Chapter 81 Zhao Kang's Views on Ancient Banquets

A.D. 1641, the year of Xin Si in the lunar calendar. The fourteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and the sixth year of Chongde of the Qing Dynasty.

This year is not destined to be a quiet one.

This year, with the assistance of complete drawings and materials brought by Zhao Kang from modern society, the first steam engine locomotive of Yulin Iron and Steel Plant officially left the factory, and Zhao Kang personally rewarded Liu Jin, director of Yulin Iron and Steel Plant, with 5,000 taels of silver. Little did Liu Jin know that this steam locomotive would usher in a new era. An era of miasma, exploitation and oppression.

In this year, the construction of the railway from Yulin to Baiyun Obo via Dongsheng and Baotou began. Construction of the Yulin-Yan'an railway also began.

This year, the Yulin cement plant will be officially put into operation.

In this year, the honeycomb coal and various types of coal furnaces produced by Youjia Coal Plant in Yulin swept the whole northern Shaanxi, and even spread to southern Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hebei.

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Just when the large-scale production movement on Zhao Kang's territory was vigorous, there was a different scene on the land of the Central Plains:

In early January, Li Zicheng conquered Ruzhou. Qian Zuo, the governor of Ruzhou, died in battle.

On January 15, the officers and troops pursued Zhang Xianzhong to Kaixian. Yang Sichang led the army to Yunyang, and the rest of the generals went to Huangling City, Kaixian County. The general army is as fierce as a tiger, and the general Liu Shijie faces the battle. Liu Shijie led the army deep into the battle formation and was invincible. Zhang Xianzhong climbed high and saw that there was no banner of the Qin army, and Zuo Liangyu's army had no fighting spirit. It is a strong man who sneaks in the valley and gallops down with a tall shout. Zuo Liangyu's soldiers were defeated first, Liu Shijie and the guerrilla Guo Kai, and the son of the fierce tiger died in the battle, and only the fierce as the tiger broke through.

On the third day of February, Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng. Kaifeng city is five zhang thick. The anti-thieves used the cave car to cover the nurses and soldiers to dig the holes, and patrolled the high-name Hengying City to defend it. Zhu Gongyu, the king of Zhou, took out a million taels of treasury gold, recruited strong men to kill the enemy, and made rice to feed the army. Kaifeng deputy general Chen Yongfu fought against the city, killing 2,000 rebels, and Li Xianfeng of Henan sent the guerrilla general Gao Qianchi to rescue and kill 700 rebels. Li Zicheng's army then retreated to Mi County. Kaifeng lifted.

On the fifth day of the second month, Zhang Xianzhong conquered Xiangyang City. At that time, Yang Sichang took Xiangyang as the military government, and hundreds of thousands of salaries and armor were gathered in the city. Each door is defended by a lieutenant. After Zhang Xianzhong left Sichuan, he galloped 300 miles in one day and night, killed Yang Sichang's envoy on the road, took his military talisman, and entered Xiangyang City with twenty-eight horses. When the fire broke out in the middle of the night, the inhabitants saw the fire and thought that the city was full of thieves, so they seized the gate and went out of the city, and the city collapsed. Zhang Xianzhong held Wang Yiming in Nancheng Tower and said: "I want to borrow the king's head to make Yang Sichang trap the feudal law." "Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, and Zhu Changfa, the king of Guiyang, were both killed.

On February 20, Zhang Xianzhong captured Gwangju. After Zhang Xianzhong broke through Xiangyang City, he immediately waved his army to the east, joined forces with Luo Rucai to enter Henan, and attacked the mall. At that time, the county magistrate Sheng Yiheng moved to Kaifeng Tongzhi and will do it. Zhang Xianzhong's army arrived, but he refused to defend with the township official Yang Suoxiu and others. It was raining and snowing, and the soldiers defending the city were too cold to fight, so Sheng Yiheng led the crowd to shoot and kill 17 rebels. Later, after the fall of the city, he was injured and arrested, and was immediately brutally killed by the thieves.

In March, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Suizhou. Zhizhou Xu Shichun knew that Zhang Xianzhong's army would come, and the people swore to defend it. Zhang Xianzhong attacked the city, Xu Shichun lived in the south of the city, guarded day and night, and the reinforcements did not arrive. Defending the city for more than a month, helping to be poor. Zhang Xianzhong made a feint to attack the southern city, and the submarine troops attacked from the northern city. Xu Shichun pointed out that the army and civilians started a street battle, but they died in the chaos and the city of Suizhou fell.

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The vicissitudes of life in the Central Plains are too far away from Zhao Kang, and after several months of hard work, the spring ploughing in northern Shaanxi is nearing the end. Although this year's drought is a foregone conclusion, but after a whole year of preparation, northern Shaanxi is full of water conservancy projects, with the use of a large amount of cement, the irrigation project has achieved initial results, even if the irrigation problem has not been solved for the time being, Zhao Kang has specially prepared drought-tolerant corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other miraculous crops.

On a bright spring day, Zhao Kangzheng took Chunmei and Dongmei to sit in the garden in the backyard of the Yamen of the governor of northern Shaanxi, admiring the dance of Makatana with the characteristics of "I Daqing".

Two large speakers and a CD player were placed in the courtyard to provide music, and there were four or five rings waiting next to them. As the music sounded, Makata danced, and her graceful figure dangled in front of Zhao Kang's eyes, showing the beauty of youth, vitality, wildness, and unruliness. Seeing Zhao Kang's enthusiasm, he was a little enthusiastic.

Suddenly, a discordant tenor voice came: "Young Master! Master! I have something important to report! ”

As Zhao Kang's hand pressed the switch, the music stopped abruptly, and Makata also stopped. I saw Zhao Fugui hurriedly trotting over from the back door. Zhao Kang's beautiful mood was suddenly interrupted, and he was in a very unhappy mood, and said angrily: "What are you doing in a panic?" Hell in broad daylight? ”

Zhao Fugui handed Zhao Kang an invitation card and said: "Young master, the court appointed Fu Zonglong to take over Ding Qirui's position, and the governor of Shaanxi Trilateral Military Affairs has now arrived in Xi'an. ”

Hearing that Zhao Kang was about to discuss "national affairs", Makata, Chunmei, and Dongmei took the maids and retreated very interestingly.

Zhao Kang took the invitation and looked at it carefully, and asked, "Fu Zonglong?" The new Trilateral Governor? Do I know him well? What did he invite me to dinner for? Hmph, nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief. ”

Regarding Zhao Kang's attitude, Zhao Fugui was also speechless: "Young master, it stands to reason that you, the governor of Yansui, are also under the jurisdiction of the governor of the three sides, and in the future in Shaanxi, this Master Fu Zonglong Fu is your only boss." ”

Zhao Kang asked: "How about the boss, without my permission, I don't believe that he can move a soldier from Yan'an to Qingyang, from Yulin to Dongsheng to Guihua City." Not to mention the army, even the young master and the governors and counties under my rule are still the same thing. ”

Zhao Fugui said: "That's that, in northern Shaanxi and southern Mongolia, even if the young master farts, the ground has to shake three times, but no matter how he says it, he is also a member of the court, if the young master does not go to the banquet, I am afraid it will leave a bad impression on the court." ”

Zhao Kang said: "Go to the banquet! Don't you know? Going to a feast is a very dangerous thing. ”

Zhao Fugui looked at Zhao Kang with a confused face, why don't you just eat a meal and give some gifts when you go to the banquet, how can it be dangerous? Fu Zonglong, as the trilateral governor of the court airborne, was afraid that the local governors, general soldiers and other forces would not obey the jurisdiction, do not listen to the dispatch, or disobey his orders, so it was normal to gather everyone together, drink wine, chat, cheer for family life, and then find a kiln to be a big [bao] health, and enhance the relationship between men, which is normal. How did it become a dangerous thing here for the young master?