Siqin was kicked by Gonguer and miscarried. She lay down for ten days before she recovered. During this period, Gonguer's family hid the matter tightly. No one nearby herders knew about it, so no one came to visit her.

Every morning, a maid would bring a bowl of leftover rice and a bowl of herbal tea like feeding a dog, put it to Siqin, without even saying a word, and wait until the evening to take it back. Siqin could not eat or drink tea. The yurt with thousands of holes was airtight, and it was extremely cold at night. She could only eat something after lying for two days.

But when people are supported by a hope, they can often bear any suffering. Although Siqin miscarried and suffered these days of sin, her heart is now filled with a strong desire for life!

You should know that before this, death was a happy ending for her. Now, for the sake of life, she has to bear the torture.

Although the child in her belly was gone, she removed her huge mental burden for her. She felt that she could raise her chest and look up to see Tiemur again. If the other party was willing, she would leave this ghost place with him, even if she went to a very far horizon, even if she was willing to fetch water and cook for others. This thought was like a ball of fire, warming her whole body and giving her the power of rebirth.

During this period, a major event happened in Khalkha Mongol, that is, the Northern Navy occupied Ulya Sutai City. This also marked the end of the Qing Dynasty's rule in Khalkha Mongol.

The working team led by Wang Rong received a new order on the fifth day after Timur left and left. When they left, the herdsmen around who heard the news came to see him off. They took out the best food in the house as gifts, but they were all rejected by the Navy north of Wang Rong with discipline.

Before leaving, Wang Rong told everyone that the Northern Navy would send people, and by then, the Khalkha would be earth-shaking.

Siqin lay until the morning of the eleventh day, and finally got up and took two steps slowly in the yurt. Although she was dizzy, these two steps gave her great encouragement and comfort. She felt that she would not die if she could walk and would go to Tiemur in a few days. Thinking of this, she shed tears happily.

Three days later, her body had just recovered and strengthened, so she decided to sneak to Timur's house to look for him early tomorrow morning when the people from the Gongguer family had not woken up.

Unfortunately, that night, the first heavy snow on the grassland suddenly came. Looking out from the hole in the yurt, there were white flowers everywhere. The snow fell to the middle of the night and it was finally a little lighter, but the north wind blew again and the temperature suddenly dropped.

The howling cold wind kept pouring snowflakes from the cracks of the door and the thorns around the felt, and Siqin was almost buried in the snow. She didn't want to climb out of her bag and find some dry cow dung to keep warm, but she was worried that if the people from Gongguer's family discovered her, she would monitor her and would not be able to escape tomorrow.

"I've been through all kinds of hardships, what's the point of being frozen for a night?"

She thought so, and gave up the idea of ​​burning fire to keep warm. The whistling wind roared violently outside the bag, the worn yurt was shaking, and the door, the sieve and Hanamu were all blown by the wind.

When it was almost dawn, the wind outside was still blowing very tightly and the snow was still falling. She felt that this was the best time to escape, so she got up and shook the snow on the broken cotton robe, walked to the door and listened for a while, and then gently opened the door.

The dog guarding the cattle and sheep noticed the movement, but the dog was very familiar with Siqin and did not bark. He ran over and smelled her hand with his wet and cold nose, shook his tail and left.

After Siqin ran out of more than two miles in the wind and snow, she got into the willow forest on the river bank, and then she slowed down and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I finally escaped!" After thinking about this, she felt weak all over and couldn't stand steadily, so she barely leaned against a tree, closed her eyes and rested for a while. It was not until this time that she realized that the two shoes on her feet were thrown away.

The yurt in the Timur family is still a long way from here, and Siqin felt that it would be better to go to the nearby old man Dorji to borrow a pair of shoes and then leave. When she arrived at the Dorji home, her feet were already numb, and her body, which had just recovered from miscarriage, could no longer hold on after some intense torture.

When Old Doorji saw her appearance, he knew that he had escaped, so he asked her to lie down quickly, found a worn leather jacket to cover her, poured her a bowl of wine, and added a few pieces of firewood to the fire pit. After the temperature in the bag increased, Siqin felt breathless.

Dorji asked, "Poor child, why did you escape in such a snowy night? Are they going to harm you?"

"Uncle, I escaped and found Timur. You lend me a pair of shoes!"

"Where are you going to find Timur?" Dorji took out a pair of worn felt shoes and handed them to her, sighing and said, "He left more than ten days ago, and the work team also left a few days ago, saying that he wanted to follow the army to Ulyasutai."

Siqin lifted her leather jacket, struggled to put on her boots, got up and walked out of the bag. Dorji chased her out, trying to pull her back.

"Where are you going? You will freeze to death!"

"I'm going to find him!"

"Company Commander Wang said that they had thousands of people, and more people would come from the east in a few days, and they would also fight Kobdo. If Timur went to Kobdo, how would you find it?"

"I will find him wherever I go!" Siqin's tone was very decisive.

Dorji recalled the words and things that Company Commander Wang and his men said and done over the days, which made him not afraid of the officers and soldiers for the first time, but was more like a relative, so he gritted his teeth and made a decision.

"Okay! I'll put my horse on and go with you. You can't go far in this kind of weather!"

Until dawn, the wind had not stopped, and it was obvious that the snow would continue. However, for Siqin, no matter how strong the wind and snow were, it would be a brilliant sunny day after the wind stopped.

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This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! In the mid-10th month of the lunar calendar in the 56th year of Qianlong, three large wide ships with a load of about 1,000 tons slowly drove into the waterway of Anping Port in the southern part of Jeju Island under the close monitoring of two North Navy small sailboats and gunboats.

This place is another time and space "Seogwipo City". In this year, it was Dajing County under the rule of the Li Dynasty. Before Beihai Town came, the local area was so poor that the only thing that could interest the Li Dynasty government was to collect seafood such as pearls and abalone from the villagers.

Since Beihai Town set it as a transit station for Henan victims six years ago, it has been renamed Anping Port. When the Battle of Changxing Island ended, it has become a commodity distribution center in Northeast Asia. Soybeans from the Liaodong Peninsula, tea and tobacco from Fujian, silk from Shandong, tussaurus cocoons from Jiangnan, cotton, cotton cloth and tung oil from Anping Port can be seen everywhere in the market in Anping Port.

Beihai Town transports a large number of fur, mountain goods, Chinese medicinal materials, sea goods, and various light industrial products produced in Northeast China and Siberia, including flat glass, aluminum pots, matches, cigarettes, horse lanterns, etc.

You should know that at the beginning, the king and minister of Li Xu were so angry that they were irritated by the Beihai Town's occupation of Jeju Island. They wanted to take it back several times, but the Beihai Army's perverts with powerful force could not afford to provoke it. In the early days, the Jeju Mu reported that Hanyang had agreed and sent 500 soldiers to expel them. At that time, there were only ten Beihai Army and more than fifty Caogang sailors with cold weapons stationed here. With just one round of guns and a charge, Li Chao's soldiers were frightened and fled in panic.

Three years ago, Cai Jigong was ordered to go on a mission to Beihai Town. One of the important tasks was to solve the problem of Beihai Town occupying Anping Port. Later, after a bargaining with Shen Jingdan, Li Chao was reluctant and half happy to agree that he would let Beihai Town rent Anping Port for 20 years at a fee of 5,000 taels of silver per year, with the condition that the entire rent was paid in one go and copper coins were required.

Later, Li Chao wanted to bargain again and proposed to convert one thousand pieces of silver into one or two pieces of money, and Shen Jingdan directly retorted.

Oh, I smuggled copper coins with the Qing Dynasty for more than 800 essays. I just smuggled with us for 1,000 essays. What are the good things I want? I smuggled with 800 essays. Do you want to love it?

You should know that this is 80 million copper coins! Even if you exchange every two cents for every two cents, it would be 100,000 coins. According to the consistent price of 230 coins in Li Chao, it would be more than 400 taels of silver. If you spend 200 cents more, it would be more than 80,000 taels of silver.

After that, the Beihai Town Mint was fully powered and it took two years to deliver it. During this period, Zhao Liang also brought workers to model the drawings of the world's first "elbow-moving pressing bed" and produced twenty coin machines, five of which were transported to the North Navy Base in Ganlingo to help Nguyen Phuc Ying make copper coins.

The large amount of copper coins was greatly alleviated the monetary pressure caused by the lack of money in Li Dynasty. When King Li Yu had money, he started the construction plan of "Suwon Hwa Castle". By the way, the designer of Suwon Hwa Castle happened to be Lin Ruoyu's friend Ding Ruoyong.

At this time, on the deck of a wide ship, Ma Bashisan, the second housekeeper of the mansion, respectfully said to the person in front of him: "Second Master, this is Anping Town."

"Well, it's so lively!"

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a dark blue fox-style lambskin robe, with a black Ningshi Batulu vest with a rolling beads and gold thread on his head, a sea otter fur hat, a white face, two beards on his lips, neatly trimmed, and looked a bit similar to Heshen, the No. 1 important official of the Qing Dynasty. This person was Heshen's younger brother, Helin, currently the deputy commander of the Han army in the Inlaid Blue Banner, and the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War.

This time, he did not come to the town secretly, but was subject to Qianlong's secret order. According to the agreement reached by Zhao Xin and the Qing court, he came to receive a batch of military supplies to support Fukang'an's entry into Tibet, and then he had to escort them to Xining.

Originally, Beihai Town proposed to deliver the supplies directly to Dagukou, but Liu Quan directly rejected them. What a joke! If the big iron ship comes again, the emperor will have to chop his head.

Three boats were docked in place, and a man from the port office and two gun-carrying guards immediately walked onto the deck and began to ask. He Lin was listening and watching, without interrupting. When Ma Bashisan was paying the money, he saw him counting twenty Beihai silver dollars with a denomination of "one yuan" from his purse. The other party collected the money and started writing documents.

He Lin noticed at this time that the entry procedures of Beihai Town were completely different from those of the court's customs. There was neither a sign nor a commercial photo covered with a large seal. Instead, they registered on a light green paper about a foot long and half a foot wide. There were many grids of different sizes drawn with black lines, and the front marked the ship tonnage, the captain's name, the cargo owner's name, the number of sailors, crew members, the number of stays, the type of cargo, and other matters. The registered person only needs to fill in the corresponding blank position.

However, what surprised him was still behind. The pen used by the registered person was not a brush, but a "hard-head pen" that he had never seen before. After the registration was completed, Ma Bashisan signed his name at the bottom left of the form.

When He Lin thought the other party would tear off the light green paper and hand it over to her, she saw that the man turned over the light green paper. There was actually a page of light red paper below. The content on it was exactly the same as the one in the front, and there were already handwriting and even the signature, but it was light blue.

The people from the port office tore off the red paper in the curtain and handed it to Ma Bashisan, then disembarked with the guards.

When the people from Beihai Town left, He Lin immediately asked, "Master Ma, what's the reason?"

"Second Master, this is called 'replica paper'. I don't know how to do it. You will know after dealing with Beihai Town for a long time. Many things are full of evil nature."

After taking the registration form after the rewrite page, he looked at it for a long time. The shock in his heart was beyond words. Beihai Town actually had secret methods for such things, which was really unfathomable. But then again, it would be very convenient to have this "replication paper". If customs and even some fire ticket documents can be handled in this way, it would really save a lot of documents.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting contents behind! However, he quickly denied this idea and looked at the scratches on it carefully. He Lin felt that besides paper, a hard-headed pen must also be very important. The Qing Dynasty used brushes, and even with such paper, it would be difficult.

He thought about it and asked again, "I just handed over twenty silver dollars, and there is nothing left?"

Ma Bashisan said, "If you come back, there is indeed so much. There is no ship material fee (collected according to the size of the beam head of the merchant ship) and commercial taxes here. Only the dock fee, inspection and quarantine fee, and inspection fee are set. It is precisely because the gate closing fee here is cheap, many people who do maritime trade will come."

He Lin was stunned when he heard this. He glanced at the various facilities in the port, especially the three-story building a mile away, thinking that what could it be for just collecting this little money? So he asked: "What about the miscellaneous items? Is there no blackmail from the officials?"

"There are no miscellaneous items. I heard that a servant had extorted extra fees from the ship owner before, but he was quickly dismissed from the job and posted a notice saying that the man had been exiled to Kuye Island."

"oh?!"

Ma Bashisan raised his hand and pointed to the port office not far away and said, "There is a wooden box for submissions at the door, and anyone can submissions."

"Haha, that's just superficial skill. There are a few people in the grass who can read."

He Lin’s disagreement is actually correct. As the stalls in Beihai Town become larger and larger, internal corruption has begun to grow. The so-called “for thousands of miles to be an official, for food and clothing” is not only scholars, but also people who don’t know the big words.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Trade have set up a large number of "clients", and these people are officials in the eyes of the common people. After a few years of hard work, the trend of unifying the world became more and more obvious, and the clerks' official positions became more and more; although they dare not blatantly "eat and take the bribes", they are no longer a few of them in private. Some even formed cliques in order to ascend to heaven in the "New Dynasty".

In addition, in recent years, life in Beihai Town has become more and more prosperous. Many officials have begun to feel dissatisfied with the law of "not being able to marry a concubine". Some middle and lower-level civil affairs officials are already secretly raising the outdoor room. Of course, they can afford to support themselves, but if the outdoor family takes the opportunity to make a profit, that is another matter.

In response to this situation, Yu Deli, after discussing with Zhao Xin and others, decided to establish a special anti-corruption team, similar to the "XX Office" in another time and space; this institution will be directly responsible to Zhao Xin, Chen Qingsong and the "three-person committee" formed by him.

Zhao Xin actually knew these situations. He had always endured himself and refused to let go of it, but he didn't want to take the lead in everything. Beihai Town is both his and everyone's. If he took the lead in everything, he would sooner or later be exhausted.

After completing the procedures for entering the port, Ma Bashisan did not rush to get off the ship, but asked a subordinate to take a letter to the "yamen office" of Anping Port to submit it. There must be no news about the transfer of materials between the imperial court and Beihai Town.

After dinner on the boat when it was dark, two four-wheeled carriages quietly drove into the port, and He Lin, Ma Bashisan, and two guards boarded one. Half an hour later, they met people sent by Beihai Town in a courtyard outside the Anping Port military camp.

"Hello, sir, I am responsible for the material handover. My name is Kong Shaoan."

"Mr. Kong, I have been looking up for a long time! I am in Xiahexizhai." He Lin bowed and said to himself that he knew almost all the names of the pirate leader of the North Sea, but he had never heard of a person with the surname Kong.

Standing in front of He Lin was a young man who looked less than 30 years old, less than 1.8 meters tall, thin, wearing a North Navy uniform without a military rank, white face and very delicate frameless glasses.
Chapter completed!