Chapter 140 Sprinkle Coal
"It's really unbelievable..." After holding the letter, Chang Adai still felt that it was not so real and said, "I don't know how much the prince has spent to get this letter."
Obviously, what Chang Adayai couldn't believe was the content of the letter. It was hard to imagine that Fulin, the former Qing emperor, would persuade his son to surrender for the empire.
"I heard that the prince asked someone to build a tomb for the former woman in Fulin in Hetuala, and moved it to the funeral. Perhaps there are other transactions, which I can't know." Wu Yifeng said with a smile.
Chang Aday knew that the woman was Fulin's favorite concubine Dong E. He still remembered that when Fulin was reigning, he wanted to die for that woman. Building a tomb and relocating a burial for her was not a great grace, but it also hit the key point. After the establishment of the empire, the entire Qing Dynasty clan was liquidated, and only a group of surrendered people such as Mandahai were pardoned and graced, but they were also placed in the Jilin Appeasement Zone. All property in the pass was either confiscated or sold at a low price.
Not only were there no property of Manchus and Manchus in the pass, but most of the tombs buried after entering the pass were moved. Not only did the Aisin Jueluo family in Shenyang and Liaoyang also moved to Hetuara. This was handled by Chang Adei's father Mandahai. Although the Resident Court also allocated some funds, it was really limited. Mandahai only handled the tombs of Manchus who surrendered to the empire. The rest were left out. Some of them had fame or blood, and some of them moved their bones back home. Most of them were directly divided and wrote a name on Hetuara's monument, which was moved in the graves.
"Oh, by the way, in order to keep you safe, the prince also brought you a helper from the Changping War Criminals Management Office." Wu Yifeng seemed to have just remembered this and said briefly.
It was lunch time that Chang Adayai saw the so-called helper, which was a Soetu captured in Shandong. The son of Sony, the most important official of the Qing court in northern Mobei.
Chang Ade and Soetu know each other well, but things are divided into people, and there is nothing much to say. Chang Ade specifically talks with Soetu for a while for his life, and understands the use of this guy.
The replacement of prisoners is an important task for this mission to Mobei. The empire needs to have someone to prove that one side of the empire did not abuse Aisin Gioro Fulin. Obviously, no one said that the people of the Qing court would believe it. It would be better to find a loyal slave who would accompany Fulin all year round. Although Soetu had to follow Mobei, he had to follow him back on his return journey and continue to serve Fulin in Changping. Of course, this is theoretically, if the Qing court was not happy, he could only beat the dog with meat buns.
"Chang Aday, I don't understand. I don't see you having any friendship with the prince on weekdays. How can you give birth to the prince and value you so much? In order to save your life, Buzi is indefinite. Could it be that your father or President Li, who has always protected you, helped you with some way?" Wu Yifeng saw that Chang Aday and Soetu had no conflict, so he felt relieved and asked a question that had been buried in his heart for a long time.
Chang Adai smiled and shook his head: "My father has always been steady and never made friends with ministers in the capital without authorization, let alone the prince. President Li has no energy. Lord Wu, if you think about it carefully, the prince is the empire's most hope for a good result. It's better to convince the Qing court to go to the country, surrender to the new dynasty, and attach to Liaodong."
Wu Yifeng asked: "Why?"
Chang Aday smiled and said, "This way you don't have to fight."
"No need to fight? Then the Northern Expedition..." Wu Yifeng said in surprise, suddenly awakening. If this is the case, the Northern Expedition would be meaningless, and the King of England could no longer make achievements at this time. After all, it was the battle for the throne. Wu Yifeng figured this out and couldn't help feeling that he was too underestimating the prince. Perhaps because of watching the prince grow up, he always thought about the obedient and good child. Now it seems that the prince is not only thoughtful, but also has strategy, and is not a gentle and harmless image on weekdays.
"The dragon gives birth to dragon and phoenix gives birth to phoenixes, and the children of rats can dig holes. The ancients did not deceive me." Wu Yifeng sighed.
When the delegation arrived at Guihua City, it had been renamed Yunzhong City, and it was also the headquarters of the General Appeasement of Yunzhong. However, people coming and going were still used to calling Guihua City, after all, this name has been called hundreds of years.
The prince hid in the mission and arrived in advance. The prince's ceremonial guard was still in the Zhangjiakou area at this moment. Wu Yifeng knew that the royal family liked to visit privately. After many years in the attendant's room, he had been on duty in the Forbidden City since the establishment of the empire. He was unfamiliar with this. Except for the queen, the royal family often left the palace, and even the emperor was no exception, but it was only a few times.
"Old Wu, thank you for sending me here. The burden of the mission is on you and the two of you. Please." At the city of Guihua, Li Junhua said goodbye to Wu Yifeng and the others. If he had not followed the mission, the queen would not be assured that he would have been on a tour in a very condom. Now that he has arrived in Guihua City, the mission will continue to go north after contacting the Qing court, and Li Junhua has to wait until the ceremony comes to show up again.
Wu Yifeng was not so worried. The people around the prince were good at it, and the emperor arranged it deliberately. He had no skills and courage and knew the rules. Wu Yifeng took out a bronze medal from his arms and handed it to the prince, saying, "This is given to you by Prince Cheng. It is convenient to act in the local area with this thing."
The bronze medal is naturally the brand of the Security Bureau. All sectors of the imperial society know that they are picketing and arresting, imperial power licensing, and local governments dare not disobey. They can walk horizontally in the place with this thing.
"I understand, let's go." Li Junhua smiled and accepted the bronze medal of the Security Bureau, but he felt that Lin Junhong had become a mother-in-law and mother. There was a genuine security bureau captain among the guards around him. Do you still need to give him a token?
The mission entered the city and the guards whispered: "Young Master, where are we going?"
"Get up, let's walk north and look at the side wall." Li Junhua said.
"I dare not go to the side walls. The Tartars often send elite cavalry to attack the clouds over the vast sea. There are also local horse thieves who are causing trouble. It is not safe to climb over the Daqing Mountains." The guard was embarrassed. He did not expect that the young and old prince was so radical and had a big problem for him as soon as he got up.
Li Junhua patted the guards on the shoulder: "Of course I won't take my life to risk my life. If we pass the danger of Daqing Mountain, we won't just go bigger than Daqing Mountain."
A group of seven or eight riders headed north, got off the official road, and followed the path. The river had farmland on both sides, and the distance was far away was grassy pastures. On the busy road, camels and horses were constantly traveling. They often saw cavalrymen in the Yunzhong Appeasement Zone, many of which were vassal soldiers, and their riding skills were very good. While galloping, they competed with riding and shooting skills from time to time. Li Junhua saw it and was not stingy to praise them at all.
"Young Master, let's stay away from the camel caravan. Don't get a bunch of manure." The guard pointed to a camel caravan in front and reminded.
Li Junhua saw that there were more than a hundred camels, which were rare large camels, but they stopped not far from the roadside, pulled open the camel box, pouring something down, black and throwing piles of them. Li Junhua frowned and asked, "What did they throw?"
"Eighty percent are pouring manure." A guard came up and said, pointing to the surroundings: "Young master, the surroundings are very flat, and there is a small river in the distance. It's just early spring, and the grass is so high, obviously very fertile. Eighty percent of them want to reclaim it as farmland, and first pile up livestock manure, which is also a good fertile field."
"The wind comes from that direction, but it doesn't smell bad, and I don't want to see the feces balls." Li Junhua looked at it with a telescope, sniffed the air, and saw no smell. Moreover, in the telescope, the things that the people dumped were piece by piece, and if they were feces, they would be considered to be large pieces.
When I approached the camel caravan, I saw that the small black piles on the ground were not feces at all, but coal dumped on the ground. The guard dismounted and took one. The coal was shiny and shone with the handle of the knife and broke it into pieces. The texture was clear, and it was obviously not coal gangue.
The others also picked it up and saw it, and someone came from the camel caravan shouted: "Those young people, these are the coals of the official family, you can't take them. Report to the yamen and be careful to hit you!"
Li Junhua smiled and asked, "Since it is the official coal, why are you dumping it on the roadside?"
"This is the military order of the Pacification Office!" the old man said with his chest straight.
Li Junhua didn't believe it: "Since it was a military order, why did you deliberately spread coal everywhere? What's your intention? Could it be that the Appeasement Office shortened your wages, and you deliberately took revenge on the government?"
"You young man is talking nonsense. The commissioner of the office is here. Why are you slandering people so much?" The old man suddenly became anxious, and Li Junhua looked at the camel caravan with his hand. There was indeed a man in uniform inside, directing the camel caravan to dump coals.
"Go and call him." The chief guard took the horse stool from the horse, asked Li Junhua to sit down, and ordered him to his subordinates that he was unwilling to let the prince approach the camel caravan. The camel was very dirty and smelly. The prince was spoiled and could not be treated with that kind of smell.
Soon, the secretary ran over and bowed to salute. Obviously, the guards must have scared him with the sign of the Security Bureau. "Sir, Wen Xi, what are you asking?" Wen Xi asked with a smile on his face.
"You made them pour these coals like this?" Li Junhua asked.
Wen Xi nodded repeatedly: "That's what the superior ordered, uploading and posting, but the small ones did not change at all."
"Oh, what errand did you give you?" Li Junhua became even more excited.
Wen Xi pointed to a large open space around and said, "Spread two thousand stones of coal on this land, just like this, five steps are piled up, no mistakes are allowed. It will be completed within three days. Shangguan will come to check it in a few days. If the quantity is insufficient or the sprinkled unevenly, he will be scolded."
Judging from Wen Xi's appearance, it seems that this is not the first time I have done this. Li Junhua asked: "Why are you giving you this job? This is coal and cannot be used as a fat field. What's the point of sprinkling so evenly?"
Wen Xi scratched his head: "These Shangguan didn't say anything, they just let them do this..."
Seeing that he was eager to speak but stopped, Li Junhua obviously had nothing to say. He lifted up the corner of his robe, revealing the copper waist plate hanging below, and scared him: "If you know what you don't say, or what you say is not true, I have to ask you to go there."
"Don't, sir, please spare me. The above really didn't say why this was done. It was a little speculation." Wen Xi hurriedly knelt down. He did not dare to offend the people of the Security Bureau. He has listened to the affairs of the Security Bureau many years, especially when the military discipline was rectified before and after the New Year, the officials who committed the crime would rather follow the military police than be arrested by the Security Bureau.
"Then let's talk about your guess."
Wen Xi said: "I think it may be a war, and a big war is going to fight. Maybe the court will fight the northern expedition of the Tatars, so we arranged for us to store coal here in advance for fuel."
"Fuck, are you also called storing coal?" The guard thought he was lying and scolded angrily.
Wen Xi quickly explained: "That's true. The officials may not know that the troops cross the mountain pass of Daqingshan. In the future, the soldiers of Guihua City will leave the city and cross mountains and ridges northward. They must camp on both sides of the river. When camping, they must use fuel to chop wood and cut firewood. How can they use coal blocks? I think, when the troops are used, the tents in the camp will be spread out like this, so it is convenient to use it. I guess it is this plan, so it is stored like this."
"There is no need to sprinkle it like this. Wouldn't it be easy to make a few piles here?"
Wen Xi explained: "This is not possible. If the cavalry of the Tartars crossed the Daqing Mountain and a few people came to light the coal pile, what should I do then? Wouldn't it be transported and stored for nothing?"
"It's true that this is the reason. Even if the Tartars want to destroy it, there will be no such many things." Li Junhua said with a praises. He asked again: "But there is one thing I don't understand. You just throw coal to the ground like this. There are many villages nearby. What if the villagers come to steal it?"
"Steal coal? They are doing this. If it is a pile of manure, it may be gone that night. The pile of coal is piled up here and they will not steal it." Wen Xi seemed to hear a funny joke and laughed. Seeing that the people around Li Junhua looked bad, he quickly explained: "In fact, the vassal flag servants near naturalized and the flag servants are distributed intertwined and formed a mutual aid unit. One village contacts a subordinate. In order to move to a village in winter, the herdsmen can move to the village to live and feed cattle and sheep with the villagers' straw. The premise is that the herdsmen must first go to several coal mines around the city of Guihua and use their cattle and horse carriages to help the villagers transport coal as fuel to obtain the straw of the villagers.
Chapter completed!