After the Northern Navy boarded the ship and left, the residents of Nerchinsk City dared to walk out of their homes and churches. Those who hurried home from the church were surprised to find that nothing was missing from their homes.
The cows plowing the fields stayed in the stables, the chickens, ducks and geese were noisy in their nests, and there was no sign that the door to their house had been forcibly broken open. After entering the house and taking a closer look, there are many grains stored in the house and even precious porcelain and silver products.
These people fought with great fanfare for a long time and didn't grab anything. What were they trying to do?
Polya carefully walked out of the cabin of the catamaran passenger ship. The sailors on the deck gave this beautiful little girl a kind smile. She glanced at the other party timidly and walked slowly to the bow. Seeing the riverbanks and woods receding on both sides, Polya suddenly felt a little dizzy, and it took her a while to get used to it.
She leaned on the railing and turned her head to look at the top of the cabin. She couldn't even see a mast, only a small white strip with an unknown purpose that kept spinning. Then she curiously leaned over the railing and looked out of the boat, but she didn't find the dense rows of oars she had imagined.
How strange, how can this boat run so fast? Taking a boat all the way from Yenisei Province to Nerchinsk, Polya had never seen such a strange ship.
Fan Tong lay on the platform in the cockpit, looking down at the beautiful girl on the bow who looked like a Greek statue. His fat face wanted to be pressed against the cabin glass.
The girl wore a three-color brocade patterned dress with small sleeves and a slim waist, and a peacock blue square shawl draped over her shoulders, which just covered her snow-white neck and developed breasts. This girl looks like she stepped out of an oil painting, with blue eyes as clear as a pool of water, and soft and thick golden hair. Because she had been groomed in the cabin before, the original two braids were also untied. Under the blowing of the river breeze and the sunlight, they exuded an almost silver-white luster.
"Xiao Fan?...Xiao Fan!" Liu Sheng's loud voice came from the intercom. He shouted several times before Fan Tong's soul, which had drifted to the bow of the ship, was pulled back to the cockpit. .
"What's up?"
"Take it easy, your dick is almost flowing down the glass. I saw it really from the patrol boat."
"Ouch~ Holy shit!" Fan Tong put down the phone and hurriedly walked outside the cockpit and looked forward. He saw Liu Sheng, who was sitting on the second patrol boat at the beginning, waving to him. Fan Tong picked up the binoculars on the bridge and looked over, only to see Liu Sheng with a wicked smile on his face.
Fan Tong angrily pointed his middle finger at the opponent and shouted: "Da Liu, you are so bad!"
After he finished shouting, he looked towards the bow of the boat and saw a beautiful peacock blue wavering for a moment and then disappearing. The little girl was scared away...
In early August of the lunar calendar in the fifty-third year of Qianlong's reign, Beihai Town attacked Rongcheng and Wendeng counties in Shandong and used several large ships to take away tens of thousands of people in Jiaodong. It was finally exposed, causing another uproar between the government and the opposition.
The Qing government had nothing to do with the big ships in Beihai Town. The sailing warships ordered by Sun Shiyi from the UK were still on the way, and the distant water could not quench the thirst of the near. So on the one hand, they could only send heavy troops to strengthen the defense of Dagukou, for fear that the big ships from Beihai Town would go to Zhili to interfere; on the other hand, they issued an order to severely reprimand Chang Lin, the governor of Shandong, and return Wendeng and Rongcheng counties to the Beihai Navy. Qian Zongsuo, the garrison chief, came to Beijing. Along with these two men, there were also Cheng Shanxun's Shuiying garrison and two unlucky county magistrates.
As Liang Zhenyu and Liang Xiucai expected, the biggest beneficiary of this incident was Li Jiaoyu of Rongcheng County. Not only was this person praised by Qianlong in his edict for "not causing chaos in the face of danger and resisting defence," but he also took over as the magistrate of Rongcheng County. As for Liang Xiucai, he also got the reserved quota for this year's Shandong "Scientific Examination" as he wished.
Seventy-seven-year-old Qianlong was frightened by Beihai Town's actions in Shandong this time. He finally discovered that the coastal defense under his rule was like a piece of window paper that could be broken with a poke. But at this time, even if he wanted to change, he was powerless. .
After calculations by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs, Qianlong found that just adding coastal forts and naval warships in Shandong would cost three million taels of silver. So there are a total of eight provinces from north to south plus Liaodong under the jurisdiction of General Shengjing. How much will it cost?
Speaking of which, Beihai Town still had no pain in conquering the Qing Dynasty from the sea. At this time, although there was a lot of discussion between the government and the public, the governors of various provinces kept sending notes to the military aircraft department, talking about how to defend Beihai Town from landing on the coast, and there was no concept of "sea power" at all.
In the history of another time and space, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which experienced the first Opium War, was poked with holes along the coast by the British. However, the idea of the bureaucrats was that guarding the seaport was not as good as guarding the outer sea, and guarding the inland river was not as good as guarding the seaport. . Even Li Hongzhang in the late Qing Dynasty thought of using defense as offense. In the so-called peacetime, he would show his power on the sea, and in the event of war, he would "retract into the seaport and use defense as war."
By now, the upper echelons of the Qing court had seen that Beihai Town's weakness was its population. Whether it is northern Jiangsu or Shandong, Beihai Town has removed at least more than 100,000 people from the Central Plains in recent years. As a result, someone in the Qing court once again proposed the clause of "moving borders and banning seas". The leader was Wang Jie, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and Minister of War.
But after Qianlong read Wang Jie's excerpt, he approved it with three words and understood.
Without him, the Manchu Qing Dynasty at this time is no longer the time when they just entered the customs. If they want to ban the sea and move the border, how many people's jobs will be destroyed? If Wang Jie's suggestion is followed, millions of acres of farmland will be abandoned in Shandong alone. Let alone whether we can defend Beihai Town, the people of Shandong will have to cause trouble.
In mid-August, Qianlong received another report from the Heilongjiang General's Palace. The Northern Navy defeated tens of thousands of Rakshasa in Heilongjiang City, and then sent its troops north to attack Yaksa.
"Let's fight. Let's fight to the death with Rakshasa. I am out of sight and out of mind."
In September 1788, Liu Sheng and others finally arrived at Chita on the fourth day after burning Nerchinsk. At this time, snowflakes have begun to fall from the sky, and early winter in Eastern Siberia has arrived.
Compared with the industrial city in another time and space with a population of more than 300,000, Chita in this time and space is just a small village with only a little over a hundred people.
This place is said to be a prison, but it doesn't even have a fence. Each family of prisoners was assigned a cabin, which served as both a residence and a prison. Anyway, the surrounding area is deserted for hundreds of miles, and there is no place to go if you want to run here. In fact, the subsequent development of these towns in Eastern Siberia by Tsarist Russia mainly relied on the large number of "December Party" who were exiled here in the 19th century.
When the Northern Navy fleet docked, no one in the village even alerted them. After the Northern Navy, which came ashore first, surrounded the only tavern in the village and captured several Cossacks and brewery owners who were drinking, through Igor's half-baked Chinese and gestures, the Northern Navy company commander who led the team finally I know that there are only a few local young men left, and in addition there are some women and children.
Before Suvorov's conscription order was issued, there were six Cossack families in Chita, 13 civilian intellectuals who were exiled here, and four families of farmers. With the issuance of the conscription order, the Russians sent all prisoners from all prison villages and towns in Eastern Siberia to Yaksa to serve as cannon fodder.
After all parts of the village were controlled by the North Navy, Igor, who had defected to Beihai Town, accompanied by two North Navy soldiers, began to knock on the door door by door, asking everyone to gather in the yard of the brewery. Fortunately, there were not many people in the village. An hour later, the only remaining local women, children, and a few exiles who had not been drafted because of their frailty gathered there.
Igor walked up to the stage set up with beer barrels, cleared his throat, and said to everyone present: "My name is Igor Ivanovich. Let me tell you some good news. From now on, from now on, Chita to Nerchinsk (Nerchinsk) is no longer Russian territory, it has been occupied by the Chinese.”
Damn it, what kind of good news is this? !
The Chita villagers present looked at the "Russian traitor" who was working for the invaders with expressionless faces and said nothing.
Igor looked at Fan Tong behind him with some embarrassment, and saw Fan Tong smiling encouragingly at him, so he turned around and continued: "The army led by General Suvorov suffered a disastrous defeat in Yaksa City. , all the troops there have surrendered to the Chinese."
As soon as this was said, all the audience present raised their heads and looked at Igor in astonishment.
"Yes, what I said is true. In fact, I myself was captured by the Chinese in Heilongjiang City."
"Mr. Igor, what I want to know is, what will the Chinese do with us? Are they going to kill us all? After all, we have invaded their territory."
"Are they asking for food from us? God, we don't have much food."
"No, as long as you don't do anything that harms the Chinese people and don't tell the public, you won't be harmed. At the same time, the Chinese can sell you food."
"We don't have much money." A Cossack who was blocked in the tavern said coldly.
"Oh, dear friends, you can exchange them for sheep. I saw you raising a lot of goats in the village before. The Chinese prices are very reasonable. Two sheep can be used for 10 poods (163.8 kilograms) of wheat flour. Change."
What? Instead of grabbing food, you can exchange sheep for food. The villagers present were stunned.
After this speech, when a woman with a try mentality actually exchanged two sheep for 10 poods of snow-white wheat flour, the hostility of the Chita villagers towards the occupiers disappeared.
They are all exiled to this miserable place, what else can they expect? Being able to eat snow-white bread is something they have never dreamed of.
Liu Sheng and others waited for two days in Chita Village. Zhao Xincai, Wu Xiha and his party arrived belatedly. They took two wooden boats built by the Xingkaihu Shipyard.
Under the guidance of a power plant worker named Xu Qingchun, Beihai Town's shipyard on the south bank of Xingkai Lake has developed quite well this year. Half of the Macao-Portuguese craftsmen and Danjia boatmen that Zhao Xin and the others brought back from Macau the year before last were sent away. Once there, wait until the lake freezes over in winter before returning to Fuldan City to spend the winter.
The main ship type currently built by the shipyard is this kind of flat-bottomed inland river wooden ship equipped with a four-stroke diesel engine and an external propeller, with a load capacity of 500 tons. As Beihai Town started construction of warehouses and military depots in Khabarovsk in the middle reaches of Heilongjiang River, a large amount of materials and manpower were transported to Khabarovsk via flat-bottomed boats.
Zhao Xin's original plan was to build Chita into Beihai Town's stronghold in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, but after seeing the environment here, he immediately gave up this plan. First of all, there are too few residents in Chita, and secondly, the local soil desertification is very serious.
Although there are only a few people in Chita Village, there are quite a lot of goats raised in Chita Village. Various families raise more than 2,000 goats, and the main source of local tax revenue is also sheepskins and wolf skins. Although goats are easier to raise than sheep, there is a disadvantage of raising goats. When they eat plants, they dig up the soil with their hooves and dig out the grass roots underneath, which seriously damages the local vegetation.
The local residents raise sheep extensively. Not to mention the bushes around the village, even the turf is gnawed clean. Historically, by the mid-19th century, Chita had become a sand city, with sand everywhere.
When Zhao Xin arrived at Chita, he rushed into the tent and did not show up for two days in a row. When he appeared in front of everyone again, everyone including Liu Sheng and Fan Tong were stunned by what he brought.
Ten giant mechanical monsters nearly four meters high, three meters wide and fourteen meters long were parked in a row in the wilderness one kilometer east of Chita Village. This was what he had prepared for this expedition to Irkutz. The super land transport vehicle prepared by Gram, the DT-10PA-1 articulated crawler transport vehicle.
It is said that this kind of vehicle ignores any harsh environment, can walk on flat ground in desert swamps and even ice and snow terrain, and can even freely cross three-meter-deep rivers. The entire vehicle body adopts a fully sealed and fully welded structure, and the front and rear bodies are connected through a hydraulic articulated mechanism.
At the rear of the cab is a huge engine compartment. The engine is powered by a V-46-5 twelve-cylinder multi-fuel diesel engine, which is improved from the engine on the T-64 tank and has strong power. Not to mention, in order to cope with the low temperature environment in Siberia, this engine is equipped with a low-temperature start preheating system, which can start at low temperatures of -50°C.
Each vehicle can carry a maximum of 42 people, has a maximum land speed of 37 kilometers per hour, and can run 500 kilometers with a full tank of fuel. Considering the height and build of the North Navy soldiers in this time and space, more than fifty people could fit in the carriage if they were squeezed together.
Fan Tong climbed into the cockpit and kept saying: "My dear, this thing is really exciting! Mr. Zhao, how much does it cost?"
"It's a silly number, two and a half million." Zhao Xin said with a smile: "It can be used in the wilderness, but if it is driven on the highway, the road will be completely destroyed."
Without further ado, the twenty-odd agricultural machinery crew drivers who followed Wu Xiha northward began to learn from Zhao Xin how to drive this kind of vehicle. The purpose of their coming was to deal with this.
DT-10PA-1 is not difficult to start and drive. The steering wheel is operated and the gear lever is very compact. The difficulty of driving this car is how to operate the hydraulic hinge to raise or lower the front of the car.
A group of members of the agricultural machinery crew who were accustomed to driving giant tractors studied hard for two days. After they could basically operate the vehicle normally and climb hills, Zhao Xin asked a battalion of the Sixth Regiment to board the vehicle and start heading towards Ulan-Ude.
Ulan-Ude in the 18th century was called "Verkhnaydinsk", and the name Ulan-Ude only came into being after the 20th century. Since the 17th century, this place has been the center of rhubarb and tea trade between Tsarist Russia and China; it is also the largest military and administrative center in Transbaikal.
Compared with Chita, the occupation value of Verkhnokhnudinsk is greater, because from here you can take a boat all the way south along the Selenga River to Kyaktu.
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