In late September, five large inland sailboats full of passengers traveled east from Heilongjiang City and finally arrived at Boli Town, located on the east bank of the Ussuri River, on the east bank of the Ussuri River.

"Dou~~Dou~~"

"All recruits are careful! Get off the boat! After getting ashore, stand in line and don't walk around at will!" With the loud orders of the officer, more than 200 recruits on the five boats began to disembark one after another.

This was the first batch of new soldiers recruited from Heilongjiang City to Humal in response to Wang Yuanfang's order, namely the Soren soldiers. A small half of them were wounded soldiers left by the Qing army after retreating from Heilongjiang City. After treatment by the North Navy military doctor, they were basically cured and became fierce again.

Wen Dai, a new recruit from Ewenki, first checked his carry-on backpack and confirmed that there were quite a lot of things inside. Then he fastened the bag. Before the people in front had finished walking, the boat tent was a little messy. Wen Dai and his comrades around him stood up, then he carried the backpack on his shoulders and stood up.

When he walked out of the boat cradle covered by the oil cloth, snowflakes fell on Wen Dai. However, Wen Dai did not feel cold at all. Compared to the distant upper reaches of Heilongjiang, he felt that it was much warmer here.

When Wen Dai stepped onto the dock with his feet, the bustling crowd immediately came into view. The noisy scene made the recruits dazzled. In the past, except for going to Heilongjiang City to pay the capita tax every year, they had never seen so many people in any place.

"This, this is too lively!"

"Walk in step~~"

The newly recruits who had finished lined up, maintained a relatively neat formation under the leadership of the officers, heading to the station two miles away on the east side of the pier to rest and have dinner. In the afternoon, they had to continue to go south by boat; heading south along the Ussuri River, cross Xingkai Lake, pass through the Niyalinbila River, and switch to the Lefu River, and finally transfer to the training base in Beihai Town by land transportation.

The crowds on the road saw hundreds of Northern Navy troops coming in line, and they all made the way open the road. They looked at these people who were eating the "Ministry" with envy, and said vocal. Among these people, there were Hezhe, Oroqen, Xibe, Feiyak, Han, and even a few island people with moon-date heads.

Li Bi, a former exiled prisoner of the Qing Dynasty and is currently a clerk of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Beihai Town in Heilongjiang City, was a Manchu translator who accompanied the team. He wore a grass-green cold-proof suit without armbands and breastplate, and a green cotton hat with drooping ear protection. He walked smoothly behind the team.

In a tavern, several Xibe people in animal leather dresses were listening to the operas coming from the electric speakers, imitating them. After Li Bi heard this, Zhan Yan smiled and couldn't help but shake his head and hum.

"...I also sent someone to inquire, and Sima led his troops and headed west. It was not because Ma Su had no plans and had few talents, but because he lost Jieting because the generals were incompatible."

Unlike those recruits, Li Bi was just on the way and worked as a part-time translator this time, which was a temporary recruitment by the army. Because he cooperated with Guo Dalu in Heilongjiang City this year, after Guo Dalu reported to the Civil Affairs Bureau for approval, Li Bi was allowed to go to Beihai Town Central Hospital for scar surgery to eliminate the tattoo on his cheek.

When Li Bi received the notice, he burst into tears and kowtowed three times in the direction of Beihai Town to show his gratitude to Zhao Xin. After years of shame, he was finally able to get rid of it, and no one will stare at his cheeks again.

At this moment, his face no longer had the gloom he used to be. He looked at the shops and stalls on both sides of the road with a smile, and was in a very good mood.

Li Bi heard Guo Dalu say that the emerging town he is now in will be the most important water and land hub of Beihai Town in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, connecting the upper and lower reaches of Heilongjiang and the Ussuri River. At the same time, the planned railway will also be built on the other side of the river, connecting to Aihui City.

The road paved by steel! When Li Bi heard Guo Dalu's rough description, he was immediately fascinated and wanted to see the day when the construction was completed as soon as possible.

Since various supporting factories related to railways must be built in Heilongjiang City and Boli Town in advance, the equipment and a large number of engineering materials produced from Beihai Town must first be transported to Boli Town, and some of them must be transferred to Heilongjiang City. Therefore, there are endless freighters and sailboats coming and going south and west here every day.

Especially now that winter is approaching, the task of transporting materials is even more urgent. In addition, the border residents who come to trade from all over the country, the busyness of water traffic in Heilongjiang is almost as busy as the Grand Canal. After the waiting flat-bottomed sailboats on the pier are filled with cargo, they will make a "thump" sound of motors heading west.

Since last year, after the Northern Navy occupied Ningguta and Sanxingcheng, the Qing court and the entire middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang River, the waterway and land transportation in the Ussuri River Basin was completely interrupted, which also means that the Qing Dynasty had implemented the "Wulin appreciation" system in the northeast for more than 150 years, which has been declared to collapse.

Although the Wulin was gone, the "barter" trade had to continue to be retained, otherwise the border residents in the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang would be difficult to survive. Therefore, the "large financial subsidies" of the Qing Dynasty to the border residents were transferred to Beihai Town every year.

Last June, the trade department under the charge of Shen Jingdan sent dozens of clerks to carry a large amount of supplies to Delenenmu City on the shore of Qiji Lake under the escort of the North Navy. Through barter trade, a large number of food, cloth, silk, cotton and needles and threads that they urgently needed were sold to rural tribes in the northeast inexpensively.

At this moment, the border residents of each surname and village finally let go of their hearts. They still presented items to Beihai Town by tribute, hoping to receive rewards.

However, what surprised the border residents in various places was that the "official officer" in Beihai Town clearly stated that from now on, the method of tribute rewards will no longer be implemented, but will adopt barter and fair transactions. The Beihai Trading Company, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Trade, purchased various mountain goods brought by border residents, and then sold various daily necessities to border residents.

Because Liu Sheng's wife is Hezhe, villagers from Balk Village easily accepted this method and quickly promoted it among the border residents. However, what made some border residents feel depressed was that no one wanted the Haidongqing, which they used to pay tribute.

However, what made the border residents overjoyed was that the goods given to them by the King of Zhao were actually more than the Qing Dynasty before.

In addition, for the reward of food and brocade, those Feiyaka and Ainu came from Kuye Island thousands of miles away, because Beihai Town already had many strongholds for trade on Kuye Island, so there were few people coming.

Moreover, every time the Thunder and the Thunder go to Kuye Island to refuel, they will bring a batch of daily necessities to supply the villages and towns along the way. Therefore, the Kuye Feiyakar and Ainu people can easily exchange the goods they need from those villages and towns. Barter is also OK. If you don’t have any goods, you will do odd jobs for a few days, dig a coal, cut down some trees, and help repair the road. You can make money anyway.

What surprised the border residents the most was that there was a magical "white iron pot" in the goods provided by Beihai Town. This kind of pot can stew food like an iron pot, and is also very lightweight, which is 100 times better than the dilapidated and heavy iron pots in their homes!

In the previous "Reward Wulin" trade, the Qing court was extremely strict with the output of iron tools, and no iron tools except needles were rewarded to the border residents. In fact, the Qing Dynasty hoped to maintain stability in the northeast of the outside world through this means to avoid fire in the backyard. You should know that Nurhaci and Huang Taiji slaughtered too many border residents in the conquest of various wild Jurchens in the northeast of the outside world.

Zhao Xin didn't want these border residents to cast weapons after obtaining iron tools, so he launched aluminum products. Speaking of which, in another time and space, only one ton of aluminum plates is more than 17,000 yuan. If you buy hundreds of tons of large pots, it is estimated that it will be fine to use them for decades.

People from the trade department announced to border residents in various places at last year's "Foreign Northeast Trade Conference" that the next year's trade conference will be held in Boli Town. In order to facilitate everyone's trip, inland passenger ships from Delenen to Boli Town will be specially opened. It will take two days to go downstream.

So starting from June this year, border residents carried large and small bags of goods every day, boarded a roaring inland boat to Boli Town for barter, and more of them came here in fast horse boats and canoes full of goods.

From June to August, the river bank of Boli Town was filled with dense canoes and fast horse boats. At the most, more than 10,000 people gathered inside and outside the town, which was unprecedented.

At that time, the bonfire on the river bank illuminated the sky at night, and the singing of Imakan from Hezhe people was as lively as the song contest in the later movie "Liu Sanjie". When Zhao Xin, who was on the front line of Xiaobai Mountain, heard about it, he was fascinated and decided to go and see it next year.

Although winter is coming, in the newly built market in Boli Town, there are still Oroqen, Hezhe and Feiyakar people coming from the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, selling their own commercial goods, hoping to exchange for some winter supplies after selling them at a good price.

Here are various mountain products such as pine nuts, hazelnuts, mushrooms, etc. picked from the mountains in autumn; there are prepared fish hair, dried fish, various jerky meat, as well as leather products and fish bone pendants made by the Hezhe women; there are also Dongzhu, as big as soybeans and as small as rice grains, wild ginseng, deer skin, bear skin, fox skin, badger skin, etc., which are dazzling.

Some of these goods will be purchased by Beihai Trading Company and shipped to Furdan City or Beihai Town for sale, while some will be exchanged within the border residents.

The "Beihai Trading Company" in the Boli Town Market is the largest local entity engaged in private trade. It sells grain, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, needles, threads, various cotton cloths, silk, aluminum kitchenware, fishing nets and fishing lines, and steel hardware tools produced by Beihai Town.

Don’t worry, steel is different from iron. The border people have the ability to melt iron, but they are powerless to do anything to steel.

Because of this, the trading company also sells well-made steel short knives and feather arrows with steel arrows. Although many border hunters are jealous of them, if you want to buy these, you must be residents who settle in the town. When purchasing, you must not only have someone to guarantee it, but also register so that local security police can come to check from time to time.

In addition to the big market, the most popular thing among the border residents is the medical site opened by Beihai Town Central Hospital in Boli Town. At present, doctors and nurses in Beihai Town have been verbatim among the border residents and are known as "white-clad messengers"; those cold and trauma that were difficult to treat in the past will be cured as long as Boli is used to cure medicine. Many young children in the homes of the border residents are spared from premature death due to the medicine in Beihai Town.

As a result, more and more border residents settled around Boli Town, and settlements of all sizes appeared on both sides of the Yangtze River and the south.

As more people are coming, the public security situation is becoming more and more complicated. Conflicts between border residents occur frequently, and even bloody fights and murder cases begin to occur, causing local public security police to be overwhelmed. Faced with this situation, the General Administration of Public Security Police not only dispatched personnel from Beihai Town, but also selected honest and decent border residents from local residents to join the public security police. At the same time, it adopted the Qing Dynasty practice and implemented the "Baojia joint position system".

So in the past two months, the number of fights has finally decreased. There is no way to go, and legal education has a long way to go!

Two days later, the sailing fleet that transported the recruits finally arrived at the dock in the upper reaches of the Lefu River. The recruits will take a car from here and head to the North Navy training base more than 100 kilometers away.

Since Beihai Town acquired Ningguta and Hunchun, Zhao Xin has considered moving the training base to Zhuergen City to make room for Zhao Liang's factory area.

In early September, the engineering survey team under the Civil Affairs Bureau went to 25 kilometers west of Jurgen City to survey and select a site for the new training base. The entire project is expected to be completed in the next year, and the new training base will cover an area of ​​400 square kilometers, and can accommodate up to 10,000 people to conduct training at the same time.

This year, Beihai Town has expanded the scale of the salt manufacturing plant, opened a new hardware factory, a casting factory, an ordnance repair shop, and a workshop for imitating hand-held tractor motors. In addition, in order to produce imitation rifled guns to provide them to the "Military Army", the military factory will also expand its scale and open a "fire hat" production workshop.

Let me put it simply, the manufacturing of fire hats is not as some people think, just with thunder mercury. The detonation drug of a fire hat contains a variety of components such as thunder mercury, dextrin lead nitride, tetraazene, etc.; and the ratio, density, particle size and dosage of various components are strictly required. The ignition effect determines the ballistic performance, and the reactants generated after the explosion cannot harm the weapon.

After the sample is manufactured, multiple tests of temperature, humidity, sensitivity, ignition ability, and even transportation vibration must be carried out. It is not smooth all the way with thunder and mercury.

If you don’t find the best ratio and go through various tests, what if the soldier is carrying it on his body and blow it up? This is not something you can do if you push it to a team of Taoist priests who are good at alchemy!

After the recruits got off the ship and landed, the first thing that caught their eye was more than a dozen grass-green shed trucks parked a hundred meters away. These recruits from the upper reaches of Heilongjiang had never seen the truck. They all felt that there were neither horses nor cows on the front of the truck.

"Everyone has noticed! Everyone has it, and get on the bus in shifts! Each car has two shifts!"

"Yes!" After Li Bi finished translating the order, more than 200 Ewenk and Daur recruits responded in simple Mandarin.

The Northern Navy had more rules than the previous Qing courts. The recruits only conducted preliminary queue training in Heilongjiang City, requiring that they could answer orders in Mandarin and no longer say "yes".

When Wen Dai and his companions climbed into the truck's car, a group of new recruits began to whisper, trying to figure out what kind of animal the car was pulled by.

A new recruit named Rapini, who was sitting next to Wen Dai, said confidently: "It's either a horse or a cow, what else can I do?"

Wen Dai touched the back of his head and said, "But there is not even a shaft in the front of the car."

"Everyone is ready! The car is about to drive!" Li Bi shouted loudly in Manchu according to the officer's order. In fact, he didn't understand how the car was to drive it. He just heard it on the boat, and the officer said something about "angry car".

It's so fresh, what does it have to do with the car? When Li Bi thought of this, he couldn't help but breathe at the snowflakes all over the sky, then followed the instructions to the passenger seat of the second truck and closed the door.

“Hook the seat belt!”

"What?" Li Bi turned his head and looked at the driver, not understanding the reason. So the driver shook his head helplessly, leaned over and helped him button it.

"Boom boom boom!" The roar of the truck engine finally interrupted Li Bi's random thoughts. As the body of the car swayed gently, Li Bi's upper body leaned back and the car slowly started.

"What's the reason for this?" Li Bi's chin almost hit his feet, and he turned his head back and forth, left and right.

"Sit down, don't move around!" The driver was also the North Haijun. He just said something and ignored it. He had seen too many such scenes. When he first learned to drive, he was even more frightened and his butt was urinated.

At this time, those Sauron recruits were more demented than Li Bi. They were crowded at the rear of the carriage where they were, staring at the roar of the truck behind them, which had no cows or horses.

After the convoy drove onto the road for more than ten minutes, the speed gradually accelerated. Suddenly, a group of silly roe deer suddenly jumped out in front of the first truck. The driver suddenly braked suddenly, and the trucks followed him also braked one after another. Boom~~ The carriage was suddenly overturned, and the recruits who were standing and watching the strangeness fell into the carriage.

"Ouch!"

"Rapini, you're crushing me to death!"

"Wen Dai! Move your butt away!"
Chapter completed!