Great time travel

Chapter 34, the five major forces have entered the arena
Vladivostok, known in Russian as Vladivostok, is the most important city on the territory of the Russian Far East and the largest port in the northern part of the Sea of ​​Japan.

From the satellite pictures taken in real time through the advanced technology of the 22nd century, everyone can distinguish the reinforced concrete factory buildings distributed there, tall chimneys, trestles extending into the harbor, roaring trains, and giant freighters as majestic as mountains... In addition, there are many rough wooden houses scattered around, as well as large fields that have been artificially leveled under the cover of white snow.The flags of sickle and hammer are still fluttering on the top of some buildings, just like the era of red passion when thousands of Communist Youth League members were mobilized by the Soviets and rushed to the Siberian wilderness to fight against the harsh nature - but the time and space they are in now However, the wheel of history has only reached the first half of the seventeenth century.

According to the "correct" history, there should be only a few fishing and hunting tribes wandering in Vladivostok at this time, and there will be no traces of civilization.

"...It seems that the situation is very clear. The people from the Vladivostok Far East Company have indeed come, and they are in Vladivostok in this time and space. It also saves us from thinking about it...but... tsk tsk, this group of people The capital is really strong enough!"

Looking at the northern city that had already taken shape in the satellite pictures, Guo Yi couldn't help saying enviously—compared to the "poor people" in Lingao who only took a thousand-ton freighter to cross, the crossing in Vladivostok The group is the real super rich man with strong capital.So many factories, ships and trains can be seen just from the satellite pictures.There are also Russian landing ships, field artillery, armored vehicles, etc. who don't know where they are. There is a huge amount of Cold War heritage. As long as enough people are recruited, they can instantly become the invincible opponents sweeping Northeast Asia. exist.

Of course, in front of a certain law enforcement agency with the power of the state and the support of black technology in the 22nd century, all of this is nothing but scum.

Thinking of this, Guo Yi couldn't help but feel grateful for his multiple identities.

After photographing and archiving the "Far East Company" traverser stronghold in Vladivostok, Wang Qiu pointed the satellite camera lens at Dengzhou, the tip of the Shandong Peninsula, but did not see anything obviously different from the times ——Farmlands, roads, cities, villages, fortresses... Even the style of the houses is no different from other places in the Ming Dynasty.Obviously, even if the ruling class of the traversers has brought changes beyond the times to this land and the people living on it, it is not yet so obvious that it can be seen from the reconnaissance satellite pictures.

Of course, at least from the satellite photos, there are no obvious signs of dilapidation and abandonment, which is not easy in this chaotic late Ming Dynasty—in fact, only on the Huaibei Plain, hundreds of kilometers south of Dengzhou Town, There are already fighting and riots everywhere.Hungry and red-eyed refugees besieged the fort, and the landlords and gentry organized family members to fight endlessly. In order to fight for a pathetic way of life, the land was stained red with blood.

In this tragic era, the landlords and gentry almost had to rely on cannibalism to survive, while the common people had only two choices: rebellion or starvation. You have to die, so why not have a big death?
Then, Wang Qiu pulled the camera sharply, jumping to the wild and desolate continent of Australia. From the satellite images, Australia in this time and space is generally still sleeping in ignorance and barbarism. Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, these famous cities in the southern hemisphere, are still missing. Only in the northwest corner of the Australian mainland, near the arid desert of Derby Port, there are some striking traces of human civilization: a number of scattered fortresses, stone houses and wooden houses, small in scale The dikes and trestles, as well as a few simple mine pits, are like the western United States in the gold rush era.

"...Is this the Australia crossing base in this time and space? The crossing ship of the 'Cosco Star' sailing ship doesn't look very well built!"

Looking at the few traces of civilization scattered in the Australian wilderness, Guo Yi pouted with some disdain, "...that's the size of a village..."

"...It is not easy to achieve this step. Comrade Xiao Guo, they did not organize a huge amount of supplies and more than 2000 people in one go. They can be called the Vladivostok Far East Company with a lot of money, nor did they rely on the Ming Dynasty. The Hainan Island Traveling Group is easy to absorb refugees in large numbers. From a certain point of view, it is not as good as the Dengzhou Town, which has been mixed into the Ming Dynasty government system and can use the court channel to obtain human resources."

Wang Meiling curled her lips and said, "... On the contrary, according to what you said before, there are only a total of more than 100 unprepared, delicate and frail traversers in Australia, and more than 100 inexplicably ran to Poland in the southern hemisphere to play a great voyage. Dude, plus more than 100 stone age Australian aborigines captured by them. Even if they later got the support of the South American crossing group—that is, the "Eastern Coast Country" in Uruguay, they are separated by thousands of miles of sea. How much labor was transported? It would be nice to be able to come up with such a trick and not sleep in a cave like a savage! But then again, what is the origin of these Poles who ran to the corner of Australia? In my impression, Although the Poles have many wonderful attributes, they have nothing to do with great voyages! The Poles also come to sail and colonize, it is as amazing as the African blacks doing the industrial revolution!"

"...Well, I seem to have forgotten the unsolvable problem of Australia's lack of population and no place to introduce it. Well, let alone manpower, they seem to have no animal power. After all, no one knew about it until modern times. How to domesticate kangaroos and koalas..."

Guo Yi rubbed his forehead and sighed, "...As for why Poles came to Australia in the [-]th century... I am also puzzled by this! I'm afraid I can only say that any nation in this world will have strange deeds Kind of different—there are fascists among the Jews too!"

Next, the shooting area of ​​[Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] had another large shift, and was adjusted to the Uruguay region of South America, allowing everyone to peek into the true face of the "Eastern Coast Country"—this country has actually been completed. The feat of sailing around the world feels quite arrogant.

Judging from the satellite map, this eastern republic is roughly located in the later Uruguay, or in the east of the lower reaches of the Uruguay River, hence the name.Many inland areas of Uruguay in later generations were still barren under the satellite's view at this time, and even Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay in another world, was just a sparsely populated small village at this time.In the entire East Coast Republic, only the coastal area along the Atlantic Ocean has been initially developed, and traces of civilization such as ports and towns have appeared.But even so, its strength is impressive enough.

——Eastern Port, the capital of the East Coast Republic, is quite eye-catching even in the satellite images.This is a majestic city located on the coast of the blue sea. According to the data calculated by artificial intelligence judgment, it has a grand city wall with a circumference of nearly ten kilometers and a height of more than six meters. It has several sharp protruding forts. The many cannons on the ground give people a feeling of majesty and sternness.

At the foot of the city wall, there are neat and sturdy trestle bridges and breakwaters, majestic coastal defense forts, eye-catching lighthouses and towering pulley booms, telling people that this is a well-equipped and excellent port all the time.There are many ships moored in the port, some are trading merchant ships, some are warships, some are fishing boats. These ships are neatly sorted and moored in their own dedicated docks, and everything looks very orderly.The solid breakwater in the Gongwei Port area blocks the turbulent South Atlantic sea water outside the embankment. The surge inside the embankment is very gentle and the sea water is also very clean.Unlike most ports in the old continent, there are a lot of garbage, rotten wood and even corpses floating on the water.The port is also very busy.A large number of two- and three-story brick buildings, including retail shops, commercial hotels, taverns, restaurants, pawnshops, etc., were erected on the edge of the dockyard.Overall, a nice, clean, tidy port.At least in South America at this time, no port can match it in these aspects.

Outside the city wall, there is a large open field with rich products - on the green grassland outside the city, there are countless horses, sheep and beef cattle; in the artificial reservoir with rippling blue waves, there are a lot of birds; The big otter is playing freely among the water plants, and from time to time, it grabs a big fat fish and puts it into its mouth to chew and eat; on the shore of the reservoir, the foxes that come and go from time to time stare at the water birds floating on the water and drool...

Such a rich scenery full of vitality, where cattle and sheep can be seen under the wind and grass, can indeed be proudly called "Brave New World".

However, in this beautiful new world that is so fascinating, there are not only beautiful lakes and mountains, rich natural products, but also undisguised blood and gunpowder. Forts, all cities and villages are out-and-out fortresses of war.The East Coast Republic seems to have the ideology that all people are soldiers. No matter where settlements are set up, they must be fortified and fortified, and countless bastions of various sizes have been built.Even in a small village, you can find a few cold artillery pieces, and rotting corpses dangling on the gallows... Of course, in Europe, where the 30-year war is currently going on, there are many similar cruel scenes. few.

"...It really looks like a nation of iron and blood with a strong atmosphere of war! No wonder you describe them as militaristic..."

Observing the densely packed various military facilities on the satellite map, and the sparse population that is not proportional to the number of these war tools, Wang Qiu couldn't help sighing, "...the whole country looks like a big fortress, and the degree of militarization is probably higher than The Soviet Union during the Cold War was even higher! In my opinion, it looks like a complex of the Manchurian pioneer group and the North China artillery group in the era of Japanese militarism! Do they have to be so belligerent?"

"...Who made their situation too dangerous? Today's Uruguay is not an unclaimed land. Since the birth of their country, it has been tantamount to digging flesh from the Spanish American colonies. They are both pagans and People of the yellow race, no matter what kind of identity they are, can arouse the fanatical hostility of the Spanish Catholics, forcing these people to be bathed in gunpowder almost from the beginning of the crossing. As for the local Indians, they also regard them as Invaders and enemies don’t even think about establishing a united front against imperialism and freedom. Besides, the Indians themselves are divided into many tribes, fighting each other non-stop. A considerable number of tribes even converted to Catholicism and became thugs of the Spaniards and Portuguese. Woolen cloth!
Therefore, they, who are alone in South America, must rely on their own limited strength to win one war after another, deter the greedy Spaniards, the Portuguese and the Dutch with ulterior motives, and suppress the Indians. Only by resisting can we barely win the minimum living space.And as long as you behave a little bit cowardly, under the siege of wolves, you are destined to embark on the road of no return to death and slavery. "

Guo Yi also touched his chin and expressed his opinion, "...According to the information obtained by Lingao from the Batavia talks, what's more terrible is that not only does the East Bank Group not have a powerful mother country behind them, When facing the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutch, and even the French, they don't have any advantages in terms of human and financial resources. Moreover, the North American traveler group "Huamei" has long been cooperating with Spain for its own interests. Forming an alliance against Britain and France is invisibly tantamount to being an enemy of the East Bank country, which has caused the East Bank country to lose a large part of its technical advantage on the battlefield—at least it has provided the Spaniards with a lot of arms to fight the East Bank, resulting in The war pressure of the East Coast Army is unprecedentedly strong...

Although Lingao has to face many enemies, after all, the neighbors are compatriots of the same country and the same race, so they can be easily transformed into their own strength on a large scale.But the East Coast Group, which is in a foreign land in the Americas, can't even do this—whether it's European immigrants, African slaves, or American Indians, they all agree with the East Coast Group.And the small amount of Ming Dynasty immigrants transported from Macau by the Portuguese for thousands of miles is really a drop in the bucket, and it can't even keep up with the consumption of the war.Moreover, in this era of backward medical and health care, sometimes a plague can destroy thousands of people.Faced with such a hopeless situation where enemies are everywhere and death without fighting, no matter how peaceful people are, they will be forced to become militaristic lunatics... In addition to trying to squeeze out every bit of war potential in the country, and using all the capital that can be collected What else can they do if they are all thrown into war? "

"...If they really can't hold on, they can also give up the pots and pans they have managed in South America, and go to North America to join another group of fellow travelers! I think the time-traveling group in North America should not be cold-blooded Why don't you close the door!" Ma Tong said, curling his lips.

"... Well, it's hard to say! First of all, in terms of human nature, as the saying goes, it is better to be a chicken head than a queen. Anyone who becomes a leader, unless there is really no other way, is unwilling. Those who live under the fence—even if the transmigrators in the East Coast Kingdom are in a more dangerous situation, they are considered a privileged class in their territory. But if they go to North America, the phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken, and the transversals there may not necessarily take them Treat them as one of your own! Those low-level ordinary traversers and technical experts are fine, what about the upper-level government and military leaders? Could it be that the government of the North American Group will make room for them? What if the government leaders of the Huamei side To be more mean, treat them directly as ordinary immigrants, at the same level as Ming Dynasty and European immigrants, and even add a "restricted use" curse... I am afraid few people can bear it!
Secondly, the relationship between these two traveler groups in America has not been very good in recent years.Huamei's attack on the East Bank is militarism, imitating the Japanese militarism madman and making enemies everywhere, and I am afraid that it will kill itself in the end; , To actually help the European colonists deal with their compatriots... As far as we know, the two crossing groups in America have almost fought in South Africa before.At the just-concluded Batavia talks, the representatives of these two groups also kept arguing all day long.The negotiators sent by Lingao and the group of Australian transmigrants all heard that they were the first two big... So, as long as there is still a glimmer of hope of survival, it is impossible to imagine that the transversals on the east coast will give up their painstaking efforts The foundation created, exiled to North America as a refugee! "

Guo Yi shook his head, and commented on Ma Tong's bad idea, "...Although they used to come from the same society and have similar concepts and thinking patterns, the reality is that the two groups of traversers have formed two completely different The country is different, and the difference is at least not smaller than that of the United States and the United Kingdom... This is not the Long March of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. They are all under the leadership of a party organization, and military and political organs can be transferred from one base to another—even if it is the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, no The situation has deteriorated to the point where we can't hold on anymore, so we finally gave up the 'Red Capital' Ruijin?"

"...That's right, being a refugee on someone else's territory is not as comfortable as being the master of your own territory!"

Wang Qiu also agreed and said, "...Although in the eyes of us pessimists, the East Bank Group is surrounded by powerful enemies in South America, fighting fiercely. But on the other hand, from the eyes of optimists, they are Lien Chan Lianjie, beheading generals and defeating the enemy, all the way proudly rampant across South America! We subjectively think that they may be afraid and tired of endless wars, but in fact they also gain from continuous wars. With all that we have now, maybe we still feel that this kind of war life of licking blood, killing decisively, and enjoying grievances and enemies is very exciting!
After all, deep in the veins of every man on earth, there are hidden factors of violence.Although the East Coast Republic has to face so many modernized European armed forces that are not easy to deal with, so far, in general, they have continued to win on the battlefield, expanding their territory to the outside world again and again-it is hard to imagine this What kind of war-weary thoughts will arise from an emerging force that often plays triumphant songs.Not to mention abandoning the existing homeland and land in order to escape the war, and go to the north nine thousand kilometers away to join another cross-traveling force that is also young! "

"...I think so too. But when you are alive, you have to fight against the sky, the earth, and people! Every moment, you must constantly strive to survive in the struggle, and grow stronger in the struggle." Wang Meiling also Nodding his head, he added, "...regardless of nationality, country, or religion, they are essentially social tools for human beings to divide themselves and form multiple groups to compete in an all-round way. As long as there are many people who want to divide resources and wealth, resources Insufficient or relative insufficiency of wealth and wealth—for example, if the ruling class feels insufficient, then there will be battles. After there is a battle, it is necessary to divide the enemy and its own people, draw a circle, and distinguish between "us in the circle" and 'Them outside the circle'. Apply one set of rules to the insiders and another set of rules to the outsiders. Then plunder and destroy the enemy, leaving the resources and wealth to the own people.

This is the result of biological evolution and also the basic instinct deeply hidden in the hearts of every creature, especially group creatures!This instinct accompanies the evolution of group animals, just as the desire for food and sex accompanies each of us.Those in power can certainly temporarily suppress this instinct, but they will have to pay a heavy price - please remember, guys who go against the basic instinct of human beings, even if they are happy for a while, will not end well in the end.

When drawing circles, some people will draw all human beings into their circles.Some people will draw all animals into their own circle.These people are the so-called 'Madonna' party.But the harsh nature and history do not allow the 'Madonna' to scribble like this.There will always be a day or a period of time when the world's resources (or capacity) will decline.At that time, only those who draw a good circle, only those who are good at drawing a circle, and only those who are good at killing those competitors outside the circle can continue their group in this endless competition.

For example, when spreading religious and revolutionary beliefs, you can call on people to temporarily abandon the barriers between nations and countries.But as long as someone starts drawing circles with traditional flags such as nations and countries, more people will inevitably enter the 'circle mode' driven by instinct—under the same prerequisites, people with circles and organizations, People who have no circle and no organization are bound to be defeated.

Of course you can choose not to circle yourself, but you can't stop others from not drawing circles.And other people's circles will eventually kill or consume you.If you don't want to be killed or swallowed, start drawing your own circles.Of course, you can choose not to draw the circle and die.In addition, if the circle is drawn too small so that it cannot beat the other circles outside, then the only option is to die—this is the cruel law of human historical evolution..."

On the other side, just as Wang Meiling was talking to everyone, Wang Qiu had already remotely controlled the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] and moved the subject of the shooting to the east coast of North America, where the so-called "Huamei Republic" is located...