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Chapter 369 The Chinese are here

When the Northern Navy boarded the ship and left, the residents of Nebchu City dared to leave the house and the church, and those who rushed home from the church were surprised to find that nothing was lost in their homes.

The cattle on the plowing land stayed honestly in the cattle, the chickens, ducks and geese were clamoring in the nest, and there was no trace of forced breaking of their own doors. When they entered the house, they looked carefully and saw that there were a lot of food and even precious porcelain and silver products in the house.

These people fought for a long time and didn't grab anything. What are they trying to do?

Polya walked out of the cabin of the catamaran carefully, and the sailors on the deck responded with a kind smile to the beautiful little girl. She looked at the other person timidly and walked slowly to the bow. Seeing the river bank and the woods that were constantly retreating on both sides, Polya suddenly felt a little dizzy. It took a while before she got used to it.

She leaned on the railing and turned to look at the top of the cabin. She couldn't even see a mast. There was only a small white strip that she didn't know what to do for. Then she leaned on the railing and looked out of the boat, but she didn't find the dense oars she imagined.

It's so strange, how can this ship run fast? Polya has never seen such a strange ship before.

Fan Tong lay on the cockpit platform, looking down at the beautiful girl who was like a Greek statue on the bow of the boat, and her fat face was so eager to stick to the cabin glass.

The girl was wearing a small-sleeved and thin-waisted dress with three-color patterns and a peacock blue square shawl on her shoulders, which just covered her snow-white neck and her developed chest. This girl, who seemed to walk out of an oil painting, had clear blue eyes as clear as a pool, and her golden hair was soft and dense. Because she had been combed in the cabin before, her original two braids were also dispersed, and under the blowing of the river breeze and the sunlight, she emitted a nearly silver-white luster.

"Xiao Fan?...Xiao Fan!" Liu Sheng's loud voice came from the phone. He shouted several times before pulling Fan Tong's soul, which had already reached the bow of the boat, back to the cockpit.

"What's up?"

"Be careful, your saliva is almost flowing down the glass. I'm really looking at it on the patrol boat."

"Oh~ Damn!" Fan Tong put down his phone and hurriedly walked out of the cockpit and looked forward. He saw Liu Sheng, who was sitting on the second patrol boat at the beginning, was waving at him. Fan Tong picked up the telescope on the bridge and looked over, and saw Liu Sheng smirking.

Fan Tong gestured to the other party with a angrily finger and shouted, "Liu, you're so bad!"

After he finished calling, he looked at the bow of the boat. A beautiful peacock blue shook for a moment and disappeared. The girl was scared away...

At the beginning of the eighth month of the lunar calendar in the 53rd year of Qianlong, Beihai Town attacked Rongcheng and Wendeng counties in Shandong, and used several large ships to take away tens of thousands of people in Jiaodong, and finally exposed, causing another uproar in the court and the country.

The Qing court had no choice but to take the big ships from Beihai Town. The sail warships ordered by Sun Shiyi from the UK were still on the road, and the far water could not quench the near thirst. So he could only send heavy troops to strengthen the defense of Dagukou, for fear that the big ships from Beihai Town would go to Zhili to disturb them. On the other hand, he issued an order to severely rebuke the Shandong Governor Changlin, who was released by the Beihai Army and the Qianzong Lock of the garrisons of Wendeng and Rongcheng counties, and walked with these two others, including Chengshanxun's water camp garrison and two unlucky county magistrates.

As Liang Zhenyu and Liang Xiucai expected, the biggest beneficiary of this incident was Li Zhiyu from Rongcheng County. This man not only received praise from Qianlong for his "restless in the face of danger and a good attitude" in the imperial edict, but also took over as the magistrate of Rongcheng County. As for Liang Xiucai, he also received the designated quota for Shandong's "scientific examination" this year as he wished.

The 77-year-old Qianlong was frightened by Beihai Town's actions in Shandong this time. He finally found that the coastal defense he ruled was actually a piece of window paper, and it was broken with one stab. But at this time, he was powerless even if he wanted to change.

After calculations by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue, Qianlong found that just adding coastal artillery and naval warships in Shandong would cost three million taels of silver. So how much does it cost to add eight provinces in Liaodong from north to south, plus the jurisdiction of General Shengjing?

Speaking of which, Beihai Town did not hurt the Qing Dynasty from the sea. Although the government and the country were talking a lot, the governors and governors of various provinces kept handing them to the Military Affairs Office, talking about how to defend Beihai Town from landing on the coast, and there was no concept of "sea power" at all.

In another time and space history, the Qing Dynasty, which experienced the First Opium War, was stabbed by the British in the coastal areas with holes everywhere, but the idea of ​​a group of bureaucrats was that guarding the overseas was better than guarding Haikou, and guarding Haikou was better than guarding the inland rivers. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang thought of defending as an offensive, so-called peacetime was spreading on the sea, and whenever there was a war, he would "take it into Haikou and defend as a fight."

At present, the upper class of the Qing court has seen that the weakness of Beihai Town is its population. Whether in northern Jiangsu or Shandong, Beihai Town has taken away at least 100,000 people from the Central Plains in recent years. Therefore, someone in the Qing court once again proposed the "relocation of boundaries and banning the sea", and the leader was Wang Jie, the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion and Minister of War.

But after reading Wang Jie's memorial, Qianlong criticized three words and understood.

It’s nothing else. At this time, the Qing Dynasty was no longer the time when it was just entering the pass. If you want to ban the sea and move the boundary, how many people would have to lose their jobs? If you follow Wang Jie’s suggestion, Shandong alone would have to abandon millions of acres of land. Don’t talk about whether you can defend Beihai Town, the people in Shandong would have to cause trouble.

In mid-August, Qianlong received another report from the General Mansion of Heilongjiang. The Northern Navy defeated tens of thousands of Rakshasa in Heilongjiang City, and then led his troops north to attack Yaxa.

"Fight, go fight with Rakshasa to the death, I'm not upset."

In September 1788, Liu Sheng and his team finally arrived at Chita on the fourth day after the fire of Nebuchu. At this time, snowflakes had begun to fall from the sky, and early winter in East and West Siberia has arrived.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Compared with another industrial city with a population of more than 300,000 in time and space, Chita in this time and space is just a small village with only a hundred people.

This place is called a prison, but there is not even a fence. Every prisoner's family can be assigned a wooden house, both a residence and a prison. Anyway, there is no place to go when you get here. In fact, the reason why these towns in Tsarist Russia later developed was mainly due to the large number of "Decembers" who were exiled to this place in the 19th century.

When the North Navy fleet landed, no one in the village warned. When the North Navy, who was on the shore, surrounded the only tavern in the village and captured several Cossacks and brewery owners who were drinking, the company commander of the North Navy, who led the team, realized that only a few pieces of material were left in the local young man, in addition to some women and children.

Before Suvorov's conscription order was issued, Chita had a total of six Cossack families, thirteen civilian intellectuals who were exiled here, and four farmers. With the issuance of the conscription order, the Russians sent all prisoners in all prison villages and towns in East Siberia to Yaksa as cannon fodder.

After the village was controlled by the Beihai Army, Igor, who had already defected to Beihai Town, began knocking from door to door, asking each family to gather in the brewery yard. Fortunately, there were not many people in the village. An hour later, the only women, children, and several exiles who were unable to be recruited due to weakness and illness gathered there.

Igor walked onto the beer barrel, cleared his throat, and said to everyone present: "My name is Igor Ivanovich. Let me tell you good news. From now on, from Chita to Nerchensk (Nebchu), it is no longer Russian territory, it has been occupied by the Chinese."

See your ghost, what good news is this?!

The Chita villagers present looked at the "Russian traitor" who was doing things for the invaders with expressionless expression, without saying a word.

Igor looked at Fan Tong behind him with some embarrassment, but saw the other party smiled with encouragement at him, so he turned around and continued, "The army led by General Suvorov was defeated in Yaquesa City, and the troops there have all surrendered to the Chinese."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the audience raised their heads and looked at Igor in surprise.

"Yes, everything 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 deal with us? Are they going to kill us all? After all, we invaded their territory."

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

"No, as long as you do not do things that harm the Chinese and do not inform the outside world, you will not be hurt. At the same time, the Chinese can sell food to you."

"We don't have much money." A Cossack, who had been blocked in a tavern, said coldly.

"Oh, my dear friend, you can exchange it for sheep. I saw you raise a lot of goats in the village before. The prices of Chinese people are very reasonable. 10 pout (163.8 kg) of wheat flour can be exchanged for two sheep."

What? You can exchange sheep for food without robbing food. The villagers present were stunned.

After this speech, when a woman with a try-and-see attitude actually exchanged two sheep for 10 pute snow-white wheat flour, the hostility of the Chita villagers towards the occupier disappeared.

After being exiled to this broken place, what else can I expect? It is already something they would never dream of being able to eat snow-white bread.

Liu Sheng and his team waited in Chita Village for two days. Zhao Xincai and Wu Xiha and their group arrived late. They were riding on two wooden boats built by Xingkai Lake Shipyard.

Under the guidance of a power plant named Xu Qingchun, Beihai Town has developed well this year on the shipyard located on the south bank of Xingkai Lake. Half of the Portuguese craftsmen and cherrymen brought back from Macau the year before were sent there. After the lake was frozen in winter, the lake was returned to Fuldan City for winter.

The main type of ship currently built by the shipyard is this flat-bottomed inland river wooden boat equipped with four-stroke diesel engines and external propellers, with a load of 500 tons. As Beihai Town built a construction of cargo warehouses and troop stations in the middle of Heilongjiang, a large amount of materials and manpower arrived in Boli through the flat-bottomed boat.

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

Although there are few people in Chita Village, there are quite a lot of goats. Each family has raised more than 2,000 sheep, and the main sources of local taxation are sheepskin and wolf skin. Although goats are easier to raise than sheep, there is one disadvantage to raising goats. When eating plants, it will use its hooves to dig soil and dig out the grass roots below, which will cause serious damage to the local vegetation.

The local residents all raise sheep in a broad way. Not to mention shrubs around the village, even the turf was gnawed clean. In the mid-19th century, Chita became a sand city, and sand was everywhere.

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

Ten giant machine monsters, nearly four meters high, three meters wide and fourteen meters long, were parked in a row in the wilderness one kilometer east of Chita Village. This is the super land transport he prepared for this expedition to Irkutsk, the DT-10PA-1 articulated crawler transport vehicle.

By the way, this kind of vehicle ignores any harsh environment and is like walking on flat ground in the wilderness swamps and even the ice and snow terrain. Even a river three meters deep can pass freely. The whole vehicle body adopts a fully sealed fully welded structure, and the front and rear bodies are connected by hydraulic articulated mechanisms.

At the rear of the cab, there is a huge engine compartment. The engine uses a V-46-5 twelve-cylinder multi-fuel diesel engine to provide power. This is improved from the engine on the T-64 tank. Not to mention the strong power, and in order to cope with the Siberian low temperature environment, this engine is equipped with a low-temperature start preheating system that can be started at -50℃ low temperature conditions.

Each vehicle has a maximum passenger capacity of 42 people, a maximum driving speed of 37 kilometers per hour on land, and you can run 500 kilometers per hour with fuel. Considering the height and size of the North Navy soldiers in this time and space, if you squeeze in the car, you can sit more than 50 people.

Fan Tong climbed into the cockpit and said uncontrollably: "My goodness, this guy is so exciting! Mr. Zhao, how much does it cost?"

"Stupid number, two million.5 million." Zhao Xin said with a smile: "That is, it can be used on the wasteland. If the road is opened, the road will be completely destroyed."

Without further ado, more than 20 agricultural crew drivers who followed Wu Xiha to the north began to learn how to drive such a vehicle from Zhao Xin. Their purpose was to deal with this.

The DT-10PA-1 is not very difficult to start and drive. The steering wheel is operated and the gear lever is very small. The difficulty in driving this car lies in how to operate the hydraulic hinge so that the front of the car is raised or downward.

A group of agricultural crew members who were used to driving giant tractors studied hard for two days. After they could basically operate the vehicle and climb the hill normally, Zhao Xin asked a battalion of the Sixth Regiment to board the bus and began to head towards Ulan-Ude.

The Ulan Ude in the 18th century was called "Hankhnudinsk". The name Ulan Ude was only available after the 20th century. Since the 17th century, this was the center of Tsarist Russia's rhubarb and tea trade with China; it is also the largest military and administrative center in Outer Baikal.
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