After coming out of the telegraph school, Liang Hong went straight to the wharf on the bank of the Haihe River, where the rented steamer was waiting, and he had to hurry to the temporary base that went straight to the mouth of the Yellow River. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoTens of thousands of teenagers who will serve as military personnel have arrived at the base and started their initial training, and today there will be tens of thousands of newly arrived farmers who are about to board the ship and go to Africa, and he is a little worried.

The clipper, which had just been launched from the shipyard in Sishaw, Germany, sailed at high speed on the sea surface of Bohai Bay. Smoke billowed from the towering chimneys, and the tri-expansion engine let out a deafening roar. The chartered German steamer was modeled after the 1885 class torpedo boat and had a top speed of 24 knots.

Chopping the waves, the speed of the steamer exceeded 14 kilometers per hour, surpassing all ships on the sea, even so it still could not calm the anxiety in Liang Hong's heart. All the plans needed to be rushed forward, and suddenly there was a sense of urgency. Yesterday I just saw a news in the newspaper, far away in northern Africa, that on September 2, the Anglo-Egyptian army led by the British General Kitchener defeated the main force of the Mahdi army on the outskirts of Omdurman, the capital of the Mahdi Kingdom, and subsequently occupied the capital. The war in northern Africa, which would affect the pattern of the Transvaal in southern Africa, may be an exaggeration, but Liang Hong soon realized that it was entirely possible, because he remembered the upcoming Fashoda incident in history. He was annoyed that he had missed such an important event in his plans.

Fashoda is a small town in the middle of the White Nile River in Sudan, where a standoff between Britain and France has almost begun. While Britain was busy suppressing the Mahdi uprising, France also stepped up its expansion in Northeast Africa. On July 10, 1898, Marchand arrived at Fashoda with 8 French and 120 Senegalese soldiers and raised the French flag. Kitchener, having conquered Omdurman, also moved swiftly south along the Nile, and at the end of September would also arrive at Fashoda, where he hoisted the Egyptian and British flags at the same place, and warned the French of what was seen as a direct encroachment on the Egyptian government and the power of Great Britain.

When the news reached Europe, the British government took a very tough stance and demanded that France withdraw unconditionally, and there was a consensus in Britain that Sudan should be occupied and that Kitchener could wage war with heavy troops. France was not willing to retreat without reaping any benefits, and after many fruitless diplomatic negotiations, Britain and France were tense, and the British naval fleet was even preparing to raid France. Although the incident ended with the withdrawal of French troops and the crisis was resolved peacefully, the Anglo-French conflict was bound to put Britain in a state of contraction in southern Africa temporarily. Without an external threat, the Boers may be ready to move, and the natives who dare to form a militia are likely to be the first to be attacked.

In the evening, after a five-hour sea voyage, Liang Hong finally saw several huge ships moored outside the mouth of the Yellow River. The four ships, which carry more than 4,000 tons, are American ocean-going freighters that he chartered and simply converted, and are about to carry 10,000 farmers and their families who have gone to Africa. The cargo holds have been renovated to include densely packed multi-storey bunks, and each ship can transport more than 2,000 people. These ships are relatively new and fast, with an average speed of about fifteen knots. The 8,000-nautical-mile voyage from here to Lorenço Marques costs almost 100,000 yuan per trip, which is equivalent to the cost of 50 oceans for transporting a person.

The temporary base is lined with tents, and the base is a little crowded and chaotic with more than 10,000 recruited teenagers stationed here, but now with the farmers and their families who come by wooden boat from the Yellow River during the day.

The men in the long line were shaved their heads, and the women were cut into inches, and then showered in a potion to eliminate all kinds of parasites from their skin. The men who came out of the bath and changed into new clothes, some of them still had frustration on their faces, and Huaxia was particular about the hair given by his parents, and he was not happy to be shaved on his head. However, these people did not dare to resist, and Liang Hong would never compromise in this regard, Africa is a harsh natural environment, and he has an obligation to let everyone survive as much as possible.

In a corner of the base, the invited pharmacist is boiling medicines, such as the wind oil essence prescription provided by Liang Hong. He remembered that this thing could prevent seasickness, and the peppermint oil, camphor oil, and clove oil were almost mixed together, and the mechanism was to inhibit seasickness by stimulating the skin nerves, awakening the brain, and refreshing. Then there are Huoxiang Zhengqi water for treating diarrhea, herbal tea for clearing heat and detoxifying, as well as common medicines such as hemostatic powder, bruising and dispersion, and pulling poison ointment, all of which are prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine. In this era, there are almost no curative chemical drugs, and Western medicine is still in the embarrassment that there is no cure even if it is diagnosed, so he can only rely more on traditional Chinese medicine. Liang Hong purchased a lot of traditional Chinese medicine this time, including medicinal materials that can play an anti-inflammatory role, such as Houttuynia cordata, Coptis chinensis, honeysuckle, etc. Most of them relied on the recommendations of the Chinese medicine doctors he invited, and some of the herbs proved to be effective in his memory.

"There must be a Langzhong on every boat, and if it is not enough, continue to spend a high price, and these Langzhong will also be of great use in Africa. Surgery is most needed, and other internal medicine, gynecology and even pediatrics must be complete in order to stand in Africa. ”

Liang Hong dictated the details that he had thought of before, and Spy Zero Five followed him to record, and now he was the general coordinator of the entire transportation operation. The end point of the sea is Lorenzo Marques, a Portuguese colony, who is fluent in Portuguese, and the earliest to Shanghai, the Portuguese merchants he befriended can come in handy.

"On the Lorenzo Marques side, rail transport must be well connected, and people and goods must be able to be transferred away as soon as they arrive. In addition, Singapore was informed that rice procured from Siam and other places should be shipped as soon as possible. ”

The price of Siamese rice is similar to that of the coast, and in order to save freight, Liang Hongcong plans to import rice from Siam and ship it to Africa. Siam is now the same currency as the Qing state, which is a silver standard currency. In order to exploit Asian countries, the Western powers frantically raised the price of gold and silver, and in less than 10 years, the exchange rate of gold against silver rose by more than 70 percent, and the Western world sold industrial products at high prices and plundered the relatively cheap labor, agricultural products, and mineral raw materials of Asian countries. The difference in the gold and silver monetary system has caused the price of agricultural products to be distorted, and the price of wheat eaten by Westerners and rice eaten by Asians has been distorted several times in Europe and Asia. Now after the summer harvest, the price of rice purchased from Siam is less than 3 yuan per stone.

"Then inform the African base to speed up the organization of carriages and horses, to build simple roads within a month, to build enough simple shacks, to prepare for reclamation of land, to burn as soon as possible. As soon as the goods can be transported away, the personnel may be settled and lived in as soon as they arrive, and the land is in a state of reclamation at any time. ”

By speeding up the transportation process, the temporary base will be able to send a fleet of ships every three days to transport tens of thousands of people to Africa. According to Liang Hong's latest plan, the failure of the Wuxu Reform Law will be the last wave of evacuations.