Chapter 271: Nanjing Affair (Asking for Support, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
The chaos that occurred in the "Pseudo Zhou" had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty at all. Even such news will not appear in the newspapers, because for the Ming Dynasty, the "pseudo-week" does not exist. At most, it only exists in the compromises of the court officials, or in the official letters of the military officials.
What's more, in the Ming Dynasty in July of the 17th year of Xingqian, the government and the opposition still echoed the explosion in Nanjing.
This explosion changed many things, and the gunpowder factories of the Ming Dynasty from south to north moved to the suburbs, and no one dared to bear the consequences of the explosion of the gunpowder factory.
Of course, for Daming, the explosion at the commercial port of Nanjing Railway Station was just a piece of news that would soon disappear from the newspapers. When the news comes out again, it must end up with the case being solved.
As the detective in charge of the explosion case in the Inspection Bureau, Ma Hui has been sleepless in the past few days, thinking about the case almost every day.
The city-wide search continued, and no one from the common people or the princes and nobles could escape the search. That is, during the search, there were several fires, which are normal if they were normal, after all, many buildings inside and outside the city are wooden buildings.
But after carefully looking at the report of the case, Ma Hui vaguely felt that one of the fires was likely to be related to the explosion.
"This must be a mouthful!"
Seeing reports that several people had been killed in one of the fires, Ma Hui immediately made this judgment.
The reason for this judgment is that the facts of the case have become clear, the deceased at the scene are workers in the vicinity, they are working there, no one knows what they are doing, but the pay there is not low.
Even the military commander had already speculated that the cause of the explosion was not man-made destruction, but because after the overseer, the dead man by the lake, was killed, the workers in the workshop continued to make fire caps as in the past, but did not think that it caused the accidental explosion of thunder mercury.
And the more than 100,000 copper caps found at the scene also proved this speculation.
It is precisely because of this that the investigation of the case is now led by the Military Division, and because of this, Ma Hui has also seen the power of the Military Division-in just two days, more than 3,000 soldiers are gathering in Nanjing, from the central capital, Zhejiang, Hubei, etc., and when the search is launched, they continue to gather clues one by one.
Can...... The group of spies was still not found, and although the military division seized two groups of spies, neither of them had anything to do with the fire cap.
Although it is led by the military department, it does not mean that Ma Hui will give up the case, in fact, the department will not let him give up, and the competition is still going on in private.
"Li Fei, there is a problem with this fire, you go over to check, these dead people, the death is too strange!"
After ordering his detectives to investigate the fire, Ma Hui went directly to the train station on the way to the fire scene.
The railway station is the most lively place in Nanjing, in fact, now wherever there is a railway station, it will form a lively commercial port, and those commercial ports are often the most lively places in the city. Nanjing is no exception.
Nanjing Railway Station under the cover of night, brightly lit, crowded, even in the military police check, still as lively as in the past, at most that the people in the military police check, in the heart of a few complaints, but without exception they choose to cooperate.
The violent explosion that claimed the lives of dozens of people, and the ensuing flames and smoke inevitably left a shadow of fear in the hearts of more than one million Nanjing citizens, so they naturally cooperated with this.
In addition to cooperation, of course, there will inevitably be complaints. After all, after the bombing, a considerable number of troops were assembled in the city of Nanjing to maintain order and conduct searches, and there were also heavily armed cavalry near the station, and those cavalry teams that used six-ring wheels were a deterrent in themselves, not their six-ring wheels, but high-headed horses and sabers at their waists.
In the past few days, although the murderers involved in the bombing have not been caught, some of the ruffians have been punished - although some of them are connected with the patrol, but in the presence of the army, the patrol will obviously not reveal their connection, in the past few days, thousands of ruffians have been put in prison, awaiting exile, and for a time, Nanjing has suddenly become the first good district.
In the face of the strength of the military violence, the ruffians and hooligans in Nanjing all disappeared, and the soldiers patrolling the city often had nothing to do, and patrolled all day.
When Ma Hui came to the train station, Zhao Wu also came to the train station, but unlike Ma Hui in uniform, Zhao Wu came in civilian clothes, and he even deliberately put on makeup to become an ordinary vendor, his eyes looked at the passing passengers from time to time.
When he saw Ma Hui, Zhao Wu was obviously stunned, he didn't expect to meet him here, and Ma Hui was the same, but neither of them spoke, nor even looked at each other, but they still cooperated tacitly. Ma Hui, who was wearing a patrol uniform, would occasionally check it, and he would inadvertently drive people to Zhao Wu. And Zhao Wu only needed to pay attention to observe whether there was anything unusual in those people's actions.
Suddenly, a person caught his attention, and when that person found that someone was checking in front of him, he seemed to come to Zhao Wu's side inadvertently, but Zhao Wu still noticed that his inadvertence was obviously deliberate.
"It could be this person!"
Zhao Wu lowered his straw hat and walked over to meet the passers-by.
"Let's take a look, the Spring Palace of Quandelou Bookstore, hand-painted by famous teachers......"
Here is a whispering of kung fu, he inadvertently glanced at the man, and the books in the bag hanging on his shoulders suddenly scattered to the ground.
"How can you walk, you don't have long eyes......"
As soon as Zhao Wu opened his mouth, his mouth was full of Beijing flag tone.
"You're ......"
As soon as the man answered, his face changed, and just when he wanted to change his words, a sharp pain in his arm came, and the next person was directly pushed to the ground. Before he could react, the shackles handcuffed him back.
"Is that him?"
Ma Hui, who had already run over, hurriedly asked.
"That's right, as soon as this kid uses words, a banner and a human voice comes out......"
"Or do you have a way......"
With this compliment on his lips, Ma Hui said again.
"Now that we have caught the main master, we can also be relaxed."
"It's not easy, I have to torture this kid when I go back, and if I don't get things back, no one can be relaxed......"
Grabbing the spy who had confessed, Zhao Wu glanced in the direction of the city, and then said.
"However, it is estimated that the soldiers in this city can always be withdrawn, and now it is too disturbing to the people."
Disturbing the people, there is indeed a little disturbance to the people, in fact, it is not just a little, it is simply very disturbing to the people, especially in the Miyagi area, several roads are directly blocked, and ordinary people are directly prohibited from passing. The reason why the guard is so tight is not because this is the palace city, but because the king of Jin is next to the palace city. Almost on the morning of the explosion, the officers and soldiers of the Jin Dynasty in the Jin Palace, which was in Nanjing, immediately appeared, and the nearby neighborhoods were also directly under martial law.
Although the vigilance caused inconvenience to the people nearby, for the king of Jin, who was only seventeen years old, there was no reaction at all, as usual, every day there were doctors and professors from Nanjing Guozijian to teach him, of course, those doctors and professors would not tell him how many checks he had passed when he came.
For Zhu Heyu, who is the king of Jin, in addition to listening to the lectures of doctors and professors every day, he also has some talents that I hope they can recommend. As the monarch of the Jin State, in addition to the 13,000 national soldiers and military households, he must attract talents as much as possible, and only in this way can the country develop.
"In fact, if the king is interested in recruiting talents, he doesn't have to ask me to wait for recommendations."
Mei Wennai looked at the king with a smile and said.
"Dr. Mei, if you don't recommend you, where should Lone go to recruit talents?"
Although he only met Mei Wennai for the first time after arriving in Nanjing last year, he was close to him because his brother Mei Wending had been his teacher when he was young.
"Has Your Majesty ever thought about studying in the Guozijian or the academy in Nanjing?"
Mei Wennai asked rhetorically.
"Going to the academy?"
Mei Wennai's suggestion made Zhu Heyu's eyes shine, when he was 12 years old, he once went to the Royal Academy to study, and studied there for four years, those four years should be the happiest four years in his memory, in the school, he was just an ordinary teenager, without any disparity in status.
After he was crowned a country last year, what frustrated him the most was probably that he had to leave the Royal Academy. But he also knew that studying there and making friends would not help him much, and the students there were all the eldest sons of the nobles, and they would inherit their father's title, and they would never be able to go with him to Xinxia and Jin.
But what if it's an ordinary academy?
"Did Dr. Mei tell me to go to the academy and make friends on my own?"
Looking at the second prince who was eager to try, the monarch of the Jin Kingdom, Mei Wennai smiled and said,
"It is important to make friends, but more importantly, Your Majesty must learn to attract talents, after all, Your Majesty may be able to give the land to the feudal king, but whether the Jin Kingdom will be strong in the future depends on whether the king can make good use of talents, and this talent is not just a state official, but also talents from all walks of life, in the king's opinion, if there is no prosperity of my Daming Academy, how can there be the prosperity of today's Daming?"
Mei Wennai's words made Zhu Heyu agree with him.
"What the doctor said is very true, when he was a young orphan, his father once said that "science is the primary productive force", which is also the foundation of a strong country, and also the foundation for the people to live and work in peace and contentment......
For ordinary people, whether it is to enter the Guozijian or the academy, they need to go through a strict examination, but for Zhu Hejia, who is a prince, he just sent a government official to send a letter to his Guozijian, and a few days later, a transfer student of Qinghe Academy named Shi Jia entered Nanjing Guozijian, the largest academy in the southern capital.
However, a month later, not only did most of the students of Guozijian know Shi Jin, but most of the students in the nearby academies had probably heard of his name, not because of his generosity, but because his attainments in calculus were not even inferior to the famous Dr. Newton.
Because of this, Shi Jin almost immediately received invitations from the university's mathematics, physics, chemistry, mechanical and other societies, which are all student groups, in which it is easy to make some talents, for the invitation of the society, of course, Zhu Hejia will not refuse, and while mingling with them through academic research, he was surprised to find a fact - many of his knowledge is far ahead of his classmates, and even ordinary doctors and professors.
"How so?"
Again, when watching them arguing about mathematical problems there, Zhu Hejia's brows tightened, the questions they discussed had already had answers in their father's class, but here, it was even just a hypothesis.
Although there is some confusion about all this, in the end, Zhu Heyu still attributed the reason to the fact that his father could have access to first-class scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and through exchanges with those scholars, his father could master knowledge that was difficult for ordinary scholars to grasp and integrate it.
In short, as a son, he can naturally find enough reasons for his father, and his knowledge beyond that of ordinary scholars has also made Zhu Heyu feel like a fish in water in the Guozi Prison, and he soon made a lot of friends, and it is through those associations that there have been hundreds of more names in his small notebook, and they are all extremely outstanding students in the Guozi Prison without exception, and their identities are often the second sons in the family, in other words, they are people who are hopeful and willing to go to the Jin Kingdom.
And Zhu Heyu himself also enjoys the feeling of being free in the Guozi Prison, no one here regards him as a prince or a king, he is just Shi Jia, an ordinary young man from Beizhili.
"I should have come to the academy earlier......
Walking in the Guozi Prison, Zhu Heyu muttered in his heart, although he was also very comfortable in the Royal Academy, but there, the identity of the prince made the others always maintain enough awe in front of him, unlike now, in the recent period, everything here gave him a completely different feeling, and this feeling made him a little fascinated, after all, this was a feeling he had never had.
"When I turn back, I should write a letter to my father, and the prince should go to an ordinary academy, not just a royal school."
Although the Royal School was not much different from the Academy in some way, students were required to study the Army, the Navy, and even the Army and Navy School if they chose to do so, where the nobility was required to serve in the military.
But in Zhu Heyu's opinion, compared with the royal school, the ordinary academy is more suitable for the prince.
"At least here, they can recruit some talent for their own feudal state."
Just as he was thinking this, a young man who was hurrying with something in his arms saw him and said loudly.
"Shi Jin, let's go, let's learn together, it's my turn to show today!"