According to the agreement between Liu Quan and Zhao Xin, this time they will buy 20,000 taels of silver from Zhao Xin. These include large pieces of plate glass, calculators, matches, assorted woolens, pocket watches, pearls, and razor blades. In addition to these bulk goods, some enamelware and various tin cans were also brought in.
(Although there were no pocket watches in this era, there were already small clocks. He Shen had a mandarin jacket, and the buttons on it were all small clocks.)
Among these goods, the most expensive ones are 2.5-meter-long, 2-meter-wide plate glass and pocket watches, followed by pearls and electronic calculators. In later generations, a flawless, 11 mm cultured pearl only cost more than 600 yuan. It was sold to Liu Quan for 80 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 7 to 8 taels of red gold, which is a little more than 249 grams; according to another time and space Zhao Xin has made more than a hundred times the price of gold.
The flat glass shipped from Beihai Town was in groups of five, all covered with wooden frames. Thick uralia grass was spread between each piece of glass, which was extremely heavy. The Thor used a crane on the deck to lift groups of glass onto the sand ship below. This method shocked everyone on the sand ship. As for other goods, a pallet is used, boxes of goods are tied to it, and then a crane is used to lift the pallet and place it on the ship.
During the process of loading the goods, even though the people on the sand boat were very careful, one group was still broken. This kind of glass shipped from Beihai Town can be sold for a high price of eight hundred taels of silver when shipped to the north, which can be exchanged for a six-room courtyard. But the sailor on the sand ship made a mistake and lost five sets of yards and four thousand taels of silver. This almost drove Wang Ping crazy. He picked up a stick and beat the sailors shamelessly. The sailors they beat were rolling on the ground begging for mercy.
(In the 39th year of Qianlong's reign, Suzhou Weaving was fined three months' compensation for cutting a piece of flat glass 2.77 meters long and 1.7 meters wide. According to the approved price of large pieces of glass purchased by Guangdong Customs at that time, the market value of such a piece of glass was Six hundred and twenty-two taels is nine cents and three cents.)
When Liu Zheng saw it, he quickly dissuaded them, saying that it would not be a problem. He had expected this to happen, so he specially prepared an extra set. This surprised Wang Ping. He did not expect that these rebels were so extravagant. In fact, Wang Ping often travels to Guangzhou and is very clear about the quality and market of glass. From his point of view, even though the set of glass plates was broken, the broken pieces could still be bought for a lot of money; even the broken pieces could be taken back and remelted for use in food containers.
On Flower and Bird Island, Ma Ruilin chatted with Zhao Xin, waiting for the goods to be loaded. However, Zhao Xin was rambling here and there, and something about a big shot in the imperial court popped up in Leng Buding's mouth, which made Ma Baishan's heart skip a beat.
After finally getting through an hour, the goods were loaded and unloaded. At this time, Wang Ping's mission had been completed, and he and Liu Zheng boarded the Thor. When he stepped onto the deck, he was shocked to find that the entire ship was made of iron. This made him gasp and froze on the spot.
Ma Baishan over there received the flag signal from the sand boat and knew that the goods had been checked, so he handed the 20,000 taels of silver notes to Zhao Xin. After Zhao Xin finished counting and said there was no problem, he hurriedly left , got on a firewood boat and fled. The conversation that lasted for more than an hour had a huge impact on his heart, and he would lose at least two years of his life.
When Ma Baishan's ship was far away and Wang Ping on the Thor was brought into the cabin to watch the Western view by Liu Zheng, the troops brought by Zhao Xin began to take action.
The first person to land by boat was a thirty-person island defense force, followed by carpenters who built barracks and warehouses, and finally a ten-person communications team and construction team.
The reason why Zhao Xin chose Flower and Bird Island from the beginning was because it is located between Guangzhou and Beihai Town and is suitable as a wireless signal relay station; the straight-line distance to Guangzhou is more than 1,300 kilometers, and the straight-line distance to Beihai Town is 1,600 kilometers. Under this condition, a full-mode transceiver with a power of 100W, a VHF frequency range of 144~148Mhz, and a UHF frequency range of 430~450Mhz is sufficient.
In this era of no electromagnetic pollution, such a device and a suitable antenna can basically connect all of Asia as long as the other party is not hiding in a magnet mine (VHF is used in the wilderness and at sea, and UHF is used in modern cities.)
The location of the antenna was chosen at the top of the Qiankeng, the highest peak of the Flower and Bird Mountain that Wang Yuanfang had seen the year before. The entire erection work requires the erection of four pillars to mount the antenna, which is not technically difficult.
The first thing to do is to find a place to start digging holes. The base at each position is made of a steel pipe with an inner diameter of 10 cm and a length of more than one meter. It is inserted into a pit one meter deep. The exposed part on the ground is more than ten centimeters, which is then filled with cement; each base The distance between them is one meter.
Digging holes and drilling holes is as simple as digging out the floating soil and gravel, making a few small holes and blasting them with detonators. Then clear the gravel, bury the pipe and then fill it with cement. After that, just wait for the cement to dry and then install the rhombus antenna.
This rhombus antenna was made from pure copper wire in the workshop. It is a rhombus with a side length of more than half a meter.
In fact, the saying "the higher the antenna, the better" is actually not entirely correct. If it exceeds the maximum height or is less than the minimum height, the communication success rate will decrease.
Specifically, when the height of the antenna does not exceed half of its own wavelength, the emitted radio wave has only one main wave, surrounding the top of the antenna, and all the power output by the transmitter is allocated to this main wave; the second-stage antenna When the height exceeds one-half wavelength, the main wave shrinks further and the number of wavelets also increases. The signal used to capture communication is the wavelet (wavelet) closest to the ground. So this thing also needs to be accurately calculated.
Therefore, the length of the rhombus antenna is not arbitrary, but depends on the relationship between the emission frequency and wavelength. The side length of the rhombus antenna should be equal to a quarter of the wavelength. Specifically, the communication frequency of Beihai Town is 145.6MHz, then the corresponding wavelength is 206.04 mm (the speed of light divided by the frequency); then the conversion is done by the electrical length.
The electrical length of the rhombus antenna at 1000 to 2000 kilometers is 2.8, and the electrical height is 0.6. Then the physical side length of the antenna is the wavelength times the electrical length, which is 576.92 mm; the antenna height is 123.63 mm. Then through trigonometric calculation, we get that the obtuse angle in the rhombus is 130 degrees and the acute angle is 50 degrees.
In order to build such an antenna, Zhao Xin specifically asked the physics teacher Li from the education department for advice, but he was scolded bloody. Zhao Xin said that he was very innocent. We studied liberal arts at the beginning!
"A 15-meter-high antenna? Mr. Zhao, is there so much electromagnetic radiation in this era? Are you planning to connect the world and run into the universe?"
"Ah? Teacher Li, I'll be satisfied if I can contact China first. I've abandoned physics for many years and haven't studied it since high school."
"What about your junior high school? Don't tell me that you don't study physics in junior high school. Besides, I heard that Mr. Zhao is already working as an artillery surveyor in the north, and he is very good at trigonometric functions. This little thing has stumped you. ?”
Zhao Xin smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Li, I'm just crying when I talk about this. It's just trying to catch a duck! Please help me." However, he didn't dare to say that his highest score in physics that year was only 43, and he still had trouble. I don't even have the strength to learn it...
After the diamond antenna is installed, one acute angle will be connected to the feeder and amplifier box, and then connected to the radio. The other acute angle will be connected to a terminal resistor equal to the characteristic impedance of the diamond antenna.
The communication radio station of Flower and Bird Island is located at a gentle spot halfway up the mountain. Beihai Town workers who were on board the ship first leveled the land here and set up a tent. The small diesel generator that powered the radio station was also located here.
On the flat bottom of the mountain, other workers were also leveling the land with tools and building camps and warehouses. Considering that this work would not be completed in seven or eight days, after the radio station was set up, Zhao Xin asked the correspondent to test the machine to see if he could contact Sheyang Lake Farm.
The radio station and correspondents on the other side of Sheyang Lake transferred to the sand boat that came to transport the refugees when the Leishen was passing through Jinzhou Island. Also taking the sand boat back with them at the same time were Shen Jingdan, Oginoto mother and son, Shen Xuan and Guisheng.
This time Shen Jingdan was going to take Oginoto mother and son back to pay homage to their ancestors at the ancestral hall, and kowtow to Mrs. Shen and serve tea. He also wanted to mobilize the Shen family to follow him to Beihai Town. Shen Xuan, on the other hand, accompanied Shen Jingdan to persuade her wife, her adoptive mother, and also prepared a dowry.
Zhao Xinyuan wanted to say that there was no need to go to such trouble, but etiquette in these days was like this. Rich families were overly extravagant when marrying or even sending someone to death; while poor families would even take the extreme step of drowning their female infants in order to avoid the embarrassment caused by dowry. .
By the way, the Shen family is not an ordinary poor family. It is considered a wealthy family in Yangzhou City. Now that Shen Xuan was going to marry Zhao Xin, Shen Jingdan didn't want Zhao Xin to look down on the Shen family, so he risked his life and bought a decent dowry to take back to Beihai Town no matter what. Since the houses, land, and shops cannot be taken away, it is necessary to buy dozens of sets of gold and silver jewelry, furniture, and clothes for all seasons to take back.
As far as Shen Xuan was concerned, she didn't want to go through the door empty-handed. Although she was only Shen Jingdan's adopted daughter, the Shen family in Dongtai was considered a scholarly family at that time. If she simply married herself, she would always feel inferior to others in her life.
When Zhao Xin heard this reason, he couldn't persuade him any more and had to agree. So in order to ensure the safety of Shen Jingdan and others, a squad of soldiers were specially sent to carry weapons and disguise themselves to accompany the landing; and Zhao Xin also wrote a letter asking Lu Shoushan to send more people to protect them secretly.
The Thunder God stayed at Flower and Bird Island for five or six days. During this period, Wang Ping, the domestic slave sent by He Shen, did not dare to rush him. He counted the days until he couldn't hold it in any longer and then mentioned to Liu Zheng that if he didn't leave, he would end up with Liu Zheng. The person who responded in Guangzhou missed it. Liu Zheng calmly told him that if there were no storms, it would take at most two days to reach the sea off Macau.
When Wang Ping heard this, he couldn't close his mouth in surprise for a long time. He didn't expect that the Thunder God was so fast, so he could only wait calmly.
As for the Manchu Qing court, on July 27th, Liu Quan was frightened half to death, and the major incident that delayed him from coming to Flower and Bird Island to make a fortune finally came to an end.
The first clues about this matter will come back to the end of May. He Shen, who was accompanying the driver at Mulan Paddock, suddenly saw Wu Shengqin who came from the capital to report the news late one night. As a result, I learned from the other party that Cao Xibao, the censor of Shaanxi Province, was going to impeach Liu Quan! In the memorial, he said that Liu Quan "used luxurious food and perfect utensils; relied on the power of the emperor to cheat; handed over officials and increased taxes privately." and other major crimes.
After He Shen was shocked to hear this, he immediately realized that the matter was not that simple. There must be someone behind the scenes, and if he didn't handle it well, it would harm himself. So he ordered his cronies to rush back to Beijing overnight and ordered Liu Quan to deal with all the prohibited items mentioned in the memorial as soon as possible, while pretending not to know anything.
Liu Quan, who was preparing to go south at the time, was as stunned as if he had been poured with ice water for three to nine days after receiving the news. On the night when the news was received, the Liu residence on Xinghua Temple Street in Shichahai was in a frenzy. Relatives and servants of the Liu family were all busy transferring and concealing evidence. Later, these people demolished the over-standard Liu family gate overnight. , did some repairs.
Although Liu Quan wanted to kill Cao Xibao, he had to pretend to be calm. At the same time, he strictly ordered his family and servants to tuck their tails between their legs and restrain themselves for a period of time.
In early June, Cao Xibao, who still didn't know that he had been betrayed by his friend, delivered the memorial to the Summer Resort. After reading it, Qianlong asked He Shen face to face whether he had anything to do with it.
He Shen pretended to say that Liu Quan had always been peaceful and simple, and he was very strict with his family. The slaves had never heard that he dared to cause trouble outside. Perhaps it was because Liu Quan was busy taking care of the Chongwen Gate Customs and his subordinates were left unsupervised. After a long time, something might have happened, but it's hard to say. The slave asked the order to send an order to investigate the serious matter.
On June 13, Liu Quan, who received the order, set off from Beijing and arrived in Rehe five days later. After meeting He Shen, it was natural for the two of them to do a full show. So Heshen didn't mention a word about Cao Xibao in the zhezi that day. He only said that Liu Quan had arrived in Rehe, that he had been interrogated in person, and that the interrogation record had been submitted. But this is just Liu Quan's one-sided statement and I'm afraid it cannot be accepted. However, the princes and ministers who stayed in Beijing for business should probably be questioned. Liu Quan could not stay in Rehe. The minister immediately sent "appropriate" people to escort Liu Quan back to Beijing and handed him over to the king and ministers for trial.
On the same day, nine people including Prince Yonglang of Yi, Wang Yongrong of Zhijun, Wang Mianen of Dingjun, Minister of Military Aircraft Ji Huang, Minister of Internal Affairs Debao, and Ji Yun, who were in Beijing, received Qianlong's four-hundred-mile urgent edict. After that, I immediately interviewed Cao Xibao.
Cao Xibao said that I didn't know Liu Quan (Liu Tuzi), and I didn't know about his management of Chongwenmen. I just heard that Liu Tuzi's house was very well furnished, so when I passed by Xinghua Temple Street, I looked carefully and saw that the house was very tall. I think Liu Tuzi is just a slave, how can he have the money to build such a luxurious house? I'm afraid there might be someone using the owner's name to defraud him. I'm afraid that He Zhongtang's family has too many retinues, and they are working outside all day long without being able to inspect and control them. Maybe my family will be affected in the future. Therefore, there is no actual evidence.
The next day, Qianlong, who received the imperial edict, already understood that Cao Xibao wanted to intervene in the impeachment of Heshen, but he did not dare to say it explicitly, so he used his slaves to insinuate him. The old emperor then continued to issue an order to the responsible kings and ministers in Beijing, saying that if He Shen had engaged in malpractice for personal gain and provided evidence, I would punish him. However, Minister Wang's family in Beijing also has many servants, and a family like Quan'er would probably have a lot of houses. I heard that Agui’s house has more servants’ housing than Quan’er’s house. Why didn’t anyone sue? If Cao Xibao wants to sue someone, come up with real evidence. We can't let him make empty excuses anymore!
By this time, rumors were circulating in the court that the man behind Cao Xibao was Ji Yun. Ji Yun thought he was going to be bad, so he quickly distanced himself in the memorial.
On June 19, Liu Quan returned to Beijing and said the same thing. I don’t know, I don’t know. My family has some savings and a little extra house, but nothing else.
On June 22, the Metropolitan Procuratorate was ordered to send a court official, and the Infantry Commander's Yamen sent a division officer to go to Liu Quan's house with his men and Cao Xibao to look at the house. When Cao Xibao arrived at Xinghua Temple Street, he was stunned!
The original door of the Yuozhi residence has completely changed its appearance. The hexagonal carved column door hairpins have been changed from four to two; the animal head shop (door knocker) previously painted with red paint has been changed to the most common Liuhe door knocker. Bronze ornaments are on display; the most obvious one is that the original golden pillar door (named after the door stands between the golden pillars at the front and cannot be used by non-officials) has been changed into a Ruyi door for ordinary people, while the door nail on the original red lacquer door is a All gone.
When we entered the courtyard, we saw that there was nothing luxurious. The Liu family members were all wearing patched clothes. There were no cameras or videos in these days, so Cao Xibao could only bow his head and give in.
So the ministers of the King of Beijing reported that Cao Xibao had falsely accused Liu Quan and insinuated He Shen, and should be handed over to the ministry for discussion. Liang Guozhi, Dong Gao and other Qing faction leaders who were the instigators behind the scenes saw that the matter had come to this, and they also distanced themselves one after another and asked for Cao Xibao to be punished.
In July, Cao Xibao, who went to Rehe on an imperial mission, also bowed his head and admitted defeat after being questioned by Qianlong personally. He only said that he was acting presumptuously because this was the year of the provincial examination, and he just wanted to make the emperor remember it by giving the testimonials, so that he could become the examiner.
On July 18, the edict came down. "...If he was demoted in accordance with the ministry's proposal, he would have deserved it. The second thought was that the censor was an official in charge of speaking, and he did not check the truth for a while. He relied on the scholar's roundabout view and entrusted him to make a correct statement and report, so as to avoid the truth Surrender. The encyclical was changed to dismissal and retention, and this encyclical was made known to both China and foreign countries."
On July 27, Cao Xibao wrote a thank you note.
At this point, a Qing faction's attempt to get rid of Heshen failed.
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