These days

In Wuthering Heights, he led a group of people to tackle the tracked armored vehicle project day and night, worked hard for the dream, and solved the project problems one after another.

This made Lieutenant Colonel Lei Xiao full of fighting spirit, and he devoted himself to Wuthering Heights every day, eating, living and researching with the engineers, and the high enthusiasm of a group of young people was also completely aroused......

this day

The edge of the woods

"Second brother, I found out that this highness is an academic madman who is obsessed with research!" Second Lieutenant Pan Zhicheng shook his head incredulously, and continued with a little resentment;

"It's been a few months, and our research base is so close to Philadelphia, it's only a little more than 20 minutes by car.

But His Royal Highness never went to the night banquets of the nobles in the city, nor did he touch women, nor did he enjoy good food and wine, and lived like a harsh Puritans.

Even with us, I also suffer together, my ass is bumped on that broken armored car every day, and my internal organs are turned upside down, when is such a hard life to be the end? ”

Captain Pan Zhixin looked at his complaining younger brother, and went up directly to kick him in the ass and kicked him.

Second Lieutenant Pan Zhicheng hurriedly stood up, covered his buttocks and shouted in disbelief; "What are you doing...... Second brother? ”

"I'm kicking you bastard, all the years of military career have been lived to the belly of a dog, can't you learn to tell the difference between good and bad?" Captain Pan Zhixin scolded twice with hatred that iron does not become steel, pointed to his nose and said;

"Do you know how lucky we are to be able to work together in front of His Highness?

His Royal Highness is a person who can really do great things, so the noble status can sink his heart and be obsessed with research. And not being moved by external objects, this alone is enough to be admired.

What kind of self-discipline does this require?

What perseverance?

My father is willing to take risks to pave a green cloud road for us, as long as we two follow His Royal Highness, the future is bright.

In the future, it is not a dream to earn a piece of aristocratic glory for yourself and your family, isn't that enough?

You have to think about your identity, even if a commoner spends all his life drinking and drinking, and the beauties around him are like clouds, he is just a lowly class, and he is just a joy of fish and water.

Compared to the bright future, it is simply a difference.

You are a fool who is good or bad, how can you be worthy of being my third brother, if you want to go out and spend all your time, I'll give you a pass, just go play! ”

In the end, it was my brother, this merciless scolding made Second Lieutenant Pan Zhicheng's face change sharply, and he knew that he was a little wrong.

It's not that he doesn't know what to do, but the young man's personality is really a bit playful, who doesn't want to linger in the aristocratic night banquet and ball, wandering in the gentle countryside of the fragrant car beauty?

To know

Although Pan Zhixin and Pan Zhicheng were born in the Guogong Mansion, their identities are commoners, not nobles.

According to the Imperial Code of Nobility;

Marshal Pan Hengchen of the Royal Navy was awarded the title of First Class Duke of Weiguo for his outstanding meritorious service, and was given a mansion, a fief, a fief, a hereditary replacement, and a retirement with the country.

In the entire first-class Weiguo Mansion, there is only one noble title.

After the death of the old duchess, it will be inherited by the prince Pan Shouguo in the future, and among the rest of the old duke's children, men can be honored as "lords", and women can be honored as "county lords", and can enjoy the glory of nobility.

Pan Zhixin and Pan Zhicheng have uncles who are "lords" and aunts who are "county lords", but this is only an honorific title, not a noble title.

The next generation of their children are all civilians.

Therefore, several aunts of Captain Pan Zhixin of the Guogong Mansion have married into the aristocratic family, including earls and viscounts, and the baron family, enjoying the specifications of the wife of the main house, which can pass on the noble noble bloodline.

In the Tang Empire, there is really no nobleman who dares to take the county lord as a concubine, which is equivalent to stepping on the face of the nobles of the entire empire to the ground, which will cause public anger.

Several uncles were in the army or politics, and although they also made some achievements, their children were civilians, and this cannot be changed.

In the generation of Pan Zhixin and Pan Zhicheng, only the eldest brother Pan Zhiren can be honored as "Your Excellency the Honorable Lord", and he is the successor to the title of Duke of Weiguo in the future, provided that he can live to that day, and the other contemporaries are all commoners.

If the eldest brother Pan Zhiren unfortunately braided his hair in advance, Pan Zhixin would be equivalent to winning the jackpot, and he would become the heir of the Guogong Mansion in this vein.

Although Ensign Poon Chi-shing was confused for a while, he was not stupid.

After being woken up by his brother Captain Pan Zhixin's stormy scolding, he finally lowered his head in frustration and walked over with a face full of shame;

"Second brother, it's the younger brother who is wrong, it's really a time when the lard is blinded, and I won't do it again next time."

"You can't talk about it, but you have to recognize the mistakes in your heart. If you force yourself, Your Highness will sooner or later notice that something is wrong, and then you really have no chance at all. ”

"Foolish brother is blunt, thank you second brother for your enlightenment, now I am also an adult with a wife and children, I know the good and the bad." Second Lieutenant Pan Zhicheng straightened his waist, nodded seriously and said;

"This family relies on me to set up a household, and I will never dare to mess around anymore, and I will definitely follow what the second brother said, and conscientiously do all the affairs assigned by His Royal Highness."

"That's very good, third brother, the test team you led is actually very important. The results improved in the laboratory need to be run out by the experimental team round by circle, and they can be verified repeatedly, no matter how hard and tired they are, they can't be sloppy! ”

"Knowing the second brother, the foolish brother must follow what the brother said, calm down, and work diligently."

"Hehehe...... That's right, if you really want to have a couple of drinks, come to my dorm in the evening, I have a few bottles of strong liquor there to drink. ”

"That's great, I'll bring two pieces of dried meat to accompany the wine, and a can of canned beans." Second Lieutenant Pan Zhicheng faded out of his mouth during this time, and when he heard his brother say this, he almost jumped up with excitement.

Wuthering Heights' logistical supply is very good, there are fish, meat, eggs and milk every now and then, and the free-range chickens and ducks have eaten several stubbles, and hundreds of eggs and duck eggs can be picked up every day.

A small number of chickens and ducks flew out of the barbed wire fence and slowly turned into pheasants and ducks, making the nearby forests a lot more lively.

The standard of food supply for officers was much higher than that of soldiers, no less than half a pound of meat per day, a glass of milk, and a monthly supply of cigarettes and toffee, but certainly not spirits and women.

Pan Zhixin, Pan Zhicheng's life belongs to the third generation of immigrants, when they grow up, bathed in the infinite glory of the empire, live in a relatively materially abundant environment, and almost never suffer from the hardships of their predecessors.

In the relatively strict education and growth environment of the Guogong Mansion, the Pan brothers belonged to the children of a relatively outstanding part of the aristocratic family, abiding by the glory of their father's military service and acting diligently.

There are good natural and depraved, and it is nothing new.

Time flies, and five years have passed.

The wheels of history roll forward

In the past 189-4, July 25, the Battle of Punshima broke out, which was the beginning of the Qing-Japanese War......

Just like in the original history, although it was difficult to distinguish the winner in the naval battle, the decaying imperial court was frightened, and the two giant ships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan led the remaining ships to avoid the battle of Liugong Island, and the final outcome was the same.

After this battle

After the Fuso Kingdom swept away the humiliation of slavery and oppression in modern times, the morale of the people was greatly boosted, and after tasting the sweetness of innovation, the whole country embraced the reform measures and accelerated the process of modern industrialization with huge war reparations.

In the Tang Empire

His Royal Highness Tang Li Kun, the king of Guangnan, had no hope of inheriting the great treasure and accepted the emperor's imperial title to go to Colombia to take up the vassal, and Colombia was renamed the Kingdom of Guangnan.

His Royal Highness Don-Li Xin, King of Pingxi, accepted the emperor's imperial title and went to Ohio to take up the throne, which was renamed the Kingdom of Ohio, and His Royal Highness Tang-Li Xin ascended the throne as vassal king.

Just at the end of the year

Lord Pan Shouguo, as the prime minister candidate of the "National Power Party", defeated the rival of the "Gongzi Party" and won the 189-5 general election, becoming the sixth prime minister of the Tang Empire.

Soon after, Britain, France and other countries withdrew their troops from North America.

The Tang Empire took advantage of the situation to include Maryland and Delaware, and renamed Washington, D.C., as the Eastern Metropolis, officially announcing that it would relocate some of the imperial administrative functions to the city.

The North American Office, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Colonies, the Ministry of Culture, Health and Sports, the Royal Army and the Royal Navy have announced the relocation of some important government functions to the Eastern Metropolis.

At the beginning of his tenure

The new imperial government is facing the 50th anniversary of the enthronement of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the empire on May 1, 189-6, which is the most important grand celebration.

The White House underwent extensive remodeling and expansion to become one of the royal residences in the Eastern Territory.

In March 189-6, the South American Pacific War, which lasted more than five years of stagnation, finally ended, and the alliance of Peru and Bolivia successfully defeated Chile with a difficult victory, but also owed a huge war debt.

Under the post-war treaty, Chile's territory was largely dismembered.

Chile originally occupied more than 2,351 kilometers of Pacific coastline, like a narrow baguette.

After the defeat

Four states in southern Chile were dismembered and 1,271 kilometers of coastline were lost, and these four states were given as war reparations, three of which belonged to Peru and one to Bolivia.

Since this part of the territory does not border Peru and Bolivia, and the two countries owed huge debts to the Tang Empire during the war, these four states were transferred to the Tang Empire as territories to pay off part of the debts.

On this basis, the Tang Empire established two vassal states, divided into the King of Qinzhou and the King of Binhai, which were also called the Kingdom of Qinzhou and the Kingdom of Binhai.

His Royal Highness Tang Li Zhe, the twenty-second son of the emperor, was named the king of Qinzhou, and became the 13th vassal king of South America.

His Royal Highness Tang Li Cheng, the twenty-third son of the emperor, was divided into the Coastal King, and became the 14th vassal king of South America.

So

Chile has only 1,080 square meters of coastal territory, and the desert region at the junction of the three northern countries, which is the main production area of saltpeter and guano, is divided between Peru and Bolivia.

Chile lost two more states in the north and became a small South American country with a coastal area of only 430 kilometers, confined to a small area around the capital, Santiago.

Its population has also shrunk sharply from about 3 million before the war to about 1.43 million, and the military junta has been subverted by armed insurrection, prices have skyrocketed, food and daily necessities are in short supply, and the people are living in hardship, and the domestic situation is extremely chaotic.

Chile's dismemberment after its defeat and its collapse since then illustrates the importance of taking sides.

Although Peruvian President Petrola led the country to turn the tables against the wind and finally won this war of rookie pecking at each other after a lot of hardships, he also paid a huge price.

Although the three southern states of Chile were dismembered to repay part of the debt, Peru still has a huge debt of about 130 million Tang Yuan, which needs to be repaid for 15 years based on the repayment of 17.5 million Tang Yuan in a year.

This has almost handed over most of the value of the Atacama Desert's rich resources, which Peru has won with great difficulty.

The situation is similar in Bolivia, where the war is won, but it is not able to be fed back by its abundant resources, because of the huge debt to be repaid.

Count it this way

The three parties to the Pacific War, Chile, Peru and Bolivia were all losers, and the only winner was the Tang Empire.

Fortunately, Peru and Bolivia have expanded their territories, and the two countries have divided the rich resources of the Atacama Desert, and after paying off their debts, there is still some soup and water left.

Chile has been miserable, from the original occupation of more than 3,600 square kilometers of the Pacific coast (note, since 1871, Chile's territory due to the emergence of the Andean Viceroyalty, the expansion to the south came to an abrupt end, just like Argentina, so it did not have the original historical coastline of 4,329 kilometers), sharply reduced to more than 430 kilometers, with a total area of only 88,900 square kilometers, about one-eighth of the original history.

After several years of expansion, the Tang Empire accounted for 37,500 square kilometers from North America and 273,000 square kilometers from South America, totaling 310,500 square kilometers.

The total territory of the Tang Empire has increased from 19.9 million square kilometers to 20,210,500 square kilometers, officially exceeding 20 million square kilometers, and still ranking third in the world after Britain and Russia.

These new territories included in the empire's borders in North and South America did not go through wars or brutal suppression, and they fell into the bag like this, which once again made people see the power of capital.

Through international borrowing alone, the capital of the Tang Empire could reap most of the fruits of victory in the Pacific War in South America, and let Bolivia and Peru, which were in the front, act as thugs and make a lot of money.

This is a new way of economic colonization, which has aroused the research interest of various colleges and universities in the Tang Empire, and many experts and scholars have conducted in-depth analysis and tried to find laws that can be used for reference.

The past five years have been five years of turmoil in the world, and the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War in Europe in 189-7 has deepened the commentary on this turbulent era.