Chapter 207: The Emperor's Murderous Machine
There can't be a shop on the island, so don't think about eating food or anything like that. The next few days are destined to be only carnivores, but is it easy to eat meat?
There are a lot of animals on the island, but there are no hunting tools.
It doesn't matter!
We have the system!
I don't want to buy food from the system, first of all, buy a small iron pot and put it in the baggage, which is a must, otherwise you can't eat it even if you have game.
Of course, it has to be done seamlessly, making people think that this iron pot is originally in the baggage.
In addition to the iron pot, there are also some necessary condiments such as table salt, sauce and vinegar.
When Su Baiyi took out the iron pot under everyone's noses, the other seven people almost had the same expression: stunned.
"Su, Su, Master Su......" Zhao Heng pointed to the iron pot and said incredulously: "You came to Beijing to face the king, why do you still bring the iron pot?" Could it be that Your Majesty will starve your old man? ”
"Oooh oh...... I understand. Zhao Heng began to make up for himself, the look of surprise on his face was gone, but he was deeply admired, and pointed at the orchid: "Our family understands, understands, how can I forget Master Su's clever calculation, I'm afraid that we will be stranded on a desert island long ago, so the iron pot has been prepared early." ”
Regarding his brain hole, Su Baiyi could only say "suit" in his heart and then nodded thoughtfully, "Yes, not only this iron pot, but also the clothes we wore in the sea before, and the floating circles we used were all prepared by the official in advance." ”
Thump!
Zhao Heng knelt down on the ground with trembling legs, kowtowed three heads extremely solemnly, and said respectfully: "The slave has seen Suzi, no wonder Your Majesty calls you Suzi, our family really understands today, your old man is simply Zhuge Liang is alive!" ”
As soon as he said this, Gu Zhong was a little surprised, seemed to think for a while, stared at Su Baiyi, and asked suspiciously: "Lord Su, is it Xiao Zhuge of Guide Mansion, Su, Mr. Su?" ”
"You know me, too?" Su Baiyi was quite surprised.
"I've admired my name for a long time!" Gu Zhong bowed his hand, "The soap made by Mr. Su is really convenient for my generation, Gu Mou thank you again." ”
He is a boatman, although he has a little money, he doesn't have much intersection with people like Su Baiyi, and the reason why he has heard Su Baiyi's name is naturally because of soap.
Gu Zhong used to hearsay, but he only knew that there was a little Zhuge in Guide Mansion, and he was a person with great skills, not only made soap and glass, but also planted cucumbers in winter. But if the emperor called Su Baiyi "Su Zi", he had never heard of it, and when he heard the eunuch talk about it today, he couldn't help but feel a little more respectful in his heart.
Bathing in the adoring gaze of the crowd is actually a good thing.
It's a pity that the "cooing" sound from time to time in the stomach is a bit disturbing.
Zhao Heng got up from the ground and came to Su Baiyi's side, a flattering smile appeared on his fair face, and he said softly: "Mr. Su, since you know how to calculate, then count when we can get rid of this disaster?" ”
"A month!" Su Baiyi said lightly.
"How long is it going to take?"
"Yes, if you want to live, you have to shrink your head first." Su Baiyi turned around and looked at a high mountain at the southern end of the island: "Only if we die outside of our opponents, we can live." Let's go to the hill over there and find a suitable cave to live in. ”
Everyone followed Su Baiyi and walked from the north of the island to the southern end.
The south side is about two kilometers away, and when he just inspected the entire island, he saw that there were many caves on Nanshan, so Su Baiyi went straight to the place where those caves were located.
Halfway up the hill, the caves facing east are revealed.
Most of them are unsuitable for living, some are cliffs below, some are too small, some are too humid and even have water currents, some are too big and too shallow like an eaves, and after looking for a long time to find a rather ugly place, but it is already the best.
"Let's go, let's go inside!"
The cave was quite dry, the stones were sharp and angular all around, and the ground was not very flat, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and there was hardly a flat place to be found, and there were many scattered stones piled up inside.
The entrance to the cave is too big, and it's no different from the outside, just as cold.
Fortunately, the entrance of the cave is facing east, and the current wind is coming from the northwest, so it will not be flooded by the wind.
"Wait a minute, let's do it together, seal this hole with a block of stone and mud, so that it won't be too cold at night." Su Baiyi pointed to the door and suggested, and everyone had no opinion.
After a closer look in the cave, he found a bed made of scattered stones in one of the innermost corners, and the bed was covered with hay.
"Anyone?"
This is clearly a man-made trace.
"Don't be surprised if someone is there!" Su Baiyi said: "Now that it's freezing cold, there must be no one here, this cave must be a temporary foothold for those fishermen in Denglai Land when they fish in the summer." ”
Just stay here!
You can only hide here first.
The Bohai Sea is a special sea, and it also belongs to China's inland sea, surrounded by the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula on both sides, presenting a "C" shape, and now Su Baiyi and a group of people are in the middle of the C-shaped opening, if you want to land in the nearby seas, there are only two options.
One is the Liaodong Peninsula, but the Liaodong Peninsula is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and it is the territory of the Tartars.
As for the Shandong Peninsula and even the entire Shandong, Su Baiyi did not dare to venture up.
Therefore, he can only hide on the island first, and when this gust of wind passes, all the officials think he is dead, and then quietly go home, once he returns home, he will mobilize two hundred Jinyi guards under his command to serve as personal temporary bodyguards, so that it is safe and comfortable, and he can pretend to be forced if he has nothing to do, and see who is unhappy and dragged into the edict.
Since you have decided to live on the island for a while, you have to have the hard conditions to live.
Su Baiyi simply divided the work.
Gu Zhong took his four men to build a wall and temporarily seal the entrance to the cave, so that it would not be too cold to burn the fire at night.
Zhao Heng and He Shan, the two little eunuchs, went out to collect firewood, because they not only had to cook, but also had to make a fire at night to keep warm.
As for Su Baiyi himself, he was assigned a particularly difficult and greatest core job of survival: hunting!
Of course, hunting is difficult for others, but for him it is a short answer.
We can cheat!
……
Early in the morning of the next day when the merchant ship was burned, the platform hall was on!
Emperor Zhu Youzhen looked at the ministers with a gloomy face, but a sly smile flashed in his eyes, but he still pretended to be distressed.
"Please Your Majesty be the master of the ministers, and severely punish Su Baiyi for insulting the officials of the court." Liu Wenquan was wrapped in a white belt around his neck, and a few shallow paw prints could be seen on his face.
"Please Your Majesty severely punish Su Baiyi!"
"Please Your Majesty severely punish Su Baiyi!"
……
The ministers were so angry that almost all of them, except for the five members of the cabinet, fell to their knees and kowtowed to the emperor to complain about their grievances.
Zhu Youzhen stretched his waist for a long time, and asked rhetorically: "Everyone, Aiqing, get up, your song Wang Chengen has shown me, and I already know the details." ”
"Your Majesty!" Xu Yuqing's right hand and left leg were wrapped in bandages, and his face was pale: "Su Baiyi is arrogant and arrogant, and he treats us as nothing, and he is actually making trouble and committing murder, insulting his ministers, and His Majesty cannot condone it." ”
"Xu Aiqing!" Chongzhen saw that everyone was still coercing, his face became more and more obvious, and his tone was not so kind: "I ask you, where did Su Baiyi commit murder yesterday?" ”
"Back to Your Majesty to ask, outside the gate of Yongding!" Xu Yuqing told the truth.
"Good!" Zhu Youzhen asked again: "I ask you again, what do you want to do when more than 40 people including the day before yesterday gathered outside the Yongding Gate?" ”
"This?" When the emperor asked this, Xu Yuqing was obviously a little hesitant, but in front of the emperor, the matter outside the Yongding Gate was in full view, and it was impossible to hide it, so he had to say: "The ministers heard that Su Baiyi left Beijing, so they waited outside the Yongding Gate, for, for the sake of ......" Xu Yuqing wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and didn't know what to say.
Did you tell the emperor to beat him?
Liu Wenquan suddenly took Xu Yuqing's words and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is equal to Yongding outside the door, and I want to reason with Master Su." ”
"Theory?" Zhu Youzhen sneered: "Where is the theory, it is clear that there is nothing to do, can the theory be used with a stick, can the theory be used outside the Yongding Gate?"
Tear open your fig leaf, tell you the truth, you went to intercept Su Baiyi, snatch the holy decree from him, and then return it to me by the political secretary, right?
You're going to fight with Su Baiyi, aren't you? ”
"Shame on you!" Xu Yuqing wiped his sweat and continued to argue with reason: "The ministers are upright and upright, dedicated to the Ming Dynasty, and the villain in Su Baiyi actually let the dog bite the ministers, is it tolerable or unbearable?" ”
"Hmph......" Zhu Youzhen snorted coldly: "Since it is a fight, there are winners and losers, you can use sticks, why can't Su Baiyi let the dog go?" If you lose the fight, you will come to me here to sue the emperor, is there such a unproductive minister in the world? ”
"Ministers......"
"Forget it!" Zhu Youzhen waved his sleeves: "I have made it very clear that the purpose of building the railway is to alleviate the upcoming drought and to redeem thousands of people in my Ming Dynasty. I am not Emperor Yang of Sui, and the railway is not the Grand Canal. Besides, the silver has its own Su Baiyi to raise, and you don't want your household department to contribute a penny, and you can use work for relief to turn the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi into road workers, which is a benefit of killing two birds with one stone, how can it not be done? ”
"Of course!" Zhu Youzhen's eyes narrowed slightly, and two sharp rays of light shot out of them: "I am not telling you these truths today, the matter of building the railway is imperative, don't say more."
This matter is related to my country, the two million people in Shaanxi, and the courtiers on the other, if I have to shed blood, how do you think I will choose? ”
A plain sentence, the killing machine is complete!
After hearing this, the ministers felt a pang in their hearts!
There was deathly silence in the main hall.
Cabinet minister Wen Zhen Meng Chao Zhu Youzhen saluted and said: "In this way, the old minister is willing to receive the order, so according to His Majesty's words, let Su Baiyi supervise all matters of the railway." ”
As soon as these words came out, the originally quiet hall suddenly became noisy again.