In fact, Hauge was far from full, but he had no appetite at this time, he nodded, and the one standing behind Liu Cheng casually took away the plates on the table, leaving only two wine glasses and wine jugs, Liu Cheng poured a glass of wine for the other party, and asked, "Big Belle, do you want to go back?" ”

"Of course, you're willing to let me go!" Hauge replied subconsciously, and immediately blushed at his absurdity: "Of course my father Khan will pay a ransom for me, or you can exchange prisoners!" ”

"No, Big Baylor!" Liu Cheng laughed: "I'm not a bandit who kidnaps tickets, I don't want money, I don't want people, as long as I promise one condition, I can let you go." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"On what terms?"

"Ling Zun relinquished control of the 30,000 households of the Mongolian left wing, released the hostages, and renounced the title of Bogda Chechen Khan!"

"It can't be!" Hauge laughed: "My father Khan is not only my son, if you kill me, he will never accept your terms!" ”

"Yes, Ling Zun is indeed more than your son, but let me ask you a question, how old is your eldest brother this year?"

"What do you ask for, and what does it have to do with you?"

"Big Baylor, don't you want to say yes? Okay, I'll tell you for you! Liu Cheng stood up and said in the tone of reciting the text: "Love Xin Jueluo? Ye Bushu, born in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, is already eight years old this year! Big Baylor, am I right? ”

Hauge didn't speak, his eyes stared at Liu Cheng deadly, his eyes full of vigilance. Liu Cheng looked at Haoge and said with a smile: "There are only three people in this room today, you, me and Master Chesang, Master Chisang is a virtuous monk, and he will not spread the words here, so I will tell the truth." Da Baylor, Ling Zun was born in the twentieth year of Wanli, and he is forty-four years old this year, which is already a year of confusion. If you cherish your blessings and health at home, it is not a big problem to live to be sixty or seventy years old, but Lingzun is the head of a country, and all major military affairs are in the hands of one person, with little food and many things, how can it last long? If Ling Zun doesn't agree this time, you naturally won't be able to go back, and you have to wait until Ye Bushu can suppress that group of wolf-like uncles and brothers, why do you have to twenty-four or five, right? There will be at least seventeen years, and if there is a case in these seventeen years, wouldn't Ling Zun's hard work be in vain to make wedding dresses for others? ”

"Don't worry about it!" Haoge sneered: "Heavenly Mandate Khan can live to be sixty-seven years old in his life, we love Xinjueluo was born in the mountains and forests, but he is not as weak as Zhuge Kongming!" At that time, the Manchurians were familiar with the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and when Haoge heard the words "eat less and do more, how can it last long", he immediately knew that he was using Zhuge Kongming's allusions.

"Big Baylor, I'm afraid it's not as simple as you think, is it? As far as I know, this Ye Bushu's biological mother is Yan Zha, but she is a concubine; Afterwards, Aixin Jueluo? Shuosai, his mother is just a side concubine. I remember that Ling Zun and Dolgon, Duoduo, and Azig had a grudge against their father, as the saying goes, the son is more precious than the mother, and with the mother of these two, can the three Dolgon brothers be able to resist after Ling Zun's death? ”

"Lord Liu, you are very clear about my family affairs!" Hauge was shocked in his heart, but his face pretended not to care: "My father Khan has two yellow flags in his hands, and there are two red flags from Yuetuo's father and son, even if it is as you said, what the three uncles of Dolgon want to do, my father Khan and Yuetuo's father and son are united, it is enough to stabilize the situation!" ”

"Really? But what if Yue Tuo is no longer there? ”

"Gone? How is this possible? You're lying to me again! ”

"There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, people have good and bad luck, and Yue Tuo is just a mortal fetus, what is impossible?" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "After Ling Zun broke the border and plundered, he left Yue Tuo and Kong Youde to defend and Lingel City, but was captured by my troops, Kong Youde was killed in battle, Yue Tuo was captured, and it was in the hands of my Daming."

"What, Yue Tuo is captured!" Liu Cheng threw out this hole card suddenly made Haoge's feet chaotic, although he did not have the political genius of his father, but he still knew a thing or two about the political pattern of the Houjin high-level at that time, since the death of Nurhachi, the Houjin high-level in a short period of time appeared a leaderless situation, although Huang Taiji with his political genius, first united with the remaining three Baylor to force Nurhachi's concubine Abahai to commit suicide, and then deprived the power of the remaining three Baylor one by one, drove out of the core of power, and established a one-man dictatorship. But after all, the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty was short, and there was no civil system of direct loyalty to the monarch like the Central Plains Dynasty, and the Eight Banners system of the integration of soldiers and civilians determined that the nobles had independent military forces, so Huang Taiji still had a considerable distance from the real emperor, and had to adopt a strategy of mutual checks and balances to control the other Eight Banners. But no matter how ingenious Huang Taiji's methods were, the loss of the two important chess pieces of Yue Tuo and Hao Ge at once would make the original political balance precarious.

"You're lying! Yue Tuo is a general under my father Khan, how could he let him stay and defend the city alone? ”

"Huh!" Liu Cheng smiled: "How do I know what medicine is sold in Lingzun's gourd, if you don't believe it, I will arrange for him to meet with you, and then the truth will naturally be revealed!" Speaking of this, Liu Cheng stood up and arched his hand to Haoge: "I still have to stay in Chaoyi for more than ten days, Da Belle, you can think slowly here, and we will discuss it when we figure it out one day!" Then he turned and went out.

Hauge burst into tears as he watched the door close again in front of him and plunge into darkness again. Although he didn't believe it in his mouth, he had an intuition deep down - this Ming general did not lie, Yue Tuo was indeed in his hands, and even his father's intention to do so Hauge could guess a thing or two - after losing himself, he temporarily drove Yue Tuo out of the center of power, so that he could have time to re-establish a new balance of power. There had never been such a strong desire in his heart to return to his father.

"Father Khan!" Hauge suddenly fell onto the bed and began to cry bitterly.

"My lord, that tartar seems to be crying!" The jailer whispered.

"Got it!" Liu Cheng took out a few silver coins from his waist and threw them to the jailer: "Well done, you have to monitor this person carefully, and report any special circumstances immediately!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

"My lord, it seems that your plan has worked!" Chessan laughed.

"It should be another three to five days before the results are available!" Liu Cheng smiled: "The imperial court wants to use Yue Tuo as a bargaining chip to talk to Huang Taiji, I will use Haoge to talk to Huang Taiji, it doesn't matter if you don't talk about it, it's good to be able to muddy the water, as long as our own foundation is solid, the benefits will naturally have our share in the end!" ”

"That's what your lord said! Your tens of thousands of strong soldiers are in the hands again, no matter who has the upper hand, they can't do without you! Chessan laughed.

"Huh!" Liu Cheng suddenly burst out laughing when he heard Chesang's answer. Lama Chesang looked at him in surprise, and after a moment, Liu Cheng's laughter subsided: "Master, do you think that the foundation I am talking about is my tens of thousands of soldiers?" ”

"Isn't it?"

Liu Cheng didn't answer, he walked to the backyard, where there was a rockery, and there was a small pavilion on the top of the mountain, which was the highest place in the mansion. Liu Cheng went straight up to the pavilion and looked east to see a large area of factories by the river. Silver-white moonlight sprinkled on the gray-black factories, coating them with a shiny silver edge. A gust of night wind blew, bringing with it the roar of machinery and the characteristic scorching smell of burning coal. Liu Cheng closed his eyes and took a deep breath, if it was before the crossing, he would have avoided all this, but now in the seventeenth century, it is so intoxicating, although it is still just a small sprout, but he believes that this seedling will eventually grow into a towering tree, covering the whole world, the only doubt is whether he can see this become a reality with his own eyes. Thinking of this, Liu Cheng suddenly sighed. Chesan on the side asked puzzledly, "Why do you sigh?" ”

"I really want to live another 500 years!"

The forging hammer fell, sparks splashed, and the red-hot iron was like dough, changing shape according to Liu Zongmin's wishes, and soon it was a knife embryo, and he skillfully put the beaten parts into the quenching liquid mixed with grease and urine on the side, and the bucket suddenly made a sneering sound.

"Look, that's it!" Liu Zongmin, who had completed the demonstration, clamped out the quenched parts with iron tongs, and said loudly to the apprentices on both sides: "It takes a total of seventeen times to hit a knife embryo, you have memorized the process, and the rest is the kung fu in your hands. ”

The apprentices looked at the parts that Liu Zongmin took out, the surface of the iron parts that had just been quenched was dark blue, and an apprentice carefully struck the knife embryo twice, making a crisp sound, and he said: "It's good steel!" So fast! ”

"This hydraulic hammer is too fast!" The other apprentices nodded one after another, the forging workshop was the core department second only to the steel mill in Liu Cheng's industrial system, and the apprentices who could come in were all carefully selected, most of them had worked in the blacksmith shop for a few days. They all know that to make a good knife, not only does it require good steel and exquisite craftsmanship, but also the energy and time it takes are amazing, like the knife embryo that Liu Zongmin just punched, even the best blacksmith will spend more than half a day. This phenomenon is explained by the principle of modern metallography that there are a large number of cracks, unfused, concave, porosity and slag inclusion in the unwrought iron, which greatly reduces the mechanical properties of the iron, in order to improve the mechanical properties of the iron, the traditional blacksmith has to remove the residue in the iron through repeated folding and forging, remove the cracks, concaves, pores and other defects inside the iron, and at the same time turn the larger crystals inside the iron into smaller crystals, so that its structure is more compact and the mechanical properties are higher. After all, manpower cannot be compared with the endless water conservancy machinery, and the size of the strength in the hand cannot be as constant as the hydraulic forging hammer, how many hits, how much force is there, it is completely dependent on the feeling of the blacksmith's hand, which cannot be obtained through the teaching of the master.

"Listen, although this hydraulic forging hammer is powerful, it doesn't have eyes after all, and it will be flesh and blood flying when it hits people!" Liu Zongmin said loudly: "When you enter the workshop, you should put your ears higher, listen to the foreman's orders honestly, and don't drink a few sips of cat urine and drill around." And your hair is coiled up for me, and your hat is buttoned up, otherwise if you spread it out and get entangled in the arms and gears, it will be a life! Or you can learn from me-" Speaking of this, Liu Zongmin patted his shiny head: "It's refreshing, it's sweaty when you work in the factory, and it's not convenient to have long hair!" ”

"Liu Tou'er, dare to work in the factory and be a monk!" A rushing voice rang out from the crowd, which immediately caused a burst of laughter.

"Which bastard is smiling, come out and eat my old Liu's punch!" Liu Zongmin was furious when he heard this, everyone just lowered their heads and laughed, but no one dared to stand up. He walked around in front of the apprentices a few times and scolded: "You don't know what to do, you are still monks, you have three meals a day, two dry meals and one thin meal, you have tofu vegetables every day, you also have a tooth sacrifice every seven days to see the meat, and you lie on the bed board at night, there is a cover, from head to toe, there is a layer of tiles on your head, you don't need to work in the wind and rain, and you still have cash at the end of the month." There are such temples in the world, why haven't I seen them before? Why don't you lead the way and let me open my eyes? ”

Listening to Liu Zongmin's words, the smiles on everyone's faces disappeared, since the "Three Martial Arts to Destroy the Buddha", becoming a monk is not a way out that ordinary people can choose. The state controlled the number of monks by selling them to prevent them from encroaching on the country's tax revenues. Moreover, the monastery is by no means a real outsider, and there is still a strict hierarchy within the monks, including high-level monks with fine clothes and fine food, and low-level monks who are hungry and like cattle and horses. At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk in Huangjue Temple, and it was difficult to get enough of it, even if the life of a factory worker was not comparable to that of ordinary monks.

A man in his early thirties smiled bitterly: "Liu Tou'er, the food and clothing in this factory are good, and the owner is also good, and even the coals for heating are ready-made in the place where he lives." But the days are too tight, every day in the factory thunder can not move for six hours, out of the factory out of the bones of the skeleton is about to disperse, go home to lie on the bed, not even a finger to move, the New Year's rest for a few days. It's better to be in your own blacksmith shop, if you don't want to do it one day, close the door, and sleep with your daughter-in-law in your arms! His words resonated among the workers, and they nodded in agreement: "Yes, even the donkeys who pull the mill have a chance to take a breath, and we eat, work, and sleep all day long, and even the strength of the daughter-in-law is gone!" ”

"Return the daughter-in-law! Look at you donkey! Liu Zongmin scolded: "I know that you are half craftsmen before you come to this factory, and you all have so many strokes on hand, and you are all thinking about waiting for the year to be better, save some money and go back to your hometown to farm while striking iron, a cow on thirty acres of land, your wife and children are hot on the kang, and you live a peaceful life, I guessed right?" Everyone heard that although Liu Zongmin's tone was rude, there was no malice, and they laughed one after another: "Look at what you said, we can't leave our ancestral grave alone, there are still relatives at home!" (To be continued.) )