Chapter 56: Unrest in Peace
From the barrel of a gun to the eve of Zhao Zheng's crossing, all coups interpret this truth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Only with the military can you be qualified to make money and spend money, and if you have a strong military, you can make more money.
The Gushan military industry is all over the Yan country, and many branches in the Sanjin and Qi countries are also being set up, and the daily profits are like flowing water, constantly converging to the Gucheng, but the Gushan army has less than 4,000 soldiers.
The wisdom of the ancients Zhao Zheng never dared to underestimate it, such as the principle of artillery, even if he was more than ten years of basic education, with a strong encyclopedic knowledge to recover. But after Gong Yiduo found out, he studied hard for a month, and even understood seven, seven, eight, and eight, and even made a wooden model.
Sooner or later, the secret of the earth-shattering thunder will be cracked by the nations, and the only thing he can do now is to take advantage of the time difference in this technology and do his best to develop his power.
The first step is to expand the army, war is always the protagonist of the war, no matter how powerful the weapon is, it must be operated by people, and those military concepts that only focus on weapons and ignore people are more than 10,000 years behind.
High-quality talents have always been advocated by the army in the previous life, but in the current Warring States period, where the literacy rate is less than 1 percent, Zhao Zheng has reluctantly chosen the training method of absolute obedience.
The somewhat anti-human training method of dissipating individual temperament and condensing it into a collective consciousness is most effective and feasible in a short period of time.
"Wei Huo, how is the grassroots officer training camp doing, and is there a big reaction from the people below?"
Officers are the backbone of the army, and it is okay for soldiers to be illiterate, but Zhao Zheng can't accept them if they don't know how to read. The purpose of the training camp is only one, to learn the most basic handwriting, to read maps, and military order codes.
These may be above the general in the armies of various countries, but the Gushan army only has a quota of 15,000 people, plus Zhao Zheng's financial resources, he is destined to take the route of strengthening the army.
Wei Huo smiled bitterly: "The effect is not bad, but the brothers are all too bitter, and the gentleman Xiangguo is too pedantic, chattering like a Taoist gentleman." ”
"This is literacy knowledge, where are those complaining and disliking old gentlemen, do you want me to find you a little girl?"
While scolding, Zhao Zheng had a flash of inspiration and said, "The little girl is not bad, and she can also solve life problems." ”
Zhao Zheng thought of those dancing girls and singers who were as comfortable as home, the one who was not a talented girl who was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she was old, her face was wrinkled, and she had no cosmetics to cover her flaws, so that they had to retire in their twenties.
Fortunately, she met a proprietor like Xiaozhu, and now she is a concubine of Ji Chong, and she is full of thoughts about doing good deeds. took in many "old and decrepit" singers, and the landlord's family was running out of surplus food.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey"
Wei Huo looked at Zhao Zheng and smirked, he was embarrassed and didn't know whether to retreat, he was obviously a chief of guard, but now he was always placed in some secretarial work, which can be described as miserable.
"Lord, take a sip of tea, it's weird."
I couldn't think of any other good reason, so I could only stop Zhao Zheng from smirking with tea, but I didn't expect him to really catch it, and he drank it all down, patted Wei Huo on the shoulder and said, "Good boy, I'll find you a beautiful difference." ”
Wei Huopi smiled and didn't smile at it, who doesn't know the meaning of "beautiful difference", last time he responded to one, and took the pro-guard team to move the stone for a day. Zhao Zheng was not allowed to take off his clothes, and he was also wearing thick leather gloves on his hands.
Things are always so tricky, carrying saltpeter to leave a shadow on Wei Huo, but when he really came to Yixian with a bitter face, his whole face bloomed with a chrysanthemum-like smile.
The Prince's Mansion of Zhuo County, Ji Dan, who received the earth-shattering thunder, organized craftsmen to start shameless decryption as soon as possible. Broken into pieces, smashed into noodles, lived into water, and even ignited experiments, fortunately, Ji Dan was more picky, and did not put all the earth-shattering thunder in one room at once.
One day at noon, a craftsman with a magnifying glass wanted to delve into the secrets of gunpowder, such as why it was granular. After a few moments under the sun, he succeeded in turning black and straightening his beard and hair.
"Fire nitrate, sulfur, lentils, you already know these things, how can they not create the effect of earth-shaking thunder. How can Lone raise your bunch of rice buckets and get out of here. ”
For a month, the earth-shattering thunder made no progress, and it also blew down three houses and burned eight craftsmen to death. Now there is a curse of Zhao Zheng in the Zhuojun workshop, and whoever dares to open it will definitely not die.
The enemies of superstition are so cute, and after so many years of the advent of gunpowder, they are partial to the knowledge handed down by the older generation.
One nitrate, two yellow, three charcoal, the mantra that children will know, when they come to Ji Dan's craftsmen, they have to trace the origin and follow the most primitive gunpowder manufacturing method. As for the source of charcoal, I was stunned to find some lentil carob ashes, and I didn't think about charcoal at all.
After the research on lentils failed, these craftsmen made up rumors in order to shirk their responsibilities, saying that there was a curse in the earth-shaking thunder, and if Zhao Zheng heard it, he would have to laugh off his big teeth.
Ji Dan was also a little irritable when dealing with these accidents every day, and inquired about Zhao Zheng's movements casually, and found that he was actually expanding the army.
The population of Gucheng is only a few, and there are not many young people at all, so Zhao Zheng's expansion army must be recruited from Yan State. The hateful Zhao Zheng not only betrayed the Yan Kingdom himself, but also dragged the people of the Yan Kingdom to rebel together.
"Immediately let the Dongjun Taishou order, strictly prohibit the people under his rule from going to Gushan to join the army, if one goes, let him come to see him." After Ji Dan finished speaking, he remembered Yixian, where Zhao Zheng made his fortune, so he said: "Send a letter to Yihou in my name and tell him not to help Zhao Zheng anymore, otherwise the entire Yan Kingdom will be destroyed at the hands of this person." ”
acted ruthlessly and his style was decisive, and he couldn't see that he had said that Zhao was his Changguo monarch. The cold feelings of the aristocracy can be seen from this.
After a while, Jing Ke came, with a gloomy face as if he had something on his mind. Ji Dan was even more displeased after seeing it, and asked impatiently: "What's the matter, you can't take a day off if you're alone?" ”
"No, this matter is very important, and my subordinates have to say it." Encountering Jing Ke's rare seriousness, Ji Dan knew that it must be a very bad thing.
"What's the matter, is it Zhao Zheng again?"
Jing Ke nodded, and said very entangledly: "A few days ago, my subordinates got a secret report, and a large number of displaced people rushed to Gushan, and after careful investigation, it turned out that Zhao Zheng did it on purpose. ”
"Why, a group of homeless people who can only make trouble, driving them away Yan Country is just quiet." Ji Dan sat down nonchalantly and said, finally hearing something comfortable.
Jing Ke sighed, and couldn't help but admire Zhao Zheng in his heart, he had heard him say that sooner or later the world would change, and there would be no distinction between nobles and commoners, and no one would be born a slave.
At first, he didn't understand, but now he understands a little, it is none other than those nobles who are invincible to drive change. No matter how you say it, the homeless people are also the people of Yan Kingdom, but they have become worthless garbage in Ji Dan's mouth, and it is good to have it.
And Ji Dan is no longer the Mingjun in his heart, maybe not now, the kind of overall situation that Zhao Zheng said, the hidden power that ordinary people can't see.
Jing Ke was very entangled, and he didn't know whether to tell Ji Dan to end Zhao Zheng's seemingly "self-benefiting scam".
"Your Highness, in fact, Zhao ......"
A person flashed in the courtyard, speaking in a voice that was more delicate than a woman: "Congratulations to the prince, the slave and maid are here to give you a gift, a gift from the king." ”
"Hehe, it turned out to be no correction. Father, whatever gift I have, let's take a look at it. "Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, Ji Dan learned at this time.
He deliberately left Jing Ke, wanting to forget about the unhappiness for a while, ran up to talk to Wu Jiao for a long time, and finally put on the gift - the moire tight coat that Zhao Zheng offered to King Yan.
The fiery red coat and white cloud brocade pattern may be a precedent for embroidery, Ji Dan rubbed his clothes left and right, listening to the flattery of his subordinates with a happy face.
The thick tweed coat, the half-standing lapels, and the just right sleeves, Jing Ke could see at a glance that this was Zhao Zheng's handiwork, I am afraid that this clothing was also given to King Yan by him, and then asked King Yan to transfer it to Prince Dan.
"He's not a person who will suffer", Jing Ke thought, there must be something greasy in it.
"Lord Wujiao, dare to ask if this dress is offered by Zhao Zheng, what unreasonable request can he make to the king."
Without a grin, that charm is not worse than that of Ji Ji, he smiled: "Mr. Jing Ke is worthy of staying under Zhao Zheng, and he can see it at a glance." But there is one thing you may be wrong, Zhao Zheng not only gave the king a gift this time, but also helped the king deal with some big troubles. ”
"What's the trouble?"
"Wanderers, he gathered most of the refugees from Raocheng to Wuyang back to Gucheng, can you say the king is not happy without these people?"
Jing Ke sighed fiercely, he was still a step late. I also regret the incompetence of the civil and military forces in the hall, Gushan has money and land, isn't it just people, and now it has been made up by officials from top to bottom of Yan State.
The current calm is just the comfort before the storm, just as Zhao Zheng is frantically expanding his army, far away in Liangzhou in the northwest, the only heroine in the world is the country.
"Baby Qi, it's windy outside, go back and rest."
The woman overlooking the city tower is the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty who the world thinks is the drowning of the immortals. After falling into the water, she desperately grabbed a floating board, and then fainted by the river, and woke up safely ashore.
Gongsun Wanniang was heartbroken and fed medicine on the side, and when she woke up, she said that she was pregnant, but there was no sign of a special pulse. Fortunately, with the blessing of her ancestors, this time the fall into the water did not affect the fetal gas, otherwise even if she died, it would not be enough to atone for her sins.
Ying Qi didn't blame her, just gently stroked her stomach and asked her to take herself to Liangzhou as soon as possible. After walking slowly for two months, Ying Qi came to the Xiliang Women's Country in Liangzhou, the country of the Great Circumference Princess Ji Die and her relatives.
"Sister, how is he, has my father let him go?"
Due to the long distance, although Ji Die was once in charge of Diewei and had eyeliner all over the world, it would take a few days to delay receiving the news from the Central Plains.
Just yesterday, the spy she sent two months ago finally returned, Zhao Zheng has become the hottest figure in Zhuxia, for a whole month, the spy did not move, every day is to sit in the tavern and listen to the news of Zhao Zheng brought by various business travelers.
This is the glory of businessmen, Zhao is after the Great Qin Lu Xiangguo, we are another talented businessman, one person can destroy a country, and he should be an example for businessmen.
After Ji Die smiled and described the words of a hot-blooded businessman in Xianyang, Ying Qi lay on Ji Die's shoulder and cried silently.
"That's a good thing, you've got a good man."
But he didn't do that before, and he said that the happiest thing was to cook for me every day and raise me white.
Sister, did you say that I delayed him before and didn't let him do great things?"
Ji Die's heart was shocked, and she said slowly: "No, this is the biggest thing. "Tears are already hazy.