Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 167 Fishing Season
That night, it began to rain lightly in Beihai Town.One autumn rain and one cold, the rain in the ninth month of the lunar calendar is getting colder and colder.

But that night, most people in Beihai Town could hardly sleep through the night.Although I yawned when I woke up in the morning, I couldn't hide the excitement in my red and swollen eyes.

Salmon season has begun.

Yesterday afternoon, Chen Qingsong received a report that a lot of fish suddenly appeared in the Xila River, and these fish all came from the direction of the estuary.So before dinner, he called the principals and deputy chiefs of the five residential districts, and issued an urgent notice that all active people should go fishing for salmon tomorrow.

After the ten principal and deputy district chiefs took the order, two hours later, the notice was conveyed to all the families.

Beihai Town’s current household registration management for refugees has temporarily borrowed from the Baojia system of the Qing Dynasty. Every ten households are organized into a group with a group leader; , There are two district chiefs and deputy district chiefs.According to the actual situation of an average family of four to five people, basically the population under one district is around 5000 to [-]; the entire Beihai Town currently has only five districts.Zhao Xin doesn't need these district chiefs, village chiefs, and team leaders to help him collect food and recruit soldiers, so the main job of these people is to give orders from the top.

After a hasty breakfast, except for the children in class, the necessary left-behind personnel and the elderly with limited mobility, nearly ten thousand men and women in Beihai Town gathered on the east and west sides of the town to form two huge streams of people, one to the east and the other to the west , went to the Sila River and the Fuljaha River.With all kinds of tools in their hands and large baskets made of shrub branches on their backs, they happily set off with their respective team leaders.

Seen from the sky, the current town layout of Beihai Town looks like a big wing, centered on the "square" in the center of the town, extending to the east and west sides.

The square in the center of the wing is currently a large square grass field with a side length of 200 meters.As for why a large square is needed, Chen Qingsong has not thought about it for the time being. Anyway, according to the inertia of modern people's thinking, there must be one.The place where the flagpole was supposed to be erected has been vacant since Zhao Xin has not yet decided what flag to hang.

According to Zhao Xin's idea, what kind of flag to hang, it is best to erect a large antenna tower first.However, after his proposal was collectively despised by everyone, he gave up.

Around the square are all kinds of public facilities in Beihai Town.To the west is the "hospital" run by Hong Tao, which can only be regarded as a community hospital; to the south is the office of Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong; "office.However, Liu Sheng and the others spend most of their time working in the barracks on the east bank of the Xila River, and rarely come here.The Army Office is 50 meters east along the main road, which is the police station that Katayama Kanbei is in charge of.The school is located 500 meters north of the square.The large dining hall is located on the south side of the school, so it is very convenient for children to eat at noon.

The location of the warehouse was arranged by Zhao Xin at the foot of the mountain on the east bank of the Xila River, and he planned to build another granary there.It is very close to the barracks, and if there is an accident, the troops can arrive in time.

The residential areas of the refugees are distributed on the north and south sides of the main road that crosses the northern part of the square, neatly arranged.According to the group community planning, a public toilet, a small bathhouse, and a water point are built near every ten households.Zhao Xin plans to disperse all the refugees and live in mixed places after the Henan refugees arrive next year, so as to avoid the confrontation between the Qing people and the island people.

When the refugees first arrived in Beihai Town, Zhao Xin and the others had checked and registered the information of each family.Although the statistical work at the beginning was very complicated and cumbersome, after that, we only needed to perform simple statistical screening on the computer to get the desired information.

Perhaps it was because Beihai Town had only been established for half a year, and the refugees did not have much private property. There were not even a tavern or a grocery store in the residential area, so the crime rate was not high.At most, it's bickering and fighting.Katayama Kanbingwei is currently in charge of a hundred security policemen, and the daily security management can handle it.At present, all criminal punishments in Beihai Town must be signed by Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin to take effect.So far, the heaviest punishment is to be locked up in a small dark room for injuring someone, and not to be given food for two days.

The first batch of gold and silver coins has been secretly minted in the workshop.Chen Qingsong considered opening grocery stores, restaurants, and grain stores in residential areas after the monetary system was established.

After the people participating in the fishing set off, the huge Beihai Town suddenly became very quiet.There are only a few security police patrolling the streets.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the team in charge of fishing in the Sila River arrived at the designated area.The water here is gentle and the river is narrow, which is a good place to catch salmon.

At this time of year, hundreds of millions of salmon living in the Pacific Ocean start to swim upstream in various water systems in the vast area of ​​the outer Northeast that are connected to the sea, preparing to return to their birthplace in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang to spawn and reproduce.

The Hezhefeyaka people who live here will cheer "Dayimah" loudly when the salmon school arrives, which means that the fish that come and go regularly have arrived.This is also the origin of the name "salmon".

In the clear and cold water of the Sila River, densely packed red salmon are struggling to move northward.As for the salmon stranded on the beach, their mouths are opening and closing hopelessly, quietly waiting for the arrival of death.

From the beginning to the end, these salmon arrived at the place where they were born. Due to reasons such as stranding, fishing, and predation by animals along the way, the tragic elimination rate was as high as 99%.That is to say, almost only one out of every two hundred fish can reach the birthplace to spawn.After spawning, the salmon die slowly in the water.In the early spring of the second year, the hatched eggs will leave and head for the sea after they grow to six centimeters.

Under the leadership of their respective team leaders, the refugees began to catch these fish schools along the river bank.There are those who use fishing nets, those who go directly into the water with bare feet, and those who use homemade wooden forks to insert fish. Various methods emerge in endlessly.Laughter and laughter filled the long river bank.

Suddenly, a refugee saw a black bear running out of the woods on the river beach dozens of steps away, and he couldn't help exclaiming: "Bear!"

With this shout, the crowd was shocked, and many people were frightened and fled to the bank from the river.The frightened black bear noticed the refugees not far away, and instinctively roared at the crowd for these outsiders who broke into his territory.

"Bang!" A huge gunshot resounded on the river bank.The frightened black bear turned around and fled into the depths of the dense forest.Farther away, several wolves who heard the gunfire also howled.

Wan Zao pushed the trigger guard of the lever rifle in his hand, and a yellow shell shot out of the magazine.He leaned over to pick up the shell casings and put them in his pocket, and shouted to the crowd, "What are you panicking about! Keep working!"

The refugees returned to the shore with lingering fear and continued to work.However, because of the appearance of bears, many people will look up and look around from time to time.But as more and more fish were caught, laughter returned to the crowd.

The day when the salmon swim back is not only a festival in Beihai Town, but also a festival for the border residents along the river basin in the entire outer northeast.Thousands of miles northeast of Beihai Town, on the Kandan River, a cheerful family of Hezhefeiyaka people are fishing for salmon in the river.

In addition to boating south to Delengen wooden city in May and June every year, the border residents here pay a head tax to the tax-collecting yamen at the annual Shangwulin Market in exchange for some millet, network cables and some daily necessities. Back home to live a reclusive life.

At this time, beside the Kandan River, an ancient "Imakan" fisherman's song is floating on the river.

"Ah la la la ~ ~ ah la Henny ~~ The blue sky is covered with colorful clouds, and the sky is full of clouds and hunting. White seagulls fly over the heads, and flying harpoons fly on the blue river..."

When Wu Kanbei's family of five was working happily by the river, several uninvited guests suddenly appeared in his vision.

They were all blue-eyed, with high noses, flaxen hair, and bushy mustaches.They were dressed in the costumes of the northern Tartars, with cloaks of animal skins.

At this time, these people were mooring a large sampan boat in the lee of the river, three of them raised their muskets and looked around for vigilance, and several others took a rope with an iron lump at one end and secretly lowered it into the river.
who is thiswhat are they doing
Wu Kanbei looked at these people curiously, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing?"

The shout alarmed the outsiders, their eyes were fierce, and three men with guns got off the boat and rushed towards Wukanbei.

Wu Kanbei felt bad, and he immediately said to his wife and children: "Go home!" After speaking, he picked up his youngest son and rushed to the thatched hut by the river.After instructing his son not to move around, he took off his big bow from the wall, picked up a few arrows and went out the door.

Those uninvited guests had rushed to a distance of thirty steps away from him. Seeing that Wukanbei was about to draw his bow to aim, they immediately raised their muskets and fired.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The sound of gunfire alarmed the waterfowl by the river, and they all flew into the air.Wu Kanbei felt as if someone had hit his chest with a sledgehammer, and fell to the ground involuntarily.Before he fell into a coma, he vaguely saw the three outsiders draw out the long knives from their waists and came towards his house.
Wukanbe's wife screamed and threw herself on her husband's side as the robbers ransacked their hard-earned property.The three robbers rushed into the thatched hut, rummaging through everything that could be eaten.Dried venison, dried salmon, and drinking the local wine brewed by Wukanbe's wife.

In the end, the robbers poured all the fish oil accumulated by Wukanbei's family on the thatched hut. In the raging fire, the home built by the couple like swallows holding mud was burned.The fire soaring into the sky reflected the surging river red...

Amidst the laughter, the robbers hacked Wukanbe's three children to death with sabers, and then threw them into the Wangdan River full of fish.

Wukanbei's wife tried her best to stop him, but she was no match for the tall and strong robber.Probably feeling that he had teased enough, a bandit raised his saber ferociously.
I don't know how long it took, several Hezhefei Yaka people ran to the accident site, and several Oroqen families who were hunting also came after hearing the news.The thatched huts that fell off the shelves were still blazing, and they were trampled into muddy ground, with wine bowls, bones, and birch barrels thrown around.In the puddles of blood, only the marks of the robber's riding boots remained.

Everyone stepped forward to turn Wukanbei over, and found that this strong man was still alive.So he quickly lifted him up and ran towards the Chang's family.

The line of sight returned to Beihai Town.Just after ten o'clock in the morning, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, who stayed in the town, braved the rain and came to a wooden fence camp in the northwest of Beihai Town.Speaking of which, this camp was built when they first came here; later, as more and more refugee families moved away, it became unused.Chen Qingsong originally wanted to convert this place into a warehouse for parking agricultural machinery and vehicles, but after the first crusade by the Qing court, this place was assigned to the Ministry of Security.

The size of the entire camp has been greatly reduced compared to before.The location of the original gate is now replaced by a wooden house.After Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng opened the door and entered the room, under the watchful eyes of two soldiers on duty with guns, they successively pressed their index fingers on the fingerprint reader on the table until a voice of "thank you" came from the machine, and the two sentries Only then did he raise his hands in salute and let them pass through the door on the other side.

After walking out of the wooden house, you can see a high-power dual-band wireless base station up to ten meters high at the northwest corner.The tall triangular column-shaped iron frame is Zhang Bo's masterpiece, and the bottom is made of cement as a base.

Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng walked through the open space and came to a prefabricated house in the northeast corner of the camp.In the room, eight young women were concentrating on the several screens in front of them.The pictures on the screen are all forests, towns, military camps, workshops, prisoner camps and docks.

Here are the "eyes" of Beihai Town.

Through hundreds of solar-powered wireless cameras set up in the wild, the five-kilometer mountain roads, valleys, and valleys in Beihai Town are all under surveillance as long as they can pass people.The equipment in the entire monitoring room and the wireless base station are powered by a domestically produced [-]-kilowatt diesel generator set.

This is also the reason why only the three ten-man teams of Seldan, Elu, and Hengji can take on the security task around the entire Beihai Town.In addition, Liu Sheng and the others will also send drones to conduct inspections every day, and regularly send a platoon of soldiers to patrol along the line.However, if those surveillance cameras are damaged by birds and beasts in the forest, they can only be replaced with new ones.

Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng had the idea of ​​setting up surveillance very early on, and they started preparing for it almost after they were attacked by border residents when they landed for the first time.The sixteen young female refugees were all selected from among the earliest refugees. The Ministry of Security conducted three months of secret training for them before they started to work, eight people in a class.Zhao Xin's idea is to train at least [-] more people, so that a class of eight people can stare at the monitor for six hours, which doubles the workload.

Once the situation is discovered in the monitoring room, the duty officer will use the walkie-talkie to notify the nearest patrol team to intercept it.In order to teach these girls to identify their positions, Zhao Xin and others spent a lot of effort.

Zhao Xin asked a girl to get out of the way, and he operated on the keyboard himself to call up the surveillance screen of the prisoner camp.Today, because of the rain, the hundreds of Qing prisoners in the prison camp did not go out to work, but stayed in the camp to make wooden cigarette cases for Tianci.

Zhao Xin looked at it for a while, then asked Liu Sheng, "How is that Li Dagang doing?"

"After recovering from the injury, I tried to escape from prison a few times, and after finding out that I couldn't escape, I became honest for the time being."

"Where's the Samustin?"

"Now the internal management of the prisoner camp is to let twelve of them take charge. They also know that they can't go back, so they are still working hard."

Zhao Xin thought for a while and said: "Deng Fei and the others are coming back this time, so don't go out for now. First send these Qing army captives to Solenji Island to dig gold mines. This matter can't be delayed any longer."

Liu Sheng nodded without speaking.The two watched for a while, then left here.When he walked outside, Liu Sheng turned his head and asked, "Why are you so eager to dig gold mines? You don't have enough money now?"

Zhao Xin sighed and said, "Not only do I need to buy food for storage now, but I'm going to buy a few more cargo ships. These can no longer be bought from China, and people will notice. I called Andrew last night and asked him to help find them. Relationship. I plan to use gold to pay for his transactions. Moreover, our own first batch of gold and silver coins are also being minted, and reserves must be set aside.”

"What do you plan to do next on the island country?"

"The severe drought in the spring of next year will affect the entire Huanghuai River Basin. According to the data, it will affect 13 provinces. Judging from this situation, the silk production in the south of the Yangtze River will be greatly affected. I plan to export a large amount of cheap raw silk and Silk, one is to obtain funds, and the other is to defeat the textile workshops in Nishijin, Kyoto.

In addition, in order to attract the funds of the shogunate, we have to dump a large amount of cheap light industrial products, which are very rare luxuries for the current islanders. "

The two talked while walking, Liu Sheng asked suddenly: "Matches?"

"Yes, matches are just one of them. In fact, the island country is very short of commodity types. Apart from gold, silver and copper, their own resources are seafood. They are running out of copper now, and the reserves of gold and silver mines are also declining year by year."

"What is your strategy for the island nation?"

Zhao Xin said indifferently: "Promote the northeast and suppress the southwest. As for the Tokugawa family, let him stay half-dead. When necessary, we have to go to Edo Bay and use cannons to force the shogunate to sign a trade treaty."

Liu Sheng asked curiously: "And then?"

"Switching silver to get gold."

In fact, Zhao Xin still has a secret in his heart that he has not disclosed to Liu Sheng. He wants to completely cut off the mythical "Eternal Line" when the time is right!
(End of this chapter)