Tian Long would not violate Li Zhaocheng's intentions. He originally wanted to provide some help as much as possible.

In the end, Tian Long found more than 170 mercenaries of Portuguese ethnic groups for him, but only more than 40 people actually followed Li Zhaocheng to Yizhou. The reason is very simple. Li Zhaocheng did not look for mercenaries with immediate combat power, but trained all the troops under his command, especially reaffirming the military discipline.

Mercenaries were accustomed to burning, killing and looting in the colonies, which Li Zhaocheng did not allow.

In fact, not only were the recruited mercenaries, but also the army troops dispatched by Li Zhaocheng from the South African theater garrison. He did not enter the battlefield from the beginning, but carried out long-term training and preparation in the Nangang area.

However, in recruiting Portuguese aristocrats to participate in the war, Tian Long's son arrived in Mombasa and showed Joao V's scepter. The Portuguese Governor of Mombasa immediately sent a telegram to Joao V, who was still in Shenjing, and received a definite reply. Therefore, Li Zhaocheng received six young Portuguese nobles' children, who were not from a high background and wanted to make achievements.

After resting in Xiacheng for half a month, the fleet set off and entered the Atlantic Ocean, but did not stop at Cape Town, the capital of the Empire, but went straight to South Port City in South America. Li Zhaocheng himself went to Cape Town, but he did not go to this big city to enjoy the prosperity.

In Cape Town, Li Zhaocheng inspected all the garrisons and issued transfer orders to two division-level units and six brigade-level units. However, these troops did not all participate in military operations. Li Zhaocheng selected 2,000 infantry and 400 cavalry from them.

He chose the system, but this system was not the choice of the entire battalion and regiment, but met with grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers in the army. The highest was the company level and the lowest was the squad leader. Among the people he met, there were a list provided by the South African theater and outstanding personnel in the assessments over the years.

But more people are those who are highly praised or valued by grassroots officers. For example, if he values ​​a second lieutenant, he will immediately visit his platoon and barracks. If he feels satisfied, he will sign a transfer order for the second lieutenant, and then ask the second lieutenant to recommend the officers and non-commissioned officers he recognizes, and then meet these people for inspection.

Two thousand infantrymen came from two infantry divisions and two border brigades, while four hundred cavalrymen were carefully selected from four cavalry brigades.

The selected people of Li Zhaocheng were all with good style, strict military discipline, and high combat readiness, especially the chief officers of the army, who uphold the excellent style of soldiers. Under the same conditions, Li Zhaocheng still gave priority to taking care of the nobles in the army, which made the officers from nobles account for two-fifths of his army.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that true nobles will not come to serve overseas. Anyone who is willing to serve will either want to achieve something or be excluded and eager to show off.

These 2,400 soldiers were organized into an expedition brigade by him, and all the remaining paperwork was handed over to Tian Long, while Li Zhaocheng went directly to Nangang.

Because compared to the elite troops in the Imperial Army, Li Zhaocheng actually paid more attention to the recruitment of local soldiers in South America, especially Indian soldiers in this battle.

The training of the expedition brigade was carried out in the South Port (Buenos Aires), but recruiting local soldiers had to go to the Yizhou (Rio) area where Indians were more concentrated.

After arriving at Nangang, Li Zhaocheng rested for one night. The next day, he greeted his important figures, and asked them to prepare to contact the main troops from the South African war zone, and prepare to train local recruits, and authorize them to recruit some Indian soldiers in the Nangang area.

After giving the order, Li Zhaocheng handed a list to Zhang Tong and said, "Notify everyone here, our ship will set out to Yizhou to recruit soldiers."

Zhang Tong took a look at the list. There were more than 30 people, most of whom were re-service officers and non-commissioned officers from China, but there were also reporters accompanying the army. He said: "It's okay to say the rest. Guo Jiangong is a little more troublesome. It's rumored that he was out for an interview."

"Rumor? What about actually?"

Zhang Tong said: "In fact, I can't bear the hardship. Last night I heard that you came from South Africa, so I claimed to go to the suburbs for an interview. I actually locked the door of the hotel from the outside, bought a lot of cooked food and drinking water, jumped in from the window, hid in the room and refused to come out."

"It seems you've been staring at him."

Zhang Tong said: "You still have to be careful about this kind of person."

Guo Jiangong is the editor of Jiangnan Daily and a typical liberal media person. He started his business by digging out bad information from noble families. He even confronted Prince Yu's Mansion. He often criticized Prince Yu's Mansion through some articles and took the opportunity to target the imperial power.

His articles are very distinctive and never make up randomly. Instead, he is good at using textual means and never quotes news of immediate nature. The reason is that no one can guarantee that news is true. If quoted, it will be found out by the imperial censorship agency and settle the accounts after the fall.

Moreover, what Guo Jiangong most often quotes is the data and facts disclosed in the official newspaper of the Empire, but using the Spring and Autumn style, the same thing can be analyzed and different conclusions can be drawn.

Over the past decade, Guo Jiangong has repeatedly avoided the censorship of various news review agencies and has been active until now, which shows his ability.

In addition to using extraordinary means, Guo Jiangong could not win. But this guy was a bit impeccable. Unlike ordinary media people, Guo Jiangong was born in a wealthy family. His great-grandfather was once the first group of congressmen in the pre-imperial era, and he could also be considered a hero of the Dragon.

After several generations, there are many industries in Zhejiang and Shenjing. Everyone has their own weaknesses, but rich people, especially rich people with stronger self-control, have fewer weaknesses.

For example, he is lustful, and Guo Jiangong is lustful, but he never goes to prostitutes, but keeps changing girlfriends. Because he is rich, he is not greedy for money. Generally speaking, a rich young man like this will enjoy his life or seek more wealth.

But Guo Jiangong is different. He likes power, but not political power, but power brought by influence in the media industry. He likes to see those high-ranking officials and nobles who are cautious when facing themselves, which will bring him unprecedented satisfaction.

The attitude of the imperial royal family towards Guo Jiangong is very complicated. First, this guy does play a role in supervising imperial politics, and second, it is really uncomfortable and requires guarding against him from time to time.

This time, Li Zhaocheng brought Guo Jiangong to work as a military reporter overseas. He did not want to use extraordinary means to end his media career, but just to deal with him and exclaim his anger for his father who had no choice but to do anything to him.

Li Zhaocheng did not use any illegal means, just to bring Guo Jiangong by his side so that he could not enjoy his original life, but to share the joys and sorrows with him, the royal family.

In fact, Guo Jiangong didn't want to come. He stayed well in Shen Jing. Even if he wanted to find fault, he didn't have the reason to travel thousands of miles to come overseas to suffer. However, he couldn't resist Li Zhaocheng's hat to him, pleading for the people one by one, and going deep into the grassroots one by one. Without Guo Jiangong's knowledge, Li Zhaocheng asked someone to build momentum for him, and it would be impossible for Guo Jiangong to come.

"That's not possible. Anyone of our army can be missing, but I, Brother Jiangong, cannot be missing." Li Zhaocheng said with a smile. He thought about it and gave Zhang Tong a good plan.

In the end, Guo Jiangong did not avoid the errands of recruiting soldiers in Yizhou. In the hotel where he was, Li Zhaocheng arranged a fire prevention exercise, but a manure truck was parked under the window of the second floor room where Guo Jiangong lived. The hotel was filled with smoke and dust. When everyone shouted for fire and ran away, Guo Jiangong was worried that he had locked the door outside and had to jump into the manure truck from the window.

As a result, the boat heading north was delayed for more than an hour and asked him to clean it back and forth in the bathhouse several times.

Qiliping outside Yizhou City.

This is a small village, located on a flat and fertile land, with green and full of vegetables. Qiliping lives by transporting fresh vegetables to the city because it is close to Yizhou City.

Li Zhaocheng rode a horse and entered the village with six people including Guo Jiangong, Repu and Zhang Tong. When the village chief heard that a noble man had come from the village, he ran from his home. Li Zhaocheng asked, "Old man, do you know where Tian Musanlang's house is?"

"You are talking about that Japanese..." the village chief asked.

Li Zhaocheng nodded, the village chief leaned over and whispered: "You can't say that. There are instructions from above, don't always say that they are Japanese, now he's called Tianmu."

"I offended you, we are here to find Tian Mu." Li Zhaocheng said.

In a new house on the east side of the village, Li Zhaocheng met the Tianmu family. This family was the prisoner who was captured by the galloping horses in the cotton field occupied by the Japanese. After all the interrogation, the local garrison in Yizhou placed Tianmu on the spot. Although the child was originally his master, he has now become his son.

Because I still have to prepare for inquiries, Tianmu's family was placed in a village near Yizhou, Qiliping.

The Tianmu family obviously wanted to settle down here. Originally, the only one who was housed was a workshop in the village where machinery was placed. Tianmu lived here for more than half a year and had begun to renovate and expand. There was even a red brick tile house with tile building built with the main building.

Tian Mu was a little scared when he saw the visitor. Li Zhaocheng said to him: "You don't have to worry too much. We are just here to ask about some situations. You are already a villager in this village and will not change. You will live here in the future."

"But I don't have an ID card, sir." Tian Mu stood there and said carefully.

"I will solve this for you." Li Zhaocheng said, remembering this matter in his heart.

When Tian Mu heard this, he was ecstatic and opened the table in the yard and boiled water and tea. Li Zhaocheng didn't dislike it. He sat on a stool made of wooden stakes, but Guo Jiangong felt uncomfortable all over. The fireworks and fishy smell here made him feel uncomfortable.

"Sir, what do you want to ask?" Tian Mu asked.

Li Zhaocheng pointed to Guo Jiangong and Repukatijiang behind him and said, "These two are journalists from big cities. They are interested in the Japanese separatist rebellion in the northern border areas. Where did you come from? They want to know what happened in that cotton plantation."

"What's the matter?" Tian Mu was even more puzzled.

Li Zhaocheng couldn't think of any questions for a moment, and Repukatijiang asked: "Everything is OK, such as what you eat, where you live, what you usually do."

Tian Mu nodded slightly and felt relieved. He thought the other person was going to ask him some secrets about military aircraft, so he was nervous, mainly because he didn't know much about these, for fear of being dissatisfied with the answers, which annoyed these nobles.

"My original name was Saburo Taki, and he was the servant of the plantation manager, Lord Kimura. I came here for the 39th year of the empire......" Saburo Taki briefly introduced the situation.

He was from Edo, and his father was a tenant farmer. Because he had many brothers in his family, he went to the workshop to work at the age of twelve and worked as a blacksmith. However, because the iron products from overseas were of high quality and low price, it affected the local forging industry. So Saburo Taki was unemployed before he even started his career.

After that, he went to Edo Port. When he was working at the dock, he saw the Portuguese recruitment brochure. At that time, someone from a samurai was in charge of the matter. Tianmu felt that since the samurai came forward, there would be no problem, so he took a boat to Brazil.

He suffered a lot in Brazil and chose to escape. The fugitives brought him to the gathering place of the Japanese inland areas. Saburo Taki was taken by Kimura Yu and became his servant, and his current wife was also Kimura's servant.

Tian Mu is quite satisfied with his life in the cotton plantation because he can eat and wear a lot. As a servant in the wooden village, he can pretend to be a tiger, and he can also bully the black people and Indian slaves in the plantation to satisfy his desire for power.

He had no wages, but he could make some money in the process of managing slaves. Kimura even gave him his current wife without spending a penny. Compared to the poor life he lived in when he was young, the life on the plantation was pretty good.

But in the eyes of Repukatijiang and Guo Jiangong, Tian Mu's life was extremely miserable. In their opinion, this was an enslaved slave, who had to become a slave owner and harmed the person who was sympathetic with him. Just a slavery could label the cotton plantation controlled by the Japanese as an anti-human being, and put it into the ranks of unforgivable crimes.

And this is exactly what Li Zhaocheng wanted the two to know. The scale of this battle would not be very large or too difficult, but the significance of the war should be clarified first, especially why the battle was fought. Since the other side was an anti-human slave owner, the expedition brigade could carry out the war in the manner of a liberator.

In the empire, after the rebellion of Yizhou was made public, there was always a saying that going to Yizhou to suppress rebellion was to bully the weak, the exclusive act of the colonists, and the extreme nationalist and racist acts. But obviously, the facts are not that simple.
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