Chapter Seventy-Seven: Blood Sacrifice
In mid-March, the phone was connected to the new town of Bedune, but now it has a new name - Daqing.
Today is the first day of the opening of the telephone and telegraph office, and many members of the insurance team are already waiting outside the door, and they have already used the telephone and telegraph when they were at the base of the martial arts school. It's been a while since I've been away from home, so it's natural to call home and ask.
The Mongolian herdsmen, who had just joined the Dashang Animal Husbandry Company, apparently did not know what the Han Chinese soldiers were doing, but they lined up into the small partition rooms and spoke to something strange, crying as they spoke.
"What do you say happened to these Han soldiers?" One of the herdsmen, who was slightly older, asked curiously.
There was another young herdsman standing beside him, but the telephone was a very foreign thing to him, so he just shook his head and couldn't speak.
"Baby, why don't you ask."
The young herdsman was obviously a little moved, but he immediately shook his head and said, "But I don't speak Chinese." β
While the two were talking, a little girl in strange clothes came out, and saw that she was wearing a little red riding hood, a brocade cardigan and a small flower jacket, black trousers, and small cloth shoes. This is the uniform winter coat of the telephone and telegraph company, and there should have been an overcoat outside, but now that it is March, it is not so cold.
The little girl smiled sweetly and was approachable: "Two uncles, do you want to know what they are doing?" β
The two Mongolian herdsmen were stunned for a moment, startled by the Mongolian language spoken by the girl, and then returned the salute to the girl, and then said, "Beautiful girl, may I ask what kind of place is this?" β
"This is the telephone and telegraph office, my name is Baoyin, and I am also Mongolian." Because there are no words for telephone and telegram in Mongolian, the little girl Baoyin can only transliterate them directly.
"Telephone, telegram?"
"Two uncles, let's come in, as soon as I say it, you will understand what is going on here."
After Baoyin's explanation, the two Mongolian herdsmen were shocked and speechless for a while.
"You said that the phone handle is so small, how did people get into it?"
When the two returned to the animal husbandry company, they continued to discuss with great interest. When the other herdsmen heard this, they laughed at the two for drinking too much. As a result, within a few days, the Dashang Animal Husbandry Company installed the so-called Qianli Transmission Machine.
Modern life, modern communication, all of them stimulate young people of all nationalities who come to Daqing to find a job, and make life better, which is also their most ardent wish. For this reason, they are willing to learn Chinese at night and learn more cultural knowledge, all of which are free. If you have good grades, you can even go to Yingkou for further study.
Now in the Dashang Animal Husbandry Factory, the unranked workers can get a basic salary of fifteen Dashang silver dollars per month, plus a bonus of up and down five yuan. This is not much compared to the income of ordinary herdsmen, and even if it is high, it is only two or three silver dollars. However, compared with the various risks that herders need to take, it is obviously much more stable to work as a herder in a breeding factory, which is one of the reasons why many herders want to participate in a breeding factory.
Another reason is the advanced system of the big business itself.
Once an unranked herdsman is admitted to the primary license of a large merchant livestock farm, the basic salary of one month is increased to thirty silver dollars. If you get an intermediate license, you can get a salary of one hundred silver dollars. If you get a high-level license, the salary is 300 yuan a month that many herdsmen dare not think of. In addition, there is also the opportunity to join the biomedical group of the Dashang Industrial Laboratory.
According to the words of Yang Qianniu, the general manager, as long as you get any senior license from Dashang, your life will be different, and you will find that your life has entered a new era and is proud of the others.
The appeal of words is always limited, but in the face of the real lure of money, many Mongolian herders decide to give it a try. Although they felt that when it came to raising cattle and sheep, ten Han Chinese were no match for the Mongols.
Wang Yi did not practice any strange land system in Daqing, and he never thought that it was the foundation of a society. In the same way, he will not promise any excessive social benefits that make people accustomed to getting something for nothing. On the contrary, he attaches importance to competition and professionalism, and he believes that the fairness of a society does not lie in the common people getting together to throw away votes and elect representatives, but in giving everyone who is smart, diligent, and willing to work hard a chance to succeed, so that they can step into a higher level.
As long as classes are not rigid, there is hope for society.
Wang Yi looked at the report sent back by Yang Qianniu, and said in his heart that he had finally not seen the wrong person, and then called back to this President Yang, asking him to treat all the people equally, not to engage in specialization, and at the same time focus on cultivating their sense of identity with big businessmen.
At the same time as the Dashang Animal Husbandry Farm opened in Daqing, the Daqing recruitment plan of the insurance team also began to unfold. The size of the first batch is 3,000 people, all cavalry, no nationality limit, requires age over 18 years old, under 30 years old, in good health, no bad habits (note: gambling, drug abuse), literacy priority is admitted.
A few days ago, there weren't many people signing up, but after five days, the number of people began to increase, and after ten days, the number of people who signed up every day was about 300, and in the end it exceeded the standard by 1,000. Wang Yi thought about it one by one, and if he made more moves, he would make more moves.
After the recruitment was completed, these 4,000 people were sent to the training base in batches.
At the same time, Tu Xiaohua also began to send his subordinates to investigate around to see if the origin of these people was true. If there is any suspicion, they will talk, and if they can't explain clearly, they will be expelled from the team. In just half a month, the original team of 4,000 people was expelled by almost 200 people. Later, many people began to take the initiative to admit their mistakes, and Wang Yi's principle was that as long as he did not commit adultery, adultery, robbery, murder and arson, he would not be blamed for the past. But even so, in the end, the entire team was left with less than 3,600 people, which can be described as a reduction in personnel.
Wang Yi didn't have any expectations for these recruits for the time being, but he was waiting for the day to come.
On March 30, 1879 (the eighth day of the third month of the fifth year of Guangxu), the Qing Dynasty subject country Ryukyu was destroyed by Japan, and the last Ryukyu king, Shotai, was forced to exile Tokyo, and Japan annexed Ryukyu and changed it to Okinawa Prefecture, and at the same time began to implement the policy of assimilation, enslavement and colonization.
April 5, 1879, Qingming Festival.
Wang Yi, chairman of Dashang Group, held a meeting under the Monument to the People's Heroes in the Dashang Martyrs Cemetery, and representatives of Dashang enterprises, insurance teams, affiliated primary schools, and representatives from all walks of life attended the meeting at the same time. This rally is also the first time that Dashang Radio has broadcast to the outside world, and as long as it is within the responsibility of the insurance team, all villages and towns have installed loudspeakers in advance.
When the march of the volunteers resounded in the land of southern Liaoning, Wang began to speak.
"Dear colleagues, comrades, students, listeners and friends, just six days ago, Japan, the country of jackals in our northeast, brazenly launched an invasion of our country's Ryukyu in defiance of the persuasion of our Qing Dynasty."
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"According to the "Ancient Chunfeng Lou Trivia", the Ryukyu Kingdom is located on the sea east of Fujian, and it is called 'Liuqiu' in the Book of Sui, and it is written as 'Ruqiu' in the "History of the Yuan". At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Ryukyu split into three separate states: Zhongshan, Shannan, and Shanbei. Among them, the power of Zhongshan is the most powerful. For a long time after that, the three Ryukyu countries were countries that had equal relations with successive Japanese regimes. In the fifth year of Hongwu (1372), the Ming government sent Yang Dai as an envoy to the three kingdoms of Ryukyu and canonized the kings of the three kingdoms respectively. The three kingdoms of the Ryukyus also made it clear that they would be vassals of the Ming government and officially became vassals of the Ming Dynasty. A few years later, the Zhongshan Kingdom destroyed the other two countries and completed the unification, and the king of Zhongshan was canonized as the King of the Ryukyus by the Ming government. β
"After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, King Sanghyun of the Ryukyus sent an envoy Kim Yingyuan to ask for canonization. Since the Ryukyu envoy did not carry the seal letter of the Ming Dynasty government, the request for sealing was not completed. After that, it coincided with the death of Shangxian, so his younger brother Shangzhi continued to ask for the title, and later the king of the Ryukyus was canonized by the Qing court as the king of the mountains of the Ryukyu Kingdom. In the first year of Kangxi, he was renamed the king of Ryukyu. For more than 100 years after that, Ryukyu continued to send envoys to pay tribute, and the new kings of Ryukyu had to send envoys to ask for the title when they ascended the throne, and they never stopped. β
However, more than 200 years after the Ming Dynasty canonized the Ryukyus, Japan took a fancy to the Ryukyu Kingdom. In the 37th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi led an army to invade Korea and sent the Shimazu clan, a prince of the Satsuma Domain, to extort money from the Ryukyus, which was rejected by the Ryukyu king. The Shimazu clan then led an army to attack the Ryukyus, captured the Ryukyu king ShΕning, and forced him to write an oath to send 8,000 koku of grain to the Satsuma clan every year. Japan regarded its historical aggression as a 'tribute' and proved that the Ryukyus had always been a 'vassal' of Japan β shameless! β
"Tongzhi for seven years. The Imperial Decree of the Japanese Restoration Government reached the Ryukyus, placing the Ryukyu Kingdom under the jurisdiction of Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan, and later turning it into a direct government territory. 11 years of Tongzhi. Taking advantage of the Meiji Emperor's personal administration, Kagoshima Prefecture adhered to the will of the Meiji government and ordered the Ryukyu prince Ie and others to enter the palace to worship. Ie and the others set off by boat from Kagoshima, arriving first in Shinagawa and then entering the palace to worship. At that time, the Ryukyu greeting form was written as "Ryukyu King Shotai", but the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs took the liberty to remove the name of the country and changed it to "Ryukyu Shotai". Emperor Meiji issued an edict that the Ryukyu royal family was 'elevated to the rank of Ryukyu feudal lord and of the Chinese clan'. The following year, an edict was issued ordering the Ryukyus to be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the taxes were handed over to the Ministry of Finance, bringing them into the orbit of Japan's internal affairs, but this was not approved by the Ryukyu State. β
"In the 10th year of Tongzhi, 66 Ryukyuan people who went to our country for tributary and trade encountered strong winds on the way back to China, and their ships drifted to Taiwan, where they were mistaken for enemies by unknown Taiwanese indigenous Peony people, killing 54 people, and the other 12 were escorted back to China by the Qing government. The Peony Society Incident, in which the people of China and the subjects of a vassal state of China were on the one hand, had nothing to do with Japan, but Japan deliberately plotted to annex the Ryukyus and take the opportunity to meddle in Taiwan. β
"In the tenth year of Tongzhi, the Japanese envoys Soetomi Sojima and Yanagihara Maemitsu came to China in exchange for the "Treaty of Reconciliation of Tianjin" and the "Treaty of Commerce" signed with the Qing government three years earlier. However, after arriving in Beijing, the vice-minister went to the Ministry of Rites to discuss the etiquette of meeting the Tongzhi Emperor, while the deputy envoy Yanagihara Maemitsu went to the prime minister's yamen and met with the ministers Mao Changxi and Dong Sui. He separately talked with the two ministers about the recent killing of the Ryukyuan by Taiwanese natives. In their conversations, Mao and Dong unintentionally revealed the meaning that 'the murderers are all born and belong to the people outside the country', but the Japanese seized the handle and said in strong terms that these 'people from outside the country' were not under the rule of our Qing Dynasty, and then expressed their denial that Taiwan was the territory of the Qing Dynasty and made excuses for 'representing' the Ryukyus to send troops to Taiwan. β
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"And today, the heart of this rich wolf has appeared, annexing my subject country, nothing to do with the majesty of the Celestial Empire, and its heart should be punished! His kingdom shall be destroyed! Their people should be killed! β
Wang Yi told the general history of the Ryukyus in public, and then made it clear about the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, and although he did not blame the current imperial court by name, everyone understood the meaning.
"I declare that from now on, the people of Japan must leave within three days of all the places guarded by our big merchant insurance team, otherwise they will bear the consequences!"
After that, Wang Yi asked the students of the Dashang Affiliated Primary School to go back to school first, and then took the five Japanese who had bought Fan Yisan before, the two Japanese who infiltrated the machine tool factory, and other Japanese who carried out espionage activities, all under the Monument to the People's Heroes.
Thirty-eight people in total!
The king began by reading out their crimes...... Pile by pile, piece by piece, ironclad evidence.
At noon, all 38 Japanese were beheaded and sacrificed to the people's heroes at the Monument to the People's Heroes and the martyrs in the cemetery afterwards!