Siqin was kicked by Gong Gur and had a miscarriage, and she lay in bed for ten days before recovering. Because Gong Gur's family kept the incident secret, no one in the nearby herdsmen knew about it, so no one came to visit at all.
she.
Every morning, a maid would bring a bowl of leftover rice and a bowl of herbal tea like feeding a dog, put it next to Siqin, then walk away without even saying a word, and then take the bowls back in the evening.
Qin couldn't eat or drink tea. The yurt with thousands of holes was ventilated on all sides, and it was extremely cold at night. She lay there for two days before she could eat anything.
But people, when supported by a hope, can often bear any suffering. Although Siqin had a miscarriage and suffered these days, her heart was filled with a strong desire to live!
You must know that before this, death was a happy ending for her. Now in order to survive, she has to endure no matter how much torture.
Although the child in her belly was gone, it relieved her of a huge mental burden. He felt that he could go to see Timur again with his chest raised and his head raised. If the other party was willing, he would leave this hellish place with him, even if he left.
She was willing to go to the horizon far, far away, even to fetch water and cook for others. This thought was like a fire, warming her whole body and giving her the power to be reborn.
During this period, a major event occurred in Khalkha Mongolia, that is, the Northern Navy occupied the city of Ulyasutai. This also marked the end of the Manchu rule in Khalkha Mongolia.
The work team led by Wang Rong received new orders on the fifth day after Timur left and also left. When they left, the surrounding herdsmen who heard the news came to see them off, and they took out the best food at home as a gift.
The gifts were all rejected by the navy north of Wang Rong due to discipline.
Before leaving, Wang Rong told everyone that the Northern Navy would send people again, and by then, Khalkha would have been transformed.
Siqin lay there until the morning of the eleventh day. Finally, she was able to get up and walk slowly in the yurt. Although she was dizzy, these two steps gave her great encouragement and comfort. She felt that she could walk.
If he died, he would not die, and he would be able to find Timur in a few days. Thinking of this, she shed tears of joy.
After another three days, her body had just recovered to be stronger, so she decided to sneak away to Timur's house to look for him early the next morning while the people in Goncourt's house were still awake.
Unfortunately, that night, the first heavy snowfall on the grassland suddenly came. Looking out from the hole in the yurt, there were white flowers everywhere. The snow finally became lighter in the middle of the night, but the north wind
Then again, the temperature dropped suddenly.
The north wind kept pouring snowflakes in through the cracks in the door and the felt, and Siqin was almost buried in the snow. It was not that she didn't want to crawl out of her bag to find some dried cow dung to make a fire to keep warm, but she was worried that if she was
When the Gongcourts find out, they will monitor her and they won't be able to escape tomorrow.
"I've endured all the hardships, so what does it mean to freeze all night?" She thought like this and gave up the idea of lighting a fire to keep warm. The whistling wind roared violently outside the bag, and the dilapidated yurt was shaking. The door,
The felt and hanami were rustling in the wind.
Siqin finally made it until dawn, when the wind outside was still blowing hard and the snow was still falling. She felt that this was the best time to escape, so she got up and shook the snow off her torn cotton robe, and left.
He walked to the door and listened for a while, then gently opened the door.
The dog guarding the cattle and sheep noticed the movement here, but the dog was very familiar with Siqin and did not bark. He ran over and smelled her hand with his wet and cold nose, then turned and left.
After Siqin ran for more than two miles despite the wind and snow and got into the willow forest on the river bank, he slowed down and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Finally escaped!" When she thought about it, she felt that her whole body became weak, and she could no longer stand on her feet. She reluctantly leaned against a tree, closed her eyes and rested for a while. Only then did she realize that her feet
The two shoes on the bed were lost somewhere.
The yurt of Timur's house was still some distance away, so Siqin thought it would be better to borrow a pair of shoes from the nearby old man Dorji and put them on before leaving. When she arrived at Dorji's house, her feet were already numb.
, the body that had just recovered from the miscarriage could no longer hold up after a period of intense torture.
When Old Dorji saw her appearance, he knew that she had escaped, so he told her to lie down quickly, found a shabby leather jacket to cover her, poured her a bowl of wine, and added a few pieces of firewood to the fire pit.
The temperature in the bag increased, and Siqin felt breathless.
Dorji asked: "Poor child, how did you escape in the dark night with such heavy snow? Are they trying to harm you?"
"Uncle, I escaped to find Timur. Please lend me a pair of shoes!"
"Where are you going to find Timur?" Dorji pulled out a pair of worn-out felt shoes and handed them to her, sighing: "He left more than ten days ago, and the members of the work team also left in the first few days.
He said he wanted to go to Uliasutai with the army."
Siqin opened her leather jacket, struggled to put on her boots, stood up and walked out of the bag. Dorji chased her out, trying to pull her back.
"Where are you going? You'll freeze to death!"
"I'm going to find him!"
"Captain Wang said they have thousands of people, and more people will come from the east in the next few days, and they will also attack Khovd. If Timur goes to Khovd, how will you find him?"
"I will find him wherever I go!" Siqin's tone was decisive.
Dorji recalled what Company Commander Wang and the others had said and done in these days. For the first time, he felt no fear towards the officers and soldiers, but more like family members, so he gritted his teeth and made a decision.
"Okay! I'll hitch up the horse and go with you. You can't go far in this weather!"
Until dawn, the wind has not stopped, and it is obvious that the snow will continue. But to Siqin, no matter how heavy the snow is, it is nothing, because after the wind stops and the snow subsides, it will be a brilliant sunny day.
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In the middle of October of the lunar calendar in the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign, three large ships with a load of about 1,000 tons slowly sailed into the waterway of Anping Port in the southern part of Jeju Island under the close surveillance of two small motor-driven sailing gunboats of the North Navy and the island fort.
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This place is "Seogwipo City" in another time and space. It was originally under the jurisdiction of Dajeong County under the Li Dynasty. It was just an unknown fishing village on the coast. Before Beihai Town came, the local area was a mess. The only thing that could make the Li Dynasty officials feel
What he is interested in is collecting seafood such as pearls and abalone from the villagers.
Since Beihai Town set it up as a transfer station for Henan disaster victims six years ago, it was renamed Anping Port. After the Changxing Island naval battle ended, it became a commodity distribution center in Northeast Asia. Soybeans from the Liaodong Peninsula, tea from Fujian
And tobacco, Shandong silk, tussah cocoons, Jiangnan cotton, cotton cloth and tung oil can be seen everywhere in the market in Anping Port.
Beihai Town has shipped here a large number of leather goods, mountain goods, Chinese medicinal materials, marine goods from the Northeast and Siberia, as well as various light industrial products produced by Beihai Town; these include flat glass and aluminum pots.
, matches, cigarettes, lanterns, etc.
You must know that at the beginning, Li Zhenjun and his ministers hated Beihae Town for occupying Jeju Island, and wanted to take it back several times. However, the North Navy's powerful perverts could not afford to offend them. In the early days, Jeju Mu reported to Hanyang for permission.
, sent 500 soldiers to expel them. At that time, there were only ten Northern Navy soldiers and more than fifty Caobang sailors armed with cold weapons. With only one round of volleys and a charge, Li Chao's soldiers and horses were defeated.
He was so frightened that he ran away.
Three years ago, Cai Jigong was ordered to go to Beihai Town as an envoy. One of his very important tasks was to solve the problem of Beihai Town occupying Anping Port. Later, after some bargaining between him and Shen Jingdan, Li Chao agreed half reluctantly and half secretly.
At a fee of 5,000 taels of silver per year, Beihai Town was allowed to lease Anping Port for twenty years, provided that the entire rent was paid in one lump sum and copper coins were required.
Later, Li Chao wanted to bargain again and proposed to convert one tael of silver into one thousand coins, but Shen Jingdan immediately rejected the offer.
Oh, co-authors and the Manchus smuggled copper coins for more than 800 Wen, but with us, they only paid 1,000 Wen. What good thing do you think? 800 Wen is discounted by one or two, do you want it?
You must know that this is 80 million copper coins! Even if you exchange one penny for every tael, it is still 100,000 coins. According to the usual price of 230 coins in the Li Dynasty, it is a difference of more than 400 taels of silver. If there is an extra two hundred
Wen, that’s more than 80,000 taels of silver.
After that, the Beihai Town Mint was fully powered, and it took two years to deliver all the coins. During this period, Zhao Liang also led the workers to imitate the drawings of the world's first "toggle press" and produced twenty sets of coins.
Machines, five of which were also transported to the North Naval Base in Kan Lai Oo to help Nguyen Phuc Anh make copper coins.
The import of a large amount of copper coins greatly alleviated the currency pressure caused by the insufficient money production of the Li Dynasty. When King Li Zang had money, he launched the construction plan of "Suwon Hwaseong". By the way, the design of Suwon Hwaseong
The person happened to be Lin Ruoyu’s good friend Ding Ruoyong.
At this time, on the deck of a Guangzhou ship, Ma Baishan, the second steward of the He Mansion, said respectfully to the person in front of him: "Second Master, this is Anping Town."
"Well, it's so lively!"
The speaker was a middle-aged man who was less than forty years old. He was wearing a navy black fox fur lambskin robe, a black Ning silk batulu vest trimmed with embroidered beads and gold thread, and a sea otter skin hat.
, with a fair complexion and a neatly trimmed moustache, he looks somewhat similar to Heshen, the most important official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. This man is Heshen's younger brother and is currently the deputy commander of the Han Army with the Blue Banner.
Du Tong, He Lin, the right minister of the Ministry of War.
This time he came not to secretly establish relations with Beihai Town, but to receive Qianlong's secret order. According to the agreement reached between Zhao Xin and the Qing court, he came to receive a batch of military supplies to support Fukang'an's entry into Tibet.
Escort it to Xining.
The original proposal from Beihai Town was to send the supplies directly to Dagokou, but Liu Quan rejected it outright. What a joke! If the big iron ship comes again, the emperor will have to chop off his head.
After the three boats docked, a person from the port office and two armed guards immediately walked onto the deck and began to ask questions. He Lin listened and watched without interrupting, waiting for Ma Baishan to pay.
At that time, I saw him counting twenty Beihai silver dollars with a denomination of "one yuan" from his money bag. The other party took the money and began to write the receipt.
He Lin noticed at this time that the entry procedures in Beihai Town were completely different from the imperial customs. There was neither a letter plate nor a business photo with a large seal, but a piece of light green paper about a foot long and half a foot wide.
Register. There are many grids of different sizes drawn with black lines. The tonnage of the ship, the name of the captain, the name of the cargo owner, the number of sailors, the crew, the number of days of stay, the type of cargo, etc. are marked on the front. The person who registers only needs to
Just fill in the corresponding blank positions.
But what surprised him was that the pen used by the person registering was not a brush, but a "hard-tipped pen" that he had never seen before. After the registration was completed, Ma Ba San was asked to write at the bottom left of the form.
Signed his name.
Just when He Lin thought that the other party would tear off the light green paper and hand it to her, she saw that the person turned over the light green paper, and there was actually a page of light red paper underneath. The content on it was exactly the same as the previous one, and
There is already handwriting, even a signature, but it is light blue.
The people in the port office tore off the red paper from the curtain, handed it to Ma Baishan, and then got off the ship with the guards.
After the people from Beihai Town left, He Lin immediately asked: "Guanshi Ma, what's the truth?"
"Second Master, this is called 'carbon paper'. I don't know exactly how it was made. If you have been dealing with Beihai Town for a long time, you will know that many things have an evil nature."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He Lin took the copied registration form and looked at it for a long time. She was shocked beyond words. Beihai Town actually had a secret method for such a thing.
, it is really unfathomable. But then again, it is really convenient to have this "carbon paper". If the customs along the coast and even some train ticket documents can be processed in this way, it will really save a lot of paperwork.
However, he quickly rejected this idea. Looking closely at the strokes on it, He Lin felt that in addition to paper, hard-tipped pens must also be very important. Under the Qing Dynasty, all brushes were used. Even with such paper, I'm afraid
It's also quite annoying.
He thought for a while and asked again: "I just paid twenty silver dollars, nothing more?"
Ma Bashi said: "If I go back, it's really just that much. There is no shipping material fee (charged according to the beam size of the merchant ship) and commercial tax here. There are only dock fees, inspection and quarantine fees, and inspection fees.
Cargo charges. Precisely because the customs clearance here is cheap, many people who do sea trade come here."
He Lin was stunned after hearing this. He glanced at the various facilities on the port, especially the three-story high-rise building one mile away. He thought to himself, what is the use of collecting this little money? So he asked: "What about the miscellaneous items? Just
Are there no officials extorting money?"
"There are no miscellaneous items. I heard that a guard extorted extra money from the ship owner before. As a result, he was quickly kicked off the post and a notice was posted saying that the man was exiled to Bitterleaf Island."
"oh?!"
Ma Baishan raised his hand and pointed to the port office not far away and said: "There is a wooden box at the door for dropping in donations. Anyone can drop in."
"Haha, that's just superficial. There are a few ordinary people who are literate."
He Lin's disapproval is actually correct. As the stalls in Beihai Town get bigger and bigger, internal corruption problems have begun to breed. The so-called "come to be an official for thousands of miles, just for food and clothing", not only scholars, but also illiterate people
The common people think so too.
There are a large number of "clerks" under the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Trade, and these people are officials in the eyes of the common people. As Beihai Town has gone through a few years of troubles, the trend of unifying the world has become more and more obvious, and the clerks have become more and more official.
; Although "eating and taking cards" do not dare to do it openly, there are already many people who do it privately. Some people even form gangs in order to rise to the top in the "new dynasty".
In addition, life in Beihai Town has become more and more affluent in recent years, and many officials have begun to be dissatisfied with the law that "cannot take concubines." Some middle- and lower-level civil affairs officials are already secretly raising concubines. Of course, if they can support themselves,
At first, no one cared about it, but if the family outside the house took advantage of the opportunity to make profits, that would be another matter.
In response to this situation, Yu Deli, after discussing with Zhao Xin and others, decided to establish a special anti-corruption team, similar to the "XX Office" in another time and space; this organization will directly report to Zhao Xin, Chen Qingsong and others
A "committee of three" was formed to take charge.
In fact, Zhao Xin knows all these situations. He has been holding back, just because he doesn't want to be the one to initiate everything. Beihai Town belongs to him and everyone else; if he is the one to initiate everything, he will be exhausted sooner or later.
After completing the procedures for entering the port, Ma Baishan did not rush to get off the ship. Instead, he asked one of his subordinates to take the greeting card and deliver it to the "Government Office" in Anping Port. The handover of supplies between the imperial court and Beihai Town must not be spread.
Make noise.
After having dinner on the ship at dusk, two four-wheeled carriages quietly drove into the port. He Lin, Ma Baishan, and two guards boarded one of them. Half an hour later, they arrived at Anping Port
In a courtyard outside the military camp, I saw people sent by Beihai Town.
"Hello, sir, I am in charge of this material handover. My name is Kong Shaoan."
"Mr. Kong, I have long admired you! I am here with Xizhai." He Lin bowed her hands and saluted, thinking that he almost knew the name of the big pirate boss in the North Sea, but he had never heard of anyone named Kong.
Standing in front of He Lin was a young man who looked less than thirty years old. He was less than 1.8 meters tall and thin. He was wearing a military uniform of the Northern Navy without a military rank. His face was white and beardless, and he also wore a ten-year-old uniform.
Exquisite rimless glasses.
Needless to say, this person is also a time traveler and was previously responsible for centralized control in a power plant project.