Chapter 19: The Transformation of Identity
October 1, 1640
In the time and space before the time and space traveled, this day was the National Day, and the whole country was filled with the joy of the festival.
Now that it has crossed, there is naturally no National Day celebration for the crossers.
It's been more than two months since I traveled to this time and space, and the big guy has gradually become familiar with and accepted the fact of crossing over, and has begun to work hard to build his new home.
Under the effective planning of the Executive Committee, the first phase of the three-story building, which occupies 600 square meters of ground and has an actual construction area of 1,800 square meters, has been basically completed under day and night construction.
In addition, the ship repair plant that had crossed over together had been requisitioned by the newly formed steamship crew, and the newly built wharf had been put into use on the seashore a kilometer away from it, and the wharf area was built according to the dual-use type of passenger and cargo, and in addition to loading goods, a quarantine post was also built on the shore, which was mainly responsible for the health and quarantine work of future immigrants.
Everything seems to be on the right track, and the Travelers have completely regarded themselves as the masters of the land of the Australian continent, and no country will be allowed to touch it.
As can be seen from the construction of the coastal defense battery, the plan for the construction of the coastal defense battery was almost unanimously approved by the plenary meeting at that time.
In addition to slowly accepting to become the master of the Australian continent, the identity of those Ming Dynasty people is also gradually changing.
Yu Shan, Qiao Yan, two farmers who used to be just a small village in the inland of Guangdong, got on Zhao De's ship to the South Seas by mistake, and then went to Australia by mistake.
If they were to choose whether to go back to the days when they couldn't eat enough or the days when they had three meals a day, they would definitely choose the present.
As the first Ming Dynasty immigrant to get a salary to buy food in the reform of the salary system, Yu Shan seems to like to try new things, and feels fresh about everything in the Manchester City base, such as the big iron ship that does not need sails and oars, he is particularly curious about how it moves, and later heard that it is braked by an oil flowing from the tree, and the tree oil he has secretly seen, it is no different from the oil he eats, how can he make the boat move.
His curiosity about the ship made him want to become a crew member of the Sea Blue, and when he learned that Australia was recruiting for the navy and everyone could sign up, he secretly asked the head of his agricultural group to fill out a registration form for him. Originally, he had been admitted, but he didn't think that the executive committee felt that there were too many people, so he cut it in half, and unfortunately he was among them.
Originally, he was disheartened and had no energy to work, but later his friend Qiao Yan found him with a recruitment form for the security team, saying that he could see a lot of new things when he went to the security team.
So the two Ming Dynasty immigrant guys became the first batch of people to join the security group, after a month of training, the two were officially hired, both the treatment and benefits are the same as other crossing guys, and the two of them found that since joining the security group, the previous Ming Dynasty villagers looked at themselves differently, compared to the previous closeness, but now it is more awe.
Now as long as there is a conflict between the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty and others cannot mediate, they will always find the two of them to coordinate, and this change also makes the two of them staggered, and now this feeling is the same as the old patriarch in the village before.
"Qiao Xi, you know what? I liked it so much that I was going to stay, and I decided that tomorrow I would go to the captain's and apply to become an official resident of Manchester City, not only to eat and live, but most importantly to see a lot of strange things. ”
Qiao Yan, who was sitting on the side and holding a baton in his hand, looked a little deep, looking into the distance as if he was thinking about something.
"I want to wait, wait until I bring my mother together, I can think of my mother every day when I eat meat, every time I go to the market to buy a few taels of meat to make braised pork for me to eat, every time she watches me eat, but I am reluctant to eat a piece."
"I miss my mother too," Yu Shan heard his friend's words, and said in a choked voice: "If only my father and mother were still here, I could bring them to live in Manchester City in the future." By the way, what do you think, old horse, are you going to stay or continue to go back to being your pirate. ”
Yu Shan turned his face sideways and asked a European man with a beard and a somewhat majestic figure, as a pirate who was rescued by Wang Tiehammer together, Makarov has some language talent, and it only took him two weeks to basically learn Mandarin simply, and he was successfully selected by Chen Wenqing to join the security team.
Of course, before this, Chen Wenqing also repeatedly investigated and questioned, and finally determined that he was not a pirate, but was caught and imprisoned in the cabin by Xiong Weixuan's pirates at sea.
"Damn it, I'm here, say, I'm saying it again, I'm not a pirate, I'm a prisoner captured by a damn pirate, and I'm going to be on a ship, and you're going to call me a squad leader, and I'm in a higher position than you." The muscles in Makarov's face twitched a little because of excitement, this was the Nth time he had emphasized to Yu Shan that he was not a pirate, but Yu Shan almost always liked to talk about his sad past, although his Mandarin was not very fluent, and he stammered, but he could basically understand.
"Yes, yes, you're not a pirate, so squad leader, are you going back home?"
Maklov thought for a while, looking at the apartment building that was about to be completed in the distance, according to the captain Chen Wenqing, as the team leader, he will be able to get the first batch of qualifications to live in the apartment, and as his position changes in the future, the treatment he enjoys will also increase. Back to his hometown, no, he never wanted to go back, he couldn't eat meat every day.
"No, I'm going to stay, I've settled in Manchester City and the official resident application form was handed over to the captain, and the captain said that this is the qualification for the application and there are only 10 places, so I handed it in advance." Makarov still had a little smug on his face after saying this, as if he was feeling wise about his move.
"Old Ma, you're so unkind, don't you say that the three of us will pay together, how can you advance it." Yu Shan looked at Makarov angrily and asked.
"Yes, so I'm here to inform you that if you don't submit your application form, maybe your place will be replaced by someone else.
"Damn." Yu Shan scolded in a low voice, got up and pulled up his friend Qiao Yan.
"Qiao Yan, let's go to the captain's and hand in the application form first, it's too late to be late." After finishing speaking, he pulled Qiao Xi and ran towards the office of the security team, for fear that he would be replaced by someone else if he went late.