Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 71
On the day of the test, in order to act as a deterrent, Zhao Xin deliberately let Hyundai Zhong, Lu Pan, the seven members of Sheng Haizhou, and Seldan and his son each fire a cannon.

It's a bit of a waste, but it works.Except for the modern audience, everyone else knelt down in front of Zhao Xin and once again expressed their loyalty.

In fact, what Zhao Xin is most worried about is the people in the island country.

After landing at the mouth of the Sila River, he will lead a six-member team from the Ministry of Security to the island country to win over the refugees from the island country to farm.And this kind of large-scale immigration will inevitably lead to conflicts with the vassals and the shogunate. If Katsu Kaishu and the others are accompanied by the seven people, in case someone is swayed by the shogunate, although it will not cause much loss, it will be good for morale and people's hearts. certain influence.

To this end, Zhao Xin deliberately held a review meeting on the night after the test, with seven participants including himself, Liu Sheng, and Sheng Haizhou.

At the beginning of the meeting, Zhao Xin explained the next immigration plan.Sheng Haizhou and others all expressed their approval, because this was originally the plan that had been confirmed in October last year.

Next, Zhao Xin mentioned the issue of conflicts with the vassals and the shogunate.

"This time, if we take away a large number of refugees, the Sendai Domain will be the first to conflict. Because the Sendai Domain is the richest in the northeast region, and the trade at Ishinomaki Port is prosperous, there will be a lot of refugees fleeing here. My plan is to Five thousand refugees will be taken away from Ishinomaki Port, not single people."

After saying these words, Zhao Xin paused, and then observed the reactions of the seven people in Sheng Haizhou.Among the crowd, apart from Sheng Haizhou looking at Zhao Xin and seeming to have something to say, Li Ji and the other six all looked at themselves with excitement on their faces.

In other words, the impact of today's test gun on everyone was too great.With the frequent firing of cannons, the frozen sea surface was blasted with large holes one after another, and the blasted ice chips and splashed sea water were as high as ten meters.

Not to mention the 100 against more than [-] Qing soldiers led by Zhao Xin before, after the seven Sheng Haizhou witnessed the big killer that could "destroy the country with one shot" today, apart from fear, the rest It's all excited.

With such a weapon of the country, who else can stop the lord's ambition?We just need to do our best to serve the public.Someday the Lord will reward us with the Miao character and the knowledge and deeds that have been passed down from generation to generation. Life should not be too beautiful!

"My lord, what should we do if the Date family stops us?" Katsu Kaishu bowed and asked.

"Then hit him until he doesn't dare to stop it." Zhao Xin said lightly, with a very relaxed tone.Apart from the fact that he needs to temporarily avoid the frontiers of the Qing Dynasty and concentrate on the development of agricultural bases, other countries such as North Korea, island countries and even the armed expeditions of Tsarist Russia are all dishes!

"The second conflict is the shogunate." Zhao Xin saw Sheng Haizhou and continued.

The room was silent.This is preparing to tear up with the general!

However, everyone understands that these people are already people who have left their hometowns; to the shogunate, they are not even "non-human".That being the case, let's follow the lord all the way to the end.

It is said that the reason why the Tokugawa shogunate can maintain its rule for more than 200 years is that it relies on the "three ups and three downs" hierarchy, which makes the domestic class extremely solidified.And it is precisely through this kind of social hierarchy that its rule is very firm, which can be described as rock-solid.

The three tops are the daimyo, the emperor, and the samurai; the three bottoms are the farmers, the townspeople, and the marginalized (broodhouses, monks, Ainori, and foreigners).Of course, there are also a large number of untouchables (dirty and inhuman).

Among the "Seven Samurai" present, except for Katsu Kaishu, who was a former samurai, Li Ji and the others were actually "non-humans", that is, wandering beggars who had lost their fields. (Don't be fooled by the dashing and romantic everyday life in period dramas, which are all deliberate appearances.)
Now following Zhao Xin, they have gotten rid of the "inhuman" class.Could it be that the quasi-samurai master does not do it, and has to go back to the Tokugawa family as a pariah?That is really the "eighteen weapons ranked third".

Sheng Haizhou glanced at Li Ji and others, and then suddenly realized that the lord is worried about himself!No, I have to show my allegiance right now.

"I follow the lord for the justice of the world, not for the generals and the vassal family!" Sheng Haizhou leaned over and saluted, impassioned.

Zhao Xin nodded slowly.Since you have shown your loyalty, let's not mention it for the time being, and everything depends on the action.He planned to ask Kuzang privately after the meeting and ask him again.

After the council was over, Zhao Xin was about to go to Wang Yuanfang to talk about something, and Lu Shoushan brought Seldan and his son here.

It's said that since Liu Siting came and scolded Zhao Xin for being a Mongolian doctor, Zhao Xin also knew that he had a good hand and made a lot of jokes when he gave Seldan a tetanus skin test, and also made Xiao A Miao crooked. .Out of this mentality, Zhao Xin is always a little embarrassed when facing the simple hunter Seldan.

"Sit down, all of them." Zhao Xin greeted the three of them to sit down, and asked casually, "Is there something wrong?"

The three did not dare to sit, Lu Shoushan glanced at Seldan, and then said cautiously: "Master, after Seldan's injury, he saw that all the other men in the camp had short hair, so he and Elu also wanted to follow suit. . So I hope you will allow it, sir."

"Ask me to get a haircut, can't he just find someone himself?" Zhao Xin asked strangely.

"Master, Seldan wants to serve you as a domestic servant." Lu Shoushan explained embarrassedly.

I go!It turned out to be sent to the door to be a slave.

Zhao Xin was dumbfounded. Although I accepted your allegiance, I didn't want you to be slaves!

He immediately asked Lu Shoushan to translate for him, and after explaining it for a long time, he finally let Cerdan understand that the rules in the camp were that there were no slaves, and he himself did not need slaves.Although Li Ji and his wife took refuge in him, Zhao Xin didn't let them surround him all day long as a reminder, what should he do?

"Don't shave your hair. I allow your father and son to keep braids first, maybe one day they can help." Zhao Xin explained to the Seldan father and son.

For Elu, Zhao Xin meant to let him follow Wang Yuanfang and the others every day, and then train for a while. There is no need to follow him like a tail all day long.This kid sometimes even has to follow him to the toilet, which makes Zhao Xin very embarrassed.

"Everything is up to the master. I will do whatever you tell me to do." Elu expressed his thoughts in a straight line.

After Zhao Xin heard this, he nodded helplessly.Take your time, it's not easy to change these people's stereotypes.

As for Seldan, Zhao Xin hopes to be responsible for communication with the local aborigines after arriving at the new camp.

In fact, the aborigines in the outer northeast are not so simple.They live by fishing and hunting, not farming.Plundering occurs whenever fishery resources cannot meet demand.

It is said that in the year of Jiashen (1644), that is, the year when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the island country Echizen country merchant Takeuchi Toemon and others took a boat to Matsumae. Due to the wind and waves on the way, the boat was washed near Huichun.As a result, after the islanders landed, they were deceived by the local indigenous people and planned to exchange rice for ginseng.

The next day, three aborigines came to the boat of the merchants of the island country. The merchants entertained them with wine and food for the smooth progress of the business, and then sent more than 40 people to follow the aborigines up the mountain.

When they walked halfway up the mountain, the natives hiding in the surrounding grass took the opportunity to shoot and kill these island businessmen with bows and arrows. In the end, only 13 people escaped because they hid in the grass and were captured.Then, these aborigines returned to the island merchant ship, robbed the ship's cargo and attacked other people on board.

Later, the aborigines distributed the captured 15 island country businessmen to various villages as slaves; and later, in order to please the Qing Dynasty, the aborigine leaders presented the captured [-] people, Japanese swords and other items to Shengjing. (Note)
This is a typical fear of cowardice and not virtuous.Zhao Xin didn't want to make the same mistake again.If there are aborigines at the mouth of the Sila River, let Seldan deal with them first; if communication fails, then resort to force to expel them, don't think about calculating something under your own eyes all day long.

In the next three days, as the temperature continued to rise and the sea water washed away, the large pieces of broken ice on the sea surface had gradually disappeared.After consulting Liu Sheng and Deng Fei, Zhao Xin decided to leave the island two days later and set off for the mouth of the Sila River.

Although the current total number of people in the camp is less than 200, considering the more than 200 Mongolian horses, Zhao Xin still used the freighter Thor.

At this time, the three characters of "Thor" have been painted on the right side of the bow and the stern with waterproof paint.A group of refugees and the dozen or so prisoners of the Qing army looked at the mountain-like giant ship moored in the bay, and were completely shocked.Some people knelt on the ground in shock and kept kowtowing, thinking that the gods and monsters in the sea had appeared.

For the ten prisoners, the Hunchun Shui Camp's chasing boat was like a mosquito and a tall horse when compared to this big boat. There was no comparison.The originally arrogant captives collapsed on the beach one by one, urinating from their frightened buttocks.Later, when they were escorted to board the patrol boat, he thought that Zhao Xin was going to send them to the sea monster to eat them, so he was so frightened that he even shouted for mercy.

And Lu Shoushan, Pan Xiucheng, and Seldan's group were even more shocked and inexplicable at the means of this Master Zhao.They decided that Master Zhao, Master Liu, Master Wang and these people must be among the gods, otherwise how could they control such a mountain-like giant boat to come and go freely.

Among these people, on the contrary, a "well-informed" group of refugees from the island country quickly calmed down after the shock of seeing the Thor.The main reason is that the island country refugees have not seen the immortal means used by this Lord Zhao once or twice.

"A group of bastards." The refugees in the island country looked at the frightened Qing soldiers, Lu Shoushan and others on the beach with disdain, and they felt contempt in their hearts.Where is this going? We adults have a lot of magic tricks, let's take a look.

Transporting people back and forth is nothing, but transporting more than 200 horses back and forth can make Zhao Xin and the others tormented enough.

Zhao Xin couldn't care to call Seldan and Hengji. With the help of everyone, the two patrol boats tossed back and forth for a long time before they transported these horses to the cargo warehouse on the freighter.

When Zhao Xin was halfway through the transport, he wished to throw all these horses on the island and wait for the Qing soldiers to take them away.However, Wang Yuanfang reminded him that these horses will be precious labor after arriving at their new home, and at least they don't need to spend money to buy them.

Yalha, who was recovering from a serious illness, kept comforting the horses who were frightened after boarding the ship in the warehouse.Together with veterinarians Liu Zheng, Seldan and Hengji, he will take care of the war horses during the voyage.

Taking a last look at the empty camp, Zhao Xin turned around and boarded the patrol boat driven by Liu Sheng, heading towards the freighter.

Due to the lack of water depth around Bear Island, after leaving the bay, Thor made a large circle to the south before turning to the northeast.

After entering the ocean, Liu Sheng increased the speed of the ship to 25 knots (46 km/h).Since the sea distance between the two places is only more than 100 nautical miles, even if it is a long detour, it will take about four or five hours at most.

After more than three hours of sailing, Thor arrived at the ocean two kilometers south of Solenji Island.

This is the easternmost island among the fourteen islands in the South China Sea.When the Huichun Garrison Banner Camp in the Qing Dynasty inspected the islands in the South China Sea every year, the furthest was as far as Solenji Island.

(Note: What’s more interesting after this is that after the officials in Shengjing found out the ins and outs of the matter, they sentenced each of the three natives who participated in the deception to fifty floggings, and treated the fifteen prisoners of the island country kindly, giving them clothes and clothes. food and send them to the capital.

This group of 15 people received more generous treatment in the capital. Each person could get three liters of white rice, one catty of pork per day, clothing, bedding, shoes and hats, etc. In addition, the Qing court also sent servants to take care of their daily life. If he felt a little uncomfortable, the Qing court sent someone to diagnose and treat him.After that, they were summoned and entertained by princes and ministers. Emperor Shunzhi and Regent Dorgon also summoned them in person and comforted them in person.

A year later, the Qing court asked North Korean envoys to bring these people back to North Korea, and then they returned to the island country from North Korea.

It was not until these 15 people returned to China that the Edo shogunate learned that Korea had become a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and that the capital of the Ming Dynasty and Nanjing had fallen.

Edo-machi practice compiled a book called "Tartary Drift" based on the narrations of these merchants.

At that time, Tokugawa Iamitsu also summoned important ministers to discuss whether to send troops to support Daming.As a result, I later received a report from Nagasaki-cho Fengsong, saying that Fuzhou had fallen, and Zheng Zhilong had surrendered. Only then did the Tokugawa shogunate notify the princes who were preparing to send troops, and the sending of troops was abandoned.

In 1646, in a letter to his nephew, Shigemune Itakura, the governor of Kyoto, he revealed the information that the shogunate was preparing to send troops: "Send by boat to Daming, ready to attack the city formation, must be ready to march... For other changes, the ferry boat shall not be destroyed. Please notify this letter first, and please burn it after reading this letter."

This is obviously because the shogunate had clearly issued some kind of order to his cronie Itakura Shigezong, and Shigezong disclosed this internal intention to his nephew accordingly.

Based on the analysis of various data and archives of later generations, the Tokugawa shogunate was actually afraid that the island country would be attacked by the Qing country like North Korea, so it was prepared to attack first. )
(End of this chapter)