Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 19 Katsu Saburo Changes Name

Three hours later, the refugees who first landed on the island began to get busy after resting.

Under the command of Katsu Saburo, they began to pull up weeds, eradicate shrubs, and smash gravel with the small flag set up by Liu Sheng as the center.

The remaining dozens of people began to level and compact the cleared space.

Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng didn't join the labor, not because they were lazy, but because they wanted to walk around with guns to prevent the sudden appearance of beasts.

"This gun is so heavy that my neck can't take it anymore. It's over." Zhao Xin, who was patrolling, complained on the walkie-talkie.

"I suggested buying AK from the beginning. You have to buy HK416, you deserve it. Anyway, I have no problem. Finished." Liu Sheng replied gloatingly.

"How cool is this gun, and it's a military version. It's much stronger than the AK. Most people can't buy it with money. Finished."

"It's so expensive! It's over." Liu Sheng scolded. "Besides, why do you buy so many? Play with one? Done."

"Go~ This is not fried dough sticks. It's over."

"You, you still have to exercise. You look very strong, but your body is too weak. From tomorrow morning, call your seven dwarfs and exercise more. It's over."

"Oh my God~ I, I'm dead." Zhao Xinyan screamed.

On a large rock with a very flat bottom, eight thick ropes with loose hemp braids were tied; and on each rope, a knot was tied every palm of the hand.

Eight refugee women each held a thick rope. While shouting rhythmically, they lifted the big stone together, so that the stone quickly rose above the height of the head, and then fell heavily and vertically, hitting the soft ground. .

And there are four groups of eight women in total.While smashing, these women wiped the sweat from their foreheads with towels or the backs of their hands, but their faces showed incomparable joy.

This land is our own.The day before boarding the ship, Mr. Zhao told everyone that after settling down, each family would be allocated land for cultivation. For the first five years, they would not need to pay grain. After five years, they would pay [-]% of the land harvest every year.

Zhao Xin also announced that the words he said would be engraved on the stone tablet, with the stone standing as evidence.

Every refugee was shocked by the policy announced by Zhao Xin. This year, the "Fourth and Sixth People's Governments" are considered good governance, and it will only be [-]% of Zhao's master in five years.They worked hard regardless of everything, for the land, and for the bright future described by Master Zhao.

"My lord! My lord! I found the river!" Kuzang Hetai shouted as he trotted towards Zhao Xin from a distance.

When the two ran to Zhao Xin panting, they were exhausted and gasping for breath.

Jiuzang bent down and rested for a while before straightening up. He pointed to the hills four or five miles away behind him and said, "The river flows from that valley."

Zhao Xin picked up the telescope and zoomed in to observe the direction Jiuzang pointed.The hill was located in the eastern part of the camp, and continued from north to south, dividing the entire Bear Island in two.

The two main rivers on the whole island are hidden in the valley, one flows from west to east, and flows into the northern part of the bay where Zhao Xin and the others are located; the other winds from east to south and flows into the sea in the south of Bear Island. .

It belongs to the cold temperate continental monsoon climate. Under the influence of the northerly wind from the polar regions and the southeasterly wind from the ocean, the precipitation is very abundant in winter and summer, especially in winter.

Every spring, a large amount of snow water stored in the valleys melts and rushes out of the mountains, nourishing the entire island, creating lush vegetation and thus attracting a large number of wildlife.

"It seems that I have to buy a set of drinking water purification equipment." Zhao Xin muttered in his heart, the first thing this fellow thought about was his own convenience.In fact, boiled water can not drink it?Hypocritical.

"This is a treasure!" The excited Katsu Saburo exclaimed.

"Well." Zhao Xin nodded, then raised his hand and pointed north. "From us to the north and east, the other end of the strait connects the entire continent. The place is huge, and it's all uncultivated wasteland."

Katsu Saburo suddenly walked to Zhao Xin and knelt down on one knee.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Xin asked.He complained in his heart: "Kneeling at every turn, it's so long-winded."

"Master, this subordinate wants to change his name, please allow the master."

"Want to change the name? Why is that?" Zhao Xin asked strangely.It's a habit to cry every day "I'm stuck for three times".

"My subordinate was determined to take refugees across the sea with the adults to survive. The day before yesterday, I saw the big ship driven by the adults and their companions. No matter the shape or speed of the ship, it was far better than the big ship I saw in the past. It is definitely not the human world. thing.

Therefore, the subordinates wanted to use the word 'sea boat' as their new name. "

That is - Sheng Haizhou.I wipe!Zhao Xin gasped, he knew the name.

(Katsukaishu, politician from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period, a representative of the old shogunate and the founder of the enlightened school and the shogunate navy. Known as Lintaro, and later called himself Anfang. Along with Yamaoka Tetsushu and Takahashi Mishu Known as the "Three Boats at the End of the Bakuboku". He has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of War, the Assistant of the Navy, the Senator and Navy Secretary, and the Senator.)
"How dare you think about it!" Zhao Xin secretly slandered while looking at Sheng Saburo. "However, change from 'I'm stuck for three times' to 'I'm stuck and I'm stuck for a break'... It's up to you, as long as you don't change my name."

"This name is very good. I agree." Zhao Xin Hu pondered for a while, and then nodded solemnly.

"Thank you very much, my lord." Sheng Haizhou bowed to Zhao Xin and saluted.

What Zhao Xin didn't know was that among the samurai surnames in the island country, the surname "Sheng" was very rare.In the Edo period, the main branch of the Katsuya was the unserved and small flag book of the Tokugawa shogunate's small general group, and later became a royal family, and entered the flag book from the second year of Baoli, so Katsu Saburo followed a few decades later. There is a high possibility that the Sheng Haizhou is related by blood.

"From here in the camp to the other side of the valley, ditches will be dug later to connect the water source." After Zhao Xin waited for Sheng Haizhou to get up, he gestured with his hands.

"Sir, we don't have enough manpower at all." Ping Tai said aside.

"I also noticed this problem. It seems that we have to make a trip to try to pull a boat back before the sea freezes." Zhao Xin turned his head and said to Ping Tai. "You and Wan Zuo will come with me in a few days. Sheng Kaizhou and Li Ji are guarding the camp."

Few people are not afraid, as long as there is an excavator, this workload is a P.

But then again, we Lan Xiang don't know anyone.

These 170 people, together with Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, were busy from morning to dusk, and finally opened up a flat open space with an area of ​​about [-] square meters.

Zhao Xin watched as it was getting late, and everyone was so tired that they sat on the ground, thinking that this could only be the case for now.

So I first arranged for a few women to take out the purchased compressed biscuits from the piled up supplies and distribute them to everyone, and it was just a dinner.After eating the dry food, he called all the adult men to start building construction tents.

This work has been done many times in the island country before, but it was disassembled and disassembled, so it was very neat to build it again. Under the lighting of a few bonfires, eighteen tents were set up in two hours. .

In the past few days, all the refugees, including Sheng Haizhou, were very tired. From packing up the old camp, seasickness all the way after boarding the ship, and landing on the opening site, Zhao Xinguang felt tired when he saw it.

Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng waved away Sheng Haizhou and others who asked to be on duty at night, and let them go to sleep first, and then replace them in the middle of the night.

So, exhausted "Seven Dwarfs", bah!wrong.It was the "Seven Samurai" who returned to their tents and fell asleep.

"I said, do you really plan to go back to the island country to recruit refugees?" Liu Sheng threw a piece of wood into the bonfire and said casually to Zhao Xin.

"What do you think? Look at our current 170 people, more than half of them are elderly, women and children, and there are many things to do in the future." Zhao Xin counted the same number with his fingers. "Construction of the camp, digging ditches to divert water, developing wasteland to prepare for the next spring, and the two of us have to find a place to prepare for military training. Neither of us knows how to drive construction machinery, so we can only take another trip before the sea water freezes. , get more people to work."

According to the plan negotiated by Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, the entire camp is divided into four areas: living area, dirt storage area, work area, and material storage area.Due to the urgency of time and limited manpower, the refugees first began to clean up living areas and material storage areas.

Liu Sheng is a historical idiot, he asked suspiciously: "Then why don't we go to the northeast to pull people?"

"Damn it, you forgot all the historical background I told you before?" Zhao Xin picked up a small clod and threw it at Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng smiled and ducked, saying, "You can talk about it."

"There are no Han people in the northeast now, but all ethnic minorities. Mainly Kurkazi, Feyaka, Oroqen, Hezhe, etc. The wicker border wall has not been opened yet in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The banished slaves."

Zhao Xin fiddled with the bonfire with the long bushes, and said leisurely: "In those Qing palace dramas you watch, it is often said that 'the Ning Gu Pagoda is exiled to the armored people as slaves', and it is these people. 'Ning Gu Pagoda' is full of slang, which translates to 'six'..."

"Six? Six what? Six walnuts?" Liu Sheng opened his mouth and came.

"Fuck, you're so mad at me. It's not six, it's just six. In Manchu, 'tower' means one or two."

"Damn it, you are so knowledgeable."

"If you read a lot, you will naturally remember it." Zhao Xinxin said that he had recently read a lot of information.

"In other words, for the exiled Han people at Ningguta, it is a hell on earth, and many people would rather die than go."

"What did you say?" Liu Sheng was very curious.

"There are no roads now, they are all so-called ground-breaking official roads. It takes half a year to walk from the capital to Ningguta, and many people fall ill and die on the road. Even if they are alive, they still have to farm and dig ginseng. It's not the end if you don't get tired."

"It's so dark." Liu Sheng cursed in a low voice.

"It's not. It's colder than Xiong Island over there, and the white-haired wind blows in winter, hehe..." Zhao Xin teased. "By the way, it seems that the descendants of Lu Liuliang's family were exiled there."

"Which Lu Liuliang?"

"Writing prison, Lu Siniang her grandfather."

"Oh. Lu Siniang, I know, this has an impression." Finally, Liu Sheng knew about it, and it was still a character in a romance novel.

The Lu Liuliang case was a major literary prison case involving treason in the sixth year of Yongzheng's reign.Among the many people involved at that time, the descendants of Lu Liuliang and his disciple Yan Hongkui, except for the beheading, were all sent to Ningguta as slaves.

It was not until the Jiaqing period more than 100 years later that the descendants of the Lu family wrote a letter requesting to take the imperial examination. As a result, the Qing court ruled that "everyone who was sent by the Lu family in Ninggu Pagoda will be exempted from donating the examination forever", and the Lu family was identified as After the Department of Great Rebellion, it cannot be cited for handling.It wasn't until 1909 that the Qing court issued a new law to abolish slavery, which was considered to be free from the fate of being slaves for generations.

A female colleague of Zhao Xin's former company was a descendant of the Lu family in Heilongjiang.

He gave Liu Sheng an angry look, then changed the subject and said, "In two days, we will leave with Ping Tai and Wan Zao in two days. It's not too late."

"Where are we going this time? Or in Aomori?"

"No, let's go to Sendai to see. Mutsu died and escaped. There is no one left."

The firewood crackled in the bonfire, and the two of them sat silently without speaking for a long time.

Zhao Xin got up, walked around the camp, and finally came to Liu Sheng and said, "We have to find a way to go back and find someone."

"Who are you looking for?"

"Of course modern people." Zhao Xin rolled his eyes. "Do you know how to drive an excavator or can I drive it? After buying so much machinery and equipment, you have to use it. Even if we are covered in iron, how many nails can we hit?"

"We can teach them how to use it."

"Can you teach the excavator? You graduated from Lan Xiang? How long do they have to study to master it? Alas, I just thought about saving people at first, but I didn't expect that there would be so many troubles in the future."

"Where's your cousin? Didn't you say to call him?"

"Not yet. That kid is too impetuous, and you have seen the shooting training. It's still far from good. Grind him first, and then talk about it after a while." In fact, Zhao Xin thought that if something happened to him, at least his cousin would still be able to. Take care of it over there; if both of them come, if they fall, they will be completely blind.

"Then what do you say?" Liu Sheng also scratched his head a little.

"Hey, you said that among your comrades in the past, is there any possibility to explore it?"

"Then I have to think about it, and I don't know what the situation is now. I have to meet and talk."

"Okay. We'll come back after picking up the next group of people, settle down and go."

"Hey, I'm going!" Zhao Xin suddenly slapped Liu Sheng's thigh, with a crisp sound of "Crack!"

"What are you doing?" Liu Sheng was startled.

"I'm such a pig brain, I didn't buy the most important thing!"

Liu Sheng didn't care about scolding him, and hurriedly asked, "What?"

"Mobile toilets."

Liu Sheng: "..."

(End of this chapter)