Chapter 197

Hou Fangyu can also be regarded as a pit father, in the end, he is young and vigorous, and as soon as he was transferred by Wen Tiren, an old fox, he put Hou Fangyu into it without much effort.

Hou Sui was cut and imprisoned, he was not nervous, nor panicked, in fact, it is normal for officials in the Ming Dynasty to be imprisoned, not only will there be no shame, but he will also write a lot on his resume.

What's more, Hou Sui is also a frequent visitor to the Jinyi Guard's Imperial Prison, as early as the second room of the Apocalypse, Hou Sui and his father Hou Zhipu, and his younger brother Hou Ke because of the "Palace Removal Case" and the "Red Pill Case", and at the same time they talked about Wang Ji, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Salvation, and the traitorous party in the DPRK hated him very much at that time. Subsequently, the father and son were dismissed, and Hou Sui was imprisoned for the first time in the fourth year of the Apocalypse.

The main reason is that they are the Donglin Party and the vanguard of the anti-eunuch party, so they have a good reputation, of course, there is no right or wrong in the officialdom, and they don't ask right or wrong, not because Hou Sui is a good person when he opposes the eunuch party, there are actually no good people in the officialdom.

If he is really a good person, how did Hou Bancheng's reputation come about? Needless to say, the Hou family's ancestral house in the North Garden of Guide Mansion can be said to have been accumulated by the ancestors, but the South Garden of Hou Fangyu, that is, Zhuangmei Garden, was built in Guide Mansion in the first year of Chongzhen, after Hou Sui recovered.

If Huang Taiji saw Hou Fangyu's Zhuangmei Garden, Huang Taiji would want to die, his Shenyang Palace was simply a pigsty. This is not the author's blind writing, in fact, if it were not for the rebuilding of the Shenyang Forbidden City in later generations, this palace would not even be comparable to the landlord's compound.

Of course, this is not because Huang Taiji and Nurhachi are frugal and thrifty, but because the weather in the northeast is too cold, it is not that it is impossible to build tall and majestic palaces, but because it is easy to build such a palace, but the problem is that it is too cold to live in it.

Of course, another reason is that the Eight Banners political system, the number of people who can participate is very small, that is, eight banner owners plus eight small flag owners, if it is an enlarged meeting, it is sixteen banner owners plus forty Jia Lae Zhen, the total number is not a hundred.

However, the Ming Dynasty was different, and the court meetings of the Ming Dynasty were generally in the Fengtian Palace, the Huagai Palace, and the Jinshen Palace. The author also does not know the specific personnel who participated in the court meeting in the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, officials above the seventh rank in the capital will participate, but the number of absentees on August 12 of the fifteenth year of Hongzhi (1502) reached 1,160, and the highest official position was Chen Xuan, Marquis of Taining. Even wild history said that as soon as the morning bell rang, more than 10,000 crows flew up, and people laughed and called it "crow dynasty".

The system of Jiannu is simple, and naturally there is no need for so many large palaces, but the Ming Dynasty is different, there are too many officials, of course, compared with later generations, it is a pediatric. In later generations, the officials of a county were almost equivalent to all the Beijing officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Just like now that Dengzhou has bloomed in spring, and Guide Mansion is also full of flowers, but southern Liaoning is still very cold, and you need to wear thick cotton clothes.

Hou Sui built the plum garden for his son, and the main contribution was actually the Guide to the German Mansion, which was able to mobilize tens of thousands of the guards of the Guide Guard, as free labor, and the Guide Mansion City is an island city in the middle of the lake, which can be said to be an inch of land, but the Hou family built such a huge mansion.

Originally, the people of Guide Mansion dared to be angry with the Hou family, but now it's okay, Hou Fangyu showed off his wealth and showed off his father.

Cheng Shijie just arrived in Dengzhou with the front foot, and the back foot of Gao Qidive followed, of course, this time Gao Qiqian did not show off his wealth with Cheng Shijie, but complained.

The fat cha was snatched away by Wang Zhixin, and Wang Zhixin fished out the beauty of returning to the Defu to copy Hou Sui's family in the south.

Good words comforted Gao Qiqian, of course, Cheng Shijie fanned the flames in front of Gao Qiqian: "Father-in-law Gao, can you bear this?" Taking people's money is like killing your parents, this thing must not be tolerated, so let's do it, I'll give you a treasure knife, and you go and ga the king's heart! ”

"Quack?"

Gao Qiqian didn't understand what Cheng Shijie meant.

Cheng Shijie made a gesture to wipe his neck, and Gao Qiqian understood.

"General Cheng laughed, how could he ......"

"Joke, of course!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Father-in-law Gao, with the relationship between the two of us, if you copy the Hou family, why do you have to have a certain copy of Cheng?" ”

"Who said it wasn't, Wang Zhixin, this bastard, must be eating with a mouth full of oil!"

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Grandpa Gao can just find a little eunuch and ga the king's heart, it's okay!" ”

As he spoke, Cheng Shijie waved his hand, and a personal soldier walked over holding a small box.

Gao Qiqian asked puzzledly, "Is this ......?"

"Father-in-law Gao, with our relationship, can I not help you? As the saying goes, sharpening knives does not mistake woodcutters, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, if you want to kill people, how can you do it without a guy who takes advantage of it! ”

Cheng Shijie stretched out his hand and opened the small box, revealing a pistol. This is a revolver, which is certainly not the same as a revolver in the later sense, but a flint gun that uses nitrocellulose as a propellant.

Historically, in 1718, eighty-five years later, the British lawyer James Puckle invented the Puckle Gun, which was loaded with nine rounds.

This is actually Cheng Shijie's chance in his later life, seeing a shooting case that happened in a beautiful country, the victim of the Chinese "Sister Hua" shot and killed the gangster five times, and had an idea. For a long time in the future, Cheng Shijie will not have the strength to purge the cheap slaves in Liaodong, and the people in Tuntian, Liaodong, will always be attacked by slaves and bandits.

Although Cheng Shijie imitated a large number of soft repeaters from Jinyiwei's Zhuge repeater, this kind of Zhuge repeater, the crossbow bow of this crossbow is made of soft wood, the crossbow arm has an arrow box for arrows, and there is a trigger on the arrow box, when the user pulls the trigger, the crossbow is pulled apart, and the crossbow arrow falls into the arrow groove at the same time, after an arrow is issued, the user repeats this action again until the arrow is shot.

Although the Zhuge crossbow can be fired continuously, the crossbow bow is weak, and the range is only twenty steps, which is a weapon used by the people to prevent theft, and the army rarely uses it. Jinyi Wei can be used, because their targets are people without armor, so they still have a certain effect, but the problem is that this Zhuge repeater is too heavy, weighing about five catties and seven taels, and the strength of the winding is about sixty catties.

If it is an old and weak woman or child, there is no way to use it like Sister Hua, of course, at this stage, the power of the musket of the Ning Navy is enough, but the problem is that if the musket flows into the people, it will easily be sold and finally fall into the hands of Jiannu.

In this case, the Gun Bureau of the Ning Navy, according to the principle provided by Cheng Shijie, manufactured a revolver, this kind of revolver does not fire a metal bullet, because Lei Mercury was not invented, can only adopt such a biological process, the bullet produced is paper packaging, the warhead part is also a lead head, take nine pieces of continuous assembly, the range can reach 30 steps away, with a strong penetrating power.

If it is within a dozen steps, even the white-armored soldiers of Jiannu can hit a hole with one shot, and the power is quite good, of course, because of this kind of revolver, there is no rifling, and the bullet is far away and not accurate. Of course, paper shell bullets have problems that are difficult to solve, they do not burn sufficiently, and dust will form in the barrel, but there is no problem with cleaning them up.

The invention of this powerful and portable revolver, Cheng Shijie's real purpose is twofold, first, to guard against slaves. The threat of Jiannu is still huge, and now the Ning Navy is not afraid of the decisive battle of Jiannu, but of the guerrilla tactics of Jiannu.

Guerrilla tactics, for the defending side, are very troublesome. Just in December last year, when Cheng Shijie set off for the capital, a vicious case occurred in southern Liaoning.

This vicious case was led by a Niu Lu Ezhen named Maktu, Maktu's Niu Lu Ezhen was defeated by the Ning Navy in the Battle of Baliwan, including Maktu himself was also heavily damaged, and later Jiannu retreated, and several of Maktu's clothed minions fled with Maktu, and then separated from the Jiannu army.

This Maktu was very lucky, and escaped the pursuit of the Ning Navy, when it was snowing, the blizzard covered up the traces of Maktu and others, and later Maktu hid in the mountains of Hat Helmet Mountain for nearly a month, Maktu These minions are good at hunting, and they also have a strong ability to survive in the wild.

But the problem is that after the wound healed, Maktu did not dare to run to Shenyang, he knew that a deserter like him, even if he ran back to Shenyang, he would not be able to escape the fate of being cleaned up. Therefore, he decided to occupy the king as the king and become the king of grass himself, and he really searched for dozens of surviving Jiannu defeated soldiers.

The experience of these routs is similar to that of Maktu, they are all home and can not go back, especially after the victory in Liaoyang, Ning Haijun also relaxed his vigilance, after all, it is approaching the end of the year, most of them have worked hard for a year, and they should also enjoy the fruits of their labor, just like that, Maktu and other sixty-seven people, day and night, all the way to southern Liaoning.

In the Daling Mountains of Fuzhou, they hid, taking advantage of the fact that the soldiers and civilians in southern Liaoning were busy celebrating the New Year, they 67 people broke into Dahe Town in Fuzhou, which is a migrant settlement, this is a newly established town in southern Liaoning, this town has less than 200 people, because Fuzhou has belonged to the internal area of southern Liaoning at this time, the defense is not rigorous, and the time to establish the town is also short, and the town fort has not been established and built.

At this time, the town was only one person high, the weather was cold, and there was no further construction, which gave Maktu and others the opportunity, so on Chinese New Year's Eve, these sixty-seven Jiannu rout, under the leadership of Maktu, slaughtered this town, and they slaughtered all the two hundred and seven people in Dahe Town, not even the children.

Afterwards, they buried the corpse, ready to grab a few more votes after the New Year, but it is a pity, because after the New Year, there is a tradition of going to relatives, although there are not many people in Dahe Town, they are all from the same township and the same clan to flee together, but it will disrupt the scattered resettlement to avoid the formation of stubborn clan forces.

If Maktu is bold and careful, he can also deceive these people who have gone to their relatives, after all, the resettlement will be disrupted at any time, and it is normal for scattered resettlement to be scattered, but the problem is that in order to avoid detection, Maktu decided to preemptively attack and prepare to put these people who came to visit their relatives into the town to kill.

Maktu made a lot of calculations, but he didn't calculate that the people who came to visit relatives were actually soldiers of the Ning Navy and a veteran Xu Dazhu with very rich combat experience. Xu Dazhu is an ordinary soldier of the Ning Navy Guards Division, in the Battle of Baliwan, he was shot three arrows in the chest by Jiannu, but the problem is not big, the most serious injury is his arm, which was broken by a white-armored soldier.

The wounded soldiers of the Ning Navy were allowed to go home to accompany their families for the New Year, and Xu Dazhu was also promoted to the rank of Bai General because of his bravery.

Xu Xiancheng and Xu Dazhu, the sixteen-year-old younger brother Xu Erzhu, and the third brother Xu Sanzhu, accompanied by Xu Sanzhu, went to Dahe Town, that is, Xu Dazhu's uncle's house to visit relatives.

Xu Dazhu fell asleep in the carriage, and before arriving in town, he was having a nightmare and shouted: "Kill Jiannu!" ”

Thinking that he had been discovered, Maktu ordered an attack.

But when Xu Dazhu found that Jiannu was rushing towards them, he found that it was not good, and he immediately took out the fireworks used by the Ning Navy soldiers for emergency contact, although this firework did not save the lives of Xu Dazhu's whole family, but it successfully warned them.

The Ning Navy dispatched more than 1,000 soldiers from the Fuzhou Garrison Bureau, and finally, with the cooperation of the Ning Navy, it took a month and a half before and after the arrest of Maktu and his gang of 67 Jiannu.

But the problem is that this tragedy has given Cheng Shijie a wake-up call. War will promote the rapid growth of people, but also promote people to be flexible, if Jiannu adopts the method of breaking the whole into parts, from time to time to harass southern Liaoning, the spring plowing work in southern Liaoning will be greatly affected.

It can be said that it is impossible to prevent it, and under this urgent need, Cheng Shijie can only adjust the inspection of southern Liaoning and the search work in the mountains and forests.

I don't know if I don't check, I was really shocked when I checked, during this period of time, the Ning Navy spent a lot of manpower and material resources through a dragnet search, and really found a lot of Jiannu defeated soldiers, Lin Lin Zongzong together, a total of more than 600 people.

In the face of the harsh public security environment in southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie can only strengthen the people's armament, although the power of the guns is acceptable, but the problem is that the guns are not convenient to carry, and it is difficult to load, the guns and guns bureau of the Ning Navy has not completely solved the rifling problem, and it is unrealistic to equip civilian guns on a large scale, and it is too wasteful.

The so-called castle law is that a person can immediately shoot and kill the owner without being invited by the master, whether by mistake or premeditated.

In this way, whether it is a drunkard, a pervert, or a hooligan, you need to be careful, because now in southern Liaoning, there are too many scumbags, which poses an extremely serious threat to ordinary people.

In addition, the non-concession bill is also to cultivate the martial spirit of the people of southern Liaoning, and when encountering threats to their own security, do not coax them and go back directly.

To implement this bill, in fact, it is to give ordinary people an insurance. The people of the Ming Dynasty were bullied by officials and gentry, and generally speaking, the people did not dare to resist. Cheng Shijie does not have enough talents now, and it does not mean that if he promotes officials from poor children, they will do practical things for the people.

In fact, the discipline of officials is similar to that of prostitutes, so that they do not bully the common people, it is more difficult than making prostitutes good, although it can be systematically restrained officials, but the problem is that this also requires the people to have the spirit of resistance.

In Cheng Shijie's mind, if some officials of the tax bureau still imagine that they forcibly collect taxes from the people in the same way as in Daming, then they need to go to the people's homes.

However, Cheng Shijie will demand that the people, anyone, including officials, tax collectors, and officials, have no right to search the homes of ordinary people without a search warrant, but in the same way, if they forcibly break in, they can fight back in self-defense.

Cheng Shijie will make laws to strictly control the issuance of search warrants, so it is unlikely that he wants to take a few dogs to the township to make a threat.

The foundation of a game is firearms, flexible and lightweight firearms.

In fact, the revolver is not complicated, the manufacturing process is extremely simple, a barrel, nothing more than six inches long, take the way of direct cold casting, casting, after heat treatment, it is OK, a row of molds can be cast sixty at one time, after cutting, can be formed, three hundred and sixty.

Even the most central component, the revolver, is cast.

Cheng Shijie took the revolver, loaded the paper bullet into it, and pulled the trigger on the target not far away.

"Bang ......"

As the gunfire rang out, the round passed quickly, and the nine bullets staggered the target.

Gao Qiqian realized the difference between this handcuff: "This ......"

"Father-in-law Gao, how is it? This gun is good, right? As long as you take this gun, after seeing the heart of the king, aiming at him is a round of rapid shooting, I can guarantee that the heart of the king is useless even if he knows the sunflower treasure book! ”

Gao Qiqian took the pistol at this time, of course, he would definitely not use it against Wang Zhixin, but for self-defense.

"This gift is too heavy for me to accept!"

"No matter how precious it is, with you and me? Take it! If you don't want it, I'll throw it away! ”

Gao Qiqian thanked him again and again, and then accepted it.

The two sides said goodbye.

Cheng Shijie decided to set off, since Hou Sui didn't dare to rebel, even if he wanted to, it would be useless, because gentry like Hou Sui, although they were influential in the local area, but the problem was that they were too bad, so the people would not follow them to rebel, besides, just rely on Hou Sui's thousands of untrained family members, if it is caused, Cheng Shijie will not mind and destroy them casually.

In fact, as Cheng Shijie expected, until Wang Zhixin copied Hou Sui's home, the Hou family didn't even fart, and how much silver was copied is not something that Cheng Shijie knows, after all, Wang Zhixin is not a high dive, even if he copied the silver, he will not give it to Cheng Shijie.

On March 24 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie boarded the big ship and set off for southern Liaoning, where there are still a lot of things waiting for him to do.

Zhu Weiyuan took a boat for the first time, looking at everything on the boat, she was very curious.

This is the second batch of large ships produced by the Lushun Shipyard, which is taken from 2,500 materials, which is equivalent to 812 tons if converted into displacement, but there is only one ship in this batch.

Moreover, it is a transitional warship of the Lushun Shipyard, because it is not very safe to launch a large ship of 3,000 materials at one time, so it is not very safe to launch 2,500 materials, which is 500 materials short.

But the problem is that it is very embarrassing to miss these five hundred materials. If it is the same as the original Four King Kongs, equipped with twenty-four three-inch smoothbore guns, the displacement of five hundred materials is a bit wasteful, but it can't fit thirty-six guns. As for the newer version of the artillery, it has not yet been produced.

After several months of sailing training, the Four King Kongs have also been supplemented and optimized, and after actual testing, this 2,000-material warship can be used as a corvette of the Ning Navy to carry out the task of sea patrol.

Moreover, it can enter the inland river, which is much stronger than the 400-material battleship, and the shipyard plans to build the 3,000-material main battleship, which needs to enter the exploration experiment.

The previous Four King Kongs served as Cheng Shijie's escort warships.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhu Weiyuan and smiled: "Do you like it?" ”

"I like it!"

Although Zhu Weiyuan is a landlubber, she is not seasick. In fact, many people who are not used to water do not get seasick.

Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "If you like it, you can give this ship a name!" ”

"Pick a name?"

Zhu Weiyuan asked puzzledly, "Why do you want me to choose a name?" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Because this ship is given to you by me." ”

"Give it to me?"

Zhu Weiyuan was a little puzzled: "Why did you give it to me?" ”

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "When you arrive in southern Liaoning, everything is complicated, I don't have time to accompany you, if you want to go back to the capital, then take this boat, you can come back at any time!" ”

Zhu Weiyuan understands that this is Cheng Shijie's compensation to her.

On the wedding night, Zhu Weiyuan thought that Cheng Shijie was just drunk, but on the second night, he didn't go back because he was in the Haiguo Mansion in Daxing County under the pretext.

Later, under the pretext that he was tired, there were still things to do, and he basically didn't meet Zhu Weiyuan in person, and later, Cheng Shijie directly talked to Zhu Weiyuan openly and honestly.

Tell her that he has a wife named Xiang Hui, and now that he doesn't know Xiang Hui, he can't betray Xiang, hoping that she can understand.

Zhu Weiyuan understands Cheng Shijie, because she knows that her marriage with Cheng Shijie has a strong political marriage, that is, Concubine Li Kang has given her a preventive injection in advance, and if she can't let Cheng Shijie accept herself, her life will be very sad.

Zhu Weiyuan is very confident that she will never become Chongzhen's eyeliner, nor will she become Emperor Chongzhen's puppet to try to influence or control Cheng Shijie.

She is very confident that one day, Cheng Shijie will accept her.

Hearing that Cheng Shijie gave her this ship, Zhu Weiyuan didn't think too much about it, and smiled directly: "Let's call it Le'an!" ”

Le'an is Zhu Weiyuan's title, which was given to her by Emperor Chongzhen, but she didn't like what Chongzhen gave her, thought about it, and changed her words: "Then it's called the Eighth Princess!" ”

"Eight Princesses!"

Cheng Shijie only gave Zhu Weiyuan a ship, but it was not a warship in the real sense, because this ship was not equipped with artillery and had no soldiers.

The ships and sailors were all workers of the Lushun shipyard, and they were temporarily controlled by Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers.

Cheng Shijie said: "Let your people come over and familiarize themselves with this ship first, and in the future, this ship will need your people to control it!" ”

Zhu Weiyuan shook her head: "Let's let my husband's people come!" ”

The people that Emperor Chongzhen gave her, she preferred to believe in Cheng Shijie's people.

(End of chapter)