Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Character Terminal Succeeds in Besieging the Qiankun Gate

Li Zhi arranged Zhang Xianzhong and others to the Yaogang Hotel and came to the command center. Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He are all waiting for news here.

Hearing Li Zhi say that everything was going well, Chen Yufeng let out a sigh of relief, "Hmm! That's good. Chiki! This Zhang Xianzhong has the same side as Li Zicheng, but it is very different. Li Zicheng is very angry, while Zhang Xianzhong is suspicious and ruthless. For the people, Li Zicheng still has compassion, while Zhang Xianzhong is much worse. However, they all have similar visions. From Zhang Xianzhong's ability to come to the kiln, it can be seen that he has seen the form in front of him. We can still win Zhang Xianzhong's best, but this difficulty is greater than Li Zicheng's. ”

"What Mr. Chen said is," Ouyang He took over and said, "If Zhang Xianzhong can vote over, our entire southwest will be solved." In the future, it will also be of great benefit to the settlement of the Usi-Tibet issue. I think that since Zhang Xianzhong can see the development trend of the situation, there is still a great possibility that we can convince him. Our principle is that it is better to be able to persuade, and if you can't be convinced, you can be convinced. It's easy to talk to him like this. He came on his own, not from us. ”

"Okay!" Zhang Zhimu said, "We are still the old way, we just drink and chat tonight and don't talk about business." Give him a little time, let him see what we're capable of, and his mind will change when he comes. ”

While a few people were talking, the staff officer came in and asked Li Zhi to answer a phone call. When Li Zhi came back after answering the phone, Li Zhi, who rarely showed expressions, said with a smile on his face: "Good news! Good news! The Qiankun Gate has been found! ”

"Ahh "Ahh "Ahh

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He came out "ah" almost at the same time.

"Message confirmed?" Chen Yufeng asked.

"Sure!" Li Zhi said with certainty, "We have a team of more than 20 people, and we have been studying them without doing anything. Some time ago, our cadres in Henan reflected a situation. In Jinbao Mountain, on the south bank of the Luohe River, there is a big cottage, their walls are tall, and they rarely have contact with the outside. However, when we had to verify the household registration, we repeatedly negotiated with them. They had no choice but to send someone to bring out a lot of gold and silver to bribe our cadres, meaning that they should not bother them again. Our cadres patiently did their work, saying that this is a must be done everywhere, and in the future, we will plant cowpox for everyone and let the children study. All of these require accurate population information, otherwise you will not have an ID card in the future, and it will be inconvenient to go anywhere. But not only did they not listen, but they also threatened our cadres when they saw that bribery was not working. In short, it is resolute not to let our people enter the cottage. The situation was reflected, and we analyzed that this cottage was not a bandit cottage, so why were they afraid that we would go in. I felt that there must be a problem, so I sent our group over. Just now they called and said that they could be sure that this was the cottage of Qiankun Gate. The details have not yet had time to say. But the people in my group are very experienced old people. If it's not exact, that's all they can't say. ”

After listening to Li Zhi's words in one breath, everyone stood up and came to the map, Li Zhi picked up the indicator pole and pointed to Jinbao Mountain on the south bank of the Luo River.

Chen Yufeng said: "Mobilize troops from Tongguan to surround them first. Remember, there are too many masters in the Qiankun Gate. Don't go into their stockade easily, if you get closer, my soldiers will suffer greatly. What a pity! Li Jing was not there. ”

"Mr. Zhang, Mr. Chen, Mr. Ouyang, I want to invite Meng Si'er and Yang Jing to go, what do you think?" Li Zhi said.

"Yes!" Chen Yufeng said, "The special forces squadron left by Li Jing, as well as Yan Boju, and their special police brigade are all brought. This is no ordinary opponent, and how many of them are masters do not know. However, Li Zhi, you know, such a master, it is very dangerous for us ordinary soldiers to get close. So don't be soft this time! ”

"Mr. Chen, I know!" Li Zhi understood what Chen Yufeng meant, and this time he had to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

"You and Yang Jing will bring people over first," Chen Yufeng said, "and I'll bring some people over in two days." Remember to keep it secret when you move troops to Tongguan, and you must also bring heavy artillery. It is not possible to deal with cottages without heavy artillery. ”

"Good! I'll go over to Yang Jing now. Li Zhi finished speaking and left.

As soon as Li Zhi went out, Zhang Zhimu said happily: "God help me!" ”

"Huh!" Ouyang He smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang finally has a reason to deal with Zheng Zhilong?" ”

"yes!" Zhang Zhimu said, "After I met the emperor, I told him that after we destroyed the Qiankun Gate, we had confirmed that it was Zheng Zhilong's Heaven and Earth Society that hired the Qiankun Gate to attack me several times. What do I think the emperor said? ”

"The emperor will not agree to us going to fight Zheng Zhilong," Ouyang He said, "He will definitely say that you are mistaken, Zhang Dongjia." ”

"Now! It doesn't matter if the emperor agrees or not," Chen Yufeng said, "The emperor can't take care of his own affairs!" Let's just tell the emperor a reason to beat Zheng Zhilong. ”

"What Uncle Chen said is," Zhang Zhimu said, "After we solve Zheng Zhilong, if Zhang Xianzhong cooperates, we will strive to completely solve the problem in the south within one to two years." Li Jing's mountain army has almost been formed, and we must solve the problem of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guangxi as soon as possible. There's no need to be too steady now. We have a large rear, and it is not a big problem to take a big step. ”

"One more question! Mr. Zhang," Ouyang He said, "Li Zicheng and they laid off a large number of personnel, and they were unwilling to leave Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng also had a headache." Send us a telegram asking if you can bring them all to Annam. ”

"Guaranteeing the supply of their 300,000 troops is already a very heavy burden, and with the addition of hundreds of thousands of civilian officials, we don't have that strength. Li Zicheng can solve it himself, he can do it himself! Chen Yufeng said.

"I don't think it's as good as this," Mr. Zhang said, "and I can understand their reluctance to leave Li Zicheng, and it is indeed unrealistic to send them to Annan." But we can send them to Liu Chenghuang in Hainan, which is closer to Annan and closer to Li Zicheng, and the people are psychologically more acceptable. ”

"Hmmm! It's a great idea. Ouyang He said.

In the evening, Li Zhi invited Zhang Xianzhong, who was waiting a little anxiously, to the restaurant from upstairs.

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, Ouyang He and other key cadres of the kiln gang all greeted Zhang Xianzhong in front of the restaurant.

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong came to the front of the restaurant, he saw a group of people greeting him, and he knew in his heart that the people of Yaogang attached great importance to themselves. Striding over without Li Zhi's introduction, Zhang Xianzhong recognized that the polite person in the middle was Zhang Zhimu, "Haha!" Zhang Dongjia, my old Zhang finally saw you! ”

"Eight kings, I have also admired you for a long time! What an honor to see you today! Zhang Zhimu and Zhang Xianzhong clasped their hands tightly together.

The two sides looked at each other for a while like long-lost friends, and Zhang Zhimu said, "Eight kings! Let me introduce you to my comrades-in-arms! ”

The first time the Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong heard the word comrade-in-arms, but they felt that this word was particularly accurate, and even said: "Okay! I've admired the heroes of Yaogang for a long time! ”

Zhang Zhimu turned around and introduced the leaders of the kiln to Zhang Xianzhong one by one, and Zhang Xianzhong also introduced his righteous descendants to Zhang Zhimu and others.

After everyone greeted each other, Li Zhi came over to say goodbye to Zhang Xianzhong, saying that he couldn't accompany him if he had something.

Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zhi were also familiar along the way, and they wanted to have a drink together in the evening, but they didn't expect Li Zhi to say goodbye and asked: "Director Li, is this yours, my old Zhang originally wanted to have a drink with you to thank you for your care all the way, why do you want to leave?" ”

Zhang Zhimu, who was sitting next to Zhang Xianzhong, said: "Eight kings! You don't have to blame him! Li Zhi really has something urgent to do, and there will be days to drink with you. ”

"The Eight Kings are not strange!" Li Zhi said, "I'll come back to drink with you after I finish my business, and I must leave immediately." If it weren't for the fact that I came down with you, I would have left this afternoon. My brothers are waiting for me at the train station! ”

"Good!" Zhang Xianzhong knew that Li Zhi must have something important, "Don't delay a big event for the sake of drinking!" ”

After Li Zhi went out, Zhang Zhimu said: "Don't hide it from the Eight Kings, we have found the Qiankun Sect nest that wants to murder me a few times, and Li Zhi is going to rush over overnight to deal with this matter." You also know that the Qiankun Sect has been harming people for hundreds of years by killing people for hundreds of years, and they must be completely eradicated. We can't afford to slack off! ”

"Yes, yes!" Zhang Xianzhong said, "I also heard that it was Zheng Zhilong and their Heaven and Earth Society that hired the Qiankun Sect to attack you. This Qiankun Gate has been in the shadows, and the means are clever. No one wants to offend them. The imperial court has always wanted to eradicate them, but it has not been able to do so. If you can get rid of them this time, it will be a merit. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "I'm afraid it's not so easy. Under the pursuit of the imperial court, the Qiankun Gate can exist for hundreds of years, which shows that there is a certain reason for their existence. If we want to destroy them completely, it depends on luck whether it is on our side or not. ”

"Alright! I'll just listen to the good news of your handling of the Qiankun Gate! Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand and changed the topic, "Zhang Dongjia, I wanted to see you many years ago, and I didn't get my wish until today." ”

"Eight kings, you also have to understand, we didn't dare to meet you at that time." Zhang Zhimu said, "There are spies everywhere in the east and west factories of the imperial court, and at that time our wings were not yet full, and if we met and were discovered by them, I would die without a place to be buried." ”

"Yes! You are right to be cautious," Zhang Xianzhong said, "Now that I am here, I am afraid of causing trouble for you, so I also come quietly." ”

Zhang Xianzhong's words also relieved the embarrassment of being discovered by the kiln gang people secretly.

Today, Zhang Xianzhong and Zhang Zhimu have no intention of talking about business, they can only be regarded as a test between each other, and they are all polite words to say hello, hello, hello, everyone. However, the bold Zhang Xianzhong did not pretend to be fake when he drank, and drank happily.

Before drinking, Zhang Zhimu said: "It is not easy for the eight kings to come to our kiln once this time, so we must take a good rest and visit." If you find something wrong, don't forget to warn us. ”

"Oops!" Zhang Xianzhong said, "In the past few decades, I have not easily lived a few days of stable life. If you don't bother, my Lao Zhang will recuperate in the kiln for a few days. When I'm fine, I'll do a good shopping too. You don't know, those businessmen who have come to Yaogang in Sichuan say that your Yaogang is like heaven. ”

"The Eight Kings laughed, how can you say something bothersome here." Zhang Zhimu said, "Over the years, we have worked hard to build the kiln gang in some shape, but it is far from enough." The Eight Kings will take a good look at it for us, what else do we need to do next? ”

In fact, both sides made it clear that Zhang Xianzhong should take a good look at the kiln and stay for a few more days. This is exactly what the kiln people want.

After arranging the rest of Zhang Xianzhong's visit to Yaogang, Chen Yufeng was not at ease, so he took Li Wei and the father-in-law Li to Jinbao Mountain two days later.

During this time, Yangchang had a good news for them, which made Zhang Zhimu very happy. Yangchang their digital terminal is already available. The numeric terminal can also only display the numeric letters on the keyboard and has no editing function. However, you can delete the displayed letters one by one from the back, and you can modify the numbers and letters displayed on the screen, but you can't insert numbers or letters in the middle, and deleting the letters in the middle will also leave a blank space in the original position. But this is already a great step forward.

When Zhang Zhimu saw the letters displayed on the green fluorescent screen, his heartbeat felt accelerated. This is the result of Yangchang's efforts for more than a year.

Zhang Zhimu asked them to use this terminal to do a communication experiment, and sent the content displayed on one terminal to another terminal through a serial port. Zhang Zhimu personally completed this experiment with them. The success of the experiment made Yangchang and his research and development team cheer.

Zhang Zhimu told them that the next step is to carry out remote telegraph sending and receiving experiments through this kind of terminal is a task that you need to complete by yourself.

Just as Zhang Zhimu expected, it took less than a week for the group to complete the telegraph sending and receiving test on the digital terminal. That is, the digital code to be sent is typed on the terminal screen, checked for error, and sent to another remote terminal. The remote terminal accepts it and displays it on the terminal. This can greatly reduce the error code of the receiving and receiving telegrams.

After that, the output of the digital terminal to the paper tape punch machine, the input of the perforated paper tape to the terminal, and the input and output of the terminal to the tape recorder were tested. All this went smoothly, and just when Zhang Zhimu felt that the computer should be further developed, there was a big problem with the test of the output of the terminal to the typewriter.

Li Yunhe arranged for people to start developing typewriters very early, and manual typewriters that can type numbers and letters have been developed for a long time, except for sending telegrams sometimes in order to see more clearly, and some people can type something, they are not very useful, and they have been kept there. The typewriter that can be connected to the terminal has not been able to test the terminal, and the circuit interface has not been able to be tested, and it has been left unavailable. Now that the digital terminal has been successfully developed, when the output experiment is carried out, either the typewriter does not respond, or it is indiscriminate.

Zhang Zhimu knew that there was an error in the data sent and received, but there was no urgency. It's a little bit of experimentation, and there's no other way. This is not like when repairing a computer typewriter in the previous life, using a good machine, putting it next to it, and comparing it with the bad one, there are differences, and it is likely that there is a problem.

Zhang Zhimu checked the receiving circuit of the typewriter, and there should be no problem with the design, so he re-soldered a board with components, but it was still not easy to use, but it was already connected, but it was printed in garbled characters. In the end, it was found that the reason was that the buffer address of the read sent and received was a little different, and the data received was wrong. After a few improvements, the typewriter was able to print onto the paper as it was on the screen of the digital terminal.

In addition, the telegraph was used to carry out experiments, and the digital terminal used to write the content on the screen and send it to the remote terminal, which could be sent to the typewriter for printing at the same time as the content was sent to the digital terminal.

This means that the telegraph service can be received automatically without one and there is no room for errors.

After that, Zhang Zhimu organized them to chat through the telegraph line. After that, several terminal chat experiments were experimented. However, all that is displayed on the terminal is the telegram code. Even so, these are earth-shattering events.

With the widespread use of these digital terminals, telegraph communication is no longer a job that requires specially trained personnel. As long as they can translate the text into a password, enter it into the terminal, and send it to the other party with the push of a button.

Although the integration of integrated circuits has been improved to a certain extent, such terminals are still very large, but this is already a sign of technological progress in this era. Something like this makes most people who see him feel incredible.

Yangchang asked Zhang Zhimu: "When can we display and print the man?" ”

"We are now in a position to do computer research. When my computer level reaches a certain level, we can display and print Chinese characters. Zhang Zhimu said.

"We've done simple addition operations with an adder, what's the point of that, it's not as fast as the abacus?" Yangchang was a little confused.

"The next step was to design a computer that could be used as input and output devices through digital terminals, which would be much easier to debug." Zhang Zhimu said, "Arrange a time, I want to give you a class on computer principles." Now that you have the foundation, you can take computer research one step further. ”

Zhang Xianzhong is also a character, he seems to be like a fish in water in Yaogang, visiting and playing everywhere. Zhang Zhimu and others have not bothered him.

Zhang Zhimu has always been concerned about the situation on the Jinbao Mountain side, and he is also worried about the progress of Duan Jingzhong's project on the new channel of the Yellow River. Because it is almost the middle of May, it is not long before the new river channel is expected to be opened to water at the end of June. Tang Jingyao also left the kiln and rushed to the Yellow River construction site.

However, Chen Yufeng and the others soon came back with good news. Li Zhi and Yang Jing led the soldiers and horses, and adopted a night operation, and suddenly surrounded the camp of this Qiankun Gate. Worried that there would be tunnels or other passages in Qiankun Gate, Yang Jing scattered the police of the special police team and Li Jing's special forces squadron to look for suspicious locations, but did not find anything different.

After Chen Yufeng, Li Wei, and Li Gonggong arrived, Chen Yufeng said to Li Zhi and Yang Jing: "There are stone mountains all around, and it is impossible for them to dig tunnels. Unless there is a cave in the mountain. If anything, you won't be able to find it from the outside. ”

The strange thing is that after surrounding the cottage, there was no reaction in the cottage.

Chen Yufeng said to Li Zhi: "Use a loudspeaker to shout and inform the people in the stockade, saying that we have received a report that your stockade is harboring important criminals of the imperial court." Ask them to come out one by one. ”

Li Zhi arranged for someone to set up a loudspeaker and began to shout to the inside of the stockade, but there was still no response from the village.

That Gonggong Li asked: "Did you show the news and let the others run away a long time ago!" Send someone in and have a look! ”

Li Zhi was going to send someone over. Chen Yufeng waved his hand to stop him, "Don't be a master!" Bombarded their walls with artillery. ”

Li Wei saw in the past that the artillerymen finally used a tracked tractor to slowly drag up the two 130 heavy guns, pointed to the wall in front of him and said, "Bomb the stone wall in front of you into a hole!" ”

The front wall of this cottage is built with huge boulders, and ordinary cannons are really helpless against them. Just when the gunners of the two guns aimed their muzzles at the wall and prepared to shoot, suddenly a row of shells came over the wall. The smoke was also billowing around the two gun emplacements, and the artillerymen of the angry kiln gang gritted their teeth. "Dong Dong" two cannon sounds, followed by two loud "boom" noises on the opposite wall, the wall stones were blown down in the smoke and dust, but the wall stood majestically and did not penetrate.

This made Chen Yufeng and everyone in the kiln gang a little surprised, this is a 130 heavy cannon shot at close range, and if the general city wall is not very strong, it can blow up a hole. However, the wall was only blown down by some stones, and the entire wall was not damaged. Li Wei said to the artillerymen: "Shooting continuously in the original place has been blasting them out of a hole. ”

The artillerymen of the two 130 guns, who felt humiliated, gritted their teeth and fired at the original shelling position, "knock, knock, knock", and continued to blast a big gap in the stone wall.

But until now, I haven't seen the figure in the stockade, just when Chen Yufeng was about to organize people to enter the gap to investigate, suddenly, the smoke inside the stockade was billowing out, and then the fire rushed to the sky, and the cries of women and children were faintly heard.

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".