Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 399
If Zhao Xin knew that Man Qing even used assassination methods to deal with him, I don't know how he would feel.However, as the aftermath of his and Shen Xuan's wedding gradually dissipated, the focus of discussion among the time-traveling people turned to Liu Zheng again.

This fellow brought two island country women back to attend Zhao Xin's wedding. At the beginning, he quietly hid them in the guest house where the Sendai Fan stayed, but after the Sendai Fan and the shogunate left by boat, they were exposed immediately.

"If you force it on me, you can't do it. I can't let the girl be homeless, so I have to reluctantly accept it as a maid." Liu Zheng explained to everyone in this way, and at the same time made a look of helplessness. My aunt really couldn't. Forbearance, uncle can't bear it either.

Originally, the Sendai Clan wanted to give Zhao Xin a woman, but Zhao Wangdian didn't want it at all, so he gave Liu Zheng a favor.

The two women, one from the Shiraishikatakura family and the other from the Kakuda Ishikawa family, were both sent as adopted daughters.The appearance, to be honest, is not bad, but the height is a bit awkward; one is about 1.4 meters, the other is about 1.5 meters, two pocket beauties.

Of course, such things are common in island countries.Although nominally Katakura Muronori and Ishikawa Murun Fumi have become Liu Zheng's father-in-law, but when they get along, they still have their own opinions.Otherwise, let Liu Zheng call "father-in-law" to Katakura Village Dian who is not much older than himself, he will not be able to pass this threshold no matter what.

Seeing that Liu Sheng, Zhao Xin, and Liu Zheng all have their own women, a group of people from the power plant began to fall in love.However, Zhao Xin once again reiterated his attitude: "Women talk about their fame these days. If anyone abandons them from beginning to end, makes them pregnant and slaps their ass and leaves, it can be clearly written in the trust document. Alimony."

Oh!It is really confusing whether to start a family and start a business in this time and space or take the money and go back to Happy!

One must be self-aware to be a human being, not to say that staying in ancient times is necessarily good.

Mr. Zhao will not mention it. If he wants to be a general in charge of one side like Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang, he must first have that ability.Speaking of which, if I really had those two brushes, why would I be shunted in another time and space, and end up with an unsatisfactory mix?

Furthermore, in case someone suffers from a headache, medical treatment from another time and space is reassuring.

The most important point is that Beihai Town has no servants and concubines from the very beginning, and it does not intend to do so. This makes many people's dreams of having beautiful wives and concubines, and a lot of housekeepers and servants completely ruined.

"What do you think Zhao Xin is doing here? You are not allowed to take concubines."

"Cut~~ You don't need to ask, it's about political ambition."

"I heard that Fatty Fan also took a blonde girl? Is he planning to go back?"

"Why don't you allow concubines! One teapot needs four cups, what the hell?"

"I think what Gu Hongming said back then is correct. Some people have their braids cut off on the outside, but the braids on their hearts are still there. You two are typical."

"Damn it! What do you mean by that?!"

"Forget it. They're all here to work, so there's nothing to be arguing about. Isn't it good to have a million annual salary? Take the money and go home and play whatever you want." The people hurried over to persuade.

The question is, how can a million-dollar annual salary be available to some people compared to the high cost of a luxurious life in another time and space?
The idea of ​​"I can do it because of him" gradually grew in my heart. "Ambition", which was originally a derogatory term in Chinese culture, has become an essential element of success advocated by countless people in later generations.

Before the Spring Festival, Zhao Xin spent more than ten days alone visiting Ningguta, Khabarovsk, Aigun, Yaksa, Irkutsk and Kyakta.Sending wedding candy is a piggybacking hand, and his main purpose is to prepare for the next year's spring plowing—that is, to send seeds.

According to Chen Qingsong's plan, Khabarovsk, located in the Sanjiang Plain, will become the main wheat producing area, and at the same time develop animal husbandry, while Aihui, Yaksa and Irkutsk will mainly grow rye and sugar beets.

Especially sugar beet, this thing does not mean that it can be planted directly after plowing the land, and there is a lot of preparatory work to be done in the early stage.In addition to site selection and site preparation, seed soaking and drug mixing also need to be prepared in advance.

Beets are now an indispensable ingredient on the dinner table for eighteenth-century Russians, but it will take more than ten years to make sugar from beets.Basically, by the end of the 19th century, there were almost 200 sugar factories in operation throughout Tsarist Russia, with an annual output of 4500 million pounds of sugar.

As a heat-loving, light-loving and moisture-loving root crop, the sugar content of sugar beet mainly depends on the number of sunny days from August to October every year. The reason why Chen Qingsong chose Aihui and other places as sugar beet planting areas is mainly because Considering the vertical and horizontal river channels in those areas, the soil moisture content is high.

In fact, sugar beets are divided into edible type and feed type. The former can be eaten and squeezed sugar, while the latter can only be fed to pigs, cattle and sheep.For example, in Khabarovsk and Ezo where livestock breeding is carried out, some fodder beets have to be grown, which is much better than alfalfa.

Chen Qingsong's plan is to first plant a small amount in the Outer Northeast and Ezo, and then spread it in the Northwest after the Northern Navy captures Outer Mongolia.In this way, herdsmen will basically no longer keep migrating for pastures.Coupled with industrialized animal husbandry, the Mongols can realize the settlement of villages and towns, and these places in Mobei and Monan can be easily controlled.

The nomadic people's good fighting comes from relying on the sky and the precarious living environment. The key to solving this problem is economic means, and politics and military can only be supplemented.And when those Mongolian princes and nobles who lived a luxurious and voluptuous life were fixed in villages and towns, if they wanted to make small moves, the Beihai Navy could quickly eliminate them.

In order to alleviate the shortage of agricultural manpower in the Northeast and other places, Zhao Xin had to purchase another batch of agricultural equipment in addition to preparing seeds.This includes large and small machines dedicated to sowing and harvesting sugar beets.

Relying on large-scale agricultural machinery and equipment and diesel produced on Bitter Leaf Island, the proportion of the agricultural population in Beihai Town is actually very low, currently only about 18%. This is also the prerequisite for Zhao Xin to dare to recruit on a large scale.

At the end of the 53rd year of Qianlong, Beihai Town once again launched a large-scale conscription, with a total of [-] troops. After training, they will be organized into two regiments to replace the garrisons in Southern Kyushu and Sendai.This time, half of the soldiers were farmers from Jiaodong, and the other half were soldiers from the Qing army, Hezhe and Daur border residents, and a small number of coal miners from Yezo.

In addition, the thousand vassals sent by Ishikawa Cunwen this time will also be incorporated into the battle sequence of Beihai Town after completing the training.Zhao Xin intends to let this army go north to Irkutsk after the spring to be responsible for the defense against Russia.

As for the big Ainu King Tuka who was fat like a pig, after attending Zhao Xin's wedding, he decided to send another [-] Ainu warriors to Beihai Town.The agreement Zhao Xin reached with him was that these Ainu people would serve in the Northern Navy for five years, and some of them could be recalled at any time if Tuka needed it, but additional recruits had to be provided to make up the number.

It is said that when Beihai Town's industrial electricity consumption is resolved, several 600MW diesel generators that have been in scattered use can be vacated and sent to Fuldan City, Bitter Leaf Island and other places.

At present, the natural oil pit near the Aoha River has basically been excavated. Zhang Bo plans to start the "beam pumping unit" that has been in stock for a long time in the spring of next year, which is commonly known as the kowtow machine.

Correspondingly, starting from 1789, the indigenous oil refining workshops that had harmed the environment of Bitter Leaf Island for two full years will all cease operation and be replaced by ten refining converters with a daily output of 200 tons.In this way, the annual diesel output of Bitter Leaf Island will reach 70 tons, which can fully meet the oil demand of all machinery and equipment in Beihai Town.

However, the lubricating oil used for mechanical equipment still needs to be purchased separately by Zhao Xin, or whale oil from Okhotsk.The production of base oil for lubricating oil is no problem, but the production of additives is still not possible.

Right now, Zhang Bo is living a happy life. He worked as his oil boss in Bitter Leaf Island for half a year, and taught electric welding skills in the technical school in Beihai Town for half a year; It surprised all the farmers from Wendeng, saying that they never thought that there was a Shandong hero hidden in the old man in Beihai Town.

By the way, after a year of ideological struggle, Zhang Bo finally decided to stay and become a permanent resident of this time and space.After solving this ideological knot, his personal problems were also easily solved.Liang Qinger, who already had a crush on him, had agreed to Lao You's matchmaking. After Zhang Bo planned to hold the wedding before the spring, he would take Liang Qinger to Bitter Leaf Island, where she would preside over the newly established elementary school in Oha Town.

Seeing that Chen Qingsong was getting more and more tired, Zhao Xin finally decided to liberate Jiang Tenglin from Dabo Town and return to Civil Affairs to continue to be his deputy.

Let’s talk about the situation in the three counties of Southern Kyushu.

The Lingjia Gold Mine has been excavated for a whole year.In order to prevent the leakage of news, at the beginning, the transportation route from the mine to Akugenlu was mainly opened up, so that the mined ore could be transported by sea to the gold refining plant on Solenji Island.

Jiuzang set out the recruitment conditions of one bucket of rice per day plus two meals a day, and the news quickly spread throughout the three counties of Izusui, Izuo, and Lingkari.For a time, nearly ten thousand breathless farmers who had been oppressed by the Shimadzu family for a long time walked out of their homes and joined the army of road construction.

When it was time to go back to the hometown for farming in the early spring, another announcement issued by the Beihai Navy completely blew up the land of the three counties.

Starting from this year, the annual tributes of the three counties will be adjusted to "public three people seven", exempting all exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes.If any landlord dares to collect annual tribute exceeding this ratio, any peasant has the right to report to the local Beihai garrison.Violators will be fined ten times the excess and rewarded to the reporting farmers.

As soon as the news came out, all the vassals of the island country were stunned.The public only stays three, so why don't you plan to live a life? !In the future, the peasants of the three counties will not be allowed to ride on the head of the samurai to urinate?
Oh, by the way, there are no more warriors over there.
However, the farmers in the three counties were all overjoyed. They walked out of their homes one after another, carrying the best gifts they could come up with - muddy sake, privately stored rice, mountain products and game, to the nearby North Navy station, singing and dancing all night long. carnival.And those breathless landlords who had been squeezed by the annual tribute policy of "eight publics and two people" for a long time also immediately expressed their firm support for the Beihai Navy.

As for the various monasteries in the three counties, because the Beihai Navy was holding on to the "Ridangshan Great Victory" and their military power was in full swing, they could only bow their heads and agree.

In the spring of the eighth year of Tianming in the island country, farmers in the three counties of Southern Kyushu, inspired by the policy of "Gong San Min Qi" broke out with great enthusiasm for the land under their feet that has been cultivated for generations. They tried their best to grow rice around the village All the corners and corners have shed the sweat of hard work.

Of course, the Jinglei and Thor's loads of new farm implements and hand-held small sowing equipment that were continuously shipped from the factory in Beihai Town also played a huge role.

When it was time for the autumn harvest, the North Navy led by Jiu Zang did another thing that shocked the islanders, that is, put down their guns and waved their sickles to help the common people harvest rice.

Not to mention the big names of the feudal clans and samurai merchants, even the farmers in the three counties were petrified.They watched teams of Bei Haimen marching into the rice fields wielding sickles, thinking that the masters were trying to grab their own grain.

well!How can there be any kind official in the world?Just say a few good words and think that the sky has changed. How can there be such a beautiful thing!
Just when the farmers were sighing in despair, they discovered that the Beihai Navy had bundled the harvested rice and came to ask where to send it.When some farmers were busy chopping firewood and boiling water, preparing to entertain the soldiers, they were surprised to find that these people even prepared drinking water by themselves!

When the soldiers of a certain platoon finished harvesting for a farmer, put the grain into the warehouse, and all left, the six members of the farmer’s family, after a long silence, suddenly knelt in front of their house and burst into tears. They waved goodbye to each other. The Beihai soldiers kept kowtowing, and even their foreheads were broken by stones on the ground.

Such scenes appeared one after another in the rural areas of the three counties, which surprised and delighted countless peasant families.

There is such a government in the world?Zhao Wangdian sent a "Bodhisattva soldier"!

However, during the autumn harvest, the farmers of the three counties were not only pleasantly surprised, but also panicked.Under the dissemination of some people with ulterior motives, this behavior of the Beihai Navy was said to be an invitation to buy people's hearts, and there was a big conspiracy.

Think about it, those Tang Yi only kept [-]% for themselves, how to maintain the governance of the three counties?How to pay salaries to subordinate officials?The general is the most merciful, and his own heaven is nothing more than "public five people five".This year I will give you poor ghosts a sweet date, and next year I will return to "Gong Ba Min Er", and I will give you a hard slap in the face!

Faced with these rumors, the Beihai Navy quickly dispatched, and with the cooperation of a few farmers who believed in the Beihai Navy, they captured more than a dozen rumor spreaders.Among these people were wandering around the villages pretending to be wandering monks, there were rogue idlers who wandered around in the market and restaurants, and there were even some hired ronin.

After interrogation, among these people were the retainers of the former Shimadzu family, monks from the temples in the three counties, and those sent by the surrounding feudal lords to spread rumors and make trouble.Bei Haijun's approach was to shoot them all, which frightened the rumor-mongers, and fled the three counties one after another, daring not to come if they said anything.

Okay!To make a rumor elsewhere is just to stop the board, and Bei Haijun will beheaded directly.How to play this?Can you still be a rumor spreader happily?

The Beihai Navy simply posted notices again in the villages and villages of the three counties, notifying the identities and disposal of these rumormongers.The peasants saw that those arrested were all spies sent by the temple masters and samurai masters who were disturbed by the status quo, and the surrounding daimyo who were jealous of the North Navy's policy.

In the eyes of these people, if the policy of the North Navy spreads, there will be no peace in Southern Kyushu in the future!Those mud legs and landowners will definitely petition to lower the annual tribute, and if they don't do it, they will launch a campaign.

If the yearly tribute is lowered, what will the daimyos use to explain to the staff in the future, and what will they use to complete the general request assigned by the shogunate?This is the rhythm that makes people hang themselves!
The problem is that in the eyes of the peasants in the three counties, how many years have they suffered, and finally came a group of "Bodhisattva soldiers", and they just have hope, why can't they live a good life?You really treat us like sesame seeds, and the clay figurines are also very angry!

Before winter, when Jiuzang received Zhao Xin's order to recruit 3000 local self-defense troops in the three counties, farmers who heard the news flocked to the camp, and the number of applicants on the first day was as high as [-].

On the one hand, the Self-Defense Forces receive a one-dollar silver coin allowance every month, and on the other hand, they strongly support the regime of the Northern Navy.The peasants were afraid that one day these bodhisattva soldiers would leave, and the oppression of the samurai masters would come back.

As a result, a storm that even Zhao Xin couldn't expect began to brew secretly, and it would sweep the entire Kyushu in a few years' time!
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