While Zhao Xin and others were busy dealing with Tsarist Russia, everyone in Beihai Town was not idle either.
The power plant was busy installing units for debugging, while Chen Qingsong continued his farmland water conservancy project in Fuldan City; Zhao Liang led a group of Henan blacksmiths to work on his military-industrial steel complex; Fang Hua became his indispensable help
.
Hong Tao's medical clinics located in various residential communities are busy vaccinating adults and children against smallpox; Wang Zhenyi's father has now become the second-in-command of the imaging department of Beihai Town Hospital, and is likely to succeed Father Ma. This makes Macarius
Feeling the crisis. As the news of the Northern Navy's defeat of the Rakshasa came back, Father Ma had been feeling a little depressed recently.
After Pereira completed the blueprint design, he has now begun the construction of the military port in the eastern part of Beihai Town. People from the power plant will sometimes go there to help; Deng Fei is currently in charge of the navigation school and supervises the renovation of the three sailboats snatched back from Tsarist Russia; Ding
Kunamine became the captain of the transportation team, leading a group of trainee crew members to frequently travel to Kuye Island, Ezo, Sendai Domain, Minami Kyushu and other places.
Wang Zhenyi followed Lao You in school to complete junior high school mathematics in another time and space; A Miao continued to take King Duofu around, wondering when Zhao Xin would send someone to pick her up; Miss Shen was depressed and waiting to get married.
On weekdays, I go to school to give literacy classes to the children for half a day, and spend the other half of the day at home with my adoptive mother.
It is said that after the Qingming Festival, Beihai Town's troops at Sheyang Lake were divided into two groups: one group was led by Xu Dayong and went to the "Nanba Old Forest" at the junction of the three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Chu. The other group was led by Wang Changsheng.
to Shandong.
Wang Changsheng was originally sent by Zhao Xin to contact the Cai family in Guangzhou, but later Xu Dayong sent a telegram to ask for instructions, saying that it would be more suitable for Wang Changsheng to go to Shandong with his connections with the Cao Gang. Zhao Xinlue thought about it and agreed to Xu Dayong's request. Shen Jingdan listened
After talking, he applied to Zhao Xin, saying that he happened to have several past business relationships in Guangdong and wanted to try to make a breakthrough. So he landed from Northern Jiangsu in May and went to Guangzhou instead of Wang Changsheng.
In mid-April, Wang Changsheng and his party of more than a dozen people made sand boats from northern Jiangsu to Jiaodong, and then went to Wendeng County. In addition to people from Beihai Town, there were also several Caogang people who were born in Wendeng.
The Wendeng area has both mountains and seas, not to mention little arable land, and a lot of saline-alkali land. It has been the least developed area in Shandong since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Even if the local farmers work a hundred times harder, the grain they produce in a year is only 100 kilograms per mu. After deducting
The amount of imperial grain and seeds left was less than that of an inferior household in western Shandong.
Contrary to what many people in later generations believed, after the severe drought that affected six provinces in the 50th year of Qianlong's reign, the popularity of sweet potatoes and corn in the Central Plains was still not high. It is said that China's population surged during the Qianlong period, and it was only possible to feed such a population with sweet potatoes.
What many people said is completely untrue!
In fact, starting from the late Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi, Jin Xuezeng and others promoted sweet potato cultivation in Shandong; in the 50th and 51st years of Qianlong's reign, it was promoted to the level of official promotion.
However, even so, when farmers know about the sweet potato crop, it does not mean that they will regard it as a major food crop. Agricultural production has been a complex systematic project from ancient times to the present, consisting of different crops through crop rotation and multiple planting, etc., forming a
A complete crop planting system is the core of agricultural production!
This is different from the introduction of a new vegetable variety. If a new staple food wants to be integrated into or even change the planting system of the entire region, it means breaking the planting system that has been formed for thousands of years in the feudal era. The climate, soil and even farmers' planting habits have to be changed.
Make big changes.
As a famine-relief crop, the conditions for sweet potatoes to be integrated into the crop planting system of the Central Plains are far from being met. In fact, not only did the promotion in the fifty years of Qianlong fail to achieve results, but throughout the Qing Dynasty, sweet potatoes only formed in central and southern Shandong.
Middle-producing area. In another time and space, until the 1950s, sweet potatoes were still not cultivated on a large scale in Shandong.
For farmers in the Central Plains, millet and wheat are their staple foods in spring, summer and autumn, and sorghum is the staple food in winter. In terms of caloric value of food, 100 grams of sorghum rice is 360 calories, and 100 grams of potatoes or sweet potatoes are only 360 calories.
How many?
(Wake up! Those who are willing to travel through time. Even if you bring potatoes and sweet potato seeds to ancient times, farmers will not buy it. For all kinds of tyrants who want to fill the stomachs of the world with potatoes, first find out what caused the Great Famine in Ireland.
Something happened.)
After Wang Changsheng and his party of six arrived in Wendeng County and found a place to stay, the Cao Gang members took the people from "Xujiazhuang" and went deep into the markets and restaurants of various villages, towns, and restaurants in Wendeng County and Rongcheng County to spread the news.
"Have you heard? There will be several big ships parked at the entrance of Sanggou in early June. They say they are taking people to farm outside the customs. Those who are willing to go will be given fifty acres of land when they get off the ship!"
"real?"
"It's absolutely true! I lied to you about this." The speaker extended his thumb and middle finger and made a bastard gesture.
This news spread quickly through the people who took advantage of it, and within half a month it spread all over Dengzhou Prefecture. The more it was said, the more evil it became.
Fifty acres of land became eighty acres. In addition, the land was divided among wives, houses, possessions, horses and cattle. During this period, many middle-aged people appeared inexplicably. Those who wanted to go only had to follow the middle-aged people.
People will draw and press their fingerprints, and then the winner will take the registered people to the seaside where they will board the boat. When they get off the boat outside the customs, they will receive fifty coins.
Wang Changsheng also worked hard. In order to attract people to Beihai Town, he used all kinds of methods. He and his men developed those people together. As long as he signed one for each sign and took it to the beach to board the boat, he could get it.
Fifty dollars.
As of the 52nd year of Qianlong's reign, according to official statistics from the Qing court, the total population of Dengzhou Prefecture had exceeded 3 million, and the number of households exceeded 500,000. The area of cultivated land under its jurisdiction was 7.07 million acres, with per capita cultivated land of nearly 5 acres, and the reclamation coefficient was only
A pitiful 26%, which means that Dengzhou is mountainous and rocky, and three-quarters of the area is completely unsuitable for farming.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, the Wendeng area has always been a cultural and educational place in Jiaodong. There were many scholars and scholars, and land annexation was very serious. The life of the common people was very miserable.
So when the idea of "go outside the customs and give fifty acres plus fifty cents" came out, it immediately triggered a craze in Wendeng and Rongcheng. After the poor people confirmed that the news was true, they made dry food one after another.
, pack up belongings.
The person in charge of Rongcheng County's "people recruitment project" was an intelligence officer named Yu Shun in the Beihai Town intelligence system. He was from Henan. In the 49th year of Qianlong's reign, he defected to Sheyang Lake Farm, and later joined the Beihai Navy and joined the Fu
The Battle of Erdan City; he was finally selected by Lu Shoushan and entered the intelligence system. After several months of training, he was transferred to Xu Da's subordinates.
The progress on Yu Shun's side was very smooth. By mid-May, the number of people reporting from villages and towns under Rongcheng had exceeded 5,000. Most of them were young and strong, with few women, old people and children. These people were all reported.
If it’s true, I’ll take my wife and children with me. If it’s false... forget it, just accept your fate!
When the number of Yu Shun's people grew to 6,000, and they moved in waves towards Sanggoukou Bay in the south of Rongcheng County, thousands of people were killed because there was a widow who had eloped and several escaped slaves among them.
The siege by armed villagers caused an uproar in Rongcheng County, and Yu Shun himself was imprisoned.
Shandong is the birthplace of Confucian culture, and the ethics constructed by Confucianism influenced the formation of the folk custom in Shandong during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that "men should be loyal and trustworthy, and women should be chaste and obedient."
The problem is that some girls start observing the festival in their teens or 20s for decades. They not only have to endure the loneliness of observing the festival, but also have to bear certain family responsibilities and obligations. However, the practice of the festival by a chaste woman is sometimes not complete.
Supported by her husband's tribe, some tribesmen may even plunder the property of a chaste woman.
The person who caused trouble for Yu Shun was a young widow named Xu, who was just sixteen years old this year. Her husband's surname was Bi, who died two years ago and had no children. This girl originally wanted to live a happy life, but she repeatedly
She was bullied by her husband's family, and because her husband's family was quite powerful in the local area, she had no way to seek help.
Ms. Bixu was young and her husband's family was poor. Finally, she was forced to go to her husband's grave outside the village and hang herself. Unexpectedly, she was saved by a salesman named Li from a neighboring village. Li salesman saw her beauty and moved.
Thoughts: After the death of Mr. Bi Xu, he was reborn. When he saw Mr. Li's handsome appearance, and was coaxed by the sweet words in the conversation, he was immediately fascinated.
When the two of them decided to live together privately and were worried about what to do in the future, the news came that Yu Shun was recruiting people. So Bi Xu secretly absconded and pretended to be husband and wife with Li Guolang, and got into the crowd. Unexpectedly, the two of them
It happened to be seen by a tenant of the Bi family who was watching the fun, and that's what happened.
When the clan members of Miss Xu's deceased husband found out that the chaste women in their family had broken the rules and eloped with others, they called their clan members and tenants, and armed with rakes and sticks, they surrounded the group led by Yu Shun.
If this is another human trafficker or someone who comes to recruit people for work, they can only admit that they are unlucky when encountering such a rare thing, pay the money, admit their mistake, and hurry up to get the job done. The problem is that the Bi family members are open-mouthed, trying to blackmail people, and they can only open their mouths.
Of course Yu Shun couldn't agree to a hundred taels.
When the two sides were in a stalemate, the family of a squire named Ding from Wendeng County also came with people. He said that among the people they brought were his runaway slaves, and they wounded their master and escaped. After some identification, they
They were indeed found, and the two domestic slaves finally admitted, saying that Squire Ding's family was too strict. Whenever they bought slaves, they would first scold and then beat them until they were completely numb, and then let them do things.
According to the "Laws of the Qing Dynasty", it is natural for the people to capture fugitive slaves, and the government will protect them. Moreover, whether a slave has a red or white contract, if he beats his parents or their elders, even if he is not injured, he will be punished with a hundred canes and three years of imprisonment; if he is injured, he will not be punished.
When asked whether it is important or not, a hundred sticks can travel three thousand miles.
Faced with the besieging of thousands of villagers, Yu Shun kept calm and finally agreed to pay fifty taels to each family, and then set up two banquets at a restaurant in Rongcheng County to apologize.
Fifty taels is a lot, and can buy several thousand kilograms of grain. At present, one stone of wheat in Shandong is only 1.5 taels, and millet and sorghum are not even one tael. The problem is that Yu Shun is anxious to get out of trouble, and he can’t wait, so what he takes out is not
Ordinary silver ingots, but Beihai Town’s standard silver bars.
Indeed, the appearance of the standard silver bars in Beihai Town is really attractive, and it is so bright that it can reflect the silhouette of people, but no one in Dengzhou Prefecture, or even in the whole of Shandong, has ever seen such pure silver. Be it from the Bi family or the Ding family.
No matter how people see such rare silver bars, they all become greedy.
So the two families insisted on dragging Yu Shun to Rongcheng County Yamen to see an official because he was a local squire. How could they go?
The argument turned into a fight, and during the pushing and shoving, Yu Shun saw that someone was trying to tie him up with a rope, and he couldn't care anymore. He took out his revolver and fired a shot into the sky.
Although Yu Shun was talking to these people in a friendly manner, he was actually extremely crazy in his heart. Yu Shun felt that Beihai Town was behind him, and the imperial army had beaten him up several times. What the hell are you squires and landlords doing?
!
But what surprised him was that although these villagers were startled by the gunshots at first, their reaction became even more intense. They swarmed up and killed Yu Shun like ants, and tied up Yu Shun with three strikes.
Already.
In the folk fighting in the Qing Dynasty, villagers often made their own muskets, and the sound of gunfire was no stranger to these people. The government banned the use of cast iron to make guns, so they used solid bamboo wrapped with iron wire as barrels; it was useless for rebellion, but
It's best for fighting. To the west of Wendeng is Qixia Mountain, and there are many people who have hunted with native guns.
Yu Shun was dumbfounded now. He only had five bullets left in his gun. There were thousands of people around. Who should he hit? It would be even more troublesome if he did.
After being tied up, all the silver bars and money he had on him were divided up by the Bi family and the Ding family. The farmers who followed him to Sanggoukou Bay dispersed in a hurry. When they arrived at the Rongcheng County Government Office, even the county magistrate was gone.
When he didn't see it, he was immediately thrown into jail on the charge of "possessing firearms with evil intent."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The companions who escaped during the chaos ran to Wendeng County overnight. Wang Changsheng was shocked when he learned about it. There were only a dozen of them, and they were not familiar with the place. If they went
Rongcheng was managed from top to bottom and was bullied.
What if you want to rob a prison? Don't be ridiculous. After firing more than a dozen pistols and more than a hundred rounds of ammunition, your plan to lure people to Beihai Town will be ruined.
After thinking about it, Wang Changsheng decided to prepare with both hands. He first sent people back to Sheyang Lake and sent a report to Beihai Town for help; then he took two members of the Cao Gang to Rongcheng to inquire about the news and try to rescue him.
After more than ten days and more than ten thousand dollars spent, there was no progress in Rongcheng. Just when Wang Changsheng was waiting for news from Beihai, an accident happened.
At noon in late June of the lunar calendar, Deng Fei piloted the Thunderbolt, together with Beihai No. 1 and No. 2, and arrived at the ocean outside the mouth of Sanggou in the southeast of Rongcheng County, the easternmost part of Shandong. Then the three ships continued northward, and soon
It was discovered by the Qing army beacon tower located at Chengshanjiao Yuchiwan.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty had a Dengzhou naval front camp in Shandong, which took charge of the coastal areas of Shandong. It was divided into three floods, Dengzhou flood, Jiaozhou flood, and Chengshan flood; and Yuchiwan was where Chengshan flood was stationed. Yongzheng 12
In the year of Qianlong, Chengshan Guard was promoted to Rongcheng County. In the first year of Qianlong's reign, the Qing government built a naval camp south of Rongcheng and northwest of Mashan, and established the Chengshan Garrison Office, with one garrison person, one Qianzong, one General, and one General.
There are two hundred soldiers, two sailing boats, and two double-canopied stern boats.
Zheng Yi, the trainee captain of Beihai No. 1, looked through the telescope and saw that the Qing troops under the beacon tower were already in a mess. After a minute, the beacon tower had not been lit yet.
"What a bunch of rubbish!" Zheng Yi was ridiculing in his heart. He was about to ask Deng Fei through the walkie-talkie if he could fire the cannon. Suddenly, he heard the "booming" sound of cannons coming from the thunder, and the surroundings of the beacon tower instantly burst into flames and filled with smoke.
A few minutes later, when Zheng Yi raised his telescope to observe again, he saw that the beacon tower had turned into a pile of rubble.
Subsequently, three assault boats capable of carrying 16 people were slowly lowered from the deck of the Thunder, and a platoon of the North Marine Corps began to land.
Their goal was to open a landing site and measure the water depth at the Qing Army Water Camp Dockyard located in Yuchichi Bay, so that Beihai No. 1 and No. 2 could dock. As the next two platoons landed one after another, more and more people wearing camouflage military uniforms
, the soldiers of the Northern Navy, whose skin color was blown red and black by the sea breeze, began to appear on the coast. An hour later, Deng Fei also came ashore with his guard squad.
Another hour later, when Beihai No. 1 and No. 2 began to park in the fish pond bay, the local garrison of the Qing army finally appeared in the sight of the Beihai Navy.
Deng Fei held up the telescope and observed for a long time, and finally determined that this group of people only numbered about a hundred people. Except for the military attache on the horse, the rest of the Qing troops were wearing shabby clothes! If it weren't for the words written on the chest of their uniforms,
Words, no one would think that these are the local green battalion troops.
When these guys tentatively approached and were still 400 meters away from the temporary position, the Marines opened fire. To Deng Fei's surprise, the Qing army turned around and ran away as soon as they heard a few gunshots. A few minutes later
, except for an unlucky man who was shot in the thigh and yelled "Ouch" in the distance, no Qing army could be seen.
Deng Fei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "What the hell is this Green Camp?"