Wild North America 1846

Sumatra

The port of Banda Aceh is located at the northwest tip of the island.

It is bordered by the vast Indian Ocean and nearly 20,000 kilometers away from North America. It is located in the tropics but has a pleasant climate. It is a typical oceanic tropical climate.

In a beautiful light white Dutch-style building in the city, Brigadier General Tang Li Yi was sitting at an oval dining table, having breakfast with his family.

Sitting at the other end of the dining table is the fourth aunt, Caroline, who is the apple of the eye of Mayor Enzo of Kuwait City. She is holding a mixed-race boy under one year old in her arms and is feeding the child freshly ground soy milk with a spoon.

Quite cheerful.

On the other side is the fifth aunt, Mai Xiuling, who is also pregnant now and is at least 6 months pregnant.

There is a dazzling array of food on the table. In the middle of the table is a large pot of flowers, with seven-headed European silver candlesticks at both ends. Several exquisite pots and cups are filled with a variety of fresh tropical fruits and vegetables. The variety is quite rich.

Brigadier General Tang Li Yi ate freshly grilled steak. He cut the steak into small pieces with a knife and fork and put it in his mouth. The Australian prime steak was charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It was full of gravy and popped in his mouth after chewing.

Come on, that's quite delicious.

The imperial family particularly loves steak and mutton chops, as well as various health-enhancing soups. It is not unusual to eat steak early in the morning, and the emperor often does this.

But my father could eat four or five pieces of tomahawk steak in one meal. Although the royal children were all tall, they did not inherit a good appetite. Even if they were tall, they could only eat two pieces, and they would be exhausted.

The child at the table looked at his father's delicious food. He stood up with his legs stiffened, his big eyes stared closely, his saliva overflowed involuntarily, and he shouted "babble, baby, baby" from his little mouth. Standing in front of Caroline

jumping on his legs.

Brigadier General Tang Li Yi chuckled when he saw this, put down the knife and fork in his hand, took a sip of freshly ground soy milk, and said jokingly: "Little guy, don't look at the delicious meat on other people's plates. How can you still do it now?"

No teeth?"

"Master, please don't worry about him. A child of this age is just greedy. If he doesn't pay attention, he will put everything into his mouth." Caroline smiled and fed the child another spoonful of soy milk.

Maybe the child stopped eating, and the soy milk he was fed vomited out again, soaking the white milk towel under his mouth.

Brigadier General Tang Li Yi nodded with a smile and said to her, "The imperial army has mainly been stationed here in the past two years. It has temporarily settled down and will no longer run around.

I have already asked my men to handle some supplies and armaments that Kuwait City needs, and they will be shipped there in the near future. I have informed you via telegram.

In this batch of materials

There are 32 armored trucks specially modified for Kuwait City, as well as 110 ordinary freight trucks, accompanied by more than 10 maintenance technicians.

With this batch of armored trucks, they are enough to deal with thousands of Ottoman army cavalry in the field.

Neither Baghdad nor Basra can pose a military threat to Kuwait."

"Sir, I'm afraid that this remote place in Kuwait won't be able to use these new gadgets."

"It doesn't matter. In a few months, a group of officers and soldiers who have overdue service will retire. Just arrange for a group of people to go there."

"The master has thought carefully. Caroline would like to thank the master on behalf of the 100,000 people in Kuwait. It is not easy to make a living on their territory!"

"As a family, why say more?" Brigadier General Tang Li Yi picked up the knife and fork again and launched the final attack on the unfinished steak...

He already had a wife and children in the empire. His eldest son is already 11 years old this year. Like other children, he stayed in the imperial capital of Chang'an to receive education from the elite aristocracy.

Taking care of my aunt while serving overseas is just a trivial matter.

As the lower-ranked prince of the Tang Dynasty, His Highness Li Yi has been awarded the title of third-class duke, that is, an unnamed duke, since he came of age. Born into the royal family, his status is naturally extremely noble.

The nameless duke also has a shortcoming, that is, he is demoted to a peerage, and after a few generations he becomes a baron.

After four generations, if you reach the level of baron, you will not be lowered again and can be passed down from generation to generation.

Compared with the group of founding fathers who followed His Majesty the Emperor to conquer the world in the early days, the hereditary princes of Anguo Duke's Palace, Fuguo Duke's Palace, and Zhenguo Duke's Palace were far behind.

Compared with the hereditary and unreplaceable ducal titles such as Duke of Hawaii, Duke of Alaska, and Duke of Panama, the quality is even worse.

Even in the face of those marquis and earl families who have been awarded hereditary replacement, their gold content is slightly insufficient.

Some princes have no ambitions and are happy to enjoy the glory and wealth in front of them. There are many such people in the royal family.

His Highness Tang Li Yi is different. He is determined to join the army, to follow in the footsteps of his father and his royal brothers, to do a great cause and win his own glory.

He single-handedly developed armored force that was ahead of the times, and his military exploits in the North American expansion war and the Tang-Dutch War were all significant achievements and a guarantee for winning the noble title.

The reason why it has not been cashed out is because it still needs to be accumulated.

Now that my father is on the throne, he will not be treated badly from any angle. Isn't he inferior to outsiders?

Tang Li Yi is a smart and very independent person, and the only thing he can pursue is the extremely noble title of prince. Ordinary people must not even think about it, it is like a daydream, but he may be within reach.

Finished breakfast

Brigadier General Tang Li Yi, accompanied by his adjutant, got into a black car and headed to the division's office. The two cars quickly drove out of the door along the road of the manor.

The guard at the door stood at attention and saluted, watching the car drive away from the manor with respect.

During the Dutch colonial period, very little money was invested in repairing public facilities. The streets in Banda Aceh were basically dirt roads. Only Tulip Road, the core of the city, was paved with large stone slabs.

Two black cars were driving on the road one behind the other, and the street scene kept receding.

Police officers and heavily armed soldiers on duty on the road will stand at attention and salute when a car passes by. They know that the person in the car is a senior military official.

It has been more than four months since the Tang Empire's army occupied Banda Aceh, and large groups of convicts can often be seen working hard on both sides of the road.

They built ditch houses and renovated roads. When leaving the city, you can still see teams of convicts building bridges, roads and farmland water conservancy facilities.

There are many Chinese faces in the town. After these new immigrants arrive on the island, the first thing they do is to cut off their braids, clean their whole bodies from top to bottom, and their clothes must be steamed and sterilized at high temperature to prevent them from carrying germs.

Every new Chinese immigrant has to go through a week of preaching, which covers a lot of content.

Preach the glory of the Tang Empire in the past half century, how the empire rose in North America under the leadership of His Majesty the Emperor, how it won the respect of the world, and how it won victory after victory.

It preached the hope that every overseas descendant of the Yan and Huang Dynasties would unite, help each other, respect and love each other, be self-reliant and proud to be citizens of the empire, and establish a strong sense of national honor and self-esteem.

The propaganda requires new immigrants to abide by the law, unite closely around the imperial government, maintain necessary vigilance, and report any abnormal situations immediately. Valuable clues will be rewarded, etc.

Preach and tell new immigrants about the financial help they can get, the empire’s preferential policies, tax policies, agricultural assistance policies, etc., to help new immigrants better integrate into society.

The Armored Division is stationed in the Banda Aceh area. Due to the implementation of military control in the occupied areas, officials from the Colonial Department and other local officials work at the division headquarters, just like a small government.

This kind of governance state generally lasts for 2 to 3 years, and it lasts longer in areas with complex situations. For example, military control in Colombia lasted for nearly 5 years.

There is construction going on everywhere in the city, making it look a bit dirty and muddy.

When they see the military commander's black car approaching, the police and soldiers on duty on the roadside will immediately order the carriage to stop.

The white people on the carriage, regardless of gender, all had to line up on the roadside to greet them with respectful expressions.

Anyone who disobeys orders or resists slightly will be knocked to the ground with the butt of a rifle, which is a very rough method.

During the construction of the hard labor camps in Banda Aceh, many were white prisoners of war, as well as some of the former white planters and farmers in Banda Aceh, many of whom became coolies.

Because these whites are much better at building houses and bridges than the natives, white convicts can often be seen in the city.

Things have changed, from being aloof to being a prisoner.

The car was not driving very fast and slowly passed by.

When encountering intersections and important roads beside bridges, you can always see one or two gray-brown armored vehicles parked on the roadside on duty, accompanied by more than a dozen to twenty fully armed soldiers to assist them.

This is a traffic stop, which can be seen everywhere at the main road intersections and main roads out of the city in Banda Aceh under military control. It is one of the powerful measures to suppress indigenous uprisings.

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The armored chariots that can be seen everywhere in Banda Aceh are not seen in other cities. They are more circular barricades or wooden sentry boxes surrounded by sandbags, which can achieve the same effect.

Once a riot or disturbance breaks out in the city, the soldiers on duty at the traffic checkpoint immediately block the traffic, prohibiting anyone from passing, and immediately launch a manhunt.

Pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud often leads to the arrest of a few rioters, and in the end dozens or hundreds of local indigenous people will be arrested.

Except for the rioters who were shot dead on the spot, most of the others were directly thrown into hard labor camps.

The crime is that he doesn't look like a good person.

The car arrived at the division headquarters without any obstruction. This was the original site of the Council of Elders of the Kingdom of Banda Aceh. It was used as a military headquarters after the Dutch colonists occupied it.

There were more than 400 armed officers and soldiers gathering in the courtyard. The commander, Colonel Pan Zhixin, saw the car driving into the courtyard and ran over quickly.

He raised his hands in salute and reported to Brigadier General Tang Liyi who had just stepped out of the car;

"Your Majesty, the Second Battalion of the Fourth Regiment is gathering and preparing to search the streets to capture fugitives. Please give me your instructions."

"Act as planned."

"As you command, sir."

The so-called search for fugitives was just an excuse. Now the Dutch army has been completely defeated, and most of them have become prisoners.

Before the peace negotiations began, the Corps would not keep these white prisoners of war, so they were all put into hard labor camps and worked hard in exchange for some food.

Although the food is not good, at least he will not starve to death.

Even if they escaped from the hard labor camp, no one would dare to take in these white people. Once they were discovered, the whole family would be in trouble.

The most typical examples are the white farmers and plantation owners in the hard labor camps. Not only were all their properties confiscated, but all men were also put into hard labor camps.

As for the white women, those who are young and beautiful and are favored by the military officers can get married, while those who are not wanted mostly end up in prostitution.

After a few months, no one dared to take in the fugitives anymore.

The so-called search for fugitives is nothing more than the recent acceptance of a large number of Chinese immigrants and the systematic clearing out of the indigenous people.

Recently

Banda Aceh has emptied out nearly half of its population, and most of them have been sent to the tropical rainforest to clear wasteland and build roads, and it is impossible to come back in the future.

This situation often happens in other cities and towns. It's like boiling a frog in warm water. It won't take long for the city's population to be replaced.

Otherwise, how will hundreds of thousands of new immigrants be resettled every year?