The early spring in the Northeast is still cold, perhaps the term "cold spring" is used to describe this place!

In February, the south of the Yangtze River was already bright and bright, and the northeast of February was just covered by a heavy snowfall, and in the middle of the month, the snow on the ground did not melt. Just as Nanjing's political changes did not affect the 'stability and tranquility' of the Northeast at all, the Northeast is too far away for Nanjing, the turbulent political center of China.

The news attached to North Korea, the great news that made Nanjing happy, was only a snowflake in the northeast, and it was quickly annihilated in the heavy snow in February. It's like living in two different worlds.

The people who live here, including the immigrants who arrived just last year, rarely go out of their houses, except for the hunters who brave the wind and snow. The winter wilderness provides good hunting grounds for these hunters, with countless game animals and even ferocious tigers. Prey that dares to move in the wild in winter is the best source of human fur coats.

Drinking the liquor in the bowl and eating a bite of roe deer meat stewed in the pot, Zeng Ming said with a smile: "I used to hear people say that this Northeast is bitter cold, but now it seems that it is not true. If there were no soldiers, life here would still be good, there was meat in the mountains, fish in the river, and life was more nourishing than in the hometown. ”

As an old man in the National Defense Army, Zeng Ming was born very well, originally a servant of the Lushan County Ya, who was first arrested when he was copying the Tumen to collect Chen's hometown, and then was the first person to take refuge in the Chen family for his life.

But his future in the Fu Han Army was very bad and tortuous, when Zeng Ming was thirty-five or sixteen years old, his personality was stereotyped early, very slippery, and he was born in a military service, how could he not be slippery? It's not good to do a good job in the army, and you have to get by. So after being mixed in the army for several years and not having a great future, I was transferred to the local police station and started my old job. Now he is the police chief of Manzhouli, the largest and most important land port in Heilongjiang, and also serves as the deputy officer of the second detachment of the Northeast Frontier Corps. A very important task of the latter is to patrol the Sino-Russian border and strictly guard against smuggling operations by lawless elements on both sides.

With the armistice between China and Russia, a large number of bannermen withdrew from the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and although China seized a large area of Lake Baikal, it was not neatly connected to the northeast, and the Baikal region was a dagger that China pierced into the Siberian region, and this dagger was still under Russian control with a piece of land sandwiched between the outer northeast. The southernmost point of that land was next to Manchuria.

After the agreement was reached, there was no major war in the northeast.

Both China and Russia have entered the stage of production recovery. Although the annual transaction volume in Manchuria is less than a quarter of Kyakhta's.

But China never sold grain to Russia, and immigrants from the northeast produced large quantities of grain every year, which was used to make wine and feed livestock, and was traded to Mongolia. Sino-Russian trade is still stuck in the original cloth, rhubarb, tea and other items, at most plus a drink, these things are more profitable, but they cannot replace food. The Russians were already poor in agriculture in the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and only because of their small population and the large number of Tatar tribes for them to exploit did not cause a food crisis. However, after a war, they lost the precious Baikal, most of the Tatar tribes returned to the Mongol community, and even some Cossack groups did not have a suitable place to settle, and the Russians had already lost a considerable proportion of food and material sources, and the influx of a large number of bannermen aggravated the food burden of the Russians.

China does not sell grain to Russians, which is the maximum restriction of sanctions against Russia.

In the past two winters, many bannermen have fled back to China from the territory of the Russians and surrendered to the border guards, not the border local authorities. Compared with the crisis of starvation, it is not unacceptable to go to a labor camp and die of exhaustion.

According to their confessions, the banner people in the area north of the Outer Khing'an Mountains were starved to death and frozen to death every day. Anyway, it's all a death, are they still afraid of going to the labor camp? At least that's a full ghost, isn't it?

He Huazhang, who was the customs supervisor of Manchuria at the time, nodded slowly, this scholar, who originally seemed weak, now drank wine one bowl after another. He had stayed in warm Guangzhou before, and he had decided to quit the dark camp, but he finally did not resist the temptation to become an official, and took up the post of Guangdong Customs, and then he was transferred to the land customs of Manchuria. The latter is regarded as a third-level gateway in the entire Chinese customs system, a small and medium-sized category.

The cold weather forced him to carry a silver flask for half of the year. It starts in October and lasts until April.

He Huazhang also prepared a beautiful tin pot for himself at the beginning, and when he was in Guangdong, he liked tin products, compared with copper kettles and silver kettles, tin products were more popular with him.

However, the cold weather could gradually transform the tin pot from a silvery white color to a soot-like powder, and He Huazhang had no choice but to give up this kind of metal ware he liked.

He picked up the wine jar and poured a full bowl of wine for himself, and said with a smile: "The Northeast is indeed a good place. Although the winter is cold here, God has given too many things to the people here. "Beat the roe deer and scoop the fish, and the pheasant flies into the rice pot", although the emperor did not personally walk through the entire Northeast, this sentence is really right. Our emperor is wise, he took back this land against the Russians, and such a feng shui treasure fell into the hands of the barbarians, but it is a pity that this fertile field is gone! "The black soil in Northeast China is the best soil in China, with good characteristics and high fertility, suitable for plant growth, and is a unique treasure given by nature to human beings.

That's really a handful of oil.

When I first immigrated to the Northeast, there were still people who doubted whether the cold Outer Northeast could grow food, which the emperor insisted on. Facts have proved that although the fields here cannot be harvested twice or three times a year, the land here can feed tens of millions of people with only one cropping a year.

Everything is proven by facts.

As long as it is equipped with the most basic water conservancy facilities, whether it is corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, or rice, the yield per mu can be compared with the best acres in the mainland. In fact, in the northeast, the method of cultivating land has always been horse farming, and cattle farming has only been used for a period in the early stage, and then it was quickly eliminated.

Therefore, the per mu production capacity is much larger than that of the mainland compared with the similar output of intensive cultivation in the mainland, and the per capita sown area is much larger than that in the mainland, and the final result is naturally a bumper grain harvest in Northeast China. And with the gradual improvement of water conservancy facilities, there is also the application of fertilizer, in addition to farm fertilizer, there are now some natural wastes in China's agriculture, such as phosphate fertilizer and bird droppings.

Coupled with the fact that the per capita arable land area is far higher than that of the inland, although the Northeast is still bitterly cold, it is really not poor here.

Now the time is still short, the population base in the Northeast is still small, and the market size is not too large, but it will not be until twenty or thirty years later, when the next generation or newborns have grown up completely, He Huazhang dares to use his own eyeballs as a guarantee, which is definitely not to be underestimated.

Of course, He Huazhang will not forget the threat of war.

Now many people feel that sooner or later Chen Han will have a second war with Russia, and to completely solve the problem of the bannermen north of the Outer Khingan Mountains, one dragon and one bear, two behemoths on land are slaughtered together, China says that it will not threaten Russia's interests, will St. Petersburg believe it? The same Russia said that it would not threaten China's interests, and Nanjing pleaded for wages?

When each other's strength reaches a certain level, real or unreal actions no longer matter, and self-feeling is the most important. I feel that you have already affected and threatened my interests and security, and this is the biggest reason for the outbreak of war.

Just like Kang Mazi got rid of his once precious prince, this is not about whether Yinren really wants to conspire to rebel, but his existence, the existence of a young, strong and very talented prince is the biggest threat to the authority of Kang Mazi, who is getting old.

Or Zhu Hongwu's wave of slaughtering meritorious ministers, that is, he was clearing the obstacles for his son, even if his prince did not think it was an obstacle, but thought that his father's actions were too cruel, but Zhu Hongwu felt that it was an obstacle for his son, so he slaughtered some of his humerus ministers in batches when he fought the world.

Sooner or later, China and Russia will have to fight again.

Many people think so, and He Huazhang is also one of them. He sighed softly.

But Zeng Ming disagreed: "The south was only thoroughly developed in the Southern Song Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were still a large number of Tusi in Xiangxi, southern Jiangnan, Sichuan, Yungui, and a large number of Tusi holding military power, and the northeast was so cold, even if you knew that there was land to cultivate here, no one would come over." ”

"Besides, at that time, there was still the threat of the Mongols, and there were a large number of indigenous minorities in the Northeast itself, so what if they knew? As long as the situation is not stable, there can be no formal development in the Northeast. "This northeast has not stopped for thousands of years, who would dare to come here? Besides, as mentioned in the political class, there were not so many ordinary people in the imperial court in the past, and this was all due to the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn that came in from the outside in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the past, when there were few people, the per capita arable land was naturally larger, so there was no need to run to the bitter cold northeast.

"Okay, Lao Zeng. The political level is good. I really didn't expect you to have such a mind, but it's not easy! Drinking the wine in the cup in one gulp, He Huazhang looked at Zeng Ming with some playfulness and smiled.

"You want to learn, huh? We all have to learn. I don't want to be chained to the frontier for the rest of my life. ”

"I don't like to live like this, I lose my heart all day long, and I don't know when my life will be gone!"

Ignoring He Huazhang's ridicule, Zeng Ming sighed deeply and said in a deep tone. The number one of the Manzhouli police station and the deputy of the second detachment, no matter which one or the other, are in danger of their lives.

Because now a large smuggling network is rushing into Manchuria, and some people are secretly transporting grain to the Russians and the bannermen. The structure of this big net is very secretive and secretive, and even if someone falls into the legal net, it is difficult to follow the vine.

Whether it is the border guard, the local police station, or the customs and national security, they are all aware of this big net. But the efforts they have been working on have been nothing but a few minions, and there is no clue about what is really valuable.

Guoan is very suspicious that the leader class of this net has rarely made Guoan deflated since the sticky pole disappeared in the country. That's one of them!

The National Security Headquarters will send elites to Manchuria, along with the Economic Crime Investigation Division, which is trying to expand its business scope.

Zeng Ming and He Huazhang had smelled danger before, and now they smelled trouble even more. Because in the process of continuing their own investigation after the case was reported, He Huazhang and Zeng Ming, especially the latter, did something out of the ordinary. If no one has left him in his pocket, he will be able to go home and sell sweet potatoes when everything is exposed.

"Let's hope the good days we want come sooner. You don't know, since Sun Yi was arrested, I have been suspicious. I always feel that no one around me is reliable, and now everyone thinks that it may be a spy and an internal response, as a customs supervisor, I shouldn't have said such a thing, now it's just the two of us, it's nothing for the two of us to talk about it! I'm really under pressure, I hope that the people from Nanjing can solve the Northeast matter as soon as possible! "And then don't involve yourself in this matter.

He Huazhang's tone was heavy, but it was Zeng Ming's turn to laugh, and he said with a smile: "Don't hold on to this unrealistic hope!" The people of Nanjing are also people, they are not immortals, and they will not be able to see at a glance who has a ghost in their hearts. ”

Zeng Ming and He Huazhang are not chatting when they get together today, they are still waiting for the old man in Nanjing.

"We are the snakes here, if they want to do something, they have to catch us." It is impossible not to involve them.

The authority of the supervision of the Manzhouli Customs is much stronger in the local area than that of the Manzhouli Governor, and the Customs has its own set of teams, and even has an armed police force with strong combat effectiveness in its own police force. And Zeng Ming is not only a policeman in Manchuria, but also the deputy of the second detachment, whose level is higher than that of a Wupinzhi County, and he is not a small Zhixian County.

In terms of influence, they are much greater than the magistrates, and their relationship is much deeper. In the frontier areas, a man with force is always more powerful than a mere administrative official.

"People are dead. Everything is predestined, drink bars! We should be blessed, and we will not die; We shouldn't be happy, maybe one day we'll all lose our heads! ”

He pointed at Zeng Ming with a wry smile, He Huazhang didn't speak, but just drank the remaining wine in the bowl in one gulp.

The two of them didn't drink in the dark, they were talking more often than not. Now the whole customs has changed in He Huazhang's eyes, Sun Yi's arrest as a traitor has dealt him a great blow and impact, and he has too many words to say to Zeng Ming, a 'professional'. After all, the person who caught Sun Yi before was Zeng Ming.

Then it was until there was a knock on the door outside!

He Huazhang said a little unpleasantly: "What's the matter?" What's going on? ”

"Supervisor, someone from Nanjing is here! Said to see the two adults at once! A man's voice came from outside, and his tone was very deferential. He was an inspector of the Manzhouli Customs.

As a small and medium-sized customs office in the customs system, the highest position of Manzhouli Customs is customs superintendent, not superintendent. Inspectors and customs inspectors are already powerful figures in customs.

He Huazhang and Zeng Ming glanced at each other. I couldn't help but secretly say: "It's still here that it's time to come." After a pause, Zeng Ming opened his mouth and asked, "Who is here?"

"Lord Hui, it's Lord Gao Shida of the National Security Fifth Division!" The people outside said respectfully.

The two of them were relatively shocked, obviously they didn't expect Gao Shida to come at this time, He Huazhang knew more about Gao Shida than Zeng Ming. After all, Zeng Ming was born in the army, and He Huazhang had been in the secret camp in his early years, this Gao Shida had already sat in the top position of the Fifth National Security Department last year, but he was not a marginal figure in the National Security Department, but a well-known young Zhuang faction.