Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 182 Seizing the Fort ([-])

The biggest official in Fuldan City is Shu Haili, leader of Karenli, but he has been controlled by Seldan's men.

Shu Haili was sitting on the kang in the house at this time, glanced at the two soldiers at the door for a while, and lowered his head for a while to think.Finally, he got up slowly, and walked two meters in front of him under the watchful eyes of two soldiers. After brewing his emotions, he bowed and saluted, and asked in a slightly crying voice: "Master, who is this?" Your Excellency passed away?"

As soon as he said this, the other stationers in the room who were blasted in all looked up at the door.After hearing this, the two soldiers stared at Shu Haili with strange eyes, making him uncomfortable.

After a long time, a soldier finally said, "No one died."

Shu Haili didn't notice that the other party's accent was very blunt, so he bowed and continued to ask: "Then, who are you wearing mourning for, Jun Ye?"

The soldier rolled his eyes at him and fell silent.

Shu Haili shyly retreated to the edge of the kang, took out his pipe, sat there and smoked.After smoking two bags of cigarettes, he got up, picked up the teapot, and took a long gulp, when two soldiers outside the door suddenly said: "Salute!"

Shu Haili was so frightened that his hands trembled, and with a click, the teapot fell to the ground and broke into pieces.Shu Haili looked at the teapot distressedly. He spent several big bucks buying it when he went to Ninggu Pagoda on business a few years ago!

At this moment, the soldier at the door said to him, "You, come out!"

Several people standing in the house looked at their leader with worried expressions on their faces.Shu Haili sighed, and said to himself that "stretching the head is a knife, and shrinking the head is also a knife", so he tapped the pipe pot on the sole of his shoe, tucked the pipe stem into his waist, and walked out of the room bowing.

Although he was mentally prepared, Shu Haili was still taken aback by the scene outside the house!
A dozen steps away, the tall Liu Sheng and the strong Seldan stood together, looking at Karen who came out of the house with a smile on his face.

Oh my God!Shu Haili was taken aback by Liu Sheng's figure.Is that human being?Could it be the reincarnation of the mountain bear spirit?Compared with the one in front of me, I barely reached the height of his chest.

Liu Sheng was also dressed in white winter clothes, with a gray cotton cap on his head, with his earflaps drooping down; he wore a dark gray cold mask on his face.Around him and Seldan, dozens of soldiers with rifles were standing guard.

Shu Haili was so frightened that his legs trembled, and when he was seven or eight meters away from Liu Sheng, he knelt down with a puff.

"Slave Shu, Shu, Shu Haili, the local Ka, Ka, Ka, Karen led the reminder, offending Sir Tianwei!"

Liu Sheng looked at the little old man in front of him, smiled and said, "Get up, it's very cold on the ground."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you sir." Shu Haili felt relieved when he heard the other party speak fluent Mandarin.It seems that these people are indeed soldiers and horses of the imperial court.

"How old are you?"

"The slave is 42 this year."

"Hmm. Do you know what we do?"

"The slave doesn't know, it must be someone who has no eyesight and offended Sir Tianwei."

"Hehe." Liu Sheng thought for a while, Zhao Xin and the others will arrive almost this afternoon, and the primary purpose now is to stabilize these people first.He really couldn't kill a group of poor guys with nothing but butt curtains left.

"That's right. We were sent by the imperial court from the capital to suppress the bandits."

"Suppression of bandits?" Shu Haili bowed, rolling his eyes again and again, thinking that the only ones who could be called "bandits" in this area were the Oros people in the south.However, since those people defeated the imperial army last year, there has been no movement.Moreover, all the people from him to the people below in Fuerdan City are poor without even a decent family property, and many of them can't even marry a wife.

Thinking of this, Shu Haili tentatively asked: "Sir, are you talking about two hundred miles away?"

Liu Sheng nodded and said, "It's those people."

"I'm talking." Shu Haili's expression softened, but then his expression changed to worry again.It is said that when the soldiers and horses of the imperial court come, I must serve them attentively and supply food and grass.But the city of Fuldan is so poor right now that it can't get rid of it, so what can we do to honor these military masters?

Thinking that there were still some bean cakes for horses in Karen, Shu Haili knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "My lord, forgive me! We have been out of food for several days, and we really can't afford to supply the soldiers. Right now, there are still some horses in the warehouse. Bean cakes. However, there should still be some skins in the hands of the families in the castle, and I will let them use them to honor your lord in a while."

Liu Sheng asked curiously: "Then what do you eat every day?"

Shu Haili got up and took out a paper bag from his pocket, opened it tremblingly, and inside was a small handful of ginseng whiskers. "This is ginseng beard. When you are hungry, you will eat one. In addition, when each family went out to hunt mink, they took the skins that were to be presented to the court, and the rest of the mink meat was dried. There are other things."

Liu Sheng interrupted him and asked, "How many households and people are there in the castle now?"

"If you go back to your lord, there are 51 households in the castle and 73 people in Dingkou."

"Only more than 70 people in fifty households?" Liu Sheng pretended to be surprised.

"My lord, although this is the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, you can also see that it is surrounded by wasteland. In the twelfth winter and the twelfth lunar month, the white hairs are so windy that they dare not go out. Sigh! No one wants to marry here Come here. Don’t be afraid of your jokes, there are dozens of people in the castle who can’t get a wife.”

"how about you?"

"The slave's wife is from Oroqen. Back then, the slave's father saved her family's life, so he married his daughter to the slave."

Liu Sheng changed the subject, and then asked, "How long have you been out of food?"

"It's not enough after February [-]. Spring and summer here are short. Although the imperial court has distributed two cattle, there are not many strong laborers." Shu Haili said, wanting to reach out his hand to touch the dry pipe on his waist several times. But then put it down again.Liu Sheng noticed it, so he took out a box of Tianxiang cigarettes from his pocket, took one and threw it at Shu Haili.

"then!"

Shu Haili subconsciously stretched out his hand to fish it out, and found that there was a small paper roll with white top half and reddish brown bottom half in his hand.When he brought it in front of his eyes, a scent of tobacco entered his nostrils.

"This is.?"

"Look at the new cigarettes that come out recently." After Liu Sheng finished speaking, he hung up one himself. Just as he was about to take out a lighter, a soldier beside him had already taken out a match and lit it for him with a click.

Liu Sheng intended to throw the match to the other party, but then he thought it was still not possible. What if the other party took the match and set it on fire if the truth was revealed.So he signaled his subordinates to go over and light a cigarette for Shu Haili.

Shu Haili looked at the matchbox in the soldier's hand in surprise, and thought that it was much easier to use than firebooks!It seems that all the good things in the world are in the capital.Watching the bright flames rising, Shu Haili imitated Liu Sheng's appearance, put the filter tip in his mouth, and lit a cigarette on the fire.

"Cough cough~~"

Liu Sheng looked at him with a satisfied expression after coughing and coughing, and said with a smile: "Go on."

"Hey! Where did you talk about just now? Oh, farming. In the past, when spring began, Ningguta would send some people over to help with farming." Shu Haili raised his head to pay attention to Liu Sheng's reaction while talking. .Seeing that he listened carefully, he continued: "However, it often rains heavily from July to August. If the harvest is not timely, the grain in the field will become moldy. In the past, before winter, Ningguta would send people Bring some food; but last year there wasn't even a trace."

"Then you didn't ask for it?"

"Go. The adults in Kening Guta said that all the surplus food was transferred to Wula, Jilin, and they didn't have much food. The servant finally begged grandpa to tell grandma, and finally begged for two hundred catties of sorghum and two hundred Pounds of bean cakes have been dealt with until now."

Liu Sheng nodded and said, "I'll send someone to go back to the castle with you, so you can appease the people. The grain transport team will come over in the afternoon, and will I give you a thousand catties of wheat enough to eat?"

Shu Haili looked at Liu Sheng in surprise, dropped the cigarette in his hand, knelt down and kowtowed: "Enough! That's enough! Cook some wheat porridge every day, and you can deal with Kai Chun'er no matter what. My lord, you are really a life-saving Bodhisattva! I wish my lord a long life, and my lord forever!" Speaking of the last sentence, he learned it from Ning Guta.

Liu Sheng shook his head and said with a helpless expression: "Go to the city now and tell the residents in the city to wait at home and not to wander around in the fort. The grain truck will arrive in the afternoon." Then he said to Serdan next to him : "Take someone to follow him." Seldan saluted and took Shu Haili down.

It wasn't until this moment that Shu Haili realized that he hadn't even asked the other party's name and official position.He wanted to turn around and ask, but Seldan who was beside him asked, "What are you doing?"

As soon as Shu Haili heard that the other party was speaking in Manchu, he quickly bowed and asked with a smile: "I haven't asked your lord's name, what is your official position?"

Seldan thought for a while, and then said: "My family's surname is Liu Mingsheng, and he is a general under Marshal Fu."

"Ah, Marshal Fu is back?"

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask!"

"Yes. What's your name, my lord?"

"Where is so much nonsense, let's go!"

Shu Haili glanced at the compound bow on Seldan's shoulder and the quiver at his waist, and thought that the bow and arrows were rare, and there were so many bow strings and wheels on it that he didn't know what to do with them.

At this time, in the old fort of Fuerdan City, the security was heavily guarded. Five hundred soldiers from Beihai Town stood guard in front of and behind the houses of each house with guns.Occasionally, a few babies' cries sounded from the room, but they were quickly suppressed.

Shu Haili looked at the scene in front of him, and thought that these old men from the capital city were so arrogant that they didn't even give up the door.He walked to the middle of the street, glanced at Seldan behind him, and saw that the other party nodded to him, so he shouted loudly in Manchu: "I am Shu Haili, everyone, don't be afraid. This is the court sent from the capital. The military master who came to suppress the bandits."

At this time, each family felt a little at ease when they heard that they were military horses of the imperial court.Shu Haili who was outside the door shouted again: "Now the adults outside the castle are sympathetic to our hunger and cold, and specially tuned in eight hundred."

Shu Haili was suddenly patted on the shoulder, and he turned his head to see that Seldan's cold eyes were staring at him.Shu Haili was so frightened that his whole body trembled, and he quickly changed his words: "I will distribute a thousand catties of grain specially prepared."

"Kang Dang!" The doors of more than a dozen houses opened at once, and the people who came out saw the soldiers with guns at the door, shrank back, stood at the door and asked loudly: "My lord, what are you talking about?" real?"

"Of course it's true! Master, why are we so miserable? Bamangong, you don't even have a wife, and you only have one pair of pants left. What can you lie about?"

As soon as these words came out, no matter whether it was at the door or in the house, all the families were happy, and they were still the emperor's sage!

At noon, Liu Sheng asked his soldiers to collect more than 100 pieces of compressed biscuits, and delivered them door-to-door to the Fort residents.After each family thanked the soldiers who came to deliver the food, they looked at the small piece of "eat food" wrapped in oil paper in their hands, and thought that this was not enough to eat.

An hour later, when Shu Haili's wife lifted the lid of the pot, a strong aroma of oil wafted into the house, mixed with the aroma of sesame, green onion, and a hint of meat.There are four people in his family, and they were given seven biscuits in total. They were boiled in water for more than an hour before they all melted.At this time, the small hard cubes turned into half a pot of mush.At this time, the family gathered around the stove, smelling the steaming smell, and the saliva was constantly secreted.

"It smells so good!" Shu Haili took the wooden spatula from his wife's hand, gently put a little bit of the paste into his mouth, the sweet, salty and greasy taste made him almost cry out in happiness.

"Father, I want it too~" the little girl begged while tugging at Shu Haili's sleeve.

"Everything is available, one bowl per person."

The eldest son was holding a bowl and slurping up the mush, with a smile on his face: "Father, this is much better than sorghum porridge."

"Yeah, if you can eat this every day like the gentlemen in the capital, even if you give it to an emperor, you won't change it."

"Father, what does the emperor eat every day?" the little daughter asked curiously while she was eating something.

Shu Haili was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Your Majesty, your Majesty rides a tall horse to inspect the capital every day. In the bag on the horse's back, there is a thousand-year-old ginseng and a gold ingot on the other. When you are hungry, you eat ginseng. When you are thirsty, you use ingots to buy tea." drink."

"What's so delicious about ginseng! According to me, it's not as good as this paste." The eldest son raised his head and finished drinking the bowl of paste, and continued to fill the second bowl from the pot.

"You know what a fart! Your majesty is the real dragon emperor, can he be like us?!"

The two soldiers outside the house couldn't understand the chatter of Shu Haili's family either.The two each took out a compressed biscuit from their pockets, sighed, and took a small bite.

It is said that no matter how delicious the food is, no one can bear it if you eat it in a row for more than ten days.In order to hurry, Liu Sheng took the soldiers to eat and sleep all the way, eating compressed biscuits raw or boiled compressed biscuits every day.After more than 20 days in a row, all the men who ate had dry stools, and they felt like vomiting when they smelled the compressed biscuits.Another meal like this would cause Liu Sheng himself to collapse.

After the fort residents were full, they sat down on their kangs contentedly and waited for the food to be distributed in the evening.Occasionally, a few families walked around the yard after eating, and the soldiers did not stop them.Liu Sheng took a tour around the castle at noon, and seeing this scene, he finally felt at ease.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Xin finally arrived with 3000 people following people shouting from afar.The migrant workers in Beihai Town had already gone through the drill, and they knew exactly what they were going to do when they arrived at their destination.As soon as the horse-drawn sleigh stopped, 3000 people began to get busy.

(End of this chapter)