Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 544 Ten Articles of Outer Mongolia
On July 7, entrusted by Kulun city merchant Zhuo Teba and Khenpo Nomen Khan, Lobu Sanggunzig and Zhang Qibudorji arrived at the area already occupied by the Northern Navy with eight escorts. Kuyitai Post Station.After repeatedly negotiating with Bayan, the deputy head of the cavalry regiment, they finally got approval to go to Boronor Station, 11 miles away, under the escort of a cavalry platoon.

Not long after Lobsanggunzig and Zhangqibudorji left the Kuyitai post station, they saw green canvas tents all over the grassland between the Kui River and the Boluo River, densely packed and well-arranged.

The two lamas noticed that, unlike the yurts and Qing army tents, the tents of the Beihai Navy are all grass-green rectangular tents, and all the tents have square windows.In the open space of the camp, groups of soldiers wearing dark green camouflage uniforms and holding weapons can be seen everywhere, all of them seem to be strong and have neat steps.

Lama Zhangqibudorji had been to Rehe and had seen the military might of the Eight Banners Beijing troops under Qianlong.When he saw these northern navy forces, he couldn't help smacking his tongue secretly, thinking: "No wonder they can defeat Bogda Khan's army repeatedly. Such a strong army, I'm afraid only Bogda Khan's bodyguards can match it!"

What puzzled the two lamas and the accompanying guards was that there were not many flags in the Beihai camp, which was completely different from the scene of banners everywhere in the Qing army or the Khalkha Mongol troops.

Hundreds of four-wheeled carriages turned the entire road into a potholed mud pond, creaking forward, like a huge long dragon, extending for tens of miles on the post road that was only ten meters wide.

After the group walked another [-] li to the north, they saw dozens of grass-green armored vehicles neatly parked on the grassland on the west bank of the Kui River, and around almost every armored vehicle were a few soldiers busy with their heads down.Those weeds that were originally as tall as a person were lying on the ground at this moment, being deeply rolled into the wet ground.

Dozens of towering gun barrels exude a dark metallic light, looking murderous; while some armored vehicles are still making deafening roars, and the huge sound from the tracks can't wait to drill directly into the cracks in people's bones.

Seeing this scene, the two lamas couldn't help reining in their horses, pointed to the armored vehicles and asked the cavalry platoon leader escorting them: "Dare to ask my lord, what is that?!"

"Armored vehicle!" The face of the cavalry platoon leader was full of pride, and then he added loudly: "Steel chariot!"

"Chariot?" The two lamas looked at each other, then suddenly reacted, gasped and said, "Made of steel?!"

After waiting for this piece of armored vehicles, there are patches of camps full of green tents behind them.Seen from the tens of meters high hills, the camps are like a chessboard, strict and orderly, with no end in sight.

The so-called tens of thousands of people, boundless.This is true of ancient armies, not to mention the Beihai Navy equipped with a large number of supplies.Such a scene made the two lamas and several guards dumbfounded, and felt that such an army would easily sweep the world, let alone attack Kulun.

Two days later, Lama Lobu Sanggunzig and Lama Zhangqibudorji arrived at Burgaltai Station, 130 miles away from Kulun City, where the Eastern Command of the Northern Navy is currently located.The person in charge of receiving them was Fan Tong, the political commissar of the Northern Navy's Lake Baikal Military Region.As for Liu Sheng, he said that he has military affairs and has no time.

As soon as the two lamas came up, they went straight to the topic. They conveyed the meaning of Dornier Lama Damcha Labuja (Shanzhuoteba) to Fan Tong, saying that there is no Khalkha Mongolian soldier in Kulun City at the moment. The minister of affairs has also withdrawn, so I implore the North Navy not to attack Kulun City, so as to avoid the loss of life.For this reason, they are willing to secretly provide a batch of food, grass and silver to the Northern Navy.

Later, Lama Lob Sanggunzig handed Khenpo Nomon Khan's personal letter to Fan Tong. Fan Tong opened it and found that it was written in Chinese characters.It's just that he is not used to it because of the vertical right-to-left format.

The meaning stated in this letter is the same as what he said before, except that Lobsandar Gya specifically mentioned that there are many temple buildings with hundreds of years inside and outside the city of Kulun, thousands of monks and thousands of temples of Jebtsundamba.

Fan Tong didn't care about the food and money the other party said at all. After reading the letter, he silently handed it to the staff officer who was in charge of recording. After drinking slowly, he suddenly said coldly, "Where's Jian Ding?"

"This..." the two lamas couldn't help being stunned. They thought that the Beihai Navy didn't understand the situation in Khalkha, so they wanted to get away with it. Who knew that they knew this clearly.

Fan Tong continued without changing his expression: "Khalka Mongolia has a total of six Lama Banners, and the other five will not be mentioned. By the end of the 50th year of Qianlong, Jebtsundamba Hutuktu alone had Miaoding 9976 households, 179 Otoks, with a population of 84491. How many arrows does the Great Lama have under his command? Where are these arrows? How many are there in Zhaomoduo? How many are there in the other four territories?"

After crackling and repeated questioning, the expressions of the two lamas changed drastically, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.They didn't expect the other party to even tell the exact number of households and population under Jebtsundamba's command.

"You two, don't clarify these issues first. With a letter and a few guarantees, you want to prevent the Beihai Navy from entering Kulun? Manchu and Qing Dynasties have 10,000+ troops defeated by our Beihai Navy. Khalkha Mongolia No matter how big it is, its strength is less than one percent of that of the Qing Dynasty, and any attempt to use force to resist the Northern Navy will be like hitting a stone with a pebble!"

After Fan Tong finished speaking sharply, his tone slowed down immediately, and he said lightly: "Both of you are Buddhist believers. Although I don't believe in Buddhism, I also know that the Buddha advocated enlightenment. What is enlightenment? As far as the current situation is concerned, one who can recognize the general, observe The overall situation is awareness!"

Zhang Qibudorji wiped the sweat from his forehead, nodded and said, "What your lord said is true, what you said is true. I am offended by my limited knowledge."

At this time, Fan Tong took out a folded white paper from his coat pocket, put it on the table, and pushed it towards the two lamas.

"Our conditions are all in it, you two should take a look first."

Lobu Sanggunzige and Zhang Qibudorji took the blank paper and opened it, only to see four large characters written on the top of the paper—Yue Gong Tiao Ten.

"Excuse me, my lord, what does this mean?"

I'm dizzy!Fan Tongxin said how I forgot the reading habits of the ancients.He hurriedly explained: "From left to right, there are ten conventions. Our writing habit is to read line by line from left to right."

"Oh I got it."

"This is our ten-point request to solve the Khalkha Mongolian issue, and it is also the main policy that Beihai Town will implement in Khalkha Mongolia in the future. The two of you can take it back to Kulun City and discuss it with someone who has the word."

After all, Fan Tong explained the contents of the ten conventions to the two lamas one by one.

When Lobu Sanggunzig heard that "religious freedom should be practiced and lama temples should be protected" and that "the political system within the Lama Banner remains the same, officials at all levels will continue to work as usual, and will not be changed; Jebtsundamba's status and authority will not be changed." Change." After that, his eyes lit up immediately, and he hurriedly asked: "If you agree to the conditions above, will your army not enter Kulun City?"

"No!" Fan Tong said firmly: "We must enter Kulun! But I can guarantee that the troops will never enter the monastery Kulun to harass monks and believers."

"The Grain"

"You don't need to give it away for free," Fan Tong waved his hand and said, "the ancients said that rabbits don't eat grass by the side of their nests, and they suffer big losses if they are greedy for small things. We will buy them with money, or exchange them with tea, salt, and grain. Please rest assured. Article [-] is very clear, the sale is fair."

The two lamas also didn't care about Fan Tong's "ancient saying" that the donkey's lip is wrong with the horse's mouth, and put their hands together and said: "So, after the two of us go back, we will report to Shan Zhuo Teba and Khenpo Nomen Khan. If the two of them If you agree, you have to report to the Great Living Buddha and obey the decree."

"Hehehe~~" Fan Tongtong looked at the two people opposite him playfully and said, "Didn't Zhebu Tsundamba go to Rehe? Could it be possible to ask Qianlong to issue an order?"

"It's broken!" Lobu Sanggunzige and Zhang Qibudorji said in their hearts that they even knew about the Great Living Buddha's trip to Rehe.

"I'm sorry, both of you, but we don't have that much time to spend with you! Counting from tomorrow, you only have five days. If you don't agree when the time is up, we will bombard the Minister's Office and order the troops to enter the city!"

After seeing off the negotiators from Kulun, Fan Tong returned to the headquarters contentedly, intending to report to Liu Sheng.But when Liu Sheng heard the situation, he just said "um", and then he went to the troops to inspect again.

At dinner in the evening, Liu Sheng came to sit next to Fan Tong with a rice bowl, and asked him a question that surprised him.

"Have you checked your body this year?"

"Uh, no." Fan Tongxin said that I can't care about it.Furthermore, I was just 28 years old, so it didn't matter if it was two days earlier or later.

But then Liu Sheng said another sentence that made him inexplicable: "Old You is going back."

"Which old Yu?"

"Elementary school mathematics, principal."

"Oh, okay. You said just now that he was going back?" Fan Tong still couldn't remember who it was.He had been working in the power plant before, and later joined the army with Liu Sheng, and he didn't know anyone in the education gate.

"Yeah. I found something wrong after the physical examination. I have to go back for surgery. I don't think I will come back in the future."

Fan Tong didn't understand Wei'er until now, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

Liu Sheng said in a low voice: "I heard that there is a tumor growing on the head. During your negotiation with the lama in the morning, Liu Siting specially sent a telegram to ask us to pay more attention to our health. If there is anything wrong, we'd better go back and have a check-up as soon as possible." I said, do you feel uncomfortable recently?"

"Bah, bah, bah! Crow's mouth! I'm in good health, and I can eat six taels of rice for a meal. Except that I can't beat you, running five kilometers for 20 minutes is no problem!"

Liu Sheng shrugged his shoulders: "Well, pretend I didn't say it. But if you practice for another ten years, you still won't be able to beat me."

Lao You's nickname is You Weiguo, he is 67 years old, and he used to be a retired teacher in a small fourth-tier city in the north.From the day he came to Beihai Town, everyone called him "Old You" or Teacher You, Principal You.

During these years in Beihai Town, what Lao You is most proud of is accepting Wang Zhenyi as a student.If it wasn't for lack of energy, he even wanted Zhao Xin to lure Wang Lai to Beihai Town and take him under his wing.

But everything changed completely from the medical examination not long ago.Since Zhao Xin bought a new type of mobile CT for the head last year, Liu Siting, who has children and has to go to work, spent several months thinking about how to play it in her free time.After that, Director Liu couldn't wait to get people to practice in Beihai Town's cross-travelers, and his skills became more and more proficient.

In the first few days, Lao You suddenly felt dizzy when he was in class, and he also had symptoms of nausea and vomiting.After Liu Siting heard about it, she tried her best to persuade Lao You to come to the hospital for a CT scan.Old Comrade You had such a headache that he couldn’t even attend class, so he went there, and found an aneurysm in his head; in medical terms, it is a high-density shadow in front of the midbrain and cerebral peduncle, an aneurysm may be.

This is not a trivial matter. You must know that once the aneurysm ruptures, it will cause intracerebral hemorrhage; Beihai Town's existing medical technology is completely unable to deal with it.Based on the principle of "be careful and make no big mistakes", Liu Siting sent a telegram to Zhao Xin immediately, telling him to come back quickly and send Lao You back for surgery.

So on July 7th, Zhao Xin put down all the affairs at hand and hurried back to Beihai Town.As soon as he came back, he first went to the hospital to look for Liu Siting, and then went to ask the doctor Wu Xianning.

Wu Xianning had already taken the pulse of Laoyou, and he told Zhao Xin that from the pulse condition of the Zuoguan pulse, Laoyou was astringent and slippery, with stasis, which must be due to insufficient blood supply to the brain; Tumor, he couldn't tell.

After hearing Wu Xianning's analysis, Zhao Xin immediately decided to send Lao You back to the country as soon as possible. If something bad happened, he really felt ashamed.

Obviously, once Lao You leaves, he does not know when he will be able to return; it is very likely that he will never come back again because his health condition does not allow him to take the podium again.Fortunately, there is more than one mathematics teacher in the elementary school, and Wang Zhenyi can now teach mathematics, geometry, and even calculus to students.

Zhao Xin didn't even return home, so he rushed to Lao You's residence in a hurry.But when he entered the small courtyard of Lao You's house, the nanny in charge of taking care of Lao You told him that Wang Zhenyi had just arrived and was talking with the teacher in the room.

"Sir, I heard that you are in poor health. This is an old ginseng that Zhenyi bought from a trading company. There is also a mountain dragon, which is most effective in treating waist and leg pain."

"Okay, okay. You are a sick person yourself, don't get tired with so many things."

"Zhenyi's illness is much better. But sir, you should pay more attention to your health."

Old You, who was sitting on the recliner, sighed, and said that you and my master and apprentice, one has a tumor in the brain, and the other has a congenital heart disease.He was moaning secretly, when he heard the door slam, turned his head to look, and said in surprise, "Hey~~ why are you back?"

Zhao Xin glanced at Wang Zhenyi, then blinked at Lao You and said, "Oh, I'm back in a hurry. I heard that you are sick, so I stopped by to see."

Lao You understood, knowing that he couldn't show his secrets in front of Wang Zhenyi, he nodded and said with a light smile, "There's nothing to see, it's already much better."

"this."

Seeing that Zhao Xin hesitated to speak, Wang Zhenyi, who was originally surprised and delighted by the sudden appearance of the other party, knew that the two had something to talk about, so she got up and said, "Zhenyi will not disturb the teacher and Zhao Wang. Come to the house tomorrow to visit the teacher."

"Uh..." Lao You sighed secretly, thinking what a wonderful child, but it's a pity that it's not my daughter.

A few minutes later, when Wang Zhenyi stepped out of the hospital, Zhao Xin immediately said to Lao You: "Pack up your things immediately, and I will send you back to see a doctor!"

"Do you want to be in such a hurry?" Lao You slowly stood up from the recliner, looking up and down in his room, his face full of nostalgia and reluctance.

"Don't miss a minute!"

"Then how does Wang Zhenyi explain it?"

"You still care about this? Forget it, let me tell her when I come back."

"I can tell you, I treat that girl as a treasure, you can't treat her badly!"

"It's all up to you, my Uncle You, let's hurry up."

While speaking, Zhao Xin had already swept away all kinds of books, antiques, calligraphy and paintings in the house, and Old You was stunned.

　Wang Lai, a famous mathematician in the Qing Dynasty, wrote "Hengzhai Mathematics".In terms of time, Wang Lai was 1791 years old in 23.

　　
　
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