Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 47
"Dude, do you want to buy a horse?" In the beer hall, after Zhao Xin hung up the phone, Daniel asked him curiously.

Zhao Xin felt that this is the same as what this mandarin was learned, and how awkward that Erhuayin listened to.

"Yes. You also know that in Africa, there are no roads in many places. I'm thinking of buying a few heavy draw horses and transporting them there." Zhao Xin shrugged and explained.

"Hey, look for me about this." Daniel smiled and raised his hand to a white man sitting diagonally across from him.The man quickly got up and walked over to their table.

"Let me introduce you, Andrew." Daniel didn't get up, he pointed at his subordinates, and said to Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xin got up politely and shook hands with the other party.

Ten minutes before Daniel entered the door just now, this guy with a small stature had already come in and sat diagonally opposite, asking for a bottle of mineral water.

Zhao Xin felt that something was wrong with this person from that moment on; but it wasn't just this one, there were two more people sitting on the seat next to the emergency exit in the distance.

In the entire beer hall, not counting the bartender, there are only five of them!
"Andrei Andreevich Kapushkin. But Daniel usually calls me Andrew." This man is very slender, less than 1.8 meters tall.But looking at the neck, Zhao Xin knew that this fellow must belong to the vigorous and strong category.

"Zhao Xin."

"Dude, sit down." Daniel waved to Zhao Xin. "Andrew has followed me for several years, and things are very safe." After explaining, he said to Andrew, "Andrew, Zhao wants to buy a few draught horses. I remember you are very familiar with horses."

"Yes, Daniel." Andrew immediately asked Zhao Xin, "What horse do you want to buy?"

Zhao Xin thought for a while and said, "Prioritize Russian heavy horses or Soviet heavy horses, and maybe buy a few Don Hippos later."

The two types of horses that Zhao Xin mentioned earlier may sound like a type of horse to a layman, but they are not.

The Russian heavy horse was bred in the second half of the 19th century and is also known as the Russian Altyn horse.The First World War and Civil War led to a sharp decline in the number of heavy horses in Russia.In 1924, there were less than a hundred stallions left in the country.Until 1937, the population was re-established.In the 1980s, the population reached nearly [-] animals.However, this kind of horse cannot be ridden, because its disadvantage is that the back is weak, but it is very suitable as a draw horse.

The Soviet heavy horse is a new type of heavy-drawn horse developed in the 50s, and its population exceeded 80 in the 80s.It has been recorded that a stallion in the [-]s weighed more than [-] kilograms and had a shoulder height of more than two meters.

Andrew thought for a while and said, "Mr. Zhao, one of my uncles is a farmer, I'll ask you right away."

Zhao Xin quickly asked, "Where is your uncle's farm?"

Andrew pointed to the east: "Russia."

Daniel waved his hand and asked Andrew to make a call, and he said to Zhao Xin, "Zhao, we'll talk about pet toys later. Let's settle the products this time."

Zhao Xin immediately took out a pre-written A4 paper, opened it, and pushed it in front of Daniel with his left hand.

Just as Daniel was about to pick up the paper, Zhao Xin held it down with his hand and shook his head at him.

Daniel smiled approvingly at Zhao Xin, then looked down.

"Why do you want to buy that thing? Do you want to start a war in Africa?" Daniel saw half of it and pointed to a line of words on the A4 paper, staring at Zhao Xin with a puzzled expression.

"Just one, just retired." Zhao Xin quickly explained. "I just did it to scare people."

"It's not easy to handle. It's fine if you stop at the mainland; but if you transport it away, not to mention the scary procedures, the relevant departments will also notice me." Daniel thought for a while and said. "And you have to know that those who retreat are usually thrown into the sea by the military, and they are still in the deep sea area. There is nothing I can do about it."

"Ah?! Wasn't it sent to the steel plant to be melted?" Zhao Xin was taken aback.Throwing it into the sea?What kind of prodigal behavior is this.

Seeing that Zhao Xin didn't understand, Daniel made some explanations. "You have to know, Zhao. This thing can't be sent to a steel furnace to melt and make steel. The thousands of parts above are made of alloys of different materials, and once they melt, they can only be turned into a furnace of scrap steel. Unusable."

Zhao Xin was very helpless, and his dream was in vain.

"Okay." Zhao Xin reluctantly took out a ballpoint pen from his pocket with his right hand, and crossed out the line on the paper.

"OK. Then I can provide the rest." Daniel was relieved.He then said happily after reading the following content.

"Then I request that this time the goods be delivered at XX port."

"God, buddy, you're giving me another problem." Daniel thought for a while, then said, "Okay, but you'll be responsible for the shipping."

Zhao Xin readily agreed after asking about the price of shipping.

The freight is the freight. Zhao Xin made up his mind not to land in the country on the other side of the ocean.

Eighteenth century does not count!No objection!

At this time, that Andrew had finished the phone call and returned to the table for the two of them.

"Mr. Zhao, my uncle welcomes you very much as a guest. He has hundreds of the two types of horses you want on his farm. There are also Don hippos." Andrew glanced at the table and quickly withdrew his gaze.

"Great." Zhao Xin was very happy. "And what about the price?"

"Most of the adult horses are around [-] euros per horse, and the good ones will not exceed [-] euros. After all, these are just work horses. But I haven't been back for a long time, so you still have to go to the scene and see it."

Zhao Xin is happy, this is similar to the price he checked online.

He turned his eyes to Daniel: "Man, I want you to let Andrew accompany me. You see, I don't know Russian at all. I'll be blind there."

Daniel nodded indifferently: "When are you going to go?"

Zhao Xin thought for a moment and then said, "The day after tomorrow."

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Wang Yuanfang had finished washing up and was brewing sleepiness.The rapid ringing of the phone made him sleepless.Picking up the phone, Zhao Xin.

"Brother Wang, I've booked the ticket for you the day after tomorrow. Let's go buy a horse. I'll transfer the flight information to you later."

"But it's going to be a festival in a few days?!" Wang Yuanfang said in surprise.

"Foreigners don't celebrate the Spring Festival, let's hurry up and go home on New Year's Eve."

"That's fine. See you the day after tomorrow."

Wang Yuanfang hung up the phone and stayed for a while.The flight information sent by Zhao Xin has been received, and the flight will be at [-] am the day after tomorrow.

Watching horses?He is still a sledgehammer himself.At this moment, Wang Yuanfang suddenly remembered the old man Sun who sold horses, and he decided to call tomorrow morning to ask for advice.

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On the other side, the leader of the team and the armored soldiers, led by the informant flag soldiers, have come to this small village on the south bank of the Hajimi River.

There are only [-] households in this village. The villagers mainly rely on fishing and hunting for a living. Only two households go to serve as flag soldiers.

The courtyard door of Yalha's house was pushed open by someone.The door slammed into the simple earth wall with a bang, bringing down a large piece of broken earth.

"Who is it?" Yalha's voice came from inside the room.As soon as he finished speaking, he pushed open the door and walked out, holding his copper pipe in his hand.

"You are Yalha?" The leader who walked into the courtyard behind several armored soldiers asked Yalha in a deep voice.

"Yes." As soon as Yalha looked at the armored soldier, his heart sank, and he suddenly became nervous.

"I heard that you went to Bear Island a few days ago and exchanged animal skins for things?" The leader looked around at the small courtyard, raised his feet and walked towards the door of the house.

"This..." Yalha hesitated, and then said: "It's just a little change."

At this time, six armored soldiers stood at the door outside the courtyard, two were standing in the courtyard, and the other two followed behind the leader, and they had already seen the place tightly.

The leader pushed open the door and looked into the room, only to see a young man standing in a corner of the room with a look of horror in his eyes; the inner room was covered with a curtain, and no one could be seen.

"Change something?" The leader sneered.As soon as he entered the yard, he saw the big iron pot upside down under the wall, and also saw the strange pair of boots on Yalha's feet.

"Lord Leader is asking you something, hurry up!" An armored soldier said to Yalha impatiently.

"Yes. I went there three times, changed two cotton robes, two pairs of short boots, and this pot." Yalha's heart swayed, thinking that this is not a strong steal, why should I be afraid.

"Who did you exchange with? Tell me." The leader turned back to the courtyard, stood two steps in front of Yalha, and continued to ask.

"Kurefeiyaka."

"Nonsense! The three surnames of Kuye Feyaka are all under the jurisdiction of the Yamen. When they arrived at the jurisdiction of Ningguta, why did no one inform the Yamen?"

"Well, how do I know this? My lord, I'm a hunter, and I accidentally met them on Bear Island."

"How many are there?"

"It seems, it seems..." Yalha thought for a while, and then said: "There seem to be two to three hundred people, including men, women and children."

The leader heard that there were actually two to three hundred people on Bear Island, and he felt that something big was going to happen.

Over the years, the largest group of ginseng harvesting, leather goods smuggling, and even escaped slaves that occurred and seized within the jurisdiction of Ningguta Yamen was only a gang of more than 20 people.

Now this Yalha says there are 300 people? !Who are these people?

Thinking of this, the leader waved the whip in his hand and shouted loudly, "The whole family will be brought back to the yamen for questioning, and the exchanged property will be taken away as evidence."

As soon as the voice fell, the six armored soldiers outside the courtyard immediately rushed into the courtyard.Two armored soldiers bullied Yalha in front of him and restrained him with a little force, while the other armored soldier took out a rope and bound Yalha.

At this time, three armored soldiers entered the house, pushed Yarha's mother, wife, son, and daughter out of the house, and tied them together with ropes.

The two armored soldiers raised the big iron pot in the yard and asked the leader: "Sir, where is this pot?"

The leader pointed at the stable in a corner of the courtyard with his whip: "Tie it to the back of that horse." The one tied in the stable was Yalha's horse.

At this time, the noise in the yard had already alarmed other people in the village, and many people came out of the house and gathered around the door of Yaerha's house.

A strong man stood at the door and asked in a muffled voice, "Sir, what's the matter? Why did you tie Brother Yarha?"

The leader turned around and said, "Who are you?"

The strong man beat him a thousand times, then bowed and said, "Sir, my name is Seldan. Last year, I went to Hunchun City to send a bear to Lord Xie Lian."

"Oh. It's you. I remembered it." The leader nodded and continued to ask: "You didn't follow him to Bear Island to change things, did you?"

"Sir, the villain has never seen those people. The villain has not changed anything." Seldan shook his head in fright.

"Yeah." The leader nodded, raised his head and said to the villagers who were watching outside: "You heard me clearly, Yaerha is a lot of trouble. If you have any news, you should report it to the township chief immediately."

After he finished speaking, he walked out of the yard and got on his horse.

Several armored soldiers were holding Yalha's family, and they led Yalha's own horse out of the courtyard.One end of the rope that tied several people was tied to two saddles.

Two armored soldiers clear the way in front, the leading horse follows behind, and the other armored soldiers follow behind the leading horse.

A group of people took Yalha's family and left the village to the west.

The villagers didn't start talking until the armoured soldiers were gone, and they shook their heads and sighed.Several women sighed, just after seeing the life of Yaerha's family prosperous for a few days, how could this happen.

(End of this chapter)