Time flies into mid-June. During this time, the Intelligence Bureau and the Public Security Police Department have become increasingly strict in the review of immigration from Zhili and Sichuan.

Almost as Duan Wenjing and other gossip believers were arrested, a group of believers of the Hunyuan and Hongyang Sects from eastern Sichuan were also found. What's more important is that more than 20 spies sent by the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of War and the Zhili Governor's Office were seized, and several of them were even entered the steel factory construction site in Boli Town.

However, no matter how big the net is, it is impossible to kill all the fish. The long border between Beihai Town and the Qing Dynasty determined this reality. During the review process, some examiners and public security police were eager to make contributions, some immigrant families were scolded and suffered unjust grievances, and were eventually sent to the coal mines in the Essay Land.

This has just ignited some people's longing for future life, but it has been extinguished with the deprivation of personal freedom. It cannot be regarded as the most ironic tragedy in the development of Beihai Town.

The subsequent effect caused by the large-scale review was that Beihai Town began to target the expulsion of Russian merchants from East and West Siberia, and the first to be affected were the five masters of Baiber City.

Liu Sheng was about to conquer Mongolia in southern China, and the southward movement of a large number of Northern Navy may lead to the unstable again in the Baikal area. So at the instruction of Zhao Xin, the governor of Baiber Province, Zhang Jingxuan, with the cooperation of Liu Sheng, mobilized troops from all over the country to quickly arrest the five major merchants, Siberyakov, Milenkov, Basin, Dudorovsky, Suredovs, and their minions, and seized all real estate.

The superficial reason for Beihai Town - what can be widely publicized to calm public opinion is that in recent years, the five masters have regularly conveyed information about Beihai Town to the Tsarist Russian officials by taking advantage of the opportunity to do business with Tsarist Russia. They have accumulated a lot of evidence in their hands, including personal and physical evidence.

The deep reason is that the five masters have no commercial use value to Beihai Town, and because they have mastered a large amount of land around the town, it has become the biggest resistance to the development of the Baiber area.

The Jewish group in Tulum Jewish Autonomous County can completely replace them and is more loyal to Beihai Town. Zhao Xin plans to take this opportunity to collect the trade in fur, tea, rhubarb and textiles in the entire East and West Siberia into state-owned, give the Jews shareholding and let them work for themselves.

Private large businessmen with industry monopoly characteristics must never appear under the rule of Beihai Town! Even if there is one, it can only be Zhao Xin himself.

After the five people were arrested, the trial was completed in just two days with Governor Zhang as judge. Faced with a large amount of evidence, Siberiakov and others knew that the situation was hopeless and said nothing was useless. Beihai Town wanted to deal with them this time.

Zhang Jingxuan then announced that all real estate of the Five Lords would be confiscated as a punishment to warn those merchants who were flirting with the Tsarist Russian officials. However, given the efforts made by the Five Lords in the East-West trade and the construction of Baiboer cities in the past two years, Beihai Town allowed the five Lords prisoners and their families to retain their personal gold, silver and wealth, but would be escorted to Chiyan City and expelled from the country.

On the third day after the trial, more than 300 men and women sighed and cursed, cried and boarded more than a dozen closed four-wheeled carriages, and followed the wide road built by Tsarist Russian prisoners.

In late June, Hong Liangji and Liu Taigong, who had been studying at the Beihai Town Administrative School for more than half a year, suddenly received an appointment from the Civil Affairs Office. Liu Taigong will go to Ningguta and serve as Cao Peng's deputy as the deputy commissioner of the Ningguta Regional Administration. Hong Liangji was sent to Hunchun, and he is also the deputy commissioner of the Ningguta Regional Administration. However, his task is to deal with immigration from the Li Dynasty and be responsible for negotiating with officials of the Li Dynasty on this issue.

In the past six towns in Hamkyung North Road, Lee Chao, have secretly crossed the Tumen River and entered the jurisdiction of Beihai Town to settle down. Some of them are traveling between the Tumen River, clearing land and farming in Beihai Town during the day, and rowing back at night.

Originally, the emergence of Beihai Town made the Lee Dynasty have a second intention towards the Qing Dynasty, but Zhao Xin did not refuse to surrender to the Lee Dynasty. He came up and brought up the territory of Hamkyung North Road. After repeated negotiations, the Lee Dynasty was so angry that he had no choice but to adopt the drag-on method. As long as the Qing Dynasty and he was still bordered by him, he would continue to waste time with Beihai Town.

In fact, the king and minister of the Li Dynasty saw that Beihai Town was becoming more and more powerful, and had already begun to make preparations in advance, that is, to try their best to squeeze the six towns before Beihai Town drove the Qing Dynasty out of the pass. If it could not be kept, how many more bites could be eaten.

After the Battle of Hunchun, Naqitai brought 5,000 people into North Hamgyong Road, and then the Qing court sent 5,000 green camps over. The arrival of more than 10,000 Qing troops made the lives of the people in the six towns even worse.

Originally, the food and salary expenses of Naqitai and others were borne by the Qing court, and it would not bring much pressure to the government and the people of the Li Dynasty. Qianlong even asked the Lifan Court to inform the envoys of the Li Dynasty and give more rewards. But the problem was that Li Xu's monarch and ministers had already planned to fish in North Hamkyung, so the officials of the six towns took advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army and horses to make various exploits to make it more difficult for the people who could only barely live a life of life.

The northern part of the peninsula is already barren with many mountains and few plains, with stones everywhere in the ground, and the people have to bear heavy responsibilities. Therefore, the large fertile wilderness on the northwest of the Tumen River has become a huge temptation for the many farmers struggling in poverty living on the southeast side of the Jiehe River.

For Beihai Town, it is okay for the Koreans to be naturalized, but not now. Now the Qing army has deployed a large number of troops in North Hamgyong. Faced with the Koreans taking boats across the river to farm during the day and finishing work at night, who knows if there are any spies among these people?

Previously, Cao Peng also asked Mishilang, who was stationed in Hunchun, to send people to negotiate with officials of the Li Dynasty. In order to prevent the loss of tax personnel, the Li Dynasty set up dozens of outposts on the south bank of the Tumen River to block the border, and issued a ban on crossing the river, imposing the penalty on the offenders.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! However, when the people of the Li Dynasty were oppressed by officials and could not survive and their lives became increasingly poor, the broad river water and severe punishments could not stop their desire to survive. The farmers began to cross the Tumen River in groups and enter the territory of Beihai Town.

At dusk, a flat-bottomed ferry came from Jiangbei to the south bank. The family came down from the boat, with a total of seven people, including the gray-haired old man and children of all sizes. They each carried a pocket, revealing a corner of the hoe, which was obviously a farmer who went to Jiangbei to farm. One of the middle-aged men in their forties carried the old lady.

Finally, a woman was disembarking from the boat. She put down the baby on her back, held it in her arms, then opened her clothes and prepared to feed the child. Suddenly, she screamed in surprise.

"Hey?" the woman shook the child in her arms and screamed in dismay: "His father!"

"Ah?" the man turned around.

"This child..." The woman was about to cry and looked at her husband with an anxious look on her face.

The man held the old man behind his back with both hands, lowered his head and looked at it, his eyes suddenly widened. He stretched out one hand and touched the child's forehead, then reached under the child's nose, and his face immediately dimmed.

"Ouch..." The woman could no longer help but burst into tears. The originally quiet ferry was soon drowned by the crying of the family.

The bearded boatman sighed and said, "I have been ferrying here for eight years. I have seen those who died on the cross-river boat at least dozens of times."

A young man on the same boat asked sadly: "How did they die?"

"Some people die of starvation, some die of illness, old people, children, alas, this world!" The boatman's voice revealed infinite sorrow.

At this time, a leaf floated upstream, crossed the side of the boat, and then drifted down along the water. Where will that leaf land?

"How is the business recently?" The young man has been leading a donkey on a boat every month this year, so he is already very familiar with the boatman.

"I'm running errands for my boss. I can't control the business. I'll take whatever I give to you."

"Oh, that's right."

When the young man came ashore and arrived outside Huining Town, it was already late at night and the stars in the sky were twinkling. He came to the entrance of an inn. A young woman of some beauty was still sitting in the room, as if waiting for someone.

"Ah, Yongba is here. I also said, it's time to come today. When it's not dark, the Jinshi Master will send someone to ask you."

"Boss, I'm starving to death, get some food!"

"I've been ready for a long time!" The proprietress immediately got up and went to the kitchen to serve wine and meals.

Yongba took off the roe deer skin, deer skin, marten skin and deer antler on the donkey's back, and then found a table to sit down. He was from Huining County, helped the servants at Cui Jinshi's house and ran errands to do business, but he was actually a secret spy who conveyed intelligence to the Qing army.

Since two years ago, he has traveled between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait under the name of doing business, and at the same time conveyed the information about Beihai Town submitted in Hunchun City. Every time he returned to Huining Town, he would live in this inn, hand over the goods directly to Cui Jinshi, and then bring the goods handed over to him by the other party back to Hunchun. As for the secret letters he had been entrained in the goods, Cui Jinshi would directly hand them over to a Qing military officer in Huining Town.

The next morning, Cui Jinshi, wearing a black hat, came hurriedly, but he seemed full of worries. As soon as he came up, he pulled Yongba into the inn and whispered: "Yongba, I have something to look for you."

"Master, please give me instructions."

"Can you stay for another night and set off tomorrow?"

“Why?”

"There are people going to the other side tomorrow. This is their first time. If you are not familiar with the road, you can go with them."

"If this is the case, is there anything that works? No problem. But can't you leave today?"

"They are not ready yet, so today may not work. You used to stay for two or three days, but this time you'll stay for one more day."

"You have said everything, then I'll stay for one more day."

"However, you must set off before dawn tomorrow. And when you hand over the goods later, just pretend that this is not the case. Never mention it to the person sent by Lord Zuo."

"Mr. Cui, you are..."

"You keep it first." After that, Cui Jinshi took out something from his arms and stuffed it into Yongba's hand. Yongba's hand sank, and immediately knew that it was five liang. He was a little confused. Five liang of silver was not a small amount, he just took people to the other side, and was not a guide. Why give so much money? Judging from Cui Jinshi's actions, maybe there was something unspeakable.

After a while, Cui Jinshi came with a Qing people again. The other party came every time and knew Yongba. The two sides had nothing nonsense, and handed over the goods to each other and immediately bowed and said goodbye.

Early the next morning, Yongba stood at the intersection and waited for a long time before vaguely seeing a few figures coming from a distance. It was Cui Jinshi and the others who came.

Yongba widened his eyes and looked at the people following Cui Jinshi. The two people following Cui Jinshi seemed to be from two classes. One was a middle-aged man in his fifties, wearing a black hat and a white robe, looking handsome; the other was a graceful and beautiful girl with skin as cream and a face as peach blossoms. She was dressed very neatly and dressed with a piece of clothing on her head.

The Book of Rites says that when a woman goes out, she must cover her face. Korean aristocratic women usually sit in sedan chairs when they go out. If they don’t sit in sedan chairs, they need to cover their heads with clothes to prevent others from being seen.

He was very puzzled. Who were they? Why did they quietly leave in the early morning when others were still sleeping? He hurriedly met and said to Cui Jinshi: "Master Cui, are they?"

"Yes, you have to take good care of them along the way!"

"Where do I have to send them? Is it done if I send them across the river?"

"To be honest, these two people have no clear where to go. You'd better take them into Hunchun City and find an inn to settle in. How troublesome it is."

When Yongba heard Cui Jinshi's words, he was a little frightened: "Master Cui, what you said makes the villain really ashamed. Since you have given all the instructions, the villain will definitely do it properly."

"I heard that your name is Yongba?" Mr. Lin, who had been standing next to him without saying anything, spoke.

"yes."

"Cui Jinshi said that although you are young, you are kind-hearted and honest and trustworthy, so we, one of the old and one of the young, plan to follow you. Do you understand?"

When the morning light was dim, Yongba and the other two boarded the boat crossing the river. Although they made a cruel decision to leave, once they really set off, Mr. Lin felt very confused about the prospect. What kind of place is the north bank of the Tumen River? It is said that under the rule of the King of Zhao, everyone was fierce and unruly, disrespectful to etiquette, and did not learn from Confucius and Mencius. It is really not a livable place for scholars.
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