn't expect him to use this word to accuse him. This is a ridiculous mistake - the object is wrong. "Have you ever seen an arms dealer with a humanitarian spirit, Yi Shui?" He asked cheerfully.
"No, but ......" Yi Shui thought for a moment, "I know you don't like braids, Qin Lang, but you should let them choose whether they want to cut their braids or not, it's their right." ”
"Power?" He was strange: when did Yi Shui become a ...... Fighter for human rights? His mind seems to have evolved a little too fast......
"Yes, they have the authority to do so. The United States is a democracy, isn't it? And Rousseau ...... "he began to gush on and on about things that Qin Lang had heard a long time ago and that he was now numb to - of course, things, he never took them as a matter of course."
Especially in this day and age.
Every time American workers began to exercise their power to demand higher wages and fewer working hours, the democratic American government sent in police, militia or federal troops at the invitation of the capitalists - of course, it would seem that the capitalists were exercising their power to refuse to increase wages and reduce the number of hours worked, but the conclusion to be drawn from these specific events remains the same: might makes right.
And, while Hollywood could allow pirates to give an impassioned speech about freedom before the war to show that the spirit of freedom is deeply rooted in the United States, blacks are discriminated against, Chinese enjoy the Chinese Exclusion Act, and Indians live on reservations. In what place?
Yi Shui's remarks are ridiculous, but it's not his fault, it's that Rachel has found him the wrong political teacher. So Qin Lang stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder. "You need to change your governess, Yi Shui."
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing. I think your education is completely out of touch. Qin Lang shrugged, "Remember Umbrella's business?" Helping factory owners deal with workers' protests to shut down - Yi Shui, which part of democracy, freedom or human rights do you think fits in? ”
If Yi Shui were a modern Chinese, he would have replied to Qin Lang "That's an American, can't be compared with a Chinese", but Yi Shui is not. So his immediate reaction was frustration, followed by confusion. He thought he had finally found a truth, but Qin Lang threw it into the garbage heap on the grounds of "detachment from reality".
He didn't know how to debate with Qin Lang at all.
Qin Lang didn't want to debate either. He looked at the Chinese laborers who had become "pot heads" and was in a happy mood - these people would soon be able to recover the lost benefits for him, and they would also bring him more and more lucrative benefits.
Qin Lang has already arranged jobs for Chinese laborers. The part of the population that was housed on the small island of Mexico was tasked with producing methamphetamine and amphetamine. The laboratory development of methamphetamine has been successfully completed, and Elizabeth is synthesizing anandamide, and now all she has to do is to install a complete production facility on the island and recruit a few college graduates from the chemistry department.
After all, Chinese laborers did not yet know what chemistry was, and they could only undertake basic manual labor.
The Chinese living in the Nevada desert were also subjected to the most basic manual labor. Together with the Chinese who would later go to Bridegroom Lake, they would build a military base and a desert training center for Umbrella in line with the famous code name of "District 51".
But this is only the superficial function of the base. Although Qin Lang hadn't figured out what exactly he wanted to study at Groom Lake for the time being, since he had used the code name "Area 51", it would never be possible not to conduct top-secret research there.
Airplanes, armored vehicles, tanks, missiles, poison gas, viruses...... He needs to think it through.
But in any case, the starting point of everything is these "pot heads" in front of you.
"Hopefully, they will finally be able to accomplish the mission I have given them." After a moment of silence, he added, "However, I will have to find some more 'pot heads' to watch them." ”
"Umbrella's mercenaries? They may be willing to go to the island, but they are not willing to go to the desert. Yi Shui shook his head. Qin Lang himself said that mercenaries are not soldiers, and they do not have the obedience of soldiers. Let them go to the groom lake to suffer, this is simply impossible.
"Nothing is impossible for humans, as long as you offer a high enough price." Qin Lang turned around and walked towards the office building, preparing to select a group of people from the list of mercenaries to go to the island and the "Fifty-first District" respectively. Yi Shui followed him closely.
They hadn't taken a few steps before they saw O'Connor running over. Stopping and glancing, Qin Lang and Yi Shui turned around a little and re-chose a forward route that could meet O'Connor head-on. So it didn't take long for the three of them to come together.
Qin Lang spoke first. "What's the matter with you, Sean."
"Henry. Markham has just signed a decree requiring Chinese who have not yet found work in California to find work within two weeks or the authorities will arrest and deport them on charges of 'disturbing social order.'" ”
"That's normal, isn't it? Since John. B. Reddick asked us to relocate the Chinese in order to get votes for his re-election, and of course our Mr. Governor would have signed such a decree in order to show the voters that he had indeed played an important role in the deportation of the Chinese. ”
"But that would seriously disrupt our steps, and neither Bridegroom Lake nor the small islands of Mexico have the capacity to accommodate large numbers of residents."
"Don't worry. As long as food and drinking water are carefully calculated and distributed, there will be no serious problems in the short term. You have to know that even in more extreme environments, humans can survive tenaciously for a while. Moreover, a difficult life is better than being arrested and deported. ”
"Definitely. But can't you negotiate with the state government, Qin? O'Connor calmed down, but still didn't want to dance to the rhythm of the state government - if there was a first time for this kind of thing, there would be a second time...... and much more.
"There is no diplomacy for a weak country." This is for Yi Shui, "The weak don't want to openly confront the strong." "This is for O'Connor.
Qin Lang once again set his sights on the "pot heads" made by De La Vega. "Actually, if you think about it from another angle, the governor's decree is not entirely bad."
"Huh?"