Chapter 331: Miss Saigon and Saigon Iron Fist

Since the French invasion in 1859, Saigon has become the most important French colonial base in the Far East.

Compared with the name Saigon, later generations of Chinese should be more familiar with its other name: Ho Chi Minh City.

Historically, Saigon was once the land of the Khmer people before it was annexed by Vietnam at the end of the seventeenth century.

During the Vietnam War, Saigon, as the capital of South Vietnam, was also one of the gentle towns in the East where American GIs hunted for joy and beauty.

In addition to "Miss Saigon", another famous thing that Americans left to Saigon is the world-famous painting "Saigon Iron Fist" (see this paragraph for pictures).

In this black-and-white photograph, an American sits in a helicopter and punches a Vietnamese who tries to climb onto the helicopter, revealing what happened to the "Belt and Road Party."

In December 1974, in less than four months, the North Vietnamese People's Army and Viet Cong guerrillas Lien Khu Lung, My Bang, Hue and Da Nang occupied most of South Vietnam's territory in one fell swoop, and marched as far as Saigon, the capital of Vietnam.

Due to a miscalculation of the situation, the Americans had more than 5,000 American officials, journalists, and their families stranded in South Vietnam at that time, and they had to evacuate as soon as possible.

In this kind of crisis, there is no Titanic-style gentleman's style.

The Americans used their iron fist to make the pugs that South Vietnam wanted to go to the United States with their masters understand what "America First" was.

This photo happened to be taken by the accompanying reporter, and it has since become a world famous painting.

With such a classic scene, Zhu Fugui feels that it can be integrated into the new movie from a different angle to plump up the unnutritious plot.

"Miss Saigon" is similar to its inspiration, another famous opera, "Madama Butterfly".

The main line is the story of a white officer who hunts for joy in Saigon, Vietnam, Nagasaki, Japan, rolls the sheets with a local Oriental girl who admires white culture, and then pats his ass and leaves.

In the play, the Oriental women who were played with by the Western conquerors and finally abandoned were portrayed as the image of love first, willing to give everything for their white husbands who were far better than the yellow race, and arranged for them to commit suicide and martyrdom in the end.

It can be said that these two operas, which are praised by both the East and the West, are the clarion call for white people to sexually colonize Asian women and mentally castrate Asian men.

In later generations, Zhu Fugui watched an actress who graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and won the role of "Miss Saigon", and when interviewed by domestic media, his face was irrepressibly proud and honored.

"Maybe I'm lucky, because the appearance and vocal range are just right for Miss Saigon," said the actress proudly, raising her chin and revealing her elegant neck.

This may indeed be her luck, but it is definitely the misfortune of the entire East Asian nation!

In this era, Zhu Fugui will never allow such a thing to happen again.

Zhu Fugui thinks that he is not a gentleman who should not do to others what he does not want, but he likes to give back directly.

Since the Westerners have proven that these means are vile, but efficient, with few side effects, why don't we use them?

Zhu Fugui believes that if he does not enter the customs, if he does not ask for help, if he does not take the initiative to attack, and if he does not completely crush the colonial victor mentality of Westerners since the Age of Discovery, then the Chinese nation and the gang of rotten shrimp that are vassals of China will always be barbarians.

Even if it's as rich as Japan, it's just a white man's hunting ground, not to mention the whole of China, including Frog Island, where any third-world dick like a local chicken can easily complete hundreds of beheadings.

Whether it is from the perspective of earning cultural value, or from the perspective of competing for the right to speak in the world in the next two hundred years, Daming will not sit idly by, and must seize the opportunity.

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While the Seattle Film and Television Base was busy preparing for the filming of "Miss San Diego", a dilapidated old-fashioned sailing ship slowly arrived in port in the real Saigon area of faraway Vietnam.

"You have suffered, Lord Count!"

A stocky white man, like a humble groundhog, saddles up and pulls a Mediterranean man off the boat.

McCann opened his mouth, not sure how to explain it.

In fact, even he himself did not believe that his experience in the past two years could be so magical.

As a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, he was ambushed by Daming soldiers and reduced to slavery on his way back to China to find his daughter, who had been abducted by the Chinese.

After working in the most dangerous strata of the coal mine for more than half a year, McCann was selected again, shaved his extremely ugly hair, and sent to Japan as a mercenary.

Well, the so-called mercenaries are McCann's own glorified statements.

In fact, he was essentially a slave soldier.

In order to survive, McCann fought bravely and finally became a corps commander because of his commendable combat performance.

Eventually, taking advantage of the landing of the French in Japan, McCann saw the opportunity to set things right and return to the embrace of Western civilization.

However, then, that Daming ghost did not disperse, and he actually came to Daming.

At that time, McCann felt that something was going to happen.

As a veteran captive of the Ming Dynasty, McCann was deeply aware of the power of the Ming Dynasty.

Although not considered strong enough to shake the global dominance of Western civilization, McCann felt that in the Far East, the Ming was an absolute formidable adversary, and that the French might be caught in a bitter battle.

This is based on the analysis of scattered intelligence that McCann learned before leaving Daming.

As it turned out, his imagination was still too barren.

He couldn't imagine what kind of tremendous development Da Ming had in the year and a half since he left.

In the end, the French were defeated far faster than McCann had anticipated.

He himself was arrested by the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, McCann thought that his 40-year life was coming to an end, but he turned around, and he was mistakenly mistaken for a French count, and was not executed by the murderous Daming.

Soon after, the Imperial Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty received a ransom from the Casane family.

At this time, the Suez Canal, which connects Europe and the East, is being dug.

The diggers were French.

The project has been going on for 8 years, and it will be open to traffic for another 3 years.

The sacrifices for the opening of the Suez Canal were the lives of 120,000 Egyptian laborers, as well as 18.6 million pounds, equivalent to 18.6 billion yuan.

For the time being, the Ming were unable to compete with the French for this spectacle.

In short, because the Suez Canal is not yet open, it will take months to travel from the Far East to Europe.

If it is a merchant ship transiting in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, it will take more than three months to travel back and forth between Central Europe.

If you pursue speed and direct reach, it only takes more than 50 days (in 1876, Guo Songtao, China's first ambassador to foreign countries, boarded a ship from Shanghai to England, passing through the Strait of Malacca, Sumatra and other places, and arrived in London in 55 days).

The news of the fiasco in the Far East, as well as the payment of the ransom by the Canesta family, were naturally used by the Clippers.

So in just 3 months, Daming received 500,000 francs worth of gold as a ransom.