Zeng Gong nodded, and after Chen Yuan's family left the teahouse, his eyes looked at Chen Sheng beside Chen Yuan. Chen Sheng didn't leave, he wanted to stay and watch the fun.

Chen Yuan saw what Zeng Gongliang meant, and immediately pointed at Chen Sheng and said, "My lord, this is my brother, if it's inconvenient, I'll let him avoid it." ”

Zeng Gongliang shook his head: "Forget it, it's not inconvenient." Chen Shimei, I just want to ask you, what do you think of what happened just now? ”

Chen Yuan said very modestly: "My lord, how dare the villain be so smart in front of you?" I believe that the adults have already made a judgment in their hearts, and they don't dare to speak falsely. ”

Zeng Gongliang sighed deeply: "There is a way that everything has traces to follow, but if you are concerned, it will be chaotic!" Since the thief has done it, it will leave some traces somewhat, I want you to use the identity of an outsider to help me see, I didn't have any omissions just now. ”

This attitude is very good, a person does not care about how much he has ability, as long as he knows how many shortcomings he has, and is willing to accept the opinions of others with an open mind, then this person will definitely be a good person, and he can be a good official.

Chen Yuan suddenly felt admiration in his heart. Although this principle is simple, there are not many people who can look directly at their own shortcomings.

Although he admired, Chen Yuan still had to see if the matter was troublesome before he could decide whether he should get involved: "Dare to ask my lord, what did you lose?" ”

Zeng Gongliang said: "The draft, the draft of a book I am going to write. ”

Chen Yuan smiled: "How could someone steal the draft?" Could someone just be joking with an adult? ”

Zeng Gongliang looked at Chen Yuan, took a teacup in his hand, and poured a cup of tea: "I have been very interested in weapon battle formations since I was a child, and this hobby has never been put down. ”

Chen Yuan didn't know what Zeng Gongliang was doing when he suddenly said this, and listened patiently to the surname, Zeng Gongliang continued: "Three years ago, I wrote a book long live today, and asked to compile a book that is in line with the current combat of our army in the Great Song Dynasty, and use the past to learn from the present and guide me to the strength of the Song army. Long live Enzhun, a few years ago, I was transferred to the treasury of Beijing to work together with other colleagues to compile the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts". ”

Chen Yuan remembered! When Zeng Gongliang said this, he finally remembered where he had seen this guy's name!

"The General Essentials of the Martial Arts"!

Together with Sun Tzu's Art of War, this book is known as one of the seven great military books in ancient China, and the person who wrote it is called Zeng Gongliang!

This book is not as popular as Sun Tzu's Art of War, not that he is not as good as Sun Tzu's Art of War. On the contrary, in many places he is much more practical than Sun Tzu's Art of War!

She is divided into many volumes, and no one knows how many volumes there were originally.

There are not only detailed military systems and military theories and rules such as the geography of mountains and rivers. It also includes the selection and use of troops, the formation and training of troops, the formation of marching troops, and communication reconnaissance, etc., and gathers many cases of city attack and defense, fire attack and water warfare from ancient to modern times to the Song Dynasty.

Most importantly, for the first time, the book proposes that weapons are one of the main factors that can determine victory in battle! It is said that the Wujing always includes all the weapons of the Song Dynasty, and many weapons of different races have also been improved and absorbed.

For example, the mace, many people think that it was invented by the Jurchens, but in fact, before the Jurchens conquered Bianjing, the weapons in their hands mainly relied on the capture from the Liao soldiers, and the graphics of the mace were obtained by the Jurchens from Bianjing, which was from the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts".

There are more than 10 kinds of guns on it, and each gun has a complete graphic description from the production process to the finished product. According to legend, the complete "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" is accompanied by more than 250 illustrations of various weapons, and the drawings are also annotated in regular script with detailed text explanations such as the names of the utensils, how to use them, and the exercise procedures.

And it is said that on the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", the design idea of the first flamethrower in history has appeared.

Why are they all said?

This has a lot to do with the Song Dynasty's system of emphasizing literature over military force. In order to achieve mastery of the troops, Zhao Kuangyin deprived those generals of their rights, not only that soldiers could not have fixed generals, but even weapons were uniformly built.

It can be said that the birth of the "Wujing General Essentials" is the product of the high concentration of military material production in the Song Dynasty, all the weapons are built together, and slowly, those craftsmen and officials have ideas, and these ideas are compiled, which is the "Wujing General Essentials" weapons chapter.

In the Renzong period, the world was relatively peaceful, but the border was unstable, especially before Di Qing did not become the god of war, the Song Dynasty's foreign wars were almost repeatedly defeated, at this time, Zeng Gongliang happened to write a letter to request the compilation of a guide surname soldier book that can make the Great Song Dynasty army stronger, Renzong immediately agreed, so there was "Wujing General Essentials".

It is a pity that this masterpiece was not taken seriously in the Northern Song Dynasty, and after the successful compilation, the Liao State entered a period of decline, and the threat to the Song Dynasty became smaller and smaller. And if you reform according to the requirements of the book of war, it will cost you a lot of money to build weapons!

Therefore, since she completed the compilation, she has been sleeping in the academy of the Northern Song Dynasty, until the iron cavalry of the Jin people stepped into Bianjing, and most of the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" fell into the hands of the Jin Dynasty, except for a small part that was taken away by the Song Dynasty.

In 1221 A.D., the Jin soldiers attacked the Southern Song Dynasty with the iron artillery made on the "Wujing General Essentials", and the defenders of the Southern Song Dynasty were scattered, holding the mace that had just been created in their hands to stagger the Song soldiers.

It was only at this time that the rulers of the Song Dynasty realized the importance of the book, especially the weapons chapter!

So, the Song Dynasty rewrote part of the content of the "Wujing General Essentials", relying on the memories of those officials, and finally made iron artillery, which curbed the offensive of the Jin soldiers, until the Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols, the Southern Song Dynasty arranged more than 100,000 iron cannons in the border area all year round!

In 1132 A.D., the official of the treasury relied on the experience of his predecessors to make the world's first flamethrower. Of course, these are all afterwords, and the book has not yet been written.

Zeng Gongliang finally said: "What I brought in my package is the drawings for making various weapons. ”

Chen Yuan's brows locked tightly after hearing this, he knew that there was a big problem!

These drawings are worthless to sell for silver, even if someone is interested in weapons, stealing them back is still useless, because the Great Song Dynasty is very strict with the management of ironware, ordinary blacksmith shops can only fight swords and other close-quarters weapons, and bows and crossbows weapons If a blacksmith dares to fight, they will be immediately pulled to prison.

Just because others didn't steal it, it can only mean that the person who stole this thing is not an ordinary person, and the matter may be very serious.

Seriously, Chen Yuan had already seen that something was wrong, but he didn't want to wade into this troubled water. He also believed that after a few days, when Zeng Gongliang got rid of the incident, he could see the flaws. But at that time, Zeng Gongliang had no chance to recover his draft at all!

Chen Yuan thought for a while, and slowly walked to the table where Zeng Gongliang was sitting just now: "My lord, if a thief wants to steal something, there is only one chance. ”

Zeng Gongliang immediately said: "Well, that's when I left the table and walked towards you." ”

Chen Yuan smiled slightly: "Yes." ”

Zeng Gongliang followed Chen Yuan's train of thought and said: "But this table is half a foot away from the window, and it is not at all the length that a person's arm can reach, and there is nothing to use next to it. If someone came in through the window entirely, we wouldn't be unaware. ”

Chen Yuan shook his head: "There are more than twenty villains lying outside the window, although they are villains, they are not blind, if someone approaches the window, they will definitely be able to see it." When the arrest and interrogation were carried out just now, none of the more than 20 people saw any suspicious person. ”

Zeng Gongliang frowned when he heard this, and raised his eyes to look at this teahouse, a two-story small building, and there is a floor above, if it wasn't taken out of the window, then where did the package come from? He couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart.

Chen Yuan knew that Zeng Gongliang was a little suspicious because he only suspected the juggling team.

At that moment, Chen Yuan said: "Have you ever thought about whether the package went out of the door since it didn't go out of the window?" ”

Zeng Gongliang shook his head violently: "Impossible!" At that time, we were all at the door and we didn't see anyone go out! But only your servant came in. ”

Zeng Gongliang was talking about Han Qi, before the four guards brought Sun Gao in, Han Qi was really the only one who entered the teahouse, and the rest of the people never took a step out of the teahouse.

He needs someone to help him wake up now, as long as he wakes up this, Zeng Gongliang will definitely understand.

Chen Yuan smiled: "No one has ever gone out, but I haven't said it below, the package went out at that time!" The adults only suspect the jugglers, but have the adults thought about the others? ”

Zeng Gongliang was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that something might be wrong!

Chen Yuan was right, in that case, the person who stole the package was probably not a juggler, and that person was in the teahouse at the time! My package didn't leave the teahouse at that time, but it was just hidden in a place that was not very difficult to find!

There must be more than one thief, one of them is responsible for hiding the package in a different place, and when he saw that the package was gone, he immediately asked people to chase it, without thinking that the package was still in the teahouse at that time!

Then another person came, and that person may or may not be fast, anyway, that person has enough reason to go in and out of the teahouse, and he will take things out!

This means that the package may still be in the county right now!

Zeng Gongliang stood up suddenly: "Chen Shimei, what's going on with the juggling team?" ”

Chen Yuan said: "It may be a gang, or their purpose is just to attract the attention of adults, and it is also possible that they don't know anything, just a real juggling team." ”

This answer is equivalent to no answer, but Zeng Gongliang listened carefully, and after listening, he said: "If you catch up with them after leaving the city, it means that they don't know." If you find that they are running fast, it means that they are in a group, right? ”

Chen Yuan nodded: "Actually, they don't matter. Let's assume that they think they will be able to catch your attention. If it weren't for Sun Gao's appearance, they would have been beating gongs and drums outside, could they have allowed adults to go out and take a look? ”

(To be continued)