Chapter 19: Tangkou

Half a month later, January 10, 1877.

The construction of the Red River Valley Ranch Project was progressing smoothly, and it was at this time that the first snow of winter was ushered in, and the construction of the project that was in full swing had to be abruptly stopped.

As far as the eye can see, the mountains and forests are covered with a layer of holy snow, and the rushing Brisbane River is clear and translucent, and the wide river surface is covered with a layer of light mist.

The construction of a small pier was halted, and along the long trestle bridge, countless shiny ice cubes hung and reflected bright light in the winter sun.

A herd of horses galloped through the manor, their hooves flying and splashing large clouds of snow and mist.

The first person was a tall young man, the childishness on his face had gradually faded, and his dark eyes revealed a deep look, invisibly revealing the majesty of the superior.

Li Fushou is 17 years old, with a snow-white Akha-Tak horse in his crotch, without a single variegated hair, with the tall size of an Arabian horse and the speed of a British thoroughbred, with a teenager in a light-colored riding suit, he is really like the wind, the horse is like a dragon, and it complements each other.

"Hi Ha ......"

Shouting loudly, the white steed galloped all the way.

The cold wind after the heavy snow swept across his face, and the mist exhaled by Li Fushou was blown away in a blink of an eye, and the cold wind penetrated into his neck and neck.

Li Fushou ignored it completely, this youthful restless body was full of infinite heat, and he galloped on the snowfield of the pasture selflessly.

"Young Master, slow ...... Slow down......"

Nan Huaiyu and the others followed closely behind on their horses, opening their mouths but being blocked by the cold wind, and seeing that the horse in front of them was like an arrow from Xuan, being thrown farther and farther away by the Akha-Tak horse of the divine horse.

He could only wave his whip and urge the sitting Quartma to keep up, and the cavalry was like a rolling snow dragon carrying wind and snow on the ground, and soon ran away.

Hey......

The horse team alarmed a large group of Australian ostriches to run wildly, Li Fushou saw a large group of thylacines chasing out of the hills from the front, and the frightened ostriches immediately changed direction and ran away in despair.

Flocks of ostriches, thylacines and teams of horses gallop across the wilderness after the snow, chasing each other.

This made Li Fushou excited for a while, and he turned over his hand and pulled out a shiny Type 1871 Mauser rifle from the horse bag in front of the saddle.

"Woo...... Fly in the snow, baby, run more steadily, young master, I'm going to kill today. ”

Li Fushou patted the neck of the horse under the seat, and the speed of the snow was slightly slowed down, but the run was more stable.

He lifted his legs tightly in the saddle and lifted slightly, his hands firmly on his horse, aimed at the barking thylacines.

After a crisp gunshot, a snowflake splashed on the ground in the distance.

The thylacines roared away, unaware of the approaching danger, and perhaps did not even take the young man on horseback into account.

This made Li Fushou very annoyed and relied on ...... Who do you look down on?

"Woo Woo ......"

Crisp gunshots echoed across the snowfield, splashing snowflakes one after another, and the thylacines were unharmed.

The shooting posture is cool, and the crotch is the best pure-blooded BMW, running fast and steady.

In his hand, he held the sharpest German-made Type 1871 Mauser rifle, which was fed in a double row, with five rounds of ammunition between each bridge, and was manually unloaded.

After 10 bullets were fired, they had chased twenty or thirty meters away, and they didn't catch a single thylacine hair, which was too touching.

This scene is really unbearable, Nan Huaiyu, the leader of the bodyguards who were far behind, and the others looked at each other, not knowing whether to speed up and catch up or just not see it from afar?

Servant Street! This broken gun is not accurate.

Li Fushou's good mood was completely ruined, and when he saw a few thylacines ferociously turning around and pounced on him, he angrily smashed the rifle in his hand.

"Flutter" a little

The heavy rifle accidentally knocked over a ferocious thylacine, which could not stop rolling in the snow, and was killed by a few wild kicks with its legs.

Oh, it turns out that the rifle is used like this.

Li Fushou didn't have time to think about it, and with a "swish", he pulled out the shining cavalry sword at his waist, gently took the reins of the horse to the right, and leaned over slightly in a standard dragging motion.

With the blessing of the high-speed galloping war horse, the cavalry swordsman rushed to the front with huge potential energy, and the thylacine immediately scored two points, and blood shot out.

Chopping left and right all the way, it is really invincible.

Due to its size, the thylacine ran much slower in the field after heavy snowfall, while the tall Akkha-Takma was half unaffected.

Chasing the wolves with ease, just let the master shine his might.

There were about thirty or forty thylacine packs, and more than ten of them were killed by Li Fushou's slashing, leaving a mess of corpses all the way, and the others scattered and fled.

At this time, the team of bodyguards who followed closely finally came into play.

"Bah, bah, ......" after a crisp burst of gunshots

The thylacine, which ran hundreds of meters away, was not spared, and it was solved cleanly with one shot.

Every few days, these gunmen swept the fields of thylacines, dingoes, and other moor predators, practicing good marksmanship with one hand and shooting at a moment's notice.

"Hahahaha...... Okay, happy! ”

Li Fushou reined in the horses, his face flushed with intense exercise and excitement, and he slashed so many evil wolves in his hand that he couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh out loud with so much joy in his heart.

"The young master is really good at kung fu this horse, I think the famous Mongolian steppe cavalry is nothing more than that, I can't wait for it!" Nan Huaiyu offered his sycophants in time.

"Huaiyu, you have to practice more in the kung fu of the cavalry, this is the capital of the cavalry."

Li Fushou smiled quite smugly, took out a snow-white silk handkerchief, wiped the blood stains off the cavalry sword, re-exposed the snowy and cold blade, and casually discarded the silk handkerchief.

Nan Huaiyu's eyelids twitched violently, and he said with a smile; "The lesson of the young master is that I have to train this group of rabbit cubs well in Ming'er, and I must train the cavalry to eat well, so as to live up to the high expectations of the young master!"

"There's no need to rush it, I think they shoot quite accurately, which is rare."

"Hey...... That is, it is a blind touch, and it can't be counted. ”

"Huaiyu doesn't have to be too humble, shooting a gun on a galloping horse is so accurate, it means that he still has worked hard, and it is indispensable to go back and enjoy a meal of wine and meat."

"Thank you, Young Master, for your grace."

Nan Huaiyu accompanied Li Fushou to guide the country on the snowfield, but saw that his subordinates picked up the rifle that the young master threw away, wiped it clean, and was about to send it up to invite merit, so he hurriedly waved his hand secretly to let this fool get farther away.

A group of unlucky things, in this life, they can only be a squad leader at most.

Wide Brisbane Riverside

This is a slow-flowing river bay, with a wide water surface of more than 700 meters, and half of the pier plank road is built to extend 10 meters into the water, spreading out in a T-shape to both sides.

Li Fushou and his entourage stopped here to point and talk about the upcoming Brisbane River Upper River Terminal.

“…… After the completion of the wharf here, it will allow 10,000-ton ocean-going freighters to travel from Moreton Bay to the Brisbane River and arrive at the wharf, thus connecting the Red River Valley Ranch with markets around the world, North America, South America and East Asia without barriers, sending out our agricultural and mining products, and bringing the necessary machinery and mining equipment, so that the Red River Valley Ranch can truly become a basic agricultural and animal husbandry product processing and production base. ”

"The young master has seen thousands of miles, and we are willing to follow him and be willing to work as a dog and horse."

"Shoutian, Ah Sheng and Huaiyu, we Chinese in this foreign land across the ocean, only by tightly holding together to develop and grow, can we not be bullied by ghosts, not cut leeks by ghosts, take deep roots in this fertile land, and build our own Chinese paradise."

Speaking of this, Li Fushou was full of emotion; "The large and small gold mines in the Palmer River Basin have the largest number of Chinese gold diggers and the most lucrative harvest, but they have very little income, and there are endless vicious incidents of being oppressed, scolded, and even robbed of gold sand and lost their lives, and sporadic resistance has also been severely suppressed, so you can only silently endure cruel oppression, why?"

"Young master, I think they should have no backbone, no leading brother."

"What Shoutian said is very right, it's not that the Chinese are bloodless and dare not resist, but because we are all scattered sand and have become big fat sheep in the eyes of white people."

"Young master, can you organize the Chinese gold diggers to fight them?"

Li Fushou shook his head silently, and said with a sigh; "Ah Sheng, the ghost guy has foreign guns and cannons in his hands, and there are steam ironclads with amazing lethality in the sea, and he will never allow any Chinese to resist in an organized manner, and there is only one way to die in that way."

This is not good, that is not successful, what should I do?

He Shoutian, Fan Asheng, Nan Huaiyu and Liu Shan looked at each other, because of the limitations of their vision and thinking, they couldn't catch the following words.

He didn't dare to ask the young master what to do, so he could only stare at him and be silent.

These confidants actually don't have much ideals, and they feel that they can't miss it now, and it's good to live a small life like this.

The topic was brought up by the young master on his own initiative, and everyone echoed it.

The tragic experience of the Chinese gold diggers doesn't matter what they do, the road goes to one side of the road, these henchmen don't have a compassionate and broad mind, they just follow the young master's train of thought.

Li Fushou also realized that the topic was dead, and said with a light cough;

"Those of us who have crossed the ocean to Queensland to develop are of the same ancestry, with the same black hair and black eyes, and the same Chinese blood, so we can't completely let it go unchecked and let the ghosts bully us!

So......

I want to develop the non-governmental organization "Hongmen" and serve as the owner of the mountain, and several of you will also share important functions and open incense altars to recruit Chinese people.

We can't control anything else, but the brothers in the door have been bullied by the ghosts, and we will try our best to seek justice. ”

"The young master is really benevolent and righteous, my Ah Sheng has nothing to say, we will do whatever you say."

"Okay, I'll listen to the young master."

"No problem, it's done."

Several henchmen applauded in unison, not showing loyalty at this time, and preparing to do it one by one.

After getting along for more than 5 months, everyone knows that the young master is a restless master, just like a wild horse without a halter head who always has to do something every once in a while.

The young master's very assertive and resolute character, persuasion must not be persuaded, if you want not to be abandoned, you can only keep up closely, how can you love it!

is to waste this huge family business, with the young master's superhuman foresight, he will soon be able to turn it over again.

After all, God is too gracious to this vast land.

Even if you don't do anything every day, you can knock out a dozen stupid pheasants and hares in the field with a stick, and there are schools of big fish in the river, and the forest is full of fruits, and you really can't be hungry or frozen.