Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 313

When Shen Xuan and Zhao Xin had dinner that night, they mentioned Shen Zhongcai's matter. Zhao Xin couldn't help laughing a few times, and then covered his cheeks.The back molars are still swollen, so stop laughing for now.

"Okay, don't worry about it, I'll see him tomorrow."

After dinner, when the two were drinking tea and chatting, Shen Xuan asked the question at noon again.

"Miss Wang, what are you planning?"

Zhao Xin knew that he couldn't escape. He was silent for a while, and then said, "I don't know either. In fact, she is sick, and she probably won't live long."

"Ah? What's the disease?" Shen Xuan was taken aback, thinking that you even knew she was sick!How much more about the two of you that I don't know?Thinking of this, he couldn't help but his face darkened, and his little face twisted and hummed.

Looking at Shen Xuan's expression, Zhao Xin knew that the other party had misunderstood, so he started to make it up.

"Do you know why Miss Wang has been traveling around with her father?"

Shen Xuan didn't talk to her, and said to herself, I don't know.

"Their father and daughter have been seeking medical treatment everywhere. That Wang Zhenyi has been sick since she was a child. According to his father, it may be difficult to live past the age of 30."

Shen Xuan was silent for a while, and finally said: "So that's the case, I was overthinking."

While the other party was not paying attention, Zhao Xin wiped the sweat from his forehead
Shen Xuan's third cousin is called Shen Zhongcai, who has studied for several years, but failed to pass the entrance examination for a child student. Later, he went to work as a clerk in Shen Jingdan's shop, and after a few years, he was promoted to the account clerk.If it wasn't because Shen Zhongcai was too close to Shen Jingdan's house, Shen Jingdan wouldn't have asked him to come to Beihai Town.

But ever since Shen Zhong knew that Shen Jiapan had attached himself to Zhao Xin, he thought that it was time for him to flourish.He originally thought that Zhao Xin would make good use of the Shen family's children, but who knows that after coming to Beihai Town for a few months, Zhao Xin only let them work as clerks in the town office, and they didn't have much power.

In fact, Zhao Xin didn't do anything bad, because if outsiders want to adapt to the system of Beihai Town, they must start as a clerk or become a soldier.Zhao Xin made it very clear to Shen Jingdan that if the children of the Shen family are capable, I will not suppress them, and if they cannot do it, don't expect them to rise to heaven. He is not used to this problem.

That being said, from the standpoint of the ancients, you don't need to use your own relatives, so why not use outsiders?Shen Xuan is no exception, so even though she really doesn't like helping others make peace, she still mentioned it to Zhao Xin.

The next morning, Zhao Xin met Shen Zhongcai in his office.The parents of the Shen family are not ugly, and Shen Zhongcai also looks polite.

Zhao Xin didn't have so much time to make detours, he cut straight to the point and said, "You want to ask for an official? Okay, I'll ask two questions, and if you can answer correctly, I'll let you be the mayor."

Shen Zhongcai thought that he could be the mayor of Fuldan City, and he was ecstatic in his heart. He cupped his hands and saluted and said, "My lord, please come up with a question."

"Suppose you are trapped on a desert island, and the rescue ship will take four days to arrive. But you have a special disease, and you need to take a pill of A and B every day to survive. Fortunately, you I happen to have four doses of each of the two medicines A and B on hand, but they are all mixed together, the size, taste, color, and appearance of the two medicines are the same, and it is difficult to distinguish them with the naked eye, what should you do?"

After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he pointed to the clock on the table, and added to Shen Zhongcai: "The time limit is 1 minute, if you can't tell, you don't have an answer."

"I, I..." Shen Zhongcai said in his heart that this is all a mess, shouldn't he test my abacus and four-pillar inventory?He looked at the clock on Zhao Xin's desk and struggled for a long time. Seeing that there were still ten seconds left, he said in a heartbeat, "I'll grind up the pills, mix them together, and divide them into four equal parts. If there's nothing wrong on the first day."

Zhao Xin raised his hand and said, "Stop. I'll talk about the next one."

Shen Zhongcai wiped the sweat from his brow with his sleeve, and wondered if I got the answer right?

"I went to the big market in the south of the city in the first ten days of this month. First, I spent 50 cents for a haircut, and then I spent [-] dollar for listening to a storytelling session. I bought two feet of cloth, and finally went to the savings bank to deposit [-] silver coins."

While Shen Zhongcai was listening, he kept fiddling with his fingers hidden under the table, trying to write down the numbers that Zhao Xin said.Shen Zhongcai said in his heart that this time it should be a matter of reckoning, and he will definitely be able to answer it.

Zhao Xin smiled slightly, and continued: "The barber shop is closed every six days on the first and eighth day of the month; the savings office is closed for two days on the fifth day from the first day of the new month; the market is only closed on the first, third, and sixth day of every ten days , Eighth, and tenth day of the lunar new year, the cloth shop is closed on Lunar New Year’s Day. May I ask which day I went to the big market? The time limit is also 1 minute.”

"Spicy piece of your mother!" Shen Zhongcai's eyes darkened, his fingers hidden under the table suddenly cramped into chicken feet, Yangzhou dialect almost burst out
"Hahahaha~~"

Shen Xuan came over at noon, and when she heard about the interview in the morning, her stomach ached from laughing on the bed, she rubbed her belly, and got up and said to Zhao Xin: "You are too bad, how can you come up with something? Such a weird topic to tease him?"

Zhao Xin sat on the chair and said with a smile: "I'm not teasing him, this is logical reasoning, and the test is about contingency analysis ability. If you want to live in Beihai Town, you don't rely on stereotyped articles, and you don't want to rely on cards. Character first and foremost Reliable, and secondly, able to deal with problems independently. He wants to be an official, but he doesn’t even have basic analytical skills, how dare I let him manage a region?”

Shen Xuan stopped laughing, thought about Zhao Xin's second question, and asked curiously: "How should I answer this second question?"

Zhao Xindao: "Think about it, when will the opening times of barbershops, savings offices, markets, and cloth stores coincide?"

Shen Xuan coquettishly said: "I don't want to, you tell me."

Zhao Xin looked at Shen Xuan's appearance, his heart was bubbling with beauty, so he scratched the other's nose and said, "The third and tenth day of junior high school."

Shen Xuan thought for a while, then laughed again: "It turns out that the amount of money you said before was all a confuse."

Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "If your cousin can be right for a day, I will count him as a passer, but his brain has become muddled. He still wants to be an official? It's a dream!"

Shen Xuan asked: "If he passes the exam, where are you going to let him go?"

Zhao Xin said: "Dabo Town."

In late June, Ding Guofeng took students from the sailing school and more than a dozen Portuguese craftsmen to drive a motor sailboat named "Beihai No. The garrison sailed to the town of Dabo in the south of Bitter Leaf Island.

The new mayor of Dabo Town is called Jiang Tenglin, the same Jiang Xiucai who once blatantly said "Xuanwu was born" in Fuldan City.This person was ordered by Liu Sheng to work in Ezo for a year before being transferred back, and then worked with Chen Qingsong for a period of time.Zhao Xin chose among the dozens of clerks in the civil affairs department, and finally decided to promote Jiang Xiucai, after all, this person's ability is still very good.

The "Beihai No. [-]" they were on was actually the Nicholas among the two three-masted sailing ships seized in Kuye Island the year before last; and the other sailing ship named Natalia is now called "Beihai No. ", the displacement of both ships is [-] tons, and they are the largest of the five sailing ships at present.

It is said that the two ships had completed the hull repair and shell cleaning work in the middle of last year, and at the same time, the parts below the waterline were completely wrapped with copper skin.When Deng Fei conducted the completion inspection, he found that the Portuguese craftsmen used iron nails to fix the copper skin, so they replaced them with copper nails.

After carrying out several missions to transport coal from Ezodi to Beihai Town, before winter last year, Beihai No. [-] and No. [-] entered the dock again to start renovation; this time, diesel engines and propeller blades were installed.For reasons of confidentiality, those Portuguese craftsmen from Macau could not participate in this matter.However, because Zhao Liang really couldn't spare time, Deng Fei and the students from the technical school were responsible for the installation work.

After Wu Anan brought people here in May, because the power plant was in the early stage of infrastructure construction, many newcomers were temporarily idle and had nothing to do, so they were arrested by Deng Fei as "strong men", so the speed of modification was suddenly fast, 20 days That's all.

北海一号、二号所选用的发动机是国产300KM/420马力的四缸船用离合器，螺旋桨叶片也是单独采购的。安装后进行测试时，确认在逆风或是落帆时的最大航速可以达到15海里每小时；油耗则是每小时75~78升之间。

After finishing the renovation of two large sailboats with a displacement of [-] tons, Deng Fei took advantage of the abundant manpower and started to rebuild the other three small sailboats.

After a lot of busy work, the time has entered July, and Beihai Town is also preparing to usher in the harvest of spring wheat.At this moment, a message from Xu Dayong in northern Jiangsu once again shocked the entire Beihai town.

On the ninth day of June, due to continuous torrential rain in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the water level in the lower reaches soared.A major breach occurred in the Yellow River embankment in Shisanbao, Sui (sound with the same) prefecture, Henan Province.The flood broke open two dams on the Yellow River, each with a width of more than twenty feet.Afterwards, the flood flowed through the Guohe River and took the Huaihe River into the sea, causing hundreds of thousands of mu of fertile land to be flooded in Guidefu, Henan, Bozhou, Anhui, Mengcheng and other counties. All the affected areas have lost their summer grain harvest this year!
According to what Xu Dayong sent people to understand, this catastrophe left hundreds of thousands of people homeless, and a large number of victims fled to southern Shandong, Jiangsu, and Huguang to take advantage of food, becoming a new batch of refugees.The people left in the yellow flood area are almost all old people, women and young children. In some places, there are swamps for tens of miles, and there are no people in the villages. There are people every day.There are even human meat workshops in the mountainous area of ​​northern Anhui. The extremely poor families have begun to sell their children and daughters and wives to the workshops for the past guests to eat.

At the same time, because the Qing government used troops to conquer the world in Taiwan and would rebel, a large amount of grain was shipped to Fujian as military rations, causing the price of grain in the north to soar.

On the afternoon of the day when they received the news, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, and Zhou Weiguo put down their work and hurried back to Beihai Town from Fuerdan City.Early the next morning, in the newly built large conference room in Beihai Town, all relevant persons in charge of civil affairs, maritime affairs, training headquarters, medical care, and education were all present, and even Wu Pingan rushed over with a few people , see what can help.

In the conference room, Chen Qingsong reported the situation with a serious face, and said to everyone: "Next, we need to discuss how to rescue and resettle the refugees without affecting the autumn harvest."

"Excuse me, where is the Thirteenth Fort in Suizhou?"

Chen Qingsong saw that it was the fat man named Fan Tong under Wu Ping'an, so he replied, "East of Shangqiu, Henan."

At this time, Zhao Xin was the first to speak: "Let me tell you first, the exercise plan has been postponed. The army will be mobilized this time. One is to support the autumn harvest, and the other is to help build resettlement houses."

As soon as these words came out, Liu Sheng, Wang Yuanfang, and Wu Siyu stood up, saying that there was no problem at all, and they would cooperate fully.

Chen Qingsong said: "Are you considering transporting a group of people to Ezo Land and Bitter Leaf Island?"

Zhao Xin nodded and said, "Yes. 2000 people will be resettled on each side."

Yu Deli said: "I propose to mobilize the students of the school to cooperate with the security police to do a good job of propaganda among the residents, so as to avoid unnecessary troubles at that time."

Hong Tao said: "After a major disaster, there will be a major epidemic. We will arrange people to accompany the ship and do a good job of epidemic prevention on the way."

Wu Ping'an, Fan Tong and other newcomers did not speak, and listened quietly to everyone's speech.Fan Tongxin said good guys, all of them are serious, as if they are real.

After everyone had spoken, Wu An'an said, "Mr. Zhao, what can we do to help?"

Zhao Xindao: "Old Wu, building a factory over there is the first priority, otherwise you won't be able to do anything when winter comes."

Wu Anan thought for a while, and said slowly: "Please don't worry about this, the foundation part is guaranteed to be completed by the end of September. But now many people are idle and have nothing to do. If you don't see this, you can find me wherever there is a shortage of manpower. Not to mention, four NO.50 people are on call at any time."

After the meeting ended, Xu Dayong, who was in northern Jiangsu, received an order from Beihai Town on the same day. There were only eight words on it: move people with all strength, without delay.

Immediately afterwards, from the fifth day of July, the entire Beihai town began to move.All the freighters and remodeled sailboats were dispatched, and a large number of nurses from the hospital and all the students from the sailing school went out to sea with the ships.

This time, it was no longer just picking up people from Jeju Island as before. Thor, Jinglei, Beihai No. [-] and Beihai No. [-] all gathered along the coast of northern Jiangsu, and began to blatantly transport refugees from the mainland.

Four large and small ships from Beihai Town suddenly appeared on the east side of Wutiaosha, and there were constant fleets of sand ships sailing from the inner ocean to transport refugees to these large ships, which quickly attracted the attention of passing sand ships.

Since the Ming Dynasty, the inner and outer seas of the northern Jiangsu area have been divided by the "five sands". stranded.

A few days later, the Miaowan Water Camp stationed in Funing got a report that several unknown barbarian ships were staying outside Wutiaosha, which shocked the guerrillas of the Miaowan Camp. Guarding the battalion, he ordered one of his subordinates, Mr. Qian, to sail out to sea to check.

As a result, Mr. Qian came to look around Wutiaosha and was shocked.Comparing my big boat with other people's big boats, it's like an ant meets an elephant.

But right now, officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are not afraid of foreigners. No matter what big or small boats you are, they will all go to Guangzhou and wait.

"Let's go up! A group of alien barbarians, they are completely helpless!"

"My lord, these four boats are terrifyingly big, where should we stop?"

Mr. Qian pointed to the nearest three-masted galleon and said, "That's the one!"

　Around 1750, the British began to experiment with wrapping the bottom of the ship with copper skin to prevent the attachment of ship insects and aquatic plants.After the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, France, Spain, and the Netherlands successively declared war on Britain.The British Navy is facing severe challenges. The fleet goes to sea to fight more and more frequently, and the time is getting longer and longer. Regular cleaning of the bottom of the ship has become a luxury.The Admiralty therefore decided to cover the bottoms of all warships with copper skins.As of 1781, a total of 96 battleships, 115 cruisers, and 182 other warships were equipped with copper bottoms, becoming the world's first "copper bottom" fleet.
　　
　
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