Great time travel

Chapter 1, Chinatown in Australia

October 1634, southwestern Australia, the mouth of the lower reaches of the Swan River
The light wind from the Indian Ocean is blowing on the vast prairie, and among the knee-high grass, there is a rolling blue wave.

It is the late spring season in the southern hemisphere, and it is the time when the scenery of this prairie is the most beautiful. Various flowers of white, red, gold, blue, purple, etc. are dotted on this emerald green grass. With the fresh and warm sea breeze, it exudes a charming fragrance.

Under the bright and bright sunshine, you can see groups of snow-white sheep grazing peacefully everywhere, and vigilant shepherd dogs patrolling around.And the bouncing groups of kangaroos are bouncing between the vast grasslands and sparse woods, looking curiously at their new neighbors.As for the Australian specialty, black swans, which are unique in the world, gracefully raise their slender necks and swim in the clear and winding river.

Behind this vibrant and beautiful wilderness stands a series of majestic and majestic buildings.

This is the new headquarters of the Global Chinese Travelers Alliance, a great city that is about to become the capital of the earth: Chinatown!

When human beings gradually get rid of the primitive age of drinking blood and slash-and-burn farming, no longer afraid of wild beasts in the wilderness, and stumbled all the way into the gate of civilized society; Where is the meal? When the first batch of philosophers and wise men appeared among human beings, they began to use words and mysterious and weird religious symbols to express their thoughts and wonders about the world, and after they were no longer ignorant, the first batch of the most Ancient prehistoric cities began to be born on the earth in the prehistoric era.

——The first batch of human thinkers from all over the world who were separated from basic labor production, invariably poured their abundant brainpower, which surpassed their ancestors in the past, and a little wealth accumulated through hard work, all poured into the heavy huge stone Cities symbolizing human power are built up on various or delicate or rough high walls, columns, vaults and steps, and their courtyards are decorated with reliefs and statues full of religious mysteries.And the meaning of the existence of such things as "architecture" has gradually evolved into a variety of dazzling additional functions, from military affairs to production to Religious, even purely symbolic...

In short, with the birth of ancient human civilization, all kinds of splendid megalithic buildings rose up in every corner of the earth as the glory symbols of their respective civilizations, and quickly became the most eye-catching and most impressive on the planet. One of the unbelievable wonders.

And the Global Chinese Traversing Alliance, which is committed to becoming the new generation of overlord of the earth, has built a large-scale construction project on this ancient and wild land of Western Australia with a large-scale effort that surpassed the limit of the indigenous imagination of this time and space. The surface of the Swan River was dug deep A new type of concrete was poured into the pit to lay the foundation, and then various classic buildings of another time and space were erected one after another on it: the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Sydney Opera House, the White House, Parliament Hill, Liberty The Statue of the Goddess, the Pentagon, the Oriental Pearl Tower... recreate them one by one in the Australian wilderness of this time and space.This is not only to show the strength and toughness of the traversers themselves, but also to represent their longing for the world before they traversed.

Although to the vast majority of earthlings in this time and space, these buildings look a bit weird, but they are absolutely magnificent!
——Standing on the deck of the "Hangzhou" slowly entering the port, whether it is Li Huamei, the female captain who has been dealing with "Australians" for many years, or Xu Xiake, a famous donkey traveler who has just traveled half the world, are all stood upright first. On the artificial island outside Hong Kong, the 37-meter-tall statue held a torch in one hand and the Statue of Liberty, a replica of the preamble to the Constitution of the Chinese Alliance in the other. , that piece of giant buildings stretching to the sky like mountains, so I was stunned from the bottom of my heart all of a sudden!

Compared with the magnificent city in front of me, even Guangzhou and Nanjing, the first-class prosperous cities of the Ming Dynasty, seemed too petty.

That shocking visual effect is like... a tourist in a small place in the modern world who lacks knowledge stands on the embankment of Shanghai Huangpu River Bund Park and looks up at the dazzling Pudong skyscrapers with his mouth wide open. , feeling as if they are oppressing sentient beings.

"...This... Is this the capital of the Australians? It's really... Really... Oh! It's so spectacular!" After finally regaining consciousness, Xu Xiake searched his brains for a long time, but he still didn't know what words to use to express it. To describe, I had to let out a long sigh.

As for Captain Li Huamei who was standing beside him, he hadn't come to his senses at this moment, and his mouth was almost drooling.

"... Cough, Captain Li, please report to the Sino League Admiralty Building at [-]:[-] tomorrow morning. Here is the notice, please sign for it..."

Seeing the female captain's stupid fuss, a certain traverser pilot who just came up in a small boat couldn't help but rolled his eyes and coughed dryly.

"...Ah...wake up, comrade, do you have any other instructions?" Captain Li Huamei, who had just woken up from a dream, was shocked when he heard the sound. He took out a pencil from his desk, and sketched a ghost letter on the notice.

"...The leader didn't say, um... But it's better to dress more formally. And take a shower as soon as possible..."

Facing the beautiful female pirate approaching, the traveler pilot took half a step back holding his nose, while shaking his head subconsciously.

"...Understood." The female pirate, who was still in the business cute mode just now, looked down at her dirty coat and long skirt, and immediately stretched her pretty face two feet long: "...Hmph, don't look down on me People! My aunt has as many beautiful clothes as I want, and the young lady doesn't have as many as I do!"

Li Huamei snorted unhappily in her heart, but of course she still just nodded her thanks and left, and returned to the steering wheel of the cab.

Next, when the "Hangzhou" was docked at the pier, after the mooring and mooring were completed, Xu Xiake, a passenger, disembarked with his servants.But Li Huamei, the female captain who had just been disliked by others, had to continue to direct her even dirtier sailors to unload with a dirty face and a dirty face.But thinking that I will soon be able to settle in this magical city with my fiancé Chief Qi Feng, while the old man Xu Xiake is just passing by, this female pirate's mood becomes balanced again...

But... the boat is really smelly today! ! !
As the hatches opened one after another, all kinds of disgusting breaths gushed out, replacing the fresh sea breeze, making Li Huamei almost vomit.

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With the successful conclusion of this round of mainland China strategy, and the initial completion of the Chinese League headquarters in Australia, the sea transport capacity of the traversers has already been much more generous.But then the Huameng headquarters issued a series of urgent additional material procurement lists, so that the merchant fleets of all the republics were full of orders in an instant.Even Captain Li Huamei's new "Hangzhou" warship had to be rebuilt temporarily. Part of the artillery was unloaded to free up space and turned into an armed merchant ship. Various bulk goods ordered by the Union.

According to the information Li Huamei received, the Huameng authorities urgently need to import a special commodity first: hundreds of thousands of female slaves.This is mainly not to serve as maids for the traversers, but to balance the ratio of men and women in the Huameng controlled area, and at the same time solve the actual physical needs of the Huameng naturalized people-according to the predetermined plan, after the completion of the mainland strategy and the transition to the confrontation stage , There will be a large-scale decommissioning peak in the armies of the countries of the Chinese Alliance.Those retired soldiers, whether they are policemen or cadres or workers or farmers, are not as reliable as those who have a family, especially those who will be sent to the newly occupied coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty to serve as township police and grassroots work. If the retired soldiers of the staff take up the post with only one pair of hands, it is hard to guarantee that there will be no troubles after a long time, even if the traversers are lonely for a long time, they will make big troubles.

In addition, those immigrants from the Central Plains who were recruited to South America, North America, Africa, and the outer Northeast for reclamation also had a severe imbalance in the ratio of men to women.Although it is possible to rely on intermarriage with local aborigines to solve the gap in the proportion of female population, it is still far from enough in general.

However, although the Huameng has seized several provinces from the territory of the Ming Empire, the ratio of male to female in the total population of the society is the same in both southern and northern China. The tradition of female infants, at the end of a feudal dynasty, when the pressure of survival intensified and the contradiction between population and land became more acute, the phenomenon of folk infanticide became more common and serious.

For example, as a woman with an unfulfilled belly, if Li Huamei's mother hadn't been a nanny for a foreign businessman's family, her family was relatively well-off, then the legendary life of Li Huamei, a female pirate, might have already been completed. Don't know which broken bucket it ended up in.

In addition, according to the survey statistics of the main occupied areas of the Ming Dynasty, the number of private child brides-in-law is also extremely alarming.In this era, the vast majority of women usually get married in their teens, and the labor force that can be contributed in a lifetime basically belongs to the husband's family.In this way, for the "investor" of the mother's family, of course, the sooner they send it out, the less burden they will have (hence the saying that a daughter is a loser).

Therefore, on top of the huge base of thousands of little Li Huamei who were sold as daughters-in-law by their cruel parents when they were only a few years old, and all kinds of unrepeatable chances and coincidences, there will be a legendary The female captain Li Huamei can get rid of this common fate like reincarnation.

Of course, Captain Li Huamei, who is eager to have a baby with his fiancé as soon as possible, thinks of those Chaoshan daughter-in-laws who were born a dozen years later than himself and can go to the ground with their babies. Most likely, what surges in his heart is not pride and pity, but bites. Wearing a handkerchief, all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred...

If the luxury of human rights is not considered, from the perspective of the development of the whole society, child brides are not a problem in themselves, but the problem is that once combined with the strict requirements of Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism on women, it becomes a situation that is even worse. Catastrophe: It is important to know that the child mortality rate is very high these days, and both the child bride-in-law and the young husband are very likely to not live to adulthood.If the woman dies first, the man doesn't care about losing a dowry, but if the man dies first, there is a high possibility that the child bride will be forced to become a widow by her husband's family, holding a tablet for the rest of her life...

On the one hand, there are a large number of young men who cannot find wives and are forced to be single, causing serious social security risks; The practical travelers couldn't understand it at all, and completely refused to tolerate such a strange situation, so they publicly declared widowhood as a crime, and at the same time ordered the occupation army to dispatch to destroy the chastity archways everywhere.

In order to further change customs, the occupying army also strictly stipulated that, except for the families of martyrs, all widows under the age of 35 must remarry.In addition, young women were prohibited from becoming monks, and all nuns under the age of 30 were forced to return to secular life (the little nun in the Jingxiu nunnery was dragged out of the nunnery crying as soon as Agui’s forefoot mentioned above left Weizhuang).

The above-mentioned violent reform measures have provoked countless bloody conflicts and riots in the stubborn and conservative rural areas of China. However, the number of young women who can be married is still very limited, which is far from enough. It can not meet the actual needs of the global colonization of the Chinese League.

Therefore, in order to make up for the shortage of women's "sources" in China, the slave markets in major ports along the Indian Ocean were booming for a while, and slave traders from all walks of life welcomed a new round of economic frenzy.What are the daughters of the untouchables of the major states in southern India, the captive nuns of Ceylon, Siam and Burma, the daughters of good Germans who became spoils of war in the 30-year war in Europe, and the families of the rebellious parties suppressed by the Turkish and Persian empires, Black-skinned girls from Ethiopian and Somali tribes in East Africa, regardless of skin color, language, or cultural beliefs, were collected by slave caravans and transported to Goa, Surat, and Malacca. The fleet controlled by the traversers was transported to their own territory.

This time Li Huamei was ordered to come to the capital of the Australians, so she installed more than [-] Persian female slaves in the cabin of the Hangzhou. The capital of Huameng came to do some light work such as cleaning, laundry, and trimming flowers and plants.If you are very lucky, if you are spotted by a traverser, you may be able to get rid of your slave status in one fell swoop.

As for the female slaves who were transported to Hainan Island, Taiwan, or Liaodong, their lives were probably not so good.After stumbling out of the stuffy cabin, completing the handover procedures, and undergoing quarantine and purification, they will be thrown into steamy silk reeling factories, deafening textile factories, and pungent pharmaceutical factories, etc. wait.No matter what you once believed in, what you could not eat, what you could not touch.After more than ten hours of endless physical labor every day, the only remaining instinct is to listen to the whistle to sit down to work, listen to the whistle to get up and eat, listen to the whistle to line up back to the dormitory, listen to the whistle to sing loudly, listen to the whistle to drink water and go to the toilet, listen to the whistle If you don't make a sound, you can only work hard.Until one day, it was used to fill the seriously imbalanced ratio of men and women, and was ordered to line up to participate in certain social activities, and then marry a man to give birth to the next generation of labor force for this country.

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In addition to frantically importing girls from all over the world, the Huameng authorities are still buying buffaloes, cattle, Dutch cows, Indian zebu, cowhide, and beef bones all over the world... It seems that almost everything related to cattle is in the Huameng's procurement list.And Li Huamei's boat also loaded a lot.Among them, the cowhide purchased is mainly for military use. Because of the consumption of large-scale wars against the Ming Empire in the past two years, the military supplies warehouses of the various republics have almost bottomed out, and it is difficult to even ensure regular army soldiers to change their outfits.Before the first artificial leather factory was put into production, the military logistics department still had to collect all kinds of strange leathers for soldiers to make shoe soles, gun holsters and belts, such as elephant skin, whale skin, shark skin, python skin, Even salmon skin and bonito skin are required. Of course, the most versatile and popular natural leathers are naturally cowhide and sheepskin.In the wardrobe of the female pirate Li Huamei's own cabin, there are many gorgeous leather shoes, boots and leather armor.

Originally, Indians worshiped cows as gods, and anyone who dared to eat beef would be lynched to death. Naturally, there were not many cowhide for sale.However, the overlord who rules India today is the Mughal Dynasty who believes in Allah. More people eat beef, and the output of cowhide has naturally increased.It's just that India's tanning process is quite primitive at this time, and every time the cowhide is sold, it will rot a lot on the ship, and it will stink when the cabin is unloaded.

Now that there is a source of cowhide in India, it is natural to be able to purchase beef bones.Travelers buy a large number of beef bones for bone china. If they are relatively fresh, they can be boiled for glue first.The demand for glue in modern industries is really outrageous, such as construction, shipbuilding, military industry, machinery, chemical industry, medicine, furniture, printing, shoemaking... No industry dares to say that it does not need glue, and the glue industry itself has already It has become a fairly developed private industry, and there are hundreds of small rubber-making workshops in the republics of the Chinese League.

In order to ensure the supply of raw materials for the rubber industry, the municipal government of some cities even once ordered the restaurants under their jurisdiction to check the kitchen waste swill every day, and remove pork bones, sheep bones, fish bones, fish scales, fish skin, fish intestines, All things that can be made into glue, such as fishbone, are picked out and collected before being handed over.

However, those beef bones that have just been killed, even if they are completely dried, will immediately become foul-smelling as soon as they are pulled out to sea.Although Li Huamei listened to the experience of other veteran captains, when purchasing goods at the Goa port, she asked the suppliers to smash all the bones of the cattle in advance, and then put them in barrels and sealed them. It was finally a little better, but As long as time goes by, the smell that permeates the ship is still comparable to gas bombs.

Of course, the smelliest cargo on Li Huamei's ship is Indian live cattle. There are nearly a hundred of them. They are used to provide animal power for farming and reclamation.

So far, the traversers have mainly relied on oxen to pull plows, not tractors, for agricultural development. For those who have modern social technology and material support, there are also 22nd century black technology props in the world of Doraemon, the robot cat. For the travellers, it is not difficult to dig an oil well in this world, and it is not impossible to build an oil refinery. In fact, there are currently two oil refineries in operation in Hainan Island and North America.But the really difficult problem is how to send fuel and spare parts to the reclamation settlements scattered in every corner of the world, and at the same time quickly train so many maintenance personnel and drivers from the indigenous residents of this time and space. Member... This difficulty is too high.

In addition, in the initial stage of colonial reclamation, before the land was fully matured, it was not cost-effective to use tractors.Moreover, buffaloes are naturally suited to tilling rice fields.Even in rural China in the 21st century, walking tractors have not completely replaced buffaloes.

Now that the Huameng is determined to colonize and expand the world, the number of cattle it needs to raise is naturally an astronomical figure.However, the cattle breeds produced in China at this time did not meet the actual needs of the traversers.In the south of China, due to the large number of people and the lack of land, the ground was broken. As a result, after thousands of years of selective breeding, the Chinese buffalo was successfully bred into a small breed, with an average weight of only more than 300 kilograms.However, the large-scale agricultural production carried out by the traversers in Australia must be planted in a row. Naturally, the larger the cattle, the better, and the smaller the cattle, the less cost-effective.

For this reason, Li Huamei was ordered to purchase large cattle breeds from West Asia and India.Because adult farm cattle are not suitable for large-scale centralized transportation, Li Huamei buys calves that are about one year old. As for the young calves, they are too delicate, and I am afraid that they cannot survive the long voyage with physical strength.

However, cramming so many calves into a narrow cabin, with occasional tossing and tossing in rough seas, is not a comfortable journey.Even when the weather is calm, the cabin is stuffy and hot. There is no fresh water pool for them to take a bath to cool off. Therefore, these Indian calves have a lot of physical exertion. The cow dung quickly piled up in the mountains, and the flies became infested immediately. The dozen or so female slaves who were ordered to clean the cowshed, even though they were exhausted from working all day, they still couldn't clean it clean.

As a result, as time went by, the smell on the Hangzhou became more and more stinky, moving towards the direction of floating garbage dumps.

However, during the long voyage from Goa this time, in order to free up space for loading, the ship did not carry much fresh water, and there was no rain along the way. As a result, even the captain Li Huamei couldn't take a bath, and it also stinks... … Fortunately, all these nightmare experiences have finally passed.

Li Huamei directed the sailors to spend a whole day driving all the female slaves and calves off the ship.With the help of the wharf crane, the cowhide and bones loaded on the ship were unloaded, and then they took advantage of the large bathroom of the port purification camp to wash it hastily, and then rushed to the seamen's hotel by the wharf—in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel Here, the reception staff who were notified had already prepared a sumptuous banquet for the sailors:
Wrapped in thick fat, golden and crispy on the outside, roasted meat with herbs sprinkled with cumin, pepper and refined salt, large pieces of meaty bones and vegetables such as radishes and cabbage are thrown into a large pot to cook vegetable broth, all kinds of Luscious fresh fruit, and strong rum and vodka at the end.

Although there is no romantic tavern Liuying (this is a new city that has just been completed), the sailors feel a little regretful, but the delicious barbecue, delicious hot soup, and mellow spirits still make them feel comfortable and have fun. Laughed out loud.

As for the more honorable Captain Li Huamei, she did not drink and frolick with her sailors in the hall below.Instead, he stayed alone in the bathroom of the luxury suite on the top floor, soaking his bronze-colored and fit body in the white porcelain bathtub filled with hot water. Looking at the window of the bathroom, curiously and admiringly looking at the sea of ​​city lights shining like a river of stars outside the window.

"...The big wheel on the opposite side... Is it the Ferris wheel that Brother Feng drew in his notebook? I really want to go up there with Brother Feng to have fun!"

Holding a glass of red wine and half lying in the bathtub with her head wrapped in a towel, Li Huamei couldn't help but be mad at the simple and honest smile of her lover Qi Feng.

On the other hand, Li Huamei and others are not the first batch of visitors to Chinatown in Western Australia.Before the arrival of the Hangzhou, a group of visitors from Eurasian countries have set foot on the wharf of this "Australian capital" through various means...