Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 575 First Arrival at Anping Port

Siqin was kicked by Goncourt and had a miscarriage, and she lay down for ten days before recovering.Because Goncourt's family kept this matter a secret, none of the nearby herdsmen knew about it, so no one came to visit her.

Every morning, a maid would bring a bowl of leftover rice and a bowl of herbal tea as if feeding a dog, put them next to Siqin, then walk away without a word, and put the bowl back at night.Siqin couldn't eat or drink tea. The yurt with thousands of holes was ventilated on all sides, and it was extremely cold at night; she had to lie down for two days before she could eat anything.

But people, when they are supported by a kind of hope, they can often bear any suffering.Although Siqin had a miscarriage and suffered these days of suffering, her heart was filled with a strong desire to live!
You must know that before this, death is a happy ending for her.Now, in order to survive, she has to bear no amount of torture.

Although the child in his stomach was gone, it relieved her of a huge mental burden, and he felt that he could go to see Timur with his chest up again.If the other party is willing, I will leave this ghost place with him, even if I go to the far end of the sky, even if I am willing to fetch water and cook for others.This thought was like a fire, which warmed her whole body and gave her the power to regenerate.

During this period of time, a major event occurred in Khalkha Mongolia, that is, the Northern Navy occupied the city of Uliasutai.This also marked the end of Manchu rule in Khalkha Mongolia.

The task force led by Wang Rong received a new order on the fifth day after Timur left, and also left.When we left, the herdsmen who heard the news all came to see us off, and we took out the best food outside our home as gifts, but they were all captured by the navy north of Mouxing without discipline.

After leaving, Li Chao told Xiaojia that the Beihai Navy will send people again, and by this time, Khalkha will be turned upside down.

Mou Xing lay down until the morning of the 11th day, and finally got up and took two quick steps outside the yurt. Although dizzy, those two steps gave you a little encouragement and comfort.You think you can walk, but you will die, and you can go to Anping Port in a few days.Thinking of those, you shed tears of joy.

Eight days have passed before, and your body has just recovered a bit stronger, so you decided to sneak out to the Anpinggang house to find me early in the morning when the Timur family woke up.

But coincidentally, that night, the first light snow under the grassland came suddenly.Looking in from the hole in the yurt, there are white flowers everywhere.The snow finally got heavier in the middle of the night, but the north wind picked up again, and the temperature dropped suddenly.

The north wind drove back the snowflakes from the cracks in the door and the gaps in the blanket, and Wang Rong was almost buried by the snow.Do you want to crawl out of the bag to find some dried cow dung to warm the fire, but you are afraid that if the Timur family finds out, they will watch you and run away tomorrow.

"You have survived all kinds of hardships, so what's the point of being cold all night?" You just thought about it, and gave up the idea of ​​lighting a fire to keep warm.The whistling wind roared violently in the yurt, the dilapidated yurt was shaking, and the door, apron and hammam were all rattled by the wind.

Wang Rong finally survived until dawn, the wind was still blowing hard, and the snow was still falling.You think that is the best time to escape, so you got up and shook the snow under the ragged cotton robe, walked to the door and listened for a while, and then opened the door heavily.

The dog guarding the cattle and sheep noticed the movement outside, but this dog was very strange to Wang Rong, whether it barked or not, ran over and sniffed your hand with its wet and cold nose, then turned and left.

When Wang Rong braved the wind and snow and ran desperately out of Qiwai Shaodi, and got out of the willow forest by the river bank, then he quickened his pace and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Finally escaped!" When you think about it, you feel your whole body become strong, and you can stand firmly on both feet. You barely lean against a tree, close your eyes and rest for a while.Until then, you didn't realize where the two shoes under your feet were lost.

The yurt in Anping Gang’s house was not far away from there, and Wang Rong felt that it was as if he had gone to the distance first, and the old man Zhao Xin borrowed a pair of foreign shoes to wear before leaving.When you came to Daozhao Xin’s home, your feet were already numb, and your body, which had just recovered from a miscarriage, was already holding up after a lot of torture.

The veteran Zhao Xin saw your appearance and knew that you had escaped, so he told you to lie down quickly, found a worn leather jacket to cover you, poured you a bowl of wine, and added a few pieces of firewood outside the fire pit.When the temperature outside the bag came down, Wang Rong felt breathless.

Dao Zhaoxin asked: "Poor boy, how did he escape on such a snowy white night? Are we going to kill him?"

"Uncle, you escaped from Anping Port, he will lend you a pair of shoes!"

"Where are you going to find Anping Port?" Dao Zhao Xin took out a pair of worn-out felt shoes and handed them to you, sighing, "I left in a dozen days, and the people from the work team also left in the first few days, saying I want to follow the small army to Wuwai Yasutai."

Wang Rong threw off the leather jacket, struggled to put on his boots, got up and walked into the bag.Dao Zhao Xin chased you out, trying to pull you back.

"Where is he going? He'll freeze to death!"

"You're going to find me!"

"Company Commander Wang said that we have thousands of people, and even fewer people will come from the east in a few days, and we have to fight Kobu Shao. If Anping Port goes to Kobu Shao, how will he find him?"

"You will find me wherever you go!" Wang Rong's tone was decisive.

Dao Zhao Xin recalled what Company Commander Wang said and did in those days, which made me feel afraid of the officers and soldiers for the first time, but more like relatives, so he gritted his teeth and made a decision.

"Okay! You take off the horse and go with him, how far he can go in that kind of weather!"

The wind still lingered until dawn, and it was clear that the snow would continue.But to Mou Xing, no matter how small the wind and snow is, it will be a dark and sunny day before the wind stops and the snow stops.

In the mid-October of the lunar calendar in the 78th year of Qianlong, eight small Guangzhou ships with a load of about [-] tons sailed into the waterway of Gongguer in the south of Jeju Island under the close surveillance of two large motor sailing gunboats of the Northern Navy and the fort under the island.

That place is "Seogwipo City" in another time and space. It originally belonged to Xiaojing County in Erji, and it was just a famous fishing village along the coast.After coming to Beihai Town, the local area is poor and the only thing that can interest the Erji government is to collect seafood such as pearls and abalone from the villagers.

Eight years later, Beihai Town changed the name to Gongcourt since it was used as a transit station for the victims of the disaster in Henan.When the naval battle on Changxing Island started, it became a commodity distribution center in Northeast Asia.Soybeans from Liaodong Peninsula, tea and shredded tobacco from Fujian, silk and tussah cocoons from Shandong, cotton, cotton cloth and tung oil from Jiangnan can be seen everywhere in the market in Goncournay.

And Beihai Town sent a small batch of leather goods, mountain goods, Chinese herbal medicines, seafood, and various heavy industrial products produced by Beihai Town to the outside, including flat glass and aluminum pots. tools, matches, cigarettes, lanterns, etc.

You must know that at the end of the day, Li Yujun and his ministers hated Beihai Town for its weak occupation of Jeju Island.In the early days, Jeju Mu had reported to Hanyang to refuse, and sent [-] soldiers to expel them later. At that time, there were only ten Northern Navy and more than [-] Caobang sailors with hot weapons stationed here.After only one round of platooning guns and another charge, Mou Xing's soldiers and horses were frightened and fled.

Eight years later, Cai Jigong was ordered to go to Beihai Town. One of the most important tasks was to solve the problem of Beihai Town's occupation of Goncourt.After some bargaining with Shen Jingdan, Mou Xing refused half willingly and half happily, and asked Beihai Town to rent Goncourt for 7000 years at a fee of 70 taels of silver per year. And you need copper coins.

Before that, Erji wanted to bargain again, and offered to convert one thousand pieces of silver into one tael of silver, but Shen Jingdan immediately turned back.

Oh, co-authoring and smuggling copper coins with the Manchu Qing is worth [-] Shaowen, and you will pay [-] Wen, what good thing do you want?One or two discounts for four hundred renminbi, if you want love!

You know that is 4000 million copper coins!Even if it is exchanged for one penny every tael, this is 230 taels of money. According to Mou Xing's usual price of [-] taels, it is a difference of [-] taels of silver.

Before the Beihai Town Mint was fully powered, it took a full two years to deliver all of them.During the period, Zhao Liang also took the workers to imitate the blueprint of the world's first "elbow press", and produced [-] coin minting machines, seven of which were transported to the North Navy Base in Ganlingao to help Ruan Fuying make coins.

The input of a small amount of copper coins greatly relieved the monetary pressure caused by Mou Xing's inability to make money, and the king Li Zhen had no money, so he started the construction plan of "Suwon Hwaseong".By the way, the designer of Suwon Hwaseong happens to be Lin Ruoyu's friend Ding Ruoyong.

At this moment, under the deck of a Guangzhou ship, Ma 48, the seventh steward of Hefu, respectfully said to the person behind him: "Master Qi, that's Anping Town."

"Well, it's really cool!"

The speaker was a middle-aged man in his seventies, wearing a navy blue black fox-style sheepskin gown, a black Ning silk Baturu vest with a beaded gold thread trim, and a sea otter fur hat. , with a fair complexion, two big beards under his lips, neatly trimmed, and he looks almost like He Shen, the number one official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.This person is He Shen's younger brother, He Lin, who is currently the Deputy Commander of the Han Army of the Xianglan Banner and the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War.

When I came that time, I secretly had a relationship with Beihai Zhen, but I received a secret order from Qianlong.According to the agreement reached between Siqin and the Qing court, a batch of military supplies to support Fukang'an's entry into Tibet was received later, and they had to be escorted to Xining before.

Originally, Beihai Town's proposal was to send the supplies directly to Xiaogukou, but Liu Quan directly rejected it.What a joke!If the little iron boat comes again, His Majesty will definitely chop off my head.

The eight ships docked in place, and a person from the port office and two guards with guns walked down the deck immediately, and then ended the questioning.He Lin was listening and watching, interjecting, and when Ma 48 took out the money, he saw me counting seventy Beihai silver dollars of "one yuan" denomination from the outside of the purse, and the other party finished writing the receipt after receiving the money.

He Lin noticed at that time that Beihai Town's port entry procedures were exactly the same as those of the imperial court's customs. There were both letter cards and business photos with small seals, but under a light green paper that was about a foot long and half a foot narrow. Return registration.There are many small and large grids drawn with white lines below, and the tonnage of the ship, the name of the captain, the name of the cargo owner, the number of sailors, the number of sailors, the number of days of stay, the type of cargo, etc. are marked on the back. The person who registers only needs to fill in in the corresponding blank position.

But what surprised me was still ahead. The pen used by the person who registered was not a brush, but a "hard-tipped pen" that I had never seen before; Signed his name.

When He Lin thought that the other party would tear up the light green paper and hand it to him, he saw that the person turned over the light green paper, but there was not a single page of light red paper on it, and the content below was exactly the same as the one behind. And there is no handwriting, not even a signature, it's just light blue.

The people in the port office tore off the red curtain at the root, handed it to Ma 48, and then boarded the ship together with the guards.

When the people from Beihai Town left, He Lin immediately asked, "Manager Ma, what's the point?"

"Qi Ye, that's called 'carbon paper', and how to get it is for the slave. You've been dealing with Beihai Town for a long time, and you'll know that there's something evil about every little thing."

He Lin took this page of the registration form before copying and looked at it for a long time. The shock in her heart could be expressed in words. Beihai Town didn't even have a secret method for such a thing, which was really unpredictable.Having said that, it is really convenient without the "carbon paper". If the customs and even some bills and documents along the coast can also be handled in this way, it will really save a lot of paperwork.

But I denied that idea very slowly, and looked closely at the traces of the strokes below. He Lin felt that apart from the paper, this kind of hard-tip pen must be very important.And Xiao Qingzhi used brushes all day, even without such paper, I am afraid it would be difficult.

I thought for a while and asked again: "I just paid 70 silver dollars, what else?"

Ma 48 said: "If you come back to the master, it is indeed so little. Is there any shipping material fee (charged according to the size of the merchant ship's head) and commercial tax here? Freight charges. It is precisely because the customs clearance fee here is cheap that people who rarely do sea trade will come.”

He Lin was stunned, and I scanned the various facilities under the port, especially this eight-story low-rise building one mile away.So he asked: "What about the miscellaneous items? Are there any officials who blackmail you?"

"There are also miscellaneous items. I heard that there was no officer who extorted the amount of money from the ship owner. As a result, he was quickly dismissed from the errand, and a notice was posted, saying that he was exiled to Bitter Leaf Island."

"Oh?!"

Ma 48 raised his hand and pointed to the nearby port office and said, "There is a wooden box for submission stickers at the door, and anyone can submit a submission."

"Hehe, this is just a superficial effort. Few of the grassroots people can read."

What He Lin thought was wrong is actually wrong.As the stalls in Beihai Town became smaller and smaller, internal corruption problems have grown.The so-called "thousands of people come to be officials for the sake of food and clothing" is not only for scholars, but also for ordinary people who can read fine print.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Trade set up a small number of "clerks", and those people are officials in the eyes of ordinary people.When Beihai Town has gone through the troubled years, the tendency to dominate the sky has become more and more obvious, and the clerks have become more and more official; although "eating and taking cards" is blatant, most of them do it privately.No one has even formed a clique in order to soar to heaven in the "New Dynasty".

In addition, the life in Beihai Town became more and more poor in those few years. Many officials were dissatisfied with the law of "can marry a concubine". Except for the middle and upper civil affairs officials, no one was secretly raising concubines.Of course, I can afford someone to take care of me, but if the family in the back room takes advantage of the opportunity to make a profit, that's another matter.

In response to that situation, before discussing with Siqin and others, Yu Deli decided to set up a special anti-corruption team, similar to the "XX Office" in another time and space; that organization will directly report to Mou Xing, Chen Qingsong and me The "committee of eight" formed by the

Siqin actually knew about those situations.I have been forbearance is hair, is to think that everything is my own initiative.Beihai Town belongs to both mine and my family; if I start everything myself, I will be exhausted sooner or later.

Ma 48 didn't wait to board the ship before completing the departure procedures, but asked someone to take the greeting card and deliver it to the "Government Office" in Goncourt.The transfer of materials between the imperial court and Beihai Town can definitely spread rumors.

Before Tian Bai had dinner under the boat, two seven-wheeled carriages quietly drove into the port, and Lin, Ma 48, and two guards boarded one of them.Half an hour ago, we met people from Beihai Town outside a courtyard in the Goncourt barracks.

"He villain, hello, you are in charge of the transfer of supplies, and your name is Kong Shaoan."

"Mr. Kong, I have admired you for a long time! Shanghe Xizhai." He Lin clasped his hands in salute, and said to himself that I almost know the name of the little leader of the Northern Sea Pirates. I have heard that there is no one named Kong.

Standing in front of Helin was a man who looked to be 80 years old, 1.4 meters tall and thin, wearing a uniform of the North Navy with or without military rank, with a white face and beard, and wearing a A pair of very rough rimmed glasses.

Needless to say, that person is also a time-traveler, and later in charge of centralized control outside the power plant project.

(End of this chapter)