Chapter 7, the twenty-seven moments of Chongzhen's four years (7)

The seventh moment: the shocked warlord

In November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Shandong Peninsula, Dengzhou Town Governing Office, Weihaiwei

Weihaiwei, in the territory of Wendeng County, Ninghai Prefecture, Dengzhou Prefecture, three hundred and twenty miles away from Dengzhou, set up in Hongwu 31 years, the northeast offshore place of Xinwangdu Sanli in Wendeng County is demarcated, take the meaning of "Weizhen Haijiang", get the name Weihai, it is a late batch of guards, under the jurisdiction of three thousand households before and after the left, only more than 3,000 people, far less than the 5,600 people of the general guards, the first year of Yongle built the Acropolis, the city is eighteen steps in six miles, three zhang high, two zhang wide, the moat is one zhang five feet wide, eight feet deep. Together with Lushun on the Liaodong Peninsula, they formed two pairs of iron arms to guard the entrance to the Bohai Sea. In the future, the Beiyang Naval Division used Weihai and Lushun as bases to defend the sea frontier and defend Gyeonggi. Qi Jiguang, who was famous all over the world in the past, was also born in Weihai in his early years.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the maritime threat was not severe, Weihaiwei was far less important than during the Sino-Japanese War, and because it was isolated in the north, far from the hard-hit areas of the Japanese invasion, the pressure on coastal defense was also limited. In the Wanli and Tianqi years, like other corrupt and declining inland guards, the situation in Weihaiwei was also getting worse, and the fields of the military tun were either abandoned or forcibly occupied by the gentry, and most of the hereditary military households even fled for a time.

However, since the invincible Chen Xin and Chen Dashuai were appointed to serve here, and worked hand in hand with Liu Minyou, the second leader in charge of civil affairs, to establish a strong Wendeng battalion, which is known as the world's first-class strong army (Wendeng County is in Weihai City), Weihaiwei's decadent appearance has changed rapidly-abandoned fields have been reclaimed, silted canals have been dredged, and neat Tunpu villages and towns have been established one after another...... Imitated the means of building a certain party's base in the future, a social system centered on the tunpu and the store department (supply and marketing cooperative) gradually took shape in this dilapidated land, and it radiated amazing vitality.

And it was under the support of this base area that Chen Xin was able to train a sophisticated and daring army, and repeatedly defeated the Jiannu Tatars head-on in field battles and siege battles, which impressed the government and the opposition, and even once praised Chen Xin as "my Qi Shaobao (Qi Jiguang)"

Of course, seeing that the military camp of Wendeng Camp is thriving day by day, all kinds of ghosts, snakes, and gods in the traditional society, mainly rentier parasites, naturally covet it and take action one after another. For example, last year, the gentry of Wendeng County made a noise and sued Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai who had just taken office. They colluded with the officials and forged many land deeds, and wanted to swallow the tuntian of the Wendeng camp - these gentry were never willing to make any effort to reclaim wasteland, but anyone who cleared it would be robbed of it by them on trumped-up charges; At the same time, he turned the subjects and military households of Wendeng Camp into his own tenants, and then even planned to take away all the other items that Chen Xin and Liu Min had, and he was not afraid to support his belly.

It's a pity that they still underestimated Chen Xin's skills, connections, and saints after all, and the matter of the complaint was finally gone. And those gentlemen who tried to embezzle the property of Wendengying, as well as the officials who helped forge the title deed, were framed by the ruthless Chen Dashuai for some crimes such as gangsters and murders, and they were arrested and killed one by one. Even some gentlemen who were inconvenient to make false accusations, naturally, there were soldiers from the Wendeng battalion who disguised themselves as bandits who came to destroy the door with swords, and by the way, they laughed at their family property, fields, and tenants, and further expanded the base area of the Tunbao system belonging to the Wendeng camp...... Under the smell of blood everywhere, the gentry of Ninghai Prefecture trembled - if they were not dead, no one would have the courage to embarrass the Wendeng camp.

These blood-stained new land, Wendeng's magistrate all helped Chen Xin get the title deed, he has taken a lot of silver from Wendeng Camp in recent years, and he also has some understanding of Chen Xin's temperament, he will never dare to confront Chen Xin now. Even if these land deeds are finally revealed, he will not be beheaded, at most he will lose his official position and go back to become a rich man, but if he does not cooperate, he is a little worried that he will leave Wendeng.

Then, Chen Xin and Liu Minyou recruited agents among the already obedient gentry, and gave them certain profits, including the powerful among the gentry into the commercial interest system of Dengzhou Town, dividing those commercial gentry and letting them deal with the local clan and land-type gentry. ”

Under such a combination of soft and hard measures, their tunbao system finally crushed a qiē blocking force, and it became unimpeded under the military banner of the Wendeng battalion.

After entering Chongzhen for four years, Chen Xin and Liu Min had two people to come up with this set of tunbao system, which was more smooth after summing up the lessons, especially after Chen Xin and Chen Dashuai relied on the merits of this summer's victory on Mi Island, he was promoted from Wendeng General to Denglai General Army, and his Wendeng battalion was also upgraded to Dengzhou Army, not only took Wendeng County, but also hundreds of miles from Wendeng to Weihai, almost the entire Ninghai Prefecture (modern Weihai City plus a small part of Yantai City) became the tuntian of Dengzhou Town, and there was also a lot of land in Dengzhou. In addition, it is even slowly infiltrating towards Qingzhou in the west.

After exhausting all kinds of black and white, kind and murderous means, Chen Xin and Liu Minyou finally had enough land to settle the population.

Now that there is land, of course, the labor force must keep up. Fortunately, at the end of the tragic Ming Dynasty, there will never be a shortage of displaced people - the great drought in Chongzhen's four years throughout the north also affected Shandong, and more displaced people fled from the famine in various provinces in Shandong. Those who were able to survive the hardships of the long journey and arrive at Wendeng victoriously were naturally young men and women. Therefore, Liu Minyou, who was in charge of civil affairs according to the division of labor, disorganized the refugees and organized them into military households, according to the number of strong men, they were divided into 10 dings and 1 jia, 50 dings and 1 total, and 500 dings were one tun, and a fort was set up when one tun was full, and 5,000 mu of land was divided. These people finally got their own land, and they were naturally grateful to Chen Xin and Chen Dashuai who were rebuilt by Entong, and many families erected Chen Xin's immortal tablets.

Even in Wendeng County, there are many households who have switched to Chen Dashuai's military tun: once they join the tunbao system of Wendeng Camp, they will immediately have a big backer, not only do the gentry dare not come to exploit it, but the government cannot control itself. After entering Tunpu, not only did the peasant households immediately have land to divide, but they could also get discounts when they went to the sales department (supply and marketing cooperative) of Tunpu to buy grain, clothing, salt, ironware, tobacco, and tea, and the offspring of the family could also learn literacy for free...... Although the men in the family had to serve in the military for Chen Dashuai as a price for obtaining this qiē benefit, they did not give their lives in vain, but had a very generous salary and pension - in this way, it was worth it to give Chen Dashuai his life

Next, several workshops under Dengzhou Town also started working in full force and began to manufacture a large number of farm tools, windmills and other items needed for cultivated land, and completed the necessary preparations for the expansion of Tunpu within the system. As agricultural production got rid of the excessive exploitation of the gentry, and the peasants had some surplus money to spend after satisfying their food and clothing, the commercial circulation in the Tunpu system of Dengzhou Town was also greatly developed, and the more prosperous the days made the people around them look more envious and rely on cigarettes and other special commodities called "Wen Dengxiang", Dengzhou Town was able to earn enough money from industry and commerce to raise soldiers.

In this way, the tunbao that housed the families and subjects of the Dengzhou army sprung up in various places like mushrooms after a rain, and scattered all over the vast territory under the name of Dengzhou Town, firmly grasping this land in the hands of a new social form.

Of course, it is true that the momentum of Dengzhou Town's development is a rapid journey and prosperity, but for the time being, Chen Dashuai has not yet been able to tell the whole Dengzhou Town exactly what he wants to do -- according to the military bureaucratic system of the imperial court, although he is already the chief soldier of Dengzhou, in theory, except for a regular barracks of his descendants, he cannot control the salaries and troops of the guerrillas, deputy generals, and staff generals below, and the orders in peacetime are useless, and he can only command other units when he is fighting. The reason why today's Chen Xin Chen Dashuai is so authoritative is that he hides his own set of systems under the system of the imperial court, and through the additional military law, military quartermasters, training and guidance, staff officers and other institutions added by himself, on the one hand, he provides corresponding assistance to the chief officer, on the other hand, he controls the troops and guards the troops, and then controls the families and fixed assets of all the soldiers through Guòtunbao, so that the entire Dengzhou Army can be as stable as Mount Tai.

But on the other hand, if it is a guerrilla, deputy general, or staff general outside the tunpu system, Chen Xin will not be able to control it in normal times. For example, in the capital of Dengzhou, there is a Liao army stationed in Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua pulled back from Dongjiang Town, with Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others as people, and they usually don't buy Chen Xin's account. Further west, Laizhou, there were also some troops that were still outside of Chen Dashuai's Tunpu system...... And even if it was just to fool the imperial court, it would not be possible to turn the entire town of Dengzhou into a hall of Chen Dashuai's words - in that case, it would really become an undisguised feudal town.

Therefore, Chen Xin and Liu Min had a pair of civil and military partners of the traverser, and when they built the base of Dengzhou Town, they deliberately let go of the surrounding area of Dengzhou Fucheng (modern Penglai City), leaving a fairly large buffer space for the Liaodong Army of Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua and Kong Youde - anyway, in the Republic of China era, our party's strategy of "surrounding the city from the countryside", Chen Xin and Liu Minyou, as modern traversers, would not be unclear. It is not particularly rare for them to place the base camp of Dengzhou Town in Weihai, a dangerous place since ancient times.

In fact, what Chen Xin and Liu Min are most worried about at the moment is not the suspicion of the Beijing court and the governor of Denglai about their self-respect, nor the great enemy of the Jurchen Jiannu across the sea, nor the backlash of the local gentry and the overthrow of their colleagues in the army, nor is it the rogue peasant army that has not yet entered Shandong, but a force that seems to be very far away from Dengzhou Town......

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On this day, Weihai happened to have a heavy snowfall suddenly, because Weihai is located at the tip of the Shandong Peninsula, the passage of 6 roads is difficult, most of the merchants have to rely on waterways, after a heavy snowfall, the daily commercial activities have basically stopped, and even the pedestrians on the road are much less.

In such a heavy snowy weather, it is obvious that there will be no farm work and engineering to do, so the whole town of Dengzhou seems to be very leisurely, except for the officers and soldiers who patrol and train and a few shop assistants, almost everyone is roasting the fire in their own houses.

In the civil department of Dengzhou Town, Weihaiwei, Liu Minyou, the second-in-command in charge of civilian duties in Dengzhou Town, was wearing a leather jacket while warming himself by a fire, while frowning and flipping through a book. However, this book is neither a subset of the classics and histories, nor a contract account book, but a thick volume of manuscript miscellaneous records of the southern scholars - in the late Ming Dynasty, the southern provinces were prosperous, and the scholars liked to write something other than the subset of the classics and histories to "make words" to attract attention, and the content and genre must be written in a more alternative and distinctive way, so as to attract people's attention, such as the famous "Xu Xiake's Travels" is one of the examples.

And Liu Minyou got this Lingnan scholar's miscellaneous book, which also pursues unconventionality: it seems that due to several changes of hands and long-distance carrying, the pages of this miscellaneous book have been a little wrinkled and damaged, and there are a few stains, and on the cover of the miscellaneous notes, there is a rather strange title such as "The Records of the Miscellaneous Affairs", and the author's name has been blurred a little clearly, and it seems to be what kind of "master of Manhuazhai" Yunyun.

However, even though he was reading miscellaneous books, Liu Minyou, the civil supervisor of Dengzhou Town, did not have the slightest leisure interest in spending time and leisurely pastime, but was unusually strict and serious, and his meticulous and focused expression was as if he was reviewing statistics or military intelligence reports.

Turning over the slightly defaced cover, the beginning of the miscellaneous book "Records of Miscellaneous Affairs" explains the origin of the title: "...... There is no mention in the history of the book, and its people are not divided into men and women, all of them are cut off, and the special woman is slightly longer, so the name is the beard person. The body is long and slim, the clothes are short, and the words and words are like Chinese. Since the ancestor of Yun Qi is the Song Dynasty, after the cliff mountain, he brought the tribe Quju clan to float in the sea to avoid the Yuan, to the South China Sea thousands of miles away, there is no place where people go, there is a continent, and there is Da O in its place, so it is called Australia in the name of Australia. Then landed on the shore of the country, still called the Song Dynasty, for the farewell to the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, called the Australian Song Dynasty, has gone through more than ten generations. The people in his country have overseas secret arts, can win the heaven and earth, and are good at hundreds of work, and there are many secret weapons, which are unpredictable. During the apocalypse, there were people from the South Seas to Guangdong, selling their treasures, including glass mirrors, divine fire, soft leather lamps, unbroken bottles and other treasures. Guangzhou giant merchant Gao sold it, including hundreds of thousands of taels of platinum, and became a huge rich.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Yu tasted an Australian god fire, long as a finger, wide two fingers, organic bracket, do not use a fire sickle when taking fire, hand press machine bracket, can be used to get fire, the flame is high inch, hand loose fire extinguished, the most convenient. There is also an unbroken bottle, the bottle is transparent throughout, I don't know what it is made of, it is not cloth and leather, nor is it a glass and jade, it is soft and elastic to start, and it is not broken when it lands. There is a soft cover, which is screwed down and capped, and the seal is impermeable to trickle. With it, it can store wine, not afraid of dropping, and can be seen and played. When the Cantonese merchants brought it to Beijing, they were in the thoroughfare, asking for hundreds of gold each, and the audience was like a ......"

Seeing this, Liu Minyou couldn't help but purse his lips, muttering with disdain and jealousy, "...... Unbroken bottles...... Divine Fire ...... Isn't this just plastic mineral water bottles and improvised lighters? And what kind of upholstery light is there...... It can't be a glow stick, right? It's a scam of money."

After reading further, the author wrote about the beginning of the "beard people" breaking into the gate of the Ming Dynasty: "... In the first year of Chongzhen, Wuchen, hundreds of people drove more than ten iron boats, moored in the sea silt of Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and went ashore to settle the village. There is a huge ship, the whole body is made of iron, more than 100 zhang long, several zhang high, and the towering view is like a city. The natives were horrified, thinking that the overseas giants were in danger, and they all fled into the county seat. Wuling Township, Lingao County, bravely attacked, the people of the Beard defended themselves with birds, and the firearms of the Bearded people were sharp, which was twice as good as that of our dynasty. For a while, the townspeople were killed and injured, and their affairs were defeated. The beginning of this matter is also the source of all things.

At the beginning, the people formed a village, and they were terrified, thinking that the giant was coming, and they would kill and plunder. Therefore, Wu Ling went out of the countryside and chased it bravely. After the people finished the village, they built palaces and buildings, built roads and embankments, set up markets and trades, did not disturb the people, did not attack the city, traded with the people, did not plunder, baited the people with small profits, hired people to give them generously, and hundreds of poor households lived on them. The people are gradually at peace. For a few months, there are sea robbers, knowing the wealth of the people, and attacking hundreds of pirates with thousands. The skulls sent hundreds of troops, the guns were handed over, the pirates were defeated, and the smugglers were killed hundreds. The gentry were afraid of the prestige. First of all, the Lingao bandits are constantly suffering, and there are even things about attacking the city and breaking the wall, and the people are suffering from it. In the name of protecting the land and clearing the township, the people of the Yan people organized regimental exercises, trained soldiers, organized troops, built equipment and artillery, and used them to fight bandits, broke them, and cut down hundreds, and the remnants of the bandits had no foothold, so they all fled to other counties. Although Wu Ling lives in the county seat, there is nothing to say about the county, and there is only one thing to do in the county......

“…… It turns out that the gang of people on Hainan Island originally established a base in this way, and this Lingao county order is really mediocre enough, but this official of the Ming Dynasty, who is not so detached? Next, we will probably talk about the Governor of Liangguang, Wang Dezun's crusade against the thieves."

Liu Minyou muttered while flipping down, but now it seems that a few pages are missing, missing the content of Wang Dezun's expedition to Qiongzhou, and directly jumped to the section of "Men Fighting Thieves" of the local forces along the way:

“…… At the beginning of the Yanren into Guangdong, into the Pearl River, trapped Humen, the official army was defeated. The people collected grain along the way, and some of them broke with the resistants, and the soldiers were sharp, and the Guangdong was shaken. Dongguan traitors Xu Chou and Wang Ruocheng took the opportunity to make trouble. Since he had corrected hundreds of his party, he had a false banner and falsely claimed that he was 'the former enemy governor of the Great Beard Country. rampant in the township, day by day to loot and ransom. At that time, the officials and troops were dispersed, and the village community heard that the color changed, and those who dared to resist had to be trampled upon.

There is a Dongguan citizen Chen, whose son plundered for the Xu Party and ransomed fifty gold. Chen's family was poor, and although he was still short of the farmland, he went to the camp and begged for relief. Shi Wende's heir was also puzzled at the beginning of the hearing, but after knowing the details, he was shocked, and then he was furious, and set up hundreds of people, so that Chen led him to attack the Xu Party. The wine was set in the other way, and the plundered women danced naked in the banquet, thinking that they were laughing.

At night, the army was covered, and the front and back were encircled for a long time, and no one in the Xu camp knew about it. At dawn, the people first counted the cannons, and then lined up to surround them, the Xu party was in chaos, dozens of people danced knives and guns out, and the people slaughtered them in a moment, and the rest were all surrendered. The people of the skulls released the homes they plundered, and people were led back. And Xu Chou, Wang Ruocheng, and Xiao hung their corpses in the wild, and let the birds peck at them. The remnants of the party ordered the villagers to admit it, and those who were guilty of murder were immediately ordered to be brought out and tried before everyone, which was called a "public trial", and those who were convicted of the crime were hanged in the thoroughfare. So the villagers of Dongguan are happy, and they all wear the virtue of the people.

In February, the soldiers came to Guangzhou, broke the suburbs and pretended to be more than 10 gangs of bandits, and executed hundreds of people before and after, and the rest migrated to Qiongzhou to serve as hard labor. Therefore, the people retreated, the southern part of Guangdong was settled, the bandits were empty, the countryside was silent, and the peace was better than before......"

“…… Alas, after this battle, the hearts of the people in Lingnan and Guangxi will gradually change hands" Liu Minyou shook his head and continued to look down, but there is no current affairs after the summer of Chongzhen's three years, and it is estimated that the author wrote this miscellaneous book shortly after the war in Guangzhou subsided. So after talking about this war, he turned to write about the inside story of the "beard" forces, listing entries such as "wigs" and "widows":

“…… The first to come is from Australia, and the real people are also. Since landing on the shore, the defeat of the township Yong, the momentum has been greatly boosted, and the people of Guangdong Qiong have returned to it. The collection of the people is also, regardless of men and women, first shaved like a monk, and then changed their clothes like a beard, they must first sit and eat in the tenth month, teach the discipline and rules, weigh, and then use it, such as the arm makes the finger. It is a wig, and its appearance is no different from the real one. Employing people is agriculture, labor, and soldiers, each with its own place. The system is in order, and the rules are strict. Before employing people, we must first gather the people, and there is a real teaching, which is called training, so everything in the camp is organized, and the action will be successful. If it is over the years, the real and false are thousands of people, and the place where they live is a city, called Dongmen City. Lingao villagers tend to it, and there are no less than 10,000 people in economic physiology, all of whom live according to the people.

…… When the people first arrived on Qiong Island, there were only thousands of people and no more than dozens of boats. After receiving the wigs, the crowd gradually gathered. And there are many displaced people in the fake hair, and there is no way for the elite soldiers to come out. Therefore, the people from the East to the West, gathering all kinds of bandits and bandits, pure their essence. They are good at fighting with Japanese foot soldiers, an independent army, and they are all people who have survived a hundred battles and have been in battle for a long time. This generation grew up in the edge of the arrow, the bow horse is skillful, and the death does not spin the heel. This army is formed, about hundreds of people, and the number of the people is the body. Kill the generals and capture the flag, fight with white knives, and mostly use this army as the vanguard......"

“…… Damn, actually recruiting Japanese to kill Chinese, do you guys have a little patriotism" Liu Min snorted angrily and slapped the table, and drank a little fiercely, but he did not forget to continue to review the book's explanation of the official position system of the "Bearded People":

“…… There are also official positions among the people, and the official name is very different from our dynasty, and it is suspected that he learned from outside. He is called "Chairman", "Executive Committee", and he is referred to as "Director", "Director" and "Member". The real hair is called "long", and the wigs are respected. The official is not called an official, but "Yu Ministry". His officials have no official uniforms, they all wear short shirts, and they are not crowned. It is rumored that there is a rabble, there are no officials and people, and those who have more wealth are respected, which is also a big fallacy. There are many people such as Wen Dehei and Ma Qianzhu, all of whom are "executive committees", and Guo Yishi, a businessman, is rich and two Yue, and he doesn't know what his title is, so he knows it.

And the people of the Yan Dynasty proclaimed themselves descendants of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and there were Song officials, who used them to worship in the sect. For example, the chairman of the executive committee, Wen Gongjia, opened the palace and the three divisions, Guangnan East and West Road Jingluo pacified the envoy, led the Privy Council, Taifu, and Qingyuan County Gong. Executive Committee member Ma Gong plus Guangnan East and West Road Transfer Envoy, Chengde County Gong, this matter is unknown. The Song system is an official, different from the previous Ming Dynasty. Tokyo Menghua, a leopard in the tube. Water Margin Jinmei, it is not true that there are many falsehoods. And most of the good things in the world take the water margin as the truth,

In the third year of Chongzhen, the governor of Guangdong, Wang Zunde, sealed the Ziming Building of the people to announce the incident. At the beginning of the crossing of the sea to Panyu, there were many local bandits who beat the banner of the Song Dynasty. Its old and new official systems are mixed, and there are various names, such as the pioneer of the Great Song Dynasty, the Marquis of Dingyuan in Australia, the guerrilla general of Guangdong in Daao, the capital of the country of Daji, the pioneer of the left road in Australia, and the pioneer officer of Guangdong Zhengyin in the Song Dynasty. The water bandits in Xiangshan County have the number of Guangzhou soldiers and horses, and they engrave their own letters, make flags, and the people of Guangdong may think it is true. When the general heard the news, he was arrested by the soldiers and tortured his mastermind. Confession: This number seems to be ...... from the Water Margin"

For these laughable contents, Liu Minyou didn't have any special feelings except for rolling his eyes, but after continuing to turn to the following content about "Curse Car Secret Technique" and "Hot Steamer", he suddenly brought up his heart again.

“…… The people are good at 100 jobs, can make iron cars with secret arts, more than 10 feet high, there is a huge iron shovel in front of them, the people get on the car and curse it, then the iron car is on its own, digging the ground with a shovel, a shovel can lift thousands of pounds of soil, and the flat ground is a huge trench. If this car is worth 100 people. And with a number of huge iron machines, the accumulation of salary, the man holding the spell, can act on his own, although the boulder is like a car, a moment to shatter into the palm of the hand. It also includes bricks, which can be used to spell it, that is, self-made bricks, which can be tens of thousands a day. Therefore, the people do not take the building as the matter, although the high-rise buildings are stacked on top of each other, the mountains are dangerous, and the land is low, and it is also ......

…… Hot steamers, Australian miracles also, people see each other differently. Chongzhen three years of people into Guangdong, played the reverse of the steamer to commit the Humen, its ship has no mast and no sail, there is a water wheel under the shooting, there is a copper chimney or one or two, the wind is smooth and white smoke, the wind is against the black smoke, the night is spark, the smoke is bursting fire, the drum wheel beats the water then the boat is sailing, the speed exceeds the sail seat, and the advance and retreat are convenient, the wind and tide are not limited. The natives are very afraid, and the people of the Yan Yan are familiar with secret arts, and when they enter the ship, they burn incense and sacrifice, and secretly cast spells, so there are fireworks, and the ship rotates automatically, or the cloud machine wheel is led by cattle and horses, all of which are delusional and unbelievable.

Guo Yi, the giant of the beard, lives in Guangzhou and prepares a steamer for entertainment. When he swam in the Yue River, the spectators on both sides of the strait were blocked, and the gentry of the Cantonese Mansion made many friends with Yi, and they competed to see the wonder of the steamer. Yu knows the maritime businessman Li, who has tasted Qiongyue for a long time, and every time he talks about things, he is like a past. The steamer is long and broad, the hull is painted black, and the cabins are pink and white and lovely. There are two large water wheels on the waist of the ship, covered with iron plates to protect it, the smoke is flushed in the middle, there is a steam engine under it, and the principle of water and fire is taken, the flame of the coal fire is the water rolling steam, the steam rush is maneuvering, the wheel is the ship is running when the water is hit, and the ship is healed if the fire is big.

Or it is said that the steamer cannot be used as a battleship, and if one of the rounds is injured, the whole side of the ship cannot be moved. However, there are still dark steamers, which are placed on the bottom of the ship, and the cannons cannot reach them, and they are twice as good as the paddle wheels. At that time, there was a saying in the capital: the steamer of the horse, but the car and ship of the Song Dynasty remained. With wood in the grass rope, block the water wheel, tie its spokes, all can be broken, this true rotten Confucianism can also see. The ship with grass and trees may be applied to the car and ship of the Song Dynasty, and he uses the soldier to climb the water on the wheel, which is small and thin. The steam man with more than ten zhang of steamer, the steam engine is violent, the water is flying, the speed is fluttering, the wooden row is a large chain and can not be contained, and want to use the diameter and inch of the leaves to be soft in the weak rotten grass, into the vast immersion, will be bound to its steel wheel and extinguished, this true dream words, not worth a lot of people are also ......"

Reading this section of "The Records of the Affair", Liu Minyou's forehead was already dripping with cold sweat, and he muttered, "At least this has the strength of the British Expeditionary Force during the Opium War", and when he continued to look down, he was already stunned and couldn't even speak: "...... The thief has a thing called 'wire, made of fine iron, the thickness is not more than a point, placed on the wooden pole, the rod is applied with black oil, by the thief's hundred thousand hydropower station, led out, at the beginning only and a hundred thousand, Bo shop, has now been widely spread in the high ground, the rural aborigines do not know at the beginning, there is a fake to inform: this is a wire, for power transmission, people can not touch, touch it and die. There is a street to splash the skin do not believe its words, want to steal the iron wire to sell, is the night is entangled in several people on the pole up, unexpectedly both hands just and the iron wire, was electrocuted on the spot, the death is very miserable, the rest of the people saw this hurriedly fled, did not expect that the black oil on the wooden pole is extremely difficult to clean after being contaminated, after the thief's police, relying on the oil to remember, the remaining criminals are all captured. I think about it, there are many secret methods of humane thieves, and I am afraid that they have obtained the secret methods of heaven and earth creation, and use the electricity of heaven for their own use......"

“…… Obediently even has electricity, where has this technology tree climbed......" After being stunned for a long time, Liu Minyoucai let out a long sigh, touched his handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, continued to flip the book down, and saw a small story about "The Good Printing of Books":

“…… My friend Chen Yan has a habit of good books. He reads very fast, and the book can be completed in one day. Every time I see Yu Bi, I say: "I have encountered a shortage of books again." "However, since the people knocked on the gate, the day of the book famine was a few hopes, and the people who covered the book sellers were also. The rest of the miscellaneous that I have learned is not good, and I have also purchased several books of history, and I can't put it down. The books are also written, the paper is crisp, the printing is excellent, and the binding is firm, which has never been seen or heard. Although I don't read it, I take it and put it on the desk, but I also feel that the ink is fragrant, and my heart is relaxed and happy. The only way it is read is very different from that of Huaxia, and it is read horizontally from left to right. I didn't get used to it at first, but I gradually got used to it.

Yan and taste the remainder, Chinese books are read from top to bottom, and they are like a jaw, yes; Reading books from left to right, looking at them like they are shaking, and they are suspicious. Therefore, for thousands of years, our Chinese people have taken the ancestral law as the law, and the number of people in China has been based on the new law for hundreds of years. Although Si laughs, there are also desirable ......"

“…… Hehe, it's just a practice of changing the text from vertical to horizontal, and it can also come up with so many tricks for these Ming Dynasty scholars, this association ability is inevitably a little too strong" Liu Minyou couldn't help but laugh, his mood just calmed down a little, but he was taken aback by the title of the next chapter: "...... What's what? 'Jin Yong Gulong,? I don't think even these two great gods have passed through?"

On closer inspection, this does not seem to be the case: "...... The secular popular novels in Guangdong Province are the top of Jin Yong Gulong. Both of them are long pen names. This long book "Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon" is a book about the current affairs of the Northern Song Dynasty, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and "The Legend of the Sky and the Dragon", which are three volumes, talking about the decline of the Song Dynasty, the disaster of Mongolia, and the rise of Zhu Ming, a total of 100 years. Among them, there are many people who are not in agreement with the history of the country, especially in Zhu Hongwu's drive of Wuji and the capture of the Ming Sect......"

Seeing this scene, Liu Minyou finally couldn't help but scold: "...... Okay, you're a short-haired thief, not only copy books after crossing, but that's fine, you even have to copy people's pen names, and this imagination and creative power are inevitably too lacking, right, and where is your discipline? ”

Just when Liu Minyou was scolding energetically, Chen Xin and Chen Dashuai, who were wearing official robes and big hats, suddenly broke in with the smell of wind and snow and sea, and was immediately confused, "...... Lao Liu, what are you scolding? Could it be that someone in Tunpu has made false accounts and embezzled them? ”

“…… No, Lao Chen, I just got a strange book, which is said to have been written by Cantonese scholars in the past two years, which records a lot of information about the crossing group on Hainan Island, which may be a little exaggerated and conjectural, but it is already the most detailed information in our hands at present. ”

Liu Minyou hurriedly replied to Chen Xin, and at the same time opened the "Records of the Matter" in his hand and handed it over, "...... If you're interested, check it out."

Chen Xin blinked, and took the book with some confusion and looked at it, but happened to turn to the section of "The Girl is Good at Fighting" - "...... The military system of the bearded people does not have six armies, and the subordinates of the brigades, regiments, battalions and companies, called 'guards, are suspected to be the elite of the army, and those who hold the red flag in the battalion are all women. Or Yun this generation is the true 'patriarch, the moth, given the secret art of conquest, the best in the wilderness wave war, when the north ......"

…… Well, the Wild Wave Battle...... This word was also common in the Ming Dynasty, but in later generations, it seems that it can be extended to many different meanings, there are between enemies and friends, and there are also between men and women, and the people on Hainan Island are so arrogant and lascivious, and there are so many fancy intestines now?

Just as Chen Dashuai's face was fixed, Liu Minyou had already lifted the copper kettle from the stove, poured him a cup of hot tea, and asked very familiarly, "...... Lao Chen, you went to Dengzhou Mansion for half a month this time, did you gain anything? Is the official document of the imperial court's dispatch of troops from Dengzhou to rescue the Dalinghe battlefield about to come down? Did Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and their Liao soldiers show any signs of wanting to rebel? ”

“…… Ah, the imperial court has no intention of transferring troops from Dengzhou for the time being, and it is estimated that it will not think of us until the armies of Zhili, Jizhou, and Guanning Town have been defeated by Jiannu, right" Chen Xin reached out and took the hot tea, found a circle chair and sat down, "...... As for Kong Youde and his Liaodong Army...... Where can we see any signs now? Even the Wuqiao Mutiny he moved in the original history was not like the Chenqiao Mutiny of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and the yellow robe, but it was really forced along the way, so he made a temporary decision......"

-- In fact, Chen Xin actually has some admiration for Kong Youde, the "King of Sanshun" who had voted for Tartar in another period of history, at least when Nurhachi swept through Liaodong and his military power was at its peak, this Kong Youde dared to stand up and fight to the death with Jiannu, and later under Mao Wenlong in Dongjiang Town, Kong Youde's appearance was also good, and he had his credit for several great victories. Especially in this time and space that has been greatly changed by the "Jiannu Buster" traverser Huangshi, as Huangshi's brother-in-law and ally, Huangshi's immortal army's miraculous brilliant achievements also have a touch of Kong Youde's bright colors.

Unfortunately, under the joint efforts of many traitors in the court, any brilliant victory in Dongjiang Town was just a flash in the pan, with Huangshi being transferred, Mao Wenlong was innocently killed, and Dongjiang Town's counterattack on Liaodong was hopeless, this group of Liao people living on the island had to continue to flee to Dengzhou to make a living, from beginning to end with a kind of inferiority complex of leaving their homeland xù - according to the information collected by Chen Xin in the past two years, Kong Youde and his men in Dengzhou were far less domineering than the Guanning army, in addition to enduring the common problem of the Ming army's salary deduction, They also have to endure the hostility of the local people of Dengzhou towards the immigrants from Liaodong, this kind of exclusion and hostility is almost everywhere, so that these Liaomin have to be as cautious as little daughters-in-law, carrying a hundred carefully dealing with civil officials and local gentry, if this patience reaches a critical point, the final outbreak of anger will definitely make these once honest soldiers become extremely cruel......

“…… However, I did hear one thing, after Kong Youde came to Dengzhou, he still had contact with Huangshi in Fujian, and also gave Huangshi's belief to the generals, and the generals of Liaodong all shed tears when they heard it...... This is probably the most glorious period of their lives," Chen Xin thought about it and added.

“…… Huangshi, Huangshi, alas, over the years, we have also collected some rumors about this predecessor who traveled through the battle in Liaodong, it sounds really bright and righteous, and he is definitely a legendary hero, but the two of us seem a little despicable in comparison......"

Listening to Liu Minyou's praise and praise, Chen Xin snorted disapprelicly, "...... Judging from Huangshi's record in Liaodong, a hero may be called a hero, but it would be a bit too much to say that he is a legend - it is just a little clever trick, pinching the death period in Nurhachi's history, and breaking into Liaoyang. Besides, since this guy went to the south, he seems to have hooked up with the gang on Hainan Island now, and it is difficult to say whether he will be friends or enemies with us in the future...... Wait, Lao Liu, I was rushed by you just now, my mind was confused, and I almost delayed the big thing."

Just halfway through speaking, Chen Xin and Chen Dashuai finally remembered something, jumped up suddenly, and said to Liu Minyou with an unusually stern expression, "...... Five days ago, I had just returned from Dengzhou with six boats, and on the way I encountered a small wooden boat of the sailor of Dongjiang Town, on which there was an incoherent Dongjiang Town hundred-hundred-hundred-household, saying that a group of short-haired pirates drove a big iron boat to Dongjiang Town, and lured the military households to join the thieves with food, clothing, and food."

When Liu Min heard this, he was a little surprised, and then he thought of something? With a sinking face, he asked, "...... Those guys on Hainan Island sent a boat north"?

Chen Xin shook his head again, walked to Liu Minyou and sat down, stared at Liu Minyou's eyes and replied, "...... It is a Far Eastern company in Vladivostok"

“…… Far Eastern companies in Vladivostok? Liu Min was stunned, thought about it, and asked, "...... Could it be that the gang on Hainan Island has already occupied Vladivostok? ”

“…… No, I personally drove to Lushun to see it, they have Russian 6 ships, as well as armored vehicles, no matter how you look at it, it is much better than the person on Hainan Island who is still playing with front-loading artillery. Fortunately, according to the officers who had seen them, the appearance of these short-haired pirates was similar to that of the Central Plains, with the same black heads, but they were taller and did not see the red eyebrows and green eyes, so they should not be Russians. Chen Xin replied with a sigh.

“…… In other words, there is another crossing force on Vladivostok's side, which is not only the same as the ticket in Lingao County, Hainan Island, but also has much more powerful equipment and firepower? Liu Minyou reacted immediately, glaring at him.

Chen Xin stared at Liu Minyou, nodded, and did not answer.

Liu Minyou also stared at Chen Xin, and then suddenly jumped up from the chair and shouted, "...... Damn, someone is stealing business from us again."

“…… In fact, it's not just the Far East company in Vladivostok that is stealing business from us......" Chen Xin hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly, "...... I saw a report from the imperial court in the Yamen of the governor of Dengzhou, saying that there were two Fanyi named Dong'an and Huamei respectively, and they had sent a fleet of thousands of miles to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. And which Portuguese artillery instructors hired by Sun Yuanhua also seem to know a little about these two countries......"

When Liu Min heard this, he almost fell down, and his eyes widened in anger, "...... What the? Even the United States has crossed? ”

“…… No, judging from the content of the Di newspaper, what 'Hua Mei, also claiming to be a descendant of the Central Plains, should be a group of Chinese traversers who founded a country on that piece of land in North America. In addition, there is an 'East Coast Country' in South America, which seems to be the same way......

Chen Xin touched his beard and said with a look of vicissitudes and exhaustion, "...... Alas, whether the East Coast countries and China and the United States are friends or foes, after all, they are thousands of miles away and have little to do with us for the time being. But how to deal with the Far East company in Vladivostok, we have to hurry up and sum up......"

After speaking, Chen Xin looked at a box of Wendeng incense with gold wire edges with a sad face, and there was an advertising slogan on it, which he came up with by himself: "The best Wen Dengxiang, the enjoyment of the old level." This is a limited number of cigarettes that the cigarette factory has only recently opened, tentatively two taels of silver a box, not sold to the public, exclusively for the high-level of Dengzhou Town to enjoy, and also sent some to the powerful in Beijing...... Chen Xin handed Liu Min a cigarette and lit it himself, in a cloud of smoke, the two of them lowered their heads and didn't know how many cigarettes they smoked, Liu Min flicked the cigarette butt in his hand, picked up the teacup with a dry mouth, and drank a big sip of tea, "...... At least we don't have a special soldier named Xiang Shaolong ("Looking for Qin") at the moment, which can be regarded as a great luck in misfortune. By the way, Lao Chen, about the Far East Company's visit to Dongjiang Town to pull Zhuang Ding, what do you think will happen to the Denglai Government and the Dongjiang General Army in the end? ”

“…… What else can I do, of course, pretending to be deaf and dumb, as if there is no such thing" Chen Xin spitted out the smoke ring and smiled bitterly, "...... The Far East Company boarded 6 ships, and the wooden ships of the Ming Dynasty sailors would definitely not be able to beat them. And this kind of comprehension can definitely not be reported to the imperial court, at most it is mentioned in the recital that there are Haikou who came to Dongjiang to recruit young and strong...... The question is how should we deal with the Far East Company in Vladivostok in Dengzhou Town, which is no better than the short-haired thieves in Lingao and Huangshi in Fujian, and it is directly pressed on the big battle in Liaodong."

Liu Minyou didn't respond, just stared at the jumping flames in the brazier with a frown, and the room fell silent again, and both of them quietly felt the strange solemnity. It wasn't until Chen Xin was pouring the ashtray that he accidentally noticed a copy of the text that fell at his feet, and when he picked it up, it was the speech of the opening ceremony of Wendeng University Hall that Liu Minyou had just drafted:

“…… The land under our feet is a very small part of a vast country, and some of your fathers and brothers have joined the army, and they may have been to Liaodong and Beizhili, but that is still only a small part. It is a rich and vast country that nurtures many people like you. They use the same language and wear the same clothes as you. This country has the snow flying in the north, the roaring Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the Jiangnan with small bridges and flowing waters, and the boundless sea frontier, these territories are not obtained for nothing, but our ancestors fought hard to obtain this land, so that we can take root here and pass it on from generation to generation, and create the most glorious civilization with our hands. But civilization cannot lack words and books, nor can it lack spears and muskets, and all our educational policies must civilize its spirit and barbarize its body.

The reason why we have to fight the Tartars in Dengzhou Town, and everyone says that we want to kill the Tartars, is that we do not have a civilized identification with them. In addition to the difference between clothing and braids, there is also a difference in the purpose of survival, and we create a wealth of objects and beautiful art, through guò hard cultivation and technological progress to benefit life. But they came out of the mountains and forests at this time, trying to use their brute force to enslave us, looking at Jiannu's actions in Liaodong, they can only bring barbaric slaughter and cruel enslavement, no matter what the society has done, butchers like Nurhachi cannot escape the judgment of morality, this is my standard of understanding good and evil, and it is also the reason why I can't identify with Jiannu.

What they want to deprive us of is the right we are born with, which is a right given to everyone by God, and no one has the right to take it away. This is the meaning of our crossing the sea to Liaodong to fight against Jiannu, no matter how ferocious Jiannu is, we must take up arms and fight them......"

Seeing these lines of righteous and strict words, Chen Xin suddenly felt that his heart suddenly opened up, and from then on, the original tangled clouds dissipated at once, "...... Anyway, Lao Chen, what if these traversers come? What if their forces are stronger than ours? No matter how you say it, there is only one enemy of the Chinese Lao Tzu now, that is, Huang Taiji, Jiannu, this is a group of poisonous pus that plagues China, no matter who comes, Lao Tzu must eradicate them and completely eradicate them

As long as those who are willing to fight side by side with us are all friends, we must serve with good tea and wine; If you want to shield Jiannu and face me against Yu, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being rude; If you want to co-opt us...... It can't be said that it is absolutely not, but at least we have to see what kind of goods they are, Lao Tzu now has land and soldiers in his hands, how can this treatment not be worse......"

Speaking of this, Chen Xin's mentality has gradually relaxed, and the more he talks, the more calm he becomes, and he feels that it doesn't matter if he suddenly has nothing to do - isn't it just that there are more traversers, and when the time comes, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and if they can't resist it, they will be soft, and it is no different from the commercial competition of large and small companies in modern society. Under the drive and infection of Chen Xin, Liu Minyou gradually relaxed, so he put this matter aside for the time being.

After the two finished discussing the affairs of the other traversers, the next thing to discuss was the errand assigned by the imperial court to Dengzhou Town, after all, they are still the officials of the Ming Dynasty - the latest article from the Ministry of War came over, saying that in the past two or three months, there was a smuggling salt dealer Li Meng in Jiaozhou Turtle Mountain Wei gathered a crowd to make a rebellion, rampant in the countryside, and defeated the official inspection and the military households of the guard. In view of the fact that the Jiaozhou government repeatedly attacked to no avail, it ordered Dengzhou Town to send troops to help suppress it......

Although Chen Xin and Liu Min thought about it for a while, they didn't remember that there was such a civil unrest in Jiaozhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period was really chaotic, and there were so many mutinies and mutinies...... So Chen Xin didn't care too much about it, but just sent a reserve battalion to Jiaozhou, which was supposed to be actual combat training.

-- So, without Chen Xin and Chen Dashuai unconsciously, a newly born traverser force was nipped in the bud by him......

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