I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

And the heroine...

Poor Miss Vanderbilt Jolie, of course.

The next day after Zhu Fugui handed over the script to her, Zhu Li beat Zhu Fugui into a pig's head with the script with red eyes, completely ignoring the previous promise not to anger the big writer Zhu.

But slapstick is slapstick, Julie will not give up this role.

In the end, "Miss San Diego" officially started filming at the Seattle film and television base on April 4, the fourth year of Dewu.

Chapter 331 Miss Saigon and Saigon Iron Fist

Since the French invasion in 1859, Saigon has become the most important French colonial base in the Far East.

Compared with the name Saigon, later generations of Chinese people should be more familiar with its other name: Ho Chi Minh City.

Historically, Saigon was once the land of the Khmer people, and it was annexed by Vietnam at the end of the seventeenth century.

During the Vietnam War, Saigon, as the capital of South Vietnam, was also one of the gentle oriental towns where American soldiers hunted for sex.

In addition to "Miss Saigon", another famous thing left to Saigon by the Americans is the world famous painting "The Iron Fist of Saigon".

In this black-and-white photo, an American sits in a helicopter and punches a Vietnamese who tries to climb into the helicopter, revealing the fate of being a 'leading party'.

In December 1974, in less than four months, the North Vietnamese People's Army and the Viet Cong guerrillas including Ke Fulong, Mei Bang, Hue, and Da Nang occupied half of South Vietnamese territory in one fell swoop, and their troops headed straight to Saigon, the capital of Vietnam.

Due to a misjudgment of the situation, the Americans had more than [-] American officials, journalists and their family members stranded in South Vietnam at that time, and they had to hurry up and evacuate.

There is no such thing as a Titanic gentleman in such a time of crisis.

The Americans used iron fists to make South Vietnamese pugs who wanted to go to the United States with their masters understand what "America First" is.

This photo happened to be taken by the accompanying reporter and has since become a world famous painting.

Such a classic scene, Zhu Fugui felt that it could be integrated into the new movie from a different angle, so as to enrich the meaningless plot.

"Miss Saigon" and its source of inspiration, another famous opera "Madame Butterfly", have much the same content.

The main line is the story of a white officer hunting for sex in Saigon, Vietnam/Nagasaki, Japan, having sex with a local oriental girl who admires white culture, and then patting his ass and leaving.

In the play, the oriental women who were teased by the Western conquerors and finally abandoned were portrayed as love first, willing to sacrifice everything for their white husbands who were far better than the yellow races, and finally arranged for them to commit suicide and die in love.

It can be said that these two operas, which are regarded as the standard in both the East and the West, are the charge of white people's sexual colonization of Asian women and spiritual castration of Asian men.

In later generations, Zhu Fugui saw an actress who graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and was cast in "Miss Saigon". When he was interviewed by the domestic media, he couldn't restrain the complacency and pride on his face.

"Maybe I'm lucky, because the appearance and vocal range are just right for "Miss Saigon", the actress said proudly, raising her chin, revealing her elegant neck curve.

This may indeed be her luck, but it is definitely the misfortune of the entire East Asian nation!

In this era, Zhu Fugui would never allow such a thing to happen again.

Zhu Fugui thinks that he is not a gentleman who does not do to others what he does not want to be done to others, but he just likes to do to others directly.

Since Westerners have proven that these methods are mean, but highly effective, with almost no side effects, why don't we use them?

Zhu Fugui believes that if you don’t enter the customs, if you don’t punish the tyrants, if you don’t take the initiative to attack, and if you don’t completely defeat the colonial victor mentality of the Westerners since the Age of Discovery, then the Chinese nation and the gang of vassals will be rotten. Always barbarians.

Even if it's as rich as Japan, it's just a place for white people to hunt for sex, not to mention the whole of China including Frog Island, any third-world foreign dick like a native chicken can easily kill hundreds of people.

Whether it is from the perspective of earning cultural value or from the perspective of competing for the right to speak in the world in the next 200 years, Ming will not sit still and must seize the opportunity.

……

While the Seattle film and television base was busy preparing for the filming of "Miss San Diego", in remote Vietnam, the real Saigon area, a dilapidated old-fashioned sailboat slowly arrived at the port.

"My lord, you are suffering!"

A stocky white man, like a humble groundhog, saddles a Mediterranean man off a sailboat.

McCann opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain this matter.

In fact, even he himself did not believe that his experience in the past two years would be so magical.

As a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, he was ambushed by Ming soldiers on his way back to China to find his daughter, who was abducted by the Chinese, and became a slave.

After working in the most dangerous formation of the coal mine for more than half a year, McCann was selected again, shaved his extremely ugly hair and sent him to Japan as a mercenary.

Well, the so-called mercenary is McCann's own glorified term.

In fact, they are still slave soldiers in essence.

In order to survive, McCann fought bravely, and finally became a legion commander because of his remarkable combat performance.

In the end, taking advantage of the opportunity of the French landing in Japan, McCann saw the right time, set things right, and returned to the embrace of the Western civilized world.

However, right after that, the lingering ghost of Daming actually came to Japan.

At that time, McCann felt that things were going to happen.

As a senior prisoner of Da Ming, McCann deeply understands how powerful Da Ming is.

Although he does not think it is strong enough to shake the global dominance of Western civilization, McCann feels that in the Far East, Ming is definitely a formidable opponent, and the French may fall into a hard fight.

This is what McCann analyzed based on the scattered information he learned before leaving Daming.

As it turned out, his imagination was still too barren.

He couldn't imagine what kind of great development Daming had made in the one and a half years after he left.

In the end, the French rout far exceeded McCann's expectations.

He himself was arrested by Daming.

Originally, McCann thought that his 40 years of life would come to an end, but in a twist of fate, he was mistaken for a French earl by accident and was not executed by the murderous Ming.

Soon after, the Protectorate of the Japanese Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty received a ransom from the Castaner family.

In this era, the Suez Canal, which connects Europe and the East, is being dug.

The diggers were French.

The project has been underway for 8 years, and it will be open to navigation in 3 years.

The sacrifices for the navigation of the Suez Canal were the lives of 12 Egyptian workers and 1860 million pounds, equivalent to 186 billion yuan.

Daming was temporarily unable to compete with the French for this spectacle.

In short, because the Suez Canal is not yet open to navigation, it will take several months to travel from the Far East to Europe.

If merchant ships transit trade in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, it will take more than three months to go back and forth between China and Europe.

If the pursuit of speed is direct, it will only take more than 50 days (in 1876, Guo Songtao, the first Chinese ambassador to foreign countries, boarded a ship from Shanghai to the UK, passed through the Strait of Malacca, Sumatra and other places on the way, and arrived in London in 55 days).

The news of the disastrous defeat in the Far East Campaign and the payment of the ransom by the Canesta family naturally used the Clippers.

Therefore, in just three months, Daming received gold worth 3 francs as a ransom.

Chapter 332

50 francs, equivalent to Dewu Tongbao/USD 10, sterling 2.5 pounds, and the purchasing power is equivalent to 2500 million yuan in later generations.

As an earl, this amount of money is really not much.

In this era, although the old European aristocrats are declining, France as a whole is still a relatively wealthy country.

The average annual income of an ordinary employee in a city in the eastern United States was originally around $300, but due to the turmoil of the war, it has now dropped to $250.

The annual income of ordinary French employees is around 2000 francs, equivalent to 400 US dollars.

In contrast, the per capita income of citizens of Ming Dynasty just reached 180 Dewu Tongbao last year.

Although deducting factors such as the very low cost of general consumer goods and high-quality and efficient public services, the living standards of Ming citizens are not bad at all, even far surpassing those of Paris and New York, but at least on paper, these old western countries are still very rich.

For such a small amount of ransom for such a rich person, the Chief Executive Xi Yazhou, who was ordered by the emperor to collect the ransom, was very angry.

Even if the Canesta family had no money, wouldn't they borrow money from the hardworking and simple Parisians?

The people of Paris have no money, so is there no money for the Suez Canal project?

Won't you embezzle?

You don't even know how to embezzle, so what kind of aristocrat?

Chief Protector Xi Yazhou went to the prison in person and broke two leather whips, but still did not get a blood letter from the "Count Castaner" to urge the family to pay.

You know, most of Xi Yazhou's bodyguards are eight feet tall, and their waist is also eight feet. They are powerful and powerful, and they are called devils with muscles.

He didn't pay a penny more for going out in person, which showed that Earl Canesta really had a lot of backbone.

So the honest and honest Chief Guardian Xi Yazhou invited a brilliant Japanese doctor to cut off a little finger from the hand of the "Lord Earl", pickled it in lime and sent it to the ransom giver to take it back to Europe.

Finally, after another three months, the second ransom payment arrived.

The total amount was doubled, for a total of 100 million francs.

Daming finally releases the French noble with satisfaction, and throws him on the wrecked ship heading for freedom.

……

After going through such a terrible war, in the end he only lost his pinky finger, and McCann can only feel grateful.

After all, when the genuine Earl Canesta and dozens of others were beheaded, McCann was close at hand, and the blood from the main artery sprayed his face.

Although wanting to pretend to be a Frenchman, watching beheading is a necessary learning item, and McCann has been on the battlefield many times, but facing death at such a close distance still caused a lot of psychological shock.

In comparison, a little finger is really nothing.

Rather, it is a symbol of your own honor and bravery!

And after losing this little finger, it is only natural that Earl Canesta's handwriting will change in the future.

The conscience of heaven and earth, it was not that McCann did not write letters to the French before, but that he could not imitate the handwriting of Earl Canesta at all!

McCann had already made up his mind. As soon as he arrived in Saigon, he immediately wrote a letter to His Majesty Nassan, expressing that he would stay in the Far East to pay his crimes and meritorious deeds. wait and see.

McCann feels that there is a high probability of success in doing so.

Because most of the French soldiers and officers who came to the Far East with Canesta had already turned into corpses.

A small number of those who also paid the ransom have already left the Far East.

Except for the small group of French instructors on Phi Island, it can be said that no one in the Far East is familiar with the real Canesta.

……

After arriving in Saigon, the Saigon Governor's Palace provided McCann with favorable conditions sufficient to maintain the dignity of the nobles.

But McCann is essentially just a rude Yankee, a descendant of farmers, who knows no aristocratic etiquette.

He also learned French from his Quebec grandparents and knew nothing of real French high culture.

In order to avoid cheating, McCann refused the hospitality of the Governor's Mansion, and ran to live in a temple, Juelin Temple, under the pretext of practicing asceticism to show his ambition.

The reason for choosing Jue Lam Monastery is that apart from the French Governor’s Mansion and barracks, Saigon has the best living conditions in this monastery, and it is also very obedient to the colonial authorities.

The second, of course, is that McCann has to find a way to fix his hair problems once and for all.

Of course, he didn't want to shave his head and become a monk.

As a Frenchman, of course one cannot believe in Buddhism, this is a matter of human origin.

But Buddhism, to be precise, is a good thing in Chinese Buddhism, and McCann feels that it is very suitable for him.

There are many schools of Buddhism, and there are many classification methods, such as Mahayana and Hinayana, Chinese and Tibetan traditions, and so on.

Among them, there is a specialty of Chinese Buddhism called Jiescar.

It is said that because the Mongols did not kill monks back then, there were many people in Han areas disguised as monks.

Later, the Mongolian authorities came up with a way to distinguish between real and fake monks. If a monk had no hair, he would burn a ring scar on his head. A real monk would have a ring scar. Avoid the trouble of monks shaving their heads.

Whether this legend is true cannot be verified, but the ring scar is indeed a unique thing of Chinese Buddhism.

And Vietnam, as the most useless one in the Confucian civilization circle, is also a bully who dominates one side in Southeast Asia.

Countries such as Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos all practice Theravada Buddhism, while Vietnam is Chinese Buddhism.

Chinese Buddhism is good!

McCann has long felt itchy scalp, and it is troublesome to shave his scalp every few days.

After all, Earl Carnest is bald, which is a well-known characteristic, and it would be bad if his hair grows out accidentally one day.

So McCann decided not to do one thing, but to give himself a ring scar on the top of his head.