Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 238 God is coming

Two days later, amidst the sound of dogs barking, the Kuyufiyaka hunter who had spied on Zhao Xin and others ran into a village north of the upper reaches of the Tatama River out of breath.

It is said to be a village, but in fact there are only seven or eight families in total.

The houses of these families are all made of pine or fir, and the depth of most of the houses is no more than five or six rooms (the distance between two pillars is one room).There are doors and windows on all sides of the house for lighting, and the roof is covered with birch bark, covered with thick weeds.Some logs were criss-crossed on top of the weeds to prevent the roof from being blown over by the wind.

The hunter ran all the way and came to a family in the middle of the village.This house is different from other houses at first glance. The house is much larger than other houses. In addition to the main house, there is a small wooden house next to it as a warehouse.

Entering the house, I saw a family of four sitting on a kang made of stones with bowls to eat.In the center of the house is a large shed on which food and various living utensils are stacked.At the edge of the trellis, a rope dangled from the roof, one end of which tied a plank to a one-year-old baby.Although the child's hands and feet were tied and unable to move, he didn't cry and fluttered along with the board.Beneath the child, a tub for urinating was placed on the floor.

"Meiergua, something happened, something happened! Island, a group of strange, strange people came to the island!"

The man named Meiergua paused when he heard the words, and put down the wooden bowl in his hand.This person is the chief of the village, and also Karada (surname chief) appointed by Qing court officials.

"Sembakuer, have a sip of hot soup first, take a breath before talking." The hostess stood up, filled more than half a bowl of "Xiaxi Trout Soup" in her man's wooden bowl, and handed it to the hunter.

The so-called "Xiaxi" is something similar to seaweed dishes from the local seaside.The Phayacas use this seaweed with finely chopped wild onions and wild garlic, and cook it with trout.Because of the rough preparation, this soup tastes sticky, but it has a salty taste.

Senbakur took the wooden bowl and drank it in big gulps.Then he wiped his mouth with his sleeve, handed the wooden bowl to Meier's ancient wife, and said: "Two days ago I chased a red deer and ran all the way to the Oha River, but I saw it from the river mouth. Here come four huge monster ships."

(Note: The Oha River or the Pilentu River are the two names of the Kuyeka people and the Manchu language, and the Oha comes from the Ainu language. Hereinafter, they are all called the Oha River.)
Meiergua frowned and said, "Strange ship? How big is it?"

"That boat must be there, it must be there." Sembakur stretched out his arms and gestured, but found that it was still not enough to describe.So he simply said: "The two largest boats are five times the size of your room, like two hills! The other two smaller boats must be two times the size of this room! And the hulls are so tall that they are taller than yours." Your roof is much higher."

"What!" Meiergua was stunned for a moment.According to his experience, he saw the official ship of the government when he went to Delengen wooden city in the past, and he felt that it was a very large ship.

I only heard Sembakur continue: "There are no sails on those boats, and there are bursts of roars when they start, like thunder in the sky! The boats are covered with a big transparent house, which is filled with people."

"Is it someone sent by the government? Have you seen it clearly?"

"I've seen the people in the government, and their clothes are completely different from those people! The most terrifying thing is that there is a person inside, he, he, him"

"What happened to him? Tell me!"

"Those people walked west after getting off the boat, but a few guys stayed behind, and there was a woman inside. One of them walked up to the four boats, and with a wave of his hand, those boats were gone!! "

As soon as these words came out, Meiergua's family was dumbfounded.

immortal?devil?
In the [-]th century, the Feiyaka people's primitive beliefs were still at the stage of worshiping things in nature. In addition to animal worship and ancestor god worship, they were also influenced by Shamanism from the mainland.

They believed in mountain gods, sea gods and fire gods, and worshiped bear gods, whale gods and sturgeon gods (huso fish).The Feiyaka people believe that the Bear God was transformed from a dog under the Mountain God, while the Whale God and the Hulu God were dispatched by the Sea God.

Because of the influence of shamanism, the Fiyaka people believe that people's illness is caused by the devil, and they can cure the disease through shamanism.However, because shamanism was gradually introduced in the later period, in the traditional concept of the Feiyaka people, they believe that the one who has the most power to protect their clan is the dog leg of the mountain god-the bear god.

Meiergua was stunned for a while, then suddenly asked: "What do those people look like? Do they have red hair?"

Sembakur shook his head and said: "No. I looked carefully, and none of them had red hair. They all had black hair and fair skin. They looked even whiter than those Manchurians on the opposite bank." He recalled , continued: "However, the man who lost the boat and one of his companions looked very tall and mighty, especially the other man, who was as strong as a bear."

"Bear?! You said that bear-like person is under that mage?" Meiergua's eyes lit up.

"That's right! That man is extremely tall and burly, and he looks like a big brown bear from a distance!"

Meiergua slapped his thigh, and said to Senbakur: "Call together people immediately, bring weapons and dry food, let's go and have a look."

At the same time, the Thunderbolt driven by Deng Fei has arrived at the mouth of the Oha River.Because the 250-meter hull of Jinglei was too large, Deng Fei and the others didn't dare to drive in, so they found an area with gentle currents and anchored, and first used the walkie-talkie to make contact.

At this time, Zhao Xin hadn't come back yet, and Liu Sheng, who received the signal from the walkie-talkie, immediately explained the situation.Hearing that the oil field had been found, Deng Fei was also very happy, and immediately began to prepare for the landing of the people; he planned to start sending the refugees ashore after Zhao Xin came back.

This time, Jinglei brought a company of soldiers from Beihai Town, and another [-] refugees from Henan.These people dragged their families with them, and after two days of turbulence on the sea, they heard that they had arrived at their destination, and they all stepped onto the deck with great curiosity, looking at the big island.

"Father, it's so cold in here!"

"Yeah, thankfully I got a green blanket before I came here, take it out and put it on."

"His father, do you think sorghum can be grown in this area?"

"What kind of sorghum are you planting! The master asked us to come here to dig oil."

"Dig for oil and let people grow the land to eat food!"

On the other side of the deck, Hu Liushi and his daughter Niuniu were wrapped in a big blanket, and they were also looking at the land in the distance.

"Girl, is it cold?"

"Returning, it's a desert where the wind is too strong." Niuniu raised her hand to cover her face, turned to her mother and asked, "Mother, I want to play with Cong Niang."

"I just know how to play. If my mother didn't sign up to cook here, I should go to school now."

"Mother, do you think there will be a school here?"

"The masters said that when the houses are built, the school will be built first. Remember, when you go to the school, you must respect your husband and not be naughty."

"I remember."

Hu Liushi is the widow who once sailed to Beihai Town with Wang Lishi.In order to earn a high salary of 20 yuan per month, this woman signed up to go north as soon as the news came out, and took her daughter Niuniu to Bitter Leaf Island.Her job is to cook for the workers on the construction site.

In order to ensure sufficient manpower on the Kuye Island Oilfield, the Ministry of Civil Affairs recruited refugees to go north this time, and specially offered a minimum monthly salary of 20 yuan, which is called "low temperature subsidy". 20 Beihai town silver dollars, that is equal to four taels of silver.Even if these refugees were in the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty, they might not be able to see a tael of silver in their lifetime (the common people used it to make money in their daily life and tax payment.)
This news quickly caused a sensation among the refugees!However, although the salary of 20 yuan is high, it also has a price.The land allocation in Beihai Town will not be available; but in two years, it will be allocated [-] acres of cultivated land on the south bank of Xingkai Lake.Even so, the families who signed up were very enthusiastic. In the end, several residential areas were built to draw lots to determine the candidates.

In the afternoon, Zhao Xin came back.This time he brought back all the equipment for oil extraction, and at the same time added a batch of supplies, especially the hoses and oil pumps for transporting oil.

Knowing that Deng Fei and the others had arrived, Zhao Xin was also very happy, and he asked Deng Fei to start arranging people to go ashore tomorrow morning.When it was dark, accompanied by Liu Sheng, he went to the beach and "transformed" two catamaran passenger boats.

On Zhang Bo's side, the earthen kilns for oil refining have been set up, and the steel pipes for transporting oil are almost installed everywhere.Starting tomorrow, hundreds of migrant workers under him will go to cut wood to make planks and firewood.Wooden boards will be made into a one-meter-long, half-meter-wide and deep wooden box through mortise and tenon joints, and a layer of putty will be applied on the inside and outside to transport crude oil; and the demand for firewood will be very large, because the fire cannot be stopped during oil refining .

There is coal on Bitter Leaf Island, and they are open-pit coal mines with astonishing reserves.However, these lignite mines are located in the west of the island, and Zhao Xin has not been able to get involved yet.

A day later, the refugees on the Thunderbolt began to disembark one after another.As soon as they arrived at the camp, put down their luggage, and began to join the logging team.

We can't do without cutting down trees, or we won't even have enough places to live at night.

Large tracts of larch were brought down with the call for attention, and the refugees who had already prepared rushed over with saws and axes, cut off the branches, and then slightly cleaned the rough bark on the surface. The man was dragged with a rope to the outside of the logging camp.The long-awaited carpenters first cut the log to a suitable size, and then used tools to punch holes in the two sections of the log.

The processed wood was immediately transported to the preset residential area, where someone has already dug the foundation and started laying bricks and stones.After a rough layer of mortar had been applied to the masonry, the others immediately began to pile up logs all around; every pair of logs was tightly connected with wooden wedges.

After the surrounding walls were built, the masons used quick-drying cement to plug the gaps between the logs, and others were responsible for adding the roof.Because the temperature is low and the wind and snow are heavy in winter here, the woodcut roofs are built high and wide.

When it was dark, some women had cooked meals on the stove and sent them to the construction site.Under the illumination of bonfires and emergency lights all around, the men continued to fight.It was almost nine o'clock in the evening, and the construction of hundreds of wood-carved halls still exuding the moisture of wood and the strong smell of turpentine had been basically completed.

Everyone can only squeeze together for a night, and then fight for a week, and the residential area will take shape.

Two days later, as people rushed to work day after day, the number of people sleeping in each woodcut room gradually decreased from 40 to 15 to 800 people.When all the families live in their own houses, the scale of this residential area will reach more than [-] wooden houses.

Three days later, Meiergua brought six of his men, armed with short knives and bows, to the south of the residential area of ​​Beihai Town.They did not go directly, but watched carefully in the bushes and woods in the distance.

Looking at the bustling scene and people coming and going not far away, Meiergua glared at Sambakur and said, "Didn't you say there are only a few hundred people?!"

Sembakur replied with a look of astonishment: "I saw hundreds of people that day! Who knows where these people came from!"

Meiergua's original plan was to take advantage of the other party's rest at night and sneak up to attack him. Who would have thought that the number of the other party's number is too many to count now, so how can he do this? !
"Look, chief, there are women and children." A man with good eyes suddenly pointed to the opposite camp.

Meiergua looked in the direction pointed by his subordinates, and saw a few women leading a group of children outside the wooden house in the distance, as if they were doing some work.

This is trouble!In the customs of Fei Yaka, no matter what mistakes women have, they cannot be easily hurt.The living environment here is already bad enough, if you don't treat women who raise children and take care of your family as human beings, you will not be able to survive this day!

"Look again and find out if they have dogs."

Like the Hezhe people, the Kuyeka people keep dogs in every family, and the degree of meticulous care is even higher than that of the Hezhe people.In a family, both men and women have their own dogs.There are also dogs for the father, dogs for the mother, dogs for the eldest son, and dogs for the second son. Each person will raise three or five dogs.

Everyone looked around and observed for a long time.Sembakur even led a person to crawl forward to a position a hundred steps away from the opponent's camp, lying on the ground and listening carefully with his ears for a long time.In the end, it was found that there was no dog barking at all, except for the sound of people talking, the clanging of houses being built, and the rumbling of thunder.After he climbed back and told the others, everyone was relieved.If the other party doesn't have a dog, they won't find themselves hiding here.

The sky was getting dark, and the seven Feiyaka people were horrified to find that the opposite camp suddenly became like daylight.In addition to the blazing bonfire, there are dazzling lights emerging from several strange-shaped shelves!Under the radiance of these lights, those people continued to do their daytime work and built wooden houses tirelessly.

"This, these people, can't they be the messengers of God?" Sembakul swallowed and asked stammeringly.

"What god? The god of the mountain, the god of the sea, or the god of fire?"

Several people were talking about it, and some people said it was a mountain god, because before Sembakur said that he saw two burly bear-like people.If you can summon a bear god, it must be a mountain god.There are two other people who say they are wrong. These people can make the night as bright as the day, and they must be sent by Vulcan.The last two said that you are all scumbags!Sembakur said that he came by boat, so it must be the sea god.

The six people were at a stalemate, so they turned their eyes to Meiergua who had been silent for a long time, waiting for him to make a judgment.

Mei Ergu said in his heart that I don't know which god I am!You six scumbags!
He thought for a long time, and felt that since the other party was able to bring so many women and children to the island, he shouldn't be as vicious as those red-haired men.It is said that those red-haired men are very cruel, they will kill anyone they see when they land, and the weapons in their hands are so powerful that the local Feiyaka people can't beat them at all; Meirgua himself is an example.At the beginning, they were beaten by the red-haired men and lost their helmets and armor. More than half of the 20 people died, and finally they had to take the rest of the villagers and fled to the south to settle down.

After hesitating for a long time, Melgua finally made a decision. He planned to go directly to ask those people tomorrow where they came from and what they did here.When he told his subordinates about this decision, the six subordinates discussed it for a long time, but there was no good solution.But Sembakur's words hit the point, what if he could exchange something with the other party?
As soon as this remark came out, the eyes of the others suddenly lit up.

The reason why these Feiyaka people can think so is also because the local living environment is too poor.Regardless of gender, the locals will always bring animal skins and other items with them whenever they go out, whether it is for errands or fights, and they will find someone to negotiate business and exchange things as soon as they seize the opportunity.Otherwise, the officials of the Qing court would come and incorporate them, and they would not have agreed so quickly.

Can I change something?
can change?Going to pay a piece of mink fur can also give food?

Well, long live my emperor!
Heck, can I change into a python robe?
God, long live my emperor!

that's all
　I'm easy!This kind of day can actually have two shifts.Ask for a monthly ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)