The time soon came to noon. Zhao Xin asked He Xiyang, who had returned to life, to go to the cafeteria to prepare a sumptuous lunch for Baranov, and he went straight back to Luqi's small container building. As soon as he arrived outside the reception room on the first floor,
Through the window, he saw Li Shi waiting.
Compared to He Xiyang, who has dull eyes, Li Shi saw a tall man with a beard walking in from the door. His expression suddenly changed and he was about to ask, but he stared at Zhao Xin's face twice and suddenly
He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and was immediately confused.
"Chief...Prince...when did you come?" Li Shixin said that when he came back, except for two Spanish sailing ships, there were no other ships on the pier! Immediately afterwards, he
Reminds me of the rumor about Zhao Xin being "not a human being".
"Da Shuan, how long have we not seen each other?" Zhao Xin walked forward with a smile and patted Li Shi's shoulder affectionately.
"It's been more than two years." When Li Shi heard the other party calling him by his nickname, his nose became sore and tears flowed out.
The acquaintance between the two began nine years ago. That year was the fiftieth year of Qianlong's reign. A severe drought affected five northern provinces, causing Li Shi's family to almost die. At that time, their family of four fled from Shangqiu.
When they arrived in Kaifeng, they were so hungry that they could no longer survive, so they had to go to the market to sell their bodies. Originally, they thought that the family would probably be separated from each other, but unexpectedly, Xu Dayong spent twelve ounces of money to buy them collectively, and then went to Sheyang Lake.
Xu Zhuang fell into the trap of being a servant.
At that time, he was still a fourteen-year-old boy. When Zhao Xin and others went to Zhuangzi for the first time, they thought this boy was well-behaved and sensible, and gave him a bag of toffee before leaving. Li Shi never knew at that time
What is sugar? I just thought the red and blue outer packaging looked really nice, and there was a big rabbit painted on it. He gave the candy to his mother, and the family shared a piece. They all thought it was the most delicious thing in the world.
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His younger brother suffered a serious illness when he was fleeing. His body was very weak and he got sick easily. So every time his mother coaxed him to drink the medicine, she would take out a candy and cut half of it for him to eat. Li Shibu
I couldn't compete with my brother, so every time I finished a piece of candy, I would put the candy wrapper away, and sometimes I would take it out to secretly smell and lick it.
A year later, when his family took a boat to settle in Beihai Town and saw Zhao Xin's portrait, Li Shi knew who the tall man was who touched his head. His father, Li Erkui, even complained about his mother at that time, saying that he had known it earlier.
That packet of candy was given to me by Prince Zhao. No matter what, the second child should not have eaten it all.
A few years later, Li Shi studied, entered the military academy, got married, and had children. He kept those candy wrappers carefully and didn't lose any of them. He didn't tell anyone except his wife.
Come on, those candy wrappers represent the unique connection between myself and Zhao Xin.
In fact, there are many old immigrants in Beihai Town who have this mentality. Not to mention the earliest naturalized groups from the island country, among the earlier refugees from Henan, the children of more than fifty families were once placed under Shen Xuan's management.
class. Later, when Shen Xuan married Zhao Xin, these families felt that they were higher than others because their children were taught by the future queen. Later, these families formed a small circle and interacted with each other.
Marriage. Li Shi's marriage was the product of this phenomenon. Her wife was also Shen Xuan's student.
Zhao Xin originally wanted Li Shi to sit down and talk, but the latter didn't dare to sit down, so the two sat and stood. Zhao Xin threw a cigarette to Li Shi, held one in his mouth, and waited for Li Shi to help with a lighter.
After lighting up, he asked: "I heard from Chief Lu that you went to the tribe across the strait yesterday to go on a blind date for everyone?"
"Don't mention it." Li Shi showed a bitter look on his face and explained: "I told the people in the tribe that I was looking for people over fifteen years old. When I came to the humble position, I saw that there were more than twenty girls, except for a few who took care of the children.
Among the widows, none of the others looked like they were fifteen. There were a few girls who clearly looked like they were in their early ten years, but their parents insisted that they were already fifteen. They were too humble to accept the request, so they had to come back and report to Chief Lu first.
Situation. The problem is that we have let the word out before, and the chief is afraid that we will regret it, so he comes with the humble position."
Zhao Xin's heart moved and he asked: "Where are the people?"
Li Shi replied: "He went to the training ground of the tribal militia. I asked Su Ke to accompany him."
Zhao Xin pondered for a moment, with a smirk on his lips, beckoning Li Shi to come forward, and said, "You go find the chief now, by the way, what is his name?"
"Dudu." Li Shi then explained that in the Miwok Indian language, "dudu" means osprey, which is also cormorant.
After hearing this, Zhao Xin nodded and said, "Okay, you go find Chief Dudu right away and tell him... this and that."
Li Shi couldn't help but nod his head, and occasionally covered his mouth and laughed. When Zhao Xin finished speaking, he repeated it again, then saluted and left.
After talking for a long time, Zhao Xin was also a little hungry. At this time, the guard who had been following him since the morning brought him a lunch from the canteen. The Kinmen Fortress is adjacent to the sea, so seafood is indispensable in the three meals a day for the officers and soldiers.
There is no shortage of cabbage and tofu, but red meat is not often eaten. Although there are tens of millions of American bison in these days, their habitat is in the southern part of the Central Valley of California, which is east of Los Angeles, a few meters away from the Golden Gate.
Fourteen to five hundred miles is really too far.
After a hasty lunch, Zhao Xin asked the guard to open Lu Qi's office. He spent more than an hour inside, tinkered with two documents with the same content, and then asked the guard to send them to Li Shi. After all this work,
, he strolled to the conference room and continued to discuss the details of the "Huamei Trading Company" with Baranov.
Regarding the future company flag, Zhao Xin did not agree with the design submitted by Baranov, but asked him to fly the white five-star gear red flag of Beihai Town. Any flag with the symbol of the Romanov dynasty was never allowed to be used. Baranov
Ranoff did not dare to insist. He knew very well that if he wanted to get military support and protection from Kinmen, there was nothing to argue about.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Next, Zhao Xin also mentioned the naturalization of Russians in the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Those who are willing to naturalize must take an oath to apply for certificates and enjoy national treatment in the future.
; If you are not willing to naturalize, you can apply for a work permit, which will be reviewed every two years. Baranov replied that he had no objection to this matter, and that other people would have to inquire one by one.
The matter of naturalizing Russians in Siberia has been delayed for a long time. At first, Zhao Xin and others thought very simply, to expel all Russians; but after doing the census, they found that there were tens of thousands of Russians, and they really wanted to expel them all back to Russia.
, the manpower and material resources consumed were too huge, so it was shelved and became a matter that was not mentioned at all.
After the Battle of Usolye, Beihai Town had established a firm foothold in Siberia, and was separated from Tsarist Russia by the "Cossack Emirate", so the issue of the status of the Russian population was put on the table again. The "Committee of 29" was opened.
After several meetings, it was not until the recent Fuldan City meeting that preliminary results were obtained.
The most troublesome issue for the time-traversers is Christianity. Keep it, Tsarist Russia will definitely use it to cause trouble; expel it, the naturalized Russians may be furious, after all, this is a country that has been here for hundreds of years.
Beliefs cannot be completely eradicated by a single decree.
The final solution everyone discussed was to set up a religious management office to take charge of this matter. The Siberian Governor-General will coordinate with the management office to send management teams to major towns to "assist" local priests in the daily management of the church. Of course, monitoring them is the most effective way.
Important work.
The person in charge of the management office has not yet been determined, but Chen Qingsong recommended a guy he knew before. Zhao Xin planned to go back and meet during the Spring Festival before making a decision. Now that the territory of Beihai Town has expanded to Shengjing, the time travelers can no longer
There is no need to apply for a visa every year. You can go back to Shengjing directly during the Spring Festival next year.
In addition, the Civil Affairs Bureau has sent letters to various Buddhist and Taoist temples in Liaodong in the name of the management office, informing them that a conference will be held in Shengjing next May and they must attend. The purpose of this conference is to encourage Buddhism and Taoism to go
The opening of new ashrams in Siberia is, to put it bluntly, competing with Christianity for believers and gradually weakening its influence.
In fact, the situation in North America is similar. In addition to the military struggle between Beihai Town and Spain, how to contend with religious expansion is also a top priority. Demolishing churches is certainly a method, but Buddhism and Taoism must also follow up in time.
The last issue the two discussed was communication. Because Kodiak Island is too far away from Kinmen, the straight-line distance alone is 3,100 kilometers, and the boating distance along the coast is even longer; even Vancouver Island in the north is far away from Kinmen.
The sea distance is also 1350 kilometers.
Zhao Xinsi thought about it and finally decided to dispatch a communications team and a platoon to the settlement on Kodiak Island after next spring.
Baranov naturally didn't know what a telegraph was. Although Beihai Town built a relay station and an iron tower on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands, the Russians were completely confused about it and had no idea what it was for.
. Now he heard from Zhao Xin that there was a device that could communicate with people thousands of miles away, and could even communicate with Baiboer City thousands of miles away. He was so surprised that his jaw hit his feet.
In the evening, the discussion between Zhao Xin and Baranov finally ended. The latter will take a boat back to Kodiak Island early tomorrow morning and make follow-up arrangements in accordance with the details finalized today.
Zhao Xin had dinner with Lu Qi, during which the latter talked to him a lot about what happened after the Spanish mission landed. The funniest one was that the Spaniards wanted to buy some faucets from Kinmen.
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"Faucet?" Zhao Xin looked confused when he heard this.
"That's what happened..." Lu Qi pushed away the rice bowl, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and spoke slowly.
It turned out that, according to the previous communication between Brother Diez and Rucci, the camp of the New Spain Provincial Mission was arranged in a designated area five hundred meters northeast of the fortress, with the Indians more than one hundred meters to the south.
trading market.
The reason for this arrangement is that there is a large reservoir in the market. It is convenient for the Spaniards to go there to fetch water, and they save the need to connect a separate pipe.
In the early days, if the Indians who came to Kinmen needed water, they would fetch water from the well in the fort. Later, as more and more Indians came to the market, considering the security and confidentiality of the base, the logistics team asked the engineering team to lay a PVC
The water pipeline leads directly to an open space in the north of the market, where a circular PVC tape reservoir with a capacity of three tons of water was built. It is 1.8 meters in diameter and 1.2 meters high. The surrounding and top are also made of color steel plates.
Provide a shield to prevent dust from falling and being broken by others.
The main reason for using this thing is that it is easy to install and disassemble. If you want to change the location one day, you can put out the water, remove the bracket, and roll up the tarpaulin, and two or three people can carry it away.
When the reservoir was first built, the Indians in the market were very happy. What surprised them most was the faucet at the water connection. Groups of guys often gathered there to twist and play.
Very happy.
The Indians were like this, and the Spaniards were not much better. When a craftsman heard about it from the handyman who was fetching water, he immediately came to the reservoir, looked at the faucet above, turned it on and off, and even
He also took out a wooden ruler and measured it repeatedly.
The guy thought about it for a long time and told the people at the mission when he returned. As a result, a group of people came to visit together, even Brother Fermín de La Suen, the chairman of the Franciscan California Mission.
coming.
So on the way to the prisoner-of-war camp in the afternoon, Brother Diez, who served as the translator, told Rucci about this matter. Rucci smiled dumbly and explained that it was called a faucet.
Brother Dietz said, we are willing to pay a high price to buy a few. I wonder if you can agree?
Lu Qi's words of agreement slipped to his lips, and he immediately swallowed them back, and then changed the topic because he suddenly thought of the history of faucets that he had read in a certain book.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Don’t underestimate an ordinary faucet. In another history of time and space, it was not invented until 1845 by Rotherham, an Englishman. Before that
No matter in the East or the West, if people want to drink water, they have to go to the river or find a well. In cities with fountains, you can also find fountains, and the water quality is not guaranteed.
That is to say, only the powerful class have a choice. They can purchase water delivery service, or send people to fetch water from clean water sources. For example, it is well known that the powerful people in Beijing only drink water from Yuquan Mountain. Every morning when Xizhimen opens, there is a long queue.
General water trucks will come in one after another to deliver water to the Forbidden City and every household in the city.
The key reason why the faucet was not invented and popularized until the mid-19th century was the rubber pad inside, which was only realized after the invention of the "rubber vulcanization method".
The problem is that except for the hundreds of acres of rubber planted by Zhao Xin in Bacheng, all rubber production areas in the world today are in South America, which is a colony of Spain and Portugal. For Europeans right now, the biggest use of rubber is erasers.
Once the Spanish discover the accessories in the faucet, the purpose of the rubber will also be exposed.
Of course, if you don’t master the vulcanization technology, you can only stare blankly even if you know it; but will the “rubber vulcanization method” be born in advance, so that Europeans can further improve their industrial technology? You must know that rubber has an “industrial adhesive”
called.
Although a small pebble is inconspicuous, the ripples caused by being thrown into the water can spread over a large area. As a time traveler, Lucci knows the butterfly effect very well.
It's so cool to have a generational difference, you can bully whomever you catch, torture whomever you want, especially in a second-rate country like Spain.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Zhao Xin slammed the table and said, "We can't sell it! We haven't finished the war with Spain yet, so what good things can we do?"
Then, he told Lu Qi what he had arranged for Li Shi to do at noon. After hearing this, Lu Qi kept saying "fuck you", thinking that only you, Boss Zhao, can do such a thing!