The people from Li Chao were sent away. Before leaving, Cai Jigong was shaken by Zhao Xinqi's beard and turned blue, but Beihai Town did not need such an ally, whether it was political or military. In the future, when Beihai Town wipes out the Manchus and unifies the world, the Li Dynasty, which is overly dependent on Sino-North Korean trade, will definitely come over to present letters of credence.
No need for special treatment, just do whatever you want, just treat these guys according to the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.
Next is the Choshu Domain. At the end of the 18th century, the Choshu Domain had nothing but poverty. The era of respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians had not yet come, and the prosperity of Orchidology was limited to Osaka and Edo. It is said that overthrowing the Tokugawa family has always been the national policy of the Choshu clan, so there was such a joke in later generations.
Since the Battle of Sekigahara, the elders of the Maori family have asked the family head every year when they visit the city on New Year's Day, what are the chances of collapse this year? The head of the Maori family thought for a moment and then said it was too early. Then everyone should do whatever they want.
The reason why Choshu Domain sent people to follow the merchants of the Li Dynasty was mainly because Zhao Xin used Choshu Domain as an excuse for the two times he invaded the island country. He always mentioned the "Susa Tang Ship Incident", which really made Hagi Domain restless, fearing that one day The large iron ship of the Northern Navy was parked off the coast of Nagato Province to demand an explanation.
Since the "Nagaki Incident of Burning and Attacking Nagasaki", every time a large ship of the Northern Navy passed by the Tsushima Strait to bring the clearing, the Choshu clan was extremely nervous. They were on guard from top to bottom until the large ship was out of sight. , then you can breathe a sigh of relief.
After the battle at Ridangshan last year, the souls of the Changshu clan were frightened. Those are the names of four families with nearly two million stones! The Shimazu family's 100,000 feudal samurai were wiped out in less than a year. With the small body of the Choshu clan of more than 800,000 koku, they would not be able to take advantage of it anyway.
When they went to the city on New Year's Day this year, the Changshu clan decided to ask for Zhao Dian's forgiveness no matter what. This is the most important thing this year, second only to the collapse of the century-old plan!
So the Choshu clan sent the head of the Agawa Mori family among the "eight families of one clan" as the leader of the envoy group. Relying on the close relationship formed with the merchants of the Li Dynasty for many years of smuggling, they came to Beihai with a boat full of gifts. town.
The current head of the Agawa Mori family is called Mori Jiuzhen, and his ancestor is Yoshikawa Motoharu, who was famous in the Warring States Period. That's right, it's the second son who was adopted into the Yoshikawa family by Moto Roshi, Kobayakawa Takakage's second brother, the guy known as "Oni Yoshikawa"!
The envoy of the Maori family was very timid and presented a gift list as soon as he arrived, begging for forgiveness from Beihai Town, and revealed in his words that he also wanted to be on good terms with Beihai Town like Sendai Clan.
For Beihai Town, the more dog legs the better now, and the defense in the newly occupied territory is still empty!
Therefore, Zhao Xin pretended to be generous and ignored the old events of eighty years ago, agreed to the trade request of the Changshu Domain, and asked the other party to send a thousand domain soldiers to serve in Beihai Town.
Maoli Jiuzhen and others were overjoyed. They did not expect that the trip went so smoothly, so he hurriedly got off the road, hoping to sign an agreement with Beihai Town.
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In Zhao Xin's view, once a poor feudal lord whose life-long goal is to overthrow the emperor becomes more powerful, he may initiate a "Hammon Gate Incident" in advance. When the time comes, Pingtai will try to fish in troubled waters, it will be very beautiful just thinking about it!
It was only then that Zhao Xin decided to meet the Manchu people. If he doesn't see her again, Qitai will go crazy.
Since entering September, seeing that the negotiations are still making no progress, Qianlong is also anxious. A dozen consecutive edicts have already taught Liu Yong a lot.
Seeing that there was no progress in waiting on the south bank of the Mongolian River, Naqitai finally became heartbroken and took a group of his men from the direction of Vladivostok, intending to go directly to Beihai Town. As a result, he was stopped by the North Navy's checkpoint just after crossing the Furjaha River. Discover. So he simply pitched a tent by the river and stayed there for seven or eight days, pretending that he would not leave even if he froze to death if he could not see Zhao Xin.
Following Zhao Xin's call, Na Qitai, dressed in casual clothes, walked into Beihai Town at dusk with two personal followers and under the guard of several security police.
Looking at the row upon row of houses with smoke rising from them, and listening to the pots, pans and whispers coming from each house, Na Qitai suddenly felt as if he had returned to a town in Guan Nei. What surprised him most was the yellow light coming from the windows of various houses, which made him feel very warm at first glance.
Is this Beihai Town? Although he also knew some of the situation in Beihai Town from the spies' secret reports, after all, this was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes.
"Master, they are so wasteful of lamp oil! Who dares to light so many oil lamps if they don't come from a wealthy family?"
"Yeah. It's a bit extravagant." Na Qitai was deeply convinced by his words.
The master and servant were discussing here, and a security policeman next to him burst into laughter.
Na Qitai took a look and asked quickly: "This officer... this brother, is there anything wrong with what we said?"
The security policeman said as he walked: "There is no oil lamp. We have never had oil lamps here from the beginning. They are called electric lamps!"
"Electricity?" The scene of lightning and thunder in the sky appeared in Na Qitai's mind at this moment, so he laughed and said: "You are really interesting to talk about. What does the thunder and lightning in the sky have to do with this? The lighting at home is nothing more than oil lamps or Just candles.”
The security police curled his lips and did not explain any more. However, when the group of people walked near the square, still dozens of meters away from Zhao Xin's office, with a "swish" sound, the entire square and street lit up, and the surrounding houses were barely visible, immediately making Qitai and the two The attendant was shocked.
The three people couldn't help shouting: "This is sorcery!"
A security policeman said: "You three, this has nothing to do with witchcraft! This is called electric light. What a bunch of bumpkins!"
"Who are you calling a bumpkin?!" Qitai's personal attendant was furious and reached for his waist. Only then did he realize that the weapons had been taken away when he passed the Beihai Navy outpost.
The security policeman smiled disdainfully and said: "We are the only place in the world that has electric lights. With this, whoever wants to commit crimes at night will not be able to escape the law."
After hearing this, the three masters and servants of Qitai suddenly looked a little ugly. As he walked, he looked around at the lights that were as bright as stars. He couldn't help but feel dizzy, and his steps became more and more staggering.
When the three were taken outside Zhao Xin's office, several Northern Navy soldiers at the door searched the three again. What was different from before was that there was a North Navy soldier holding a short black stick in his hand and sweeping the three of them from head to toe.
The Qitai trio had no idea what they were doing. In his opinion, the short black stick had no edge or edge, and there were some strange yellow patterns on it. It was probably a weapon, but it didn't look like it.
However, when the stick was still a punch away from Na Qitai's waist, the thing made a beeping sound, which surprised the three of them.
"What's in your waist? Take it out!" Several soldiers from the Northern Navy stared at Qitai as if facing a formidable enemy, with their right hands already on the holsters on their waists. The expressions of several security policemen on the side also changed drastically, and their hands also touched the revolvers on their waists.
What's in my waist? Na Qitai looked down and saw that there was nothing but a purse on his waist! The soldier approached Na Qitai's purse with a short stick, and sure enough, the alarm beeped again.
"You have iron tools here, take them out and check them!"
Qitai's face turned red, feeling that he had been humiliated. He did have an iron weapon in his purse, but it was just a fire sickle he carried with him. As a Manchu nobleman, his fire sickle was specially customized. The handle was made of white copper, carved with auspicious patterns, and inlaid with agate and turquoise. It was extremely luxurious.
In the Qing Dynasty, the fire sickle was not only a tool for igniting fire, but also one of the betrothal gifts for betrothals. As the saying goes, "A piece of flint is a piece of fire and a piece of fire is a piece of fire, and a hand can hold a lamp."
"What are you going to do? As an official of the imperial court, I am here to negotiate with your King Zhao! I cannot allow you to be so humiliated!"
With a "squeak" sound, the door behind a few soldiers opened. The bright lights in the room fell on the open space in front of the door. A tall figure walked out and said with a laugh: "That man, I misunderstood!"
Na Qitai took a closer look and saw who it was if it wasn't Zhao Xin. He said with an angry look on his face: "Mr. Zhao, I am here to visit you sincerely. Do you have to humiliate me?"
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A few minutes later, when Na Qitai sat opposite Zhao Xin, he bowed and took the tea cup from Zhao Xin, and then said with a wry smile: "Mr. Zhao, it's not easy to meet you!"
Zhao Xin smiled and said nothing, then lit a cigarette with a match in the surprised eyes of the other party, and then said: "Sir, are you tired with such a big and heavy thing hanging on your waist? Look at this."
Then Qi Taixin said, isn't it just a lamp? It's something you made in Beihai Town. Now I heard in the capital that a box of one hundred coins is required. Okay, a box of 100 sticks, one stick costs a penny, this is not a fire starter, it’s just a waste of money!
"Mr. Zhao, let's get down to business. This official is here because he was sent by the court to talk about Ning Guta."
"Oh. Then I can tell you now, we are not planning to return Ning Guta. You prisoners can take part of it."
"Part of it?" Na Qitai knew that Ning Guta would not come back, but this time Zhao Xin did not mention the ransom, which surprised him.
"There are probably more than a thousand people."
Among the people Zhao Xin wanted to return, in addition to the seriously injured, there were actually more than a hundred guys who looked intact but were actually insane. They suffered from the "shell shock" that was extremely famous in World War I in another time and space. They looked unscathed, but in fact their brains had been severely shocked by the shells.
The daily symptoms of these people are fatigue, suffocation, headaches, depression, insomnia, and even epileptic shock. Even though several months had passed since the battle in Ningguta, they were still being devastated, with the biggest manifestations being inexplicable trembling and stuttering. Beihai Town doesn't have the energy to open another sanatorium. Instead of raising them like this, it's better to let the Manchus take these people home.
In fact, not only Qing prisoners, but Russian prisoners in Yaksa also had this situation. But there was no such thing as "PTSD" in these days, and anyone who behaved this way was denounced as a coward.
"Mr. Zhao, I'll tell you the truth. I can't explain it to the emperor!" Qitai made a full gesture. Since he finally met in person, he had to speak directly.
"Then what should I do? How about I detain you? Do you think this counts as an explanation?"
Na Qitai almost jumped up from his chair and quickly begged, "Don't! My whole family is still in the capital. If you detain me, my whole family will be doomed!"
Zhao Xin stopped smiling and said with a serious face: "I heard that Liu Yong is here?"
"Yes. Mr. Liu has been in Wula, Jilin for several months."
"Qianlong asked him to negotiate with me?"
"Yes, I was sent by Lord Liu and Marshal Qing to take the front line. I don't think it would be smooth sailing for Lord Liu if we could reach an agreement with you first."
Zhao Xin took a sip of tea, with a playful look on his face, and looked at Na Qitai and said, "Senior, do you know that He Zhongtang and Liu Yong are not going to deal with each other? You have offended He Shen by helping him like this, and you will do it again in the future." Do you want to hang out?"
"I..." Na Qitaixin asked, "Why do you know everything?" But Zhao Xin's words struck a chord in his heart.
Seeing that the other party fell into silence, Zhao Xin said: "Well, since you want to negotiate, go back and ask Liu Yong to come and talk to me in person. The time will be set in twenty days, and the location will be Guandi Temple outside Ningguta City. "
"Ning Guta? No way!" Qitai didn't dare to be vague about this kind of thing. If Liu Yong wanted to do something bad, he wouldn't have enough heads to chop him off. He thought for a while and said: "You currently occupy three of the seven stations from Ninggu Pagoda to Jilin, so let's set the negotiation location at the fourth station, Tuijiao Station."
Repel the dragon, repel the evil dragon, this name makes me happy!
The land route from Jilin Wula to Ninggu Pagoda is nearly 650 miles. The sky is covered by thousands of trees and hundreds of miles are covered with swamps, making it extremely difficult to travel. Later generations of Northeastern beards often live in this area.
Na Qitai chose this place to prevent Zhao Xin from leading his army there, and the Qing army could rely on the dangers of the mountains and forests to set up defenses. Zhao Xin thought for a while and nodded in agreement. He immediately wrote a letter to Liu Yong and asked Na Qitai to take it back.
After the two talked, Zhao Xin didn't have any rules about serving tea and seeing off guests. So they took the three masters and servants of Qitai to the big dining hall to eat, and arranged a place to stay, so that the three of them could leave tomorrow.
Na Qitai was pretentious and had no intention of sitting down and drinking. The three of them had a hasty meal and followed the people who accompanied them back to their residence.
When he saw the simple furnishings in the house, he couldn't help but shake his head and said "vulgar". He said to himself that you, a bastard named Zhao, had stolen so much gold from the court, why didn't you even build a decent post house? The most outrageous thing is that the toilet is next to the bedroom!
The accompanying security police gave some explanations, and the Qitai trio suddenly realized that there was no need to pour night fragrance here in Beihai Town. Just press the bright button on the water tank behind you when you are ready, and water will automatically flush away.
After that, the three of them showed great curiosity about the light switch, and carefully flipped the switch, as if it would explode if they set off a cannon.
After struggling for a long time, after waiting for the security police to leave, Qitai washed his face and lay down on the big bed in the bedroom. He touched it casually and was surprised to find that the quilt was not cotton, but thickly wrapped in silk. Feathers, extremely warm and comfortable.
"These rebels really know how to enjoy themselves! Your Majesty can only do this at night, right?"
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