2. The Ming Dynasty?
/newmessage.php?tosys=1&title="Lost in 1629
Chapter Errors/Click here to report
The second year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, 1629 AD, was a very important year in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
In this year, in Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, a man formerly named Li Hongji gave up his identity as a government army and defected to a more promising bandit team, and since then he has embarked on the vigorous heroic road of finally destroying the entire Ming Dynasty...... The name he left in history is Li Zicheng.
In the same year, the Manchu regime, which had never been officially recognized by the Ming Dynasty, also made a big move, and the Eight Banners Army bypassed the Ningyuan-Jinzhou defense line in the northeast built by the Ming Dynasty with huge sums of money and countless manpower, invaded the interior from the direction of the Mongolian steppe, and broke through the Guancheng in just one month, invading the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty for the first time in history, and directly besieging the capital Beijing. The Ming army was completely powerless to resist, and the vicinity of the capital, along with Shandong and other places, were extremely heavily plundered, and countless losses of people and property were lost. Another consequence of this invasion was the death of a large number of high-ranking generals of the Ming army, including Yuan Chonghuan, the highest military governor in the northeast of the Ming Dynasty.
Since then, the Ming Dynasty has been in a slump and has been moving towards its demise step by step.
β¦β¦β¦β¦
As a history buff, Pang Yu is no stranger to this history. But when he heard from Professor Li that many more detailed and detailed historical materials about this era, which are not easy to see on the Internet, he still felt inexplicably shocked in his heart.
Professor Li Mingyuan -- the oldest old gentleman on board. Former professor of the Department of History of Peking University, although he did not specialize in Ming history, he was far more familiar with this area than others. After the retirement of the elderly, their spare time life is relatively boring, not long ago they just learned to use the Internet, on a whim want to imitate young people to help themselves, take their wives out to play sunset tours, and even the route is deliberately selected by the "travel friend recommendation...... Now it's time to catch the funkiest time travel.
However, when the old man got the tattered notice paper in his hand, the expression on his face was very strange, not only the normal horror and dazedness of most of the people next to him, but also with a bit of incredible eagerness, and even fanaticism...... Pang Yu somewhat understood the old man's thoughts, a person who has studied history all his life can suddenly be personally placed in a historical period that belongs to the past, what is more fascinating in the world?
It was Pang Yu himself, recalling the history of Chinese architecture that he had studied in school before, and he also had such a trace of expectation in his heart at this moment.
ββ¦β¦ The Forbidden City complex in Beijing during the Ming and Qing dynasties, except for the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, is the largest cultural relic in China...... Maybe I can do a field survey or something. β
Of course, Pang Yu knows very well that in this era, he wants to wander freely in the Forbidden City in Beijing than before...... Or should I say almost four hundred years later? That's much more difficult. The latter only needs to pay for tickets, while the former is only possible unless he follows Li Zicheng or the Eight Banners Army into Beijing...... Oh, yes, there's another way, but that would be self-harming......
"Hey, what are you thinking?"
Jack, a foreigner, suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but scared Pang Yu. This old man is probably the least affected of all, and until now, he has always felt that this is all Chinese banding together to joke with him, a foreigner.
"I have to admit, Pang, you really scared me - God, even that old gentleman actually joined this game, I have always felt that the Chinese lack a sense of humor."
"Whether it's a game or not, you'll find out for yourself."
Pang Yu replied weakly. Since then, Professor Li has insisted on going to see it for himself, and not only him, but many others also have the same idea. This is normal, such a ridiculous thing, not to see it with your own eyes and no one will really believe it.
The people who wanted to confirm the news in person spontaneously formed a team, and the comrade "old horse" once again served as a guide. Jack decides to go with him, but when he asks Pang Yu if he wants to go with him, he gets a negative answer.
"No, I don't want to go."
Pang Yu looked at Jack's strange expression and took the initiative to explain:
"Because I believe that the age on that sign is true, and since I woke up in the morning on the beach over there, there have been many strange signs, which can only be explained by crossing over...... There is no need to confirm further. In fact, I think there are a lot of more important things now, far more important than going to see the excitement. β
"Oh...... So why not dissuade them? β
Jack casually pointed at the bustling team over there, and Pang Yu smiled bitterly:
"Do you think we can persuade us?"
Jack was speechless, most of the tourists were standing in the line at this time, messy and noisy, many of them still had inexplicable excited expressions on their faces, and some even brought digital cameras. Even Jack himself, after hesitating for a moment, went along.
Flashlights, headlamps, or simply take out your phone to light ...... The messy team was soon on its way. Pang Yu watched them disappear into the depths of the jungle, shook his head, turned around and limped towards the boat.
On the boat, they actually met Xie Xi, and both of them were surprised.
"You didn't follow along?"
Both asked this sentence at the same time, and then laughed at the same time. Xie Xi took out a box of cigarettes, Pang Yu wanted to say that he didn't smoke, but after thinking about it, he still took it and lit it.
The two men leaned against the railing of the boat, watching the jungle fading in the setting sun, while exhaling faint wisps of smoke rings.
"I feel like you're adapting quickly, I thought I was the only one who accepted Lao Ma's statement."
Xie Xi spoke first, and without waiting for the other party to answer, he continued to speak:
"Old Ma, like me, used to be a soldier, an artilleryman. He has always been reliable in what he says and does, and I trust him. β
"Even if it's such an incredible thing?"
"It's been incredible since last night, after the blue light last night, I wanted to go up to the deck to see the situation, but I found that the compass was spinning wildly, and all the electronic devices I was carrying around me were malfunctioning, so I didn't go out, and asked the team not to go out, but to lock the door tightly."
"Oh, that's contrary to my habits, I'm going to have to find out if I encounter this situation. Hiding under the covers and waiting for danger to come to the door is not in line with my character. β
Pang Yu commented with a smile, while Xie Xi shook his head disapprehantly:
"That's because you're only one person, and I don't care if I'm alone. But I'm the team leader, and I'm responsible for the team members. β
Pang Yu nodded in agreement.
"Yes, there are more things for the team leader to consider...... After all, he is a manager, and he feels like a leader. β
Xie Xi laughed:
"Don't dare to be a self-employed person, in fact, it is to start a business together with a group of young people. However, running marketing is really exercised, and I have seen a lot of wind and waves, so I will naturally calm down when I encounter problems. Hehe, seeing that you are not very old, you are very stable, and you are not panicked at all. β
"Me? I am in Chinese New Year's Eve this year, and I work as an architectural designer in a university design institute in Jiangsu. I usually like to read miscellaneous books, and I have read a lot of this kind of travel book, but I never thought that I would experience it myself. β
Xie Xi turned his head to look at him, shook his head and smiled:
"Thirty-three? Two years younger than me? Can't tell. But I can feel it from the act. β
Pang Yu touched his face and laughed at himself:
"There's no way, I'm born baby-faced, and I always feel uneasy when I go out to run business customers, and I have to find an old professor every time to press the formation...... In the construction industry, from the initial brief planning on a vacant land to the detailed layout of the final decoration of the building, there are too many things to arrange, and the architect's logic and organization must be strong; I didn't rush at all, so I asked for patience...... Patient, organized, that's what I am now. β
The two of them looked at each other and smiled. After so many years in society, people must always learn to boast about themselves appropriately while praising others......
"Speaking of which, I actually think that if I had gone to the deck early last night, it wouldn't have necessarily been a bad thing."
Pang Yu suddenly changed the topic, and Xie Xi raised his eyebrows:
"How?"
"That blue light last night, obviously, should be some kind of space-time transfer phenomenon. The crew and passengers who were on deck at the time must have not been able to be transferred, and were still on our original planeβotherwise someone would have swam ashore, just like me. β
Xie Xi thought for a moment and nodded:
ββ¦β¦ It makes sense, there are so many missing people, it is impossible for one person to not be able to swim up, Captain Huang and they are very good swimmers...... You'd better go and say these things again to the navigator Xiao Huang, he's sad right now. β
The cigarette butt in his hand pressed the railing, popped up a beautiful arc and fell into the water, turning around and walking towards the rear cabin.
"Xiao Huang's side is bothering you, I'll go talk to those two comrades. If you want to survive here, you can't do it without a gun. β
Pang Yu was still standing in place, slowly smoking half of the cigarette that was still left.
"Survival...... yes, to survive. β
Extinguished half of the cigarette, and was about to throw it away, but after thinking about it and putting it back in his pocket, Pang Yu also turned to leave.
The navigator's name is Huang Xiaodong, a native of Hainan, who failed to be admitted to university after graduating from high school, so he went on board with his father to become a sailor. Although the young man has no higher education, he has completely relied on self-study and practice to figure out the high-tech electronic equipment of marine radar -- when Pang Yu came to him, Huang Xiaodong was disassembling the radar shell for maintenance, and he still thought that there was a problem with the radar, and the "Qionghai 207" ship was lost.
Relying on nearly a decade of experience in dealing with customers, Pang Yu finally convinced Huang Xiaodong that it was not the fault of the radar that they were in this situation.
In addition, he also successfully untied Huang Xiaodong's knot, so that he no longer had to worry about his father's disappearance:
"According to what you said, your father can even cross the Qiongzhou Strait, how can he drown on the shore. He must have swam ashore early, but not on the coast of our age. Chances are he's grieving for you, tooβto them, we, along with the ship, are the real missing. β
"Then, Brother Pang, is there any way to let my dad know that we're okay?"
"Oh...... You find a bottle and write a letter and bury it, hoping that someone will dig it up and give it to your father in more than 300 years...... Theoretically, yes. β
Xiao Huang has only graduated from high school for two years, and he is still just a big child, and Pang Yu's words really made him burst into laughter.
"Then if I bury something by the way, it won't become an antique."
"That's a good idea, I'll go back and find some blue and white porcelain, find a secret place to bury it, and wait to dig it when I go home later."
Pang Yu smiled bitterly, but he had to continue the joke, but Huang Xiaodong suddenly stopped and was silent for a long time before raising his head again:
"Brother Pang, can we still go home?"
Pang Yu was also silent for a long time, and finally replied very sternly:
"I don't know, but I think that since there is a space-time passage that can come over, there should also be a space-time passage that can go back, and nature is always conserved."
β¦β¦β¦β¦
The same question, later, when Pang Yu and the settlement table met again, it was Pang Yu who raised it.
Xie Xi frowned and thought about it for a long time, but gave him an answer in the opposite way:
"I don't know, I didn't study physics in college, but I knew that 'you can't step into the same river twice'."
"Is the flow of time always one-way, and how do we explain what we encounter?"
Xie Xi laughed:
"Brother, don't make a mistake, there's no one here to explain...... Let's talk about something practical, I talked to those two comrades. β
Xie gave a brief account of the situation: The two soldiers, both armed policemen who belonged to the Dongfang City People's Procuratorate in Hainan Province, were responsible for escorting a criminal suspect to Guangdong along with the evidence of the crime. They had two five or six semi-automatics in their hands, and a set of spears.
Because of the sensitivity of the firearms, it is not easy for Xie Xi to ask more, but it is observed that they probably did not bring many bullets, after all, in this environment in China, even if the military and police go out on a mission, it is impossible to bring a large number of bullets.
"Four or five magazines at most, and I think they're carrying an armed belt."
Xie Xi analyzed, but the most headache is not the bullet problem. At first, those two soldiers didn't believe in the so-called nonsense of traveling to the Ming Dynasty or anything like thatβfor sure, no one believed it. Fortunately, Xie Xi has been doing marketing for many years, and his public relations and persuasion skills are still very set, and he tried his best to use that notice as evidence, so he barely made the two soldiers suspicious. But even so, they still refused to leave the rear cabin and still insisted on fulfilling their mission.
"Damn, and this kind of elm brain melon seeds?"
Pang Yu couldn't help complaining, but Xie Xi shook his head and sighed, and sighed again:
"I can understand that. If I was still in the army, it must be the same. You have never been a soldier, the army is the army, and the sentence "military orders are like mountains" is not in vain. β
Pang Yu shrugged, he didn't have any concept of the army, and the closest experience in his life was military training for high school admission. He stayed in a local garrison camp for a week, and walked in line every day, and it was not until the last day that he felt a gun and hit a target, but the training squad leader sat on his back and pressed him before he was allowed to pull the trigger. Everyone is like this, and Pang Yu can guess the reason - it's just that he is afraid that one of the two hundred and five will turn around and sweep a shuttle.
Therefore, Pang Yu has no hobby for firearms, and he is far from being like the comrade in front of him who has two eyes shining at the mention of "five or six and a half". What they need now is to survive, and they don't want to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, it's good to have guns, but it doesn't matter much if they don't have guns.
Even, he has already begun to consider the plan: whether he can obtain a legal identity in the local area in the name of an overseas businessman, and in terms of language, Huang Xiaodong can go out, and he should be able to talk to the local people in the Hainan dialect.
The two discussed for a while, mainly discussing how not to attract too much attention. The Ming government was so strict with the common people that the armor protection system was probably the most complete of all the systems practiced in China since the Qin and Han dynasties.
"We can't survive under the jurisdiction of the Ming government, who can stand that kind of system."
On this point, Pang Yu and the dismissal seat were completely unanimous. They are all young people born in New China and grew up under the red flag, accustomed to the warmth of the big socialist family, and still envious of the democracy and freedom of other countries, how can they endure the feudal system that is even more backward than the old society.
What's more, the next few decades will be a time of great chaos in the world. The peasants revolted, the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Yangzhou was ten days, and Jiading was slaughtered...... This history is enough to read in a book, let alone experience it yourself.
So the best thing to do is to slap your ass and leave. Qionghai No. 207 was only stranded and not damaged, and the place where it was stranded was where the Hongpai Port was located in the later generations, and the hydrological conditions were originally good. It's smartest to set up a makeshift camp near the beach, take a moment to get the boat back in the water, and go wherever you want.
As for the anti-Qing and Ming dynasties, the establishment of a great crossing empire...... Mmmm, I'll think about it when I'm writing a novel.
"The mainland absolutely cannot stay, even if it goes to Taiwan, it is not safe...... Even if we can withstand the Dutch and Zheng Chenggong, as well as the old man of Emperor Kangxi. β
Compared with the world map of Xie Xi, Pang Yu's fingers crossed it piece by piece.
"Europe is just as chaotic, the American continent is not bad, it's just too far away, and our ship doesn't know if it can cross the Pacific Ocean."
"In terms of tonnage, it seems that the two ships of Columbus when he traveled around the world were only 500 tons and 400 tons respectively, and our ships are much larger than that, and we have a complete map of the world...... However, there is not so much diesel on Qionghai 207, and the supply is not enough. β
"Maybe...... How many sails to put on it, or change the oil-fired boiler to a coal-fired one? β
Pang Yu put forward a series of ideas, although a bit whimsical, but after all, it is also a way. Xie Xi specially invited the mechanic Lao Zheng to come, this old man has good skills, and knows all the equipment and their big and small problems on the ship, but he is particularly lazy, whether it is the mysterious and strange blue light last night, or a series of changes after the stranding this morning, it cannot affect Lao Zheng's good habit of resting on time.
After hearing these inexplicable requests for transformation, Lao Zheng looked at the two people in front of him with a sneering gaze, and shook his head slowly but firmly.
"It is definitely not possible to change the machine, the internal combustion engine and the coal-fired boiler are fundamentally different things, and how delicate the machine is now, even if you use rapeseed oil, it may destroy the oil circuit." It's probably okay to add a sail to a sailboat, but even if you do, which of you will operate the sails? And how heavy is this kind of iron-hulled ship, if there are fewer sails, you can't carry it at all, if there are more, where can I find fabric? How many more people will serve it? β
A series of questions made Pang Yu and Xie Xie, the two novices speechless, and the two had no choice but to continue to look at the map to find the way.
It seems that the American continent cannot be visited for the time being, but Australia can consider it. The world map of GuΓ² clearly shows a series of small islands between Australia and the South Asian subcontinent, one of which is Brunei Darussalam, which is also famous for its oil production. "Qionghai 207" can slowly move south along the islands of Southeast Asia, and should be able to get supplies and even oil along the way.
As for the historical master of Australia, the United Kingdom, has not yet developed in this era, and the main powers currently entrenched in the South China Sea Islands, that is, the so-called Spice Islands, are Portugal and Spain, and the forces of these two countries, historically, have not reached Australia.
Later, the glasses man Wu Nanhai also joined their discussion - and the brother did not go out either. He is a student at an agricultural science and technology university in Fujian Province and a graduate student, and he came to Hainan this time to do graduation research and inspect the local crop planting on Hainan Island.
After hearing the news of the crossing, the nerd's first instinct was to go back to the cabin and check and count the seeds of the various crops he had collected earlier to see which ones were suitable for local cultivation - he was ready to open a farm on Hainan Island.
A group of people were discussing enthusiastically when they suddenly heard a loud commotion outside. Several people ran out of the cabin at the same time, but they saw a chaos on the other side of the beach, and a large group of people were running out of the woods in a mess, which were the tourists who had gone to "investigate the situation" in groups.
"A bunch of fools, they must have beaten someone. In the past, a large group of people went over, and it was strange that people didn't treat us as widows. β
Xie Xi laughed very unsympathetically, and Pang Yu also sneered, he had expected this kind of ending just now, so it was not surprising.
Soon, the large army all climbed into the boat, and some of them were wounded, and their faces were covered in blood and looked quite frightening. So the kind Dr. Jack ran around the world to help people bandage them. The old man was a tall man, and he had suffered nothing in the confusion just now, and he had carried back an unlucky man who had been shot in the leg, while the brother was lying on the deck bench and shouting earth-shattering, with an arrow shaft stuck high in his buttocks, shaking and shaking.
Pang Yu stepped forward to take a look, the arrow was very rough and not too straight. There is no barb on the arrow, and there is no trouble in pulling out the arrow, but I am afraid of tetanus. Luckily, Dr. Jack still had tetanus injections in his medicine box, so he quickly took them out and injected them.
There was a commotion on the deck, a few girls were still crying there, and the old horse who led the team was talking to the banquet, his face was anxious, Pang Yu went over to inquire roughly, and heard a very bad news.
That old Professor Li, as well as some other female tourists, were all caught by the locals!
Aishang Novel Network would like to thank all book friends for their support biquge.info