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Chapter 422 Tang Ruowang accepts disciples

In Chicheng Castle General's Office, Yan Qingrong reported the inventory situation of the warehouses on the North Road, and Zhang Cheng was very satisfied after hearing it.

He even firmly believes that all this has just begun. Although the end of the Ming Dynasty is full of natural disasters and man-made disasters, if you work hard, there will always be changes. Even if you can't change the whole of Ming Dynasty, saving one side is better than anything else. Do not do better.

What's more, I have to survive in this troubled world. Although it is not a world of flamboyance, I may not be able to play a world of flamboyance!

For example, the plague of locusts, although not serious on the North Road and East Road, was still affected. It also caused great panic among the military households and the common people, and worshiping the "Locust God" prevailed for a while.

At this moment, Zhang Cheng once again made a surprising move!

He actually took the lead in eating "Locust God". Eat it in front of people, eat it on the street.

Zhang Cheng even mobilized the soldiers in the military camps in various places to actively capture and eat the "Locust God". the only general.

Now Zhang Cheng has taken the lead in setting an example, and the officers and soldiers in the battalions just followed suit, catching locusts all over the sky, frying, frying and roasting, so countless locusts turned into dishes and entered everyone's mouths .

Although some soldiers and civilians were also worried about whether this move would offend the "locust god" and cause disasters, but Zhang Cheng has already taken the lead, and the same is true for the soldiers and soldiers of the North Road and East Road. Say?
They also followed suit one after another, and not long after, the locusts in the entire North Road and East Road were eaten up.

Not to mention, the protein content of these locusts is quite high. People who eat too many locusts will look even redder and stronger.

And various methods of cooking locusts have also spread on the North Road and East Road, and gradually become one of the special dishes in various castles. Some smart businessmen even go to other places to catch locusts and traffic them here. Sell ​​to restaurants.

As for the plague, it has never happened on the North Road or East Road. Even the drought and locust plague have been resisted, so how can there be a plague?

In particular, Beilu is a solid soil guard. Zhang Cheng implements semi-military governance here, and almost concentrates the people's power of the entire Beilu. The only advantage is that if you participate in labor, you will not be hungry. The disadvantage is naturally personal income. rare.

The biggest source of income on the North Road, apart from enlisting in the army, is to go to work in the workshops of the craftsman camp. Of course, those military households who cultivate wasteland, repair canals and farm fields will not go hungry, but they get enough to eat. Quite few.

Even so, North Road has become a happy place in the hearts of the surrounding military households and common people. After all, life is stable, there are no bandits and robbers, let alone wars, and they don't have to suffer from hunger and hunger.

"Dang!" A crisp sound came from the east side of the official hall!
Zhang Cheng turned his head to look at the self-ringing clock on the east side of the official hall. It was table-top, small in size, covered with a wooden frame, inlaid with gold-plated carved dragons, and the hands were in the shape of eagle beaks. It chirped once every quarter of an hour.

It was the first time he heard this voice since he came to this world for more than two years, and it was also the first time he had a clearer concept of time.

For a long time, time has been measured according to the ancient methods such as hour and moment, which made Zhang Cheng's sense of time vague and uncomfortable, but he just didn't think of the concept of clocks and watches. Maybe he always thought that this era still made time. No precision timepieces.

Until this time when he returned to Chicheng General Office, when he entered the official hall, he saw the chime clock on the east side, but because he was thinking about things all the time, he never paid attention to it.

"Did Mr. Tang bring this chime bell to me?" Zhang Cheng looked at Tang Ruowang and asked.

Tang Ruowang got up very gracefully, he put his right hand across his chest, and replied: "The deputy commander expected it well, it was I who presented this thing for the deputy commander, and I came to the North Road in a hurry, this clock is the deputy commander It was sent here after Yongning suppressed the thieves."

"Hey!"

Zhang Cheng sighed, and then said again: "Such an exquisite artifact, but it is considered a strange and obscene skill, it is really a joke through the ages!"

He then asked: "Mr. Tang, I want to make this kind of chime bell in the Yunzhou craftsman camp. I wonder if it is possible?"

"Of course, Yunzhou craftsmen are extremely skilled. It's not difficult to make a chime bell, but the process is a little cumbersome." Tang Ruowang replied.

Zhang Cheng pondered for a moment and said: "Shi Tiegen, according to Mr. Tang's needs, you can select skilled craftsmen to form a machinery bureau, specializing in making machinery such as chiming clocks."

"Here!" Shi Tiegen was used to obeying orders, so he accepted the military order without hesitation.

Zhang Cheng looked up at Shi Tiegen's first workshop masters. They were all far away from Gyeonggi, and when they came to Xuanzhen with him, they were much richer, and their complexions were also very ruddy. It can be seen that their life in Beilu is still very satisfactory. .

Of course, they have also made great contributions to the North Road. In addition to improving and manufacturing firecrackers, artillery, armor, and military weapons, they also improved gunpowder and trained a group of skilled workers. Zhang Cheng's correct guidance is indispensable, especially the assembly line theory he brought.

Moreover, during the six months since Tang Ruowang came to Yunzhou, he did three things. The first was to build a church by the Beibai River in Yunzhou. Of course, this was with Zhang Cheng's permission.

The second is that he chose more than [-] children to study Latin with him in the church every day. In fact, Tang Ruowang originally wanted these children to eat and live with him in the church, but the parents of the children strongly opposed it. .

In the end, it was Zhang Cheng himself who reluctantly agreed to allow the children to go to church every other day to learn Latin and Tang Ruowang's theoretical knowledge of mechanical science.

And when the children don’t go to church, in addition to helping out in various workshops, they also have to learn loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, rationality, and belief in these Confucian ideas. Zhang Cheng doesn’t want them to follow Tang Ruowang for a long time and become yellow-skinned and white-hearted people!
One more thing, Zhang Cheng heard that Tang Ruowang had collaborated with Li Chengmao, director of the Artillery Bureau, Zhao Jinhu, chief of the artillery shooting range, and others to compile the artillery shooting table in the past few months.

Zhang Cheng had a smile all over his face, he looked at Tang Ruowang and asked with concern: "Mr. Tang is still used to living on my North Road?"

Tang Ruowang also had a slight smile on his face, and said: "Thanks to the care of the deputy commander-in-chief, the weather on the North Road is cool and clear, and it is very comfortable to live here. The children here are also very well-behaved and sensible, which is indeed incomparable to other places."

Zhang Cheng nodded, and asked again: "I heard that Mr. Tang also accepted three proud students?"

(End of this chapter)