Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 355 Deter Sihu, Mo Zhigan

Two days later, as the contents of the notice spread throughout the city, the anxiety of the common people in Heilongjiang was temporarily relieved.Since the Beihai Navy entered the city, apart from patrolling the streets and standing guard every day to maintain order when receiving food, they have never made any arrests at all.

On the third day, Guo Dalu and Li Bi posted another notice at the granary, recruiting people to work.The content is that no matter men, women, old or young, each person will be given five cents of silver dollars in addition to food control every day.

There are so many silver coins in Beihai Town that they can't spend them at all. Instead of putting them in the warehouse to oxidize, it's better to take them out and make good use of them.Didn't the Manchu Qing government give border residents various benefits?Zhao Xin sent money, and bought things after taking the money.

After hearing the news and registering, the frontier residents who applied for the recruitment first received tools such as shovels, picks, and saws.When they learned that these tools belonged to them after the project was completed, they were all shocked. They were made of fine steel!

The first task these people received was to demolish the city walls, and the first thing to be demolished was the wooden city walls on the south and west sides.Generally speaking, the various towns built in the Northeast during the Qing Dynasty are mainly divided into two categories, military functions and administrative functions; those with military functions will have city walls, while those with administrative functions will not.

The city wall of Heilongjiang City is the same as that of Ninggu Pagoda before. There are two rows of trees planted around the city, with earth and rocks mixed in between.In the [-]th century, the Northeast was full of primeval forests, and there were huge trees that could be carried by one person or even two or three people. No one would go crazy and build a stone city.

For the Northern Navy, these walls are of no use other than defending against wild beasts.Instead of this, it is better to demolish the repair work.

Another day later, a new "Beihai Trading Company" opened near the Town God's Temple on the South Street of the Inner City, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell whose business it was.The shop closes very late, and after dark, there are two bright lanterns hanging at the door, which are very conspicuous on the dark South Street.It sells all kinds of weird things, and the prices are very cheap.

There are magic kindling sticks that can be drawn easily, wind lanterns that are brighter than lanterns, cotton cloth, silk, grain, dried meat, various sewing buttons, and even tea, wine and tobacco.

Many people come here after dinner after receiving their wages every day.At first it was the men who came, but within two days, the women gradually joined in.They love everything on the shelves.And when the "shopkeeper" of the shop saw the embroidery on the leather products worn by men and women of various ethnic groups, he actually proposed to buy them.What kind of cloth waist boots, cigarette pouches, short waist leather boots, leather gloves, leather backpacks, and leather robes for winter and spring are all required, and the prices given make these women very satisfied.

The Manchu, Daur, and Oroqen women in Heilongjiang City are all skilled in embroidery.They usually do housework at home, among which sewing and embroidery play an important role.When girls reach the age of fifteen or six, they start to learn needlework such as sewing shoes and socks, and then learn to sew clothes and embroidery; when they get married, they prepare many pairs of socks. In order to make the soles of the socks firm, they use cotton thread to tie the soles , there are many patterns on the bottom of the socks, which are beautiful and durable, and they are even more skillful in the embroidery on the upper of the shoe, the cigarette purse, and the top of the pillow.

This move by the Beihai Navy has benefited many families, and women no longer need to go to the city wall construction site to dig soil and move wood.They first went home to find the embroidered leather products they had made before, took them to the trading company to exchange money, and then bought more and better needles and threads to go back and continue to embroider.Within a few days, there were a lot of various leather products collected in the warehouse of Beihai Trading Co., Ltd.

At this time, men, women and children in the city no longer dare to breathe when they see the soldiers on patrol in the Beihai Navy; they will greet each other with a smile. When he was a soldier, he even showed a shy expression, which made the hearts of the soldiers standing guard jump.

People's hearts are gradually accumulated bit by bit; for Beihai Town, which has been generous and generous, it has only just begun.

On the eighth day after the Beihai Navy entered the city, the residents of the city and the wounded soldiers of the Qing army who had been notified the day before gathered at the north gate after breakfast.

When nearly 2000 people came to the designated place along the road signs, they suddenly found that a large platform had been set up on the site, and the tall scaffolding was covered with green pine branches and reeds.If it weren't for the banner attached to the scaffolding, many people would have thought it was a stage.

"Master Li, what is written on it?" The wounded soldier of the Qing army with a bandage on his arm couldn't help it again.

"Look for yourself." Li Yansheng rolled his eyes, thinking that this kid talks too much.

"Small, the little one can't read."

"What a fucking trouble!" Li Yansheng stared wide-eyed, built a tent with his hands, looked carefully, and said slowly, "The public trial of Rakshasa crimes?"

"What is a public trial meeting?"

"I don't know!" Li Yansheng thought to himself that these rebels just took off their pants and farted. If he had his way of thinking, they would all be dragged to the edge of the Heilongjiang River and fed to the fish.More than a dozen of his subordinates died in battle on the day the Rakshasa landed, and Li Yansheng himself suffered a gunshot wound on his head, so he hated the red-haired Rakshasa gang.

There are many stools made of round wooden piles on the open space, and they are densely packed in a large area.Not long after all the residents had sat down, a melodious flute sounded from the stage, resounding across the field, immediately frightened the people present, and the audience was in an uproar.

"A big river."

Okay!Someone actually sang.

The men and women present got up and looked around, but after watching for a long time, except for a few men on the stage who were not bowing their heads and busying themselves, the singing woman didn't show up at all!

After listening for a while, although many people present couldn't understand what the woman was singing, they could still hear the soft and melodious voice and the high-pitched voice.The originally chaotic people gradually quieted down, shaking their heads and immersing themselves in the beautiful tune.

"Good guy! This woman is amazing! This voice can be heard miles away."

"That's right, it's better than those Oroqen women singing."

"Shut up! If you keep talking, I'll beat you to death!"

Seeing Li Yansheng's angry face, the wounded soldiers of the Qing army all shut up.

"Why does the woman singing this song have a Shanxi accent?" Li Bi, who was sitting in front of the crowd, felt homesick when he heard the intoxicating tune.This song was different from any ditties he had heard before, and it was difficult for Li Bi to describe what it felt like, he just felt the blood in his chest surging, his heart beating, and even his eyes were moist.

After a song, more than 2000 people in the audience were silent, and everyone was still immersed in the melody just now, unable to extricate themselves.

Suddenly, a wounded soldier of the Qing army with a Han army flag stood up and shouted: "Sing it again!"

"Yes! Sing it again, it's really nice."

Facing the surging request, Wu Siyu from the backstage looked at Zhao Xin, and pressed the replay button; Zhao Xin couldn't help smiling wryly from the sidelines, this shit is not a public trial meeting, forget about changing to a concert.

In fact, when the music was playing just now, Zhao Xin also listened in a daze.Especially after he had just experienced the battle with the invaders, this song also meant a lot to him.

A big river, Heilongjiang is also a big river
Just as the soldiers and civilians in the audience were immersed in the singing, hundreds of invaders brought out from the old city of Aihui, tied up and imprisoned in the fence behind the platform, seemed to understand what was going to happen today; their faces were full of despair. Kneeling on the ground, he kept praying for forgiveness from God or the Holy Mother.

After the song has been played twice, the public trial will begin, otherwise the concert will really have to be changed.

As the bosses of the Beihai Navy, Zhao Xin and Wu Siyu took the lead.The two didn't say anything impassioned, but stood directly behind a table on the left.

Although there was no introduction, the soldiers of the Beihai Navy present saluted to the rostrum. Everyone in the audience knew that this was a high-ranking official of the Beihai Navy, so everyone knelt on the ground and kowtowed as before.

Li Yansheng, the co-leader of the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army, was unwilling to kowtow to the rebels. He took advantage of the fact that everyone was kneeling down, leaned over and looked up, and saw a half-sized guy holding a piece of spiritual tablet The sign went up to the table, put the wooden sign on the table in the middle, and then stood aside; after that, someone held a bouquet of wild flowers and placed it in front of the sign.Immediately afterwards, the exiled prisoner Li Bi who was working as a classroom in the government school also stood on the right side of the stage.

Li Yansheng was a little confused: "What are they doing?"

While being suspicious, a man's voice on the stage said: "Get up, everyone, sit down."

As soon as the voice came out, everyone was startled again, wondering why these rebels had such loud voices?

After everyone sat down tremblingly, Guo Dalu came out.This young cadre from the administrative school in Deli has become the protagonist today. Three years ago, Guo Dalu would never have imagined that he, a rural child who was trafficked to northern Jiangsu by human teeth, would have today.

Guo Dalu stood at the bottom of the incense case in the middle, scanned the audience a little nervously, then raised the two pages of paper in his hand, and read aloud: "Shiwei is in June, aged in Wushen, three thousand soldiers of our Northern Navy , lead the whole city of Heilongjiang to offer sacrifices to the souls of the victims of all races, although there are no delicacies, but there is hot blood, and flowers and gifts are prepared to worship the spirits."

"What he was reading was actually a sacrificial oration!" Li Yansheng felt his forehead explode.He was in a trance for a while, only to hear Guo Dalu's voice on the stage came to his ears again.

"Oh, it hurts! The vastness of China, the vast Kyushu, all things in the world, are universal. However, time changes, things change and the stars move, the sea is wide and the whale shark is rampant, and the mountains are high. Tigers and wolves covet. Langlang fisherman's song, stop for it, mourn the mother's cry , tears and blood stains, husband and wife suddenly separated, the whole city died together, women and children were the same, old and young were not separated. Fortunately, there is Beihai, where the sun and the moon shine together, and brothers join hands. We are eager to see each other. , is to comfort the souls of the dead. Carry forward the past, and wait for the next generation. Woohoo, Fuwei still feeds."

Halfway through Li Yansheng's hearing, tears welled up in his eye sockets, and he knelt down on the ground with a puff.Among the wounded soldiers of the Qing army present, only Li Yansheng had studied in a government school, and the others were covered in clouds and mist. They didn't understand what was going on when they saw the co-leader suddenly kneel down on the ground and burst into tears.The wounded soldier in the bandage tried to step forward to help him, but was pushed away by Li Yansheng.

When Guo Dalu finished reading, Li Bi went up, also holding a few pages, and immediately began to read in Manchu.Compared with Zhao Xin's semi-intelligible draft, Li Bi's Manchu translation is much more straightforward.

Now everyone present understood that the Beihai Navy was paying homage to all the victims since the Rakshasa invasion.So all the soldiers and civilians under the stage knelt down and kowtowed to the spirit tablet on the incense table in the center of the stage.And when Li Bi read to the end, the audience was already crying.

After reading the sacrificial oration, Zhao Xin went to the incense table in the middle of the stage, held three pillars of incense, and bowed three more times.What happened now, more than 2000 people present, whether they wanted to or not, kowtowed to Zhao Xin to express their gratitude.

The heavy atmosphere passed, and the subsequent complaint meeting began.

Zhamusu was the first to take the stage. Based on his own experience, the old fisherman told everyone about Jingqinbao, the fall of the five cities of Rafkai, the resistance of Guigudar city and the persistence of Humar city. .Afterwards, several Daurians went up and told everyone how Luo Sha burned, killed and looted all the way south, so that everyone present was filled with righteous indignation.

As a representative of the Beihai Navy, Wu Kanbei also came on stage and told about his life experience, how his wife and children died tragically, how his home was destroyed, and how he was able to get revenge after following the Beihai Navy; his story made many women in the audience cry Hush.

Li Yansheng suddenly got up from the crowd and walked to the front under the gaze of everyone. Zhao Xin waved his hand to signal the soldiers not to stop him.I saw this strong general of the Qing Army kneeling under the stage, cupping his hands with red eyes and saying: "My lord, I just want to cut off a few heads of Luo Sha with my own hands, to avenge the brothers who died in battle."

At this time, the little oolong with the "roe deer head" also ran to the front of the stage, knelt down and begged Zhao Xin, "I want to kill Raksha, and avenge my Ama."

The child was sent back to the city by Zhao Xin on the day Bei Haijun entered the city. After several inquiries, he finally found his mother and his seriously injured father in the Great Buddha Temple.At this time, Oolong also knew that the Beihai Navy was hostile to the imperial court, but the little guy still decided to abide by his oath and serve as Zhao Xin's personal soldier.Zhao Xin didn't dare to agree, the child's parents were all there.When Wu Xianning arrived at the Great Buddha Temple, the first person to undergo surgery was Oolong Ta Ama.

It is said that Zhao Xin has been interrogating Raksha captives these days, and his voice has become hoarse from morning till night.What surprised him the most was seeing Igor, the groom who had been captured by him, among the prisoners of the First Musketeer Regiment.

As for Igor, he couldn't recognize people, but Zhao Xin's voice was something he couldn't forget even if he was beaten to death.When he heard Zhao Xin's voice, he almost peed his pants in fright.Facing this wizard-like figure in the Cossack legend, Igor didn't dare to take chances at all, and told everything he saw and heard like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

With Igor's assistance, Zhao Xin's subsequent interrogation went very smoothly, so the prisoners of the Transbaikal 200st Battle Infantry Regiment became the most unlucky group of people today.From Colonel Bogaevsky to Captain Petrovich, 150 prisoners from the entire first regiment were selected, and then [-] were selected from the first and second Buryat infantry regiments.

When these people were escorted by the Beihai Navy and walked past the stage one after another, some of the people in Heilongjiang City couldn't help but yell at them, and some picked up stones from the ground and threw them at them. As a result, several Beihai Navy soldiers escorting the captives were also smashed. His eyes were blue.

On the river bank of Heilongjiang, Li Yansheng, the flag leader of the Han Army, who was brought over by a soldier of the Northern Navy, took over the Model 84 revolver with one bullet, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the back of the head of a Luocha officer according to what the soldier said.

"Hold the handle of the gun tightly, the recoil of this gun is very strong."

Li Yansheng said in embarrassment: "This military lord, we have never used a pistol before, why don't you give me a big knife, and make sure you use it!"

The Beihai soldier who accompanied him rolled his eyes and said, "We don't have a big sword here. If you can't do it, then go back."

"Don't, don't intervene!" Li Yansheng hurriedly defended, and then turned his gun to the crying Raksha officer in front of him again: "You dog thief, it is you who can die under my Li Guanglie today." Good luck!" After speaking, he pulled the trigger hard.

In the old city of Aihui, hearing the roar of "guns" coming from the river bank from time to time, both officers and soldiers were trembling at the moment, and many people were crying, worried that they would not see the sun tomorrow.

According to Zhao Xin's plan, when Liu Sheng's men arrive, all the remaining Tsarist captives will be transported to Solenji Island, where they can dig gold for atonement!

In the small courtyard where Oolong was hiding, Major General Aleksandrov and several noble officers who were imprisoned here were all indignant at the moment, and every gunshot outside would startle the several officers trembling a bit.

With a "snap", Alexandrov slapped the table, got up and paced back and forth in the room, and suddenly shouted angrily: "These lunatics! They are all devils! How could they kill nobles! Let Go to hell with that damned Highness! God, God will punish them!"

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