Wild North America 1846

Sumatra Island

The port of Banda Aceh at the northwestern tip of the island

Here is on the verge of the vast Indian Ocean, nearly 2 kilometers away from North America. It is located in the tropics but has a pleasant climate, which is a typical maritime tropical climate.

In a beautiful light white Dutch-style building in the city, Brigadier General Tang Li Yi is sitting at an oval dining table, having breakfast with his family.

Sitting at the other end of the dining table is the fourth aunt Caroline, who is the apple of the eye of Mayor Enzo of Kuwait City. She is holding a mixed-race boy under the age of one in her arms. She is feeding the child freshly ground soybean milk with a spoon. The child eats quite cheerful.

On the other side is the fifth aunt Mai Xiuling, who is also pregnant now and is at least 6 months pregnant.

There is a wide range of food on the table. In the middle of the table is a large pot of flowers. At both ends are seven-headed European-style silver candlesticks. There are various fresh tropical melons and fruits in several exquisite pots. The varieties are quite rich.

Brigadier General Tang Li Yi ate freshly grilled steak. He cut the steak into small pieces with a knife and fork and put it in his mouth.The top-quality Australian beef steak, which is burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, is full of gravy, and it bursts in the mouth when chewed, which is quite delicious.

The imperial family especially loves steak and lamb chops, and also loves various health soups. It is not unusual to eat steak early in the morning, and the emperor often does this.

But the royal father can eat four or five pieces of Tomahawk steak for a meal. Although the children of the royal family are all tall, they don't have a good appetite.

The child at the table watched his father eat delicious food, stood up on his calf, stared at it with a pair of big eyes, and overflowed his saliva involuntarily. bouncing on his legs.

Brigadier General Tang-Li Yi chuckled when he saw this, put down the knife and fork in his hand, took a sip of freshly ground soybean milk, and said jokingly; No teeth?"

"Master, don't worry about him. A child of this age is just greedy. If he doesn't pay attention, he will stuff everything into his mouth." Caroline smiled and fed the child another spoonful of soy milk.

Maybe the child stopped eating, and the soy milk that was fed was spit out again, which wetted the small white napkin around the mouth.

Brigadier General Tang-Li Yi nodded with a smile, and said to her; "The imperial army has mainly been stationed here for the past two years, and they have settled down for the time being, and will not be running around anymore.

I have ordered my men to handle some of the supplies and armaments that Kuwait City needs, and they will be shipped to them in the near future, and I have notified them by telegram.

In this batch of materials

There are 32 armored trucks specially refitted for Kuwait City, and 110 ordinary cargo trucks, accompanied by more than 10 maintenance technicians.

With this batch of armored trucks, in field battles, it is enough to deal with thousands of Ottoman cavalry.

Neither Baghdad nor Basra can pose a military threat to Kuwait. "

"My lord, I'm afraid that such a remote place in Kuwait won't use these new gadgets."

"It doesn't matter, a group of officers and soldiers who have overdue their service will retire in a few months, just arrange a group of people to go there."

"Master is still thoughtful. Caroline is here to thank you on behalf of the 10 people in Kuwait. It is not easy to make a living on other people's land!"

"Family, why do you need to say more?" Brigadier General Tang Li Yi picked up the knife and fork again, and launched the final attack on the unfinished steak...

He already had a wife and children in the empire, and his eldest son was 11 years old this year. Like the other children, he stayed in the imperial capital Chang'an to receive an elite education.

Na's concubine during his overseas service, it's just a trivial matter.

His Royal Highness Tang-Li Yi, as the lower prince, has been granted the title of third-class duke since he became an adult, that is, an unnamed duke. He was born in the royal family and his status is naturally extremely noble.

The unnamed duke also has its disadvantages, that is, it is downgraded to the rank of lord, and a few generations later it will be a baron.

After four generations, if you drop to the baron level, you will not be able to drop again, and it can be passed down from generation to generation.

Compared with the group of founding fathers who followed His Majesty to fight the world in the early days, the hereditary first-class dukes of the Duke's Mansion of Anguo, the Duke of Fuguo's Mansion, and the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion are much worse.

Compared with the Duke of Hawaii, the Duke of Alaska, and the Duke of Panama, which are hereditary dukes, they are not as good.

Even in the face of those marquis and earl families who have been granted hereditary replacements, the gold content is slightly insufficient.

Some princes have no ambitions and are happy to enjoy the glory and wealth in front of them. There are quite a few such people in the royal family.

His Highness Tang-Li Yi is different. He is determined to join the army, to follow in the footsteps of his father and brothers, to do a great cause and win his own glory.

He single-handedly developed an armor force that was ahead of the times, and his military exploits in the North American Expansion War and the Tanghe War are all heavy meritorious deeds and the guarantee of winning the noble title.

The reason why it has not been fulfilled is because it still needs to be accumulated.

Now that the emperor father is in power, no matter from which point of view, he will not treat him badly, so is he not as good as an outsider?

Tang Li Yi is a smart and very assertive person, and the only thing he can pursue diligently is the honorable title of prince.Ordinary people definitely don't even have to think about it, it's like daydreaming, but he may be within reach.

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Brigadier General Tang Li Yi, accompanied by his adjutant, got into a black car and went to the division office. The two cars drove out of the gate along the road of the manor.

The guard at the gate stood at attention and saluted, watching the car leave the manor respectfully.

During the Dutch colonial period, very little investment was made to repair public facilities. The streets in Banda Aceh were basically dirt and stone roads. Only Tulip Road, the core of the city, was paved with large stone slabs.

Two black cars were driving on the road one after the other, and the street scene kept receding.

The police and heavily armed soldiers on duty on the road will stand at attention and salute when they see a car passing by. They know that the car is a high-ranking military official.

It has been more than four months since the army of the Tang Empire occupied Banda Aceh. On both sides of the road, you can often see groups of convicts working hard.

They built ditches and houses, rebuilt roads, and when they left the city, they could see groups of convicts building bridges, roads, and farmland water conservancy facilities.

There are many Chinese faces in towns and cities. When these new immigrants came to the island, the first thing they did was to cut off their braids, wash their bodies from top to bottom, and their clothes had to be steamed and sterilized at high temperature to prevent them from carrying germs.

Every new Chinese immigrant has to go through a week of preaching, and the content of the preaching is quite a lot.

It preaches the glorious glory of the Tang Empire for half a century, how the empire rose in North America under the leadership of His Majesty the Emperor, how it won the respect of the world, and how it won one victory after another.

The preaching hopes that every descendant of Chinese people overseas will unite, help each other, respect and love each other, be self-reliant, be proud of being a citizen of the empire, and be proud, and establish a strong sense of national honor and self-esteem.

The preaching required the new immigrants to abide by the laws and regulations, closely unite around the imperial government, maintain the necessary vigilance, report any abnormal situation immediately, valuable clues will be rewarded, and so on.

The lecture tells the new immigrants the financial help they can get, the empire's preferential policies, tax policies, agricultural assistance policies, etc., to help the new immigrants better integrate into society.

The armored division was stationed in the Banda Aceh area. Due to the military control in the occupied area, officials from the Colonial Department and other local officials all worked in the division headquarters, just like a small government.

Such a state of governance generally lasts for 2 to 3 years, and it lasts longer in complex areas. For example, military control in the Columbia area lasted for nearly 5 years.

The city is under construction everywhere, and it looks a little messy and muddy.

Seeing the black car of the military chief approaching, the police and soldiers on duty on the side of the road would immediately order the carriage to pull over.

The white people on the carriage, regardless of gender, had to stand in a row by the side of the road and greet them respectfully.

Those who disobeyed the order or resisted a little, directly smashed the butt of the gun to the ground, and the method was quite rough.

Many white prisoners of war were built in the labor camps in Banda Aceh, as well as some white planters and farmers in Banda Aceh before, and many of them became coolies.

Because these whites are much more capable of building houses and bridges than the natives, white convicts are often seen in cities.

Feng Shui took turns, from the previous aloof to the prisoner.

The speed of the car was not fast, and it slowly passed by.

When encountering intersections and bridges, one or two gray-brown armored vehicles can always be seen parked on the side of the road on duty, and there are more than a dozen to twenty heavily armed soldiers to assist them.

This is the traffic checkpoint, which can be seen everywhere at the main road intersections and main roads out of the city of Banda Aceh under military control. It is one of the effective measures to suppress indigenous riots.

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The armored chariots that can be seen everywhere in Banda Aceh are not seen in other cities, and more are circular barricades or wooden sentry boxes surrounded by sandbags, which can achieve the same effect.

Once riots or riots occur in the city, the soldiers on duty at the traffic checkpoint immediately block the traffic, prohibiting anyone from passing, and then start a search and arrest operation.

Pull out the radish and bring out the mud, often arrest a few rioters, and in the end dozens or hundreds of local aborigines will be arrested.

Except for the rioters who were killed on the spot, most of the others would be directly thrown into the labor camp.

The charge is that he doesn't look like a good person.

The car arrived at the division headquarters unimpeded all the way. This is the site of the former Presbyterian Church of the Kingdom of Banda Aceh, which was used as a military headquarters after the Dutch colonists occupied it.

More than 400 armed officers and soldiers were gathering in the courtyard. Colonel Pan Zhixin, the commander, saw the car driving into the courtyard and hurried over.

He raised his hand to salute, and reported to Brigadier General Tang Liyi who had just stepped out of the car;

"Reporting Master, the Second Battalion of the Fourth Regiment is gathering, ready to carry out the operation of searching the neighborhood to catch fugitives, please give instructions."

"According to the original plan."

"As ordered, sir."

The so-called search for fugitives is an excuse. Now the Dutch army has been completely defeated, and most of them have been reduced to prisoners.

Before the peace negotiations started, the Corps would not support these white prisoners of war, so they were all sent to hard labor camps, and they exchanged hard work for some food.

Although the food is not good, at least it will not starve to death.

Even if they escaped from the hard labor camp, no one dared to take these white people in. Once they were found, the whole family would be in bad luck.

The white farmers and planters in the hard labor camps are the most typical examples. Not only did they have to confiscate all their property, but all the men were assigned to the hard labor camps.

As for white women, those who are young and beautiful and are favored by military officers can become minors, and those who are not wanted are mostly reduced to prostitution.

After a few months, no one dared to take in the fugitives.

The so-called search for fugitives is nothing more than the recent acceptance of a large number of Chinese immigrants and the organized removal of the aborigines.

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Nearly half of the population of Banda Yachi has been emptied, and most of them have been sent to the tropical rainforest to open up wasteland and build roads, and it is impossible to return in the future.

This kind of situation often happens in other cities and towns. It belongs to boiling frogs in warm water, and it will replace the urban population in a short time.

Otherwise, how would the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants a year be resettled?