"Rites are the foundation of one's life. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info may you and others pay attention to it! This sentence seems like an ordinary encouragement, but because the family has long been angry with Zheng Sen, Zheng Sen also knows that the family is running for his exam, so now when he hears Yang County's words, he has a mind in his heart.

"Yang Xianzun specifically asked me which scripture I was governing, and then asked two questions in a row from the Book of Rites. What he meant probably was that in this exam, he would focus on the "Book of Rites" when he was examining the scriptures. Moreover, he gave me two titles in the Book of Rites in a row, and when he said, "Pay attention to them," did he mean that the questions would be in between? No, it's too obvious, these two sentences are not far apart, there are only a dozen sentences in between, does 'pay attention to them' mean that the place between these two sentences may be the focus of the exam? According to the rules, the eight-strand text is to be released from the four books, but most of the things that follow are the "Book of Rites". Zheng Sen thought so, but he didn't tell anyone about it.

The exam is held in February of the following year, so it is enough to prepare for this time. Since then, Zheng Sen has lived the same life as the sprint in the third year of high school. Mr. Wang arranged such a schedule for Zheng Sen:

Get up at five o'clock in the morning, wash up, move your body, eat breakfast, and at five o'clock in the morning, that is, at six o'clock now, start reading in the morning, recite various scriptures for about an hour, and then move for a quarter of an hour, and then you will reach six o'clock in the morning, that is, half past eight in the morning. Then I listened to Mr. Wang spend a quarter of an hour briefly commenting on the homework of the previous day, and then the main work of the morning - writing an eight-strand essay, then lunch, after lunch, a quarter of an hour of activity, well, no nap, this is one of the biggest differences from the third year of high school, (Confucius's students slaughtered me to sleep in the daytime, and Confucius saw it, and Confucius scolded him: "Rotten wood should not be carved, and the wall of dung should not be stained.") "Therefore, in ancient China, scholars generally did not dare to take a nap, especially when they were still studying. The habit of arranging naps in schools was introduced from the West in modern times along with the introduction of Western education to China. Then there are all kinds of scriptures, trial poems, which lasted until about five o'clock in the afternoon, that is, about 4:15 p.m., at this time, Mr. Wang had also corrected the eight-strand text in the morning, and then Mr. Wang gave individual guidance on the problems in the eight-strand text, the time was about half an hour, and then Zheng Sen went home from school, went back to dinner, rewrote the eight-strand text that Mr. Wang had reviewed, and sent it to Mr. Wang for review overnight. In short, although it doesn't sound like the college entrance examination in my previous life, when I had to deal with several homework, the degree of hard work is more than that. So for a while, Zheng Sen didn't even have time to write letters to his family. As for sorting out the art of war or something, it can only be postponed.

Time passed slowly in such a hectic way. Just when even Zheng Sen felt extremely tired and unable to support, the New Year was finally coming. Even if you have to take the county government test next year, you still have to pass this year, just like later generations said, "If you have money or not, go home for the New Year." What's more, this year is a bumper harvest year for the Zheng family, since the agreement with the Dutch, the Dutch have bought a large amount of silk, porcelain, and tea through the Zheng family. Each of these goods can bring huge benefits to the Zheng family, and through the trade with the Dutch, the Zheng family even obtained more than ten times the excess profit. With money in hand, this year is naturally going to be festive. In mid-December, the school was also on vacation, and Zheng Sen finally gained temporary liberation, got on the boat, and returned to Anping.

At this time, the family was busy preparing for the New Year, killing chickens, slaughtering geese, buying pork, and washing carefully, and the maids' arms were soaked red in water, and some of them were wearing skein silver bracelets. Of course, the men don't have to worry about these things, but they don't have much to spare. They have to be busy arranging all kinds of things, what gifts to give, what to return gifts, and the opening of the new ancestral hall. In addition, those Dutch people are only a big year, and they still have to come to do business with the Zheng family. When people came to send money, it was naturally impossible for the Zheng family not to want it, so they had to do business as usual. Therefore, in the entire Zheng family, only the children are free and can have a good rest and have fun. However, it is a pity that although Zheng Sen is also a child, the whole family, including his father, does not treat him as a child. So, another thing found him.

This matter is actually a happy worry in the Zheng family, that is, suddenly there is so much more money, how to spend it.

The reason why nouveau riche are often despised is not that they suddenly have money, but that after they have money, they will not spend it reasonably. The Zheng family made super profits through sea trade, but the scale of sea trade could not expand rapidly, and the Dutch had limited transportation capacity and limited consumption power. Therefore, even if the Zheng family wants to use a lot of profits to expand reproduction, it is useless. If it were according to Zheng Zhilong's original temperament, of course, he would be as extravagant as possible and spend some of the money. So in the original history, Zheng Zhilong overhauled the mansion, and then hoarded millions of taels of gold in his own home (note, it's not silver, it's gold!). ）。 Then the gold was snatched away by the Manchurians, and the mansion was burned down by Zheng Chenggong.

In this time and space, because of Zheng Sen's advice, Zheng Zhilong did not build a mansion like in history, so he had more spare money in his hand.

"Do you want each of the brothers in the army to pay an extra New Year's fee?" Zheng Zhihu said.

"It's been added, but you can't give too much money, and if you give too much, you can have a lot of trouble." Zheng Zhilong shook his head and said.

"Why are you bothering then, if you want me to say, dig a big hole, put the gold and silver in a box and put it inside?" Zheng Zhibao said.

"Arsen, what do you think?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

"Father, since we have spare money in our hands, why don't we use it to build a city in Anping." Zheng Sen said suddenly.

"That's a thing, too." Zheng Zhilong said, "Since my family has settled in Anping, it is also a foolproof thing to build a city here. After all, my family has a lot of money now, and a lot of guys have red eyes. ”

"How is Daddy going to build this city?" Zheng Sen asked.

"It doesn't need to be too big, it's not good to be too big and eye-catching." With Zheng Sen's continuous efforts, Zheng Zhilong is now also very conscious of being a low-key person.

"I read the writings of the Dutch captives some time ago, and some of them were very interesting in the Dutch-built city of Geranza." Zheng Sen said.

"By the way, big brother, when Ah Sen said this, I remembered that Liu Xiang's subordinates were finally dumped by him and then surrendered to us, and the gang of people who also talked about it, Liu Xiang suffered a big loss under the city of Relansha." Zheng Zhifeng also interjected.

"Liu Xiang's people jumped off the boat, this siege or something, he hasn't played it at all, it's strange if he doesn't suffer a loss." Zheng Zhilong didn't care too much about Liu Xiang's losses in the siege, and he felt that this didn't mean that there was anything remarkable about the design of the city.

"Daddy, I've seen the style of the city of Geranza drawn by the Dutch, and I think the design of the city is really very reasonable." Zheng Sen said, "Daddy is willing to wait a while, and the child will go to the study to find out those pictures and show them to Daddy." ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded, and Zheng Sen turned around and left.

Originally, this kind of thing should have been done by the subordinates. It's just that now in Zheng Sen's study, there are more messy secrets, so people can't go in, and those things inside naturally can't be turned over, so now Zheng Sen can only go on his own trip.

Since Zheng Sen was gone, Zheng Zhilong and his brothers continued to talk.

"Ah Feng, how did Liu Xiang attack the city in the first place?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

"In the middle of the night, I sent someone to climb the city wall, trying to get in and open the door." Zheng Zhifeng said, "I don't want to, the Dutch have been prepared for a long time, but a burst of muskets and a random cannon were brought down." Liu Xiang didn't give up, he rushed again, this time it was even worse, more than half of the two hundred people were killed in the city, and only a dozen or so escaped alive in the end. ”

"You're talking about the middle of the night?" Zheng Zhilong asked suddenly.

"yes." Zheng Zhifeng said.

"Liu Xiang, this pig, what kind of fame. In the middle of the night, if you can't rush up, it's still easy to retreat, how can it be that less than ten of the more than 200 people died? That's two hundred pigs...... Was there a moon that day? Even if there were, it wouldn't be like this! ”

"I don't know very well about this, but I just heard what those people said, the Dutch cannons swept from all directions, and they couldn't get out at all. I don't know ...... group of pigs," Zheng Zhifeng couldn't say why.

"Daddy, I'm back." Zheng Sen came in with a large roll of paper.

"Well, show us that picture." Zheng Zhilong said.

Zheng Sen spread out the first picture on several cases.

"Daddy, here's a top-down view." Zheng Sen explained. Although Zheng Zhilong and others had not been exposed to the word "top view" before, one of the great advantages of Chinese is that it can be used to make sense of the text, and it is often not far from ten, so everyone can understand it.

"Daddy, the general siege of a city is nothing more than these methods. One is the ant attachment, that is, a large number of people rush up with a ladder, rush over and set up the ladder and climb up. It's just that now, if it's used against the city of Geranza, it's ...... Daddy, you see, although the city of Geranza is not big, although the city walls are not high, there are a lot of artillery emplacements, and the number of artillery is also very large. Daddy, you see, this small city actually has about 30 cannons. These cannons use shotguns and are effective at killing targets at least two hundred paces. And it's not the same as our Chinese cities. If our city withstands a round of artillery bombardment and rushes under the city walls, the cannons in the city will be useless. But this is not the case in the city of Geranza. ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Sen began to point on the map: "Daddy, look, this city looks like a star in appearance, and artillery is installed on each sharp corner. So no matter where he is, even at the foot of the wall, the artillery mounted on the other wall can fire directly at him. In some positions, such as here, here, here, there will even be artillery in three directions that can fire at it. ”

Zheng Zhilong had already begun to frown, as if he was thinking about the problems he would have to face when facing such a castle.

"Therefore, if you want to attack the city with ants, as long as the defender's artillery still has gunpowder and shells, plus the defender's musket, you can die as much as you want." Zheng Sen continued, "Of course, such a city needs a lot of artillery and muskets, and it costs a lot of money. But the city we want to build will not be big, and we can still afford these things. In addition, the besieging side often has rushing cars, arrow tower cars or something, but these things are also exposed under the nose of the cannon, at such a close distance, as long as the training is correct, the cannon hits these things, almost one cannon. Therefore, it is no different from sending to death. ”