Chapter 290: Amateur Cultural Life in Vladivostok
The Ministry of Intelligence is the most inconspicuous place among the various departments of the Military Commission, except that a woodcut flute has been built on the edge. It is also very deserted in normal times, and there are only three regular employees in the entire intelligence department, that is, Zhou Billy, Ding Xinghao and Qian Bing.
The rest of the soldiers are a few soldiers with honest personalities in the teaching team. They were all personally selected by Billy Zhou and Ding Xinghao, and their main job was to help the three of them run errands.
More than a dozen people who were singled out for training have basically finished their studies. In this era, there were no security services in various countries, and there were even fewer means of counterintelligence. And with the modern technology mastered by the Far East, if you want to spy on anything, you don't plan anything at all.
Qian Bing had secretly looked for some special talents among the Liao people under the rule of the Far East Company and among the soldiers of the overseas corps. These talents have all kinds of skills, such as cheating, gangs, picking doors and locks, and even robbing tombs, as peripheral support personnel of the intelligence department.
Now these people are undergoing rigorous training in a secret camp in the town of Biqu Pavilion www.biquge.info, and the instructors are several members of the special combat team. As special personnel of the Ministry of Intelligence, these people will also cooperate with intelligence officers in various places in the future to carry out various tasks. The Ministry of Intelligence has been in existence for less than a year, and it would be nice to be able to do what it is now.
Li Ming took Song Tao to the Ministry of Intelligence, and they sat in Billy Zhou's office with the three giants of the Ministry of Intelligence.
"Old Zhou, how is the preparation of the Intelligence Department?"
Zhou Billy said with a smile: "The candidate is already available, a Zhou Weifan, the original Ming Dynasty stationed in Liaodong Jinyi Guard." The other one you are all familiar with is that Sir Albert of Spain. Our plan was to form two groups, with Zhou Weifan following Song Tao and a few of his special combat team members, as well as a few peripheral support personnel from the intelligence department. Sir Albert is masquerading as a Frenchman with an aristocratic background. In the name of doing business, he entered the port with a sailboat. ”
Song Tao glanced at Li Ming and said with a smile: "Paralyzed." If we dare to claim hegemony in our place, we will simply beat the Portuguese away. ”
Ding Xinghao said with a smile: "Actually, the Portuguese occupied Macao in the Ming Dynasty and later Hong Kong are really not the same thing. Zhengde for eight years. The Portuguese fleet arrived on the coast of China for the first time, and they fought with the Ming several times, but they were all beaten all over the ground by the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the order of the Ming Dynasty was "Kill anyone who encounters a Buddha machine".
The Portuguese were not reconciled, they could not be deceived and deceived, and the armed invasion could not be defeated, so they changed their course. In 1553, a group of Portuguese ships anchored off the coast of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, falsely claiming to be the "tribute envoys" of Southeast Asian countries to Beijing. Request for land exposure to the cargo on board. At the same time, they bribed Wang Bai, the deputy envoy of the Guangdong Maritime Province, and others with a large amount of silver, and finally deceived the Chinese officials and were able to steal Macao.
Macao is not a land cession in Daming, strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as an economic development zone. Every year, all goods must be traded to and from the Fujian City Shipping Department, otherwise the ship will be fined and detained, and the Portuguese will have to pay a large amount of rent every year.
In the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), the Portuguese hung a statue of "Our Lady stepping on the dragon's head" on the newly completed Catholic church in Macao. The intention is to trample China under its feet. At that time, Yu Dayou, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, was ambitious and wanted to exterminate the local Portuguese in one fell swoop.
The Portuguese were frightened and knew that the Ming Dynasty was not easy to mess with. He hurriedly asked to see Mo Jiheng, the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty's Guangdong Haidao, sincerely repented, and gave a large amount of gold and silver as filial piety, not only to pay the rent arrears in previous years, but also to double the rent and taxes in the following years. The statue of the "Virgin Stepping on the Dragon's Head" was also destroyed by the Portuguese, and the Ming Dynasty warned Portugal that if the local Portuguese violated the law again, they would be punished by the "joint sitting law".
Since then, the Portuguese have served as governors of Liangguang in the Ming Dynasty. They are all exceptionally well-behaved, and they pay a large amount of silver every year. As long as there are no lawsuits for human lives and arrears of rent and taxes. After the Ming Dynasty, he served as a magistrate in Guangdong, and he didn't care much about the Portuguese.
Although one eye is open and one eye is closed. But the issue of sovereignty, the Ming Dynasty is unambiguous, although the Portuguese have long set up a general administration in Macao, stationed officials, but Macao has been assigned by the Ming Dynasty under the rule of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, especially in terms of judicial power, in Macau as large as a life lawsuit, as small as a trivial matter in the family, all have to be resolved by the Ming Dynasty Xiangshan County County Order, the Portuguese have no judicial power.
It was not until after the Opium War that they forced the Qing government to sign the Morning Treaty of the Sino-Portuguese Conference and the Sino-Portuguese Friendship and Commerce Agreement in 1887, officially establishing Macao as Portuguese territory. The Manchu government should bear the responsibility for the loss of Macao. ”
Li Ming laughed when he heard this: "No matter what, the Ming Dynasty has much more backbone than the Manchu Qing Dynasty." Macao still don't fight, attacking Macao is actually fighting the Ming Dynasty, and you can't do it to alarm the Ming court for this. As long as there are no more ships from the Western colonizers, it will naturally face withering in the future.
We fought foreign merchant ships until they never dared to come here again. Then let Albert go to Manila among the foreign maritime merchants in Macao, and pull all the ships that used to go to Macao to Manila to trade. ”
Zhou Billy nodded and said: "There is no problem with this, first of all, we must let the internal chaos in Macao, make the merchant ships of various countries panic, and then intercept all the Western sea ships." It is estimated that it will not be long before Macau becomes a dead port. ”
Li Ming turned his head to Song Tao and said, "Is it arranged by the special combat team?" ”
Song Tao said with a smile: "I took five special combat team members, including the blocker Zhang Yufei and the assaulter Wang Xiaojie, to Macao, and Liu Baoguo took the rest of the special combat team members to stay at home. ”
Li Ming nodded, and then said to everyone: "This time I will go to Macao, everyone pay attention to safety, I will cruise with the fleet in the waters off Guangdong, and if there is any emergency, I will immediately contact the fleet for support." The action is scheduled for a month later, and everyone should actively prepare during this time.
Every day, the playground of the teaching team can be heard with a burst of passwords and shouts. The Central Military Commission has paid close attention to the training of the troops, and the entire Far Eastern Division, except for the detachments that are carrying out tasks abroad, the rest of the troops have been training hard.
In addition to daily training, the Far Eastern Division also pays unremitting attention to political and ideological education. Two afternoons a week is the time for political study, and unlike modern society, political study is in the eyes of the soldiers of the Far Eastern Division, which is their favorite.
The Central Military Commission also attaches great importance to the amateur cultural life of the troops, and holds various cultural and recreational activities every month. Like the singing contest of the army, it is held once a month. The Ministry of Political Affairs has summarized and sorted out a number of military songs by using the military songs of the modern social troops.
Dozens of catchy military songs, including unity is strength, let's be a soldier, returning from target shooting, serving the country with loyalty, I am a soldier, and one, two, three, and four songs, were handed over to the soldiers of the army. These songs have also become a regular chorus of songs for the troops on various occasions.
The army also taught the soldiers a variety of chess and card games, such as backgammon, bridge, Chinese chess, arch pig, chess, military chess, etc., which have now begun to be popularized in various units and are deeply loved by the soldiers.
Every once in a while, the army organizes cadres and fighters to hold various chess games. Now these board and card games are also popularized among workers in various departments in Vladivostok. The company has also compiled and printed a large number of chess and card books, which are distributed to the libraries of various departments for everyone's research and reference.
Since the literacy eradication of the soldiers, many of the fighters have been eager for new things, and for this reason the troops have also set up libraries in various camps. Of course, the books were all compiled and printed by the Political Department of the Military Commission, but the content was not boring and very rich.
Dozens of basketball courts were built on the training team's playground, as well as a soccer field. Moreover, the camps of each detachment are relatively complete with various sports facilities, such as table tennis tables and billiard tables.
The various ball games in Vladivostok were actually first spread by the company's employees. Now that the conditions in Vladivostok are getting better and better, many employees who like these sports will get together and play football, basketball, badminton and table tennis in their spare time.
At first, the laborers were just curious, and they all gathered around to watch the excitement, but as they watched, they all understood the rules, and they also saw the doorway, and knew that they were standing next to each other and cheering loudly for both sides.
So, some Liao people were idle and had a pain, so they found a few worn-out whale skins and sewed them, stuffed some things into them, and kicked them in a spacious place. Many times, dozens or hundreds of people gather together to grab a ball, but it also makes them have a lot of fun.
At the beginning, the company's employees just watched it as a joke, but what they didn't expect was that in a short period of time, football became popular throughout Vladivostok, and there were piles of Liao laborers everywhere in Vladivostok to get together to play football.
In fact, what is playing football, it's just nonsense, often where the ball is, the people are there, and the kicking is messy. But the world's No. 1 sport is not just for fun, it does have its charm. Although the workers are still using the most primitive way to vent their excess energy with this sport, it has also made many workers like this sport.
It is undeniable that this sport has indeed enriched the amateur cultural life of the Liao people.
As soon as the company saw that the momentum was good, they had the idea of popularizing football and basketball among the people of Liao, so they simply asked the following factories to process a batch of footballs and basketballs and distribute them to various brigades and squadrons. They also sent people to teach the Liao people the rules of the competition in these two sports, and various departments also regularly organized some competitions.
The company set a task with the wood processing plant and produced a large number of wooden basketball hoops. And on holidays, take advantage of the opportunity to show movies on weekends to play videos of various ball sports events for the people of Liao. (To be continued)
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