That night, it started to rain lightly in Beihai Town. One autumn rain and another cold. The rain in September of the lunar calendar became colder and colder.
But that night, most people in Beihai Town could hardly sleep all night. Although they yawned when they got up in the morning, the excitement in their red and swollen eyes could not be hidden.
The salmon migration season has begun.
Yesterday afternoon, Chen Qingsong received a report that many fish suddenly appeared in the Xila River. These fish came from the direction of the estuary. So he called the chiefs and deputy officers of five residential areas before dinner.
The district chief has issued an emergency notice, asking everyone who can move to fish for salmon tomorrow.
After the ten chief and deputy district chiefs received the order, the notice was conveyed to all families within two hours.
The current household registration management of refugees in Beihai Town temporarily draws on the Baojia system of the Qing Dynasty. Every ten households are organized into a group, with a group leader; every ten groups are one li, with two chief and deputy li leaders; every ten li are a district.
, set up two district chiefs and deputy district chiefs. Based on the actual situation of an average of four to five people per family, basically the population of a district is about 4,000 to 5,000; the entire Beihai Town currently only has five districts. Zhao Xin and
There is no need for these district chiefs, district chiefs and team leaders to help them collect food and recruit troops, so the main job of these people at present is to communicate with superiors and subordinates.
After a hurried breakfast, in addition to children in class, necessary left-behind personnel and those elderly people with limited mobility, nearly 10,000 men and women in Beihai Town gathered into two huge streams of people on the east and west sides of the town, one heading east and one heading west.
, were divided into the Xila River and the Furjiaha River. With various tools in their hands and large baskets made of shrub branches on their backs, they happily set off with their respective team leaders.
Viewed from the sky, the current layout of Beihai Town looks like a big wing, with the "square" in the center of the town as the center and extending to the east and west sides.
The square in the center of the wings is currently a large square grassland with a side length of 200 meters. As for why a large square is needed, Chen Qingsong has not thought about it for the time being. Anyway, according to the inertia of modern people's thinking, there must be one. Originally, a flagpole was to be erected.
The place remained empty because Zhao Xin had not yet decided what flag to hang.
According to Zhao Xin's idea, what kind of flag should be hung? It would be best to build a large antenna tower first. However, after his proposal was collectively despised by everyone, he gave up.
Surrounding the square are various public facilities currently in Beihai Town. To the west is the "hospital" chaired by Hong Tao, which can only be regarded as a community hospital in its current size; to the south are the offices of Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong; to the east is Deng Fei's "
The Ministry of Security also set up an "Army" office next to it. However, Liu Sheng and the others spent most of their time working in the military camp on the east bank of the Xila River and rarely came here. The Army Office is five miles east along the main road.
Ten meters away is the police station that Katayama Kanbei is in charge of. The school is five hundred meters north of the square. The large cafeteria is located on the south side of the school, so it is very convenient for the children to have lunch.
The location of the warehouse was arranged by Zhao Xin at the foot of the mountain on the east bank of the Xila River, where he planned to build another storage granary. It was very close to the military camp, so if there was an accident, the troops could arrive in time.
The residential areas of the refugees are distributed neatly on the north and south sides of the road that crosses the north of the square. According to the grouped community plan, a public toilet and a small bathhouse are built near every ten residential houses.
A water fetching point. Zhao Xin plans to disperse the refugees from Henan next year and live in mixed communities to avoid confrontation between the Qing people and the islanders.
In the days when the refugees first arrived in Beihai Town, Zhao Xin and the others had already checked and registered the information of each family. Although the initial statistical work was very complicated and cumbersome, after that, only simple statistical screening was required on the computer.
, you can get the information you want.
Maybe it’s because Beihai Town was only established for half a year, and the refugees don’t have much private property. There are no pubs or grocery stores in the residential area, so the crime rate is not high. At most, it’s just a quarrel or a fight.
Katayama Kanbei is currently in charge of a hundred security police, and he can handle the daily security management. Currently, all criminal penalties in Beihai Town must be signed by Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin before they can take effect. Until now,
The most severe punishment is to be locked up in a dark room and deprived of food for two days for injuring someone.
The first batch of gold and silver coins were already being minted secretly in the workshop. Chen Qingsong considered opening grocery stores, restaurants and grain stores in residential areas after the currency system was established.
After the fishing participants set off, the huge Beihai Town suddenly became very quiet. There were only a few security police patrolling back and forth on the streets.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the team responsible for fishing in the Xila River arrived at the designated area. The water flow here is gentle and the river channel is narrow, which is a good place for salmon fishing.
At this time of year, in various water systems connected to the sea in the vast area of the outer Northeast, hundreds of millions of salmon living in the Pacific begin to swim upstream, preparing to return to their birthplace in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River to spawn and reproduce.
The Hezhefeyaka people who live here will shout "Daimaha" loudly when the salmon schools arrive, which means that the fish that come and go regularly have arrived. This is also the origin of the name "Salmon".
In the clear and cold water of the Shiraz River, densely packed red salmon are struggling to move towards the north. And those salmon stranded on the beach on the river bank are opening and closing their mouths hopelessly, quietly waiting for death.
From the beginning to the end when these salmon arrive at the place where they were born, due to stranding, fishing, and being hunted by animals along the way, the tragic elimination rate is as high as 99%. In other words, almost only one out of every two hundred fish can survive.
Arrive at the place of birth to spawn. The salmon after laying eggs will slowly die in the water. In the early spring of the next year, the hatched eggs will leave towards the sea after they grow to six centimeters.
Under the leadership of their respective team leaders, the refugees began to fish for these strong and plump fish along the river bank. Some used fishing nets, some directly barefooted the water and used basins, and some used homemade wooden forks to fish.
There are endless ways to use them. Laughter and laughter fill the long river bank.
Suddenly, a refugee saw a black bear running out of the woods on the river beach dozens of steps away. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Bear!"
When this voice was shouted out, the crowd suddenly burst into shock. Many people were frightened and fled from the river to the shore. The frightened black bear noticed the refugees not far away. For these outsiders who broke into their territory, the black bear instinctively
roared at the crowd.
"Bang!" Huge gunshots resounded on the river bank. The frightened black bear turned and fled deep into the forest. Further away, several wolves who heard the gunshots also howled.
Wan Zao pushed the trigger guard of the lever rifle in his hand, and a yellow cartridge case popped out of the magazine. He leaned over, picked up the cartridge case, put it into his pocket, and shouted to the crowd: "Why panic! Keep working.
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The refugees returned to the shore with lingering fears and continued to be busy. However, because of the appearance of the bear, many people would look up and observe their surroundings from time to time. But as more and more fish were caught, laughter and laughter returned to the crowd.
The day when the salmon return is not only a festival for Beihai Town, but also a festival for the border residents in the entire outer northeastern river basin. Thousands of miles northeast of Beihai Town, on the Kandan River, a cheerful family of Hezhefeyaka people were in the river.
Fishing for salmon.
In addition to boating south to Deleng'enmu City in May and June every year, the border residents here pay a head tax to the tax collection yamen in exchange for some millet, network cables and some daily necessities at the annual Wulin Shangwu Market.
He returned home and lived a solitary life.
At this time, by the Kandan River, an ancient "Yimakan" fishing song was floating on the river.
"Ah la la la~~ah la henina~~The green sky is covered with colorful clouds, and the clouds under our feet are fishing and hunting all over the horizon. White seagulls fly over our heads, and harpoons fly on the blue river..."
When Wukambe's family of five were working happily by the river, several uninvited guests suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
This group of people all have blue eyes, high noses, flaxen hair and thick beards like dry grass. They wear northern Tatar clothing and animal skin cloaks.
At this time, these people were mooring a large sampan in the lee of the river. Three of them raised their muskets and looked around, while several others secretly lowered the rope into the river with an iron lump at one end.
Who is this? What are they doing?
Wukambe looked at these people curiously and shouted: "What do you do?"
The shouts alerted the outsiders, and with fierce looks in their eyes, three men with muskets disembarked from the boat and rushed towards Ukanbe.
Wu Kambei felt bad. He immediately said to his wife and children: "Go home quickly!" After saying that, he picked up his youngest son and rushed to the thatched cottage by the river. After telling his son not to move,
He took off his big bow from the wall, picked up a few arrows and went out.
The uninvited guests had already rushed to a position thirty steps away from him. When they saw Ukanbe about to draw his bow and take aim, they immediately raised their muskets and fired.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The sound of the gunshot alarmed the waterfowl by the river, and they flew into the air. Wukanbe felt as if someone had hit his chest with a big hammer, and he fell to the ground unconsciously.
Before, he vaguely saw the three outsiders pulling out the long knives from their waists and heading towards his home.
Wukambe's wife screamed and rushed to her husband's side, watching helplessly as her hard-earned property was looted by the bandits. The three bandits rushed into the thatched hut and rummaged through everything they could eat. Dried venison,
Dried salmon, sipping local wine brewed by Wukambe’s wife.
In the end, the bandits poured all the fish oil accumulated by the Wukanbe family onto the thatched house. In the raging fire, the home the couple had built like a swallow holding mud was burned to the ground. The fire that reached the sky reflected the surging river red.
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Amid the ferocious laughter, the bandits chopped the three children of Ukanbe alive to death with sabers, and then threw them into the Kandan River filled with fish.
Wukambe's wife tried her best to stop him, but she was no match for the tall and strong robber. Probably thinking that he had teased him enough, a robber raised his saber in a ferocious manner.
I don’t know how long it took, but several Hezhefiyaka people ran towards the scene of the accident, and several families of Oroqen people who were hunting also came after hearing the news. The fallen thatched hut was still blazing with flames, and was trampled into the muddy ground and thrown into the ground.
Wine bowls, bones, birch barrels. In the pools of blood, only the marks of the robber's riding boots were left.
Everyone stepped forward to turn Wukambe over and found that the strong man still had breath. They quickly lifted him up and ran towards the elder's house.
The sight returned to Beihai Town. Just after ten o'clock in the morning, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, who stayed in the town, braved the rain and came to a wooden fence camp in the northwest of Beihai Town. Speaking of which, this camp was built when they first arrived;
Later, as more and more refugee families moved away, this place became idle. Chen Qingsong originally wanted to convert this place into a warehouse for parking agricultural machinery and vehicles, but after the Qing court's first crusade, this place was designated as a warehouse.
Gave it to the Security Department.
The size of the entire camp has been greatly reduced compared to before. The original gate was now replaced by a wooden house. After Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng pushed the door and entered the house, under the gaze of two soldiers on duty with guns, they successively opened their doors.
He pressed his index finger on the fingerprint reader on the table until a "thank you" came out from the machine. The two sentries raised their hands in salute and allowed them to pass through the door on the other side.
After walking out of the wooden house, you can see a ten-meter-high high-power dual-band wireless base station erected in the northwest corner. The tall triangular column iron frame is Zhang Bo's masterpiece, and a base is made of cement at the bottom.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng walked through the open space and came to a prefabricated room in the northeast corner of the camp. In the room, eight young women were looking at several screens in front of them with concentration. The pictures on the screens were all about forests and towns.
, military camps, workshops, prisoner camps and docks.
This is the "eye" of Beihai Town.
Through hundreds of solar-powered wireless cameras set up in the wild, all the mountain trails, mountain valleys and valleys within a five-kilometer radius of Beihai Town are monitored. The equipment and wireless base stations in the entire monitoring room are equipped with a domestically produced set of
A six hundred kilowatt diesel generator set provides power.
This is why the three ten-man teams of Serdan, Erlu, and Hengji are currently responsible for the entire security mission around Beihai Town. In addition, Liu Sheng and the others will also send out drones for patrols every day.
, and regularly dispatch a platoon of soldiers to patrol along the line. However, if those surveillance cameras are damaged by birds and animals in the forest, they can only be replaced with new ones.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng had the idea of setting up surveillance very early, and they started making preparations almost from the time they were attacked by border residents when they first landed. The sixteen young female refugees were all selected from the earliest refugees.
After they came out, the Security Department conducted three months of secret training for them before they started to work, with eight people in a shift. Zhao Xin’s idea was to train at least 16 more people, so that eight people in a shift could watch the surveillance for six hours.
Reduces the workload by twice.
Once a situation is discovered in the monitoring room, the attendant will use the walkie-talkie to notify the nearest patrol team to intercept. In order to teach these girls to identify their directions, Zhao Xin and others spent a lot of effort.
Zhao Xin asked a girl to get out of the way, and he operated on the keyboard himself, bringing up the surveillance screen of the prisoner camp. Because of the rain today, the hundreds of Qing prisoners in the prisoner camp did not go out to work, but stayed in the camp. A wooden cigarette box made of natural cigarettes.
Zhao Xin watched for a while and asked Liu Sheng: "How is Li Dagang doing recently?"
"After I recovered from my injuries, I tried to escape from prison several times. After I found that I couldn't escape, I temporarily became honest."
"Where's that Samusu?"
"The current internal management of the prison camp is to put twelve of them in charge. They also know that they can't go back, so they still work hard."
Zhao Xin thought for a while and then said: "This time Deng Fei and the others are back, don't go out for the time being. First send these Qing prisoners to Soulengji Island to dig gold mines. This matter cannot be delayed any longer."
Liu Sheng nodded and said nothing. The two looked at it for a while and then left. When they walked outside, Liu Sheng turned around and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry to dig gold mines? Don't you have enough money now?"
Zhao Xin sighed and said: "Now I not only need to buy grain for storage, but also plan to buy a few more cargo ships. These can no longer be bought from China, as others will notice them. I had a phone call with Andrew last night and asked him to help find them. Relations. I plan to pay for all his transactions with gold. Moreover, our first batch of gold and silver coins are also being minted, and reserves must be set aside."
"What are you going to do next on the island country?"
"The severe drought next spring will affect the entire Huanghuai River Basin. According to the data, it will affect 13 provinces. Judging from this situation, the silk production in Jiangnan will be greatly affected. I plan to export a large amount of cheap raw silk and silk through Sendai Domain. Silk, firstly, to obtain funds, and secondly, to destroy the textile workshops in Nishijin, Kyoto.
In addition, in order to attract funds from the shogunate, we have to dump a large amount of cheap light industrial products, which are very rare luxuries for the people of the current island nation."
The two were walking and talking, and Liu Sheng suddenly asked: "Matches?"
"Yes, matches are just one of them. In fact, the island country is very lacking in product types. Its own resources include gold, silver, and copper, including seafood. They don't have much copper now, and the reserves of gold and silver mines are also declining year by year."
"What is your strategy towards the island country?"
Zhao Xin said calmly: "Support the northeast and suppress the southwest. As for the Tokugawa family, let them stay half-dead. If necessary, we have to go to Edo Bay and use cannons to force the shogunate to sign a trade treaty."
Liu Sheng asked curiously: "What then?"
“Use silver to get gold.”
In fact, Zhao Xin still has a secret in his heart that he has not revealed to Liu Sheng. He wants to completely cut off the mythical "Eternal Lineage" when the opportunity comes!