Chapter 35: Natural Disasters? Man-made disaster? Determined to change the world!
San Juan Hill, as you can know from this name, must have been Spanish in her original owner, but whether it was a Spanish or other European, when they came up with a name, there was basically nothing creative about it.
Not only are the names of fathers and sons basically the same, but many of them are added with 'JR', and in terms of place names, it is even more speechless, many of them are repetitive, and there is also a San Juan Mountain in Latin America.
This reflects how rebellious the Spaniards were back then, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the San Juan Mountains in the United States are actually the remnants of the Rocky Mountains, and the Rocky Mountains plus the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States are very interesting to run north-south and stretch for thousands of kilometers.
In the middle of North America, there is a huge plain, which forms a natural channel that allows cold air from the Arctic Ocean to drive in unbridled.
And now, in the winter of early 1856, a stream of cold air from the Arctic Ocean has collided with a warm and humid air flow from the Gulf of Mexico here in San Juan Mountain.
After a night of hard tossing, the sky finally cleared. And on the San Juan Hill, in the center of this battlefield, there is a small silver mine, which can be regarded as a disaster for the pond fish.
Squeak, squeak......
Every foot was very tough, and the snow was waist-deep!
Li Mengyang, who didn't know how long he had been in a coma, got up and rushed out of the mine as soon as he woke up, he didn't pay attention to Yang Guangren, who was cowering and didn't dare to look at his eyes, and he didn't pay attention to the workers who cleared the snow at the entrance of the cave, whether it was an Irish or a Chinese striker, he didn't care.
The living area of the mine, that is, the place where the shack was originally built, is now a white expanse, in the white, some tattered poles and canvases loom in the background, as Li Mengyang expected, the miners' shacks can not withstand such a snowstorm at all!
"Why is this snow so big?! I've never seen it before! ”
"Dream sheep! What's going on? ”
Li Mengyang also followed a lot of people, mainly Chinese workers, and some Irish, and Matthew was among them.
"......" The Irish hate these Chinese workers, but in the face of this scene, they can't say it, but they are secretly lucky in their hearts.
"Mengyang, why are you going?"
"Brother Li!"
Li Mengyang didn't speak, he walked to a place like a log, and then began to dig down, with his hands!
Li Mengyang's mind knew very well that there was not much hope, but he must not do something, planing! Whether there is hope or not, planing!
"Dream sheep, I'll help you!"
"Li Tou! I'll help you too! ”
Mai Lili and a few other Chinese workers came to help, and there was no order, because everyone knew in their hearts that they could live and not be pressed by the snow because of Li Mengyang.
"Little Mountain!"
Finally, the snow was removed, revealing the bottom, which were two frozen corpses, and under these two corpses, there was a child, all the bedding was wrapped around his body, this child was none other than Xiaoshanzi!
Zhou Dashan and his wife have been frozen, but Xiao Shanzi still doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, as soon as Li Mengyang saw it, he wanted to drag Xiao Shanzi out like crazy, but his parents were too hard, and Li Mengyang couldn't do it alone.
"Everyone, do your best!"
"Hey!"
Finally, after a lot of effort, Xiao Shanzi escaped from the protection of his parents, Li Mengyang didn't say anything, he immediately tore off Xiao Shanzi's clothes, and then also opened his chest and held this little guy in his arms!
"......" It's so cold, but Li Mengyang held it like this, so he didn't want to call it out.
Li Mengyang didn't know if it would work, but as long as there was a glimmer of hope, he wouldn't give up!
Why, I didn't save my compatriots?!
Maybe Li Mengyang doesn't appear, these Chinese workers will still freeze to death, there are too many Chinese workers who die in the United States, it's nothing at all, in the history of the United States, there is no difference between a dead Chinese worker and a dead dog, maybe this is not a good word, but that's it!
Later, when the Central Railway was being repaired, there was a Chinese worker's soul under each sleeper, which is not an exaggeration, and even thousands of people froze to death at Horn Point, even so, when the Central Railway was completed, the Chinese workers were not allowed to appear in that historical lens......
However, Li Mengyang came here, he really wanted to do something, maybe there were some Chinese workers who escaped this catastrophe because they followed Li Mengyang, but this is far from enough, he wants to save more people!
"Ahem...... Ahem...... "Xiao Shanzi reacted, this child was not frozen to death!"
Maybe it's the sacrifice of his parents, maybe it's the hard life of this kid, maybe it's Li Mengyang's full of enthusiasm, anyway, this kid is panting again!
With a pop, I saw Yang Guangren suddenly kneeling on his knees and kowtowing his head at Li Mengyang.
"Brother Li! It's all my fault! It's all my fault! I knocked you out! If you want to kill or chop, I, Yang Guangren, have nothing to say! But I really didn't know how powerful this snow was! It's so big! So many people died! I really didn't expect it, I thought it was to make these poor ...... Let them suffer something, only then can they follow us! I really didn't expect this to be the result, you want to fight or kill......"
"Why should I hit you, kill you?" Li Mengyang's face was pale at this time, and he couldn't tell whether he was angry or because he was frozen because he was holding an iceman in his arms.
Yang Guangren, he is indeed wrong, but as far as the Chinese workers of this era are concerned, how to say it, there is some truth in his words. Moreover, it is said that this disaster caused deaths, and there are some other objective reasons for this matter.
One of the things that can't be ignored is that the weather factor, this place is not too cold in winter, this time the snowstorm is too sudden, and the Chinese workers are mainly from the south, many of them have never seen snow in their lives, they don't know what cold protection is. Just like Zhou Dashan and his wife, their love for their children is sincere, but they don't have the right means to keep out the cold. Even the first stop for Chinese workers to the west is San Francisco, which is also warm like spring all year round......
There are many reasons, but Yang Guangren is not to blame at all, Li Mengyang can't do it, Li Mengyang is a little ruthless at this time, maybe he is more impulsive, and it is easier to be emotional, in that case, maybe kill Yang Guangren, his mood will be much more comfortable, but he is not that kind of person!
"No!" Yang Guangren pounded his head like garlic and said loudly: "You hit me!" Kill me! I've done such a wrong thing, how can I have the face to live!? ”
Bang, bang, bang...... The sound of kowtowing is really uncomfortable.
"Gentlemen!" Matthew, who came along, spoke, "Although we hated these Chinese workers before, but now, we have to help them. You know, Mr. Eastwood, who saved us before, and without him, we wouldn't have ended up much better than the people under the snow. ”
The Irishmen were a little overwhelmed by the "......", but they saw that Matthew had gone to dig up the snow, so they followed suit.
"Thank you Matthew!" Li Mengyang paid tribute to Matthew's move.
"We're coming along!"
"Everyone's doing it!"
"Look carefully, there will be living people!"
The crowd surged, and a post-disaster rescue work began.
"Mengyang, you just take care of Xiaoshanzi." Mai Lili is right, Li Mengyang does not need to participate in the rescue, he can cover the little mountain now, that is the best rescue.
Slowly, with the efforts of everyone, one after another frozen corpses were dug up, and the living people were basically not seen......
Li Mengyang just looked at it like that, in fact, he also understood that it would be difficult to have any more survivors, but his mind was thinking about other things over and over again.
Is there still any salvation for Chinese workers?
Li Mengyang thought of Mr. Mao, Mr. Mao admired Mr. Sun so much back then, and kept respecting him as a teacher and being proud of being a disciple, why is this?
It was because Mr. Sun was the forerunner of the revolution, and because in the environment of China at that time, it was so difficult to awaken the people who were ignorant and insensitive to the feudal imperial power!
In fact, as long as you know some history, Mr. Sun has a lot of black history, for example, because the railway construction failed, Yuan Datou called him 'Sun Cannon', such as the use of gangsters during the later revolution, but then turned his face ruthlessly...... But this qiē is nothing compared to his revolutionary pioneers.
Why do you want Mr. Sun?
Because what Li Mengyang has to face now is a much more difficult situation than Mr. Sun's time!
Mr. Sun had opened his eyes to the world before, including the Westernization Movement, Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei, and the Six Gentlemen of Wuxu, and even the Qing government's own constitutional monarchy reform...... But now, there is nothing, the Qing Dynasty has just been knocked on the door of the country by the great powers for more than ten years, the feudal imperial power is still deep-rooted, and the people of the Qing Dynasty are ignorant and insensitive, and they are ten times better than the future when they obey these characteristics!
If you want to emulate Mr. Sun and Mr. Mao, Li Mengyang will face even more difficult challenges!
It's hellish difficulty!
Can Li Mengyang be better than Mr. Sun and Mr. Mao?
Obviously this is not realistic, so is this a retreat? Quit?
With Li Mengyang's vision and ability, he wants to live a comfortable life in this era, which is like picking up things, so why do we have to make any revolution?
No! Never!
Even for the sake of these dead Chinese workers, we must carry out the revolution to the end, so that this kind of thing will not happen again in the future!
Since I, Li Mengyang, am here, I must make this world look different!
"Dad, mother......" Xiao Shanzi seemed to be still in a dream, and he let out a cry like a whisper.
Li Mengyang looked at the little mountain in his arms, and his eyes became more determined.
This child is hope!
Xiaoshanzi's situation was a little more stable, and Li Mengyang took out a kitchen knife from the snow, which is an indispensable food guy for our Chinese workers.
I saw Li Mengyang stand up, and then opened the money rat tail coiled on his head, and the knife flashed, and there was a bang.
Braids, twisted!
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