This is a shameful day for Sanbao, Duoluo and Maqun. They are all the best among the Manchus in Sijiu City. Although their status is not as noble as those from the big house and they cannot inherit the family business, in terms of brains and skills, they Not inferior to anyone. ※%
In Sijiu City, whoever meets them should not pick a thumbs up and call him a young man? Of course, the word "young and strong" was brought by Mr. Qing and Fuqing, and I heard it was also original by Mr. Xiao Letian.
But today when they came to Ryukyu, all the pride of the bannermen's children was shattered. Needless to say, they didn't know many things.
They don't know the gantry crane, and they don't know half of the goods from all over the world. Are those fruits with thorns called pineapples? They know bananas but know nothing about pineapples and pineapples.
Foreigners from all over the world can't tell which country they belong to, but the people of Ryukyu can recognize which country they belong to by the faces and clothes of the foreigners.
There are always some bronze and marble statues in the streets and alleys. The style is completely different from that of the Qing Dynasty, and they are extremely realistic. There is a kneeling statue of a minister at the pier, and there is a bronze statue of a woman protecting her child on Mi Street. No one knows why Ryukyu people do such wasteful things.
What is even more strange is the attitude of Ryukyu people towards the new army. Soldiers wearing light blue military uniforms entered the shops. Why did the shopkeepers still laugh? Don't they know that Uncle Bing buys things for free?
What? Those three soldiers actually paid? Look, they actually paid to buy things. This is unimaginable in Sijiu City. Only those shops with a good background are not afraid of soldiers. Ordinary people's shops are worried about death when they see the soldiers go in.
Ryukyu is so weird, everything is different from the Qing Dynasty. The faces of everyone walking on the street reveal an extremely confident temperament.
This is a kind of temperament that is completely unseen in the Qing Dynasty. No ordinary people are afraid of the officers and soldiers. The tax collectors will joke with the merchants. A small note two fingers wide can be exchanged for the merchants' tax revenue of one silver coin. , and no one cried or yelled during the process, and everything was done with smiles.
The soldiers are loved by all the people here. I have never seen soldiers taking food from the people for free. The old farmer selling bananas on the street corner stuffed it into the arms of the soldiers, even if they didn't want it.
There are also those students wearing patent leather hats. They are all wearing foreign suits, some with ties, and some with white shirts exposed. The black hats are different from those of the New Army. Although they have patent leather hats, the top of the hat is It's soft.
Wherever the young students go, they are the focus of girls' attention, and their thick schoolbags earn the envy of everyone. They walked past the Qing guards arrogantly, talking about the situation of the European powers and the quality of their future study destinations.
"I am going to the United States. President Lincoln issued the abolition of slavery. It is a free country. I want to see it with my own eyes..."
"No, no, no, I want to go to Prussia. The Prime Minister has said that Prussia's future national destiny is unstoppable. Although there are constraints from Britain and France, it is still a powerful country..."
"I'm going to England, I'm going to study in the Royal Navy. The spirit of the reef. Their navy believes in the spirit of the reef. No matter how fierce the enemy's attack is, they will stick to it like a rock and never retreat..."
"You are right. Britain has a Royal Navy, and there is a Prime Minister's Navy in Ryukyu. The highest honor belongs to Prime Minister Xiao. Our mission is to let the Xiao flag fly around the world..."
"That's right, when the flag of residual blood is raised, when the horn of mutual destruction is sounded, I am willing to be the captain who crashes into the enemy and exchanges our lives for victory!"
Crazy, they are all a group of crazy people. Listening to the students' remarks, Sanbao was so frightened that sweat broke out on his back. Where did Xiao Letian come from to find this group of lunatics, do they care about life and death?
What makes Sanbo and the others most angry is that people are talking about their pigtails. The entire Ryukyu Kingdom looks at pigtails with disdain, as if having pigtails is a huge sin.
Looking at them with burning eyes, the women on the street corner pointed out and looked at them with disdain, which made them blush. Some of them had bad tempers and wanted to make trouble at that time, but when they saw the murderous look in Tian Da's firecrackers, none of them dared.
"Try, you try? Anyway, His Majesty has given me countless empty edicts. As long as you dare to cause trouble, I will directly fill in your name... Do you know what expulsion from the flag is? The edict in my hand can do it. …”
The emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also the leader of the Eight Banners. Of course he had the right to expel the bannermen. Once the bannermen broke away from the collective, they would be nothing, and all their privileges would be stripped away. By then, they would be worse off than the most miserable. The Han people are still miserable.
No one dared to challenge Tian Da's firecrackers. The company commander who led them across the Forty-Nine City now still had an empty imperial edict in his hand. This had already shocked them all and they were as honest as little wives.
"It's so boring. I wanted to kill the chickens and show them to the monkeys, and get some examples, but in the end, they were all damn capons..." Tian Da Paojun shook his head helplessly.
"Cheer up, everyone. I've said it many times along the way. Throw away all the arrogance you have. It's you who sit back and watch the sky. Don't be dissatisfied. You will know when you see His Majesty later. Today This is His Majesty's gun-giving ceremony. Look back and see what your little emperor has become..."
Three hundred guards began to walk along the street towards the military camp in the east of the city. Before they reached the door, they heard bursts of cheers inside.
"The new barracks, the third company is officially formed and merged into the first division...named Tiger!" Xiao Letian's voice came from the high wall.
"Long live!" A tsunami-like roar shook the three hundred guards outside the gate and trembled. When they entered the spacious military camp, they found that it had become a sea of joy.
The playground in the middle is crowded with recruits waiting for the ceremony of entering the army. They are all in neat military uniforms, leather shoes and big-brimmed hats, and their hands are spotlessly polished. Everyone's chins are raised high. Xiao Letian has just arrived in the stands.
The three treasures and the others had not been able to see the military performance in front of them, but smelling the smell of gunpowder smoke in the entire square and the bullet casings on the ground, they knew that the scale of this event was definitely not small.
A five-story viewing platform was set up outside the square. The parents of the recruits, representatives from various countries, industries, and even foreigners were there, and everyone clapped excitedly.
"That's my son... the one holding the flag is my son!" A fat man who looked like a businessman yelled so happily that he wiped away tears.
Sanbao, Duoluo, and Ma Qun looked at each other in shock. Their hearts were already boiling. They had never seen such an atmosphere. Is there actually a Han in the world who enjoys being a soldier?
Don’t they all say that a good man should not be a soldier and a good man should not make nails? When fighting in the South, it is even necessary to recruit strong men to recruit militia and green battalions. But people in Ryukyu actually love the army from the bottom of their hearts?
The three hundred braided guards quietly slipped to the corner and stood in two rows to watch the ceremony under the command of Tian Da Cannon: "Please keep your voice down. If you disturb the Chengjun ceremony, even your emperor will not be able to protect you!" "
Xiao Letian, who was in the stands, glanced at these braided soldiers and knew that these people would be Zai Chun's direct descendants in the future. He nodded without saying anything, and then began to preside over the ceremony.
"The fifth company...obey the order...come out and prepare to form an army!" Sima Yun had a tinplate loudspeaker in front of him. In his roar, a company walked out of the queue in neat steps. The person who held the flag and guard was actually It's Ma Ming and Duncheng.
The three hundred guards who came from the capital were all stunned with a roar: "Master Ma...Second Brother Cheng...Oh my God! Aren't they two accompanying His Majesty as personal guards? How come they have become the new Ryukyu Army? Where is the Emperor?" "
That's right, Ma Ming and Duncheng, the two flag bearers and bodyguards of the fifth company, were officially among the four guards. After half a year of military training, they were as tanned as black men, but their fierceness was even stronger.
They were originally masters trained by their ancestors, and they carried the killing aura of warriors. Now they were tempered by the iron-blooded discipline of the military camp, and their entire bodies were as sharp as a hundred-refined sword.
From the corner of their eyes, the two of them could see that the fellow villagers from Sijiu City were getting smaller, but they did not dare to move at all. The Prime Minister was watching from the stage, and the gift must not be messed up.
"The Fifth Company...all have assembled...please ask the Prime Minister to give you guns and flags..." Ma Ming roared at the top of his lungs.
Xiao Letian rarely followed the procedure. He jumped off the high platform and actually straightened the patent leather hats of Ma Ming and Duncheng himself. Although this action was simple, the two Ouchi guards looked as if they had seen a ghost, and Douda's tears fell down.
"I heard about your outstanding achievements. I didn't believe it at first, thinking that the uncles in Sijiu City would not be convinced by this kind of military training. Then I peeked a few times and found that you are really interesting and you did a great job!"
After a few words of consolation, Xiao Letian took a step back and saluted the company, "I declare... that the fifth company has become an army... and been merged into the second division... and will be named Blade..."
"Long live!" The company of one hundred people suddenly thundered, and their big-brimmed hats were thrown into the air. Everyone hugged each other and cried. They finally had the official qualifications of a new army.
The original plain red military flag was taken away by Luo Huo, and Sima Yun brought a new military flag. The big character "Xiao" was followed by the word "blade". From now on, this was the fate of the fifth company.
"Remember, remember! The military flag is there, the company is there, even if your entire army is annihilated, as long as the military flag is still there, the Blade Company can be rebuilt. If the military flag is captured and destroyed by the enemy, then there will be no more Blade Company in the world!"
"I will obey the Prime Minister's order, and Blade Company will never forget it!"
"Okay, okay, now give me the gun!" Lord Long was holding a red lacquered tray with two shiny blue Colt revolvers placed on it. Xiao Letian stuffed one of them into Ma Ming and Duncheng's armed belts.
"Go, Fifth Company, go down and cheer! The glory belongs to you today..."
The entire military camp was boiling. The parents of the fifth company clapped and cheered, and there were even countless girls who screamed because they were so handsome by the soldiers.
The light blue military uniforms have been improved, with golden tassels hanging on the chest. All officers' patent leather big-brim hats even have a gold-plated brass cap badge.
Two crossed rifles, followed by waves, there is a fleet faintly on the waves, surrounded by wave patterns, which become more and more beautiful as they look, like the finishing touch, making the whole soldier look extremely heroic.
