From the night of the 17th to the early morning of the 18th day of the first lunar month of the 49th year of Qianlong's reign, every Kurkhaqi family in the small fishing village at the mouth of the Suifen River heard a loud noise coming from the military camp outside the village.
There were the whizzing sounds of arrows, strange whistling sounds, the clanking of weapons, the sounds of people screaming for their lives, the neighing of horses, and the sound of horse-drawn sledges hitting the snow.
All the villagers were awakened, but no one dared to go out to see what happened. The officers and soldiers' extensive inspections in the village in the past few days had already frightened several families in the village.
It was not until dawn that a bold man walked out of his house cautiously, looking around and hesitantly walking outside the military camp.
When the man walked outside the village and took a look, he was stunned on the spot.
Except for dozens of rickety wooden piles left on the ground, all the tents disappeared, and the horses, flag soldiers, and armor soldiers were all gone.
The villager plucked up the courage to go forward to check and found that there was nothing on the ground in the camp except scattered firewood, a damaged stove and some ashes.
"The officers and soldiers are gone?" the man murmured.
After a moment, the man suddenly grinned, turned around and shouted in the direction of the village: "The officers and soldiers are leaving!"
On the 18th day of the first lunar month, Hunchun and Ute Mountain still had not received any news from Tuomohuoguo.
Although it is a long way to go to Bear Island to capture the fugitives, after so many days have passed, it is time for Tomohuoguo to send someone back to report the situation.
The two of them had been at odds with each other since last year over the promotion to co-college. Tuomohuoguo held that he was the co-college passed down from generation to generation, and he also held the banner of Xianghuang Banner, which gave him a distinguished position. However, since Wu Teshan was appointed as the co-college of Zhenghuang Banner,
Always work carefully and cautiously.
After Yongde left office, Jilin General Qinggui asked each of them to act as co-leader for a period of time, just to inspect the two and make a fair selection.
Although Tuomohuoguo sent someone to hand over two thousand taels of silver during this period, Qinggui did not take it seriously. He had already received news from the capital that the emperor was going to summon him when he came to the south and transferred him to the Military Aircraft Department and concurrently as the Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
At this juncture, Qinggui did not want to get involved in Hunchun's affairs.
Finally, he checked the resume files of the two people and listened carefully to the reports of his staff, and decided to promote Wu Teshan to the co-leader of Hunchun. The reason was that Wu Teshan was cautious and fair in his work, and everyone in Zhenghuang Banner and the other two banners admired him.
The spring break is not over yet, and neither Ningguta nor Jilin Wula Yamen has signed a board of directors. Wuteshan's flight report was submitted, but no one paid any attention to it.
In fact, Wu Teshan was also unlucky. He originally thought that something had happened below, and he would investigate carefully as part of his official duties. Who would have let that Yaerha make such a big mistake? I should have known that he would have taken a leave of absence and sealed it to do nothing.
Nowadays, many family members in Xianghuangqi are very dissatisfied. During the Chinese New Year, our men were not allowed to rest at home and had to be sent out on errands. As a result, thirteen people died and one was injured. More than a hundred people went out to Bear Island.
Where is Bear Island? It's a desert island!
So ever since the news of the death of the 11-man team came back to Hunchun City, Wu Teshan couldn't live a good life. Even his wife began to complain about him. Every day, family members with yellow flags came to his house and made noises.
Wu Teshan knew that he was careful and did something wrong, and he hated the leader who was killed by Yalha. I asked you to investigate, not to arrest him! As a result, all four of Yalha's family were frozen
Death, even the leader was killed.
Finally, the Seldan family unexpectedly appeared, and the whole family ran away and killed people.
Now that the matter has come to this, he regrets it endlessly. He can only wait until the twentieth day of the first lunar month and quickly send someone to Wula, Jilin, to clear the joints.
Talking about the Spring Festival holiday system for officials in the Qing Dynasty, it usually started around the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, and each government office had a sealed holiday. If you have anything to do next year, you can tell it after the 20th day of the first lunar month.
The one-month holiday seems very humane, but it has a big problem. After the official seal is sealed, the administrative system will be paralyzed; all matters, regardless of priority, will be resolved until the seal is opened next year.
Once ordinary people encounter an emergency, they have nowhere to turn.
Lan Dingyuan, a native of Fujian, recorded such an incident in his "Luzhou Gongan". There was a murder case that required an autopsy, but it was already December 19th, and the official seal was sealed, so we had to wait until the next year to open the coffin.
They reexamined it later. As a result, after a month passed, all the evidence and evidence were gone, and the prisoner had long since escaped.
On the 21st of the first lunar month, the seventy-three-year-old Qianlong began his sixth southern tour. On the same day, Anlin, the deputy capital of Ningguta, received a flight report from Hunchun.
In the Ningguta Yamen office, a pen-tender took the report from the messenger Geshiha, opened it and read directly:
"Hunchun led the Ute Mountain to report the matter for the flight. On the 6th of this month, at the Hunchun Yamen Office, I received a report from the armored soldier Samu Hami that Yarha, a villager in Hajimi River, went to Xiong Island to exchange iron and leather goods with others.
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He read it in a pen-note style, and his speaking speed became slower and slower. By the time he read "It is speculated that the two of them were killed by Yalha", he was too frightened to read any more.
At this time, Deputy Governor Anlin slapped several cases with his palm and cursed: "A unruly citizen dares to kill an official of the imperial court. He is really rampant! Keep reading."
He cleared his throat and continued reading. When An Lin heard that Ute Mountain had sent a hundred soldiers to capture Yalha, he smiled disdainfully: "This Ute Mountain is too timid.
Come on, why use a hundred armored soldiers to capture a small mountain man?"
He explained in a written post: "Woteshan has just been promoted from the position of Duke Zhongzuo, so it is his duty to be cautious when encountering problems."
"Haha, are you taking money from him by saying nice things for him?" An Lin squinted at the post and sneered.
"A villain doesn't dare. A villain is promoted by his master and only wants to serve his master with all his heart. How dare he accept other people's money!"
An Lin's words touched his heart, and he was so frightened that he immediately fell to the ground to explain. Yesterday, Wu Teshan sent someone to give him a hundred taels of silver to help intercede. But he didn't expect that as soon as he opened his mouth today, he was immediately
The Deputy Governor found out.
As for An Lin, he definitely belongs to the kind of person who jumps into a well with a gold ingot in his arms. He wants money rather than his life.
The deputy governor of Ningguta said to the outside world that his mother was old and needed to ride in a sedan when going out; in fact, the sedan carried by these four people was for him to sit in.
If this was just a violation of the regulations, that would be fine. He also opened a gambling house in Ningguta City and made a lot of money. The most terrible thing was that he forced merchants to buy ginseng at low prices and privately transported it into the customs to sell it.
Historically, An Lin was dismissed from his post in the 54th year of Qianlong's reign and was investigated and issued with Yili service to atone for his sins. Qianlong's comment on him was "despicable and shameless".
However, the sudden appearance of Zhao Xin in this time and space, who knows what impact it will have on the Vice-Capital Master?
Zhao Xin had no time to worry about this now. He and Liu Sheng led a team to attack the military camp outside the fishing village at night, sweeping away all the supplies in the camp and even taking away the corpses of the Qing soldiers.
His purpose is to prevent the Qing soldiers in Hunchun from knowing what happened. Let’s investigate slowly!
As long as Wang Yuanfang and the others come back, he and Liu Sheng won't be so stretched.
On the morning of the 21st of the first lunar month, on the slope east of the river valley where the Qing soldiers were first ambushed, the refugees who came from the camp had dug more than a dozen deep pits and were preparing to bury the bodies of the Qing soldiers.
Although the frozen soil was very difficult to dig, Zhao Xin still ordered that it must be dug deeper, otherwise it would be easy to be dug out by wild animals. So on the first day, the refugees piled dead branches, hay and wood on the ground where they were going to dig the pit, and burned it.
After a day, the land became soft.
Liu Sheng's original opinion was to pour oil on the shelf and burn the wood on fire, and then bother to bury it, but Zhao Xin disagreed.
He explained to Liu Sheng that although bullets on the battlefield do not have long eyes, people will hate you if you rub the soil and raise ashes. We don’t have much hatred against these Eight Banners and Qing troops. We have killed everyone, so why bother to do things?
What about Jue? Anyway, this island is not suitable for farming. If you are idle, you will be idle. It will not delay anything. After hearing this, Liu Sheng gave up.
The captured weapons, armor, and flags have all been transported to the camp. Except for those that were too badly damaged, the rest have been sorted and stored in the warehouse, and they may be used someday.
In addition, there were more than 200 captured Qing army horses. Except for a few injured horses that could be killed for meat, the rest were placed in an open space on the west side of the camp. This place was originally densely covered with birches, but
Now all the birch trees have been cut down, leaving only grass shrubs and a patch of tree stumps. Zhao Xin asked Pan Xiucheng, a former coachman, to find a few women and old people from the refugees to take care of them.
Among the seized materials, Zhao Xin found that the most interesting thing was more than 20 iron pots. (The regulations of Hunchun Eight Banners armored soldiers are that every four people share one iron pot.)
These supplies, which are in short supply in the eyes of the local natives, are just a pile of junk in Zhao Xin's eyes, the kind that they don't even take if they are sold for scrap. However, these things are good things in the eyes of the refugees in the island country, so let's keep them first.
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He planned to go to Hokkaido to do business with the Matsudaira clan in the spring to see if he could exchange these iron pots, cotton armor and weapons for leather goods, and then use the leather goods to test the waters of barter trade with Chinese merchants in Nagasaki.
All the seized materials have been arranged, and it’s time for Zhao Xin to go back and pick up the people.
In addition to Deng Fei and Ding Guofeng, they are still waiting for the cargo ship to complete the maintenance and transformation and go through follow-up procedures. Zhao Xin also wants to go to Zhao Liang's house and bring back the metal processing equipment he packed in boxes.
After a day's rest, Zhao Xin set off on the afternoon of the 21st of the first lunar month.
After getting off the plane at night, Zhao Xin took a train directly to Zhao Liang's factory the next day and took away all the packaging equipment. Then he took Zhao Liang and Wu Siyu who came to meet him to find Wang Yuanfang.
Wang Yuanfang has been calling Zhao Xin every day recently. He has encountered a problem that needs Zhao Xin to solve. This problem is the old Suntou who he met while looking at horses and wants to sell two horses for 200,000 yuan.
Speaking of which, Wang Yuanfang was the same. After receiving Zhao Xin's call, he boasted to Lao Suntou that the most expensive and best horses bought in the north only cost 80,000 yuan each, and usually a good horse only cost 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. At that time, Lao Suntou felt that this boy was bragging. At that time, he even asked Wang Yuanfang for his phone number. A few days later, when Lao Suntou was doing nothing by himself, he remembered this incident.
.So he called Wang Yuanfang.
As soon as Lao Sun came up, he said, where is the horse you bought? Open your eyes.
Wang Yuanfang said, uncle, do you still remember this?
So, he sent two photos taken in the ranch to Lao Suntou's mobile phone. Although Lao Suntou's mobile phone is not a new model, he can still receive MMS photos.
After looking at the photos, Lao Suntou quickly called Wang Yuanfang and said, are you going to bring your horse to China or what?
Wang Yuanfang said that if the horse is not brought back to the country, our company has a farm overseas, where will it be raised first?
Well, Lao Suntou asked, does your company still have people in charge of horses?
Wang Yuanfang said one more thing, there is no one, our boss is planning to find one.
After finishing the bird, Lao Suntou now called Wang Yuanfang every day to get close to him. From raising horses to eating enough for himself and the whole family was not hungry, he only had to introduce the situation of the three generations of his ancestors.
On the fourth day, the good-tempered Wang Yuanfang couldn't stand it anymore and said directly, "Uncle Sun, do you want to come to our company?"
Old Suntou was happy when he heard it.
Wang Yuanfang couldn't make the decision, so he immediately called Zhao Xin, but couldn't get in touch at all. Wang Yuanfang guessed that Zhao Xin might have gone back because of something. So he could only tell Mr. Sun that he couldn't contact the company boss, so he had to first
etc.
So Uncle Sun made two phone calls every morning and evening to inquire about the situation.
Finally, Zhao Xin received a call from Wang Yuanfang early the next morning after the plane landed. As soon as he explained the situation on the phone, Zhao Xin said that this was going to be difficult to handle.
I'm sixty-seven years old, and none of us can afford this responsibility.
But after he had a phone call with Uncle Sun and made detailed inquiries, he decided to meet this lonely old man with two horses.