Chapter 372 The smelly French expedition team
Zhao Xin did what he said. Since Ivan Jacquebi had the courage to covet Heilongjiang, he would be prepared to be cut off.
In fact, after he learned how the Northeast was gradually eroded by Tsarist Russia inside and outside the other time and space, he hated Tsarist Russia and the Qing Dynasty. This is also why he insisted that the North Navy must attack the border and occupy the entire East and West Siberia. Of course, this is also related to his understanding of Tsarist Russia's trade policy toward China.
Since the mercantilism that emerged in Europe in the 15th century, it has experienced two periods: "heavy money" - the standard period for measuring national wealth by using currency as the standard period, and the "trade difference theory" of developing industry and foreign trade.
Although the British Industrial Revolution had broken out at this time and began to transition from mercantilism to classical liberalism, the old empire of Tsarist Russia was still in the era of mercantilism.
Starting from Peter I, Tsarist Russia formulated its trade policy with China mainly based on the trade difference. As of 1784, the year before Qianlong stopped the Chaktu trade, the transaction volume between the two sides exceeded 6.08 million rubles (the silver content of one ruble was 28 grams), and the tariff was as high as 1.4 million rubles, accounting for 9% of Tsarist Russia's total foreign trade.
In another world's history, the Russians could even sell Alaska because of the defeat of Crimea. Zhao Xin felt that as long as the trade could be re-engaged and surpassed the previous level, the capitalists of Tsarist Russia would taste the sweetness, and there was nothing less in Sierra. Moreover, he wanted to get Alaska directly through this time.
Not to mention that there is no extra territory in a single inch, the emerging bourgeoisie of Tsarist Russia has long been bloody. Who wants a soul as long as you have money?
Besides, the strategic focus of Tsarist Russia during this period was not East Asia, but Central Asia and Poland. From Catherine II to her great-grandson Nicholas I, she dreamed of drinking the Mediterranean Sea and planting the double-headed eagle flag into the laytoninople until the Crimean War was defeated.
After the North Navy completed a strategic encirclement of the Qing Dynasty and occupied the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, could it be possible to intervene in the land in Central Asia? Zhao Xin felt that this matter had great potential, and when he thought about it, he felt it was very beautiful.
Although Siberia is extremely cold in East and West, the ice age of Lake Baikal is very late, and it usually starts to freeze until January of each year. When Liu Sheng and his second group of troops arrive, the Northern Navy will divide its troops into two groups, occupying Caktu one southward and Irkutsk the eastward.
During the day of staying in Shanghe Nuddingsk, Zhao Xin contacted Beihai Town and learned that the first 3,000 immigrants from Beihai Town had set out from Xingkai Lake, and their destination was Heilongjiang City.
For more than half a year, Chen Qingsong has been in charge of agricultural development in Furdan City, while Wang Yuanfang is in charge of the army, so the daily administrative affairs of Beihai Town are temporarily under the responsibility of Deli.
In addition, he also learned another thing, that is, there have been several waves of tourists in Beihai Town recently, which are very lively. Among them are the Qing Dynasty, the Li Dynasty, the remnants of the Tiandihui who were chased by the Qing Dynasty, and there was almost nowhere to escape, the Changzhou vassal, and even a French fleet.
Let’s talk about the French fleet first. Their simplest purpose is to explore.
The expedition team had two ships, Astropan and Compass, both of which were three-masted sailboats with a total of 114 crew members.
The Earl of La Peruz, who led the team, led an expedition to travel around the world three years ago under the orders of King Louis XVI and Marquis Castries, the Minister of Navy. The goal of the expedition was to complete James Cook's exploration of the Pacific Ocean, correct and improve the map of the region, establish trade links, and open up new maritime routes.
They set out from Brest, a port of western France on August 1, 1785. The crew members included an astronomer and mathematician, a geographer, a botanist and physicist, as well as three natural scientists and three painters.
Earl La Peruz's fleet bypassed Cape Horn and went to Chile. He then went to the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, California, Macau, Manila and the Korean Peninsula. After they arrived at Dabo Town, south of Kuye Island, they visited the town Changjiang Tenglin, stationed here in Beihai Town. From this we learned that the four islands in the southern part of Kuye Island are all the territory of Beihai Town.
So they had to stop their adventures on Kuye Island, headed north to Okhotsk for a walk, and then returned to Obo Town. After some plea and communicated back and forth, Beihai Town agreed to their visit; after all, Liu Zheng had a good relationship with the French in the Thirteenth Street for more than half a year.
To put it bluntly, the full name of this Count La Peruz is François de Gallo. He fought against the British in North America during the Seven Years' War. He defeated the British frigate in the West Indies and was promoted to brigade general. At the same time, he was also the first European to board Maui, Hawaii. Later generations named the crater on the front of the moon after La Peruz.
In another time and space history, according to witnesses, Earl La Peruz's fleet probably hit a rock in the Solomon Islands in 1790, and the survivors were massacred by the indigenous people on the island. After that, the survivors built a small boat to leave the island, and there was no news since then.
From the time the French arrived at the sea five kilometers south of Beihai Town, things that shocked them one after another.
First of all, the water diversion boat sent from Whale Bay aroused the great curiosity of French sailors. Beihai Town does not have a special small water diversion boat, so the 4,000-horsepower tugboat that Zhao Xin bought with the Jinglei was regarded as a water diversion boat.
Not to mention the French, few people in the world have seen such a ship in this time and space. Looking at the tugboat without sails or oars, the rumbling sound of the tugboat was effortlessly dragging the Astropan and Compass toward the Whale Bay, the French on the two ships immediately restrained their contempt towards the Orientals.
After they entered Whale Bay, their eyes and chin were even more shocked. The crane made of thick logs and steel, the steel and concrete trestle, and the three-story port management office all shocked the French people for a long time.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Earl of La Peruz and the scientists who accompanied the ship were naturally welcomed by Deng Fei and his group, but when the sailors got off the ship, something embarrassing for the French came.
When a French sailor walked to the carriage to pick them up, he suddenly felt his lower abdomen tightened, so he hurriedly looked around and found a gray pillar like a log not far away. The guy rushed under the pillar step by step, and was about to take out his guy to solve the "three urgent problems", an extremely sharp whistle came from behind him.
A security policeman wearing a red sleeve and a low figure spit out a whistle in his mouth and shouted: "I will be fined ten yuan if I urinate anywhere! Pay your money!"
Holding the cement telephone pole and looking happy, the sailor thought to himself what the oriental man was talking about? No matter what, I will talk about it first, wait until I finish the water.
"Hey! I'm against you, I dare to continue peeing!" After that, the security police took out his handcuffs and handcuffed them to the sailor's wrist holding the guy.
The French sailor was shocked and shouted: "What are you doing? What did I violate?"
The small security policeman pointed to a small house painted in light blue behind the sailor and said, "The toilet is right there, don't you go, you pee under the telephone pole, are you a dog?"
The noise alarmed the Count, Deng Fei and others who were waiting to set off. Fortunately, Deng Fei's French was pretty good, so when the Count and his party learned the whole story, they all showed great curiosity. Several accompanying scientists also went to the public toilet to experience it themselves. After coming out, they raised their thumbs up and praised, saying that Beihai Town was too civilized and advanced.
When the others heard this, they lined up to experience it.
The reason for this is that we have to talk about the public toilets in France in the 18th century. In fact, in Europe in this era, not even public toilets can be owned by not many people.
The famous Palace of Versailles had no public toilet at all, so the courtiers had to solve the problem on the stairs or corridors. Generally, vases or fireplaces are their best choices to cover up. When the women in the Palace of Versailles wanted to be convenient, they would say a code word "I'll pick some flowers" and then walk to the garden to solve the problem. Anyway, they have large skirts and skirt hems to cover them, which will not be exposed.
There are many people in the palace, and there are naturally many shit, pee and farts. What should I do if I can’t hold it in the vase and the garden? The royal family’s method is very simple! The Versailles Palace is smelly, go to the Louvre, go to the Louvre, go to the Fontainebleau, go to the Fontainebleau, go to the Fontainebleau, go to the Versailles Palace, go to the other side and move it back.
So don't envy Rococo. Behind the gorgeous, slender and light-hearted palace furnishings, there are traps of shit, pee and farts, and "mines" are everywhere.
The "private toilet" of ordinary people is their own toilet bucket. After that, he carried the bucket directly to the outside of the window. Even Louis XIV was soaked in a boy's head when he visited in a private manner. The habit of throwing poop and peeing outside the window lasted for many years. It was not until Louis XVI could no longer bear it when he came to the stage that he issued a ban. Unfortunately, the effect was very little, so the king also took a step back and said that he was allowed to pour it out, but you must first shout "Be careful of the water" (Gare à lu0027eau) and make sure that there is no one downstairs before you can pour it down.
Gradually, the people stopped falling out of the window because they found that they could pour out of the suburbs and into the Seine.
The streets of Paris in this time and space are filled with manure, and even the Seine River is stinking. Dad built a high ground outside the outskirts of Paris. He could climb up the walls of Paris by stepping on the pile of manure. The king had to raise the walls of Paris.
It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that poor urban sanitation triggered a large-scale cholera that Napoleon III decided to build a sewer system in Paris.
So you know why the French are so surprised. They have never seen public health facilities like Beihai Town when they travel around the world.
After that, Deng Fei paid a fine of 10 yuan for the sailor. The French then boarded the carriage and were taken to the hotel in Whale Town next to the port. As a result, when the French entered the hotel room, they immediately shouted again after seeing the furnishings in the house.
Earl La Peruz was extremely shocked. Unexpectedly, the Seris had been so developed that they even brought the shower and toilet into the room.
The reason why Deng Fei did not take them to Beihai Town to settle down was not because he was afraid of revealing some secrets, but because these people were so smelly! Even the Earl of La Peruz had not taken a shower for more than half a year, and he sprayed a lot of perfume when he got off the boat, so he almost fucked Deng Fei who was shook hands with him!
Deng Fei was busy receiving the smelly French in Whale Town, while Yudeliz received the envoy of the Li Dynasty in Beihai Town.
The envoy group that Li Chao came this time was much larger than last time, with a total of more than 20 people; in addition to Li Shangyi, Li Douhuan and Kong Xiaoyuan who came last time, the team was led by a civil servant named Cai Jigong.
Cai Jigong, who is 68 years old this year, comes from a southern family and is now the leader of the Li Chaonan People's Party.
Eight years ago, after the fall of the powerful minister of the Li Dynasty, Hong Guorong, was detrimental to Cai Jigong because the atmosphere in the court was not good for Cai Jigong, and he was afraid that he would be liquidated by the opposition. So he ran to Mingde Mountain near Seoul to hide for eight years. Even if Li Yu was appointed many times, he did not take office until the beginning of this year. He was originally asked to serve as the Ping An envoy, but Cai Jigong was extremely supportive of the Li Yu and Beihai Town and voluntarily sent a mission to Beihai Town.
This time they came here, entrusted by North Korea King Lee Ho, to rediscuss with Zhao Xin about the ownership of the southern foot of Changbai Mountain and the land south of Jiangyuan, and to solve the long-term occupation of Jeju Island by Beihai Town.
In fact, since the news of the Northern Navy's occupation of Ningguta reached the Li Dynasty, Li Xu could no longer sit still; after all, what Zhao Xin said to Kong Xiaoyuan once made Li Xu angry back then.
Now that the Northern Navy has occupied Ningguta, Hunchun will soon become its possession, so the territory will not be avoided. Li Chao and Dai Qing played a trick, and they occupied a large piece of territory in a trick, but they were revealed by Zhao Xin. If they really insisted on not admitting their conscience, instead of being trampled on the ground by Zhao Xin's soldiers, they might as well admit their conscience first.
As Zhao Xin's plenipotentiary representative, Yu Deli and Cai Jigong had a cordial and friendly conversation.
Cai Jigong first expressed King Li Xu's congratulations to King Zhao's capture of Ningguta, and recalled the friendly history of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea in the pre-Ming Dynasty. After expressing his feelings, he went straight to the point.
"Mr. Yu, the attitude of our king is that if Beihai Town rushes south to expel the Qing Tartars, our country will fully support both manpower and material resources. However, can we slow down the land south of Jiangyuan? Our country has invested a lot of manpower and material resources there and has been development for more than 70 years. If we withdraw, where will those settled people settled? How come our country is also the vassal of the Ming Dynasty!"
Yu Deli's answer was direct: "Mr. Cai, put the issue of Zongfan aside first, and we do not intend to compromise on the issue of territory. You used tricks to cheat me from the south of Jiangyuan and the southern foot of Changbai Mountain, and must be handed over."
Cai Jigong was very persuasive, but when he saw that Yu Deli was not in the air, he proposed to wait for King Zhao to come back in Beihai Town to continue the talk. Yu Deli did not comment and thought to himself that you are waiting for him? Hehe, there will be a good show at that time.
Chapter completed!