Chapter 330

  Next day

  Benevolent Mercy Hospital, in the surgical ward

  Bright sun shines in the ward, and the nose is filled with the smell of disinfectant. Doctors and nurses in white coats hurried to and fro, pushing the wounded in a large carriage accident into the ward.

  In the ward

  Lu Qiang, who had undergone surgery at midnight, looked a little pale, with a haggard look on his face, and said bitterly; "Several people, why is it always me who is injured? I need a reasonable explanation."

   "Hehehe... I think too much, it's pure coincidence."

"We are all together, you unscrupulous guys, don't want to use such an excuse to shirk responsibility." Lu Qiang was lying on the hospital bed with a white bandage on his thigh and gauze on the bridge of his nose, looking miserable. Looks like.

Zhao Qishan and the three people surrounded the hospital bed, put the fruits and cans they bought in the bedside table, and then sat down on the hospital bed, patted Lu Qiang's lap with an honest and unkind hand; "Don't talk to a mother." We chirp like we, the bullet pierced the eye. Limin and I will only have more bullet scars than you, not less than you. People say that scars are men's medals, and you should thank us."

   "Bullshit, don't want to fool me." Lu Qiang flatly refused.

Ma Limin couldn't stand him. He frowned and said to Zhao Qishan; "Brother Qishan, don't get used to his stinking problem. Our gunshot wounds were wounds in battle. He is purely a horse. There is too much urine and a stray bullet. How can it be compared with us? Without our brothers, the last penny of Lu Qiang would have been robbed clean. Without us sending him to the hospital, this will My child has been belching and catching a cold long ago, so there is no energy left to babble."

   "That's right, I think it's the retribution that I owe." Mai Guangtian stepped on his foot happily.

   Hearing everyone expressing their dissatisfaction, Lu Qiang didn’t dare to do it anymore, and said with a wry smile on his face; “Seniors, I just complained, I really didn’t mean to blame you.”

"You can only blame the robbers, Lu Qiang, you revealed your wealth when you paid the fine and you were worried about it. Let me say... this pair of dog men and women are so courageous!" Mai Guangtian shook with emotion. Shook his head.

  "What about this pair of dog men and women?" As a victim, Lu Qiang immediately showed his due anger.

The three people in front of the bed looked at each other speechlessly, and finally Zhao Qishan said, "Hey hey...It's just one word, it's miserable. After our brothers sent you to the hospital, they went back to the police station to record their confession. This pair of dogs The men and women have been beaten up as inhumans, and they are totally motivated by money. It is said that in a few days, no less than 20 people will be hanged together. They are all vicious criminals such as robbery, **** and murder. If you are interested, you can check it out."

   "It's really happy, you have to go, hey!" Lu Qiang patted the bed in excitement, and the result was a shock to the injured leg. It was really painful to crack his teeth.

  The judicial system in the Red River Valley does not support idlers. It implements simple procedures on the merits of the case. It implements severe crackdown policies on various vicious crimes. Those who dare to try the law and cause serious consequences are directly sent to the gallows, which has played an excellent deterrent effect on the stability of the public security situation.

  Only a few nearby cities

  Thousands of slave laborers are sent to mines every year, such as corruption, bribery, bullying, robbery, rape, gathering for fights, drunkenness and other minor offenders, all are sent to mines for labor re-education, and the high-pressure policy of strict management and heavy punishment is implemented.

  Facts have proved that the effect is extremely significant.

  In the two metropolises of Red River Valley and Brisbane and surrounding cities, there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants influx every year, and there are no less than 300,000 white ethnicity who work in business. The city is in order and the residents' sense of happiness and security are high.

  Of course, such a situation comes at a price. The city militia and the Royal Police will collect the homeless and the homeless. Their ultimate destination is the mine.

  The truth is simple

  Life in Australia is not very stressful. As long as you are willing to work, you can stutter. Among these losers are gamblers or lazy people, or people who have lost the motivation to fight and eat and wait to die.

  In this case, send it to the mine to use the waste heat.

  "Would you like to send a telegram to your younger siblings so that she can take care of you?"

   “No need, I’ve been injured for 10 days and a half a month. I can barely walk with crutches. There are a lot of things on the ranch at home, but I can’t take care of it.”

"Then you can think about it. You will have to lie down for at least two or three weeks for your gunshot wounds. Our brothers have a lot of work to do, but we don't have time to wait on you here, at most we can hire a caregiver for you, and Still a man."

"I, Lu Qiang, was also soaked in bitter water, not so delicate." Lu Qiang thought for a while and said with some worry; "Brothers, I have to ask you something. You can't go to the North Shore Market in this situation. I have to rely on you to purchase cattle and sheep, and my ranch also has to hire a few honest people, um, about 8 to 10 people."

   "Okay, a sheep is to chase a flock of sheep, and it is ours." Zhao Qishan was very bold, and he agreed.

  Talked for a while in the hospital, because there was still a lot of things on their bodies, the three of them left afterwards.

   came to the door of Renci Hospital

  People come and go on the streets, horse-drawn carriages are constantly flowing, and the loud sounds of vendors selling goods merge into a noisy river, bringing a different kind of life to this beautiful immigrant city.

Zhao Qishan and others stopped a passenger carriage at the junction of the street. This is a kind of extended public carriage drawn by 4 strong horses. It runs along a fixed indoor route and is used in places that cannot be reached by trams. It is the most convenient city public carriage. Transportation.

   "Are you going to the dock?"

   "Yes, three pence per person."

"Ok, no problem."

   got on the carriage, and the coachman in front slapped a loud whip, and the carriage immediately started to move forward.

This kind of carriage has hardwood seats facing each other in the long carriage, which can be squeezed to seat thirteen or four people. When we got on the car, there were already a dozen people in the car. Three brothers Zhao Qishan were lucky enough to sit down and come up again. The only people in this group are standing in the aisle of the carriage.

  The carriage went all the way, stopped all the way, and many passengers came up one after another, and soon the central aisle of the carriage was packed.

However, it’s hard to beat the public carriage, because there is a long iron plate at the back of the public carriage. Passengers who can’t get up can buy a "ticket", which means standing on the iron plate at the rear with both feet and hands holding it. The iron handrail is hung on the back of the car, at least five or six people can be hung.

After swaying for more than half an hour, the carriage finally arrived at the terminal passenger terminal.

Zhao Qishan and the others were very cautious with the huge sum of money in their arms, so they did not compete with other passengers, but waited for the crowd to get off before they left the public carriage, went to the ticket window of the passenger terminal, and took three small steamers to the north shore. ticket.

  While waiting at the terminal building, you can see the wide Brisbane river boats coming and going, and the boats carrying large bales of cotton are piled high and heading south where the city of Suzaku is located.

  The main channel of the Brisbane River connects Brisbane, Xuanwu City, Red River Valley City, and Qinglong City. The tributaries can connect to Zhuque City and White Tiger City, linking all surrounding cities, so water transportation is the main mode of transportation.

The ships on these rivers vary in size, ranging from two to three hundred tons, four to five hundred tons, to thousands of tons or even larger. Many of them come from the northern farming and pastoral towns with docks, and together they constitute the busy waters. Transportation line.

  Zhao Qishan knows;

  The wool around Qingdao Town is pre-processed at the purchase station, then packed and compacted by a baler, and then loaded onto a steamer anchored in Qingdao Port and transported to the large wool spinning enterprise where Zhuque City is located.

  The cattle and sheep purchased by these ranchers can arrive at Qingdao Port in three days at most on these returning ships, and then drive all the way back to the ranch. One week is enough.

  If you drive northward from Honghe Valley City for at least two and a half months, the purchased calves and lambs can’t help the long journey of the sun, the moon, and the frost, and half of them will die on the road.

The small steamers travelling between the north and south banks of the Brisbane River quickly came to shore. With the help of the wharf workers, many vegetable farmers pulling the carts pulled the carts stacked high with various vegetables up the slope, and then followed them. The cargo passage is lined up in a long snake formation, waiting for the transportation of vegetable carts to clear customs.

Vegetable carts must be invoiced according to the quantity of goods, and only after paying taxes can they enter the market. This tax payment point is located at the iron fence at the end of the transportation channel. A special tax commissioner is responsible for customs clearance. At the same time, tax police check whether there is any Entrainment?

  Passengers arriving at the South Bank take another passenger passage, where they need to check whether they are carrying guns and explosives, whether they can be fugitives, etc. Generally speaking, it is just a simple check, and the customs clearance speed is very fast.

  But every time a celebration or a major criminal case breaks out, the inspection will be tightened, and suspicious passengers will be opened for inspection, which is an effective security control point for entering and leaving the city.

  Zhao Qishan and others successfully got on the small steamer and arrived at the North Shore. They went through another inspection when they left the passenger passage and were quickly released.

  The north bank is different from the prosperous south bank where buildings are lined up. Here is the non-staple food base, vegetable baskets and barns of the entire city, mainly supplying the agricultural and sideline products of the metropolis of Red River Valley, looking at the pastoral scenery from a distance.

  The largest enterprise in the entire North Bank is the new shipbuilding base of Honghe Shipyard, which has just moved from the South Bank. It is still far from the North Bank Passenger Terminal. There are special small steamers leading to the new shipyard on the South Bank, which is not the same route as the cross-strait ferry.

  The people of Zhao Qishan just left the passenger waiting hall on the north bank, and they saw a prosperous small market town. The street floor was full of compacted gravel land instead of the beautiful and tidy asphalt road on the south bank.

  Looking from a distance, a group of cattle and sheep on the road were driven by the owner to stagger. The dirt road is full of cow dung, horse urine, and sheep dung balls, and the rich flavor is blowing.

Immediately after leaving the passenger waiting hall on the North Shore, a large group of enthusiastic coachmen greeted business. They were all carts drawn by a horse or a mule. They could carry goods or people. It was easy to lean on the busy ferry terminal. Business is a good business.

  Zhao Qishan and others asked other passengers on the small steamer, they knew that the North Shore Market was only 20 minutes’ walk from the passenger terminal, and it was enough to go north without turning.

Therefore, the three of them did not call animal carts, but took a big stride to head north. The lively town in front of them is more like Qingdao Town. Even the familiar smell of cow dung and horse urine feels so warm, kind of back. Feeling at home.

  Most of the farming and animal husbandry towns in northern Queensland are like this. With dirt roads, simple commercial facilities and rough wooden houses in the town, cowboys rode on their horses and walked on the streets with their guns and drove large herds of sheep to shear their wool.

  After getting the money, I would drink and have fun in the town, bet on two cards, find two beautiful Belarusian women or Fusang women, and have a good time, and I have to toss about the money in my pocket before I give up.

This kind of town is the original 1.0 version. Most of the farming and pastoral towns in northern Queensland are like this. Nowadays, they are rare in the territory of the Earl of Queensland. At most they only exist in remote pastures in the western part of the Great Dividing Range. I saw it.

The reason

  It is estimated that it should be a large-scale trade of cattle, sheep, horses, livestock and poultry. Paving a hard asphalt road will damage the horses and cows' hooves, which is superfluous.

Most of the towns in the Earl’s Domain are mainly based on version 2.0, that is, the central streets of the town’s roads are paved with asphalt or flagstone pavements, and there are complete sewer facilities. There are a large number of beautiful single-family villas and rural residences, and the urban population often exceeds 10,000, mainly 30,000 to 100,000.

Better cities are Zhuque City, Songjiang Town, Qinglong City, and Beilun Town. They belong to the 3.0 version. They not only have wide roads, separated green belts, city street lights, complete water facilities, but also prosperous industrial and commercial trade and connections. Fragments of residential areas and commercial centers, separate industrial zones, and more developed cultural, educational and entertainment facilities basically have everything a developed emerging city should have.

Strict gun control is imposed on the entry and exit of this type of city. When mules and horses enter the buttocks, they must put dung bags on them. It is strictly forbidden to drown in any place, and it is strictly forbidden to damage public property. It is strictly forbidden to spit on the ground. …

The population of this type of city generally exceeds 100,000, and the most populous Songjiang Town and Zhuque City have exceeded 300,000. According to the current rapid population growth, it is likely to exceed the 400,000 mark in the next two years, which has surpassed the entire Australia. Melbourne, the third largest city, leaves it far behind.

  Songjiang Town and Zhuque are developing very fast, and other cities are not far from others.

  As of 1882 annual report statistics

  The population of Qinglong City has exceeded 200,000, reaching more than 220,700 people. It is only more than 20,000 less than Australia's sixth-ranked Sydney City. It is expected to surpass Sydney City this year and jump to sixth place.

The population of Baihu City is 181,000, Xuanwu City is 77,000, Songshu Town is 70,600, Gusu Town is 68,500, Edinburgh Town is 64,200, Novorossiysk Town is 61,100, Hangzhou Town is 55,100, Ningbo Town is 54,600 people, 53,900 people in Beihai Town, 50,300 people in Wuyang Town, 47,000 people in Wenzhou Town, 46,500 people in Xiamen Town, 44,700 people in Moresby Town, 44,000 people in Shantou Town, and 43,100 people in Samarin ...

The town on the North Shore has a population of less than 40,000, and it is less than the top 20 in the entire Earl’s Land (not counted in Burns and other towns in northern Queensland). It is estimated to be ranked 22nd and 3rd. The construction can only be regarded as the 1.0 version level, which is far behind the brother towns.

  (End of this chapter)