Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 271 Prelude to the Raiders of the Island Country

Enhai was very happy that Wei Changsheng came to have a chat, but Guan Bao was not interested.After chatting for a few words, the official security left early.Although he was full of doubts and surprises, Wei Changsheng didn't ask Enhai where he heard the lyrics before leaving.

joke!Eun Hae hasn't lived enough yet.

However, after repeated pleadings by Wei Changsheng, Enhai finally told him the whole libretto, and explained the general singing method and tone of the libretto. "Huabe Taidou" wasn't called for nothing, Wei Changsheng thought about it for a while, and tried humming a few times in a low voice, and he managed to grasp the charm of this singing with a good degree of accuracy.After he sang with a clear voice, everyone in the teahouse applauded in unison, and the clapping of the table rang loudly!

In Qianlong's later years, it was the time when drama genres developed greatly, and many things in later operas had already taken shape.For example, Wei Changsheng created the patch on the head of the danjiao, or the huqin with a soft bow.However, the Pihuang tune, the main tune of later generations of Peking Opera, only exists in Qin Opera, Han tune and Hui tune, and the real fusion has not yet been completed.

In Wei Changsheng's opinion, the singing that Enhai told him contained elements of Kun and Yi tunes, as well as some foundations of Western Qin tunes, Han tunes and Hui tunes, which is too strange!He couldn't think of anyone other than him in this world who could integrate the strengths of various schools and create an original school of opera.

Seeing Enhai's hesitant and mysterious look, and thinking about Enhai's identity, Wei Changsheng thought that maybe this thing came from the palace, it seems that there are capable people around the emperor what!Fortunately, Wei Changsheng had to go on stage at Guanghe Building at night, otherwise he would be able to chat with Enhai until the next morning.

A year later, Wei Changsheng edited and reorganized this libretto and vocals, which were different from all current genres, and turned it into an excerpt of "Qin Qiong Selling Horses". A must-see show.And when Wei Changsheng finally knew that this kind of singing was spread from outside the customs, it was already a few years later.

The line of sight turns back to Beihai Town at the end of August in the 51st year of Qianlong.

Zhao Xin finally decided to take action against the island country. He planned to completely eliminate the shogunate's thoughts about Ezodi through this action, and lay the foundation for the final settlement of the island country issue.

Since Matsumae Castle was jointly captured by Beikai Town and Ainu ministries last year, the Tokugawa shogunate has sent two waves of crusades with a total of 5000 people in the first half of the year, trying to retake Matsumae Castle.Fortunately, there is a reinforced company from Beihai Town guarding Songqian City for a long time, and the Ainu under Tuka alone can't stand it.

Now the entire Matsumae castle town has been smashed into ruins.At the beginning of the year, the shogunate issued an order to prohibit Omi’s merchants from selling food and daily necessities to Ezo; if it hadn’t been for the Jinglei that delivered supplies to Matsumae Castle every month, people like Tuka would have gone back to Pingyuan Town and Dashan to continue to be chiefs up.

However, the supplies from Beihai Town were not given away for nothing. According to what Zhao Xin had agreed with Tuka before, all the supplied supplies had to be exchanged by the Ainu for gold.When Tuca could no longer obtain enough natural gold ore, Deng Fei took advantage of the opportunity to propose the mining rights of Urupu Island.Tuka didn't care about a small island at all, so with a big wave of his hand, he transferred Urupu Island, including the Ainu people on the island, to Beihai Town.

Although the crusading army of the shogunate was beaten twice at the base of Matsumae Castle and fled in a hurry, they still brought most of the islanders living in the castle town of Matsumae back to the main island.The Ainu people don't do production, they drink and have fun besides hunting all day long, making the good castle town into a miasma.And Tuka was also worried that there were spies from the shogunate among the islanders, so he ignored the lives of the local residents and let them fend for themselves.

On the other side of Edo, just as the preparations for the "Third Ezodi Expedition Team" were completed and they were about to leave, on August 1786 in the sixth year of Tianming (25), Tokugawa Ieharu, the tenth general of the Tokugawa shogunate, died.

Seven years ago, Tokugawa Ieharu's 17-year-old eldest son Ieki died suddenly after hunting.Two years later, the childless Ieji made Toyochiyo, the eldest son of the Tokugawa family of Hitotashi, as an adopted heir.

The seal official, who has 28 wives, 27 sons, and 13 daughters in history, is only 11 years old this year.Now on the throne of the shogunate, he is about to become the No.[-] general, that is, Tokugawa Iezari.

As soon as Tokugawa Ieharu died, the old Naka Tanuma Yiji immediately lost his power. Two days later, he resigned as the old middle school and left the field.The pioneer of the "Westernization Movement" that was the first to carry out economic activities in East Asia was soon met with liquidation by political opponents and additional bad reviews from the world.

At this time, the fiscal deficit of the shogunate was bottomless, and the victims of the disaster were displaced everywhere.Many peasants only had soba noodles the size of a small teacup for a meal, barely surviving; small-scale Ichikui uprisings occurred from time to time in various places, requiring the shogunate and daimyo to reduce or exempt excessive annual tribute.

Regardless of Tokugawa's young age, this kid's political skills are very powerful.

Under the circumstance that the rulers of the previous generation failed the people, Tokugawa Jiaqi urgently needed a relative who was born in a clan and had prestige but could not threaten his position as a general to help stabilize his rule or bear the responsibility of his own death.However, Matsudaira Nobusaka, who was born as the third minister of the imperial court, was the most suitable candidate because it was widely rumored that no one in the Baihe feudal domain died of starvation (untouchables are not counted as people), and he was already the head of the last family.

However, according to the ancestral precepts of the Tokugawa family, since the Tokugawa clan dominates the world, it must transfer power to its own retainers on an equal footing; serve.Although Matsudaira Sadanobu is the head of the Hisamatsu Matsudaira family and is a genealogy daimyo, but also because he was born in the family of Yu Sanqing (the grandson of Yoshimune Tokugawa, the seventh son of the Tianyasu Tokugawa family, and later adopted as the heir to the Shirakawa clan.) was opposed by political opponents.

Fierce political struggles began again, and as various factions in the shogunate began to scramble for the position of the "Old Middle", the plan for the third crusade against Ezodi was shelved.

The above is the information that Pingtai sent back to Beihai Town through the Beihai Company.Zhao Xin saw an opportunity from this. Once the candidate for the old man is confirmed, the shogunate will start to work together. In order to deal with the shortage of domestic arable land, they will definitely plot the fertile land of Ezo again.

But before leaving, Zhao Xin still has a few things to do.

He first wrote a letter in his own hand, and after Shen Xuan helped to polish it, he copied it neatly with a pen, and couldn't find a single typo.Then, he handed over the letter to Shen Jingdan, asking him to give the letter to a man named Wang Zhong Wang Rongfu when he returned to Yangzhou to pick up his family.

The reason why Zhao Xin fell in love with Wang Rongfu was that, although he was extremely talented, he did not become an official; The imperial examination; the third is that Zhao Xin read Wang Zhong's works when he was a child.

At that time, Zhao Xin's father was "instigated" by a colleague who found a copy of "Study" from the unit library and forced Zhao Xin to read it during the holiday.Under the intimidation of his father's big slap and belt, Zhao Xin's life is worse than death every day; "Kingdom University", "Houguo Primary School", "Zhuzizhixue", "Xiangxue" and so on, are full of stories. Without any punctuation marks, Zhao Xin could only memorize the whole text like swallowing dates while looking up the dictionary.

At that time, Zhao Xin's home was only a wall away from his father's work unit, so every time Zhao Xin recited a chapter, he had to rush to his father's office to recite silently.

Why "quickly"?If you go late, forget it!In this way, if you make a mistake, you have to get a slap on the palm of your hand, and then go back and recite it again.At that time, Zhao Xin rubbed his red palms from beatings every day, and it was Wang Zhong who scolded him the most while hiding under the covers at night.

As time goes by, some things gradually become blurred.It wasn't until a few days ago when I was having dinner with Shen Jingdan and talking about celebrities in Yangzhou, and the other party mentioned a guy named Wang Rongfu, that Zhao Xin suddenly remembered this guy who had been scolded by him for the whole winter vacation.

Wang Zhong's matter is still Zhao Xin's private matter; in terms of official affairs, Beihai Town opened three more junior colleges at the end of August in addition to the existing primary school.Zhao Xin attended the foundation stone laying ceremony of the three schools.

The first is a technical school belonging to the civil affairs department.Although the size of the agricultural units in Beihai Town and Fuldan City has exceeded 100 people, they still cannot meet the requirements of large-scale mechanization.In view of this, after several months of private preparations by Chen Qingsong and Zhao Liang, the technical school finally opened.

Zhao Liang served as the principal of the technical school, Wan Zao, Zhao Maozhu and more than a dozen skilled workers in the workshop became part-time teachers.The school first opened eight professional classes, divided into agricultural machinery, automobile driving, mechanical repair, fitter, turner, miller, electrician, and carpenter.The trainees are aimed at residents who have mastered Putonghua proficiently and can recognize and read [-] characters, regardless of gender.

The second school is the sailing school.Liu Sheng is the principal, Deng Fei is the dean of education, and Ding Guofeng and the Portuguese carpenter are part-time teachers.The current majors include three professional classes: seafarers, engineers, and senior seamen.

The electrician and carpentry majors needed in navigation are trained by technical schools, but seafarers only need to learn a series of nautical science, navigation watch and collision avoidance, nautical meteorology and oceanography, cargo transportation, ship management, ship structure and equipment, etc. Courses, and then according to the number of years of service, after passing the assessment, they can be promoted to senior seafarers.

The third school is the Junior Military Academy, with Zhao Xin as the principal, and Wang Yuanfang and Wu Siyu as the principal and deputy deans of education.The recruiting object of the Junior Military Academy is the graduates of Beihai Town Primary School.The main purpose is to cultivate junior reserve talents specialized in joint training and diversion for Beihai Town; the so-called joint training and diversion refers to the cultivation of compound junior commanding officers who understand technology, know how to manage, and can command.

There are no majors in the Junior Military Academy. All students need to study subjects such as weapon shooting, topography, middle and advanced mathematics and geometry, military theory, staff operations, military training methods, army management, and missionary education. The entire learning time is four years; four years After that, according to personal strengths and personality characteristics, professional system training will be carried out.

Of the three schools mentioned above, except for the technical school, which was located in the south of Fuldan, the sailor's school and the juvenile military school were all located on the east bank of the Xila River in Beihai Town.After the foundation stone laying ceremony was completed, the construction team affiliated to the Ministry of Civil Affairs began to enter the site for construction. It is planned to complete the construction of classrooms and walls before the end of October in the lunar calendar.

The establishment of the three schools has aroused great concern among the new and old refugees.The refugees soon learned that these students not only could use Mandarin fluently, but also read and write. It was said that they would become officials after graduation, and their monthly salary was at least ten yuan in Beihai town silver coins during school.

Ten silver dollars, that's 50 taels!Some thoughtful people make up their minds, obediently!This is already the salary of the eighth-rank officials of the Qing Dynasty.

People, there are those who are hardworking and willing to work, and there are those who like leisure and hate work.A few homeless families with daughters thought that as long as they married off their daughters, they would become officials and lords, so what kind of land and roads should they build!
But when they inquired again afterwards, their hearts turned cold.Zhao Xin stipulated that students from the three schools were not allowed to start a family; anyone who dared to secretly start a family would be dismissed from their posts, not to mention the head of the community group, village head, and district head, and the students themselves would also be expelled from the school.

On the army side, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, more than 100 soldiers and officers who married concubines were successively dismissed.These people were soon organized into a security team, and were forced to take their families and concubines to Bitter Leaf Island to be responsible for the security and winter duty of oil fields and coal mines.

Seeing Zhao Xin's tough tactics, Li Ji, who originally wanted to get a concubine, couldn't help breaking into a cold sweat, thinking that it was a fluke.

Zheng Yi, Zheng Qi, and Guo Po, who came to Beihai Town in a daze, brought the three of them to Beihai Town Primary School with a wave of Zhao Xin's big hand.Among the three, Zheng Yi and Guo Podai had both been in private schools for several years except Zheng Qi who did not know Chinese characters, but they were still ordered by Zhao Xin to study mathematics and geometry.Zhao Xin made it very clear that if you want to be a senior seaman, that is, to be able to drive a three-masted galleon or even a large iron ship, you must master mathematics.

Although going to school is a good thing, the daily classroom is really embarrassing for the three of them; because apart from them, there are only a group of seven or eight-year-old children in the classroom.What a shame!
At the beginning of September, just three days before Zhao Xin's departure, the second and third decrees of Beihai Town were issued again.The second decree confuses all the refugees, wondering what is the use of the "Opium Prohibition Regulations" made by the masters!

Speaking of which, many people here in Beihai Town didn't even know what opium was before, but through this regulation, they learned that opium also has two names, drug and drug.

Zhao Xin asked Yu Deli and Zhou Weiguo to draft and promulgate this regulation as soon as possible.Zhao Xin's idea is that it is better to take the first step than to punish him without teaching. Anyway, this thing doesn't need to be too complicated.

The "Opium Prohibition Regulations" clearly prohibits anyone under Beihai Town from smoking, selling, and transporting opium, except for medical procurement and hospital use.The regulation also clarifies that "smuggling and trafficking is the same crime", which is recognized by all the trans-trafficking people.In view of the current shortage of population resources, as long as someone sells or smokes opium, they will all be dispatched to the coal mines in Ezo to dig coal, and they will not be allowed to return to the mainland for life.

Another regulation is the "Regulations on Passport for Residents of Beihai Township". All residents of Beihai Township will receive a certificate issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.So starting from the beginning of September, in Beihai Town and Fuldan City, every household was notified to go to the town office to queue up to take pictures on a certain day to prepare photos for the new ID.

Immediately afterwards, news came from the city of Fuerdan that a group of dozens of people from Zaksulu's department, led by Sahalian's father and daughter, set off by boat in mid-July in order to avoid the Qing army's interrogation. Landing on the south bank of Lake Kay, crossing the swamp, reached the city of Fuldan in early September.This time they brought a large amount of mountain goods and animal skins, and they came to do business with Beihai Town; from cotton clothes to needles and threads, food, salt, matches, cigarettes, tea and even ironware, they wanted everything and exchanged everything.

Although Zhao Xin is in charge of ethnic affairs, since Wu Xiha is here, there is no need for him to intervene in this matter. Naturally, Liu Sheng and people from Minzheng will deal with it.Now the traffic between Beihai Town and Fuldan City is smooth. Before the heavy snow closed the mountains, it only took two days to ride a horse, and three or four days to ride a carriage.

At the same time, Pereira and his team from Macau went through initial adaptation and had a unified physical examination at the Beihai Town Hospital. After confirming that it was just poor personal hygiene and needed frequent bathing and haircuts, Director Liu blushed with embarrassment. Pereira took two of his men and began to survey and design the future Beihai Town Harbor; while other boatmen brought other Danjia boatmen to repair the previously captured Natalia and Nicholas.

Because these two ships are British-style three-masted merchant ships, and the amount of timber purchased by Liu Sheng from Macau was very sufficient, after the Nicholas was towed into the dry dock, the boatmen immediately started repairing it.

Pereira, the Portuguese and the Dan family, who had just arrived in Beihai Town, were extremely surprised by everything here.When they were led by the civil affairs clerk to visit the two new dry docks paved with reinforced concrete, they all dropped their jaws in shock.

However, when the Jinglei returned from Bitter Leaf Island with a full load of diesel oil, Pereira and the Portuguese and the Danjia fishermen knelt down. They couldn't imagine such a big iron ship in the world.

"It's snowing on Bitter Leaf Island. It won't be possible to start work in September, and the pipes will be frozen. Zhang Bo and the others have been working continuously recently, and they plan to stop fire and stop work in mid-September." Deng Fei looked a little tired .Recently, he has been running back and forth between Beihai Town, Bitter Leaf Island and Ezodi, bringing back large quantities of high-quality thermal coal and diesel.

Zhao Xin patted Deng Fei on the shoulder and said: "Thank you for your hard work. After I leave, you will go to Jeju Island again. After Zhang Bo and the others are brought back, you, the dean of education, will take office. You don't have to run away this winter. , go to class, take a good rest for a while and then talk about it.”

On September [-], Pan Xiucheng and Jiuzang, who had been promoted to regiment leaders, led the two regiments to board the ship.On the noisy wharf, soldiers boarding the ship and family members seeing them off were crowded with people, and it was unusually noisy and lively.The Danjia boatmen working on the dock were all very surprised to see the crowd talking and laughing, without the distress of life and death.

And the last big thing Zhao Xin did before leaving was to sign his name on the conscription order.According to the previous adjustment plan, Beihai Town expanded its army again, and the scale of the conscription this time was 9000.

(The fourth volume is finished.)
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