Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 45

On the sixth day of the first lunar month in the 49th year of Qianlong, in the early morning, there was light snow in the sky.

Sheng Haizhou felt that he had fallen into a pit since the morning of the second day of the new year.

Wouldn't it be great to draw eggplant eagles or something?When Jiuzang came to see me, I should have ignored him at all and simply said that he was not available.

Sheng Haizhou, who had run five laps early in the morning, was still on the beach south of the camp after breakfast, holding a wooden model gun in one arm, with a stick of incense at one end, three times a day...

This fellow Liu Sheng also made a mistake. He told Sheng Haizhou and the others that as long as you can hold a stick of incense and your arms don't shake, even if you pass the test, you can start the next practice.

Therefore, in addition to running, the Seven Samurai also practiced swordsmanship every day, and finally lifted the wooden spear.

Early this morning, after having breakfast, Liu Sheng went to the jungle with a gun and said to look for prey.Animals like wild boars are generally easier to find on snowy days.

"Bang~~" There was a gunshot in the distance, and Sheng Haizhou couldn't help shaking his arms.Bastard, failed again today!

He rubbed his bald head and smiled wryly.

Shaved?By the way, on the third day of the first lunar month, Liu Sheng asked all men on the island to shave their heads.The reason is personal hygiene to prevent the spread of lice.

Zhao Shenxian is not there, and Lord Liu is the biggest.In desperation, the male refugees had to shave all their hair bald, while the female refugees had their hair cut short, and then washed their hair with sulfur soap for three days.

Liu Sheng thought that the biggest resistance was Lu Shoushan and the others.Unexpectedly, as soon as he said it, Lu Shoushan agreed immediately.

He said that since I had taken refuge with Master Zhao, I would do whatever the masters said; and the four of us were afraid that we would not be able to return to the gate in this lifetime, so who would we show our braids? ; Besides, after a few months, the hair will grow back.

Pan Xiucheng hesitated for a long time, but when Lu Shoushan explained the truth, he reluctantly agreed.

Thinking of this, Sheng Haizhou looked up at Jiuzang.

This young man from the mountains is now very stable according to the gun.His natural arm strength is very good, and he almost fell on his back that day, but he was not used to it because of the first contact.The defeated Katsu Kaishu looked at the movements of the other six people and found that only Kuzang was very stable.

He nodded approvingly, feeling that the time was almost up, so he shouted "Okay."

Everyone immediately let out a few wailing, and their bodies squatted on the ground limply.

Suddenly Liji let out a scream: "My arm is cramping!"

Several people hurriedly helped him rub his arms and relax his muscles.

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At the same time, southwest of Xiongdao, in the city of Hunchun, 450 miles away.

In the office of the government office, the new leader of the Hunchun Association, Uteshan, is listening to a report from a Kurkaqi flag soldier. (Yongde, the former Hunchun co-leader, has been transferred to the Guangdong Customs Supervision, and the middle-coordinator of Zhenghuang Qigong, Woteshan, has become the new co-leader.)
Early this morning, when Utezhan had just eaten breakfast, Goshiha, who was beside him, came to report that a flag soldier who had returned to the camp after selling the fake came to the ya office to report.The flag soldier said that when he came home from the holiday, he heard that someone in the village had gone to Bear Island and changed two new cotton robes and a cast iron cauldron.

Uteshan immediately ordered Ghoshha to call the flag soldier to the office for questioning.

"You said that someone in your village went to Bear Island to change things?" Uteshan asked the flag soldier very kindly.

"Go back to the lord, the villain will not tell lies, the villain is telling the truth. Everyone in our village knows that Yalha went from the village chief's house to a pair of new short boots for half of his head. The wild boar."

Uteshan felt very surprised, there are still people on Bear Island at this time?It's freezing cold, is it a fugitive slave again, or a Han Chinese who steals ginseng?
He remembered that in October last year, a few Han slaves had run away from Ningguta.Although there were strict inspections in various places after the incident, except for a person named Jie Sanzi, the others were not caught.But how could fugitive slaves have cotton robes and cast-iron pots?What about the new short boots?
The more Uteyama thought about it, the more strange it became.So he ordered someone to find a leader (Pashiku in Manchu) who had no mission today, and ordered him to bring ten armored soldiers, and the whistleblower flag soldier would lead the way to their village to ask Yalha for questioning. Ask about the situation on Bear Island.

In this era, the flag soldiers outside Guan are different from those in Guan. Due to the harsh environment, effective training, and being far away from the contamination of the flowery world in Guan, they are still very capable of fighting and can be banned.

At this time, although it was snowing heavily outside, after receiving the order, the leader immediately went to the barracks and ordered ten flag soldiers.The flag soldier who was the informant led the way and set off towards the village four hundred miles away.

In the village on the south bank of the Hajimi River, Seldan brought his son Erlu to visit Yaerha's house.

The three men sat on the kang and smoked two bags of cigarettes. After chatting for a while, Elu couldn't hold his breath: "Uncle Yarha, when will you take me to Bear Island to change things?"

In the smoke, Yalha looked at the other party and smiled, and asked, "Elu, have all the furs you prepared ready? If you are not ready, you have to run for nothing."

"It's almost done. I'll go out with Amma again tomorrow morning to see if we can catch a few deer."

Yalha knocked the cigarette pot on the sole of his shoe, raised his head and said, "If you go there, Ama, you will definitely catch a lot. Your Ama's arrows are fast and accurate."

Seldan didn't speak for a long time, just smoking a cigarette. At this time, he heard Yalha praising himself and said in a muffled voice, "Brother Yalha, who do you think the people on the Bear Island are?"

"Didn't I tell you? Kurefei Yaka people." Yalha replied in surprise after hearing Serdan's question.

Seldan took a deep breath of the cigarette and felt that the incense of the smoke penetrated into the whole body. Then he slowly spit it out and said, "You said those people are from the Kujie Feyaka, but I don't think so."

"Not like it?" Yalha and Elu's expressions froze.

Seldan was afraid of Yalha's misunderstanding, so he explained: "Brother Yalha, as you know, I followed Geshanda (the village head) to Mucheng to see 'Wulin' in June of the previous year. I've seen a lot of Yaqa people, but they don't dress like the ones you mentioned."

The "rewarding the Wulin" mentioned by Seldan originated from the system of paying tribute to the remote ethnic minorities outside the customs since the time of Nurhaci.

(Since the first year of Tianming (1616), Nurhaci began to send troops to conquer the Hezhe and Feyaka people, and it was not until the first year of Shunzhi that he finally conquered the entire Heilongjiang, Ussuri, and Songhua River basins. century.

Because the above-mentioned areas are far away from the center of the Qing court, and the local indigenous people generally live by fishing and hunting, the folk customs are strong and difficult to manage, so since the Shunzhi era, the governance of the aborigines has been more focused on the care and softness (the barbarians are controlled by barbarians, because of their customary rule, some different from general states).In addition to attracting some of the aborigines to become officials and incorporated into the Eight Banners, the main means for others is to implement the system of "tributing mink and rewarding Wulin".

The so-called "gong mink reward Wulin" is actually "gong mink reward Wuling after tribute".These aboriginal people living far away in the north of Xingkai Lake, on the main stream and various tributaries of Heilongjiang River, and even on Sakhalin Island, according to their household registration, donate the mink they hunt every year to officials sent by the Qing court in summer.

There is a temporary administrative office where the "Wulin Appreciation" is held.It is all made of rough wood, so it is called the wooden city.Every year in the first ten days of May, the officials of the administrative office set off from the three surnames (today’s Yilan area in Heilongjiang) and sailed northeast along the Heilongjiang River to the wooden city of Delangen, which is three thousand miles away. This place is the administrative office.In October, the officials of the administrative department took a boat back to Sanxing City, where no one was on duty.

As of the 48th year of Qianlong, there were a total of 250 Hezhe and Fei Yaka households under the jurisdiction of the Dutong Yamen of the three surnames, including 270 and 970 Hezhe households and [-] Fei Yaka households.Clans such as Chiller and Saimar are not included.

The Qing court required that each household must pay tribute a piece of fine mink fur every year in exchange for black silk (that is, satin, white cloth, needles, threads and brains, etc.) Skins can be sold at the market outside the administrative office during the Wulin appreciation period.Except during this period, it is forbidden to trade mink fur and other materials privately, and it is strictly forbidden for Han people to come here to collect furs.

The Qing court stipulated that if the household, the village or the surname did not pay this year, they would have to make up the payment in the next year;

Don't look at it, just some satin and white cloth and grain and rice similar to business trip subsidies. These are all the aboriginal people can exchange for money, grain, tobacco, wine, pottery and iron, and are an important source for them to obtain living materials. )
"Oh?" Yalha heard Cerdan say this at this time, and couldn't help frowning, his face full of doubts.

"Don't say anything else, just the cotton robe on your wife's body, I've never seen anyone wearing it in Delangen. And your short boots..." Seldan pointed at Yalha's feet with a cigarette pot. the shoes. "I've never seen a Feyaka wear one. I've seen quite a few fish-skin boots."

When Yalha heard Cerdan say this, his confusion greatly increased, and then he said: "Brother Cerdan, then you will come and see with me next time, you have a lot of knowledge."

"Okay. But this matter..." Seldan nodded and continued: "You don't want to make a statement about this. What's going on, you have to read it and then talk about it."

"Elu, don't talk nonsense about this." Seldan looked at his son and said seriously.

"Ama, Uncle Yarha, don't worry, I won't chew these ears."

Seldan nodded, and then asked Yalha, "When are you going to leave?"

"The day after tomorrow." Yalha thought for a moment and said.

(End of this chapter)