Chapter 271 Prelude to the Island Country Strategy
Enhai was very happy that Wei Changsheng came over to talk, but the security guard showed little interest. After chatting for a few words, the security guard left in advance. Although he was full of questions and surprises, Wei Changsheng did not ask any questions from Enhai before leaving.
Where did you hear that lyrics?
Just kidding! Eunhae hasn’t lived enough yet.
However, after Wei Changsheng repeatedly begged, Enhai finally told him the entire libretto, as well as the general singing method and tone of the libretto. He was not called "The Master of Flowers" for nothing. Wei Changsheng thought about it for a while,
He tried humming in a low voice a few more times, and he almost grasped the charm of this singing tune. After he sang it a cappella with a bright voice, everyone in the teahouse cheered in unison, and the tabletop clapped loudly!
In the later years of Qianlong, the drama genre was developing greatly. Many things in later operas had already taken shape. For example, Wei Changsheng created the danjiao head patch, and the huqin with a soft bow. And the main tune of later Peking Opera
At this time, Pihuang tune only existed in Qin tune, Han tune and Hui tune, and the real integration had not yet been completed.
In Wei Changsheng's opinion, the singing tune Enhai told him contained elements of Kun and Yi tunes, as well as some elements of Western Qin tune, Han tune and Hui tune. This was too strange! He couldn't think of this.
Besides him, who else in the world can combine the strengths of various schools to create a unique genre of opera.
Seeing En Hai's mysterious and hesitant expression, and thinking of En Hai's identity, Wei Changsheng thought that maybe this news came from the palace. It seemed that the emperor had a capable person around him.
Ah! Fortunately, Wei Changsheng had to go on stage at Guanghe Tower in the evening, otherwise he would have been able to hold Enhai and talk until the next morning.
A year later, Wei Changsheng re-processed this libretto and aria, which were different from all current genres, and turned it into an excerpt of "Qin Qiong Selling Horses", which became a huge hit on the Yangzhou stage and became a popular opera for everyone.
A must-have repertoire at every performance. It was already several years later when Wei Changsheng finally found out that this kind of singing was spread from outside the country.
My eyes turned back to Beihai Town at the end of August in the 51st year of Qianlong's reign.
Zhao Xin finally decided to take action against the island country. Through this action, he planned to completely eliminate the shogunate's thoughts on Ezo and lay the foundation for the final solution to the island country's problem.
Since Matsumae Castle was captured by Hokkai Town and the Ainu tribes last year, the Tokugawa shogunate has sent two waves of crusade with a total of 5,000 people in the first half of the year to try to recapture Matsumae Castle. Fortunately, there are members of Hokkai Town in Matsumae Castle.
A reinforced company could guard the area for a long time, but the Ainu under Tuka simply could not withstand it.
Now the entire Matsumae Castle Town has been reduced to ruins. At the beginning of the year, the shogunate issued an order prohibiting merchants from Omi from selling food and daily necessities to Ezo. If it weren't for the Thunderbolt transporting supplies to Matsumae Castle every month, picture
People like Ka have already gone back to Pingyuan Town and the mountains to continue being chiefs.
However, the supplies in Beihai Town are not given away for free. According to what Zhao Xin and Tuka agreed before, all the supplies shipped need to be exchanged by the Ainu for gold. When Tuka can no longer obtain enough natural gold ore
At that time, Deng Fei took advantage of the situation and proposed the mineral mining rights of Urup Island. For a small island, Tuka didn't care at all, so he waved his hand and transferred Urup Island, including the Ainu people on the island, to
Beihai Town.
Although the shogunate's expeditionary troops were beaten twice under Matsumae Castle and fled for their lives in panic, they still brought most of the islanders living in Matsumae Castle back to the main island. The Ainu did not do anything to produce, they only hunted all day long.
Drinking and having fun turned the peaceful castle town into a mess. Tuka was also worried that there were spies from the shogunate among the islanders, so he ignored the lives of the local residents and allowed them to fend for themselves.
On the Edo side, just as preparations for the "Third Ezo Land Expedition Team" were completed and about to set off, on August 25, the sixth year of Tenmei (1786), Tokugawa, the tenth generation general of the Tokugawa Shogunate,
Ieji passed away.
Seven years ago, Tokugawa Ieharu's eldest son Ieki suddenly passed away after a hunt at the age of seventeen. Ieharu, who had no heirs, made the eldest son of the Hitotugawa Tokugawa family, Toyochiyo, his adopted heir two years later.
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This sea dog king, who has forty wives, twenty-eight sons, and twenty-seven daughters in history, is only thirteen years old this year. Now he has ascended the throne of the shogunate and is about to become the eleventh generation shogun, that is,
Tokugawa family.
As soon as Tokugawa Ieharu died, senior Nakatanuma Yiji immediately lost power. He resigned two days later and stepped down. This pioneer who was the first to carry out something similar to the "Westernization Movement" economically in East Asia soon suffered from the liquidation of his political opponents and the public opinion.
of additional negative comments.
At this time, the budget deficit of the shogunate was bottomless, and the victims were displaced everywhere. Many farmers had only one meal of buckwheat noodles the size of a small teacup, barely surviving; small-scale uprisings occurred from time to time in various places, demanding that the shogunate and daimyo
Reduce or reduce excessive annual tribute.
Despite Tokugawa Ieki's young age, this kid's political skills are very powerful.
When the previous rulers failed to trust the people, Tokugawa Ieki urgently needed a relative who was from a clan, had prestige but could not threaten his position as a general, to help stabilize his rule or bear the responsibility for his own death.
As for Gosankyō, because it was widely rumored that no one in the Shirakawa domain starved to death during the disaster (untouchables were not counted as human beings), Matsudaira Nobusada, who was already the head of the low-end clan, happened to be the most suitable candidate.
However, according to the ancestral precepts of the Tokugawa family, since the Tokugawa clan dominates the world, it must transfer power to its retainers in an equal manner; the position of "old middle school" can only be selected among the daimyo of the genealogy, not the daimyo of the feudal family.
Served as Matsudaira Sadanobu. Although he was the head of the Hisamatsu Matsudaira family and had the status of a generational daimyo, he was also the successor of the Shirakawa clan because he was the grandson of Tokugawa Yoshimune and the seventh son of the Tian Degawa clan.
.) and encountered opposition from political opponents.
The fierce political struggle began again. As various factions within the shogunate began to compete intensively for the position of "Lao Zhong", the plan for the third expedition to Ezo was shelved.
The above is the information that Pingtai sent back to Beihai Town through Beihai Trading Company. Zhao Xin saw an opportunity in it. Once the candidate for the old man was determined, the shogunate would start to work together. In order to deal with the shortage of domestic cultivated land, they would definitely plot again.
The fertile land of Yidi.
But before setting off, Zhao Xin still has a few things to do.
He first wrote a handwritten letter, which was polished with the help of Shen Xuan and copied with a pen. No typos could be found. Then, he handed the letter to Shen Jingdan and asked him to hand over the letter when he returned to Yangzhou to pick up his family.
To a man named Wang Zhong Wang Rongfu.
The reason why Zhao Xin fell in love with Wang Rongfu was that, first, although he was very talented and learned, he did not become an official; secondly, he lost his father when he was young, and his widowed mother raised him by selling shoes. He worked as an apprentice and passed the exam.
The third is that Zhao Xin read Wang Zhong's works when he was a child.
At that time, Zhao Xin's father was "incited" by an unknown colleague. He found a copy of "Shu Xue" from the work library and forced Zhao Xin to read it during the holiday. Under the threat of his father's big slap and belt,
Zhao Xin read to death every day; there were no punctuation marks in the whole text such as "Kingdom University", "Hou Guo Primary School", "Philosophical Studies", "Xiang Xue" etc.
I looked up the dictionary and memorized the whole article like I was swallowing it.
At that time, Zhao Xin's home was only separated by a wall from his father's work, so every time Zhao Xin memorized the next article, he had to rush to his father's office to recite it silently.
Why "Hurry"? If you go late, you will forget it! Just like that, if you make a mistake in a word, you will get a slap on the palm of your hand, and then go back and recite it again. At that time, Zhao Xin rubbed his palms that were red from being slapped every day, and hid in the room at night
The one who gets scolded the most is Wang Zhong.
As time passed, some things gradually became blurred. It wasn't until Shen Jingdan and Shen Jingdan were having dinner a few days ago that they were chatting about celebrities in Yangzhou, and the other party mentioned a guy named Wang Rongfu, and Zhao Xin suddenly remembered that he had scolded him throughout the winter vacation.
Guy.
Wang Zhong's matter is still Zhao Xin's private matter; on the official side, Beihai Town opened three more junior colleges at the end of August in addition to the existing primary schools. Zhao Xin attended the groundbreaking ceremonies of the three schools.
The first is a technical school affiliated to the civil affairs department. Although the scale of agricultural machinery units in Beihai Town and Fuldan City has exceeded 100 people, it still cannot meet the requirements for large-scale mechanization. In view of this, Chen Qingsong and
After several months of private preparation, Zhao Liang finally opened the technical school.
Zhao Liang served as the principal of the technical school, and Wan Zao, Zhao Maozhu and others became part-time teachers along with more than a dozen skilled workers in the workshop. The school first opened eight professional classes, divided into agricultural machinery, car driving, mechanical repair, fitter, lathe, and milling.
, electricians, carpenters. Students are open to residents who have mastered Mandarin and can recognize and read 500 characters, regardless of gender.
The second school is the Navigation School. Liu Sheng serves as the principal, Deng Fei serves as the director of education, and Ding Guofeng and a Portuguese carpenter serve as part-time teachers. Currently, the majors offered include three professional classes: seaman, engine, and senior seaman.
The electrician and carpentry majors required in navigation are trained by technical schools. However, the seaman major alone requires a series of studies such as navigation, navigation watch and collision avoidance, navigation meteorology and oceanography, cargo transportation, ship management, ship structure and equipment, etc.
After passing the examination, you can be promoted to a senior seaman based on your service years.
The third school is the Junior Military Academy, with Zhao Xin as the principal, Wang Yuanfang, and Wu Siyu as the principal and deputy directors of education. The Junior Military Academy recruits graduates from primary schools in Beihai Town. It is mainly to train junior students in joint training and diversion majors for Beihai Town.
Reserve talents; the so-called joint training diversion refers to cultivating composite junior command officers who understand technology, can manage, and can command.
There are no majors within the Junior Military Academy. All students need to study weapons shooting, topography, intermediate and advanced mathematics and geometry, military theory, staff business, military training methods, military management, missionary education and other subjects. The entire study time is four years;
Afterwards, professional and systematic training will be carried out based on personal strengths and personality characteristics.
For the above three schools, except for the technical school, which is located in the south of Fuldan City, the Sailor School and the Junior Military School are both located on the east bank of the Xila River in Beihai Town. After the groundbreaking ceremony was completed, the construction team under the Ministry of Civil Affairs began
On-site construction is underway, and it is planned to complete the construction of classrooms and walls before the end of the tenth lunar month.
The establishment of the three schools has aroused great concern among new and old refugees. The refugees soon learned that these students not only can speak Mandarin fluently, but also read and write. It is said that they will become officials after graduation.
The monthly salary is at least ten yuan in Beihai Town silver coins.
Ten silver dollars, that’s fifty taels! If you’re interested, just think about it, be good! This is already the salary of an eighth-rank official in the Qing Dynasty.
People, there are those who are hard-working and willing to work, and there are those who are indolent. Some refugee families with daughters think that as long as they marry their daughters, they will be officials and they will be able to cultivate land and build roads!
But when they asked about it again, their hearts dropped. Zhao Xin stipulated that students in the three schools were not allowed to start a family before they were eighteen years old; anyone who dared to start a family secretly would have the community group leader, district leader, and district leader dismissed.
He said that the student himself must also be removed from the school.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival in the army, more than a hundred soldiers and officers who had taken concubines were dismissed one after another. These people were quickly organized into a security team and were forced to take their families and
The concubine went to Kuye Island and was responsible for the security and winter duty of oil fields and coal mines.
Seeing Zhao Xin's tough tactics, Li Ji, who originally thought about getting a concubine, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, thinking that he was really lucky.
Zheng Yi, Zheng Qi and Guo Po, who came to Beihai Town in confusion, took the three of them. With a wave of Zhao Xin's hand, they were sent to Beihai Town Primary School. Among the three people, except Zheng Qi who could not read Chinese characters, Zheng Yi and Guo
Both my mother-in-law and mother-in-law had attended private schools for several years, but they were still ordered by Zhao Xin to take two courses in mathematics and geometry. Zhao Xin made it very clear that he wanted to be a senior seaman, that is, to be able to drive a three-masted sailing ship or even a large iron ship.
Mathematics must be mastered.
Although it is a good thing to go to school, the daily classes are really embarrassing for the three of them; because apart from them, there are only a group of seven or eight-year-old children in the classroom. It's so embarrassing!
In early September, just three days before Zhao Xin's departure, the second and third laws of Beihai Town were issued. The second law made all the refugees confused, and they couldn't understand what the masters had come up with.
What is the use of the Regulations!
It is said that many people here in Beihai Town didn't even know what opium was before, but through this regulation, they learned that opium has two other names, aphrodisiac and longevity ointment.
Zhao Xin asked Yu Deli and Zhou Weiguo to draft and promulgate this regulation as soon as possible. Zhao Xin's idea was that instead of punishing them without teaching them in the future, it is better to take the first step. Anyway, this thing does not need to be too complicated.
The "Opium Prohibition Regulations" clearly prohibit anyone under the jurisdiction of Beihai Town from smoking, selling, and transporting opium, except for medical procurement and hospital use. The regulations also specify that "smoking and trafficking are the same crime", which is recognized by all the people across the country. In view of this
Currently, there is a shortage of population resources. Anyone who sells or smokes opium will be sent to the coal mines in Ezo to dig coal and will not be allowed to return to the mainland for life.
Another law is the "Beihai Town Resident Identity Pass Regulations". All residents of Beihai Town will receive a certificate issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. So starting from the beginning of September, every household in Beihai Town and Fuldan City will receive a certificate.
Notification: Go to the town office on a certain day to queue up to take photos to prepare photos for new IDs.
Immediately afterwards, news came from Fuldan City that dozens of people from Zak Sulu's tribe, led by Saharian's father and daughter, set out by boat in mid-July in order to avoid the Qing army's interrogation.
They landed on the south bank of Kaihu Lake, crossed the swamp, and arrived at Fuldan City in early September. This time they brought a large amount of mountain goods and animal skins, coming to do business with Beihai Town; from cotton clothes to needles, thread, grain, salt, and matches
, cigarettes, tea and even ironware, everything is needed and everything is exchanged.
Although Zhao Xin is in charge of ethnic affairs, since Wu Xiha is here, he does not need to be involved in this matter. Liu Sheng and the people from the civil affairs will naturally handle it. Now the traffic between Beihai Town and Fuldan City is smooth.
, before the heavy snow closed the mountain, it only took two days by horseback and three or four days by horse carriage.
At the same time, Pereira and his party, who came from Macau, after initial adaptation and a unified physical examination at Beihai Town Hospital, it was confirmed that their personal hygiene was just poor and they needed frequent bathing and haircuts. Director Liu Da made his face red with shame.
Pereira took two of his men and began to survey and design the future Beihai Town Harbor; while other shipwrights led other Dan family shipwrights to repair the previously captured Natalia and Nicholas.
Because both ships were British three-masted merchant ships, and the amount of wood Liu Sheng had previously purchased from Macau was very sufficient, the shipwrights immediately began repair work after the Nicholas was towed into the dry dock.
Pereira and other Portuguese and Dan people who had just arrived in Beihai Town were extremely surprised by everything here. When they were led by the civil affairs clerk to visit the two new dry docks paved with reinforced concrete, they were all shocked.
chin.
However, when the Thunderbolt returned from Bitterleaf Island with a full load of diesel, Pereira and the other Portuguese and the Dan family fishermen knelt down. They could not imagine that there could be such a big iron ship in the world.
"It has started to snow on Bitterleaf Island. We won't be able to start work in September because the pipes will be frozen. Zhang Bo and the others have been working hard recently and are preparing to cease fire and stop work in mid-September." Deng Fei looked a little tired.
.Recently he has been running back and forth between Beihai Town, Kuye Island and Ezochi, transporting back a large amount of high-quality thermal coal and diesel.
Zhao Xin patted Deng Fei on the shoulder and said: "Thank you for your hard work. After I leave, you will go to Jeju Island again. After bringing Zhang Bo and the others back, you, the director of education, will take office. There is no need to run away again this winter.
, go to class and have a good rest before talking."
On September 5th, Pan Xiucheng and Jiuzang, who were promoted to regimental commanders, led the men of the two regiments to board the ship. On the noisy dock, there were soldiers boarding the ship, family members seeing them off, and a sea of people. It was extremely noisy and lively. Looking at the people present
Everyone in the crowd was chatting and laughing, without any worries about life and death, which surprised the Dan family boatmen working on the dock.
The last major thing Zhao Xin did before leaving was to sign his name on the mobilization order. According to the previous adjustment plan, Beihai Town expanded its army again, this time the scale of the recruitment was 9,000 people.