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 have already frightened several families in the village.
It was not until dawn that a bold man carefully walked out of his house, looked around and walked hesitantly 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 Union Leader Ute Mountain still had not received any news from Tuomohuoguo.
Although it's a long way to go to Bear Island to capture the fugitives, after so many days, it's 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 their promotion to co-leader. Tuomohuoguo is the leader who has been passed down from generation to generation. He is also surrounded by a yellow flag and has a distinguished position. Since Wu Teshan was appointed as the assistant leader of Zhenghuang Banner, he has always been careful and cautious in his work.
After Yongde left office, Jilin General Qinggui asked them to act as assistant leaders 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 has received news from the capital that the emperor will summon him when he comes to the south and transfer him to the Military Aircraft Department and 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, listened carefully to the reports from his staff, and decided to promote Wu Teshan to Hunchun Assistant Leader. The reason is that Wu Teshan is cautious and fair in handling affairs, and everyone in Zhenghuang Banner and the other two banners is convinced.
The spring break is not over yet, and neither Ningguta nor Jilin Wula Yamen have appointed directors. Wu Teshan's flight report was sent out, but no one paid any attention to it.
In fact, Wu Teshan was also unlucky. He originally thought that something had happened down below, so he would investigate carefully as part of his official duties. Who would have thought that Yalha could cause such a big mistake. If I had known, 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 are not allowed to rest at home and have to be sent out on errands. Thirteen people died and one was injured. Then more than a hundred people went out to Bear Island.
Where is Bear Island? That's a desert island!
So since the news of the death of the eleven-man team came back to Hunchun City, Wu Teshan couldn't live a better life, and even his wife began to complain about him. Every day, family members with yellow flags came to his house and made noise.
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 people! As a result, all four members of Yarha's family froze to death, and even the leader was killed.
Finally, the Seldan family unexpectedly popped up, and the whole family ran away and killed people.
What happened now made him regret it endlessly. We can only wait until the twentieth day of the first lunar month and quickly send someone to Jilin Wula to clear the joints.
Talking about the Spring Festival vacation 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 quite humane, but there are big problems. 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 nothing to ask for.
Lan Dingyuan, a Fujianese, recorded such an incident in his "Luzhou Public Case". 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 for inspection. As a result, after a month passed, all the evidence was 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, Ningguta Deputy Commander Anlin received a flight report from Hunchun.
In the Ningguta Yamen office, the master 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. …”
The master kept reciting, and his speaking speed became slower and slower. By the time he got to the point of "It is speculated that the two of them were killed by Yalha", he was so frightened that he could no longer continue reading.
At this time, Vice-President Anlin slapped several cases with his palm and cursed: "A unruly man dares to kill an official of the imperial court. He is really rampant! Keep reading."
The master cleared his throat and continued reading.
When An Lin heard that Ute Mountain had sent a hundred armored soldiers to capture Yalha, he smiled disdainfully and said: "This Ute Mountain is too courageous. Why use a hundred armored soldiers to capture a small mountain man?" "
The master explained: "Woteshan has just been promoted from the position of Duke Lieutenant Commander, 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 looked sideways at the master and sneered.
"The villain dare not. The villain was promoted by his master and only wants to serve his master with all his heart. How can he dare to accept other people's money!"
The master was so frightened by An Lin's words that he immediately fell to the ground to explain. Wu Teshan sent someone to give him one hundred taels of silver yesterday to help intercede. As a result, I didn't expect that as soon as I opened my mouth today, I would be immediately noticed by the Deputy Governor.
As for An Lin, he definitely belongs to the kind of person who jumps into a well with Yuan Bao in his arms. He wants money rather than his life.
The deputy governor of Ningguta told the public that his mother was old and needed to ride in a sedan when going out; in fact, the sedan carried by the 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, Anlin was dismissed from his post in the 54th year of Qianlong's reign and investigated, and was issued the 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 didn't have time to worry about this now. After he and Liu Sheng led his team to attack the military camp outside the fishing village at night, they swept away all the supplies in the camp and even took away the corpses of the Qing soldiers.
His purpose was to prevent the Qing soldiers in Hunchun from knowing what was happening. Check it out 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, preparing to fill the bodies of the Qing soldiers.
Although the frozen soil is very difficult to dig, Zhao Xin still ordered that it must be dug deeper, otherwise it will be easily picked 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. After burning for a day, the land became soft.
All weapons, armor, and flags have been transported to the camp. Except for those that were too badly damaged, the rest have been placed in several tents that serve as warehouses.
More than two hundred horses were seized. Except for a few that were injured by stray bullets, 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.
For these horses, Zhao Xin asked Pan Xiucheng, a former carriage driver, to find a few women and old people from the refugees to take care of them. As for the injured and dead horses, they all fell into the stomachs of the refugees.
Among the seized materials, what Zhao Xin found most interesting were more than 20 iron pots. (The regulations for Hunchun Eight Banners armored soldiers are that every four people share an iron pot.)
These materials, which are in short supply in the eyes of the local indigenous people, are just a pile of scrap metal in Zhao Xin's eyes. Just keep them all for now, maybe someone will rush to get them.
He planned to go to Hokkaido to do business with the Matsudaira clan in the spring, exchange these iron pots, cotton armor and weapons for fur goods, and then use the fur goods to test the waters of barter trade with Chinese merchants in Nagasaki.
All the seized materials were arranged, and it was time for Zhao Xin to go back to pick up 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 up to find Wang Yuanfang.
Wang Yuanfang has been calling Zhao Xin every day recently. He has encountered a problem and needs Zhao Xin to solve it. This trouble was the old Suntou who he met when looking at horses and wanted to sell two horses for 200,000 yuan.
The same goes for Wang Yuanfang. 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 costs 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.
He does not mean that. At that time, Lao Suntou felt that this boy was bragging. At that time, he also asked Wang Yuanfang for his phone number. A few days later, when Lao Sun had nothing to do, 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 my 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 China, our company has a farm overseas, so we can raise it there 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?
Lao 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 and had to wait.
So Uncle Sun called twice 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 the situation was explained on the phone, Zhao Xin said that this was going to be difficult to handle.
A sixty-seven-year-old man, there is something wrong with this, and none of us can bear 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.
