Chapters 88 to 89 Northeastern

After Zheng Yu and his party and his party arrived in Manzhouli, Jiyasai was left behind by Zheng Yu's repeated attempts and finally decided not to return to Siberia for the time being, waiting to find out the leak. In order to avoid leaks, Zheng Yu and his party will continue to play Andrew Zhang and his party, inspecting the "market situation" in Northeast China and waiting for the next step of arrangements.

Manzhouli is the hub of the intersection of China-Russia railways. Since the standard of Russian rail is 1,520 mm wide rail, and China's gauge adopts 1,435 mm worldwide, the trains between the two countries must be replaced in this place. As one of the important frontiers of the Sino-Russia confrontation, Manzhouli has naturally become an important center of the Chinese army. Due to the principle of military confidentiality, Zheng Yu, as a "foreigner", was naturally strictly restricted, but it can be seen that the signs of fortification in the entire city are very obvious, and the Chinese soldiers seen along the way gave Zheng Yu a great visual impact.

Although he was just a quick glance, his brave and well-trained look made his eyes shine. Although he had something to do with his memory and had known that China in this time and space had been too different from the history in his impression, Zheng Yu's heart was still shocked after witnessing this great military power. He began to understand how his adoptive father transformed from a commoner to a founding emperor of the Eastern Empire.

There is no doubt that he established a modern national army that has never appeared in this country. Perhaps the size of this army is not large, but just this spiritual outlook is enough to show that its actual combat effectiveness must be very considerable.

When he woke up, the train had arrived at Qiqihar, the capital of Heilongjiang Province. Zheng Yu was not surprised why the capital was not Harbin. Although he did not know that Harbin was a new city built by Russia in the late 19th century for the construction of the Dongqing Railway, and in this time and space, due to the emergence of the Chinese Empire, it became a newly built small town in China at the intersection of railways. He did not know that in the history of another time and space, Qiqihar was the capital of Heilongjiang Province until 1955. However, after so many changes, Zheng Yu had already been a little numb to the changes in the history of this time and space, and thought it was a butterfly wing or something, so it was not surprising. He stretched comfortably, moved, and pushed the door and walked out of the sleeper box.

Zheng Yu, who was protected by Jiyasaiyin and Qiu Haiyang from left to right, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After returning to China, he finally arrived at his territory. Looking at the railway station, bell tower, gray buildings and brick buildings in front of him, Zheng Yu sneezed.

"On there!" Qiu Haiyang shouted in a low voice. Several people looked up and saw a middle-aged man wearing a dog-skin hat and a tweed coat at the exit holding a sign in his hand, with the words "Andrew Zhang" neatly written on it.

Zheng Yu took the handkerchief handed over by Jiyasaiyin, wiped his nose, and walked over with a smile.

"Did Boss Deng send you here?"

"Yes, Bi Dong is the boss of Deng's fur." ​​The middle-aged man bowed respectfully, "You guys have worked hard all the way, please go here."

"What car did you come?" Zheng Yu asked casually.

"Black Panther," said the middle-aged man with a little pride, "I just left the factory for three months, so I can guarantee you a face."

Zheng Yu nodded: "Do you have a leather mat? You've had a cold these two days."

“Everything is ready.”

The couple looked at each other and knew it clearly. The middle-aged man brought a few people to the front of a black convertible sedan. The young driver who was leaning against the door smoking quickly bowed. The middle-aged man asked the driver to take out a few leather mats from the trunk and put them on the seat.

Zheng Yu looked at the classic car and found that the design was quite considerate, at least there were front and rear headlights and bumpers, but he couldn't find where the seat belt was. Zheng Yu looked at the car logo habitually and his eyes narrowed.

A golden dragon wears a crown.

Independent brand?

Zheng Yu smiled and thought that the car looked good, but it was not much worse than the classic Mercedes-Benz cars I saw when visiting Germany. It seems that China in this time and space can be regarded as the word "continuing with the times". He sat in the back row without hesitation, with Qiu Haiyang sitting on the right, and Jiyasaiyin sitting in the co-pilot.

Zheng Yu looked at the middle-aged man, but when he saw the other party, he smiled: "The driver takes you back... I'll call a taxi."

Zheng Yu was a little surprised, but saw the man waved his hand and a human-powered tricycle stopped. There was a sign "Hesheng Car Shop" hanging on the carriage that was imitating the sedan. The middle-aged man sat in the back seat with a swagger and said, "Deng Mansion No. 6, Xiaonan Street."

The coachman smiled and said, "Look at it... walk!" He raised his legs and kicked, and the tricycle rushed out.

Zheng Yu was stunned, always feeling that this scene was a bit familiar.

Riding a donkey backwards?

The car was driving slowly, and Zheng Yu looked around carefully. The railway station and the avenue were actually cement roads, which were flat, and it could be seen that it was new. However, most of the roads were still bluestone roads, which were a bit uneven over the years. The whole city was quite clean. From time to time, you could see some elderly women wearing uniform blue hats and cleaning up the garbage and debris on the roadside. What interested him even more was that on the road, you could see some half-aged children wearing red armbands and walking around. Occasionally, you could see a pedestrian stopped by them and taught a lesson with righteousness.

This scene is a bit familiar, but it is so strange.

"These people wearing red armbands..." Zheng Yu asked softly. He knew that the General Intelligence Bureau did not know his true identity. His current identity was still a Canadian furry, so he was not worried that the other party would doubt anything, so he asked a bold question.

The driver smiled and said, "This is our feature. Our children are organized and belong to the Youth League. They usually have to rotate on duty and maintain order. When they see those who violate the regulations and regulations, they have to check the rules and regulations. When they encounter dissatisfaction, they can hand them over to the police. These children are enthusiastic and serious in their work. Everyone is quite afraid of it, but now they are getting used to it."

Zheng Yu was stunned.

"Youth League?"

"Yes, in many places in the empire, such as Heilongjiang, children must be incorporated into Youth Leagues since they were eight years old and conduct collective activities, including some simple public labor, so as not to be bothered by these children. After the age of fifteen, they must be organized into Youth Leagues. Not only do they have to be trained, but also serve labor and public service. For example, this discipline inspection is one of the public service." The driver said proudly, "We are not allowed to beg or wander around idle. Those who catch them will be sent to build railways, dig highways, and mines. These children have also been organized, so the order is much better now than in previous years."

Zheng Yu silently looked at the orderly flow of people and traffic on the street, looking at the cold and serious expressions of those red armbands with a hint of youth and childishness, watching people's travels in a hurry, their expressions on their faces were different, and they were all in common... Inexplicably, he thought of the movie "The Victory of Will".

The roads in the whole city are not spacious overall, but the traffic is in order, which is completely different from the chaos in the old China he remembers. Most of the people running on the road were carriages, tricycles and bicycles, and some cars, but most of them were convertibles, with different colors and not monotonous colors. Rickshaws had not been seen yet. Zheng Yu looked at it carefully and found that at some important intersections, there were a tall cylindrical tower, about two stories high, painted with red paint, and there seemed to be someone inside. There were traffic lights on the intersections around him, and there were police officers who commanded traffic in the middle, all wearing long-lost white traffic police uniforms, which really surprised him.

He had some vague impressions of these scenes when he was very young, and he had seen them more than once in some very early TV films. But now, he is like an uninvited guest who has entered the world of old films, witnessing all of this with his own eyes and appearing in front of him.

Suddenly, Zheng Yu shouted: "Stop!"

The driver stopped the car and looked back at Zheng Yu with some confusion.

Zheng Yu pointed diagonally opposite and whispered: "What's going on?"

The driver followed the gesture and saw a bus stop sign erected under the poplar trees on the side of the road. A bus that looked like a bus but was really a bit simple was parked there. A man in a black uniform and a policeman wrapped in white leggings waved a short stick wrapped in rubber and smashed it hard at a person who looked like an old country farmer, beating and scolding him. The old farmer quickly begged for mercy. Some of the people next to him got on and off the bus in an orderly manner, turned their heads and looked at him a few times, and smiled gloatingly, not knowing what to say, and then they were busy with their own affairs.

The driver smiled and said, "This... Mr. Zhang, you are a foreigner. Our rules are established in the new dynasty. Public places must abide by order. Those who violate them will be beaten. That is the police officer who specializes in observing the rules. This old guy is in trouble today..."

Zheng Yu was stunned, but he didn't expect there was such a rule. He frowned and said, "What should I do if I break the person?"

"What else can you do? He is unlucky, but if something happens, the police will naturally not be able to take care of it. There is... Don't worry, you look cruel, those people are all sensible and smart." The driver smiled indifferently, "You beat him up and you are afraid of being beaten, so you will have a memory. At the beginning of the past few years, no one in the city had ever been beaten... I gradually got used to it. This old guy was obviously a foreigner, and he probably went to the city to make a living, or to rely on relatives and friends. Don't ask about the rules in the city?"

Zheng Yu was stunned again: "There are many rules in the city?"

"That's more." The driver looked proud. "Although our city may not be comparable to your foreign country, it is much better than the countryside. You have to wait in line, you can't spit and defecate on the streets, nor can you throw debris, you can't dump sewage at home, you can't throw garbage around, you can buy tickets when you take a bus, and you have to give up your seat when you meet elderly, pregnant women and children... Oh, in short, there are so many rules. So look at Qiqihar, not to mention the messy countryside counties, but also compared with other cities, that's the first."

Zheng Yu nodded: "I admire you, admire you..."

"Have you heard of a rumor here?" The driver said proudly, and Zheng Yu shook his head.

"I always went into the city, wearing velvet, a high hat, a hemp rope tied with a ball game, watching a ball game, I don't know how to win or lose, I drink a bottle of soda, I don't know how to get out of the bottle, I can't find the toilet, I can't find the corner, I lost five cents, and searched the whole city..." The driver said while making exaggerated gestures, Qiu Haiyang and Jiya Sainha laughed, Zheng Yu was also happy, but he felt a little dissatisfied.

The driver started the car again and moved forward slowly. Zheng Yu suddenly thought of something and asked in surprise: "Ball game? Is there a ball game here?"

The driver smiled and said, "It's not just... this is all uploaded from the army. Back then, the people went to watch the army play basketball without any trouble. Later, they also organized the team. In addition, many demobilized veterans, the ball game on the ground became popular... football, basketball, baseball... The most popular thing now is football. Hey, we started a Governor's Cup two years ago, and there were many teams from other places who came to play. That scene..."

Zheng Yu smiled.
Chapter completed!