Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 678 Three Telegrams
A Miao never expected that Chen Dang would have such a big misunderstanding due to her unintentional actions.While having breakfast, Zhao Xin told her about the matter and asked her to find someone else to explain it to her later.

"You said you did it. Don't give away anything I give you in the future. Ruan Fujing told me before that Boss Chen is a widow. If it gets out, I'm fine. She might not be a good person."

"Okay, I get it now."

A Miao lowered her head, stirring the spoon in the porridge bowl, just like her messy mood.After being out of focus for a while, she suddenly got up and walked out.Seeing this, Duofu, who was buried in the food bowl, hurriedly followed up, wagging his tail.

Not to mention how A Miao clarified with Chen Dang, Zhao Xin had a leisurely breakfast, and when he returned to the office, the staff officer in charge of confidentiality brought a few telegrams from the telecommunications room.Among them are Liu Shengfa, Deng Fei and Kong Shaoan.

The first thing Zhao Xin read was Liu Sheng's telegram. He said that the [-] recruits recruited in Uliasutai and Khobdo last year had completed their recruit training, and the biggest problem of going south to Tianshan Mountains--the shortage of soldiers had been solved.In addition, the route from Khobdo southward to Suzikalun has also been widened, and all eight military stations have been constructed and can be put into use immediately.

He requested that only one regiment and one recruit battalion be stationed in Uliasutai, and that all the rest of the troops be transferred to Khobdo.

Zhao Xin took out the map and looked at it for a while, and then wrote on the telegram, "Agreed to the troop mobilization plan. When to send troops is up to you and Fan Tong to decide, and the battle plan can be reported to the staff."

It has been a year and a half since Liu Sheng and the others captured Khalkha. The original plan to go south and enter Xinjiang has only begun to take shape today. The two biggest difficulties during this period are soldiers and roads.

The issue of soldiers is mainly solved through the transformation of the "Suluk System".After more than a year of unremitting efforts by Liu Zheng, Liu Sheng, and Fan Tong and a large number of armed work teams, coupled with the mobile warehouse led by Beihai Trading Company, the lives of herdsmen have been greatly improved, and the animal husbandry economy in Mobei has also improved. Got some development.

So when the Northern Navy began large-scale conscription in the spring, young men from the Saiyinuoyan tribe, Erut Banner, Ming'at Banner, and Duerbott's left and right wings who first benefited from Beihai Town's policy enthusiastically signed up. There are even cases where father and son, uncles and nephews join the army together.

Of course, considering the national tradition, the recruits are basically cavalry troops. They have dealt with horses since they were young, and they are very good at equestrian skills. After three or four months of short-term military training, they can well master the actions of shooting, fighting, and charging on horseback. .This made the commander of the cavalry, Samusu, very happy. Now he has become the first brigade commander of the Beihai Navy, and the cavalry under his command has reached 6000 people.

The biggest hurdle in recruit training is the language barrier. The North Navy has never compromised on the point of mastering Mandarin. Whether it is military regulations or various passwords, it must be fluent in Mandarin to pass the test.The purpose of this is to break the language barrier. After these people leave the army, they will be the main force in disseminating the Beihai Township's decree in Khalkha.

In Zhao Xin's view, the cultural basis for building a unified country is to allow all ethnic groups to communicate without barriers in language.Only in this way can we avoid the estrangement between the government and the people, the separation of ethnic groups and the weak national concept caused by the language barrier.

Then there is the problem of roads.Although the Qing Dynasty established six station lines in Khalkha, the road conditions were not suitable for the management of Beihai Town.For example, the total length from Kulun to Uliasutai is 3475 miles. Even if the cavalry rushed at full speed regardless of horsepower, it would take more than 40 days to run a one-way trip.Therefore, the North Navy currently has at least one regiment of troops in Kulun, Saierwusutai, Uliasutai, and Khobdo, so that it can respond at any time when there is something in the surrounding area.

Since the Qing Dynasty firmly controlled the Xinjiang region, the road maintenance of the Khobdo South Line station has become increasingly deserted, forcing Fan Tong to send troops to repair it, especially in the Altai Mountains and the Baishan Mountains in the south, and some mountain passes The pass had to be widened with a large amount of explosives.Armored vehicles are easy to say, the key is that the four-wheeled carriages of the logistics troops can pass smoothly.

The same is true for Liu Zheng's side. The northern line of Kulun is fine, but those mountain passes on the southern line were fatal in the previous battle.It's easy to talk about walking around with people, horses and camels, but it's definitely useless to take a cart.

Basically, Zhao Xin, the captain of the transportation team, had to continue to play the role until the Beihai Navy captured Dihua Prefecture and Yili.

Next is Deng Fei, whose telegram is relatively simple.In addition to mentioning the current progress of the troops going south, there is also a request to solve the Qing army entrenched in the six towns in the north of the Li Dynasty.Zhao Xin directly approved "agree" on the message, without saying anything extra.

Deng Fei is still very stable, unlike Liu Sheng's boldness and carefulness, he does things step by step, not rushing or impatient.

After Jilin Ula was taken, he was not in a hurry to enter Jilin City, but moved the headquarters from Ninggu Tower to the west bank of the Rafa River.Don't look at the wide Songhua River on the edge of Jilin City, because almost all wooden buildings in the city can easily cause a fire in the whole city.Furthermore, Jilin City had just been brought down, and not to mention the complex population in the city, there were still a large number of Qing army prisoners who had not completed the screening in the prisoner camps outside the city, and there were many people with evil plans!

In addition, as the troops continued to move south, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in the Li Dynasty became more and more conspicuous; because of their existence, the entire front of the Northeast Navy became higher in the east and lower in the west. .

Deng Fei's plan was to use four battalions in mid-August or early September to launch a surprise attack from Li Fengpo in the east to Xunzhen City in the west to clear the Qing army strongholds on the other side of the Tumen River, and then the troops quickly settled down. The boat went upstream along the river and went straight to Huining City and Maoshan City, catching Na Qitai and Li Chao by surprise.

It's time to solve the problem of the six towns in the north, and it's time to get back the North Hamgyong Province that Li Chao stole.When Maoshan magnetite with a reserve of 15 billion tons is included in the bag, the problem of insufficient raw materials in the Boli Iron and Steel Plant will be completely solved.

Although there are many gold mines in Northeast Asia, the iron ore resources are not good. The iron ore mines discovered by later generations are either in Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands, or in the alpine South Yakutia region.Under the current conditions in Beihai Town, mining is very difficult and the cost is extremely high.Today, the main source of iron ore in Beihai Town is an iron mine [-] kilometers northwest of Suchuna Village, a Hezhe man in Jingqili, which is currently excavated by the Russian army and some Eight Banners prisoners of war, and transported to Khabarovsk by water and railway.

Finally, there is Kong Shaoan's telegram.Unlike Liu Sheng and Deng Fei, the content of Kong Shaoan's telegram was like a work summary. Whether it was the military or the land reform in the four counties of Jiaodong, they all mentioned it.

In terms of military operations, as of yesterday, the attacking force led by Lu Shoushan has captured the three cities of Dengzhou Prefecture, Huangxian County and Laiyang, and is currently advancing towards Zhaoyuan.He planned to capture Laizhou Prefecture and Jimo through this battle, and at the same time form a north-south attack on the Qing army and regiment training troops in Pingdu Prefecture, forcing them to retreat to the front lines of Changyi, Gaomi and Jiaozhou.

But this battle has a problem.According to the telegram sent by Lu Shoushan from the front line, the green battalion of the Qing army still couldn't help but collapse at the touch of a touch; while the group of regiments trained by Liu Yong in the name of "helping the Qing and destroying Zhao" was beyond his expectations. .

This group of guys are all composed of young and strong local people. Because the weapons are too poor, the Beihai Navy will run away as soon as they shoot; but when the guns stop, they will stick to them again. People raise a greeting.

You say to use heavy weapons to fight, because too many people are dead, which is not good for the later management. In addition, more than half of the soldiers in the army are locals from Jiaodong. It's like a dog's skin plaster, and it's too annoying.

In addition, these guys would secretly attack the Northern Navy soldiers and small convoys who were in charge of delivering letters on the way. After succeeding, the soldiers were stripped from top to bottom, leaving nothing behind, and the corpses were left in the wilderness .As a result, Lu Shoushan had to mobilize two companies to go deep into the mountainous area in the south of Huangxian County to "suppress bandits".

When Zhao Xin saw the four words "help the Qing Dynasty and destroy Zhao", Zhao Xin almost spit out his mouth.I thought that Liu Yong was good enough, but he actually used the Boxers of later generations in advance!I just don't know if he will arouse the power of the folk sect.

But after thinking about it, he felt that Liu Yong might not be able to do this, and he should rely on the power of the landlords and gentry; especially with the promulgation of the peasant association and the land reform decree, it is estimated that more than [-]% of the landlords will stand on the opposite side of Beihai Town.

Regarding the ongoing land reform, Kong Shaoan told Zhao Xin that the land in the four counties of Jiaodong is too barren, and there are very few lands that meet the standard of large-scale grain land. Not only the counties in each state, but even within a county, there will be different calculations.

At present, the area of ​​cultivated land in the four counties of Jiaodong is a little over 270 million mu.It may seem like a lot, but in fact only 75 mu meet the standard of large grain land, and the rest are the worst and inferior land.

The "big grain land" he mentioned here is actually the standard mu for taxation, which is the basic land unit for calculating the income cost per mu.

Taking Rongcheng County as an example, the arable land is very saline and alkaline, so the harvest is not good even in the first-class land, and two mu of land can be converted into one mu of large grain land.Even if 20 mu of land is allocated to someone, as long as it is inferior land, if 5 mu is converted into one mu, it is actually only four mu.If only sorghum and millet are grown, the output of two years and three seasons is deducted from rent, seeds, taxes and other necessities, and the rations are still insufficient.Furthermore, the cost and labor required to cultivate 20 mu of land are by no means affordable for a family of six.

So Kong Shaoan’s idea is to adopt another time-space approach, develop soybean and peanut planting, and engage in characteristic planting. At the same time, he will vigorously support the fishery industry, implement mutual assistance between fish and farmers, and share dividends.The Military Control Commission only taxes the sale of the catch.

The specific method is to set up fishery cooperatives under the leadership of farmers' associations, and the credit department can provide them with loans for boat purchases, and of course leases are also available.Farmers from each household use their labor as shares, and 4 to 5 fishermen form a group to sign a contract endorsed by the farmers' association to carry out joint repairs on boats and tools.

When fishing at sea, the method of "each person's bag" is adopted. Whoever catches the fish in the net belongs to him, and he sells or processes it in his bag.When it comes to dividends, two methods can be adopted. One is to distribute dividends according to the income at sea, and the income in the land belongs to each;

Seeing this, Zhao Xin couldn't help applauding.Kong Shaoan seemed to have put a lot of thought into it, and it was the right move to put him in Jiaodong!

At the end of the telegram, in addition to mentioning the anonymous postings that appeared on the Ghost Festival, Kong Shaoan also said one thing, that is, the Public Security Police Department recently found a lot of newly released fake copper coins on the market in the four counties of Jiaodong. Hammer flat money also has sand money.This made Zhao Xin suddenly alert.

For other things, Zhao Xin is a bottle full of dissatisfaction with half a bottle, but when it comes to economic and currency issues, there are not many people in Beihai Town who know better than him.

The so-called "hammer flat money" is to hammer two small Jingdun coins that are used as one penny to make them bigger, and then add dozens of pennies to each string of coins, which cannot be found without careful inspection.As for "sand money", also known as sand board money, it is made of copper and lead, but its copper content is much less than that of money, and its shape is lighter and smaller.

In addition, there are "cutting money" and "lead money".The copper material obtained by cutting a penny of official money can be used to cast 2-3 pennies of small coins, and the cut money can still be circulated against a penny of big coins.However, there are many lead coins in the south. Fujian and Guangdong have always had the technology of making lead coins. The lead coins used in the Bacheng plantation in the past originated from this.Because the price of lead is only one-fifth of the price of copper, counterfeiters will use bile alum, turmeric water, wheat bran and other materials to cast and dye it yellow to prevent people from being seen through when mixing it.

Although Beihai Town occupied the four counties of Jiaodong, it was impossible to completely isolate it from the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the currency field. There were still a large amount of copper coins and silver in circulation among the people, paralleling Beihai Silver Dollars and Copper Dollars.For example, like Guo Yu and Cao Guifu, although their salaries are paid in silver dollars, he still changes them into copper coins for daily consumption.

And not only in Jiaodong, there are also a large number of copper coin transactions in Anping Port on Jeju Island.

Don't think that private money is only minted by illegal profiteers, and the various Baoquan Bureaus under the Ministry of Household Affairs do it secretly.Moreover, Baoquan Bureau has sufficient supply of copper materials, excellent equipment, and skilled craftsmen, which makes the number of private castings in official bureaus often huge.However, after a large number of private private money entered circulation, it quickly corrupted the money law, and the quality of the money was poor, making private private money more difficult to be singled out when it was blended and used.

Once private money floods, it will bring great harm to the rule of Beihai Town.For example, the current price comparison of silver coins in Shandong is one tael of silver to 1500~1600 yuan, while the silver dollar in Beihai Town is five pieces of silver for one tael of silver, that is to say, 300~320 Wen coins are exchanged for one Beihai dollar.

It is definitely useless for profiteers to counterfeit Beihai silver dollars, but they can obtain Beihai silver dollars by privately minting copper coins, and then obtain silver.Once there is a flood of private money, the price ratio of Beihai silver dollars or silver ingots will soar, and the prices of goods will also rise, especially food.You must know that the insufficient grain in the four counties of Jiaodong in the past two years has been shipped from Beihai Town by boat, and its market sales price is also anchored by Beihai silver dollars.

Because the content of this part of the telegram was vague, Zhao Xin asked his confidential staff to send telegrams to Jiaodong and Anping Port, asking the two places to find out the amount of fake money found.

Zhao Xin was very busy here, and when it was time for lunch, A Miao came back happily.Besides Duofu, she came back with her in a big black leather box.

"look!"

"Huh? Why did she return it to you?"

"Sister Chen said that things are too expensive for her to bear."

"Oh, what else did she say?"

A Miao first covered her mouth and laughed softly when she heard the words, her face turned red, and finally she just collapsed on the sofa and was overjoyed.Zhao Xin looked at it with a dazed expression, and asked me to hear something funny if he said it.

"She thought you were going to marry her as a wife! She was frightened all night! Hahahahaha~~"

"what?!!"

　The cultivated land in Shandong in the Qing Dynasty was divided into five types: upper land, middle land, lower upper land, lower middle land, and lower lower land. One mu is divided into three cents; one mu is divided into two and four cents for every mu; six cents and nine cents are equal for one mu for every mu; five cents and one mu are equal for every two mu. .In addition, for large acres and official acres, there are various algorithms for the size of the area, which are all divided according to the barrenness of the land.

　　
　
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