To be precise, there were three people who came back with Sahalian, Zamusu, a Daur headman and an Oroqen man, all in their forties or fifties.
The three of them were taken outside Zhao Xin's tent and waited for a while. Then they saw the tent curtain shaking, and two tall, beardless young men came out.
Saharian and others bowed their hands towards Zhao Xin and Wu Siyu, and saluted, making Zamusu and others look at each other for a moment; when they heard that Zhao Xin, the tallest man, was the leader of the Northern Navy, they quickly knelt down.
He fell to the ground and begged: "Please help me!"
Zhao Xin and Wu Siyu bent down to help the oldest Zamusu up, looked at Sahar and said: "What happened?"
Saharian sighed and said: "Heilongjiang City has run out of food. The officers and soldiers retreated in a hurry, leaving the old, weak, women, children and wounded soldiers in the city. There must be more than two thousand people in total."
After that, he pointed at the three Zamusu people and said: "This old brother ran out from Ravkai in the north to report the news. These two are local mayors. This one is from Daur, and this one is from Daur.
The leader of Oroqen."
"Ravkai?" Zhao Xin's eyes lit up and he quickly asked Zamusu: "Are you coming from Yaksa?"
While talking, Zhao Xin's guards brought some folding wooden chairs for everyone to sit outside the tent, and brought tea. Zhamusu and others were uneasy, and they were all at a loss in front of Zhao Xin. At this time, people nearby
The cooking team was preparing lunch, and the aroma of grease mixed with meat floated over; Zamusu couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he smelled the food, and his stomach grumbled loudly.
When Zhao Xin saw this, he immediately said to Saharian: "Are they all hungry? Then take them to eat first."
Saharian smiled and said: "I originally planned to meet you and then take them to see the Rakshasa captives."
Zhao Xin said nonchalantly: "Then let's go and watch after dinner. If you want to see anything, we'll talk about it later."
Saharian said: "Where is Heilongjiang City?"
Wu Siyu said: "Even if we provide food and send people to treat diseases, we have to enter the city. Don't you think so?"
Two hours later, when Zamusu and others, who had eaten and drank enough and had a look around the old city of Aihui, saw Zhao Xin again, they knelt down twenty meters away. Saharian and his men
Hunter Hezhe hurriedly helped them up and complained: "What are you doing? Didn't I tell you when we were eating? There is no kneeling rule in the Beihai Navy, so get up!"
Zamusu saw Zhao Xin coming over, and said to Saharian with red eyes: "I am not weak! I am kneeling for Rafkai, Yaksa, and those who died in the battle of Humar City. These days
They killed Rakshasa, they didn’t even spare women and children!”
The other two Daur and Oroqen leaders also echoed: "Yes! Before you arrived, too many people died from Humar to Aihun! When Rakshasa crossed the river two days ago, there were many people dead all morning.
More than two thousand people died!"
After saying that, the three old men knelt down again, and before Zhao Xin could understand, they kowtowed at him three times.
Zhao Xin hadn't lived enough yet, and he didn't want to lose his life, so he quickly stepped aside. After the three of them kowtowed, they stood up, listened to Saharian's translation, and said to Zamusu and the others with a smile: "Now you are all relieved.
Right? Go back and persuade your people to open the city gate, and I will send someone to bring food to you soon."
At dusk, after the persuasion of Zamusu and the other three, the north gate of Heilongjiang City finally opened.
Under the leadership of Saharian and others, hundreds of soldiers from the Northern Navy walked into the city carrying bags of grain on their shoulders. Zamusu and others led them through the inner city to outside the south gate of the inner city. The rice storage warehouse is where the grain is piled.
Along with the grain transport team, there were ten members of the Beihai Town Medical Team; the most eye-catching among them was a middle-aged man wearing a military uniform of the North Navy with a few strands of long beard under his chin. He is Wu Xianning, a descendant of the Wu family, one of the three most famous doctors in Jiangnan.
Wu Xianning has been in Beihai Town for almost three years. When he and his cousin Wu Xianhou followed Shen Jingdan to Beihai Town, they were quickly attracted by the dazzling equipment and treatment methods at Beihai Town Hospital. The two brothers were like beginners. Like a child, he asked Hong Tao and Liu Siting without shame, and within a few months they became outpatient doctors.
At the beginning of last spring, Wu Xianning returned to Jiangning and took his wife and children to Beihai Town. The biggest reason for him to do this was a casual conversation between him and Hong Tao.
It is said that Zhao Xin purchased a lot of drugs and equipment from another time and space, but in Beihai Town, these drugs are almost always provided to everyone at a loss. In addition to these, the expensive Chinese medicinal materials that Zhao Xin bought from Guangzhou are being prepared. Once the medicine is ready, it will not be expensive.
The Wu family is a medical family, with pharmacy businesses in Jiangning and even the capital. Selling medicines like Beihai Town Hospital, plus the cost of transportation and procurement, is a real loss! According to Wu Xianning's own estimation, just in borneol, musk, If the Wu family's pharmacy sells bezoar, rhino horn, ginseng and other precious medicinal materials like Beihai Town does, it will lose a hundred and ten taels of silver a month.
So after Wu Xianning endured it for a while, he finally found an opportunity to raise his question to Hong Tao: "Dean Hong, why do you sell the medicine so cheaply? Although the patient's financial burden is reduced now, you are losing money after all! How long can you keep doing this?"
Hong Tao's answer at the time was: "Mr. Wu, as a doctor, I feel that in matters of life and death, no one can rely on this to make huge profits. Even if the Bei Navy enters the customs and conquers the world, we will not rely on this to make money."
Wu Xianning was stunned by these words. It took him a while before he tried to mention what Zhao Xin thought about this matter. As the saying goes, "eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor", Zhao Xin's treatment for the Wu brothers was not low. Not to mention living for free, there are still one hundred silver dollars a month, which is equivalent to twenty taels of silver.
Hong Tao laughed at that time and said to Wu Xianning: "Mr. Wu, if he hadn't agreed, do you think I could do this?"
After Wu Xianning heard this, he went back and told his cousin Wu Xianhou. Both brothers were filled with emotion at the time, feeling that such a rebel had never been seen before.
From then on, the Wu brothers were determined to follow Beihai Town. The two returned to Jiangning last year. Not only did they bring their wives and children, they also brought seven or eight children of the Wu family with them. They are all following them at Beihai Town Hospital. study.
Now Wu Xianhou was sent to Fuldan City to take charge of the hospital there, and Wu Xianning came with him after he heard that the Northern Navy was going north for an expedition.
As soon as Wu Xianning entered the city, he was most concerned about the patients, so he was led by Zamusu, escorted by several soldiers from the Northern Navy, and took his men to the Great Buddhist Temple in the west.
As soon as he arrived at the gate of the temple, Wu Xianning smelled a strange smell. When he walked around the mountain gate, he saw that whether it was the main hall or the side hall, there were a large group of old, weak, women and children living here everywhere.
Seeing Wu Xianning and others suddenly coming in, the people in the courtyard were startled. They wanted to hide but had nowhere to hide, and were at a loss. Different from the indifference of the people in the pass, Heilongjiang City is a garrison city, which means that these old people in the temple
Except for the border residents who had fled here, most of the weak women and children were family members of the Eight Banners garrison.
Of course, the rich and powerful families all ran away, leaving behind all the lower-level bannermen. Either their families were killed in the war and they were unable to leave their homeland, or they were unable to move because the men in their families were injured. They didn’t know this.
What would a Han army that defeated Rakshasa do to them?
Zamusu loudly shouted at this time: "There is food! Pots are being set up outside the rice storage warehouse to prepare porridge!"
Good guy, as soon as I finished speaking, the people in the yard coaxed me, grabbed their pots and pans, and rushed out, for fear that I would be late and not have anything to eat. After a while, everyone in the yard left.
After that, Zamusu led Wu Xianning and the others through the main hall to the backyard dormitories. They saw that the courtyard was crowded with groaning injured people. Several monks were either feeding the injured with water, or applying medicine and excrement.
Odors, the grassy smell of unknown herbs, the stench of suppurating and rotten wounds, etc. all hit your face.
Seeing Wu Xianning and others arriving, several monks stopped what they were doing and looked at these "rebels" in the eyes of the government.
In a corner of the hospital, a middle-aged man in his forties was squatting on the ground to take the pulse of an injured Qing soldier under the light of a torch. Standing next to him were family members of the injured. Seeing the middle-aged man shaking his head
After sighing and saying a few words in Manchu, the family members burst into tears.
The middle-aged man turned around and saw Wu Xianning, who was wearing a military uniform of the Northern Navy, and was stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to step forward to speak, he saw the other man striding over, squatting next to the injured person whose pulse he had just checked, and began to check.
stand up.
The middle-aged man explained in a low voice in Mandarin: "He was hit by a Rakshasa's lead bullet. Now that the lead poison has entered his body, I'm afraid Hua Tuo will be in trouble even if he is still alive."
Wu Xianning untied the gauze on the patient's abdomen and saw that the wound had suppurated. He checked it and casually asked the middle-aged man: "Have the lead bullets been taken out?"
The middle-aged man said: "The lead bullet has penetrated deep into the abdomen, how can we remove it?"
After hearing this, Wu Xianning hurriedly said to the medical soldiers behind him: "Get ready for surgery immediately."
"Operation?" The middle-aged man on the side was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Is this possible?"
Wu Xianning stood up and asked, "Are you a doctor?"
The middle-aged man quickly raised his hand and said, "No, I only know a little about herbal medicine."
Wu Xianning heard that he spoke with a Zhejiang accent, so he raised his hands and said: "I am Jiangning Wu Xianning, whose courtesy name is Chengping. Who is my brother?"
The middle-aged man looked happy and said quickly: "I am Li Bi from Kuaiji, whose courtesy name is Wenshan. He is currently an assistant teacher at the official school of this city."
Wu Xianning was busy rescuing people and had no time to chat with the other party. He asked Li Bi to discuss with the monks of the Great Buddha Temple and quickly find an empty room. Several monks saw the soldiers of the Northern Navy holding "muskets" and did not dare to refuse.
After a lot of busy work, I freed up a Zen room.
While his men were disinfecting the room, Wu Xianning took several nurses to check the injuries in the hospital and marked them with chalk according to the severity of the injuries. Li Bi was curious and asked for a piece of chalk to follow Wu Xianning.
help.
Wu Xianning saw that there were too many injuries in the backyard, all mixed together, making it difficult to treat them, so he asked monks to help. All the lightly injured people who had the triangle mark on their clothes were transferred to the military field north of the Great Buddha Temple, and two more were arranged.
The medics followed.
After all this work, the disinfection in the Zen room was completed and the temporary operating table was set up. Due to the limited conditions, Wu Xianning did not care about anything else. He put on a mask and a light blue surgical gown and began to treat the injured.
He was busy until late at night, performing one operation after another. By the time he came out of the temporary operating room, his legs were so tired that he didn't even want to say anything.
It was said that Wu Xianning was busy with the operation, and Li Bi couldn't help. He looked outside the operating room for a while, but couldn't figure out the reason. When he heard that porridge was being given in the rice warehouse, he felt empty; he
I had had a bowl of rice soup since morning, so I hurried there.
Heilongjiang City is a military fortress, and most of the facilities inside and outside the city are to meet military needs. The granary in the garrison city has always occupied an important position, and is used to supply the army and the people during wars or special periods.
The rice storage warehouse located outside the south gate of the inner city has a total of fifteen warehouses, and the storage barn has a height of 230 warehouses. In addition, there are more than 400 storage warehouses two miles south of the city.
The third line of defense prepared by Eledimbu was located in the area of rice storage warehouses and barns, so it was very convenient for the Qing army to take away almost all the food here when they retreated.
When Li Bi came, he could see bonfires and torches from a distance, illuminating the night-shrouded rice warehouse compound like daylight. More than a dozen large iron pots were lined up in a row. Men, women, old and children were holding bowls and holding basins in a row.
He walked slowly forward, but no one spoke. He felt strange, so he walked over. Unexpectedly, he was still more than twenty steps away from the iron pot when he heard someone next to him say: "Mr. Li, you can't do it!"
Those who don’t line up will get a stick!”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Bi turned around and saw that it was the parent of a student in the official school, so he stopped and asked: "What's the truth?"
The person who spoke bowed to Li Bi and said, "You have to go over there to get the sign first. After you get the sign, come back and line up."
Li Bi nodded, then turned around and walked towards where the man pointed out. The place to receive the sign was under a mat tent. A guy wearing a military uniform of the North Navy who looked like a clerk was sitting there, and behind him were several people from the North Navy.
Soldier.
"I'll get the sign." Li Biyi said, cupping his hands.
The clerk raised his head and said: "Hey, it's not easy to speak Mandarin. Han Chinese or...?"
Li Bi hurriedly said: "Han people, I am from Zhejiang."
"Oh. What for?"
Li Bixin said it was like he was checking household registration with Baojia, but he still said that he was teaching in a government school.
After that, the clerk asked about his age and whether he had any family members. He wrote it on a booklet, then took out a cardboard card, wrote Li Bi's name and age on it, handed it to him, and said: "One day
There are three meals, and each meal can only be received twice."
Li Bi took the card in confusion, and saw that in addition to his name and age on the top, there were squares marked with black lines on the bottom, with six squares in each row, and there were ten rows in total on the card.
"Only ten days?"
The clerk grinned and said, "There's more on the back."
Li Bi turned over the card and suddenly realized what he was doing. He bowed his hands and said thank you, then turned around and went to queue. When it was his turn, the person in charge of serving porridge saw that he didn't have a bowl, so he took another pair of bowls and chopsticks and filled the porridge.
Give it to him. Li Bi originally thought it was an ordinary bowl of brown rice porridge, but it turned out to be thick white rice porridge, which surprised him.
He had been a county magistrate and knew how to distribute food for charity, but I had never heard of anyone using good white rice to cook porridge for charity.
In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign, the Gansu case of stealing food from the government via aid, which was later known as "the first major corruption case in the Qing Dynasty", occurred. The case involved the governor, chief envoy and more than 100 officials at the provincial, state, government and county levels.
Nearly three million taels of stolen silver were recovered, which affected Zhili, Shengjing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan and other provinces. It shocked the whole country. Even Emperor Qianlong exclaimed that the case was "an unprecedented and strange case of corruption."
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Li Bi was sentenced to death in prison because he embezzled more than 20,000 taels of silver in this case. Later, because of his atonement in suppressing the "Su Shisan Rebellion", he was sentenced to death in August of the 47th year of Qianlong's reign.
His sentence was commuted and he was exiled to Heilongjiang together with 38 other criminals.