Section 102 Victory Parade
The streets of Bobu are very lively - since the establishment of a port and the establishment of Bobu Commune, the number of fishermen, merchant ships and small businessmen here has gradually increased, and it has gradually become a market. [Full text reading] The successive construction of modern industrial enterprises such as arsenals, shipyards and chemical plants gathered here a large number of workers and their families. The Ministry of Commerce followed the old practice of Dongmen City and created a town in Bobu Port as a commercial service area. The scale of Bobu Town is far smaller than that of the mature Dongmen City. In addition to developing business to serve the growing resident population of Bobu Commune, it also prominently serves sailors and fishermen in terms of function, similar to a port town.
The streets are very lively with people coming and going. There are fishing shops, warehouses, inns, wine shops, fishing gear shops... one after another. Although most of the shops are open and there are many people on the street, the business of each store seems to be very average, and some stores don't even have their doors down.
However, the bosses and clerks in the shop were busy rushing in front of their homes one by one, building ladders, pulling ropes, carrying paste, and some were still yelling for people to bring things over.
The propaganda officer of Bopu Commune was busy with militiamen and primary school students posting slogans and posting notices on the street. Some people carried burdens to bring baskets of folded paper lanterns and distributed them to everyone. Some hung them at the door of their homes, while others climbed up ladders and hung the lanterns on freshly stretched ropes everywhere.
A banner has been pulled up in the middle of the street, and the red silk has been sewn with red paper squares, with words written in thick ink on them.
Among the bustling crowd, there was a young girl standing alone on the street watching. She was wearing a "cadre" uniform, a blue double-breasted tight-fitting trousers jacket with small lapels. Carrying a green coarse cloth document bag. Her face is as dark as the local working women, but she has a pair of dark and lively eyes.
The girl's hair was in a common style for women working as errands for Australians. She did not wear a bun, but only left it in two braids. She looks neat and tidy, as if to show that she is still a woman who likes beauty, with a red ribbon tied at the end of her braid.
This attire, as well as a small piece of white ink lettering on her chest, all indicate her identity: she is a female official or scribe who serves the Australians, or according to Newspeak, she is called "a female official". cadre".
There have been more and more women dressed in this way in the past year, and they have gradually become a scene in Lingao. Many people come from other places, and when they arrive in Lingao they want to see this diorama that is not found in other places in Ming Dynasty.
The sea breeze blew up her two black braids and the skirt of her clothes, blowing against her tanned face. She frowned and looked forward with dark, straight eyebrows, as if she was worried. She is Tan Xiaoqin, the leader of the women's group of Yanchang Village, and the first trainee of the Ma Niao Nong Lecture Center who was personally captured by Du Wen. Originally, Du Wen had high hopes for the village chief's daughter, but she soon discovered that in this Tan family In the dominant village, it was easy for Tan Xiaoqin to do anything because all she needed was a word from her father. Of course, this also means that any policy must be approved by her father before it can be implemented.
Village head Tan Guiqiong supports all Australian policies, including promoting women - Hainan women themselves are the main labor force, but he is not interested in other things such as women's literacy. Du Wen was disappointed when the Executive Committee was about to establish Ma Niao Commune. Ma Qianzhu was dissatisfied with the situation in Yanchang Village and believed that the local clan power was too strong. Du Wen proposed to take this opportunity to remove all the young and middle-aged cadres surnamed Tan from Yanchang Village and disperse them. So Tan Xiaoqin fell into her hands.
Tan Xiaoqin had just graduated from the "First Training Course for Women Officers" held in Bobu Commune. This was a training course run by Du Wen herself and concentrated on training women activists and team leaders from all over the country. There are more than thirty women, ready to be sent out to work in the new area.
She has received an order to prepare to go to Chengmai County to serve as the Women's Director of the Chengmai County Office. I was about to go back to the guest house of the commune. As she walked along the street, she couldn't help but feel confused and confused: her daughter, who was less than twenty years old, had to go to the next county to be an "official" when she was away from home. She has never been to places other than Yanchang Village a few times, not to mention leaving Lingao. Her father, Tan Guiqiong, originally disapproved of his daughter leaving her home village to become a "women's director" in another village. In the village, everything was easy to talk about, but for a girl to go to another village alone, wouldn't this become lawless?
But it was not up to his father. Tan Xiaoqin's cousin Tan Chengqing could see clearly: the attitude of the Australian elders towards Yanchang Village was not as good as before. Not only had they tightened their control over village administration, but they had also begun to restrict the role of the Tan family in Yanchang Village, and this time they even Remove almost all cadres named Tan from the village. Except for Tan Guiqiong who continues to serve as the village chief, it is almost a one-stop deal.
He quietly talked to his father and uncle: He asked them not to disobey the Australian chief's wishes - people were shaking now, and even the government couldn't control them. The Tan family can only keep their family and their family name by working hard.
This time the army was defeated miserably in Chengmai, and Tan Guiqiong's appointment of Tan Xiaoqin immediately made a 18o turn. The news of the disastrous defeat of the army was reported to the village of Manao Salt Field, which was closest to the battlefield, and was the first to know it, and it was also the most direct: there were many militiamen and civil servants in Yanchang Village, and after they returned from transporting the wounded and trophies, they exaggerated the situation on the battlefield. , it can be said that the Fubo Army is almost possessed by gods and is invulnerable. Everyone thinks that the Australian Prime Minister may be able to come to the capital in a few years to start a new dynasty, and Chairman Wen may be the new emperor. Yanchang Village is the earliest "Conglong", needless to say, all of them are founding fathers.
Tan Guiqiong now not only no longer objects to her daughter going to work as a clerk in another county, but also feels proud - this is a female clerk in a county, and all the women in the county are under the control of her daughter. Not only is it majestic, but it is also clear. "Going into official service". He is truly a "Conglong minister". In addition, he also had another thought, hoping that Tan Xiaoqin could be favored by a "chief" in Chengmai and become the wife of the main wife - or at worst, a side wife. In this way, the Tan family's fame and fortune in the new dynasty will be fully guaranteed.
Tan Xiaoqin was confused by her father's erratic attitude, and she was very uneasy about going to work in a strange place. She had never worked with a stranger, let alone a group of strangers.
With such uneasy feelings, she came to the street, where the streets were busy being decorated for the "Victory Congratulations" in the evening. Groups of uniformed Fangcaodi students were reading the contents of the notice to the people beside the notice. The content of this notice was drafted by Ding Ding and is divided into two parts: text and white. Many people listened carefully, and from time to time there were voices of laughter and surprise. After each reading, the word "good" would be heard loudly, and then someone would beg the students to read it again.
The people knew very early that the government troops were coming to attack. Since the officers and soldiers crossed the sea to Qiongshan, the flow of ships and merchants to Laigao has almost stopped, and many shops have simply become unsustainable. They can barely stay in business relying on the assistance and preferential treatment policies of the Australians - the Australians confidently ask them to "persist for a few months, and the situation will change drastically." Some people were afraid that the Australians would be implicated if they lost the war, so they quietly ran away with Xinruan overnight, but some people stayed - especially those who came to Lingao since the arrival of the Australians and accumulated bit by bit. The wealthy small businessmen sincerely hope that the Australians can stand firm, and they also believe that they can stand firm. Many people also participated in mobilization and preparations for war. Now that the official army has been defeated, not only was it defeated, but it also escaped with a huge defeat. This made them more confident and had greater expectations for the future.
Tan Xiaoqin was looking at the excitement on the street when she suddenly saw Yang Cao. This woman was her classmate in the women's cadre training class. She doesn't like Yang Cao very much and feels that this woman is very scheming, although she usually gets along well with everyone. Tan Xiaoqin always felt that she had something else to say. But now the other party took the initiative to greet her.
"Have you received the dispatch order?" Yang Cao asked with a smile.
"I got it. I'm going to Chengmai to be -" she thought for a moment before remembering her official name, "Women's Director."
"I'm going to Chengmai, too." She said, waving the piece of paper in her hand, "I'm the deputy women's director. We just happen to work together."
Of course Yang Cao is not a "deputy director of women", this is her public identity. His actual position is "Political Instructor of the Political Security Bureau in Chengmai". Because there were not many veterans engaged in political security, special commissioners could not be stationed in every county according to the establishment. Therefore, You Guotuan, the special commissioner of Lingao County, was appointed to concurrently serve as a special inspector. He went to each county in turn to guide inspection work, and enabled indigenous work Personnel serve as political security instructors. They will be formally appointed as special commissioners after they become familiar with the work.
Wu Mu originally did not want to send Yang Cao, but he thought that opening up a new district would be a great opportunity to test people. Du Wen happened to go to the cadre office and asked to send another female cadre to the Chengmai faction, so he took this opportunity to send Yang Cao out. .
The elders in the task force knew Yang Cao's exact identity, but kept it a secret from others.
Tan Xiaoqin was a little happy when she heard that the other party was also going to Chengmai, and that he was his deputy. No matter what, it was always a good thing to have a woman go with him. She has been worrying about what to do if she is surrounded by men, and whether she should ask an elderly mother from the same village to go with her to keep her company.
"Great, when should we leave?" Tan Xiaoqin had never traveled far and had no idea.
Yang Cao smiled: "Don't worry, you see, the dispatch order requires us to go out with the work team - not everyone is here yet." She pulled Tan Xiaoqin, "There is a torch parade tonight, we might as well go It’s fun.”
"Going out after dark..."
"What are you afraid of? You are the women's director now, and you are no longer the big girl hiding in the family."
It was getting late at this time. The parade of Bobu Commune was gathering on the street, everyone holding rush-made flags and lanterns. The stewards of the commune are giving everyone candle ends and torches - because they want to save candles, there are not many people carrying lanterns, most of them are holding torches. Most of the people who came to participate in the victory parade were young people and children, especially the workers who worked in Bopu. Most of them came with their young and old in tow. They are happy to have such a night of entertainment, because tomorrow is a holiday - to celebrate the Chengmai victory.
Under the guidance of the students, the crowd gradually formed a line, and torches and lanterns were lit one after another. Everyone was smiling, and some even waved their flags and placards playfully.
"Everyone, please stop moving, be careful of the torches." The person in charge of the command was Ji Denggao, an indigenous cadre of the Cultural and Propaganda Department. Ever since he proposed organizing a lion dance team during Zhangtian's publicity activities, this former Guangdong divination salesman had become a leader in the Cultural and Propaganda Department. He rose through the ranks and became a full-time staff member engaged in mass cultural and entertainment activities. His achievements were not small. He organized lion dance teams in various communes and made great achievements.
He was wearing a cadre uniform and his face was covered with oil and sweat. He was holding a big tin speaker and waving a rolled-up document, "Don't mess up the team, line up, get ready..."
In his hand was a celebration plan made by Fang Fei, director of the Mass Activities Division of the Ministry of Culture and Publicity. The plan was very simple according to Fang Fei's standards, but it was too complicated for Ji Denggao. The ancients were also very good at organizing complex festivals and etiquette activities, but such large-scale activities were generally only carried out by the central court, and ordinary people rarely had access to them. It is even more unfamiliar to a fortune teller.
Yang Cao and Tan Xiaoqin were also assigned to the mass team. The mass team was relatively loose and did not have special props or training. It was only required to march in a group and follow the route. Yang Cao received a small flag. She looked around and saw how many people were in the crowd. She seemed to have seen this face before, and everyone's eyes tacitly avoided each other's eyes as soon as their eyes touched.
At this time, the loudspeakers on the street began to play majestic music, which was the signal for the parade to begin. Ji Denggao greeted everyone to start marching.
The route of the parade was from Bobu Commune Street, along the port area, and then onto the Bobu-Bairen Highway, marching all the way to Dongmen Market, and then to the large stadium for a rally. At this time, it was getting late. In the dusk, lanterns and torches were lit, and the road was dotted with stars, like a flowing river of light.
Students and militia organized into a vanguard formation, with flags flying. The flags they carried were hastily made during the war mobilization period, taking advantage of the flag craze. The red 6th Army flag, the blue and white naval flag, and many personally designed or plagiarized flags. There are also rows and rows of square flags with a red background, embroidered with all kinds of strange patterns that people here have never seen before. On the top of the flagpole stands a stamped double-headed eagle standing on gears, ears of wheat, swords and leaves. Under the firelight, the steel-skinned double-headed eagle's eyes were bright and shining with a cold light, watching the team marching under the firelight.
The parade marched to the accompaniment of march music, with students and militia marching in neat steps. "Ode to the Motherland" was sung loudly in unison. This song has been transformed and became the first march full of political meaning across the political power. If most of the elders didn't want to completely break up with Ming Dynasty for the time being, the title of this song would have been "Singing Empire". The lyrics will also be changed to be more explicit.
The people following behind were not good at singing this song, but their hearts were aroused by the passionate singing. Some people sang along, while others imitated the people next to them, waving lanterns and flags in their hands, Cheering in unison.
This kind of intoxicating enthusiasm is something that many people have never experienced before, and they don't even know why they are so excited. But they still cheered and sang in such an atmosphere, and even tried to keep up with the rhythm of the march that they sang loudly over and over again.
The parade passed through the port area and then set foot on the highway to Bairen City. All vehicle traffic had been temporarily stopped on the highway. Pedestrians who happened to pass by stepped aside and looked at the mighty parade with fear and curiosity. The procession passes. The fire illuminated the road, and Bairen City in the distance was brightly lit.
At this time, huge light pillars lit up one after another in the dark night sky. The light beams emitted by the most powerful searchlights owned by the Eight Crossing Group formed two lines of light beams in the night sky. This spectacular sight dazzled everyone. Tan Xiaoqin screamed in surprise. It was so unbelievable that her legs and feet went weak for a moment and she almost fell to her knees. Elders are not mortals... She suddenly thought of this sentence with fear.
The processions coming from various communes were like radiant snakes, rolling forward on various roads. This unprecedented spectacular sight not only makes people sigh in admiration, but also makes many people feel heartfelt fear.
Liu Dalin sat silently in his yard, staring at the huge light pillar over Bairen City. He couldn't see the parade on the highway, but he could hear the singing coming from the highway outside the county town; it was simple, powerful, even vulgar in his opinion, but it had a strong and inspiring thing. Inside. This was neither Huang Zhong Da Lu nor Zheng Wei's voice. Just like the beam of light that shot straight into the night sky, it was something he didn't understand at all. Liu Dalin's mood became very heavy.
"Master, go back to the house." His servant advised him in a low voice.
"Not busy." He whispered, "Did the notice outside really say that the Australians defeated the officers and soldiers?"
"Yes, someone was watching the notice. I didn't dare to take it off, but I made a copy."
The notice was written simply, but its content was clear. Liu Dalin read the classical Chinese part of it. The language was not very elegant, but the literature and science were quite fluent. The announcement stated that he was coming to Qiongzhou and had never done anything illegal. He cultivated wasteland and did business in Qiongzhou, recruited exiles, helped refugees, and praised culture and education. However, he was attacked by the government for no reason. He had no choice but to defend himself and defeated the army at the gate of Chengmai City.
Cover the sky! ~!
