In Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui), Zhuludu, at the estuary of the river, was next to a new water village in Dukou City.
Not long after he moved to the local area, his assistant coach and coach Shu Diqi, also just had a delicious meal of bacon. The oily residue and bacon that are fried with pickled fat and shredded, dry-fried together with the watery dried beans and eggplant, and then covered with freshly pounded yellow brown rice, simmered in water and cooked until cooked, it can be said that there are vegetables and meat but oil and salt Full.
After he had eaten and drank enough, he hiccuped his newly issued firearms. Although he was born as a crossbowman of the Shence Army, he also feels a little handy when using these Taiping Army firearms. Therefore, he quickly split it on the felt and placed it neatly, and rubbed the pieces of fine fur one by one.
Compared with the three-eyed blunderbuss that resembled one-handed clubs obliquely inserted into the waist of others, he got a short-handled wide-mouthed blunderbuss with a foot length. Although this is also a firearm with pre-charged medicine, it can spray a large piece of iron slag or lead to damage the enemy within ten steps. It is much more convenient than the three-eyed gun that beats hard by the beard. It is constructed in pieces. It's also more and more complicated.
Therefore, as soon as he had the time, he took it apart and carefully cleaned it up, so as not to let this firearm, which has been used for a certain number of days, and did not know how many hands had been turned; in the daily soot, dust, rain, and sweat. Under the influence of, there is a risk of inoperability; this is almost a fatal result in the battlefield.
And this is also one of the few relaxation and pleasures of his busy intervals in his daily military duties. It’s just that this kind of relaxation and fun won’t last long. They heard the assembled whistle and asked them to tidy up and hang up again. The whole team drove to the ferry outside the water village to welcome the new ship. The arrival of the team.
At the same time, before and after blocking the water village at the mouth of the river, a long line of large and small river boats waiting to cross the border into the river was already moored. It's just the strict requirements of the corresponding inspections. Everyone must come out and register, and more than a dozen doctors in white robes in front of the trestle will check the articulation, armpits and pulse one by one, so that the progress of the passage can be truly passed. I can't get up all the time.
On the contrary, from time to time, people cried and screamed that they were dragged out of the ship by the Taiping soldiers, and then twisted into the isolation camp set up by the shore. And in several partitioned areas, there are already a lot of people gathered in hula la. There are both men and women but there are few young and old, and they have their heads shaved and are uniform in plain hemp pullovers on board.
There are also some suspicious people who are secretly entrained, and they will try to jump off the boat with a guilty conscience when they encounter the inspection; or some people hide under the bottom of the ship by the water and want to pass the customs without hesitation; then they will not hesitate to pass. His bows and crossbows were blasted and killed in the clear river, and they were buried with the fish and shrimps.
Therefore, in the wild market crowded with people outside the water village, some people also talked about it after exchanging rumors and insights:
"The Shenguang prefectures in the north also had the epidemic. As a result, a large number of people ran here. It is said that many Huaixi soldiers and their relatives were mixed in it. Therefore,"
"Of course these people who have escaped are impulsive, but the new villages and villages set up by our governor's house will at most harm some of the melons and vegetables that have not yet been harvested; but the local people in Zuojin Township are miserable..."
"It's true that the countryside is ruined and corrupted, and they can't compete with those from outside. These local middle-upper and upper-class families will race to flee."
"Of course, the people who can come by boat to escape the epidemic and military disasters are at least rich or above the home of the middle-aged. As for the poor, whether they will have their lives out of the country is still unknown?"
"Where is your farm, you really don't care about it, let the people who fled from the north are ruined."
"How can it be done then? The time epidemic has come so fiercely that the whole village and the whole village are dead; as long as the people who can walk have fled, even if they leave the land, where can they find people to farm?"
"It's not that I didn't want to take the opportunity to collect more acres for the future. As a result, I couldn't even find the manpower to occupy the land, set up boundary markers, and draw up the deeds; everyone who could escape escaped, and the rest were hidden. The city is afraid of getting more epidemics, let alone worrying about going to the countryside..."
"Therefore, even if there are people in the town trying to sell all their fields, they have moved away from their hometowns with their softness. Even more people don’t stop doing it, and they simply devote their fields to the villagers of the peaceful thieves, please. Individuals are qualified to consider the asylum of the whole family. At least they still have spare capacity for farming, don’t they?"
"I don't want to sell my field, nor don't want to contribute to others for nothing, so I can only come out for a while, and wait until the epidemic is over. It's also a tight check if I want to get it. Now I am stuck here and cannot advance or retreat. Is in a dilemma."
Then someone broke in
"Then you still want to be so cheap? When you have a chance to go back in the future, I'm afraid Tian Ye has already been occupied by those poor sticks, or it is re-divided as a land of no owner..."
"Then what can be done, can the family stay in the village and wait for death? Maybe there will be a way to survive after passing Jiangtou! If no one is there, no matter how much land there is, wouldn't it be cheaper for others?"
"Don't you know that these bridge crossings that can cross the river are blocked? Those who want to cross the river have to be listed here, and it is good to observe that there is no other disease in the last one or two days before they can be released!"
"Could it be that no one dared to take a walk at night? Anyway, it is a huge river, and there are many fishermen on the water. Isn't there no brave man under the great reward?"
However, the person who said this was quickly turned to attention by everyone, and then someone said:
"You're afraid it's just coming from the inland. I don't know that this river is full of water ships patrolling the coast day and night! Earlier there were people who dived out of the road and were caught and dragged back. No more, do you know why?"
"Dare to ask why this is?"
The person who was onlookers couldn't help but shivered and said carefully:
"These boats, large and small along the river for dozens of miles, have all been confiscated; even if they can hide some of them, I am afraid that they will not be taken by people to sink the river when they are acting, so they will be fed fish, shrimps, crabs and turtles..."
Another person said: As soon as this was said, there was a brief silence and loss of voice in the crowd. Others clenched the grades they had already received, and suppressed all the flukes and misses in their hearts.
Compared with the strict restrictions on the transitional ships and passengers from the north of the Yangtze River, all kinds of transport ships from the south coast have arrived in an endless stream from China and Japan. After checking and loading and unloading the new batch of munitions, Ge Shudiqi still couldn't help but ask Si Ji Yuhou who was present:
"In other words, how come so many batches of military supplies that have crossed the river are mostly bottled drinks..."
"Naturally it is for the emergency needs of Qianqian and inland Zhuangzi?"
This secretary Yuhou didn't mean to conceal anything:
"After all, it is the time of the pandemic. It is sometimes inconvenient for all teams to get water in the wild. Even if it is obvious that the running water in rivers, ponds and ponds, there is a risk of being contaminated by humans and animals. Therefore, it is said that spirits can be used to kill the epidemic. And clean wounds, and light wine can be used as an alternative to drinking boiled water every day, in case of emergency."
"If you don't have enough time or firewood to boil the water, it is a sour and tasteless drink, it can also quench your thirst and save the emergency... In addition, there are many Jiu Yin (jiuqu) specially sent to make Polygonum glutinous rice grains. Well, when you need it, you can also use it to refresh your hunger and refresh yourself with cold food..."
In another corner of Huainan, in the Chuzhou Prefecture Zhishanyang City, Qin Zongheng, who has taken over the local city defense, also questioned the messenger from Caizhou with a full face:
"There are no reinforcements, what do you mean! Brother did not say that..."
"If you return to the third rate, the men and horses sent by the marshal have already reached Lianshuikou... but..."
The messenger sighed with a sad face:
"But what!"
Qin Zongheng couldn't help but stare:
"But suddenly I heard that the Shenzhou generation from Liu (Hanhong)'s dog head had a pandemic. They fleeed through the water in large numbers within the territory and had to turn back and think that they were intercepted, otherwise it would be poisonous and Cai Di!"
The messenger was startled by him and shouted again and again:
"It's unreasonable, Liu Goutou hurts me a lot..."
Qin Zongheng did not hesitate to yell at him: However, Sun Ru, standing on his side, had rather complicated eyes intertwined with others.
—I am the dividing line —
Compared with the relative calm of the war, he fell into the Huainan area where the plague was rampant; however, the Jingzhou Jiangling City became more and more heated. Because, after experiencing a lively three-day art performance in the city, a new round of national sports meets around the beginning of winter will soon be ushered in.
Yes, it is the National Games. As part of the folk entertainment fashion and custom-oriented "positive and beneficial" "military and civilian appreciation" advocated by the Metropolitan Government; public sports competitions based on the experience of later generations are undoubtedly a way of taking into account the participation, influence, and influence of the public. The declaration of national power and ruling power, changing customs and other multiple functions and implications, is a relatively cost-effective choice.
Therefore, not only the four roads and ten roads under the rule of the Metropolitan Government, but also the corresponding polo, cuju and fighting ball (rugby-like armored competitions), as well as some walking, running, jumping, etc., will be sent to the corresponding governance and key cities. In addition to the participants of basic track and field events such as throwing; the eleven military orders and the six defense areas of the Taiping Army will also arrange corresponding teams to participate.
Therefore, there will be more than 60 teams of all sizes; nearly a thousand athletes will compete in the same field in batches; plus the corresponding interval of celebrations, large and small business activities, articles and poetry selections and other public opinion propaganda operations. Do; it is enough to give this grand event and excitement that the whole people participate in to the light snow day before and after the frost. (End of this chapter)