Forty-eight years of Qianlong

The small setbacks suffered by the Hui'an camp reconnaissance team were just a spate of waves in the process of He Xiwen's expedition to Guangxi, and had no effect on the general situation.

Fearing that the Qing army would come back again, Chen Wenxiu hastily buried the sacrificed subordinates, and returned to the landing position with the wounded and equipment.He asked his deputy to lead a boat to send the wounded to find the main force, and stayed behind with a few of his men in order to continue to monitor the movements of the Qing army.

It is said that the wolf soldiers thought that no one could save the poison they had smeared on their weapons, but what they didn't know was that they had camped and trained in tropical and subtropical areas for many years, and were bitten by snakes and insects from time to time. A must have for every soldier.

This matter was first proposed by Wang Yuanfang. After all, he had served as a soldier on the southeast coast for a long time, and he had encountered poisonous snakes many times in combat and training, so he had a deep understanding of this.After attacking Bacheng, he suggested to Zhao Xin to purchase a large number of "snake pills" from another time and space and distribute them to the combat troops at the squad level, and then opened a popularization course on snakebite treatment.

Speaking of which, traditional Chinese medicine has been passed down for thousands of years. Before there was no serum therapy, the folks had always had good snake medicine and snake medicine.It's just that because they are all family secret recipes, they are not widely spread, and the cases of being bitten by poisonous snakes mainly occur in rural mountains and forests, and the day lily will be cold when a doctor is found.

At noon on the second day after the battle on the small hill, the bamboo raft fleet that would set up camp arrived five miles south of Ma'an Pass.When the troops began to land, the artillery unit of the regiment set up their positions, and the Qing army at Ma'anguan also entered the countdown to its demise.

After two hours of preparation, all the shooting elements were calibrated. Following the order of the regiment leader Wei Chao, twelve 82mm mortars fired one after another. It was terrible, even the palm print guerrillas were bombed to death.Under the leadership of Mr. Qian Meng Denggao, the few survivors ran for their lives in the direction of Teng County without thinking.

Afterwards, Chen Wenxiu led his men to search the ruins of the city wall and found the fragments of the drone buried in the rubble. The big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

As for the "Iron Chain Hengjiang" that caused the ancient army a headache, is it still a problem?A couple of small dynamite packs will do the trick.What is more troublesome is that for those sunken ships that block the river, people have to send people to dive to remove the thick wooden nails.

Before the sun set, the two companies that would set up camp occupied Ma'anguan.At dusk, a few mortar shells with a shrill howl landed in the courtyard of the sub-city defense department in Ying'en Gate on the south side of the county seat, not to mention the collapse of houses, killing and injuring more than a hundred people who were having dinner officers and soldiers.

The huge explosion frightened the officers, soldiers and common people inside and outside the city of Teng County. Many people hid in their homes and shivered, only thinking that the end of the world was just around the corner.Especially the group of wolf soldiers who had just escaped from Ma'an Pass. They had just experienced an overwhelming bombardment in the afternoon, and they managed to escape before taking a breath.

In the eyes of these Guangxi Qing troops who fought against the Beihai Navy for the first time, the "cannons" of the Beihai Navy are really evil, just like having eyes, and where there are more soldiers, they will fight.

However, even at this point, neither the county magistrate nor the deputy general of the Pingle Association considered surrendering.

Still the same thing, the Manchu Qing Dynasty strongly advocated "governing the country with filial piety" for more than 100 years, and also formulated laws to protect it, so the people attached great importance to filial piety.Surrender seems to be a matter of loyalty, but behind the scenes, the parents in the hometown are involved and punished, which is actually unfilial.

Fools don't want to live a good life!The key is that if one charge of "unfilial piety" is charged, he will die immediately and can no longer hold his head up.Even if you become an official in Beihai Town, you still have to be stabbed in the back.

However, the officials did not dare to surrender. The native people were different. Not many people were willing to be buried with them. Some even thought it was a chance to change their fate.
Located at Xiujiangkou, ten miles away from the east gate of Tengxian County, there is a place called Sanhezui, and its location is very important.The "Tengcheng Ji" in the Ming Dynasty said: Xiujiang River flows north and exceeds the east of the city, and the two waters circulate and connect to Dongguang.In the past, Xun soldiers and government officials stationed here and set up checkpoints to check passing ships and collect taxes and fees.When news of the fall of Beiliu County reached Teng County, the gentry in the city forcibly recruited more than 1000 fishermen and farmers to form a water battalion to guard the place.

Among the more than 1000 people, there is a fishmonger named Huang Zhengwu, who is very loyal and has a lot of prestige among the fishermen. After the establishment of the water camp, he became a leader and took care of more than 200 brothers.When the two assault boats of the Hui'anying reconnaissance team roared and approached the river east of Sanhezui at high speed, the water camp immediately exploded, thinking that the Beihai Navy was going to land.Huang Zhengwu led more than 200 men to mutiny together, and the water camp collapsed in an instant.

In this way, the string that was about to break among the civil and military officials in Teng County could no longer be stretched.The deputy general of the Pingle Association, the magistrate of Tengxian County Zhang Lin, the Dianshi Zhou Jilong, and the teaching and instruction fled in panic after hearing the news. They were escorted by more than 300 soldiers from the capital of the Chinese Army of the Pingle Association out of the city from the Gongchen Gate in the north, and headed for fifty miles to the northwest. Outside the Baishizhai Inspection Department.There is a Wutun city built during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. It has been renovated and rebuilt many times, and it is an important part of the riverside defense system in the north of Teng County.

It didn't matter if they ran away, the remaining wolf soldiers and the brave group had no leader, and some people started to take advantage of the fire to loot the city.Huang Zhengwu took the opportunity to rush into the city from the north gate with his men, shouting "The Beihai Navy has entered the city", and went straight to the county government.In the end, he really copied it. The nearly ten thousand taels of silver stored in the warehouse hadn't had time to take away. It was donated by the gentry and merchants in the city for military pay.

That night, the city of Teng County was full of flames, tossing until the sky was bright, and there were not a few gentry and merchants who were looted.Zhuang Yong is a local, but he dare not be too presumptuous, taking advantage of the chaos; the most ruthless attack is the wolf soldiers.No matter what kind of master and scholar you are, you smashed the door and rushed in to grab it, and then escaped from the city through the north gate with big bags and small bags.

When the camping team came to the city after dawn, they saw the four gates open. Not only Huang Zhengwu, who called himself the leader of the "righteous people", but also the people of Teng County who had survived the catastrophe greeted them.

Not to mention how to open warehouses to release food after camping in the city, appease the people, and gather ships. In the afternoon, a victory telegram signed by He Xiwen arrived at the North Navy Staff Headquarters thousands of miles away from Lianzhou.By the time Zhao Xin, who was in Fuerdan City, saw the telegram, it was already evening.

Today, Fuldan City has become a large city with more than 7 permanent residents. The original earthen city walls have long disappeared. The whole city is like a huge chessboard, laid out in a patchwork pattern on the Lefu River and Suifen River. on the impact plain between.If a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder sees it, he will feel very cured.

Fifteen miles to the north is the agricultural area, extending all the way to Xingkai Lake, so today's Fuldan City has become the most important agricultural product processing base in Beihai Town.In addition to the sugar factory, meat factory, canning factory, textile factory, garment factory and winery, the cigarette factory, match factory and leather factory previously established in Beihai Town have also been relocated here.

Speaking of this winery in Beihai Town, it uses solid-state fermentation to produce alcohol, with an annual output of 100 tons.In recent years, Beihai Township has planted sugar beets on a large scale in the Heilongjiang area, with an annual output of more than [-] million tons. If it were all made into white sugar, it would not be sold at all.Of course, it is not impossible to dump at low prices, but the people in Guangdong and Guangxi who grow sugar cane for a living will suffer.

In ten years, the time-travelers headed by Zhao Xin tried their best to build four industrial towns. From south to north, they are Beihai Town, Fuldan City, Khabarovsk, and Oha in the north of Kuye Island.Beihai Town is now mainly engaged in shipbuilding, among which Dolphin Bay is a military port, Whale Bay is a civilian port; Fuldan City is agriculture and light industry; Boli is a heavy industry base such as steel manufacturing, machinery manufacturing, and military industry; Needless to say, Ohha, oil plus timber processing.

Last spring, the first north-south railway in Beihai Town finally broke ground, starting from Khabarovsk in the north and ending at Whale Harbor in the south.When the railway is completed and opened to traffic, a large number of industrial products can reach the port directly, and then be shipped to various places by sea.

In addition, the Yakesa-Chita railway line, which started construction the year before, has also completed one-third of the main project construction.Since the entire line is located in the permafrost zone, the construction is extremely difficult, the most difficult of which is to build a railway bridge across the Ergun River.

The engineering drawings of the bridge were obtained by Zhao Xin from Da Mao in another time and space, and the designer was Proskulyakov, a famous bridge design expert when Tsarist Russia was building the Siberian Railway.

Zhao Xin came to Fuldan City this time to preside over a special meeting of the "29-member Committee" of the crossing people.The content decided at this meeting will set the tone for another meeting including the indigenous people of this time and space, so as to make political, ideological and economic preparations before the Beihai Navy enters the customs.

When the lights were turned on at dusk, the smoke from the kitchen was billowing over the city of Fuerdan, and every family was preparing dinner, and the men in the family were about to go home from work.For ordinary people living in the outer Northeast, it is really pleasant to gather around the warm kang every night, chat about family affairs, have a meal, and then listen to the news and excerpts in the chatter box.

These people who left their homes and came to the Outer Northeast never dreamed that they would have the life they have today.Although the winter here is bitterly cold, but with [-] acres of land in hand, the factory has work, children have books, sickness has a hospital, every meal has flour, and meat can be eaten every now and then, living a fairy-like life.

At this time, in the flower hall of Chen Qingsong's house, a huge purple clay hot pot was placed in the center of the big red rosewood table, and the silver charcoal in it was crackling, but there was no smell of smoke.The broth that Zhou Za carefully cooked with the whole chicken had boiled away, and the snow-white ginseng slices and red dates were boiling up and down in the pot, and the heat went straight to the roof.

The hot pot is surrounded by eight-inch plum blossom plates with enamel glaze, and there are stacked venison slices, lamb slices, lamb tenderloin, salmon, prawns, abalone slices, sea cucumber slices, Beiji shellfish, mushrooms, vegetables, and radishes , There are a lot of them, and a small table next to them also has various seasonings such as sesame paste, rice wine, sauced tofu, chive flowers, and soy sauce.

Compared with the silver charcoal that costs two taels of silver per catty in the customs, birch trees over 50 years old are everywhere in the outer northeast, and they are not worth much at all.Some immigrants who used to burn charcoal found out that they opened charcoal kilns.However, most of the immigrants in Beihai Town are from poor backgrounds, and they don't pay much attention to using silver charcoal, so the sales volume is the same.If the hot kang is not burned, do you have to learn from the rich man to burn a charcoal basin?Enough support!
The hostess Qing He saw her husband Chen Qingsong leading Zhao Xin, Wu Siyu, Cao Peng, and Liu Zheng out of the study to sit down, so she picked up a jug from the small table, poured a circle of rice wine along the side of the pot, and instantly The room was full of aromas, and even Liu Zheng, who was tired of eating beef and mutton after staying in Kulun for two years, was twitching his index finger.

Speaking of the dozens of girls that Zhao Xin and the others "stealed" from Yangzhou back then, now except for the youngest ones who are still in the boudoir, everyone else has a home.For nine years, they have been teachers and have never suffered any hardships. Now all of them are in their 20s, the most prosperous time.Qing He, who is good at cooking, was originally the least attractive among these women, but she fell into Chen Qingsong's eyes. She became a regular wife and gave birth to a son and a daughter. In the future, she will become the "Prime Minister's wife" and make countless People are envious and jealous.

After finishing her work, Qinghe went back to the back house after speaking a few words with everyone, and a large table was opened by the women's relatives over there, Shen Xuan, A Miao, Lin Sanyue, Liu Zheng's two wives, and a large group She has to take care of the child.

The matter between Zhao Xin and A Miao was done after he returned from Shengjing before the Mid-Autumn Festival. He did not publicize it to the outside world, but invited Chen Qingsong, Hong Tao, Liji, Wan Zao and other old people from Beihai Town to testify. A few more tables were set up.Let A Miao come in and Shen Xuan agreed very early on. This girl knows too many secrets about Zhao Xin, and there are some things that even Shen Xuan doesn't know very well.In this sense, apart from marrying Zhao Xin, there is no second possibility at all.

Zhao Xin is very guilty of A Miao, he can't give the latter an official identity.Beihai Town has been holding high the banner of "abolishing slaves" over the years, and taking concubines is tantamount to reviving the slavery system.Although Liu Zheng has two wives, only one can be disclosed to the public.But A Miao doesn't care about this, she is full of love, as long as she can always be by Zhao Xin's side, she will be content.

The men, including Zhao Xin, are not literati, and they can't play poetry, drink orders or anything. After a few glasses of rice wine, they are drunk, and the topic soon turns to He Shen's escape.

Several months passed, and the Intelligence Bureau had thoroughly investigated what happened in the capital that night and the next day.When everyone was chatting in the study room before, Zhao Xin talked about it in general, and now he said some of the details, and everyone present was moved when they heard it.

Cao Peng sighed: "It's really amazing to play with the adults. Qianlong is so kind to him, and he can do it."

"What a fart!" Liu Zheng raised his wine glass and clinked it with Cao Peng, drank half of the glass and said, "You think Qianlong didn't know about his doing so many bad things? Impossible! If you want me to say, Qianlong has been playing hawk all his life. Finally got pecked blind."

Cao Peng has been in the island country for the past two years. Although intrigue is unavoidable, behind him is the powerful Beihai Town. Whether it is the Sendai Domain or the shogunate, he is treated as an ancestor, just like the Supreme Emperor.Liu Zheng was different. In the past two years in Kulun, he had broken wrists with lamas and Taijis countless times, and suffered several losses, so he was quite capable of being tempered with political sensitivity.

Wu Siyu agreed: "Xiao Liu's words are on point."

Chen Qingsong interrupted suddenly: "Actually, the key here is that the emperor's employing skills are at work."

As soon as these words came out, Cao Peng, Wu Siyu and Liu Zheng couldn't help looking at Zhao Xin.Zhao Xin is fishing for abalone with chopsticks. The waves are too strong these days, so he needs to make up for it.He raised his head inadvertently, and seeing the three of them looking at him, he smiled and said, "Why are you all looking at me? I don't have any wine or food on my face, old Chen, go ahead."

Chen Qingsong also drank a lot today, his face was as red as a monkey's butt.Seeing that the "future emperor" didn't care, he thought for a moment before saying in a deep voice: "We can only say this behind closed doors, and no one can spread it to the outside world. The ancient emperor's art of employing people is to put it bluntly, that is, to use villains instead of gentlemen." A gentleman cannot accomplish anything. An official who can balance the interests of all parties and satisfy the vast majority of people is a capable minister, and such people in history are often not gentlemen."

Cao Peng thought for a while, nodded and shook his head: "Well, that's the reason. No! Hong Liangji and Liu Taigong are quite upright. Don't we also entrust him with the important task of guarding the pastoral side?"

Chen Qingsong smiled and looked at Zhao Xin again.

Although Zhao Xin never puts on airs in private conversations with other cross-travelers, and always says that his status as emperor is just a transition, but he is the foundation of Beihai Town after all, without him everything would be impossible to talk about, so even if they are joking, everyone and Zhao Xin Be careful with what you say.Anyone who can't see this clearly is no different from those two people in Whale Town who were put under house arrest and ate and waited to die.So Chen Qingsong can't say anything more when he has said this, and Zhao Xin can only add the rest.

Zhao Xin looked at Chen Qingsong's drunken appearance, put down his chopsticks and laughed.Both of them are at the millennium fox level, so it's meaningless to play tricks.He has already killed two plates of abalone and one plate of venison at the moment, and he feels that the filling is almost done, so he picked up a towel and wiped his mouth, took another sip of tea, and said slowly: "Old Chen is right or not." .”

Chen Qingsong smiled and said, "Then I will listen carefully."

Cao Peng knew in his heart that based on his relationship with Zhao Xin, he would not stay in the Sendai Domain forever in the future, and would definitely manage one side. It is very important to master the knowledge of how to employ people.So he picked up the teapot for Zhao Xin, and made a gesture of asking for advice: "Boss Zhao, don't make excuses, why don't I give you a piece of pork tomorrow as a gift?"

Chen Qingsong said with a smile: "Hehehe, Xiao Cao, you still claim to be a descendant of the Cao family in She County. The gift of Shuxiu requires at least ten pieces of bacon!"

"If you want to clarify what a gentleman and a villain are, you must first figure out what a gentleman and a villain are." Zhao Xin pondered for a moment and continued to explain: "When Confucius said this, he was still in the pre-Qin period. It is said in "Zuo Zhuan" that a gentleman is a gentleman in the face of great labor. Work hard, villains work hard, the system of the former kings. It is also said that "the rule of the world, the gentleman is still able to let him go, and the villain farms his strength to do things above. It is polite. So the villain Confucius said is actually The common people at the bottom. In order to live a good life, of course, the common people cannot talk about benevolence and morality like a gentleman all day long, but they must talk about interests. So Confucius said, the virtue of a gentleman is the virtue of a villain. The wind on the grass will die."

"Close your eyes?" Cao Peng blinked his eyes. He just roughly flipped through "The Analects of Confucius" without looking at it carefully.

Liu Zheng interjected: "The ruler is the wind, and the people are the grass. Where the wind blows, the grass falls."

"Slap!" Zhao Xin's old problem came again, he slapped Liu Zheng's thigh, and said in surprise, "Okay! Veterinarian Liu, it seems that he has read a lot in Kulun these two years!"

Liu Zheng gritted his teeth, and Hulu opened Zhao Xin's hand, rubbed it vigorously and said, "Blue sky, white clouds and prairie, what's the point of reading it every day! Didn't you tell me that if you have nothing to do, read more books, you can't be inferior to a scholar .”

Zhao Xin patted the other party's shoulder approvingly, turned to Cao Peng and said, "A gentleman is magnanimous, and a villain is a gentleman. You have always heard this, right?"

"I've heard it. It's not a good word."

Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "In ancient times, including now, the rulers didn't worry about making a living, but the common people had to turn their heads to the loess and their backs to the sky. A bead of sweat dropped eight petals, and rent was paid after paying the royal rations. What do you think of them? Don't worry about gains and losses, care about everything? Are they wrong?"

"If the superiors want to choose people for specific implementation, they must choose those who understand the sufferings of the people at the bottom and how to distribute benefits, because only these people are not ashamed to talk about benefits. To do things only talk about benevolence and morality without talking about benefits is to play hooligans. And Don’t think that Shen became rich and powerful with Qianlong, but his family was in decline in his early years, and he suffered a lot at the bottom. I and the feudal centralization system. Although Yushitai has a complete set of supervision system, the so-called supervision is just a means for the emperor to rectify civil and military officials.

The supervision law of the Qing Dynasty is called "Imperial Tai Regulations", which was first compiled in the eighth year of Qianlong, and it is divided into eight volumes and 22 items.In the following decades, a large number of clauses were added, which can be called the master of supervisory law in the feudal dynasty.However, in the face of the official atmosphere that has existed since the Ming Dynasty, many clauses cannot be implemented at all.

For example, when local officials greeted and sent superior officials to cross the border, they made extravagant extravagance and gave money gifts, but in reality, such extravagant entertainment and extravagant gifts have almost become a common practice; It has almost become an unbreakable practice for leaving clerks to pay a price for purchasing a post—also called "short bottom".

Just like the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing’s "Imperial Regulations on Taiwan" also granted Liuke the privilege of denying and refuting affairs; however, in the Qing Dynasty, under the dictatorship of the emperor, Liuke's right to deny and refute affairs was almost never exercised.Who dares?

Don't look at the emperor blurring the boundary between Manchu and Han on the surface, but in fact they think that this country can only be Manchu in their bones.The emperor's decision only needs to be implemented, and it is not allowed to be discussed!So Jiangshan is not his own, so why take it so seriously.

Zhao Xin directly took Cao Zhenyong, Cao Peng's relative, as an example.This person has been a scholar in the three dynasties of Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang in history, but he has been mediocre all his life.Not only did he personally practice the official formula of "kowtow more and talk less", he also taught it to his disciples and descendants, and even warned the disciples and the censor, who was responsible for correcting bombs, not to be too fussy, and let them "talk too much, don't be arrogant" !” The censors who originally tried to make suggestions because of the decline of the country had no choice but to muddle through when they heard the "experience" of their mentor.

Taking advantage of Zhao Xin drinking water to moisten his throat, Chen Qingsong also mentioned a Qing Dynasty official couplet that he had read in a certain book: "The upper couplet is, my lord, my lord, my lord, my lord, I will be promoted to 36 Heavenly Palace, built tiles with the Jade Emperor God."

"Hehe, what about the next couplet?"

"A humble job, a humble job, a humble job, a humble job, damn it, die to the eighteenth floor of hell, and dig coal for the king of hell."

"Hahahaha~~! Absolutely!"

In fact, when we talked about this, the issue of employment has been extended to the big issue of official administration. The essence is the historical proposition of whether the Beihai Navy can sit firmly in the world after entering the customs.

To put it bluntly, behind all systems are ideas and culture, which also determine the way of thinking and value orientation.The political form of ancient China was ethical. Starting from the Western Zhou Dynasty's "Morality Matching Heaven", morality dominated punishment and supplemented punishment was the governing strategy of most dynasties.

Although morality as the basic means of political control has a universal binding force on the whole society, but morality is only authoritative in concept and cannot guarantee the control of political power. Its realization can only depend on the ruler himself There is a lot of randomness in the moral sense and ideological consciousness.

Since the monarch is ordered by heaven and holds all the powers of judiciary, administration, and legislation, all his attitudes become an unwritten law under invisible deterrence and coercive force.In fact, it was this kind of ethical politics that gave an excuse to the supervisory system in the feudal era. Since the power of the monarch is bound by morality, and the king’s mistakes are punished by heaven, then the bottom-up supervision mechanism is not so important. .

At the end of the speech, everyone also understood the meaning of Zhao Xin's words, that is, the crossing people cannot become a new privileged class, and the bureaucrats and scholars under the Beihai Town system can no longer enjoy the privileges of the past. The appearance of the new emperor's title or identity.It is called a monarchy, but it is actually a republic.

When several people left Chen Qingsong's house, it was already past 12 o'clock in the evening, and the female relatives had already brought their children back.Before Zhao Xin got into the carriage, Liu Zheng came over to stop him, and said in a low voice: "Boss Zhao, those Mongolian princes have been here for more than a year, and it's not a problem to be under house arrest all the time. There must be an explanation, right?"

"what happened?"

"You don't know, Tushetuhan's wife goes to the military control committee every now and then to ask, I hide as much as I can." Liu Zheng didn't dare to say more, in fact, several princes and family members from various Mongolian tribes in Khalkha have been looking for her in the past six months. He, and some people under the alliance flag used this to make trouble, but they were quickly suppressed.

"In the past few days, you take the time to visit those people on my behalf, and tell them to let them go back when we take the capital."

"By the way, what are you going to do about that King Hami?"

"He? Can't go back." In the night, Zhao Xin's tone revealed a trace of determination and coldness, and Liu Zheng's heart twitched when he heard it.