Chapter 057: We have hostages, what are we afraid of
Chapter 057
Sun Yuanhua had a preconceived idea that Cheng Shijie and Laiyang Zhang had a misunderstanding, which was actually wrong.
Cheng Shijie and Laiyang Zhang really didn't have a misunderstanding, no one knew about the fact that Zhang Huairen was born in Laiyang Zhang's family in Zhensanshan, but Cheng Shijie knew about it and didn't care.
Cheng Shijie believes that Zhang Huairen is just incompetent to intimidate him.
When exterminating Zhang Huairen's headquarters in Zhensanshan, Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy soldiers to arrest all the troops in Zhensanshan, and no one escaped.
It's just that the problem lies with the women Cheng Shijie sent home. Liu Yue'er, whose hometown is in the county seat of Huangxian County, is actually a widow who looks at the moon, Liu Yue'er was married to Feng Shaodong, the young owner of Feng's Buzhuang, by his father three years ago with a dowry of twenty taels of silver and a cow.
Feng Shaodong is a tuberculosis patient, and marrying Liu Yue'er also heard that Liu Yue'er has a good character and a handsome appearance, so he asked people to propose to the Liu family. As a result, three days after passing the door, Feng Shaodong died. And the Feng family attributed Feng Shaodong's death to Liu Yue'er. drove Liu Yue'er back to her parents' house.
After Liu Yue'er returned to her parents' house, she followed her brother's wine and food shop to help, with Liu Yue'er's help, Liu's wine and food shop business also improved a lot, by chance, Zhang Huairen met Huang County, took the elite to step on the point, met Liu Yue'er, Zhang Huairen fell in love with Liu Yue'er at first sight, and he moved his mind and snatched Liu Yue'er away.
Zhang Huairen didn't care about taking Liu Yue'er with him for a while, so he put Liu Yue'er in Zhang's pawn shop in Huangxian County, but Zhang Huairen also turned his head and forgot about Liu Yue'er. Xiao Xuan, the pawnshop manager of the Zhang family, kept Liu Yue'er in captivity for more than six months, and by chance, met Zhang Huairen again.
mentioned Liu Yue'er, Zhang Huairen remembered. He took Liu Yue'er back to the old nest of Zhangzhuang Village, this Liu Yue'er was born as a widow, and worked as a waiter in Liu's wine and food shop for more than three years, good at observing words and feelings, and good at cooking, and was admitted to the room by Zhang Huairen.
When Cheng Shijie led people to occupy Zhangzhuang Village, Liu Yue'er was actually ready to run, Zhang Huairen trusted her very much, and she took the opportunity to secretly hide some gold and silver jewelry, especially Zhang Huairen didn't know where to get a gold silk clothes, which weighed more than 20 taels and was worn on Liu Yue'er at that time.
The soldiers of the Ning Navy under Cheng Shijie naturally searched their bodies, so Liu Yue'er took the dry food that Cheng Shijie rewarded her, and she returned to her hometown in Huangxian County all the way safe and sound.
Liu Yue'er was already well-known in Huang County, and soon after returning home, she was discovered by Xiao Xuan, Zhang Ji's typical shopkeeper, this Xiao Xuan naturally knew the temperament of his young master, even if Zhang Huairen was tired of playing with Liu Yue'er, he would not let him go home, and the biggest possibility was to put Liu Yue'er in the dog pen and bite him to death, or torture and kill.
The pawnshop was originally keeping thugs in captivity, so Xiao Xuan ordered the thugs to plunder Liu Yue'er, and after some intimidation, Liu Yue'er led Cheng Shijie to lead the Ning Navy to exterminate Zhensanshan. Xiao Xuan didn't believe it at first, so he asked people to go to Zhangzhuang Village to check, and it turned out that Zhangzhuang Village had become Ning Haijun's Tuntian Village.
Upon inquiry, it was found that the bandits had been killed. Investigating everywhere, none of Zhang Huairen's subordinates could find it, so Xiao Xuan hurried to Zhang Huairen's father, Zhang Sicheng.
Because Zhang Huairen is not only Zhang Sicheng's old son, but also a son. Zhang Huairen's biological mother is Zhang Sicheng's fourth brother Zhang Siliang. Although concubines are not as high as their wives, it is very common for them to transfer to each other. But there are three kinds of concubines, one is a noble concubine, one is a good concubine, and the other is a cheap concubine. The concubine, the side room, and the deputy room belong to the concubine. The partial house is a good concubine. Companions, concubines, concubines, and concubines are cheap concubines.
Usually the family of friends gives each other a cheap concubine, or a companion in the family, a concubine, or a concubine bought from the Qinglou, and Zhang Huairen's biological mother is Zhang Siliang's side room. Once drunk, Zhang Sicheng occupied the side room of his younger brother Zhang Siliang, and he was originally going to come to a god who didn't know it.
But the problem is, if nothing else, there was still an accident, Zhang Siliang was studying in Nanjing at that time, but Zhang Huairen's biological mother was pregnant, which was a scandal for the Zhang family, in order to cover up the scandal, Zhang Sicheng claimed that Zhang Huairen was his nephew.
Of course, within the Zhang family, everyone who should know about this matter knows, and those who don't know will never know.
In the end, he was born, except that Zhang Huairen could not enter the genealogy of the Zhang family, the young master of the Zhang family had all kinds of treatment. It is precisely because of connivance that Zhang Huairen's tyrannical character has been developed.
Zhang Sicheng was still in Shanxi, and he couldn't receive the news for a while, but the Zhang family's revenge followed, first openly accusing the governor Yamen of Cheng Shijie of slaughtering the good people and killing the good people.
In this way, even Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, will sell the face of the Zhang family and dispose of Cheng Shijie, as long as there is no official position of the garrison of the Ning Navy, if the Zhang family wants Cheng Shijie to become round, he will become round, and if he wants Cheng Shijie to become flat, he will become flat.
What the Zhang family in Laiyang has is this strength, and dealing with a military attache is not a piece of cake for Zhang Fei to eat bean sprouts?
What's more, Zhang's energy is not comparable to Wang Xiangchun, if Wang Xiangchun is a star entrepreneur in Wuqiao County, then Zhang's is a star entrepreneur in Shandong.
The gap between the two sides is almost equivalent to the gap between the richest man in the county and the richest man in the province.
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Dengzhou is two hundred and forty miles away from Ninghai City, and it will take about four days to walk normally.
Just when Sun Yuanhua sent a messenger to inform him to go to Dengzhou to confront the Zhang family in Laiyang, Cheng Shijie received a set of equipment sent by Sun Yuanhua in the Gun Bureau.
The foreman was a Portuguese named Joao. This is a Portuguese transliteration of the name, which means God's favorite. This name is a common phrase among the Portuguese, probably equivalent to the king of the Ming Dynasty, or Da Zhuang, or something like that.
Qiao Ao is very fluent in Chinese, if it weren't for his looks, just listening to him, he seemed to think that the other party was a Dengzhou person, and the accent Cheng Shijie was also authentic.
"Honorable Garrison, don't look at this as a pile of wood and steel, this is a hammer machine, specially used to polish the bore of the cannon...... Dear Garrison, don't doubt its power, as long as it has enough water, it only takes six hours to polish the bore of any cannon to you to a smooth one, and a fly will fall a lot! ”
Qiao Ao introduced another machine to Cheng Shijie with his eyebrows: "This is a drilling machine, specially used to drill the barrel, if the water power is sufficient, it only takes two hours to drill a three-foot-long barrel, and the scrap rate is extremely low!" ”
Don't look at Joao so confident, the moment he saw these machines, Cheng Shijie thought of a hundred improvement plans, using wood as a frame is indeed trouble-free, but the problem is that the hardness of the wood is not enough, and during the rotation of the knife, it will cause vibration.
As the so-called difference is a thousand miles, the vibration of the machine tool itself will cause a great error, and it is even better than Cheng Shijie to adopt the shaft cold casting scheme.
But these mechanical equipment, handed over to the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to develop and imitate, can definitely be made better. Sun Yuanhua, a technocrat, also made a mistake that most bureaucrats in later generations would make.
That is the superstition of Europa. Europa did go ahead of the Ming Dynasty in some technical aspects, but the problem is that they have been backward in many aspects, such as blast furnace steelmaking, until 1707, that is, the 46th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, Europe invented a large blast furnace of 50 cubic meters, and according to the 44 cubic meters of blast furnace unearthed in Xingyang, it was the product of the Western Han Dynasty.
That's the gap.
These mechanical equipment are not only rough, but also poor precision, just the use of hydraulic power, that's all, the Ming Dynasty only systematically restricts the use of mechanical equipment, not incapacitated.
The craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the imperial court and the guard, who were craftsmen in their time, did not bring any benefits to themselves by inventing equipment, but made themselves lose their jobs, will the craftsmen improve the tools?
The answer is yes, absolutely not.
You do this when you get water in your head.
Very politely asked the Western expert Qiao Ao to rest, without wasting saliva, Cheng Shijie handed over this set of boring machines, vertical lathes, milling machines and planers to the tape measure department.
Yes, this is a new department of the Ning Navy, which is responsible for the localization of important equipment and tools, such as dog-legged knives, crossbows, and four-wheeled carriages, bearing imitation, with the improvement of steelmaking technology, high-carbon steel, steel manganese steel smooth production, many things can be industrialized at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Just when Cheng Shijie and the craftsmen of the tape measure department were about to take all steel improvement of these equipment, Cheng Hu said: "Father-in-law, someone is here in Dengzhou!" ”
"Let him come!"
Cheng Shijie found that the person who came was actually an acquaintance, it turned out that the governor of Dengzhou, Fu Biao, was a small colonel, he didn't know, but now he knows, his name is Peng Jian, he is not tall, slightly dark, and there are nine thousand people like this in Shandong.
"Brother Peng, it's hard to come from afar!"
Cheng Shijie arched his hand towards Peng Jianhong, and then handed him a dogleg knife.
Peng Jianhong said how embarrassed this was, but the body honestly took the dogleg knife, this knife at a glance knew that it was not an ordinary product, but made of high manganese steel by the Ordnance Bureau, after double liquid treatment, the hardness should almost catch up with the industrial products of later generations, but the production efficiency is far inferior.
"Lord Cheng, Lord Futai asked you to take the news and go to Dengzhou City!"
"I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing!"
Peng Jianhong is also his own professional ethics: "Master Cheng, when did you provoke the Zhang family in Laiyang?" ”
Cheng Shijie frowned slightly: "Laiyang Zhang family? ”
"It's not a big deal, you are now a celebrity in front of Lord Futai, the eight generals of the Denglai New Army, who has seen Lord Futai's good face? This time it is a confrontation with the Zhang family in Laiyang, there should be no trouble, the Zhang family is not easy to mess with, but Lord Futai also wants to save face! ”
Cheng Shijie didn't think too much about it, his confidence was that Zhang Huairen was still in his hands, and there were more than 200 people under Zhensanshan in his hands, all of whom were hostages.
We have hostages in hand, and we're afraid of a fart.
Leaving from the tape measure, Cheng Shijie took the fifty guards of the personal guards, as well as Cheng Hu and Chen Guodong, and rode to Dengzhou City in a carriage and RV.
The cold wind is howling and the snow is fluttering.
Cheng Shijie's carriage RV was still as warm as spring, and as the vehicle shook, Cheng Shijie closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"Lord Garrison, Dengzhou City has arrived!"
"Into town!"