Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 560 Cai Qian's New Life
One morning in August 1791, two Wanshiguang ships quietly parked one nautical mile outside the port of Batavia, full of poor people recruited from the coast of Guangdong.And on the sea one nautical mile to the west of the two Guangzhou ships, there are moored the big iron ship that is powerful in Southeast Asia-the Raytheon, and the large sailing ship Beihai No. 8 with thirty 75mm guns. .

At this time, on the side of the two Tang boats near the Narcissus Gate, several small sloops or brigs were docked, and they were all ferry boats to pick up people ashore.Fujianese in ragged clothes and burdens got out of the cabin, and then, under the scolding of the sailors on the deck, they formed a twisted formation like "snakes" and went down the rope net one by one. into the boat.After a boat was full of people, it quickly headed towards the port, and the next boat came up and continued.

At the same time, at the port of Bacheng, more than 200 local Chinese residents were all in full swing; regardless of gender, they were all wearing light blue long-sleeved coats and wearing large masks on their faces. Strictly.

Among this group of people, the only one who stands out is Hong Tao, who is wearing a white coat and a mask.Regarding the group of "shrimp soldiers and crab generals" under his command wearing re-dyed doctor's gowns, Dean Hong could only smile helplessly every time he saw them.

You must know that white is a fierce color in the eyes of ordinary people in East Asia in this era, and there is no death in the family. What kind of filial piety should be worn, so many people say nothing.Hong Tao had no choice but to let Jiang Asheng go to a cloth shop outside the city, and dyed all the white coats that he planned to distribute to his subordinates light blue with isatidis.

At the moment, accompanied by Jiang Asheng, he is patrolling the quarantine area near the port.After a while, the first batch of Chinese laborers will come to Bacheng, which is under the rule of Beihai Town. The relevant preparatory work has been practiced since a month and a half ago.Whether it's a mule or a horse, we have to take it out for a walk today.

Bacheng's epidemic prevention procedures refer to the current system of Beihai Town.After disembarking from the fixed trestle bridge, the refugees will walk along the half-person-high wooden fence passage and lead them to two concrete pools that are one meter deep, five meters wide, and ten meters long.It's just that Beihai Town is located in a wooden house, while Bacheng is open-air, and chlorine-containing disinfection powder is placed in each pool; the proportion is that 5 grams per cubic meter of pool water is enough.

The ingredient of this thing is actually "sodium dichloroisocyanurate", and the source of the raw material is synthetic ammonia. Right now, the small chemical fertilizer factory in Beihai Town can manufacture it by itself.Firstly, urea must be prepared by synthesizing ammonia, and then the next step is to synthesize "cyanuric acid", and then synthesize the final product through "sodium hypochlorite method".

Apart from the high-yielding seeds that Zhao Xin brought back from another time and space, the reason why Beihai Town has a high grain yield is the use of chemical fertilizers according to different soil environments.Compared with planting soybeans to fix nitrogen to improve soil fertility, the effect of urea is more immediate; as long as the amount of fertilizer is controlled, there is no harm to the soil and crops.

On this point, Chen Qingsong, who was born in agriculture, made very detailed arrangements.Every administrative village in Beihai Town has established a "land ledger". There are very strict regulations on what fertilizer to apply to each plot and how much to apply, and adjustments are made every year according to the results of soil tests.Moreover, Chen Qingsong plans to expand the coverage of the land ledger to Eastern Siberia starting next year.

Let's talk about the situation here in Bacheng when I come back.

The 30-year-old Cai Qian took his wife and son onto the trestle bridge and was about to follow the people in front of him into the passage when he was stopped by a guy in a blue coat with a small stick in his hand.

"Men and women are divided into two sides! The men's hand is reversed (left), and the woman's forehand is flat (right)!"

"Ming (what)?" Cai Qian and his wife were taken aback for a moment, why is there such a rule?
The blue coat reprimanded: "Don't go over there, Li Cha (your wife) will show Da Po (man) naked for a while? Don't worry about it, brother, no one wants to leave you, weak for a long time (for a while) Drink porridge) see you!"

"Oh! More prawns, more prawns!"

Cai Qian came from Xiapu. His hometown is Tong’an. Because his parents died when he was young, he was exiled in Shuiao, Xiapu County. He usually repaired fishing nets for others, and sometimes he would walk around the streets and sell fish and shrimp for a living.Originally, I thought that my life would go on like this, but two months ago, someone was recruiting people to work in Batavia in Shui'ao area.

If this was the same as before, every Chinese laborer who went to Bacheng would have to pay 20 silver dollars for the boat fare, and Cai Qian would not pay any attention to it.However, this time is completely different from the past. According to the news from my good brother Jin Wuzai, not only will there be no boat fare this time, but a disembarkation fee of one silver dollar will be given when we arrive at the place.

Obediently!A Spanish double-column silver coin is almost one tael of silver!Is there such a good thing in the world?

With suspicion, Cai Qian, Jin Wuzai and others found the guy in charge of recruiting in the village.After hearing the other party's spitting explanation, Cai Qian was convinced that it was true.The red hair in Ganqing Bacheng was beaten away by a group of Han people driving a big iron boat. Now they want to plant "rubber trees" there, which requires a large number of workers to work. The monthly salary is two silver dollars. live.

Cai Qian and his companions had never heard of what a "rubber tree" was, but this kind of thing, which was no less than a pie in the sky, still moved his heart.Originally, he was thinking about how to go home and explain to his wife and children, but the recruiter asked him if he had a family and how many people were in his family, and said that if he could take his wife and children with him, he would pay the disembarkation fee according to the share of three people.

So, thinking that the more money the better, Cai Qian brought his wife and children.

Although the smell was a little weird, Cai Qian felt nothing when he took off his clothes and disinfected in the pool, but when it was time to shave his head, Cai Qian was frightened immediately.

"Braids! Why did you shave my braids?!" Not to mention Cai Qian, the others including Jin Wuzi cried out like howling.The sound of their cries made the group of naked guys outside the room frightened and trembling.

What kind of law is this? !Do you have to cut your braids when you come up?
"They've got lice! Why, waiting to raise a litter of cubs?" The blue coats who were in charge of shaving their heads all threw the shaved braids into the basket with disgust, thinking it's no wonder "Master Hong" asked us to take Gloves are really dirty.

"How can I see my ancestors in the future! Give me back my braid!"

"Howling! It's not that it can't grow! Whoever makes trouble for a while will have no food, and the silver dollar will not be given! Next wave!"

As soon as the words were finished, the crying elders in the room suddenly froze.Why did you come all the way by boat?Isn't it just to earn enough money to return home in the future!

This is the case on the men's side, and it's even more chaotic on the women's side. Some people even think that this is to let themselves become a nun and become a monk.But when the woman in the blue coat who was in charge of the haircut also told about the meal and the silver dollars, the few women gradually stopped crying.

After shaving their heads, a group of men and women with bare black buttocks still walked along the passage, and when they walked more than 20 meters away, there was another pool in front of them.This pool is much larger than the previous one, but what is slightly different is that there are several blue coats standing beside the pool, holding long brushes in their hands, and there are several yellow lumps on the edge of the pool. shape.

Cai Qian and the others were puzzled when they heard a blue coat say: "Go into the water! Take the soap and wipe your body well, and you can get new clothes after washing!"

As soon as he heard that new clothes were issued, Cai Qian grabbed a piece of moist sulfur soap and wiped it on his son's head with a whimper.After wiping his son, Cai Qian wiped it on his own head as well.But who knew that just as he was about to take his son into the pool to wash himself off, he heard the blue coat speak again.

"A group of half-headed bruises! All hands, feet, buttocks, all must be wiped!"

While shouting, the blue coats used the brushes in their hands to brush these people vigorously a few times.After washing away the dirt in the water, Cai Qian took his son up from the other end of the pool, and continued to walk forward according to the instructions of the blue coat.

Basically, every two waves of people are washed, someone will lift the wooden gate at one end of the pool, and the water will flow into the sea along the dug ditch. After the dirty water in the pool is almost emptied, the wooden gate at the other end will be opened. , the water from the other side of the Jillion Canal rushes in, filling the pool.

On the other side, before Cai Qian was receiving his new clothes, a blue coat handed him two white pills, and said unquestionably, "Take it!"

"what is this?"

"Protect against miasma!"

When Cai Qian heard this, he hurriedly stuffed one into his son's mouth, and swallowed one himself.His son, Xiao Shuan, grinned and said, "Father, it's hard!" He was about to vomit out after speaking.

"Don't vomit! Those who vomit have no food and no money!"

Well, this is actually not a medicine against miasma at all, but albendazole for roundworms.Doctor Hong has been in Beihai Town for many years, and he has a lot of experience and lessons in this area.Because if you tell these Chinese workers that there are worms in their stomachs, they will definitely think you are cursing him.

When Cai Qian and his son were wearing new gray tops, new trousers, and black safety shoes on their feet, they almost didn't recognize their wife who was wearing the same style.Of course, firstly because of the bald head; secondly, after some washing, the originally dark woman became much whiter.

This time, there were only a dozen female relatives who came by boat from Fujian, and even fewer children.In fact, if Cai Qian's parents hadn't died, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law were gone, he wouldn't have brought his wife here.But soon, he knew the benefits of dragging his family.

After drinking a large bowl of rice porridge in the open-air shed used as a canteen, the Cai Qian family, who was still unsatisfied, finally got three silver dollars in a room on the port according to the guidance of the blue coat. A piece of cardboard with personal information and number written on it.Seeing that Cai Qian's wife and children really got the money, the other Xiapu fishermen who came with them all showed envy.

The actions of these people made Cai Qian feel that he was very prescient, and his heart was full of pride.He caressed his son Xiaoshuan's bald gourd, looked at the tall city wall of Bacheng, and couldn't help but began to yearn for a new life in the future.

Deguigne, the French envoy from the local government, stood on the balcony of his residence and observed with a telescope for a long time. He really couldn't understand the significance of these Seres people making the immigration work so complicated.

Deguignes, whose full name is "Chrétien Louis Joseph de Guignes", is 32 years old.The reason why he was appointed as a special envoy by the governor of the local government to come to Bacheng is actually related to his experience in the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou.Deguigne is the translator of the French tour, and he also knows Liu Zheng.

Although it was only a short period of less than a year, the two still had a good chat.You have to know that Liu Zheng didn't get along with the British back then, and often bickered; as for the French, you know, they were happy to see the British suffer.

The reason why Leclerc, the governor of the French East India Company, sent Degene to Bacheng to seek help from Beihai Town was mainly because he had more than enough energy.

It is said that the French East India Company is the one with the worst life among the East India Companies of European countries. The reason is that apart from being cleaned up by the British from time to time, the domestic trade policy towards Guangzhou often changes.

In 1772, the chief financial officer of Louis XVI appointed a royal management committee directly serving the king to replace the management committee of the East India Company. The members were still the resident staff of the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce.But the problem is that because they no longer work for the company and only get a fixed salary, the personal interests of the French staff have been greatly reduced, and they are all dissatisfied.One by one they voted with their feet, damn it!I quit!
At present, there are only two staff members in the French Pavilion in Guangzhou. Deguigne is the translator, and the other is the clerk Wei Ya.

In addition, the reality of Sino-French trade in the 18th century determined that France needed to use a large amount of cash to fill the trade deficit. It must be known that French products were not popular in Guangzhou. Before the British Parliament passed the "Trade Act" in 1784, the French could still earn a fortune by smuggling tea to the UK, but when the British lowered the tea import tax from 120% to 12.5%, the French could not make money on tea. Yes, and the French don't have the habit of drinking tea yet.

So you understand why Peter could not get much aid from local governance, so he went to support Nguyen Phuc Anh's great cause of restoring the country, right?
When the French Revolution broke out, the National Assembly was established, and the news that the king was under house arrest spread to the local government after two years, Governor Leclerc and his wife panicked at once. They are both nobles.

In the history of another time and space, Leclerc will have to step down next year.But in this time and space, hehe, I heard that the Siris people are quite powerful, and they have a good relationship with us.

Needless to say, Count Laperouse had been to Beihai Town. He was the first European to visit the land of the Sires. His account left a very deep impression on the local French.

Secondly, it is due to Peter’s letter to the local governance. He carefully reported the process of the Raytheon helping Nguyen Phuc Anh to attack Binh Thuan Province, as well as the signing of the agreement between Bei Hai Town and Nguyen Phuc Anh, and let Leclerc Big shock.

Afterwards, when the news that the Dutch were slapped with a squirrel face and had no choice but to give up Batavia spread to the local government again, His Excellency the Governor had an idea. He sent someone to Guangzhou with a letter of appointment and ordered Deguigne to serve as the governor. Envoy, go to Batavia to negotiate with the Sires.

　Deguignes' father was Joseph de Guignes, a "famous" French sinologist in the eighteenth century.The reason for adding quotation marks is because this person did a very nonsense thing in Oriental studies. He tried to prove that the Chinese were descended from the ancient Egyptians, which was ridiculed by Voltaire.

　　
　
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