Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 380 Naqitai's trip to Beihai Town

Li Chao's people can be regarded as sent away.Before Cai Jigong left, Zhao Xinqi's beard trembled and his face turned blue, but Beihai Town didn't need such an ally, whether it was political or military.In the future, when Beihai Town wiped out the Manchu Qing Dynasty and ruled the world, Li Chao, who relied too much on Sino-North Korean trade, would definitely come here to send credentials.

There is no need for special preferential treatment, what to do, just treat these guys according to the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

Next is the Changzhou Domain.At the end of the eighteenth century, the Changzhou clan had nothing but poverty. The era of respecting the king and barbarians had not yet arrived, and the prosperity of Lanxue was limited to Osaka and Edo.It is said that overthrowing the Tokugawa family has always been the national policy of the Changzhou clan, so there will be such a joke in later generations.

Since the Battle of Sekigahara, the elders of the Mori family would ask the head of the family every year when they went to the city on New Year's Day, what is the chance of falling this year?The head of the Maori family will say after a little pondering that it is too early.Then what are you supposed to do.

The reason why the Changzhou clan sent people to follow the merchants of the Li Dynasty was mainly because Zhao Xin used the Changzhou clan as an excuse for his two visits to the island country. The large iron ship of the Beihai Navy stopped off the coast of Nagato country to speak.

Since the "Tang Yi Burning and Attacking Nagasaki Incident", every time a large ship of the Northern Navy passed through the Tsushima Strait to take it away, the Changzhou Domain was always nervous. , this is a sigh of relief.

After the battle of Ridang Mountain last year, the souls of Changzhou Fan were all scared to death.That's four big names with nearly 200 million shi!The 80 vassal warriors of the Shimadzu family were wiped out in less than a year.With the Changzhou Fan's small body of more than [-] shi, it can't take advantage of it anyway.

When they ascended the city on New Year's Day this year, the Changzhou clan decided to ask for Zhao Dian's forgiveness no matter what.This is the most important event of this year, second only to the century-old plan of the end of the curtain!
So the Changzhou Domain sent the patriarch of the Achuan Mori family among the "one family and eight families" as the leader of the envoys. Relying on the close relationship with the merchants of the Li Dynasty for many years of smuggling, he came to Beihai with a boat full of gifts. town.

The current head of the Achuan Mori family is called Mori Joshin, and his ancestor is Yoshikawa Motoharu, who was famous in the Warring States Period.That's right, the second son who was adopted into the Yoshikawa family by Morimoto, the second brother of Takakage Kobayakawa, the guy known as "Oni Yoshikawa"!

The emissary of the Maori family was trembling, and presented a gift list as soon as they came up, begging for forgiveness from Beihai Town, and revealed in their words that they also wanted to befriend Beihai Town like the Sendai Fan.

For Beihai Town, the more dog legs the better, the newly occupied territory is still empty of defense!
Therefore, Zhao Xin pretended to be generous and skipped the old things 80 years ago, agreed to the trade request of the Changzhou Fan, and asked the other party to send [-] clansmen to serve in Beihai Town.

Mao Lijiuzhen and others were overjoyed. He didn't expect the trip to be so smooth, so he hurried down the donkey, hoping to sign an agreement with Beihai Town.

This matter is simple, just make another copy according to the content of "Stone Scroll Secret Treaty".

In Zhao Xin's view, once the strength of such a poor feudal clan whose lifelong goal is to overthrow the curtain rises, it is possible that a "Cham Yumen Change" will be brought about in advance.At that time, Pingtai will come to fish in troubled waters, just think about it, it will be very beautiful!
It wasn't until this time that Zhao Xin decided to meet the Man Qing people.If he doesn't see him again, Na Qitai will go crazy.

Since entering September, seeing that the negotiations are still making no progress, Qianlong is also anxious, and Liu Yong has been scolded by more than a dozen consecutive edicts.

Seeing that there was no progress waiting on the south bank of the Mongolian River, Na Qitai finally got upset and set off from Vladivostok with a group of men, intending to go directly to Beihai Town. Find.So he simply set up a tent by the river and lived there for seven or eight days in a row, as if he would never see Zhao Xin, and he would not leave even if he froze to death.

Following Zhao Xin's call, Na Qitai, in casual clothes, led two entourages, and under the guard of several security policemen, walked into Beihai Town at dusk.

Looking at the row upon row of smoky houses, listening to the pots and pans and whispers coming from each house, Na Qitai suddenly had the absurd feeling of returning to the town in the Guannei.What surprised him the most was the yellow lights shining from the windows of each house, which made him feel very warm at first sight.

Is this Beihai Town?Although he also knew some of the situation in Beihai Town from the spy's secret report, after all, this was the first time he saw it with his own eyes.

"Master, they are too good at wasting lamp oil! It's not a wealthy family, who would dare to light so many oil lamps."

"Hmm. It's a bit extravagant." Na Qitai was deeply impressed by what he said.

The two masters and servants were discussing here, and a security policeman next to him "puchi" laughed.

Na Qitai looked at it and quickly asked: "This officer, this brother, is there something wrong with what we said?"

The security police said as they walked: "There is no oil lamp, we have no oil lamps here from the beginning, they are called electric lights!"

"Electricity?" At this moment, the scene of lightning and thunder in the sky appeared in Na Qitai's mind, so he said with a smile: "You are really interesting to talk, what does the thunder and lightning in the sky have to do with this? Lighting in the home is nothing more than oil lamps or Just candles."

The security police pouted and did not explain.However, when a group of people walked near the square, tens of meters away from Zhao Xin's office, with a "swish", the whole square and the street lit up, and the surrounding houses were barely visible. A follower was taken aback.

The three couldn't help shouting: "This is a sorcery!"

A security policeman said: "You three, this has nothing to do with sorcery! This is called an electric light. What a bunch of bumpkins!"

"Who do you call a country bumpkin?!" Qitai's entourage was furious, reaching out his hand to touch his waist, only to realize that the weapon had been confiscated when they passed the Beihai outpost.

The security police said with a disdainful smile: "We are the only ones in the world that have electric lights. With this, anyone who wants to commit crimes at night will be hard to escape the law."

Hearing this, the faces of the three masters and servants of Qitai became a little ugly.As he walked, he looked around and looked at the lights that were shining like stars, he couldn't help feeling a little dizzy, and his steps became more and more staggered.

When the three of them were taken outside Zhao Xin's office, several Beihai soldiers at the door searched the three of them again.The difference from before was that a Beihai soldier held a short black stick in his hand and swept the three of them from head to toe.

The three of Qitai didn't understand what they were doing at all. In his opinion, the short black stick had no edge or edge, and there were some strange yellow patterns on it.

However, when the short stick was still a punch away from Na Qitai's waist, the thing actually made a "beep beep", which surprised the three of them.

"What's in your waist? Take it out!" Several Beihai soldiers stared at Qitai as if they were facing an enemy, their right hands were already pressed on the holster around their waists.The faces of the security police officers on the side also changed drastically, and their hands touched the revolver around their waists.

What's in my waist?Na Qitai looked down, there was nothing but a purse on his waist!The soldier approached Na Qitai's purse with a short stick, and sure enough, the beep of the alarm sounded again.

"You have iron here, take it out and check it!"

Na Qitai's face turned red, feeling that he had been humiliated.He did have iron in his purse, but it was just a scythe that he carried with him.As a Manchu aristocrat, his fire sickle was specially customized, with a handle made of white copper, carved with auspicious patterns, and inlaid with agate and turquoise, which is extremely luxurious.

In the Qing Dynasty, the fire sickle was not only a tool for lighting fire, but also one of the betrothal gifts for engagement.The so-called "one piece of flint and fire sickle, one hand for the lamp."

"What are you going to do? As an official of the imperial court, I came here to negotiate with your King Zhao! You can't tolerate such humiliation!"

With a sound of "squeak", the door of the room behind the soldiers opened, and the bright lights in the room shone on the open space in front of the door. A tall figure came out and laughed, "Master, I misunderstood!"

Na Qitai took a closer look, whoever it was if it wasn't Zhao Xin.He said angrily, "Mr. Zhao, I'm here to visit you sincerely. Don't you want to humiliate me?"

A few minutes later, when Na Qitai sat across from Zhao Xin and bowed to accept the teacup Zhao Xin handed over, he smiled wryly, "Mr. Zhao, it's really not easy to meet you!"

Zhao Xin smiled without saying a word, then lit a cigarette with a match under the surprised gaze of the other party, and then said: "My lord, are you tired with such a big and heavy thing hanging on your waist? Look how good this is."

That Qitai said in his heart, isn't it just to pick up the lamp, it's a thing from Beihai Town.Now in the capital, it is heard that a box of [-] Wen is required.Okay, a box of one hundred sticks, one penny for each stick, what the hell is a fire, it's a waste of money!
"Mr. Zhao, let's get down to business. I'm here this time because I was sent by the imperial court to talk about Ninggu Pagoda."

"Oh. Then I can tell you now, we don't plan to return Ning Guta, and you can take some of the captives."

"Part of it?" Na Qitai knew that Ning Guta would not come back, but this time Zhao Xin didn't mention the ransom, which surprised him very much.

"There are probably more than 1000 people."

Zhao Xin wants to hand over these people, in addition to the seriously injured, there are actually more than 100 guys who look intact but are actually insane.What they suffered from was the very famous "shell shock" in the First World War in another time and space. They looked unharmed, but their brains had already been severely shocked by the shells.

The daily performance of these people is fatigue, fatigue, suffocation, headache, depression, insomnia, and even epileptic shock.Even though several months had passed since the Battle of Ningguta, they were still devastated, the biggest manifestations being inexplicable trembling and stuttering.Beihai Town doesn't have the energy to open a nursing home. Instead of raising them like this, let Man Qing take these people home.

In fact, not only the prisoners of the Qing army, but also the prisoners of the Russian army of Yaksa also had this situation.But in this day and age there's no such thing as "PTSD," and anyone who behaves like that is dismissed as a coward.

"Mr. Zhao, I'll tell you the truth, I can't tell the emperor!" Na Qitai made a full-fledged gesture, since it was hard to meet him, he should speak directly.

"Then what should I do? How about I detain you? Do you think this counts as an confession?"

Na Qitai almost jumped up from the chair, and hurriedly cupped his hands and begged: "Don't! If you detain me, then my family will be finished!"

Zhao Xin restrained his smile, and said with a serious face: "I heard that Liu Yong is here?"

"Yes. Master Liu has been in Ula, Jilin for several months."

"Qianlong asked him to negotiate with me?"

"That's right, I was sent by Lord Liu and Commander Qing to stand in the front. I don't think that if we can negotiate with you first, it will be smooth for Master Liu."

Zhao Xin took a sip of tea, with a playful look on his face, looked at Qitai and said, "Master, do you know that He Zhongtang and Liu Yong are not dealing with each other? You helped him so hard and offended He Shen. Do you want to hang out?"

"I" Na Qitai thought to himself, why do you know everything!But Zhao Xin's words hit his heart.

Seeing that the other party fell silent, Zhao Xin said: "Well, since you want to negotiate, go back and ask Liu Yong to come and talk with me in person. The time is set in 20 days, and the location is chosen at the Guandi Temple outside Ningguta City."

"Ning Guta? No way!" Na Qitai dared not be ambiguous about this kind of thing, if Liu Yong wanted something good or bad, he would not have enough heads to chop off.He thought for a while and said, "Right now you occupy three of the seven post stations from Ningguta to Jilin, so set the negotiation location at the fourth station, Tuijiao station."

Repelling the dragon, repelling the evil dragon, this name makes me happy!
The post road from Wula, Jilin to Ninggu Pagoda is [-] miles, and the sky is covered by thousands of trees along the way. Hundreds of miles are covered with mud, which is extremely difficult; later generations of Northeast beards often occupy this area.

Na Qitai chose this place for the purpose of preventing Zhao Xin from leading an army over there, and the Qing army could rely on the mountains and forests to deploy their defenses.Zhao Xin thought for a while and nodded in agreement. He then wrote a letter to Liu Yong and asked Na Qitai to take it back.

After the two talked, Zhao Xin didn't have any rules of serving tea to see off guests.So he asked someone to lead Na Qitai's master and servant to the big cafeteria for dinner, and arranged a place for them to leave tomorrow.

Na Qitai was preoccupied, he didn't have the heart to sit down and drink, the three of them ate hastily, and followed the accompanying people back to the residence.

When he saw the simple furnishings in the house, he couldn't help shaking his head and said "vulgar", thinking that you bastard surnamed Zhao stole so much gold from the court, why didn't you even build a decent post house?The most outrageous thing is that the toilet is next to the bedroom!

The accompanying public security police made an explanation, and then the three of Qitai suddenly realized that there is no need to pour Yexiang here in Beihai Town.As long as it is convenient to press the bright button on the water tank behind you, the water will be flushed away automatically.

After that, the three of them showed great curiosity about the light switch, and carefully pulled the switch down, as if firing a cannon would blow up their hands.

After tossing and tossing for a long time, when the security police left, Na Qitai washed his face and lay down on the big bed in the bedroom. After touching it casually, he was surprised to find that the quilt was not cotton, but a thick cloth wrapped in silk. Feather, extremely warm and comfortable.

"This group of rebels really enjoy their motherfuckers! The emperor's building at night is nothing more than that?"

　The fir sticks dyed with sulfur to ignite fire have existed since the Northern and Southern Dynasties in China. In the Northern Song Dynasty, they were called "fire slaves" or "fazhu".Almost in the Ming Dynasty, it was called "taking the lamp" in the northern region.

　　
　
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