Talk about wine, and there will be a farewell.

The next day, Wang Yaliang went to Tianjin along the coastline of Laizhou and returned to Shuntianfu.

For a period of about one year to patrol and supervise a place like him, he must return to Beijing to make a mission and return to the array of the imperial history team in the capital.

The convoy of Zhu Yipai and Zheng Haizhu continued eastward and arrived in Dengzhou in less than two days.

Dengzhou is the Yantai of later generations.

As a modern tourist, Zheng Haizhu's perception of Dengzhou is Qi Jiguang's hometown.

And Zheng Haizhu, who is a professional traveler in history, understands that this small seaside city has an extremely important military position.

With Nurhachi's overwhelming attack in Liaodong, the Ming court will set up a "Denglai Governor" during the Apocalypse, and Dengzhou will become the frontier for transporting strategic materials and even troops to Liaodong.

And Sun Yuanhua, who was invited to Songjiang by Zheng Haizhu in advance to guide Lu Xiangsheng to engage in artillery research and development, is the most embarrassing one of the previous governors.

In the real history, in the last years of the Apocalypse, Sun Yuanhua, with the support of the famous minister Sun Chengzong, put the artillery on Ningyuan City, and helped Yuan Chonghuan create a "Ningyuan Victory" for the Ming Court, so that the Ming Empire, which was beaten by Nurhachi in the battles of Salhu and Hunhe, saved some face.

During the Chongzhen period, Sun Yuanhua was even more important, was appointed as the governor of Denglai, and armed the coastal area of Dengzhou with various artillery.

After Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong in Pidao, it was Sun Yuanhua, the governor who came to the throne, and strongly advocated that Liao generals could be used, and stepped forward to accept Mao Wenlong's old generals - Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others.

However, the imperial court treated the Liao generals harshly, and they were not paid as mule envoys.

When the Liao generals marched, they were frustrated, and they were humiliated and bullied by the gentry and rich men along the way, and finally, Kong Youde and others rebelled in Wuqiao, killed back to Dengzhou, and took Sun Yuanhua and various artillery away together to defect to Huang Taiji.

Sun Yuanhua was dying, but he still tried to persuade Kong Youde to get lost and return and accept the second invitation from the imperial court. It's a pity that different factions in the court are intriguing and dealing a heavy blow to Sun Yuanhua's appeasement plan, and Kong Youde and others are still in the arms of the Houjin army.

Finally, Kong Youde cherished Sun Yuanhua's kindness when he took him in, and also hoped that Sun Yuanhua would return to Beijing to explain Mao Wenlong's grievances and the truth about the mutiny of the old general on Phi Dao.

However, a group of small people in the court frantically slandered and framed, and Sun Yuanhua, who was speechless, was finally beheaded by Chongzhen at the entrance of the Beijing vegetable market.

In Zheng Haizhu's last life, every time she read this paragraph, she felt lung pain.

Sun Yuanhua was obviously the most national, socially considerate, brave and pragmatic person in the whole incident, but he became the last person to be unjustly killed to vent his anger.

Therefore, Zheng Haizhu was very impressed by Sun Yuanhua's sad "Governor".

As for the current Dengzhou prefect Tao Langxian, he is actually the first governor of Denglai in the future, and he came a few years earlier than Sun Yuanhua, but Zheng Haizhu is not clear.

However, when he was still in Yanzhou, Zhang Yaofang had already introduced Tao Langxian, who had a good official reputation and won the first place in the performance appraisal.

In the Yexian post station the day before yesterday, when Zhu Yipai touted Zheng Haizhu's business to be big, Wang Yushi also seriously mentioned: "If Miss Zheng makes artillery, can you give Dengzhou two guns, Dengzhou is not easy, this year I bought a lot of school fields, and there is no silver in the account." ”

At that time, Zheng Haizhu agreed with his mouth, and at the same time, he pondered Wang Yushi's words several times in his heart.

It's a good thing that the inspector can say such things. First of all, Wang Yaliang intends to treat her Zheng Haizhu as a person who can send work. Secondly, it is obvious that for the prefect Tao Langxian, Wang Yushi recognized it and gave a very useful information: Tao Zhifu attaches great importance to education.

"Your Royal Highness, this time, in principle, although it should be that the Tao Governor is grateful to Lu Fan for helping to capture the thief, but in the future, you must always come in from Dengzhou, and you must not disturb the place of the mansion."

On the carriage, Zheng Haizhu and Zhu Yipai said.

Zhu Yipai is also very clear, and along the way, she was instilled with the skills of many Ming civil officials by this Zheng girl, and she was not afraid because she had the word "Zhu" in her surname, so she said briskly: "Rest assured, in that small place in Ye County, in order to win the favor of Wang Yushi, this general is willing to spend money, and he didn't get the main owner of Dengzhou, but he slammed the door." In the name of exterminating the Smelling Fragrance Sect, is it enough to give 500 gold? ”

Zheng Haizhu said with a smile: "More than five hundred gold, you can't use the excuse of suppressing bandits, I'm afraid Jingshi has an idea." Three hundred gold, people from Confucius's hometown to help build the academy. ”

Zhu Yipai thought about it, he was a relative of the Lu domain, and he went outside the domain to stuff money to the local officials to suppress bandits, didn't he slap the face of the court, or donate money to help students This reason is the safest.

"Okay, just three hundred gold, I'll tell Governor Tao when I go back, and in the future, your trading company will leave the port from Dengzhou, and you will also give some convenience."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zheng Haizhu and Guo Shi, with strange faces.

"What's wrong? Am I not right? ”

Zheng Haizhu was slightly embarrassed, and Guo Shi spoke for her: "My husband has spent money, and there is nothing wrong with listening to more noises." But Dengzhou is not the only yamen of the prefect. When Jiajing was in the house, the imperial court set up a special patrol channel, and Miss Zheng's goods were shipped out to find a relationship in the patrol sea road. ”

Only then did Zhu Yipai react.

Yuezhang is a military general from Shandong, so his wife Guo is familiar with the military setup.

The prefect of Dengzhou is not the governor of Shandong, so he can't control Denglai to patrol the sea road.

He then nodded to Zheng Haizhu and said, "You have another way, just go and do it yourself." ”

Zheng Haizhu said bluntly: "Don't hide it from Your Royal Highness and Mrs., this is how we got out of Dengzhou with our previous ticket." On the Liaohai Sea, there are many ships on the Dengzhou Patrol Seaway, and there are more ships from our merchants, so if we pay some silver, our goods will be able to pass. ”

Zhu Yipai didn't understand that this was smuggling, but along the way, he had been instilled by Zheng Haizhu with a lot of drawbacks of the sea ban, and he had already understood that this was the path that the maritime merchants had no choice but to choose.

Therefore, he didn't think he was guilty, and only teased slightly: "My Ming court owes the military salary of the water division of the guard, and in the end, you traders paid it back." ”

……

At the turn of the afternoon, on the Penglai Pavilion of Danya Mountain near the sea in Dengzhou, Zheng Haizhu and Guo stood side by side, looking at the Liaohai Sea.

The wind is like a knife, and the frost can be seen everywhere on the mountain roads, but the sea outside the breakwater has not yet seen the gray-white ice, and it is still blue.

If the line of sight is broader, you can see the blue waves above, and the sails are near and far, and they are hidden and appear.

"Miss Zheng, my father said that in the Song Dynasty, this place was called Daoyu Village, and it was quite meteorological as a water village. After Taizu became the emperor, in order to prevent the Japanese, he paid more attention to building coastal defense. It was here that Qi Shaobao trained the navy. ”

Guo pointed to the various buildings and barracks between the Dan Cliff and the breakwater, and talked eloquently to Zheng Haizhu.

Today, Zhu Yi sent to the Yamen to meet with the prefect of Dengzhou, Tao Langxian, Zheng Haizhu because of the abacus in his belly, proposed to ask Zhu Yipai to talk about the extermination of the Wenxiang Sect, and when the government held a banquet in the evening, he went back to the scene to talk to the Tao prefect about the idea of transporting miners on the Liaohai Road.

In this way, during the day, Zheng Haizhu accompanied Guo to Penglai Pavilion for a visit.

As Zheng Haizhu expected, the Guo family, who is a tiger girl, has a very strong nature, but first relied on his family history to explain the doorway of the naval army for Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu looked at the coastal defense city wall and said solemnly: "Madam, please see, the Danya Mountain we are standing on is indeed dangerous, but as artillery is used more and more in the offensive and defensive battles in the future, it will definitely not work to rely on Danya Mountain to restrain the enemy forces who come to attack the water city at sea." ”

Guo is a woman with red makeup and arms, and when she was in the boudoir, whenever her father came home, she would come to her father with her two older brothers to listen to the art of war.

But when his father went to the southwest to quell the rebellion, He had used artillery, and Guo's understanding of Western firearms was blank.

She asked curiously: "Miss Zheng, Danya Mountain is condescending, arrows rain together, and Dengzhou City has two city walls, water and land, both of which are covered with bricks, where is it?" ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "Now is no longer the time of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the enemy troops coming from the water have artillery, use the cannon to directly blast the water wall, enter the former Qi Shaobao training ground of the sailors, and then collapse the land wall, you can take Dengzhou." Therefore, in the future, this water city should be overhauled, just like our women embroidered on silk silk, embroidering many cross-fire points. ”

"How do you embroider?" Guo asked.

Zheng Haizhu walked out of the pavilion, bent down to pick up a stick, and demonstrated it to Guo on the ground: "At least embroider four places." The first place, Danya Mountain, where we stand, is a zigzag city wall that should be built under the cliff, and the horse-faced wall protruding from each bend is a fort. The second place is on the wall of the water city with the sluice, and the third place is naturally on the city wall of the land city. And the most important place should be outside the breakwater, a dragon-like urn fortress should be stretched out, with forts on all sides. ”

Guo Shi looked and thought, and soon understood.

Although she has not seen how the artillery is fired, it is not difficult to understand the direction of fire.

"Miss Zheng, in this way, there are a total of eight directions that can fire cannon pellets, just like Lu Xiu's flowers are not exposed, there are no dead ends."

Zheng Haizhu said with a smile: "Madame is a good analogy, that's exactly the case." If you lure the enemy deep in the plan of the suspicious soldiers, you must be like our Songjiang Gu embroidery and Han Yuan embroidery, and make a good blank. This palatial fortress is placed here, and to leave it blank is to look for death, of course, the more carefully arranged it is, the better. ”

Guo Shi was convinced: "Miss Zheng, do you usually like to read military books?" ”

Zheng Haizhu said bluntly: "I don't understand it very well, but I am fortunate to meet many talents, and there are many people who know the soldiers. ”

In fact, Zheng Haizhu said this chase, modern people who go to Yantai can see that those forts were originally built on the basis of the Dengzhou Water City in Qi Jiguang's era when Sun Yuanhua was the governor of Denglai, learning the military thinking of the Portuguese to arrange bunker firepower.

It's just that in the early winter of the last year of Wanli, there was no "crossfire" fort community in Dengzhou Water City, which just made Zheng Haizhu shake his golden finger as a person from later generations.

If she sets up a "knowing soldier" character for herself, after she returns to Songjiang and meets Sun Yuanhua, she will talk in detail and vote for these civil officials who advocate Western learning.

Guo stood up, returned to the pavilion, and looked in several directions, a complicated smirk suddenly crossed the corners of his mouth.

"Miss Zheng, how good would it be if I were a man, like my father, after a battle, from a thousand generals to guerrillas, from a general to a general soldier, transferred to a military town like Dengzhou, I ask you to buy a bunch of artillery and build it well."

In Guo's eyes, there are three points of yearning and seven points of melancholy.

The latter overpowered the former, causing her to quickly fall into silence and say no more.

Zheng Haizhu shook her head decisively: "Madame doesn't have to be stunned. I'm not a man, I can run ships, do business, build schools, and build artillery. General Shi Yan Tusi Qin, who called me "Little Friend", is not a man, and he can lead the army to fight and kill the enemy. Madam, our women's path is not given by God, not set by men, but walked out by ourselves. ”

Guo Qi Ran: "I am already a woman of the Lu clan. ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "So what? She Taijun is also a good order, and he is still not imprisoned in the back house. Madam, even this reckless world will be vicissitudes, why should our future destiny be limited by the current situation? ”

Zheng Haizhu was indeed moved when he said this.

After getting along with Guo for more than half a month, Zheng Haizhu has gradually fallen in love with this woman who has not left half a word in history.

Like Han Ximeng and Yao, this Guo's ability and temperament also show that she is unwilling to be a small-footed daughter-in-law trapped in the back house, and fortunately, her husband, like Gu Shouqian and Huang Zunsu, is willing to give her a considerable degree of freedom.

Moreover, she is also from a family of military generals.

It's a pity that such a talent doesn't help ignite the fire that has not been extinguished in her heart!

"Madam," Zheng Haizhu said softly, "the Zimu gun I have seen in the Fujian Sea does not need the brute force of a man to be loaded and launched. The Hongyi cannon that my subordinates have seen in Haojing, clearing, pressing, ignition, and calculating angles, it is not necessary to have brute force, a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy can do it, how can a young and strong woman like us not do it? General Qin can work with his husband to bring out the world-famous stone-stone white-pole lancers, and his wife and His Royal Highness Luan Feng and Ming may not only be able to train cavalry, but also a women's artillery army. ”

Guo Shi turned his head, and the look of hope and sigh on his face receded.

She stared at Zheng Haizhu, thoughtful.

But Zheng Haizhu doesn't need to make progress in a thousand miles, and today's opportunity is good to stop.

She rubbed her frozen fingers and confessed: "Don't hide it from Madame, Danya Mountain to the southeast, is the small port where we take goods, this time the goods are all high-quality brocade, the grass people are afraid that the loading is not meticulous, and now I want to rush to take a look." ”

Guo Shi looked at the sun: "Then you go quickly, can you ride a horse?" ”

Zheng Haizhu knew that the traffic of the Ming Dynasty was "the south ship and the north horse", so before going north, in Songjiang and Zhenjiang, he had learned to ride a horse.

Besides, with the calculation she made today, she naturally wanted to ask the palace for a horse.

Seeing Zheng Haizhu nodding, Guo immediately instructed Fan Bin, the chief of the guard standing outside the pavilion: "Give Chi Ruyi to Miss Zheng, Chi Ruyi is easy-going and does not deceive people." ”

The horse was brought over, Zheng Haizhu glanced at the horse's buttocks, yes, just have the monograms of the Zhenguo General's Mansion.