Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 188 Flag and Sovereignty

Ok!The Stars and Stripes of the Soviet Union is pure nonsense, and the battle flag of the "Sistine Empire" is even less reliable.

Zhao Xin was helpless, so he took Wu Siyu and Zhao Liang to find the nine-member group of Jiaokou at night.As a result, this matter aroused great interest among a group of teachers, and finally even Chen Qingsong and Hong Tao were called over.

Some people suggested to use sickle and ax flags to represent the masses of the working people; He admired the Soviet Stars and Stripes painted very much, and clamored that he would occupy the other side of the ocean in the future and drive all the foreign devils back to the European continent.

In the group of nine, a mathematics teacher named Yu Deli did the most research on the flag problem, which was purely his personal hobby.

He didn't speak for a long time, and after everyone expressed their thoughts, he said: "Zhao Xin, everyone has no objection to you wanting to use the banner, but you must first understand what the banner represents."

Lao You on the side said: "Old Yu, don't be a fool, just speak up."

Yu Deli thought for a while, and then said under the eyes of everyone: "Let's talk about the military flag first. The establishment of the military flag is to establish a combat system with a clear hierarchy and can implement orders from top to bottom.

For example, the Dazhu flag in ancient times represented the highest level of rulers and was also called the "flag head".The pole used to erect the flag should be equipped with a hair ball, which is made of oxtail.According to legend, after the Yellow Emperor defeated Chi You, he cut off his hair and used it as a decoration for the banner, which represented the noble status of the banner.

And the general was ordered to go out to fight, and he must fight the tooth flag.When we used to read novels and listen to storytelling, we always said that we had to sacrifice flags when we marched, but in fact we sacrificed tooth flags.”

Wu Siyu suddenly raised his hand and interrupted: "Why is it called Yaqi?"

Yu Deli felt a little upset because he was interrupted. He glanced at Wu Siyu with dissatisfaction, and explained: "In ancient times, the emperor personally conquered and wanted to build a big ivory flag, and the flagpole was decorated with ivory. That's why it's called the ivory flag. The place must be where the supreme commander is. As for the troops below, they must fly the five-party flag, and the soldiers must hold the flag in their hands.

Taken together, the flag represents a top-down national system.Specifically on the battlefield, it must be able to reflect the situation on the battlefield.The commander can understand the situation on the battlefield and adjust the combat strategy by watching the change of the flag. "

Zhao Xindao: "Teacher Yu, I understand what you mean. But our military orders are all issued through walkie-talkie communication, and we don't need to use a bunch of flags to convey orders."

"No, you don't understand." Yu Deli said. "You have already said that Beihai Town was built relying on modern industrial technology. Without those weapons, mechanical technology and freighters, it would be difficult to settle in such a desolate outer northeast. So since we have occupied our feet, we as A group of modern people from another time and space must have a sense of sovereignty.

You set up military and police systems, medical education systems, opened factories, and even promoted Putonghua and taught pinyin Chinese characters in Beihai. Isn’t it all for the purpose of establishing an exclusive political power?Including the modern civilization we have brought, these are all manifestations of sovereignty.

Sovereignty is manifested through what?The first is the banner! "

Zhao Xin fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Originally, when he had no intention of breaking into this time and space, he only wanted to make a fortune to fill the emptiness, and to save the refugees from suffering with the mentality of doing good.Take Liji and the others to find a place where there is no government oppression, and get some gold to spend by yourself.

But then Zhao Xin realized that he couldn't handle it alone, so he asked Liu Sheng to help; and then he called Wang Yuanfang and the others.With people, you can start a big ship and pick up more refugees.At this time, he found that he needed medical and other auxiliary personnel, so he recruited Chen Qingsong and the others.

Until that time, Zhao Xin only had the evil idea of ​​establishing a political power and overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty in his heart, but he still had a stick in his actions.Let's do something about Sendai here, and Matsumae Fan over there, and even go to Nagasaki to pick things up.Generally speaking, the purpose of this guy is to save people and gold, and his foreign policy is not consistent. He doesn't even want to win over the local border residents.

With this attitude of doing what he lacks, he went south to Yangzhou to kidnap Shouma and come back to be a teacher, and he fooled Old You and the other nine from modern times.

Because he was going to the island country to do things, he established a military system; because he wanted to manage the island country refugees who did not speak a language, he let Katayama Kanbei take charge of the police system.

Beihai Town has developed to the point where it is today. With the influx of a large number of refugees from the Qing Dynasty in the future and the popularization of literacy, the requirement to erect its own flag and establish a political power is imminent.Otherwise, why should the common people listen to you?Why do you want to fight to the death?Wouldn't it be great to obediently be an obedient citizen of the Qing Dynasty!
Yu Deli's words made it very clear that the so-called banner is fundamentally the product of the continuous strengthening of the consciousness of sovereignty.At this point today, Beihai Town needs to swear its sovereignty through the flag, and reflect its own political characteristics and historical culture through the style, color and pattern of the flag.

In the final analysis, there is no sovereignty, no country.

Zhao Xin lit a cigarette, took a few deep breaths, and asked Deli, "Mr. Yu, I understand what you mean. Do you have any good suggestions?"

Yu Deli nodded, got up and went back to his room, tumbling for a while, and came out with a yellowish notebook. "Choose one." After speaking, he put the notebook in his hand on the table.

Everyone gathered around to take a look, and saw the words "Reference materials for the national flag pattern, compiled and printed by the Preparatory Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, September 1949" printed on the cover of the book.

"Old Yu, why do you still have this treasure?" Old You exclaimed.

"Personal hobby. I bought it for 2 yuan." Yu Deli explained lightly.

In this way, after everyone discussed all night until dawn the next day, the Fuzi No. 30 in the reference materials was finally finalized as the draft flag of Beihai Town, but with slight revisions.

The entire flag is composed of red, white and black, and the size is three to two in length and width.The red flag symbolizes revolution, which also conforms to Zhu Ming's red; the white five stars in the center represent light, symbolizing the political power and armed forces of Beihai; The black color represents the black land; the twelve-toothed giant wheel represents the great power of industrialization, and also symbolizes that the enemies of Beihai Town will be crushed by the wheel of history.

The rest was simple. Zhao Xin went to get the red pongee fabric and waterproof spray ink for making the flag; Chen Qingsong was in charge of making the flagpole.Two days later, the first flag with a length of 3 meters and a width of 2 meters was finally born!
When the flag was raised, everyone who stayed in Beihai Town came and stood densely in the square.In the crowd, Shen Jingdan, Shen Xuan, Jiang Tenglin, the Wu brothers, Tang Xiao's group of girls, the Xu brothers, and even the two priests Makarius and Ferapontov stood in the crowd to watch.

When the wide flag was lifted to the top of the flagpole by pulleys and fluttered in the wind, all the modern people present cheered.Beihai Town finally has its own banner!
Makarius and Ferapontov looked at the flag fluttering on the top of the flagpole and the patterns on it, and looked at each other. They really were a group of barbarians who did not believe in God!

Father Ma looked at Zhao Xin who was smiling under the flagpole, and couldn't help gnashing his teeth.It was this devil who actually explained to himself that the red cross on the outer wall of the hospital did not represent a cross, but two crossed blood-stained bandages!After hearing Zhao Xin's explanation, Makarius almost rushed forward to strangle him to death.

Refugees from island countries knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the flag.The refugees of the island country were no longer the subjects of the shogunate because they went to the country and left their hometown.So the expressions on their faces are full of excitement and joy. People like themselves are no longer lonely souls without owners, and finally have a place to belong.

As for the Wu brothers from the Qing Dynasty and the dozens of refugees, their faces were pale.Even with the banner, the fool also understands that the kings here are going to stand on the hills to fight against the imperial court!

Shen Jingdan looked at the crowd with different expressions around him, turned his head to look at Shen Xuan, with a smile on his face, and said in his heart that his identity as a foreign relative had to be finalized as soon as possible, and everything depended on Ah Quan.

Two days later, when the red flag was erected on the walls of the cities of Fuldan and Juergen, more than 4000 people present cheered like a tsunami.Especially the 1000 troops under Liu Sheng who arrived earlier were cheering with excitement. Many people took off their hats and threw them into the air, expressing their joy.

Sheng Haizhou, Jiuzang, Manzao, Mosuke and others looked at the big flag on the city wall, tears could not stop falling, they had long been looking forward to this day in their hearts!

In the background of cheers, Liu Sheng put down his saluting right hand, and said loudly to Zhao Xin beside him: "Finally, we have reached this step."

"what?"

"Let's raise the flag to establish the country. What are you going to do next?"

"Let's talk after this battle, I can't decide this alone." Zhao Xin said lightly.

"It couldn't be easier to fight mosquitoes with cannons. Do you think we will fail? If there are 1 people, we can take down Beijing directly!"

"And then?" Zhao Xin looked at the crowd in the distance, and said calmly: "Liu Sheng, this is an age of ice and fire shrouded in a 'prosperous age'. All the humiliation we have suffered in the next 100 years The seeds have actually been planted. The white people in Europe have long been dissatisfied with the large outflow of silver, and they will soon replace other commodities with opium. Tsarist Russia in the north has always been eyeing it with wolf ambitions. As long as it finds the weakness of this old empire, it will Going south and encroaching on territory; historically that's what they've done.

Do you think that old lady tsar doesn't want to invade China?They have made preparations several times, but in the end they are still reluctant to part with the benefits brought by the Kyakta trade!

Don't look at the "Top Ten Martial Arts" that the "Shiquan Old Man" claims to be, that's because Westerners can only enter Guangzhou now, and they still can't see clearly the bottom of this country!Now that we are doing this in the north, you see, the interior of this old empire is already in dire straits. "

"Hey!" Zhao Xin shook his head and let out a long sigh after saying this.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month of this year, when the victims in Henan and Shandong were struggling with life and death, the overjoyed Qianlong held a "Thousand Seniors Banquet" in Qianqing Palace, entertaining more than 65 elderly people over 3000 years old selected from all over the country. The rest of the table shook the world.

At that time, Qianlong not only personally toasted several centenarians, but also asked his descendants to toast these old people. The scene was very lively.Everyone present had happy smiles on their faces, as if they were admiring the prosperity and peace of the world.

However, the truth of the matter is that the emperor ordered the banquet of thousands of elders, saying that he was sympathetic to the people, but in fact it increased the burden on the people.Officials at all levels in various places took the opportunity to amass money wantonly. It is up to the magistrate and county magistrate to decide who to let go and who not to go.Those who have no money and are old enough cannot go; those who have money and are not old enough can change their age to go.

On the day of the Banquet of the Thousand Old Men, thousands of elderly people lined up outside the Meridian Gate early in the fourth watch. They were searched and checked before they could enter the palace and wait. Qianlong did not come out to see these old people until noon.

In the first month of the first lunar month, the city of Beijing was splashed with water and the wind was biting. These old people stood in the cold wind and waited. They only took a quick bite in the morning and carried them until noon.With an empty stomach, and the fact that the emperor had to drink the wine, a group of old people fell down immediately after the banquet.After leaving the palace, more old people fell down.

Eight years later, when the British mission entered the inland of China, they found that this country, especially in the north, was far from the well-organized, prosperous and peaceful country they had imagined. Under the surface prosperity, there was an astonishing decline.After returning, the mission sent a letter to the King of England, believing that China could be deceived. It only needed a few three-masted warships to destroy the coastal fleet and cut off all shipping from Hainan Island to the northern Zhili Bay.And 50 years later, they did the same.

Liu Sheng patted Zhao Xin on the shoulder, and he felt the entanglement from the other party's words.

"Didn't you keep saying that you want to overturn the table and break the roof? Only by smashing the old order can a new one be established."

"It's too difficult! To control the cycle of chaos, you start with this, and you will end with it!" Zhao Xin didn't know what happened to him today, and suddenly felt so much emotion.

"Forget it, I don't want to fight the city of Beijing anymore; and you, don't think about it. I remember we discussed with Lao Chen and the others before, we should first defend this black land, develop technology, and jump out of that trap Say it again."

"The Malthus Trap."

The two were chatting nonchalantly when Guigui ran over panting.

"My lord, that Shu Haili is going to escape with others! We have already surrounded him."

Shu Haili stared at Ba Mangong who was a few steps away, with an extremely annoyed expression.Ever since the red flag was hoisted over the city and the soldiers around him were throwing hats in the air, he knew he was being tricked.These guys are all bald and have no braids at all!
Shu Haili's reaction was fairly quick. Taking advantage of the people around him not paying attention to him, he contacted around, planning to call the original Fort residents to escape together and go to Hunchun to inform.Who knew that the boy Bamangong would jump up and shout after hearing about it.As a result, not only himself, but also his wife, children and other Fort residents were taken over by the soldiers.

If it wasn't for this kid who informed him, Shu Haili felt that he would be able to escape with him smoothly.But right now, looking at those soldiers with guns glaring at them, they looked like they wanted to eat themselves.

"You bastard with no imperial constitution! After eating meat for a few days, you want to rebel with these people?! Why do you? What do you have? Wake up, the imperial army is coming!" Shu Haili cursed at Ba Mangong for his wife and children with terrified faces.

With an impatient look on his face, Bamangong said contemptuously: "Why? Just because I am fed three times a day, just because I am given this clothes. From my Ama to me, our family has been We’ve worked here for almost 50 years, but what did the court give us? I don’t even have a wife!”

"A few mouthfuls of food, and a suit of clothes will fascinate your heart? The imperial army is coming, and your family is about to die!"

"I am willing! I have worked with them these days. No one has ever looked down on me because I am poor or have a low status. You have seen the three meals a day. From top to bottom, even the general's food is the same. We are the same. Just for this, I am willing to sacrifice my life, and death is worth it!"

After listening to Bamangong's words, more than a dozen bachelors looked down at their new clothes and shoes, and they all bowed their heads in silence.

Shu Hai said desperately: "Don't be fooled by this kid! You are all bannermen!"

Ba Mangong rolled his eyes at the other party, and said disdainfully: "You can pull it down! If you want to return the bannerman like this, then I would rather not be the bannerman!"

(End of this chapter)