Chapter 149

If it is just a competition in numbers, Daming occupies an absolute advantage. The population of the Ming Dynasty is 100 times larger than that of the Jiannu.

But the problem is that the combat effectiveness of the Jiannu army is actually quite terrifying.

The nature of the army of Jiannu is very similar to that of the Tianxiong Army of the Ming Dynasty, and the components of its troops are based on Niu Lu, which is a group composed of blood relatives, families, and villages at that time, and each person in Niu Lu has blood relatives and family relations with the people around them. Therefore, as a grassroots combat unit, the cohesion of Niulu is conceivable.

Because everyone has a relationship of "one is prosperous, and one is lost", they will often work harder on the battlefield, and there will not be the situation of "you go first, you go first". In addition, in terms of logistics, each cattle is responsible for its own supplies. Since everyone in the same Niu Lu is relatives and friends, they will naturally spare no effort to provide the best material support for the relatives fighting on the front line. In this way, a very close link between the front and the rear was formed, which greatly increased the efficiency of the war.

From the battle of Salhu, 60,000 Jiannu fought against 110,000 Ming troops, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in this period was actually not weak, but the weak was only the logistics and command chaos, so it suffered a big loss.

Before the battle of the Hunhe River, the Zhejiang army of the Ming Dynasty and the Sichuan army had a fire fight in Tongzhou, guns and cannons were fired in the city, and the casualties on both sides were everywhere and countless houses were blown up, which directly alarmed the Ming court, and the Zhejiang soldiers fought with the Jiliao soldiers stationed in the local area. At that time, the three most effective armies of the Ming Dynasty were the Shizhuchuan Army, the Old Seed Zhejiang Army (Qijia Army) left by Qi Jiguang, and the Jizhen Border Army (also regarded as the troops led by Qi Jiguang).

Since then, Da Ming basically has no battles, just Guan Ningjun, which is just a tall one pulled out of the dwarf, just like a student with very average grades, transferred to an ordinary school, even in the original school, he can only take the test seventy points, and in the new ordinary school, he can also enter the top ten of the school.

Qin Buregret This Jinyiwei is hereditary, his father Qin You was in the third year of the Apocalypse and was seriously ill, at that time, Qin Buregret took over his mantle from his father Qin You and officially became Jinyiwei.

From the third year of the Apocalypse to the fifth year of Chongzhen, in the past ten years, what Qin Buregret saw and heard was the defeat of the Ming army, and it was all Jiannu who crossed the horse to raise his might.

Originally, Jiannu was used to bragging, and in Shenyang, the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty, in the mouth of Jiannu, the Ming army was vulnerable......

This made Qin Buregret feel a little incredible, how did he get to Fuzhou, it was completely different?

The officers and men of the Ning Navy were not afraid of Jiannu at all, and almost all the troops begged for war and asked to be transferred to the front line to fight Jiannu, is Jiannu so easy to fight?

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Cheng Shijie is very concerned about the research and development of the Gunpowder Bureau, after more than a year of research and development, the gunpowder in Cheng Shijie's hands has been completely granulated and standardized, the former makes the combustion efficiency of black powder higher, and the latter allows it to be used as a weapon more quantitatively.

The grenade is usually separated from the gunpowder and the cartridge case, and the black powder specially used to assemble the grenade is processed into a pack of black powder paper packets, each pack of 300 grams, when in use, directly pick up a piece, put it into the grenade shell, and then install the fuse device, and directly live.

Not only efficient, but also very safe.

As for the shells of the flying thunder cannon, the gunpowder is processed into two specifications of black powder cakes, the weight of each piece of this medicine cake is about five catties, no need for temporary packaging, and there is no need to divide, when the flying thunder cannon is fired, only a small piece of black powder cake needs to be put into the barrel of the launch cannon, and then loaded into a larger piece, that is, a large medicine cake of 30 catties.

In this way, the calculation of the Ning Navy's flying thunder shells has become more concise and efficient, and the transportation and counting work have also become easier.

This standardization was soon implemented throughout the army, and there were fixed gunpowder packs for Thunderbolt guns, gunpowder packs, and gunpowder packs for Franc machine guns.

The customization makes the use of gunpowder safer and more efficient in the Ning Navy.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie does not have a gold counting hand, nor can he do alchemy, and the preparation of concentrated sulfuric acid has still not made a breakthrough.

It's just that this problem has completely changed on the third day of September in the fifth year of Chongzhen.

Cheng Shijie came back from the industrial zone in his four-wheeled carriage, and the time was almost up to the time of the lantern, when the carriage came to the Ning Navy General Mansion, he suddenly found that a figure suddenly appeared on the side of the road.

When this figure rushed towards Cheng Shijie's carriage, several of Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers were not polite, and stepped forward very skillfully and pushed the black shadow to the ground.

"The grass people ask to see the handsome, and the grass people want to see the handsome!"

It wasn't until now that Wu Sheng discovered that this black shadow was actually not an assassin, because there was a foul smell coming from the "assassin", and he was actually scared to pee.

"Who are you?"

"Grass people Wu Daqiang, ask to see the handsome!"

Wu Sheng pointed to a few pro-soldiers and said, "Pack him up, and then ask what happened?" ”

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie has always loved cleanliness, if Cheng Shijie is allowed to see this scene, wouldn't it make Cheng Shijie disgusted?

Cheng Shijie naturally did not directly meet this person of unknown origin, even if he had a big grievance, Cheng Shijie could not see him directly.

Cheng Shijie returned to the mansion, had a simple meal, and received a report from Chen Guodong: "Dashuai, the matter has been investigated clearly!" ”

"Say it!"

"Yes!"

"This person's name is Zhang Daqiang, now forty-one years old, the eldest son of Zhang Bingsheng, the former military household of Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu, his behavior is disorderly, stealing chickens and dogs, and later Zhang Bingsheng's military household hereditary small flag position, let the second son Zhang Erqiang inherit, after Zhang Erqiang's death, let his son Zhang Dongfang take office!"

When Cheng Shijie heard this name, he asked: "Ben Shuai remembers that there is a martyr in our Ning Navy, isn't it ......?"

"It's this Zhang Dongfang!"

Chen Guodong smiled bitterly: "After Zhang Dongfang died, his wife Zhang Chen was bold and careful, dared to think and dare to do, and soon became a well-known rich woman in southern Liaoning......

Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Zhang Chen is very rich, with Zhang Chen's deceased husband, Zhang Dongfang's cousin Zhang Dongliang, Zhang Dongming, and Zhang Dongfang's uncle Zhang Daqiang and other fifteen relatives, after hearing that Zhang Dongfang's widow, mixed into a famous rich person in southern Liaoning.

So, the fifteen relatives of the Zhang family came to join the Zhang Chen family, and after the Zhang family came to southern Liaoning, in fact, according to the distribution, they had been allocated a hundred households in Tuntian, which was located in Zhangmiao Town, southeast of the Acropolis of Gaizhou.

It's just that the immigrants in southern Liaoning have a rule that as long as the immigrants have relatives in southern Liaoning, they can be given priority and let them defect to their relatives, so Zhang Daqiang took the fifteen-year-old Zhang clan to join the Zhang Chen family.

The Zhang Chen clan did not treat the Zhang clan harshly, and arranged relatively easy jobs for Zhang Daqiang and others, who served as stewards in the warehouse under the Oriental Firm. You don't have to work hard, you still have money every month, you can eat well, and you can dress well.

But the human heart is the most complicated thing.

Zhang Daqiang coveted Zhang Chen's Wanguan family wealth, according to their cognition, these family wealth should belong to the Zhang family, although Zhang Daqiang was too poor because of the thousands of households in Dengzhou Weizuo, he took his son and Zhang Dongfang's younger brother Zhang Dongyuan, who is now 21 years old, to Jinan Mansion to ask for a living.

Zhang Daqiang has some skills, he can play suona, and with his son and nephew, he formed a suona team of Zhang's class, specializing in blowing and playing for some people with red and white happy events, and life can still be passable.

At least it is much stronger than Zhang Dongfang at the beginning.

So, Zhang Daqiang paid attention to his nephew, and he proposed the most ingenious plan, so that Zhang Dongfang's younger brother Zhang Dongyuan married his sister-in-law Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen could no longer take Wanguan's family wealth as his own.

This proposal was approved by Zhang Dongyuan, although Zhang Chen was seven years older than Zhang Dongyuan, but the problem was that Zhang Chen was rich, let alone seven years older, even if he was seventeen years older, he had no opinion at the age of twenty-seven.

Zhang Daqiang mentioned this matter to Zhang Chen, but the problem was that Zhang Chen disagreed.

Zhang Chen's disagreed, so Zhang Daqiang took Zhang's family to Dongfang Firm, soft grinding and hard foaming, but the problem is that the current Zhang Chen family is iron-hearted and absolutely does not agree to this marriage.

Zhang Dongyuan had been fascinated by the wealth of the Oriental firm, and he was no longer satisfied with the two jujubes that Zhang Chen gave him, so he decided to cook mature rice with strong, raw rice.

But the problem is that Zhang Chen is no longer a pretty widow who is bullied, she has guards and a large number of servants by her side, and Zhang Dongyuan has no chance to get close to Zhang Chen.

Especially in Zhang's new house, there are more than a dozen servants, and more than a dozen servants, the key is that Zhang Chen's son arrived in southern Liaoning as early as when he brought a Shandong dog, and now a thin dog has become five, these five thin dogs are very powerful, more than a dozen of their Zhang family, including Zhang Daqiang, have been driven by these five fine dogs to the sky and no way to the ground.

If it weren't for Zhang Chen's drinking of these five dogs, it would be a question whether they could run out of Zhang's new house.

Seeing that it was inconvenient to do anything in the Zhang family's house, Zhang Dongyuan decided to block the road. Zhang Chen now has a four-wheeled carriage, a coachman, and two maids who look like women.

There were three women among the four people, and one of the coachmen was a little old man in his fifties, who was very easy to deal with.

So, Zhang Dongyuan, Zhang Dongliang, and Zhang Dongming decided to block the road and rob Chen Zhang's family, although the two women around Zhang Chen's were from lower backgrounds, but they looked good, and they were reluctantly accepted as concubines.

Zhang Dongyuan promised several cousins and cousins that as long as he succeeded in marrying Zhang Chen, each cousin would be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver......

On August 27 of last month, Zhang Dongyuan and others saw that Zhang Chen's carriage had returned from the grange outside the city after it was dark, and the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the grange had also been harvested.

Zhang Chen was busy all day and a little tired. sat in the carriage and took a nap, her personal guard Hao Wuniang sat at the door, and another servant woman was named Feng Huiyun.

This is a very silent woman, separated from her husband when she fled, with a twelve-year-old son, because he can read and calculate, is a part-time teacher of Mr. Zhang Chen's bookkeeper.

Whether it is Hao Wuniang or Feng Huiyun in the Zhang family, their status is transcendent, even better than Zhang Saihu's treatment as a young master, Zhang Saihu usually goes to school and lives by himself when he goes home. Diet and daily life are taken care of by Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen is very busy, so naturally Zhang Saihu does his own thing.

Hao Wuniang's child is still young and needs the help of the nurse to take care of her, and although Feng Huiyun's son is older, she is busier and sometimes doesn't even have time to eat, so Zhang Chen, the boss, assigned a rough mother-in-law to the two of them, who is responsible for taking care of their daily life and life.

The carriage carried four lanterns, and Feng Huiyun held an abacus and looked at the account book.

Just when it was less than ten miles away from Jinzhou City, suddenly the carriage stopped.

Hao Wuniang asked, "Uncle Zhou, what's the matter?" ”

"I don't know which bastard blocked the branch in the road!"

Hao Wuniang immediately took out the Zimu knife and blocked the road with a branch, this routine is too familiar, this is originally a standard routine for beating a stuffy stick and robbing the road.

Without waiting for Hao Wuniang to make a move, the exclamation of the coachman Zhou Bo came from outside: "A good man spares his life!" ”

"Shut up, or I'll kill you!"

Zhang Chen also woke up, and she heard that the person outside was his brother-in-law Zhang Dongyuan. Before he could respond, the door of the car was violently opened from the outside, and a black shadow jumped into the carriage and rushed straight to Zhang Chen.

Hao Wuniang almost didn't hesitate, and instinctively shot.

"Flutter Flutter Flutter ......"

She swung three swords and slashed the shadow directly, and the shadow fell in a pool of blood. After seeing the person who was killed, Hao Wuniang was like being in an ice cellar, which was actually Zhang Dongfang's younger brother Zhang Dongyuan.

"Poisonous woman, you dare to murder your uncle!"

After Zhang Dongliang saw that Hao Wuniang killed Zhang Dongyuan, he immediately pointed at Zhang Chen and scolded: "I'm going to sue the official......"

"Don't!"

Although Hao Wuniang killed Zhang Dongyuan, Zhang Dongliang and the others were not afraid, the people who ran the rivers and lakes were bold, besides, it didn't matter if Zhang Dongyuan died, it was a good thing for them to hold on to Zhang Chen's weakness.

Zhang Dongliang stared at the mature and charming Zhang Chen and said, "As long as you obey me, I will be reluctant to ...... it."

Saying that, Zhang Dongliang didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and reached out to touch Zhang Chen's face.

As Zhang Chen's guard, Hao Wuniang was in a hurry, and she didn't have time to listen to Zhang Chen's order, so she directly swung her knife and cut off Zhang Dongliang's arm with one knife, and cut off Zhang Dongliang's head with the second knife. Several other people wanted to run at this time, Hao Wuniang did not stop, wielding a knife to kill Zhang Dongliang and others, after a fight, the two were captured alive, six people including Zhang Dongyuan, Zhang Dongliang, six people were killed on the spot.

"What now?"

No matter how strong Zhang Chen is, it is also a woman, and she is already in chaos at this time.

Feng Huiyun, who has always been silent, said: "There is no proof of death!" ”

Hao Wuniang listened to Zhang Chen's order.

Zhang Chen naturally knew what these outlaws were, and said with some hesitation: "Isn't this okay?" ”

Feng Huiyun said: "What will happen if they sue the official? ”

Da Ming Law, in all fairness, Da Ming Law is very double standard, very tolerant of the powerful, but not very friendly to women, and none of these eight people carried murder weapons, the only murder weapon Zhang Dongming was in his hands, but he was only used to cut trees.

In this case, once the lawsuit is filed, no matter whether the lawsuit is won or lost, it will affect Zhang Chen's son Zhang Saihu.

For the sake of her son, she can only take this measure.

Eight people were killed by Hao Wuniang three times and five divided by two, and in the face of eight corpses, Zhang Chen said: "What now?" ”

"Go back to my room, there's a jar of alum oil under the bed, bring it here!"

Alum oil is actually sulfuric acid in ancient times. In 650~683 A.D. (during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty), the alchemist Gu Gangzi recorded in the ninth volume of the "Yellow Emperor Jiuding Shendan Sutra" that "refining stone gall to extract the essence method", that is, dry distillation of stone gall (alum) to obtain sulfuric acid.

However, this kind of alum oil, in addition to being coated with a small amount on the blade to remove the rust of the blade, is very useless, and another important role is actually in a special field, that is, it is used to destroy the corpse.

When Hao Wuniang returned to Zhang's house and took Feng Huiyun's so-called alum oil, after she took it, she removed the lid of the ceramic and sprinkled the green alum oil on the eight corpses......

But the problem is that this incident was finally denounced, because Zhang Dongyuan and they went to nine people at that time, as well as Zhang Daqiang's youngest son Zhang Donglin.

When Zhang Dongliang was cutting down the tree, the flying sawdust fell into Zhang Donglin's eyes, and Zhang Donglin's eyes shed a lot of tears at that time, so he didn't get close.

After several people were killed one after another, he was frightened, covered his mouth, lay in the ditch on the side of the road, did not dare to move, and directly Hao Wuniang and his group left, and then he dragged his legs full of feces and urine home.

When Zhang Daqiang learned that eight of his sons and nephews had been killed, but the bodies were gone, he found only black stains around the scene, but there were no corpses, and no new pits where the bodies were buried......

Speaking of reporting to the official, when the court under the jurisdiction of the management committee accepted the case, the plaintiff, that is, the only survivor, Zhang Donglin, actually told all the plans in 1510, and implemented the use of tree branches to block the road, Zhang Dongliang and Zhang Dongming were responsible for subduing the coachman Lao Zhou.

This is a case of a strong female cadre with a bad nature and a very bad impact, as for Hao Wuniang killing eight people in a row, in Zhang Ruyi's eyes, even if he kills eighty people, it will be killed in vain. Zhang Ruyi gave a positive attitude.

If you dare not fight back, or can't fight back, in the face of the murderers who block the road and rob, then what is the point of the law?

Does the law protect the murderers?

As Zhang Chen's guard, Hao Wuniang can have unlimited power to defend herself and counterattack, killing eight people, even if she kills eighty people, it is not too much.

It is conceivable that three women at that time, facing nine men, if they did not fight back, the consequences would be terrible.

Cheng Shijie, the handsome man, is obviously different from other Zhang Ruyi, he found the so-called destruction of the corpse, only a mass of stains remained, and the smell of burnt could be faintly smelled......

It's like ......

Cheng Shijie asked Zhang Ruyi to find him: "Has the crime scene been investigated?" ”

"Returning to the handsome!"

"No bodies found"

"Nope!"

"In Zhang Donglin's confession, it was said that after a cloud of smoke, the body disappeared, has this matter been investigated clearly?"

"The Door Thinks ......"

"Why?"

Zhang Ruyi said: "Dashuai, isn't this a bit too ......?"

"Passed?"

Cheng Shijie sneered: "Don't sit crookedly on your ass, then Ben Shuai asks you, empathize, replace Zhang Chen with your wife, if Mrs. Sun takes a carriage and is intercepted by nine murderers, what should you do?" ”

"No, Dashuai, the subordinates mean that this matter is not easy to publicize......"

"No, on the contrary, the matter should be tried publicly!"

In Cheng Shijie's view, there were three mountains on the heads of the people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government, the gentry, and the clan.

Zhang Ruyi means that the reputation of Zhang Chen, a martyr, needs to be protected.

However, in Cheng's view, this is a good opportunity.

In the past, the family was very large, and the big family had tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, and it was completely a country within a country, and in order to restrain the behavior of family members and protect the reputation and culture of the family, each family would establish its own rules, which used to be called "family law". In the past, people's behavior must be regulated by the family law, and they must not violate the family law, otherwise they will be judged by the respected person in the family and served by the family law.

If an ancestral hall does not allow anyone to participate in the family sacrifice, it means that this person has violated the family law, and he will not want to mix in the family for the rest of his life. This is home culture. Violating the family law is equivalent to self-exclusion.

There is a good side to this culture and customs, and there is a bad side. When family interests conflict with national interests, many people choose to put their families before their countries.

There are many widows like Zhang Chen's in southern Liaoning now, and there are not a few who are rich, why does Zhang Daqiang dare to shoot at Zhang Chen's and not others? Of course, this is because they have their own family law as a confidence.

Cheng Shijie decided to try the case publicly, the real purpose is to amend the Ming Law, as mentioned earlier, the Ming Law is very unjust, the law established in the patriarchal society, on the basis of giving priority to the protection of imperial power, then protect the gentry class, and finally protect the male dignity, as for women, even the basic interests are not protected.

Why does Zhang Daqiang dare to be unscrupulous?

It is because, in their eyes, the Zhang family is respected, and the Zhang Chen family is just the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, and she herself, including everything about her, belongs to the Zhang family.

Because Zhang Daqiang has family law as his confidence, he dares to block the road and rob, openly force women to do it, and cook raw rice and mature rice, which is a serious illegal act.

Cheng Shijie, as a person of later generations, will resolutely not agree to the existence of such filth, and should be resolutely cracked down, and must not be tolerated and connived.

At the same time, there is another important reason, in this case, there are traces of sulfuric acid, because sulfuric acid can be used to make fertilizers, medicines, explosives, pigments, detergents, batteries, etc., and is also widely used in the purification of petroleum, metal smelting and dyes and other industries. Sulfuric acid is the basis of the chemical industry, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the blood of industry.

Cheng Shijie needs such talents.

(End of chapter)