Chapter 295 Police Call (II)

"What a strange couplet." Zhang Yi and Song Ke praised loudly, held the waist card on their chests with both hands, and respectfully saluted Xu Hongsan, "Be taught, I will definitely keep it in mind." ”

The text used in the couplet is very simple, strictly speaking, it is not neat, but the heroic righteousness that is revealed, but it suddenly hit the hearts of the two, you know, Confucianism, has always admired the world for the public, and the more to later generations, especially after the Song Confucianism, the more emphasis is placed on "preserving the principles of heaven and destroying people's desires", although after the Confucian characters became officials, there were few people who could clean themselves, but in their bones, they never recognized that corruption and bribery were reasonable, let alone the kind under the rule of Meng Yuan. With a little power in his hands, he changed his way to make money.

Zhang Yi and Song Ke have never been Meng Yuan's officials, so they have no conflict with the requirements of honesty and dedication, and since they have ventured across the river to devote themselves to Yangzhou, they have nothing to do with the words greed for life and fear of death, so after confirming that Xu Hongsan was not deliberately targeting himself, he immediately accepted this person's kindness.

On the other hand, Xu Hongsan, seeing that Zhang Yi and Song Ke were so humble and polite, felt embarrassed to get up, waved his hand, and said curtly, "The two adults are serious, Xu doesn't even know much about big characters, how can Xu be qualified to educate people, but, I just think that the two adults are capable, but don't be affected by Meng Yuan's habits, and accidentally ruin your future, otherwise, it's really, it's a pity." ”

"General Xu reminded me well, the two of us have just arrived, and our eyes are black, if there is anything that needs to be careful in the future, please ask General Xu to give me more advice." Zhang Yi and Song Ke thought about it and continued to respond with a smile.

"This, this" Xu Hongsan's face became more and more embarrassed, he waved his hands, and said something for a while.

"Okay, you three don't be polite, we will have a long time to deal with each other in the future." The prefect Robben saw it and took the initiative to resolve the embarrassment for the three of them, "Let's go, put the things in the house first, Brother Zhongwen, let me see the number of your key, well, No. 17, it's the yard in front, put all the things in your house first, and we'll clean it up carefully when we come back in the evening." ”

"Okay." Song Ke agreed neatly, picked up the key and walked to the courtyard marked with the word C17 in front, first used the key to unlock the gate, and then invited everyone to enter, and then opened the door of the small two-story building facing the gate, and put everything into the house.

"There is an iron cabinet in the corner of the first floor, which is for you to put important things." Robben pointed to a bulky iron guy in the corner of the wall, and whispered, "The two of them can be locked inside, the waist card must be carried, and there is a ring at the back, which can be tied with a rope in the pocket of the underwear, in case of entering and leaving the important department, for the inspection of the security personnel, and the rest, just let it go, this patrol team with a special retired veteran organization, every quarter of an hour or so, it is difficult for idle thieves to get in." ”

"Thank you Brother Qingyuan for reminding me." Zhang Yi and Song Ke, while saying thank you, packed up their things according to Robben's instructions, and then walked inside, changed into the regular clothes of the military generals who had just come down, reorganized themselves, and strode out.

Both of them are not too old, and they are relatively outstanding among the Jiangnan people, so they changed into the uniform that Zhu Chongjiu tampered with according to the camouflage in his memory, and they also looked tall and capable, but they felt very uncomfortable with the many wooden buttons and pockets, and their fingers were pinched and touched, and their eyes were full of confusion.

"When marching and fighting, it is inevitable to dance with knives and guns, so the sleeves are shorter, but they are neat." Prefect Robben got up and led everyone outside, and explained with a smile, "The two clothes pockets on this are for notepads and charcoal strips, and if you think of something temporarily, or you are afraid that you won't be able to remember it when you receive an order, you can directly take out the charcoal strips and write them down on paper, if you are at home, you don't need to use charcoal strips, brushes or swan pens passed by big cannibals." ”

"Charcoal." Song Ke asked with a frown.

"It is to burn the firewood black, and then sharpen it into a small stick, and it can also write on paper, but it is too hard, and it does not reflect the calligraphy attainments at all." Robben glanced at him and explained very patiently, "Everyone doesn't like to use it, but this thing is really simple and convenient, and I'm not afraid that the words written out can't be killed." ”

"What about the swan pen?" Zhang Yi thought about it and continued to get to the bottom of it.

"It is to use the big hair on the swan's wings, the pen that is trimmed, and the ink is relatively thin to write, the handwriting is very fine, and you can write hundreds of words on a small piece of paper." Robben smiled and continued to explain, "It was passed from the big cannibal, dipped in ink once, you can write a small half page in a row, and it can be done quickly, when our governor's office used to copy official documents, this kind of pen was often used, but recently it has been used less, the chief manager asked Huang to help him make a batch of all-steel nibs, which are installed on the wooden handle, which can be written like a brush, and can store a lot of ink, and the handwriting is as clear as the swan pen. You can make it in large quantities and sell it to a business, and if you like it, you can buy one and use it. ”

"That's a lot of tricks." Zhang Yi didn't expect that a writing pen could make so much exquisiteness, and shook his head with a smile.

"It's more complicated than this, and there are." Robben thought for a while, and retorted with a smile, "For example, the buttons on your clothes, it turns out that we are all knotted with silk, and now, there are wooden, polished shells, and stones, and the most precious ones are made of glass, crystal clear, all like Hetian jade, and the shapes are also varied, round, square, water chestnut, and even butterfly wings, full of patterns. ”

"Oh." Zhang Yi and Song Ke raised their arms and looked at them carefully, no matter how they looked, they didn't think it was necessary to waste so much effort and materials, but Robben continued to smile and shake his head, pointing to the three buttons behind the cuffs of the two of them, and continued to point, "Don't think it's redundant, each button has its use, Luo Mou, who buttoned his clothes in front, is not verbose, everyone knows what it does, and these three buttons, do you know what they do." ”

"I don't know." Zhang Yi and Song Ke shook their heads honestly.

"You lift your sleeve and wipe the sweat." Robben smiled narrowly and whispered.

When the two of them heard this, they raised their sleeves and just pasted the button on their heads, and immediately laughed, shook their heads and said, "Okay, you Brother Qingyuan, I thought you were a kind person, and you actually learned to play tricks on people." ”

After laughing, he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Such a whimsical idea, that is, it can only be seen here in Yangzhou, and it would be good to have a button used in front of it elsewhere, who can come up with such a trick." ”

"Cang Liao knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing." Luo Ben put away his smile and said, "Don't hide it from the two of you, now, Luo Mou feels more and more that what Sima Zichang said makes sense, there are more things, so he can naturally come up with new tricks, if they are not enough, who can care about changing tricks." ”

"That's nature." Zhang Yi and Song Ke responded in unison, and immediately remembered in their hearts that during the banquet last night, their own lord took advantage of the drunkenness to say, 'Large-scale industrial production will inevitably bring prosperity to commodities, and when commodities are sufficient, the function will be refined, and people's creation will be multiplied'

While comparing the memory of last night with the things in front of them, they jumped into the carriage, and with the introduction of Xu Hongsan and Robben, they successively went to the important departments of the Huaiyang Department such as Fuxue, workshops, and businesses, and witnessed how the plate armor with a hundred yuan of outside prices was beaten out in a few breaths under the hydraulic forging hammer, and they also witnessed how the water-powered thirty-two spindles Wang's big spinning wheel spun piles of cotton into thin and long white yarn in a blink of an eye, and then was taken to the shooting range by Xu Hongsan. Having experienced the great power of the new rifled musket, he could no longer afford to leave when he dragged his tired body back to his lodging in the evening.

Zhang Yi's temporary residence was next door to Song Ke, and after eating the dinner that his soldiers bought back from outside, he didn't feel tired at all, took a cup of tea, raised his legs over the low wall, and walked directly into Song Ke's house.

Song Ke also had a stomach of things to say to others, and when he saw Zhang Yi coming, he immediately took the initiative to greet the door of the room, "Brother Sanyi, the younger brother is about to climb over the wall to find you, what I saw and heard today makes the younger brother sigh, if Brother Sanyi is not tired, take advantage of this time, the younger brother wants to have a good chat with the elder brother, in the future, you and I will be in Yangzhou City, how to stand up and act, and have a charter." ”

"That's nature, Zhang Mou just meant that." Zhang Yi didn't think about it, and agreed with a smile.

"Brother Berwyn, it's a pity." Song Ke immediately closed the door, and sighed with emotion while letting Zhang Yi towards the table.

"It's a pity, he made a decision too hastily, at least, like you and I today, take a few turns around the workshop first, and then choose to stay." Zhang Yi thought about it, and he was also full of emotion.

Just yesterday at this time, he was still undecided by Liu Bowen, but today, he was almost pulled by Liu Ji yesterday to be a frog at the bottom of the well, and he didn't feel scared.

Liu Bowen only saw the plundering of the surrounding princes in Huaiyang, but he didn't see that after these riches were concentrated in Huaiyang, they played a tenfold and hundredfold role, building iron armor like pinching mud, turning piles of cotton into spindles in an instant, and making cannons like planing wood.

"Industrialization, yesterday you and I only heard a fresh, today alas." Song Ke was silent for a moment, and continued to sigh long, "To be honest, looking at a cannon, it was lifted down from that boring machine in a blink of an eye, and I rubbed my eyes countless times at that time. ”

"Yes, a thousand artillery pieces, it's a pity that Liu Ji thought that Zhu Chongba had a great future." Zhang Yi thought about it and continued to sigh loudly, for Liu Ji's eyes, and for the fate of other princes in the world, thousands of artillery pieces were fired at the same time, and its power was probably flattened even by a mountain.

"And that musket, although it is a bit troublesome to load, but as long as you are willing to work hard, even if you are a talented person who has no strength to restrain the chicken, after two or three months of practice, you can be no less than a sharpshooter."

"Three months, recruits are enough to become an army, and half a year is enough to become a field army." It is worthy of Zhang Yi, who can see the advantages of firearms at a glance, "And a sharpshooter, to say the least, has to work hard for three years." ”

"Fifty paces away, it is impossible for the arrow to break through the armor."

"The simplest arquebus, more than sixty paces, can carve a hole in a three-inch thick target."

"If muskets and artillery go together"

"As long as it's not raining, it's invincible in both distance and close combat."

"It's ridiculous, Liu Ji still said that it can't last long."

"He hasn't seen it, so he doesn't know."

The more they talked, the more speculative they became, and they both felt that in time, the Huaiyang Governor's Mansion would definitely soar into the sky, and they chose to part ways with Liu Ji last night, which was simply the wisest decision in their lives, otherwise, they would definitely regret it for the rest of their lives.

"I think our lord may not be able to write good poems and do good articles, but in terms of making instruments, he is absolutely unparalleled in the world, and the things he does in Yangzhou are not rash, but follow the established way, but what he wants to do, the avenue he wants to follow, everyone can't understand it now, and the ancient sages may not know it." After sighing about the advanced weapons he had seen during the day, Song Ke turned his conversation to the characters again, looked around, and said in a low voice.

"More than that." Zhang Yi nodded, and added solemnly with a solemn face, "Look at the heroes in this world, how can there be a man like him, who dominates two roads and one mansion, and lives so simply, and who is as humble as him, knowing that Liu Ji is unwilling to vote for him, and he still treats him politely, and you look at the officers and soldiers in Yangzhou City, walking on the road in a neat line, neither looting property, nor molesting women, the legendary Yue family army, I'm afraid it may not be able to do this." ”

"Didn't you hear them claim to be a revolutionary army?" Song Ke nodded, and said with sincere admiration, "He has the heart of the army and the people, and the money and food are also very abundant, if the world does not return to Huaiyang in the future, there is no reason at all." ”

"Haha, that's exactly what the hero sees." Zhang Yi laughed and patted the case, "Brother Fool is also full of confidence in this now, two of us brothers, this step is absolutely correct." ”

Song Ke smiled and nodded, walked to the window and looked out a few times, and then slowly put away his smile, "It's really okay for us to take this step, but Brother Zhang, there are some things that I always feel so worried about." ”

"Why did the virtuous brother say this?"

"Ugh." Song Ke shook his head and sighed in a low voice, "Don't hide it from Brother Sanyi, before I came to Yangzhou, I was also a person with a high eye, and I always felt that as long as the time was right, I could become a romantic figure like Fubo and Dingyuan. (Note 1)

"Yes, it's ridiculous that the foolish brother thought that he was the Zhuge Wuhou at the beginning." Zhang Yi shook his head, the smile on his face showed a little bitterness, "I only know when I arrive, Steward Lu, Shi Xuezheng and Luo Zhifu are all rich in learning, especially Luo Ben Luo Qingyuan, who is only in his early twenties, and his mind and vision are far above you and me." ”

"There is also Na Lu's long history, that is the big material that has taken the list, with him in front, you and I really can't afford to be conceited."

"So you're discouraged."

"That's not it, but so little brother, I always feel worried, there is no way to repay the courtesy of the chief manager, the chief manager is not thin on you, if I can't come up with some dry goods, after a long time, even if the chief manager doesn't say anything, the colleagues around me may disdain to be with you and me."

"So what to do, before I came, who would have thought that there would be a lot of talent here." Zhang Yi thought about it and gritted his teeth fiercely, "Right now, I can only humbly ask for advice while doing things, I don't believe it, the civil and military officials in Huaiyang are all as capable as Robben, and besides, listen to him himself, he only came seven or eight months earlier than us, and opened his eyes a few months earlier, as long as you don't hold on to the defects, and take out the strength of the five more Wenshu back then, it may not be too bad." ”

"That's right." Song Ke listened to Zhang Yi's decisive words, and his heart was also inspired to be a little arrogant, "I can't do it, I can't learn, threesome, there must be my teacher, it's a big deal to learn from scratch, it's better than being like Liu Bowen, you can only be a spectator." ”

"Liu Bowen will not be a spectator forever." Zhang Yi shook his head with a smile, "He is very arrogant in his bones, and he will never let all his knowledge be wasted." ”

"But he did so much yesterday." Song Ke was stunned, his face full of puzzlement.

"First, the chief steward is not really angry, leaving him to open the academy is equivalent to leaving him a door to enter the shogunate." Zhang Yi's grasp of people's hearts is much clearer than Song Ke's, he pondered for a moment and explained in a low voice, "And after Liu Ji broadens his horizons like you and me, he will only make two choices, first, put down the shelf and admit his mistakes, and work with you and me to assist the lord wholeheartedly, and second, go away in a negative mood, find a way to assist others, and do better than the lord, so as to prove that the lord is wrong, yesterday was blind." ”

"Just rely on him to think beautifully." Song Ke pursed his lips disdainfully, and then asked worriedly, "In that case, wouldn't we meet him on the battlefield in the future?" ”

"What's the way, he thinks so highly of himself, and wants to stand out for the gentry of the world, regardless of whether others need him to take the lead." Zhang Yi pondered for a moment and shook his head slightly, "If there really is such a day, you and I may not be afraid of him, even if he is full of tricks, as long as you and I are cautious and crush the past step by step, with the strength of our Huai'an army, any tricks will have to be crushed into powder." ”

"I hope there will be another day." Song Ke clenched his fists and waved forward gently, but there was a bit of expectation in his eyes, with his absolute strength, crushing a qiē opponent, what a hearty way of playing, if the general really had that day, but the comfort was broken, and he would not change it for hundreds of stone nectar.

"I am afraid that the opponent you and I will meet in the future is more than one Liu Ji." Seeing Song Ke's eager appearance, Zhang Yi shook his head and continued to whisper, "Didn't you listen to what Robben said today, what does the lord want to break, what old personal attachment relationship, give everyone independence and freedom." ”

"Yes, the Industrial Revolution, that's what the Lord said last night." Song Ke nodded, and Zhengse responded.

"Brother Fool didn't understand it originally, but after today, it became clear that the so-called word revolution is not a certain person, I am afraid that the gentry of the whole world will be revolutionized, including you and me." Zhang Yi shook his head with a wry smile, and continued to add in a low voice, dealing with himself by himself, this taste is not pleasant, no wonder Liu Ji wants to be the first to jump up to stop it, this person is not only narrow-minded, but narrow and poisonous, with the appearance outside, he can see the essence of what Huaiyang and Yang have done.

"So what." Song Ke also shook his head, his face was full of indifference, "Song Mou has broken his family in order to rebel, and there is no way to change it, and the lord is not blindly ruthless, those gentry who have invested in the Huaiyang firm, aren't they all earning a smile, although they can't dispose of slaves and maids at will, but this kind of thing is bullying their own people, what kind of addiction is there, really bullying a Chen Sheng, Wu Guanglai, who can be alone." ”

"Brother Fool also thinks so, in a few days, let the family sell some real estate to raise money to buy the shares of Huaiyang Firm, and take advantage of the fact that the stock price is not too high at the moment, so as to take the lead."

"Then you have to hurry, when I was in the store today, I saw a lot of people queuing up to buy them."

"If you can't grab it, let the nephews and nephews come over, learn to start a workshop, and buy a machine to go, as long as you handle it properly, it's better than shaving food in the field." Zhang Yi smiled and confidently gave a backup solution, "But"

After a pause, he continued, "In the world, I'm afraid there is more than one Liu Ji, foolish brother, I always feel that they will not let us build guns and cannons with peace of mind, and accumulate strength with peace of mind. ”

"Fight it, who is afraid of him." Song Ke waved his arm vigorously, without fear.

As soon as the words fell, I heard a string of dragon-like horns sounding outside the door, "Woo, woo, woo" was low and long, and it has been penetrating into people's hearts.

"The Grand Administrator." A personal soldier stood outside the door, opened his throat and shouted, "My lord, the chief general gathers generals, please go to Yingmao, and his subordinates are responsible for protecting your lordship along the way." ”

"The Grand Administrator." "The Grand Administrator." Zhang Yi and Song Ke hurriedly rushed out of the door, and saw countless figures in similar clothes to themselves, running out of their respective small buildings, striding towards the chief manager not far away.

Inside, countless lampballs and torches were lit, illuminating the night sky overhead as bright as day.

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