The people of Li Dynasty were sent away. Before Cai Jigong left, his beard trembled with Zhao Xinqi, and his face turned blue, but Beihai Town did not need such an ally, whether it was political or military. In the future, Beihai Town would destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
, when he unified the world, the Li Dynasty, which was overly dependent on Sino-North Korean trade, would definitely come over and send letters of credence.
No need for special treatment, just do whatever you want, just treat these guys according to the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.
Next is the Choshu Domain. At the end of the 18th century, the Choshu Domain had nothing but poverty. The era of respecting the king and fighting the barbarians had not yet come, and the prosperity of Orchidology was limited to Osaka and Edo. Speaking of overthrowing the Tokugawa family, the Choshu Domain has always
national policy, so there was such a joke in later generations.
Since the Battle of Sekigahara, the elders of the Maori family have asked the family head when they visit the city every New Year's Day, what are the chances of collapse this year? The head of the Maori family will ponder for a while and then say, it is too early. Then everyone should do what they should do.
The reason why Choshu Domain sent people to follow the merchants of the Li Dynasty was mainly because Zhao Xin used Choshu Domain as his excuse for the two times he invaded the island country. He always mentioned the "Susa Tang Ship Incident", which really made Hagi Domain restless, fearing that one day
The large iron ship of the Northern Navy was parked off the coast of Nagato Province to ask for explanations.
Since the "Nagaki Incident of Burning and Attacking Nagasaki", every time a large ship of the Northern Navy passed by the Tsushima Strait to clear the country, the Choshu clan was extremely nervous. They were on guard from top to bottom until the large ship was out of sight.
, then you can breathe a sigh of relief.
After the battle at Mount Hitou last year, the souls of the Choshu clan were frightened. Those were the names of four families with nearly two million koku! The Shimazu family's 100,000 feudal samurai were wiped out in less than a year. In the long run,
With a small body of more than 800,000 koku, Zhou Fan could not take advantage of it anyway.
When they went to the city on New Year's Day this year, the Changshu clan decided to ask for Zhao Dian's forgiveness no matter what. This was the most important thing of the year, second only to the collapse of the century-old plan!
So the Choshu clan sent the head of the Agawa Mori clan among the "eight families of one family" as the leader of the envoy group. Relying on the close relationship formed with the merchants of the Li Dynasty for many years of smuggling, he came to Beihai with a boat full of gifts.
town.
The current head of the Agawa Mori family is called Mori Yoshizaki, and his ancestor is Yoshikawa Motoharu, who was famous in the Warring States Period. Yes, it is the second son who was adopted by Mori Motonari into the Yoshikawa family, the second brother of Kobayakawa Takakage, known as "Oni Yoshikawa"
guy!
The envoy of the Maori family was very timid and presented a gift list as soon as he arrived, begging for forgiveness from Beihai Town, and revealed in his words that he also wanted to be on good terms with Beihai Town like Sendai Clan.
For Beihai Town, the more dog legs the better now, and the defense in the newly occupied territory is still empty!
Therefore, Zhao Xin pretended to be generous and ignored the old events of eighty years ago, agreed to the trade request of the Changshu Domain, and asked the other party to send a thousand domain soldiers to serve in Beihai Town.
Maoli Jiuzhen and others were overjoyed. They did not expect that the trip went so smoothly, so he hurried down the slope, hoping to sign an agreement with Beihai Town.
This is simple, just make another copy according to the contents of "The Secret Pact of Stone Volume".
In Zhao Xin's view, once a poor sect like this, whose life-long goal is to overthrow the emperor, becomes more powerful, it might be able to carry out a "Glam Gate Incident" in advance. When Pingtai comes to fish in troubled waters, just think about it.
So beautiful!
It was only then that Zhao Xin decided to meet the Manchu people. If he didn't meet again, Qitai would go crazy.
Since entering September, seeing that the negotiations still made no progress, Qianlong was also anxious. Liu Yong was already punished with more than a dozen edicts in a row.
Seeing that there was no progress in waiting on the south bank of the Mongolian River, Na Qitai finally became heartbroken and took a group of his men from the direction of Vladivostok, intending to go directly to Beihai Town. As a result, he was stopped by the North Navy's checkpoint just after crossing the Furjaha River.
He found out. So he simply pitched a tent by the river and stayed there for seven or eight days, pretending that he would not leave even if he froze to death if he could not see Zhao Xin.
Following Zhao Xin's call, Na Qitai, dressed in casual clothes, walked into Beihai Town at dusk with two personal followers and under the guard of several security police.
Looking at the row upon row of houses with smoke rising from them, and listening to the pots, pans and whispers coming from each house, Na Qitai suddenly felt as if he had returned to a town in Guan Nei. What surprised him the most.
It's the yellow light coming from the windows of each house, which makes you feel very warm at first glance.
Is this Beihai Town? Although he also knew some of the situation in Beihai Town from the spies' secret reports, after all, this was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes.
"Master, they are so wasteful of lamp oil! Who dares to light so many oil lamps if they don't come from a wealthy family?"
"Yeah, it's a bit extravagant." Na Qitai was deeply convinced by his words.
The master and servant were discussing here, and a security policeman next to him burst into laughter.
When Na Qitai saw it, he quickly asked: "This officer... this brother, is there something wrong with what we said?"
As the security police walked away, he said: "There are no oil lamps. We have never had oil lamps here from the beginning. They are called electric lamps!"
"Electricity?" The scene of lightning and thunder in the sky appeared in Na Qitai's mind at this moment, so he laughed and said: "You are really interesting to talk about. What does the thunder and lightning in the sky have to do with this? The lighting at home is nothing more than oil lamps or
Just candles."
The security police curled his lips and did not explain any more. However, when the group of people walked near the square and were still dozens of meters away from Zhao Xin's office, there was a "swish" sound, and the entire square and streets lit up.
No trace of the house was visible, which immediately startled Na Qitai and his two followers.
The three people couldn't help shouting: "This is sorcery!"
A security policeman said: "You three, this has nothing to do with witchcraft! This is called electric light. What a bunch of rubes!"
"Who are you calling a bumpkin?!" Qitai's personal attendant was furious and reached for his waist. Only then did he realize that the weapons had been taken away when he passed the Beihai Navy outpost.
The security policeman smiled disdainfully and said: "We are the only place in the world that has electric lights. With this, whoever wants to commit crimes at night will not be able to escape the law."
After hearing this, the three masters and servants of Qitai suddenly looked a little ugly. As he walked, he looked around at the lights that were as bright as stars. He couldn't help but feel dizzy, and his steps became more and more staggering.
When the three were taken outside Zhao Xin's office, several Northern Navy soldiers at the door searched the three again. The difference from before was that there was a Northern Navy soldier holding a short black stick in his hand.
He swept the three of them from head to toe.
The Qitai trio had no idea what they were doing. In his opinion, the short black stick had no edge or edge, and there were some strange yellow patterns on it. It was probably a weapon, but it didn't look like it.
However, when the stick was still a punch away from Na Qitai's waist, the thing made a beep-de-de-de sound, which surprised the three of them.
"What's in your waist? Take it out!" Several soldiers from the Northern Navy stared at Qitai as if facing a formidable enemy. Their right hands were already on the holsters on their waists. The expressions of several security policemen on the side also changed drastically.
His hand also touched the revolver on his waist.
What do I have in my waist? Na Qitai looked down and saw that there was nothing else but a purse on his waist! The soldier approached Na Qitai's purse with a short stick, and sure enough, the alarm beeped again.
"You have iron tools here, take them out and check them!"
Qitai's face turned red, and he felt that he had been humiliated. He did have an iron weapon in his purse, but it was just a fire sickle he carried with him. As a Manchu noble, his fire sickle was specially customized and made of white copper.
The handle is carved with auspicious patterns and inlaid with agate and turquoise, which is extremely luxurious.
In the Qing Dynasty, the fire sickle was not only a tool for igniting fire, but also one of the betrothal gifts. As the saying goes, "One piece of flint and fire sickle can be used to hold a lamp."
"What do you want to do? As an official of the imperial court, I am here to negotiate with your King Zhao! I cannot allow you to be so humiliated!"
With a "squeak" sound, the door behind several soldiers opened. The bright lights in the room fell on the open space in front of the door. A tall figure walked out and laughed: "That man, I misunderstood!"
Na Qitai took a closer look and saw who it was if it wasn't Zhao Xin. He said with an angry look on his face: "Mr. Zhao, I am here to visit you sincerely. Do you have to humiliate me?"
...
A few minutes later, when Na Qitai sat opposite Zhao Xin, he bowed and took the tea cup from Zhao Xin, and then said with a wry smile: "Mr. Zhao, it's not easy to meet you!"
Zhao Xin smiled and said nothing, then lit a cigarette with a match under the surprised look of the other party, and then said: "Sir, are you tired with such a big and heavy thing hanging on your waist? Look at this."
Then Qitai Xin said, isn’t it just a lamp? It’s a thing made in Beihai Town. Now I heard in the capital that it costs a hundred cents a box. Okay, a hundred poles a box and a cent a stick. What the hell?
It's a fire hazard, it's just a waste of money!
"Mr. Zhao, let's get down to business. This official is here because he was sent by the court to talk about Ning Guta."
"Oh. Then I can tell you right now, we don't plan to return Ning Guta. You prisoners can take part of it."
"Part of it?" Na Qitai knew that Ning Guta would not come back, but this time Zhao Xin did not mention the ransom, which surprised him.
"There are probably more than a thousand people."
Among the people Zhao Xin wanted to return, in addition to the seriously wounded, there were actually more than a hundred people who looked intact but were actually mentally disturbed. What they suffered from was the extremely famous "cannonball" in the battle in another time and space.
"Shock syndrome", even though he appears to be unscathed, in fact his brain has been severely concussed by the shell.
The daily symptoms of these people are fatigue and fatigue, often feeling suffocated, headaches, depression, insomnia, and even epileptic shock. Even though several months have passed since the battle of Ningguta, they are still devastated. The biggest manifestation is inexplicable trembling and
Stuttering. Beihai Town doesn't have the energy to open another sanatorium. Instead of raising them like this, it's better to let the Manchus take these people home.
In fact, not only Qing prisoners, but Russian prisoners in Yaksa also suffered from this condition. However, there was no such thing as "PTSD" in these days, and anyone who showed such behavior would be denounced as a coward.
"Mr. Zhao, I'll tell you the truth. I can't explain it to the emperor!" Qitai showed great gestures. Since they finally met in person, he had to speak directly.
"Then what should we do? How about I detain you? Do you think this is an explanation?"
Na Qitai almost jumped up from his chair and quickly begged, "Don't! If you detain me, my whole family will be doomed!"
Zhao Xin stopped smiling and said with a serious face: "I heard that Liu Yong is here?"
"Yes. Mr. Liu has been in Wula, Jilin for several months."
"Qianlong asked him to negotiate with me?"
"Yes, I was sent by Lord Liu and Marshal Qing to take the front line. I don't think it would be smoother for Lord Liu if we could negotiate with you first."
Zhao Xin took a sip of tea, with a playful look on his face, and looked at Na Qitai and said, "Master, do you know that He Zhongtang and Liu Yong are not going to deal with each other? If you help him like this, you will offend He Shen, and you will do it again in the future."
Do you want to hang out?"
"I..." Na Qitai thought to himself, "Why do you know everything?" But Zhao Xin's words hit him right in the heart.
Seeing that the other party fell into silence, Zhao Xin said: "Well, since you want to negotiate, go back and ask Liu Yong to come and talk to me in person. The time will be set in twenty days, and the location will be Guandi Temple outside Ninggu Pagoda City.
"
"Ning Guta? No way!" Qitai didn't dare to be vague about this kind of thing. If Liu Yong wanted to do something bad, he wouldn't have enough heads to chop him off. He thought for a while and said: "At the moment, the distance from Ning Guta to Jilin is
You occupy three of the seven stations, so set the negotiation location at the fourth station, Tuijiao Station."
Repel the dragon, repel the evil dragon, this name makes me happy!
The post road from Wula in Jilin to Ninggu Pagoda is 705 miles long. The sky is covered by thousands of trees and hundreds of miles are filled with swamps, making it extremely difficult to travel. Later generations of Northeastern beards often live in this area.
The purpose of Na Qitai choosing this place was to prevent Zhao Xin from leading his army there, so that the Qing army could rely on the dangers of the mountains and forests to set up defenses. Zhao Xin thought for a while and nodded in agreement. He immediately wrote a letter to Liu Yong and asked Na Qitai to take it back.
After the two talked, Zhao Xin found that there were no rules about serving tea to guests. So he asked the three masters and servants of Qitai to go to the big dining hall for dinner. They also arranged their accommodation and asked the three of them to leave tomorrow.
Na Qitai was pretentious and had no intention of sitting down and drinking. The three of them had a hasty meal and followed the people accompanying them back to their residence.
When he saw the simple furnishings in the house, he couldn't help but shake his head and said "vulgar", thinking to himself, you bastard named Zhao had stolen so much gold from the court, why didn't you even build a decent posthouse? The most special thing is that you have stolen so much gold from the court.
What's outrageous is that the toilet is next to the bedroom!
The accompanying security police gave some explanations, and the Qitai trio suddenly realized that there is no need to pour night fragrance here in Beihai Town. As long as you press the bright button on the water tank behind you after a convenience, the water will automatically flush away.
After that, the three of them showed great curiosity about the light switch and carefully flipped the switch, as if they would explode if they set off a cannon.
After struggling for a long time, after waiting for the security police to leave, Qitai washed his face and lay down on the big bed in the bedroom. He touched it casually and was surprised to find that the quilt was not cotton, but thickly wrapped in silk.
Feathers, extremely warm and comfortable.
"These rebels are really enjoying themselves! Your Majesty can only do this at night, right?"