A few days later, it was February of the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong's reign.
It is said that on February 2nd, the first thing the people under the Qing Dynasty had to do was to shave their heads. Whether it was to miss the past or to be filial to their uncle because they were afraid of death, in short, they had grown like crazy for a month. If they did not shave their heads, they would be exiled and beheaded.
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However, the four counties of Jiaodong under the rule of Beihai Town are a different story. Rich people will still call barbers to come to their homes, shave their heads brightly, remove the "little tail" on the back of the head, clean it, or braid it.
When they get up, they either wear jade or silver plaits; while those people who have no money just let their hair grow a few inches long on their heads. They can save a penny without losing anything, and at least they can keep warm.
The Military Control Commission issued a notice last year to express its position. The implication is that everyone can stay as they please, stay as long as they want, and shave as long as they want. However, it is best to wash frequently and maintain personal hygiene when there is nothing to do.
What is hygiene? Most people at the bottom of the class don’t understand. Besides, does it cost firewood to wash your hair and boil water? You have to buy firewood!
Speaking of which, before Beihai Town sent troops to Shandong, everyone from the army to civil affairs and even the medical department had a dispute over whether to cut people's pigtails.
Radicals proposed that the Beihai Navy should be like the revolutionary army of another time and space. After entering the city, everyone would have a pair of scissors and click each one. You must know that the immigrants in Beihai Town had their pigtails cut off when they disembarked from the ship and went through epidemic prevention procedures.
Now, both men and women have their heads shaved, and the cut braids will be thrown into the fire and burned under the witness of the owner, so as not to make the other party feel that they will be used for sex and have their souls taken away. Even if the new immigrants are reluctant, they will
It’s no use. The bright future of fifty acres of land is beckoning in front of you. I just ask you if you want it?
However, Zhao Xin did not agree to use such radical methods. In another time and space, the lessons of the "braid-cutting movement" after the Revolution of 1911 were enough. He warned Kong Shaoan that what the people at the bottom need is to voluntarily cut their braids through publicity and education, rather than violent force.
Not to mention that doing so would cause panic among the people and even lead to violent confrontations, and would also give the Manchus an excuse to sow discord.
As the top leader of the Shandong detachment, Kong Shaoan felt awkward about governing the pigtails on the backs of the people's heads, but he still obeyed Zhao Xin's orders.
On the third day of junior high school, Lin Qizong wanted to go to Longmen Port with Guo Yu to see the big iron ships. He hesitated again and again, and finally, under the persuasion of his wife, he went to the hair-shaving stall in front of the Chenghuang Temple after lunch. After cleaning up, he looked
Going up was much smoother.
On the next day, he arrived at the original "Changfengcang" in the city early, met up with Guo Yu, and set off together on a supply carriage from the Northern Navy.
There were originally three granaries in Ninghai Prefecture: Changping, Preparation, and Changfeng, and there were many social warehouses outside the city. The Changfeng Granary had long since been abandoned due to disrepair, and is currently being converted into a material warehouse for the Military Control Commission.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the gate, Lin Qizong saw five "giant" carriages parked neatly in the yard, which made him gasp. He thought to himself, how many mules would be needed to pull such a big carriage?
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The reason why I say giant is that the carriage of this kind of carriage is more than twice as long as that of ordinary folk carriages, and it has four wheels, especially the wheels at the rear, which are almost as tall as Lin Qizong. The tall outer panels of the carriage
The whole body was painted bright blue, and the top was covered with an arched snow-white tarpaulin.
Just when he was in a trance, he heard someone calling from behind. He turned around and saw that it was Cao Guifu and Guo Yu. Lin Qizong hurriedly bowed and saluted. Cao Guifu smiled and cupped his hands, and then walked to the guard standing guard at the door.
Come forward and hand over your ID for verification.
When it was Guo Yu and Lin Qizong's turn, he took out a voucher from the Military Control Commission from his arms, which stated that Lin Qizong was approved to go to Longmen Port with the convoy, and his home address and house number were indicated.
After entering the courtyard after the inspection, the three of them couldn't wait to step forward and look at the carriage carefully.
Even though Cao Guifu and Guo Yu had joined the Military Control Commission for more than a month, they had never been here before. The three of them watched the car for a while, then heard the sound of horse hooves, and a dozen Bei navy troops rushed in.
The tall horse came over from the stable at the back. At this moment, the eyes of the three of them were all straight and their mouths were open.
When Cao Guifu and Guo Yu followed the cavalry team to investigate the case, they rode foreign horses - that is, Mongolian horses. Those military horses were captured by the Northern Navy in various battles with the Manchu and Tsarist Russia. In the eyes of the two of them, they were already superior.
Wait for a good horse; but compared with the current group of horses, they are just donkeys.
What appeared in front of them were dozens of large reddish-brown and black horses, all over one and a half meters tall. Each of them had strong limbs, well-developed muscles, broad shoulders and broad backs, showing pleasing curves. The brown hair on the top of their necks
He was neatly trimmed, and his brown hair trembled as he walked, making him look even more majestic.
After a long while, Lin Qizong put away his dropped chin and murmured: "The dragon's spine is attached to the money, and the silver hoofs are walking on the smoke. No one is weaving the brocade, who is going to forge the golden whip."
Guo Yu asked without turning his head: "Brother Deyuan, what are you talking about?"
"Well...this was done by Li He in the former Tang Dynasty. It is one of the "Twenty-three Horse Poems", praising the horses for their majesty. Brother Yu, these horses are very handsome. I think the ancient horses are just like this.
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Hearing this, Guo Yu couldn't help but nodded and said: "Yes, yes, I'm afraid this horse will cost dozens of ounces each."
In these years, the starting price of a gelding in Shandong was only ten taels, and stallions were even more expensive. Not to mention that the Manchu and Qing government strictly controlled the private horse trade and prohibited private breeding and selling.
Many families cannot afford the cost. The three of them thought about how much feed they would need to eat in a day to keep these horses so strong!
However, when they saw several Bei navy soldiers taking the horses to the long shaft in front of the truck and starting to put on the harness, the three of them were dumbfounded again. Cao Guifu's eyes widened and he said in amazement: "It's so good.
Use the horse to pull the cart? This is too..." He wanted to say waste, but because there were people around him, he swallowed it back.
When a soldier who was harnessing a horse to a cart heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said to the three of them with a white breath: "What Pegasus? This is called a draft horse, and it is the one who pulls the cart!"
Needless to say, these are the offspring of the first heavy draft horse that Zhao Xin bought. Nine years have passed and the second generation draft horse is already able to work.
What?! The three of them looked at each other and thought to themselves that there are horses specially used to pull carts? This is the first time I have heard of it. You must know that because horses are expensive, the folk who pull carts are either mules or donkeys, and occasionally oxen are used. And the Beihai Navy
To use such a majestic horse to pull a cart seemed to the three of them to be a waste of natural resources.
The soldier was busy while explaining to the three people that these draft horses were specially bred by the Beihai Town Horse Farm and were transported just a few years ago. Because the road was bumpy and bumpy, they felt a little uncomfortable after getting off the ship, so they raised them for more than a month.
Dare to take it out and use it. When they learned from the soldier that the carriage behind them could carry up to 10,000 kilograms and required eight draft horses to pull it, the three of them were shocked and speechless.
More than half an hour later, all five carriages in the yard had been hitched, and each vehicle was hitched to eight draft horses. Under the order of a company commander who led the team, Lin Qizong and the others climbed up in a daze.
In the carriage of a carriage. After getting on the carriage, the three of them discovered that the interior of the carriage was different from an ordinary carriage. The floor was not flat, but high at both ends and low in the middle, so it was very awkward to sit on it.
Little did they know that this kind of carriage was a heavy-duty freight carriage specially copied by the factory in Beihai Town. Because of its good passability, it is currently being widely used in the eastern United States and Canada and is responsible for commercial transportation between towns. It lasts up to
The interior of the 5.4-meter carriage is tilted at both ends to prevent the loaded goods from tipping over and moving forward and backward.
However, it is precisely because of the large load capacity that this kind of heavy-duty carriage is not suitable for grassland areas. The main reason for putting it into Jiaodong is to consider the hard soil roads there, and also the transportation of materials from ports to towns in winter.
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As the horse-drawn carriage team left the Changfengcang compound and merged with the cavalry team waiting outside, it drove slowly towards Zhenhai Gate in the north of the city. The people along the way were all stunned when they saw it. Soon there were nearly a thousand people gathered on both sides of the road.
People looked strange. Some idle men and children were still following on both sides of the convoy, eating dust from the ground for several miles before they walked back excitedly.
The destination of the convoy's trip is Longmen Port, located at the mouth of the Xin'an River 20 miles northwest of Ninghai Prefecture City. The speed of the Conestoga heavy-duty carriage is not very fast, even if it is empty, it is only 3 kilometers per hour.
Lin Qizong and the others were quite excited at first, but not long after leaving the city, they felt a little uncomfortable because of the bumpy road. Less than half an hour after walking, Lin Tongsheng was lying on the rear panel of the car, wishing he could
He had to vomit out the last night's meal, which made the two draft horses at the back of the carriage snort at him.
Cao Guifu smiled and joked: "Lin Tongsheng, this is not good for me. When the time comes to take the exam and take the boat, I'm afraid I will vomit out the gall."
After hearing this, Lin Qizong's originally wrinkled face became even more ugly. He thought to himself that he was really full and couldn't stay at home in the cold weather. He had to come to see some big iron ship.
Even though it has come down, it can only be carried on.
Guo Yu patted Lin Qizong's back and said, "Uncle Cao, please stop scaring Brother Deyuan. He is a scholar, so he has never suffered this crime."
After hearing this, Cao Fugui chuckled, closed his eyes and stopped talking, leaning against the carriage board and dozing off. After a while, a purring sound was heard...
More than an hour later, the motorcade arrived at its destination. Lin Qizong, who was pale-faced, could not even stand still. He was helped out of the carriage by Cao Guifu and Guo Yu, and found a place to sit down. Guo Yu went again
I found a cup of hot water for him to drink, and then he felt better.
Cao Guifu had been to Longmen Port before, and at that time he brought his government servants to collect taxes from fishermen. Due to the long-term sedimentation of the Xinan River, and the Qing government paying more attention to Dengzhou Port, Longmen Port could only berth some small fishing boats. Facts
The best deep-water bay in the entire northeastern Jiaodong is on the southeast side of Zhifu Island, which is later known as Yantai Port.
However, developing Yantai Port is a big project that cannot be completed in one or two years. Not only does it require a large amount of machinery and equipment, but also a large number of engineering personnel must be dispatched from Beihai Town. Kong Shaoan thought about it and decided to make do with Longmen Port first, and then wait.
The Northern Navy will take over the entire Dengzhou Prefecture and establish a firm foothold in Jiaodong.
The Military Control Commission built a material transfer warehouse in Longmen Port, covering an area about the size of two football fields, and stationed a platoon of troops. Because searchlights were placed on the tower, the people in nearby villages were very nervous. Later, Commander A
I came to see it in person, and even though I went back with little knowledge, I was fine.
The three of them came to a barracks and sat for a meal. Cao Guifu couldn't bear it anymore, so he went to the company commander who led the team to inquire about it, and learned that the ship would not arrive until the afternoon. While talking, he vaguely smelled
There was a smell of meat. After I finished talking to the company commander, I looked for the smell...
Guo Yu didn't see Cao Guifu come back, and just as he was about to go find him, he saw Cao Guifu enter the door happily, came closer and said: "This time we are here! We have meat for noon!"
Before Guo Yu could say anything, Lin Qizong suddenly stood up and asked, "How did Capt. Cao find out?"
"Hey, I just went to the kitchen to see the fat pork stewed with cabbage and radish, and the big snow-white steamed buns."
"Gulu~~"
Lin Qizong swallowed his saliva dissatisfiedly. Although he still felt a little tight in his chest and wanted to vomit, but since he had eaten pig sesame a few days ago, he had not seen any smell of oil for many days.
Guo Yu was very greedy when he heard that there was meat to eat. In these days, not only anyone with money could eat meat every day, but even wealthy landlords could not eat it. Pigs and sheep had to wait until they were fattened during the New Year before they could be killed.
If there were fish and chicken in the world, it would be a life of luxury beyond the reach of ordinary people. Currently in the whole of East Asia, only the Beihai Navy dares to eat like this. Who would let Zhao Xin be the boss!
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When they opened the door, Cao and Guo were stunned...
Lin Tongsheng finished five big steamed buns during lunch, and Cao and Guo didn't give in too much. They devoured four steamed buns. Each of them also took out a bowl of stewed meat and a bowl of egg drop soup, and their mouths were full of water.
Oil, and even the remaining oil in the bowl were wiped with steamed buns and eaten. After the meal, the three of them leaned on their chairs, picking their teeth and touching their stomachs with satisfaction, saying that today's trip was really worthwhile.
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, there was a sudden noise outside. When Guo Yu went out to ask, he realized that the ship had arrived. So he hurriedly called Cao Guifu, pulled Lin Qizong, who could hardly walk, to the outside of the warehouse.
I saw a small white dot approaching on the northwest sea.
The three of them thought the ship was not big at first, but after a while they realized that the white ship in the distance was bigger than any sea ship they had ever seen in their lives, and it was very fast, like a white ship.
Feathers are like gliding on the sea surface.
Not long after, the ship stopped several miles away from the coast. First it whistled twice, and then the rumble of anchor shook the surrounding area and startled a sea of seabirds. It was two miles west of the three people.
On a high slope, a group of villagers who heard the sound were also looking eagerly, with frightened expressions on their faces.
Lin Qizong was obsessed with it. He had experienced so much in the past half day. He rode in Beihai Navy's carriage, ate Beihai Navy's food, and then saw such a huge boat like a mountain. He finally understood that the Manchu and Qing court would never be able to do anything again.