Chapter 93: Fusion of Times Anyone who has read the book Guns, Germs, and Steel probably knows that during the process of European colonization of the Americas, germs from the Old World caused horrific destruction to the Indians in the New World.
The Native Americans died of smallpox.
Far more natives died from musketry than But on the other hand, the European colonists themselves at this time were also suffering from the plague.
The average life expectancy in Europe at that time was no more than thirty-five years.
The mortality rate on each voyage across the Atlantic was as high as one tenth.
There were no sewers in the cities.
There is feces and urine everywhere, the stench is high, and epidemics breed.
The child mortality rate remains high.
Citizens do not have toothpaste or toothbrushes at home.
Occasionally bleeding gums may lead to infection and death.
And the Christian Church does not encourage believers to take baths.
Most Europeans will just rub themselves into a pile of stinky mud.
Modern people will faint if they stay around them.
Such an unhygienic living environment naturally leads to repeated outbreaks of plague. , a plague often kills tens to hundreds of thousands of people.
Thanks to the high fertility rate of Europeans in those days, as the saying goes, the poorer the poorer, the better.
Not only have they withstood repeated harvests from the god of death, but they still have the energy to launch expansion all over the world. .
In short, even in the early colonial towns established by Europeans in the Americas these days, half of the people often died when a plague broke out.
Therefore, when more than five hundred travelers came to Manhattan Island, the first "gifts" they brought to the Native American Indians were not the iron tools, cloth, plastic jewelry and carbonated drinks that the travelers gave to the Delaware tribe. are various bacteria and viruses from the 21st century Fortunately, this group of travelers in North America generally have high moral standards.
When faced with the outbreak of the epidemic among neighboring Indian tribes, they did not stand idly by, nor did they gloat or even add insult to injury.
An important reason why the Chinese and American authorities are so enthusiastic is that there are so many people who have traveled through time.
The young man marries The Indian girl who came to the Delaware tribe had to take care of her father-in-law's family even if it was just for the sake of her wife and children.
Instead, she sent a medical team to try her best to treat the sick natives and teach the Indians various advanced medical treatments.
The concept of hygiene finally allowed them to survive this crisis.
Next, as immigrants from all over the world continued to enter the Chinese-American Republic, they not only brought practical skills, unique crop varieties, and exotic livestock from all over the world, but also brought diseases from all over the world.
In this era, anyone who could survive People who reach adulthood have strong immunity to various diseases in their hometown, but they are often very vulnerable to diseases in distant foreign countries.
Therefore, in the Republic of China, a country of immigrants, the incidence of various infectious diseases is very high.
Even with the time-travelers' medical and health concepts that transcend the times, as well as the various anti-inflammatory drugs that have been "invented" one after another, epidemics frequently break out.
The disease still kills a large number of people, especially infants and young children.
For example, when immigrants from Europe come to North America, they are often infected with diseases that are common in Asia but rarely seen in Europe.
Immigrants from East Asia are also prone to diseases that are unique to Europe and the West because they are very common in their hometowns.
Less exposure to these diseases will result in death every time due to limited immunity in the body.
As for the indigenous Indians, they were the most unlucky.
They had no immunity to germs from Europe or Asia.
As representatives of the Americas, they are able to "contribute" to the horror of all mankind, but the only famous one is syphilis.
Compared with other severe plagues, syphilis is really not on the table.
Not only is the transmission channel narrow, but the symptoms are easy. be seen out Faced with the global exchange of germs that is held every day on its own land, the Chinese-American Republic has attached great importance to the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
Once a patient is found, he will immediately isolate and treat him without mercy, even in the house where the patient has lived.
They are all burned down, but there are still small-scale epidemic outbreaks every year, causing hundreds of casualties, but at least they have never led to a nationwide tragedy, which can be regarded as a great blessing among misfortunes.
Therefore, when this large-scale introduction of immigrants from the East occurred, the health department of the Chinese-American Republic, which had already been frightened, strongly demanded that all new immigrants must complete the quarantine and purification work in Shandong, and these "mobile pathogens" must not be allowed to contaminate North America again.
Otherwise, those European and Asian nationals who have been tested by germs in the Old World and have relatively strong disease resistance would be fine.
The Chinese American Indian nationals with relatively "delicate" immune systems and those Indian tribes vassalized by the Republic, But he is about to suffer a disaster.
Although after receiving cross-dimensional assistance from the central government, the Chinese American Republic is already preparing for universal vaccination, after all, it has just begun to be implemented, and the proportion of the population that has been vaccinated is less than one-tenth.
Even with the drugs available in the modern world, However, it is obviously better to avoid the huge cost of treating infectious diseases for so many people, as well as the economic losses caused by isolation and epidemic prevention.
On the contrary, the republics on the east coast of South America welcome all comers.
The refugees and prisoners captured by the Dengzhou Army just took a shower and changed their clothes, and then were thrown directly into the Pampas of Argentina in later generations to reclaim the frontier.
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The East Coast Republic did not have confidence in its own medical and health system.
In fact, their medical and health system is not more advanced than that of the Chinese-American Republic, and is even slightly worse.
However, they do not treat the indigenous Indians in South America as human beings at all.
Of course, strictly speaking, they do not treat these Shandong immigrants as human beings. to look at Unlike the Chinese American Republic, which first gathers new immigrants to the capital, and then sends them to various settlements, farms, factories, mines and workshops after review and training, the East Coast Republic does not allow new immigrants to pass through the densely populated capital Oriental Port and the better developed bustling areas.
Towns, but the exits of random doors were placed in the most desolate wilderness frontiers, and the immigrants started to open up wasteland as soon as they arrived.
In this way, these "mobile pathogens" can be prevented to the greatest extent from coming into contact with East Coast citizens, thereby inducing plague in major settlements.
As for the indigenous Indians around the border, the authorities of the East Coast Republic still hope that as many of them as possible will die.
The two groups of travelers in North America and South America have almost the same purpose in treating European immigrants, which is "restriction, integration and use".
But the attitude towards the native American Indians is different: in the Chinese-American Republic, the Indians represented by the Delaware tribe are also one of the main populations of the country, and due to years of getting along and intermarriage, they have long been They have been highly Chineseized and integrated into society, and are generally accustomed to the production and lifestyle of the travelers.
The government is more comfortable with them than East Asian immigrants, and naturally treats them as one of their own.
Of course, there are also many Indian tribes who are fighting fiercely against the Chinese-American Republic, but that is another matter.
Indians are actually general terms like "Europeans" and "Asians".
Members of each Indian tribe never know Treat people from other tribes as compatriots.
The fighting between different tribes is also extremely cruel and bloody.
Massacres on the scale of genocide are often launched.
The hatred between them is no less than that of the colonists.
But in the East Coast Republic of South America, this militaristic country, it was a different situation.
In the early days of the landing, when the military power had not yet taken shape, this time traveler regime once accepted about 2,000 Indians who came to seek refuge.
Bring them into the national category.
However, as external military threats increased and after entering the era of militarism, the East Coast Republic comprehensively corrected its previous "wrong policies" and generally preferred to introduce European immigrants and black Africans to develop wastelands.
Native Indians were targeted for eradication.
According to the theory of the east coast military hardliners, in this iron-blooded era when natural selection, the law of the jungle and social Darwin theory prevailed, the struggles of various ethnic groups have always resorted to all possible means.
On the land of South America, these people who traveled through As a foreign bandit, can he still live in peace and contentment without killing all the original owners of this land?
Even trying to integrate and absorb these indigenous people is simply a suicide attempt.
Therefore, as a foreign political power, the East Coast Republic can absorb Ming Dynasty people, Japanese, Europeans and even Arabs as official citizens, but it cannot absorb Indians for the sake of the "aboriginal" halo on their heads.
In the eyes of the military in the East Coast Republic, on their behalf They naturally enjoy all rights to this land.
Even their mixed-race descendants have more rights to occupy this land than pure-blood outsiders.
This is also one of the important reasons for racial isolation in South American countries in later generations.
Travelers like themselves must not repeat the same mistakes. , leaving trouble for future generations.
Under such a cruel and ruthless governing philosophy, the East Bank Republic's attitude towards the indigenous peoples was naturally extremely cruel and inhumane.
In the Age of Discovery, Western colonists might have spared the lives of the indigenous people in pursuit of commercial interests.
However, in the hands of the more brutal East Coast Republic, the indigenous Indians would have been either killed or exiled overseas, as a way to Immigrants make living space.
The immigrants are covered in viruses that the Indians have never seen before.
Holding a plow in one hand and a sword in the other, he used muskets and germs to slaughter the native Indians who used to live in isolation, snatched away their land and homes, enslaved their bodies and minds, and then used the squeezed wealth to nourish his own people. , to expand the living space of his own nation and country, he is simply the most terrifying destroyer and great devil.
Therefore, at the headquarters meeting of the Chinese League, when a representative of the Chinese American Republic seriously proposed that if unquarantined Shandong refugees were allowed to enter the Americas on a large scale, it would likely lead to the spread of diseases around the resettlement areas and endanger the health of the Native Americans.
At that time, the representatives of the East Coast Republic were overjoyed, wishing that the native Indians in the Pampas would die silently at the hands of the disease.
Next, after accidentally learning that Wang Qiu, Li Wei and his party saved people and killed people at the same time in medieval Europe, and spread plague everywhere to destroy the world, they saw several murderous East Coast Republic Army generals.
Hunter was so happy that he even began to discuss launching germ warfare against the native Indians, such as trying to Putting viruses and bacteria near Indian villages to pollute water sources, releasing infected insects into settlements, etc.
However, considering that these methods are too low-level, and once the plague is released, it will be difficult to control, and it may eventually harm people across the world.
Because of this, I gave up this dangerous idea in the end.
Next, Vladivostok, Taiwan and Hainan Island all belong to China's traditional territory, and Jeju Island is also within the scope of East Asia.
The problem of disease transmission caused by large-scale population migration is not that serious.
What needs to be worried about is that immigrants will not adapt to the local environment.
The Australian colony where the headquarters of the Chinese League is located has not started to immigrate yet.
Even if it starts to immigrate, there are not many aborigines there to deal with.
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It doesn't matter if they all die.
The primitive people of the Stone Age, in this idea of the law of the jungle It's simply a useless population.
As for the colonies in South Africa and Madagascar, well, there is no need to worry about the disease resistance of those African black uncles.
When these Ming Dynasty immigrants arrived there, it was still unclear who infected whom.
Don’t forget, until the 21st century, Africa was still the origin of various new plagues, including the frightening AIDS and Ebola.
It is a genuine African product Under the test of various diseases, the African black uncle who can live to adulthood is absolutely indestructible to all diseases.
In short, travelers have absolute trust in the immunity and disease resistance of African black uncles.
Seeing that the new immigrants from Shandong allocated to the Chinese and American Republic this week have all arrived through the random door, and the food and materials provided by the Chinese American Republic to assist the Shandong battlefield have also been transported to the other side of the world through the random door, Wang Qiu has nothing for the time being.
The only thing to do is to browse the streets of Manchester City accompanied by Prime Minister Qi Jianjun.
Among the cities built by travelers from this plane, Vladivostok, which inherited the "silly, big, thick and black" style of Soviet Russia, may have the strongest industrial strength, but in terms of the elegance of the layout and the beauty of the streetscape architecture, it is definitely the most powerful.
Manchester City is the most beautiful in North America.
Compared with the New York metropolis in the 21st century, Manchester City in 1632 was naturally much smaller, with a population of about 100,000.
The entire urban area was only equivalent to the southernmost tip of Manhattan Island, plus the westernmost part of Long Island.
Just a small part.
But in this era of America, Manchester City is already the second largest city after Mexico City, and the neighborhoods throughout the city are quite clean and beautiful, far from the filthy slums of other European colonies: at a glance, everywhere They are multi-story buildings with upright shapes, bright and clean windows, and are geometrically symmetrical.
Block gardens or green belts, potted plants with colorful flowers on balconies and windowsills, black and gray streets with snow-white lines, colorful shops and stores along the street, the streets are filled with people of different skin colors and clothes, and the city is pulled by heavy draft horses.
Public transportation tram carriages shuttle by from time to time amidst the shouts of the carriage drivers After fully experiencing modern urban diseases such as cage dwellings, traffic jams, and environmental pollution in later generations, North American travelers took advantage of the rich natural resources of the New World and simply suffered from the "young bourgeoisie disease" and spared no effort to make the most of their work.
Manchester City is transformed into a garden city.
In Wang Qiu's view, the street scene in Manchester is very similar to those European and American cities of the 19th century Victorian era in old photos.
Most of the buildings are made of red tiles and stone walls, with a few oriental styles mixed in.
The cornices and brackets give people a simple atmosphere of the steam age.
Houses are generally dotted with tall street trees and large urban green spaces, which are far more beautiful than the crowded and monotonous concrete forests of modern cities.
On the other hand, due to the popularization of electricity and tap water, as well as the emergence of radio stations and movie theaters, apart from the fact that there are no cars, this place has basically reached the living standard of the old Shanghai concession before liberation, and in terms of security, it is better than a mixed bag.
The old Shanghai was much stronger.
In the eyes of Europeans in the seventeenth century, this city was already astonishingly magnificent, elegant, advanced, comfortable, convenient and clean, with tap water, smooth and clean cement or gravel asphalt avenues, street lamps like reflections of stars, They were amazed by the bustling market shops, the solemn government buildings, the beautiful garden-like university teaching area, the magnificent steam power station in the outer island industrial park, and the Titan-like steam tower crane.
In comparison, Paris and London at this time were as unsightly as smelly and dirty slums.
What makes Europeans flock to it even more is the paradise-like living standard here.
After all, no matter how beautiful the buildings and palaces are, it has nothing to do with the common people.
According to the living standards of European citizens in the seventeenth century, Manchester was extremely wealthy.
Even the lowest citizens could afford several sets of clothes.
Since every family could eat white bread, even in the It’s hard to find a place selling brown bread in the city At this moment, China in the East is in the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty, and Europe in the West is also struggling with the unprecedented catastrophe of the Thirty Years' War.
From Sweden in northern Europe to Spain in southern Europe, almost all traditional powers in England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy are bathed in the flames of war.
Especially Germany, which is the main battlefield, has five out of six towns and cities devastated by war.
Destroy and destroy.
Even the Ottoman Turkey, which was in a remote corner, was fighting for the hegemony of the Mediterranean for twenty-five years with the Venetians in this era.
Looking at the entire Western world, it is almost impossible to find a quiet place.
As social production was completely destroyed by the war, even famous places of wealth such as Venice and Amsterdam were not as good as before.
It is natural to imagine that the living standards of ordinary people in Europe are bleak.
In comparison, the relatively peaceful and prosperous life of the citizens of Manchester is simply a miracle among miracles in their eyes.
As a local newspaper, a French Protestant immigrant praised in his essay: "Manchester is truly the most beautiful city I have ever seen.
It is unimaginable that such an exquisite and gorgeous city exists in the New World.
Although I have been there Many places, but from Rome to From Paris to London, all the cities I have seen combined cannot compare to the small corner I see now.
Her luxury, nobility and neatness make her people feel extremely proud and make all outsiders feel at a loss. humility and inexplicable fear.”
In short, after riding in Prime Minister Qi Jianjun’s private carriage and taking a quick glance at the streets of Manchester.
Wang Qiu came to a street park in the southern district of Manchester and sat down in a membership-only high-end open-air cafe recommended by Premier Qi Jianjun.
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While listening to the blues saxophone on the radio, he tasted green and pure freshly ground coffee and various kinds of coffee.
Look at the small two- and three-story buildings with red roofs and white bricks around, as well as the various potted flowers on the window sills and balconies.
They are really like jacarandas, like colorful flowers blooming in the sky.
It is so beautiful that it feels so bourgeois. mood.
Next to the park in the center of the street, separated by an iron fence, is a commercial street, with people and cars coming and going.
The residents of Manchester's southern district are mostly the country's high-income and affluent people.
At this time, the pedestrians walking through the commercial streets, regardless of whether they are men, women, old or young, are all well-dressed.
They generally wear improved European-style suits tinkered by later generations of travelers, and their faces are quite healthy. and rosy, almost the same as modern society, and there are basically no unkempt and hungry people.
At this time, in most cities in the East and the West, such sloppy and poor people are everywhere.
Although in order to ensure domestic harmony and stability, the Chinese-American Republic spends huge sums of money to collect East Asian immigrants and recruit Native American Indians.
At the same time, it controls the annual entry quota of European immigrants.
Legally, it only allows 5,000 to 6,000 European immigrants each year.
Immigration and naturalization are a two-pronged approach in an attempt to maintain a higher proportion of yellow people in the country.
But Wang Qiu sat in the cafe and looked towards the street here.
He found that among the pedestrians, white people and mixed-race people still accounted for the majority.
There was nothing he could do about it.
Europe was currently in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, and the British France, Germany, and Spain are all engaged in brutal foreign and civil wars.
People have been displaced in the war and are fleeing overseas, trying to find a peaceful and wealthy new home.
The Chinese-American Republic is obviously an ideal destination. .
Since the trade exchanges between Europe and North America have become increasingly frequent, the number of illegal immigrants pouring into the Chinese-American Republic every year is quite alarming, and it cannot be turned away with a piece of paper.
Therefore, it is impossible to tell whether this is Manchester City in the 17th century or New York in the 20th century just by looking at the modern Western-style time-travel-style clothes of the people walking on the street, as well as the yellow, white and black skin colors of the people.
Of course, As long as you listen to their conversation for a moment, you will immediately notice the huge differences.
Although it can also be called the "melting pot of the world's nationalities", the official language of the Chinese-American Republic is not American English.
Promoted Chinese But why do their accents sound so strange and mixed with some inexplicable words?
"Hello, dear sir, here are the candies and milk you asked for."
A red-haired European maid came over and brought Wang Qiu a small plate of sugar cubes and a small glass jug with milk.
Although she seemed to speak Chinese, she had some indescribable awkward accent, which was completely different.
Any dialect that Wang Qiu has ever heard.
"Uh, thank you.
By the way, Prime Minister Qi, sugar cubes are just sugar cubes.
Why do you call them sugar cubes here?"
Wang Qiu picked up two sugar cubes and threw them into a coffee cup, then gently crushed them with a teaspoon.
He asked curiously while stirring.
He had never been used to drinking bitter coffee.
Qi Jianjun also seemed a little confused.
He turned around and called one of his European personal servants, and then he figured out the origin of this "new word", which is the homophony of "sugar zucker" in German, plus the word "sugar".
This constitutes the special vocabulary of machine-made square sugar in the Chinese-American Republic of this era, and the literal meaning is very consistent: square-shaped sugar with a crisp texture.
Because the Thirty Years' War, with Germany as the main battlefield, created a large number of refugees, and people who traveled through the Chinese-American Republic had excessive expectations for "high-quality German workers", many German immigrants were assigned to settle in the capital Manchester City over the years.
As a result, some German vocabulary has also entered the daily conversations of citizens.
In fact, the current "Manchester dialect" is very different from later Mandarin Chinese and any Chinese dialect.
If a modern time traveler is directly thrown into If you come to live in Manchester City, you will definitely encounter many communication barriers in your daily life.
But this is something that can't be helped.
At the beginning of the founding of North America, time travelers also tried to formulate certain rules for standard spoken language.
However, from the beginning, few of these modern people from all over the world, mainly Cantonese, could pass the Putonghua proficiency test and truly speak the standard Mandarin of later generations.
Later, it was only in the inner circle of the public that one could speak an "authentic upper-class Manchester accent".
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In the wider popularization of Chinese language education, even if the later advanced Latin alphabet notation pronunciation method is used, it is still faced with non-standards in daily popularization teaching and problems of the teachers themselves.
Many teachers trained in this time and space are not themselves How to speak Mandarin well.
Those Chinese immigrant teachers who speak with a southern accent from the Ming Dynasty or European immigrant teachers with a distinctive European accent from the 17th century are destined that their students will "imitate" each class.
The result is that Manchester City from the East and the West Among the citizens, a Manchester accent has gradually emerged that is quite different from the people across the country and is also very different from any Chinese dialect.
It even incorporates the pronunciation characteristics of a large number of Europeans speaking Chinese.
On some occasions, even travel fans sometimes have to imitate this "local dialect" in order to communicate smoothly with the teenagers in Manchester City.
"Now sometimes when I go to school, I find that I can't quite understand what the children are saying, especially the children who were born after time travel.
All kinds of weird new words keep popping out.
These are things that we old people cannot understand at all.
West.
We are also scratching our heads about this situation.
But even in China in the 21st century, with such advanced information exchange and twelve years of compulsory education, dialects have not been eliminated, especially Cantonese.
Not to mention the side conditions.”
Prime Minister Qi Jianjun shook his head and smiled bitterly while drinking coffee, "The same is true in the East Coast Republic of South America.
Those immigrants from all corners of the world must lower their standards if they want to pass the crash course in Chinese in a few years. .As long as you can barely understand it. , we can communicate with each other, and we have to forget about the deviation in pronunciation and so on.
If we want Mandarin education to be more standard, unless we, the time-travelers, do nothing and replace all the Chinese teachers all day long to provide services to hundreds of thousands of people.
Immigrants engage in language teaching for decades” "Well, I think I can understand your difficulties, but things like dialects will continue to be produced and cannot be eliminated."
Wang Qiu shrugged and drank all the coffee in the cup.
"For example, in modern society, computer networks have only been popularized for a few years.
All kinds of Internet terms are already everywhere.
Those who are not online Even if people continue to study for a Ph.D. in Chinese language and literature, they still As another example, with the rapid changes in the proportion of the modern American population, more and more Spanish words and even a small number of Chinese words have appeared in American English.
Something that no immigration country can avoid” "Well, you mean that any social influence is interactive.
Although we travelers have greatly changed the world, the indigenous people of this world are also constantly influencing us, right?"
After Qi Jianjun thought for a while, he said to Wang Qiu, but then the conversation was interrupted by two crisp "ding, ding" sounds that sounded at the same time, "Well, it's just a coincidence, our phones all rang at the same time. , is today’s daily military intelligence reference.”
Using Doraemon's magical props, sixteen mini communication satellites launched into orbit in this time and space serve as relays.
Travelers around the world, at least within the urban areas of the capitals of several union republics, currently rely on ground signal transmission and reception.
Device, time travelers have realized network communication between computers and mobile phones.
The Huameng headquarters also frequently releases some latest announcements to all travelers through text messages or emails.
"News from the North China War Zone in the Chinese battlefield: Lu Xiangsheng defeated Jizhou, the Tianxiong army retreated from the capital and closed the city under martial law.
The Guan Ning cavalry forward has arrived in Tianjin.
Although the Guan Ning army has repeatedly defeated the Jiannu, it can once turn around and attack If you come on your own, you are really sharp." oshow7: