Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 573 Lama Banner Comes to a Task Force ([-])
If only Timur came back alone, Goncourt would not be worried at all.If he dared to stab him because of Si Qin, Goncourt would have his servants break the opponent's legs!

However, the arrival of more than 20 Beihai Navy headed by Company Commander Wang aroused great fear in Goncourt.There has been news before that the Northern Navy captured a princess in the left flag of the Zhasaktu Khan's left wing and killed him.

He immediately went home to discuss countermeasures with his father, a lama doctor, but his father advised him not to panic, and let the servant go out to inquire first.

"Why are you so anxious, a four-and-a-half-foot black kid can turn the world upside down!"

"Abu, as the saying goes, in a rainy year, a toad can become a spirit! Now is the time when I don't know which cloud is raining, and even Bogda Khan's soldiers can't beat those Beihai Navy."

"You, you can no longer think about what to do like before. When you do things, you have to think about a few more ways. One day we know that it is the cloud covering the grassland. As long as we have the capital, we will still be afraid of being thrown in the dust like dust." By the road?"

Goncourt listened to his father's words and felt that they made sense.The more these years, the more a master like him has to walk with his back straight, so that the herdsmen know who is the sky and who is the earth, and understand in whose hands their destiny is held.Only in this way will they obey, and they will roll off their horses and kneel to pay their respects when they see themselves from afar.

The father and son talked for more than half an hour, and finally brought up the matter of Siqin.

Goncourt said: "In my opinion, Timur's return will not be hidden from her sooner or later. It's better to tell her directly and see what she can do."

The old lama doctor frowned, remembering the expression when he saw Siqin outside the bag just now, and said worriedly: "She seems to know already, who told her?"

Gritting his teeth, Goncourt said, "If you know it, go for it! This kind of crap is so damn annoying! Oh, if it was before!"

It would be an absolute disgrace to Goncourt to swallow half a sentence!You must know that his great uncle is Shanzhuoteba of Hutuktu.Really, half a year ago, Goncourt was never afraid of others.

The old lama was silent for a while, and said to his son, "Didn't you invite them to be guests at night? Let's do this."

At this time, outside the yurt of Timur's house, several neighbors who learned of his return came.These people were very scared when they first saw Company Commander Wang and the others. They stood dozens of steps away and looked around curiously, not daring to approach.

Company Commander Wang asked Timur to call these herdsmen over for tea to dispel their fear.After the herdsmen came over tremblingly, he and other soldiers took out tea bricks and compressed dry food from the horses, and asked the soldiers to help Timur's parents make tea, distribute the dry food to the herdsmen, and give them cigarettes for smoking.

Seeing that these short-haired people in strange clothes are very friendly and enthusiastic, and share delicious food and tobacco, the herdsmen's vigilance has been relaxed a lot, and their conversations have gradually increased.

The "Southern Detachment" sent a task force this time, but it actually received an order from the Eastern Front Command.Tracing back to the source, it is mainly because Fan Tong witnessed the tragic life of many herdsmen along the way, so he asked the headquarters to issue an order, requiring the post station garrison of each station line to send letters to the surroundings under the premise of ensuring their own safety. Sak Banner dispatched a task force.Its job content is to "propagate the policies of the Northern Navy and mobilize the herdsmen at the bottom." In addition, the task force is authorized to take repressive measures against the lords and lamas who are extremely angry.

Liu Sheng agreed without thinking too much, he didn't think it was a big deal.Don't forget, there are four orphans with Uxiha, and every time he sees the youngest, he is very angry.

Of course, just a few words from the task force cannot convince the herdsmen or change their position immediately, but as long as the vast majority of herdsmen can be united and stabilized, then there is no fear of a few people with ulterior motives playing tricks.At present, the Northern Navy has only captured more than half of Khalkha Mongolia, and the propaganda work must be stable and in-depth.

All the herdsmen who came to sit there knew Timur, and they were very surprised to see the "dead" man appearing in front of him in broad daylight, and then they chatted about various things that happened in the past year.At this point, even if Timur's parents wanted to hide Siqin's matter, they couldn't hide it anymore, because everyone would mention her, but they would say everything.

"Timur, don't be too sad. Alas! We poor people are suffering, and we can't help if we want to. How can people like us compare with Gongcur? He is a high-ranking master, a relative of Shanzhuo Teba , rich and powerful, we are just Shabinar under the Lama’s rule.”

"Oh! Siqin...she's a bit crazy! I haven't seen her for two months. I heard that since Abu passed away, Siqin has her hair loose every night and spends all night alone Walking up and down the banks of the Uliasutai River; it was also said that she heard her screaming in a strange way. I didn't see these words with my own eyes, so maybe I shouldn't tell you."

"Listen to me, you and Siqin are good friends. Everyone knows it, and the Buddha knows it too! If you swore to Siqin, then she must also swear to you. Unless you die, you will never marry another man. So what So far, how is she? She didn't keep her vow, she got married! Married! You said you have to keep your vow, which is right. Since ancient times, we Mongolians have been most particular about keeping our vows. Genghis Khan is The best example! But Genghis Khan also told us: 'When you find your friend is a fox with its tail hidden, shoot it with a poisoned arrow immediately!' Your Siqin is such a fox."

After hearing this, Timur's heart felt as if a knife had cut him, and he couldn't restrain his anger any longer. He raised his gun and wanted to settle accounts with Goncourt!Seeing this, Company Commander Wang, who had been paying attention to him, hurriedly asked someone to stop him.

After listening to this for a long time, Company Commander Wang and other Han soldiers from the pass had already learned from the translation of another Mongolian soldier the general course of the matter——Before Timur was called to leave home, Siqin's father was already sick, and the After Timur left, his condition became more serious and he had no money to treat him. Afterwards, Gongguer took advantage of the situation and forced the marriage on the condition that he spend money to go to Uliasutai to hire a Han doctor, and successfully asked the other party to marry him as his concubine , but also pregnant.

Timur broke free from his companion's arm and shouted angrily, "Let go of me! I'm going to kill him!"

"Timur! You are now a member of the Northern Navy, and you must obey orders!" Company Commander Wang urged loudly and seriously: "I heard from you Erji that Siqin was pregnant, and the child is always innocent, right? Do you think Let the child be born without a father?!"

"I'm quitting, okay?"

"Fart!" Company Commander Wang was furious. "Even if you saved Siqin, did you single-handedly save all the women who had the same fate as Siqin! What the deputy detachment leader told you before the departure all went into the stomach of a dog!"

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"You are my soldier, who dares to bully you and your family, even 120 brothers will not agree! [-] Beihai Navy will not agree! But things have come to this point now, don't worry, understand the situation clearly Think about it again, what if I'm using an example, what if Siqin doesn't want to leave Goncourt's house?"

After hearing this, Timur's clenched fists were slowly released, and his whole body was like a deflated ball.

The surrounding herdsmen looked at Timur and the group of people he brought with half fear and half surprise. Although they couldn't understand Chinese and didn't understand what Company Commander Wang was talking about, many people saw that the commander of the army The officer calmed down the five-foot-tall Timur with just a few words, and they started talking in low voices.

An old herdsman named Dorji said to a Mongolian soldier in the work team: "Master, are you here to pick up Timur's parents to enjoy the blessing?"

"You can call me Bayan, I'm not a master." The Mongolian soldier continued with a smile: "We are here this time to promote the policy of the Beihai Navy."

"Policy?" Dorji said the pronunciation of the two words out of his mouth bluntly, not understanding at all.

"Simply put, we will be equal in the future!"

"Ah?" The herdsmen's eyes widened in surprise, but they still didn't quite understand.

Bayan explained: "Equality means that people are the same. For example, you are the same as those lords and lamas. Everyone is equal."

"What! This can't be done!" Dorji jumped up in fright, shook his head and said, "How can we sit on an equal footing with Taiji and Buddha, sin and sin!"

"What are you talking about?" At this time, Company Commander Wang came over, first helped Dorji to sit down, and after listening to Bayan's explanation, he smiled and said to everyone: "The Beihai Navy is here, and from now on we will be able to sit on an equal footing, and no one is allowed to bully anyone." .In the early days, the Manchu Qing court sent you more servants, and those lords and lamas had to send more servants at the top of the servants, which made everyone breathless. It will not be allowed in the future! Not only in Khalkha, but in the future. There is no such thing as a group of high-ranking people eating our meat and drinking our bone marrow!"

Before dusk, Company Commander Wang brought Bayan and other five people to the five snow-white yurts of Gongguer's house.Seeing that Timur didn't come, and Company Commander Wang and the others all smiled and signaled to themselves, Goncourt's original heart was only half relieved.

After some pleasantries, several people were welcomed into the bag.All of this was seen clearly by Goncourt's father, the Lama doctor, in another yurt.The old lama has already explained to his son how to receive the North Navy.On the one hand, it is necessary to provide all-out hospitality, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to give them a little color to let them know who is the master of this grassland.

The first "defensive measure" he took was to lock Siqin up so that the work team would not see her.He called Siqin to the yurt behind and asked a herdsman to bring over 30 catties of ox hair to her, saying that he was waiting to use the ox hair rope and asked her to rub it out quickly.At the same time, careful adjustments were made to the servants who came out to entertain guests.

Then, he sent people around urgently, calling their cronies and the pastoral workers who were grazing nearby, and gathered almost forty people.

At this time, Company Commander Wang was having a serious conversation with Goncourt.They sat around on the thick colored tapestry carpet specially laid out for them, and on the red lacquered round table in front of them were various milk products and buttered tea.I don't know which servant was ingenious, and even lit two coils of incense at the door, and the cigarettes were lingering, dispelling the stale musty smell in the bag.

Company Commander Wang didn't speak in a pompous manner like the officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when he came up. Instead, he spoke in a very simple manner, focusing on unity, and made it clear that the Beihai Navy would not engage in any apportionment of arrows in the future. If you want to recruit people to guard the border, you will also be paid a salary.

This move surprised Goncourt and made him even more confused. He even felt that it would be difficult for him to make a correct judgment without discussing it with his father.

His father, the old lama, was so busy today that he hardly cared about taking a few snuffs.Several servants in charge of entertaining the work team would report to him the content of the conversation they overheard when going back and forth in and out of the yurt, so that he could timely and accurately understand the content and progress of the conversation in that yurt.

When the old lama felt that the time was almost up, he pretended to be calm and at ease, and walked into the yurt of the reception team with a smile on his face, stroking his rosary and smoking snuff.

Goncourt immediately got up.He introduced to Company Commander Wang: "This is my Abu."

"My name is Wang Rong, and I am the captain of the work team of the Southward Detachment."

Wang Rong and others stood up with respect to the elders, chatted with the old lama, and invited him to sit at the head.But the old lama gave Wang Rong a surprise as soon as he came up.He pulled out a snow-white khata from his waist like a knife, raised it above his head with trembling hands, and offered it to Wang Rong humbly.

"My lord, please accept the respect of a faithful old shepherd, Dariga of Shengming!" Well, he brought out the language of Genghis Khan's era!
Wang Rong smiled and took Hada over.Come and don't reciprocate indecently, he immediately took a pack of ten boxes of matches and a small mirror from Bayan as a gift in return.The old lama and Gongcourt almost dropped their jaws when they saw the mirror. When Wang Rong demonstrated how to use the match, the two couldn't stop praising them.It seems that people like myself will still be reused in the new dynasty. It is obvious that Bei Haijun must ask for help if he can return such a heavy gift.

"Where is Wang Lian Dariga from?"

"I'm from Shandong, from Wendeng County, Dengzhou Prefecture." This is the one who went to Beihai Town after Deng Fei led the team to attack Rongcheng and Wendeng.

"Oh! Shandong should be in the customs. Dariga must have never seen the scene of our Khalkha shepherds harnessing their horses."

"Don't Dariga want to give it a try?" Goncourt, who had never been able to figure out his father's intentions, heard this, and said in his heart that today's drama is coming!
At this moment, Bayan on the side interjected, "I don't see any horses around here!"

"Coincidentally, our horse herd has just arrived, and the herdsmen are lathering the horses. Please go and watch them!"

Wang Rong thought for a while and said, "I heard that Khalkha's horses are very famous, so let's take a look."

Before he finished speaking, the old lama got up and opened the door curtain, bowed and said, "Please, please! It's windy in the evening, wipe off your sweat first, so as not to catch a cold."

When Wang Rong and the other five left the yurt, they couldn't help being stunned.Not too far away, more than 100 horses seem to have fallen from the sky.Around the group of horses, there were twenty or thirty riders, fairly neatly dressed, each with a knife and a quiver on their horses.As soon as they saw someone coming out, they immediately moved as if someone had issued an order. Some chased the horses, some shouted from the side, and some galloped back and forth aimlessly...

Wang Rong looked at it with interest for a while, and thought that these people should be "Jian Ding".It's just that he doesn't know whether these people escaped from the previous battle with the Beihai Navy, or they stayed here.

He approached a young man with a tender face, and asked abruptly, "Little boy! How are you doing with your arrows?"

The boy's face turned red and then turned white, he looked at the old lama and then at Goncourt, but he was speechless.

"He is young and has never seen outsiders." Goncourt came up to smooth things over, gave the young man an encouraging look, and continued: "When you meet Dariga, you dare not even speak?"Tut tut..."

Wang Rong said: "Can you shoot the sparrow on the tree?"

The boy looked a little nervous when he looked at each other. He was summoned suddenly, and he gave each of them a fairly clean robe, a bow, and a knife. He didn't know what to do.At this time, excited by Wang Rong's words, he took out his bow and arrow, aimed at the big tree more than ten steps away, and shot out with a "swish".

Missed!The sparrow was startled, turned a few times in the air, and then fell back.

Wang Rong smiled and said: "Child, your bow and arrow are still far behind. I'll shoot a sparrow for you and roast it!"

After all, before everyone present could react, he took out his pistol and raised his hand to shoot. He only heard a "bang", and a sparrow fell from the branch to the ground.

This move shocked the old lama, father and son and other herdsmen present!
At this moment, a hundred paces away, Liu Changshun, who had just arrived here on a ragged horse, was startled by the sudden gunshots. The frightened rummy kicked him and threw him off the horse's back.

When the boy fell off the horse, his buttocks just hit a ridge of dirt, and his buttocks hurt so much that he yelled "Ouch", and successfully attracted the attention of Wang Rong, Gongcourt and others.

Goncourt went up and asked: "Who are you?"

Liu Changshun didn't care about rubbing his butt, gritted his teeth and half-kneeled on the ground, slapped him a thousand times and said, "Master Gong, the villain is Liu Changshun, the nephew of shopkeeper Liu of 'Mei Gong Yu Ji' in the business city."

"Oh, Shopkeeper Liu, Liu Maocai, I remember him. Why didn't he come?"

Only then did Liu Changshun briefly explain how the Qing army retreated last night and ransacked the trading city.As soon as this remark came out, everyone including Wang Rong was stunned.

　In ancient times, "Dariga" referred to the leader of the tribe. In modern times, the word also means a cadre.

　　
　
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