"That's nature!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "From the first grade of primary school to the sixth grade at once, I don't believe that I can't pour her, what is cramming, this is called cramming, even if he can withstand factorization, I still have a quadratic equation behind me, a system of binary quadratic equations, trigonometric functions, analytic geometry, solid geometry, if it is not good, I have not forgotten the indefinite integral and linear algebra, discrete mathematics, see if you can still be Gaussian reincarnation?" ”

Hao Shaoqi was dizzy by the mess of nouns that came out of Liu Cheng's mouth, and he didn't dare to ask, just thought hard in his head, and after a while he came to the conclusion that the so-called "first grade of primary school" and "sixth grade of primary school" should be the same kind of wine, of course, these two kinds of wine should be very rare, so he has not heard of it. However, he was originally just a farmer, and he was very knowledgeable, and it was common for him not to know the wine that the master had drunk. The master took the wine to pour the Mongolian princess, and wanted to pour her down, so what happened next, I don't know. Although that little princess is a Mongolian Tartar, she looks like a fairy in the sky, and it is common for the lord to be moved. It's just that the little princess has only been ten days since she met the master, why did she get pregnant so quickly? The master is really not a mortal! Thinking of this, Hao Shaoqi's gaze at Liu Cheng also became awe-inspiring.

Liu Cheng, who was finally winning back a game intellectually for himself, didn't expect that his unintentional showing off had caused such a fatal misunderstanding to Hao Shaoqi, he just talked about the four operations from the first grade of primary school to factorization in one breath, of course, there are many omissions and jumps, if any teacher in the future dares to destroy the flowers and bones of the motherland so much in elementary school, the only result is that the angry parents complained in the Education Bureau and were kicked out of the school. Of course, there was no Education Bureau at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Batur would not take revenge on Liu Cheng for the spiritual persecution of his daughter, so Liu Cheng could take this kind of cramming teaching without scrutiny. Retaliation against Min Min, while enjoying a huge sense of superiority in knowledge, other traversers plagiarize ancient poems and worry about being exposed because they can't break sentences and can't match sentences, Liu Cheng is absolutely not afraid to do this, the great Newton will not be born until seven or eight years old, and with only sixteen years of formal education, Liu Cheng can unceremoniously claim to be standing at the pinnacle of science in this era.

"Don't you want to learn? Okay, I don't hide my secrets, I'm afraid you won't learn! This kind of arrogant and handsome Long Aotian feels that Liu Cheng has not enjoyed it for a long time. But before he could enjoy enough, he was hit on the head.

"Master General, should I invite two old mothers to come?" Hao Shaoqi asked cautiously.

"Mommy?" Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this: "We will go to Chaoyi tomorrow, what do you want the old mother to do?" ”

"Naturally, it's waiting for Min Min Beiji!" Hao Shaoqi replied: "Those of us who are rough soldiers will not wait for people at all. ”

"Waiting for her? Didn't she take a personal slave girl with her? The more Liu Cheng listened, the more strange he became, his subordinate was a natural rough embryo, when did he care about this kind of thing, it was really the sun coming out of the west.

"How is that enough!"

"It's not enough, she's so much better than me on horseback. It's better to invite her to an old mother. ”

"If it is naturally not needed on weekdays, but since Minmin Beji has a body, and it is the flesh and blood of the master, he naturally has to take care of it carefully!"

Hear here. Liu Cheng's face suddenly darkened, and he scolded angrily: "With a body, my flesh and bones, Hao Shaoqi, where did you hear these things?" “

"Didn't you say it yourself, master?" Hao Shaoqi was stunned when he heard this. He said what he had said when he saw Min Min vomiting outside when he came in, and said solemnly, "Didn't you just say that you got drunk with that Mongolian princess?" The Lord General. In fact, it's nothing for us to play a beautiful girl, but this Min Min Beiji is not an ordinary person, and with your flesh and blood, it is better to take care of it! “

When Liu Cheng heard this, he was already weakened by the rich imagination of his subordinates, and he found that he had no way to explain it, so he had to say weakly: "Things are not what you think, you can step down, don't talk nonsense outside about this matter, you know?" “

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, Waving the flag is not a mouthy person!" Hao Shaoqi hurriedly responded: "But the old mother's business——? “

Liu Cheng finally couldn't bear it anymore, jumped up, pointed to the door and scolded: "Get out!" Right away! “

Hao Shaoqi's misunderstanding made Liu Cheng start to think about whether he should keep a little distance from Min Min, but as the other side of the incident, Min Min was completely unaware of this, and she began to continue to ask Liu Cheng for advice after returning to Chaoyi. Although she didn't quite believe that what Liu Cheng said had anything to do with those hydraulic machinery, she also instinctively felt that these were also great questions, at least in calculating the mileage of the march, logistics and supply, construction projects, weapons manufacturing, commercial trade, etc., which had extremely wide uses. What's more, the more she learns, the more she finds that she doesn't know, and Liu Chengcheng is like the all-knowing wise man in the legend, always able to easily answer the questions that she has worked hard to find out but can't get, which makes this conceited girl who has been smart and conceited since she was a child sometimes feel a sense of discouragement.

The close relationship between the two quickly attracted the attention of others, but as a military general, Liu Cheng's marriage is not as restricted as a civilian official, and the identity of the Minmin Mongol is not an obstacle, after all, there are many Mongols in the Ming army, and it is not uncommon for someone among the border army generals to ask for a Mongolian daughter-in-law. In this way, this rather strange relationship between the two was maintained.

One afternoon, after Liu Cheng "filled the duck" for Minmin, he was about to go to the relocated hydraulic textile factory to see how the construction progressed, but he heard the soldiers come in and say that someone outside was holding the name of the Pitang Bureau of Yanzhou and asked to see him. After about half a cup of tea, a slightly fat middle-aged man came in from outside the door, dressed in a green silk dress, wearing a melon skin hat on his head, which was inlaid with a piece of white jade. Meet the Admiral! ”

Liu Cheng heard the voice familiarly, but he didn't have any impression of the name, and secretly thought that it should just be a photo on a certain occasion, so he smiled and said: "Since you are from Yanzhou, you can also be regarded as half of my Liu Cheng's township party, get up and speak!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" The man kowtowed again and stood up. Liu Cheng saw his appearance clearly at this time, and couldn't help but change his face: "Why are you, Zhao Sanye?" ”

"It's the villain!" The man laughed and said, only to see that his face was full of meat. The cheeks were shaved cleanly, only a short beard was left on his lips, but it was the Yanzhou gentleman who had fought with Ma Rencheng for the control of the Pitang Bureau, and was killed by Liu Cheng who killed more than a dozen of his subordinates: "How dare you call 'master' in front of adults, it's all screamed by the countrymen." “

"Rich?" Liu Cheng snorted coldly, but he couldn't hold the intention of this guy for a while, although with his current official position, a squire like Zhao Laosan is no longer in his eyes, but after all, he doesn't stretch out his hand and don't hit the smiling person. People are kowtowing and pretending like this, and Liu Cheng is not good at going too far: "Then what should I call you?" Master Zhao, Zhao Laosan, or Zhao Youcai? “

"I can't afford it. Can't afford it! Zhao Youcai's head shook like a rattle, and said with a smile: "Wealth is the villain's big number, the family is three, and the adult is called wealthy." It doesn't matter if you call the third child, it's all up to you. ”

Seeing that the other party was so soft, Liu Cheng couldn't help laughing: "That's good." Zhao Laosan, why are you here with me today? Didn't you come to apologize to me for the past? ”

"Not really!" Zhao Youcai said with a smile: "The villain was clumsy before, and he didn't know the real hero, so he was offended by the adult. But what kind of mind and bearing are adults, how can they be as knowledgeable as ants like villains? Never, absolutely not! ”

"Then what are you doing with me?" Seeing the other party's behavior, Liu Cheng was a little puzzled, and asked, "Isn't there something going on in the Pitang Bureau?" ”

"No, no!" Zhao Youcai hurriedly shook his head again and again: "Since the last time you showed your might in the bureau, who else dared to come out and make a mistake?" At present, Ma Shinephew alone is in the bureau, and the villain has not been on the door of the Pitang Bureau for several months. He was afraid that Liu Cheng would have any suspicions, so he swore to the sky: "My lord, if the villain goes to get involved in the Pitang Bureau again in this life, he will give birth to a son as a thief and a daughter as a prostitute!" ”

Zhao Youcai made such a poisonous oath, Liu Cheng was also a little embarrassed, and said with a forced smile: "You are also the assistant of the Pitang Bureau, even if you go around and walk around, why bother to make such a poisonous oath." “

"My lord, I really don't want to touch the matter of the Pitang Bureau anymore!" Zhao Youcai said solemnly: "I came to Chaoyi to see you this time, just to run in front of the adults and horses like the nephew of the horse!" ”

"Running in front of my horse with Ma Rencheng?" Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, if it weren't for the inconvenience for him to almost look in a mirror, when did he have the protagonist template, and the domineering side leak would be able to receive a group of younger brothers to worship. That Zhao Youcai saw that Liu Cheng didn't believe it, so he hurriedly explained. It turned out that since he suffered a loss under Liu Cheng that time, he woke up and realized that he was clumsy and didn't know how the world had changed. He originally wanted to join Liu Cheng's men at that time, but seeing that Liu Cheng's big and small affairs in Juzhou had been covered by the Ma family's father and son and Lu Zhizhou, he Zhao Youcai was unwilling to be subordinate, so he had to wait for the opportunity. Later, he saw that after Liu Cheng sent troops to attack He Renlong, he moved the town to Chaoyi, and began to move the factory away from Yanzhou, others felt that Liu Cheng had lost the protection of Yang He and was ready to move, but he felt that this was a golden opportunity.

"My lord, if you want to make a big difference in this court, there must be many things that you must do and that you can't do by yourself. Although the villain has no ability, he asks himself to be no worse than Nama Rencheng, and asks the adults to read the sincerity on the villain's side and take the villain under his command! ”

When Liu Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but secretly sigh that Zhao Laosan had good intentions, whether it was seeing the situation and wanting to sell himself or succumbing to revenge for revenge, this heart, this face, and this vision are not something ordinary people can have. Who said that there are no talents, there are often thousands of horses in the world, and Bole is not often, if this Zhao Youcai is used well, why not a thousand miles?

"Zhao Youcai!" Liu Cheng pondered for a while and said, "Since you don't remember the old hatred and come to defect, I naturally won't take those past things to heart." As long as you work hard under me, I will naturally give you an explanation in the future. “

"Thank you, sir!" Zhao Youcai was overjoyed when he heard this, knelt down and kowtowed two heads and stood up: "Although the villain has no ability, there are more than 100 strong men in the clan, and there is money and food in the family. “

"I don't need it for the time being!" Liu Cheng was a little embarrassed by Zhao Youcai's diligence: "I have something in my hands that you need to do." “

"Your Excellency, please command!"

Liu Cheng revealed part of his plan to build warships and pontoon bridges to Zhao Youcai: "I have no shortage of craftsmen, coolies, or so on, but there are no shipwrights, so you will take people around tomorrow to recruit a group of shipwrights." ”

"Why do you need to bother like this?" Zhao Youcai couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said with a smile: "You have soldiers under your command and a military order from the governor, you only need to send a letter to the ferry, and see which boat is nailed and sealed. ”

"Nailed? And buy? Liu Cheng was confused by Zhao Youcai's two new terms, Zhao Youcai hurriedly explained when he saw this, it turned out that the nailing was in the wartime, the government forcibly requisitioned the civilian ships for its own use for various reasons, and the purchase was the meaning of the two sides wishful and fair trade, but after the Tang and Song dynasties, it referred to the meaning of the government's procurement of materials from the people, at first it was still a relatively fair price, and later it was simply only a fraction of the market price, and even simply did not give money and directly forcibly expropriated. Bai Juyi's famous poem "The Charcoal Seller" describes the scene of the palace envoy forcibly buying charcoal from the people. In cases like Liu Cheng's, nine times out of ten, the government forcibly bought or sealed the ships.

After listening to Zhao Youcai's explanation, Liu Cheng couldn't help but cry and laugh, he was a novice who couldn't do anything, but it seemed that there was something wrong in the direction. So Liu Cheng had to waste a lot of effort to make the other party understand that he planned to buy or build the ship with money, instead of using this method that was close to robbery to achieve his own goals. Although Zhao Youcai finally said that he would act according to Liu Cheng's orders, judging from his somewhat disapproving look, he should have thought that Liu Cheng was a little pedantic. (To be continued.) )