Chapter Seventy-Five: Forging the Relics of the "Ao-Song Empire" (II)

ps: Explain why you can't make every traverser a patriarch, because the meaning of the term patriarch is too strong, and only 500 people in Lingao's family use it. Thousands of other traversers can't be allowed to accommodate these five hundred. Secondly, the crossing force of the Americas has been descending for eleven years, and it has merged with the natives of this time and space, and the identities of the time-traveling and natives are relatively vague.

Therefore, the demotion of the elders of Lingao to citizens is just a change of term, and their property, power, and status as founders within the Lingao Group have not changed, and they are still called the chief and the majority shareholder - later the Senate was renamed the general meeting of shareholders, and the executive committee was renamed the board of directors.

The other sporadic solo traversers are only called citizens and have a benefit, but no shareholder privileges, to distinguish them.

There is a big difference between a soldier with a medal and a medal for a soldier of the same rank, and there is a big difference between a citizen of the same traverser who has a share and does not have a share.

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In an off-road vehicle next to this hot desert construction site, Li Wei, the top representative of the "Australian Travelers" and the "top adviser to the Preparatory Committee of the Republic of Australia", was sitting in the passenger seat at this time, holding a laptop, and briefing Wang Qiu on the construction situation.

“…… You see, this is a design team that once planned the 'imitation Yin Ruins' theme park project in Henan, in the same location in Australia in the modern world, in the name of tourism development, secretly carried out survey and planning, and extensively consulted the opinions of various traveler countries in this time and space, and then added some Nanyang and Indian style elements, and finally finalized the design plan of the ruins of the lost capital of the 'Australian Song Empire' 'Song City' after several revisions......"

Li Wei pointed to the design renderings on the LCD screen, and said to Wang Qiu with great interest, "...... Over there is the Daxiangguo Temple of the Song Dynasty, and on the square platform is the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and we are going to place a large stone Buddha......"

Following the direction he pointed out, Wang Qiu squinted and saw that the construction workers had already poured a square platform with cement in that place, and then, an employee held a pile of stones that had been miniature with [shrinking lamps] in advance, carefully placed them on the cement platform, spliced them into a Buddha statue, and then restored them to their original state, and in an instant it became as tall as a three-story building! Under the scorching sun, the majestic giant Buddha looks quite solemn. Next, the construction personnel put a number of smaller statues of Guanyin, Arhats, Peacock Ming King statues, and even stone statues of Jigong, Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie in a certain order around this giant Buddha, and finally used a small amount of mine explosives to destroy a little at will, and then deliberately littered some broken bricks and broken tiles, even if it was done.

And Wang Qiu looked at it in the off-road vehicle, and his eyebrows jumped, "...... What is this Great Xiangguo Temple? A few statues were randomly placed on the foundation, and a bunch of garbage was thrown away...... Not to mention a decent house without even a full wall, so that it can be considered a temple? ”

“…… This is normal! It's ruins, after all! Levi replied disapprovingly, "...... According to the historical background, the wooden temple structure was burned down in the war during the fall of the 'Australian Song Empire', and only the Buddha statues carved in stone remained...... In addition, at the entrance of the gate, there is also a stone torii of 'Ejokokuji Temple', plus a few stone tablets with inscriptions, so that it is enough. ”

Wang Qiu thought about it when he heard this, took out the telescope and took a closer look, and found that there were indeed several holes left in the corners of each cement platform, disguised as places to place wooden pillars...... After the construction was completed, those construction workers deliberately piled firewood around the Buddha statue, poured gasoline, and lit several blazing bonfires to create the illusion of burning the temple on fire -- I have to admit that this fake ancient city ruins were actually quite meticulous.

But then there's another question, "...... But...... Where did you get so many Buddha statues? Although Sanya has been using Doraemon's black technology props to produce various sculptures in recent days. But many of these Buddha statues don't look like they're new, but look like they've been exposed to the sun and rain for a long time! Pointing to a statue of Guanyin that was obviously a little pitted and full of traces of time, Wang Qiu asked with some puzzlement, "...... Shouldn't the real ancient Buddha statue be moved to this desert to be faked? ”

“…… Just kidding, how can you take real artifacts and throw them in the desert? A few years ago, the domestic construction industry and tourism were overheated, and a lot of Buddhist theme parks, Taoist theme parks, Xianxia theme parks, antique building theme parks, and many man-made scenic spots with unclear themes were blooming everywhere like a plague for a while, and there was no market research in advance, regardless of whether there were so many tourists nearby...... As a result, many theme parks lost money year after year, and they couldn't survive, and eventually they became overgrown ruins......"

Levi replied calmly, "...... The central government just sent people to those abandoned scenic spots to search for them, and they got so many things. These statues were littered everywhere before, and they naturally didn't look much better, and there were even grass overgrown on the whole statue! Hey, it's a pity that Doraemon's [Shrinking Lamp] can't be used in our 'main plane', otherwise there is an illegal Buddha statue that is 50 meters high, which can be obtained from the top of a hill on the Guangdong side - this Buddha statue just blocks the way of a highway, and is currently being prepared for blasting......"

“…… It's no wonder that you have been passing through the Guò Time Gate for a while, rushing all kinds of messy things to the Sanya base, and pouring all kinds of reliefs and statues with cement in Sanya, I thought you were planning to use them to decorate the city in Sanya! ”

The corners of Wang Qiu's mouth twitched, and at the same time he saw more and more strange statues, erected or discarded in all corners of this desert fake ruins, including the relatively "normal" statue of Confucius chanting, the statue of the goddess scattering flowers, and the statue of a lady in ancient costumes, as well as the broken arm Venus, the stone statue of a cadre wearing a tunic that obviously does not conform to the era and civilization background, the bronze statue of a teenager holding a torch (it seems to be from a certain demolished children's palace), the stone statue of Lu Xun sitting on a circle chair, and the statue of a muscular male athlete holding dumbbells...... It can be called varied, and there are no surprises. All sorts of smaller pottery statues, bronze statues and stained glass handicrafts were also pulled over by carts and discarded in the various clumps of this "unfinished ruin".

Next, the things that were thrown on this fake site by the construction team became more and more strange, and even some large clay figures of costume characters in Japanese anime were pulled into the desert. When Wang Qiu saw a statue of Lenin in a coat and raising his hand, which was erected in the large square in front of the "Ruins of the Australian Song Palace", he finally couldn't help but start complaining to Li Wei again.

“…… Hey, whether it's the Buddha, Confucius and the fairies, they are still more or less related to the remnants of the Great Song Dynasty. But what are these statues that came from behind? Lu Xun? Lenin? Jock? Young pioneers? Mechanics? What kind of brain-bending wonder is this? ”

“…… So this is the Ao Song Dynasty and not the Southern Song Dynasty, Comrade Xiao Wang! Li Wei lectured Wang Qiu with a smug face and said, "...... The Australian and Song Empires in our setting are not a miniature copy of the Southern Song Dynasty, but an advanced country that has completed the industrial revolution...... At least at the end of the Song Empire, the daily life of the inhabitants should be similar to that of the crossing groups that are now entrenched in Hainan Island, Vladivostok, North and South America. Therefore, the site of 'Song City' that we have drummed out in Australia must not only have the characteristics of traditional Chinese civilization to show that it does not forget the roots of China, but also have the atmosphere of industrialization and modernization, so as to be able to connect with the daily style of those few crossing groups. ”

He summed it up like this, sounding like it made sense, but the new statue that appeared on the construction site the next moment made Wang Qiu stunned again, "...... I say...... Even if you want to have an industrial style, it will be almost the same to get some statues of workers, peasants, soldiers and Young Pioneers! But what's going on with that cement-poured Transformer over there? It's just going to be a sci-fi style! It looks like ...... Isn't it Megatron? ”

“…… Ah, there is the planned King Kong Temple, in order to reflect the 'Australian Song style', and I happened to get so many Transformers statues, so I pulled them over and used them directly. Levi said curtly, "...... Anyway, Transformers are King Kong......"

…… That's a ...... How unbelievable - is the King Kong Temple used to worship Transformers?

――Imagining a group of ordinary people dressed in ancient Song Dynasty costumes, kneeling under the feet of Megatron with great reverence and burning incense and praying, Wang Qiu found that he didn't know what expression to make except for rolling his eyes...... I only felt the nerves in my temples twitching for a while......

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Of course, you can't just have statues and handicrafts in the ruins of a city - it would really be the ruins of a theme park. Therefore, the main task of the construction team, or the counterfeiting team, is to build the city itself.

Due to the amount of work required to build a city wall, according to the design drawings, the site of the "Song City" had no city walls, and the urban area was scattered directly on both sides of the dry riverbed. In order to camouflage it more realistically, the construction workers also used Doraemon's magical prop [Mole Glove] to dig many trenches and artificial rivers on both sides of the riverbed, as a source of domestic water and sewage discharge channels for "Song City", and even deliberately threw a few broken boats into the artificial river - although the place is so dry that not a drop of water can be seen at the moment, except for the hot sand or hot sand.

The next step is to build the "ruins and broken walls" in the vast urban area, which is a very hard and repetitive work, but fortunately, as long as the foundation is leveled, the walls can be built in a mess at will, and the roof is completely unnecessary.

Then, one after another small pickup trucks shuttled back and forth in the desert, collecting antique clay pots, furniture, baskets, baskets, chopsticks, rags, brushes, etc., collected from various costume film and television props crews in the modern world, and scattered in the ruins of various houses (although these houses were never intact), as well as on the streets between the wreckage of houses, in addition to scattering many broken porcelain pieces in the houses to show the Chinese characteristics of this place. Even leftover fish bones and kangaroo bones were collected from the vicinity of the COSCO Star survivor camp in Darwin Harbour and scattered around the site in a haphazard manner.

In addition to the private houses, in order to show the level of industrialization of this "Otto-Song Empire", the abandoned factories scattered in the suburbs are also an important project for the construction of the "Song City" site, and Huamei, Lingao and the East Coast Republic have provided their waste machinery. After they were deliberately smashed and dismantled, and the parts were littered in the half-collapsed (uncovered) "factory", the abandoned factory became much more realistic.

Compared with the above-mentioned "private houses" and "factories", the more important ones are the palaces and imperial court departments of the "Australian and Song Empires", which are also the most painstaking places in the entire relics project. Even if it is just a foundation, there are all kinds of extremely cumbersome elaborate attention in the layout, and on those steps, stone piers and tiles, there must be exquisite patterns - the loss is only a few temples need to be built, and most places only need to arrange a few broken walls and broken walls A little bit of meaning, otherwise this amount of work will make people feel unbearable even if it has Doraemon's black technology props.

On the walls that were built, several experts sent by the central government who were specially responsible for propaganda painted concise and vivid murals under the scorching sun in the desert, using various colors of pigments and obvious mixing and matching styles, recording the origin, birth, development and growth of the "Australian and Song Empire", a country that did not exist -- there are war scenes that reflect the naval battle of Yashan and the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty; There is the escape journey of the "remnants of the Great Song Dynasty" to the new land; There is a picture of the struggle of the "ancestors" in Australia to reclaim the land and build the city...... It also features murals of modern symbols such as steamships, trains, airplanes, and airships, as well as scenes of modern military operations using rifles and artillery.

In addition to the frescoes, there are also many pre-made and elaborate relief panels, which have also been transported into this fake palace and placed on a slightly empty foundation. Next, the construction workers took out a lot of fake antiques that appeared to have been picked up from modern street stalls, from snuff bottles, copper coins, copper paperweights to porcelain vases, and placed them all over the palace to pass off as royal luxuries...... At the end of the day, the construction team planted explosives, piled up firewood, poured gasoline on the inside and outside of the palace they had just worked so hard to build, and finally engulfed the "Aosong Palace" in flames, smoke, and splashes of rubble and gravel in a deafening burst of explosions and fires - just as the urchin boy who spent hours on the beach carefully building the castle would fly up and kick the sand castle to the ground as he was about to leave the beach and return home, in order to satisfy his destruction*.

In addition, in the arid wilderness far away from the "urban area", the construction team also built several imperial tombs of the "Australian Song Emperor" sporadically.

Of course, as the capital of an ancient country, it is also very unreasonable to have only private houses and palaces, but no military camps and weapons. Therefore, the construction team built the ruins of military barracks, fortresses and weapons depots, and even the cement wharf of the military port at a distance from the "urban area".

As for the source of the required weapons, the modern army of the Vladivostok Far East Company had previously swept through the rear of Japan, Korea, and the Jurchens, seizing a large number of crude cold weapons such as katanas, iron forks, and spears, which were basically unusable. The Fubo Army and Funing Army of the Lingao Group also swept the Tuweizi of the landlords and gentry in southern Fujian and the Pearl River Delta, as well as the tunbao of the Ming Army's guards, and seized a lot of earthen cannons and shotguns of the Ming Dynasty, as well as all kinds of swords, bows and spears, as well as slingshots that seemed to be used by children, plus a few tattered and rusted semi-scrapped armor with a long history.

Originally, the leaders of the two crossing groups, Lingao and Vladivostok, planned to recast these unusable trophies and recycle the copper and iron inside, but unfortunately most of the texture of these iron materials was very poor, and the impurities contained were strange, and it was very troublesome to recast and refine, and they have not been returned to the furnace much until now. Now it is time to put these remaining useless weapons to waste, find someone to pick out those without inscriptions, and throw them on this artificial ruin, or place them in the gun emplacements of the fortress, and then blow them up into the sky with detonators......

However, the number of abandoned weapons that the two crossing groups can provide is still obviously not enough compared with the scale of the ruins, so the personnel of the relevant departments had to sweep the ancient costume props companies in the modern world, collected many antique weapons used in filming, and threw them all on the Australian wilderness here, and deliberately cut off many spear shafts, sword blades, and pointed the muzzles of the cannons at the palace, thus creating a false impression of a civil war and chaos, in order to hint at this "Australian and Song Empire" to those who do not know what is going on in foreign countries The final ending.

Finally, while the ruins of the city have been built decently, it is impossible for a lost city to be without corpses and cemeteries. Therefore, under the requirements of the central government and the resolution of the Huameng, the Lingao traverser group searched everywhere on Hainan Island, and finally found several mass graves where the poor, the homeless, and the condemned prisoners were buried. Then he pinched his nose and dug up these rotten bones, and pulled them to the construction site to pretend to be dead citizens.

Although the above-mentioned fraud is still a bit blunt and easy for the shrewd person to see the flaws, fortunately, the almighty nature will help to cover up the traces of the abnormality - the meteorological environment in the desert near Darwin Harbour is very harsh, and sandstorms, tropical storms, thunderstorms and tornadoes are commonplace.

All in all, with the technical content of the ruins of this "Song City", it is estimated that it will not be possible to hide the archaeologists hundreds of years later, but Huameng does not have such extravagant hopes - but only hopes that within a few decades or even ten years, the Westerners who rule the world's oceans will be fooled and lame, and believe in the ruins of this "old capital of the Australian and Song Empires" located on the desert by the sea: it is conceivable that when the Dutch and other European navigators learn of the location of this "lost city" and flock to it one after another, it is bound to be staged here." Raiders of the Lost Ark and Tomb Raider, as well as tragicomedy interspersed with loyalties and betrayals, intrigue and bravery...... Huh? How does it feel like you're playing monkey tricks?

But in any case, as long as the above scene can be realized, the purpose of forging the ruins of "Song City" in the Australian desert will be completely achieved.