Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 17 Target Bear Island
Three days later, in the early morning, a fisherman in Aomori fishing village was picking up seaweed by the sea and saw a scene he had never seen in his life.

A group of 200 people, men, women, old and young, supported each other and came to the beach.This group of people are all wearing thick cotton gowns of strange styles, and everyone has shoes to wear.

The leader looked like a samurai, and several others also held swords, and the guards accompanied the crowd.

When the fisherman saw this battle, he didn't know what was going to happen, so he hid in the bushes by the sea and watched secretly.

At this time, the sea has started to rise.

Katsu Saburo took the lead, standing on the seashore overlooking, the sea water kept washing his feet.

After a while, a white shadow appeared in the distance on the sea surface, reflecting the dazzling light in the early morning sun.

Shiro Ying approached very fast, completely surpassing other ships that Katsu Saburo had seen, and he watched carefully, but he didn't even see the sails.

"Come on, the lord's ship is here!" There were cheers from the waiting crowd.

With the cheers of everyone, the boat approached quickly like a shuttle, and slowly stopped a few hundred meters away from the shore.

The refugee hiding in the bushes and the crowd on the shore dropped their jaws when they looked at this peculiar ship.

What kind of boat is this, not to mention the sails, the deck is more than ten feet above the water, the hull is more than ten feet long, the bow is like the tip of a knife, and the white upper part of the hull is like a sea bird Hover over the sea.

Amid the jaw-dropping admiration of the crowd on the shore, after a while, a small boat with a dark gray hull sailed out from the stern of the big ship.

Katsu Saburo saw that the boat was also without sails, but it rushed towards the shore like a roaring galloping horse on the sea.

There was a burst of exclamation from the crowd, which gradually turned into ecstasy.

"That's an adult!"

"My lord is here to pick us up!"

It was Zhao Xin who was on the charging rubber boat. He drove the speedboat to the shore. After everyone was so frightened that they retreated backwards, the rubber boat rushed directly to the beach and stopped.

Zhao Xin shouted to Katsu Saburo: "According to the previous plan, five people at a time. Everyone put this on first."

While talking, Zhao Xin threw several large bags of life jackets from the rubber boat.

According to what he had practiced before, Katsu Saburo immediately called out the first five people, and arranged for someone to pick up and tear open several large bags thrown by Zhao Xin on the beach, take out the life jackets, and distribute them to everyone to wear and wait.

Among the first five people to set out were Wanzao's wife and children, Shino, and Heita's family.After the six people put on orange life jackets, they boarded the assault boat.Immediately, Katsuzaburō, Rikichi, Wanzao, and Huyoshi came to the rubber boat and pushed the boat into the sea with all their strength.

As the sound of the motor sounded again, Zhao Xin turned around and drove towards the yacht.

Here Zhao Xin has just left the shore, and another speedboat on the sea is also speeding towards the shore, and it is Liu Sheng on board.

Under the back-and-forth operation of the two, the two rubber boats sent the people waiting on the shore to the yacht at a frequency of five people at a time.

Ignoring the chins of the people who boarded the yacht, Shino, who was also surprised, assigned everyone who boarded the boat to sit in their respective positions.

The two rubber boats went back and forth more than 30 times in this way, and finally sent everyone to the yacht.

After the rubber boat was firmly tied to the stern, Zhao Xin walked through the center area of ​​the hull, which was over 120 square meters, and came to the driver's seat.

At this moment, the guest rooms, restaurants, salons, and reception areas on the ship are densely filled with people.Everyone looked up and down curiously, but no one dared to get up and move around.

In order to accommodate all the more than 100 people at one time, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng violently dismantled all kinds of solid wood tables, chairs, sofas, audio and entertainment equipment on board in advance with tools, and even gave away the valuable solid wood furniture in the guest room. Disassembled to reduce the weight of the hull.

"Everyone is on board, and the rubber dinghies are put away. Let's go."

"There are so many people on this boat, so we have to drive slowly." Liu Sheng pressed the switch to put away the anchor.

With the roar of the engine in the cabin, this luxury yacht from 300 years later sailed all the way north.

In the bushes on the shore, the refugee who was quietly observing saw that the big boat had already sailed away, let go of the girl and ran towards the fishing village, preparing to report to the village chief.

On the map, the straight-line distance from Aomori Port to Bear Island (now Russo Island) on Bear Island is less than 800 kilometers, but the actual driving distance seems to be 810 kilometers.

Zhao Xin's yacht has a maximum speed of 32 knots and a cruising speed of 29 knots. Converted to kilometers, it is almost 53 kilometers per hour. Even at this speed, it will take 15 hours to drive.

Right now, there are two hundred people on this boat, and Liu Sheng doesn't dare to go on a cruise.So he crossed the Tsugaru Strait slowly and steadily at a speed of 10 knots; when the waves on the sea surface became smaller, he increased to 15 knots, sometimes even 20 knots.

The increase in the speed of the boat caused exclamations from everyone on board.Dozens of them could not carry it, and soon became seasick.

In this era, in order to strictly prevent the spread of Catholicism in the island country, the Tokugawa shogunate implemented a strict policy of seclusion and isolation, and strictly prohibited islanders from going to sea; and for islanders who had fled overseas to avoid war, it was also strictly forbidden to return to the country to settle.

No way, the "Shimabara Rebellion" in Kanei's 11th year scared the Tokugawa family enough. From then on, they not only realized the threat of foreign trade to the economy under the shogunate rule, but also deeply realized the threat of Catholicism to the shogunate rule. Since then, the country-locking policy of more than 200 years has been implemented.

These people who vomited and vomited because of seasickness, Yushino arranged to take seasickness medicine, and soon fell asleep.Others were so frightened that they sat down in the cabin and didn't dare to move. When everyone found that the boat was running very smoothly, they gradually felt relieved.

In this way, after nearly two days of sailing, the ship entered the outer bay of Bear Island.

Bear Island, also known as Lefu Island, "Lefu" is Manchu, which means bear in Chinese.Historically, the island originally belonged to China. In 1860, after the Qing court signed the "Beijing Treaty", it was illegally occupied by Tsarist Russia.

Originally, according to the content of the treaty, Bear Island belonged to the "land of bannermen fishing and hunting" and was not within the scope of the cession of the "Beijing Treaty"; while the occupation of the island by Tsarist Russia was illegal, and the Qing court was unable to resist Tsarist Russia. ceded.

The sound of the engine gradually fell, and the sky was still very dark at this time, and the sun had not yet risen.

After discussing with Liu Sheng, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng decided to plan to land on the island after dawn.

The two first took out the pre-installed wireless base station from a locked cabin. Zhao Xin and Katsu Saburo, who came to help together, held it up and handed it to Liu Sheng, who climbed to the top of the boat.Liu Sheng inserted the connecting rod under the wireless base station into the pre-installed iron frame and fixed it with a latch.Zhao Xin connected the power of the wireless base station, then took out a laptop, connected it via Bluetooth, and opened the software for debugging.

Katsu Saburo has gradually become immune to the lord taking out a magical item he has never seen before. Although he doesn't understand what these things are for, he still stands quietly beside Zhao Xin and watches.

After the debugging of the wireless base station was completed, the sky was already showing fish belly white.When the sun gradually rose halfway from the sea level, everyone on the boat could already see Bear Island not far away.

At this time, the Bear Island was densely covered with jungles, and a large number of inter-forest shrubs interspersed with larch, white birch, and metasequoia, etc., were very densely distributed.

Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, Zhao Xin took out the installed drone from the cabin of the ship.After matching the signals of the drone and the wireless base station, under the operation of Liu Sheng, the drone quickly rose from the roof of the yacht, and when it reached a height of 500 meters, it flew horizontally at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. Over Bear Island.

"I'll go, the drone you bought is really good. Well, the picture is clear." Liu Sheng controls the flight of the drone through the gimbal while looking at the display on the ground station of the drone.

"How fresh, 45 planes, industry-level applications." Zhao Xin also stared at the screen and replied without looking up.

Liu Sheng's hands trembled: "What? 45, [-]?"

"Hey, you can take it easy, it hurts to death if you break it. I only bought five sets in total." Zhao Xin watched the picture on the screen beat, and quickly said a reminder.

"I'm going, you buy so much to cook and eat. Be good. This is so much better than what I use in the army."

"Be prepared. You treat this as a child's toy. Besides, how many years have passed since you were a soldier? Can it be the same?"

"Well, that's right. Let me do the math, hehe, I'm still more than 200 years away from being a soldier."

"I'm going!" Liu Sheng suddenly noticed something on the screen. He hovered the drone and fine-tuned the camera position. "This is really a bear!"

"I'll take a look." Zhao Xin, who was observing the coast with a telescope, leaned over.

Liu Sheng pointed at the display: "Did you see it?"

Zhao Xin looked at it for a while and felt that he could not see clearly, so he pressed a few times on the LCD screen to switch the lens to infrared mode, and now he could see clearly.

In the picture, two big, two small and four bears are walking slowly in the forest.

"It's almost winter, and these bears will soon start hibernating." Liu Sheng said.

"Well, maybe we also have bear's paws to eat. At this time, the bear's paws are the fattest." Zhao Xin snorted.

"You foodie."

Katsuzaburō and Liji, who were watching from the side, pointed to the four bears on the screen and asked in a trembling voice, "Sir, is this a bear?"

Zhao Xin turned his head and said to Katsu Saburo: "I'm telling you, inform everyone before going ashore, don't run around at will. This black bear can smell people within a mile, and can hear it within three hundred steps. To the sound of footsteps. Especially at night, never leave the camp to walk around.”

Katsuzaburō and Likichi hurriedly said yes, and immediately turned around and went down to the cabin to explain to everyone.

Zhao Xin turned around and said to Liu Sheng: "Continue flying, take a careful look at the entire island, and then choose the landing and camp location. You must fly to the west and north shores to see if there is any trace of the ship. "

"Is there still a boat coming here?" Liu Sheng asked strangely.

"Why not? Let me tell you, this place is called Lefu Island by the Manchus. In the Manchu language, 'Lefu' means bear! Maybe some Hezhe people who live in the north will come here before winter. Bear hunting. Bear fur is the best at this time, and the bear's paws are thick and bear bile can be used as medicine. These are good things that can be exchanged for money.

And these Hezhe people are the names of our era. In this era, they are called fish skin tartars, that is, the birth of Jurchen. They are very agile and fierce.If we are not careful, we will be destroyed if we are not careful. "

"Damn it! I don't believe they are really that powerful. There is a chance to compete and see if the bullet is faster or the bow and arrow is faster." Liu Sheng said disdainfully.

(End of this chapter)