"China and the United States will officially be neighbors in the future. China has always adhered to the foreign policy of good-neighborliness … "China's ambassador to the United States kept talking.
The US Foreign Minister lowered his eyes and listened quietly to the gobbledygook. 250 tons of gold was indeed not a small number, but more than half of the area outside the northern border of the United States had been cut off by China. Less than a quarter of the area in Ontario, Canada, was left with less than a quarter. The Chinese had already killed their way to the Great Lakes region. China put 50 tons of gold in the English treasury as a deposit for China to use the English financial business. At least the English financial industry was strong in Europe.
The American diplomatic community was very suspicious that the British wanted to kill with a borrowed knife. They sold such a large piece of rotten land to China, and then used the rich and warm United States to lure China south. As for the good-neighborliness that China talked about, there used to be many countries that were neighbors of China, Spain, the Netherlands, Russia, England, and China gave some money to occupy the land. Because the United States had done the same in history, the United States understood the good-neighborliness that China talked about.
No matter how unhappy they were, the real problem had to be solved. The border issue between the United States and China was likely to lead to a fierce conflict. At least five states in the north of the United States bordered China. The United States had its own armed forces, and American immigrants took guns to settle in the Midwest and the far west. The pioneers of China were simply the army. The main task of this meeting was to avoid the conflict between China and the four northern states of the United States and the "China -style good-neighborliness model."
The domestic order received by the China ambassador was similar, "Do not have a full-scale military conflict with the United States in the short term." The purpose of the two sides was clear and consistent, and they didn't talk to each other. The two sides signed the "China-US Border Friendship Treaty" in April 1882.
The China side didn't really feel relieved. The power of the federal government was indeed much stronger than before the Civil War, but the problem was that the power of the central government under the federal system wasn't great, and there was a limit to how strong it was. When the state governments went to war alone, they wouldn't first report to the Chinese government. Only when they were hit head-on would they ask for help from the federal government. If there were benefits, they would reap the benefits first and wipe the Federation's mess. Basically, all the states had this kind of behavior.
Moreover, there was even a very excited attitude in China. Since China could seize the northern territories of North America that the British had yet to effectively control, why couldn't the United States send its army north to take over Canada? Historically, the Americans had also tried it, and in the end, the beautiful White House was born. It didn't seem like such a bad idea to do it again while England's arrogance was being hit.
What the United States thought was their problem. If the United States and the United Kingdom really went to war, the upper echelons of China would only be happy to watch from the sidelines. Regardless of what the higher-ups thought, China's grass-roots soldiers, who had shouldered the toughest and most dangerous part of the war, did not like war. It was their duty to defend their homeland and motherland. After two months in northern Canada, the local officers and soldiers rationally accepted the fact that the land under their feet was the motherland.
In the Liberation Army of Ceylon, there were more and more discussions about when they could return home. In the current world, except for the Liberation Army, all the other armies had to collectively plunder and plunder the spoils of war after the battle. Since the Liberation Army did not adopt a policy that tightly tied the army to the interests of the war, they could only adopt a more advanced and humane policy. Service was an obligation of citizens. Normal enlistment and retirement were linked to benefits. These benefits could only be realized after the army returned home.
At this time, it was raining cats and dogs in Colombo. The Liberation Army was helplessly waiting for the rain to stop in the dormitory. The Chinese Liberation Army hated the tropical monsoon climate of Ceylon. It was like summer here all year round, with an average annual temperature of 28 ° C. There were no four seasons, only the rainy season and the dry season. The rainy season was from May to August and from November to February every year.
After taking over Ceylon during the dry season, the construction of Colombo Fortress was relatively slow. The rainy season made the progress of the project even more intermittent. Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi and First Lieutenant Qi Rui were drinking. There was a dish made of shrimp and crab on the table. The shrimp was a lobster, not a small lobster, but a lobster that weighed a few kilograms. The crab was the size of a washbasin. A shrimp, a crab, and two servings of rice were enough for the two of them to eat their fill.
This was not a special treatment. Every Liberation Army soldier in Ceylon could afford to eat this. When it came to seafood, Ceylon was really not bad.
"First Lieutenant Qi Rui, you'll be a first lieutenant when you go back, and I'm still a second lieutenant. Comparisons are odious! "Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi's alcohol tolerance was not big. After two glasses, he began to talk about the most unpleasant thing in his heart.
First Lieutenant Qi Rui had heard it at least a dozen times, but he did not care anymore. There was a promotion every three years. Qi Rui's promotion to first lieutenant was supposed to happen next year. During the war, the promotion was fast, and the lower the rank, the faster the promotion. The evaluation standards for the second lieutenant rank were completely open. In the battle for the liberation of Ceylon, lower-level commanders who had participated in three real fierce battles and completed combat missions in the battle would be promoted.
First Lieutenant Qi Rui had participated in three battles in Galle, Colombo South, and the siege of Colombo. Especially in the siege of Galle, he had fought with hundreds of enemies and defeated them. At that time, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui fulfilled all the requirements, so First Lieutenant Qi Rui appeared.
"I'll definitely be promoted when I go back. You don't have to worry so much." First Lieutenant Qi Rui comforted his classmate. He and Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi were both graduates of the 80s. The two of them were not classmates, but in a place like the military academy, classmates of the same year were also close competitors.
First Lieutenant Qi Rui actually held back a sentence. When others said this, he would often say, "Old Hu, you have people at home. You'll definitely be able to pass when you go back."
In a place like Nanjing Sixth Military Academy, a considerable proportion of students had people at home. The dean of the Sixth Military Academy, Ke Gongyu, was an old revolutionary. The number of people who could make Ke Gongyu lower his head could be counted on one hand.
This general who came from the teaching brigade had publicly said several times in school meetings, "Students, in the school, there are only school rules. I'm telling everyone, we're not afraid of making mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. I've made ten times more mistakes than you guys. However, anyone who thinks that they have people at home who don't put the rules in their eyes will be immediately expelled. In the past dozen or so batches of students, every year, there were students who were expelled because of this reason. I have many hopes for everyone. I'll say the simplest hope, and that is that this is the first time that everyone will not be expelled because they have people at home. "
Perhaps it was because of the accumulation of more than ten batches of students, but in any case, this 76th batch followed Principal Ke Gongyu's wishes. No one was stupid in this aspect and was expelled. It was inevitable for young people to brag about their fierce ancestors. First Lieutenant Qi Rui found that those people from the collateral families liked to brag about their uncles and uncles. As for the children from the direct family, perhaps because of the education, they really didn't dare to brag.
As for those people from the collateral families, First Lieutenant Qi Rui really didn't care about them. Among those students who were publicly recognized as excellent in both academic and moral conduct, Hu Xingzhi was considered to be the one who liked to brag more. In the military academy, he would occasionally accidentally brag about having people at home. He didn't even dare to say who his family was, and he was remembered until now. As for why his old man Vézé made Wei Rui change to Qi Rui, First Lieutenant Qi Rui originally didn't understand. Now, he finally understood.
In the military, if you had ability, you didn't need to brag. Everyone would acknowledge you. If you didn't have ability, bragging would only make people look down on you. If you didn't have ability, people would just bear grudges in the process of competition. If First Lieutenant Qi Rui dared to brag, "My father is Vézé", then he didn't need to continue living like this.
Hu Xingzhi didn't think that the thoughts of his classmate in front of him would turn around so many times. He just very innocently lamented, "Didn't I just fight one less battle? During the siege of Colombo, our platoon fought very well." After saying that, he raised his wine glass and took a sip.
First Lieutenant Qi Rui advised, "Promoted early and promoted late, fickle in the morning and fickle in the evening. In next year's assessment, I definitely won't meet the standards of a captain. In the assessment of a captain, we'll still be the same. "
"It's not the same, it's not the same!" Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi was a little drunk and shook his head repeatedly. At this time, the lobster had already been peeled and cut into pieces. He ate a piece first before continuing, "I heard that there are arrangements after we go back. Those who are willing to go to difficult areas, such as the Canadian border and Sudan, will be promoted one level before being assigned. If you're willing to go, you'll be a captain. And if you're willing to lead the local troops, you'll be at least a battalion commander. Even if you go to Canada, it'll be very different. They've been fighting with the foreign devils there. I have a cousin there who said that we're fighting fiercely with the foreign devils for a stronghold. In those places, if you can pull out two small gathering points or a big stronghold, you can be promoted to a major. I actually want to go to Canada. "
Hearing this, First Lieutenant Qi Rui was sure that there were really people in Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi's house. He asked, "Canada is already ours now. Will the border still fight so fiercely?"
Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi said, "That damn place has no boundaries. The snow is very thick in winter, so you can't fight there. When the snow melts in spring, there's no way to fight there. It was a desolate and uninhabited land, and whoever occupied it would own it. This kind of farming is everywhere in North America. I don't believe that there won't be more wars in the future. "
Hearing that it was snowing, Lieutenant Qi Rui smiled and said, "It's fine if it snows. I would rather have snow than stay in Ceylon. Here, the sun shone on one's head, and the water vapor under one's feet. They're all cooked. "
Speaking of the weather, Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi nodded. "That's true. The weather is too hot. I think last winter was even hotter than now. It was like this all year round. No wonder those people were tanned. I originally thought that they didn't like to bathe, but now it seems like it's useless even if they do! "
After saying this, Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi showed his tanned arm. Not only Second Lieutenant Hu Xingzhi, but First Lieutenant Qi Rui also did the same. The short-sleeved clothes blocked the sunlight, and both of their arms were black and white.
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