Forty-eight years of Qianlong

No. 15 days after Du Erjia was brought back, a public trial meeting was held as scheduled in the large school grounds in the city.Many residents in Qiqihar City came, and the originally open Daxiaochang was completely surrounded.

They don't do anything else, the main reason is that Du Erjia is a clan!The direct descendant of Aixinjueluo, from the first-rank general guarding Heilongjiang, to the fourth-rank hereditary general Fengen.As for the deaths and injuries of the young men of various families on the battlefield a few days ago, they dared not complain about Du Erjia, isn't this the case in wars since ancient times!

The public trial stand was set up only the day before, and red flags were planted around it.A huge white banner read "Qiqihar Military Control Commission Openly Trials Duerjia's Crimes Conference" was drawn above the stage.In addition, the fences and walls around the large school grounds are covered with large and small slogans, such as "Warmly celebrate the recovery of Qiqihar by the Northern Navy", "Resolutely destroy the evil enemy of the Manchu Qing!", "Confiscate the land of the Manchu Qing, Give it back to the people!" and so on.This made those literate family members of the Han Army Banner and the exiles stunned, not even daring to breathe.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Li Rui, the current director of the Military Control Commission, Yang Zhongming, the head of the 21th Regiment, Wang Ding'an, the head of the [-]st Regiment, the deputy head of the regiment, and the mission committee all came to sit on the rostrum.The meeting was presided over by Yang Zhongming. As soon as he came up, he announced that Du Erjia and several captured co-leaders, the commander of the navy battalion, the firearms commander, the chief of the general's office, the chief of the bank, and several fourth-rank officials and six All the officials are put on stage.

A sign was hung on Duerjia's chest, reading "full of evil", and he stood at the front, while the others stood behind him.At this time, the common people closest to the public trial platform saw that it was really "Master General", and they couldn't help exclaiming. For a while, there were crowds of people, shoulder to shoulder, rushing forward.

The Beihai soldiers standing in front of the stage joined hands to form a human wall, and Yang Zhongming and another platoon leader who could speak Manchu yelled a few words through an electric horn, and then everyone in the audience fell silent.After Yang Zhongming said a few words, the platoon leader translated in Manchu.

"Fellow folks! Please be safe, everyone. Today we are here to openly try Du Erjia and others, so that you can truly be the masters of your own affairs in the future! Don't worry, all the oppressive systems of the Manchu Qing era will never return. , What the Beihai Navy brings is a brand new government, a government that wholeheartedly serves all poor people, and a government that lets you be the masters of your own country!"

Whoa~~~!The common people in the audience were stunned and didn't react for a long time.But then, Yang Zhongming's words caused an uproar.

"In the future, there will be no military service until old age! Those who are willing to farm and herd, we will distribute seeds and tools! From now on, all tributes and servants will be gone! You can take the hard-earned fish and the fish you gather. Ginseng and mink fur are sold in the market! We will also open schools and set up medical clinics, and children from all families can come to study for free!"

Well, if the people in Qiqihar City are confused by the previous words, and they don’t know what to do, the latter practical measures are the most attractive.

In fact, from the first day when the Beihai Navy entered the city to search and suppress the Qing army and those officials, the common people who thought they would be looted, in addition to finding a place to hide their valuables and food at home, they also wiped their daughters' faces A layer of ashes from the bottom of the pot was added, and it turned into an ugly appearance of neither human nor ghost.

However, after they spent a day in fear, a method of the Beihai Navy immediately made many people feel at ease.Li Rui asked people to hang up recording speakers at various intersections in the residential areas of the city, and repeatedly played the Beihai Navy's "Code of Entry into the City" full of quotations.

We must know that Manchu is the common language for all people who live in Qiqihar these days, no matter what ethnicity they are. This is determined by the reality.Although the early Han officials would open a library to teach here, it was only limited to people with good family conditions, and most of the other people were illiterate.

After "Rules for Entering the City" was played continuously for a day, several Shanxi shops in the city tried to open their doors for business.At noon, the logistics procurement staff of the Beihai Navy came to the door.After delivering the goods tremblingly, the shopkeeper, who was about to cut the meat with pain, discovered that Bei Haijun actually gave money, and it was full of money.

On the morning of the third day, another message was added to the loudspeaker—opening the warehouse to release grain.All residents can go to the official warehouse on the west side of the inner city to receive five buckets of grain.After hesitating for a whole morning, some families who had already run out of food finally couldn't hold back and went with their pockets, only to return happily carrying food.

In this way, there were changes every day. After seven or eight days, all the shops in Qiqihar City were open for business, and there was a flow of people on the street.Then, many girls washed off the ashes from the bottom of the pot on their faces.

After Yang Zhongming accused a bunch of Du Erjia and others' crimes in Brabla, the common people finally woke up, and dared to say that the superior general asked us to die in order to cover him from escaping!

From this, everyone thought of the graves outside the city, and the funeral scene of half of the people in the city a few days ago. The sound of cursing and crying became louder and louder, and some even shouted "Kill him!"

"Kill him! My son wouldn't have died if it wasn't for him!"

"Return my man!"

"This is how we orphans and widows will live in the future!"

At this moment, the guilty officials on the stage were so frightened that they were sweating profusely and collapsed to the ground.Especially Du Erjia, he knew that he would die. Although he tried his best to show his toughness and the noble and inviolable majesty of the Aixinjueluo clan, the Beihai soldiers on both sides clasped his arm joints tightly. Can't stand up.So this fellow raised his head unwillingly, staring at the nearest person in the audience.

"Everyone, please be quiet. Director Li of our military control committee will be invited to announce the results against Du Erjia and others!"

Hearing Yang Zhongming's yell, the campus quickly fell silent, and everyone waited quietly for the result.

Li Rui stood up at this moment, and bowed deeply to the audience, which shocked them again, as if seeing the sun rising from the west.

When did the official bow to himself?Many people immediately knelt down and even kowtowed in return.At this time, on the edge of the big school grounds, a few old men who looked like scholars in old cotton robes showed both surprise and disdain on their faces, saying that in order to win the hearts of the people, Beihai Town even went so far as to win the hearts of the people. I don't want the system anymore, I really don't know what it means.

At this moment, Li Rui's voice came from far away from the public trial platform, and every word could be heard very clearly.

"Aixinjueluo Duerjia, a manchu clan, was once a prisoner of our Northern Navy. However, this person did not want to repent, and committed an unforgivable crime to the soldiers and civilians of Qiqihar City! He did it for his own selfishness, in order to be able to escape Our world-wide net, he asked the people of the whole city to cover him and buried him with him! His hands were covered with blood, and he was an out-and-out executioner! According to the decision of the military control committee, Duerjia was hanged! The rest. 11 People, they are also Duerjia's accomplices, these people will be sent to Yaksa for ten years of hard labor!"

Boom~~~Thousands of people in the audience exploded immediately, and the families of other captured officials couldn't help but covered their mouths and cried bitterly.

Fortunately, I finally escaped death.

When Du Erjia was carried to the gallows erected on the west side of the public trial platform, his face was ashes and his whole body was like mud.During the days of being held in custody, he repeatedly told the officer who interrogated him that he was rich, and whether he could redeem his life with gold as before, even if he went to Bitter Leaf Island to do coolies.

After being strung up on the wooden bench, Du Erjia thought he could have a bowl of road wine to drink, but the execution soldier behind him put the noose around his head and tightened it, and then kicked the wooden bench under his feet violently. flipped!

A few months later, as the news of Du Erjia's death spread back to the customs, the Qing court was shocked from top to bottom, and the clan used the most vicious language to curse Zhao Xin and Bei Haijun to cover up their inner weakness.They finally realized that their so-called noble blood was nothing in front of others.

In early May 1793, when the "spring offensive" in Beihai Town was in full swing, Gu Lihuan, who was in charge of Capitan in Penang, suddenly sent a confidant to Bacheng by boat. He was not here to find He Xiwen, but It was to inform the Bacheng Military Control Committee of an important news: the Dutch are preparing to take back Bacheng by force!

According to this person, since the Spring Festival, more than 200 Dutch warships have arrived at the "George Town" in Penang to enter the port for supplies. According to the news from the British, all these soldiers were going to the Banten Sultanate.

After February 70, Gu Lihuan learned from several Chinese businessmen who came back from Banten Port that the Dutch army went directly to Langas Betong, more than [-] miles south of Banten Port, after disembarking, and heard that Wanten The army of the Sultanate of Sudan was also mobilized there.

After Gu Lihuan asked and learned that there was no turmoil in the Banten Sultanate, his first reaction was that the Dutch were heading for Bacheng, based on his political sense honed from dealing with the British and various sultanates for many years.

Last year, under Zhao Xin's behest, Gu Lihuan obtained the exclusive agency rights of cooling oil and wind oil essence in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula from the Bacheng Military Control Committee, and became the first-level general agent. Now if you want to buy cooling oil in India, you have to go to him just work.Gu Lihuan knew very well that if something happened to Bacheng, his lucrative general agent business would be ruined, so he hurriedly wrote a book and asked his confidant to take it to Bacheng.

Since Wang Yuanfang and Deng Fei haven't returned yet, the temporary head of the Bacheng Military Management Committee is Erlu, the battalion commander of the Special War Battalion.After reading the letter, he immediately sent a telegram to the Northern Navy Staff.As a result, as soon as the telegram was sent out in the evening, I received a reply in the evening.In the name of the Northern Navy Staff Headquarters, Zhao Xin ordered him to immediately find a Chinese in Bacheng who was familiar with the situation in Langas Betong as a guide, and go there for reconnaissance.

Langas Betong is only more than 150 miles away from Batavia. When Bacheng was occupied by the Dutch, there were frequent trade contacts between the two places, and many Chinese businessmen had been there.After the Northern Navy occupied Bacheng, the Dutch did not block the movement of people except for adding checkpoints at the junction of the borders.

However, when the scouts followed the guide and entered the Tangerang area in the west of Bacheng for fifty miles, they were stopped by the soldiers of the Banten Sultanate and were not allowed to go west.Afterwards, the guide took a few more trails and found the checkpoints set up by the local soldiers, so the two had no choice but to retreat to Bacheng.

By this time, Zhao Xin and the others who had received the telegram had judged that Gu Lihuan's information was likely to be true, so Zhao Xin immediately ordered the [-] servants who were doing tropical adaptation training at the Jinlan Bay base to board Zheng Yi's team in batches. The fleet went to Bacheng.

Among the five leaders of the Northern Navy, Liu Sheng and Fan Tong are in Khalkha, Wu Siyu is in Heilongjiang City to direct the "Spring Offensive", Deng Fei's wife has just given birth, and Wang Yuanfang's wife's due date is coming soon.

As for He Xiwen, the future Governor of Borneo, Zhao Xin was not at ease; after all, he had not returned to Beihai Town to receive real military officer education, and he was still an old-fashioned "pirate" general at heart.

So Zhao Xin decided to end the battle in person, and went to Bacheng to take command, intending to completely wipe out the VOC forces in West Java through this battle.In addition, according to historical estimates from another time and space, the British in the South Asian subcontinent will soon start their local governance, so some preparations need to be made in advance.

On May 5, after Zhao Xin held a meeting with Deng Fei, Wang Yuanfang, Chen Qingsong, and Yu Deli, everyone agreed to his plan and arrangement.

This time, Zhao Xin no longer played "Great Teleportation", but took part of the staff, the Marine Battalion and some of the Special Operations Battalion who had finished their vacation, and headed for Bacheng on the Jinglei.After he leaves, Deng Fei will go to Ninggu Tower to direct the battle against Jilin Ula, while Wang Yuanfang will stay in Beihai Town to look after the house.

On May 5, after waving goodbye to the people who came to see them off, the Thunderbolt left Whale Harbor and set off for Java, which is thousands of miles away.Along the way, telegrams from Bacheng came from time to time, and there were new situations every day.

According to the information obtained from the Chinese and British merchants who came to Bacheng for trade, the Dutch East India Company has prepared for nearly two years, and through coercion and inducement, it has gathered Banten, Cirebon, Solo, and Japanese Part of the army of the five vassal sultanates of Jalan and Manguni Karan, together with the mercenaries recruited by the Dutch themselves from Europe, Africa and India, totaled more than 2 people. Under the leadership of Overstratten, it is planned to launch an attack on Bacheng from the west, south and east after the end of the rainy season (October to May of the following year).

The Bacheng Military Control Committee heard about the situation of Overstraten last year.It is said that this person succeeded William Arnold Alting as Governor of the Netherlands East Indies in early 1792.Although he is only 38 years old this year, he was appointed as a special member of the Batavia Judicial Committee at the age of 25, and was promoted to a full member at the age of 26. He is very shrewd and capable.After staying in Bacheng for 2 years, he was transferred to India as the second secretary and first secretary there.

When Beihai Town attacked Bacheng, Overstraten was serving in the southeastern region of Java Island, so Bacheng's defeat had nothing to do with him.In addition, because this person successfully helped the Yogyakarta Sultanate to become independent from the Matalan Sultanate during his tenure, VOC decided to let him take over the post of Governor of Altyn.

Zhao Xin ordered Erlu to hand over the task of defending Bacheng to He Xiwen, who had returned from Borneo, and asked him to set up a camp to assist him. The combined forces of the Dutch and the natives carried out a sabotage campaign.

"Since you don't give up, let's be ruthless!"

Zhao Xin looked at the map for a long time and couldn't help mumbling to himself.His appearance made A Miao, who was pouring water behind him, confused, but on the bed in the cabin next door, a big orange cat yawned casually, then narrowed its eyes.