Time flies and enters mid-June. During this period, the Intelligence Bureau and the Public Security Police Department have become increasingly strict on immigrants from Zhili and Sichuan.
Almost at the same time that Duan Wenjing and other followers of the Bagua Sect were arrested, a group of Hunyuan Sect and Hongyang Sect believers from eastern Sichuan were also detected. More importantly, more than 20 members of the Qing court's military department and Zhili Governor's Yamen were subsequently seized.
Several of the spies sent out were even assigned to the steel plant project in Khabarovsk.
However, no matter how big the net is, it cannot catch all the fish. The long border between Beihai Town and the Qing Dynasty determines this reality. During the review process, because some censors and security police were eager to perform meritorious deeds, some immigrant families were beaten into prison.
, suffered an unjust injustice and was eventually sent to the coal mine in Ezochi.
This made some people's longing for the future life just ignite, and then extinguished as their personal freedom was deprived. This can not be regarded as the most ironic tragedy in the development process of Beihai Town.
As a follow-up effect of the large-scale censorship, Beihai Town began to expel Russian businessmen from Eastern Siberia in a targeted manner, with the five major families of Baiber City bearing the brunt.
Liu Sheng's southern expedition to Mongolia was imminent, and the southward movement of a large number of Northern Navy troops was likely to cause instability in the Lake Baikal region. So under Zhao Xin's instruction, Zhang Jingxuan, the governor of Belber Province, and with the cooperation of Liu Sheng, mobilized troops from various places to quickly arrest Siberia
The five major businessmen, Kove, Milenkov, Basnin, Dudorovsky, and Suledovs, and their minions, seized various real estate properties.
The superficial reason for Beihai Town, which can be widely advertised to calm public opinion, is that in recent years, the five major families have taken advantage of the opportunity of doing business with Tsarist Russia to regularly pass on information about Beihai Town to Tsarist Russian officials. To catch thieves and seize stolen goods, the security police
I have accumulated a lot of evidence in my hand, including both witnesses and physical evidence.
The underlying reason is that the five major families have no commercial value to Beihai Town, and because they control a large amount of land around the town, they have become the biggest obstacle to the development of the Baibai area.
The Jewish groups in the Tulum Jewish Autonomous County can completely replace them and are more loyal to Beihai Town. Zhao Xin plans to take advantage of this opportunity to nationalize the leather goods, tea, rhubarb and textile trade in the entire Eastern Siberia and give the Jews shares.
They work for themselves.
A large private businessman with industry monopoly characteristics will never appear under the rule of Beihai Town! Even if there is, it can only be Zhao Xin himself.
After the five families were arrested, the court with Governor Zhang as the judge completed the trial in just two days. Faced with a large amount of evidence, Siberiakov and others knew that the situation was over, and it was useless to say anything. This time Beihai Town
Just want to deal with them.
Zhang Jingxuan then announced that all the real estate of the five families would be confiscated as punishment to warn those businessmen who were flirting with Tsarist Russian officials. However, in view of the efforts made by the five families in East-West trade and Baibai city construction in the past two years, Beihai Town allowed
A group of prisoners from the Five Families and their families will keep their personal gold and silver property, but will be escorted to Red Rock City and deported.
On the third day after the trial, more than 300 sighing, cursing, and crying men and women boarded a dozen closed four-wheel carriages, escorted by 2,000 heavily armed Cossack servants, and built along the path of Tsarist Russian prisoners of war.
The broad road heads west.
In late June, Hong Liangji and Liu Taigong, who had studied at the Beihai Town Administrative School for more than half a year, suddenly received appointments from the Civil Affairs Bureau. Liu Taigong would go to Ningguta to serve as Cao Cao's deputy commissioner of the Ningguta District Administrative Office. Peng's deputy. Hong Liangji was sent to Hunchun with the same identity as the deputy commissioner of the Ningguta District Administrative Office, but his task was to deal with the immigrants from the Li Dynasty and to negotiate with officials from the Li Dynasty on this issue. .
In the past six months, more than 2,000 people from six towns in North Hamgyong Province of the Li Dynasty have secretly crossed the Tumen River and settled in the jurisdiction of Beihai Town. Some even shuttled on both sides of the Tumen River and farmed in Beihai Town during the day. Boating back in the evening.
Originally, because of the emergence of Beihai Town, the Li Dynasty had second thoughts about the Manchus, but Zhao Xin was not interested in the Li Dynasty's surrender, so he mentioned the territory of North Hamgyong Province. After repeated negotiations, the emperor and his ministers in the Li Dynasty were so angry that they had no choice but to do nothing. If you can adopt the procrastination strategy, as long as the Manchu and Qing Dynasties are still bordering on themselves, they will continue to waste time with Beihai Town.
In fact, Li Chaojun and his ministers saw that Beihai Town was becoming more and more powerful, and they had already started to build up their mentality, that is, before Beihai Town drove the Manchus out of the customs, they tried their best to squeeze the six towns. Anyway, they couldn't save it in the end, so they could eat a few more bites now. A few mouthfuls.
After the Battle of Hunchun, Na Chi Tai led 5,000 people into North Hamgyong Province. Later, the Qing government sent another 5,000 green battalions. The arrival of more than 10,000 Qing troops made the lives of the people in the six towns even worse.
Originally, the food and salary expenses of Na Qitai and others were borne by the Qing court, which would not put much pressure on the Li Dynasty's government and people. Qianlong even asked the Lifan Yuan to inform the Li Dynasty's envoys, and there were many rewards. But there was a problem. It was Li Zou and his ministers who had already planned to exploit North Hamgyong Province, so the officials of the six towns took advantage of the presence of Manchu soldiers and horses to fabricate various excuses to exploit them, making it even more difficult for the people who could still barely make ends meet to survive.
The land in the northern part of the peninsula is already barren, with more mountains and fewer plains. The land is strewn with rocks, and the people have to perform military service. Therefore, the large fertile wilderness on the north side of the Tumen River has a negative impact on the many farmers struggling in poverty living on the southeast side of the boundary river. It has become a huge temptation.
For Beihai Town, it is possible for Koreans to naturalize, but not now. Nowadays, the Qing army has deployed a large number of troops in North Hamgyong Province. Faced with the behavior of Koreans who cross the river by boat to farm during the day and call it a day and go home at night, who knows? Are there any spies among these people?
Previously, Cao Peng also asked Mi Shilang stationed in Hunchun to send people to negotiate with the officials of the Li Dynasty. In order to prevent the loss of tax personnel, the Li Dynasty set up dozens of outposts on the south bank of the Tumen River, blocked the border, and issued a cross-river announcement. Prohibition, punishable by death for offenders.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But when the people of the Li Dynasty were oppressed by the officials and their lives became increasingly poor, neither the wide rivers nor the harsh punishments could stop them from living. In order to satisfy their desire, farmers began to cross the Tumen River in groups and enter the territory of Beihai Town.
At dusk, a flat-bottomed ferry arrived from the north of the Yangtze River to the south bank. A family of seven got off the boat, including a gray-haired old man and children of all sizes. Each of them was seen carrying a pocket, with a hoe exposed. One corner was obviously a farmer going to Jiangbei to farm. One of them, a middle-aged man in his forties, was carrying the old lady on his back.
The last person to get off the boat was a woman. She put down the baby on her back and held it in her arms. Then she opened her clothes and prepared to feed the baby. Suddenly, she screamed in surprise.
"Huh?" The woman shook the child in her arms and exclaimed: "His father!"
"Ah?" The man turned around.
"This child..." The woman was about to cry and looked at her husband eagerly.
The man held the old man behind his back with both hands, lowered his head and looked around, his eyes suddenly widened. He stretched out a hand to touch the child's forehead, then put his hand under the child's nose, and his face immediately darkened.
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"Ouch..." The woman couldn't bear it anymore and cried loudly. The originally quiet ferry was soon drowned out by the cries of the family.
The captain with a beard sighed and said: "I have been ferrying here for eight years. I have seen people die on boats crossing the river dozens of times at least."
A young man on the same boat asked sadly: "How did they die?"
"Some died of hunger, some died of illness, almost all of them were old people." There was infinite sadness in the boatman's voice.
At this time, a leaf floats from upstream, passes over the side of the ship, and then floats downward along the current. Where will that leaf settle?
"How's the business lately?" The young man has been leading the donkey by boat between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait every month for the past year, so he is already very familiar with the boatman.
"We are running errands for our boss. We have no control over whether the business is good or bad. We will take back whatever they give us."
"Oh, that's true."
When the young man landed outside Huining Town, it was already late at night and the stars were twinkling in the sky. He came to the door of an inn, where a pretty young woman was still sitting in the room, as if waiting for someone.
"Ah, Yongba is here. I also said, counting the days, it should be here today. Before it gets dark, Mr. Jinshi will send someone to ask you."
"Lady boss, I'm starving to death, please get some food quickly!"
"We've been preparing it for a long time!" The landlady immediately got up and went to the kitchen to bring food and wine.
Yongba unloaded the roe deer skins, deer skins, mink skins and deer antlers carried on the donkey's back, and then found a table to sit down. He was from Huining County and worked as a servant at Cui Jinshi's house, running errands and doing business.
He was actually a secret agent who passed information to the Qing army.
Since two years ago, he has been traveling between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in the name of doing business. At the same time, he has been passing on information about Beihai Town submitted by Hunchun City. Every time he returns to Huining Town, he stays in this inn and delivers the goods directly.
Give it to Cui Jinshi, and then take the goods entrusted to him back to Hunchun. As for the secret messages contained in the goods each time, Cui Jinshi will directly transfer them to a Manchu military attaché in Huining Town.
The next morning, Cui Jinshi, wearing a black bamboo hat, came in a hurry, but he looked worried. As soon as he came up, he pulled Yongba into the inn and whispered: "Yongba, I have something to do."
Looking for you."
"Master, please give your orders."
"Can you stay one more night and leave tomorrow?"
"Why?"
"Some people are going to the other side tomorrow. It's their first time and they're not familiar with the road. You go with them."
"If this is the case, is there anything that can be done? No problem. But, can't we leave today?"
"They are not ready yet, so I'm afraid it won't work today. You used to stay for two or three days, but this time you can stay for one more day."
"Master, you have said it, then I will stay one more day."
"However, you must set off before dawn tomorrow. And when you hand over the goods later, just pretend it's nothing. Don't mention it to the people sent by Lord Zuoling."
"Master Cui, what are you..."
"You keep it first." After saying that, Cui Jinshi took out something from his arms and put it into Yongba's hand. When Yongba's hand sank, he immediately knew that it was a five-liang weight. He was a little confused, Wu Liang.
Two taels of silver is not a small amount. I am just taking people to the other side, and I am not serving as a guide. Why should I pay so much money? Judging from Cui Jinshi's behavior, there may be something unspeakable.
Not long after, Cui Jinshi came with another Qing man. He came every time and he knew Yongba. There was no nonsense between the two parties. They handed over the goods to each other and then bowed and said goodbye.
Early the next morning, Yongba stood at the intersection and waited for a long time before vaguely seeing a few figures walking from a distance. It was Cui Jinshi and the others.
Yongba stared at the people following Cui Jinshi with wide eyes. The two people following Cui Jinshi seemed to be from two classes. One was a middle-aged man in his fifties, wearing a black hat and a white robe.
, with a majestic appearance; the other is a slim and beautiful girl, with a skin as smooth as cream and a face like a peach blossom. She is also very neatly dressed, with a dress on her head.
"Book of Rites" says that when a woman goes out, she must cover her face. North Korean aristocratic women usually ride in a sedan when going out. If they don't sit in a sedan, they need to cover their heads with clothes to prevent others from peeking.
He felt very puzzled, who were they, and why did they leave quietly in the early morning when others were still sleeping like criminals on the run? He hurriedly went up to meet Cui Jinshi and said to Cui Jinshi: "Master Cui, are they them?
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"Yes, you have to take good care of them along the way!"
"Where do I have to send them? Just send them across the river and that's it?"
"To be honest, these two have no clear destination yet. You'd better take them into Hunchun City and find an inn to stay. Don't bother."
Hearing Cui Jinshi's words, Yongba was a little frightened: "Mr. Cui, what you said makes me really ashamed. Since you have given orders, I must do it properly."
"I heard your name is Yongba?" Master Lin, who had been standing by silently, spoke up.
"yes."
"Cui Jinshi said that although you are young, you are kind-hearted, honest and trustworthy, so we, the old and the young, plan to go with you. Do you understand?"
When the morning light faded, Yongba and the others boarded the boat crossing the river. Although they made a cruel decision to leave, once they actually set out on the road, Master Lin felt very confused about the future. What is the north bank of the Tumen River?
What kind of place? People say that under the rule of King Zhao, everyone there was fierce and unruly, did not respect etiquette and law, and did not practice Confucius and Mencius. It was really not a livable place for scholars.
When he is old, it doesn't matter where he spends the rest of his life even if he wanders around, but what about his young daughter? He doesn't know what evil he did in his previous life. He has been childless and only got this daughter in his later years.
She is surprisingly beautiful and cute. But is it her fault just because her daughter is beautiful?