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Mercy Hospital, inside the surgical ward

The bright sunlight shone into the ward, the nose was filled with the smell of disinfectant water, and doctors and nurses in white coats were hurrying to push the injured in a large horse-drawn carriage rollover accident into the ward.

In the hospital room

Lu Qiang, who had undergone surgery at midnight, was a little pale, with a hangover haggard look on his face, and said with resentment; "Guys, why am I always the one who gets hurt? I need a plausible explanation. ”

"Hey, hey, hey...... Thinking too much, it's pure coincidence. ”

"We're all together, you unscrupulous guys, don't want to use such an excuse to shirk responsibility." Lu Qiang was lying on the hospital bed, with a snow-white bandage on one thigh and gauze on the bridge of his nose, looking miserable.

Zhao Qishan and the other three surrounded the hospital bed, put the purchased fruits and canned food in the bedside table, and then sat on the hospital bed, and slapped Lu Qiang's leg with an honest and unceremonious hand; "Don't grind and chirp like a girl, the bullet pierced an eye, Limin and I will only have more bullet marks than you, not less than you, people say that scars are men's medals, you should thank us."

", don't try to fool me." Lu Qiang categorically refused.

Ma Limin couldn't stand his cheap and obedient face, and said to Zhao Qishan with a frown; "Brother Qishan, don't get used to his stinky problem, our gunshot wound was wounded in battle, and his goods were purely filled with horse urine and accidentally hit a stray bullet, how can we compare? Without our brothers' death, Lu Qiang's last penny would have been robbed cleanly, and if we hadn't sent him to the hospital, he would have already burped and caught a cold at this time, how could he still talk nonsense. ”

"That's it, I think it's the retribution that the mouth owes." Mai Guangtian stepped on it happily.

Hearing that everyone was dissatisfied, Lu Qiang didn't dare to do it anymore, and said with a wry smile on his face; "Old, I'm just whining, I really don't mean to blame you."

"If you want to blame, you can only blame the robbers, Lu Qiang, when you paid the fine, you showed your wealth, and you were remembered, you want me to say...... This pair of dogs and men are so bold! Mai Guangtian shook his head with emotion.

"What about this dog man and woman?" Lu Qiang, as a victim, immediately showed the anger he deserved.

The three of them looked at each other wordlessly in front of the hospital bed, and finally Zhao Qishan said; "Hey, hey, hey...... It's just a word, miserable, after our brothers sent you to the hospital, they returned to the police station to record a confession, this pair of dog men and women have been beaten to an inhuman shape, it is completely for the sake of money, it is said that in a few days the execution will be carried out, and there will be no less than 20 people who will be hanged together, all of whom are vicious criminals such as robbery, rape and murder, if you are interested, you can go and see. ”

"It's really exciting, that must go, hey!" Lu Qiang slapped the hospital bed excitedly, but the shock hurt his leg, and it was really painful to crack his teeth.

The judicial system in the Red River Valley does not support idlers, implements simple procedures for simple cases, implements a policy of severely cracking down on all kinds of vicious crimes, and dares to defy the law and cause serious consequences directly to the gallows, which has played an excellent deterrent role in stabilizing the public order situation.

Just a few cities around

Every year, thousands of hard labor convicts are sent to the mines, and all minor offenders such as embezzlement and bribery, bullying and dominating the market, robbery and rape, gathering crowds to fight, drinking and making trouble, and so on, are all sent to the mine for labor re-education, and the high-pressure policy of strict management and heavy punishment is implemented.

The results have proven to be remarkable.

In the two metropolises of the Red River Valley and Brisbane and surrounding cities, where hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrive each year, and there are no less than 300,000 white people who do business and work, the city is in good order, and the residents' sense of happiness and security is high.

Of course, this situation comes at a cost, with the city militia and the royal police concentrating on the homeless and homeless, whose final destination is the mines.

The reason is simple

There is not much pressure to live in Australia, as long as you are willing to work, you can stutter and eat, and these losers are nothing more than gamblers or lazy people, or people who have lost the motivation to fight and wait for death.

In that case, let's send it to the mine to exert the residual heat.

"Do you want to send a telegram to your brother and sister and ask her to come and take care of you?"

"No need, my injury will be cured for 10 days and half a month, I can barely walk on crutches, and there are a lot of things on the ranch at home, but no one can take care of it."

"Then you can think about it, your gunshot wound will lie down for at least two or three weeks, our brothers have a lot of things to do, but they don't have time to serve you here, at most they can help you hire a nurse, and it's a man."

"I, Lu Qiang, am also soaked in bitter water, not so delicate." Lu Qiang thought for a while and said with some concern; "Brothers, I have to ask you for something, you see that I can't go to the North Shore Market in this situation, I have to ask you to buy cattle and sheep, and my ranch also has to hire a few honest and willing people, well, about 8~10 people."

"Okay, a sheep is a flock of sheep is also a flock, and this is on us." Zhao Qishan was very bold, patted his chest and agreed.

After talking in the hospital for a while, because there was still a lot of going on on their bodies, the three of them then left.

Came to the door of the Mercy Hospital

The streets are full of people, horse-drawn carriages, and the sound of vendors selling their wares in a noisy river, giving this beautiful immigrant city a different kind of vibe.

Zhao Qishan and others stopped a passenger carriage at the street entrance, which is an extended public carriage pulled by four strong horses, which travels along an indoor fixed route and is used in places that cannot be reached by trams, and is the most convenient means of urban public transportation.

"Is it to the docks?"

"Yes, threepence each."

"Okay, no problem."

Sitting in the carriage, the coachman in front of him flicked a loud whip, and the carriage immediately moved forward.

This kind of carriage long carriage is a face-to-face hardwood seat, squeezed can sit thirteen or fourteen people, when you get on the train, there are already more than a dozen people in the car, Zhao Qishan is lucky enough to sit down, and the rest of the people who come up are only standing in the aisle of the carriage, and they can probably squeeze more than a dozen people.

The carriage went all the way and stopped all the way, and many passengers came up one after another, and soon the central aisle of the carriage was full.

However, this is not difficult for the public carriage, because there is a long iron plate at the rear of the public carriage, and passengers who really can't squeeze it can buy a "hanging ticket", that is, standing on the iron plate at the rear of the car with both feet, holding the iron handrail and hanging it behind the car, at least five or six more people can be hung.

After swaying for more than half an hour, the carriage finally arrived at the terminal passenger terminal.

Zhao Qishan and the others were very cautious with a huge amount of money in their arms, so they did not compete with other passengers, but waited for everyone to get off before they left the public carriage, came to the ticket window of the passenger terminal, and made three tickets to the small steamer to the north shore.

While waiting at the terminal, you can see the wide Brisbane River boats coming and going, and the steamers carrying large bales of cotton are piled high towards the south where Suzaku City is located.

The main channel of the Brisbane River connects the four towns of Brisbane, Xuanwu, Honghe Valley, and Qinglong, and the tributaries can be connected to Suzaku City and Baihu City, connecting all the surrounding cities in series, so water transportation is the main mode of transportation.

The steamers on these rivers range in size from two or three hundred tons, to four or five hundred tons, to thousands of tons or even larger, and many come from northern farming and pastoral towns with docks, which together form a busy water transportation line.

Zhao Qishan knows;

The wool around Qingdao Town is processed at the purchasing station, compacted by balers, and then loaded onto ships anchored at Qingdao Port and transported to a large woolen spinning company in Suzaku City.

The cattle and sheep purchased by these ranchers can arrive at Qingdao Port in three days at most, and then drive all the way back to the pasture, which is enough time for a week.

If you drive thousands of miles north from the city of the Red River Valley, it will take at least two and a half months, and the calves and lambs you buy can't help but travel a long distance to the sun, moon, wind and frost, and half of them will die on the road.

With the help of wharf workers, many vegetable farmers pulling board trucks piled high with various vegetables up the slope, and then lined up along the transportation channel in a long snake formation, waiting for the vegetable board truck to clear customs.

Vegetable carts should be according to the amount of goods to play tickets, and pay taxes before they can enter the market, this tax point is located at the end of the cargo channel at the iron fence, there is a special tax commissioner responsible for customs clearance, and there is also a tax police to check whether there is entrainment?

Passengers arriving on the South Bank take another passenger lane, where they have to check whether they are carrying guns and explosives, whether they can be fugitives, etc., generally just a simple check, and the customs clearance is very fast.

However, after every celebration or major criminal case breaks out, the inspection will be tightened, and suspicious passengers will be opened for inspection, which is an effective security control point for entering and leaving the city.

Zhao Qishan and the others successfully got on a small steamer and arrived on the north shore, and when they left the passenger passage, they underwent another inspection and were soon released.

The north shore is different from the bustling south bank, which is lined with buildings, and is home to the city's non-staple food base, vegetable baskets, and livestock sheds, which mainly supply agricultural and sideline products to the metropolis of the Red River Valley.

The largest enterprise on the entire north bank is the new shipbuilding base of the Honghe Shipyard, which has just been relocated from the south bank, and it is still far from the passenger terminal on the north bank.

Zhao Qishan's men had just left the passenger waiting hall on the north shore and saw a bustling small market town, with the streets covered in solid gravel land instead of the beautiful and neat asphalt roads on the south bank.

From a distance, groups of cattle and sheep on the road were driven by the owner and staggered, and the dirt road was full of cow dung, horse urine, sheep and feces balls, and the rich smell came to the face.

As soon as I left the passenger waiting hall on the north shore, a large group of enthusiastic coachmen came up to pull business, which was a big cart pulled by a horse or a mule, which could transport goods and people, and relied on the busy ferry terminal to worry about business, which was a good livelihood.

Zhao Qishan and others asked other passengers on the small steamer, knowing that the North Shore Market only needs to walk for more than 20 minutes from the passenger terminal, and they just need to go north without turning around.

Therefore, the three of them did not call the animal cart, but took a big stride all the way to the north, and the lively town in front of them was a bit like Qingdao Town, and even the familiar smell of cow dung and horse urine felt so warm, and there was a feeling of coming home.

Most of the farming towns in northern Queensland are like this, with dirt roads, simple commercial facilities and rough wooden houses, where cowboys walk the streets on horseback and carry pistols, driving large flocks of sheep to shear their sheep.

After getting the money, I drank and had fun in the town, played cards and gambled, and found two beautiful White Russian women or Fusang women to live happily, and I had to toss the money in my pocket almost before I stopped.

This kind of town is the original 1.0 version, most of the farming and pastoral towns in northern Queensland are like this, and now it is rare in the territory of Lord Earl of Queensland, at most it only exists in the remote pastures in the west of the Great Dividing Range, but I didn't expect to see it on the north shore.

The reason for this

It is estimated that it should be a large trade of cattle, sheep, horses, livestock and poultry, and laying hard asphalt roads will damage the hooves and hooves of horses.

Most of the towns in the Earl's territory are mainly based on version 2.0, that is, the central streets of the town roads are paved with asphalt or stone pavement, with perfect sewer facilities, and the buildings on both sides of the street are mainly stone or concrete buildings, supplemented by wood, with a large number of beautiful single-family villas and rural residences, and the urban population often exceeds 10,000 or more, mainly 3~100,000 people.

The better city is Suzaku City, Songjiang Town, Qinglong City, Beilun Town, which belongs to version 3.0, not only has wide roads, separating green belts, urban street lights, perfect sewer facilities, but also has a prosperous industrial and commercial trade, connecting a piece of residential areas and business centers, separately demarcated industrial areas and more developed cultural, educational and entertainment facilities, basically a developed emerging city should have everything.

In this type of city, strict gun control is carried out, mules and horses must be put on dung bags when they enter the back of the buttocks, open defecation is strictly prohibited, damage to public property is strictly prohibited, spitting is strictly prohibited, and residents are called on to love every grass and tree and take care of the common home......

The population of this type of city generally exceeds 100,000, and the most populous Songjiang Town and Suzaku City have exceeded 300,000, and according to the current rapid growth of the population, it is likely to exceed the 400,000 mark in the next two years, surpassing Melbourne, the third largest city in Australia, leaving it far behind.

Songjiang Town and Suzaku are developing rapidly, and other cities are not far behind.

As of the 1882 annual report

The population of Qinglong City has exceeded 200,000, reaching more than 220,700 people, only more than 20,000 people less than Sydney, which ranks sixth in Australia, and is expected to surpass Sydney City this year and jump to the sixth place.

The population of Baihu City is 181,000, Xuanwu City is 77,000, Songshu Town is 70,600, Gusu Town is 68,500, Edinburgh Town is 64,200, Novorossiysk Town is 61,100, Hangzhou Town is 55,100, Ningbo Town is 54,600, Beihai Town is 53,900 people, Wuyang Town is 50,300 people, Wenzhou Town is 47,000 people, Xiamen Town is 46,500 people, Moresby Town is 44,700 people, Shantou Town is 44,000 people, and Sanmalinda is 43,100 people.........

The current North Shore town has a population of less than 40,000 people, and it is not in the top 20 in the entire Earldom (towns such as Burns in northern Queensland are not counted), and it is estimated that it ranks 22nd or 3rd, and the town construction can only be regarded as the 1.0 version level, far behind the brother towns.