Enhai was very happy that Wei Changsheng came to talk, but the official security showed little interest. After chatting for a few words, the official security officer left in advance. Although he was full of questions and surprises, Wei Changsheng did not ask Enhai where he heard the lyrics before leaving.
joke! Eun Hai hasn’t lived enough yet.
However, after Wei Changsheng repeatedly begged, Enhai finally told him the entire libretto, as well as the general singing method and intonation of the libretto. The name "The Master of Flowers" was not for nothing. Wei Changsheng thought about it for a while, then tried humming in a low voice a few times, and he almost grasped the charm of this singing tune. After he sang a cappella with a bright voice, everyone in the teahouse cheered in unison, making the tabletops ring!
In the later years of Qianlong's reign, drama genres were developing greatly, and many things in later operas had already taken shape. For example, the danjiao head patch created by Wei Changsheng, and the huqin with a soft bow. At this time, Pihuang tune, the main tune of Peking Opera in later generations, only existed in Qin tune, Han tune and Hui tune, and the real integration had not yet been completed.
In Wei Changsheng's view, the singing tune Enhai told him contained elements of Kun and Yi tunes, as well as some elements of Western Qin tune, Han tune and Hui tune. This was too strange! He couldn't think of anyone else in the world besides him who could combine the strengths of various schools and create a unique genre of opera.
Seeing En Hai's mysterious and hesitant expression, and thinking of En Hai's identity, Wei Changsheng thought that maybe this news came from the palace. It seemed that there was a capable person around the emperor. ah! If it weren't for the fact that he had to go on stage at Guanghe Tower in the evening, Wei Changsheng would have been able to hold Enhai and talk until the next morning.
A year later, Wei Changsheng re-processed the libretto and arias, which were different from all current genres, and turned it into an excerpt of "Qin Qiong Selling Horses", which became a huge hit on the Yangzhou stage and became a popular opera for everyone. A must-have play. And when Wei Changsheng finally knew that this kind of singing was spread from outside the country, it was already several years later.
The eyes turned back to Beihai Town at the end of August in the 51st year of Qianlong's reign.
Zhao Xin finally decided to take action against the island country. Through this action, he planned to completely eliminate the shogunate's thoughts on Ezo and lay the foundation for the final solution to the island country's problem.
Since Matsumae Castle was captured by Hokkai Town and Ainu tribes last year, the Tokugawa shogunate has sent two waves of crusade with a total of 5,000 people in the first half of the year in an attempt to recapture Matsumae Castle. If Matsumae Castle had not been guarded by a reinforced company from Beihai Town for a long time, the Ainu under Tuka alone would not have been able to withstand it.
Now the entire Matsumae Castle Town has been beaten into ruins. The shogunate also issued an order prohibiting merchants from Omi from selling food and daily necessities to Ezo. If it weren't for the Thunder that transported supplies to Matsumae Castle every month, people like Tuka would have gone back to Pingyuan Town and the mountains to continue to be chiefs. .
However, the supplies in Beihai Town were not given away for free. According to what Zhao Xin had agreed with Tuka before, all supplies shipped would need to be exchanged by the Ainu for gold. When Tuka could no longer obtain enough natural gold ore, Dunphy proposed mineral rights to Ulup Island. Tuka didn't care about a small island at all, so with a wave of his hand, he transferred Urupu Island, including all the Ainu people on the island, to Beihai Town.
Although the shogunate's crusade was beaten twice under Matsumae Castle and fled in panic, they still brought most of the islanders living in Matsumae Castle back to the main island. The Ainu were not engaged in production. They only hunted and drank and had fun all day long, making the peaceful castle town a mess. Tuka was also worried that there were spies from the shogunate among the islanders, so he turned a blind eye to the lives of the local residents and left them to fend for themselves.
On the Edo side, just as preparations for the "Third Ezo Land Expedition Team" were completed and about to set off, on August 25, Tokugawa Ieharu, the tenth generation general of the Tokugawa Shogunate, passed away.
Seven years ago, Tokugawa Ieharu's eldest son Ieki died suddenly after a hunt at the age of seventeen. Ieharu, who had no heirs, made Toyochiyo, the eldest son of the Hitotsubashi Tokugawa family, his adopted heir two years later.
This general, who had forty wives, twenty-eight sons, and twenty-seven daughters in history, is only thirteen years old this year. Now on the throne of the shogunate, he is about to become the eleventh generation shogun, that is, Tokugawa Ieki.
As soon as Tokugawa Ieharu died, senior Nakatanuma Yiji immediately lost power. Two days later, he resigned as Laonaka and stepped down. This pioneer who was the first to carry out something similar to the "Westernization Movement" economically in East Asia soon received additional bad reviews from the world.
At this time, the shogunate's fiscal deficit was bottomless, and victims were displaced everywhere. Many farmers could barely survive with a meal of soba noodles the size of a small teacup; small-scale uprisings occurred from time to time in various places, demanding that the shogunate and daimyo reduce or reduce excessive annual tribute.
Despite Tokugawa Ieki's young age, this kid's political skills are very powerful.
When the previous rulers had failed to trust the people, Tokugawa Ieki urgently needed a relative who was from the clan and had prestige but who could not threaten his position as a general to help stabilize his rule or bear the responsibility for his own death. And Matsudaira Nobusada, who was born in the Imperial Family, happened to be the most suitable candidate because it was widely rumored that no one in the Shirakawa Domain starved to death during the disaster (untouchables were not counted as human beings) and was already the head of the lowest-ranking clan.
However, according to the ancestral precepts of the Tokugawa family, since the Tokugawa clan dominates the world, it must transfer power to its retainers in an equal manner; the position of "old middle school" can only be selected among the daimyo of the genealogy, not the daimyo of the feudal family. Serve. Although Matsudaira Sadanobu was a generational daimyo as the head of the Hisamatsu Matsudaira family, he was also born in the direct domain of Gosankyō (the grandson of Tokugawa Yoshimune, the seventh son of the Tian Degawa family, and was later adopted as the heir to the Shirakawa clan). and met with opposition from political opponents.
The fierce political struggle began again. As various factions within the shogunate began to compete intensively for the position of Laozhong, the plan for the third expedition to Ezo was shelved.
The above is the information Pingtai sent back to Beihai Town through Beihai Trading Company. Zhao Xinze saw an opportunity in this. Once the candidate of Laozhong was determined, the shogunate would begin to work together. In order to cope with the shortage of domestic cultivated land, the island country would definitely seek the vast fertile land of Ezo again.
But before setting off, Zhao Xin still had a few things to do.
He first wrote a handwritten letter. After Shen Xuan helped polish it, he copied it carefully with a pen and could not find a single typo. Then, he handed the letter to Shen Jingdan and asked him to give the letter to a man named Wang Zhong Wang Rongfu before returning to Yangzhou to pick up his family.
The reason why Zhao Xin fell in love with Wang Rongfu was that, first, he was extremely talented and learned, but he did not become an official; secondly, he lost his father when he was young, and his widowed mother raised him by selling shoes. The third is that Zhao Xin read Wang Zhong's works when he was a child.
At that time, Zhao Xin's father was "incited" by an unknown colleague. He found a copy of "Shu Xue" from the unit library and forced Zhao Xin to read it during the vacation. Under the threat of his father's big slaps and leather belts, Zhao Xin spent every day studying like a living being. There were "Kingdom University", "Houguo Primary School", "Philosophical Studies", "Xiang Xue" and so on, all of which were written in succession. There was no punctuation mark at all, so Zhao Xin could only look up the dictionary while memorizing the entire article like he was swallowing a jujube.
At that time, Zhao Xin's home was only one wall away from his father's work, so every time Zhao Xin memorized the next article, he had to rush to his father's office to recite it silently.
Why "hurry"? Go late and forget about it! In this way, if you make a mistake in a word, you will get a slap on the palm, and then go back and recite it again. At that time, Zhao Xin rubbed his palms that were red from being beaten every day, and it was Wang Zhong who scolded him the most while hiding in bed at night.
As time goes by, some things gradually become blurred. It wasn't until Shen Jingdan was having dinner a few days ago that he was chatting about celebrities in Yangzhou, and the other party mentioned a guy named Wang Rongfu, that Zhao Xin suddenly remembered this guy who he had scolded throughout the winter vacation.
Wang Zhong's matter is still Zhao Xin's private matter; on the official side, Beihai Town opened three more junior colleges at the end of August in addition to the existing primary schools. Zhao Xin attended the groundbreaking ceremonies of the three schools.
The first is a technical school affiliated to the civil affairs department. Although the size of the agricultural machinery teams in Beihai Town and Fuldan City has exceeded 100 people, they still cannot meet the requirements for large-scale mechanization. In view of this, Chen Qingsong and Zhao Liang finally opened the technical school after several months of private preparation.
Zhao Liang served as the principal of the technical school, and Wan Zao, Zhao Maozhu and others, as well as a dozen skilled workers in the workshop, became part-time teachers. The school first opened seven professional classes, including agricultural machinery, car driving, mechanical repair, fitter, lathe, milling, electrician, and carpentry. Students are targeted at residents who are already proficient in Mandarin and can recognize and read 500 characters.
The second school is the navigation school. Liu Sheng serves as the principal, Deng Fei serves as the director of education, and Ding Guofeng and a Portuguese carpenter serve as part-time teachers. The majors currently offered include three professional classes: seaman, engineer, and senior seaman.
The electrician and carpentry majors required in navigation are trained by technical schools. However, the seaman major alone requires a series of studies such as navigation, navigation watch and collision avoidance, navigation meteorology and oceanography, cargo transportation, ship management, ship structure and equipment, etc. Courses, and then based on years of service, one can be promoted to a senior seaman after passing the assessment.
The third school is the Junior Military Academy, with Zhao Xin as the principal, and Wang Yuanfang and Wu Siyu as the principal and deputy education chiefs. The Youth Military Academy recruits graduates from Beihai Town Primary School. The main purpose is to cultivate junior reserve talents specialized in joint training and diversion for Beihai Town; the so-called joint training and diversion refers to cultivating composite junior command officers who understand technology, can manage, and can command.
There are no majors within the Junior Military Academy. All trainees need to study weapons shooting, topography, intermediate and advanced mathematics and geometry, military theory, staff business, military training methods, military management, missionary education and other subjects. The entire study time is four years; four years Afterwards, professional and systematic training will be carried out based on personal strengths and personality characteristics.
Of the above three schools, except for the Technical School, which is located in the south of Fuldan City, the Sailor School and the Junior Military School are both located on the east bank of the Sila River in Beihai Town. After the groundbreaking ceremony was completed, the construction team affiliated with the Ministry of Civil Affairs began construction work. It is planned to complete the construction of classrooms and walls before the end of the tenth lunar month.
The establishment of the three schools has aroused great concern among new and old refugees. It was quickly known among the refugees that these students were not only fluent in Mandarin, but also required to read and write. It was said that they would become officials after graduation, and their monthly salary during schooling would be at least ten yuan in Beihai Town silver coins.
Ten silver dollars, that’s fifty taels! It's up to some thoughtful people to figure it out, be good! This is already the salary of an eighth-rank official in the Qing Dynasty.
People, there are those who are hardworking and willing to work, and there are those who are indolent and indolent. Some families with refugee daughters thought that as long as they married off their daughter, they would be an official and they would not be able to cultivate land or build roads!
But when they asked about it again, their hearts dropped. Zhao Xin stipulates that students in the three schools are not allowed to start a family before they are 18 years old; if anyone dares to start a family secretly, the community group leader, district chief, and district chief will all be dismissed from their posts, and the students themselves will also be removed from the school.
As for the army, more than a hundred soldiers and officers who had taken concubines have been dismissed one after another since the Mid-Autumn Festival. These people were quickly organized into a security team and were forced to take their families and concubines to Bitter Leaf Island to take charge of the security and winter duty of oil fields and coal mines.
Seeing Zhao Xin's tough tactics, Li Ji, who had originally thought about getting a concubine, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, thinking that he was really lucky.
Zheng Yi, Zheng Qi and Guo Po, who came to Beihai Town in confusion, took the three of them, and with a wave of Zhao Xin's hand, they were sent to Beihai Town Primary School. Among the three of them, except Zheng Qi who was illiterate, Zheng Yi and Guo Podai had both attended private schools for several years. However, Zhao Xin ordered the two of them to study mathematics and geometry. Zhao Xin made it very clear that if you want to be a senior seaman, that is, to be able to drive a three-masted sailboat or even a large iron ship, you must master mathematics.
Although going to school is a good thing, the daily classes are really embarrassing for the three of them; because apart from them, there are only a group of seven or eight-year-old children in the classroom. What a shame!
In early September, just three days before Zhao Xin set out, the second and third decrees of Beihai Town were issued. The second decree left all the refugees confused, wondering what the purpose of the "Opium Prohibition Ordinance" was for the gentlemen!
It is said that many people here in Beihai Town didn't even know what opium was, but through this regulation, they learned that opium has two other names, aphrodisiac and longevity ointment.
Zhao Xin asked Yu Deli and Zhou Weiguo to draft and promulgate this regulation as soon as possible. Zhao Xin's idea is that instead of punishing him without teaching him in the future, it's better to take the first step. Anyway, this thing doesn't need to be too complicated.
The "Opium Prohibition Regulations" clearly prohibit anyone under the jurisdiction of Beihai Town from smoking, selling, and transporting opium, except for medical procurement and hospital use. It also clarifies that "smoking and trafficking are the same crime." This is recognized by all the people across the country. In view of the current shortage of population resources, anyone who sells or smokes opium will be sent to the coal mines in Ezo to dig coal and will not be allowed to return to the mainland for life.
Another law is the "Beihai Town Resident Identity Pass Regulations". All Beihai Town residents will receive a certificate issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. So starting from the beginning of September, every household in Beihai Town and Fuldan City was notified to go to the town office on a certain day to queue up to take photos to prepare photos for new IDs.
Immediately afterwards, news came from Fuldan City that dozens of people from Zak Sulu's tribe, led by Saharian's father and daughter, set out by boat in mid-July in order to avoid the Qing army's interrogation. Landing on the south shore of Lake Kai, they crossed the swamps and arrived at the city of Fuldan in early September. They brought a large amount of mountain products and animal skins with them this time to do business with Beihai Town. They wanted everything from cotton clothes to needles and thread, grain, salt, matches, cigarettes, tea and even ironware, and they wanted everything in exchange.
Although Zhao Xin is in charge of ethnic affairs, since Wu Xiha is here, he does not need to intervene in this matter. Liu Sheng and the people from the civil affairs will naturally handle it. Nowadays, the transportation between Beihai Town and Fuldan City is smooth. Before the heavy snow closed the mountains, it only took two days by horseback and three or four days by carriage.
At the same time, Pereira and his party, who came from Macau, after initial adaptation and a unified physical examination at Beihai Town Hospital, confirmed that their personal hygiene was poor and they needed frequent bathing and haircuts. Director Liu Da made his face red with shame. Pereira took two of his men and began to survey and design the future Beihai Town Harbor; while other shipwrights led other Dan family shipwrights to repair the previously captured Natalia and Nicholas.
Because both ships were British three-masted merchant ships, and the amount of wood Liu Sheng had previously purchased from Macau was very sufficient, the shipwrights immediately began repair work after the Nicholas was towed into the dry dock.
Pereira and other Portuguese and Dan people who arrived in Beihai Town for the first time were extremely surprised by everything here. When they were led by the civil affairs clerk to visit the two new dry docks paved with reinforced concrete, their jaws dropped.
However, when the Thunder returned from Bitter Leaf Island with a full load of diesel, Pereira and other Portuguese and Dan family fishermen knelt down directly. They could not imagine that there could be such a big iron ship in the world.
"It has started to snow over on Bitter Leaf Island. We won't be able to start work in September because the pipes will be frozen. Zhang Bo and the others have been working hard recently and are preparing to cease fire and stop work in mid-September." Deng Fei looked a little tired. . Recently, he has been running back and forth between Beihai Town, Kuye Island and Ezochi, transporting back large quantities of high-quality thermal coal and diesel.
Zhao Xin patted Deng Fei on the shoulder and said: "Thank you for your hard work. After I leave, you will go to Jeju Island again. After bringing Zhang Bo and the others back, you, the director of education, will take office. There is no need to run away again this winter. , go to class and have a good rest before talking."
On September 5, Pan Xiucheng and Jiuzang, who were promoted to regimental leaders, led the men of the two regiments and began to board the ship. On the noisy pier, there were huge crowds of soldiers boarding the ship and family members seeing them off, making it extremely noisy and lively. Seeing everyone present talking and laughing, without any worries about life and death, this made the Dan family boatmen working on the dock extremely surprised.
The last big thing Zhao Xin did before leaving was to sign his name on the mobilization order. According to the previous adjustment plan, Beihai Town expanded its army again. This time the scale of the recruitment was 9,000 people.
(End of Volume 4.)
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