"What? You said a Kurkhachi came and exchanged things with us?"
Zhao Xin, who had just returned to the camp, didn't bother to introduce the situation to the people he brought. He took a look at the large piece of deer skin and a pair of huge antlers that were drying in the camp. So he quickly asked someone to bring them.
Li Ji handed it over for questioning.
After Li Ji and Sheng Haizhou, who came after hearing the news, told what happened one after another, Zhao Xin was silent in thought, and asked Li Ji to call Ping Tai back who was leading people to cut trees.
Liu Sheng and five comrades stood behind Zhao Xin. The five people stared with wide eyes at the group of eighteenth-century island country refugees in front of Zhao Xin wearing labor protection cotton coats.
"Liu Sheng, tell me honestly what's going on?" Wang Yuanfang, the oldest among the five, shouted to Liu Sheng. His voice immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding refugees.
"Damn it, are these all little devils?" Another one of the five, named Deng Fei, blurted out with his eyes widened.
"Liji, go find an unoccupied tent and ask Mr. Liu and these five people to go over and wait for a while." Zhao Xin immediately ordered Liji.
Then he said to Liu Sheng and the other five people: "Everyone, I'm really sorry, I have something that needs to be dealt with right away. You go and sit down with Liu Sheng first, and he will tell you the specific situation. I'll handle it from here.
I’ll come find you when I’m done.”
After hearing Zhao Xin's instructions, Li Ji immediately bowed and saluted, and said: "Hai."
Then, Li Ji stood up and made an invitation gesture to Liu Sheng and the five others, and kept saying: "Go around, go around."
Liu Sheng couldn't help but put his arm around Wang Yuanfang's shoulders, called the other four people, and followed Li Ji to a tent.
The five people looked around the tents curiously and saw some old people and children coming out of the tents and walking towards Zhao Xin.
Liji opened the thick cotton curtain and gestured to Liu Sheng and others to come in. He went to Shino's side and asked someone to bring hot water.
after an hour.
Zhao Xin, who was sitting in the RV, didn't speak for a long time after listening to Pingtai's detailed account.
Katsu Kaishu, Heitai, who were waiting on the side, looked at each other in confusion. They didn't know if they had done something wrong again, and they didn't even dare to express their anger at this time.
Zhao Xin took the tea delivered by A Miao, took a sip, and then said slowly: "Let's do this for now. Next time that Ya'erha comes again, let Pingtai come forward. You two go and do your work first."
The two people opposite looked at Zhao Xin who was staring out the window, so they bowed and walked out of the RV. After A Miao closed the door, Sheng Haizhou and He Tai looked at each other, and both let out a long breath.
Zhao Xin held hot tea and lit a cigarette.
Yalha, who came to the camp to exchange things, surprised him. There were actually aborigines who came to Bear Island in winter, and walked all the way from the north of the island to the camp.
When he was looking for a campsite, Zhao Xin specifically chose the current location because he wanted to stay away from the Kurkhachi people for a while. Although Bear Island is deserted and a good place to hide, it is covered with hills and there are many rocks in the ground.
, not suitable for large-scale reclamation.
He and Liu Sheng's original plan was to use this place as a collection point for timber resources, wait until the late spring of the next year, and then take these refugees across the strait to the plain area on the south bank of Xingkai Lake. This is the core area of the Sanjiang Plain.
Although there are many rivers and swamps, the land is fertile. With modern planting techniques and tools, and the hard work of tens of thousands of island country refugees, there will be no problem in surviving.
Zhao Xin's idea of occupying the south bank of Xingkai Lake as a farming base was something he had considered from the beginning. From the map, this place is only more than 300 miles away from the seaside fishing village; and from the seaside fishing village, you can quickly cross the sea to reach the island country. .
The most important thing is that there are gold mines on Solanji Island, and there are also gold mines on the Kuril Islands north of Ezo. This is what he wants.
Zhao Xin did not consider the new and old Manchus and other aboriginal people, as well as the Han people exiled in the north, for the time being.
The first is the Han people who were exiled here. If they wanted to recruit these people, they would inevitably have an armed conflict with the Qing government. Because these Han people were mainly concentrated near Ninggu Pagoda and were used as slaves and laborers.
Although the Qing government only had a total of 3,000 bannermen under the jurisdiction of General Jilin, those Kurkhaqi and Feyaka people were under the management of Manchu households and could be recruited as soldiers at any time; not to mention those who were recruited by later generations. The Evenki and Daur people formed a group, and the Xibe people formed the "Solon Soldiers".
In this era, the most powerful fighting force of the Qing court and even the entire East Asia region was the Tianshan Banner Battalion composed of these Sauron soldiers.
With the previous number one, the plan to recruit local aborigines will definitely not be realized. Now the Qing government has even conducted household management for the Feyaka people on Heilong Island, and regularly collects mink skins as tribute every year.
Therefore, after the sea water thaws in spring, Zhao Xin can only pick up refugees from the island country first. During this period, he must try to avoid conflicts with the Qing court. You must know that this is the Longxing land of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. Once a conflict occurs, the Qing Dynasty will The imperial court would send troops over in a steady stream, and would even recruit Koreans to send troops over.
Even if he has a gun in his hand, he can't win with just a few modern men and more than 300 old, weak, women and children. If he keeps sending people to beat you all day long, it's a waste of time. Of gold!
Before Zhao Xin came this time, after repeated consideration, he finally decided to let his cousin stay without bringing him over. He felt that the only person around him who could completely trust him, besides Liu Sheng, was his cousin. So, before leaving, Before that, Zhao Xin asked Cheng Wei to register an ocean shipping company through an agent first, and then asked him to purchase a second-hand bulk carrier after the company procedures were completed.
(I really can’t afford the new one, it’s too expensive~~)
With Cheng Wei as the general manager, Zhao Xin no longer has to travel back and forth between modern times and the eighteenth century. For general bulk goods purchases, he only needs to send an email, and he is still responsible for key materials.
And among the five people he and Liu Sheng brought this time, one of them also worked as a chief engineer on an ocean-going cargo ship, that is Deng Fei.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xin finally remembered that Liu Sheng and the others were still in the tent.
"A Miao, go help me invite Mr. Liu and the others." Zhao Xin said to A Miao who was kneeling in the RV and mopping the floor without looking back.
A Miao agreed and was about to get up and go out when Zhao Xin stopped her again.
"Forget it, I'll go there by myself."
As soon as Zhao Xin opened the door, he saw Li Ji waiting outside the car.
"Mr. Liu, which tent are they in?" Zhao Xin asked.
"Master, please go over and take a look. They were all quarreling just now." Li Ji bowed and said.
"Oh? Take me there."
Not far away, Zhao Xin heard a loud voice coming from a tent more than ten meters away: "According to what I want, we have to fight with the Manchus. Some of us have guns, what are we afraid of?!"
Zhao Xin heard that this person seemed to be Ding Guofeng, one of Liu Sheng's comrades, but he joined the army later than Liu Sheng. Moreover, this person was very strange. He had been staying at home since he was discharged from the army. He was a type of person who was just waiting to die.
After I finished my retirement pay, I ate food from home. I had a good time in the army, but I didn't adapt at all when I returned home. It took me several years to adjust, but I still couldn't adjust.
As he got closer and closer to the tent, Zhao Xin heard what Liu Sheng was saying.
The man named Ding Guofeng said loudly: "Liu Sheng, have you become timid after being around for so many years? Brothers, let's deal with him together."
At this time, there was a commotion in the tent.
Zhao Xin followed Li Ji to the tent and saw the refugees in the surrounding tents looking around with their cotton curtains lifted.
Li Ji coughed twice quickly. When everyone turned around and saw that Zhao Xin had arrived, they all knelt down and saluted.
"grown ups."
"Okay, everyone, get up. Just do whatever you need to do, and don't gather around here." Zhao Xin said with a cold face.
"Did you hear them all? Leave them quickly, leave them all." Li Ji scolded and waved his hands to drive them away.
At this time, the cotton door curtain was lifted, and a man walked out of the tent. He was 1.75 meters tall, had short hair, and looked very capable.
"Mr. Zhao, come in quickly, I'm talking to you."
Wang Yuanfang was Liu Sheng’s squad leader when he was in the army. This man was also a strange man. He was awarded many meritorious services in the army when he carried out a five-kilometer cross-country trip with a 15-kg armed force for 17 minutes. (In the 1960s, in an all-army competition,
An airborne soldier of our army set a record of 15 minutes and 40 seconds while participating in plain cross-country. This record has not been broken even after decades.)
Unfortunately, he only had a junior high school diploma, and after he was discharged from the army, there was no place for him to display his military abilities. So after he paid off his retirement pay, he started working nights at an Internet cafe, worked as a security guard, a security team, sifted sand at a construction site, and worked as a lumberjack.
I can change five or six jobs a year.
"Let's go to the RV and talk. There are people living here, and we have to make room for them when we come back later."
"Hell, there's also an RV?" Deng Fei opened the door curtain and walked out quickly. "Where is it? I've only seen it online, but I haven't seen it in person."
This man is 1.7 meters tall, has a big head, and has a pot-head haircut. His occupation is the same as Liu Sheng's before, a seaman. When he first joined the ship, he was an engineer, and it was not until the past two years that he was promoted to chief engineer. However,
Working on a freighter for a long time is very boring. Especially for mechanics, they have to be on duty alone for a long time. After working for these years, Deng Fei felt that he was about to suffer from depression. So when he heard that Liu Sheng wanted to invite them to go abroad together to take charge
After I was offered a job as a security guard on a construction project and the salary was pretty good, I immediately agreed and resigned quickly.
At this time, Wang Yuanfang shouted into the tent: "You three, stop making trouble and come out."
The door curtain swayed, and the first person to walk out was Zhao Liang. He was the one who did metal processing that Liu Sheng mentioned before, and the factory later closed down. Zhao Liang is about 1.75 meters tall, lean and lean, and has very short hair.
Coming out from behind Zhao Liang was Wu Siyu. He was 1.78 meters tall, with disheveled hair, and was wearing glasses. According to Deng Fei, if you were a middle school dormitory administrator, you would think you were a teacher if you wore glasses!
This Wu Siyu has great ambitions, but unfortunately his journey has been bumpy. He and his wife also divorced and left home. He was almost deceived into a pyramid scheme.
The second to last one was Ding Guofeng. The last one to come out was Liu Sheng. As soon as Zhao Xin saw this guy, he knew that he had just been ravaged by everyone. His clothes were wrinkled and his hair was as messy as a chicken coop.
"Zhao Xin, I have said everything you mean." Liu Sheng ruffled his hair and complained to Zhao Xin.
"I don't know you yet." Zhao Xin dismissed this guy, knowing that he definitely didn't explain clearly.
The six people followed Zhao Xin and walked back to the RV.
When Deng Fei saw the large RV, his eyes widened and he circled around the car with a few words of praise.
The car door opened, A Miao held the door handle and said, "Master, you are back."
"Hush~~~" Several whistles sounded.
Ding Guofeng looked at the big-eyed A Miao, then at Zhao Xin, and couldn't help but murmured: "Good boy, you have a lolita..."