Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 535: On the Tumen River
Fast forward to mid-June.During this period, the Intelligence Bureau and the Public Security Police Department also became more stringent in scrutinizing immigrants from Zhili and Sichuan.

Almost at the same time when Duan Wenjing and other believers of Bagua Sect were arrested, a group of Hunyuan Sect and Hongyang Sect believers from eastern Sichuan were also detected. More importantly, more than 20 soldiers from the Qing court military department and Zhili Governor Yamen were subsequently seized. Several of them were even assigned to the steel plant project in Khabarovsk.

However, no matter how big the net is, it cannot catch all the fish. The long border between Beihai Town and the Qing Dynasty determines this reality.The problem is that during the review process, because some inspectors and security police were eager to make contributions, some immigrant families were beaten into tricks, suffered injustice, and were eventually sent to the coal mines in Ezodi.

This made some people's longing for future life just ignited, and then extinguished with the deprivation of personal freedom. It cannot be regarded as the most ironic tragedy in the development of Beihai Town.

The follow-up effect caused by the large-scale censorship is that Beihai Town began to expel Russian businessmen from East Siberia in a targeted manner. The first to bear the brunt were the five families of Baiber City.

Liu Sheng's southern expedition to Mongolia is imminent, and the southward movement of a large number of northern navy is likely to cause instability in the Baikal region again.So under the instruction of Zhao Xin, Zhang Jingxuan, Governor of Baiber Province, with the cooperation of Liu Sheng, mobilized troops from various places to quickly arrest Sibilyakov, Milinkov, Basning, Dudorovsky, and Su Lei. Doves, the five businessmen and their minions seized various real properties.

The superficial reason for Beihai Town—it can be widely advertised to calm public opinion is that the five families have taken advantage of the opportunity of doing business with Tsarist Russia in recent years to regularly pass information about Beihai Town to Tsarist Russian officials.To catch thieves and take stolen goods, the security police have accumulated a lot of evidence, including personal and material evidence.

The underlying reason is that the five families have no commercial use value for Beihai Town, and because they have a large amount of land around the town, they have become the biggest resistance to the development of the Baiber area.

The Jewish groups in the Tulun Jewish Autonomous County can completely replace them, and they are more loyal to Beihai Town.Zhao Xin intends to take this opportunity to nationalize the leather goods, tea, rhubarb and textile trade in East Siberia, and give shares to the Jews so that they can work for him.

Large private businessmen with industry monopoly characteristics must not appear under the rule of Beihai Town!Even if there is, it can only be Zhao Xin himself.

After the five were arrested, the court judged by Governor Zhang completed the trial in only two days.Faced with a large amount of evidence, Siberiakov and others knew that the situation was over, and it was useless to say anything. Beihai Town just wanted to deal with them this time.

Zhang Jingxuan then announced that all the real estate of the five families would be confiscated as a punishment to warn those businessmen who flirt with the Tsarist Russian officials.However, in view of the efforts made by the five families in the east-west trade and Baiber city construction in the past two years, Beihai Town allows the prisoners and their families of the five families to keep their personal gold and silver property, but they will be escorted to Chiyan City. deport.

On the third day after the trial ended, more than 300 sighing, cursing and crying men and women boarded more than a dozen closed four-wheeled carriages, escorted by [-] fully armed Cossack servants, along the road built by Russian prisoners of war. The broad road goes west.

In late June, Hong Liangji and Liu Taigong, who had studied in the Administrative School of Beihai Town for more than half a year, were suddenly appointed by Civil Affairs.Liu Taigong will go to Ningguta to serve as Cao Peng's deputy as the deputy commissioner of the Ningguta District Administrative Office.And Hong Liangji was sent to Hunchun. He was also the deputy commissioner of the Ningguta District Administrative Office, but his task was to deal with the immigrants from Li Chao's side, and he was also responsible for negotiating with Li Chao's officials on this issue.

In the past six months, more than 2000 people from the six towns of North Hamgyong Road in Li Chao secretly crossed the Tumen River and settled in the area under the jurisdiction of Beihai Town.What's more, they shuttled on both sides of the Tumen River, farming in Beihai Town during the day, and rowing back at night.

Originally, because of the appearance of Beihai Town, Li Chao had a second heart towards the Qing Dynasty, but Zhao Xin didn't care about Li Chao's return or surrender at all, and he mentioned the territory of North Hamgyong Province when he came up.After repeated negotiations, Li Chaojun and his ministers were so angry that they had no choice but to adopt the dragging formula. As long as the Manchus still bordered him, they would continue to spend time with Beihai Town.

In fact, Li Chaojun and his ministers saw that Beihai Town was becoming more and more powerful, and they had already started psychological construction, that is, before Beihai Town drove Man Qing out of the pass, they tried their best to squeeze the six towns.Anyway, I can't keep it in the end, so I can eat a few more mouthfuls now.

After the Battle of Hunchun, Nachitai led 5000 people into North Hamgyong Province, and then the Qing government sent another 1 green battalions. The arrival of more than [-] Qing troops made the lives of the people in the six towns even worse.

Originally, the food expenses of Na Qitai and others were all borne by the Qing court, which would not bring much pressure to the government and people of the Li Dynasty. Qianlong even asked the Lifan Academy to tell the envoys of the Li Dynasty and reward them more.But the problem is that the king and ministers of Li Yan have already planned to exhaust the water of North Hamgyong Province, so the officials of the six towns took advantage of the opportunity of the Manchu soldiers and horses stationed there to fabricate various names to squeeze, making it even more difficult for the people who could barely make ends meet.

The land in the northern part of the peninsula is barren, with many mountains and few plains, and the land is full of rocks, and the common people have to serve in the military. Therefore, the large fertile wilderness on the northwest side of the Tumen River is a great challenge to the many struggling farmers living in the southeast side of the Jiehe River. In other words, it has become a huge temptation.

For Beihai Town, North Koreans can be naturalized, but not now.Now that the Qing army has deployed a large number of troops in North Hamgyong Province, facing the behavior of the North Koreans crossing the river by boat during the day and returning home at night, who knows if there are any spies among these people.

Before Cao Peng also asked Mishilang who was stationed in Hunchun to send people to negotiate with the officials of the Li Dynasty. In order to prevent the loss of taxpayers, the Li Dynasty set up dozens of outposts on the south bank of the Tumen River, sealed off the border, and issued an order to cross the river. Prohibition, divided by capital punishment for offenders.

However, when the common people of the Li Dynasty were oppressed by the officials and couldn’t survive, and their lives became more and more impoverished, the wide river and harsh punishments could not stop their desire to live. Farmers began to cross the Tumen River in groups and enter the North Sea. territory of the town.

At dusk, a flat-bottomed ferry came to the south bank from Jiangbei.A family of seven got off the boat, including the gray-haired old man and children of all ages.I saw that they were carrying a bag on their backs, with the corners of their hoes exposed. They were obviously farmers who went to Jiangbei to farm.One of them, a middle-aged man in his 40s, carried the old lady on his back.

The last person to disembark was a woman. She put the baby on her back and hugged her in her arms. Then she opened her skirt and was about to breastfeed the baby. Suddenly, she let out a cry of surprise.

"Oh?" The woman shook the child in her arms, and exclaimed in shock, "His father!"

"Huh?" The man turned around.

"This child..." the woman was about to cry, and looked at her husband eagerly.

The man supported the old man behind his back with both hands, lowered his head and looked, his eyes suddenly widened.He stretched out a hand with difficulty to touch the child's forehead, and then put his hand under the child's nose, his face immediately darkened.

"Ouch." The woman couldn't bear it any longer, and burst into tears. The originally quiet ferry was soon overwhelmed by the crying of the whole family.

The captain of the ship with a full beard sighed and said, "I have been ferrying here for eight years. I have seen dozens of people who died on the boat crossing the river, at least."

A young man on the same boat asked sadly, "How did they die?"

"Some died of starvation and some died of illness, almost all of them were old people." The boatman's voice revealed infinite sorrow.

At this moment a leaf came from upstream, skimmed the side of the boat, and floated down the current.Where will that leaf end?

"How's the business going?" The young man has been leading a donkey back and forth between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait every month for the past year, so he and the boatman are already very familiar.

"Running errands for the boss, I can't control whether the business is good or bad. We will take back whatever they give you."

"Oh, that's true."

When the young man went ashore and arrived outside Huining Town, it was already late at night, and when the stars were twinkling in the sky, he came to the door of an inn, where a pretty young woman was still sitting in the room, as if she was waiting for someone.

"Ah, Yongba is here. I also said, counting the days, today should be here, and before it gets dark, Master Jinshi will send someone over to ask you."

"Boss, I'm starving to death, let's get some food!"

"It's already been prepared!" The proprietress immediately got up and went to the kitchen to serve wine and meals.

Yongba unloaded the roe deer skin, deer skin, mink skin and antler from the donkey's back, and then found a table to sit down.He is a Korean, but he is actually a spy who passed information to the Qing army, but Yongba himself doesn't know it.

Since two years ago, he has been running errands for Cui Jinshi's family in the city to do business between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and at the same time passing on the information about Beihai Town submitted by Hunchun City.Every time he returned to Huining Town, he lived in this inn, handed the goods directly to Cui Jinshi, and then took the goods given to him by the other party back to Hunchun.As for every secret letter carried in the cargo, Cui Jinshi would directly hand it over to a military officer of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in Huining Town.

The next morning, Cui Jinshi, who was wearing a black bamboo hat, came in a hurry, but he seemed full of thoughts.As soon as he came up, he dragged Yongba into the inn, and said in a low voice: "Yongba, I have something to ask you."

"Master, you order."

"Can you stay one more night and leave tomorrow?"

"What?"

"There are people going to the other side tomorrow. It's their first time going there and they are not familiar with the way. You will go with them."

"If this is the case, what can I do? No problem. But, can I go today?"

"They're not ready yet, so I'm afraid it won't work today. You used to stay for two or three days before, so it's better to stay an extra day this time."

"Master, you have said everything, then I will stay for one more day."

"However, you must leave before dawn tomorrow. And when you hand over the goods later, just ignore it. Don't mention it to the people sent by Lord Zuo Ling."

"Master Cui, what is this?"

"You put it away first." After finishing speaking, Cui Jinshi took out something from his bosom and stuffed it into Yongba's hand.Yong Ba's hand sank, and he immediately knew that it was five liang.He was a little confused, five taels of silver was not a small amount, he was just taking people to the other side, not being a guide, why give so much money?Judging from Cui Jinshi's actions, there may be something unspeakable hidden.

After a while, Cui Jinshi really came with a man from the Qing Dynasty, who came every time and knew Yongba.The two sides had no nonsense, handed over the goods to each other, and then saluted and left.

Early the next morning, Yongba stood at the intersection and waited for a long time before he vaguely saw a few figures coming from a distance. It was Cui Jinshi and the others.

Yongba stared wide-eyed at the people following Cui Jinshi.The two people who followed Cui Jinshi seemed to be from two classes. One was a middle-aged man in his fifties, wearing a black hat and a white robe, and looked dignified; the other was a slim and beautiful girl, The skin is like creamy fat, the face is like a peach blossom, and she is very neatly dressed, with a piece of clothing on her head.

"Book of Rites" says that when a woman goes out, she must cover her face.Korean aristocratic women usually take a sedan chair when they go out. If they don't take a sedan chair, they need to cover their heads with clothes to prevent others from seeing them.

He was very puzzled, who were they, why did they leave quietly in the wee hours of the morning when others were still sleeping like fugitive criminals?He hastily went up to meet him, and said to Cui Jinshi: "Master Cui, is it them?"

"Yeah, you have to take good care of them along the way!"

"Where do I have to send them? Is it over after sending them across the river?"

"To be honest, these two don't have a definite whereabouts yet. You just need to bring them into Hunchun City and find an inn to stay. Don't bother."

Hearing Cui Jinshi's words, Yongba was a little panicked: "Master Cui, what you said made the villain really ashamed. Since you have given everything, the villain will definitely do it properly."

"I heard that your name is Yongba?" Lin Shushi, who had been standing beside him silently, opened his mouth.

"Yes."

"Cui Jinshi said that although you are young, you are kind, honest and trustworthy, so we, the old and the young, plan to go with you. Do you understand?"

At the dawn of dawn, Yongba and the three boarded the boat crossing the river.Although he made the cruel decision to leave, but once he really set out on the road, Mr. Lin felt very at a loss about the prospects.What kind of place is the north bank of the Tumen River?It is said that under the governance of that King Zhao, everyone was aggressive and savage, did not respect etiquette, and did not learn Confucius and Mencius. It is really not a suitable place for scholars to live.

I am old, even if I wander around, it doesn't matter where I spend the rest of my life, but what about my young daughter?I don't know what crimes I committed in my previous life. He has never had any children, and only in his later years did he have this daughter, who is surprisingly beautiful and lovely.But is it a fault because the daughter is beautiful?

(End of this chapter)