In May of the previous year, that is, in the 23rd year of Guangxu, the embankment of the Yellow River in Beilingzi, Lijin burst, and the river water was changed from the east of the wire mesh mouth and the north of Tuantuozi to the sea. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info15 Village is the last village before the Yellow River enters the sea, which is formed by the alluvial sediment caused by the flooding of the Yellow River, and has also been repeatedly abandoned due to the flooding of the Yellow River. Whenever the population flourishes a little, there will be a catastrophe from the sky, so few people dare to settle here.

The fifth master of the long camel rushed to the camp downstream. A few days ago, a group of people who claimed to be French foreigners set up camp here, and soon brought a whole shipload of food, tents, and other things from the sea, which made the old bandit roll his eyes in the waves, and led people to attack this place last night. The two sides exchanged fire, and they fought for half a night, and in the village they could hear the gunfire on the riverbank like bursting beans, which was the sound of foreign guns, and it was obvious that the bandits were defeated. The first chief has the responsibility of killing thieves and reassuring the people, so the fifth master of the camel must come over to have a look.

The camp covers an area of nearly 100 acres, and the barbed wire fence with spikes forms an enclosed area. Quite a few tents had been erected inside, and there were groups of young men busy setting up new tents, all made of new rubberized canvas. The fifth master sighed, foreigners are rich and willful to spoil things, how many clothes can this cloth make.

On the bank of the river facing the camp, dozens of corpses lay horizontally, and many knives, spears and guns were thrown in between. The fifth master knew that these people were all subordinates who were turning in the waves, and there must be descendants of their fifteen villages in them. The rabbit died and the fox was sad, he also worked as a pirate when he was young, and the fifteen villages were actually pirates' dens on the shore, some people in the family went to sea as bandits, and other families openly and secretly exchanged food supplies for pirate stolen goods.

Glancing at the sentry with a foreign gun at the gate, the fifth master of the camel stopped the urge to walk to the riverbank, it is said that the foreign lord is very fierce, and even the county lord does not dare to provoke.

According to the plan, Liang Hong set up a temporary base in this wasteland at the mouth of the Yellow River. Grain and other materials are transported from the sea, so there is no need to go against the current for inland shipping, the only disadvantage is that there is no wharf here, and it needs to be transferred to the shore by small boats. Originally, there was a wharf at the mouth of the Yellow River, and the Tiemen Pass in Lijin County in the Ming and Qing dynasties was famously prosperous, but unfortunately the Yellow River diversion was completely washed away in the 12th year of Guangxu. In order to strengthen the defense of the base, 50 foreign guns were purchased from foreign firms in the Shanghai concession, and hundreds of young men from hunters were selected from the refugees recruited under the city of Jinan. Last night, the pirates attacked, and these young men, led by two white special forces, successfully repelled the pirates.

The Chinese workers recruited outside Jinan have already begun to transfer to the base at the mouth of the sea, and they can take a wooden boat down the Xiaoqing River. Five years ago, Sheng Xuanhuai presided over the dredging of the Xiaoqing River, which is eight meters wide and three meters deep, and can pass thousands of tons of cargo ships. The first to leave Jinan City were the young miners, and Huatong Foreign Bank had already recruited tens of thousands of Chinese workers, especially a large number of young and strong people, and the government had already vaguely hinted at some kind of worry.

These young and strong Chinese workers were all prepared by Liang Hong to be incorporated into the army. They will receive simple military training before going to sea by boat, although this kind of training is only in the nature of a queue, but it is obviously not suitable to drill under the city of Jinan, so they will be transported to the temporary base first. The miners recruited were grouped by age, following the Zulu legions of the same age, grouped together by age. Eighteen to twenty years old are adult groups, sixteen to eighteen years old are high school groups, and fourteen to sixteen years old are junior high school groups. At the time of recruitment, those over the age of 16 were considered full-wage miners, with a monthly salary of five yuan, and when the African salary was reached, it would become a military salary. The age group of 14 to 16 is a half-paid miner, and the contract stipulates that he can only be converted to a full-salary miner when he is 16 years old or with the consent of Huatong Foreign Bank. Don't think that this is not easy to recruit, even with such conditions, there are still many applicants. Many people feel that such a regulation is reasonable, and the amount of food in the half-sized child is not small, but the body has not grown, and many businesses are reluctant to recruit employees of this age.

On the Xiaoqinghe wharf outside Jinan, young men in navy blue new clothes lined up chaotically, ready to board the boat going downstream. These people are all adults over the age of eighteen, ten people are organized into a class, fifty people are formed into a team, and each of them is designated as a squad leader and captain to manage. The personnel have just been grouped together, and these squad leaders and captains themselves don't know why, so the team looks very chaotic.

There was a clatter, the sound of iron chains, and then a slightly green young voice sounded.

"Hurry up and line up, or you'll pull it out and blast it away."

Xu 13 carried a wooden stick in his hand and beat the young man who cut in line indiscriminately. Maintaining order was the task assigned to him by the foreign missionaries, and as for the iron chain, it proved that he was still serving his sentence. Licheng County suddenly changed his case, and the case became a self-defense mistake and injury, and he was ordered to be expelled from an overseas desert island and exiled.

Although he didn't use enough strength, the whipping of the stick on his body was also very painful, everyone knew that this kid was clumsy and fierce, and he had hacked people to death with his own hands, and he was almost cut off by the county lord. The vast majority of them chose to dodge, and immediately dodged and joined the queue after being hit with a stick. Of course, there are also those who are not convinced, all of them are young children who are close to adulthood, and there are many people with hot tempers.

A stout young man who had been beaten with a stick didn't move, turned around, and suddenly raised his fist and hit Xu Shisan. Although Xu 13 reacted and stretched out his hand to be, the difference in age and the strength of the two sides was very different, and he was beaten by a punch. The stout young man cursed triumphantly, and was just about to turn around and walk into the line under the gaze of many people, when he heard the white missionary on the other side speak.

"Grab this man, strip him naked, and tie him up."

At the scene, there were not only thirteen people allowed to maintain order, but also the errand officers sent by the government to assist, all carrying a black and red water and fire stick in their hands. Listening to the missionary's orders, several officers pounced on them like wolves. He dragged the young man over and knocked him down, and then stripped off his brand-new clothes, and tied them with a rope.

The big board crackled and whipped on the ass and the two strands, so that the skin and flesh were dripping with blood, and every time the board was pumped, a terrible scream would be heard. It wasn't until later, when the screams subsided, that the people were thrown outside the camp, disobeying the management, and being expelled for violating the contract.

This can be regarded as an example of killing a hundred, and there are no rules, especially since these people will be organized and trained into an army in the future, and they must abide by military discipline. The most important thing in the modern army is not personal bravery, but the ability to act like an arm and finger under the constraints of military discipline. With the tragic situation of this example, the chaos on the banks of the river was suddenly improved, and the people who had been strong enough to be strong were restrained. It is still a trivial matter to be beaten by the board, but the most terrible thing is to drive it out and see the miserable situation of the countless refugees outside, most of whom are afraid that they will starve to death in the future.

On the tower of Haiyan Gate in Jinan in the distance, a group of officials wearing flower feathers also saw this scene.

"These foreigners don't seem to be good either."

Governor Zhang Rumei said with a smile to the officials behind her. He is not afraid that foreigners will be ruthless to the Chinese workers who have been recruited, but he is worried that he will win people's hearts with hypocrisy and hypocrisy, and these tens of thousands of Chinese workers will be bewitched and make trouble under the city of Jinan, and his official will come to an end.

"Alas, it's just that the foreign bank is recruiting people here, and refugees from near and far are gathering in Jinan Mansion, and it is said that there are still people rushing over on the road now, which is not easy to do?" Prefect Lu Changyi reminded carefully.

"Then go and persuade the French foreign firm to recruit more people to leave."

Zhang Rumei flicked her sleeves and turned away, leaving only Lu Changyi and Li Zunian of Licheng County looking at each other. This is also done? Compared with the foreign companies that were recruited, there are still most of them left.