Ninety-five percent of the Chinese soldiers are peasants, and the village chief of Guanlubian Village, who has been trained in the army for many years, immediately became an old peasant when Liu Xian asked about the farming affairs in the village, and his words were full of outward life and envy for the old man.

Lao Zhang's original name was Zhang Wubao, and he is over fifty this year. At the age of twelve, he came out to beg for a living, served in the Taiping Army, served in the Huai Army, fought with the Qin Army, mixed coolies on the docks, and dug coal kilns in coal mines. I traveled all my life from south to north, and I begged someone to say a widow when I was in my forties. Zhang carried two oil bottles, twenty years younger than the old Zhang Tou, and the two then gave birth to a child in a row, growing into three. His saga could literally be a book. I didn't expect to be old, I actually fought hard, bought a family and ran to North America, and just after the end of the Mississippi River War, I came to the official roadside finality, and in just one year, the family business flourished, and the magic of time is nothing more than this.

Zhang Wubao came here last year to take root, hundreds of acres of land planted with soybeans, cotton, grain, and a piece of specially planted some melons, fruits and vegetables, thanks to God's blessing, the wind and rain are smooth, and the growth is very good. Especially those soybeans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and so on, the growth is particularly good, Lao Zhangtou can't eat it all at home, so he donated a batch to the county labor army, and most of the rest was bought by the county. It's a lot of money! ”

Miscellaneous grains, easy to live, adaptable, and all continued in the army. Soybeans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, etc., as much as the government collects, the price will not only not be lower than that in China, but will be fifty or sixty percent higher. In addition, corn stalks, sweet potato stems and vines are all made into green fodder. Not a waste at all. After deducting the money used by someone when harvesting the crops, the loan amount borne by the old Zhang family. At least one-third of it can be repaid. And at the end of last year, there were still a number of cattle and sheep slaughtered in Zhang's pasture.

The income of the Zhang family is not worth mentioning for the bigwigs from all walks of life. But for immigrants, it's already a dream. In other words, being able to live such a life is the expectation of the vast majority of farmers in China! According to domestic propaganda, this is the real Ben Xiaokang!

Liu Xian listened to the introduction of the village chief and walked towards the field. And when they look at the fields from afar, the sparsely populated North America is indeed not comparable to the scenery in China. In the north and south of China's great rivers, all the fields are piece by piece, and they are clearly divided by soil ridges. But in North America, where there is no boundaries, Liu Xian has a kind of imaginary vision of Chinese agriculture in the 21st century.

The limit of small plots of arable land is destined to hinder the progress of mechanized agriculture. Although North America is backward now, it is really uncertain who will be stronger and who will be weak in the future. Liu Xian did not bother much on this point, North America will be developed in the future, this is also the territory of the Chinese, so enough.

"A well-developed agriculture is the foundation of all social stability!" Guanlubian Village, a village with a population of just over 600, will have a heavier grain area of 30,000 mu next year. Although there are a lot of miscellaneous grains in it, although the cultivation and care are far less refined than in China, the grain output is definitely enough to meet the consumption of people and livestock in a village, which is more than enough.

The village has decided to raise funds to build a mechanical mill and an oil mill. At present, the village relies on animal power, and fortunately, the expeditionary force has captured too many cattle and horses along the way, and the Chinese who have come to immigrate have arrived at the settlement point. Every household buys some cattle and horses. If it is changed to a remote mountainous area in China, animal power cannot be guaranteed. It became manpower.

The Chinese eat on the territory of Chinese flavors, and Americans love butter, cheese, bread and so on. It did not affect the food of the Chinese people at all. On the contrary, some Chinese dishes, especially stews, are eating away at American eating habits over time.

"The meat is not fried, and all the gurgling blood and water makes people vomit when they see it. Can it still be eaten? A bunch of barbarians who don't respect education and drink blood......"

At lunchtime, Liu Xian mentioned that in terms of food, the local officials, attendants, military officers, and immigration representatives present all had undisguised disdain when they mentioned American food.

Liu Xian laughed, he had also eaten steak or something. But the medium-rare and medium-rare ones really didn't dare to challenge, and I didn't think it was particularly delicious after eating a portion of the medium-rare steak. As for the 'tender taste, juicy umami' and so on, Liu Xian didn't feel it at all, and he felt that he was not blessed to consume it.

Another day of good weather, off the coast of the Falklands in South America.

Lu Wenzhong held a telescope and carefully observed the cargo ship in front of him. The big ships of the French have a tonnage of not 10,000 tons, but 7 or 8,000 tons. If such a cargo ship actually ran to Argentina, could it be that Argentina and Brazil are rich in grain and meat and livestock?

Lu Wenzhong is the captain of the No. 103 destroyer. It was also the first warship of the Beiyang Fleet to once again run out of the eastern entrance of the Strait of Magellan, and his task was to reconnoiter the enemy. They could not find a way to deal with submarines, and did not dare to easily run out of the west entrance of the Strait of Magellan, but they laid a tight patrol net around the east entrance.

The 103 ship took advantage of the cover of the night and its own speed of up to 37 knots to break through the defense net. The news had already been told by the telegraph operator by radio to the main formation on the other side of the strait.

"What a good fat sheep!" Lu Wenzhong put down the binoculars and felt very blessed. Not to mention the materials in such a transport ship of seven or eight thousand tons, only the food, water and coal stored on board were enough for the 103 ship that had been wandering around the Falklands for three days to eat and drink.

"Send a signal for the opposite French ship to stop and be inspected. Otherwise, we will sink it instantly. ”

When they heard the order, they immediately agreed with a bang, because of this 'looting' activity, they, the sailors and sailors, always got a lot of benefits. Moreover, the sunken cargo ships will be turned into bonuses and seniority in their hands and filled in their files.

Of course, the French cargo ship will not stop obediently. So twenty minutes later, the cargo ship, which was emitting thick gunsmoke, was completely controlled by the sailors of the 103 ships who boarded, and some leaders such as the captain, first mate, and second mate were all shot.

It was a ship carrying grain, and the hold was filled with wheat and barrels of beef. There was also a shipment of butter and cheese, and the 103 ship was holding dozens of crew members on this cargo ship. Together with a part of the sailors of the 103 ship, they were busy for more than two hours. Only then did they lift fresh water, meat barrels, butter, cheese, some grain and more than 200 tons of coal into the hold. Then a torpedo sent the supply ship to the bottom of the sea. Dozens of remaining French sailors were sent to four lifeboats, where they were given a portion of water and cheese and released into the sea.

Of course, all the 'currency' and some collectibles on the ship also became the trophies of the 103 ship.

The sun was shining on the sea, and the 103 ships were full of energy and elation. The fat sheep is really fat, and people really have no windfall and are not rich! The consumption of 103 ships these days. Except for ammunition, everything else has been resupplied to the highest level.

Towards dark, two French cruisers appeared on the battlefield, but the cargo ship had already sunk to the bottom of the sea, and most of the broken relics had drifted away from the sea.

At this time, on a sea lane more than a hundred miles away, a French transport ship was blazing.

The French ships resisted.

They are no ordinary sailors, but the sailors of the French Republic, the second largest navy in the world, and a force to be reckoned with on the global oceans. So. Even though the transport ship had only a very weak firepower, it resolutely returned fire on the 103 ship.

As a result, half an hour later, the entire upper deck of the French transport ship burst into flames.

The fire then ignited the ammunition carried in the hold, the entire 5,000-ton military transport ship. In front of all the members of the 103 ship, it became annihilated. But Lu Wenzhong's brows furrowed, how did the French military transport ship full of ammunition come to Argentina? Are the French going to sell arms to Argentina at this stall?

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Kyushu Island, Kumamoto Naval Academy.

"Onboard! Onboard! Onboard ......"

On the afternoon of July 9, 1896. Tsunami-like cheers suddenly rang out in the naval academy in Kumamoto City. Since the end of the last Civil War, the military government has finally issued an order to call up troops. At the same time, a readiness order was issued.

"Dongxiang-kun, Dongxiang-kun...... There's going to be a war! ”

Heihachiro Togo, who was buried in a pile of military books, suddenly heard the excited shouting of his subordinate Hitaka Strong. Hidaka was also a Japanese naval commander from the Satsuma Domain. When the Japanese Civil War broke out in 1879, he was a crew member of the "Qianxing" and an artillery instructor at the Naval Academy.

In the early stages of the civil war, he, along with Heihachiro Togo, were staunch anti-separatists and stood firmly on the side of the Tokyo Emperor's government. As a result, the Civil War became a stalemate between the North and the South, and then as the Tokyo government became more and more taboo against Satsuma naval officers, especially the Singapore incident in which Togo Heihachiro led the fleet back to Japan, as a starting point, more and more Satsuma naval officers were forced to withdraw from the Japanese army, and finally because they really could not see the hope of Japan's reunification, they either went abroad, or defected to China, or returned to Satsuma.

After being repeatedly suspected and suppressed, Heihachiro Togo eventually quit the Tokyo government's navy and returned to his hometown. In the end, he was trapped in making a living, and worked as a tactical instructor at the naval academy run by the Satsuma Domain. Hidaka is his assistant, a fierce general with a brave personality but trapped by the situation.

"War? Is the military junta going to war with Tokyo and the emperor? ”

"It's not. It's Chinese. China wants to withdraw troops from Nanyang, but the situation in Nanyang is not stable, so they want to recruit a group of security forces as a replacement for their army to appease Nanyang for the Chinese government! ”

"Yo Xi!" Heihachiro Togo understood. The Chinese were struggling to cope in North America and had to withdraw their troops from Nanyang, but in order to maintain stability in Nanyang, they used money to recruit troops in Japan to maintain their rule. "It's a mercenary for the Great Japanese Samurai again!"

"But it's also an opportunity, isn't it, Togo-kun?" Hitaka is not as calm as Togo Heihachiro, "The security army has warships. Although not a battleship, nor a large ironclad. But isn't our chance coming? The junta's navy simply does not need so many graduates, and instead of sending them to the merchant ships to serve as sailors, the warships of the security forces are more suitable for them. ”

"Perhaps, after the end of the security war, China will give us these warships ......" (to be continued......