"This is a huge empire with a population of 500 million, it has a history of 5,000 years of splendid civilization, and every city, the first river, and every mountain in the territory of 12 million square kilometers bears witness to the country's long history and splendid culture.

In the history of this ancient empire, countless great thinkers, philosophers, poets, writers, inventors, and hydraulics have been born,...... For thousands of years, this ancient empire has been at the forefront of the world in terms of culture and technology.

But all this in 1644, everything in this ancient empire ended with the invasion of the barbarian people, in order to maintain their colonial rule, the barbarian people carried out a large-scale massacre of the people who created the world's most brilliant civilization, hundreds of millions of people died in the mass slaughter, and in the following two hundred years, the literary prison destroyed almost everything of this nation.

It was also from that time that the country and the nation fell into a deep sleep, and no matter how great the outside world changed, he still fell into a deep sleep. In 1840 the British Empire opened the empire with a strong ship and a cannon, and in the following sixty-four years, the youth of this country were also affected by the wave of world nationalism.

Ten years ago, the main body of this ancient empire, the Han youth, launched a riot, and after the uprising broke out, it was only a few months before the fall of Jingshi declared that the Qing Empire had become a historical term, and a new China appeared in front of the world in the Far East.

"If it is necessary to kill 10 million people in order to restore the backbone of the nation, I will not hesitate to erect a guillotine in every city"

In the face of the sinking nation, the emperor of the Chinese empire swore to those around him, and in fact, he did exactly that, radical nationalism became the mainstream of the country, and the Chinese empire then roared at the world, waving their fists, looking at every country that had imposed shame on them with vicious eyes, and finally they chose Japan.

The war, which ended with the defeat of Japan, made the country the most powerful country in Asia, and in the following decade, although he reined in his minions, it is clear to anyone that despite their minions, through a decade of industrialization, the country became stronger, and when Europe fell into war, he had already danced his sharp minions and tried to demand power from the world.

Now, it is impossible for even the most powerful nation to completely strangle this mighty empire in its cradle, and he has grown into a strong young man, ready to wield his sword at any time against any country that has given him shame."

-- The New York Times, October 1914 -- "Vigilance -- The Chinese Empire"

Although it is the south of the Yangtze River, the early morning of late autumn still has a hint of coolness, after an autumn rain at night, the blue sky in the east reveals a touch of fish belly white, a few morning stars in the vast sky, blinking and peeking at the nether world, with the rising of the sun, everything in the mortal world gradually recovers, and the hustle and bustle of the mortal world once again breaks the silence of the night like a fairyland.

The distant mountains outside the city walls came out of the darkness, presenting the misty blue and blue color in people's field of vision, as if they had never changed since eternity, day after day, year after year, whether they were looking at them now or other ancient creatures, they just stood silently, motionless.

In the drum tower on the city wall, the bell man rang the bronze bell in the drum tower, and the low and thick bell echoed over the city for a long time, to a certain extent, this morning bell with Chinese characteristics is actually a reminder that it is time to get up.

The houses in Anqing City are lined up one after another, one after another, one after another, although the height is different from the old and new, but they are all the same color, from a distance to see a piece of blue-gray. A small river flows in from the north, winds its way through the city and flows out from the east, the water is a verdant green full of life, and on the river a few ducks roam on the river.

As the capital of Anhui Province, Anqing does not seem to have been affected by industrialization, even though it is a city along the river. The blue sky was obscured by the black smoke that rushed into the sky, and the river water was polluted to gray...... However, as a provincial capital, Anqing has inevitably embarked on the road of industrialization in the past decade. …,

In fact, the new city in the east of the city is now the largest urban area in Anqing, near the factories is a residential community that relies on factories, where hundreds of thousands of workers and their families live, and the port near the river will transport a steady stream of industrial products or raw materials into Anqing every day.

Although the machines in the factories in the new city were transported all night, it was only at sunrise in the workers' living quarters that they woke up from the silence of the night. In the morning, when the women began to clean the bluestone paved path in front of their house, they saw their familiar neighbors greeting each other cordially, and laughter filled the air over the living quarters.

In the past ten years, a lot of changes have taken place in this country, even in this kind of workers' living quarters, there is usually no garbage to be seen, relying on ten years of criminal law and heavy punishment, people have already changed the "unclean habits" assimilated by barbarian peoples during the colonial period, a civilized nation is reflected in many aspects, the cleanliness and hygiene of the environment is the most basic, so every morning, these women will get up as soon as possible, clean the hygiene in front of their homes, of course, they also need to clean their own hygiene, But that was morning.

When the women finished cleaning and went home to prepare breakfast, the men got up, and as men, their mornings were no longer easy, especially for the men who had served in the military, and they would start their morning exercises after getting up, not because these people felt that exercising their bodies in the morning was only good for their future longevity. But because they are in the township soldiers.

In the past 10 years, China has abolished the mercenary system and changed to a compulsory military service system for the whole people, because a large amount of funds will be used for industrial construction, so it is not possible to retain a large number of troops for a long time, but out of the need to train more soldiers, for this reason the service period of the army is only one year and three months, and the demobilized soldiers are called "soldiers in the township" and are organized into reserves.

It is precisely because of this that the annual "soldiers in the township" training, for these "soldiers in the township", but it means an assessment, in order to pass the assessment, they must maintain sufficient physical fitness, in order to cope with a month of training, if after the training, can not pass the assessment, the unqualified need to postpone the training for a month, until qualified, and during this period, they only get the basic salary.

The annual assessment motivates these men to run long distances every day to keep up with their physical fitness, but for many more, at this hour, they either fall asleep or sit at the table with their legs crossed and waiting for breakfast.

This is a semi-new red brick house, in appearance, this three-room brick house is no different from the surrounding houses, in fact, now this one-and-a-half-story three-room tile house has long been named "national architecture" by the newspapers, because in the living quarters near factories all over the country, you can see this kind of simple structure, low-cost housing, this kind of housing originated from Ma'anshan has long become a symbol of workers.

The morning light shines through the glass on the door, illuminating half of the room, and in the dining room, which is only a wall away from the kitchen on the left, the family is sitting around a simple long table, and naturally the head of the family is seated first, a middle-aged man, and a woman and child are seated on either side.

Chinese pay attention to eating without saying anything, but this will, the atmosphere of the family seems to be something strange, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl and a fifteen-sixteen-year-old boy, just burying their heads in a big gulp of gruel, without even raising their heads, while a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old is also drinking porridge, but there is a trace of worry on his face.

"Humph......"

Putting down the rice bowl in his hand, Wang Fuchuan snorted, the youngest son and daughter heard their father's hum, and hurriedly accelerated the speed of eating, as soon as he looked up, Wang Ze glanced at it, let out a cold snort, and was looking at the father who had just delivered the newspaper to the door in the morning, and the father seemed to deliberately want him to see the top card of the newspaper.

"Special Military Tribunal, End the Trial of Li Wenhe and Thirty-six Others......"

Seeing this news, Wang Ze sighed secretly in his heart, now he is no longer the college student of the Imperial University who is regarded as the pride of his father, but just a dropout, and .........,

"Dad, yesterday, the conscription order came, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, I will leave in two days"

As soon as he said that, he drank gruel in a big gulp so that he would not look at his father's face.

But his son's words only made Wang Fuchuan slightly stunned, he glanced at his son who was drinking porridge, and then took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the dining table without saying a word, and then silently lit the fire and smoked.

But the mother on the side shed tears "horn", but as a woman, she just cried silently, and let the tears fall one by one.

Wang Fuchuan, who was smoking with his head closed, looked at his son again, still smoking his cigarette, and didn't say anything. After he smoked half a cigarette, the mother couldn't stand the atmosphere anymore.

“…… What kind of sin have I done, I have to go to the street, what kind of travel, I don't know how to be considerate of my parents, I knew this was the case, it was better not to give birth to you......"

Speaking of the back, she cried even more with a handful of snot and tears.

"Okay"

When his wife closed his voice violently, he pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, and then glanced at his wife who was scared and didn't dare to make a sound, and then looked at his son.

"Self-inflicted"

When he spit out these four words, Wang Fuchuan's heart was like a knife, after all, this is his own son, his own son received a call-up order to go to military service, if it is in peacetime, this is nothing, but what time is it, the army is waiting to go to Europe to fight a big war, if his son goes to the front line.

Although he thought so in his heart, when he looked at his son, he only hated that his son was not angry, and he had to follow his classmates to coax, go to what street, what kind of travel, and participate in the burning of government buildings, if it wasn't for the emperor's kindness, I am afraid that he would have been sentenced like everyone else, and then thrown directly into the hard labor camp, and dragged to the southwest to build roads and railways.

"What are the divisions?"

Although he complained in his heart that his son was self-inflicted, after all, he was his own son, so how could he not care.

"305th Division"

In the 305th Division, Wang Fuchuan, who had been a soldier, listened to this number, his eyes were half closed, and he began to recall some of the regulations he had heard when he was a soldier in the division headquarters.

There are a total of 106 standing divisions of the army, of which 36 are first-class divisions, 30 are second-class divisions, and there are 30 garrison divisions.

These are what he heard from the regiment commander at the beginning, and the regiment commander's words naturally will not be false, according to this method of dismantling, it is impossible for the division with the prefix of three characters to come out of the 305th division, it should be ...... But his son was assigned to the 305th Division, could it be that the original plan has changed over the years?

Fortunately, no matter whether he is in the second or third place, this kind of division can only be ranked in the fourth and fifth ranks at most, and it will not be their turn to fight a tough battle anyway, according to the method of fighting a war in the Guards, it has always been a tough one, and a newly built division like the one where his son belongs may not even have the opportunity to go to the battlefield.

After thinking about this, Wang Fuchuan looked at his son who was immersed in eating.

"Daze, although you were recruited this time because of the parade, you must know that this is the emperor's opportunity to atone for your sins, if you are pulled to the battlefield, don't think about anything else, just think about killing the enemy and serving the country,"

As he spoke, he glanced at his youngest son.

"You have a brother, if ...... It's enough to have him there."

Anqing at the end of October, it is already late autumn, and the wind rises after nightfall, with a hint of chill in the night wind. There is a bright moon hanging on the vast starry sky, today is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the fifteenth moon, the sixteenth round, the full moon hangs above the starry sky. The streetlights in the riverside park outside the city illuminate the pavement with a yellowish glow.

At night, there are not many pedestrians on the roads along the riverpark, only the occasional couple strolls through it, and for the vast majority of young couples, even if they are in love, they have to avoid outsiders, although the state encourages free love and opposes arranged marriages, but as a tradition, free love is still resisted to some extent.

Beneath the willow trees along the river was a row of stone benches, on which sat young men and women, in pairs, and although they did not meet side by side, it was clear that they were men and women in love. Wicker gently glides across the river in the lake breeze. The moonlight shines through the weeping willows on the gravel road by the lake, falling jagged and mottled shadows. And in the moonlight, some young men and women strolled along the path under the willow trees. …,

Wang Ze, who stopped suddenly, looked at the river, the whole person suddenly became quiet, the chill of the night breeze made Fang Rufang can't help but tighten the sweater on her body, she looked at her lover, silently pulled out the bag on her shoulder, took out a folded sweater from it, handed it to Wang Ze who was immersed in the night beside her, and said softly with a slight brow.

"I knit it for you. See if the size fits...... When it's cold, you have to pay more attention to keeping warm...... Especially when it comes to ......"

When the words came to her lips, she still took them back, and she seemed to be about to burst into tears.

"Thank you."

Waking up from the boundless silence, Wang Ze stopped and reached out to take the towel handed over by Xu Qian, and gently stroked the texture of the sweater with his hand, and the sweater came with a warm and soft feeling, which has been immersed in his heart. Looking at Fang Rufang, he suddenly showed a smile that still had a hint of childishness.

"It's so warm, Ru Fang, thank you."

"When to go"

As soon as he mentioned when to set off, Wang Ze's whole expression darkened.

Looking at her boyfriend beside her, thinking that he was about to leave her, Fang Rufang only felt a heartache, originally in her heart, she had already planned the future of the two of them, and when he graduated from law school, he would become a lawyer and seek justice for the people, but what about her? will become a teacher and educate children.

But now, everything has changed.

"I'm sorry, I'm not ......"

"It's me who should say I'm sorry, if ......"

At this time, Wang Ze seemed to say very easily. But he clearly knows that this upheaval has changed too much, but he can't complain, as a law student, he clearly knows that his behavior has actually touched the bottom line of the law, and the government has been too lenient for them, at any time, the bottom line of the law needs to be maintained, if their generation, because of patriotism, do not abide by the law, then as the English writer Samuel said:

Patriotism is used as an invisibility cloak by hooligans in many fields.

didn't want to make the last meeting between the two speechless on this issue, so Fang Rufang hurriedly changed the topic and wanted to talk about something lighter. He asked with a big smile on his face.

"Hey, I heard that European girls are beautiful, if you go to Europe and you speak English and French so well, will you find a beautiful European girl"

When she spoke, her face had a joking taste, but Wang Ze looked at the girl in front of her very seriously, the girl under the moon looked very beautiful, he couldn't help but reach out and caress the delicate and smooth face, looking at the girl with a shy face.

"No matter how beautiful you are, you are not as pretty"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but kiss it, and at the moment of kissing her lips, he knew that he would remember this kiss and this night for the rest of his life.

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