Ziying, who had been silent all this time, became a little anxious. She walked up to Gao Hongming and hugged his arm. Her pretty little face was full of confusion and reluctance, and her eyes began to turn red.
"Sir, I heard from the second lady that Guadalcanal is in a place called the Pacific Ocean, which is ten or twenty thousand miles away from us. Why should we go there to work for the Americans?
Why don’t we just stay in Liantai County and live our own lives?”
It's just that Ziying, who was born as a maid, has never read any books and doesn't understand any big principles.
For her, life is already very happy now.
Being able to live with the lady I grew up with, and becoming Gao Hongming's third concubine, not only did he have enough to eat and wear, but Gao Hongming also loved his wives very much and never beat or scolded them without reason.
This kind of day is what she dreams of.
But now Gao Hongming actually wants to go to a Guadalcanal island thousands of miles away to fight for the Americans. What if something happens to them, what will they do?
Looking at Ziying whose beautiful eyes were filled with deep reluctance, Gao Hongming sighed softly.
Among his three wives, Qin Xiulian and Xie Wenqian were either ladies or came from scholarly families. They were both good in character and skill, but Ziying was just a dowry maid.
Ziying is also very low-key on weekdays. She never competes or competes with others. She just quietly does her job and takes good care of Gao Hongming and Qin Xiulian.
When they get along as husband and wife, Xie Wenqian and Qin Xiulian always call Gao Hongming by his first name, but Ziying always calls Gao Hongming "master". From this, it can be seen that Ziying always keeps her attitude very low.
Not to mention Gao Hongming, Qin Xiulian and Xie Wenqian also like him very much.
Gao Hongming hugged her slender waist and said softly: "Ziying, it's not that I have to work hard for the Yankees, but I have to do something I promised others."
Only Ziying still asked Gao Hongming in confusion: "Master, we also have thousands of acres of fields in Liantai County, as well as large and small shops. Aren't these the private property of our Gao family? Why bother going anywhere?"
Are Ryukyu going to grab those indigenous places?”
Gao Hongming shook his head helplessly and signaled to the other two women, "Daughter-in-law, please talk to Ziying."
The two girls are not stupid women who don't understand anything. One of them is the daughter of a wealthy family, and the other is an international student who has been abroad and drank foreign ink. After being married to Gao Hongming for so many years, of course they understand that if it is true as Gao Hongming said, the Gao family can really get something.
What does a piece of land of more than two hundred square kilometers mean?
Qin Xiulian smiled and gently pinched Ziying's delicate face, "Silly girl, land and land are different. Take Liantai County as an example, although the Gao family owns thousands of acres of land and dozens of shops under their name,
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But it’s not like you don’t know what the world is like nowadays, and you don’t even think about it, if our family is not protected by the master and those elite soldiers and generals, can we hold on to those things?
Moreover, we have too many parents-in-law. If an adult looks down on our Gao family in the future, our belongings might have someone else’s surname changed the next day.
The reason why I value the land over Ryukyu is because I hope to leave a way for our family to escape."
"Master, is that so?" Ziying looked at Gao Hongming with her eyes wide open.
Gao Hongming smiled and touched her head: "Your lady is right. These are troubled times. For the sake of long-term planning, we have to leave a way out for ourselves. We must not wait until disaster strikes before we rush to save ourselves."
In fact, there were some words that Gao Hongming didn't say out loud. Having traveled through time, he certainly knew the direction of history and the consequences of people like him staying here in the future.
Not to mention anything else, just having three wives was enough to make him doomed.
If he wanted to survive, he had no choice but to go out, but he was unwilling to go to the West and become a third-class citizen. After thinking about it, he still felt that going to Ryukyu was the best choice.
By then, with the legal right to garrison troops and a large number of troops, he will be a well-deserved emperor in both Japan and Ryukyu. No one, whether it is the Prime Minister of Japan or the commander of the American garrison, can give him any respect.
It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Only a fool would leave the local emperor alone and become cannon fodder.
Of course, Gao Hongming could only keep these things in his heart and could not tell his three wives openly.
During the following period, Gao Hongming was spending time handling official duties while accompanying his wives.
After all, after the Battle of Taiyuan, the casualties of the troops were not small. Whether it was the pension of the soldiers, the supply of ammunition, the rest of the troops, and the deployment of each unit, adjustments and arrangements needed to be made to avoid problems during his absence.
In this way, Gao Hongming had been busy for more than half a month, and then he said goodbye to his three wives and embarked on the journey to Guadalcanal under the escort of dozens of fighter planes...
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Guadalcanal
Two Willys jeeps were speeding along the still muddy dirt road. The yellow mud splashed along the way covered the original color of the jeeps. The roar of the engine broke the original peace of the forest.
This is the outskirts of the primitive jungle of Guadalcanal. The originally lush woods here look a bit eerie because of the war, as if a monster with a big bloody mouth is looking at these two uninvited guys coldly.
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"squeak!"
The first jeep stopped at a slope more than 300 meters away from the jungle, followed closely by the second one.
"God, you finally stopped."
After the car stopped, Thomas, the commander of the Eighth Marine Regiment, jumped out of the car, jogged all the way to the back of the slope, and complained to Chi Yaohui, who was taking out his binoculars to observe the situation.