Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 369 The Chinese are here

Only after the North Navy boarded the ship and left, the residents of Nerchinsk City dared to leave their homes and churches, and those who hurried home from the churches were surprised to find that nothing was lost at home.

The cattle on the cultivated land stayed in the barn obediently, the chickens, ducks and geese were noisy in their nests, and there was no sign that the door of their own house was forcibly broken open.After entering the house and taking a closer look, there are not a lot of food stored in the house and even precious porcelain and silver products.

These people fought with great fanfare for a long time without grabbing anything, what are they trying to do?

Polia walked out of the cabin of the catamaran carefully, and the sailors on the deck gave this beautiful little girl a kind smile.She glanced at the other party timidly, and walked slowly to the bow.Seeing the river bank and woods receding on both sides, Polia suddenly felt a little dizzy, and it took her a while to get used to it.

She leaned on the railing, turned her head and looked at the top of the cabin, she couldn't even see a mast, only a small white strip that was spinning for no reason.Then she leaned over the railing and looked out of the boat curiously, but she didn't find the dense oars she imagined.

How strange, how can this boat run so fast?From the Yenisei province all the way to Nerchinsk, Polya had never seen such a strange ship.

Fan Tong was lying on the cockpit table, condescendingly looking down at the beautiful girl who looked like a Greek statue at the bow, his fat face was so eager to stick it to the cabin glass.

The girl was wearing a three-color brocade dress with small sleeves and a thin waist, and a peacock-blue square shawl was draped over her shoulders, which just covered her snow-white neck and developed breasts.This girl seemed to have stepped out of an oil painting, with clear blue eyes like a pool of water, and soft and dense golden hair.Because I had washed and washed in the cabin before, the original two braids were also loosened, and under the blowing of the river wind and the sunlight, they exuded an almost silvery white luster.

"Xiao Fan? Xiao Fan!" Liu Sheng's loud voice came from the intercom, and he yelled several times before pulling Fan Tong's Hun'er, who had already floated to the bow, back to the cockpit.

"what's up?"

"Take it easy, your hala is almost flowing down the glass, I can see it for real from the patrol boat."

"Ouch~ Damn it!" Fan Tong put down the communicator, hurriedly walked outside the cockpit and looked forward, only to see Liu Sheng, who was sitting on the second patrol boat at the head, was waving at him.Fan Tong picked up the binoculars on the bridge and looked over, only to see Liu Sheng with a smirk on his face.

Fan Tong gestured his middle finger at the other party angrily, and shouted, "Da Liu, you are so mean!"

After he finished shouting, he looked towards the bow of the boat, and saw a touch of beautiful peacock blue shaking for a while and then disappeared. The little girl was scared away
At the beginning of August in the 53rd year of Qianlong's lunar calendar, Beihai Town attacked Rongcheng and Wendeng counties in Shandong and took away tens of thousands of people in Jiaodong with several large ships.

The Qing court had nothing to do with the big ships in Beihai Town. The sailing warship Sun Shiyi ordered from the UK was still on the way, and it couldn't quench his thirst far away.Therefore, on the one hand, they could only send heavy troops to strengthen the defense of Dagukou, for fear that the large ships from Beihai Town would go to Zhili to interfere; The garrison Qian Zongsuo took to Beijing, and with these two, there were Chengshan Xun's water battalion garrison and two unlucky county magistrates.

As expected by Liang Zhenyu and Liang Xiucai, the biggest beneficiary of this incident is Li Jiaoyu from Rongcheng County.This person not only won the praise of Qianlong in the upper edict of "not chaotic in the face of danger, but refusing to defend well", and also took over as the county magistrate of Rongcheng.As for Liang Xiucai, he also got the default quota for this year's "Science Examination" in Shandong as he wished.

The 77-year-old Qianlong was frightened by Beihai Town's actions in Shandong this time. He finally found out that the Haiphong under his control turned out to be a piece of window paper, which could be broken if he poked it, but even if he wanted to change it at this time, he was powerless.

After calculations by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs, Qianlong found that it would cost 300 million taels of silver just to increase the coastal forts and naval warships in Shandong.So how much will it cost for a total of eight provinces in Liaodong from north to south plus General Shengjing?

Speaking of which, it still didn't hurt that Beihai Town made the Qing Dynasty from the sea.At this time, although there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition, and the governors of various provinces kept passing reports to the military aircraft, all talking about how to defend Beihai Town from landing on the coast, and there was no concept of "sea power" at all.

In the history of another time and space, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which experienced the first Opium War, was riddled with holes along the coast by the British, but all the bureaucrats thought that guarding the sea is better than guarding the sea, and guarding the river is worse than guarding the sea. .Even Li Hongzhang in the late Qing Dynasty thought of using defense as an offense. The so-called peacetime is to show power at sea, and when there is a war, "take it into the sea, and use defense as a war."

By now, the upper echelons of the Qing court have seen that the weakness of Beihai Town is its population.Regardless of whether it is in northern Jiangsu or Shandong, Beihai Town has taken away at least more than [-] people from the Central Plains in recent years.As a result, someone in the Qing court once again put forward the policy of "moving the border and banning the sea", headed by Wang Jie, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and Minister of the Ministry of War.

But Qianlong approved three words after reading Wang Jie's notebook, knowing it.

Without him, at this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is no longer just entering the customs, and if you want to ban the sea and move the border, how many people will lose their jobs?If Wang Jie's suggestion is followed, millions of acres of land will be abandoned in Shandong alone.Let alone whether Beihai Town can be prevented, the people in Shandong will have to make trouble.

In mid-August, Qianlong received another report from the Heilongjiang General's Mansion that the Northern Navy defeated tens of thousands of Rakshasa in Heilongjiang City, and then sent troops northward to attack Yaksa.

"Let's fight, go fight Rakshasa to the death, I'm out of sight and out of mind."

In September 1788, Liu Sheng and the others finally arrived in Chita four days after burning Nerchinsk.At this time, snowflakes have begun to fall from the sky, and the early winter of East Siberia has arrived.

Compared with an industrial city with a population of more than 30 in another time and space, Chita in this time and space is just a small village with a population of just over 100.

This place is said to be a prison, but there is not even a fence.Each prisoner family was assigned a log cabin, which served as both a residence and a prison.Anyway, hundreds of miles around are deserted, and there is nowhere to go if you want to run here.In fact, the development of these towns in Eastern Siberia in Tsarist Russia was mainly due to the large number of "Decembrists" who were exiled here in the 19th century.

When the Beihai fleet docked, there was no one in the village to warn.After the Beihai Navy that came ashore first surrounded the only tavern in the village, and captured a few Cossacks and brewery owners who were drinking, through Igor's half-baked Chinese and hand gestures, the company commander of the Beihai Navy led the team. Knowing that there are only a few pieces of material left by the local young and strong, there are also some women and children.

Before Suvorov's conscription order was issued, there were a total of six Cossack families in Chita, [-] civilian intellectuals who were exiled here, and four peasant families.With the issuance of the conscription order, the Russians sent all the prisoners from all prison villages and towns in Eastern Siberia to Yaksa as cannon fodder.

After the entire village was controlled by the North Navy, Igor, who had defected to Beihai Town, and accompanied by two North Navy soldiers, began to knock on doors from door to door, asking everyone to gather in the courtyard of the brewery.Fortunately, there were not many people in the village. An hour later, the only women and children left in the village, as well as a few exiles who were unable to be drafted due to frailty and illness, gathered there.

Igor stepped onto the stage built with beer barrels, cleared his throat, and said to everyone present: "My name is Igor Ivanovich. I want to tell you a piece of good news. From Chita to Nerchinsk (Nerchinsk), it is no longer Russian territory, it has been occupied by the Chinese.”

To hell with you, what kind of good news is this? !

The Chita villagers present looked at this "Russian traitor" working for the invaders expressionlessly, without saying a word.

Igor looked at Fan Tong behind him with some embarrassment, and saw that the other party gave him an encouraging smile, so he turned around and continued: "The army led by General Suvorov suffered a disastrous defeat in the city of Yaksa , the army there has all surrendered to the Chinese.”

As soon as this remark came out, all the audience present looked up at Igor in astonishment.

"Yes, what I said is true. In fact, I was captured by the Chinese in Heilongjiang City."

"Mr. Igor, what I want to know is, what will the Chinese do with us? Are they going to kill us all? After all, we have invaded their territory."

"Are they going to ask us for food? God, we don't have much food."

"No, as long as you don't do things that harm the Chinese people and don't report to the outside world, you won't be hurt. At the same time, the Chinese can sell you food."

"We don't have much money." A Cossack who was trapped in the tavern said coldly.

"Oh, dear friends, you can exchange sheep. I saw you raised a lot of goats in the village before. The price of the Chinese is very fair. 10 poods (163.8 kg) of wheat flour can be bought with two sheep. Change."

What?Instead of robbing food, you can also exchange sheep for food, and the villagers present were stunned.

After this speech, when a woman with a try mentality actually exchanged two sheep for 10 poods of white wheat flour, the hostility of Chita villagers towards the occupiers disappeared.

They've all been exiled to this wretched place, what else can they expect?Being able to eat snow-white bread is already beyond their dreams.

Liu Sheng and the others waited in Chita Village for two days, and Zhao Xincai and Wu Xiha arrived late. They took two wooden boats built by the Xingkai Lake Shipyard.

Under the guidance of a power plant man named Xu Qingchun, the shipyard in Beihai Town on the south bank of Xingkai Lake is doing well this year. Half of the Portuguese craftsmen and boatmen from Macau that Zhao Xin brought back from Macau the year before last have been sent away. After arriving there, wait for the lake to freeze in winter before returning to Fuerdan City for the winter.

The main type of ship currently built by the shipyard is this flat-bottomed inland river wooden boat equipped with a four-stroke diesel engine and an external propeller, with a load of [-] tons.As Beihai Town built warehouses and military depots in Khabarovsk in the middle reaches of Heilongjiang, a large amount of materials and manpower were transported to Khabarovsk by flat-bottomed boats.

Zhao Xin's original plan was to build Chita into a stronghold of Beihai Town in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, but after seeing the environment here, he immediately gave up this plan.Firstly, there are too few residents in Chita, and secondly, the desertification of the local soil is very serious.

Despite the small population in Chita Village, there are quite a lot of goats raised. There are more than 2000 goats raised by various families, and the main sources of local tax revenue are sheepskins and wolfskins.Although goats are easier to raise than sheep, there is a disadvantage of raising goats. When they eat plants, they will dig the soil with their hooves and dig out the grass roots below, which will seriously damage the local vegetation.

The local residents all raise sheep extensively. Not to mention the bushes around the village, even the turf has been gnawed clean.Historically, in the middle of the 19th century, Chita became a sand city, and sand was everywhere.

When Zhao Xin arrived in Chita, he plunged into the tent and didn't show up for two days.When he appeared in front of everyone again, including Liu Sheng and Fan Tong, everyone was stunned by what he brought.

Ten giant robot monsters nearly four meters high, three meters wide, and 14 meters long were parked in a row in the wilderness one kilometer east of Chita Village. The prepared super land transport vehicle, DT-10PA-1 articulated crawler transport vehicle.

It is said that this kind of vehicle ignores any harsh environment, and walks on the ground in wasteland, swamps and even ice and snow terrain, and can even freely pass through rivers three meters deep.The whole vehicle body adopts a fully sealed and fully welded structure, and the front and rear bodies are connected by a hydraulic hinged mechanism.

At the rear of the cab, there is a huge engine compartment. The engine is powered by a V-1-46 twelve-cylinder multi-fuel diesel engine, which is improved from the engine on the T-5 tank and has strong power. Not to mention, and in order to cope with the low-temperature environment in Siberia, this engine is equipped with a low-temperature start-up preheating system, which can be started at a low temperature of -64°C.

The maximum number of passengers per vehicle is 42, the maximum speed on land is 37 kilometers per hour, and it can run 50 kilometers at a time with a full tank.Considering the height and shape of the North Navy soldiers in this time and space, more than [-] people can be seated in the compartment if squeezed.

Fan Tong climbed into the cockpit, and couldn't help saying: "My dear, this product is really exciting! Mr. Zhao, how much does it cost?"

"Stupid number, 250 million." Zhao Xin said with a smile: "That is to say, it can be used on the wasteland, but if it is driven on the road, the road surface will be completely destroyed."

Without further ado, the more than [-] agricultural crew drivers who followed Wu Xiha to the north began to learn how to drive this kind of vehicle from Zhao Xin. The purpose of their coming was to deal with this.

DT-10PA-1 is not difficult to start and drive, the steering wheel is operated, and the gear lever is very small.The difficulty of driving this car is how to operate the hydraulic articulation, so that the front of the car can be raised or lowered.

A group of agricultural team members who were accustomed to driving giant tractors studied hard for two days. After they were basically able to operate the vehicles normally and climb hills, Zhao Xin let a battalion from the Sixth Regiment board the vehicle and started to head towards Ulan-Ude.

Ulan-Ude in the 18th century was called "Upper Henyudinsk", and the name Ulan-Ude only came after the 20th century.Since the 17th century, it has been the center of rhubarb and tea trade between Tsarist Russia and China; it is also the largest military and administrative center in Transbaikal.

Compared with Chita, the occupation of Upper Henyudinsk is more valuable, because from here you can take a boat along the Selenga River southwards all the way to Kyakhta.

(End of this chapter)