Well! The Soviet Stars and Stripes are complete nonsense, and the battle flag of the "Sistine Empire" is even more unreliable.
Zhao Xin was helpless, so he took Wu Siyu and Zhao Liang to find the nine-member group at the education entrance at night. As a result, this matter aroused great interest among a group of teachers, and finally even Chen Qingsong and Hong Tao were called over.
Some people suggested using the sickle and ax flag to represent the broad masses of working people; some people said that the Feilong flag was good because it conformed to the destiny and changed dynasties; others said that the Sun and Moon flag was the best because it was used to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty; the most disgusting thing is that Lao You actually treated Zhao Xin
He admired the painting of the Soviet Stars and Stripes very much, and clamored that he would occupy the other side of the ocean and drive all the foreign devils back to the European continent.
Among the nine-member group, a mathematics teacher named Yu Deli is the most researched on flag issues. This is purely his personal hobby.
He didn't speak for a long time. After everyone expressed their thoughts, he said: "Zhao Xin, everyone has no objection to you wanting to raise a flag, but you must first understand what this flag represents."
Lao You on the side said: "Lao Yu, please stop being so secretive and just say what you have to say."
Yu Deli thought for a while and then said under the eyes of everyone: "Let's talk about the military flag first. The establishment of the military flag is to establish a combat system with clear levels and the ability to implement orders from top to bottom.
For example, in ancient times, the Great Banner represented the highest-level ruler and was also called the "flag head". The pole used to erect the banner had to be equipped with a hair ball, which was made of ox tail, and its scientific name is Hao.
(sounds the same as burning). According to legend, after Huang Di defeated Chi You, he cut off his hair and used it as a decoration for the 纛, which represented the noble status of the 纛.
When a general is ordered to go on an expedition, he must raise the tooth flag. We used to read novels and listen to storytelling, and we always said that the flag was sacrificed during the expedition, but in fact it was the tooth flag that was sacrificed."
Wu Siyu suddenly raised his hand and interrupted: "Why is it called Yaqi?"
Yu Deli felt a little unhappy because he was interrupted. He glanced at Wu Siyu dissatisfied and explained: "In ancient times, the emperor personally went to war and built a big tooth flag. The flagpole was decorated with ivory. So it was called the tooth flag. The tooth flag was on the battlefield.
The place must be where the supreme commander is. As for the troops below, they must fly the five-square flag, and the soldiers must hold the flag in their hands.
Generally speaking, the flag represents a top-to-bottom national system. Specifically on the battlefield, it must be able to reflect the situation on the battlefield. The commander can understand the situation on the battlefield and adjust the combat strategy by watching the changes in the flag."
Zhao Xindao: "Teacher Yu, I understand what you mean. However, our military orders are all based on walkie-talkie communication, and there is no need to convey orders through a bunch of flags."
"No, you don't understand." Yu Deli said. "You have said that Beihai Town was built based on modern industrial technology. Without those weapons, mechanical technology and freighters, it would be difficult to settle in such a desolate outer northeast.
It's a foothold. So since we have a foothold, we, as a group of modern people from another time and space, must have a sense of sovereignty.
You set up military and police systems, medical education systems, opened factories in Beihai, and even promoted Mandarin and taught pinyin and Chinese characters. Isn’t it all to establish an exclusive political power? Including the modern civilization we have brought, these are all manifestations of sovereignty.
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How is sovereignty reflected? The first thing is the flag!”
After hearing this, Zhao Xin fell into deep thought.
When he originally had no intention of breaking into this time and space, he only wanted to make money to fill the emptiness, and rescue the refugees from the sea of misery with a good attitude. He took Liji and the others to a place where there was no oppression by the government, and he could get some gold to spend back home.
But then Zhao Xin found that he couldn't take care of it alone, so he asked Liu Sheng to help; and then he asked Wang Yuanfang and the others. With people, he could start a big boat and pick up more refugees. At this time, he discovered
When medical and other auxiliary personnel were needed, Chen Qingsong and others were recruited.
Until that time, Zhao Xin only had the evil idea in his mind to establish a political power and overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but in terms of actions, he still used a hammer here and a stick here. He would conquer Sendai here, the Matsumae clan there, and even run away.
Go to Nagasaki to stir up trouble. Generally speaking, this guy's purpose is to save people and gold, and his foreign policy is inconsistent. He doesn't even want to win over the local border residents.
With this attitude of having to do whatever he needed, he went south to Yangzhou to kidnap Shouma and come back as a teacher, and then deceived Lao You and nine others from modern times.
Because he wanted to go to the island country to cause trouble, he established a military system; because he needed to manage the refugees in the island country who did not understand the language, he put Katayama Kanbei in charge of the police system.
Beihai Town has developed to this point. With the influx of a large number of refugees from the Qing Dynasty in the future, and with the popularization of literacy, it is urgent to set up your own flag and establish a political power. Otherwise, why should the people listen to you? Why should you go?
Beaten to death? Wouldn't it be nice to be an obedient citizen of the Qing Dynasty?
What Yu Deli said is very clear. The so-called flag is basically the product of the continuous strengthening of the consciousness of sovereignty. At this point, Beihai Town needs to declare its sovereignty through the flag, and reflect its own politics through the style, color and pattern of the flag.
Characteristics, history and culture.
In the final analysis, there is no sovereignty and no country.
Zhao Xin lit a cigarette, took a few deep breaths, and asked Deli: "Teacher Yu, I understand what you mean. Do you have any good suggestions?"
Yu Deli nodded, got up and went back to his room. After rummaging for a while, he came out with a yellowish notebook. "Choose one." After saying that, he put the notebook in his hand on the table.
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Everyone gathered around to take a look and saw on the cover of the book the words "National flag pattern reference material, compiled and printed by the preparatory meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, September 1949".
"Lao Yu, why do you still have this treasure?" Lao You exclaimed.
"Personal hobby. I bought it for 20,000 yuan." Yu Deli explained calmly.
In this way, after everyone discussed all night until dawn the next day, they finally finalized the number 30 in the reference material as the draft flag of Beihai Town, but with slight modifications.
The entire flag is composed of red, white and black, and the size is according to the standard of three to two length to width. The red flag symbolizes revolution, and also conforms to Zhu Ming's red; the white five stars in the center represent light, symbolizing Beihai's political power and armed forces.
; Beihai is a country based on workers and peasants, and there is vast black land in the northeast, so the black outside the white five stars represents the black land; the twelve-tooth wheel represents the great power of industrialization, and also symbolizes that the enemies of Beihai Town will be destroyed by the wheel of history.
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The rest was easy. Zhao Xin went to get the red pongee fabric and waterproof spray ink for making the flag; Chen Qingsong was responsible for making the flagpole. Two days later, the first 3-meter-long and 2-meter-wide flag was finally born. !
When the flag was raised, everyone who stayed in Beihai Town came and stood in a dense crowd in the square. Among the crowd, Shen Jingdan, Shen Xuan, Jiang Tenglin, the Wu brothers, the girls from Tang Xiao, and Xu Brothers, even the two priests Markarius and Ferapontov stood in the crowd and watched.
When the large flag was raised to the top of the flagpole through the pulley and fluttered in the wind, the modern audience present cheered. Beihai Town finally had its own flag!
Markarius and Ferapontov looked at the fluttering flag on the top of the flagpole and the patterns on it, and looked at each other. They were indeed a group of barbarians who did not believe in God!
Father Ma looked at the smiling Zhao Xin under the flagpole and couldn't help gritting his teeth. It was this devil who actually explained to himself that the red cross on the outer wall of the hospital did not represent a cross, but two crossed blood-stained bandages! Macariu After Si heard Zhao Xin's explanation, he almost rushed up and strangled him to death.
The refugees from the island country knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the flag. Because the refugees from the island country left their country and left their hometown, they were no longer subjects under the rule of the shogunate. Therefore, the expressions on their faces were all excitement and joy. Man is no longer a lonely soul without an owner, he finally has someone to belong to.
The Wu brothers and the dozens of refugees from the Qing Dynasty looked pale. They even had flags, and the fools understood that the kings here were going to stand up to fight against the imperial court!
Shen Jingdan looked at the people with different expressions around him, then turned to look at Shen Xuan with a smile on his face, thinking that his identity as a relative must be finalized as soon as possible, and everything depends on Ah Quan.
Two days later, when the red flags were erected on the walls of Fuldan City and Jurgen City, more than 4,000 people present cheered like a mountain and a tsunami. Especially the 1,000 people under Liu Sheng who arrived earlier The troops cheered excitedly. Many people took off their hats and threw them into the air to express their joy.
Katsu Kaishu, Jiuzang, Manzao, Shigesuke and others looked at the big flag on the city wall, and their tears couldn't stop falling. They had been looking forward to this day for a long time!
Amidst the cheers in the background, Liu Sheng put down his saluting right hand and said loudly to Zhao Xin beside him: "In the end, we have reached this step."
"What?"
"Let's build a country under the banner of flag. What are you going to do next?"
"Let's talk about it after we fight this battle. I can't decide this matter alone." Zhao Xin said calmly.
"It couldn't be easier to kill mosquitoes with cannons. Do you think we will fail? If there are 10,000 people, we can directly capture the city of Beijing!"
"Then what?" Zhao Xin looked at the crowd in the distance and said calmly: "Liu Sheng, this is a hell-like era of ice and fire shrouded in the 'prosperity'. Everything we will suffer in the next hundred years or so The seeds of humiliation have actually been planted. The white people in Europe have long been dissatisfied with the massive outflow of silver, and they will soon replace other commodities with opium. Tsarist Russia in the north has always been eyeing it with covetous ambitions. As long as the weakness of this old empire is discovered, They would go south and invade territory; that's what they did historically.
Do you think that old lady, the Czar, doesn’t want to invade China? They have made preparations several times, but in the end they are still reluctant to bear the benefits brought by Kyakhta trade!
Don't look at the "Top Ten Martial Arts" that "Old Man Shiquan" boasts about, it's because Westerners can only enter Guangzhou now, and they still can't see the bottom of this country! Now we are doing this in the north, you see, The internal affairs of this great empire are already in danger.”
"Alas!" After Zhao Xin said this, he shook his head and sighed.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month of this year, when the victims of the disasters in Henan and Shandong were struggling on the verge of life and death, Qianlong, who was very happy about his success, arranged the "Thousands of Elders Banquet" in the Qianqing Palace to entertain more than 3,000 elderly people over 65 years old selected from all over the country. More than 400 tables, shocking the world.
At that time, Qianlong not only toasted several centenarians in person, but also asked his descendants to toast to these elderly people. The scene was very lively. Everyone present had a happy smile on their faces, as if they were praising the peace in the prosperous age.
However, the truth of the matter is that the emperor ordered the Thousand-Senior Banquet to be held to show sympathy for the people, but in fact it increased the burden on the people. Officials at all levels in various places took the opportunity to make money wantonly. It was entirely up to the magistrate to decide who to go and who not to go. The magistrate had the final say. You can be as old as you want. Those who have no money and are old enough cannot go; those who have money and are not old enough can change their age.
On the day of the Thousand Old Man's Banquet, thousands of old people lined up outside the Meridian Gate early in the morning. They were searched and checked before they could enter the palace and wait. It was not until noon that Qianlong came out to see these old people.
In the first month of the year, the city of Beijing turned to ice and the wind was biting. These old people stood in the cold wind and waited. They only had a few quick bites in the morning and carried them until noon. Their stomachs were empty, and the emperor had given them wine and they had to drink it. The banquet was over At the end, a group of old people fell down immediately. After leaving the palace, more old people fell down.
Eight years later, when the British mission entered the interior of China, they found that the country, especially in the north, was far from the orderly, prosperous and peaceful country they had imagined. Underneath the superficial prosperity was an astonishing decline. After the mission returned, They wrote to the King of England, believing that China could be bullied and that only a few three-masted warships could destroy the coastal fleet and cut off all shipping from Hainan Island to the North Zhili Bay. Fifty years later, they did the same thing. .
Liu Sheng patted Zhao Xin on the shoulder, and he felt the entanglement in the other person's words.
"Didn't you always say that you would overturn the table and break the roof? Only by smashing the old order can you build a new one."
"It's so difficult! The cycle of fighting chaos begins with this, and will end with this!" Zhao Xin didn't know what happened to him today, and he suddenly felt so many emotions.
"Forget it, I don't want to go to Beijing anymore; and you, don't think too much. I remember we discussed with Lao Chen and the others before, we should first defend this black land, develop technology, and jump out of that trap. Say it again."
"Malthusian Trap."
The two of them were chatting casually, and Guisheng ran over panting.
"Sir, that Shu Haili is trying to escape with his men! We have already surrounded him."
Shu Haili stared at Baman Gong a few steps away with an extremely annoyed expression. Ever since the red flag was raised at the top of the city and the soldiers around him threw their hats in the air, he knew that these people were deceived. These people were all Bald head, no braids at all!
Shu Haili's reaction was quite fast. He took advantage of the fact that the people around him were not paying attention to him, contacted everyone, and planned to call the original fort residents to escape together and go to Hunchun to report. Who knew that Baman Gong suddenly jumped after hearing this?
He got up and shouted. As a result, not only himself, but also his wife, children and other residents of the fort were escorted over by the soldiers.
If this kid hadn't snitched on him, Shu Haili felt that he would have been able to escape smoothly with his men. But now, looking at the angry soldiers with guns around him, they looked like they wanted to eat him.
"You bastard who has no imperial constitution! After eating meat for a few days, do you want to rebel with these people?! Why do you have it? What do you have? Wake up, the imperial army is coming!" Looking at a
With his wife and children looking horrified, Shu Haili cursed Baman Gong.
With an impatient look on his face, Baman Gong said contemptuously: "Why? Just because they give me three full meals a day, and just because they give me these clothes. From my Ama to me, our family is here
I have been working here for almost fifty years, but what has the court given us? I don’t even have a wife!"
"After a few mouthfuls of food, your clothes have captivated your mind? The imperial army is coming, and your family will be wiped out!"
"I'm happy! I've been working with them these days, and no one has ever looked down on me because I'm poor or of low status. You've seen all three meals a day, from top to bottom, even the general eats the same.
We are the same. Just for this, I am willing to sacrifice my life, it is worth dying!"
After listening to Bamangon's words, a dozen single Hamburg residents looked down at their new clothes and shoes, and they all bowed their heads in silence.
Shu Haili said angrily: "Don't be deceived by this kid! You are all bannermen!"
Baman Gong rolled his eyes at the other party and said disdainfully: "Pull him down! If you return such bad luck to a bannerman, I would rather not be a bannerman!"