Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 397

"Of course I'm on the side of the soldiers. They are the ones who are shedding blood and sweat for the great cause of crossing. We can't cool their hearts!" Ma Qianju didn't hesitate, "But I understand what you mean: our own buttocks are not clean " He smiled sarcastically, "Actually, according to me, this kind of thing is not a thing at all, the main thing is you—you have to flirt with the feudal landlord all day long."

Wu De laughed dryly, but didn't speak.The waistcoat also remained silent. He never participated in such politically inclined topics.

"I think since it is inconvenient to carry out direct confiscation-style nationalization, let's carry out redemption-style nationalization. We will pay for the redemption of slaves who perform well and are willing to work with us for a long time." Ma Qianzhu said after complaining.

Wu De nodded, this is probably the only way to have the best of both worlds.

Only then did Majia put forward his opinion: "Adopting the redemption system will not harm the interests of both parties. The value of the redemption is divided into several grades according to the age and gender of the slaves, and the price will be unified after referring to the market conditions.

"Landlords and old fortunes are not allowed to bargain." Ma Qianju said, "There must be a maximum price. It is not acceptable for a girl to be worth 100 taels."

"Strictly speaking, this is a compulsory redemption, and the owner has to agree whether he wants it or not. The price is actually a symbolic one," said Vest.

"Fleeing slave—"

"Of course we don't care about the fugitive slave. He is a free man by default. Otherwise, what should we do—send him back to his master?"

"Of course not." Wu De said, "As long as a fugitive slave from other places becomes a member of our system, we will not recognize his past slave status."

"As for the local escaped slaves," he continued, "you can redeem them as you just said."

"We can set a prosecution period—for example, one year. If the owner of the house seeks to recover within one year, we will pay for his redemption according to the policy. The deed beyond the time will be declared invalid." Ma Jia said.

"That's good, it's well-founded." Wu De agreed.

"It's up to you. As long as we don't fall under the red flag in Bairen City, you can set any legal terms." Ma Qianzhu said indifferently.

The vest came out of the executive committee compound and returned to the farm's cafe.People in the law club buried their heads in the files, flipped through books, wrote documents, and occasionally someone whispered to discuss something.The table is full of paper rolls, file bags, ink bottles, unwashed pen nibs, and inkstones for grinding ink—the dip pen is now dipped in pine smoke ink bought from Guangzhou, where modernity and tradition are perfectly combined. Cooperation.

Empty kvass jars, wine bottles, glasses, clay ashtrays full of cigarette butts, and plates of leftovers were strewn here and there.Just like a garbage dump.

"Everyone has worked hard!" The vest greeted, "How is the progress?"

Anxi responded, "It's almost over. There are still a few documents that will be ready soon."

"Come on, everyone. Those merchants have been in Bopu for more than a week. It's over so they can walk." While cheering up everyone, the vest also poured a small glass of rum for himself and drank it down. .

"So the Maritime Law has been officially approved?"

"Yes, passed. It's not easy!"

There was a small cheer from those who were hard at work.

Anxi said: "Today, everyone is still worried while doing it. If it fails to pass, or if major revisions are required, a lot of things we have done here will be wasted."

"There are still places to make revisions and adjustments, but they are generally within our expectations." Waistcoat said, "Maybe some minor revisions will be involved. The case of the five-masted ship needs to be revised." He picked it up from his schoolbag Take out a document, "There are more than two dozen revisions."

"Okay, we'll fix it right away."

Vest nodded.The stimulating effect of the strong alcohol made him sweat all over, followed by a feeling of powerlessness all over his body.He was exhausted from the three-hour continuous discussion of the Maritime Law last night in the Executive Committee meeting room.Many members of the Executive Committee strongly opposed the terms.

He had originally estimated that this kind of thing involving the redistribution of benefits would definitely not pass easily.Although the leaders of some departments may not directly oppose it themselves, they will definitely send people to "fire" violently. If they lose at the hearing stage, there will be no hope of voting later.Therefore, before the meeting, Vest mobilized all the staff of the Law Club to conduct mock questions and answers on every opinion that may be raised by various departments.

"We must absolutely avoid being questioned at the meeting, and the answer must be completely logically tenable." Vest said at the preparatory meeting.

Fortunately, in terms of logic and speculative ability, law graduates still have certain advantages.The preparation is perfect, but there are just too many talented people in the world.The time-traveling group is no exception.At the meeting, Ma Jia could see that several committee members had come prepared, and it seemed that there were also expert advice behind them. If he hadn't done enough homework, Ma Jia really dared not say that he could take advantage of this internal discussion .

Until the final voting results came out, he dared not say that his plan would definitely pass.

The rescued traders and sailors who were rescued on the five-masted ship and sent to Bopu for temporary detention have spent seven or eight days in anxiety.These people were treated fairly well after they landed, and someone took them to take a shower and change their clothes.They settled in a big rectangular house and lived there.I also brought several large buckets of ginger soup to drive away the cold.I also returned a lot of my belongings, but the house was rather crowded—there were storms at sea recently, and many fishermen came to take shelter from the wind. There were more than 40 people living in the house that originally lived for [-] people.Two meals of hot porridge are also served every day. The rice is brown rice, but it is not mixed with any impurities, and the supply tube is open.

These people are not allowed to leave the room except to go to the toilet.There are sentries guarding the gate.Anyone who went to the toilet had to ask the sentry at the door for a "toilet ticket" before they could go out.

Even if they could go out, all they could see was a yard paved with bricks and stones, and there were several similar houses in the yard, all of which seemed to be full of people.The courtyard is surrounded by a bamboo fence, densely covered with thorny creeping plants.The entrance and exit gates in the yard are also guarded by sentries. At night, a bonfire is lit, and it feels like entering a large prison along the way.

In fact, the place where they stayed was Bopu Port Detention House, which was specially used to accommodate fishermen, sailors and merchants who stayed here for a short period of time due to wind shelter, shipwreck and other reasons.Putting them together for storage and management is out of consideration of quarantine and anti-spies.

This situation made them very uneasy-could it be that they became "fat sheep", and the group of people who rescued themselves from the pirates were another group of pirates?Looking at the soldiers carrying bird guns outside the room, there is indeed this possibility.Thinking of such a terrible prospect, some people lamented their own lives, and some small traders calculated that being robbed by pirates had already caused heavy losses.

They already know from the population in charge of the management of the temporary detention center: this is Lingao, and they are under the control of the Australians.The fame of the Australians has been heard by everyone in the coastal areas of Guangdong to some extent. Most people know that their goods can often do what others can't. They didn't expect to be so powerful in war!Thinking of the fact that this group of foreigners did not know how to deal with themselves, the victims were all restless.Some people wanted to spend money to inquire about the news, but they found nothing. Whether it was the managers inside or the sentinels on guard, they completely ignored the bribes.The appearance of refusing to accept bribes and not saying a word made everyone even more anxious.

The breakfast delivered early this morning was particularly good. In addition to the porridge mixed with a lot of fish and shellfish, vegetables were also added.After eating and cleaning up, someone came to tell them to pack their luggage.

"Well, Mr. Chen, what's the matter with telling us to pack our luggage?" Someone asked.

"Good thing. I want to congratulate everyone." The person called Chen Tou is an old man among the immigrants, named Chen Zhonghuan, who was the first batch of mainland immigrants from Guangdong to Lingao after D-Day.Because he was a fisherman, his household registration was in Bopu Commune.Chen Zhonghuan fell ill when he first arrived in Gao, and was dying. He was saved by doctors from the Ministry of Health.From then on, he regarded "Australians" as benefactors, and he was very active in everything he did.Because of old age and frailty, Wu De asked him to do a part-time job, specializing in the management of the temporary detention center at the port.

These words made a group of people look ashamed.Chen Zhonghuan thought that he was like an innkeeper, but these people regarded him as the prison boss.Saying congratulations is the most taboo in prison, as soon as you say this, you will send someone to heaven!

To make matters worse, the breakfast this morning was particularly rich.This was originally Wu De's good intentions - let them, the victims of the pirates, eat better when they parted, and leave a good impression on the crossing group.Unexpectedly, it was regarded as a "decapitated meal".The room immediately became chaotic, some people were crying, others were screaming, and some people passed out on the spot.Chen Zhonghuan looked stunned and shook his hands: "Everyone is hysterical? We'll be on our way home in a while, why are you crying?"

The words "on the road home" further deepened the misunderstanding, and the scene became even more chaotic.Despair is contagious.This group of people not only escaped death at sea, but also had been worried about their future after they were rescued. Now that they heard that they were going to be dragged out to be executed, the pressure accumulated for a long time broke out together, and someone screamed:

"I don't want to die!" There was a burst of crying and shouting in the room.

"Nobody wants to die—" Chen Zhonghuan was taken aback, thinking why such a fuss happened.

But no matter how much he shouted to explain, his voice was drowned out by the shouts and cries of dozens of people.Chen Zhonghuan was so frightened that he quickly called in the soldiers who were standing guard outside the door.The entry of soldiers with sharp bayonets made the people inside even more desperate-everyone thought they were ready to do something, some just knelt on the ground motionless, ready to be slaughtered; some slammed into the wall; Others randomly grabbed the people next to them and began to fight. The weak people were trampled to the ground, screaming in pain, and some people were already bleeding... The scene was chaotic.

"Oops! This is Ying Xiao!" The sentinel who came in was Huang Ande.Since he followed Liu San back to Lingao, Wu De saw that he was tall and strong, and he was from the military, so he let him go back to his old job.Since Huang Ande came, he will be safe. Now Huang Ande is still an educator receiving training in a boot camp.Today is his turn to stand guard at the detention center.

"What are you laughing at?" Chen Zhonghuan asked anxiously.

"It's Ying Xiao!" Huang Ande was a soldier and knew the horror of this matter.

The so-called "camp roar" mostly occurs in places like military camps or prisons.Crowded people, small living space, and usually the whole group is under great mental pressure and is on the verge of collapse.Once a person yells because of a nightmare, it often triggers a chain reaction of other people, causing the whole group to fall into a state of hysteria, and even kill each other, causing countless deaths and injuries, and the consequences are very serious.

Huang Ande had seen Ying Xiao when he was a soldier in Shandong, let alone a few soldiers, even if the generals were present, they would not be able to suppress the chaos.Don't talk about stopping them, I'm afraid they will only die if they rush in!

"Quick, come out." Huang Ande hurriedly dragged Chen Zhonghuan out of the house, and another sentry also ran out quickly, his face pale with fright.

Huang Ande led the people back a dozen steps away.He took the bullets from his waist and reloaded the flash cap in one go-this set of loading procedures, which is broken down into 25 actions, was the most skillful he had practiced in this issue of the education soldiers.

Holding the loaded gun, I also settled down in my heart.Remembering the training on dealing with emergencies learned before standing guard, he shouted to Chen Zhonghuan who was in a daze:

"Run the alarm!"

"I'll go!" The old man's legs and feet suddenly became flexible, and he ran back and forth at a trot.

The education soldier standing next to him reloaded the bullet tremblingly, and failed to put the cap on after reloading several times.

"Don't panic!" Huang Ande spoke to him in order to calm his emotions, "What's your name?"

"Money—money—a lot!"

"It seems that you don't have much money." Huang Ande said jokingly.

"Yes, yes. One poor person." Qian Duo's mood stabilized a little, and he finally put on the cap, "What should they do if they rush out? Shoot."

"It's okay, they won't rush out." Huang Ande knew that when the camp roared, they would often fight each other on the spot, and rarely ran around.

That's when the alarm bells sounded.Not far from the isolation and quarantine camp, an infantry soldier equipped with anti-riot equipment of the army stationed here heard that something happened in the detention center, and immediately dispatched an infantry platoon to come.

From a distance, Huang Ande saw more than 30 people wearing rattan helmets and rattan armor, holding bamboo sticks and rattan tags, running in a neat line, shouting slogans.Chen Zhonghuan quickly ran up and talked to the officer who led the team.

"Attention! Prepare tear gas bombs!" Under the command of a platoon leader, a squad holding a disposable grenade came running quickly and spread out in a horizontal line.

"Tear gas can't be used!" Huang Ande had learned it in weapons class, and he knew that it contained pepper powder, which was a so-called "non-lethal" weapon for riot control.But Ying Xiao is not an ordinary riot. Not only will it fail to disperse the crowd, but it will cause even greater chaos.He hurried up, and in a hurry, he forgot the military etiquette he had learned, and called the platoon leader directly, "My lord! You don't need it!"

The platoon leader was taken aback: "Who are you?"

"I'm the sentinel here." Huang Ande waved his hands anxiously, "This is a camp roar! Once the tear gas bombs are fired in, the inside will become more chaotic, and many people will die!"

Seeing that the platoon leader was still hesitating, Huang Ande said loudly: "I have seen it before as a soldier, I have to rush in and suppress it first!"

The platoon leader was not a soldier of the Ming Army, so he didn't know what "Ying Xiao" was, but seeing his serious face and saying that many people would die if he fired tear gas, he ordered people not to use tear gas and sent people to rush in to suppress it.

"Two people in a group, see a person drag out another person." The platoon leader commanded.

With the quick intervention of the riot infantry, the commotion in the detention center quieted down after more than ten minutes.But tragedy has been wrought, with three people critically injured in the commotion and almost everyone else injured.

Wu De, who came in a hurry, looked at the wounded man whose face was covered with blood, and his face turned pale.This is the first time I have encountered such a strange thing.

Chen Zhonghuan was so frightened that he knelt down in front of Wu De: "Master Wu—Chief Wu—little one, I didn't say anything—"

"Get up." Wu De waved his hand, "This is not your responsibility."

"Thank you, chief." Chen Zhonghuan quickly stood up.

"Just now you said that this is called Ying Xiao, don't use tear gas?" Wu De walked in front of Huang Ande.

"Yes, it's the little one—"

"You're a soldier!"

"Yes! Education soldier Huang Ande! I said this!" Huang Ande hurriedly followed what he learned in the recruit training, raised his head and said loudly.

"How do you know this is Ying Xiao?"

"Yes, I used to be a soldier in Shandong, and there was a roar in the camp! I have seen it before."

"Okay, you handled it well!" Wu De said to the cadets beside him, "Tell Wei Aiwen that the educator Huang Ande handled the emergency properly, and give him a credit!"

"Thank you, Chief!" Huang Ande said loudly, saluting a military salute.

Jiang Qiuyan also came here. As a psychologist, he is very interested in the group mental illness of "Ying Xiao". , Quarantine camps are always crowded with thousands of people.Once an event like the camp tsunami occurs, the consequences will be disastrous.

As soon as he came, he called Chen Zhonghuan, Huang Ande and others aside to inquire about the situation.A few more participants were interrogated-these people were exhausted and collapsed to the ground after venting just now.Now that I hear that the Australians have no intention of killing them, I feel at ease.But no one could tell what happened at that moment just now, and my mind went blank.

"Cause of excessive mental stress." Jiang Qiuyan said, "A concentrated release of accumulated pressure."

"A lot of mental stress? After going ashore, I have been giving them good food and drink."

"It's delicious and delicious, but it's easy for people to accumulate stress in an unfamiliar environment. And the living room is a bit crowded." Jiang Qiuyan said, "I gave them some laudanum tincture to let them have a good time. Get some sleep and you'll be fine."

(End of this chapter)