Five days later, a funeral was held in Beihai Town for the soldiers who died in the battle.
The location of the cemetery was arranged by Chen Qingsong in a valley on the west side of Beihai Town, facing north and south, not far from the sea. After seeing it, Zhao Xin and others thought the environment was okay, so they decided to use it as a military cemetery in the future.
Originally, Wang Yuanfang wanted to hold a grand ceremony, but firstly, the weather was so hot during the day that it couldn't be postponed, and secondly, the honor guards could not be trained in a day or two, so he had to make do with it. Fortunately, the islanders were not there.
There is no tradition of playing pipes and beatings at funerals, and there are no rules like making paper people and horses, and scattering paper money, which is quite convenient.
Fifty-five hastily made coffins walked at the forefront of the funeral procession. Each coffin was carried by six people. On both sides were a hundred gun-wielding "honor guards" selected by Wang Yuanfang.
The family members followed behind holding a wooden memorial tablet.
In order to win the hearts of the people, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others also joined the coffin-carrying team; Sheng Haizhou and others saw that Zhao Xin had done this, and although they were not very willing, they all joined in.
The lord and the adults actually carried the coffin for a pariah! The family members of more than two hundred soldiers who died in the battle were shocked by Zhao Xin's move, and then they knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
This move by Zhao Xin and others quickly alarmed the entire Beihai Town. Except for the posts that must be manned, all the refugees came.
In the island nation of the Edo period, Buddhist culture occupied a dominant position in funeral rituals. People with higher social status were buried using Buddhist rituals after their death. Buddhist funerals for samurai and wealthy people were thoroughly implemented. Names, memorial tablets, stone pagodas
, and gorgeous funerary objects are all for sale. But common people generally can only use the form of wind burial - take a roll of mat and find a hole in the open air and stuff it.
The original meaning of the word "funeral" in funeral is the ceremony for the funeral of a noble person. That is, the ceremony in which the coffin is placed in the building before the burial. In later generations, the meaning of "funeral" has changed to "all night",
That is to say, friends and family stay together all night long.
However, there are currently no monks in Beihai Town, and Zhao Xin and others do not want to introduce them for the time being. In order to show solemnity, it is better for people like them to carry the coffin than to find monks to chant sutras.
Due to time constraints, the tombstones of the fallen soldiers are temporarily replaced with wooden boards, and will be replaced with stones later.
The inscription on the wooden board was written with a brush by Chen Qingsong, Sheng Haizhou and Shen Jingdan. It stated the names of the sacrificed soldiers, where they came from, when they arrived in Beihai Town, when they joined the army, and in what battle they died.
Zhao Xin paid pensions to all the families of fallen soldiers the day before yesterday. The pension standard is based on the salary standard of 36 shi of food per year for ordinary soldiers, and each family is 500 shi of food. At the same time, all families of fallen soldiers have priority in arranging land and houses.
When this arrangement was announced in the form of a notice, all the refugee families were shocked. They did not expect that Mr. Zhao would actually give such a large pension.
Speaking of this, we need to mention the issue of the pension system of the island country's shogunate and the Manchu court in this era. The island country did not provide pensions for civilians; as for samurai, after they died in battle, it was enough for their descendants to inherit the family business.
In the Edo period, it was not easy for the imperial family members to inherit the family business of the flags directly under the shogun. It was necessary to complete the academic test of "Sugamoto Yinba", and only those who passed it were eligible to inherit the family business. Because Confucian culture was very important in the Edo period.
It is extremely popular, so the knowledge test revolves around Confucianism. If you want to pass the knowledge test, you need to receive Chinese training from an early age. During the test, the examiner will randomly select one book from the Four Books and Five Classics, and require the tester to read it correctly.
As for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was much better than the shogunate. If an Eight Banners official died in battle, burial money and pensions would be distributed according to rank. The Ministry of Industry of the imperial court would also issue special monument erection fees. Specific to the death of soldiers on the battlefield , the forward will receive a pension of 200 taels, the armored soldier will receive 150 taels, and the gunner will receive 130 taels. If a fourth-grade second-class guard like Li Dagang dies in battle, the pension standard is between 450 taels and 550 taels.
In the view of Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang, the pension standard set by Zhao Xin is too high. Not to mention land and houses, the current food price in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is one tael and five qian for one shi of rice; 500 shi of rice will be equivalent to 750 taels. Especially in Shandong and Henan areas where disasters have occurred frequently in the past two years, the price of 500 shi meters will be even higher, up to 2.5 taels per stone.
Because his concubine was pregnant, Shen Jingdan did not go to watch the fun, but Lao Huang went and stood far away from the crowd. He had never seen such a funeral.
Wang Yuanfang, Liu Sheng and others still have many regrets about the hastily prepared military funeral ceremony. First, Beihai Town does not have its own military flag yet, and second, there is no trumpeter. Ding Guofeng found a lights-out signal from his mobile phone before Zhao Xin found a speaker to play the video clip on the spot.
When all the coffins were placed in the tomb, Wang Yuanfang stood at attention and shouted "Ready!" One hundred "honor guards" immediately changed from standing at attention and holding their guns to pointing their guns diagonally at the sky above.
"Fire!"
"boom!"
Liu Sheng shouted "Salute!".
With a sound of "Shua!", except for the soldiers who fired the gun, the other soldiers stood at attention and raised their hands in salute. As the first shooting began, the sound of the lights-out signal sounded slowly. The refugees also bowed and saluted at this time, and the family members of the soldiers who died in the battle Finally, he couldn't help crying. Seeing such a scene, even Lao Huang, a usually carefree person, felt a little sore in his nose.
In the days after the funeral, Beihai Town's land reclamation plan, which had been interrupted by the Qing army's sudden attack, was once again in full swing.
After two days of preliminary training by Chen Qingsong, Zhang Bo and Liu Zheng had another task besides teaching their children. They started driving the 9620RX monster every afternoon on the swampy plains on the west bank of the Xila River.
Wan Zao and Shiosuke, two people who did not like cutting and killing, led more than 2,000 people to start building the mountain road from Beihai Town to the mouth of Fuljiaha River.
In addition to treating the refugees with minor ailments such as headaches and fever, Dr. Hong and his wife are also in charge of the training of the wounded and "barefoot doctors". Since the two of them pay close attention to the personal hygiene of the refugees and the public health of Beihai Town, they are still there for the time being. No large-scale infectious diseases occurred.
Zhao Xin has asked Andrew to help purchase a batch of smallpox vaccine, and he plans to vaccinate all the children in Beihai Town. There is no way, smallpox vaccine is difficult to buy in China; vaccination has been completely stopped since the 1980s, and all children since then have been vaccinated. BCG vaccine to prevent tuberculosis.
Considering that when the Qing army attacked, the people who hurriedly hid on the east bank had no place to live. Zhao Xin decided to open up a large area to the north of the prisoner camp on the east bank and build a large fortress. So those who were captured Han slaves and armored soldiers, also tied in a string with ropes around their waists under the supervision of armed security police, carried wood on the east bank of the Xila River every day.
And Li Dagang, the master of the inner circle, has not recovered from his gunshot wound, so he has to continue to serve in the prison cell.
Wang Yuanfang and others are busy continuing to train new recruits. In addition to daily queues and skills training, the soldiers now also have to take literacy classes in the evening. However, considering the various qualities of farmers in this era, these people want to become qualified soldiers.
The distance is still very far.
Family workshops that produce cigarettes have been put into trial operation on a small scale. Currently, these workshops are still processing pine wood cigarette boxes or cylindrical wooden boxes. Due to power and confidentiality issues, Zhao Xin moved the cigarette production workshop to Zhao Liang's factory on the east coast.
near the square.
The entire cigarette making workshop is not large, and the equipment only covers an area of ten square meters. The two cigarette making machines require a total of six people to operate. Under normal operation, each piece of equipment can produce 120 cigarettes per minute; however, the current workers are not skilled enough and can produce 120 cigarettes per minute.
There are only 80 cigarettes. The cigarette filters, tobacco, rolling papers, and paving materials are all purchased separately. As for equipment such as the fermentation room, Zhao Xin plans to wait until the knowledge level of the refugees improves in the future.
Zhao Xin is very busy these days. In addition to arranging various affairs in Beihai Town with Chen Qingsong and Liu Sheng during the day and teaching children, he also has to teach some simple psychology to Lu Shoushan and Katayama Kanbei at night.
Techniques used in interrogating prisoners.
It is said that the attitude of the "police" towards the captured criminals in the Edo period was just eight words: "Be ruthless and never forgive." Things that modern people can't even imagine were both reasonable and legal in ancient times. As a former
Likewise, Katayama’s interrogation methods are no exception.
If these Qing prisoners do not confess immediately during the first interrogation, it will be a disaster. Katayama's "torture training" will begin immediately. The prisoners will first be tied up and taken into an interrogation room, and several security police will immediately
He stripped his upper body naked and began to beat him severely with thorny shrub branches.
This kind of whip can make the burrs on the branches penetrate deeply into the body, and the captives will be excruciatingly painful but will not die immediately. After more than a dozen whips to show off their power, most people basically gave up.
However, there are some who are tough-talking, so the second step begins. The prisoner will be pressed on a kneeling board made of five triangular pieces of rough pine wood, and a stone slab weighing 100 kilograms will be pressed on his thigh. It will cause extreme physical and mental pain.
, no matter how tough-talking they are, they will be recruited. The Manchu Qing court did not have any indestructible beliefs to support it.
After Zhao Xin saw the scene of Katayama Kanbei interrogating prisoners for the first time, he immediately took action to stop him. He was already beaten, so how could he use it in the future?
He quickly found a copy of "Criminal Interrogation and Confessions", deleted, revised, and reprinted a copy and gave it to Lu Shoushan and Katayama Kanbei, and warned them not to leak it. He was taught by Zhao Xin personally.
Lu Shoushan and Katayama felt like they had discovered the secret technique and studied it all night long.
What Zhao Xin excerpted is just nine steps or some key points of the "Reed Nine Steps" to guide interrogation. Many of the steps are overlapping, and there is no "universal" interrogation process. But that's all.
It opened Katayama Kanbei's horizons.
Shen Jingdan originally wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Zhao Xin and tentatively ask about Zhao Xin's attitude towards Shen Xuan. But he didn't see Zhao Xin several times, so he had to wait and talk.
Because the Xu brothers were young, they often went to play with Shen Xuan after class. The two families had been family friends, and the Xu brothers had lost their parents. As they shared the same fate, Shen Xuan took special care of them.
Sometimes I took them to the beach to pick up shells, and sometimes I went to the fields to watch the mechanical monsters plowing the fields. As time went by, I saw more new and weird things, and Shen Xuan's horizons actually broadened a lot. She even Without telling Shen Jingdan, he secretly went to school to listen to Zhao Xin's two classes. However, Zhao Xin was currently teaching children how to read and couldn't take care of anything else.
Shen Xuan saw that this was a simple matter and she could teach it herself. Now she is accompanying Lu Jun on the Thor every day, and occasionally takes the two children of the Xu family out for a walk. She has nothing to do all day long.
So she begged Shen Jingdan to help the children read and write. Shen Jingdan was originally very opposed to women showing up in public, but here in Beihai Town, the situation was a bit special.
First of all, due to Shen Xuan's condition, he cannot take her back to Suzhou; and Shen Xuan's talent is the biggest problem that makes it difficult for her to find her husband's family. Now Zhao Xin seems to have some interest in Shen Xuan. If he can put his daughter in Zhao Next to the new one, there might be something interesting if you go back and forth.
Although Zhao Xin is still beginning to take shape, Shen Jingdan, who is extremely thoughtful, has already seen the potential of Beihai Town. If you can climb the big tree of Zhao Xin, you can't say what it will become in the future...
Secondly, there is no habit of women not working in Beihai Town. When peasant women were in the island country, in addition to farming with their husbands, they were also asked to do a lot of work at home. So after arriving in Beihai Town, the women did not need to be mobilized at all. It was natural. Just take part in all kinds of labor.
Therefore, Shen Jingdan gave up the issue of discussing her daughter's lifelong events with Zhao Xin, and instead went to the school to tell Zhao Xin that Shen Xuan wanted to be a teacher.
Zhao Xin was so happy when he heard it!
Firstly, I finally have someone to help me share the school affairs, and secondly, I can see beautiful women every day. Even if I can't do anything, it's good to find opportunities to tease the bastard.
He didn't need to take the initiative to look for it. After the first day of class, Shen Xuan came to Zhao Xin with the teaching materials.
"Zhao... Mr. Zhao, why are there so many missing gestures in the words on your booklet?" Shen Xuan's voice was waxy, and the Mandarin with a Suzhou accent sounded very nice.
"Oh, you're talking about this."
Zhao Xin stood up and was about to take the textbook from Shen Xuan's hand, but Shen Xuan took a few steps back like a frightened little rabbit.
"Miss Shen, what's wrong with you?"
"No, it's okay." Shen Xuan handed the textbook to Zhao Xin with a blushing face and sat across the table again.
"Huh? Have beautiful women learned to use perfume? It seems like I've smelled this smell somewhere before?"
In the air, a faint smell of perfume drifted into Zhao Xin's nose. Zhao Xin frowned and thought, Oh, Director Liu!
"But the rose smell used by Director Liu is too strong and not suitable for her. I have to choose a good one someday. But I bought the perfume. Do I want to buy some foundation and lipstick..."
Zhao Xin was wandering in the sky, but Shen Xuan glanced at him secretly. She had never had such close contact with a man other than her father; a strong manly smell made her almost suffocate. Shen Xuan slipped out of her sleeves He took out his handkerchief and put it on his nose.
"Master Zhao? Master Zhao?" Shen Xuan called out softly when she saw that Zhao Xin was still frowning in deep thought.
"Ah? Oh!" Zhao Xin was a little embarrassed, he was leaning down again. He coughed and explained: "Miss Shen, are you asking about these words? These are simplified words..."