In Beihai Town, in the dormitory of the power plant at the foot of the mountain on the east bank of the Xila River, two members of the Chuanhuan group, who were more than ten years apart in age, were drinking and chatting. Snowflakes were flying outside the house and covered the hills in the distance. If you didn't go out and sit in front of the window, drink tea and watch the snow scene
, it can also be regarded as a great fun in winter.
On the stove in the corner of the room, the kettle was squeaking. There were two steamed buns baking on the edge of the stove, emitting a burnt aroma.
"I really don't understand why you always like to use a coal stove to boil water when you don't have an electric kettle?"
The speaker was a young man in his early thirties. He had a pair of eyebrows like lying silkworms, single eyelids, a high bridge of nose, a Chinese-character face, and spoke with a northern accent.
"Hey, don't you understand? This is called nostalgia. When you reach my age, you will often think of your childhood." Sitting opposite the young man is a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
, looked very leader-like. However, because he had been drinking and the room was hot, he took off his coat and was only wearing underwear and a blue sweater.
In the middle of the two of them is a small table. On it are a bottle of white wine, peanuts, pig head meat, and a bowl of fragrant and crispy pheasant and roe deer meat.
The young man listened to the middle-aged man's words and curled his lips, showing a look of disapproval. However, what he didn't notice was that the middle-aged man raised his eyes and glanced at him, and then quickly looked elsewhere.
"Have you heard? That guy left again and took the Thunderbolt away."
"Well, I went to Lao Yu's place the day before yesterday and heard what he said. He said he was going to buy soybeans, but I don't think so."
"Oh? What do you say?"
"I heard from people over at Whale Harbor that he took away a regiment and a guard camp." After that, the middle-aged man got up and walked to the stove, flipped the buns, then sat back in his chair and raised a glass to the young man.
Someone touched one.
"Have you thought clearly? Where are you going?" The middle-aged man picked up a few peanuts and chewed them leisurely.
"Three surnames."
"Yeah." The middle-aged man thought for a while, nodded and said, "I'll do some work with Fatty Chen and Lao Yu. By the way, how was your chat with Xiaobai?"
"That kid only goes to work and sleeps. When he comes back, he only eats and plays games. I hinted to him twice, but he didn't respond. Oh, I'm so anxious."
The middle-aged man took a sip of wine, nodded and said, "You can't rush this matter, you have to take your time."
The young man had drunk almost two taels of white wine, and his face had begun to turn red under the warmth of the room. He looked at the middle-aged man and said, "Still too late? If not, he will be the emperor!"
The middle-aged man's mouth moved slightly, he raised his glass and touched the other person again, raised his hand and put it on the other person's shoulder, and whispered word by word: "I have told you this, and I will say it for the last time today. Remember it.
! There are eight skills that mortal ministers can achieve: sharing the same bed, being by the side, father and brother, nourishing disaster, people's cuteness, popularity, power and strength, and four directions. The most important ones here are people's kindness, power, and four directions. Without benefits, it is not enough.
To move people's hearts, it cannot become popular without power, and without obedience from all directions!"
The young man smiled and said: "It's your Han Feizi theory again, I understand. But..."
"In the army we must have talented people, and we can't rely on others alone. We have to control the gun ourselves." The middle-aged man interrupted in a low voice: "The end of the year is coming soon. Remember, we must find ways to get more seeds."
"Come back. Now the supplies are under the control of that bitch of his, and no one can get them out without his order. Xiaobai, you continue to do his work. The united front means that you have to make more friends and make more enemies.
A little."
"I understand, but if his parents leave, we will lose a card."
"His wife hasn't given birth yet. I guess the old couple won't be able to leave for a while." After that, the middle-aged man's eyes showed a cold light and said to the young man: "Huh, just wait and see, I will have to stop this time when I go back."
It makes them want to return home!"
The middle-aged man actually missed a word in the passage he quoted before. Perhaps it was because the word didn't sound good, so he ignored it.
That sentence is published in "Han Feizi" and is called "Eight Traitors".
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"Hurry up, hurry up! Follow us!"
"Master, where are we going?"
"Shut up! We'll find out when we get there."
On November 30, 1789, which was the eighteenth day of October in the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign, early in the morning, more than five hundred victims from all over Hebei were roped off on the post road from Tianjin City to Dagukou.
With their arms tied, they were grouped into groups of ten and hurried along like a swarm. The sparse crowd was like a wriggling worm, extending for more than a mile.
The people responsible for escorting these people were the green battalion soldiers who were transferred from Gu'an to support Tianjin's city defense. Although it was hard work to do this kind of job in the cold weather, for them, not having to go to the battlefield was better than anything else.
Following the imperial envoy's order, the government system from the Tianjin Dao Yamen to the surrounding county Yamen was operating at full speed. With the cooperation of the Green Camp people, it took only two days to collect thousands of people from inside and outside the city.
Fortunately for the people in the government, the North Sea pirates anchored outside the entrance of Dagu were not "picky eaters" and wanted all men, women, old and young. If only the young and strong were given, they would not be able to find these people anyway.
Therefore, whether they were people building shacks or begging along the streets, both inside and outside the city, as long as they were wearing rags, had no proof of insurance, and no road guide, they were all arrested regardless of men, women, old or young, regardless of whether they were monks or not. These people were taken to the east gate of Tianjin City
As long as five hundred people gathered outside, they would be bundled into a group by Gu'an soldiers and escorted to Dagokou.
At the rear of the team, the scarred Zhang Bingwen was leaning on a willow branch as a crutch; a few willow branches were sandwiched between the broken bones of his left arm, acting as splints, and hung around his neck with a grass rope.
Next to him is his eight-year-old son who is limping forward, and behind him is his wife, who has a big belly and is dragging her daughter.
In the end, Zhang Bingwen failed to get a share of Baoju's money. During the beating that day, after Zhang Bingwen broke an arm and a leg, he finally couldn't bear the pain and screamed twice. Now all the efforts he had made before were in vain.
Water drifts.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As soon as he shouted, the onlookers immediately started to boo and then dispersed; and those who beat him were also stopped by the gangster leader Liu Ye
He stopped. Not to mention the beating he received was in vain, and he had to pay for the medicine himself.
Fortunately, there was a businessman in the crowd who was watching the excitement. Seeing that Zhang Bingwen's family was pitiful, he gave his wife a bunch of money to treat her injuries. Zhang Bingwen couldn't bear to go to the medicine store, and the whole family was still hungry. So he looked for it on the roadside.
A wandering doctor spent 20 coins on some trauma medicine and managed to make do with just one pack.
"I said to you, Sir, can we take a break? It's still more than thirty miles away from Dagu." In the team, the gangster Jin San said to the escorting soldiers with a smile on his face.
He bowed.
"Walk another five miles and rest. Hurry up!"
"Okay! Thank you."
Because the number of victims was not enough, the government issued an order to the lijia inside and outside the city to use gangsters to make up the number. So Jin San and his gang were summoned by Mr. Liu to draw the "life and death lottery", and they won the "jackpot".
One is him.
Although Jin San feels quite unlucky, he is not going to kill a white goose on behalf of someone else. But as a landlubber, Jin San is still a little afraid of going out to sea by boat; he also thinks that he may never come back again.
When I came to Tianjin, I was full of worries about the future.
The group of people walked forward for almost five miles when they suddenly saw smoke and dust billowing on the road to the east, as if a large group of people were coming. The leader in front of the group rushed to the back and ordered: "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
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When the crowd of refugees and the escorting soldiers all exited the official road and entered the fields beside the road, when they were wondering what was going on, they saw several sturdy armored soldiers riding on horses, flying with bright yellow pennants rimmed with red flames.
And passed.
Not long after, the big gong to clear the way sounded, and a large group of horse-mounted armored soldiers with various ceremonial guards came over in an extremely strict formation.
At this moment, I heard the commander-in-chief's soldiers say: "Let all of them kneel down! Quick! This is the Imperial Envoy!"
Following the scolding of the soldiers, five hundred men, women, and children all knelt on the cold ground, each one shivering and not daring to breathe.
In this long and colorful ceremony, the leader is a golden flying tiger flag, followed by a large sedan with a red cover, red eaves and red curtains carrying the royal flag, surrounded by hundreds of people carrying muskets on their shoulders.
The cavalrymen all wore various colorful tassels on their crotch horses, which were very gorgeous.
Next came a large group holding avoidance signs, silence signs, dozens of tiger head signs, yellow umbrellas, golden fans, soldier fists, wild goose feathers, knives, beasts, swords, yellow sticks, tong sticks, spears, guns and various flags.
The people and horses dazzled all the refugees and the green camp soldiers.
After the large group of people in front had almost passed by, three silver curtain soap covers appeared in the procession one after another; behind each set of soap covers was a large green cloth sedan surrounded by several mounted guards. And behind the imperial envoy's driver
, were seven or eight tightly covered carriages.
Needless to say, the person sitting in the first sedan chair was He Shen, followed by Liu Yong and Fu Chang'an in the next two chairs. As for those carriages, they were gifts presented to Qianlong by Macartney.
The people and horses of the brigade were moving very fast. After the delayed horse team passed by, the green battalion commander asked everyone to get up and continue on their way.
Zhang Bingwen walked slower and slower due to his injury, so the escorting soldiers asked Jin San, who was jumping around, and another gangster to carry him on his way. This time, Jin San was exhausted to death, and he cursed several times along the way.
Zhang Bingwen was left behind, and he didn't shut up until he reached the mouth of Dago and saw the big ship in the distance.
Three days ago, under the threat of the Northern Navy's powerful ships and cannons, Qianlong, who was on his sick bed, had no choice but to agree to the Northern Navy's conditions, which included 80,000 shi of soybeans and 500,000 refugees within six months.
After the edict was issued, Prince Jia went to the Ancestral Temple to plead guilty on behalf of Qianlong. What a shame! The great Qing Dynasty was actually threatened by a group of rebels. The land of our ancestors cannot be saved, and now people are breaking in even at the door of our house.
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Only then did Qianlong and his son realize that the Qing Dynasty's thousands of miles of coastal defense was like a piece of window paper in front of Beihai Town, which could be torn apart at any time. And the most embarrassing thing was that the British people saw the whole incident.
Fortunately, Beihai Town proposed a two-year truce, allowing Qianlong and his son to take a breather so that they could reorganize their army and fight to the death. At the moment, He Shen, Fu Chang'an, and Liu Yong had just returned from Chaoyin Temple after signing the agreement, and they were all holding back.
They were so angry that no one paid any attention to the group of people kneeling on the roadside in the cold weather.
In the car, Liu Quan, who was standing by the side, took out his pocket watch, looked at it, and reminded: "Sir, it's time to take medicine."
After saying that, he took out a white bottle from his body and carefully poured out a yellow and green pill. He Shen took the pill, hesitated for a moment, then raised his neck and put it in his mouth, then took it again.
He took a sip from the water glass.
This is the medicine he asked Liu Quan to ask for from the Thunderbolt. The name of the medicine is very difficult to pronounce, it is called "Minocycline Hydrochloride".
At that time, when Liu Quan followed Qiao Renjie on board the ship, he thought it was made by mixing salt, vinegar and rice. He thought to himself, how could this be called medicine? It was not as good as those "Dali Pills" sold by Tianqiao.
"Woolen cloth.
As soon as Zhao Xin looked at Liu Quan's expression, he knew that this person had misunderstood, so he scolded him with explanations and lessons. Liu Quan dared to act wild in front of others, relying on He Shen to act arrogantly, but in front of Zhao Xin, he just
As honest as a rabbit.
Zhao Xin said it very straightforwardly. If I kill your He Zhongtang easily, I can just log in and catch him and kill him with one shot. There is no need to engage in those conspiracies. He knows what dirty things your master has done to Beihai Town.
, but it won’t happen again. If I find some quacks to go to Beihai Town to cause trouble, I will go directly to Shichahai Mansion to settle accounts with him.
Liu Quan was frightened after what he said. Finally, he took the white medicine bottle and two rectangular gift boxes that Zhao Xin gave him and returned to the shore in a daze.
When the master and servant met in the evening, they opened the gift box and were surprised to find that it contained ginseng as thick as a radish, with thick and long beards. There were twenty ginseng in total.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There is also a letter in the box, written by Zhao Xin himself to He Shen, which says three things:
First, if those things that cannot be brought to the table are carried out again, Zhao Xin will go to Beijing to find He Shen to settle the general account.
Second, the share of ginseng in the next two years will total 10,000 kilograms. The reason why it is so small is because your court has been pursuing "only digging but not planting" ginseng, which has led to a sharp decline in the output of special and first-class ginseng in various places. As for the boxes
The twenty ginseng roots in it are grown (bought) in Beihai Town. Adults may wish to try the effect.
Third, since Flower Bird Island has been abandoned for more than a year, starting next year, if you want to buy goods again, the location will be changed to the southern part of Jeju Island.
He Shen was noncommittal after reading the letter, and then burned it to ashes. He knew that Zhao Xin's threat was true, but he didn't know what methods the other party would use.
As for the medicine bottle, after unscrewing the lid, there were cylindrical pills inside, both yellow and green, fifty pills in total. He Shen observed carefully through the light and found that the outer shell was actually transparent and could be pulled off, and the inside was filled with yellow pills.
Brown particles, the same size.
Can this cure "bayberry sore"?
Faced with He Shen's question, Liu Quan nodded in affirmation and said that Qiao Renjie and the British who went with him gave him this medicine. The doctor on the ship and Zhao Xin both said that he should take two pills of this medicine at a time.
From now on, take one pill every six hours for half a month.
It should be noted that in addition to "bayberry sore", this medicine can also cure other acne, dysentery, typhoid fever, febrile syndrome, etc., but it must not be given to pregnant women; if children take it, their teeth will turn yellow.
He Shen's eyes widened after hearing this, thinking that it can cure so many diseases, wouldn't it become a miracle medicine?
Even so, He Shen still didn't dare to eat it directly. He first asked Liu Quan to find a dog to try it, and found that nothing happened. Then he tried it with a subordinate who was having a stomachache, and after a long time, he really felt better.
He Shen had already believed most of it. Thinking of Zhao Xin's words threatening Liu Quan and his itchy and painful affected area, he gritted his teeth and took two pills. Unexpectedly, he woke up the next day and found that he was much better.
, then he felt relieved and followed Zhao Xin's instructions, taking one pill every six hours. Now it has been two days, and the symptoms that have tortured He Shen for many years have been relieved a lot, which makes him feel at ease.
Although Beihai Town is a life-and-death enemy with the imperial court, there are still many good things! Thinking that his unspeakable secret has been lifted, Heshen's originally depressed mood due to the outcome of the negotiation finally improved, and he was able to sleep soundly on the way back to the capital.
Already.
Because the time limit given by Beihai Town was only half a year, Qianlong's edict had already been sent to Sichuan and Huguang before the group returned to the capital.
In this winter, groups of trackers gathered outside Chongqing were escorted by the government to board the fleet out of Sichuan; the refugees from various places who were hiding in the old forests of Nanba and Nanshan were lured out of the mountains by various means by the government.
Head east along the Yangtze River or overland, and then embark on the road to Beihai Town.
So far, during the operation of buying soybeans for grinding tofu in the 54th year of Qianlong's reign, Beihai Town finally came to Dakukou, shocking the Qing court, and thus realized a large-scale transfer of refugee trackers from Sichuan in a short period of time.
plan.
And these people also laid a solid foundation for Beihai Town to move eastward across the sea a few years later.