That night, it started to rain lightly in Beihai Town. One autumn rain and another cold. The rain in September of the lunar calendar is getting colder and colder.
But that night, most people in Beihai Town could hardly sleep all night. Although I yawned when I got up in the morning, the excitement in my red and swollen eyes could not be hidden.
The salmon migration season has begun.
Yesterday afternoon, Chen Qingsong received a report that many fish suddenly appeared in the Xila River, and these fish came from the direction of the estuary. So he called the chief and deputy mayors of the five residential areas before dinner and issued an emergency notice, asking everyone who could move to fish for salmon tomorrow.
After the ten chief and deputy district chiefs took the order, the notice was conveyed to all families within two hours.
The household registration management of the refugees in Beihai Town temporarily draws on the Baojia system of the Qing Dynasty. Every ten households are organized into a group, with a group leader; every ten groups are one li, with two chief and deputy li leaders; every ten li are a district, There are two district chiefs and deputy chiefs. Based on the actual situation of an average of four to five people per family, basically the population in a district is about 4,000 to 5,000; the entire Beihai Town currently only has five districts. Zhao Xin does not need these district chiefs, district chiefs and team leaders to help him collect food and recruit troops, so the main job of these people at present is to communicate with superiors and subordinates.
After a hurried breakfast, in addition to children in class, necessary left-behind personnel and those elderly people with limited mobility, nearly 10,000 men and women in Beihai Town gathered into two huge streams of people on the east and west sides of the town, one heading east and one heading west. , divided into Xila River and Furjiaha River. With various tools in their hands and large baskets made of shrub branches on their backs, they happily set off with their respective team leaders.
Viewed from the sky, the current layout of Beihai Town is like a large wing, centered on the "square" in the center of the town, extending to the east and west sides.
The square in the center of the wings is currently a large square grassland with a side length of 200 meters. As for why a large square is needed, Chen Qingsong has not thought about it for the time being. Anyway, according to the inertia of modern people's thinking, there must be one. The place where the flagpole was originally supposed to be erected remained empty because Zhao Xin had not yet decided what flag to hang.
According to Zhao Xin's idea, what kind of flag should be hung? It would be best to set up a large antenna tower first. However, after his proposal was collectively despised by everyone, he gave up.
Various public facilities currently in Beihai Town are distributed around the square. To the west is the "hospital" chaired by Hong Tao, which can only be regarded as a community hospital in its current size; to the south are the offices of Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong; to the east is Deng Fei's "Navy" office, and the Security Department also has an "Army" office next to it. "office. However, Liu Sheng and the others spent most of their time working in the military camp on the east bank of the Xila River and rarely came here. Fifty meters east of the Army Office along the road is the police station that Katayama Kanbei is in charge of. The school is five hundred meters away to the north of the square. The large cafeteria is located on the south side of the school, so it is very convenient for children to have lunch.
The location of the warehouse was arranged by Zhao Xin at the foot of the mountain on the east bank of the Xila River, where he planned to build another storage granary. It is very close to the military camp. If there is an accident, the troops can arrive in time.
The residential areas of the refugees are distributed neatly on the north and south sides of the road that crosses the north of the square. According to the grouped community planning, a public toilet, a small bathhouse, and a water point are built near every ten residential houses. Zhao Xin plans to disperse all the refugees from Henan next year and live together in order to avoid confrontation between the Qing people and the islanders.
In the days when the refugees first arrived in Beihai Town, Zhao Xin and others had already verified and registered information on each family. Although the initial statistical work is very complicated and tedious, after that, you only need to perform simple statistical screening on the computer to get the desired information.
Maybe it's because Beihai Town was only established for half a year, and the refugees don't have much private property. There are no pubs or grocery stores in the residential area, so the crime rate is not high. At most, it's just a quarrel or a fight. Katayama Kanbei is currently in charge of a hundred security police, and he can handle the daily security management. Currently, all criminal punishments in Beihai Town must be signed by Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin. So far, the heaviest punishment is being locked up in a small dark room and deprived of food for two days for injuring someone.
The first batch of gold and silver coins are already being minted secretly in the workshop. Chen Qingsong considered opening grocery stores, restaurants and grain stores in residential areas after the monetary system was established.
After the fishing participants set off, the huge Beihai Town suddenly became very quiet. Only a few security police patrolled the streets.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the team responsible for fishing in the Xila River arrived at the designated area. The water here is gentle and the river is narrow, making it a good place for salmon fishing.
At this time of year, in various water systems connected to the sea in the vast area of the outer Northeast, hundreds of millions of salmon living in the Pacific begin to swim upstream, preparing to return to their birthplace in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River to spawn and reproduce.
The Hezhefeyaka people living here will shout "Daimaha" loudly when the salmon schools arrive, which means that the fish that come and go regularly have arrived. This is also the origin of the name "Salmon".
In the clear and cold waters of the Shiraz River, densely packed red salmon are heading north. And those salmon stranded on the river bank beach, their mouths are opening and closing hopelessly, quietly waiting for death to come.
From the beginning to the end when these salmon arrive at the place where they were born, due to stranding, fishing, and being hunted by animals along the way, the tragic elimination rate is as high as 99%. In other words, almost only one out of every two hundred fish can reach the birthplace to lay eggs. After laying eggs, the salmon slowly die in the water. In early spring of the next year, the hatched eggs will leave towards the sea after they have grown to six centimeters.
Under the leadership of their respective group leaders, the refugees began to catch these strong and plump fish along the river bank. Some use fishing nets, some use basins to scoop the water with their bare feet, and some use homemade wooden forks to poke fish. Various methods are endless. Laughter filled the long river bank.
Suddenly, a refugee saw a black bear running out of the woods on the river beach dozens of steps away. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Bear!"
When this voice shouted, the crowd suddenly burst into shock, and many people were so frightened that they fled from the river to the shore. The frightened black bear noticed the refugees not far away. At these outsiders who intruded into its territory, the black bear instinctively roared at the crowd.
"Bang!" A huge gunshot resounded on the river bank. The black bear fell to the ground with a plop. Further away, several wolves who heard the gunshots turned and ran, and soon disappeared on the river beach.
Wan Zao pulled the trigger guard of the lever rifle, and a yellow cartridge case popped out of the magazine. He leaned over, picked up the bullet casing and put it into his pocket, and shouted to the crowd: "Why panic! Keep working!"
The refugees returned to the shore with lingering fears and continued their business. However, because of the appearance of bears, many people will look up and look around from time to time. But as the catch increased, the laughter returned to the crowd.
The day when salmon return is not only a festival in Beihai Town, but also a festival for the border residents in the entire outer northeastern river basin. Thousands of miles northeast of Beihai Town, on the Kandan River, a cheerful Hezhefeyaka family was fishing for salmon in the river.
In addition to boating south to Deleng'enmu City in May and June every year, the border residents here pay a head tax to the tax collection yamen in exchange for some millet, Internet cables and some daily necessities at the annual Shangwulin Market. He returned home and lived a solitary life.
At this time, by the Kandan River, an ancient "Yimakan" fishing song was floating on the river.
"Ah la la la~~ah la henina~~The green sky is covered with colorful clouds, and the clouds under our feet are fishing and hunting all over the horizon. The white seagulls are flying over the head, and the harpoons are flying on the blue river..."
When the five members of Wukambe's family were working happily by the river, several uninvited guests suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
This group of people all have blue eyes, high noses, flaxen hair and thick beards like dry grass. They were dressed in the garb of the northern Tatars, and wore cloaks of animal skins.
At this time, these people were mooring a large sampan in the lee of the river. Three of them raised their muskets and looked around, and several others secretly put a rope with an iron lump on one end into the river...
Who is this? What are they doing?
Wukambe looked at these people curiously and shouted: "What do you do?"
The shouts alerted the outsiders, and with fierce looks in their eyes, three men with muskets disembarked from the boat and rushed toward Ukanbe.
Wukanbe felt bad. He immediately said to his wife and children: "Go home quickly!" After saying that, he picked up his youngest son and rushed to the thatched cottage by the river. After telling his son not to move, he took off his big bow from the wall, picked up a few arrows and went out.
At this time, the uninvited guests had already rushed to a position thirty steps away from him. When they saw that Wukanbe was about to draw his bow and take aim, they immediately raised their muskets and fired.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The sound of the gunshot alarmed the waterfowl by the river, and they flew up with a roar. Wu Kambei felt as if someone had hit his chest with a big hammer, and he fell to the ground involuntarily. Before he fell into coma, he vaguely saw the three outsiders pulling out the long knives from their waists and heading towards his home...
Ukanbe's wife screamed and rushed to her husband's side, watching helplessly as their hard-earned property was looted by the robbers. The three robbers rushed into the thatched hut and rummaged for everything they could eat. Dried venison, dried salmon, and drank the local wine brewed by Ukanbe's wife.
In the end, the bandits poured all the fish oil accumulated by the Ukanbe family on the thatched house. In the raging fire, the home the couple built like a swallow holding mud was burned to the ground. The fire soaring into the sky reflected the surging river red...
Amidst the laughter, the bandits chopped the three children of Ukanbe alive to death with sabers, and then threw them into the Kandan River filled with fish.
Wukambe's wife tried her best to stop him, but she was no match for the tall and strong robber. Probably thinking that he had teased enough, a robber raised the saber in his hand ferociously...
I don’t know how long it took, but several Hezhefiyaka people came running towards the accident site, and several families of Oroqen people who were hunting also came after hearing the news. The fallen thatched cottage was still blazing with flames, and the trampled muddy ground was littered with wine bowls, bones, and birch barrels. In the pools of blood, only the marks of the robber's riding boots were left.
Everyone stepped forward and turned Wukambe over and found that this strong man still had breath. So he quickly lifted him up and ran towards the eldest son's house.
...
His eyes returned to Beihai Town. Just after ten o'clock in the morning, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, who stayed in the town, braved the rain and came to a wooden fence camp in the northwest of Beihai Town. Speaking of which, this camp was built when they first arrived; later, as more and more refugee families moved away, the camp became idle. Chen Qingsong originally wanted to convert this place into a warehouse for parking agricultural machinery and vehicles, but after the Qing court's first conquest, this place was assigned to the Ministry of Security.
The size of the entire camp has been greatly reduced compared to before. The original location of the gate is now replaced by a wooden house. After Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng pushed the door open and entered the house, under the gaze of two soldiers on duty with guns, they pressed their index fingers on the fingerprint reader on the table until a "Thank you" came out from the machine, and the two sentries Then he raised his hands to salute and let them pass through the door on the other side.
After walking out of the wooden house, you can see a ten-meter-high high-power dual-band wireless base station set up in the northwest corner. The tall triangular prism-shaped iron frame is Zhang Bo's masterpiece, with a cement base at the bottom.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng walked through the open space and came to a prefabricated house in the northeast corner of the camp. In the room, eight young women were looking intently at the screens in front of them. The images on the screen are all forests, towns, military camps, workshops, prisoner camps and docks.
Here is the "eye" of Beihai Town.
Through hundreds of solar-powered wireless cameras set up in the wild, all mountain trails, mountain valleys and valleys within a five-kilometer radius of Beihai Town, as long as they can pass people, are all monitored. The entire monitoring room equipment and wireless base station are powered by a domestically produced 600-kilowatt diesel generator set.
This is also the reason why currently only three ten-man teams of Serdan, Erlu, and Hengji can take on the entire security mission around Beihai Town. In addition, Liu Sheng and the others will also send drones for inspection every day, and regularly send a platoon of soldiers to patrol along the line. However, if those surveillance cameras are damaged by birds and animals in the forest, they can only be replaced with new ones.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng had the idea of setting up surveillance very early, and they began preparations almost as soon as they were attacked by border guards when they first landed ashore. The sixteen young female refugees were all selected from the earliest refugees. The Security Department conducted secret training for them for three months before they started to work. There were eight people in a class. Zhao Xin's idea is to retrain at least sixteen people, so that eight people in a class can watch the surveillance for six hours, doubling the workload.
Once a situation is discovered in the monitoring room, the attendant will use the walkie-talkie to notify the nearest patrol team to intercept. In order to teach these girls to identify their directions, Zhao Xin and others spent a lot of effort.
Zhao Xin asked a girl to step aside, and he operated on the keyboard himself, bringing up the surveillance screen of the prisoner camp. Because of the rain today, the hundreds of Qing prisoners in the prison camp did not go out to work, but stayed in the camp to make wooden cigarette cases for Tian cigarettes.
Zhao Xin watched for a while and asked Liu Sheng, "How is Li Dagang doing lately?"
"After I recovered from my injuries, I tried to escape from prison several times. After I found that I couldn't escape, I temporarily became honest."
"Where's that Samusu?"
"Now the internal management of the prisoner camp is to put twelve of them in charge. They also know that they can't go back, so they still work hard."
Zhao Xin thought for a moment and then said: "This time when Deng Fei and the others come back, they should not go out for the time being. First, send these Qing prisoners to Soulengji Island to dig gold mines. This matter cannot be delayed any longer."
Liu Sheng nodded and said nothing. The two looked at it for a while and then left. When he walked outside, Liu Sheng turned around and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry to dig for gold? Don't you have enough money now?"
Zhao Xin sighed and said: "Now I not only need to buy grain for storage, but also plan to buy a few more cargo ships. These can no longer be bought from China, as others will notice them. I had a phone call with Andrew last night and asked him to help find them. Relationship. I plan to pay for all his transactions with gold. Moreover, our first batch of gold and silver coins are also being minted, and reserves must be set aside."
"What are you going to do next on the island country?"
"The severe drought next spring will affect the entire Huanghuai River Basin. According to the data, it will affect 13 provinces. Judging from this situation, the silk production in Jiangnan will be greatly affected. I plan to export a large amount of cheap raw silk and silk through Sendai Domain. For silk, one is to obtain funds, and the other is to destroy the textile workshops in Nishijin, Kyoto.
In addition, in order to attract funds from the shogunate, we have to dump a large amount of cheap light industrial products. These are very rare luxuries for the people of the current island country. "
The two were walking and talking, and Liu Sheng suddenly asked: "Matches?"
"Yes, matches are just one of them. In fact, the island country is very lacking in product types. Its own resources include gold, silver, and copper, including seafood. They don't have much copper now, and the reserves of gold and silver mines are also declining year by year."
"What is your strategy towards the island country?"
Zhao Xin said calmly: "Support the northeast and suppress the southwest. As for the Tokugawa family, let them stay alive. If necessary, we have to go to Edo Bay and use cannons to force the shogunate to sign a trade treaty."
Liu Sheng asked curiously: "What then?"
“Use silver to get gold.”
In fact, Zhao Xin still has a secret in his heart that he has not revealed to Liu Sheng. He wants to completely cut off the mythical "Eternal Lineage" when the opportunity comes!
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