The winter of 1787 passed quietly.
Some people miss it, and some people hope to forget it forever.
It is unbearable to look back at the monstrous water of the Yellow River, the arduous trek due to hunger and cold, and the human tragedy of exchanging children for food...
During the New Year period, Zhao Xin was still busy, sending batches of people away and bringing them back again. During this period, he disappeared for more than ten days, and no one knew where he went.
More than a hundred people from the power plant finally calmed down after seeing an extra remittance on their bank cards that was the same as the number agreed in the trust document. Everyone is clamoring to work hard for a hundred days and must complete the host installation before the end of March.
In the wilderness south of Jurgen Military Fortress, a grass-green monster like a flat square box emitted black smoke and rumbled across the black field, shocking the soldiers guarding Jurgen City. Chin and eyeballs.
"My dear, what kind of animal is this?"
Zhu Dagui, who had returned with the hunting team, was sitting on a horse-drawn sledge, picking up his newly dropped chin, and heard a refugee next to him exclaiming.
"Brother Dagui, what kind of fodder does this beast eat?"
"Eat oil."
"Eating oil? Damn it, the grass all over the ground is not enough for it to eat! I have grown so big that I only got a bite of oil when I came to Beihai Town."
The young man looked back at the roe deer and wild boar loaded on the sledge, and his mouth began to drool again.
Zhu Dagui looked at the young man's appearance and laughed and cursed: "I ate meat for three days in a row during the New Year. Why are you hungry again now?"
"Brother Dagui, as you say, there is no time when you have enough meat."
Fan Tong was sitting in the armored car, feeling shaken, and the two bowls of porridge he drank for breakfast were churning in his stomach. Liu Sheng was in the driver's seat, his face full of excitement. The motorcycle handlebar steering wheel made the armored vehicle extremely comfortable to operate, and the four TNPO-170 periscopes provided an excellent view while driving.
"Da Liu, please slow down, I can't stand it anymore!" Fan Tong covered his mouth and shouted loudly.
"What? What did you say? Louder!"
Holy shit! Fan Tong angrily kicked Liu Sheng in the back. But there was a bump that followed, causing Fan Tong's head to hit the roof of the car. He let go of his hand and sprayed Liu Sheng's head...
The armored vehicle finally stopped. Fan Tong opened the back door and ran away. Two minutes later, Liu Sheng, wearing a helmet on his head, got out of the vehicle and gave chase. Poor Fan Tong couldn't outrun Liu Sheng, but he was grabbed and pinned directly under Liu Sheng.
"Da Liu, I was wrong!" Fan Tong immediately admitted defeat.
"What's wrong?"
"I should just drink two more bowls of porridge in the morning."
"..."
After begging for mercy, Fan Tong finally got into the driver's seat and drove the armored vehicle across the wilderness amidst Liu Sheng's scolding.
In early February, Fan Tong and Wu Anping proposed that they want to leave the power plant system and join the Northern Navy. He shuddered when he thought that after the equipment was running, he would have to start his three-shift life again.
This is also an inspection. Wu Ping An would never agree to changing to another position. Later, Fan Tong approached Zhao Xin again, and Zhao Xin was of course happy, so he asked Fan Tong to go to Fuldan City and work as an assistant to Liu Sheng first. While getting familiar with the organization of the army, he also lost weight through training.
With the expansion of Beihai Town's population, there are now three primary schools, and the school in Whale Bay is the third. In view of this, Beihai Town Technical School has opened several new majors, all of which are designed around positions related to power plants.
In mid-February, the ice on the Wusuli River had just begun to loosen, and the azaleas had not yet sprouted their green leaves. Liu Sheng, Fan Tong, and Wang Yuanfang led a cavalry company across the still-frozen Xingkai Lake toward Balke Village. let's go.
He went to pick up the bride. After the wedding, Liu Sheng will prepare for the Western Expedition.
Originally, Zhao Xin wanted to take Shen Xuan and A Miao with him, but things on the island country kept him from getting away, so he had to give up. Anyway, there will be a big banquet to bring the bride back.
More than twenty days later, Liu Sheng and his party finally arrived at the village on the banks of the Balk River.
At this time, Balk Village was as lively as a large gathering. Men, women, and children from various tribes for dozens of miles around came out in full force to entertain the newlyweds.
When they saw Liu Sheng wearing a fish skin suit, they all screamed in surprise.
"This groom is too tall!"
Whenever Hezhe people celebrate a happy event, they have an ancient custom of setting off river lanterns at night. In this ceremony of praying for God's blessing, people who are qualified to accompany the bride and groom during the wedding ceremony are also selected.
According to custom, the bride and groom put down the lanterns first, and then anyone, regardless of gender, old or young, who wants to take advantage of the fate of the bride and groom and seek peace and success in the future, can put down a river lantern to enjoy the glory and happiness. If the river lanterns placed can catch up with the bride and groom's river lanterns, they will become the most glorious bridesmaids.
This is the luck that everyone dreams of. Old people say that being the best friend can increase your life by ten years.
Fan Tong was also idle, so he followed the example of the Hezhe people. He first made a skeleton with wicker sticks, and then covered it with a layer of hemp paper. After that, he also put a layer of tanned fish skin on it and put it inside. Just put on the fish oil twister lamp.
The wide river bank was crowded with people of all ages, both adults and children holding river lanterns of different sizes and colors in their hands. Wang Yuanfang almost laughed when he saw the river lantern in Fan Tong's hand.
This guy actually got out of a big warship, it was solid and hard. The men, women, and children around looked at the big thing in Fan Tong's hand, and they all wondered what this man was doing.
"Your lamp is too big!"
"What's wrong? You can't be so confused? I call this technological advantage." Fan pointed to the river lanterns in the hands of the people around him and said proudly: "They are all no match for us."
Wu Xiha's father Saharian and his surname chief came to the river early. They stood in a wedding boat that had just been launched. In front of them stood Liu Sheng and Wu Xiha, who were carrying a two-dragon play-bead lantern. , which opened the eyes of the onlookers.
Wu Xiha learned this from a Henan woman when she was in Beihai Town. It took her two months to learn it vividly. The current river lantern took her three days to build.
The fish oil twist in the dragon lantern was lit, and the red fire reflected the horns, tails and lifelike claws of the two long dragons, as if they were about to swim into the water if they let go. The rare and strange girls around were chattering and praising Ushiha's craftsmanship, like a group of noisy magpies.
Suddenly, Qi Ji's wife from Balk Village squeezed over and shouted: "You little girls, stop chirping! Just look at other people's dragon lanterns and learn how to tie one when you marry a man tomorrow. Today is serious. You need to put the river lanterns in order to get some luck, otherwise, be careful about marrying Nomudi tomorrow!"
This has aroused public outrage. Are these little pepper-like tribal girls so easy to mess with? Nomudina is a well-known libertine. Isn’t this wife Qiji a waste of money?
As soon as someone shouted, the girls gathered around her, pulling her arms and legs, and insisted on throwing the fat woman into the river.
Fan Tong and Wang Yuanfang couldn't understand Manchu. When they saw a group of girls carrying a fat woman and about to throw it into the river, they couldn't help but look at each other and couldn't figure out what was going on. Wu Kambei, who came with him, laughed out loud.
Fan Tong quickly asked: "Old Wu, what are they doing?"
Wukambe smiled and said: "It's okay, the women are joking."
As they were talking, the crowd by the river suddenly burst out into enthusiastic cheers. When the girls who were playing around heard the noise, they quickly let go and threw the fat woman onto the sand, and also quickly took it away. He picked up his own river lantern and ran over.
Before the ceremony of setting the river lanterns began, they had to toast the gods and offer wine. Saharian and the shaman in the village dipped their fingers in the wine bowls and threw them into the sky and the Balk River, which reflected the bright moon.
Wang Yuanfang pulled Wu Kambei beside him and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Sacrifice to the gods and let the gods open the way for the river lanterns. Have a smooth journey!"
As everyone cheered in unison, Liu Sheng and Wu Xiha put the Erlong Playing Pearl Lantern into the Balk River. Immediately afterwards, people on the river bank rushed to follow the newcomers to release lanterns. In an instant, the river surface was like a pot boiling, and all kinds of river lanterns, colorful, moved along with the river water.
The most conspicuous among these river lanterns is Fan Tong's large warship lantern. There are actually three fish oil lamps burning on it, which are bright and bright. Riding Duchen, he knocks open one river lantern after another and follows the river westward. , and soon approached the river lantern with two dragons playing with pearls.
"Wow! That's amazing!" A group of young men and women looked at Fan Tong and said to themselves that this river lantern built by Han people can actually run so fast!
"Here, this brother, can you teach me how to make a river lantern like yours?"
Facing a group of chattering young men and women surrounding him, Fan Tong was extremely proud and smiled innocently. Now that Wukambe was not around, he couldn't understand what they were saying.
Dots of stars twinkled on the Balk River, like stars in the night sky landing on the earth.
The single drum and harmonica were played, and the elderly people gathered around Saharian and the shaman to drink festive wine. Guests like Fan Tong and Wang Yuanfang, who had come from afar, were treated as honored guests and invited to Saharian. Come and have a drink together.
On the smooth beach, under the bright moonlight, young people danced the fish dance to the rhythm of Kongkanji, and the singing of "Imakan" soared and filled the night sky.
"Alala Hehenina, Alala Hehenina, the beloved 'Imakan' is sung to the most beautiful Jiamuta, and the most beautiful flowers are dedicated to the kind-hearted Jiamuta. Which star is the most beautiful in the sky? Bright? Hada Etenkota. Ah Lei Lei Ah Lahenina, How can Hada Etenkota be as bright as the river lights? The cuckoos can't compare with the beautiful Jiamu Pagoda. How can a pair of love lamps be so beautiful? Changming The eternal light shines on the end of the world..."
Ushiha has never been so happy, and has never been so aware that she is going to be a wife. When she was a child, she experienced many scenes of setting off lanterns on the river to worship gods, but at that time she was just joining in the fun to bless others. And today, everyone came to bless her.
She looked at the tall Liu Sheng accepting bowl after bowl of toasts from others, and her heart was filled with pride. When did you fall in love with this big man?
The first time I saw him fight that tiger? Or was it the chance encounter on the Ussuri River next year when he gave the other person his beloved Zekta Gun? Or was it the first time that Liu Sheng doted on him and let him sit on his shoulder and watch the fun?
Every detail of the two years of dating came to mind, and Ushiha was now filled with happiness and joy.
Needless to say, Liu Sheng had decided to stay in this time and space and spend the rest of his life with this girl who was hanging around him like a little tail all day long. Those past events have long since disappeared with the experience of the past few years. He looked at Wu Xiha with a smile and said to himself that this girl will be his wife next year. The world is changing and it is really unpredictable.
On the other side, the old shaman from Balke Village saw Fan Tongyi holding a bowl of wine with his head up. He smiled and persuaded: "Young man, the cricket wine has great stamina. Be careful not to get up tomorrow."
After listening to Wu Kambei's translation, Fan Tong just giggled. This amount of wine is really nothing to him. When he was at the power plant, Fan Tong was nicknamed "Fan Yitong", which means he has a barrel of wine.
The old shaman asked someone to fill up the wine, and then asked: "Young man, where is your home?"
Fan Tong thought for a moment and said, "Old man, my home is far away from here. It's on the bank of the Yangtze River."
"I know the Yangtze River. I heard someone say it when I was young." The old shaman twirled his beard and said: "The Yangtze River is a white dragon, the Yellow River is a yellow dragon, and the Heilongjiang is a black dragon. These three dragons are three brothers."
Fan Tong and Wang Yuanfang listened to Wu Kambei's translation and laughed in unison: "What the old man said is good! Let's do another bowl for this!"
Just as the joyful "Imakan" brings the people along the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers into a festive and joyful moment, just as the colorful river lanterns flow along the Balk River to the Ussuri River, far upstream of the Heilongjiang River , the muskets and sabers of the Cossack Legion have been polished to a crisp, and hundreds of river sailing ships have been ready to go.
In 1787, Empress Catherine II, who was deeply troubled by the economy, saw that the Qing emperor still had no intention of restoring Kyakhta trade, and at the same time stepped up efforts to ban the rhubarb smuggling trade. Finally, she made the final determination to attack the Qing Dynasty. The Heilongjiang and Ussuri River basins were completely transformed into the territory of Tsarist Russia.
Suvorov, the corps commander appointed by the Queen, arrived in Irkutsk at the end of January. This veteran and renowned Tsarist Russian general spent two months carefully inspecting the route from Irkutsk to Based on the combat readiness of various places along the Yaksa route, a combat order was finally issued in mid-March: the time to launch an attack on the Qing Dynasty was set in mid-April, after Heilongjiang thawed.
As for Zhao Xin, who was in the North Sea, after seeing off another group of miners heading south to Kyushu, two unexpected visitors suddenly alerted him, causing him to suddenly turn his attention from Mongolia in the west to his neighbor in the north. This triggered a series of incidents, which caused the Northern Navy's strategy against the Manchus to change again and again!
"His Royal Highness King Zhao, on behalf of Your Majesty the Queen and General Suvorov, I would like to express my sincere respect to you!"
"Is it you?"
In Zhao Xin's office in Beihai Town, Serdan, who was ordered to rush back from Fuldan City, couldn't help but be surprised when he saw two familiar faces in front of him.
Isn’t this the Emorgen and Bartelsang we met in Deleng last year? He immediately thought of another one, the co-leader Acton.
The two guys wearing badger fur coats and mink hats saw Serdan as soon as they entered the door, but at first they were mainly chatting with Ukanbe and did not pay attention to Serdan who was pretending to sleep beside him.
Two Saurons, no, two Buryats bowed respectfully to Zhao Xin, then took out the letter from their arms and handed it to Chen Jishan.
These two people came over the mountains from the direction of Vladivostok, almost taking the same route as the clear monk. When they were stopped by the guard at the outpost, the guy named Aimorgen took out a letter, claiming that he was from a neighboring country in the north and requesting an interview with Zhao Xin. After the North Korean Navy searched and questioned the two men, it was finally determined that the two were envoys sent by Tsarist Russia.
Zhao Xin did not say anything after learning about it. He was very curious, how could Tsarist Russia find him? What do they want to do?
Could it be something about Bitterleaf Island and Okhotsk? Is the other party here to ask for prisoners and a sailboat?
After some consideration, he decided to meet these two people to see what medicine they were selling in their gourds.
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