At the entrance of Zhuangshi Village, the leaders of each village surrounded the Saturday Yi Tuantuan.

Saturday Yi was dressed shortly, with a short gun in his waist and a large knife behind his back. He is the deputy captain of the Zhenhai Martial Arts Workers Team and the leader of a small team, and the north bank of the Yongjiang River Estuary is the activity boundary of the first squad of the Zhenhai Martial Arts Workers' Team.

Xie Dingguo's face was full of light, and he said happily, "Captain Zhou, thank you for the strong support of the Wugong team, and the strong cooperation of the joint defense teams of all villages, we have captured a total of five hundred and sixty prisoners. ”

Zheng Jinlin said with a smile, "A total of fifty-two people have been arrested in our village. ”

"Twelve of them have been caught in our village!"

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Saturday Yi scratched on the paper and said with a smile, "Okay, plus the Zhaobaoshan Fort, our military and civilian cooperation, we have captured more than 1,200 in total." ”

He raised his voice slightly, "This is a great victory!" ”

"Hooray! Banzai! Immediately, the crowd was excited.

A few young men shouted excitedly, "Captain Zhou, we should take advantage of the victory to pursue, and we can't let the Qing army in Ningbo Mansion be at ease." ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! Everyone was gossiping and strongly asked the Wugong team to take the joint defense teams of various villages to take Zhenhai and Ningbo in one fell swoop.

Saturday Yi raised his voice slightly, "The imperial court said that we smashed the old world in order to build a new China!" ”

The people fell silent.

Liuyi continued, "The imperial court also said that the construction of New China needs a large number of officials to lead, manage, and build together. These officials did not come from the old Manchu officials, but from thousands of Chinese revolutionary activists. ”

He pointed to the people around him, "That's you!" ”

"We, we can also be officials!" A few of the farmers didn't believe their ears.

"Just by your ideological consciousness and your work achievements, you are the only official in China!" Saturday Yi said with a smile, "The imperial court said that after the New Year, activists from various villages will be dispatched in batches and batches to Taiwan for training, and those who pass the training will be Ming officials." As long as there are enough officials, not to mention Ningbo Mansion, it is Beijing City, we can easily take it. ”

The Qing captives had their hands tied behind their backs, their mouths gagged, and they were firmly tied together in groups of ten. The joint defense team took them out of the Taoist temple in a string and escorted them to the Qingshuipu ferry.

Another string of prisoners was escorted out, and this team was all military attachés, one of the adjutant generals, one garrison, three thousand generals, and six generals.

Saturday Yi made a look, and the group was all picked up.

Huang Dengke stared at Zhou Yi's short hair, and as soon as the mouth plug was taken out, he couldn't care about swallowing his saliva, and said hoarsely, "You are Ming bandits!" ”

"Dog traitor, we are the master of the Ming Dynasty!" A member of the martial arts team on the side waved his whip, and a deep mark appeared on Huang Dengke's forehead.

"No wonder, no wonder ......"

Huang Dengke felt a burning pain in his forehead, but his heart hurt even more. He understood everything. The entire Zhenhai countryside is the world of the Ming army, and even Li Mingshun of Zhenhai Zhi County is not necessarily reliable.

Saturday Yi glanced at them contemptuously, "Huang Dengke, Yang Liufeng, I only ask you one word, are you willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Traitor, kill if you want to kill! This official was born as a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, and died as a loyal ghost of the Qing Dynasty! Huang Dengke's face turned pale. He said in his heart that he would die if he died, and he must not affect his family in his hometown in Shandong.

Yang Liufeng also shook his head and didn't say anything.

"His grandmother's, it's shameless, isn't it!" Saturday Yi was a little annoyed and persuaded Huang Dengke to surrender, which could directly hit the confidence of the Manchu court, so that the topic of 'Zhejiang people guarding Zhejiang' had room to survive within the Qing court.

The two generals suddenly began to cry, and fell directly to their knees, begging bitterly: "This lord, I deserve to die!" I'll be damned! I just ask the adults to let me wait for a way to live, I am willing to be a Shunmin of the Ming Dynasty in this life and this life, that is, to be a slave for generations, and we are also willing! ”

These two junior officers of the Green Battalion Sailor Division were originally a big-headed soldier, and they all relied on whiskers and horses and bought ~ officials to go up, and there was no discipline at all.

"Haha, willing to be a slave! Well, we won't take your lives. Saturday Yi smiled, and he said in his heart, it is good that Huang Dengke and Yang Liufeng do not surrender, so that they can buy a few more silver dollars.

Six sand boats anchored at the Qingshuipu ferry, and the captives were carried up in a row.

In the evening, six sand boats hoisted their sails and sailed towards the mouth of the Yongjiang River with Qing prisoners captured in various villages.

The Qing ships under Zhenhai City have long been captured by the Ming army, and the river is full of boats.

Merchant ships loaded with supplies passed by the side of the wreck, and the Yongjiang estuary returned to its former busyness.

At seven o'clock in the evening, all the sand boats arrived at Dinghai Yancang Wharf.

Huang Dengke, Yang Liufeng and other ten people were tied in a row by ropes and staggered onto the deck.

Looking at the brightly lit wharf, Huang Dengke trembled slightly, this must be Dinghai, the base camp of Ming bandits in eastern Zhejiang!

Stepping on the gangplank, with the dark sea below and the swarthy Panzhi Island behind, Huang Dengke felt that this was the last chance to escape, so he jumped hard.

Huang Dengke's jump made him fall into the protective net under the springboard, and Yang Liufeng and others on the rope string fell on the springboard because they were pulled together, so they let out screams and screams.

Five or six hooks reached over and hooked Huang Dengke's clothes together, pulling him up to the dock.

"You want to run away!" A Ming soldier couldn't help but say something, and directly swung a stick and smashed it at Huang Dengke.

In the darkness, he saw the stick "crackling" and flashing with a faint blue light, and Huang Dengke screamed like a pig, and fell directly to the ground and fainted.

When Huang Dengke woke up, he found himself stripped naked and thrown on a wooden bed with only a thin blanket on top of it, and a pile of new clothes at the head of the bed.

He looked up and around. The clean and tidy room was lined with ten bunk beds, enough to sleep twenty people, but at the moment there were only ten people in his row. Yang Liufeng sat on the opposite bed blankly, and he and the other comrades all changed into an orange and yellow jumper.

Huang Dengke turned over and sat up, feeling that his head was cold, and when he touched his hand, his head was shaved for some reason. Turning his head to see the electric light hanging from the roof, he stared at it in amazement for a few minutes, "Where is this?" ”

"My lord, the Ming army said that this is a quarantine station. We are here to quarantine and check if there are any hidden diseases. He poked his head over when he got on the bed, "The No. 1 rice bowl and the No. 1 cup belong to you, Ming Jun said, this kind of thing is only allowed to be used by oneself, not mixed, and everything must be placed on the shelf in order,......, otherwise you will be punished." ”

This is the boss who knelt down in front of the Ming bandit just now, Huang Dengke snorted, got out of bed and walked to the door.

The door was locked from the outside, and there was a lookout window on the door.

He looked out, and there was a gloomy hallway, and the door on the opposite side was also closed, with the red number "Two-One-Three" written on it.

More than 200 houses? It seems to be a big place!

Huang Dengke turned his head and asked Yang Liufeng, "The Ming bandits have locked us up here, what do they want to do?" ”

"When you were unconscious just now, you didn't hear Ming Jun's words. They said that our dedication to the Qing Dynasty was a great crime of aiding and abetting abuse, exterminating the clan and destroying the family. ”

"Exterminate the clan and destroy the door, it's easy to say!" Huang Dengke snorted coldly, "If the Ming bandits really wanted to kill the prisoners, they wouldn't make such a big move." ”

Yang Liufeng's voice trembled a little: "Ming Jun said that he wanted us to use the sweat of labor to wash away our sins." ”

"What do you mean!" Huang Dengke shuddered and hurriedly put clothes on his body, only then did he realize that his crotch was also bare.

"They said they would let us stay here for seven or eight days, and then send them to Citigroup to work as coolies for eight years."

"We? We also go to hard labor! Huang Dengke's face was full of horror, he had long heard that there were people selling piglets in Nanyang, and if he bought them, he would be worse off than dead, and he couldn't imagine that he had fallen into such a situation.

"If you don't want to go to Citigroup, you can send it directly to the Taiwan coal mine, and dig coal until you die for the rest of your life."

"What!" Huang Dengke was weak and sat down on the bed. He was full of regrets, why did he go to this Zhenhai to confront the Ming army. He should have surrendered to the Ming army as soon as possible, otherwise he would not have fallen into the current situation.

The next morning, the door slammed open, and one guard stood in front of it with a black stick, followed by another with a bucket of breakfast.

Huang Dengke waited for a night, and finally waited for hope. He rushed directly to the door and said earnestly to the guard, "I'm Huang Dengke, I'm the deputy general of Cong Erpin, I have something important to see you, I ......."

The stick "crackled" and burst into blue electric sparks, and Huang Dengke seemed to have gone crazy, his body convulsed and fell to the ground, and a stream of white foam gushed out of his mouth.

"Stand up for me, stand up straight!"

Looking at the black stick "Bell~Bell~Bell~" knocking on the door frame, everyone's head, shoulders, back, and limbs were a little numb and swollen, and they quickly threw away the things in their hands, and quickly stood by their bedside, standing upright.

With a clang, the door slammed shut, leaving a bucket of rice porridge mixed with fish balls and vegetable leaves on the floor of the room.

Huang Dengke was helped up from the ground, and he ate three bowls in a row before his body could be considered relieved.

Immediately after breakfast, the rice bucket was taken away, and the guards taught Huang Dengke another lesson.

It didn't take long for the door to open again. This time, Huang Dengke stood in front of his bed in a proper manner, and he no longer dared to talk and move, but could only express his begging wish with his eyes.

Four guards with sticks walked in with Andy.

Andy smiled and said in Chinese, "Friends, I am the clerk of the U.S. Consulate in Dinghai, and it is a pleasure to meet you. On behalf of the Michijian administration, I welcome you to become indentured laborers, join in the development of the western United States, and make positive contributions to the friendship between the United States and China. ”

Is this a Michijian man, and is this going to be a indentured laborer? What am I going to do?

Huang Dengke didn't have time to think about it at all, so he was the first to pull out and ask him to sign the "labor contract".

It is a five-year contract in quadruplicate, in English on the front and Chinese on the back.

It stipulates that the minimum monthly wage for an indentured laborer is five silver dollars; There is 1 hour of lunch time, 1 hour of dinner time and 8 hours of working time every day, and the maximum working hours in a day cannot exceed 12 hours, and overtime work cannot exceed 3 hours, and overtime compensation must be given; In terms of diet, two working meals are provided every day, including 1 and a half catties of vegetables, 1 tael of meat, 1 tael of oil, l two fish and poultry eggs, and l two soy products; Work hats, work clothes and work shoes are distributed throughout the year; If you are sick, you will be given sick leave and receive medical services necessary for your illness, and no wages will be paid during this period.

This contract seems to be relatively favorable, and I hope that I will return alive to reunite with my wife and children.

Huang Dengke picked up the pen, looked at the fierce guard, sighed, and sighed, people hurt me for fish and meat, like that!

He gritted his teeth, signed his name one by one on the contract, and put his handprint on it.