Zhao Xin keeps his word. Since Ivan Jacobi has the courage to covet Heilongjiang, he should be prepared to have his claws chopped off.
In fact, after he learned how the Northeast was gradually eroded by Tsarist Russia in another time and space, he hated Tsarist Russia and the Manchus. This is why he insisted that the Northern Navy must break out of the country and occupy the entire Eastern Siberia. Of course
, this is also related to his understanding of Tsarist Russia’s trade policy towards China.
Since the rise of mercantilism in the 15th century, Europe has gone through two periods: the early period of "heavy money" - a period in which currency was used as the standard for measuring national wealth, and the period of "trade balance theory" in which the development of industry and foreign trade was used.
Although the British Industrial Revolution had broken out at this time and began the transition from mercantilism to classical liberalism, Tsarist Russia, the oldest empire, was still in the era of mercantilism.
Starting from Peter I, Tsarist Russia’s trade policy with China was based on the trade balance theory. As of 1784, the year before Qianlong stopped trade with Kyakhta, the transaction volume between the two parties that year exceeded 6.08 million rubles (one ruble
The silver content is 28 grams), and the tariff is as high as more than 1.4 million rubles, accounting for 9% of the total foreign trade of Tsarist Russia.
In another dimension of history, the Russians were able to sell Alaska due to their defeat in Crimea. Zhao Xin felt that as long as trade can be re-opened and exceed previous levels, allowing the capitalists of Tsarist Russia to taste the sweetness, there will be less Eastern Siberia.
It's nothing. Moreover, he wants to get Alaska directly through this time.
Not to mention that there is not even an inch of land to spare, the hands of the emerging bourgeoisie in Tsarist Russia are already bloody. As long as they have money, who needs a soul?
Besides, the strategic focus of Tsarist Russia during this period was not East Asia, but Central Asia and Poland. From Catherine II to her great-grandson Nicholas I, everyone dreamed of drinking from the Mediterranean Sea and flying the double-headed eagle.
The flag was planted in Constantinople until the disastrous defeat in the Crimean War.
After the Northern Navy completes the strategic encirclement of the Qing Dynasty and occupies the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, will it be able to have a foothold in Central Asia? Zhao Xin feels that this matter is very promising, and it feels wonderful when he thinks about it.
Although Eastern Siberia is extremely cold, the freezing period of Lake Baikal is very late. It usually does not start to freeze until January of each year. After Liu Sheng and his second group of troops arrive, the Northern Navy will divide its forces into two groups, one group and one group.
Go south to capture Kyakhta, and go all the way east to capture Irkutsk.
During his stay in Verkhnokhnudinsk, after Zhao Xin got in touch with Beihai Town, he learned that the first batch of 3,000 immigrants from Beihai Town heading north had set off from Xingkai Lake and their destination was Heilongjiang City.
In the past half year, Chen Qingsong has been in charge of agricultural development in Fuldan City, while Wang Yuanfang is in charge of the army, so Deli is currently responsible for the daily administrative affairs of Beihai Town.
In addition, he also learned another thing, that is, there have been several waves of guests coming to Beihai Town recently, which is very lively. Among them are those from the Manchu and Qing dynasties, some from the Li Dynasty, and some who are chased by the Manchu and Qing dynasties and are almost nowhere to be found.
The remaining members of the Tenchihui who fled included members of the Choshu clan and even a French fleet.
Let’s talk about the French fleet first. Their purpose is the simplest, which is exploration.
This expedition had a total of two ships, the Astrolabe and the Compass, both three-masted sailing ships of 300 tons, with a total crew of 114 people.
The Count de La Perouse, who led the team, was ordered by King Louis XVI and Admiralty Marquis de Castries three years ago to lead an expedition around the world. The goal of the expedition was to complete James Cook's voyage to the Pacific.
Explore, revise and improve the map of the area, establish trade connections, and open up new sea routes.
They set out from Brest, a port in western France, on August 1, 1785. The accompanying crew included an astronomer and mathematician, a geographer, a botanist and physicist, and three naturalists.
scientist and three painters.
Count Laperouse's fleet sailed around Cape Horn and went to Chile. He then went to the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, California, Macao, Manila and the Korean Peninsula. After that, they arrived at Datomari Town in the south of Kuye Island.
, visited the mayor of Beihai Town, Jiang Tenglin, who was stationed here. From this, he learned that Ezo Island, Kuye Island and the four southern islands of the Thousand Islands are all the territory of Beihai Town.
So they had to stop their plan to explore Kuye Island, go north to Okhotsk for a tour, and then return to Dabo Town. After some pleading and back-and-forth communication, Beihai Town agreed to their visit;
After all, Liu Zheng's relationship with the French during the Thirteenth Line was pretty good for most of the six months.
As a digression, the Count of La Perouse's full name is François de Gallo. This man fought against the British in North America during the Seven Years' War and defeated British frigates in the West Indies.
, was promoted to brigadier general. At the same time, he was also the first European to land on the Hawaiian island of Maui. In order to commemorate him, later generations named the crater on the front of the moon after La Perouse.
In the history of another time and space, according to eyewitness confirmation, Count Laperouse's fleet ran aground in the Solomon Islands in 1790, and the survivors were massacred by the indigenous people on the island. After that, the survivors built a small boat and left
The island was never heard from again.
From the moment the French arrived at the sea five kilometers south of Beihai Town, they were stunned by one thing after another.
First of all, the pilot boat dispatched from Whale Bay aroused great curiosity among French sailors. Beihai Town did not have a specialized small pilot boat, so the 4,000-horsepower tugboat that Zhao Xin bought with the Thunder was used as a pilot boat.
Not to mention the French, few people in the world in this time and space have seen such a ship. Looking at the tugboat without sails and oars, making a rumbling sound, effortlessly dragging the Astrolabe and Compass towards Whale Bay.
, the Frenchmen on the two ships immediately became less scornful of the Orientals.
When they entered Whale Bay, their eyes and jaws were shocked. The cranes made of thick logs and steel, the reinforced concrete trestle, and the three-story port management office all shocked the French for a long time.
Speechless.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Count Laperouse and the scientists on board were naturally welcomed by Deng Fei and his party, but when the sailors disembarked later, something embarrassing happened to the French
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When a French sailor walked near the carriage that picked them up, he suddenly felt a tightness in his lower abdomen, so he looked around hurriedly and found a gray pillar like a log not far away. The guy rushed to the pillar in three steps and two steps.
Just as he was about to take out the tool and prepare to solve the "three urgent problems", an extremely sharp whistle came from behind.
A short security policeman wearing a red sleeve band spit out the whistle from his mouth and said loudly: "You will be fined ten yuan for defecation in the public place! Pay for it!"
Holding on to the concrete telephone pole, the sailor with a cheerful expression thought to himself: What is this Asian man talking about? No matter, wait until I finish draining the water first.
"Hey! You dare to continue peeing after I rebelled against you!" After that, the security policeman took out the handcuffs and clicked them on the wrist of the sailor who was holding the guy up.
The French sailor was shocked and shouted: "What are you doing? What law have I broken?"
The little security guard pointed to a small house painted light blue behind the sailor and said: "The toilet is right over there. If you don't go there, you urinate under the telephone pole. Are you a dog?"
The noise alarmed the earl, Deng Fei and others who were waiting to set off. Fortunately, Deng Fei's French was not bad, so when the earl and his party learned what had happened, they all showed great curiosity, and several accompanying scientists even went there in person
I tried the public toilets and gave a thumbs up when I came out, saying that Beihai Town is so civilized and advanced.
As soon as other people heard about it, they lined up to try it out.
The reason for this is that we have to talk about the public toilets in France in the 18th century. In fact, in Europe at this time, not to mention public toilets, even private toilets were not available to many people.
The famous Palace of Versailles had no public toilets at all, so the courtiers had to solve problems on the stairs or in the corridors. Generally, vases or fireplaces were their best choices to hide from others. It is said that the female relatives of the Palace of Versailles would say a code word when they wanted to be convenient.
"I'm going to pick some flowers", and then walked to the garden to solve the problem. Anyway, they have big skirts and skirts to cover them, so they won't be exposed.
There are many people in the palace, so naturally there will be a lot of feces and farts. What should I do if the vase cannot fit in the garden? The royal family’s approach is very simple! If the Palace of Versailles stinks, go and live in the Louvre. If the Louvre stinks, go and live in Fontainebleau.
Fontainebleau stinks, the Palace of Versailles over there has been cleaned up, and we can move back here.
So don’t be envious of Rococo. Behind the gorgeous, slender and brisk style of palace furnishings are full of shit traps, and “landmines” are everywhere.
The "private toilet" of ordinary people is the toilet bucket of their own home. After that, they carry the bucket and pour it directly out of the window. Even Louis XIV was dumped by a boy's urine during a private visit incognito. This goes
The habit of throwing feces and urine outside the windows continued for several years. It was not until Louis XVI could not bear it anymore that he issued a ban. Unfortunately, it had little effect, so the king took a step back and said that pouring is allowed, but you must first shout "Watch the water" three times.
"(Gare à l\u0027eau), you can only pour it down after making sure there is no one downstairs.
Gradually, people no longer poured out of their windows because they discovered that they could pour into the suburbs or into the Seine River.
In this time and space, the streets of Paris are filled with excrement and water, and even the Seine River is stinking to the sky. Baba has piled up a high ground on the outskirts of Paris. You can climb the city wall of Paris by stepping on the dung pile. The king had to build the city wall of Paris.
Increase height.
It was not until the mid-19th century that poor urban sanitation caused a large-scale cholera epidemic that Napoleon III decided to build a sewer system in Paris.
So you can understand why the French are so surprised. They have never seen public health facilities like Beihai Town throughout the world.
After that, Deng Fei paid a fine of 10 yuan for the sailor, and the Frenchman boarded the carriage and was taken to the hotel in Whale Town next to the port to check in. As soon as the Frenchman entered the hotel room and saw the furnishings in the room, he suddenly
There was another round of yelling.
Count Laperouse was extremely shocked. He did not expect that the Seris people had become so developed that even showers and toilets were connected to the room.
The reason why Deng Fei didn't take them to Beihai Town to settle down was not because he was afraid of revealing any secrets, but because these people were so stinky! Even Count Laperouse hadn't taken a bath for more than half a year, and when he got off the ship
He also sprayed a lot of perfume and almost knocked out Deng Fei who was shaking hands with him!
Deng Fei was busy receiving the smelly French people in Whale Town, while Yu Deli received the Li Dynasty envoy in Beihai Town.
The size of Li Chao's envoy group this time was much larger than last time, with a total of more than twenty people. In addition to Li Shangyi, Li Douhuan and Kong Xiaoyuan who came last time, the leader was a civil servant named Cai Jigong.
This Cai Jigong is 68 years old, comes from a southern family, and is now the leader of the Li Chaonan People's Party.
Eight years ago, after the fall of Hong Guorong, the powerful minister of the Li Dynasty, because the atmosphere in the court was unfavorable to Cai Jigong, he was afraid that he would be liquidated by the opposition, so he went to Mingde Mountain near Seoul and hid for eight years, even though Li Zuo appointed him many times.
He did not go to his post, and was not recalled to the Central Government until the beginning of this year by Li Zuo. He was originally asked to serve as an envoy to the Ping'an Army. Unexpectedly, Cai Jigong was extremely supportive of the alliance between Li Dynasty and Beihai Town, and volunteered to be an envoy to Beihai Town.
They came this time under the entrustment of King Li Zu of North Korea, and wanted to renegotiate with Zhao Xin the issue of ownership of the southern foothills of Changbai Mountain and the land south of Jiangyuan, as well as the long-term occupation of Jeju Island by Beihai Town.
In fact, ever since the news of the Northern Navy's occupation of Ninggu Pagoda reached the Li Dynasty, Li Zhen could no longer sit still; after all, what Zhao Xin once said to Kong Xiaoyuan made Li Zhen so angry back then.
Now that the Northern Navy has occupied Ninggu Pagoda, Hunchun will soon become its possession. In this way, the matter of territory cannot be avoided. At that time, Li Chao and Dai Qing played a trick and even deceived the people into occupying the pagoda.
They had secured a large piece of territory, but Zhao Xin pointed out the truth. If he really refused to admit it, instead of being pinned to the ground and ravaged by Zhao Xin's troops, it would be better to admit it first.
As Zhao Xin's plenipotentiary representative, Yu Deli and Cai Jigong had a cordial and friendly conversation.
Cai Jigong first expressed King Li Zuo's congratulations to King Zhao for conquering Ninggu Pagoda, and then recalled the history of friendship between Ming Dynasty and North Korea in the pre-Ming Dynasty. After expressing his feelings, he went straight to the topic.
"Sir, the attitude of our king is that if Beihai Town sends its troops south to expel the Manchu and Qing Tatars, our country will fully support it in terms of manpower and material resources. However, regarding the land south of the Yangtze River, can we wait for a while?
?Our country has invested a lot of manpower and material resources there and has been developing it for more than seventy years. If it withdraws, where will the settled people go? After all, our country is also a vassal of the Ming Dynasty!"
Yu Deli's answer was straightforward: "Mr. Cai, let's put aside the issue of vassalage for now. We have no intention of compromising on the territorial issue. The south of Jiangyuan and the southern foot of Changbai Mountain were defrauded by you and must be handed back.
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Cai Jigong talked hard and saw that Yu Deli was not getting enough, so he proposed to wait for King Zhao to come back in Beihai Town to continue the discussion. Yu Deli was noncommittal and said to himself, "You guys wait for him? Hehe, there will be a good show then."
However, the reason given by Li Chao was very strong. He had a certificate of credence and had to present it to King Zhao. But the actual situation was that the variety of goods in Beihai Town was so rich that Li Chao and the others were dazzled by it. Don't
It seems that everyone is staying in Beihai Town, but the ship carrying the cargo has already made a round trip.