Chapter 275

"The concubine wants to take Cihong with her, go to Liaodong, stay in Liaodong for a while, you can learn from General Cheng to govern the place, deal with political affairs, and by the way, take a look at the customs around Liaodong, which is very beneficial to Cihong, it is better than being locked up in the deep palace every day, reading those articles left over thousands of years ago day after day."

When Emperor Chongzhen told Empress Zhou about Fu Zonglong's idea, Empress Zhou's first reaction was not to oppose it, but to support it.

In all fairness, Emperor Chongzhen inherited the treasure as a young man, and he worked very hard, in order to deal with state affairs, he studied under the guidance of many people, but no matter how hard Chongzhen worked, the state affairs not only did not improve, but became more and more difficult.

When Emperor Chongzhen asked Cheng Shijie why he could open up the situation in Liaodong, Cheng Shijie told Emperor Chongzhen that he was forced, and he tried every means to repair canals and dig irrigation wells when there was too little military land, turning the wasteland that was originally unsuitable for cultivation into fertile land; For example, he will rotate crops according to the seasons, plant a variety of crops a year, and make full use of the land. For example, he will find ways to raise more livestock, accumulate manure, and increase the fertility of the land, rather than blindly fighting for the land.

Cheng Shijie thinks more, reads more books, and understands more. Emperor Chongzhen was very surprised, he also read a lot of books, but there was nothing Cheng Shijie said in the books. Cheng Shijie told Emperor Chongzhen at the time, because the people who teach you to read are nerds who don't eat the fireworks of the world, they don't know how miserable the common people are, and they don't know how hard a bowl of rice and a bowl of noodles have to go through to eat in their mouths, of course, they don't bother to know, they only have the so-called way of the saint in their minds.

Empress Zhou kept Cheng Shijie's words in her heart: "As an emperor, you must know how to recognize people, use people's abilities, educate people, and drive people. But the question is, what is a villain? What is a virtuous minister and where is this boundary? ”

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned by Cheng Shijie at that time.

Emperor Chongzhen asked Cheng Shijie what he could do to govern Liaodong, and Cheng Shijie told Emperor Chongzhen that as a leader, he had to understand

To understand the basics of financial management, you must at least be able to understand the accounts handed in below, and have an intuitive understanding of daily expenses and inventory.

As a leader, you have to know how to select the people you need the most, and trust them to be on the same side.

As a party official, I know a little bit about overall command, once a natural disaster occurs in a place, how many manpower, money and food should be allocated for disaster relief, and these things should be used in practice.

There were also some drunken sayings at that time, which were all very deviant words: "As long as the son of heaven cultivates himself, is honest and thrifty, he will be smooth and peaceful, and the world is peaceful, and it is a in, as the king of a country, he has to be black-hearted and thick-skinned!" None of the emperors who created a peaceful and prosperous era read by reading the articles of these saints! ”

Empress Zhou recalled that when Emperor Chongzhen first ascended the throne, he was played by the gentlemen of the Donglin Party in the palm of his hand, and he did not know the severity of the exemption from commercial taxes, tea taxes, and mining taxes, and the embarrassment when the country's situation plummeted, she felt the same way, she thought that the prince could no longer live by reading these articles from thousands of years ago as before, and must learn some practical skills from capable people, so as not to be like Chongzhen after ascending the throne, and be played by others as monkeys!

Regarding the fact that Empress Zhou was going to Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen hesitated a little: "The queen and the crown prince are together, if they go to Liaodong, they are only afraid of ......"

Without waiting for Emperor Chongzhen to finish speaking, Empress Zhou smiled and said: "If Emperor Jianwen had not cut the feudal domain back then, would Emperor Taizong have raised troops to make it difficult?" ”？

"No, Emperor Taizong didn't have the idea of rebellion back then!"

"Then, why did Emperor Taizong raise troops to make it difficult?"

Empress Zhou continued: "If Emperor Jianwen doesn't cut the domain, even if Emperor Taizong wants to rebel, he won't succeed, after all, Emperor Jianwen occupied the righteousness at the beginning!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen understood what Empress Zhou meant, Emperor Jianwen cut the domain was to forcibly cut the domain under the condition that the vassal kings were not at fault, and forced Uncle Wang to death in the process of cutting the domain, out of self-preservation and the feeling of the rabbit dying fox, so that all the local kings and emperors became opposites, Emperor Taizong rebelled, the kings stood by and watched, Jianwen's ability was low, and there were huge omissions in strategy and tactics, so that Emperor Jianwen cut the feudal domain in vain.

Emperor Chongzhen now also understands the true meaning of Empress Zhou, now state affairs are like cooking oil on fire, a little careless, the consequences are unimaginable, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie is at fault, if the court still wants to deal with Cheng Shijie on trumped-up charges, the general soldiers of all towns in the world will definitely stand on the opposite side of the court like the princes and vassal kings at that time, even if they do not stand on the opposite side of the court, they will stand idly by.

Perhaps, Cheng Shijie will also raise troops on the side of the Qingjun, in that case, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In fact, the problem of cutting the domain is that Emperor Jianwen's starting point is correct, even if the crown prince Zhu Biao does not die and Zhu Biao succeeds to the throne normally, he will also cut the domain, from the perspective of Emperor Jianwen, Emperor Jianwen's move to cut the domain is not imperative, it is the final failure caused by quick success, and Emperor Jianwen's method of cutting the domain is not clever, and even a little stupid.

If you start to deal with Cheng Shijie now, you will be even more stupid than Emperor Jianwen.

What's more, even if Cheng Shijie wants to rebel, he has no righteousness, and now Cheng Shijie is already a very popular minister, if he really wants to rebel, he should learn from Wang Mang and earn fame.

However, what about Cheng Shijie?

-for-tat with the gentry of the world, offended countless people, when attacking Zheng Zhilong, a pirate, a large number of people impeached him, and when suppressing Zhang Xianzhong, he was also impeached by the gentry.

Xu Wenqi, the prefect of Huangzhou, made two twists and turns in just a month and impeached Cheng Shijie, one of which was that Cheng Shijie sent troops to rob more than 3,000 women in Huangzhou Mansion and forced them to marry Ning Navy soldiers.

The second twist and turn is that Cheng Shijie competed with the people in Huangzhou for profit, causing tens of thousands of people in Huangzhou to be ruined and killed, and the cry shook the sky. Xu Wenqi, the prefect, even had more than 300 gentry in Huangzhou Mansion co-signed.

Emperor Chongzhen faintly understood that Cheng Shijie had no objection now.

If he is really the opposite, he will definitely have a good relationship with the gentry, the current Cheng Shijie is very rich, although he often cries poverty to Emperor Chongzhen, but in fact, Emperor Chongzhen also knows that Cheng Shijie is rich.

But the problem is that it is clear that Cheng Shijie can buy a large number of people to cheer for him and sing praises for him for a small amount of money, but Cheng Shijie did not do it.

Obviously, Cheng Shijie used this way to show Emperor Chongzhen that he had no objections.

Empress Zhou saw that her husband grew silver hair when he was young, she was very sad, thinking that when he was an emperor, he should be as happy as Cheng Shijie, and easily handle national affairs.

The octagonal tower located in Chibi Mountain, has been built, this corner tower is located at the edge of the Yangtze River stretched out in Chibi Mountain, the octagonal tower is built high and steep, a total of eight zhang and nine feet, the top pillar is topped, the four walls are empty, an oil lamp is as big as an iron pot, the wick of three strands thick as a baby's arm is also lit, take a glass cover to cover the wind, look at it from afar, bright just like surrounding the corner of the house and hang a bright moon on the building.

In the case of an attack on the camp nearby, or a night boat docking, the lantern keeper on the corner tower will also use a large bronze mirror with a concave surface to concentrate the light farther away.

In normal times, it can also guide the course and direction of ships sailing at night, so to speak, an octagonal tower, which serves as both a lighthouse and a watchtower. Limited by the light source and reflective materials, the long-distance illumination distance of the lighthouse is naturally far from being comparable with the searchlights of later generations, but it can barely illuminate almost 800 paces of light distance, which is already satisfactory in the current world.

While improving the safety of the camp, the corner tower also makes it possible to start construction at night above and below the embankment. Because the design of Chibi City is not large, the construction area is limited, and it is impossible to increase labor indefinitely.

With the appearance of this octagonal tower, the Ning Navy Naval Transport Detachment, which is in charge of transporting ships, realized the wonder of this lighthouse, which can illuminate up to 800 paces, and with the light distance of the searchlight, it is completely possible to sail at night on the familiar channel.

Of course, the officer who found the problem could not talk to Cheng Shijie directly, they reported it layer by layer, and finally reported it to Li Zhixiang, who also thought that he had nothing to do in Liaodong, so he used this reason to come to Chibi City.

"Meet the Commander!"

"Zhixiang, what kind of wind blew you here!"

Li Zhixiang pointed to the lighthouse and said, "Dashuai, I don't know how much this lighthouse costs?" ”

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, in some ports and some steep gorges along the coast of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangzhou, there were maritime merchants or fishermen who raised funds to build lighthouses. If you can't afford to use lamp oil, you will accumulate salary to light the fire, but the actual light intensity and distance are limited, and the role of the lighthouse in night navigation is not obvious, so the lighthouse came out earlier, but it is not popular.

However, the design of this lighthouse is from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry is nine products to shine Si Yongqiang, this is the lowest official position in the Ming Dynasty, Si Yongqiang is also a generation of craftsmen, when Si Yongqiang drew the pattern, Cheng Shijie instantly thought of the future generations of lighthouses like this.

The lighthouse designed by Si Yongqiang is very mature, the giant lamppost can store more than 3,000 catties of fuel tank, and the glass cover for windshielding is located in the place where Cheng Shijie gave Si Yongqiang a perfect, in fact, the material of the reflector, in the design, Si Yongqiang took a large concave bronze mirror, and specially made a wooden shelf for the concave bronze mirror that can move and adjust the angle.

Cheng Shijie only improved the glass mirror for Si Yongqiang, to be precise, the glass silver plating process, the copper mirror was replaced with a glass mirror, and the silver plating process was adopted, instead of the traditional tin amalgam method with tin foil attached.

"The cost, more than 3,200 taels of silver, do you want to build this kind of lighthouse in Lushun?"

"Lushun naturally wants to build a lighthouse, but the most important thing is to install this lighthouse on a ship!"

"If you install it on a ship, you don't need so much silver, the most expensive lighthouse is actually the base of the tower, if there is only one lamp on it, two hundred taels of silver will be about the same!"

"Marshal, if our warships are equipped with this kind of light, they can sail at night!"

In the era of sail warships, warships did not have the ability to sail at night, unless the draft was very shallow, sailing on the surface of a lake or river, such as a cao transport ship, which could sail at night when there were people on both sides of the strait to guide them.

But on the sea, that's not going to work.

Just as Cheng Shijie was talking to Li Zhixiang, there was a riot in the Liukou on the shore, and it was not until the thunderbolt of the Ning Navy sounded that the riot subsided.

Cheng Shijie asked with some displeasure: "What's the matter?" ”

"It's all done by this guy Sun Kewang!"

Sun Kewang caught up with Zhang Xianzhong, he was ready to deceive Zhang Xianzhong and capture Zhang Xianzhong alive, but the problem was that Zhang Xianzhong was too smart, Sun Kewang's little Taoism was not enough in front of Zhang Xianzhong, and he was discovered by Zhang Xianzhong before he could launch it, Zhang Xianzhong set up a set and put Sun Kewang in.

If it hadn't rained at the time, Zhang Xianzhong's gunpowder was damp, and there was no way to open the cannon, otherwise Sun Kewang would have confessed there, but fortunately, Sun Kewang had a great fate and escaped from the encirclement, this grandson was too thief, and he rebelled against his good brother in a short period of time, Liu Jinzhong, one of the eight commanders under Zhang Xianzhong.

Liu Jinzhong was cruel and killing, after surrendering to the Ning Navy, he was not happy to find that the military discipline of the Ning Navy was strict, but he did not dare to escape, so he sent people to trick more than 3,000 women from the women's battalion under his command to escape.

Liu Jinzhong's work is not confidential enough, and the rogue who was rebellious by the generous treatment of the Ning Navy has betrayed Liu Jinzhong, but the problem is that these women's battalions from Shaanxi, they are all Zhang Xianzhong's hardcore family members, and they are very uncooperative.

Cheng Shijie is unwilling to feed idlers, and the problem is embarrassing.

Han said at this time: "Dashuai, hand them over to slaves!" ”

"What are you going to do?"

"The slaves have seen that most of these women's camps have children, and they separate the children from their mothers, and when the mothers work, they have to keep the children in the refugee camps, so that they don't have to worry that they won't work hard, and they don't even need guards, so they take meat as a salary, and the children are in need of nutrition, and I believe that many people will be willing to work hard."

Hearing this, Cheng Shijie sighed, it is really the most poisonous woman's heart.

"You're amazing, and I'm suddenly a little scared of you."

Cheng Shijie said insincerely, it is impossible to be afraid, and it is really powerful.

Sure enough, it is women who know women best, Cheng Shijie can't think of this way, for mothers, children are indeed the best reason, for the sake of meat, I am afraid that those mothers in the refugee camp will break their heads.

"Dashuai, if you are embarrassed to come forward, the slave will come forward.!"

Han didn't care, a woman, still a widow, had no means to survive in troubled times.

(End of chapter)