Chapter 196

The people who can come to participate in the equipment exhibition, except for Hou Sui, there are really few laymen, and they can easily find that the equipment displayed by Cheng Shijie is completely different from that of the Imperial Staff Bureau.

For example, this knife is not a Ming standard knife waist knife, nor a Yanling knife, not a Miao knife, not a Qi family knife, but a Tang straight knife that has been lost for a long time. It can also be said to be a Tang horizontal knife.

It can be said that the Tang Heng knife is the king of the knife, but also the pinnacle of the knife, well-made, is the perfect combination of hardness and toughness, is a masterpiece of a generation of weapons.

However, such a good weapon disappeared after the Song Dynasty?

The answer is multifaceted, but also very complicated, first of all, the Tang Dynasty is a dynasty that advocates offense, the Tang army was the most powerful army in the world at that time, and mainly cavalry, only the official horses raised by the imperial court, as many as 700,000 in the Longyou and Hehuang regions, and a large number of war horses among the people, in this case, the army of the Tang Dynasty is almost a pure cavalry force.

Although there are also types of troops such as Mo swords, jumping soldiers, sword and shield soldiers, and crossbow soldiers, the problem is that most of these troops ride war horses, arrive at the battlefield, dismount and fight, and the individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty is not weak. In addition to the reason for martial arts, the strict training of soldiers is also one of the reasons. The Tang Dao is long and narrow, and only a well-trained warrior can give full play to his light and tricky power. Just like today's Chinese sword, the user does not have a certain martial arts foundation, so he can't use it at all.

In addition, there is not enough attention to military equipment, which is due to cost considerations, the production of a Tang horizontal knife, can create ten Song knives, even if the process is quite different, but the huge number advantage also makes up for the shortcomings. So after the Song Dynasty, the Tang knife slowly disappeared, and even the craftsmanship was lost later.

Although Cheng Shijie restored the horizontal knife, it was actually the blessing of the current metallurgical process, not the original Tang horizontal knife.

Speaking of this gun again, the gun equipped by the Ning Navy, in terms of the classification of simple guns, spears, and lances, should be regarded as lances, not guns, the biggest difference between lances and spears is the length, lances are far longer than guns, and they are heavier, and the length of the blade of the lance greatly exceeds the length of the blade.

The gun is composed of a blade, a barrel, a bridle and a bridle, each of which has its own usefulness, the most prominent feature of which is that the blade of the gun is short and sharp.

The lance can be used for both cavalry charging with a lance and sweeping with a swinging lance. Its main techniques include splitting, covering, intercepting, blocking, teasing, punching, belting, picking, etc.

Whether it is the Ning Navy's so-called gun, the actual lance, or the so-called knife, the actual Tang horizontal knife, they all have a common characteristic, that is, in order to give full play to the power of these weapons and equipment, they must have strong physical fitness.

Although Cheng Shijie also knows that the arms trade can make money, the problem is that this time the arms trade is mainly to cultivate the other party, and Cheng Shijie will naturally not trade the real housekeeper.

Zuo Liangyu asked Cheng Shijie for a spear, as a typical Shandong man with a height of more than 1.8 meters, when he grabbed the spear, he felt that the spear was a little heavy, in fact, it was very heavy. The spear of the Tang Dynasty weighed about eight catties, and generally did not exceed ten catties, while the spear of the Ming Dynasty weighed only three catties, and the head of the spear weighed only two or two.

The spear of the Kening Navy weighed more than 20 catties, even Zuo Liangyu felt a little struggling, he played a set of marksmanship, and then told Hou Sui: "Lord Hou, this spear is very evil, not sharp, but extremely sharp, even if it is a skull, it can be pierced!" Once stabbed by it, the wound is not big, but it will not heal, and the blood will keep gushing, even if it is stabbed in the arm or thigh, the blood will drain in the time of a meal, and it cannot be cured! ”

Hou Sui's eyelids jumped slightly: "Is it really so powerful?" ”

"It's true!"

Zuo Liangyu said: "The last general tried it on the heavy shield, the three-inch thick iron-clad heavy shield, pierced with one shot, if this pierced the human body, no matter how hard the bone was, it could be easily pierced!" ”

As he spoke, Lu Xiangsheng touched a strange knife.

The Mo Dao is partially similar to Lu Xiangsheng's own exclusive weapon, the Pu Dao, which is probably the difference between a spear and a spear.

Lu Xiangsheng's hand exerted a little force, and a cold light came out of the sheath, stinging everyone's eyes and shocking their hearts!

When the whole knife was pulled out, they were all stupid, and they looked at the Mo knife in Lu Xiangsheng's hand with straight eyes, without blinking.

The blade of this knife is three feet three inches long, about three fingers wide, with a not obvious but unusually graceful arc, the back of the knife is thick and blunt, like a heavy steel plate, the blade is thinner than paper, the blade is dark, even under the scorching sun, it will not reflect, but the blade is like snow, and a cold light slowly flows, glowing with a cold and piercing cold light.

When Lu Xiangsheng held the one-foot-long hilt with both hands, and when the blade was raised, a cold blood-devouring breath erupted, making people shudder: "Good knife!" Good knives! ”

Since it is a good knife, it is natural to try it.

Lu Xiangsheng slashed at a wooden stake with a thick bowl mouth, and the cold light flashed, and a piece of wood flew out along the blade.

Everyone was stunned.

This is a hard stake, not sugar cane!

Even if a strong soldier is to chop with an axe, it will take a while to cut it, right? This guy actually gave it a slash! With such terrifying arm strength and this extremely sharp sword, what armor can stop him!

Lu Xiangsheng was suddenly overjoyed, held the Mo knife with both hands, and began to dance, as the knife light flickered, the knife wind whistled, and everyone praised: "Lord Lu is really both civil and military!" ”

Zuo Liangyu said: "Xiaguan admires!" ”

Hong Chengchou's eyes narrowed, he looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Even if it's the Mo Dao of the Tang Dynasty, it's just like that, right?" ”

"Lord Hong is right!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "This kind of knife is made by imitating Mo Dao!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng laughed loudly while wielding the Mo knife: "Okay, the Mo knife is the king of the sword, it inherits the majesty and arrogance of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and creates unparalleled brilliance," wearing heavy armor, advancing like a wall; Under one sword, everyone is shattered! In just sixteen words, the terrible lethality of the Mo knife is vividly reflected, and the Tang hoplites holding the Mo knife have become a nightmare for the northern cavalry, Turkic, Tubo, Tuyuhun, Khitan, and Dashi...... How many glorious empires, fierce horses, have been in the cold light of the Mo knife desperate wail, its fierceness, its bloodthirsty, its boldness, so that countless people admire it, for it! It's a pity ......"

"It's a pity, since the Song Dynasty Mo knife has been lost, it has been replaced by a simple and cheap big axe, this is a great pity, I didn't expect him to see it reappear in the world!"

Hou Sui's eyes widened: "Who did you dig and steal this Mo knife?" ”

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng slashed at a vertical shield, and a thick shield was split in half.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Lord Lu is really born with divine power!" ”

"Master Cheng, how did you hit this knife?"

"Sorry for the trade secrets!"

Cheng Shijie didn't tell Lu Xiangsheng the truth, Cheng Shijie's Mo knife is actually not a Mo knife in the real sense, but directly poured molten steel into the mold, cooled and taken out for heat treatment, and then polished, which is very convenient.

Cheng Shijie said: "Steel is very particular, and it has to be good steel that is resistant to impact and wear, and ordinary steel is not successful." ”

"That's the case, it's a pity!"

Lu Xiangsheng stretched out his hand and stroked the blade of the Mo knife, he couldn't put down the Mo knife, but when he heard that it could only be made with good steel, he couldn't help but show a trace of regret and helplessness, and returned the Mo knife to Cheng Shijie with some sullenness, sighing: "Good knife, it's a pity, it's too expensive, alas, ......"

"Expensive?"

Cheng Shijie immediately woke up to the fact that for Lu Xiangsheng, military spending is too difficult to raise, and the total strength of the Tianxiong Army in history has never exceeded 20,000 horses, not that Lu Xiangsheng is unwilling to expand the army, but that he has no money, as long as there are more people and horses, feeding has become a huge problem.

Ning Haijun's spear, Tang Hengdao and Mo knife are all very good, but they are a little expensive, even if he wants to equip a large number of them, he is powerless.

Cheng Shijie thought of this, and said with a faint smile: "Lord Lu, actually, if you want, I can sell you." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was overjoyed: "Really? Don't know how much it costs? ”

The question that Lu Xiangsheng wants to ask is also a question that everyone is concerned about.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the spear and horizontal knife and said: "This kind of spear is fifteen taels of silver, without bargaining!" ”

The casting method of Tang Hengdao and Mo knife is the same, they are first made into molten steel with a blast furnace, purified by an open hearth, smelted into high-carbon steel, and then injected into a mold through a cooling tank, cast and formed, after heat treatment process, and then polished and formed.

For example, the actual cost of a horizontal knife is less than three taels of silver, and the spear is slightly more expensive than four taels of silver, and Cheng Shijie earned more than a dozen taels of silver with tears.

Lu Xiangsheng had forged knives and guns by himself, and knew that it would take eight or nine taels of silver to build an ordinary waist knife, so he suddenly asked with some puzzlement: "Isn't this a big loss?" ”

"No loss!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "These horizontal knives and spears, as well as Mo knives, are mostly made of Jiannu's waste weapons, and they are all made of old iron, and the cost is the craftsman's wages, so don't lose money!" ”

As soon as Cheng Shijie said this, everyone reacted, the Ning Navy had a great victory in Haizhou in front of it, and a great victory in Baliwan in the future, and countless blades of Jiannu were captured.

Zuo Liangyu took Hou Sui's hand and said nervously: "Yes, yes, yes, I want ......"

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and said, "Horizontal knives, I want 6,000 handles, and 6,000 spears!" ”

180,000 taels of silver, Lu Xiangsheng really could take it out, some of this money was rewarded by Emperor Chongzhen, and some of it was seized from Gao Yingxiang.

Lu Xiangsheng asked again: "How to sell Mo Dao?" ”

"This one is more expensive!"

"How heavy it is, say it, let Lu die!"

"The material of this Mo knife is three horizontal knives, so at least fifty taels of silver are needed!"

Fifty taels of silver is not too dark, in fact, the actual cost of this kind of Mo knife is only nine taels of silver, and a tearful earns forty taels of silver.

"Lu wants six hundred handles!"

Cheng Shijie has now officially entered the role, selling weapons to everyone.

In fact, everyone has been led crooked by Cheng Shijie, and none of them care about firearms, but about these powerful cold weapons.

Zuo Liangyu asked for 2,000 sets of armor worth 35 taels of silver, as well as 5,000 spears and 6,000 horizontal knives.

Two thousand crossbow machines worth fifteen taels of silver, and one hundred thousand arrows.

Hong Chengchou is also wealthy, and ordered 7,000 spears from Cheng Shijie and 5,000 spare guns. 6,000 horizontal knives, and 3,000 sets of armor.

Even Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, he did not have the pressure to fight, but in order to equip his governor Fubiao's pro-army, he still bought 1,000 horizontal knives, 1,000 spears, 600 crossbow machines, and 2,000 sets of armor.

Cheng Shijie finally realized what it means to be rich, no one is rich without a windfall.

During this three-day weapons and equipment exhibition, Cheng Shijie sold a total of more than 2.8 million taels of silver, but in fact, he received 180,000 taels of silver for the deposit.

That night, Wen Tiren received the news, he was actually not worried about Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng, but worried about Xu Guangqi, now Xu Guangqi has Cheng Shijie in charge of the army outside, and has formed a power pattern of internal and external commanders and mutual assistance, so as to achieve the political goal of staying in the phase and standing tall in the DPRK and the central government for a long time.

Such a power structure is very unfavorable to Wen Tiren, but Hou Sui actually wants to learn from Xu Guangqi, he vigorously supports Zuo Liangyu, and invests 350,000 taels of silver in Zuo Liangyu at one time, which makes Wen Tiren really nervous for a while.

For Xu Guangqi, Wen Tiren is not worried, although he has formed a power structure in which he is handsome inside and outside, and he deserves to help each other, but Xu Guangqi is more resourceful, but the machine is not enough, not to mention that the West French Party only has two or three kittens, which is difficult to form a climate.

But Hou Sui is different, this is a member of the Donglin Party, with huge influence, once the Donglin Party makes a comeback, it is not only Wen Tiren who will step down, Wen Tiren knows the Donglin Party very well, once the Donglin Party gains power, they will belong to the mad dogs, catch whoever bites whom.

Wei Zhongxian, the father-in-law of Wei, who leaned towards the government and the opposition, or Sun Chengzong, who was famous all over the world, or the emperor, as long as they were not members of the Donglin Party, they all bitten.

However, how to deal with Hou Sui?

Wen Tiren immediately had an idea.

You must know that the current Hou Sui is Hou Bancheng, of course, he is not in the half of the capital, but his hometown Guide Mansion, Hou Sui's ancestral house is located in the northeast corner of the south of Suiyang Post House, north of the Guide Mansion, the area of the Hou Mansion is actually three times larger than the Guide Mansion.

The area of the government office of Guide Mansion is about 50 acres, which is equivalent to one-sixtieth of Guide Province. And Hou Bancheng's home occupies more than 100 acres, and his son Hou Fangyu also built a Zhuangmei Hall in the south of the city, this Zhuangmei Hall has three rockeries, 32 courtyards, 16 stops, a high platform, countless strange flowers and plants (now the plum garden, for the restoration of antique buildings, covering an area of 50 acres)

If in the past, it was not easy to deal with Hou Sui, but now Emperor Chongzhen has tasted the sweetness of copying his house, if Emperor Chongzhen knew that his Hubu Shangshu was Hou Bancheng, occupying nearly one-sixth of the area of the city of Guide Mansion, and had more than 700,000 acres of land in Guide Mansion, what would Emperor Chongzhen do?

Wen Tiren did not directly impeach Hou Sui, but adopted a method, that is, to take advantage of the character characteristics of the four sons of the Fushe Society, who were well-known and flamboyant, and first asked You Ziying, a Jiangnan Shizi who was familiar with Chen Zhenhui, one of the four sons, to visit Chen Zhenhui's hometown in the name of visiting Chen Zhenhui.

Chen Zhenhui's hometown is in Yixing, and a mansion called Chen Yuan was built. This Chen Garden is a half-mountain courtyard, built near the mountain, with mountains and rivers, covering an area of several hundred acres.

After You Ziying went to Chen Yuan, he wrote an article about Lu Si Liliu, this article is called "Chen Yuanfu", You Ziying threw this article to Wen Tiren's door, Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, read it, and greatly appreciated it, claiming that You Ziying's article can be the first in Jiangnan Puwen, if it is under the imperial examination, it will definitely be the first in high school.

Of course, this is Wen Tiren using his identity and influence to build momentum for You Ziying, as the so-called Wen Wu first, Wu Wu no second, Wen Tiren's evaluation made You Ziying, a little transparent, instantly became an Internet celebrity in Jiangnan, and the little fan behind him did not know how many fans, and Chen Yuan, who took Chen Zhenhui by the way, also became an Internet celebrity in Jiangnan.

So, Jiangnan said that Chen Yuan must be Chen Yuan, and talk about Chen Yuanfu, which made Hou Fangyu, one of the four sons of the Fu Society, feel very uncomfortable, although Chen Yuan covers an area of five or six hundred acres, but Chen Zhenhui did not live there, and the inside was dilapidated, and it was no longer the luxury of the year.

In order to become famous, Hou Fangyu invited Gu Hengbo, one of the eight Yans of Qinhuai, Gu Hengbo did not marry Gong Dingyu at this time, but he was the best in Jiangnan and was known as the first in Nanqu.

In addition to Gu Hengbo, Hou Fangyu also invited a large number of Jiangnan scholars, as well as celebrities from Guide Mansion, to gather hundreds of scholars, known as Qianshi to visit the Plum Garden.

This time Hou Fangyu succeeded, after everyone saw the luxury of the plum garden, they praised the plum garden, and for a while, the name of the plum garden resounded all over the country, and even Cheng Shijie, who usually doesn't ask about these things, heard about it.

During the dinner in the evening, Zhu Weiyuan asked, "Husband, have you heard of Guide Mansion?" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Naturally, I have heard that Guide Mansion is located in the northeast of Henan, bordering Shandong and Beizhili, belonging to the junction of the three provinces, and is also commonly known as the three regardless of the zone, the folk customs are relatively strong, since ancient times, it has the reputation of "Jianghuai Barrier", "the place where soldiers must fight, and the place where businessmen gather", just like in the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of the Han Dynasty, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, was in Liang County, which is now Guide, with the weak soldiers of the Liang State, resisted the rebellion of more than 200,000 people of the Seven Kingdoms, and fought for nearly a year, which allowed Emperor Jing of Han to win this war! ”

Zhu Weiyuan smiled innocently, she now found that Cheng Shijie and her focus were not on the same line.

Cheng Shijie continued: "Secondly, there is the battle of Suiyang, Suiyang is also the old name of Guide City, in the Tang Dynasty, it was called Suiyang!" The Battle of Suiyang is a famous battle during the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, which occurred in the first year of Li Heng Zhide (756 AD) of Tang Suzong, when Zhang Xun, who was the deputy envoy of Henan Jiedu, led 7,000 Tang troops to defend the isolated city of Suiyang, resisted more than 200,000 rebels, and held for more than ten months......

Cheng Shijie found that Zhu Weiyuan was a little absent-minded, and he smiled: "The princess is not interested in this? ”

"No, I just want to know about the Plum Garden of Guide Mansion!"

Zhu Weiyuan told Cheng Shijie about the recently famous Hou's Plum Garden in Guide Mansion, and Cheng Shijie immediately reacted, and it is now a bureau.

This is like some of the second generation of officials or the second generation of the rich in later generations are showing off their wealth, as long as they are showing off their wealth on the Internet, there will definitely be problems, and now Meiyuan's reputation is so big, isn't this rushing to send knives to the enemy?

It's not that Hou Fangyu is stupid, he is a fan of the authorities, just like the second generation of those who show off their wealth in later generations, they are not stupid, they are fans of the authorities, when nothing happens, it is easy to say anything, but once something happens, no one can save it, this is the power of public opinion.

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Hou Sui is going to be unlucky!" ”

Zhu Weiyuan sighed, she and Cheng Shijie's thinking was never on the same channel.

When Cheng Shijie knew about this, in fact, Hou Sui also knew, and Hou Sui also realized that something was wrong, so he hurriedly asked people to return to Guide Mansion and let Hou Fangyu study behind closed doors.

It's just that it's too late.

Now Emperor Chongzhen wants to go crazy with money, don't look at Cheng Shijie's selling of equipment, but the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen also wants to buy it, and it is best to replace the 200,000 troops in Beijing.

But the problem is, it takes money.

Cheng Shijie's equipment is not blowing in the wind, even if he wants to, Cheng Shijie will not be able to conjure it up for him, and at this time, there is a rumor that Hou Fangyu is showing off his wealth in the plum garden.

"High companion!"

"The slave is here!"

"Have you heard of the Plum Garden in Guide Mansion?"

"The slave maid heard that this is the first mansion in Guide Mansion, and it was built with millions of taels of silver!"

"Millions of taels?"

Emperor Chongzhen's eyes straightened instantly.

He didn't dare to directly force Cheng Shijie to hand over the equipment, this is because the Ning Navy is the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty, just like the original Guan Ning Army, once they are provoked and there is a mutiny, this is not a joke.

However, Hou Sui is different, he is a civil servant.

Although the Ming Dynasty is noble and martial, in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Wenchen has no power to resist, he can be killed, but the generals can't......

This is the logic of Emperor Chongzhen, Chongzhen killed a total of eighteen officials, namely seven governors and eleven governors, all of whom were civil ministers......

At the end of February of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen issued a decree to order the Duke of Haiguo to set off for southern Liaoning, but the holy decree made Cheng Shijie return to southern Liaoning from Dengzhou, this strange holy decree made Cheng Shijie want to laugh.

This is simply three hundred taels of silver here.

It is clear that he wants to clean up Hou Sui, although Dengzhou is not close to Guide, but the problem is that the army can go upriver and directly reach Guidefu through the Yellow River.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, on the sixth day of the third month, Cheng Shijie officially set off for southern Liaoning, and of course, Princess Zhu Weiyuan of Le'an also had to go to southern Liaoning.

Emperor Chongzhen went out of the city for twenty miles to send him off, which can be regarded as giving Cheng Shijie enough face.

When he was leaving, Emperor Chongzhen said: "Cheng Qing, if there is a disobedience, what will you do?" ”

Cheng Shijie said solemnly: "Whatever Your Majesty points out, the ministers will rely on the three-foot Qingfeng to calm down for Your Majesty!" ”

On the day Cheng Shijie arrived in Dengzhou, that is, on March 17 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen was impeached by Song Zhipu, and Hou Sui was cut from his post and imprisoned in the name of misleading the country.

PS: I got off work too late yesterday, after twelve o'clock, and it turned out that I wrote it to more than two o'clock, and I fell asleep, this chapter is considered yesterday, and there is still at night.

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