"What? You said a Kurkhachi came and exchanged things with us?"
Zhao Xin, who had just returned to the camp, took a look at the large deer skin and a pair of huge antlers that were drying in the camp before he even bothered to introduce the situation to the people he brought. So he quickly asked someone to hand Li Ji over for questioning.
After Liji and Sheng Haizhou, who came after hearing the news, told what happened one after another, Zhao Xin was silent in thought, and he asked Liji to call Pingtai back who was leading people to cut trees.
Liu Sheng and five comrades stood behind Zhao Xin. The five people stared with wide eyes at the group of refugees from the eighteenth-century island country in front of Zhao Xin wearing labor protection cotton coats.
"Liu Sheng, tell me honestly what's going on?" Wang Yuanfang, the oldest among the five, shouted to Liu Sheng. His voice immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding refugees.
"Damn it, are these all little devils?" Another one of the five, named Deng Fei, blurted out with his eyes widened.
"Liji, go find an unoccupied tent and ask Mr. Liu and these five people to go over and wait for a while." Zhao Xin immediately ordered Liji.
Then he said to Liu Sheng and the other five people: "Everyone, I'm really sorry, I have something that needs to be dealt with immediately. You go and sit down with Liu Sheng first, and he will tell you the specific situation. I'll handle it from here. I’ll come find you when I’m done.”
After hearing Zhao Xin's instructions, Li Ji immediately bowed and saluted, and said: "Hai."
Then, Li Ji stood up and made an invitation gesture to Liu Sheng and the five people respectively, and kept saying: "Go away, go away."
Liu Sheng couldn't help but put his arm around Wang Yuanfang's shoulders, called the other four people, and followed Li Ji to a tent.
The five people looked around the tents curiously and saw some old people and children coming out of the tents and walking towards Zhao Xin.
Li Ji opened the thick cotton curtain and gestured to Liu Sheng and others to come in. He went to Shino's place and asked someone to bring hot water.
after an hour.
Zhao Xin, who was sitting in the RV, didn't speak for a long time after listening to Pingtai's detailed account.
Katsu Kaishu, Heitai, who were waiting on the side, looked at each other in confusion. They didn't know if they had done something wrong again, and they didn't even dare to express their anger at this time.
Zhao Xin took the tea delivered by A Miao, took a sip, and then said slowly: "Let's do this for now. Next time that Ya'erha comes again, let Pingtai come forward. You two go and do your work first."
The two people opposite looked at Zhao Xin who was staring out the window, then bowed and walked out of the RV. After A Miao closed the door, Sheng Haizhou and He Tai looked at each other and let out a long breath.
Zhao Xin held hot tea and lit a cigarette.
Yarha, who came to the camp to exchange things, surprised him. There were actually aborigines who came to Bear Island in winter, and walked all the way from the north of the island to the camp.
When he was looking for a campsite, Zhao Xin specifically chose the current location because he wanted to stay away from the Kurkhachi people for the time being. Although Bear Island is deserted, it is a good place to hide. But there are hills all over here, and it is impossible to make a living from farming.
He and Liu Sheng's original plan was to use this place as a collection point for timber resources, and wait until the late spring of the next year to take these refugees across the strait to the plains on the south bank of Xingkai Lake. It belongs to the core area of the Sanjiang Plain. Although there are many rivers and swamps, the land is fertile. With modern planting techniques and tools, and the efforts of tens of thousands of island country refugees to cultivate the land, there will be no problem in surviving.
Zhao Xin's idea of occupying the south bank of Xingkai Lake as a farming base was something he had considered from the beginning. From the map, this place is only more than 300 miles away from the seaside fishing village; and from the seaside fishing village, you can quickly cross the sea to reach the island country.
To the east of the seaside fishing village, there is an iron mine with a reserve of up to 300 million tons, and this area can be developed as an industrial base.
Zhao Xin did not consider it for the time being for the old and new Manchus and other aborigines, as well as the Han people exiled in the north.
The first is the Han people who were exiled here. If they want to recruit these people, they will inevitably have an armed conflict with the Qing court. Because these Han people were mainly concentrated near Ninggu Pagoda and were used as slaves and laborers.
Although the Qing government only had a total of 3,000 bannermen under the jurisdiction of General Jilin, those Kurkhaqi and Feyaka people were under the management of Manchu households and could be recruited as soldiers at any time; not to mention those who were recruited by later generations. The "Solon Soldiers" were composed of the Evenki, Daur, and Xibe tribes.
In this era, the most powerful fighting force of the Qing court and even the entire East Asia region was the Tianshan Banner Battalion composed of these Sauron soldiers.
With the previous number one, the plan to recruit local aborigines will definitely not be realized. Now the Qing government has even implemented household management for the Feyaka people on Heilong Island, and regularly collects mink skins as tribute every year.
Therefore, after the sea water thaws in spring, Zhao Xin can only pick up refugees from the island country first. Later, when there was a severe drought in Shandong in the 50th year of Qianlong's reign, we would find ways to attract a large number of people from Shandong.
During this period, we must try to avoid conflicts with the Qing court. You must know that this is the land of Longxing of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Once a conflict occurs, the Qing government will continuously send troops over, and even recruit Koreans to send troops over.
Even if he has a gun in his hand, he can't win with just a few modern men and more than 300 old, weak, women and children. I’ll send people to beat you all day long, stop farming, Zhao Xin can’t handle it no matter how rich he is.
In Zhao Xin's plan, he designed a four-way trade plan, namely the island nation of Sendai, Chinese merchants in Nagasaki, the Dutch, and Zhao Xin himself. Through Chinese businessmen in Nagasaki, business channels between Mining, Zhejiang and Guangzhou can also be opened.
He intended that the wealth he would earn through this trading scheme would be used to finance his purchases in later generations.
Zhao Xin has no good solution at the moment. Everything has to wait until the sea ice melts in spring. And I haven’t bought the boat yet.
This time, before Zhao Xin came, after repeated consideration, he finally decided to let his cousin stay instead of bringing him over. He felt that the only person around him who could completely trust him, besides Liu Sheng, was this cousin. Therefore, before leaving, Zhao Xin asked Cheng Wei to register an ocean shipping company through an agent. After the company's procedures were completed, he asked him to purchase a second-hand bulk carrier.
(I really can’t afford a new one, it’s too expensive~~)
With Cheng Wei as the general manager, Zhao Xin no longer has to travel back and forth between modern times and the eighteenth century. For general bulk purchase of goods, he only needs to send an email, and he is still responsible for key materials.
And among the five people he and Liu Sheng brought this time, one of them also worked as a chief engineer on an ocean-going cargo ship, that is Deng Fei.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xin remembered that Liu Sheng and the others were still in the tent.
"A Miao, go help me invite Master Liu and the others." Zhao Xin said to A Miao who was kneeling in the RV and mopping the floor without looking back.
A Miao agreed and was about to get up and go out when Liu Sheng stopped her again.
"Forget it, I'll go there by myself."
As soon as Zhao Xin opened the door, he saw Li Ji waiting outside the car.
"Mr. Liu, which tent are they in?" Zhao Xin asked.
"Master, please go over and take a look. They were all quarreling just now." Li Ji bowed and said.
"Oh? Take me there."
Not far away, Zhao Xin heard a loud voice coming from a tent more than ten meters away: "According to what I want, we have to work with the Manqing. Some of us have guns, what are we afraid of?!"
Zhao Xin sounded like this was Ding Guofeng, one of Liu Sheng's comrades, but he joined the army later than Liu Sheng. And this guy is very weird. He has been staying at home since he was discharged from the army. He is a kind of person who eats and waits to die. After eating his retirement pay, he eats what he has at home. I had a good time in the army, but I didn't adapt at all when I returned home. Even after several years of adjustment, I still couldn't adjust.
As he got closer and closer to the tent, Zhao Xin heard what Liu Sheng was saying.
The man named Ding Guofeng said loudly: "Liu Sheng, have you become timid after being around for so many years? Brothers, let's deal with him together."
At this time, there was a commotion in the tent.
Zhao Xin followed Li Ji to the tent and saw the refugees in the surrounding tents looking around with their cotton curtains lifted.
Li Ji coughed twice quickly. When everyone turned around and saw that Zhao Xin was coming, they all knelt down and saluted.
"grown ups."
"Okay, everyone, get up. Do whatever you need to do, and don't gather here." Zhao Xin said with a cold face.
"Did you hear them all? Leave them quickly, leave them all." Li Ji scolded and waved his hands to drive them away.
At this time, the cotton door curtain was lifted, and a man walked out of the tent. He was 1.75 meters tall, had short hair, and looked very capable.
"Mr. Zhao, come in quickly, I'm talking to you."
Wang Yuanfang, Liu Sheng's squad leader when he was in the army. This man is also a strange man. He spent 17 minutes on a five-kilometer cross-country trip in the army armed with 15 kilograms. He has received many awards for meritorious service. (In the 1960s, in an all-army competition, an airborne soldier of our army set a record of 15 minutes and 40 seconds while participating in plain cross-country. This record has not been broken even after decades.)
It's a pity that he only has a junior high school education, and after he retired from the army, he had no place to display his military abilities. So after I finished my retirement pay, I started to spend nights at Internet cafes, worked as a security guard, a security team, sifted sand at a construction site, and worked as a lumberjack. I could change five or six jobs a year.
"Let's go to the RV and talk. There are people living here, and we have to make room for them when we come back later."
"Hell, there's still an RV?" Deng Fei lifted the door curtain and walked out quickly. "Where is it? I've only seen it online, but I haven't seen it in person."
This guy is 1.7 meters tall, has a big head, and has a pot head. His occupation is the same as Liu Sheng's before, seaman. When I first joined the ship, I was an engineer, and it was only in the past two years that I was promoted to chief engineer. But working on a freighter for a long time is boring. Especially machinists, who have to work alone for a long time. After working for these years, Deng Fei felt that he was about to suffer from depression. So when he heard that Liu Sheng wanted to invite a few of them to go abroad together to be responsible for the safety and security of engineering projects, and the salary was not bad, he immediately agreed and resigned quickly.
At this time, Wang Yuanfang shouted into the tent: "You three, stop making trouble and come out."
The door curtain shook, and Zhao Liang came out first. It was the one who did metal processing that Liu Sheng mentioned before, and the factory later closed down. Zhao Liang is about 1.75 meters tall, lean and lean, with short hair.
Coming out from behind Zhao Liang was Wu Siyu. He is 1.78 meters tall, has messy hair, and wears glasses. According to Deng Fei, if you are a middle school dormitory administrator, you will think you are a teacher if you wear glasses!
This Wu Siyu has great ambitions, but unfortunately his journey has been bumpy. He and his wife also divorced and left home. I was almost deceived into a pyramid scheme.
The penultimate one is Ding Guofeng. The last one to come out was Liu Sheng. As soon as Zhao Xin saw this guy, he knew that he had just been ravaged by everyone. His clothes were wrinkled and his hair was as messy as a chicken coop.
"Zhao Xin, I told you everything you meant." Liu Sheng ruffled his hair and complained to Zhao Xin.
"I don't know you yet." Zhao Xin dismissed this guy, knowing that he must not have made it clear.
The six people followed Zhao Xin and walked back to the RV.
When Deng Fei saw the large RV, his eyes widened. He walked around the car and said a few words of praise.
The car door opened, A Miao held the door handle and said, "Master, you are back."
"Hush~~~" Several whistles sounded.
Ding Guofeng looked at the big-eyed A Miao, then at Zhao Xin, and couldn't help but murmured: "Good boy, you have a lolita..."
