"That's it," someone immediately stood up and echoed Luo Jiaying's words, "If you want me to say, there is no one in the world who is more kind-hearted than the leaders." Not only did they have a pension for the dead, but they also helped to support the elderly and raise children, even the disabled brothers, and the management committee also arranged a place for them to go, saying that they were going to the town to be the head catcher and the head of the group. ”

"It's the head of the police station and the captain of the militia." Someone corrected.

"There used to be a man in our village who ate food in the Green Camp, but after the British conquered Guangzhou last year, there was no news, let alone a pension, and I don't know whether he is dead or alive. As a result, the old lady was so anxious that she fell ill and died after two months, and the little daughter-in-law was also driven back to her parents' house, and the house was occupied by her uncle and brother. "Some people have come forward to say that the old and new regimes can be judged superiorly, and only with the comparison can the superiority be reflected.

"The Green Camp is also called the army, and it's basically bandits wearing uniforms." Although they have only joined the army for two months, they have slowly formed a sense of honor as a soldier, and after fighting a battle, a sense of pride also arises spontaneously, and there is every reason to despise the five scum of war. "Even bandits and pirates can't be defeated, and our Liberation Army will beat ten of them one by one."

Everyone was gossiping there to "remember the bittersweet memories", and the corporal who said strange things at the beginning was embarrassed, "I didn't say that the chiefs would repay the accounts, maybe the money is not in hand, and it can't be turned around for a while." ”

"This can be put in a hundred and twenty hearts," someone began to sell inside information again, "There are dozens of warehouses of foreign goods in the main base, and it will cost millions of silver to sell them to Guangzhou." ”

"A million taels of silver?" The vast majority of students have their brains crashed directly, and this number is too large for them. Or did the corporal stay awake, "How do you know?" ”

"When I was in Hong Kong, the people of Jiulian said that they went to the warehouse to move things and saw them with their own eyes."

"Captain, why don't you talk to the chief! I don't want any silver," the corporal looked at Luo Jiaying with hungry eyes, "just give me a piece of silk." Take it back as a dowry, I see that her mother still dares to look down on me!? ”

"You're crazy! A horse of silk is worth more than ten or twenty taels of silver, and your salary for a year is enough, and you are a fool to be the chief! Someone immediately hit him.

The corporal couldn't help but be a little frustrated, Luo Jiaying patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, as long as you work hard, there will be times when you are developed." I heard the battalion commander say that two taels is the salary of a first-class soldier, and the corporal can get more than three taels, and the sergeant major can get seven taels, plus the post allowance, he may get ten taels a month. Inadvertently, Luo Jiaying also broke out some gossip.

"Ten taels!" The corporal's eyes were full of white silver, so much so that he didn't hear Luo Jiaying's words at all. "In the future, our territory will be bigger, the army will also be expanded, and if we do a good job, we will be promoted to an officer by the chief, and the silver will not be large, so what wife will not be able to marry at that time?"

The lowest rank among the cadets is the commander of the army, as long as he graduates from here and returns to the army to be promoted to corporal, Luo Jiaying's words make everyone's hearts hot. Seeing that he had successfully mobilized everyone's emotions, the team leader urged: "Everyone work hard, strive to finish the work before dark, there will be no hot soup and hot rice when it is late." So the trainees threw themselves into their work with even greater enthusiasm.

At this time, there was a sudden rumbling explosion in the distance, and the students stopped their work one by one to look for prestige, and the sound came from the northwest, which was the entrance to Shenzhen Bay. Could it be that the British are calling again? The thought crossed the mind of more than one person. After a while, Director Wen ran over and reassured: "It's okay, it's okay, that's the Longgu Beach Fort, which opened the mountain!" Keep up the work! ”

Longgu Beach is the place of "Panic Beach" in the famous Southern Song Dynasty general Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing the Lingding Ocean", which originated from the opposite Longgu Island, because it was just in the right position to look at each other, and was later extended to refer to the adjacent area. Lung Kwu Tan is mainly divided into two parts, Lung Kwu Beach and Lung Kwu Upper Beach, geographically located on the west side of Castle Peak Da Cold Water, facing the sea in the east for the Lung Kwu Waterway, and stepping stone in the south. In order to strengthen the defense of Shenzhen Bay, the Central Military Commission decided to build an additional fort at Longgu Beach to guard the entrance and exit of Shenzhen Bay with Chiwan Fort in the south and north.

The terrain of Longgu Beach is flat, and there is no terrain to rely on, so the fort was selected in the northwest corner of the Langjiaozui and built according to the mountain. The Ministry of Construction specially transferred an excavator to prepare to excavate the foundation, and the person in charge of this project was Qi Xiaobai, a 25-year-old hard-working civil engineering man, who became a registered engineer of the Ministry of Construction because he was familiar with civil construction. After coming to the new plane, his dream is to have a group of girls, but his busy work makes him have no time to do anything else, so dreams are just dreams. There were all kinds of machinery roaring on the construction site, but there was no place where explosives were used, and the sound they heard was not the sound of opening the mountain and firing guns, but the warning fire of the heavy artillery of the Chiwan Fort against a ship of unknown origin.

After a week of waiting, the British negotiating delegation led by Pashali finally arrived in Xin'an. Pashali and his entourage consisted of seventeen men, three negotiators, three attachés, and ten guards, and the extra one was a reporter from the newspaper "Tayers" Baulbe, who was specially invited by Pashali to be a bystander to the negotiations and objectively report the war in the newspapers in the future; It would also allow an outsider to observe these strange Chinese up close, and the reporter's words could also relieve some responsibility for a British official in the Far East. The group arrived on a British transport ship, and when they entered the entrance to Shenzhen Bay, they encountered a patrol boat of the Liberation Army Navy. The British warship ignored the sailors' shouts on the speedboat to "stop the ship", and the "152 Divine Cult" on the Chiwan Fort immediately reacted, and a grenade exploded ten meters from the side of the ship.

Half an hour later, the "Xiangmi Lake" sailed over, approached the British warship and stopped, the sailors of the Liberation Army threw the cable to the British sailors, and finally the two ships docked together, and the British delegation was asked to transfer to the "Xiangmi Lake". After Captain Zhang Anbang gave a guarantee that "the Liberation Army fully respects international conventions and the British delegates are free to come and go," Pashali led a group of men down the ladder to the landing craft. After the British were on the "Xiangmi Lake", Zhang Anbang turned around and left lightly, but the British warship had to set sail again and made a big turn before turning around and returning to Guangzhou.

In addition to Zhang Haotian, there is also Lu Buwen, director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve years old, a former bank clerk, who loves to study history books and wild scenery. He claimed to be good at diplomacy, communication, speeches, and negotiations, had a strong ability to read words and feelings, paid attention to details, and knew English and French, so he was entrusted with this errand. There is also Yang Hualu, vice minister of commerce, who is twenty-three years old, majoring in finance in college, good at speculation, and began to sell duplicate AV in college to earn the first pot of gold. Because the negotiations included bargaining with the British, as well as the calculation of various expenses, it required a knowledgeable person to participate.

After presentations, Pashali offered to meet the British prisoners first, and his request was quickly granted, and the delegation was transported by coach to the prisoner camp, where the former consul met most of the captured British officers. As soon as they met, Pashali simply asked a few words, and then exchanged information with several senior officers. More than 12,000 army units were divided into three parts, those who escaped, those who died in battle, and those who were captured, and Canton did not know what the number of killed and captured was, which was very detrimental to the negotiations. After exchanging information, Pashali learned that the British had taken 3,835 prisoners in Hong Kong, and that the British had taken 4,6700 prisoners in addition to the 881 captured last time. At the same time, the addition and subtraction of the two sides also came to the figure that the number of British casualties was between 1,400 and 600. Because this information is not a secret, it allows the British to understand the situation, and it can also give them a clear understanding of the strength of the Liberation Army, so the Luoxi River, who is watching from the side, does not care about them.

After hearing that the captives had been driven to work at the construction site, Pashali immediately protested to Zhang Haotian. "It is no longer Roman times, and it is barbaric to treat prisoners of war as slaves, and I demand that you immediately stop enslaving our captives!"

"Bondage?!" Zhang Haotian sneered, "Do we still want to entertain them with delicious food and drink?" Could it be that they have traveled thousands of miles to China to travel? Do you British give you the hospitality of robbers who come to your door? ”

"Our army is here to punish the barbaric Manchu government, to help China and bring it back to the ranks of civilized nations." Pasha Li said righteously.

"Help? What a noble word! Zhang Haotian scoffed at this set of imperialist logic, "Your so-called help is to forcibly occupy China's land and extort China's money, if this is the case, I am willing to help Britain a few times!" ”

"If you are given another hundred years, you will not have a chance, the United Kingdom is invincible!" Before Pashali could fight back, one of his subordinates spoke first.

Zhang Haotian glanced at the speaker contemptuously, "Then why are you here today?" ”

"Gentlemen," Pashali stopped his subordinates from sneering, and he suddenly realized that there was no point in talking so quickly here, and that it was only right to conclude negotiations as soon as possible and ransom the prisoners. "We're here to settle disputes, not to create new ones, and these disputes are completely unnecessary. Still, I hope that the Liberation Army will not let our captives do heavy physical work. The Liberation Army prides itself on being a civilized person, so it should act like a civilized person. ”

"Are the British civilized?" Lu Buwen, director of the European Department, suddenly asked.

"Of course, the Anglo-Saxon nation is the most civilized nation in the world!" Pashali did not hesitate to brag about himself.

"In the Crimean War a few years ago, the death rate in the British prisoner of war camps was more than 50 percent. Can you explain the reason for me? Are they all sick and dead? Lu Buwen looked at Pa Xiali playfully.

"All kinds of things can happen during war, and casualties among prisoners are inevitable." Pashali didn't know if the data was true, but he also knew something about the real situation in the prisoner camp, so he was so weak to defend himself.

Lü Buwen took advantage of the victory to pursue, "In the prisoner camp of our Guangfu Army, except for the first few days when the wounded died of their wounds, no prisoners died. Not only did we provide the captives with adequate food (potatoes and corn paste were enough), but we also provided sound medical care (aspirin was enough), and it was clear who was civilized when compared to each other. ”

Yang Hualu, vice minister of commerce, also joined in, "Nearly 5,000 more prisoners at once, which also caused a great burden on our food supply, and our grain was all grown by the Chinese people with hard work, and there was no reason to provide it to those who came to rob them in vain." Let the captives work as if they were earning their own food, and those who do not work are not allowed to eat. He said the last sentence in Chinese.

Pasha Lilly has been in China for more than ten years, and this sentence is still understood. For the first time, he met Chinese with clear logic and sufficient arguments, and some of them could not catch up.