Chapter 380 Naqitai's Beihai Town Tour
The people of the Li Dynasty were sent away. Before leaving, Cai Jigong was angry with Zhao Xin's beard and his face turned blue, but Beihai Town did not need such an ally, whether it was political or military. In the future, when Beihai Town eliminated the Qing Dynasty and unified the world, Li Dynasty, who was overly dependent on Sino-Korean trade, would definitely come over to send letters to the country.
There is no need to give special treatment. Just treat these guys according to the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.
Next was the Choshu family. At the end of the 18th century, the Choshu family had nothing but poverty. The era of respecting kings and expelling barbarians had not yet arrived, and the prosperity of orchid studies was limited to Osaka and Edo. By the way, overthrowing the Tokugawa family was a national policy of the Choshu family, so there was such a joke in later generations.
Since the Battle of Sekihara, the Maori family’s elders would ask the head of the family when they landed in New Year’s Day every year, what would the chance of the collapse of the curtain this year? After pondering for a moment, the head of the Maori family would say that it was too early. Then what should everyone do.
The reason why the Changzhou vassal sent people to follow the Li Dynasty merchants was mainly because Zhao Xin attacked the island countries twice, and he always mentioned the "Susa Tang Ship Incident", which really made the Hagi vassal uneasy, fearing that one day the large iron ship of the North Navy would stop outside the Nagato country to make an argument.
Since the "Tang Yi Shaoying Nagasaki Incident", every time the North Navy's large ship passed by Tsushima Strait to take Qing Dynasty, the Changzhou vassal was extremely nervous. He was on guard from top to next time and again until the big ship was far away and could not see it. This was a relief.
After the Battle of the Mountain last year, the souls of the Choshu family were scared away. It was a daimyo of nearly two million stones in four families! The Shimazu family's 100,000 vassal samurai were destroyed in less than a year. With the small body of the Choshu family of more than 800,000 stones, they would not be able to take advantage of it anyway.
When he ascended the city on New Year's Day this year, the Changzhou vassal decided to ask for forgiveness from Zhao Dian no matter what. This is the most important thing this year, second only to the century-long plan that fell back!
So the Changzhou clan sent the head of the Akawa Maori family among the "Eight Families" as the leader of the envoy group. Relying on the intimate relationship formed by years of smuggling with the merchants of the Li Dynasty, he came to Beihai Town with a full ship of gifts.
The current head of the Akawa Maori family is Mori Yuki, and his ancestors are Yoshikawa Motoharu, who is famous in the Warring States Period. That's right, it is the second son of Kobayakawa Takake, who was adopted by Maori and then to the Yoshikawa family, the second brother of Kobayakawa Takake, and the guy who is known as "Geyoshikawa"!
The envoy of the Maori family was trembling and presented a gift list as soon as he came up, begging for forgiveness from Beihai Town, and revealed in his words that he also wanted to have a good relationship with Beihai Town like the Sendai Fan.
For Beihai Town, the more dog legs, the better, and the defense on the newly occupied territory is still empty!
Therefore, Zhao Xin pretended to be generous and skipped the old things from eighty years ago, and agreed to the trade request of the Changzhou vassal state, and asked the other party to send a thousand vassals to Beihai Town to serve.
Maori Juzhen and others were overjoyed, but they didn't expect the trip to go so smoothly, so he quickly went downstairs, hoping to sign an agreement with Beihai Town.
This matter is simple, just write another copy according to the content of the "Shizuo Secret Agreement".
In Zhao Xin's view, once the poor vassal like this one, which aims to reverse the curtain as its lifelong goal, may create a "Cha Yumen Incident" in advance. At that time, Pingta will take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the situation. It will be very beautiful to think about it!
It was not until this time that Zhao Xin decided to meet the Qing Dynasty. If he didn't see him again, Qitai would be crazy.
Since September, Qianlong was still anxious as the negotiations were still progressing, and more than a dozen edicts had already covered Liu Yong's head.
Seeing that there was no progress on the southern bank of the Mongolian River, Naqitai finally made up his mind and took his subordinates from the direction of Vladivostok and planned to go directly to Beihai Town. As soon as he crossed the Furgaha River, he was discovered by the Beihai Army's postcard. So he simply set up a tent by the river for seven or eight days, and acted as if he could not see Zhao Xin and would not leave if he could not see him to death.
With Zhao Xin's call, Naqitai, dressed in casual clothes, walked into Beihai Town at dusk with two followers under the guard of several security police.
Looking at the houses lined up with smoke from cooking stoves, listening to the pots, pans and whispers from each house, Na Chitai suddenly felt absurd feeling of returning to the town of Guannei. What surprised him the most was the yellow lights that shone out from the windows of each house, which made him feel very warm at first glance.
Is this Beihai Town? Although he also knows about the situation in Beihai Town from the spies' secret reports, this is the first time he has seen it with his own eyes.
"Master, they are so capable of wasting lamp oil! It's not a wealthy family, who dares to light so many oil lamps?"
"Well. It's a little extravagant." Naqitai deeply agreed with his words.
The master and servant were talking, and a public security policeman next to him laughed out loud.
Naqitai asked quickly as soon as he saw it, "This official... this brother, is there something wrong with what we said?"
The security police walked and said, "There are no oil lamps? We have not had oil lamps from the beginning. That's called electric lamps!"
"Electricity?" At this moment, Naqitai's mind was filled with lightning and thunder in the sky, so he smiled and said with a wry smile: "You are so interesting to speak. What does the lightning in the sky have to do with this? The lighting at home is nothing more than an oil lamp or a candle."
The security police curled their lips and did not explain. However, when the group walked to the nearest square, which was still dozens of meters away from Zhao Xin's office, the entire square and street suddenly lit up, and the surrounding houses were visible, which immediately scared Naqitai and the two followers.
The three of them couldn't help but shout, "This is a magic trick!"
A security policeman said: "Three, this has nothing to do with magic! This is called electric lights. What a bunch of local buns!"
"Who are you talking about?!" Na Qitai's follower was furious and reached out to touch his waist. Then he realized that the weapon had been taken away when he passed the North Navy outpost.
The security police smiled disdainfully and said, "We only have electric lights here in the world. With this, anyone who wants to commit crimes at night will be unable to escape the French Open."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! After hearing this, the faces of Qitai and the servants suddenly looked a little ugly. While walking, he looked around at the lights as bright as stars. He couldn't help but feel dizzy and his steps became more and more staggering.
When the three were taken outside Zhao Xin's office, several North Navy soldiers at the door searched the three again. Unlike before, a North Navy soldier was holding a short black stick in his hand and swept the three from head to toe.
The Qitai and the other two had no idea what they were doing. In his opinion, the black short stick had no edges or blades, and there were some strange yellow patterns on it. If it were a weapon, it would not look like it.
However, when the short stick was still a punch away from Naqitai's waist, the thing actually rang "beep beep", which surprised the three of them.
"What's there in your waist? Take it out!" Several North Navy soldiers stared at Na Qitai as if they were facing a great enemy, and their right hand was already pressed on the gun holster at their waists. Several public security police officers on the side also changed their faces, and their hands also touched the revolver at their waists.
What was in my waist? Na Qitai looked down and saw that there was nothing else on his waist! The soldier approached Na Qitai's purse with a short stick. Sure enough, the beeping sound of the alarm sounded again.
"You have iron tools here, take them out and check them!"
Naqitai's face turned red and he felt that he had been humiliated. There were indeed iron tools in his purse, but it was just a fire sickle that he carried with him. As a Manchu nobleman, his fire sickle was specially customized, with handles made of white copper, carved with auspicious patterns and inlaid with agate and turquoise, which was extremely luxurious.
In the Qing Dynasty, the fire sickle was not only a tool for ignition, but also one of the betrothal gifts for engagement. The so-called "A piece of fire sickle is a piece of fire, and the top leader takes the lamp."
"What are you going to do? As the imperial official, I came here to negotiate with your King Zhao! I can't let you be so humiliated!"
With a creaking sound, the door behind several soldiers opened. The bright lights in the house fell on the open space in front of the door. A tall figure walked out and laughed: "That master, I misunderstood!"
Na Qitai looked closely and saw who was not Zhao Xin. He said with an angry look: "Mr. Zhao, I am here to visit sincerely. Do you have to humiliate me?"
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A few minutes later, when Na Qitai sat opposite Zhao Xin, bowed and took the teacup handed by Zhao Xin, then smiled bitterly: "Mr. Zhao, it's really not easy to meet you!"
Zhao Xin smiled without saying a word, then lit a cigarette with a match in the other party's surprise gaze, and then said, "Sir, are you tired of such a big heavy guy hanging on your waist? Look how good this one is."
Then Qitai thought it was just a lamp, what you did in Beihai Town? Now I heard that you need a box of 100 yuan in Beijing. Okay, one box of 100 yuan, one penny, this is not a big deal, it’s just a burning money!
"Mr. Zhao, let's talk about the serious business. The officials came this time and were sent by the court to talk about Ningguta."
"Oh. Then I can tell you now that we don't plan to return Ningguta. You can take some of it away."
"Part?" Na Qitai knew that Ningguta would not come back, but this time Zhao Xin did not mention the ransom, which surprised him very much.
"There are probably more than a thousand people."
In addition to the seriously injured people, there are actually more than 100 guys who look intact but are actually mentally insane. They are suffering from the extremely famous "bomb shock" in a battle in another time and space. They look unscathed, but their brains are actually seriously shocked by shells.
These people usually show fatigue, often feeling suffocating, headache, depression, insomnia, and even epilepsy shock. Even though several months have passed in Ningguta, they are still devastated, and their biggest manifestations are inexplicable trembling and stuttering. Beihai Town does not have the energy to open a sanatorium again. Instead of raising it like this, it is better to let the Qing Dynasty take these people home.
In fact, it was not only the Qing army prisoners, but also the Russian prisoners of Jakarta. However, there was no such thing as "PTSD" in this year, and all the guys who showed this kind of behavior would be scolded as cowards.
"Mr. Zhao, I'm going to be honest with you. I can't explain it to the emperor!" Qitai was very stunning. Since he had finally met, he would have something to say.
"What should I do? Or I will detain you? Do you think this is an explanation?"
Naqitai almost jumped up from the chair and bowed and begged: "Don't! If you detain me, then my family will be done!"
Zhao Xin restrained his smile and said with a serious look: "I heard that Liu Yong is here?"
"Yes. Lord Liu has been in Wula, Jilin for several months."
"Qianlong asked him to come and negotiate with me?"
"Yes, I was sent by Lord Liu and Mr. Qing to stand in front of the front. I didn't think that if I could negotiate with you first, wouldn't it be smooth for Lord Liu to go?"
Zhao Xin took a sip of tea, with a playful look on his face, and looked at Na Qitai and said, "Oh, do you know that you are not in dealing with Zhongtang and Liu Yong? You have offended Heshen so much and still want to mess around in the future?"
"I..." Qitai said to himself, why do you know everything? But Zhao Xin's words happened to him.
Seeing the other party fall into silence, Zhao Xin said, "Let's do it. Since you want to negotiate, go back and ask Liu Yong to come and talk to me in person. The time is set in twenty days, and the location will be chosen at Guandi Temple outside Ningguta City."
"Ningguta? No!" Qitai dared not be vague about this kind of thing. If Liu Yong had a good job, he would not have enough brains. He thought for a while and said, "You have occupied three of the seven stations from Ningguta to Jilin, so let's set the negotiation site at the fourth station and the Chujiao Station."
Retreat the dragon and repel the evil dragon. This guy was so happy to hear!
The post road from Wula, Jilin to Ningguta is 705 miles away. Along the way, thousands of trees cover the sky, hundreds of miles are all mud, which is extremely difficult to walk; the northeast beards of later generations often entrenched in this area.
Naqitai chose this place to prevent Zhao Xin from leading the army, and the Qing army could rely on the dangers of the mountains and forests to set up defenses. Zhao Xin thought about it and nodded in agreement. He immediately wrote a letter to Liu Yong and asked Naqitai to take it back.
After the two talked, Zhao Xin did not have any rules to serve tea and see off guests. So he asked someone to take the master and servant of Qitai to the cafeteria for dinner, and arranged a residence to let the three of them leave tomorrow.
Na Qitai was pretending to be in his heart, so he had no intention of sitting down and drinking. After the three of them had a meal, they returned to their residence with the accompanying people.
When he saw the simple furnishings in the house, he couldn't help but shake his head and say "vulgar", thinking that you, a bastard named Zhao, had sold so much gold from the court, why didn't you even build a decent inn? The most inconspicuous thing is that you actually put the toilet and the bedroom next to it!
The accompanying security police made an explanation, and then the other two suddenly realized that it was impossible to smell the night fragrance in Beihai Town. As long as you press the bright button on the water tank behind you, water will automatically wash away.
Afterwards, the three of them showed great curiosity about the light switch and carefully turned it down, which would be like a firecracker that would blow up.
After struggling for a long time, when the security police left, Qitai washed his face and lay on the big bed in the bedroom. When he touched it casually, he was surprised to find that the quilt was not cotton, but thick feathers wrapped in silk, which was extremely warm and comfortable.
Chapter completed!