Originally, the purpose of his visit to Shandong was to find out who was framing him in the civilian-bureaucratic clique, and to put it bluntly, pacifying Shandong was just a by-the-way. But I didn't expect that in addition to taking Dengzhou bloodlessly, I also inadvertently saw a genius.

So far, the construction of railways has only been a plan and a policy.

The emperor's decree is good, but the eight characters have not yet been skimmed.

Lack of funds!

Lack of resources!

Lack of workers!

Lack of management personnel!

Lack of technicians!

Well, attracting investment can attract at least some funds, and the problem of funds has been solved, Cao Huachun has already taken people to mine the iron mountain, and the resources have been solved.

But talent is far from being solved.

The Wang Zheng in front of him is undoubtedly a perfect talent for Su Baiyi.

First, the old guy has experience in governing and knows how to manage; Secondly, understand technology.

The technology of railway construction is not just about roadbeds and bridges, but also involves many aspects. For example, ironmaking and steelmaking, such as casting molds.

Of course, these are some of the more low-level technologies.

The real heart of technology is in one place: the steam engine.

With the principle, it is not a problem how to build it, the problem is the material. The core device of a steam engine is two, one is a boiler and the other is a cylinder.

The cylinder must be continuously and continuously reciprocating during the operation of the train, and the requirements for the material must have good dimensional stability in addition to durability and high strength.

In layman's terms, I built a steam engine, which was started, and then the piston was constantly moving back and forth in the cylinder to drive the big wheel to move, converting heat energy into kinetic energy. However, the cylinder should not be deformed due to the high-intensity movement of the piston.

The size of the cylinder cannot be deformed due to drastic changes in temperature and other factors.

This is dimensional stability.

What is better to be dimensionally stable?

Alloy!

Alloy steel, to be exact.

His disciple Bao Erhei is a half-ass, and he can't do anything else except for being able to strike iron, so Wang Zheng's appearance just fills the gap in Su Baiyi's talent.

"Lord Wang is frightened, come, this official will give you a drink!" Su Baiyi picked up the wine glass in front of him and gestured to the king.

Who knew that Wang Zheng was very faceless.

The round old guy actually picked up a cup of tea, and arched his hand to Su Baiyi from afar: "Xiaguan thank you Master Su, but Xiaguan doesn't drink, it's rude." ”

Su Baiyi smiled.

The little official next to him hurriedly said: "Master Su didn't know that Lord Wang was baptized in the second year of the Apocalypse, converted to Catholicism, believed in Allah Jesus Christ, abstained from alcohol and sex, and was like escaping into an empty door. ”

"Ah......" Su Baiyi was slightly stunned, looked at Wang Zheng and said: "Catholicism is a school of Christianity, and the official knows more or less about it, and its sect does not prohibit alcohol, nor is it abstinence!" ”

Don't drink alcohol, don't eat meat, don't make people, this is not Catholicism, this is especially a monk, it's Buddhism.

Su Baiyi sometimes felt that his knowledge was not enough.

Wang Zheng's eyes lit up and said, "It turns out that Master Su also understands Jesus Christ?" He added: "Yes, Catholics do not prohibit drinking and abstinence, but Wang believes that if you want to be sincere, you must first abstain from these external things." ”

"Okay, Lord Wang will replace the bar with tea, and this official respects you!" Su Baiyi was also sighing in his heart.

Awesome, my great Chinese culture is really powerful, such a bullish Catholicism was introduced to China only for the first generation, and it was immediately changed beyond recognition by the Chinese.

It is estimated that only Chinese people dare to do this in the world.

Amen, Jesus bless me!

Su Baiyi silently prayed in his heart, his eyes fell on the two people behind Wang Zheng, and he was about to ask, but Wang Zheng, the old man, was in the limelight again.

"Everyone!" This time, it was Wang Zheng who raised the teacup, not to Su Baiyi, but to the international friends behind him, and said with great emotion: "This calamity, all thanks to the blessing of Jesus Christ, we can come out with our whole body, thank God!" ”

"Thank God!"

"Thank God!"

Su Baiyi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly, I worked hard to kidnap Mao Chenglu from the Bohai Sea, and then tried my best to occupy Dengzhou City, but all the credit was taken away by Jesus.

Well, I Su Baiyi don't care about a god!

Su Baiyi stood up, picked up the wine and respectfully joined everyone, and said, "Thank God"

Then, there is no then.

He didn't want to turn a reception banquet into a religious ceremony, so he had to stiffly disrupt the topic of the crowd continuing to sing the praises of Jesus, and asked the little official, "Those two in the back." ”

"Oh oh oh, the villain is derelict in his duties!" The little official smiled and said, "This is Pi Kuanglong, the staff general of the water division, and Zheng Tang, the guerrilla general of the water division. The two were responsible for garrisoning the Denglai Naval Division, and the previous naval division was swallowed by Kong Youde's envoy, and General Pi and General Zheng were also ......"

Su Baiyi's face suddenly became gloomy.

He came to the Shandong Peninsula to look for the guy who wanted to kill him by the civil official group, but now it's okay, the civil official didn't find it, but the two direct handlers found it.

These two were usually in charge of the Denglai sailors, and the burning of merchant ships by the three lucky ships at that time must have nothing to do with them.

The small official continued to introduce that in addition to Wang Zheng, Pi Kuanglong, and Zheng Tang, the rest of the people were Dengzhou Tongzhi, Dengzhou Governor, Experience, Governor, etc., and the government officials of all sizes in Dengzhou were basically there. It seems that this Kong Youde is not indiscriminately killing innocent people.

"Dengzhou has now been re-ordered by the imperial court, and you will temporarily perform your duties, manage the state government yamen properly, and wait for the new appointment of the imperial court before deciding to stay."

"Yes!" Everyone bowed their hands to Su Baiyi.

Su Baiyi asked, "Do you still have all the yamen officials?" ”

The crowd replied, "Yes!" ”

"Okay, after eating, hurry back to work, arrange all the affairs properly, and the yamen must operate normally." Su Baiyi waved his hand, and then everyone began to eat, and the atmosphere was not very warm.

But it doesn't matter!

For the rebels, the rebels naturally have to be appeased, but for these people who were originally officials of the Ming Dynasty, Su Baiyi didn't put too much thought into it, and they wouldn't oppose it anyway.

After eating, all that should be driven away is gone.

"General Pi and General Zheng stay, this official has important affairs!"

"Yes!"

Su Baiyi took the two of them and a dozen brocade guards to the back hall, found a big table for the official to try the case, and slammed it hard with a piece of shocking wood in his hand.

"Smack!"

was so frightened that Pi Kuanglong and Zheng Tang knelt down with trembling legs.

"Huh!" Su Baiyi asked curiously: "Why are you kneeling, I'm just trying to see if this shocking wood is useful!" ”

"Oh, oh!" Both of them were in a cold sweat, and they got up resignedly.

Su Baiyi slapped the startled wood with a "snap" again, and said loudly: "Pi Kuanglong, Zheng Tang, can you two be guilty?" ”

"The villain is guilty!"

"Sin will be convicted!"

The two knelt on the ground again, arching their hands towards Su Baiyi: "Lord Su, we are guilty, please punish Lord Su!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Pi Kuanglong trembled, and his voice trembled: "Su, Master Su, Xiaguan, Xiaguan, that day Kong Youde attacked the sailor, Xiaguan shouldn't drink." ”

Kong Youde originally had no sailor in his hands, and after the mutiny, he only walked around on land, but in the end, he was able to control the entire Denglai Sailor Division without a single soldier, relying on a surprise attack, which was similar to the process of Su Baiyi's occupation of Dengzhou.

It happened that Pi Kuanglong and Zheng Tang were very drunk that night, and many soldiers wanted to resist but couldn't find the leader, so the sailors all fell into the hands of Kong Youde, and Pi Kuanglong and Zheng Tang went to the prison in Dengzhou City after they woke up.

"Don't say if you drink or not, the official will ask. What is the responsibility of abandoning the army for the generals in our Ming Dynasty? ”

"This, this!"

"Adult ......"

The two of them almost completely collapsed.

Abandoning the army was a big crime in the Ming Dynasty, and the punishment was also very severe: the person concerned abandoned the city, and his family property was exiled without his family.

"Spare your life!"

"Xia Guan doesn't dare anymore!"

"Don't!" Su Baiyi said indifferently: "Everyone is a third-grade official, and it doesn't seem appropriate to call him a lower official." I am not interested in how to determine your guilt, but this official has a few words to ask you, be sure to tell the truth, if there is any deception, no one else is needed, this official can be free of you two today! ”

"Yes, yes, yes......"

"The lower officials know everything, and they say everything!"

"Alright, stand up!" Su Baiyi asked each of them to give a bench, then knocked on the table gently, and said lightly: "On the evening of the 26th of last month, as far as I know, the Denglai Sailor has not yet fallen into the hands of Kong Youde, yes or no?" ”

"Yes!" Pi Kuanglong, the general of the water division, said: "If you go back to your lordship, Kong Youde's capture of the water division is the eighth day of the first month of this month. ”

"Good!" Su Baiyi said: "Then tell this official, since the sailor is in the hands of you, why did you attack a merchant ship on the sea north of Dengzhou before dawn on the 26th?" ”

"Ah......h

"This ......"

Pi Kuanglong and Zheng Tang looked at each other.

And then the face turned pale at the same time!

People are watching the sky, and what they have done will eventually come to the door.

"Don't say it!" Su Baiyi smiled slightly and said, "Let me guess!" There must have been a big man who found the two of you and told you to go to sea immediately to rob and burn the 2,000-material merchant ship, right? ”

Pi Zheng and the others looked at each other again.

"Don't confess yet, you two fools, you were sold and you still helped the money!" Su Baiyi snorted coldly: "I don't know what benefits that big man gave you at that time, but there is one thing, I'm afraid the two of you don't know." ”

"What, what?" Pi Kuanglong's eyelids jumped and asked.

"On the third day when the big ship was burned by you, the imperial court received a note from Wang Daochun, the governor of Shandong, saying that Kong Youde had captured the Denglai Naval Division." Su Baiyi said lightly.

"Impossible!" Pi Kuanglong was stunned: "Denglai Sailor was obviously succeeded by Kong Youde on the eighth day of the first month of this month!" ”

"So!" Su Baiyi knocked on the table and said slowly: "The fall of the Denglai Sailor was calculated by the people a long time ago, otherwise they would not dare to report it to the imperial court."

In other words, it is no accident that on the eighth day of the new year, whether the two of you were drunk or Kong Youde attacked the sailor. Behind this, it is as if there is an invisible hand manipulating the layout. ”