Chapter 19, the twenty-seven moments of Chongzhen's four years (19)

The nineteenth moment: the radio waves flying over the ocean

On a cliff facing Golden Bay on the seashore of Zhongnan City (Port Derby), the "Australian National Cemetery", which has just been completed for less than half a year, is about to welcome a new resident - Andrew of the Eastern European Polish knights, who left his hometown manor land and catered to the fashionable change to play the big sailing and explore the new big 6. Skafani. Baron Scarbek is buried here, thousands of miles away from his homeland.

Although there were no relatives of Baron Andrew here, the Poles and Germans who had traveled with the Baron to the East still wore a white flower on their chests and came to the funeral in an endless stream. The Australian Crossing Decision-making Group also mobilized people who were not in class as much as possible, and also invited people from the East Coast Expedition to make a strong noise, so that the funeral of this "old friend of the Australian people" could be somewhat grand.

——With the sound of mournful music re-recorded by a certain electric horn, the eight sailors of the East Coast Kingdom lifted the heavy coffin, kicked the fairly neat steps, and slowly walked to the cemetery, followed by twelve soldiers of the East Coast Expedition with guns, and slowly marched in two columns. Then followed by the Poles and Australians - in terms of funeral affairs, it is still the war-torn East Coast country that has been more professional since the founding of the country.

The funeral procession entered the cemetery, and the soldiers carefully lowered the coffins into the graves that had already been dug up, and then retreated and scattered in turn, picking up their respective bayonets and muskets, and lined up in a neat row. Its momentum is so strict that people can't help but admire it.

At the same time, one of the priests of the Australian travelers walked up with a message and dressed in a sultry black robe - although this guy was a Protestant, it seemed strange to have a Protestant pastor to officiate the funeral for Polish Catholics. But the eastern coast of South America is not a Christian country, and there are no military chaplains. And the legitimate missionary on the Polish expedition ship had been stung to death by the "black widow" poisonous spider before.

So, the twenty-first-century Protestant Baptist minister had to reluctantly preside over the funeral of a seventeenth-century Catholic—only to see him take a deep breath, step forward, unfold his message, and read it to the crowd.

“…… Great and merciful Lord, who has never been far from each of your children, now look upon the one who is far from us, Andrew from Silesia. Skafani. Baron Scarbek, who has just died in the quest for the unknown, Andrew. Skafani. Monsieur Baron Scarbeck is a good man, and he has followed your teachings all his life, and has never gone beyond it. He has given for you, He has died for you, forgive Him for His sins, and send angels on His way, to be with Him, to be His guard, so that His trust in You may never change. Give him wisdom and wisdom, and the ability to resist temptation, and do his business well; that he may delight in doing his will, and that distance may not affect our unity; that we may watch one another, be faithful to the end, fulfill our respective responsibilities and duties, and glorify our heavenly Father together. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. ”

The European Christians who watched the ceremony prayed together, while the crowd and non-Christians experienced a solemn and mournful atmosphere, and the scene was silent for a while. A moment later, Captain Li Yi, the commander of the expedition of the East Coast Country, waved his hand, and the soldiers with guns immediately solemnized together, fired empty bullets into the sky amid the cheers, and collectively fired their guns in mourning, and then the Poles who followed Baron Andrew said their last goodbye - because there was no family of Baron Andrew here, they could only replace him...... Next, the grave was filled, the tombstone was erected, and the funeral was over.

Although the whole funeral looked like a lot of mourning, it was really laughable to think of the cause of the death of the Polish baron...... Because this stupid guy was actually killed by the thunder of heaven - it was not that he did evil and caused the curse of heaven, but that this guy himself was dying to find the thunder split

Looking back at the huge kite floating hundreds of meters above the ground, Levi couldn't help but smile bitterly.

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According to the introduction of Captain Li Yi, the commander of the East Coast Expedition, more than 100 Australian travelers were stunned to learn that they were not the only intruders in this time and space, and there were two other even larger teams of modern time-travelers, who had come to this world almost at the same time as early as ten years ago, and landed in eastern Uruguay in South America and Manhattan Island in New York in North America, respectively, and established the "East Coast Republic" and "Huamei Republic" respectively.

Although the two emerging powers were separated by 9,000 kilometers, due to different foreign policies, the United States insisted on an alliance with Spain in order to open up the European market, and the eastern countries constantly provoked the Spanish colonial authorities in South America to expand their territory. In addition to the anticipation of the Americas by Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and other countries, the huge whirlpool of the 30-year war in Europe, and the contradictions in the competition for the market for modern "high-tech" goods, the "East Coast Republic" and the "China and American Republic" have always had both cooperation and conflict, and they are not particularly harmonious: China and the United States always accuse the East Coast countries of engaging in militarism and fascism, while the East Coast countries regard China and the United States as yellow-skinned and white-hearted "centsmen...... However, the American Big 6 is vast enough to accommodate two emerging republics at the same time, so there is no sign of completely tearing the face for the time being.

Of course, for the newcomers to the "Australians", the intrigue and alliance disputes between China and the United States and the East Coast countries in the past decade are not the focus of their attention. What really made them excited was actually a small piece of news that Captain Li Yi inadvertently leaked - the east coast country, which only crossed with an inland river ferry, has never been able to upgrade its technical level to the electrical age due to the lack of necessary electronic components and technical information, and even the steam engine ship has only just been successfully developed, and the original radio equipment on the ship has long been broken and cannot be repaired. However, Huamei, which crossed with countless containers of cargo and five large ships, managed to cobble together a long-range radio system with the collected parts to maintain real-time radio communication between the consulate in Duman City (Manhattan, New York) and the consulate in the Yar Islands in the middle of the Atlantic

——On the modern sailing ship COSCO Star of the "Australian", there is also a set of intact shortwave radio stations, although the power is not too great...... In this case, it seems that they can send a telegram from Australia and get in touch with China and the United States in North America?

But this is only a theoretical possibility - just look at the globe to know that they are in the west of Australia, and the east coast of North America, where China and the United States are located, are almost exactly at the opposite ends of the earth, separated by the vast Australia6, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas6, a straight-line distance of nearly 20,000 kilometers...... With such a long distance and mountains to block it, the radio signal has long been attenuated.

The ship's radio station is just a hundred watts of power, and even in a clean radio environment like the seventeenth century, it is impossible to shoot a signal halfway around the world – in the twenty-first century, long-range communication over such distances is generally through a satellite relay station.

In short, for most of the past six months, the COSCO Star radio station has never picked up any recognizable signals.

In order to solve the above problems, the first thing that came to mind was to build a tall radio tower...... Unfortunately, the building materials at hand are limited, and the manpower is even more scarce, so it is impossible to carry out such a huge project. The second is to pull the antenna up with a balloon, but they don't have the equipment to make hydrogen, and hot air balloons are not safe: even in the modern world, hot air balloons have an accident every 50 takeoffs on average.

In the end, they adopted a very old Ming to replace the radio tower: the kite

- Someone in the "Australians", based on the content of fifteen shipwrecked teenagers making big kites on a desert island and letting people ride them to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, according to the content of the science fiction novel "Fifteen Boys Crusoe" in Verne, put forward the idea of "Since the kite can be hoisted by one person as long as it is strong and large enough, it seems that it should be possible to drag a radio antenna to the sky as a temporary firing tower", right?

It happened that among the group of traversers in Australia, one was making kites in Weifang, Shandong, so everyone worked together, under the guidance of the professional kite maker, with canvas, wire and wood to make two large triangular kites with a length and width of about four meters (one kite test, the other kite spare), and then find a way to fix the amplification antenna on the kite, and then entangle the wire with the cable - because the kite is too big, the pull is too strong, so I have to use the cable instead of the kite line, Finally, a winch was fixed on a towering cliff that was windy all day long, which was used to secure the kite and release the rope...... After several experiments, they finally succeeded in launching the "antenna kite" into the sky.

However, while the antenna was ready, there was a problem with the radio - because it had not been used for a long time, the ship's shortwave radio station seemed to have some glitch and did not work properly...... So, the traversers carried the radio station back to repair it, and threw the kite hanging in mid-air to Baron Andrew, an idler, and asked him to help watch it. If the radio is not repaired by evening, ask the baron to put away the kite.

At the beginning, Baron Andrew naturally agreed, saying that this little thing was not a problem.

But when all the others had gone, the baron sat for a while on the top of the empty hill, and felt bored, so he put the matter behind him, and took his two personal servants, armed with bows and shotguns, and went out to the forest behind the mountain to hunt birds.

Just as Baron Andrew was happily hunting, the wind and clouds suddenly changed in the air, and suddenly there was a violent wind and dark clouds, and it was about to rain. The baron was startled and hurried back to the top of the hill as fast as he could, but by this time there was already a dripping rain falling from the sky...... Unfortunately, the wind was stronger on the eve of the rain, and it was even more difficult to get the kite back, so Baron Andrew and his two servants spun the winch for half an hour, but they didn't get the kite back much. And the light rain overhead has turned into a torrential rainstorm and then into a thunderstorm......

So, with a rumbling thunderbolt and thunder, His Excellency Baron Andrew, who had always been full of curiosity, experienced what happened to Franklin, the pioneer of the founding of the United States more than a hundred years in advance, and was struck by the lightning drawn by the kite—the two servants who were spinning the winch were only slightly injured and passed out; But Baron Andrew, who was pulling the rope, was scorched by lightning and died on the spot...... It seems that it can be regarded as a death in the line of duty.

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Although a baron had died yesterday because of flying a kite, since the wind and the sun were fine today, and the radio station equipment had been repaired, the kite that should be flown still had to be flown and the telegram that should have been flown still had to be flown so that Levi, who was very concerned about this but couldn't intervene, could only watch a few sailors on the "COSCO Astrostar" fiddle with the radio station and constantly dial out the 8B signal (in fact, the international rescue signal in the 21st century has been changed, but ordinary people are more familiar with 8B after all), while standing on the top of the mountain and whistling boringly.

At this moment, I saw the captain Wang Tiehammer holding a lunch box and bringing it up as if offering a treasure, "...... Brother Li, I just got some fresh food here, freshly baked, you can taste it while it's hot. ”

“…… What the hell is this? Can I eat it? ”

Levi looked at the white discs with burnt marks in the lunch box, hesitated to pick up a piece and put it in his mouth, chewing it slowly, "...... Well, it's a little sour, but it's still quite sweet, not bad, but ...... You've got too much starch in this bread, right? ”

“…… This is not bread," said the captain, a little smugly, and said playfully, "...... But there's one thing you really right, this thing really has the word bread in its name - breadfruit."

“…… Breadfruit? Levi blinked a little stunned.

“…… Yes, the fruit of the bread tree, the breadfruit. Wang Tiehammer said as he took out a large green fruit from behind him, which looked like a grapefruit if it weren't for the pitted skin on the top. I saw the captain put the breadfruit on a stone, picked up a dagger and divided it into two, and immediately revealed the white powder inside, "...... Isn't that a good thing?"

“…… Where did you get the good stuff indeed? Is there a lot of them? ”

Levi was suddenly a little excited, he really hadn't eaten anything good in the past year in Australia. The problem is that his wife Zhao Na is still breastfeeding and urgently needs to supplement nutrition. Watching his wife eat stinky kangaroo meat every day, eating nausea and vomiting repeatedly, and losing weight all over the place, Levi felt a twitch in his heart.

Even after the arrival of the expedition from the East Coast Country, the "Australians" received a batch of flour from them, but because there were too many mouths to eat, they still could not guarantee a meal of pasta before the harvest of the newly sown grains and potatoes, and they still had to pinch their noses and eat kangaroo meat from time to time. As for pastry snacks, there is nowhere to get them - now that I have this breadfruit, I can change the taste, and I think my wife can be happy

“…… In the woods behind the opposite hill, a dozen bread trees appeared. I haven't had time to inquire about any further places, I guess ...... will be indispensable," Wang Tiehammer replied casually, but before he could finish his words, he heard a burst of earth-shattering cheers from the small tent where the radio station equipment was installed, and Li Wei and Wang Tiehammer glanced at each other, immediately turned around and rushed towards the radio tent.

“…… What do you think? There's movement on the other side? As soon as Levi lifted the curtain, he asked in a loud voice.

“…… There is a response, there is a response, a quick look" A little fat man wearing round glasses jumped excitedly, pulled Levi to the table, and saw a notebook computer with a transcoding program installed and acting as the receiving end, and a line of eye-catching information was displayed:

“…… Who are you? Please tell us where you belong and where you are located? ”

Here is the reply of the radio operator of the "COSCO Star":

“…… We come from China in the 21st century, and we are in Australia."

Seeing that after sacrificing a human life, he finally received the radio signal from "Huamei", Li Wei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, after waiting patiently for a full quarter of an hour, a line of unexpected replies appeared on the computer screen:

“…… This is the supreme senate of Lingao County, Hainan Island, and welcomes you to the earth ...... the seventeenth century."

As a result, everyone in the tent became messy in the wind - Hainan Island? Lingao County? Senate? What do these words mean when combined?

As everyone knows, those people on the other end of the radio wave are also a mess of chickens and dogs jumping and messy in the wind at this time:

“…… God, how come there really is a group of "Australians" coming through? If I knew that this would not have called me 'Australians, this is good, and I don't know if they have been in contact with the Europeans, these guys will not think to help us lie, in case the two sides don't have the right information, or the Australian side won't cooperate. Our previous set of 'Ao Song Liguo, the rhetoric of the Song Dynasty, if you don't get it right, you will all have to wear it into a joke...... Oh, what did I say? We have to inform the Executive Committee and Chairman Wen as soon as possible."

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