Chapter 42: Let's Sit Down and Have a Meeting (Part II)

On the evening of the first day of the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Vladivostok, Biquge www.biquge.info the military port of Vladivostok in the old time and space of the town), the headquarters base of the Far East Company

The twilight of the setting sun, refracted by the snowfield, shines obliquely on the rough beech floor through the warm double glazing. This not too spacious conference room was crowded at this time, and the atmosphere was as heavy as solidified graphite.

Even by 21st century standards, the room is well furnished. There are water dispensers and self-service coffee machines in the room, a cabinet next to it contains all kinds of tea leaves and fruits and several cigarettes of various brands, a freezer with a transparent door still contains all kinds of cold drinks, and there are several computers against the wall that start work. The walls on the side of the conference room are decorated with fur, and on the front wall hangs a pull-out glass blackboard with a simple map of Vladivostok and the location of the armed forces. There is also a white screen similar to that used in modern elementary and middle school classrooms, and a projector is connected to a computer, projecting various images that have just been taken from the front of the confrontation.

One by one, the congregation was spewing fog, and the air in the room was very bad, smoky and full of cigarette butts.

No one thought that the second New Year after they traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty would have such a heart-pounding and mental breakdown

-- First of all, the steam-powered warship that appeared in the waters off Jeju Island yesterday, as well as several traversers on the battleship, and the senior leaders of the Vladivostok Far East Company, finally confirmed that there were indeed other forces of the traversal group in this time and space that had obviously been disturbed.

In response to the above explosive news, the high-level directors of the Vladivostok Far Eastern Company immediately quarreled on Chinese New Year's Eve, and even ate the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner as if they chewed wax -- some solipsistic radicals believed that since the Far Eastern Company had such strong strength, it could not allow several other groups of modern people like themselves in this time and space, so they must pressure each other to join the group, otherwise they would be eliminated even at a great cost.

But there are also a few steady-minded guys who scoff at the above-mentioned mention of "decisive killing" -- even the nearest Hainan Island crossing group is far away from the other end of China, and the remaining few crossing groups are even more distant in Australia and the Americas. Not to mention the sacrifice and price it would take to destroy these forces, the expedition that crossed half the world alone was a nightmare. Even if their military technology level is still stuck in the era of steam power, the insight and vision of the 21st century alone are enough to bring a huge obstacle to the conquest of the Far Eastern Company.

Therefore, rashly provoking these crossing forces without any reason will only make oneself the target of public criticism. Moreover, the violent practice of brazenly attacking and killing the rest of the traverser group without even making an excuse like this is also easy to make the grassroots traversers of the Far Eastern Company feel disgusted: since the company's top management is so careless about human life and cannot tolerate people, then who knows if the butcher's knife of the Far Eastern Company will suddenly cut at him one day?

Reason? In order to maintain their supreme status, the company's top management does not want too many traversers in this world to exist, isn't this reason enough?

Then, before the directors could come up with a clue about how to deal with this chaotic world, which was more lively than expected, and how to deal with other Chinese compatriots from later generations, the spaceship that crashed on the outskirts of Vladivostok today brought about a subversive upheaval to the entire Far Eastern Company -- the modern new Chinese government in the 21st century actually chased to the side of time and space at the end of the Ming Dynasty

What should I do if something I hadn't imagined before happened so suddenly?

In the midst of the gloomy smoke, Li Ming, the discoverer of the space-time gate who presided over the meeting, and the chairman of the Far Eastern Company, frowned and extinguished a thick cigar cigarette into the glass ashtray, and at the same time reached out again to pick up the handwritten letter from the chairman of the Military Commission on the table.

-- The content of the letter is very short, not so much a letter as a note. The main content is to first praise their pioneering and enterprising adventurous spirit, and then briefly mention the troubles and messes they have left behind in the modern world, and finally hope that the retired soldiers of the Far Eastern Company will be able to recognize the form, cooperate with the government to do a good job in dealing with the aftermath in all aspects, and not do some things that will disappoint the party and the people...... The party and the state will also listen carefully to their views and strive to negotiate a satisfactory outcome acceptable to both sides.

Generally speaking, because this incident has been "heard by heaven" from the very beginning, alarming Zhongnanhai, so under the attention of the high-level, the government's response measures are basically cautious and decent, at least there is no second generation of brain-dead officials who are specifically trying to help, and as soon as they open their mouths, under the guise of national interests, they arrogantly list the crimes against the other party, and order the other party to do this and that, which eventually intensifies the contradiction and makes the matter impossible to end...... However, although the wording of this ultimatum is quite sincere, and there are basically no threatening and reprimanding words, Li Ming still feels a little resistant to it.

And this is also the unanimous view of the vast majority of travelers of the Far Eastern Company in Vladivostok on the current mutation......

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As a group of adventurers who took the initiative to bid farewell to the old world and open up a new life, the veterans of the Vladivostok Far East Company, although they are different from those "democracy fighters" who have forgotten their ancestors and turned to the West, and should be regarded as patriots in essence, but for various reasons, they basically do not have much nostalgia and fetters for the original world - otherwise they would not choose to abandon the past and start over at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, as the discoverer of the space-time gate and the chairman of the Far East Company, Chairman Li Ming, who was an orphan before crossing over to the end of the Ming Dynasty, joined the army at the age of seventeen, and was selected into the regimental special agent company because of his excellent military qualities, and won three individual firsts in the scout competition of the group army that year. He was also selected to join the special operations brigade of the group army, and in less than a year he became the top training officer of the special operations brigade.

Later, Li Ming entered the special operations brigade of the military region, and won many awards in the special forces competition of the whole army, which also attracted the attention of the military, and then was selected into a special unit directly under the General Staff Department for training丨 He was sent to Africa, South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and other countries to carry out special tasks more than ten times, and made meritorious contributions many times, but was also injured many times, and finally due to an accident, he retired and demobilized and returned to the local area, and opened a joint venture with a comrade-in-arms to open a machinery factory. At first, the business of this small machinery factory was also booming, but it didn't take long for Li Ming to be set up by the comrade-in-arms who was in a joint venture with him, and he was not only cheated out of a large amount of money, but also owed a lot of bank loans that could not be repaid, causing Li Ming to be disillusioned for a while and almost committed suicide.

Fortunately, at this time, a space-time door to the end of the Ming Dynasty quietly opened in front of him, and at the other end of the door, there was a treasure trove of golden splendor...... The poor and crazy Li Ming immediately moved all the gold, silver, jewelry, and antique treasures in the warehouse, and then sold most of them for money to repay the loan, and at the same time earned the start-up capital for the crossing business. A small number of national treasures with archaeological value, including more than a dozen pieces of Yuan blue and white flowers, dozens of precious porcelain from the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, as well as a large number of precious historical documents, materials and rare books, were donated to the National Palace Museum by an agent company found abroad by Comrade Li Ming, who had a good temperament, and caused an uproar in China for a while. Even many academic issues that have been debated in the archaeological community for many years have been solved immediately because of the emergence of this large number of historical documents.

It can be seen that, on the one hand, Li Ming is determined to bid farewell to the original world in order to realize his ambitions, but he has no hostility towards the party and the country. On the other hand, as a disgruntled person at the bottom of the society, he is also extremely tired of the face of some "servants of the people" in China.

In addition to Li Ming, other senior leaders of the Vladivostok Far East Company are also in a similar situation. For example, Gao Jianguo, chairman of the Military Committee, who was the second person, used to be Li Ming's superior, born in a poor rural area, and came out to serve as a soldier at the age of 15, from an ordinary soldier to the top training of the whole regiment and the whole division. But since he returned to the local area, he has not been as happy as he wants -- because he has no way, he was assigned to the cold yamen of a small organization, and became a department-level investigator with no oil and water and no future to speak of.

-- Generally speaking, Gao Jianguo is a real soldier, but he was born in the wrong era, and only in the war-torn war years can people like him have the ability to gallop across the battlefield. And in times of peace, his character is inevitably incompatible with this society when he returns to the place.

What's even more embarrassing is that Gao Jianguo's wife was found in the station, because Gao Jianguo was bent on the army, his wife had someone outside many years ago, and the relationship between the two was also in name only. The most terrible thing is that as the so-called "blessing is unparalleled, disaster is not a single line", not long after, Gao Jianguo's son was terminally ill again, and Gao Jianguo even sold the house in order to make up the surgery fee for his son, but it was still not enough, so he had to borrow money from everywhere, and finally borrowed it from Li Ming. Li Ming, who had just made a lot of money by selling antiques, helped Gao Jianguo pay the operation fee without saying a word, and also helped Gao Jianguo pay off his previous debts -- from then on, Gao Jianguo became Li Ming's most powerful assistant, and he willingly worked for this former subordinate.

Then, Song Tao, another managing director of the Far Eastern Company in charge of the military, also had a rather rough background - he was the illegitimate son of a wealthy red family in Beijing, because his mother died when he was fifteen years old, and he was taken back to Beijing by his father. However, although the people of that family reluctantly admitted his identity, they still couldn't accept him psychologically, which made Song Tao very stunned. His father didn't have any feelings for Song Tao, and Song Tao was rebellious at that age, so he didn't have much sense of identity with that big family.

Because Song Tao caused trouble every day in the capital, his father sent Song Tao to the army, but he didn't expect this guy to be like a fish in water when he arrived in the army, mixed into the special forces all the way, and became a comrade-in-arms with Li Ming. It's a pity that Song Tao still likes to cause trouble after joining the army, and later beat his own leader, so he was forced to retire and demobilize. After returning to the place, Song Tao did not go to work in the unit arranged for him by his father, but went to Africa alone to become a mercenary and began a thrilling and exciting life...... However, while enjoying the life of the battlefield filled with bullets and gunpowder, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful -- this monotonous and boring world no longer has any earth-shaking revolutionary shapes. No matter what he did on the battlefields of those backward countries that are often overlooked, it would be difficult to win any fame, let alone make any changes in the world.

Therefore, in order to create a more vigorous career and create a new world, he came to cross in a hurry.

There is also a managing director in charge of civil affairs, Wang He, who was originally a leader in the ministry, who came up step by step from the grassroots level, and was once hot and high-spirited, active in key positions, and even appeared in the picture of the news network. But there are always ups and downs in the sea of Huan, and Wang He, who was once a political star, almost fell into prison a few years ago because of high-level political struggles and personal financial problems.

At the most dangerous time, he sent his wife and daughter abroad, and divorced his wife who had no feelings for him for a long time, but in the end he was just sent to a cold yamen, but his ex-wife remarried a foreigner, had a new family, and his daughter also got married and had children abroad.

Wang He, who was extremely depressed and unwilling to continue to spend time in the cold yamen, after some hesitation and struggle, in order to find a little meaning for the second half of his life, not to grow old slowly, and finally embarked on the road of crossing, trying to start the second www.biquge.info of his life.

Another managing director, Han Shanglin, who is also a person who has fallen from the end of the world, was the deputy director of a branch of a large state-owned enterprise before the crossing, and later left for some reason and went to the local machinery bureau as a deputy director without post and power. His wife died of illness and had no children, so he was disheartened and depressed all these years. It wasn't until he joined the crossing business of the Far East Company in Vladivostok that he completely got rid of his previous depressed state, became energetic, full of energy, buried himself in searching for various materials every day, and made a lot of notes, and worked late every day to rest without feeling tired......

In short, the composition of the personnel of the Vladivostok Far East Company is almost a concentration camp for the defeat of life, mainly in order to get rid of the bleak life of the past, forget all the darkness and depression in the first half of life, and embark on a new www.biquge.info of life in the new time and space, and only then did they come together with like-minded people -- this is also the reason why they named the first settlement built by the Far Eastern Company in Vladivostok in the late Ming Dynasty as "www.biquge.info Town of Biquge".

Fortunately, although these people are a little fanatical in their thoughts, they are far from being crazy enough to lose their temperance.

Therefore, Chairman Li Ming, the highest "head dog" of this group of defeated dogs, thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't make up his mind, so he had to find another topic at random: "...... Ahem, Lao Gao, the people who came here on that Navy miniature spy submarine last time are all in charge now? ”

“…… Several people who are still in Vladivostok at the moment, especially Agent Zhou Billy, who seems to have a bit of a background, have all been arrested. After knowing what was going on, their attitudes were quite cooperative. However, most of the original crew and marines are still on the front line on Jeju Island, and in order to avoid riots at the front, I ordered the news to be temporarily blocked and kept secret from the attacking troops......"

Gao Jianguo, chairman of the Military Commission, who had just rushed back from Liaodong with an emigrant boat, opened his mouth and spit out a smoke ring, and replied, "By the way, wasn't the pilot of the parachute that Li Yuancong crossed to reconnoiter after being captured, and then released him back to deliver a letter?" Did he find out anything over there? ”

“…… He didn't get much meaningful information, and the guy had just flown over and was knocked down before he could see anything clearly. Fortunately, the height of the paramotor was already very low, and it was blocked by the branches of the pine tree a few times, and finally landed in a pile of snow, so there was no injury. ”

Li Ming frowned and replied, "...... Next, Li Yuancong became a prisoner, blindfolded and thrown into a tent, and no one spoke to him (after the interrogation, Doraemon used a magic prop to delete part of the captive's memory), and it was not until a few hours later, when our advance team clashed with the PLA over there, that he was escorted out to deliver a message to our side......

According to what he observed as he walked out of the opposite position, the number of troops invested by the government ranged from two to three battalions of marines. It is also equipped with technical weapons such as rocket artillery, armored vehicles and tanks, and we have just spotted a reconnaissance drone opposite over the city. ”

“…… In this case, I'm afraid it will be very troublesome, and it seems that the government is very confident in their strength......

Gao Jianguo touched his chin and muttered, "...... Speaking of which, don't look at the fact that in the past two years, with Russian armored vehicles and landing ships, we have fought the Koreans, the Ming military households in Liaodong, the Japanese samurai, and the Jurchen Tartars, all of which are as easy as chopping melons and vegetables. But on the battlefields of the modern world, these things in our hands are, at best, the level of resistance guerrillas in those backward countries in Africa and Southeast Asia. Not to mention the American GIs who are armed to the teeth, even the ordinary border guards of our country may not be able to fight. Not to mention that at present, our main forces are still not withdrawn from Jeju Island and the coast of Liaodong, and only a few indigenous militias and a few second-line troops are left at the headquarters in Vladivostok, and the heavy equipment is even more pitiful......"

“…… Then you can't just tie your hands and arrest it, can you take advantage of the night to sneak attack? A young man who looked like a college student said excitedly.

“…… It's useless, the Marines on the other side must be equipped with full-color night vision devices, infrared monitors, and maybe some cutting-edge military technology that we haven't heard of. You should have also seen the movie about how the U.S. military fights in Iraq, and the modern army's ability to adapt to various terrains and environments is quite impressive. Let's tell you the truth, even if we fight at night, we are no match for the regular army at all. ”

Song Tao, the leader of the special operations team, who had also just returned from Jeju Island, stared at the teacup that had run out of heat in front of him, and said lightly, "... What's more, there are still reasonable obstacles that can't be passed - don't forget, most of the people here are retired veterans, and the People's Liberation Army is also over there."

Speaking of this, a few hardliners who were originally full of resentment had no choice but to remain silent at this time-even though they had been repeatedly fighting in the late Ming Dynasty and were accustomed to killing. But if they want to do something to the old troops they once served, the psychological pressure is still not ordinary......

“…… Ahem, that's right, for the situation we are in, provoking an armed conflict is the best of the best of the best."

Gao Jianguo coughed and said to everyone, "...... Don't hold any more crazy thoughts that Lao Tzu is the best in the world and is the only one, who knows how much power there is on the other side? Now that they have come over a regiment, will a division, or even an army group, come over next? If that is the case, do we still want to do something to our former comrades-in-arms under the banner of the August 1st Army, use a mantis arm as a car, and bring about our own destruction? ”

“…… Armed confrontation is self-destruction? Well, then do we want to surrender to the past and continue to be cattle and horses for those bastards who are officials? ”

Immediately, someone retorted dissatisfied, "...... Don't forget what kind of goal we are trying to achieve, why did we choose to give up the original qiē and run to this backward time and space, and what is the purpose of the government chasing after us so vigorously? It's like treating us like criminals."

-- The few managing directors who clearly knew what kind of big basket Far Eastern Company had stabbed in the original time and space couldn't help but blush a little for a while, and even broke out in a cold sweat behind their backs...... Well, from many points of view, they are indeed a bunch of out-and-out criminals, right......

In the end, Chairman Li Ming flicked the stainless steel teacup in front of him with a teaspoon, allowing the clear sound to dispel the deadlocked and dull atmosphere in the conference room.

“…… In any case, if we just discuss it behind closed doors, it will definitely not lead to anything. Didn't the government send us a long-range radio intercom? Bring that thing and talk to the other side to find out the government's attitude. ”

A young man who was serving tea and pouring water next to him was about to move the walkie-talkie, but was stopped by another traverser.

“…… Wait, how did you learn the common sense of modern warfare? Do you dare to use the radio sent by others? Aren't you afraid of being like President Dudayev in the Chechen war, who will be found out by mobile phone signals and then destroyed with precision-guided weapons? ”

-- During the First Chechen War in 193, Russian AWACS aircraft intercepted the mobile phone communication of Chechen rebel leader Dudayev and accurately measured Dudayev's location. Immediately, the Russian army launched two anti-radiation missiles dozens of kilometers away from the target, which accurately hit Dudayev's position in the direction of the electromagnetic wave and killed him on the spot. As a result, it has become a classic example of the "decapitation tactic" of modern warfare.

Hearing this, the faces of the other people in the room suddenly changed, and they hesitated slightly, but Li Ming, the big boss, waved his hand disappreciatively:

“…… Hehe, there is no need for that, if the government really makes up its mind to solve us by force, there will be no missiles at all, just a covering shot with a rocket artillery group over there, and Vladivostok will be turned into a burning ruin......"

He sighed and smiled bitterly, "...... Since the government doesn't have to bother so much at all, it can solve us. So, bring me the walkie-talkie and let me talk to the person on the other side, of course, if you're afraid of being decapitated, you can hide outside......"

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At the same time, in the temporary camp of the People's Liberation Army on the outskirts of Vladivostok, with the arrival of Marine Corps officers, technicians and negotiators, Wang Qiu, who has now become an idler, is also talking to Professor Guo about the coping strategies of the "relevant departments".

“…… I said, Professor Guo, in order to solve this big mess, does the government really plan to arrest all these people in Vladivostok? No matter how many troubles they have caused in our world, after all, they have created such a career in another world, and it would be a pity to give up casually."

“…… Hehe, let them go back to prison like this? How is this possible? Professor Guo shook his head with a smile, "If retired officers and soldiers can dare to fight like this, start their own businesses, go abroad to compete for living space, and not cause trouble to the country, the government should obviously support them, how can it stifle their enthusiasm instead?" We are not a closed country like North Korea...... Of course, merit is merit, and passing is a fault, although crossing the other world is not a crime in itself, but the disasters they have caused in this incident must also be accounted for. In addition, in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the central authorities, all the travelers should accept the overall arrangements of the party and the state, and the people in Vladivostok are naturally no exception - since most of the people in Vladivostok are veterans, they should be more conscious......