On a train speeding all the way south

This is a passenger train from the Red River Valley to Melbourne in the south, which has stopped for a short time through Songjiang City, and Lieutenant Colonel Bian Chunsong sits in a spacious sleeper car, looking at the beautiful scenery outside that keeps receding, and his heart is full of thoughts.

He was still immersed in the sorrow of parting, and when he saw him off, his wife He Pannan's reluctant and beautiful face came to mind from time to time, and it deeply grabbed his heart.

Two years ago, Bian Chunsong got his wish and married the second lady of the Earl's Court, He Pannan, the young couple stayed and flew together, and the good ones were like honey blending oil, and they spent an unforgettable and beautiful time after marriage.

Now that his wife is pregnant, the birth of the first child is a ghost for a young woman, and he really doesn't want to leave at this time!

But the order cannot be disobeyed.

Sighing softly, Bian Chunsong's eyes became firm again, and his heart ignited a strong fighting spirit, what Taishan Boss said is right, the fame of my generation of soldiers must be taken immediately.

As a dazzling rising star in the military circles, Bian Chunsong's military experience in the past five years is irreproducible.

He was an outstanding graduate of Red River Valley University, a scientific and technological personnel with a solid foundation, and was specially recruited into the army as a member of the Wild Wolf Light Tank Project, and was favored by Major General Li Xuanzhu, the commander of the Red First Division, because of his unique views, and was given the only important task, and led the tank battalion into a bright future in the Civil War.

At the beginning of the war, the tank battalion was equipped with a total of 35 tanks (two in reserve), and after the victory in the war, only 11 remained, and the loss of officers and equipment exceeded 23.

Therefore, there has never been success for no reason, and all of this is a fight for life.

But then again, marrying the second lady of Earl He's Mansion undoubtedly played a huge role in the development of Bian Chunsong's career in the army, and his promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel was much faster than normal, so this potential factor is not enough for outsiders.

"Sir, you look very young, you are really a young man, and you envy others." Sitting opposite the sleeper car was a middle-aged businessman surnamed Sheng, who looked kind and took the initiative to talk.

"Boss Sheng praised it falsely."

"Where, because of business, contemptible people have traveled to many places in Australia, and they have also met some military commanders, but it is extremely rare for a lieutenant colonel to be so young and promising, and he must be at least thirty-five or sixteen years old to be able to achieve the position of lieutenant colonel, I think this chief is probably not yet thirty, right?"

"Hehe, it's almost, Boss Sheng knows a lot about things in the army!"

"It's just a little dabbling, you see what I said, being an official is really young and promising, and the future is immeasurable."

The businessman surnamed Sheng is very good at talking, and two of the three sentences are praised, which makes people feel very comfortable to listen to, so he is naturally willing to talk a few more words.

In chat

Bian Chunsong learned that the other party was an overseas Chinese businessman in Southeast Asia, named Sheng Shida, who was a new customer (a kind of Chinese) who operated tea mountains on Java Island, and the main sales market in recent years was Australia.

It's no wonder

With the rapid growth of the Chinese social group, the demand for tea, porcelain, silk and rare Chinese books has increased dramatically, which are all goods that cannot be produced in Australia, and can only be imported in large quantities from the mainland of China and the East Indies, which is a very large market.

Soldiers must be school officers or above, administrative officials must reach a certain level or above, businessmen must be very business-dozen, and enthusiastic about public welfare, and a small number of people who have received official honors and commendations from the government can be eligible to buy soft sleeper tickets, otherwise they can't buy them with money.

The same is true for expatriate businessmen, who are more demanding.

In the face of Sheng Shida's enthusiastic conversation, Bian Chunsong had no match to deal with, and his words were impenetrable in the chat, he was a member of the tank project research and development team, and he was a military-sensitive and confidential unit, of course, he would not be coaxed by two good words to find the north, and he would open his heart to a stranger and talk about everything.

A moment later

Bian Chunsong left the sleeper car and came to the aisle, took out a cigarette and lit it, and Meimei began to enjoy it.

He was located at the junction of two carriages, the train was running on the railway, and the loose sealed carriages blew in the fresh air from the outside world, which made people feel refreshed.

From here, the rolling hills and pretty rustic wooden buildings are quickly thrown back, and a large herd of Merino sheep can often be seen on the lush green meadows, like clouds.

The train has left the city of Zhuhai and should now enter the Wisconsin area.

It takes about two days and three nights to get on the train from Songjiang City to Melbourne, and anyone who has ever taken the train knows how happy it is to have a soft bed for such a long journey.

Bian Chunsong stood at the junction of the two carriages and looked behind him through the glass.

In the back is a soft-seat carriage, and most of the passengers are drowsy and swaying along the slightly shaky rhythm of the train, and after most of the day's journey, there is no excitement when they first get on the train.

Suddenly

Bian Chunsong's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he saw that in the soft-seat carriage, a thin young man took out the money bag from the napping passenger, and a slightly stronger young man behind him showed the bright short blade in his arms, threatening the passenger who saw it on the other side to shut up.

The two had a tacit understanding of the division of labor, and walked all the way along the soft-seat carriage, and soon touched five or six money bags.

Seeing this, Bian Chunsong couldn't hold back any longer, he opened the isolation door in the middle of the carriage, kicked the conductor who was sitting by the door and was napping, and said; "Get up and don't sleep, there's a thief in the soft-seat car."

"Ah...... Sir. The conductor who was kicked awake looked left and right with a confused expression, and soon came back to his senses.

"It is estimated that these two thieves still have accomplices, hurry up...... Don't be stunned, go get someone. ”

"Oh, oh......"

The conductor answered and left in a hurry.

Perhaps hearing the movement of the carriage here, the two thieves who committed the crime glanced back fiercely, and saw that it was a commander in military uniform staring at him from afar, and he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, and immediately left quickly.

Want to go...... It's not that easy.

Bian Chunsong stood in place and smoked a cigarette leisurely, waiting for the arrival of the police, there was only one way on this train, where could he hide?

The criminal law of the Ocean Kingdom inherited the British characteristics and was extremely severe, the only difference was that there was no prison, no exile, but all of them were replaced by hard labor in the mines, and it depended on the will of God whether they could come out alive.

The punishment for minor crimes is caning, the kind of leather whip with barbs is very ferocious, and once the whip goes down, the skin will be opened, and the person who is affected will be left with ugly scars like centipedes for life.

Even if the physique is as strong as an ox, it can't withstand 6 whips, and if you continue to beat it, you will definitely die.

As for the criminals with serious crimes, they went directly to the gallows with nothing to say and became corpses swaying messily in the wind.

Under the severe crackdown, the gangsters who dared to come out of the way couldn't jump a few times, the folk customs of the Ocean Kingdom were quite simple, the public security was very good, and the vigilance of the people was generally low, so they were easily succeeded by the two thieves.

Bian Chunsong thought about it with his toes and knew that these two thieves or a nest of thieves must be new immigrants who have only recently arrived, and they have not yet tasted the iron-fisted rule of the Ocean Kingdom, and they feel that it is particularly easy to gather wool here.

Not more than a moment

The conductor came over with 4 policemen, since there was no more nonsense, Bian Chunsong showed his identity, and took several policemen to search all the way, and soon caught the two thieves in the hard-seat car.

After the body search, no stolen goods were found.

But this was difficult for the experienced police, who locked the two thieves to the dining car, and then began to torture to extract confessions.

As for the evidence that is not needed at all, it is enough to have a respected prefect personally identify the thief.

In the Ocean Kingdom, the nobles were punished when there were not enough judges, and the governors were punished when the nobles were not, and during the Civil War, thousands of white mobs in New South Wales and Victoria were hanged, all by local governors.

The torture of the police did not make it very bloody, but it opened Bian Chunsong's eyes, and he had to praise that there are talents everywhere.

The police tied the fingers of the two thieves with wire and hung them on the luggage rack under the roof of the car, and their shoes were stripped barefoot, and then they stood facing each other, and on the table in the middle were long, sharp iron skewers, which were iron tools for pulling coal during the fire, just against the thieves' smooth belly.

The two thieves were hung high under the luggage rack with their hands in an awkward posture of bowing, and their bare feet below had to stand on tiptoe, otherwise either their fingers could not stand it, or their stomachs could not stand it.

This is because the sharp fire-digging tongs are placed on the table, and the sharp pointed ends are facing Bai Huahua's belly, and you must hunch your waist to pass, otherwise you will pierce the belly at once.

This posture was extremely uncomfortable, the two thieves stood on tiptoe for only 10 minutes and couldn't stand it, and as soon as the soles of their feet leaned slightly on the ground, their bellies were poked with fire tongs and a bloody hole, and the pain made the ghost cry wolf and howl and beg for mercy.

At this time, when I asked again, it was a bamboo tube pouring beans, and I generally said everything.

Where is the dirt? How many accomplices were there in the car? How long have you been in this business, and where have you stolen? Are there any human lives on the hands?

It turned out that this was a theft gang, a total of 7 people, 5 on the train here, they immigrated to Australia with the calculation of making a profit, and it took more than a month to leave the immigration counseling camp, and they committed three crimes before and after, this is the fourth time, and it is estimated that it is also the last.

Looking for the criminal law of the Ocean Kingdom, just stealing does not hurt anyone, and there is no robbery, you should not be guilty of death, but hard labor is a sure thing, at least three or four years, at most seven or eight years.

Don't think that such a sentence is light, many criminals go to the mine to serve hard labor for a year and can't survive burping, that is really worse than pigs, more dry than cattle, get up earlier than chickens, and have no rest all year round.

To be honest, it might as well go to the gallows.

Crooked carved words can be seen everywhere in the mine; If there is an afterlife, you will definitely be a good person in the next life.

Under the deterrence of strict punishment and strict laws, the large and small towns of the Ocean Kingdom are generally in good order, and those who extort money, deliberately cause trouble, petty theft, and deception and domination are quite rare, and most of those who dare to do so serve hard labor in the mines.

After coming out by luck, it was really a law-abiding citizen who was more law-abiding than a law-abiding citizen, and he didn't dare to do bad things anymore when he said that he would break the sky, which was really scary.