Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 531 Emergency Report from Tsarist Russia
Pan Xiucheng scolded him and let out his anger, and then told Monk Zhou that the military department called and asked him to report for duty before nine o'clock tomorrow morning.Monk Zhou was confused after the training and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Good thing!"

At around 8 a.m. the next day, a few strong Don horses carried Monk Zhou and his guards, who were covered in sweat, into the compound of the military headquarters outside Baiber City.A young staff officer who had been waiting here took Monk Zhou to wash his face and tidy up his military appearance.Monk Zhou felt that the bandages on his ears were too ugly, so he took them off, and then followed the staff officer to the door of a room.

The young staff officer knocked twice, the door opened, and he immediately signaled Monk Zhou to go in by himself.Monk Zhou entered the room and saw that Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and Fan Tong were all there.

By the way, Fan Tong's current official position is the political commissar of the Baikal Military District of the Northern Navy.

"Report, Zhou Heichuang, commander of the Second Battalion of the Third Regiment, is ordered to report for duty!"

"sit down!"

Monk Zhou felt a little nervous. Pan Xiucheng said there was something good, but what exactly was it?

Liu Sheng first chatted with him about the night exercise, and then nodded to Fan Tong.Fan Tong looked at Monk Zhou expressionlessly, opened a folder, cleared his throat, got up and said, "Zhou Heichuang!"

"To!"

"According to the order of the Beihai Navy Command, Zhou Heichuang, the commander of the 4488nd Battalion of the 4rd Regiment, is hereby appointed as the acting head of the 11th Beihai Regiment. Xuanyuan April [-], [-]."

"What?! Commander?" Monk Zhou, who had been tossing all night and half a day, finally heard the news that surprised and delighted him. His dark face was flushed with excitement, and he even ignored Fan Tong's last recitation of Xuanyuan. Chronicle.

After the opening ceremony of the train, Wang Zhong and Duan Yucai found Zhao Xin about this matter.Wang Zhong told Zhao Xin that they had already verified the year of the Yellow Emperor's era, and suggested that Zhao Xin implement it in Beihai Town as soon as possible to clarify Zhengshuo.

The Western calendar was always used in Beihai Town before, but when Wang Zhong found out that the so-called Western calendar was the "Christian era" of Westerners, he denounced the absurdity.Wang Zhong thought that although Zhao Xin didn't want to become emperor, Beihai Town had to have its own calendar.Wang Zhong admired the rules and regulations of the pre-Qin period. He believed that since the head of Xuanyuan Huangdi was used in the currency of Beihai, it would be better to use the "Huangdi Calendar" as the calendar. This idea was also agreed by Duan Yucai, Hong Liangji and others.

After careful research and textual research on books such as "Emperor Century", "Zhou Bi Suan Jing", "Huang Ji Jing Shi", "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", and with the help of Wang Zhenyi, a math scholar who is proficient in astronomy and calendar, Wang It took more than a year to organize the staff, and finally set the "Year of Guihai" when the Yellow Emperor ascended the throne as the first year of the Yellow Emperor.

Because the 56th year of Qianlong—that is, 1791 was the Year of Xinhai, it ranked 48th among the Ganzhi. According to historical records, counting the Ganzhi 74 times above will give you the first year of the Ganzhi Chronicle, which is when the Yellow Emperor ascended the throne and established the Ganzhi Chronicle. 2697 BC.

In fact, Zhao Xin also felt more and more that after the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, China had to embark on the process of industrialization, and at the same time it had to stimulate the national spirit; and the traditional culture represented by respecting the Yellow Emperor was also a kind of national spirit.Before coming to Baiber City for a meeting, Zhao Xin signed an order for the use of the new calendar, stipulating that the Xuanyuan calendar will be changed from the first day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar this year, that is, May 5st of the Gregorian calendar.Compared with the private sector, the internal actions of the Beihai Navy were faster, and they were all replaced almost the day after Zhao Xin signed the order.

For the common people under the rule of Beihai Town, the familiar Ganzhi and lunar calendars have not changed, but the calendar will no longer be seen on the notices in the future.

The sun was setting close to the horizon, and colorful clouds were piled up on the horizon.The sky is as blue as water, like a piece of blue velvet, trimmed with golden edges.

Zhao Xin, who came out of the military headquarters, was touched by the beautiful scenery at the moment, stopped the carriage, jumped on a black Don horse, and walked briskly towards the regiment headquarters of the third regiment.He planned to watch another night exercise of the third regiment today, and return to Pingshi City tomorrow.

When it was dark, a group of people arrived at the garrison of the third regiment. Zhao Xin didn't let anyone notify in advance. He didn't want to make a big fanfare every time he dispatched troops.Unexpectedly, before he entered the courtyard of the regiment headquarters, he heard someone singing a ditty with his voice squeezed in a courtyard diagonally opposite, mixed with the sound of pushing cups and changing cups, Zhao Xin's face drooped immediately.

"My sister was combing her hair in the room. She saw a lover walking out of the window. She hurried up to the embroidery building, put her hands on her shoulders, why did she lose my letter yesterday, she had an old face and was not shy, and begged again, begged again~~ ~Hold the golden hairpin in hand, throw it on the toothbrush table, pull up the dark cloud and put a lottery around it, and go to Merry~~~Hand in hand, hold hands, go to Merry, Merry comes back and combs her hair, without bothering to oil her hands~~~ "

"Okay! Old Zhou's little song is really good! I said, let's toast him again!"

"Don't let him drink, the monk will be drunk if he drinks again!"

"Bah! I won't get drunk even if all you bastards get down on the ground."

With a sound of "bang dang", the door of the house was suddenly kicked open from the outside. Zhao Xin's guard walked to the door and said to everyone in the house: "Everyone! Come out!"

At this time, all the officers in the room were dazzled from drinking, and were very upset when they were suddenly interrupted by a stranger. One of the company commanders couldn't help but opened his mouth and cursed: "Bastards! Let me drink some wine, who are you? Well"

Before he finished speaking, a big hand covered his mouth immediately.A figure flickered at the door, and Zhao Xin walked in with a smile on his face.It is said that now the North Navy has a portrait of Zhao Xin from the company headquarters to the regiment headquarters.For the founder of the Northern Navy and a mythical figure, although it is not to the extent of "asking for instructions early and reporting late", everyone knows his face.

Seeing the sudden appearance of this person, everyone hurriedly left the table and got up, but most of them were dizzy and drunk, unable to stand firmly; especially Monk Zhou, who was wobbling and talking, and actually had a stick stuck in his ear. wild flower.

Zhao Xin found a stool and sat down, looked around, and said with a smile, "Hehe, let me introduce myself."

"North, the commander of the second battalion and first company of the third regiment of the Northern Navy, Li Chunsheng."

"Shang Xuewu, commander of the third regiment, second battalion and second company."

"Third Regiment, Second Battalion, Second Company, First Platoon, and Third Class, Kang Youcai." After paying his respects, Kang Youcai dropped the wild flowers near Monk Zhou's ear to Hulu.

"Zhou Heichuang, head of the [-]th Regiment."

Zhao Xin nodded after hearing this, then waved his hand and said, "Masters, please sit down."

The voice was very soft, but it fell to everyone's ears like Huang Zhong Dalu, two people's legs suddenly went limp, and if they weren't blocked by the wall behind them, they would collapse on the ground.

With a sound of "Boom!", the dishes and bowls on the wooden table were rattled. "Look at that image of yours!"

Zhao Xin raised his voice, and the anger in his voice became more obvious: "I want to ask, are you the officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Beihai Navy who conquered the world for the poor?"

Everyone stood upright without answering.

"Of course you have to be happy when you become the head of the regiment. It's okay for you old subordinates to celebrate him. But I didn't expect to be so happy! Look at each of you, how much you have drunk, and you look like a soldier Especially you, Monk Zhou! You even sang obscene words and pornographic songs, which regiment commander of the Beihai Navy is like you! Does this still look like an army? It’s almost like a brothel!”

This afternoon, after Monk Zhou returned to the regiment headquarters to handle the handover, a group of officers from the Second Battalion who had already heard the news decided to have a dinner to celebrate Monk Zhou's promotion.

Originally, everyone was just thinking about it, and everyone had a drink, but Monk Zhou himself was very excited, so everyone gradually let go, and went back to their residences to take out their stocks.This Zhu Gaosheng had a drink, that Zhu Dazhan Hongtu had another drink, and some who wanted to go to the [-]th regiment with Monk Zhou had a toast with him. Just like that, one cup after another, Monk Zhou always came.Because the second battalion's exercise has ended, there will be nothing to do in the past two days, so the other officers are gradually drinking too much.When he got drunk, Monk Zhou sang a little song that he hadn't sung for many years.

At this time, Monk Zhou seemed to be a little sober from his drunken state.His red face turned sallow, and he looked at Zhao Xin with shame.

Zhao Xin's tone calmed down, and he squinted his eyes and said, "Since you have nothing to do, I'll give you something to do! Within three days, everyone in your Second Battalion, from the platoon commander to the company commander, must write a summary of the exercise. , Find out your own shortcomings, no less than [-] words, and send it to the regiment headquarters! Send me a copy too! If I find any of you who dare to find someone to write, then congratulations, Usoliye’s prisoner-of-war camp is currently There is a shortage of manpower!"

"Yes!"

Kang Youcaixin said that he was the monitor of the class, so it should not be his fault.Unexpectedly, Zhao Xin looked at himself after finishing speaking, and said with a smile: "Squad Leader Kang, right? Please write a [-]-word summary, and collect the opinions of your soldiers from the perspective of the squad leader. "

"Ah?!" Kang Youcai suddenly became bitter. Five hundred words, this could kill him.

After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he got up and walked out, saying: "Okay, get out!"

There was starlight in the dark night, when Zhao Xin arrived at the exercise command post led by two staff officers from the third regiment, a full moon hung over the eastern hills.

Two days later, Zhao Xin frowned and read the summaries handed in by Monk Zhou and others one by one, including Pan Xiucheng's.The embarrassing incident of his subordinates gathering to drink was caught by the boss of the Beihai Navy, and Pan Xiucheng felt that he could hardly absolve himself of the blame.

"Look, what these people wrote is just two words, arrogant!" Zhao Xin handed a stack of papers to Liu Sheng.

In the exercise summary submitted by the officers, and even in the opinions of the soldiers below collected by Kang Youcai, everyone’s opinion is that the result of the exercise is not important; as long as there is artillery support, machine gun fire, and even armored vehicles during the battle, Bengguan can't stop the Beihai Navy from anyone who comes, whoever is arrested will be destroyed.

Some military officers even suggested in the summary to reduce the intensity of daily training, especially the daily five-kilometer run, it is better to reduce it to half.Whether it is the Qing army or the Russian army, no one trains troops every day like this.

After leading soldiers for so many years, Zhao Xin knows that the army must be bloody, and it can also be proud, but it must not be proud of its talents. There are too many examples since ancient times that arrogant soldiers must lose.He led this team all the way, always outnumbered, and could not lose in every battle, forcing him to follow every time, as a "logistics captain".

Liu Sheng had already seen a part of it, and he took it and put it on the table, sighing: "The weapons are too advanced, and the battle loss ratio is too low. It's not surprising that there are generally such emotions in the following."

"We have to pour some cold water on these people, otherwise it will be easy to suffer big losses." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he said to Liu Sheng and Fan Tong: "Training can't be loose, but it must be stricter. In addition, trainers should be sent to the troops above the company as soon as possible. , The group of political workers trained by Old Yu will arrive in half a month, and the ideological work must be grasped. Despise strategically, pay attention to tactically, these words will never be outdated.”

Fan Tong nodded helplessly, saying that I don't want to take care of any political and ideological work at all, and you, rich man Zhao, insisted on forcing it to me.Well now, it's all up to me.

Zhao Xin said again: "I didn't go out with the troops on the Eastern Front this time, just to let them know that in the vast desert of 180 million square kilometers, if the logistics are not good after using modern weapons and equipment, the guys in my hands will have to change. It’s like a stick of fire, and a cannon is worse than scrap iron.”

Liu Sheng said: "Don't worry about that, the Beihai Navy will continue to fight without bullets, and the enemy who has to be killed even with a bayonet will run away."

Fan Tong asked Zhao Xin with some doubts: "You really won't follow this time?"

"I have to guard the Yenisei River. Just wait and see, Tsarist Russia just signed a temporary armistice agreement hastily, and they will definitely not be reconciled. Even if there is no war now, small actions will definitely continue."

Sure enough, the matter was caught by Zhao Xinyan, and Tsarist Russia has already begun to take action.

On March 56th, 1791th year of Qianlong, that is, April 4th, 15 in the Western calendar, Cheling Ubashi, Prince Cheling Ubashi of Heboksali Turghut in northern Xinjiang, reported to Te Chenger, the Counselor of Talbahatai In mid-August last year, a lama named Samelin under Taiji Azara left home for Karen but returned suddenly.

According to the confession of this Samerin, he said that he was captured by the Kazakhs on the border Karen last year and passed on to the Russians.The Russians took him to Tomsk, detained him for a month and released him, and asked him to send a message to the Manchu Qing side, and asked him to hand over a letter.

Tsarist Russia asked Samailin to send back that the North Navy was likely to send troops to Khalkha Mongolia in the near future, reminding the Manchu and Qing sides to respond early.

Talbahatai borders Khalkha Mongolia in the east, Kazakh nomadic land in the west, and Tsarist Russia in the north.After hearing Samerin's message, Cheling Ubashi feared that the Russians were deceitful, so he notified his men and horses to strictly guard Karen and strengthen their defenses.

At this time, Yili General Baoning went to Beijing and did not return. The post of General Yili was replaced by Talbahatai Counselor Yongbao.

After Techenger took over the matter, he first interrogated Samailin several times. Since there was no one in Talbahatai who could translate Russian, Techenger sent someone to send the Russian letter to General Yili for preparations. Interrogation after translation.

As the highest military and political officer in Talbahatai, Techeng took immediate countermeasures against this.The first is to strengthen the inspection of Karen, and focus on the inspection of Karen on the border with Russia in order to obtain news.The second is that in addition to General Yili of the Advisory Committee, Wu Miwuxun, the Counselor of Khobdo, and Hengrui, the left deputy general of Dingbian, were also transferred.

General Yongbao of Yili received the message from Techengquan and was informed of the matter, and immediately replied that no one in Yili could translate Russian, and asked him to present the original text respectfully. The amount is much more decisive.

Seven days later, Qianlong, who was in the Old Summer Palace, received Yongbao's urgent memorial for six hundred miles.Qianlong's first reaction was not to believe it, mainly because Beihai Town had just fought Tsarist Russia in Siberia last year and established a huge territory.If I were the Russian tsar, I definitely couldn't let it go.

What's more, the matter of Tsarist Russia has not yet been resolved, and Annan's envoy asking for help has already left Zhennan Pass, and Ruan Guangping's memorial has been delivered to Beijing before the envoy.In the memorial, Ruan Guangping told how the Xishan court was bullied by the Beihai Navy in a sad tone, and begged the emperor to send troops to help.

Now Tsarist Russia is saying that the North Navy is preparing to send troops to Khalkha Mongolia, so militaristic and aggressive, isn't that "dog thief" Zhao Xin afraid of dying? !

However, in view of Zhao Xin's repeated failure to play cards according to common sense, Qianlong immediately took a series of countermeasures.

The first is to adjust the officials of Khalkha Mongolia, so that Yili General Baoning was transferred to Dingbian Zuo Deputy General to replace Hengrui, who was old and sick, and set off to take office within five days.Baoning was born in the army. He served as the general of Chengdu and the governor of Sichuan. He participated in the battles of Jinchuan and Jinchuan and the pacification of the Northwest Rebellion.

Instruct Kulun's ministers Songyun and Yunduan Dorji to strictly guard the front line of Karen in Kyakta, and ask all Zasaks to heighten their vigilance, investigate the movement of the Northern Navy, and take all the horses and camels in the official racecourse north of Kulun Transfer to Cullen.The fourth Jebtsundamba Rob Zangtu Batan Wangshuke was sent to the capital to have an audience.

Sheng Yongbao was promoted to General Yili, and led 5000 Musketeers from the Tianshan Banner Battalion to go north to Taerbahatai, so that he could send troops to Kobduo to support him at any time.General Xingzhao of Suiyuan was ordered to transfer 5000 people from Shanxi to garrison the Eight Banners and Green Battalion to go north to Zhangjiakou.

On the second day of April in the 56th year of Qianlong, the Russian letters that arrived in the capital were quickly translated.The letter stated that the Turghut Mongols had always been friendly with the Tsarist Russian Empire, so after discovering that the Kazakhs had captured Lama Samelin, they redeemed him and let him bring a message to the Manchus.According to the secret report obtained by Russia from Irkutsk, the North Navy is gathering a large number of troops on the south bank of Lake Baikal. It is very likely that there will be a big move in the near future, and I am afraid that it will target Khalkha Mongolia.As the common enemy of both sides, Tsarist Russia is willing to send [-] troops to help Kalkha Mongolia resist the invasion through Tangnu Wulianghai.

Based on Samalin's confession and the translated Russian letters, Emperor Qianlong conducted repeated sand table deduction on the possibility of raising troops in Beihai Town. However, because the matter involved many parties and some key information in Samalin's statement could not be reviewed, it was impossible to conclude clear conclusion.

Due to the two incidents of the invasion of Heilongjiang and the retreat of Khakhta, the relationship between Manchu and Tsarist Russia has been relatively tense in recent years. The Qing court has always regarded Russia as a defense target, so Qianlong believed that Samarin’s messages and letters were Russia’s tricks , Prince Jia Yongyan and Heshen also have the same opinion.It's clearly a wolf's ambition to borrow Tangnu Wulianghai!What should I do if I refuse to leave after I put it in?
However, Agui, the Minister of Military Aircraft, and Liu Yong, the co-organizer of the university, believed that they would rather believe what they had than not believe what they had. They suggested sending a message to the Russian side as soon as possible to find out the facts.

However, in the middle of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Russian side had not yet received a reply, and an urgent report from Song Yun, Minister of Affairs of Kulun and Yunduan Dorji, reached the capital.

According to information received by Mongol spies sent north of the Kyakhtu River, the Russians' information was probably true.The Northern Navy has assembled tens of thousands of troops in the area between Irkutsk and Kyakhta. They are constantly firing and practicing day and night.

Qianlong immediately issued an order, ordering Kalkha Gezasak to gather all soldiers and horses and recruit all arrows to prepare for battle by the beginning of June at the latest.General Suiyuan Xingzhao was ordered to lead the army northward to Kulun, and he must guard the main point of the north-south army station line-Taradolan station, so as to ensure that the north-south transportation line is not lost.

In addition, he urgently ordered Fukang'an, who was in Jilin, to start negotiations with Beihai Town as soon as possible, and tried every means to avoid war.

　In the Qing Dynasty, there were two ministers working in Kulun, the Manchu minister and the Mongolian minister.

　　
　
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