Chapter 1445 Responsibility (Second update, please subscribe)
"Rabbit's tail!"
Boss Lin chuckled, with a hint of anger flashing in his eyes.
"I want to show you what a rabbit's tail is..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Boss Lin took out a dagger and stabbed it into Ding Lide's chest, "You, you..."
Ding Lide, who was stabbed, opened his eyes wide and grabbed Boss Lin's hand, his eyes full of astonishment.
"Now you know what a rabbit's tail is!"
With a sneer, Boss Lin twisted the dagger vigorously and said,
"What the hell!"
Boss Lin spat a mouthful of thick liquid on the ground, then stared at the horrified people and sneered.
"You are all fucking piece of shit. Don't be so shameless. The governor has shown mercy to you criminals and given you a chance to make meritorious contributions, but you don't know how to cherish it. If you don't die, who will? Listen to me, you have to do this whether you want to or not. Don't be so shameless. Do you have to make me go through with a knife before you know what's best for you?"
The American officers and soldiers standing by didn't even bother to look at Boss Lin's act of killing. In their eyes, the life and death of the imperial expatriates had nothing to do with them. Even if someone was killed, it was their own fault. What did it have to do with them?
In the concentration camp, the lives and deaths of the overseas Chinese were like those of ants, and no one cared. As for Boss Lin and his minions, they very much enjoyed the feeling of having the power of life and death. Everything seemed to have returned to the good old days when they dominated the streets.
After killing the chicken in front of the monkey, there was naturally a certain effect. Under the threat of life, there were always a few people who signed up. For the expatriates in the concentration camps, they might have various dissatisfactions in their hearts, but here, they could only accept it.
In fact, for the imperial expatriates living in foreign countries, they do not necessarily have to accept their fate or sit back and wait for death.
"I believe there will be lasting peace between Ming and the United States! The two continents of North and South America can accommodate two great powers!"
As a university professor, Song Weizhi has never been a radical. If he must be labeled, he is an international coordinator.
What are the so-called "international coordinationists"?
It was after the Battle of Brazil that many people were already satisfied with the vast territory of the empire. In view of the hostility and vigilance of Britain, the United States and some other countries towards the empire, they advocated that the empire should abandon the idea of external expansion, focus on consolidating the existing land, focus on local and colonial development, and ease relations with other countries through diplomatic coordination.
As an international coordinationist, Song Weizhi has a very clear view - the empire cannot continue to expand. In this case, it is better to maintain good relations with other countries.
There were many international coordinationists in the Ming Dynasty. After all, the traditional view was that "a country, no matter how big it is, will perish if it is warlike." This view was still very popular. In the eyes of many people, the radical expansion of the empire seemed to have brilliant results, but it aroused the vigilance and even hostility of Western powers such as Britain and the United States. In this case, coordinating the interests of all parties through negotiations was the best option to avoid war with them.
Of course, international coordination does not mean that the entire motherland must spit out the meat in its mouth. The core of international coordination is to make those countries recognize the meat in the empire's mouth.
Of course, this is just a fantasy, but before the outbreak of the war, this view was very popular in the country, and in official occasions, the officials also highly praised this view. After all, for the empire, the empire also hoped to ease relations with Britain and the United States, so as to gain time to digest the fruits of victory.
In essence, the so-called international coordination is... a kind of strategic deception. It's just that sometimes some people believe it when they talk about it.
Song Weizhi, an engineering machinery expert, is convinced of this view. Five years ago, he accepted an invitation from MIT to visit the United States as a scholar and give lectures at MIT.
That day, when he was attending church as usual, he learned the news that the empire had declared war on the United States.
As an international coordinationist, he was very sad about the outbreak of the war. After all, peace was gone. More importantly, if the empire stood up and became an enemy of the Western powers, could it win the future war?
Although he was not optimistic about the future, as a Ming citizen, Song Weizhi knew he had to return to Ming.
"I am a Ming citizen. No matter what my personal opinions are, in the war, I must obey the call of my motherland."
Faced with the persuasion of his friends at school to stay, Song Weizhi chose to return home.
Returning home, whether to respond to the call or to work in other industries, is the obligation of a citizen of the empire. Before the war broke out, he advocated peace, but after the war broke out, no matter what his views were in the past, now for Song Weizhi, he only knows one thing - to serve the country.
This is the obligation and responsibility of every Ming Dynasty citizen!
On the afternoon of April 21st, Song Weizhi drove a Buick car away from MIT and began his adventure.
According to Song Weizhi's plan, he would start from Massachusetts and head south, then enter the South - the Confederate States of America. Unlike the United States, the Confederacy remained neutral, and then go to Mexico from there.
The most dangerous journey is the thousands of miles of road to the border of the Alliance. You may encounter local people at any time along the way, and some of them are inevitably hostile to the empire.
"I am Song Weizhi, from Youzhou of the Ming Dynasty, and my ancestral home is Weinan County of Shaanxi..."
Perhaps to make arrangements for his afterlife, Song Weizhi not only wrote a suicide note in English, but also wrote down his ancestral home in Chinese characters. According to tradition, after death, the words "Daming Youzhou" and "Shaanxi Weinan" will be engraved on his tombstone. The former is his native place, and the latter is his ancestral home. It is the tradition of the Daming Dynasty to not look back to the past and not forget the roots.
Of course, whether anyone in the United States has erected a monument for him is another matter.
In this way, Song Weizhi traveled all the way south. Driving thousands of miles in this country that was hostile to the Chinese was undoubtedly full of risks. As a Chinese, Song Weizhi even had to pretend to be an Indian.
However, even so, he was still robbed on the road. When he was 100 miles away from the Virginia border, he was not only beaten, but his car was also stolen. After waking up from a coma, he was bruised and swollen like a savage. He headed south and could only survive by collecting wild fruits or catching small animals along the way.
After walking for five days, he finally entered Virginia - the South.
Two days later, Song Weizhi arrived in Richmond and came to the embassy. After stating his identity inside the embassy, the embassy staff entertained this university professor who had come to Richmond with great difficulty.
"Professor, you are not the first, nor the last person to come here. You know, before the war, there were at least 5,000 Ming people doing business or working in other industries in the United States, and many of them were technical personnel from cooperative enterprises. They were all like you, trying every means to rush to the South, although not everyone was so lucky, but..."
The embassy staff said.
"Finally, some people succeeded. Anyway, you are welcome to come home. Well, according to the ambassador's instructions, the embassy can subsidize your travel expenses of 100 yuan. You can buy a train ticket to Mexico City from here, and then the local embassy will subsidize your next leg of the journey. What do you think?"
“Can you get to the front from Mexico?”
"What?"
"I meant where I could get to the front, sir."
Song Weizhi said directly.
"I came back not to escape danger, but to fulfill my duty as a citizen! I want to join the army as soon as possible! This is my responsibility!"
The old group is down, so I created a new book club group: 739209015. Everyone is welcome to join and discuss and deduce the plot together.
(End of this chapter)
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