Fang Hua, this name is the same as the name of an old artist who passed away in this time and space. However, Teacher Fang’s father named his son this name because he hoped that his son would become a chemist.
As for Teacher Fang's resignation from that county middle school, he was actually expelled from the school. The specific reason is very simple. In order to raise the medical expenses for his wife who had pancreatic cancer, Fang Hua had to give paid substitute lessons outside the school for several years. Because Teacher Fang’s teaching level is very good, his fees are not low. .
But what happened a few years later was the tragic death of his wife.
If it were just like this, that would be fine. The same joys and sorrows are going on in different cities every moment. Many middle-aged men who have lost their wives find a new wife in a few years and slowly get over their grief. But Fang Hua was still an orphan. His daughter died in a car accident when he was twelve years old. Now his wife is gone, leaving him alone.
Since the death of his wife, Fang Hua can no longer live like a normal person. Whenever he was alone, tears would flow down uncontrollably. Even though the sun was shining brightly in the sky outside and the school was full of spring scenery, in his eyes it was still ruins and gloomy.
Under the tangle of loneliness, guilt, sadness, anger and various complex emotions, Fang Hua had nowhere to talk. His once good colleagues, students, neighbors and friends have all become strangers.
Countless times, the thought of suicide lingered in Fang Hua's mind; but in the end, he never walked up to the rooftop and did not have the courage to jump to end his painful life.
And if this state lasts for a long time, it will naturally have an impact on the other teacher's state as a tutor. As a result, as the grades of those tutoring students declined, some parents chose to find new teachers, while others chose to report them to vent their resentment.
In this way, a man who was once a good teacher and a good husband in the eyes of colleagues and students was expelled from the school because he had been giving paid (high-priced) substitute lessons outside the school for many years, stepped on the red line of the policy, and was expelled from the school.
Fang Hua felt that since he didn't want to commit suicide, he should change his life in a different environment; it would be best to stay far away from this sad place and never come back.
In this sense, Fang Hua and Chen Qingsong are actually the same kind of people. They all tried to escape from everything they were familiar with and try to start over with a new look.
It is said that Zhao Xin once reminded his cousin that as long as the conditions for applying for the job are basically suitable, he will invite him to come to Beijing for a second interview. Although we don’t have to eat and drink well, we must arrange accommodation so that others don’t regard us as liars.
Cousin Cheng Wen has been doing very smoothly since returning to China to help Zhao Xin handle domestic affairs. He has gradually come out of the shadow of divorce and is busy with Zhao Xin's various orders almost every day.
It turned out that this guy used too much force this time. When he heard from his cousin that he had to arrange accommodation, he immediately asked an acquaintance to book a room in a foreign-related five-star hotel for three weeks. This is because he considered that those who passed the interview would have to wait for a few days while they were applying for visas to go abroad.
Don’t think that a five-star hotel must be expensive. Since it is the off-peak tourist season and the hotel's facilities are a bit aging, the internal price given by acquaintances is also very cheap. They are all vacant anyway, so it would be nice to rent them out.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Wen's move made a group of candidates who passed the initial interview feel that this company was really good and could actually book an entire floor of a five-star hotel. The original doubts disappeared with the comfortable environment of the five-star hotel.
In the next few days, as candidates who passed the first test from all over the country arrived one after another, the entire floor of the reserved rooms was quickly filled.
Fang Hua's roommate is a middle school mathematics teacher in his fifties named You. Teacher You resigned and applied for the job. The reason for his resignation was because he slapped a disobedient student on the back of the head.
Before the mid-1980s, it was completely normal for teachers to slap disobedient students in class. No parent will say that the teacher shouldn't spank. They will only say that if the child is disobedient, just spank him or her. It's okay. Many students will not regret their teachers when they become adults, but only regret themselves for being disobedient at that time.
But now...
In Teacher You’s view, today’s students are all ancestors! Many teachers laugh at themselves and say that they killed pigs in their previous life and teach in this life! Therefore, Teacher You angrily resigned under the "complaints" and unreasonable claims made by the students' parents. I quit!
In addition, Teacher You is still an old virgin and has never been married. Single Comrade Lao You has some strange habits that make Teacher Fang, who lives in the same room with him, dumbfounded.
Fang Hua has seen some people who eat boiled eggs instead of the yolk, but he has never seen anyone take the egg yolk back to the guest room and put it in the center of the toilet sink! The arrangement is upright and meticulous.
There are many such people. In this dazzling era, they are not the losers of the era. They are just too immersed in the past and can't stand the current things. Many people have made great achievements in their previous positions.
As a result, this group of people got together because of Zhao Xin.
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In the forty-ninth year of Qianlong's reign, at 7 a.m. on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, as the whistle sounded on the Thor, all the personnel who were going to Ezo began to board the ship.
On the beach not far away, Wang Changsheng, who was about to rub salt on the fish, looked at the crowd cheering to see him off on the pier, and asked Xu Dayong behind him: "Brother, who are you going to fight?"
Xu Dayong has been promoted from an ordinary kipper to the captain of the "Kicker Team" due to his outstanding work performance these days. He waved a wooden stick in his hand, looked around, and said with envy on his face: "I heard that he was going to hunt some shrimps or something."
"Oh!" Wang Changsheng swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and said longingly: "Shrimps? It seems that the size and quantity of shrimps there must be quite large, otherwise the master would not send so many people."
Xu Dayong ignored the other party's nonsense and glanced around the workers before saying, "I heard that the monthly salary of these Japanese soldiers costs five taels of silver."
"What? Five taels! Brother, when are we going to be soldiers? I rub salt into the fish every day. I still smell like salted fish after taking a bath every day."
Several former pirate subordinates were shocked. The treatment of these Japanese soldiers must be too good.
"How the hell do I know! Just do your best. I'll ask that Lu Guanshi when I have time." After Xu Dayong finished speaking, he gestured with the wooden stick in his hand, imitating the Beihai Town soldiers who raised their guns and aimed. look.
On the pier, Zhao Xin and two soldiers stood in front of the trestle, watching the soldiers pass by one by one.
After several months of training, these soldiers have become somewhat like modern soldiers in terms of walking, sitting, lying and marching in formation. With regular target shooting training every week, my performance is slowly improving.
"Even if they train in battle, it will take another half a year before these people can be considered soldiers." Wang Yuanfang explained to Zhao Xin. No way, the quality of refugees in this era is like this, regardless of the Qing Dynasty or the island country.
After all the troops were on board, it was the medical team and migrant workers led by Dr. Hong. A Miao was forced to stay by Director Liu Da because she was too young. This time Hong Tao led a rescue team composed of women from an archipelago country. After several months of training by Hong Tao and his wife, these people were able to handle basic first aid without any problems. In order to keep Hong Tao in good condition, Zhao Xin deliberately vacated the first mate's room on the Thor for him to rest.
Behind the medical team is the construction team carrying shovels, picks and other small tools. These workers who were selected by Chen Qingsong to go to Ezo were given a war allowance of one bushel of rice every day. So when it came time to board the ship, everyone was excited.
Shen Xuan stood at the back of the crowd with the Xu brothers and saw Zhao Xin waving in her direction, and couldn't help but blush. She was about to raise her hand, but the girl's reserve made her slowly lower it.
"Take care along the way." Shen Xuan murmured.
Xu Shounan and Xu Funan didn't see Shen Xuan's expression. The two brothers waved excitedly at Zhao Xin. Not far away, a group of school children also waved at Zhao Xin.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the Thor slowly left the dock in Beihai Town and headed south. After midnight, the ship anchored in Ishikari Bay, preparing to arrange for the construction team to land after dawn in the morning.
At dawn in the morning, workers who had hurriedly eaten dry food began to assemble simple dock modules on the ship. These orange-red plastic pontoons were spliced into modules that were ten meters long and five meters wide. The crane on the Thor will then lift these modules into the seawater, and patrol boats will tow these modules to the beach in batches.
Hundreds of workers who landed in advance will splice and reinforce the modules transported to the beach, and install the main frame, shock-absorbing sleeves, rubber buffer pads, anti-collision bars and railings.
By noon, the simple pier had begun to take shape, and a long trestle extended from the beach to the deep water. As Deng Fei docked the ship on the trestle, Zhao Xin ordered the soldiers to disembark and land in order in company units on the ship's broadcast.
Because most people of the Shachuan tribe had seen Huji and Jiuzang, Liu Sheng arranged for Ding Guofeng to lead the two companies to land first and go straight to the Shachuan tribe's villages to contact each other.
Two hours later, Tuka and his men arrived at the beach. Seeing the lively scene and the long trestle in front of them, these Ainu people were surprised and happy.
As soon as Zhao Xin saw Tuka coming, he immediately asked him to provide several guides to accompany Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang's team to the Matsumae Domain tax office in the plains.
Sagawa (Otaru) in later generations was nothing more than a port satellite town of Sapporo City. After the highway was built, the distance was only more than forty miles. However, in this era, the road is not so easy. Forests, rivers, and swamps have become obstacles that separate the two places.
After Tuka heard that after conquering the plains, he would send troops to occupy Sulfur Mountain and Makomai in the southeast; so he immediately returned to the village and gathered a team of twenty guides. After a little preparation, he set off with Liu Sheng and the others. Followed closely by a construction team of 500 people and a medical team led by Hong Tao.
Zhao Xin did not follow him to the plains. He and Sheng Haizhou led a reinforced company of 150 people to the village of the Shachuan tribe and met Denzo Shengshan who had been here for a month. In addition to him, Sendai Clan's secret agent leader Shibata Kakuzo also appeared here.
"Why are you here?" Zhao Xin was a little surprised. Could it be that the Sendai clan also wanted to get involved in Ezo territory? This is not possible!
Shibata Kakuzo saluted Zhao Xin and said with a smile: "I heard that Mr. Zhao and Boss Katsuyama are going to do business together. Mr. Igumori asked me to come over and take a look."
"Ishikawa Murafumi?"
"Yes." Shibata Kakuzo was a little annoyed that Zhao Xin called the elder of the family by his first name. But he also knew that the evil god in front of him could not even be taken seriously by the shogunate, let alone an old man with only 380 shi.
"What do you want to see?"
"Last time, my lord, didn't you propose a plan to reduce the debts of the vassals of this domain? So everyone in this domain is very curious and wants to see how you operate it."
MMP! Sure enough, I didn't hold it in well.
Even though Endo Moribu said he would not interfere, when they returned to Aoba City, the incident quickly caused an uproar within the domain.
What an anecdote from ancient to modern times, someone actually wanted to help all the feudal lords pay off their debts!
Soon, someone heard that the person responsible for contacting this matter was the newly promoted Mesuke-sama. Now it's good, the threshold of the Shibata family has been crossed! A group of lower-level samurai came to the house every day and asked insinuating questions about this and that, which annoyed Shibata Kakuzo.
In the end, even the "Zhacha Zhuzhongjian" businessmen who were lending money were alarmed and came to see him one after another.
Ishikawamura Fumi, the elder of the pen family, originally wanted to keep this matter secret. But he also didn’t want to think about how someone would be able to sit still if such a big pie fell into the Sendai Domain!
In order to avoid the crowds of people who came to consult every day, Shibata Kakuzo asked to follow Katsuyama Denzo to investigate. The old fox Endo Morinobu was also curious about how Tang Yi would handle this matter, so he agreed.
After hearing Shibata Kakuzo's explanation, Zhao Xin snorted and said to Shibata Kakuzo very seriously: "Shibata-kun is an acquaintance, so it doesn't hurt to take a look. But tell those elders for me. , this place is not something you can get involved in!"
Looking at the Beihai Town soldiers around him holding "repeated iron cannons", Shibata Kakuzo didn't dare to say anything even if he had other ideas, and could only keep bowing and saying yes.
Even though Tang Yi didn't have many soldiers, the Sendai clan might not be able to defeat them if they used all of them. Forget it, I'd better goof around on my own.
After talking with Denzo Katsuyama, Zhao Xin learned that the exploration team sent by the other party had been setting off for twenty days.
In order not to be discovered by the Matsumae clan, the exploration team of more than 200 people took the route of crossing the Shahe River to the north and then east, over the Rishi Mountain, and finally arrived at Yubari.
Zhao Xin took out a modern map and saw that there was no such a road even in later generations. Moreover, the Yubari side is full of mountains. What Zhao Xin gave Katsuyama Denzo before was only the locations of a few mine pits from later generations, and they were not accurate. Judging from this situation, the exploration team will not be able to come back for less than two months.
However, Katsuyama Denzo also gained a lot during his month here. In addition to hundreds of animal skins, this guy actually also obtained a lot of alluvial gold.
"Where did it come from?" Zhao Xin grabbed a handful of alluvial gold from the leather bag and watched the golden gold slipping from his fingers. He felt that the purity was not low.
"There is a tribe in the north called Rurumoppe." Katsuyama Denzo said proudly.
Zhao Xin thought about it and had no impression. Forget it, just leave this benefit to the two partners. As long as they don't get involved in Defu Island.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, two Ainu people of the Sachuan tribe and a soldier who reported the news returned to the village.
The Sapporo Tax Office was taken down! None of the officials sent by the Matsumae Domain, the merchants at the warehouse, or the ronin in charge of the guards escaped.
If that was the case, it would be fine, but what the soldier said next made Zhao Xin stunned.
The Sapporo tribe who participated in the attack took advantage of Liu Sheng and others not paying attention, and actually killed all the prodigals and merchants!
(End of chapter)
