Five days later, a funeral was held in Beihai Town for the soldiers who died in the battle.
The location of the cemetery was arranged by Chen Qingsong in a valley on the west side of Beihai Town, facing north and south, with the sea not far away. After seeing it, Zhao Xin and others felt that the environment was okay, so they decided to use this place as a military cemetery in the future.
Originally, Wang Yuanfang wanted to hold a grand ceremony, but firstly, the weather was hot during the day, and secondly, the honor guards could not be trained in a day or two, so he had to make do with it. Fortunately, the islanders do not have the tradition of playing pipes and beatings at funerals, nor do they have rules such as making paper people or horses, or scattering paper money, which saves trouble.
Fifty-five hastily made coffins walked at the front of the funeral procession, each carried by six people. On both sides were a hundred "honor guards" with guns selected by Wang Yuanfang. The family members of the soldiers who died in the war followed behind holding a wooden memorial tablet.
In order to win the hearts of the people, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others also joined the coffin-carrying team; Sheng Haizhou and others saw that Zhao Xin had done this, and although they were not very willing, they all joined in.
The Lord and the adults actually carried the coffin for the untouchable! The family members of more than two hundred soldiers who died in the battle were stunned by Zhao Xin's move, and then they knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
This move by Zhao Xin and others quickly alarmed the entire Beihai Town. Except for the posts that must be manned, all the refugees came.
In the island nation of the Edo period, Buddhist culture dominated funeral rituals. People with higher social status were buried with Buddhist rituals after their death, and Buddhist funerals for nobles were thoroughly implemented. Ring names, tablets, stone pagodas, and gorgeous funeral objects are all for sale. The common people generally can only use the form of wind burial - rolling up a mat and finding a hole in the open air.
The original meaning of the word "funeral" in funeral is the funeral ceremony for noble people. It is a ceremony in which the coffin is placed in a building before burial. Now, the meaning of "funeral" has changed to "all night", which means that relatives and friends stay together all night.
However, there are currently no monks in Beihai Town, and Zhao Xin and others do not want to introduce them for the time being. In order to show solemnity, it is better for people like me to carry the coffin than to find monks to chant sutras.
Due to time constraints, the tombstones of the fallen soldiers are temporarily replaced with wooden boards, and will be replaced with stones later.
The inscription on the wooden board was written with brushes by Chen Qingsong, Sheng Haizhou and Shen Jingdan. It states the names of the fallen soldiers, where they came from, when they arrived in Beihai Town, when they joined the army, and in what battle they died.
Zhao Xin distributed pensions to the families of all soldiers who died the day before yesterday. The pension standard is based on the salary standard of thirty-six shi of grain per year for ordinary soldiers, and each family is 500 shi of grain. At the same time, all families of fallen soldiers will be given priority in the arrangement of land and houses.
When this arrangement was announced in the form of a notice, all the refugee families were shocked. They didn't expect that Mr. Zhao would give such a large amount of pension.
Speaking of this, we need to mention the issue of the pension system of the island nation's shogunate and the Manchu Qing court in this era. There is no pension for civilians in the island country; as for the samurai, it is enough to let their descendants inherit the family business after they die in battle.
During the Edo period, it was not easy for the Hatamoto and Imperial family members directly under the shogun to inherit the family business. It is necessary to complete the academic test of "Sudu Yinlang", and only those who pass it are eligible to inherit the family business. Because Confucian culture was extremely popular during the Edo period, the academic test revolved around Confucianism. If you want to pass the literacy test, you need to receive Chinese language training from an early age. During the test, the examiner will randomly select one book from the Four Books and Five Classics and require the test taker to read it correctly.
As for the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, they were much stronger than the Shogunate. If an Eight Banners official is killed in battle, burial silver and pensions will be distributed according to rank. The Ministry of Industry of the imperial court will also issue special fees for erecting monuments. Specifically, if a soldier dies on the battlefield, the forward will receive a pension of 200 taels, the armored soldier will receive 150 taels, and the gunner will receive 130 taels. If a fourth-grade second-class guard like Li Dagang dies in battle, the pension standard is between 450 taels and 550 taels.
In the view of Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang, the pension standard set by Zhao Xin was too high. Not talking about land and houses, the current price of grain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is one tael and five qian for one shi of rice; five hundred shi of rice is equivalent to 750 taels. Especially in Shandong and Henan areas where disasters have occurred frequently in the past two years, the price of 500 shi meters will be even higher, as high as 2.5 taels per stone.
Because his concubine was pregnant, Shen Jingdan did not go to watch the fun, but Lao Huang went and stood far away from the crowd.
Wang Yuanfang, Liu Sheng and others still regretted the hastily prepared military funeral ceremony. One is that Beihai Town still does not have its own military flag, and the other is that there is no trumpeter. Ding Guofeng had found a video clip of lights-out on his mobile phone, and Zhao Xin found a speaker to play it on the spot.
When all the coffins were placed in the tomb, Wang Yuanfang stood at attention and shouted "Ready!" One hundred "honor guards" immediately changed from standing at attention and holding their guns to raising their guns and pointing diagonally at the sky above.
"Fire!"
"boom!"
Liu Sheng shouted "Salute!".
With a sound of "Shua!", except for the soldier who fired the gun, the other soldiers stood at attention and raised their hands in salute. And as the first shooting started, the sound of the lights-out signal sounded slowly. The refugees also bowed and saluted at this time, and the families of the soldiers who died in the battle finally couldn't help crying. Seeing such a scene, even Lao Huang, a usually carefree person, felt a little sore in his nose.
In the days after the funeral, Beihai Town's reclamation plan, which had been interrupted by the Qing army's sudden attack, was once again in full swing.
After two days of preliminary training by Chen Qingsong, Zhang Bo and Liu Zheng had another task besides teaching their children. They started driving the 9620RX monster every afternoon on the swampy plains on the west bank of the Xila River.
Wan Zao and Shiosuke, two men who did not like cutting and killing, led more than 2,000 people to start building the mountain road from Beihai Town to the mouth of Fuljiaha River.
In addition to treating the refugees' ailments such as headaches and fever, Dr. Hong and his wife also oversee the training of the wounded and "barefoot doctors". Because the two of them paid close attention to the personal safety of the refugees and the public health of Beihai Town, no large-scale infectious diseases have occurred yet.
Zhao Xin has asked Andrew to help purchase a batch of smallpox vaccine, and he plans to vaccinate all the children in Beihai Town. There is no way, the smallpox vaccine is already difficult to buy in China; vaccination has been completely stopped since the 1980s, and all children since then have been vaccinated with the BCG vaccine to prevent tuberculosis.
Considering that when the Qing army attacked this time, the people who hurriedly hid on the east bank had no place to live. Zhao Xin decided to open up a large area north of the prisoner camp on the east bank and build a large fortress. So the captured Han slaves and armored soldiers were also tied into a string with ropes around their waists under the supervision of armed security police, and carried wood on the east bank of the Xila River every day.
Li Dagang, the master of the inner circle, has not recovered from his gunshot wound, so he has to continue to serve in the prison cell.
Wang Yuanfang and others were busy continuing to train new recruits. In addition to daily queue and skills training, soldiers now also have literacy classes in the evening. However, considering the various qualities of farmers in this era, there is still a long way to go for these people to become qualified soldiers.
Family workshops producing cigarettes have been put into trial operation on a small scale. At present, these workshops are still processing pine wood cigarette boxes or cylinders. As for the production of cigarettes, Zhao Xin placed them near Zhao Liang's workshop on the east coast, considering the issues of electricity and confidentiality.
The entire cigarette making workshop is not large, the equipment only covers an area of ten square meters, and only six people are needed to operate the two cigarette making machines. Under normal operation, each piece of equipment can produce 120 cigarettes per minute; however, the current workers are not skilled enough, so they can only produce 80 cigarettes per minute. Cigarette filters, tobacco, rolling papers, and paving materials are all purchased separately; as for equipment such as the fermentation room, Zhao Xin plans to wait until the knowledge level of the refugees improves in the future.
Zhao Xin is very busy these days. In addition to arranging various affairs in Beihai Town and teaching children during the day with Chen Qingsong and Liu Sheng, at night he also had to teach Lu Shoushan and Katayama Kanbei some simple psychological techniques for interrogating prisoners.
It is said that the attitude of the "police" towards the captured criminals in the Edo period was just eight words: "Be ruthless and never forgive." Things that modern people can't even imagine were both reasonable and legal in ancient times. As a former comrade, Katayama's methods during the interrogation were no exception.
It would be a disaster if these Qing prisoners did not confess immediately during the first interrogation. Katayama's "torture training" will begin immediately. The prisoner would first be tied up and taken into an interrogation room, where several security guards would immediately strip him naked and begin to beat him severely with thorny bush branches.
This kind of whip can make the burrs on the branches penetrate deeply into the body. The prisoner will be painfully alive but will not die immediately. After more than a dozen lashes were used to "demonstrate power", most people basically resorted to it.
However, there are some who are tough-talking, so the second step starts. The prisoner would be pressed onto a kneeling board made of five triangular pieces of rough pine wood, and a stone slab weighing one hundred kilograms would be pressed on his thighs. They were in extreme physical and mental pain, and no matter how tough-talking they were, they would resort to it. The Manchu Qing court had no indestructible faith to support it.
After Zhao Xin saw Katayama Kanbei interrogating prisoners for the first time, he immediately took action to stop it. If everyone breaks it, how can it be used in the future?
He quickly found a copy of "Criminal Interrogation and Confessions", deleted, revised, and reprinted a copy and gave it to Lu Shoushan and Katayama Kanbei, and warned them not to leak it. After receiving the secret skills taught by Zhao Xin personally, Lu Shoushan and Katayama felt like they had found a treasure and studied it all night long.
What Zhao Xin excerpted was just the nine steps or some key points of the "Reed Nine Steps" to guide the interrogation. Many of the steps overlap, and there is no "universal" interrogation process. But this also opened Katayama Kanbei's horizons.
Shen Jingdan originally wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Zhao Xin and tentatively asked Zhao Xin about his attitude towards Shen Xuan. But he didn't see Zhao Xin after several searches, so he had to wait and talk.
Because the Xu brothers were young, they often went to play with Shen Xuan after class. The two families were family friends, and the Xu brothers lost their parents. Shen Xuan took special care of them because they shared the same fate.
Sometimes I took them to the beach to pick up shells, and sometimes I went to the fields to watch the robotic monsters plow the fields. As time went by, Shen Xuan's horizons actually broadened as she saw more new and weird things. She even secretly went to school to attend Zhao Xin's two classes without telling Shen Jingdan. However, Zhao Xin is currently teaching children how to read in class and cannot take care of anything else.
Shen Xuan saw that this matter was simple and she could teach it herself. Now she stays with Lu Yun on the Thor every day, and occasionally takes the two children of the Xu family out for a walk, doing nothing all day long.
So she begged Shen Jingdan to help the children read and write. Shen Jingdan was originally very opposed to women showing up in public, but here in Beihai Town, the situation was a bit special.
First of all, due to Shen Xuan's condition, he cannot take her back to Suzhou; and Shen Xuan's talent is also the biggest problem that makes it difficult for her to find a husband. Now Zhao Xin seems to have some interest in Shen Xuan. If he can put his daughter next to Zhao Xin, there may be something to be done.
Although Zhao Xin's place is still beginning to take shape, Shen Jingdan, who is extremely thoughtful, has already seen the potential of Beihai Town. If you can climb the big tree like Zhao Xin, you can't say what it will be like in the future...
Secondly, there is no habit of women not working in Beihai Town. When peasant women were in the island country, in addition to farming with their husbands, they were also asked to do a lot of work at home. Therefore, after arriving in Beihai Town, the women did not need to be mobilized at all and naturally participated in various labors.
Therefore, Shen Jingdan gave up the issue of talking to Zhao Xin about his daughter's lifelong events, and instead went to the school to talk to Zhao Xin and told him that Shen Xuan wanted to be a teacher.
Zhao Xin was so happy when he heard it!
Firstly, he finally has someone to help him share school duties, and secondly, he can see beautiful women every day. Even if you can't do anything, it's still good to find opportunities to tease the poor talker.
There was no need for him to take the initiative to find it. After class on the first day, Shen Xuan came to Zhao Xin with the teaching materials.
"Zhao... Mr. Zhao, why are there so many missing gestures in the words on your booklet?" Shen Xuan's voice was waxy, and the Mandarin with a Suzhou accent sounded very nice.
"Oh, you said this."
Zhao Xin stood up and was about to take the teaching materials from Shen Xuan's hand, but Shen Xuan took a few steps back like a frightened little rabbit.
"Miss Shen, what's wrong with you?"
"No, it's okay." Shen Xuan handed the textbook to Zhao Xin with a blushing face and sat across the table again.
"Huh? Have beautiful women learned to use perfume? I seem to have smelled this smell somewhere before?"
In the air, a faint smell of perfume drifted into Zhao Xin's nose. Zhao Xin frowned and thought for a moment, Oh, Director Liu!
"But the rose smell used by Director Liu is too strong and not suitable for her. I have to choose a good one another day. But I bought the perfume. Do I want to buy some foundation and lipstick..."
Zhao Xin was wandering in the sky, but Shen Xuan glanced at him secretly. She had never had such close contact with a man other than her father; the strong smell of man almost made her suffocate. Shen Xuan took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and covered her nose.
"Master Zhao? Master Zhao?" Seeing that Zhao Xin was still frowning in deep thought, Shen Xuan called softly.
"Huh? Oh!" Zhao Xin was a little embarrassed, he was crooked again. He coughed and explained: "Miss Shen, are you asking about these words? These are simplified words..."
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