Chapter 119: We Are All Civilized People
"Fortunately, Lao Tzu was prepared!"
Yang Qing said proudly.
Shi Kefa looked at the panicked green worms below as if he was stupid, and one after another the water dragons that fell from the sky exploded among them, and even poured directly above their heads, and almost no one was spared in the splashing water, and almost all of them were wet......
This is the cold winter wax moon!
The north wind is blowing in the sky!
There are still remnants of snow in some corners of the Thousand Steps Corridor! The canals on both sides of the street are already frozen enough to skate, what is it like to be poured cold water on your head in such weather?
And this water dragon is still falling.
In fact, what Shi Kefa didn't know was that on the horse road behind the city tower, the Jinyi guard carrying the water was lining up in a long line, constantly lifting buckets of well water to the top floor of the city tower, where ten one-person-high wellheads were densely arranged, to be precise, this is actually a cement pipe, and the steel bar can also be said to be an iron reinforced cement pipe. Yang Qing used the first batch of cement he produced to pour ten iron-reinforced cement pipes with an inner diameter of half a meter on the Chengtianmen Tower, to be precise, water towers, each thirteen meters high, which fell exactly on the solid city wall and passed through the two-story city floor to ensure stability. Then fill it with water and try to maintain the water level through manual water supply, relying on air pressure and depth pressure through the lead water pipe to press out, condescendingly using a height of more than ten meters to cover the entire Jinshui Bridge north of the square of only 30 meters......
It is said that Yang Qing has been prepared for a long time.
After all, the Ming Dynasty's Fuque also has a glorious tradition, and Chengtianmen is the preferred place for Fuque, in order to avoid Chongzhen entangled in the court staff, and can not let Chengtianmen blood flow into a river, then simply use the most civilized means to deal with such behavior.
"It's a pity that there are no high-pressure water cannons!"
Yang Qing lamented.
The copycat version is not the original after all, and it would be cool if there was a real high-pressure water cannon.
"If you don't stop, it's going to kill you!"
Shi Kefa roared.
"Uh, Shi Gebu, I just put some water to wash the floor tiles in front of Chengtian Gate, what does it have to do with human life or not? Could it be that mopping the floor can also kill people? ”
Yang Qing said with a pure face.
"You're going to freeze to death!"
Shi Kefa roared.
"They can leave!"
Yang Qing said.
"I have warned them to leave, but they will not listen, so I am not obliged to stop my work in order to take care of them, right? Benjue and the brocade guards were ordered to come to clean up the dirt in front of the Chengtian Gate, of course, they must perform their duties first, as for someone who does not listen to the dissuasion to break in, no matter what the fate is, it is to blame, if the Beijing camp practices shooting, and someone does not listen to the dissuasion and forcibly breaks into the shooting range and is killed by bullets, is it still the responsibility of those soldiers? ”
Yang Qing said.
"You ......"
Shi Kefa obviously couldn't talk about him.
"Get out of here!"
He snatched the brass trumpet and yelled at the water-drenched insects below.
After all, the efficiency of the ten water pipes is limited, in fact, most of the green worms have not been watered, in Shi Kefa's roar, they quickly woke up, and rushed to the Jinshui Bridge in a hurry, after all, this thing has a limited range, and it is basically fine after crossing the Jinshui Bridge, and it is really possible to freeze to death if it is continued to be watered here.
However......
"Hurry up and pick up the old man!"
Several voices in the crowd of onlookers in the Thousand Steps Corridor suddenly shouted.
The next moment the crowd was boiling.
All the onlookers flocked forward excitedly, and just as the green worms began to flee onto the Jinshui Bridge, the dense crowd suddenly blocked the bridge on the south bank, and even pushed back against the green worms, who roared, pleaded, and even cried angrily, but did not stop the enthusiasm of the people to come to their aid, and they quickly began to retreat north in the impact of this torrent. But on the north side of the city wall, those brocade guards were happily holding heavy water pipes, constantly pouring cold well water above their heads, and in the cold wind, those green insects were quickly wet, and their body temperature was sharply lost in the severe cold of minus five degrees, and soon some people were frozen to the point that their faces were blue and incapacitated.
Even many have been scrapped......
Acute hypothermia can be severe.
People with good physique may be able to hold on for a longer time, but these green insects are all powerless, either they are weakened by Qin Huai's wind and moon, or they are weakened by perennial hard study, how can they withstand the sharp hypothermia after being wet in such a severe cold?
"Stop, it's going to die!"
Shi Kefa changed to a pleading tone and said to Yang Qing.
"How can they wake up if they don't die?"
Yang Qing sneered.
He just wants to pour a few more to die, so that these guys can sober up, let them know that this new deal will not change, and lest more people have illusions.
Shi Kefa looked down helplessly.
Behind them, the Jinyi guards who carried water were still going back and forth between the wells and the city towers, pouring buckets of well water into the water tower, and then turning into water dragons to spray from below, but the speed of manpower water resupply was still too slow after all, even if there were nearly a thousand people supplying water, after all, the passage of the city tower was limited and the water supply of those wells was also limited, and the water pressure of the water tower eventually became smaller and smaller, and the water dragon continued to shrink backwards, and finally shrank to a useless extent.
"We're going to have to build a special water tower!"
Yang Qing said with some regret.
However, it is useless to repair the water tower, not to mention that there is no water supply without a pump, even if the water is diverted from the mountains outside the city by pipe, it is useless, because this method is only effective in winter, and the green worms are just cooled in summer, but in winter you have to consider frost protection.
That's even more troublesome.
With the cessation of the water dragon, the people on the south bank of the Jinshui Bridge also retreated happily, and only those soaked and curled up and trembling green worms were left in front of the entire Chengtian Gate.
"Don't get out yet!"
Yang Qing shouted on the Chengtian Gate.
The green worms who could still move looked at him with hatred, but after all, they still didn't dare to continue to entangle with this eunuch, so they could only support each other and leave.
Yang Qing's frenzied atrocity caused nearly a thousand scholars to lie directly on the hospital bed after leaving Chengtianmen, and more than 200 of them were dying, because it was difficult to predict the outcome because the high fever did not go away, including the leader of the imperial history, who was poured on the head by a water dragon. It is estimated that the body of the sleeping flower and willow on weekdays is also a little weak, in fact, it was carried back by the house slave, and the house slave did not know, I don't know that in this case, I have to pick up the soaked clothes for him first, and the result is that when I carry it back to the house, the ice slag has fallen on my body, according to modern terms, I can basically give a critical illness notice.
But......
If you want to find responsibility, you really can't find Yang Qing's head.
Theoretically, he really wasn't responsible.
He sprinkled water to clean the floor tiles in front of Chengtian Gate, the water dragon was built in this name, he didn't sprinkle water to deal with the green worms, as for the green worms, he had warned them in advance, the latter didn't listen to the about him, what should he do, he couldn't just because these people were there, he wouldn't do what he should do!
It doesn't make any sense!
If this is a military exercise, you trespass and are injured by mistake, and you still rely on the soldiers to stop the exercise?
"Why are your faces so big?"
Brocade Guard Wolf **, Yang Qing said disdainfully to a few green insects in front of him.
These were those who left on their own initiative, but as soon as they came out of the right Chang'an Gate, they were immediately taken away by the Jinyi guards who were lying in ambush with a sack and sent directly to the wolf's den.
"This is the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, where do you think you have the ability to change the emperor's decision?"
He continued.
"In the world, even if the husband is cheap, he is also responsible!"
A young man in his thirties said.
"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband!"
Yang Qing summed it up directly for him.
The scholar's eyes lit up, and it was clear that this was more concise and concise than his.
"Then I wonder, since the world rises and falls, and the husband is responsible, then why don't you pay taxes?"
Yang Qing said with a smile.
Okay, this is Gu Yanwu, but he is still called Gu Jiang now, the donated Nanjing Guozijian supervisor, and Zheng Sen are classmates, born in a Kunshan family, and his great-grandfather was a waiter in the Nanjing Military Department, he is actually a windfall among these green worms, but this time the Nanjing Guozijian in Beijing is all involved, and he is normal in it, as for Zheng Sen, because he wants to conspire with his father to aid the DPRK, he is not in Nanjing.
"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, this is a good saying!
So I want to ask, why did Daming get to this point? Why did the Northern Capital fall?
There was a famine, thieves swarmed, and the court had no money to pay the military salary.
So I'm curious to know what you, or the Jiangnan gentry, have done about these?
The famine in the north is all over the wilderness, and the hungry people in Shaanxi have even eaten up all the flies, what have you Jiangnan gentry done who have eaten in Jiangnan and even cost a hundred sheep to eat a table? If you give the leftovers you feed to the dogs, you can keep them alive instead of filling the ravines!
Thieves swarmed, the imperial court had no money and could not pay military salaries, when Li Zicheng's army came to Beijing, the household department was 80,000 taels of silver, and in order to raise military salaries, His Majesty even sold the queen's jewelry, so I may ask you, what level is 80,000 taels in the Jiangnan gentry? I'm afraid it's not even average, right? Can the combined wealth of the Kunshan Gu family exceed the 200,000 taels that His Majesty borrowed from the ministers?
You still don't want to pay taxes?
That's it, you still have the face to talk about here, what is the rise and fall of the world, and the husband is responsible?
Could it be that you mean that only those horsemen are responsible for the rise and fall of the world, and you gentry with fine clothes and fine food only need to sit back and enjoy the results? The gentry in the north also thought the same, they wanted the soldiers to work hard to protect their wealth, but they were reluctant to let them eat enough, and they also wanted those hungry people to be safe and starving so as not to cause trouble for them.
Then Li Zicheng took the rebels and hungry people to pinch them out of their brains. ”
Yang Qing said with a sneer.