Edo Traveler

Vol 10 Chapter 44: Langley builds a fortress

For the respecters, not only Ii Nao is annoying, but Ando Shinmasa is also annoying. No matter how the two people quarrel, they are at least those with vested interests, and naturally they must try to protect their vested interests.

   And those respectable elements, from time to time chanted something "Tianzhu Country Thief". It's just a random killing. Many people even kill someone with a name and a surname for the sake of fame. No matter good or bad, the killing is over. The entire shogunate, including Chuemon and others, were all on the assassination list, but they hadn't even started their hands in a group.

   How to deal with this kind of "blind flow"?

   Of course, it’s best to kill the thing, physically destroy it, so that it can never cause trouble. But the social conflicts are already sharper. If you kill every day, the inconsistency will really cause chaos.

   "How many people have been resettled by Kata in the front?" Ii Naobi accepted money from the British and promised to build a town directly opposite Nikolayevsk.

   "There are about eight or nine hundred people." A subordinate officer raised his head and replied.

   "Order the Edo Minami Town Office to conduct a detailed screening of the residence registration under the city. If there is no guarantee, the original origin will be issued first. If the origin is not required, immediately call Beihuatai."

   Very good, no one objected. Although these "blind currents" are not necessarily bad people, but for one of these reasons, there are a large number of esteemed elements hidden in them. Anyway, Ii Naobi is a feudal ruler and needs to be unreasonable with you. It is better to kill by mistake than to let it go.

   He has already arrested a group of beggars and exiles and went to Beihuatai, and now it is not unusual for him to send another group of "blind streamers".

   As for the placement fee paid by the British? hehe……

   As far as the construction of the city in Beihuatai was concerned, the progress was quite smooth. For nothing else, I just said that after the British and shogunate officials rushed to the boundary of Nikolaevsk facing the sea, they were surprised to find that this place actually had a small village with a population of several hundred.

   After careful investigation, it is very strange that this place was originally the Nanghaer Weizhong Thousand Households Institute set up in the Ming Dynasty. Although there is no actual city wall, there is a fence. You forcibly define Weizi as a certain kind of building, which is very inappropriate. A circle of wooden sticks is also called Weizi. The rammed earth or even brick-clad village fort walls that are five or six meters high in Henan and four or five meters later are also called Weizi.

   Anyway, there is a Weizi in that place, and there is a village in the Weizi. This place is regarded as the center of trade and life in the northern part of Huatai Island. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, the Ming court basically abandoned the rule of this area. However, the Qing court's restraint in this area was rather stable.

How stable is   ? Sure enough in history, the Russian army has been stationed in this place, and the Russian flag has been planted. There is actually a small tribe headman holding a package in this place and carrying fur to Yanjing to give to the Emperor Tongzhi.

   Until this matter was discovered by Tsarist Russia, and then Tsarist killed the local area, and by the way, after the remaining indigenous people were also killed by various diseases brought by Tsarist Russia, this place stopped paying tribute to the Qing court.

Regarding the shogunate’s dispatch of personnel, the local indigenous Ainu people, or those people called the Kuyi people or the Kuye people by the Qing court, did not realize that their fate had been brought to the British Empire and united with the major powers in the world. The country has decided.

   They welcomed the officials of the shogunate very warmly. In this area, Jurchen is transliterated as "Langri", which means "big mouse". To put it bluntly, there are certain larger rodents in this area that can hunt fur. As a village and town facing the estuary of the Amur River, it actually maintains a relatively prosperous trade route.

   Specifically, the leaders of ethnic minorities in the outer and northeastern regions go to pay tribute to General Shengjing and other officials stationed here by the Qing court each year. Of course, they may also be directly led to pay tribute to Yanjing. Then the Qing court gave them things like silk and silk cloth. What they needed was kept by themselves, and what they didn't needed was transferred to Huatai Island.

   Huatai Island, through land and water, successively sold those silk fabrics that were not used by ethnic minorities in the northeast to Ainu people in the Ezo region. In the Ainu portraits handed down from later generations, the Ainu leader often appeared in the image of the Ainu leader wearing the clothes bestowed by the Qing Dynasty.

   It is not that they have accepted the gift of Qing Dynasty, but that they have relatively frequent trade with the northern Huatai and the ethnic minorities in the Amur River Basin.

Even sometimes the Ainu people on Huatai Island would go south to buy the furs of the Ezo Ainu people, especially bear skins and mink skins, and then transfer them to the Qing court in order to obtain “thin and thick exchanges”. reward.

   The outside world knows too little about this area, it can even be said to be almost nothing. That is, the explorers and map surveyors before the shogunate had entered this area and even had exchanges and trade with these Ainu people.

   For example, Mamiya Rinzo, the Japanese explorer from whom Mamiya Strait was named, conducted a comprehensive survey of the entire island of Kata and the southern Kuril Islands. He even went to the Deleng office set up by the Qing court in Heilongjiang and participated in the Ainu tribute to the Manchu court~www.wuxiaspot.com~Langri became a British concession!

   It was as simple as that. The British and shogunate officials who arrived told the local people that they changed their surnames to the British Empire. The local people were baffled by this, because a few years ago, a group of Russians also came here to raise a flag. They also asked them for furs, and they rallied and beat them away.

   Nowadays, the British and shogunate officials did not ask for fur. Instead, they took out rice and grain and hired local people to build wooden houses. Of course the Ainu people have seen rice. The officials of the Qing Dynasty in the west and the shogunate warriors in the south all eat this stuff.

   It's fair to hire them with food. In addition, the shogunate has a specialized interpreter who can speak Ainu and can communicate with them without barriers, so the early cooperation is quite pleasant.

But the happiness ends here. The British think that the small **** where Langley itself is located is a very suitable place to build a castle, so they negotiated with the Ainu people to buy the whole Langley for 500 pounds. Tuen. He was asked for money from a hammer, and money had a fart to the Ainu.

   Fortunately, the shogunate officials who had been in Ezo for a long time took out many small knives and iron arrows to trade with the local Ainu. People like this stuff, it's good, it's really good.

   They are not a settled ethnic group. Once wrapped in a deerskin tent, they went straight south. Because winter is coming soon, you will have to freeze to death here. Leave two people in the built wooden house, prepare enough firewood and grain to burn for four to five months, and carry it.

   The **** is given to you...

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