Bai Nan, the wild little prince, was busy before and after, boarding and going ashore again, running outside all day, and it was a little dark during this time. Although this large-scale friendship carnival banquet www.biquge.info belonged to the Propaganda Bureau from beginning to end, in fact, Yao Weichun, the director, did not have a few soldiers under his hands, and Bai Nan had to help the old man pick up all kinds of things.

In the end, the carnival was arranged into a total of nine performances, performed from beginning to end by the same cast and crew. The event was somewhere between a gala and a banquet, and in short, a group of improvised actors performed on a stage set up, and the newcomers sat around a bonfire below, enjoying a meal they hadn't tasted in a few days.

Wang Qinian, the leader of the cooking squad of the peacekeeping camp, couldn't help but nag when he saw Bai Nan: "Lieutenant Colonel Bai, you leaders want our lives, prepare a big banquet for 130,000 people for nine consecutive days, and our elbows can probably be turned upside down." ”

Bai Nan could only avoid the truth: "In special circumstances, haven't we already found a large enough number of chefs to cook with you?" ”

Wang Qinian, as the newly appointed head chef, has been responsible for coordinating the food problem in the colony, but fortunately, a fleet of more than 700 ships, basically each ship has some cooks, and after a group of cooks are gathered ashore, a large canteen is formed to provide food for the laborers who carry out construction work. But it's one thing to have an ordinary big pot of rice to fill your stomach, and it's another thing to have a big banquet.

Wang Qinian said to Bai Nan with a tangled face: "Every table is made of barbecue as a hard dish, it's good to say a little, at least seven or eight other meat and vegetarian dishes, soup or something has to be a whole pot, usually we cook in the canteen, there is a shortage of vegetables, everyone eats dry food with pickles and melon seeds." Now to make so many vegetables, our vegetable supply must have a problem, the newly sown batch of vegetable seeds, at this time has just emerged, to let everyone eat vegetables, too difficult! ”

Bai Nan said a little presumptuously: "At least there are some wild vegetables in the local area." ”

Wang Qinian shook his head: "This is North America, not our country." Even in China, I'm afraid we can't recognize all those wild vegetables that can and can't be eaten. And collecting wild vegetables for 130,000 people is too much work. ”

Bai Nan nodded: "Okay, no matter what, Chef Wang, you can do your best, after this event is over, I have to give you a lot of credit." ”

"I don't care if I don't work or not, everyone is gathered in this place, people are panicking, and holding a show well can be regarded as making everyone stable and stable." Wang Qinian sighed faintly. He is also forty years old, and he has a wife and children at home, but as soon as he crosses, there is nothing. In this world, he also used to suffer and torture, but later found that it was useless, and he could only live like this.

Bai Nan also knows that in fact, the existence of the colony is a meaning for everyone to continue to live. When the question of survival can be guaranteed, people always need to have some sustenance. Yesterday, a new phenomenon was mentioned in the report submitted to the Final Committee. A few Christian-believing intellectuals in the fleet of the Republic of China turned into clergymen and began to secretly preach to some helpless traversers, and with good results.

First of all, everyone has a basic understanding that religious belief is free, but they have to face up to a problem, that is, when religion spreads widely, it will turn from metaphysical to metaphysical and begin to invade the real world. God can be selfless, but missionaries will always be, and it is inevitable that some ambitious people will not use the convenience of religion to satisfy their own selfishness.

It is undignified to stop this kind of activity directly, Bai Nan thought of a trick, that is, to gather these few intellectuals of the Republic of China who were carrying out missions, and either arrange a little petty officials to do it, or arrange some heavy paperwork, which naturally improved their salary, but made them very busy, so that they would have no time to preach.

In fact, not only these Republican people, but also those Spanish Franciscan priests who were previously taken in by the warriors actually had similar ideas. The Spanish priests, though called prisoners, were not mistreated, they were allowed to do their daily schoolwork, and even for a while they were under the guard of the soldiers, but they were not allowed to run around.

During the days of their captivity, the Spaniards saw what they considered "majestic" buildings rising next to the mission they had built. These buildings basically have no beauty to them, and they have nothing to do with God's inspiration, but the efficiency of these Oriental buildings is really beyond their imagination. The huge vehicle resembling a small house could drag thousands of bricks from one place to another without the need for cattle and horses. Subsequently, teams of laborers turned various building materials into buildings. The gray powdery dust, mixed with sand and water, became extremely strong. A curious priest secretly punched a few times, only to find that he could only break his hand.

"These damn Orientals built a city in three weeks! How did they do it. One priest said in shock.

Father Cruzaldo, the head of the mission, said in silence: "You have all seen how the city was built. ”

Someone said: "If they continue to build like this, this place will no longer belong to us." ”

Cruzado lamented, "From the day we were cast out of the pulpit, this place belonged to the Orientals." ”

His deputy, Father Antonio, insisted: "As soon as our Viceroy of New Spain finds out about this, he will surely send an army to defeat these invaders, and the glory of the Lord cannot be blasphemed!" ”

Kruzado said to them solemnly: "My parishioners, let us now face reality. These Orientals, although we don't know where they came from, can clearly identify from their actions that they have the same idea as us, that is, colonization. They have all sorts of terrible technologies that we have never heard of, especially in military firearms, and their weapons are particularly sharp, so to speak, their chariots are all covered with steel armor, and bullets cannot penetrate them. Although New Spain was able to gather twenty or thirty thousand colonial troops, and even His Majesty Carlos III might send loyal guards from Spain proper, do you really think that the Spanish army can defeat these Orientals? ”

There was a suffocating and awkward silence.

Father Cruzado sneered and said, "That's exactly what I thought, any of us sane people know, no, the Spanish army can't defeat this eastern army!" Even pessimistic, when His Excellency Governor Baccalelli knew that such a power existed in Alta California, he would not have sent troops to fight against the mighty armies of the Orientals in order to seize a place where there was little production and few Spanish nationals. Most likely, he would shrink his forces and focus on protecting Mexico, the most important colony of the Spanish Empire. ”

"But this is our territory after all!"

Kruzado paused slightly, and continued: "The world has always been the law of the jungle, Spain lost less land because of the war, we lost the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War, and by the time of the War of the Succession, Spain had lost all its European enclaves. It is undeniable that Spain is still a European power and even a world power, but it is sometimes exhausted and Spain cannot do everything. At least in remote California, the reality was that Spain could not afford to defeat these Orientals, and it would become a colony of Orientals. ”

A priest interjected at this time: "But what is the origin of these Orientals?" Chinese? This is possible with their large population, and the writings say that the Chinese are rich and intelligent, have all kinds of ingenuity and creativity, and they are also very industrious, which is evident in their work efficiency. But the most puzzling thing is that China seems to have been conquered by the Tatars, and the current Chinese should all have braids. ”

The Franciscans' influence spread all over the world, and their priests left footprints all over the world and gathered all kinds of intelligence, and became the vanguard of the actual Western colonizers. So, it is not uncommon to know about the situation in the countries of the East.

Father Kruzado said keenly: "This group of Orientals, looking at language and communication, should be the same people, I also think that it is more likely to be Chinese, but as you said, the Chinese now have Tatar braids, and they are closed, it is impossible to launch such large-scale colonial activities." And I found that although these Orientals are supposed to be of the same race, they are also different from each other, and they are very different in clothing, and some have long hair, while others have short hair like us Europeans. ”

Cruzado felt that he couldn't figure it out, and added, "We need to understand this slowly, but my point is that now, unless we are released by these Eastern colonists, we will always be prisoners here." However, I see that this is also a wonderful opportunity for us to spread the gospel of God. Why? For these Orientals seem to be unbelievers, and if they were able to believe in God, they would be far more useful than the Indians becoming believers. God would have welcomed these Orientals as His pious lambs. They have the ability to help us further advance the Lord's Paradise in this land, and we at the Franciscans may also make a leap forward with the support of these Orientals. ”

His words made the Spanish priests very excited, but some hesitated and asked: "But can we convince the Orientals that we are allowed to preach here?" ”

Kruzado said: "It's man-made, how can you know if you don't fight for it." ”