The excitement slowly calmed down, and Li Xiangqian began to analyze the situation he was in. The scene in front of him is undoubtedly true, in a world where mutants are rampant, it is impossible to find so many people at once, just to put on a show in front of him. Such thin, short, numb Chinese can no longer be found in the original time and space, so that the hungry people in the movie look similar but not godlike. "How long have you been here?" Li Xiangqian can now maintain a calm tone when he speaks.

"It's been a month." Thinking of what had happened in the past month, Li Shanglong's tone carried a hint of pride.

"Where exactly is this located?" Li Xiang looked around, and there were no geomorphological features similar to the original time and space that could be used as a reference for him.

"This is where OCT is." Li Shanglong pointed to a few small puddles in the south, "That location is an artificial lake, but it hasn't been dug yet." Pointing to a hill to the west, he said, "That's the window to the world." Let's go, I'll take you around! Li Shanglong was like a rich man who flaunted his wealth, anxious to let others know about the "brilliant" achievements of the Liberation Army. And Ma Angelica and Shen Xing went to busy themselves when they returned to the new time and space, after all, there was still a lot of work waiting for them, and Li Shanglong's job now was to accompany the visit.

The two got into a pickup truck, and Li Shanglong instructed the driver: "Go to the county seat!" "The pickup swayed back and forth with the undulating ground, through the dense flow of people, and headed out of the base. When passing by the laborers, Li Xiangqian noticed that the words "Shen Er Kan" were printed on the red shoulders of those bald heads, and he pointed to one of them and asked Li Shanglong: "Those are the prisoners?" ”

"Yes, they are all people who want to be loyal to the Manchus and rebel against us, and they are now undergoing labor reform." Li Shanglong looked at these poor people indifferently, without a trace of pity in his heart, daring to block the car with his arm was the end. "Those who still have braids are our hired laborers." Li Shanglong took the initiative to explain.

Li nodded forward, and the pickup truck also drove out of the base's gate, speeding down a concrete-paved two-lane road. The road leading to the county seat has not yet been completed, and only half of it has been repaired in many places, and teams of ten or twenty people can be seen working along the way.

Suddenly, Li Xiangqian saw several foreigners in the crowd passing by outside the car window, and the beautiful blonde hair stood out among the black-haired Chinese. Li Xiangqian thought he was dazzled, and deliberately looked back. Seeing his movements, Li Shanglong knew that the opportunity to show off had come, and as the pickup truck passed by a construction team again, the latter pointed to the Caucasian in the crowd and triumphantly declared: "This is the British prisoner we have captured." ”

"British captive?" Li Xiangqian was shocked again. "You're at war with the British?" Anyone who went to middle school knew the prestige of the "empire on which the sun never sets" in the nineteenth century, and now hearing that he had actually started a war with this giant was as shocking as hearing that the original plane rabbit took the initiative to go to war with the bald eagle.

Li Xiangqian's surprised expression greatly satisfied Li Shanglong's vanity, so he told the other party about the cause of the conflict with the British, the course of the battle in Shenzhen Bay, and the final result. Li Xiangqian silently finished the audience and commented: "The powder gun used by people, the AK47 you take, is simply an adult beating a child!" One sentence choked up the smug Chief of Staff Lee.

A few kilometers away, although the cement pavement was intermittently not fully connected, it only took about 20 minutes. When he saw the south gate of Xin'an County, Li Xiangqian no longer had any doubts. In the original time and space, he passed by there more than once, and the lonely city gate tower submerged in the high-rise buildings was like a cold stone, which seemed to be full of the vicissitudes of history. And now it appeared in front of itself, although its appearance had not changed, but it was significantly higher than the surrounding buildings, which made it suddenly taller.

Looking at the city gate hole that was still so short, Li Xiangqian was very skeptical that the pickup truck could turn around when he drove in. Sure enough, the pickup truck stopped in front of the city gate, and Li Shanglong got out of the car first, "Let's go in!" ”

It was almost dusk, and the pedestrians at the city gate had not decreased, and it was no surprise that there were no onlookers when they saw cars. On each side of the doorway stood two guards in security uniforms and armed with red tassel guns. Li Xiangqian smiled and asked, "This is the local army you trained?" ”

"It's not a regular army, it's just a security force, and at most it's an armed police." Li Shanglong explained.

The two raised their legs and walked towards the city, and several security guards immediately stood upright, gave a military salute, and shouted: "Good chief." Li Xiangqian, who was startled, hurriedly returned the salute with Li Shanglong, and waited until he entered the city gate before asking with a smile: "Who taught this?" It's too vulgar. ”

The avenue of the south gate is paved with stone slabs, and the county government is still in the original time and space, Li Xiangqian looked up at the plaque on the lintel, recalling the scene when he came to visit last time, and felt like a world away. Turning the wall, the several cases in the lobby and the plaques hanging high in the mirror all looked so old, far less glamorous than those imitations of the original time and space. Many people wearing helmet-style hats and short-sleeved shirts were running back and forth here, and Li Xiangqian looked at his companion suspiciously. Li Shanglong played a good role as a tour guide and took the initiative to answer questions. "These are the small officials in the original yamen, and now they are our staff."

Then he led Li Qianqian to the second hall, pointing to the labor form on the side of a case. "This is cleaning up the old files in the yamen and re-revising and archiving, and it has not been done for a month." Li Xiangqian looked at a few girls who were obviously modern, and used a code reader to enter the hand-copied files in the original yamen into the computer, and then printed them out with a printer and A4 paper after comparing and correcting the mistakes, which was much more formal than the brush words in that article. Li Xiangqian picked up one and looked at it, and asked, "Who do the locals know these simplified characters?" ”

"Most of the simplified characters are still related to traditional characters, most of them are borrowed from cursive changes, and there are several characters that are combined into one character. People who know traditional Chinese characters can quickly grasp simplified characters, and at most they can't distinguish between music and dong. Thinking of the joke that happened not long ago, Li Shanglong had a faint smile on his face.

At this time, Chen Weifu and Ma Jin greeted them, and Li Shanglong introduced them to both parties. looked at the two majors in front of him, one in his early thirties, who was also the commander of the Xin'an garrison area and the commander of the second battalion of the Liberation Army; The other is 244 or 5 years old, who is also the director of the Political Department of the Xin'an Garrison Area and an instructor of the second battalion of the army. Li Xiangqian has mixed feelings about this, and I don't know whether to express his disdain for his behavior of "taking the monkey and crowning", or to express envy for his "high position" at a young age.

"How is Huang Guangzhou's mood these days?" When he came to the county seat, Chief of Staff Li asked about it as usual. Huang Zhixian has a good official reputation, and it is the main united front goal of the Guangfu Army at present, and if it can be used by me, it can play a very good role as a benchmark.

"I've been in a good mood these days, except for reading, writing, and occasionally going out of the city for a walk." Ma Jin, who was mainly in charge of the united front work, replied. "Now I don't argue with Fang Congze, and I often ask him about outside news."

It's good to have a reaction. Everyone is really afraid that he will learn from the "six noes" governor, in that case, everyone will only stare dryly. Li Shanglong explained to Li Xiangqian, who was confused next to him: "Huang Guangzhou is the magistrate of Xin'an County, a native of Fujian, and an old man in his fifties. Fang Congze turned out to be his master, a native of Zhejiang, who took refuge in us from the beginning, and is now in charge of the daily work of the county government, which can be regarded as the role of the office director. ”

Li Xiangqian nodded thoughtfully and asked, "You have already set up a county-level regime?" ”

"Not yet," Ma Jin explained, after all, he was now in charge of the day-to-day work of the county government. "The only places we have full control over now are the county seat, the base, Luohu, and Kowloon, and the rest of the places are laissez-faire. Moreover, Kowloon is still in the war zone, and we are ready to consider the establishment of political power after this battle is completed, and we will have a peaceful environment. ”

"Still going to war?" Li Xiangqian didn't expect that this group of so-called Liberation Army was still militant.

"We want peace, but there are some things that we can't do." Li Shanglong said helplessly, "The conflict with the British does not distinguish between victory and defeat, and those cattle will not stop." According to history, the "Treaty of Tianjin" will be signed in a few days, and the first half of the Second Opium War should be over. The main force of the Anglo-French coalition will be back in a month at most, and that is more than 20 warships and nearly 20,000 troops. So we need more weapons, especially heavy weapons, and we need more people, if only you could join in. ”

Although he guessed that the other party had the intention of wooing, but now when the request was put in front of him, Li Xiangqian was still hesitant, and could only say vaguely and perfunctorily: "I can't decide this matter alone, and I need to discuss it collectively." But even if I can't join you in the end, I'll be there to help you in the final battle against the British. Li Shanglong just mentioned something, and he didn't need the other party to reply now, so he nodded understandingly.

"Where do we go next? Can you go to Kowloon to have a look? After hearing that Kowloon was at the forefront of the game against the British, Li Xiangqian couldn't wait to visit it.

Li Shanglong looked at the sky, "It's getting dark, so I can only go tomorrow." Kowloon is not yet accessible by road, so we will take a ship to deliver supplies early tomorrow morning. Now let's go eat first. ”

An electric bell rang, and the busy crowd in the county government began to slowly stop, and Ma Jin told Li Xiangqian that it was the bell for getting off work just now. The county government starts work at 8 a.m. every day, has a half-hour lunch break at noon, and leaves work at 6:30 p.m., working 10 hours a day. This made Li Xiangqian laugh and call them "black-hearted capitalists".

A few people walked towards the back office with a smile, looking like old friends who have known each other for many years. Walking into the remodeled canteen, the staff of the county government were queuing up to eat. There are five or six kinds of dishes, and the people who serve the dishes either hold the plate or the lunch box and choose their favorite dishes. Li Shanglong led the guests to take the plates and also lined up in line. Li Xiangqian saw that after the indigenous staff had cooked the dishes, they handed the small plastic pieces to the cooks, and asked, "Do you still need a meal ticket to eat in the canteen?" ”

"yes." Ma Jinjie, who is equivalent to the big housekeeper, said: "Each staff member has a vegetable subsidy of two yuan per day, and the canteen has five cents of meat dishes and two cents of vegetarian dishes, which is basically enough for bachelors." Those who drag their families will also receive an extra subsidy of five cents to one yuan, and the rice does not cost money, and there is no limit. You see! He pointed to a middle-aged man holding an enamel bowl next to the thermos bucket and desperately filling it with rice, "That guy has both parents, a wife and three children, and a family of seven eats canteen food." There are several others like him. ”

"Didn't you pay them?" Li Xiangqian was amused by this phenomenon, and at the same time felt incredible.

"How so?" Ma Jin shook his head, "It's still distributed according to the original standard." But people didn't live on these taels of silver before, and they mainly relied on gray income. After we took over the county government, we banned all stereotypes and bad habits, and the gray income that accounted for the majority of their income was gone. ”

Li Shanglong added: "This is also because the level and establishment have not yet been determined, and the salary standard is not easy to set, and they will be given a salary increase when the county government is established." ”

As he spoke, it was their turn to cook, Ma Jin smiled and said to the cook in charge: "Master Jian, this is Company Commander Li who came to visit the brother troops, please make some good dishes to entertain!" ”

Jian Fan smiled, "Then you guys wait a while!" Then he turned and went to the back kitchen. After a while, Jian Fan fried two dishes, one with ginger and chicken offal, and one with braised eggplant, which caused several people to accelerate saliva secretion. took out a bottle of Wuliangye again, and added a few plates of large pot dishes, although it was not as good as the banquet in the original time and space, it was quite rich. Although pigs, fish, and vegetables were also raised in the Humen Security Zone, they were only provided to the elderly, weak, women, and children, as well as the wounded and sick, and Li Xiangqian could not enjoy them even as a military commander. Eating fresh vegetables and meat for the first time in a few months has whetted his appetite, and in Uncle Zhao's words, it is "Ke Jin". At this time, Yun Suixin, who was working in the county seat, and Xia Yusi also came over to corrupt together, and Li Shanglong introduced each other again. During the banquet, everyone talked about the anecdotes of the past month, and Li Xiangqian listened to them with relish.