Great time travel

Chapter 19, 27 moments in the four years of Chongzhen ([-])
No.19 Moments: The Radio Waves Flying Over the Ocean
On a cliff facing the Golden Bay on the seashore of Zhongnan City (Derby Port), the "Australian National Cemetery", which has just been completed less than half a year, is about to welcome a new resident—a strange species among Eastern European Polish knights , left the manor land in his hometown, catered to the fashion and changed his career to play a big voyage to explore the new world Andrew.Scaffani.Baron Skabeck was buried here and buried in a foreign country thousands of miles away from his homeland.

Although there are no relatives of Baron Andrew here, the Poles and Germans who came to the East with the baron spontaneously wore a white flower on their chests and came to the funeral in an endless stream.And the decision-making group of the Australian Travelers also mobilized people who were not on duty as much as possible, and invited people from the East Coast Expedition Team to boost their momentum, so that the funeral of this "old friend of the Australian people" could be more or less grand.

——Accompanied by the sound of mourning played by a certain electric speaker, eight sailors from the East Coast lifted up the heavy coffin, kicked a fairly neat goose step, and walked slowly to the cemetery, followed by twelve The soldiers of the East Coast Expedition Team with guns advanced slowly in two columns.Then came the Poles and Australians who traveled through the country. In terms of handling funerals, the east coast country, which has experienced many wars since the founding of the country, is more professional.

The funeral procession entered the cemetery, and the soldiers carefully placed the coffin into the grave that had already been dug, and then retreated one by one, picked up their respective bayonet muskets, and lined up in a neat row.The rigor of its momentum makes people can't help but admire it.

At the same time, a pastor among the Australian traversers took a speech and walked up in a stuffy black robe—although this guy is a Protestant, it feels like letting a Protestant pastor preside over funerals for Polish Catholics It seems a little strange.But helplessly, the East Coast country in South America is not a Christian country, and there is no military chaplain.The official missionary on the Polish expedition ship had been stung to death by the "Black Widow" poisonous spider before.

Therefore, this 21st-century Protestant Baptist priest had to preside over the funeral of a [-]th-century Catholic—he took a deep breath, stepped forward, opened his speech, and faced the audience. The crowd read it.

"...Great and merciful Lord! You have never been far away from each of your children. Now please take care of this one who is far away from us, Andrew Skavani from Silesia. Baron Skabek, who has just had the misfortune Sacrifice in the exploration of the unknown world, Andrew Scavani. Mr. Baron Skabek is a good man, he has followed your teachings all his life, and never surpassed anything. He dedicated and sacrificed for you, Please forgive his sins, send angels to be with him on his way, to be his guard, so that his trust in you will never change. Please give him wisdom and wisdom, have the ability to resist temptation, do Do all his affairs well; let him take pleasure in doing his will, and not allow the distance between us to affect our unity; so that we can watch each other, be faithful to the end, fulfill our respective responsibilities and duties, and glorify our heavenly Father together. In the name of the Lord Jesus, amen."

The European Christians who watched the ceremony prayed collectively, while the trans-Christians and non-Christians felt the solemn and mournful atmosphere, and the scene was silent for a while.A moment later, Captain Li Yi, the commander of the East Coast Expedition Team, waved his hand, and the soldiers with guns immediately solemnized together. They fired empty shells into the sky amidst the sound of orders, and collectively fired guns in mourning. Then the Poles who followed Baron Andrew The last farewell - because there is no family member of Baron Andrew here, they can only be replaced by them... After that, the grave is filled, the tombstone is erected, and the funeral is over.

Although the whole funeral looked decent and extremely mournful, but thinking about the cause of the Polish baron's death, it was really dumbfounding... because this idiot was struck to death by a thunderbolt—it wasn't because of his many evil deeds that caused the punishment from the gods , but this guy is looking for lightning to kill himself!
Looking back at the huge kite floating hundreds of meters above the ground, Li Wei couldn't help but smile wryly.

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According to the introduction of Captain Li Yi, the commander of the East Coast Expedition Team, more than 100 traversers in Australia were shocked to learn that they were not the only intruders in this time and space, and there were two other larger teams of modern traversers. They came to this world almost at the same time ten years ago. They landed in the eastern part of Uruguay in South America and Manhattan Island in New York in North America respectively, and established the "East Coast Republic" and "Huamei Republic" respectively.

Although the two emerging powers are separated by nine thousand kilometers, due to different foreign policies—the Hua America, which is located in North America, insists on an alliance with Spain to open up the European market, while the East Coast country continues to provoke the Spanish colonial authorities in South America and Expansion of territory.Coupled with the intervention of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries in the Americas, the huge vortex of the 30-year war in Europe, and the contradictions in the competition for the modern "high-tech" commodity market, the "East Coast Republic" and the "Huamei Republic" There has always been both cooperation and conflict between them, and it is not particularly harmonious: China and the United States always accuse the countries on the east bank of engaging in militarism and fascism, while the countries on the east coast think that China and the United States are a yellow-skinned and white-hearted "central party"... But After all, the American continent is vast enough to accommodate two emerging republics at the same time, so there is no sign of a complete tear.

Of course, for the "Australians" who have just arrived, the intrigue and alliance disputes between Huamei and the East Coast countries in the past ten years are not the focus of their attention.What really moved their hearts was actually a small piece of news that Captain Li Yi inadvertently leaked-the East Bank country, which was crossed with only an inland river ferry, has never been able to fly due to the lack of necessary electronic components and technical materials. To raise the level of technology to the electrical age, even the steam engine ship has only just been successfully developed. As for the original radio equipment on the ship, it has long been broken and cannot be repaired.However, Huamei, which traveled across China with countless container goods and five large ships, used the collected parts to manage to piece together a set of long-range radio systems. Can maintain radio real-time communication between!

——On the "Cosco Star" modern sailing ship of the "Australians", there is also a set of intact short-wave radio stations, although the power is not too high... In this way, they seem to be able to send telegrams from Australia , Get in touch with Huamei in North America? !
But this is only a theoretical possibility - as long as you look at the globe, you will know that they are located in Western Australia, and the east coast of North America, where Huamei is located, are almost exactly at the two ends of the earth, separated by the vast Australian continent and the Pacific Ocean. The straight-line distance from the American continent is close to [-] kilometers... With such a long distance, and there are many mountains and mountains, the radio signal has long been attenuated.

And the radio station on the ship is only an ordinary thing with a power of more than 100 watts. Even in the clean radio environment of the 21th century, it is impossible to transmit signals halfway around the world-in the [-]st century, such a long-distance distance Communications generally go through satellite relay stations.

In short, in the past half a year, the radio station of "COSCO Star" has never caught any recognizable signals.

In order to solve the above problems, the "Australians" first thought of building a tall radio transmission tower... But the construction materials at hand are limited, and the manpower is even more scarce, so such a huge project cannot be carried out.The second is to use a balloon to pull up the antenna, but they do not have the equipment to produce hydrogen, and the hot air balloon is really not safe: even in the modern world, the average hot air balloon will have an accident every fifty times.

In the end, they resorted to a very old invention to replace the radio tower: the kite!

——Someone among the "Australians", according to Verne's science fiction novel "Fifteen Boys Crusoe", [-] troubled teenagers made big kites on a deserted island, and let people ride them to scout the enemy's situation, A suggestion was put forward: since the kite can be hoisted by a person as long as it is made strong and large enough, it seems that it should be possible to drag a radio antenna up to the sky as a temporary transmission tower, right?
It happened that among the group of traversers in Australia, one was making kites in Weifang, Shandong. So, everyone worked together, and under the guidance of the professional kite maker, they made two long kites with canvas, iron wire and wooden frames. A large triangular kite with a width of about four meters (one kite for experimentation and another kite for backup), and then find a way to fix the booster antenna on the kite, and then wind the wires and cables together—because the kite is too big and the tension is too strong, So we had to use cables instead of kite lines, and finally fixed a winch on a high and windy cliff to fix the kite and release the rope... After several trials, this "antenna kite" was finally adopted by them. It was successfully released into the sky.

However, although the antenna was ready, there was a problem with the radio station - because it had not been used for a long time, the short-wave radio station on the ship seemed to have some glitches and could not work normally... So, a group of traversers carried The radio station went back for maintenance, and threw the kite hanging in the air to Baron Andrew, an idler, and asked him to help watch it.If the radio station has not been repaired by the evening, ask the baron to put the kite away.

At the beginning, Baron Andrew naturally agreed wholeheartedly, saying that such a small matter is nothing to worry about.

It was just that after everyone else left, the baron sat on the top of the empty mountain for a while, feeling very bored, so he put the matter behind him, pulled his two personal servants, and carried the crossbow and shotgun, Went to hunt birds in the forest behind the mountain.

Unexpectedly, when Baron Andrew was hunting happily, there was a sudden change in the sky. Suddenly, there was a strong wind, dark clouds, and it was about to rain.The baron was taken aback, and hurried back to the top of the mountain as fast as he could, but at this time, there were already patters of raindrops in the sky... What's worse, the wind was stronger on the eve of the rain, and it took more effort to get the kite back Baron Andrew and his two servants tried their best to turn the winch for half an hour, but they didn't get the kite back much.And the light rain overhead has turned into a torrential rain, and then into a thunderstorm...

So, accompanied by rumbling lightning and thunder, His Excellency Baron Andrew, who has always been full of curiosity, experienced the experience of Franklin, the pioneer of the founding of the United States more than 100 years in advance. He was only slightly injured and passed out; but Baron Andrew, who was pulling the rope, was struck by lightning and died on the spot... It seems that he died on duty.

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Although a baron died because of kite flying yesterday, but since the weather is sunny today and the radio equipment has been repaired, the kite that should be flown must still be flown, and the telegram that should be sent must still be sent... So, regarding this Li Wei, who was very concerned and unable to intervene, could only watch the sailors on the "Star COSCO" fiddling with radio stations and continuously dialing out SOS signals (in fact, the international emergency signal in the 21st century has been changed, but most people After all, they are more familiar with SOS), while standing on the top of the mountain whistling boringly.

At this moment, I saw the captain Wang Tiehui holding a lunch box and bringing it up like a treasure, "...Brother Li, I just got some fresh food here, just baked, you can try it while it's hot. "

"...What is this thing? Can it be eaten?"

Li Wei looked at the white discs with scorched marks in the lunch box, hesitantly picked one up, put it in his mouth, and chewed slowly, "...well, it's a little sour, but it's still quite sweet, not bad, but ...You have mixed too much starch into this bread, right?"

"...This is not bread!" The captain was a little smug, and said coquettishly: "...But you really hit the mark, the name of this thing really has the word "bread" in it—bread fruit!"

"... Breadfruit?" Li Wei blinked in a daze.

"...Yes, the fruit of the bread tree, breadfruit." Wang Tiechui took out a large blue fruit from behind as he spoke. If it weren't for the pitted skin, it would look like a grapefruit at first glance.I saw the captain put the breadfruit on a stone, picked up a dagger and split one in two, immediately revealing the white powder inside, "...How about it! It's a good thing!"

"...It is indeed a good thing! Where did you find it? Is there a lot of it?"

Li Wei suddenly became a little excited. During the past year in Australia, he really didn't eat any good food.Li Wei himself is fine, the problem is that his wife Zhao Na is still breastfeeding and urgently needs to supplement nutrition.Seeing his wife eating stinky kangaroo meat every day, she became nauseated and vomited over and over again, and she lost a lot of weight, Li Wei felt his heart twitching.

Even after the arrival of the East Coast Expedition, the "Australians" got a batch of flour from them, but because there were too many mouths to eat, there was still no way to ensure that there would be enough flour before the newly sown grains and potatoes were harvested. For pasta, you still have to hold your nose and eat kangaroo meat from time to time.As for pastries and snacks, there is nowhere to get them - now that you have this bread fruit, you can change the taste, and I think my wife will be happy too!
"...In the woods behind the opposite mountain, a total of more than a dozen bread trees were found. Before we have time to investigate further away, I guess it will be indispensable..." Wang Tiechui replied casually, but his words did not Before he could finish speaking, he heard a burst of applause coming from the small tent where the radio station equipment was placed. Li Wei and Wang Tiehammer looked at each other, and immediately turned around and rushed towards the radio tent.

"...How is it? Is there any movement on the other side?" Li Wei asked loudly as soon as he lifted the curtain.

"...There is a response! There is a response! Look!" A fat man wearing round glasses jumped up and down excitedly, and pulled Li Wei to the table. On the laptop screen at the end, a line of eye-catching information is displayed:

"...Who are you? Please inform your affiliation and location?"

The following is the reply of the radio operator of "COSCO Star":
"...we are from China in the 21st century! We are in Australia!"

Seeing that after sacrificing one life, he finally received the radio signal from "Huamei", Li Wei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, after waiting patiently for another quarter of an hour, a line of unexpected reply appeared on the computer screen:

"...This is the Supreme Senate of Lingao County, Hainan Island. Welcome to the earth in the seventeenth century..."

As a result, everyone in the tent became messy in the wind—Hainan Island?Lingao County?senate?What do these words mean when combined? !

As everyone knows, those people on the other end of the radio wave are also in a mess at this time, and the wind is messy:
"...God! Why did a group of "Australians" come through? If I knew this, I shouldn't call myself "Australians"! This is great, I don't know if they have had contact with Europeans, These guys would never think of helping us lie! In case the two sides do not match the information, or if the Australian side refuses to cooperate. Our previous set of "Australia and Song Dynasty establish a country" rhetoric, if not, it will all be a joke... ...Oh! What did I say? I need to inform the Executive Committee and Chairman Wen immediately!"