The news that Ma Quanyou was captured by agents of the Principality of Black Mountain Castle from the White Sea Desert and brought back for trial made headlines in major newspapers in the Principality.
At the same time, the news spread that many tribes in the Desert of Annihilation respected His Royal Highness as their leader and signed an agreement with the Principality to fight against the White Sea pirates together with the Principality's border guards.
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Wuhan, the general headquarters for suppressing bandits that was established not long ago.
Lu Ming was holding a military meeting.
The main forces have already withdrawn. In Wuhan, the newly established Wuhan Border Defense Regiment was established. Captain Wang was promoted to Regiment Commander Wang and also served as the commander-in-chief of the Suppression Headquarters.
Those attending the meeting included the director of the political training department, the deputy regiment commander, the chief of staff, the logistics minister and other major military officers of the regiment as well as the battalion commanders and political training section chiefs of the four border defense battalions.
Lu Ming’s mind was actually no longer here. The new army was just being organized and required a series of reorganization training.
Then, it would not be a big problem to fight against the bandits together with the tribal armed forces.
Thinking of the reluctant farewell scene half a month ago, Lu Ming still felt a little emotional.
The tribesmen all regarded me as a great benefactor and did not want me to leave. Tongnu, Datong, Ertong and others gestured to me, hoping that I would stay and become the leader of the tribes.
In fact, I am quite curious about the depths of the Land of Silence, but now is not the time to explore, I will do it later when I have the chance.
He gestured to tell them that he was the incarnation of the Prince of Black Mountain Castle outside.
Outsiders got to know these words, and they thought they were the prince's subordinates, so they deliberately deified the prince, taking advantage of the tribe's ignorance and gaining their worship and submission by deifying themselves.
For the tribesmen, it didn’t matter whether they believed it or not. Anyway, they performed the three cuts and six holes for the new generation leaders such as Tongnu, and showed how they turned into a corpse and came back to life after a day.
Therefore, all tribes respected themselves as the chief gods.
He also used Xiao Hei to lead the way and took Da Tong and the others on several outings to find the best route to Wu Han.
In this way, they can send traders to Wuhan regularly to trade. If the headquarters is preparing to suppress the White Sea pirates, they can also use this route to contact the tribes and attack from both the east and the west.
As for Xiao Hei, they found a few female yaks for him, and sent them to Montenegro by train, where they were pampered and became sacred cows.
Not to mention, Xiao Hei is very smart and recognizes people differently from humans. In Montenegro, it can recognize its own self and is very affectionate with it.
Tuoba Lan and other female volunteers who were former high-ranking generals of the Ma and Chen gangs, including mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and even granddaughters, totaling more than a hundred people, are working and serving their sentences in the Wuhan Women's Special Labor Camp. Of course, the work is still very easy. They are generally educated, and most of them do clerical work.
Wu Han is in great need of cultural cadres. In a sense, they are actually prisoners but doing clerical work in the agency.
For example, Tuoba Lan even went between the labor camp and the Suppression Headquarters as if he were going to and from get off work.
In the Suppression Headquarters, she was the soldiers' cultural instructor, and the entire regiment had one hour of cultural classes every day.
Even in this conference room, she was taking notes as a secretary.
The officers had all heard that she seemed to have a special relationship with Captain Wang, but they couldn't see it. It was as if she had coldly blocked her emotions, especially when facing Captain Wang, she was like a mechanical zombie.
In fact, the man is unmarried and the woman is divorced. Captain Wang is a hero and she is a beauty. It’s fine for them to be a couple, and there’s no need to hide it. It’s obvious that they really don’t have a chemistry.
After today's meeting, Captain Wang went back to rest as usual.
Everyone understands that Captain Wang went deep into the barren land and single-handedly wiped out the Ma and Chen bandit gangs and captured Ma Quanyou alive. He is truly a legendary hero.
But I think after going through hardships that are unbearable for ordinary people, his mental and physical strength have been greatly damaged, so it is right to take good care of himself.
Besides, there are many trivial matters to be dealt with in the reorganization of the new army, and Captain Wang does not need to worry about it.
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Go into your own dormitory in the regiment headquarters and lie down.
When Lu Ming opened his eyes again, he was on the ship.
A ship sailing to Xianquan Port in Japan.
This is the body of Commissioner Zhang, who has already resigned as Governor of Xiangxi and has no new identity for the time being.
But standing next to Lu Ming on the deck was Erika's father, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who was about to take up the post of chief director of the Xianquan Port Public Affairs Board.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was chatting and laughing with Lu Ming. It was obvious that Governor Zhang's trip to Xianquan was a secret mission commissioned by His Royal Highness the Prince himself.
Erika Ashikaga was holding the railing at the side, looking at the blue sea, looking very happy.
She was wearing a beautiful blue and white patterned kimono and lovely white socks and wooden clogs. As a girl grows up, she becomes more and more beautiful. The surrounding scenery, reflected in her light, seems to have turned into a black and white world.
After three or four years in a foreign country, it was her first time returning to her hometown, and she was traveling with her parents. She was extremely happy.
She even rubbed against Lu Ming from time to time, hugged Lu Ming's arm and smiled foolishly.
Smelling the girl's fragrance, Lu Ming felt a little tipsy, but he didn't want to let Ashikaga Yoshimitsu notice anything unusual.
Lu Ming finally decided to use Commissioner Zhang's body to do things in Japan. After all, considering his relationship with the Ashikaga family, this body was very special.
With the perfection of one mind and four bodies, one can actually say now that the four bodies are one's own original self, and one has four lives.
Currently, Captain Wang is in Wuhan.
Commissioner Li went to the Autonomous Region of Antigua and Barbuda.
As the Second Prince's Kingdom of Sonia expanded and its sphere of influence reached Hanzhou, the strategic location of Antigua, not far from Hanzhou, became more important.
Fortunately, it has been in operation for two or three years and has achieved some results.
The "Biyun" autonomous city that Commissioner Li took over now has an airport.
Originally, we were planning to have Commissioner Li come to Japan. After all, from a system perspective, Commissioner Zhang has always been in charge of Antigua, and even if he didn't go, it would still be Commissioner Zhang who was in charge of the remote control.
But intelligence shows that Prime Minister Yu Yamamoto has secretly contacted the aviation company of the Kingdom of Sonia to purchase fighter jets and bombers.
It is obviously urgent to further eliminate Japan's war potential. Therefore, heavyweights must come to Japan so that decisions and actions can be made more quickly.
Commissioner Li seemed not to be important enough.
Commissioner Zhang, who had a close relationship with the Ashikaga family, became the most suitable candidate.
Commissioner Li went to Antigua as Commissioner Zhang's full-power representative.
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Xianquan Port, because it is located in the southern part of the Japanese Islands, was originally not developed.
Several ports in the west are closer to the imperial mainland, especially to the East Sea Port, and are the main trading ports.
Xianquan Port and its surrounding areas have a population of only a few hundred thousand people, and the appearance of the city is exactly the same as the eastern island country that Lu Ming had seen in the images of the 1940s and 1950s in his previous life.
There are various traditional Japanese wooden buildings, as well as three- or four-story shopping malls and apartment buildings with cement exterior walls.
The crowds on the streets are also like this, with men and women in traditional clothes, as well as pedestrians in various new clothes.
Although the economy is not very developed, in the northern region in the past, except for Shengjing, there was no city whose appearance and level of civilization could compare with this small fairy spring.
Moreover, after being under the jurisdiction of the Principality of Montenegro for several months, changes have become obvious. The number of ships docked at Xianquan Port has gradually increased, and the port area has also begun to expand.
In addition, Xianquan Port is a small island, and a steel bridge is currently under construction to connect Xianquan Island and the Japanese mainland.
On the other side of the bridge, there is about 3,000 square kilometers of wasteland which is also under the management of Xianquan Port. Nowadays, large tracts of buildings are being built there.
In fact, most of the people who come here are Japanese businessmen who invest.
Merchants have sharp eyes, especially Xianquan Port, which has joined the free trade plan of the Eastern Economic Alliance of the Empire as a free trade port and implements East China Sea laws.
Excluding the risk of war, any far-sighted investor would know that this would be a place of rare opportunity.
Because since Prime Minister Yamamoto Takeshi came to power through a coup, he has abandoned the governance strategies of previous prime ministers, including former Prime Minister Ashikaga, and has become increasingly restrictive on the economy and ideology.
Once a window is opened in a place where dictatorship imprisons thoughts, it will undoubtedly become a dream place with an extremely active economy.
After the Ruian Insurance Company, a subsidiary of the Empire China Group, announced that the property insurance for enterprises and industrial and commercial operators in Xianquan New City could include "war risk", investors from Japan, the East China Sea and Montenegro flocked to the city, fearing that they would be too late and lose the initiative.
There were even some merchants employed by Japanese lords who came here to invest.
In fact, it is not just businessmen. Many middle-class people and young people who have been enlightened by new ideas, who feel increasingly suffocated under Yamamoto's rule, also come here to look for job opportunities, hoping to live in a land where the Tokai law is implemented.
It was under such circumstances that Lu Ming entered Xianquan Port.