On the day of the gun test, in order to have a deterrent effect, Zhao Xin specially asked the modern people, two people from Lu Pan, seven people from Sheng Haizhou, and Serdan and his son to each fire a cannon.
Although it was a bit wasteful, it was very effective. Except for the modern crowd, everyone else knelt down in front of Zhao Xin and once again expressed their loyalty.
In fact, what Zhao Xin is most worried about is the people in the island country.
After landing at the mouth of the Xila River, he will lead a six-member team from the security department to the island country to attract the refugees from the island country to farm. This large-scale immigration will inevitably cause conflicts with the feudal lords and the shogunate. If Katsu Kaishu and the seven others accompany him,
If someone is tempted by the shogunate and becomes swayed, it won't cause much damage, but it will have a certain impact on morale and people's morale.
For this reason, Zhao Xin specially held a review meeting on the night after the test gun. The participants included himself, Liu Sheng, and Sheng Haizhou.
At the beginning of the meeting, Zhao Xin explained the next step of immigration plan. Sheng Haizhou and others expressed their approval, because this was originally the plan that had been determined in October last year.
Next, Zhao Xin mentioned the conflict with the vassals and the shogunate.
"If we take away a large number of refugees this time, the first one that will conflict is the Sendai Clan. Because the Northeast is the richest region of the Sendai Clan, and Ishinomaki Port has prosperous trade, there will be a lot of refugees fleeing here. My plan is
Five thousand refugees will be taken away from the area around Ishinomaki Port, not single ones."
After saying this, Zhao Xin paused for a moment, and then observed the reactions of the seven Sheng Haizhou people. Among the people, except for Sheng Haizhou who looked at Zhao Xin as if he had something to say, Li Ji and the other six people all looked at him seriously, with excited faces.
color.
It is said that today's test cannon had a great impact on everyone. As everyone fired frequently, large holes were blown out one after another in the frozen sea, and the blown ice fragments and splashing sea water were more than ten meters high.
Not to mention the previous complete victory of eleven against more than one hundred Qing soldiers under the leadership of Zhao Xin, after the seven Sheng Haizhou witnesses personally witnessed the powerful weapon capable of "destroying the country with one shot" today, apart from fear, they were left with nothing but fear.
Everyone was excited.
With such a powerful weapon of the country, who can stop the lord's ambition? We only need to serve the public wholeheartedly. One day the lord will reward us with Miao characters and knowledge passed down from generation to generation, life will not be so beautiful!
"Lord, what should we do if the Date family stops us?" Katsu Kaishu bowed and asked.
"Then hit him until he dare not stop him." Zhao Xin said lightly, with a very relaxed tone. In addition to temporarily avoiding the Manchu and Qing Dynasties and focusing on developing agricultural bases, other countries such as North Korea, island countries and even Tsarist Russian armed expeditions, then
It’s all vegetables!
"The second person who will have conflicts is the shogunate." Zhao Xin continued to see Sheng Haizhou.
There was silence in the room. I was preparing to fight with the General!
However, everyone understands that they are people who have left their country and left their hometown; to the shogunate, they are not even "inhumans". In this case, follow the lord wholeheartedly and fight to the end.
It is said that the reason why the Tokugawa shogunate was able to maintain its rule for more than 200 years was that it relied on the hierarchical system of "three up and three down", which made the domestic class extremely solidified. It was precisely through this division of social classes that its rule was very solid, which can be said to be
Solid as a rock.
The third one is the daimyo, the emperor and the samurai; the third one is the peasants, townspeople, and marginalized people (brothels, monks, Ezo people, and foreigners). Of course, in addition to this, there are a large number of untouchables (filthy people and inhumans).
Among the "Seven Samurai" present, except for Katsu Kaishu, who is a former samurai, Rikichi and the others are actually "non-humans", that is, wandering beggars who have lost their fields. (Don't be fooled by the chic daily life in period dramas.
, those are all deliberately created appearances.)
Now following Zhao Xin, they have got rid of the "inhuman" class. Don't the quasi-samurai masters have to go back to work as pariahs for the Tokugawa family? Then they are really "the third among the eighteen weapons".
Katsu Kaishu looked at Li Ji and others, and then suddenly realized that the lord is worried about himself! No, I have to show my loyalty immediately.
"I follow my lord for the justice of the world, not for the sake of the general and the vassal family!" Sheng Haizhou leaned over and saluted, impassioned.
Zhao Xin nodded slowly. Since he had expressed his loyalty, let's not mention it for now and let everything depend on action. He planned to find Jiuzang privately after the meeting to give further instructions.
After the council meeting, Zhao Xin was about to go to Wang Yuanfang to talk about something, when Lu Shoushan came with Serdan and his son.
By the way, after Liu Siting came and rebuked Zhao Xin for being a Mongolian doctor, Zhao Xin also knew that he had menstrual cramps and made a lot of jokes when he gave Serdan a tetanus skin test, and even misled little A Miao.
.Due to this mentality, Zhao Xin was always a little embarrassed when facing Serdan, a simple hunter.
"Sit down, everyone." Zhao Xin asked the three of them to sit down and asked casually: "What's the matter?"
None of the three dared to sit down. Lu Shoushan glanced at Serdan and then said cautiously: "Master, after Serdan recovered from his injury, he saw that other men in the camp had short hair, so he and Elu also wanted to follow suit.
.So I hope you can allow it, sir."
"If you want to ask me for a haircut, can't he just find someone by himself?" Zhao Xin asked strangely.
"Master, Serdan wants to become your servant as a servant." Lu Shoushan explained with an embarrassed look on his face.
Let me go! It turned out that I was sent to my door to be a slave.
Zhao Xin immediately couldn't laugh or cry. Although I have accepted your allegiance, I don't want you to be my slaves!
He immediately asked Lu Shoushan to translate for him. After explaining for a long time, he finally made Serdan understand that the rule in the camp was that there were no slaves, and he himself did not need slaves. Although Liji and his wife had surrendered to him, Zhao Xin did not
Let the couple work around him all day long, doing whatever they have to do.
"Don't shave your hair. I allow you and your son to keep your braids for now. Maybe it will help someday." Zhao Xin explained to Serdan and his son.
Regarding Elu, Zhao Xin meant that he should first follow Wang Yuanfang and the others every day and train for a period of time. There is no need to follow him like a tail all day long. This kid sometimes even follows him when he goes to the toilet.
This made Zhao Xin very embarrassed.
"Everything depends on the master. Whatever you ask me to do, I will do it." Elu expressed his thoughts without hesitation.
After hearing this, Zhao Xin nodded helplessly. Take your time, it is not easy to change these people's inherent concepts.
Regarding Serdan, Zhao Xin hopes to be responsible for communicating with the local aborigines after arriving at the new camp.
In fact, the aboriginal people in the outer northeast are not that simple. They make a living by fishing and hunting every day, and do not do farming. Whenever the fishery resources cannot meet the demand, they will plunder.
It is said that in the Kashin year (1644), the year when the Manchus entered the customs, Takeuchi Toemon and others, a businessman from the island nation of Echizen, took a boat to Matsumae. Due to a storm on the way, the boat was washed away near Huiharu. As a result,
After these islanders landed, they were deceived by the local natives and planned to exchange rice for ginseng.
The next day, three indigenous people came to the island merchant's boat. In order to ensure smooth business, the merchants entertained them with food and wine, and then sent more than 40 people to follow the indigenous people up the mountain.
When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, the indigenous people hiding in the surrounding grass took the opportunity to shoot these island businessmen with bows and arrows. In the end, only thirteen people escaped by hiding in the grass, and were later captured. Then,
These natives returned to the island nation's merchant ship, robbed the ship's cargo and attacked other people on the ship.
Later, the indigenous people distributed the captured fifteen island merchants to various villages to serve as slaves. Later, in order to please the Manchus, the indigenous leaders presented the fifteen captured people, Japanese knives and other items to Shengjing. (Note)
This is a typical example of fearing power without being moral. Zhao Xin does not want to make the same mistake again. If there are aborigines at the mouth of the Xila River, let Serdan deal with them first; if communication fails, then resort to force to drive them out.
Don't think about something under your nose all day long.
In the next three days, as the temperature continued to rise and the sea water washed away, the large pieces of broken ice on the sea gradually disappeared. After soliciting the opinions of Liu Sheng and Deng Fei, Zhao Xin decided to leave the island in two days and move towards the mouth of the river to the west.
Set off.
Although the current total number of people in the camp is less than 200, considering the more than 200 Mongolian horses, Zhao Xin still activated the Thor cargo ship.
At this time, the three characters "Thor" had been painted with waterproof paint on the right side of the bow and the stern. A group of refugees and the dozen or so prisoners of the Qing army were shocked when they looked at the mountain-like ship anchored in the bay.
It was a complete mess. Some people were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and kowtowed, thinking that the gods and monsters in the sea had appeared.
For those ten prisoners, compared with this big ship, the Hunchun Shui Camp's sailing boat was like a mosquito and a tall horse. There was no comparison. The prisoners who were originally a little arrogant were frightened to the point of urinating.
They collapsed on the beach. When they were escorted onto the patrol boat later, they thought Zhao Xin was going to send them to be eaten by sea monsters, and they were so frightened that they even shouted for mercy.
Lu Shoushan, Pan Xiucheng and Serdan's gang were even more shocked by Mr. Zhao's methods. They believed that Mr. Zhao, Mr. Liu, and Mr. Wang must be among the gods, otherwise how could they control such a mountain?
Ordinary giant boats can come and go as they please.
Among these people, it was a group of "well-informed" island country refugees who quickly calmed down after being shocked by the sight of the Thor. Mainly due to the magical methods used by the island country refugees against Mr. Zhao.
I only saw him once or twice.
"A bunch of bumpkins." The refugees in the island country looked at the frightened prisoners of the Qing soldiers and Lu Shoushan and others on the beach with disdain. They felt contempt in their hearts. Where are you from? We adults have many magical methods. Slowly
Take a look.
Transporting people back and forth is nothing, but transporting more than 200 horses back and forth is quite a struggle for Zhao Xin and others.
Zhao Xin couldn't bear to call Serdan and his son and Hengji. With everyone's help, the two patrol boats went back and forth for a long time before transporting all the horses to the cargo hold on the freighter.
When Zhao Xin was halfway through the transportation, he wanted to throw all the horses on the island and wait for the Qing soldiers to take them away. However, Wang Yuanfang reminded him that these horses would be precious labor after arriving at their new home, and at the very least they would not be used.
Go spend money to buy it.
Yalha, who has just recovered from a serious illness, is constantly comforting the horses in the warehouse that were frightened after boarding the ship. He will be responsible for caring for these horses during the voyage together with veterinarians Liu Zheng, Serdan and Hengji.
Taking one last look at the empty camp, Zhao Xin turned around and boarded the patrol boat driven by Liu Sheng and headed for the freighter.
Since the water depth around Bear Island was insufficient, after the Thor left the bay, it deliberately made a large circle to the south before turning to the northeast.
After entering the ocean, Liu Sheng increased the speed of the ship to 25 knots (46 kilometers/hour). Since the sea distance between the two places is only more than 100 nautical miles, even if they go around a long way, it will take about four or five hours at most.
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After more than three hours of sailing, the Thor arrived at the ocean two kilometers south of Solenji Island.
This is the easternmost island among the fourteen islands in the South China Sea. In the Qing Dynasty, when the Huichun Garrison Banner Camp inspected the South China Sea Islands every year, the furthest they went was Solenji Island.
(Note: What is even more interesting after this is that after officials in Shengjing found out the whole story, they sentenced the three natives who participated in the deception to fifty lashes each, and treated the fifteen island captives kindly, and gave them clothes and
food and deliver them to the capital.
This group of fifteen people received more generous treatment in the capital. Each person received three liters of white rice, one pound of pork, clothing, bedding, shoes and hats, etc. every day. In addition, the Qing court also sent servants to take care of their daily life.
, when he felt slightly unwell, the Qing court sent people to diagnose and treat him. Later, he was summoned and given a banquet by the princes and ministers. Emperor Shunzhi and the regent Dorgon also personally summoned them and comforted them personally.
A year later, the Qing court asked North Korean envoys to bring these people back to North Korea, and then they returned to the island country from North Korea.
It was not until these fifteen people returned home that the Edo shogunate learned that Korea had become a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and that the Ming capital and Nanjing had fallen.
Based on the oral accounts of these merchants, Edo Town compiled a book called "Tatar Drifting".
At that time, Tokugawa Iemitsu also summoned his ministers to discuss whether to send troops to support the Ming Dynasty. As a result, he later received a report from the Nagasaki town official, saying that Fuzhou had fallen and Zheng Zhilong had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. The Tokugawa shogunate then notified all the princes who were preparing to send troops to cancel the dispatch.
In 1646, in a letter written by Itakura Shigemune, the governor of Kyoto, to his nephew Shigemiki, he revealed the information that the shogunate was preparing to send troops: "Send to the Ming Dynasty by boat, prepare to capture the city formation, and be on standby to march... Nothing will happen to the Ming Dynasty before setting off."
For other changes, the ferry boat must not be destroyed. Please inform me first and burn this letter after reading it."
This was obviously because the shogunate had clearly issued some kind of order to his close confidant Itakura Shigemune, and Shigemune disclosed this internal intention to his nephew accordingly.
Comprehensive analysis of various data and archives from later generations shows that the Tokugawa shogunate at that time was actually afraid that the island country would be attacked by the Qing Dynasty like North Korea, so it was prepared to strike first.)