Xinshun 1730

Chapter 28 New arrival
What came into view was a very characteristic pockmarked face after having smallpox.

It was only a few days after the hot air balloon took off, and Liu Yu recognized it at a glance. This is the naturalized Sauron man named Shutu.

Jiaolaobutu on the opposite side also recognized Liu Yu at a glance, and they all yelled at the same time.

Thinking about what happened that day and it had nothing to do with him, Liu Yu smiled and said, "So I'm an acquaintance? That's good. Master Shu, do you still remember me?"

Jiaolao Butu looked at Liu Yu, who was wearing an honor guard's brocade suit and an embroidered spring knife hanging from his waist, and said with a smile, "I certainly recognize it. I was wondering which family of honor guards would come here. But it's the son of the Yi Kingdom."

There was a smile on his mouth, but he was quite unhappy in his heart.

Jiaolao Butu looked at the young Liu Yu, and thought to himself that when I was your age, I had already killed seven or eight people in the northwest.

Fighting for half his life, his scalp was chopped off, and only then did he become an honored officer of the captain of the light car.

Those of you who have a good father, have never even killed anyone, but you climbed directly on the head of my father?

Look at your delicate skin and tender flesh, don't pee your pants when you see a dead person!

I muttered a few times in my heart, resentful.

But this thought can only be buried in the bottom of my heart, thinking that although I have the meritorious service of the fourth rank of Captain Qingche, the opposite is a honorary guard awarded by His Majesty, so I met Li immediately.

Liu Yu knew that people with meritorious deeds were those who crawled out of the dead, so he didn't dare to make too much of it.According to the court etiquette system, my own Xunwei is actually equivalent to the treatment of a fifth-rank official, so I hurriedly returned the gift.

He looked up at the barracks, there were about two hundred people in the barracks, and they all seemed to be brave.They should all be selected from the boy army, but the military discipline doesn't look very good.

A group of people gathered together, smoking pipes around a fire on the ground.

Two people were wrestling there, surrounded by a group of spectators.

The clothes were all dirty, and a group of people squatted in the sun to catch lice, biting them in their mouths and making loud noises, comparing each other to see whose movement was the loudest.

The chaos made Liu Yu, who was used to watching the military appearance of his previous life on TV, quite uncomfortable, thinking that this is the elite who was transferred?
What is the average level of the Beijing camp like?
Thinking that he was new here, he needed to get familiar with him before speaking, so he invited Jiaolaobutu into the camp together.

"Master Shu, do you know what to do this time?"

"Yes, I just found out not long ago. Since there are military orders, Master Liu arranges all major matters, so I will listen to Master Liu."

Liu Yuxin said that you are going to beat me to death?
I am a newcomer, although I have been in contact with it before, but how do I know how to camp and how to march on the first day?
Thinking of the conversation between Jiaolao Butu and Tian Ping that day, he roughly guessed what kind of person this was.

You Shi cupped his hands and said: "It's really awkward for you and me to call each other adults. I think we will talk about the order of the teeth when there is no one else. Brother Shu, don't laugh at me. I am still young and have never been to the battlefield. This Brother Shu needs to take care of the march."

"Brother Shu is the captain of the light car who was hacked out by the hacker, and he is more than a little stronger than me, the honored guard who relies on the family's Yu Yin."

Show weakness first, and avoid any trouble in the future.

Liu Yu felt that it was necessary to look at the situation again, and then consider establishing prestige. If the situation had not been clarified, it would be a joke. I am afraid that the prestige will not be established, and it will be ridiculed.

Deliberately showing weakness, Jiaolaobutu felt comfortable in his heart.

After all, the other person is also a duke, and it is rare to be able to speak for this sake. After all, he is better than the Duke of Qi back then, and that kid can't speak personal words.

Liu Yu deliberately asked Jiaolao Butu where he got his meritorious deeds, and he was scratching his itch.

Jiaolaobutu told how he got the captain of the light car one by one in a seemingly casual tone, but he really wanted everyone to know.

After talking for most of the time, I finally got down to business.

"Brother Liu, our errand is not difficult, but it is not easy to say. It is necessary to pretend to be a vendor selling rhubarb and tea cakes, and go to the city of the Raksha people to check. As the captain of Zhechong, I am familiar with it. When I get there, I have to contact some deer-hunting tribes, and send some people to follow the tribes to explore the depths of the wild forest."

"This slave works the land like no other place. Brother Liu has never been there, but I grew up there. It's really a bitter cold place. It's also quite risky. It's a good idea to tell Brother Liu in advance, so as not to be overwhelmed."

Liu Yu secretly smiled, thinking that my grandparents in my previous life were also the first generation of forestry workers. I may not be as familiar with the Northeast as you are, and I am afraid that the place where I grew up is farther north than you.

On the lips, he said politely: "Yes. Brother Shu will have to worry about this journey."

After the touting was over, several key figures in the team were called over to get acquainted with each other.

This time, since they wanted to pretend to be a caravan and go to the fortress of the Raksha Kingdom, they naturally wanted to find some knowledgeable people.A knowledgeable old man in his fifties, with a skin like orange peel, looks like he has been exposed to wind and sun, and he is the meticulous work of Boyer Army.

Follow some caravans to Mongolia often, and sometimes go deep into the Russian border.Knowing Mongolian, Jurchen, Russian, and Korean, it seems inconspicuous, but in fact, he also has the meritorious service of a Xiaoqi captain, but this life is coming to an end.

It is necessary to pretend to be a caravan, and the above also bought some goods, so they have their own knowledgeable arrangements.

Since Peter's reform, Russia has vigorously expanded its military, monopolized the rhubarb trade, and turned it into an official camp.

The medicinal effects of rhubarb were also hyped, and European aristocrats often ate meat, and it was not uncommon for them to be dry and unable to poop.

The Russians hype the miraculous medicinal effects of rhubarb in Western Europe, and Western Europeans have also come up with various strange eating methods: rhubarb soup, rhubarb wine, rhubarb cheese, rhubarb pudding...

A pood of rhubarb, that is, about thirty catties of rhubarb, is smuggled at forty rubles in the border areas.

Peter I minted silver coins, one silver coin is about 25 grams, about half a tael of silver, and forty rubles are 20 taels of silver.

Shipped to Western Europe, it will rise to 180 to [-] rubles.

Sonia, the heroine in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" by the later generations, sold it for thirty rubles, which would be equivalent to two catties of rhubarb in Western Europe.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, the level of shipbuilding and navigation in China has been greatly separated by Europe.

Now the British are about to make a nautical clock, and even the first naval fleet voyage around the world is about to begin.

Such a high profit cannot be obtained without the support of navigation, geometry, and astronomy.

Everyone knows that it is best to earn the difference without middlemen.

The same is true for taxation and trade, and the money is earned by second-hand dealers.

Even so, the selling price of nearly 20 taels of silver per pood in the border area is also a huge profit for traders.

Matteo Ricci once recorded that the price of a catty of rhubarb in China is one-tenth of a silver coin.

For military expenses, Peter took Rhubarb into the official camp and suppressed the purchase price.

However, with such pressure, local businessmen still have a [-]% profit, which can be said to be flocking to.

Formal channels will eventually have to pay taxes, or have a very hard relationship.

Smuggling saves a lot of taxes, and sneaky smuggling has always been unstoppable.

Generally speaking, there are basically two routes.

One is a businessman from Shanxi, traveling to Mongolia, delivering goods to the Russian fort near Lake Baikal, and selling tea cakes among Mongolian tribes.

The other route is for Liaodong merchants and military officers to go along the North Korean border to Mudanjiang.Taking advantage of the ice-covered river in winter, they walked from Mudanjiang to Songhua River, and then smuggled rhubarb to the Russian castle on the bank of Heilongjiang.

Liu Yu is going to the Songhua River this time, and the disguised businessman is from Liaodong Road.

The old style has never walked this line, just heard of it.

Fortunately, Jiaolaobutu was born and raised on the banks of the Songhua River, and he knew about these tricks—when his father was the captain of Zhechong in Handuo Liwei, the big people involved in smuggling would greet him, and the small people would pay tribute.

There are many tasks this time, and they are also very complicated. Pretending to be a businessman, or pretending to be a deer hunting tribe after arriving, has different purposes, and it will be cheap when the time comes.

In addition to investigating the Russian fortress, it is necessary to expand the Yongning Temple inscription, check the roads along the way, and draw a map of the hydrology, mountains and rivers. These require some professionals.

More than 20 small officials who belonged to the Ministry of Military Affairs also followed in the team. Most of them were Catholics who had learned from missionaries.

Now that there will be great chaos in the court, letting them follow is also considered to protect them.

All kinds of people add up, and there are about 340 people.

Except for more than 40 who have never been to the battlefield, the rest are elite soldiers from the Beijing Camp or the Children's Army. In order to facilitate the disguise as a deer hunting tribe, less than half of them are naturalized Saurons.

This group of people is not easy to lead, many of them have meritorious service, have killed people and seen blood.

Liu Yu also knew that with his hairless and tender appearance, it was impossible for this group of people to convince him, so he had to find a way.

It's only mid-August now, and they won't set off until mid-September or October.I have to prepare here before and run in.

After thinking about it, Liu Yu knew where his advantages were, and he knew in his heart that he would not be in a hurry to convince everyone, and had his own plans.

After checking the various equipment distributed, it was really shabby.The only thing to keep out the cold is a padded jacket and a pair of cotton trousers. Because of camouflage, you can't wear armor.

There are quite a few horses, and there is no shortage of carts, which contain rhubarb, tea cakes, and some miscellaneous goods. Civil servants are responsible for keeping accounts.

After thinking about his own strengths and thinking about it in his heart, Liu Yu calmed down and did it according to his own way.

In the afternoon, I carefully wrote a long list and handed it to Mantou to go back and prepare.

Part of it is the standard equipment of the imperial court, which can be equipped by Qi Guogong, which is simple.

The other part is not the standard equipment of the imperial court, so I let the steamed buns go back and pawn the gadgets in my yard.

For example, the hundred-year-old golden lock when I was a child, the silverware for boiling cocoa, and the golden scorpion for private money, and so on, and put together a sum of money.Then borrow some money from your friends.

I specifically instructed the steamed buns to be packed in a box when you bring them back, so that no one can see what's inside.

After giving the order, Mantou left the barracks, and Liu Yu made some gestures, and mingled with those soldiers while eating, chatting, beating and bragging, and eating with them.

All the officers saw it fresh, and someone laughed and said: "This young man is a bit interesting."

Jiaolao Butu snorted, spat out a mouthful of phlegm, quite disdainful.

"I'd like to see how long he can pretend. This is "Biography of General Li" and "Biography of Sun Wu", and his brain is broken? Tomorrow, you say you have hemorrhoids on your buttocks. Let's see if he wants to learn from Wu Qi. Suck it and suck out the pus."

(End of this chapter)