Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 592 Cao Peng's New Place
Jia He was born in the "Jiahe Liu" in the south of the Jinjiang River. His original surname was Hotan, and he came from the Duoxi family in the "21 Jiahe families".The most famous person in their family is the Nakamura Kazushi who was one of the three elders in Toyotomi during the Momoyama period.

Unlike the comics and rumors of later generations, Koga and Iga in the Sengoku period were sometimes hostile, but they actually had a good relationship.These two areas have been known as "Koi One Country" since ancient times, and there are close ties between the two factions, and there are many intermarriages.

Koga's father died early, and when he was 15 years old, he needed to set up a household. Because his mother was from the Nishimura clan of the Kishu Domain - one of the Iga clan, he was adopted by his uncle as an adopted son, and fortunately entered Edo and became a "Royal Court Fanzhong".

The so-called "Goiwaban" is an intelligence agency directly under the general's inner court established by the eighth general Tokugawa Yoshimune during his reign. The headquarters is located in the garden of Edo Castle Honmaru.Sound familiar?The base camp of the "Shangyu Spare Office" of the Qing court was also located in the imperial garden of the Qing Palace.I feel that where there are flowers and trees, it seems that I can listen to the reports of my subordinates very covertly, ha ha.

Because Tokugawa Yoshimune came from the Kishu clan of the three royal families, the first 17 members of the royal family were all from the Iga clan. Although there were 9 more families after that, they all came from the branch families of the above-mentioned 17 families, so they are also called It is "Igamoto Hongfu".

It is said that since Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Edo period, whether it is Iga or Koka, they have long lost the function of ninja.In addition, many people in the "Mimisuke" who served as official inspectors of the shogunate gradually became ceremonial officials whose main job was to act as envoys, and the inspection ability directly under the shogunate was only a formality.

On the surface, the Royal Court Banzhong is responsible for guarding and cleaning the courtyard of Honmaru, but in fact they are spies directly under the general who collect intelligence and monitor the various domains in various parts of the island country.These people have various ways to disguise their identities when performing tasks. Farmers, businessmen, small citizens, etc., the only thing they will not pretend to be is the "ninja" appearance of later generations!
But don't look at the "Imperial Court Fanzhong" who can often see generals, but they don't even count as the lowest-ranking samurai; if someone is promoted to a samurai, he has to leave this institution.

Back then, Jia He was ordered by the shogunate to pretend to be a refugee team heading for Beihai Town, but he didn't know that Beihai Town didn't accept bachelors, so he had to go back and bring his son Shinnosuke with him, and boarded the boat to Beihai Town.His wife had passed away long ago, and the father-in-law's family was not rich, so the father and son had always depended on each other.

Later, Jia He was assigned to Fuldan City. After the battle with the Qing army, he was really shocked by the strength of Beihai Town and opened his eyes.But it's a pity that he couldn't send out the information he worked so hard to collect.

Speaking of which, Jia He and his son are still the "matchmakers" of Liu Sheng and Wu Xiha.In the winter of seven years ago, a hungry tiger somehow broke into Jia He's yard.You must know that there are no tigers in the island country. Shinnosuke, who has never seen a tiger, has no fear at all, and tried to drive it away loudly; if the nearby neighbors heard the sound and came to help, the father and son almost became the tiger's dinner.After that, Liu Sheng led people into the mountains to fight tigers, and met Wu Xiha by chance, which made a good story that Beihai Town still talks about to this day.

Jia He, who was seriously injured, thought that the father and son must die in a foreign land, but after the meticulous treatment of Hong Tao and his wife, and the use of precious tetanus serum and large doses of antibiotics, the disfigured Jia He survived. After he got down, he had been in the hospital for half a year before he fully recovered.

Feeling the grace of saving his life, Jia He entrusted his son Shinnosuke to a neighbor, and then went to the public security police station to surrender himself, confessing his identity as a shogunate spy.As a result, since Jia He didn't do anything to endanger Beihai Town, and the information was not sent out, he was released soon.

Two years later, Jia He, who had already married a wife and had a daughter, was suddenly summoned secretly by Li Ji late one night.The other party told him that it was time to repay the kindness of King Zhao and Beihai Town.Since then, Jia He's family has left Fuldan City, and no one in the surrounding neighborhood knows where they went.

In fact, Jia He and some [-] other people moved to the east bank of the Xila River and lived in several newly built small courtyards at the North Navy training base, which was later assigned to the North Navy Intelligence Bureau.Since then, Jia He has started a long hellish training. The direct report of these people is Zhao Xin, and Li Ji is just a mouthpiece.

After two years of secret training, Jia He was regularly sent back to the island country, wandering between Edo and Osaka, each time for as long as half a year, as short as two or three months, and his main job was to collect market intelligence.His disguise is that of a drug dealer who travels all over the place.You must know that apart from being good at espionage, the Koga-ryu ninjas also have an ancestral craft, which is selling medicine.

According to the records of "Wanchuan Jihai", the prescriptions handed down by Jiahe's family include "hunger and thirst pills", "zhoubudrunk medicine" and "wind-cold medicine".With a little modification of the formula of the former, it becomes a throat-clearing and throat-relieving medicine; the latter two are medicines for seasickness and colds.The "Nisshin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." located in Omi in later generations is the industry of the descendants of Koga.

After he and his companions separated from Mino House, Jia He returned to a cage called "Takahashi House".After waking up in the morning, while eating breakfast, Jia He listened to someone's vivid description of the murder at the Meinong House last night on the porch. .

Later in the day, as a radio wave from Osaka arrived in Beihai Town, Zhao Xin quickly learned about the murder in Kyoto last night.After reading the telegram, Zhao Xin was silent for a moment, and then brought two guards to Li Ji's office in the logistics department of the Northern Navy.

When the boss came in person, Li Ji thought he was here to inspect the work, and thought that Xu Funan didn't say hello in advance, so he was not prepared at all.But Zhao Xin sat in Liji's office for a long time without saying a word with a dark face.

Li Ji knew something was going on, but seeing the other party's face, he didn't dare to ask.Just as Zhao Xin got up to leave and was about to step out of the door, he said to Li Ji who opened the door for him: "Go and see Pingtai's wife and children for me in a few days."

When Li Ji heard this, his heart was beating wildly, and his face turned pale in a flash. Only then did he understand why Zhao Xin came here.After hesitating for a moment, Li Ji suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and then subconsciously said: "My lord, I, I want to resign from my position here, resign."

Zhao Xin frowned and said to him, "Resigned? What are you going to do?"

"I'll watch the house for you."

Zhao Xin sighed, patted Li Ji on the shoulder, and said: "You are also looking after my house now, don't think about it!"

In fact, if Pingtai hadn't gone to Southern Kyushu to spy on Lingjia Jinshan's intelligence, and even implicated Wanzao, Zhao Xin would not have killed him; at most he would have recalled Pingtai to the Sendai Fan, and then escorted him back to Beihai Town to put him under house arrest.

However, Lingjiao is too important to the development of Beihai Town. In recent years, almost 50% of the gold has come from Lingjiao Jinshan.Once the Tokugawa shogunate knows the inside story, it will definitely cause an uproar, and it might be a bloodbath.

We must know that for this mine, Zhao Xin united with the Sendai clan to destroy the entire Shimadzu family, and even had a fight with the shogunate. Too many people died!

One day later, Cao Peng, who was having a meeting with Liu Taigong and others in his office, suddenly received a telegram, signed by the Beihai Navy Command, asking him to complete the handover of work with Liu Taigong within three days and rush back to Beihai Town to report on his work. , otherwise appointed.

Cao Peng knew it was from Zhao Xin at a glance, because the famous "Northern Navy Command" is Zhao Xin's external voice agency, and everyone in the world knows it.

Fortunately, this year, the harvesting of summer grain in Ninggu Pagoda has come to an end. There are no major issues at the moment, so he, Liu Taigong and others started to handle the handover.

During Cao Peng’s three years in Ningguta, he didn’t have to worry about military affairs. Although he also served as the “political commissar” of the Ningguta garrison, he mainly played the role of supervision and checks and balances. All affairs were mainly The General Staff of the North Navy was in charge, so his main energy was devoted to vigorously developing agriculture and promoting urban economy, and institutionalizing urban commercial management.

The land development in the Ningguta area began with the garrison of the Eight Banners. The early Eight Banners were formally formed in the 33rd year of Kangxi.The banner land belonged to the state-owned land in the Qing Dynasty, and officers and soldiers were not allowed to buy and sell it privately. The banner farmer under his banner cultivated the banner land, and the grain he obtained was used for the expenses of the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, except for the rice in the Nayi warehouse.As a large number of refugees from the three generations of Shun, Kang, and Yong were exiled here, they became servants of the armored people, forcing them to reclaim additional wasteland, so the number of banner lands increased day by day.

According to the statistics of the seized Manchu archives and account books, when Beihai Town occupied Ningguta, the total number of Eight Banners fields was 442434 mu. In addition, the private land in Ningguta area was 51922 mu. Adding the above two together, the total amount is nearly 495000 mu.

The reason why there is such a high arable land area is mainly related to the farming methods of this year.Because of the vast land and sparse population, coupled with the cold climate, the relatively primitive "fire field" farming method was adopted in the early days. If the soil is ripe, it can be considered fertile land in the fifth year, but in the sixth or seventh year, the land will be exhausted, and then new fields will be reclaimed.In this way, more and more arable land will be opened.

Although the migrants from Guannei have improved Ningguta's agricultural production, they are relatively limited; you must know that such a large area of ​​cultivated land cannot be taken care of by intensive cultivation like Guannei, so it can only be carried out on some land. .

In addition, there are South Horse Factory, West Horse Factory and Cattle Factory in the Ningguta area. In addition to providing horses for the garrison of the Eight Banners, they also have to provide cattle for the official village.Before the Qing Dynasty, the standard was to allocate one cow for every 120 mu of land, so the efficiency of farming can be imagined.

After Cao Peng took office, he first confiscated all the flag fields, and then set different redemption prices according to the degree of reclamation of the private fields. It took another half a year to recover all the flag fields through negotiation and coercion.The purpose of this is to carry out mechanized large-scale agricultural production through "agricultural cooperation", and get rid of the small-scale farming model of relying on the sky and burning wasteland at will.

Whether they are exiles or Zhuang Ding, they are all slaves and have no arable land of their own. Now they have the right to use [-] mu of land, plus they only pay [-]% of the rent in taxes. Naturally, they are very happy.And those Manchu people and households who own private fields were very dissatisfied with Beihai Town's policy, but they dared not resist because of the threat of force after the Beihai Navy's victory over the Qing army. Some simply fled to Jilin or Boduna with their families. .

In terms of population, the Immigration Department has successively moved more than 2000 households of old residents from Fuldan City and Jingyu Town, and more than 1000 households of immigrants from Huguang after negotiations between Dagukou and the Qing court. There are more than 1800 households, and the total number of households in the Ningguta area has reached 2, with a population of more than 25.Even if each of the [-] households is divided into [-] mu, the total is only [-] mu, which only accounts for more than half of the cultivated land.

In terms of civil affairs, a special team was sent to go deep into Ningguta, Sanxing City, Hunchun and other places, hand in hand to teach the technology, led the farmers to build water diversion canals, transferred large tractors for deep cultivation, and rational fertilization. The high-yield wheat seeds in one time and space, the yield per mu exceeded [-] catties in the second year.

There is such a thing as a secret method of farming in Beihai Town. With the flow of people over the years, even the Jilin and Boduna areas under the Manchu Qing rule have gone crazy. Fukang'an even sent people to secretly buy wheat seeds from farmers .The problem is that Beihai Town operates an agricultural production model of "large-scale operation and large-scale facilities", which strictly controls the process of saving seeds.Even if some Manchu families keep the seeds secretly, they don't know the key to them, and most of them are hybrids, which are very easy to degenerate.

Furthermore, the wheat needs to be sprayed with phosphorus and potassium fertilizers from the jointing to the filling period, because they are all kept in a unified way, and Manqing has worked hard to get this stuff.But they also figured it out, but everyone who got the name "potassium dihydrogen phosphate" was confused and didn't know what it was.

In addition to vigorously focusing on agriculture, Cao Peng also used his brains on the development of commerce.It is said that if a town wants to be economically prosperous, it mainly starts from four aspects: the number of merchants and transaction scale, the institutionalization of business management, the rise of the financial industry, and transportation conditions.Beihai Town has unified planning and deployment for the latter two items, and what the local government needs to do is the first two items.

After Cao Peng took office, he first abolished the eight miscellaneous taxes under the Manchu Qing rule; that is, cattle and horse tax, pig tax, cowhide tax, shop tax, pawnshop tax, official scale tax, official fighting tax, and grinding tax.After the change, the tax system is uniformly levied at 5.00% of the commodity transaction value, and receipts are collected after tax payment as proof.

Cao Peng, after discussing with Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin, decided to keep the tax collection method adopted by the Manchu government before.The economic person is issued a "tax qualification certificate" by the administrative office, with a photo and a stamp on it, which can be regarded as a transition period before the establishment of the tax department.

In the past, in order to control the grain market and collect grain transaction tax, the Ningguta Deputy Metropolitan Government Office set up 24 officials and 24 heads.In the transaction, the government collects taxes, and Doutou gets commissions.Doutou is appointed by the government, and after obtaining the guarantee of the grain bank, and receiving the tax stamp, he can perform the task of fighting.

After the arrival of Beihai Town, the unified purchase and sales of grain transactions were implemented, and all of them were taken back to the management of Beihai Trading Company.After being screened by the Public Security Police Station, most of the original 24 "doutou" entered the grain and oil company under the Beihai Trading Company.In addition to receiving a fixed salary, these people will also be given bonuses based on the completion of the annual grain purchase.

Unlike Beihai Town, Fuldan City, and Khabarovsk, which were built from nothing, Ningguta, Hunchun, and Sanxing already had a considerable degree of private business before the arrival of Beihai Town.Before laying Ninggu Pagoda, there were already many shops in the city with a complete range of categories, including 13 cloth shops, 11 restaurants, 10 grocery shops, 28 noodle shops, 5 iron shops, 2 oil shops, 3 mill shops, There are nearly 10 pawnshops and [-] households.Some of these shops were funded by exiles from other places, and a few local Manchurians and exiles invested in joint ventures. There are two types of shares: silver shares and body shares.

In addition, "Yixing Hot Pot" located in Karuntun, north of the city, has been in business for 20 years and is also an important local shop.The reason why the Shaoguo shop is important in the Ningguta area is because of the weather, men and women have to drink to keep warm; and the Manchu people's "dancing god" sacrifices in spring and autumn require a lot of distilled wine.

Although the urban economy has begun to take shape, it is still far from meeting the daily needs of the people.

For example, before Beihai Town came, the local people did not have candles in their daily life, but lit homemade "bran lamps".This is a kind of hemp stalk-based, mixed with perilla oil residue and millet bran, stuck to the hemp stalk, about one meter long after drying, when used, it is inserted horizontally on a wooden frame, and the wind will not extinguish it. .

Another thing is that there is no salt field in Ningguta area. Since the Ming Dynasty, the salt in Ningguta area has been exchanged with Li Chao.Every October, the great uncle of the Li Dynasty would send people to Ningguta to sell salt through the government, and the Manchus would exchange it with horses.

Cao Peng built a medium-sized salt farm in Hunchun. Although the production time is only seven months a year, it still saved the entire Ningguta area from the situation of changing salt for hundreds of years.In addition, he also opened a weaving factory and a candle factory, both of which were jointly invested by Beihai Trading Company and Wu Zhenzhou, the owner of "Hengfeng Pawnshop".

In order to prevent blacksmiths from making weapons, bows and arrows privately, he moved the blacksmiths and men from the five blacksmiths to the steel factory in Boli Town, and only set up a maintenance point for agricultural tools in the city.Although it has changed from five to one, due to the use of electric furnaces and new machining equipment, the work efficiency has been greatly improved, and the quality of production and maintenance of farm tools has also improved a lot compared to blacksmith shops.

Liu Taigong has been in Ninggu Pagoda for more than a year, but his main energy is on culture and education, and he only has a little understanding of other affairs; in this way, the handover work between him and Cao Peng has been carried out for five full years. Genius done.

At this time, the news of the transfer of "Master Xiao Cao" has spread like wildfire in the city. The business owners in Ningguta City are grateful for his "kindness", and they rushed to make a Wanmin umbrella signed by each boss overnight. Cao Peng was moved and dumbfounded, lamenting that his hard work over the past two years was worth it.

After waving goodbye to the crowd outside the Xunfeng Gate, Cao Peng's carriage did not drive on the main road to Fuldan City, but headed in the direction of Hunchun.

He had already sent a telegram to Zhao Xin, informing him that he would take a boat from Mokuowei's pier and return directly to Beihai Town.The reason for doing this is that it is faster than taking the land route, and there is a girl in Hunchun City that he will never forget.
(End of this chapter)