The thing in front of him was no gadget, it was definitely the most complex mechanism Madu had ever seen since the crossing. It's a large cabinet that takes up about half of the house.

The upper part of the cabinet is carved into the shape of a palace, in the middle is the three temples of Buddhism, and on both sides are the two palaces of the sun and the moon, and in front of the two palaces there are beautifully carved flying immortals.

At the waist of the cabinet is carved a woman holding a leaky arrow with a pointer on it, marking the twelve hours of the day. At the bottom of the cabinet stood two gold-armored figures, flanked by a gong and a small bell.

"Are you saying that when the hour comes, these two little people will strike the gong and the little bell?" Madu asked in disbelief.

Eunuch Wu bowed down and replied: "That's right, but there will only be at noon and noon every day, and the gong rang just now at noon, and if you want to wait for it to ring again, you can only wait until the noon." ”

Madu didn't have time to wait, so he searched around the cabinet and couldn't find where the door was. If you put your ear close to the cabinet, you can faintly hear the sound of popping inside, the sound of water dripping into the water.

He found a thin brass tube above the cabinet and inserted it into a brass-trimmed hole in the top of the cabinet, and he pulled out the brass jar, and sure enough, he saw that there were large droplets of water dripping constantly, and the frequency was very uniform, and he didn't know how.

"Is it from here to fill the adjustment time?" Ma Du asked Eunuch Wu.

Eunuch Wu shook his head, "This palace leak is not the responsibility of the slave, and the slave doesn't understand it very well, or the slave will find you someone who knows how to come over." ”

"No!" Madu waved his hand to fetch water, and found a funnel next to the cabinet, and kept adding water to the hole.

I saw that the pointer on the cabinet kept rising, and when the pointer pointed to the pointer, I only heard the sound of water in the cabinet, and the pointer quickly fell to the bottom. Then I saw a golden armor god under the cabinet move, and a wooden stick attached to the chest on its back pushed it forward.

Boom! The hammer of the bell held by the god of golden armor hit the bell impartially, and it was pulled back into place by the wooden stick behind him after only one strike. This stunned Ma Du, looking at this time-telling device from the eyes of later generations is not not stupid, but this era is definitely an artifact.

Ma Du was a little excited, he grabbed Eunuch Wu's collar and asked, "Who made up this palace leak!" ”

Eunuch Wu was frightened, "The slave said before, this is the Tartar Emperor's drum!" ”

It's really fucking the son of Luban, and the work of Gong Leak is definitely worthy of this title, and it is more than a step better than the carpenter emperor.

"The Tartar Emperor has nothing else to come up with!"

"Yes, but elsewhere, the villain will take you to see."

followed Eunuch Wu to a slightly remote palace, and Ma Du was shocked again as soon as he entered the door just now. I saw that there was a huge model of Miyagi in the hall, which was more exquisite than the model placed in the sales center in later generations.

From magnificent palaces and pavilions to intricate bridges and pavilions, each building is not just a simple appearance, but a miniature model, but its structure and craftsmanship are not at all different from that of a real palace.

Ma Du really began to admire Emperor Zhizheng, if there was no great enthusiasm and painstaking study, I am afraid that these things would not be able to be made, how could such a good engineer become an emperor.

In addition to the model of this huge Miyagi, there are a lot of messy things in the house, some of which are only half-finished. A beautiful dragon boat model on the shelf attracted Ma Du's attention, no need to guess to know that it is the masterpiece of Emperor Zhizheng, he happily held the dragon boat in his hand, and said with a smile: "Lao Tzu's shipbuilding engineer has!" ”

Under the leadership of Eunuch Wu, Ma Du found another masterpiece of Emperor Zhizheng, a carriage called Wuyun Che. It's a pity that this is an abandoned car, only a bare frame remains, and there is no frills.

Let the car sheath the horse and run around the palace, and found that the car was indeed much more stable than his previous carriage, and he went under the car to study for a long time, and did not find out whether the car was used for independent suspension.

If you can find these things today, this trip will not be in vain. On the second day, he couldn't wait for the boat to be driven to the Taiye Pool in the city, so that the people in the palace could get on the boat and leave.

The palace people lined up one by one with cloth baggage, and he didn't let those concubines be searched and checked. As for those palace maids and eunuchs, they are not allowed to bring anything except their own clothes, and if two or three thousand people are all scavenged from the palace, it is not a small number.

Obviously, he had warned in advance, but some people did not believe in evil, and a eunuch was pulled out of the ranks by the soldiers, crying loudly and crying out that he was wronged, saying that the things found were rewarded by the concubines in the past.

Qi Xiang sneered with a pair of golden hooks embedded with jade in his hand, "He can't make up nonsense, who will reward you with the hook hanging on the curtain!" He threw the golden hook into the wooden box next to him, and drew his waist knife with a bang, and the eunuch had no time to scream, and his head rolled to the ground, and the blood in his cavity spurted far away.

Qi Xiang shouted at the top of his throat: "Forget about those copper coins and scattered silver, if anyone dares to steal the things in the palace again, this is the end!" As soon as these words came out, the palace maids and eunuchs in line immediately paralyzed several people in fright, and hurriedly threw all the stolen things into the big box.

Ma Du patted a frightened steward beside him, "See, this is the end of unclean hands and feet." The things in the palace are all sent to the emperor in Yingtian, if you make a mistake, even this lord will not be able to protect you. ”

This steward is Shen Wansan's chief steward in Dadu, Ma Du asked him to come over to count the items in the palace, the main thing is to let them appraise, they are familiar with the market, this kind of thing is very suitable for them to do, it is inevitable to knock it in advance. However, looking at the chief steward's pale face and cold sweat, it was obvious that he had beaten his head too much.

There were enough bits and pieces in the palace, and the chief steward had done things carefully after some beatings, even counting the needles and threads.

One hundred and ten account guys, it took almost ten days to complete the calculation, the account books were written in a thick stack, folded up to the waist, and the final number was also very scary. The emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and after Emperor Yuan Shun cleaned it up, there were still items worth nearly two million taels left, not including the majestic and prosperous palace, of course.

With these convincing account books, Ma Du dared to write a recital for Lao Zhu, and he didn't believe that Lao Zhu's character would be willing to burn these things.

In the compromise, he had to make a big slap on Lao Zhu, and explained to Lao Zhu that building his palace with the beams and pillars of the enemy's palace was the greatest demonstration of his merits. After writing it, Ma Du handed it to Xu Da along with the account book, and asked him to send it to Yingtian urgently.

Xu Da patted the thick account book and said with a smile: "Xuanzhong is getting more and more reliable, I thought you would write an excerpt in a hurry and hand it over, but I didn't expect you to do it so thoroughly." ”

"I just can't bear to burn these things in vain, whether it's this palace or items, it's the blood and sweat of my Han people. These things can't be used by the emperor, only the emperor can collect them! ”

Xu Da smiled: "I heard that you pulled a lot of things from the palace, and you didn't hide any valuables." ”

"It's just that the Tartar Emperor fiddled with a bunch of broken copper and iron, and I also wrote an appendix for Qi Xiang to sign and hand it over!"

"That's good! Is it really scrap copper? I heard you're a baby! Xu Da said mysteriously: "What's the use, tell me quickly!" ”

"It's really hard to say, and it's not something that can be used in a while!" Ma Du couldn't wait to ask: "Dashuai, when are we going to attack Shangdu and capture the Tartar Emperor!" ”

Xu Da sent two groups of people to chase him to Emperor Zheng, but Guo Ying only caught a group of Uighurs in Shanhaiguan and gained almost nothing. As for Xue Xian and Fu Youde's group, they arrested Emperor Zhizheng's fugitive army outside the pass.

Unfortunately, their cavalry was too small to defeat others, but they robbed a lot of cattle and sheep and the families of Mengyuan soldiers from the fleeing army, and Emperor Zhizheng arrived in Shangdu without danger.

Xu Da frowned and said, "Why are you suddenly so concerned about catching the Tartar Emperor?" ”

Ma Du patted his thigh and said, "I'm afraid that the Tartar Emperor will run away!" ”

"Don't worry, it's not like you can fight it. Shanxi and Ganxi have not yet been pacified, especially Wang Baobao of Shanxi, if we go to attack Shangdu, he may cut off our back road at any time. ”

From Dadu to Ganshan, it may take a year or two, and Emperor Zhizheng said that eighty percent would have run away a long time ago, and he is now the first engineer in Ma Du's heart.

Ma Du asked tentatively: "Dashuai, if you don't wait to kill Wang Baobao in Shanxi, you give me a soldier and I will attack Shangdu, this way, I don't think the Tartars are fighting well." ”

Xu Da was stunned for a moment and then laughed, "What the hell, usually you want to hide behind when you see a battle, but now you have to lead the troops to fight in Shangdu." Shangdu is in the grassland, fighting in the grassland and fighting in the Central Plains is definitely different, I don't have any spectrum in my heart, don't daydream! ”

The day after talking to Xu Da, Lao Zhu's holy decree arrived, of course, it was not for Ma Du, but for Xu Da's report. The content of the decree was simple, and it praised the Northern Expeditionary Army verbally and without any expense, and encouraged them to continue their efforts. By the way, he also changed a name that Ma Du is very familiar with - Beiping.

It took almost ten days for Ma Du to receive Lao Zhu's reply, and Lao Zhu agreed to what Ma Du played, not only the decorations of the Mengyuan Palace, but also the bricks, tiles, stone and wood of the palace. Lao Zhu means that these things are not in a hurry to be sent to Yingtian, but the palace must be demolished first, and it cannot be left to any illusions on the Tartars.

The time was very unfortunate, the Northern Expedition army was repaired to pull out the camp and leave Beiping, Ma Du had to hand over the task of demolishing the palace to Hua Yunlong, who stayed here, and before leaving, he repeatedly explained that some side halls of Hua Yunlong's palace should not be demolished.

Xu Da was very puzzled by this, and asked Ma Du why he didn't want to dismantle it. What else, of course, is left to your daughter!