Great time travel

Chapter 47. The Wind and Rain Meeting Qiongya in All Directions ([-])

On the seventh day of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the coast of southern Fujian of the Ming Empire and the sky over the west side of the Taiwan Strait
Under the rising sun, the thin morning mist dissipated quickly, and the sky over the Taiwan Strait was cloudless, and the blue sky was as pure as sapphire.

Under this clear sky, as the early morning fog dissipates, a group of huge and bloated aerial monsters are revealing their true faces little by little, piece by piece—more than 20 ships have just been wiped out urgently The large airships carrying the five-star red flag, the Sickle Hammer Party flag, and the August 700st Army flag, like a large pile of cigars, white radish, and long bread, are forming a loose formation and flying southward along the coastline.In those long oval semi-recessed pods with a row of small portholes, more than [-] special passengers in full armor are carried.

——Due to the limited capacity of the time-space gate, these large airships of various shapes are not the masterpieces of a certain knockoff industrial power, but 22nd century black technology toys purchased by Doraemon, and then some emblems were urgently brushed: Of course, because It's just a toy, so like the props such as the expedition ship used by Doraemon, there is no uniform model and specification, so it can only be kept consistent by temporarily changing the painting.

Although these majestic, beautiful and gorgeous large airships are slower than airplanes in terms of flying speed, they can stay in the air for a longer time and can carry more people and cargo.Moreover, once the engine loses power, the aircraft usually immediately becomes a pile of garbage, and even if all the engines are damaged, the airship can still stay in the air with its own buoyancy, and then slowly release the gas in the airbag to achieve a safe landing.

Therefore, there is no airport along the way, which is equivalent to the "enemy-occupied area" at the end of Ming Dynasty, and the safety factor of using airships is much higher than that of airplanes.As for worrisome storms and other issues, you can rely on Doraemon's mini weather satellites for real-time monitoring in order to avoid them. Fortunately, according to satellite cloud images, the entire eastern coast of China has The weather is sunny, the sky is clear, and the northwest wind is at an acceptable level. It is the most suitable weather for a bloated floating aircraft like an airship to set off on a long-distance voyage.

However, even though these airships come from the highly technologically advanced future world, they are only "toys", so apart from the fool-like intelligent fully automatic operating system that even children can play, their technical content is not as high as that of modern airships in the 21st century. How much higher.

At this moment, Wang Qiu was sitting on a silver-white airship at the forefront of the entire "Air Fleet", like the leader of migratory birds, leading more than 20 airships of all sizes to advance towards the southwest at full speed.Relying on the automatic navigation adjustment of the intelligent system and the full force of the eight electric propellers, the cigar-shaped thick body of this airship is like a leisurely dolphin, gliding in the blue sky at ease.

For Wang Qiu, who at best has only obtained a small car driver's license, driving an airship is really a fresh and exciting challenge.But in fact, through actual contact and experience, he found that it is really not difficult to drive this kind of smart airship. It is basically easier than playing air combat games. Just enter a few general instructions on the touch screen, and the next Everything can be automatically controlled and adjusted by the computer on the boat. Thinking about it, I know that even Nobi Nobita, a primary school student, can control the "large toy", but Wang Qiu, a college student, can't play it?
And in the abdomen of this airship, in a protruding pod about the size of an ordinary minibus, senior sister Ma Tong and mother Wang Meiling are curiously leaning against the aluminum alloy bulkhead, overlooking the At the same time, a small piece of triangular-shaped glass window was opened a small slit, and the cold winter wind with a hint of chill suddenly blew in through the window slit, making a sharp whistling sound.

At this time, this huge formation of airships was soaring over the coast of southern Fujian on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait.

Looking down from the cockpit of the airship, the right side of the pod is the endless vast sea, the undulating waves are shining brightly in the sun, and the left side of the pod is the land of southern Fujian, green hills and fields, leisurely strolling in various colors Pedestrians, a few flat boats wandering slowly, pavilions and pavilions with carved beams and painted buildings, and temples hidden under towering pines and cypresses, give people infinite poetic flavor, just like pleasing landscape paintings, so beautiful that it is fascinating.

Then, the formation of airships soaring over this southern Fujian scenery is like a group of running bulls breaking into the garden, messing up all the poetic, picturesque and leisurely elegance—wherever the airship passes, those floating in the sky Almost all the fishing boats on the sea and the estuary, as well as the pedestrians and horses on the farms and in the mountains, were startled by these unheard of giant beasts in the sky, and then hurriedly ran away.

However, when the people on the ground found that the giants in the sky did not seem to be dangerous, they stopped running away. Instead, they got out of the woods or huts, and propped out their own boats from the reeds and fjords, as if watching Like a diorama, they followed the airships watching the sky.

And in those densely populated port towns along the coast, the sudden appearance of such a large group of monsters in the sky attracted many crowds of onlookers. With all kinds of noisy shouts, some people knelt on the street and prayed silently, and some people rushed outside or climbed to a high place. Countless heads moved with the trajectory of the airship. This scene is really spectacular.

Both Ma Tong and Wang Meiling were very interested in this. They not only lay down on the floor and looked down with binoculars, but occasionally even took the initiative to make some noise, throwing some firecrackers or the like, or sprinkled shiny colored paper in the air. Debris, as well as using a chimney to blow out long colored smoke, and then happily watching the ant-like crowd below think that "the monster is angry" and run around and stir, just like those naughty children who tease crickets.

It's like a person throwing a piece of meat and bone, and then watching a group of wild dogs fighting for food, it's just a leisure farce to pass the time.

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On the other hand, Wang Qiu and Professor Guo were more impressed by the abnormal climate along the way than watching the movement of these Ming Dynasty people with a telescope.

"...Hey, is this the so-called Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty? Looking at the icy and snowy scenery along the way, I can't tell whether this is China or Russia! It's really hard to imagine a Little Ice Age like this , What should the real Ice Age look like!"

Feeling the biting cold wind blowing in through the crack of the window, Wang Qiu muttered while looking at the navigation map on the screen.

In short, as Wang Qiu saw with his own eyes, the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which ruined the luck of the Ming Dynasty, really lived up to its reputation-the airship formation traveled all the way south from Vladivostok, not to mention the Jiangnan Water Town, which should have a warm climate, and overlooked it at this time It was Qianli Xueye.The rivers and lakes are all frozen, and the farmland and tidal flats are all white.Even Wenzhou, Ningbo, and Zhoushan, where snow rarely falls in later generations, are actually covered in silver and snow.Even further south in the Fuzhou area, there is also snow everywhere.In the 21st century, it never snows in Fujian.

It was not until the areas of Quanzhou and Xiamen farther south, where the airship formation is currently located, that the traces of ice and snow on the land basically faded away, at least the large expanses of snow could not be seen.But the surface temperature is still hovering around zero, and the icy cold wind is like a knife cutting, making people feel that they are not far from the Tropic of Cancer, and will soon enter the tropics with high temperatures all year round...

"...If it is a real ice age, then the polar glaciers can extend from the Arctic Ocean to Hunan and Jiangxi, and even the Philippines and Vietnam will have heavy snowfall in winter!" Professor Guo replied with a frown, "...but even this During the Little Ice Age, the civilized world of the entire earth was already suffering enough—the nomadic peoples on the grasslands suffered year after year, and they would starve to death if they didn’t go south to rob. They would also have to starve to death. And the corrupt Ming Dynasty government didn’t talk about organizing disaster relief, on the contrary, it was still intensifying to drive the victims to death... It’s not the worst now. However, the social order in the north is that the landlords rely on the lives of the grass-eaters to barely survive, and the grass-eaters can only eat each other's human flesh and bones, or use Guanyin soil to kill themselves. It is more cruel than the colonial plunder of the West in the future, how can it be maintained?"

"...Actually, the situation in Daming is already dire. I used to organize reclamation in Liaodong before, but I tried all kinds of methods, but the crops in the field still had no harvest, so I could only rely on supplies from the rear to survive. Except for Liaodong, The entire Nine Frontiers from Gansu to Datong were also severely damaged by freezing and no crops were harvested. The military households either fled or starved to death, and the rest had to rebel. The empire's border defenses have completely collapsed..."

Huang Shi, who was the only one on the boat wearing the armor of a general of the Ming Dynasty, couldn't help coming up and sighing, "...the situation in the interior is equally bad. Those gentry who talk about benevolence and morality actually don't treat grassroots people as human beings at all. Natural disasters It is clear that there are so many, the government and the gentry don’t do disaster relief, and they intensify their extortion, but they only know how to take away the last grain of wheat from farmers’ families, and they never know how to organize production to fight disasters. Ordinary farmers are forced to sell autumn grain at a low price to pay off their debts. Later, in the spring, they had to borrow usury to make ends meet. If this cycle continues, they are already on the verge of immortality. With a salary, the land of fish and rice in the south may be able to barely support it, and the farmers in the north who have lost their harvest year after year can live It's strange to go down!
The ridiculous thing is that in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War era in the late Qing Dynasty, the lower-level bureaucrats and landlords at least knew to maintain the necessary force to maintain their rule in the face of the surging peasant uprising.But now the group of civil servants in Ming Dynasty is a disgrace in the history of China. The knives are already on their necks, and they still want to be dead professional households. silver……"

Recalling the arrogant face full of disdain and contempt that the civil servants of the imperial court treated military generals, and the disgusting attitude towards the army that "I will take the credit, you will take the blame, and you will bring your own food and pay", Huangshi is full of nameless anger and anger. Do not call one place.

"...That's because you mistakenly regard them as officials, Comrade Xiao Huang. If you regard these gentry talents in the Ming Dynasty as religious gods, you will feel that their behavior is not unusual at all--God Is there any religion out there that doesn’t cheat money, food, and people to death?”

Professor Guo stroked his beard and said disapprovingly, "...Thinking about it carefully, which of the crimes committed by Aum Shinrikyo and modern American cults have not been committed by these scholars in the Ming Dynasty? To put it bluntly, In fact, they are no different from the ancient Japanese ministers and Indian Brahmins, aren’t they all models who think highly of themselves but have no power and only know how to die?”

"...Uh, what you said is right. The Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty these days are indeed very similar to those magic sticks. They obviously have no skills, but they feel so good about themselves...First of all, they think that no matter who wins the country, they are noble. The scholars are all first-class people, and they can drive lowly warriors to be equal to the king; second, they feel that they are born with the power to evade taxes, commit crimes, and no one can touch them. Third, they have no obligation to be tolerant On the contrary, the country should worship itself as an ancestor—isn’t this the same virtue as Indian Brahmins and Living Buddhas in Tibetan areas?”

Huang Shi was stunned at first when he heard the words, but then quickly pondered, and couldn't help showing a wry smile, "...let the country be controlled by such a deadly professional who feels super good about himself but has no sense of responsibility. It would be a tragedy!"

"...In fact, the big banker consortiums in the United States in later generations are also developing in this way. No matter how bad the country's situation is, their interests must not be touched. Even if the relief funds and food stamps for the poor are cut, they must The tax money from the national treasury is used to support Wall Street. It can be seen that any unproductive group that holds power, whether they are magic sticks, Confucian scholars or bankers, can quickly hollow out the cornerstone of a country from within, allowing the once great The decline of the empire is extremely aggrieved and rushing to the street..."

Professor Guo said with a little emotion, "...In comparison, even the militarism of the Wufu country is much stronger! At least it uses swords and guns to plunder wealth from foreign countries. From the perspective of the country, it can be regarded as a special form of 'development production'."

"...Ahem, let's stop here on this topic! Now that we are not far from our destination, we should make some preparations."

Wang Meiling, who had been overlooking the scenery on the ground, stood up from the observation window on the bilge floor, raised her head and said, "...Speaking of which, we spent a whole week in Vladivostok this time, and it took a lot of time. During this period, did Guo Yi, who continued to stay in Guangzhou, leak any flaws, so that the senate of the time traveler in Lingao County, Hainan Island found out that something was wrong? He was even dealt with by the intelligence agencies there?"

"...You may be worrying too much, mom. According to the secret telegram sent by Guo Yi using the magical props of Doraemon, everything in Guangzhou is as usual at the moment, and it has not attracted any attention from the Lingao Senate. Because from Badawi The joint diplomatic expedition fleet of Australian and American traversers who came from Asia arrived at Bopu Port in Lingao County five days ago, followed by a large number of Dutch, British, French, Portuguese, Spanish and even Danish merchant ships - enough More than 2 uncontrolled immigrant population flooded into Lingao at once, causing an untold amount of riots soon. The senate of the traversers was not enough to devote all their energy to maintaining law and order and diplomatic negotiations. Go to Guo Yi, a fringe person who was thrown in Guangzhou?"

While adjusting the altitude and course of the airship on the touch screen, Wang Qiu muttered disapprovingly, "...Besides, although I was a little worried when I first left, but after we thought about it carefully, we found that 'boss Guo's father Even in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, this ordinary family matter of coming to Guangzhou to see my son is not a big news worth talking about. Even if someone went to Lingao from Guangzhou, they might not mention it, even in the When teahouses and hotels talk about this matter, I am afraid that no audience will care about it-because from a human point of view, this matter is really too common. Today’s Daming has neither news media nor paparazzi. Wait until this matter It spreads to the ears of caring people, and they don't even know that it will be the year of the monkey.

In addition, according to Guo Yi and Comrade Huang Shi, there should be no indigenous intelligence personnel in the Lingao Senate to monitor the veterans of the time travelers - because this kind of distrustful attitude towards their own people, if they are stabbed out, it will be very dangerous. It is easy to be misunderstood as the prelude to the Supreme Executive Committee's secret plan to carry out a major cleansing within the traversers. At that time, everyone will be in danger and the cohesion of the entire team will be lost. What's the big deal? "

——In the era of feudal dynasties, the speed of dissemination of various information was very slow.Since there is no professional news media such as newspapers, the information that ordinary people can obtain by relying on hearsay often happens months or even years ago, and the amount of information is very limited.

For example, in the 17th year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng besieged Beijing, the capital fell on March 29, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged his head in Meishan and died for his country.However, it was not until April [-]th that Daming's capital, Nanjing, received the news.

——The safety of the capital, the life and death of the emperor, and other major news that the whole world is concerned about, took nearly a month to spread from Beijing to Nanjing through relatively convenient canals and sea routes.Then most of the trivial things that are not very important, simply can't tell the place where the incident happened.

For example, the scandals and scandals of modern movie stars may be spread all over the world in an instant by relying on Internet media.However, in Huguang and Shandong provinces, no one knew about the romantic affairs of those romantic talents on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Even in this time and space that has been greatly changed by many travelers, the "Lingao Daily" founded by the travelers from Hainan Island appeared, but the content also focused on editorials, policy presentations and popular science knowledge, and the news only occupied a very small page. , and there are no resident reporters outside Hainan Island.Therefore, apart from a few major world events that have happened for a long time, the news page of "Lingao Daily" mainly publishes only local events, and its timeliness is almost tragic by modern standards.Fortunately, "Lingao Daily" has no competitors in this time and space, so it has not been criticized.

Therefore, Guo Yi's life in Guangzhou was still very peaceful during the week after he contacted his father and the government departments of later generations.Except for a few acquaintances who talked about this festival during the New Year greetings, everything was as usual—no one took it as a big deal.

However, this false calm caused by information lag has come to an end at this moment.

——The "Clash of Heaven and Earth", which was postponed for a week by the trip to Vladivostok, is coming today.

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Although Marshal Huangshi once asked the airship formation to land in Quanzhou so that he could pick up his wife and daughter, Professor Guo, who was the supreme commander of the operation, rejected his request after a short thought— The most important thing now is to complete the task, not to cause trouble: God knows how many unimaginable chaos will be caused by such an aerial formation suddenly descending on the seventeenth-century Ming Dynasty city.

So, after more than two hours, the huge airship formation finally arrived at the southern end of the Pearl River Estuary, the Hong Kong Naval Base under the jurisdiction of the Lingao Traverser Senate, and had the first real meaningful battle with this traverser force in southern China. The contact on the Internet immediately caused a huge commotion—accompanied by the ringing alarm bells, the roaring signal flares and the hoarse shouts, more than 20 "cigars", "white radish" and "long bread" appeared in the blue sea On top of the green hills, slowly parading in the blue sky and white clouds, it can be said to cover the sky and cover the sun, almost covering the entire sky for a while.

All the ants on the ground, seeing so many huge spaceships shuttle through the sky, most of them immediately feel dizzy, and they climb to the top of the mountain, the roof, the bell tower, the lighthouse, and the mast to watch it—even if they are already in the spaceship of the traverser. With assistance, we entered the age of steam ahead of time, but flying in the clear sky is still an incredible dream.A few sober people, like modern people who encounter alien flying saucers, try to communicate and contact with each other—for example, Wang Qiu noticed that on the top of a watchtower on the ground, someone was trying to wave two flags, I don't know what signal is being sent.

"...The guy on the ground seems to be sending a semaphore to us, but I don't know the content, because I have never learned this stuff--however, there should be some navy people on the airships behind. , do you need to radio to ask, Professor."

Overlooking the noisy chaos on Hong Kong Island like an ant nest being flooded with water, Wang Qiu asked Professor Guo with great interest.

"...Don't be so troublesome. Although I don't understand the naval semaphore, I know that this must be asking about our identities."

Professor Guo curled his lips, "... Now it's time to show our identities—Comrade Xiao Wang, immediately draft a plain code message and send it on the frequency commonly used by traversers in Lingao County! Tell these ignorant guys, we're here!"

"...Uh, how should I write the specific content of the message?" Wang Qiu asked while using the touch screen of the driving console to call up the communication software.

"...Well, let's say: We are the Chinese People's Liberation Army, we are here to take you home!" Professor Guo replied after thinking for a while.