The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

"Then send scouts to scout out the way!" Fourteenth Master said kindly, "Since there are no poisonous snakes here, we can let people go ashore. The reef here looks okay, so it's no problem to make a temporary pier."

But the scouts explored the road for a long time, but they didn't find anything wrong.

"Then build up defenses here first, so you can spend the night well." Nian Gengyao didn't intend to find out the situation of the entire island in one go, as the island is huge.

There may be fresh water present.

At sea, fresh water is a very important resource. It is better to have no food than water to drink. Besides, food is easy to find at sea, but fresh water is not so easy.

After the brigade immediately landed, they cleared a place in the woods, built wooden houses, fences, and defensive facilities, and set up grenades as a firearms defense belt.

In addition, their temporary docks must also be sufficiently concealed and sheltered from the wind. The sea is very stormy, and you don't know when a hurricane will blow, and the waves will blow up like they are going to flood the sky.

After that, it was calm again, and the blue sky looked like washing.

After they settled down, it was dark, and the temporary dock was built very concealed, and there was a deep-water natural port here, which could accommodate their sea ships while being concealed.

This is a pleasant surprise.

In the wooden house at night, Nian Gengyao kept saying, "Your Fourteenth Master was wronged."

No good house can be built in this place in one afternoon, there is only a row of small wooden houses. The fourteenth master's house is at most a wooden house covered with nets to prevent mosquitoes.

The other wooden houses were only covered with a layer of netting to keep out mosquitoes.

And the others vigilantly sprinkled realgar around the camp several times. This thing is not a product of the island, but it is definitely the first effective powder to prevent snakes and insects.

"Don't feel wronged, it's pretty good here, and the wooden house is so interesting!" Fourteenth Master didn't feel wronged at all, this is camphor wood, the log house, he couldn't afford the log furniture in his previous life, let alone the log The house is gone.

This house looks simple, but it is a wooden house made according to his design. Although it is small, it is very warm.

Half a meter above the ground, four or five layers of wooden boards were laid, then felt, cotton mattresses, and brocade quilts on top. Although it was an island, it was hot during the day and cold again at night when the sea breeze blew.

The fourteenth master and Nian Gengyao’s cabins are next to each other, surrounded by wooden houses of the guards, then those of the navy officers and soldiers, the outermost ones are the patrol personnel’s, and then there is the firearm defense belt, and then there is a circle around it. A wooden fence, horse repellent and sharpened thorns.

When eating at night, it was simple grilled steamed bun slices and grilled fish. The Huotou soldiers only prepared clam soup with some diced carrots and chopped green onions and coriander, which can be regarded as vegetables.

Others are all kinds of sea fish, freshly caught from the sea, and even crabs and some clams, razor clams, clams, sea melon seeds, oysters...

It's good to rest at night, because they rested early, and they didn't actually light a bonfire. Before they knew it, the sky was bright, the sunrise on the sea was early, and the air was good.

The Fourteenth Lord also exercised with the sailors in the morning.

Breakfast is seafood porridge, all kinds of seafood are minced, then soaked in water, cooked into porridge, and served with salty sea duck eggs.

I don't know where Huotoujun got the wakame. After washing and blanching it, and stirring it with sesame oil and garlic, it becomes a cold dish.

Although the breakfast is simple, it is very affordable.

After eating and drinking enough, everyone continued to explore inside.

I was fine all morning, but when I was about to eat at noon, the pathfinder in front discovered the clue and brought someone back.

"How did this happen?" The Fourteenth Master saw a young man, only 13 years old, dark, thin, with scars on his body, tattered clothes, no shoes, and bloodstains on his feet.

"He ran towards us." The scout said helplessly, "It's a boy."

"Save people!" Fourteenth Master gave the order, and the military doctors accompanying the team came up.

The boy fainted. The military doctor poured a bowl of rice soup, then stripped off all his clothes and changed into new soft cotton clothes. By the way, he treated all the wounds on his body.

The military doctor said to Fourteen resentfully: "Master Fourteen, the child has welt marks on his body, and he was beaten. This is a child!"

"Treat him well." Master Fourteen said, "Take good care of him."

As soon as he finished speaking, the little boy woke up, opened his eyes and saw a group of people, um, he didn’t know, but he recognized the appearance: “Are you Han Chinese?”

It turned out to be Chinese. Although it was Chinese with an extremely strong accent, it was considered a local accent.

"Yes, it's the Royal Navy Fleet of the Qing Dynasty." Nian Gengyao looked at him and frowned: "You are?"

"I'm a Nanyang Han." The young man noticed his situation, and begged them on his knees: "Save us, those Western devils are not good people!"

"Don't cry, you are injured, don't get too excited, it will be bad if the wound bursts." The young boy of the fourteenth master: "Tell me, what is going on?"

The boy's surname is Wu, and his name is Wu Ali. He is an ordinary boy in a Han Chinese gathering place in Nanyang.

Only three years ago, Westerners took a fancy to their place. After occupying it, Westerners surveyed and mapped the area, and then opened mines. They became miners, working every day, and the food was not good. Without treatment, life is very miserable.

They're mining gold!

Master Fourteen's eyes lit up.

There are fewer and fewer people. Those foreigners, even a 14-year-old kid like him, have to dig mines. There are also miners captured from outside, including local natives, Han Chinese from Nanyang, pirates, and people from the West. There are too.

The composition is very complicated, but everyone is living a miserable life, being enslaved by Westerners, the young Wu Ali ran out desperately: "I beg you, save us."

"Why did you run away?" Nian Gengyao was suspicious.

The young man choked for a moment, and then said desperately: "That supervisor has bad intentions for me."

This time, it was Nian Gengyao's turn to be choked!

The Fourteenth Master looked at the black pear-like boy Wu Ali: "Forget it, that, you take care of your illness, and I will take care of this matter."

Even if this is a gold mine, Master Fourteen will not let it go.

But Nian Gengyao said: "The Fourteenth Master is waiting here, and I will lead people to rob the gold mine."

"Hey hey!" Fourteenth Master hurriedly stopped him: "We are not robbing gold mines, we are going to save people. These are our Han survivors from the Qing Dynasty."

Anyway, the Chinese pronunciation of "immigration" and "remainer" are the same, and Westerners can't tell them apart.

"Yes, save people, um, save people from fire and water, and by the way, collect the gold in that gold mine." Nian Gengyao saw it clearly: "We can't guard the overseas gold mines, since Westerners have mined them , then we can just pick up the ready-made ones.”

Nian Gengyao deserves to be someone who can become a general in the future, look at his face.

The open fire and the open robbery can be said to be so reasonable, and the fourteenth master blushed a little: "That, you and I know."

Seeing his embarrassment, Nian Gengyao couldn't help laughing: "You don't need to be like this, the fourteenth master. We are the only ones in the world today. What are you afraid of? Even if you say something excessive, no one will know, at least, People in the court will not know."

The fourteenth master pursed his lips: "Grandpa... I'm not afraid."

There are quite a few things he said, is it possible to say it?

Can you say he likes men?Can it be said that he thinks Nian Gengyao is good?

No.

Therefore, the fourteenth master just pursed his mouth.

Nian Gengyao felt that Fourteenth Master was getting cuter and cuter.

But this cuteness didn't last long, Nian Gengyao took people out, leaving Master Fourteen and the others here to wait for news.

Wu Ali is recuperating here. The military doctors use the best medicine, and the wound heals quickly. He eats the sick meal, and the pigeon soup specially stewed for him by the Huotou army. There are only ten meat pigeons on the ship. Many of them are for the fourteenth master, and the fourteenth master asked him to make soup for him.

Wu Ali is just the child of an ordinary Han Chinese in Nanyang, his ancestors were not prominent, and he himself doesn't know why his ancestors came to live in Nanyang.

He has not read any books, and this place has always been in a state of anarchy. It is common for small countries to rise and fall, so the concept of the court and the country is very weak.

I don't know what level of high official the prince is.

But I know that the Qing Royal Navy fleet is very powerful, and I like seeing firearms.

Lying on the couch, he watched helplessly the soldiers training, guarding and cleaning their guns outside.

He answered truthfully to the questions asked by the Fourteenth Master. He was 16 years old. He was arrested as a miner when he was 14 years old. He worked as a miner for two years. Eight uncles, elder brother and two aunts.

He was the youngest child in the village, and all the younger children died.

The fourteenth masters and the others came here by accident, and they hit the right place. This gold mine is very secret. Coincidentally, the real landing pier in this place is on the east side, and there is a very stable pier there. , a place dedicated to transporting gold.

There are feeders and miners, too.

The foreigners didn't find out that there is still a place where they can log in.

"I heard from my uncles that the island was full of poisonous snakes and beasts, but the Westerners cleaned it up, and then there were no such things, and there were only gold mines left." Wu Ali said: " In fact, foreigners don’t eat well, they always give us black bread and stewed fish soup, and there is not much meat.”

Wu Ali has eaten eight meals in the past day and a half.

The first meal is rice soup, and the second meal is pigeon soup.

After the third meal, he became sober and refreshed, so he began to give half a steamed bun. He didn't dare to give more. The child was eating like a grab, so he didn't dare to give more because he was afraid that he would be exhausted.

The third meal was half a steamed bun and a bowl of peony shrimp egg custard.

The fourth meal was ordinary sea fish mince mixed with rice; from the fifth meal, he ate the same as everyone else. This child has a good appetite and is not picky about food. After eating a few meals, his complexion visible to the naked eye improved.

He is a very tough kid.

So what he looks forward to most right now is to eat.

I feel that every meal is very happy, because I can eat whatever I want, and I can eat as much as I want.

"Even if they have delicious food, they won't give it to you." Fourteenth Master said: "But you can't always eat meat, you have to eat some vegetables."

He could tell that the child was starving, and when he was eating, he liked to put meat on it, such as cold seaweed, and even the rare fried bacon with garlic sprouts. He only ate bacon and not garlic sprouts.

"Oh." Wu Ali looked at the Fourteenth Master: "How big is the prince? Bigger than the village? Bigger than the clan?"

"This prince is a prince and the emperor's own son. He is older than any official." The Fourteenth Lord is a double-paid prince, and he is one level older than the official.

The identity of the prince's elder brother, the title of the prince, and the semi-slavery system of the Manchus all made the Fourteenth Lord inherently superior to officials.

No matter how old an official is, he has to bow his head in front of him.

village head?Patriarch?This child has probably never even seen the county magistrate.

While talking, I vaguely heard a roar, very familiar, it was the movement of firearms.

Master Fourteen guessed that there was a fire over there.

Sure enough, after a day and a night, Nian Gengyao sent someone to say that the over there had been captured, and asked the Fourteenth Master to hide the ship in three days and then take people there.

"Well, I see." The Fourteenth Master rubbed his chin: "Did you fight hard? How about the casualties of our people?"

"No one was killed, only two people twisted their feet, and three people sprained their hands and necks." The scout was embarrassed: "It did save a lot of miners, and there are less than thirty people guarding the gold mine here."