If Zhao Xin knew that the Manchu Qing Dynasty even used assassination methods to deal with him, I don't know how he would feel. However, as the aftermath of his and Shen Xuan's wedding gradually dissipated, the focus of time travellers' talk turned to Liu Zheng.
This guy brought two women from the island country back to attend Zhao Xin's wedding. At first, he hid them quietly in the guest house where the Sendai clan was staying. Unexpectedly, after the Sendai clan and the shogunate left by boat, they were immediately exposed.
"You can't do anything if you don't want it. I can't make the girl homeless, so I have to reluctantly accept her as a maid." Liu Zheng explained to everyone, and at the same time, he looked helpless. It was really impossible for his aunt to do so. Even my uncle can't bear it.
Originally, the Sendai clan wanted to give Zhao Xin a woman, but Zhao Wangdian didn't want it at all, so it took advantage of Liu Zheng.
The two women, one from the Shiraishi Katakura family and the other from the Tsunoda Ishikawa family, were both sent as adopted daughters. Their appearance, to be honest, is not bad, but their height is a bit on the short side; one is a little over 14 meters, and the other is a little over 15 meters, two miniature beauties.
Of course, this kind of thing is very common in island countries. Although nominally Katakura Muranori and Ishikawa Murafumi became Liu Zheng's father-in-law, they still had different opinions when getting along. Otherwise, if Liu Zheng was asked to call Katakura Murari "father-in-law" to Katakura Murari, who was not much older than him, he would not be able to pass this threshold no matter what.
A group of power plants saw that Liu Sheng, Zhao Xin, and Liu Zheng all had their own women, and they began to have sexual feelings. However, Zhao Xin once again reiterated his attitude: "In these days, women are very important about honor. If someone always gives up, makes someone pregnant, slaps their butt and leaves, it can be clearly written in the trust document that the money will be deducted and kept as Child support.”
Oh! It’s really confusing whether to start a family and start a business in this time and space or to take the money and go back to have fun when the time comes!
A person must be self-aware, which does not mean that staying in ancient times is necessarily good.
Mr. Zhao didn't mention it anymore. If you want to be a general in charge of an area like Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang, you must first have that ability. In other words, if I really had those two brushes, why would I be shunted in another time and space and end up with an unsatisfactory life?
Furthermore, in case someone has a headache or fever, the medical methods from another time and space are reassuring.
The most important point is that Beihai Town has never had slaves and concubines from the beginning, and has no plans to do so. This has completely ruined many people's dreams of having beautiful wives, concubines, and housekeepers and servants.
"What do you think Zhao Xin is doing here? He is not allowed to take concubines."
"Tsk~~There's no need to ask about political ambitions."
"I heard that Fatty Fan also married a blonde girl? Is he planning to go back?"
"Why are you not allowed to take concubines! One teapot needs four cups. Damn it..."
"I think what Gu Hongming said back then was right. Some people's braids on the outside are cut off, but the braids on the inside are still there. You two are typical."
"I'll wipe it! What do you mean by that?!"
"Forget it, forget it. They are all here to work, what's the point to argue about. Isn't it nice to earn a million dollars a year? Take the money back home and do whatever you want with it." Seeing the trend of starting to fight after a small talk, next to him People rushed over to persuade him.
The question is, compared to the high cost of luxury life in another time and space, how can an annual salary of one million be possible for some people?
The idea of "Why can I do it if it's him?" gradually grew in my mind. "Ambition", which was originally a derogatory term in Chinese culture, has become an essential factor for success advocated by countless people in later generations.
Before the Spring Festival, Zhao Xin spent more than ten days traveling alone to Ningguta, Khabarovsk, Aihun, Yaksa, Irkutsk and Kyaktu. Sending wedding candies is a gift, and its main purpose is to prepare for next year's spring plowing - to send seeds.
According to Chen Qingsong's plan, Khabarovsk, located in the Sanjiang Plain, will become the main wheat-producing area and will also develop livestock breeding, while Aihun, Yaksa and Irkutsk will mainly grow rye and sugar beet.
Especially for sugar beets, it cannot be planted directly after plowing the land. There is a lot of preparation work to be done in the early stage. In addition to site selection and soil preparation, seed soaking and pesticide mixing also need to be prepared in advance.
Beets were now an indispensable ingredient on the dinner table for eighteenth-century Russians, but the use of beets to make sugar would have to wait more than ten years. Basically, by the end of the 19th century, there were almost two hundred sugaring factories operating throughout Tsarist Russia, with an annual sugar output of up to 45 million pounds of sugar.
As a root crop that loves heat, light and moisture, the sugar content of sugar beets mainly depends on the number of sunny days from August to October each year. The reason why Chen Qingsong chose Aihun and other places as sugar beet planting areas is mainly because Considering that those areas have crisscrossed rivers and high soil moisture content.
In fact, sugar beets are divided into two types: edible type and feed type. The former can be eaten and squeezed for sugar, while the latter can only be fed to pigs, cattle and sheep. For example, in the Khabarovsk and Ezo lands where livestock breeding is carried out, some fodder sugar beet must be planted, which is much better than alfalfa.
Chen Qingsong's plan is to plant a small amount in the outer Northeast and Ezo lands first, and then promote it in the northwest region after the Northern Navy captures Outer Mongolia. In this way, herders will basically stop migrating for pasture. With the assistance of industrialized animal husbandry, the Mongols can realize settlement in villages and towns, and places like northern and southern Mobei will be easy to control.
The nomadic people's good fighting ability comes from their dependence on the weather and their precarious living environment. The key to solving this problem is economic means, and politics and military can only be supplemented. And when those Mongolian princes and nobles who live a luxurious and luxurious life are fixed in villages and towns, and if they want to make small moves, the Northern Navy can quickly put them out.
In order to alleviate the shortage of agricultural manpower in the outer northeast and other places, Zhao Xin not only prepared seeds, he also had to purchase a batch of agricultural equipment again. This includes large and small agricultural machinery specifically designed for sowing and harvesting sugar beets.
Relying on large-scale agricultural equipment and diesel produced on Kuye Island, the proportion of agricultural population in Beihai Town is actually very low, currently only about 18%. This is also the prerequisite for Zhao Xin to dare to recruit troops on a large scale.
At the end of the fifty-third year of Qianlong's reign, Beihai Town once again launched a large-scale conscription, with a total of five thousand. After completing the training, it will be organized into two regiments to replace the garrisons in Southern Kyushu and Sendai Domain. Half of the troops this time were farmers from Jiaodong, and the other half were soldiers from the Qing army, border residents of Hezhe and Daur, and a small number of Ezo coal miners.
In addition, the thousand feudal warriors sent by Ishikawa Murafumi this time will also be incorporated into the battle sequence of Beihai Town after completing their training. Zhao Xin plans to have this unit go north to Irkutsk in the spring and be responsible for the defense against Russia.
As for the great Ainu king Tuka, who was as fat as a pig, after attending Zhao Xin's wedding, he decided to send another 500 Ainu warriors to Beihai Town. The agreement that Zhao Xin reached with him is that these Ainu people will serve the Northern Navy for five years. If Tuka needs it, some of them can be recalled at any time, but new recruits must be provided to make up the number.
It is said that when the industrial power demand in Beihai Town is solved, several 600-megawatt diesel generators that have been used scatteredly can be freed up and sent to Fuldan City, Kuye Island and other places.
At present, the natural oil leaking pits near the Oha River have been basically dug out. Zhang Bo is planning to start the long-standing "beam pumping unit", commonly known as the kowtow machine, in the spring of next year.
Correspondingly, starting from 1789, all the local oil refining workshops that had plagued Kuye Island's air for two years would cease operation and be replaced by ten oil refining converters with a daily output of 200 tons. As a result, Kuye Island's annual diesel output will reach 700,000 tons, which can fully meet the oil demand of all mechanical equipment in Beihai Town.
However, Zhao Xin still needs to purchase lubricating oil for mechanical equipment separately, or buy whale oil from Okhotsk. There is no problem in producing base oil for lubricants, but additives still cannot be produced.
Zhang Bo is living a happy life at the moment. He works as his oil boss on Kuye Island for half the year, and teaches welding skills at the technical school in Beihai Town for the other half. Sometimes he even goes to the radio station to indulge his addiction as "village party secretary". A group of farmers from Wendeng were surprised, and they all said they did not expect that there was a Shandong hero hidden among the big men in Beihai Town.
By the way, after a year of ideological struggle, Zhang Bo finally decided to stay and become a permanent resident of this time and space. After solving this ideological problem, his personal problems were also solved. Liang Qing'er, who had a crush on him, had already agreed to Lao You's matchmaking. After Zhang Bo planned to hold the wedding before the spring, he would follow Liang Qing'er to Bitter Leaf Island and let her preside over the newly established primary school in Oha Town.
Seeing Chen Qingsong getting more and more tired, Zhao Xin finally decided to liberate Jiang Tenglin from Dabo Town and return to the civil affairs to continue being his deputy.
Let’s talk about the situation in the three counties of Southern Kyushu.
The Linggao gold mine has been excavated for a full year. In order to prevent the news from leaking out, the main purpose at the beginning was to open up the transportation route from the mine to the foot of Akune, so that the mined ore could be transported by sea to the gold refinery on Lenji Island.
Jiuzang offered a recruitment condition of one bucket of rice per day plus two meals as a supervisor, and the news soon spread throughout the three counties of Izuku, Isa and Hisikari. Suddenly, nearly 10,000 breathless peasants who had been squeezed by the Shimadzu family for a long time walked out of their homes and joined the road construction army.
When they were ready to return to their hometown to farm in the spring, another announcement issued by the Beihai Navy caused the three counties to completely explode.
Starting from this year, the annual tribute paid by the three counties will be adjusted to "three for the public and seven for the people", exempting all excessive levies and miscellaneous taxes. If any landowner dares to collect annual tribute exceeding this ratio, any farmer has the right to report it to the local Beihai garrison. Violators will be fined ten times the excess amount, and rewards will be given to farmers who report.
As soon as the news came out, all the vassals in the island country were stunned. The father only leaves three, so he doesn’t plan to live a good life anymore? ! From now on, the peasants in those three counties will not be allowed to ride on the head of the samurai master and pee?
Oh, by the way, there are no more samurai there...
However, the farmers in the three counties were all overjoyed. They walked out of their homes one after another, carrying the best gifts they could give - muddy sake, private rice, wild products and game, to the nearby Beihai Navy Station, singing and dancing all night long. carnival. And those breathless landowners who had long been squeezed by the annual tribute policy of "eight publics and two citizens" immediately expressed their firm support for the North Navy.
As for the various temples in the three counties, because the Beihai Navy was in great power with the "Great Victory at Ridang Mountain", they could only bow their heads and agree.
In the spring of the eighth year of Tianmei in the island country, farmers in the three counties of Minami Kyushu, inspired by the "public, three people, seven" policy, burst out with great enthusiasm for the land they have cultivated for generations. They tried their best to grow rice around the village. Every nook and cranny is shed with the sweat of hard work.
Of course, the Thunder and Thor, which were loaded with new farm tools and small walk-behind seeding equipment that were continuously shipped from the factory in Beihai Town, also played a great role.
When it was time for the autumn harvest, the Beihai Navy led by Jiuzang did something that shocked the people of the island country, that is, they put down their guns and wielded their sickles to help the people harvest rice.
Not to mention the feudal lords and samurai merchants, even the farmers in the three counties were stunned. They watched groups of Beihai soldiers walking into the rice fields waving sickles, thinking that the gentlemen were trying to rob their own crops.
well! Are there any kind-hearted officials in the world? Just say a few nice words and think things have changed. How can there be such a beautiful thing!
Just as the farmers were sighing in despair, they discovered that the Beihai Navy had actually tied the harvested rice into bundles and came to ask where to send it. Some farmers were busy chopping wood and boiling water, and when they were preparing to entertain the soldiers, they were shocked to find that these people even prepared drinking water themselves!
When a platoon of soldiers helped a farmer to finish harvesting, put the grain into the warehouse, and left, the farmer's family of six suddenly knelt in front of their house and cried loudly after being silent for a long time. They waved goodbye. The soldiers of the Northern Navy kept kowtowing, and even their foreheads were bruised by stones on the ground.
Scenes like this appeared one after another in rural areas across the three counties, surprising and delighting countless peasant families.
Is there such a government in the world? Zhao Wangdian sent a "Bodhisattva Soldier"!
However, during the autumn harvest, farmers in the three counties were not only surprised but also panicked. Spread by some people with ulterior motives, this behavior of the North Navy was said to be an invitation to buy people's hearts and a big conspiracy.
Think about it, those Tang Yicai left 30% for themselves, how could they maintain the governance of the three counties? How do you pay your officials? The general is the most merciful, and his heavenly leadership is only "five publics and five civilians". This year I will give you poor devils a sweet date, and next year I will return to "Gong Ba Min Er" and give you a hard slap!
Faced with these rumors, the Northern Navy quickly mobilized and, with the cooperation of a few farmers who believed in the Northern Navy, arrested more than a dozen rumor spreaders. Some of these people pretended to be wandering monks and wandered around the villages, some were hanging out in restaurants and bars, and there were even some hired ronin.
After interrogation, it was found that among these people were former retainers of the Shimazu family, monks from temples in the three counties, and people from surrounding vassals who had come to spread rumors and cause trouble. The Beihai navy's approach was to shoot them all, which frightened the people who spread the rumors. They fled the three counties one after another and did not dare to come again.
Okay! Spreading rumors elsewhere is just a slap in the face, and the Bei Navy will behead him directly. How to play this? Can you still happily be a rumor monger?
The Beihai Navy simply posted notices again in every village in the three counties, informing them of the identity and disposition of these rumor mongers. When the farmers took a look, it turned out that those arrested were the temple masters and samurai masters who were uneasy about the current situation, as well as spies sent by the surrounding daimyo who were jealous of the Northern Navy's policy.
In the eyes of these people, if Bei Haijun's policy spreads, there will be no peace in Southern Kyushu in the future! Those mud-legged and local people will definitely petition to lower the annual tribute, or they may launch a coup.
If the annual tribute is reduced, what will the daimyo use to attend the service and complete the general invitations assigned by the shogunate? This is simply a rhythm that forces people to hang themselves!
The problem is that from the perspective of the farmers in the three counties, they have been suffering for many years, and finally a group of "Bodhisattva soldiers" have arrived. They just have hope, why can't they live a good life? They really treat us like sesame seeds, the clay figurine is also very angry!
Then, when Jiuzang received Zhao Xin's order to recruit 200 local self-defense forces in the three counties, farmers who heard the news came in large numbers, and more than 3,000 people signed up.
On the one hand, this is the self-defense army's one-yuan silver coin monthly allowance, and on the other hand, it is the great support for the North Korean navy regime. The farmers were afraid that one day these Bodhisattva soldiers would leave, and then the oppression of the samurai lords would come back again.
As a result, a storm that even Zhao Xin did not expect began to brew spontaneously, and will sweep across Kyushu in a few years!
(End of Volume 5)
