The journey from Koriyamasu to Naganohara-cho of Takasaki Band is a long one. Although the two places are only more than 500 miles apart from the map, the traffic conditions on the island country roads are too backward. Not to mention Ah Mei and the others, even if Daming goes to Edo to teach, he often delays on the road due to traffic problems.

Look, the group encountered heavy rain two days after setting off and stayed in the lobby for one night. When they were about to leave the next day, the guide learned from the town people that the river five miles ahead could not pass due to the mountain torrent.

Li Qingwen didn't believe this evil, so he asked the village chief of Suchang Town to lead the way and check the situation in person. When he arrived at the place, he was stunned and saw that the water depth of the place where he could pass was more than 1.5 meters, and the water flow was turbulent, which obviously could not get through.

"Where is the ship? Are there any ships nearby?"

Among the guards accompanying him were naturalized people from Mu Ao. After listening to the other party’s translation, the village chief explained embarrassedly: “Sir, we are in the mountains and there is no ship.”

Li Qingwen asked: "What should you do if you encounter this situation before?"

"When the water recedes, it will pass."

"How long will it take to wait?"

"It's really hard to say. When the rain stops, the water recedes. According to past experience, it may be two or three days, or five or six days. It delayed the itinerary of the Celestial Empire, I'm really sorry!"

After getting such an ambiguous answer, Li Qingwen rolled his eyes helplessly. He had to go back to the hall and explain the situation to everyone. There is no way, wait.

Although A Miao and his team were delayed, the village chief of Suchang Town was secretly happy. Although A Miao and his team were only more than 30, the expenses for food and accommodation were quite high. Everyone lived in medium and high-quality rooms, and the rent for each room was 180 to 200 yuan per day. In addition, there were more than 50 horses, and it was a lot of money to supply horse materials.

However, the people who made the town people even happier were still behind. The guards had either left the island country for many years or had never been here. They had to find something to pass the time when they were idle, so they went to shops in the town to stroll around. Good guys! They didn't buy any other local specialties, refreshments, and snacks, and they didn't let go of them. They gave them shiny silver coins at checkout, which made the boss crazy.

You should know that in this year, Suzuba Town, under the shogunate rule, pays attention to not opening for half a year, and it is open for half a year. The annual attendance and explanation is the main source of income. The rent for ordinary travelers is not enough to be stuck in their teeth. If you meet a group of people who are so generous in Beihai Town, the town people will make profits from it from top to bottom, and they will laugh out loud in their dreams at night. They would like to live such a distinguished guest for five, six, seven or eight days.

Li Qingwen was not interested in shopping in the shop. He got up early every day and was sweating in the yard. Then he went back to the house and dismantled and wiped his pistol. Fortunately, his wife, Chen Jishan's sister, also came. Although the couple didn't stay together, they always had the opportunity to talk, or even pass by, so that they would not be too bored.

A Miao was also anxious. Before she came to the island country, Zhao Xin said that after the commemoration of his relatives, they would get the matter done when they went back. Although Zhao Xin was a bit promiscuous and could not give her a title or a wedding banquet, she didn't care. Whether it was Shen Xuan, Wang Zhenyi or Tang Xiao, she felt that she was the only person who could accompany Zhao Xin to the end.

"Dofu, what do you think he is doing now? I miss him. Do you think he is thinking about me too?"

When he heard the "slave" ask a question, Duofu, who was lying in A Miao's arms, closed his eyes and hummed. A Miao sighed and said, "Oh, you can't understand even if you say it."

Duofuxin said I don’t understand? I’m all wives and concubines, okay? The person you asked may be where to go now.

......

Well, Zhao Xin is indeed roaming outside, but he is not roaming around.

At the end of May, he inspected the steel plant in Boli, and took the guard company to board three modified armed speedboats, traveled with Jiangxi, and then turned to the Songhua River, passing through the Sanxing, Hulan, Alechuka and Bodune and other places, and landed onshore to inspect the spring plowing and sowing situation in various places. By the time he arrived at Linjiangmen Wharf outside Jilin City, it was already mid-June.

Linjiangmen Wharf was the location of the Qing Dynasty's water camp and shipyard, and was located outside the west gate on the southwest side of Jilin City. After the Northern Navy captured Jilin City, the water camp was transformed into the garrison regiment's garrison.

Because he was notified in advance, when Zhao Xin got off the ship, all officers above the garrison battalion came to the dock to line up to greet him. The person in charge was his former guard company commander, Chen Jishan, the current commander of the Jilin garrison regiment.

"salute!"

Zhao Xin replied to the gift and greeted Chen Jishan and others with a smile. Whenever he shook hands with the officers present, he would call out his name without waiting for the other party to introduce himself, which surprised and happy the officers.

Speaking of which, officers above the North Sea Barracks must participate in short-term training classes hosted by Zhao Xin before getting promoted. Before each class starts, he has to read the resumes of the trained officers with photos and write them on his own notebook. After he even memorized them, he asked Shen Xuan and A Miao to block the text and guess the names only by looking at the photos. Therefore, although there are hundreds of regiment-level officers at the North Sea Barracks now, Zhao Xin knows who they are as long as he sees them, and can accurately say the number.

Zhao Xin asked himself that he did not have the talent to remember, so he could only use stupid methods to make such things, and he could not take any tricks.

"How is it? I just came here and I was not blamed, aren't I blamed me?" Zhao Xin patted Chen Jishan's shoulder and continued to look at the north direction of the city: "Has the wooden wall on the north been demolished?"

Chen Jishan said: "All of them have been demolished. All the wood has been sent to the brick kiln for firewood."

Zhao Xin said again: "How is the publicity for the residents in the city?"

The deputy head of the delegation in charge of propaganda said: "There are radios in the city and in the gates every day, twice in the afternoon. The people did not understand at first, but later they understood the truth and supported it. Many families took the initiative to go to brick factories outside the city to find work, and said they were waiting to move into the large blue brick building."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhao Xin nodded with a smile and said, "Before winter this year, Jilin City will complete at least half of the house renovation. If there is another fire, I will only ask." After that, he turned to the officers beside him and said with a serious face: "The same is true for you."

"Yes. Ensure the completion of the task."

What they talked about was the comprehensive renovation project of Jilin City. The reason for major reform was that local fires were too frequent, basically a small fire every two years and a large fire every four or five years. From 1790 to 1791, a large fire occurred in Jilin City under the Qing Dynasty for two consecutive years, burning more than 8,000 houses. If it weren’t for the rich local timber resources, tens of thousands of people would have been displaced.

The former Jilin General Hengxiu even followed the advice of an employee who understood Feng Shui and asked someone to make a "fire avoidance map" on Xuantianling outside the north gate, trying to suppress the fire with the Kan hexagram representing water. It was ridiculous.

After the Jilin City was captured last year, the Civil Affairs Bureau quickly sent people to inspect it. They found that wooden buildings in the city and the various parts of the Guanxiang were more than 99%; not only were the main streets paved with logs or wooden boards, but even the gutters on both sides of the street were inlaid with wooden boards. In addition, except for the warehouses where the government stored grain, all the houses, whether large or small, were made of wooden boards as walls, and the roofs were covered with bark or thatch. Because fire was to be burned for heating in winter, residents usually stored a large amount of firewood in their yards.

Just this, what are you waiting for if you don’t wait for burning?!

After the inspection team returned, they wrote a report, suggesting that the entire Jilin City be renovated, otherwise it would be possible to see a fire again next year, and it would be too late to cry. In fact, not only Jilin City, but also Alchukka, Lalin, and the city of Dashula have the same problems, but because the population is not as large as Jilin City, the fire problem is not prominent.

So after the beginning of spring, the engineering team sent by the Civil Affairs Bureau selected a site outside the city; in April, the land was frozen, and the required large brick factories began to be built. In addition, it was not enough to have a brick kiln alone, and there were supporting charcoal factories and even coal factories. With projects, there were people working, and a large number of Qing troops who were idle because of surrender had to do things. When they had money, they had to consume, buy grain and cloth, and support their families. The originally bleak market in Jilin City also flourished.

Zhao Xin stayed in Jilin City for five days. In addition to inspecting spring farming, he also inspected the brick factory under construction accompanied by Chen Jishan. The main project of the entire brick factory is two oval deep pits used to burn bricks and a 20-meter-high chimney, which made local people amazed after hearing this. Many people came to the construction site to watch with no problem.

On June 20, Zhao Xin left Jilin City, took a boat south, turned the Huifa River through the Songhua River, and after three days of land trekking, he arrived at the base of the North Navy Eastern Front Command, Weiyuan Fort on June 27.

This is commonly known as "willow edge". The so-called edge wall is not a city wall at all, but a dike of three feet wide and high. Three willow branches are inserted every five feet on the dike. Each willow branch is then connected with a rope to cross willow branches, also called "willow-knot rope". On the outside of the dike, deep trenches are also dug to prohibit pedestrians from crossing.

As soon as he saw Deng Fei, the other party asked with a smile: "Have you brought everything?"

“That’s a must.”

"Okay, I'm looking forward to you here, so I can wait for the rice to be put into the pot."

"The troops have been mobilized? The mission book has been sent?"

"Check the time you arrived, the mobilization meeting held yesterday."

"Well, I'll go to the warehouse tonight."

"learn."

The two of them were talking about code words, but they were actually talking about the summer and autumn combat plan of the Eastern Front troops. This was a huge combat plan drafted by the General Staff of the North Navy, and after repeated modifications, and finally signed and confirmed by Zhao Xin. The mobilized forces reached 14 regiments, including migrant workers, and the total number of mobilized as more than 50,000. In addition to the garrison regiments left behind in various places, the garrison battalions and some new recruits, the North Navy was in full swing this time.

More than ten days later, the Eastern Front troops will dispatch a huge force of eight regiments to launch a general attack on the Qing army entrenched outside the pass in the vast area from the Liaohe River to the south of the Daling River. This time, Zhao Xin will completely solve the Qing army outside the pass.

According to the battle deployment, the Eastern Front troops will first launch an attack on Changtu, Kaiyuan, Tieling and other places south of the Willow Border Wall with six regiments, and then attack Shengjing directly.

In addition, the Navy will dispatch a land regiment, plus a fleet of ten sailboats, take Mokuowei as the starting point, bypass the peninsula, first attack Lushun, then attack Fuzhou, Xiong Yue, Gaiping, and Niuzhuang, and eventually capture Jinzhou, forcing other prefectures and counties in the inland Liaodong to surrender.

In order to cooperate with the offensive outside the pass, the Qing Dynasty was unable to transfer most of the troops in the pass to the north. Jiaodong area will also dispatch four regiments to launch an attack on the three prefectures of Laizhou, Qingzhou and Wuding under the command of Sheng Haizhou, and recovered them in one fell swoop. Among them, Wuding Prefecture is in the northernmost part of Shandong, facing the Bohai Bay in the east, Tianjin in the north, and Jinan in the south, and is only more than 500 miles away from the capital. Once the place is taken down, the Qing court will feel very uncomfortable.

The more the war comes, the more calm the atmosphere will be. Although Zhao Xin and Deng Fei are already very careful, even the military supplies are brought by Zhao Xin in person to avoid attracting the attention of Qing spies, the Qing army in Changtu and Kaiyuan still smells an unusual smell. First of all, there are a lot more drones flying in the sky than in previous days, and secondly, the North Navy reconnaissance team is very frequent.

The Qing Dynasty fought with the Northern Navy for so many years, and although they suffered a crushing defeat every time, their experience value has been increasing. They are so familiar with the style before the Northern Navy takes action.

Let the monster birds go out! The whistle is striking out! Then the cannons are rushing! When they wake up, the soldiers are already carrying fire guns.

So two days later, the emergency reports from Changtu and Kaiyuan were delivered to Shengjing almost at the same time. Five days later, the Military Affairs Office in the Old Summer Palace received a six hundred miles of emergency sent by General Shu Liang, Shengjing, late at night.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting contents below! In the past, emergency military newspapers from all over the country were sent directly to Qianlong's imperial guards. No matter day and night, even if the eunuchs were asleep, they had to wake him up. However, since the beginning of spring this year, the 83-year-old Qianlong became increasingly ineffective, sometimes awake and sometimes confused, and many things were powerless to deal with. So Heshen, who had the power to take action, made his own decisions, and all memorials must be reviewed by him first, and then submitted by him personally according to the urgency of the matter.

Heshen did not go back to his own garden today, but stayed in the hut of Gujiatun. He slept very lightly, and Liu Quan woke up as soon as he entered the house. He turned over and sat up, and saw the candlelight. Liu Quan held a letter in his hand and asked casually: "Where did you hand it over?"

Liu Quan asked his son Liu Yin to hand over a hot towel to wipe Heshen's face, and said, "Master, the 600-mile emergency report in Shengjing is reported. The envelope has a purple seal with a 'expressed' on it. There are three chicken feathers on the sealing side. One stick of incense was just delivered to it."

"When is it?"

"It's just passed the second hour of the Chou."

Heshen took the hot towel handed over by Liu Quan's son Liu Yin and wiped his face. Then he took the letter from Liu Quan, and sat under the lamp in his clothes to take a look. Because he had just woken up, his face was expressionless at first, but after looking at the memorial, his expression dimmed and his face became gloomy and pale. He put down the letter, got up and walked back and forth in the room, sighed to the sky, shook his head, "I really want to come whatever I fear most! Change my clothes, I want to see the emperor."

"Master! The Emperor is still asleep at this time, so why not..."

Before Liu Quan finished speaking, Heshen had raised his hand to stop him, and leaned over to the other party and whispered: "Zhao Ni is going to attack Shengjing."
Chapter completed!