Chapter 51, the Eight Directions Wind and Rain Meeting Qiongya (5)

The Chinese American Republic, centered on Manhattan Island and entrenched in the northeastern states of North America;

The core territory is on the Atlantic coast, occupying the eastern republic of what is now Uruguay;

With Lingao County as the center, the "Australian thief" who rules the entire territory of Hainan Island and half of Taiwan Island;

There are also the "real-Australians" who settled in Port Derby, northwest Australia, in later generations - compared with these "pseudo-Australians" on Hainan Island, who have never spent half a day in Australia in this time and space, they seem to be more worthy of the title of "Australians" after two years of eating kangaroo meat.

These four groups of modern Chinese traversers, whose sphere of influence covers the world, have now sent their respective diplomatic representatives to gather in Lingao County on Hainan Island, which is no less than a huge collision between Mars and the Earth for this still ignorant and backward world

-- Just like the Tehran Conference and the Yalta Conference at the end of World War II, today's Lingao Conference is poised to determine the future world order

The previous talks in Batavia, because they were on Dutch territory, were very unfamiliar with each other, so they basically just contacted each other and talked about some empty words. It was not until after Lingao that the Quartet finally began to enter the substantive content:

That is to carve up the world

-- No matter which group of people who have survived the initial difficulties of survival, with the experience and insight from later generations, they will inevitably have a lofty ambition to conquer new worlds: first, most of these groups are young men; Secondly, brave boys are born to break into the world, and the overwhelming Hollywood blockbusters and Japanese hot-blooded anime have clearly explained this core idea to the world.

So, as a brave man, you have to ride like a hero on a horse or motorcycle, wield the blade in your hand, split a thorn in your path, and then defeat the other competitors and laugh at their incompetence and ignorance in order to become a true hero. Defeating all the opponents in front of you, from crime syndicates to aliens, is the meaning of your life, as well as your destiny and duty.

Of course, if you fail, then you will lose your glory and pride, and you will fall from the pride of heaven to nothing, just a defeated dog who can't find a way home, ridiculed, despised, and abandoned...... Until it comes back again.

Although most people are afraid that after a painful defeat, they will become devastated and never have the courage to start over. However, until that desperate moment came, the unbridled warriors still believed that their lives were bright, invincible, and wonderful.

As time-travelers who lead the trend of the times, most of these explorers who came to this world with naïve dreams and great ideals are not lacking in courage, vitality and adventurous spirit. After overcoming the initial horror and confusion of traveling to another world, they have begun to conceive a grand blueprint for exploring this mysterious new world, conquering, transforming and building it

Unfortunately, there is only one Earth, and there is not just one, or even more than one, but at least four groups of people who have discovered each other...... Therefore, in order to prevent their respective plans for world conquest from being stillborn in the first place, the travelers from all over the world had to sit down and start a talk—first, to concoct a self-justifying origin that would at least justify itself, to deceive the natives of the plane, and at the same time to match each other and avoid goofs; The second is to divide their respective spheres of influence and agree on some things that need to be coordinated with each other.

Obviously, there are countless entanglements of interests involved, which is enough to drive people to use all their energy to intrigue and fight.

-- Like any multi-party international talks throughout the ages, in the course of this meeting, apart from a few high-sounding plenary meetings, there were more secret meetings and covert conspiracies between various forces...... All the delegates were looking for opportunities to contact each other in private, constantly haggling... The fierce game takes place not only between the four forces, but also within the respective forces......

And in the whirlpool of this series of conspiracies and strife, the weakest and most unstable Australian crossing group has strangely become the focus of contention from all sides -- of course, not for the sake of competing for Australia's land and resources: with the meager strength of the "Australians" today, they simply cannot afford to look down on such a vast territory, and as long as they are willing to invest capital and take risks, anyone can send people to establish a colonial base in the Australian circle without the approval of the Australians. For example, the East Coast Republic has established supply depots in Australia.

The assets that really make Huamei, East Coast, and Lingao feel coveted are actually the "Australians" themselves - first of all, the modern sailing ship "COSCO Star" with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, in the 17th century on the ocean, it is definitely the world's first giant ship, and then when the "COSCO Star" crossed over, the thousands of tons of modern steel and machinery carried in the cabin, a considerable part of which were produced by the traversers in this time and space, because this requires the support of a complete industrial system. Finally, the more than 100 passengers on board the "COSCO Star" are also valuable human resources in their own right -- among them are a research group of experts in the research and development of biodiesel, senior mining engineers, and researchers from agricultural research institutes...... All of them are very useful technical people when it comes to opening up a new world.

What's more, in addition to the Australians, several other forces, whether they are Huamei, East Coast or Lingao Senate, have already laid the foundation for the founding of the country and dominated one side. It is basically impossible for them to give up their foundation, homeland, independence, and hegemony and move to the territory of the other side to listen to the call of others. Only the shallow-based Australians, who have established a base in Australia but a temporary camp, have neither a small population nor a nearby target for expansion, and have a difficult life, so it is possible to give up their independence and defect to other forces.

For this reason, the three parties of the East Coast, Huamei and Lingao are now trying to take Australia as their own - although the East Coast Republic's round-the-world voyage fleet was the first to connect with the Australian Crossing and initially reached some cooperation. But Huamei and Lingao were not to be outdone, and each offered conditions to coerce and lure, wanting to pull the Australian people over. Therefore, as a representative of the Australian public, Li Wei took the opportunity to sell at the price, and worked hard to obtain a more favorable joining condition.

However, what Wen Desi and Li Wei didn't know was that their bargaining and verbal arguments were completely useless.

Because, a supreme arbiter over all of them has quietly descended into this world at this time......

-- Just when Wen Deji and Li Wei were secretly meeting at a restaurant in Bopu Harbor. More than ten kilometers away, in Bairen City, where the "central government" is located, the Senate has been caught in a 10-magnitude earthquake because of a sudden clear-code telegram, and some of them are already so messy that they can't think in the wind, and the other part of the guys who are quite sober are busy looking for leaders to report this explosive news.

It is very regrettable that although Lingao crossed the crowd at the beginning of the landing, a PHS LAN wireless network was established in Lingao. But the problem is that with the passage of time and the expiration and destruction of various consumables, there is now not a single PHS that can continue to be used in the entire Lingao Traveler Senate. All the remaining PHS that can still work rely on a bulky external power supply to maintain the ability to talk, which is equivalent to becoming a landline. Even a giant like Wen Desi has no instant messaging ability after traveling, and can only "communicate basically by roaring"... So, just as a confidential officer in Bairen City was pedaling a bicycle very hard, and hurried to Bopu Port to find Wen Dehei to report the news, a group of uninvited guests had suddenly appeared at the end of the horizon......

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Lingao County, Bopu Port Wharf Area

When the wind and snow are howling in the north, Hainan Island in January of the fifth year of Chongzhen is still a good scenery with bright sunshine.

Li Meng, a former salt lord who was once in the limelight on the ground in Shandong last year, and a traverser who "bewitched the traitors and caused trouble in Jiaozhou" in the imperial court newspaper, was shaved on his head at the moment, wearing a blue cloth coat, and playing the role of a coolie carrying a big bag.

“… Ten people in a team, each team to move a kind of things, things to be stacked in a centralized way, must not move the wrong thing"

On the pier trestle where thousands of sails gathered, with the shouting of the foreman, all kinds of goods were unloaded from the ship by steam-powered cranes and unloaded on the trestle, and the coolies began to carry these piles of materials like a hill, all in full swing, and a few lively guys were still singing the songs and tunes of their hometown while they were in the wharf, and for a while, the wharf was full of a lively and extraordinary labor scene.

Because of their limited knowledge, most of the people on the docks couldn't tell what these strange overseas goods were, but Li Meng, as a traverser, recognized metal tools wrapped in straw, cocoa beans and coffee beans in wooden barrels, sea otter skins and bison skins from North America, Brazilian mahogany and penguin skins from South America, various spices from India and Southeast Asia, and whale oil and canned whale meat from the Pacific Ocean...... The products of all continents in the world are gathered in this remote county on Hainan Island, which is really breathtaking.

“…… North America, South America, Australia...... I can't imagine that there are so many traversers in this world."

Li Meng stretched out his hand and scratched his bare scalp, sighing as he struggled to carry large and small bags of goods so as not to be targeted by the stern overseer, and peeked at the groups of people beside him, laboriously dragging a dinghy ashore with pulleys and wheels, and then cleaning the barnacles and seaweed-overgrown underneath the boat—this was definitely the hardest work on the docks, and anyone who looked at it felt a little daunted.

-- At this time, half a month had passed since Li Meng was transported from the north to Lingao by the Senate warship as a vagrant. Originally, according to the rules, he should still be isolating and learning the rules in the purification camp. However, with the large-scale visit of more than 300 foreign ships, there was a shortage of laborers on the wharf of Bopu Port, and their strong laborers, who were still quarantined in the purification camp, were also temporarily arrested and sent here to carry large bags.

And Li Meng, the former Jiaozhou salt lord who went to the imperial court's sea fishing documents, was also able to get a glimpse of the true face of this overly lively world.

Obviously, in the case that so many traversers have emerged from Tiannan and Haibei, his single household on the street is not so conspicuous. In any case, it is impossible for the other party to uphold the "Dark Forest Law" in "The Three-Body Problem", let alone firmly believe that "the biggest enemy of the traverser is always another traverser", and give away himself, the traverser who took the initiative to come to the door...... Because it doesn't make much sense at all.

However, even so, after he took the initiative to reveal his identity as a traverser, Li Meng was also uncertain about whether he would get better treatment.

So, with hesitation and hesitation, Li Meng continued to carry the goods with his companions, carrying them from the trestle to the freight yard, and covering them with huge linoleum to prevent rain. It wasn't until three poles in the morning that a piercing brass whistle sounded that they temporarily stopped their work tiredly.

At this time, several large carts had been pulled to the dock, and a shaved Yu Bu announced loudly, "Now for lunch"

The coolies on the docks lined up at both ends of the cart to receive their share of the meal: shredded rice made with rice mixed with sweet potatoes and potatoes, and salted fish and pickles. With the sad living standards of the people at the bottom of this time and space, it can already be called a good treatment.

Li Meng, who had tasted enough of the hard life as a military household in Shandong, naturally did not have any pickiness about this, so he immediately picked up the rice bowl and ate it in a big gulp, ready to add another bowl after he finished eating it as soon as possible. No one in the entire dock realized that a group of uninvited guests was approaching from the sky - although the formation of airships painted with the August 1st flag had appeared at the end of the field of vision, it was so far away that it looked like some inconspicuous black spots. And in the minds of those people on the dock, it was not at all thought that someone would come from the air.

As for the traversers who received the telegram - well, please don't overestimate how quickly they reacted in shock. And since there are several radio-owning forces here, they can't be sure if this is a prank on one of them.

So, in a strange calm, Lingao County ushered in another batch of uninvited guests from the 21st century......