Shengjing City has been captured. The next step for the Bei Navy is to take over the city as planned.
A political team of nearly 2,000 people outside the city had been preparing to enter the city from the beginning of the general offensive. There were more than 500 people in the first batch of people entering the city. They were divided into more than a dozen teams of different sizes and went to their respective designated locations to receive them. The most important of these are the Imperial Palace, Shengjing General Office, Wubu Yamen, Fengtian Mansion and Chengde County Government. Whether it is the archives in the palace or the bank warehouse, grain warehouse, and cabinet warehouse, they are of great significance to the city management after Beihai Town. Very important.
"Attention! Now call your name!" The captain of Wang Conger's team cleared his throat and started reading into the small book in his hand.
"Niu Qingbao!"
"arrive!"
"Wang Conger!"
"arrive!"
"Yu Huifen!"
"arrive!"
"Lin Qizong!"
"arrive!"
There are fifty people in Wang Conger's team. The vast majority of the team members are young people who have just graduated from administrative schools. Women account for one-third, and the oldest is only nineteen. In addition, there are a few who participated in the imperial examination last year. , the "Beihai Town Scholar" who is still in the study period. The captain is forty years old and one of the first batch of naturalized citizens from the island country. His name is Gao Zheng. He has been working at the Public Security Police Department before.
It is said that even after staying in Beihai Town for almost a year, I have seen a lot of new things. But for these ancient scholars who have read the Four Books and Five Classics and received Confucian education since childhood, the "great defense between men and women" has always been a problem in their hearts. In the restricted area, he was extremely opposed to the "gender equality" advocated by Beihai Town, and even argued with the teacher in class.
Liu Siting was extremely dissatisfied when she heard about this incident. As one of the members of the 29-person committee of Beihai Town, she simply asked the radio station to play "Women Hold Up Half the Sky" for a week. Of course, it was a version with slightly changed lyrics. All the scholars were stunned.
Zhao Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he learned about it. After consideration, he asked Yu Deli to select some "rookie talents" with good grades and relatively open minds to join the work team going south for a period of time, which was considered an internship. At the same time, let them see that the female students trained in Beihai Town are no worse than these "sour talents".
In this day and age, not counting those primitive tribes of matrilineal clans, the only regime in the world that advocates "equality between men and women" is Beihai Town. It is the only one with no semicolon. For example, in industries such as cigarettes, matches, spinning, weaving, clothing, sugar, and canned food, the employees are basically women, which greatly makes up for the shortage of labor force in Beihai Town during its industrial development.
This also illustrates a problem. Whenever a country wants to industrialize and does not improve the social status of women, it is just a matter of banging gongs - no chance.
Because the work team was not a regular force, after the roll call, the young people in the team started talking excitedly about the battle that had just ended in the city. Upon seeing this, Gao Zheng quickly waved his hand to stop everyone's chatter and said:
"Everyone, be quiet! I have something to tell you. Our team's mission is to receive the Manchu Palace and cultural relics files. The higher ups knew that no one had ever entered the palace, so they transferred two new team members. , they will be there in a moment. They were all eunuchs in the palace before, and were sent here by the Manchus in the early years. The reason why they are allowed to come is because they are very familiar with the facilities inside the palace. When they arrived after a while, Everyone must express a warm welcome. Their voices are different from normal people, so don't make a fuss! Oh, and one thing to note is that you must not call people 'husband'! This is a very discriminatory title. In private, No way either.”
Eunuch? Isn’t that a eunuch? Why did Beihai Town even recruit such people?
Lin Qizong and several other scholars standing in the queue couldn't help but murmur. But when I thought about entering the palace later, I felt that it would be impossible without these people.
Before lunch, two old men arrived accompanied by an officer. They were all wearing fat military uniforms without ranks and looked very reserved. In the subsequent introduction, everyone learned that one of the two was named Zhang Yinliang and the other was Liu Qing; the former was in his sixties and the latter was in his early fifties.
When Gao Zheng was introducing the team members, he asked everyone to call them "masters" from now on. The two old men said they didn't dare. Only then did everyone notice that the two men spoke in a higher and shriller voice than ordinary people, and that they had no beards on their faces.
After the simple welcome ceremony, Wang Conger walked up to the two old men with a smile on her face, took Zhang Yinliang's arm and said, "Grandpa Zhang, Grandpa Liu, it's you two!"
"Daughter, I haven't seen you for a few days, and you are all tanned. Where is your man?"
"He's in the city. Maybe I can meet him when I go into the city later."
"That's good!"
Seeing Wang Conner, Zhang Yinliang and Liu Qing were happy, and their nervousness, which was originally caused by fear of being looked down upon, relaxed a lot. They were so familiar with this girl that they almost watched her grow from a naughty girl to a grown-up girl, and then watched her sit on a sedan chair and get married as a woman.
When Beihai Town attacked Ninggu Pagoda and Heilongjiang City in the early years, it discovered many exiled eunuchs. Most of these people are slaves of armored men, lack of food and clothing, and their living conditions are extremely poor. In order to obtain the Manchu palace ban from these people, some of them were brought back to Beihai Town. Later, except for the young Chunlai who entered the civil affairs system, the other older ones also arranged jobs within their ability. Their living conditions were completely different from those in the past.
Zhang Yinliang was one of these exiled eunuchs. He once worked in the Qing Palace Construction Office. More than ten years ago, he saw another eunuch being punished by Qianlong for no reason in the Old Summer Palace, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face. As a result, he was seen by the petty Qianlong, and he was sent to Heilongjiang in anger. Give the armored man as a slave.
After being rescued, Zhang Yinliang felt that people like Zhao Xin treated them as human beings instead of humble slaves, so he revealed a lot about the situation in the palace and garden. Later, the Beijing Intelligence Station was able to develop the deputy chief eunuch of the Jingsi Room into a secret agent, and he had half of the credit.
After settling down in Beihai Town, except for the long winter, he sometimes went fishing in the Xila River in his spare time. Once, he encountered a group of naughty children headed by Wang Conger playing in the water.
At that time, Zhang Yinliang was afraid that something would happen to the children, so he kindly reminded him. As a result, his high and thin voice scared away many children. However, Wang Conger did not run away. Instead, she stood quietly and watched him fishing.
Zhang Yinliang saw that the girl looked well-behaved and always stared eagerly at the fish he caught, so he gave her two. Wang Conger was overjoyed. This was her purpose. She took it home and let her mother stew it.
After that, Zhang Yinliang often met the greedy girl by the river, and the two gradually became familiar with each other. After going back and forth, one old and one young became friends every year.
The old man entered the palace at the age of seven and learned how to serve nobles and please people. He felt that coaxing a little girl into a movie was not easy for him. But who knew that Wang Conger and her mother had been wandering around the world since they were young, and they only said that their mother was working as a domestic helper. It wasn't until Zhao Xin's wedding day, when Zhang Yinliang and several old eunuchs helped with the etiquette, that they saw Wang Conger being led by Fang Hua, and he realized that this girl was no ordinary person.
Back to business. At one o'clock at noon, the people from the political work team received the notice and immediately gathered into the city. So everyone gathered in line amidst the rapid whistle, carried bags and flags and set off.
At this time, the fighting in the city has basically ended, but the siege troops are still searching for and suppressing the remnants of the Qing army, and there are still sporadic gunshots in the outer city. Wang Conger and the others came in through the Great North Gate. When they were about to reach Fusheng Gate in the inner city, they saw groups of Qing prisoners heading west under the escort of the Northern Navy.
"Where are they going to be sent?" Zhang Yinliang looked at the scene in front of him in shock.
Captain Gao Zhengdao: "Go to the temporary detention point in the west first, and then send it to Tieling. We have circled a large piece of land under Longshou Mountain, and the prisoner camp is there."
"Oh! I passed by Tieling when I came here. It's more than a hundred miles away, and it only takes three or two days to reach it." Zhang Yinliang walked a few steps with his head down, and then asked: "Daughter, what do you think Prince Zhao will do with him in the future? Them? Or let them build roads?"
Wang Conger said: "Not this time! It will take a lot of labor to build a reservoir on the Songhua River."
Zhang Yinliang asked curiously: "Reservoir? Can the warehouse be built in water?"
Wang Conger pursed her lips and smiled, then gave a brief explanation, and finally concluded: "After building the reservoir, the Songhua River will not have floods in the future, and it will also be able to generate electricity. When electricity is available tomorrow, people in Jilin City will also be able to generate electricity at night. Use electric light."
"Oh, that's great." Zhang Yinliang couldn't help but nodded.
While walking and talking, looking around, a group of fifty people quickly arrived at the entrance of Daqing Gate. Captain Gao Zheng showed the pass issued by the headquarters to the soldiers standing guard at the door. Several soldiers read it carefully and checked the personnel list before letting them in.
From the moment more than fifty people walked into the Great Qing Gate, their eyes were exhausted. Most of them were speechless with excitement, and their faces were flushed with excitement. The red walls and yellow tiles are as far as the eye can see, and the tall and majestic Phoenix Tower in the distance. It turns out that this is where the emperor lived! If it hadn't been for repeated vaccinations, several scholars would have almost knelt down in excitement.
Wang Conger was not as excited as others. Because of the relationship between Xu Jian and Zhao Xin, she had seen many pictures of the Forbidden City. Compared with the imperial palace in the capital, the scale of Shengjing Imperial Palace is much smaller. Soon, she noticed a few soldiers with familiar faces standing at the gate of Chongzheng Hall. She took two steps closer to take a closer look and almost screamed in surprise.
These people are actually Zhao Xin's guards! Others don't know them, but who is Wang Conner? When she was a child, she often went to Zhao Xin's house to play, playing with cats and dogs, bullying Xu Jian's younger brother, and patting Zhao Xin's son on the butt. Her life was very happy.
Several guards also noticed Wang Conger, and smiles appeared on their originally stern faces. This person is no ordinary person, she is half of Zhao Xin’s daughter-in-law!
"Why are you here? Are you?" Before Wang Conger could finish her words, she saw a guard put his index finger upright on his mouth and immediately stopped asking any more questions.
"The chief is in the Phoenix Tower at the back, and your guy is also there. We just went in for a while. Do you want to go meet him?"
"Okay, okay! Let me tell the captain."
Zhao Xin actually arrived ten minutes earlier than Wang Conger and the others. At this time, he was taking Xu Jian out of the Qingning Palace behind the Phoenix Tower and came to the "Yongfu Palace" in the southwest corner.
"The place is not big. Can Dorgon hide in this cabinet? Besides, there are no windows on the back wall, and you are still peeping? Daxia Jin is just making it up!"
Zhao Xin muttered and kept looking at the two large cabinets on the left and right of the altar. Xu Jian behind him was confused, but he had a feeling that the person in front of him seemed to be familiar with this place.
The two of them walked out of Yongfu Palace one after another, and happened to bump into Wang Conger running up the steps. When the other party saluted him in accordance with the army rules, Zhao Xin returned the salute and said with a smile: "Our heroine is here!"
Although she was already a woman, Wang Conger's pretty face turned red, and she said half angrily and half coquettishly: "You are still an elder! How can you be so annoying as soon as you meet someone? Take good care of your precious son when you get back." Xu Jian and the surrounding guards covered their mouths and snickered.
The reason why Zhao Xin said this is not because Wang Conger in another time and space was some kind of "White Lotus Saint", but because there is another allusion.
When this girl was ten years old, she was influenced by storytelling on the radio and insisted on learning martial arts from Chen Erya, saying that in the future she would be like "Dragon Girl Gai Feixia". Chen Erya couldn't resist, so he taught her some basic Changquan skills to get rid of her. Unexpectedly, after practicing for more than a month, Wang Conger said that he was so good at martial arts that he actually jumped from the roof of his house in front of a bunch of naughty children. In the end, he sprained his foot and frightened Fang Hua and his wife half to death.
Last time Xu Jian and his wife only had a quick farewell after seeing each other, but when they met again after so many days, their love for each other became even stronger. They were not interested in the surrounding scenery or the palace, but they both had a lot to say.
Zhao Xin knew this well, so he took Chai Rugui to the third floor of the Phoenix Tower without letting them accompany him. This building is the tallest building in Shengjing City. Standing at the top, you can have a panoramic view of the entire city.
One hundred and seventy years! Since the Ming Dynasty lost the Shenyang Guard and was defeated by Nurhachi, now the Beihai Navy founded by himself has taken the city back.
Fulan looked into the distance and sighed secretly. Zhao Xin turned around and walked into the house behind him. He pointed at the debris piled in the corner and said to Chai Rugui: "Pack all these things and take them away. You can't leave anything behind."
Chai Rugui agreed at first, and then looked at a few old screens and a lot of gourd-like cigarette purses wrapped in yellow cloth with confusion, thinking that they were just tatters! What's the use of this thing? If you want to get it, you should get the antler chair you saw earlier!
When he returned to the headquarters in the evening, Deng Fei saw what Zhao Xin had brought back and said in a dumbfounded way: "Are you going to collect rags? You didn't even mention bringing something good back when you went to the palace. I remember there are some things in the Forbidden City in Shenyang. There are so many treasures!”
Zhao Xin took a sip of water, moistened his throat, and said with some pride: "Hey, of course there are people to help clean up those things. What I got back is the good stuff."
"Isn't it just an old screen?" Deng Fei said, walking to the standing screen and looking at it carefully, and said in surprise: "Map? Is this the good thing you said? How much can it sell for?"
"The map was drawn by Matteo Ricci. It was just a copy of the picture book." Zhao Xin stood up and walked to the screen, flicked it with two fingers, and explained: "The key is not the surface, but the lining paper inside. You guessed it? What?"
"Don't be pretentious, I know you read a lot."
"Your idol, the authentic work of Qi Jiguang! A priceless treasure!"
"Ah!" Deng Fei was moved now.
It is true that there is an authentic work of Qi Jiguang on the screen of the Phoenix Tower. It was discovered by a worker responsible for cleaning the Phoenix Tower when Shenyang was just liberated. When the Jin Dynasty was founded, there was a shortage of paper, so the official documents and archives of the Ming Dynasty were used. In addition to being used as the backing of the screen, there was also the padding paper in the letter bag. In addition, some old Manchu documents were also written on the back of the official paper. Later researchers called it "screen stall" and "xinpai stall".
(End of chapter)
