Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 136 Military Burial and New Teacher
Five days later, Beihai Town held a funeral for the soldiers who died in battle.

The location of the cemetery was arranged by Chen Qingsong in a valley on the west side of Beihai Town, facing south, not far from the sea.Zhao Xin and others felt that the environment was okay after looking at it, so they decided to use it as a military cemetery in the future.

Originally, Wang Yuanfang wanted to hold a grand and important ceremony, but firstly, the weather during the day was too hot to delay, and secondly, guards of honor could not be trained in a day or two, so he had to make do with it.Fortunately, the islanders do not have the tradition of blowing and beating at funerals, nor do they have the rules of pasting paper figures, paper horses, and paper money, which saves trouble.

Fifty-five coffins, hastily made, were at the head of the funeral procession, each carried by six men.On both sides are 55 armed "guards of honor" selected by Wang Yuanfang to accompany them.The family members of the soldiers who died in battle followed behind holding a wooden tablet.

Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others also joined the coffin-carrying team in order to win the hearts of the people; Sheng Haizhou and others saw that Zhao Xin had done this, and although they were not very willing, they all joined in.

The lord and the adults actually carried the coffin for the untouchables! The families of more than 200 soldiers who died in battle were stunned by Zhao Xin's actions, and then they knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.

This move by Zhao Xin and others soon alarmed the entire Beihai Town.Except for the posts that must be guarded, all the refugees came.

In the island nation of the Edo period, Buddhist culture dominated funeral rites.People with higher social status were buried with Buddhist ceremonies after death, and Buddhist funerals for warriors and wealthy people were thoroughly implemented.Ring names, tablets, stone pagodas, and gorgeous funeral objects are all for sale.Common people generally can only be buried in the form of wind - take a roll of mats and find a hole in the open air.

The original meaning of the word "funeral" in funeral is a funeral ceremony for nobles.It is a ceremony in which the coffin is placed in the building before the burial.In later generations, the meaning of "funeral" has changed to "all night", that is, relatives and friends keep vigil all night.

However, there are currently no monks in Beihai Town, and Zhao Xin and others do not want to introduce them for the time being.In order to show solemnity, it is better for people like myself to carry the coffin than to ask monks to chant sutras.

Because of the rush of time, the tombstones of the sacrificed soldiers are temporarily replaced with wooden boards, and they will be replaced with stones later.

The inscription on the wooden board was written by Chen Qingsong, Sheng Haizhou and Shen Jingdan with brushes.It stated the names of the sacrificed soldiers, where they came from, when they arrived in Beihai Town, when they joined the army, and in what battle they died.

Zhao Xin issued pensions to the families of all the soldiers who died the day before yesterday.The standard of pension is based on the salary standard of 36 shi for ordinary soldiers per year, and [-] shi for each family; at the same time, all families of sacrificed soldiers give priority to land and houses.

When this arrangement was announced in the form of a notice, all the refugee families were shocked.They didn't expect Master Zhao to give so many pensions.

Speaking of this, it is necessary to mention the issue of the pension system of the Japanese shogunate and the Manchu Qing court in this era.There is no such thing as pensions for civilians in the island country; as for samurai, it is good to let the descendants inherit the family business after the death of the war.

In the Edo period, it was not easy for the Banner and royal family directly under the shogun to inherit the family business.It is necessary to complete the knowledge test of "Su Du Yin Yan", and those who pass are eligible to inherit the family business.Because Confucian culture was extremely popular in the Edo period, the knowledge test revolved around Confucianism.If you want to pass the knowledge test, you need to receive Chinese language training from an early age.During the test, the examiner will randomly designate one of the Four Books and Five Classics, and require the tester to read it correctly.

As for the Qing Dynasty, it was much stronger than the Shogunate.If an official of the Eight Banners is killed in battle, funeral silver and pensions will be distributed according to their rank.The Ministry of Industry of the imperial court will also issue special monument erection fees.When it comes to the death of soldiers on the battlefield, the striker will receive a pension of 200 taels, the armored soldier will receive 150 taels, and the gunner will receive 130 taels of pension.If a fourth-rank and second-class guard like Li Dagang died in battle, the standard of pension is between 450 taels and 550 taels.

In the eyes of Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang, the pension standard set by Zhao Xin is too high.Not to mention the land and houses, the price of grain in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas is now one tael or five silver per shimi; five hundred shimi is equivalent to 750 taels.Especially in Shandong and Henan areas where disasters have occurred frequently in the past two years, the price of 2.5 shi rice will be even higher, as high as [-] taels per shi.

Because his concubine was pregnant, Shen Jingdan didn't follow to watch the fun, but Lao Huang went instead, standing far away from the crowd.He had never seen such a funeral.

For the hastily prepared military funeral ceremony, Wang Yuanfang, Liu Sheng and others still have a lot of regrets.One is that Beihai Town has not yet had its own military flag, and the other is that there is no trumpeter.Ding Guofeng found a video clip of lights off from his mobile phone before, and Zhao Xin found a speaker to play it on the spot.

When all the coffins were placed in the tomb, Wang Yuanfang stood at attention and shouted "Ready!" A hundred "guards of honor" immediately changed from standing at attention and holding their guns to pointing at the sky above.

"Fire!"

"boom!"

Liu Sheng shouted "Salute!".

With a sound of "Shua!", the other soldiers stood at attention except the one who fired the gun and raised their hands in salute.And as the first shooting began, the sound of lights out sounded slowly.The refugees also bowed and saluted at this time, and the families of the soldiers who died in battle finally couldn't help weeping bitterly.Seeing such a scene, even Lao Huang, who is usually a carefree person, felt a little sore in his nose.

In the few days after the funeral, Beihai Town's land reclamation plan, which was interrupted by the sudden attack of the Qing army, was fully rolled out again.

After Chen Qingsong's two-day preliminary training, Zhang Bo and Liu Zheng had one more task besides teaching the children. They drove a 9620RX monster and started galloping across the swampy plain on the west bank of the Xila River every afternoon.

Wanzao and Maosuke, who don't like hacking and killing, led more than 2000 people to start building the mountain road from Beihai Town to the mouth of the Fuljaha River.

Doctor Hong and his wife are not only treating the refugees with minor headaches and brain fever, but also taking care of the training of the wounded and "barefoot doctors".Because the two of them paid close attention to the personal hygiene of the refugees and the public health of Beihai Town, no large-scale infectious diseases have yet occurred.

Zhao Xin has asked Andrew to help purchase a batch of smallpox vaccine, and he plans to vaccinate all the children in Beihai Town.There is no way, the smallpox vaccine is difficult to buy in China; after the 80s, the vaccination has been completely stopped, and the children after that are all given BCG to prevent tuberculosis.

Considering that when the Qing army attacked this time, people who hurriedly hid on the east bank had no shelter.Zhao Xin decided to open up a large area north of the prison camp on the east bank and build a large fort.So the captured Han Chinese slaves and armored soldiers, also under the supervision of armed security police, tied ropes around their waists and carried wood on the east bank of the Sila River every day.

And the big insider Li Dagang had to continue to stay in the shift room because his gunshot wound hadn't healed yet.

Wang Yuanfang and others were busy continuing to train recruits.In addition to the daily queue and skill training, the soldiers now have to take literacy classes at night.However, considering the various qualities of farmers in this era, it is still far away for these people to become qualified soldiers.

Family workshops producing cigarettes have been tested on a small scale.At present, these workshops are still processing pine board cigarette boxes or cylindrical wooden boxes.Because of power and confidentiality issues, Zhao Xin put the cigarette production workshop near Zhao Liang's workshop on the east bank.

The whole cigarette making workshop is not big, and the equipment covers an area of ​​only ten square meters. Only six people are required to operate the two cigarette making machines.Under normal operation, each piece of equipment can produce 120 cigarettes per minute; however, the current workers are not skilled enough, and they can only produce 80 cigarettes per minute.Cigarette filters, tobacco, rolling paper, and bedding materials are all purchased separately; as for equipment such as the fermentation room, Zhao Xin plans to wait until the knowledge level of the refugees increases in the future.

Zhao Xin is very busy these days.In addition to arranging various affairs in Beihai Town with Chen Qingsong and Liu Sheng during the day, and teaching the children, at night, he had to teach Lu Shoushan and Katayama Kanbingwei some simple psychological techniques for interrogating prisoners.

It is said that the attitude of the "police" in the Edo period to the captured criminals was eight words: "Be ruthless and never forgive." Things that modern people can't even imagine were both reasonable and legal in ancient times.And as a former concentric, Katayama's methods during the interrogation are no exception.

If these Qing prisoners did not confess immediately during the first interrogation, it would be miserable.Katayama's "torture training" will begin immediately.Prisoners would first be bound and brought into an interrogation room, where several security guards would immediately strip him naked from the upper body and begin beating them severely with thorny shrub branches.

This kind of whip can make the burrs on the branches penetrate deeply into the body, and the captive will be excruciatingly painful but not killed immediately.After more than a dozen lashes to "get off the horse", most people basically recruited.

However, there are also stubborn ones, so the second step starts.Prisoners will be pressed on a kneeling board made of five triangular rough pine logs, and a stone board weighing one hundred catties will be pressed on their thighs.Extreme physical and mental pain, no matter how stubborn the mouth is, they will be recruited. The Manchu court does not have any indestructible beliefs to support it.

After Zhao Xin saw the scene of Katayama Kanbingwei interrogating the captives for the first time, he immediately stopped him.Everyone is broken, how can I use it in the future!

He quickly found a copy of "Criminal Interrogation and Confession", deleted, edited and reprinted a copy and gave it to Lu Shoushan and Katayama Kanbingwei, and warned them not to leak it.Having received the secret technique taught by Zhao Xin himself, Lu Shoushan and Pianshan studied it all night long as if they were treasures.

What Zhao Xin copied out were only the nine steps or key points of the "Nine Steps of Reed" to guide the interrogation.Many of these steps overlap, and there is no "universal" interrogation process.But this also opened Katayama Kanbingwei's eyes.

Shen Jingdan originally wanted to find an opportunity to have a talk with Zhao Xin, and tentatively asked Zhao Xin about his attitude towards Shen Xuan.But he didn't see Zhao Xin several times, so he had to wait for a while.

Because the Xu family brothers are young, they often go to play with Shen Xuan after class.The two families were originally family friends, and the Xu family brothers lost their parents; under the same fate, Shen Xuan took extra care of them.

Sometimes I took them to the beach to pick up shells, and sometimes I went to the fields to see the machine monsters plowing the land.After a long time, seeing too many strange things, Shen Xuan's vision has widened a lot after hearing and seeing.She even secretly went to school to listen to Zhao Xin's two classes without telling Shen Jingdan.However, Zhao Xin is currently teaching the children to read and write in class, and he can't take care of other things at all.

Shen Xuan saw that this matter was simple, and she could teach it by herself.Now she is accompanying Lu Yun on the Thunder God every day, and occasionally takes the two children of the Xu family out for a walk, doing nothing all day long.

So she begged Shen Jingdan to help the children read and write.Shen Jingdan was originally very opposed to women showing their faces in public, but here in Beihai Town, the situation is a bit special.

First of all, due to Shen Xuan's situation, I can't take her back to Suzhou; and Shen Xuan's natural feet are also the biggest problem for her to find her husband's family.Now Zhao Xin seems to have that kind of meaning for Shen Xuan. If he can put his daughter next to Zhao Xin, there may be a lot of fun.

Although Zhao Xin is still beginning to take shape here, Shen Jingdan, who has a lot of eyes, has already seen the potential of Beihai Town.If you can climb onto the big tree like Zhao Xin, it's hard to say what will happen in the future...

Secondly, there is no habit of women not working in Beihai Town.When the peasant women were in the island country, besides farming with their husbands, they were asked to do a lot of work at home.So after arriving in Beihai Town, the women didn't need to be mobilized at all, and they naturally participated in various labors.

Therefore, Shen Jingdan gave up on talking to Zhao Xin about her daughter's lifelong events, but went to school to find Zhao Xin and told Shen Xuan that she wanted to be a teacher.

Zhao Xin was overjoyed when he heard that!

One is that I finally have more people to help me share the school affairs, and the other is that I can see beautiful women every day.Even if you can't do anything, it's good to find an opportunity to tease the poor talker.

He didn't need to take the initiative to look for it. After class on the first day, Shen Xuan came to Zhao Xin with the textbook.

"Zhao...Master Zhao, why are there so many gestures missing in the words on this booklet?" Shen Xuan's voice was soft, and the official words with a Suzhou accent sounded nice.

"Oh, you said that."

Zhao Xin got up and was about to take the textbook in Shen Xuan's hand, but Shen Xuan took a few steps back like a frightened little rabbit.

"Miss Shen, what's the matter with you?"

"No, nothing." Shen Xuan blushed and handed the textbook to Zhao Xin, and sat across the table again.

"Huh? All the beauties have learned how to use perfume? Where did you smell this smell?"

In the air, a vague scent of perfume drifted into Zhao Xin's nose.Zhao Xin frowned and thought about it, oh, Director Liu!

"However, the smell of roses used by Director Liu is too strong. It doesn't suit her. I have to pick a better one by myself. But I bought the perfume, should I buy some foundation and lipstick..."

Zhao Xin was wandering in the sky, but Shen Xuan glanced at him secretly.She had never had such close contact with a man other than her father; a strong masculinity almost suffocated her.Shen Xuan took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and covered her nose.

"Master Zhao? Master Zhao?" Seeing that Zhao Xin was still frowning in deep thought, Shen Xuan called softly.

"Ah? Oh!" Zhao Xin was a little embarrassed, and he was crooked again.He coughed and explained: "Miss Shen, are you asking these words? These are simplified words..."

(End of this chapter)