I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 198 Zhu Weiti's Eight Princesses
Chapter 197

Hou Fangyu can also be regarded as a cheating family, after all, he is young and vigorous, and when he was mobilized by the old fox Wen Tiren, he put Hou Fangyu in it without any effort.

Hou Xun was dismissed and imprisoned. He was not nervous or flustered. In fact, it is normal for officials in Ming Dynasty to be imprisoned.

What's more, Hou Xun can be regarded as a frequent visitor to Jinyiwei Prison. As early as Tianqi Erjian, Hou Xun, his father Hou Zhipu, and his younger brother Hou Ke went to Shushu at the same time because of the "moving palace case" and "Hongwan case". Wang Ji, Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment, was hated by the treacherous party in the court at that time.Then the father and son and the three sons were dismissed from office, and Hou Xun went to prison for the first time in Tianqi four years.

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 and wrong. It’s not because Hou Xun is a good person who opposes the eunuch party. nice guy.

If he is really a good person, how did Hou Bancheng get his reputation?Needless to say, the Hou family’s ancestral home in Beiyuan in Guide Mansion, it can be said that it was accumulated by the ancestors, but the south garden of Hou Fangyu, that is, the Zhuangmei Garden, was in the first year of Chongzhen, after Hou Xun recovered. It was built by Guide Mansion.

If Huang Taiji were allowed to see Hou Fangyu's Zhuangmeiyuan, Huang Taiji would want to die, his Shenyang Palace is simply a pigsty.This is not written by the author. In fact, if the Shenyang Forbidden City had not been rebuilt 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, but because the weather in the northeast is too cold, it is not because it is impossible to build a tall and majestic palace, but because it is easy to build such a palace, but the problem is that it is too cold to live in.

The palace built by Huang Taiji and Nurhaci was out of heating and practical considerations, which made the palace short and narrow. Of course, another reason is that very few people can participate in the Eight Banners political system, that is, the Eight Banners The master plus eight small banner masters, if it is an enlarged meeting, there are sixteen banner masters plus forty Jiala Ezhen, the total number of people is not more than 100.

But the Ming Dynasty was different. The court meetings of the Ming Dynasty were generally held in Fengtian Hall, Huagai Hall, and Jinshen Hall.The author 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. However, the number of absentees reached 15 on August 1502 in the 1160th year of Hongzhi ([-]), and the highest official was Chen Xuan, Marquis of Taining.Even Ye Shiyan said that when the morning bell rang, more than ten thousand crows flew up, and people jokingly called it "crow dynasty".

The system of building slaves is simple, so 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 child's play.The officials of a county in later generations are almost equivalent to all the Beijing officials of the Ming Dynasty.

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

Hou Xun built the Plum Garden for his son, and the main contribution was actually Guide Guard of Guide Mansion. Guide Guard could mobilize tens of thousands of guard guards of Guide Guard to serve as free labor, and Guide Mansion City is the center of a lake. It can be said that every inch of land is expensive in the island city, but the Hou family built such a huge mansion.

Originally, the people of Guide Mansion dared not speak out against the Hou family, but now it's all right, Hou Fangyu flaunted his wealth, including his own father.

As soon as Cheng Shijie arrived in Dengzhou, Gao Qiqian followed. Of course, this time Gao Qiqian did not show off his wealth to Cheng Shijie, but complained.

The fat job was snatched away by Wang Zhixin, and Wang Zhixin got the good job of going south to Guide Mansion to copy Hou Xun's house.

He comforted Gao Qiqian with good words, but of course Cheng Shijie fanned the flames in front of Gao Qiqian: "Eunuch Gao, can you bear it? Taking money from people is like killing parents. This is absolutely unbearable. Let me give you a hand." Baodao, you go and break the heart of the king!"

"Gah?"

Gao Qiqian didn't understand what Cheng Shijie meant.

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

"General Cheng was joking, how could..."

"Of course I was joking!"

Cheng Shijie said indifferently: "Eunuch Gao, based on our relationship, if you copy the Hou family, why should you have a copy of Cheng?"

"Who says it's not, Wang Zhixin, a bastard, must be full of oil!"

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Eunuch Gao can just find a little eunuch and break Wang Zhixin, that's all!"

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

Gao Qiqian asked puzzledly: "This is..."

"Gao Gonggong, with our relationship, can I not help you? As the saying goes, sharpening a knife is not a mistake for a woodcutter. If a craftsman wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his weapon. If he wants to kill someone, how can he do it if he doesn't have someone at hand? !"

Cheng Shijie reached out and opened the small box, revealing a pistol inside.This is a revolver, of course, not the same as a revolver in the sense of later generations, but a flint gun with nitrocellulose as propellant.

In history, in 1718, that is, 85 years later, the British lawyer James Puckle invented the 9-round revolver flint gun (Puckle Gun).

This is actually a chance for Cheng Shijie in later generations. He saw a shooting case in a beautiful country. After the Chinese "Sister Hua" killed the criminal with five shots, he came up with an idea.For a long time in the future, Cheng Shijie will not have the power to clear out the lowly slaves in Liaodong. The people in the Liaodong village will always be attacked by slaves and bandits.

Although Cheng Shijie imitated a large number of soft-bonded crossbows from Jinyiwei's Zhuge Liannu, this kind of Zhuge Liannu, the crossbow of this kind of crossbow is made of soft wood, and there is a arrow box on the crossbow arm. Trigger, when the user pulls the trigger, the crossbow is pulled away, and the arrows fall into the arrow groove at the same time. After an arrow is fired, the user repeats this action again until the arrow is shot.

Although the Zhuge crossbow can fire continuously, the crossbow is weak and its range is only [-] steps. It is a weapon used by the people to prevent theft, and it is rarely used by the army.Jin Yiwei can use it, because their targets are people without armor, so it still has a certain effect, but the problem is that this Zhuge Liannu is too heavy, weighing about five catties and seven taels, and the winding force is about sixty catties.

If it is old and weak, women and children, there is no way to use it like Sister Hua. Of course, the firearms of the Ning Navy are powerful enough at this stage, but the problem is that if such firearms flow into the people, they will be sold easily, and finally fall into the Jian slave hands.

Under such circumstances, the Gun Bureau of the Ning Navy, based on the principle provided by Cheng Shijie, manufactured a revolver. This kind of revolver does not fire metal bullets. Craftsmanship, the bullets produced are packaged in paper, and the warhead part is also a lead head. It adopts nine pieces in a row, and the range can reach [-] steps away, with super penetrating power.

If within a dozen steps, even Jiannu's white-armored soldiers can punch a hole with one shot, and the power is quite good. Of course, because this kind of revolver has no rifling, the bullet will not be accurate if it is far away.Of course, paper shell bullets have problems that are difficult to solve, insufficient combustion, and dust will form in the barrel, but there is no problem after cleaning.

Cheng Shijie's real purpose for inventing this relatively powerful and easy-to-carry revolver was twofold. First, it was to guard against slavery.The threat of slavery is still huge. Now Ning Haijun is not afraid of the decisive battle of slavery, but the guerrilla tactics of slavery.

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

This vicious case was led by a Niulu Ezhen named Maktu. Maktu’s Niulu Ezhen was defeated by the Ning Navy in the Battle of Baliwan. Maktu himself was also severely injured. Later, Jiannu retreated. Several of Maktu's coat-coated slaves took Maktu to escape, and then separated from the Jianshou army.

This Maktu was very lucky and escaped the pursuit of Ning Haijun. At that time, a blizzard fell from the sky, and the blizzard covered the traces of Maktu and others. Later, Maktu hid in the Maokui Mountain for nearly a month. Minions are good at hunting and also have a strong ability to survive in the wild.

But the problem was that after the wound healed, Maktu didn't dare to run to Shenyang. He knew that even if a deserter like him ran back to Shenyang, he would not escape being dealt with.Therefore, he decided to occupy the king and become the king himself, and he really searched for dozens of surviving Jiannu soldiers.

The experience of these defeated soldiers is similar to that of Maktu. They all have homes and cannot return, especially after the victory in Liaoyang, Ning Haijun also relaxed his vigilance. , Maktu and other 67 people, lying down at night and coming out at night, all the way to southern Liaoning.

In the Daling Mountains of Fuzhou, they hid. While the soldiers and civilians in southern Liaoning were busy celebrating the New Year, 67 of them broke into Dahe Town in Fuzhou. This is an immigrant settlement, and this is a newly established town in southern Liaoning. , the town has less than 200 people. Since Fuzhou already belongs to the inner area of ​​southern Liaoning at this time, the defense is not rigorous, and the time for establishing the town is short, and the town fort has not yet been established.

At this time, the town was only one person tall, and the weather was cold, so it did not continue to build. This gave Maktu and others a chance, so on New Year's Eve, the 67 slaves who built slaves, led by Maktu, killed After entering this town, they slaughtered all [-] people in Dahe Town, not even the children.

Afterwards, they buried the corpses and planned to grab a few more votes after the Chinese New Year, but it was a pity, because after the Chinese New Year, there is a tradition of visiting relatives. Although there are not many people in Dahe Town, they are all from the same hometown and the same clan. Yes, it will only disrupt the scattered settlements and avoid the formation of stubborn clan forces.

If Maktu is bold and careful, he can also deceive these people who are away from relatives. After all, the resettlement of immigrants is disrupted at any time, and scattered resettlement is a normal phenomenon. The people of the city were put into the town and killed.

Ma Ketu had calculated thousands of times, but he didn't realize that this commoner who came to visit his relatives was actually Xu Dazhu, a veteran of the Ning Navy with rich combat experience.Xu Dazhu was an ordinary soldier of the Ning Navy's Guards Department. During the Battle of Baliwan, Jiannu shot him three times in the chest, but the problem was not serious. The most serious injury was his arm, which was shot by a white armored soldier. smashed.

The wounded soldiers of Ning Haijun were allowed to go home to spend the New Year with their families, and Xu Dazhu was also promoted to be the head of the hundred because of his bravery in battle. In Xu Dazhu's father Xu Xiancheng's view, this is a matter of honoring the ancestors.

As the so-called wealth and honor do not return home, it is like walking in brocade clothes at night. Now that his son has been promoted to Baizong, he naturally wants to show off in front of his relatives. Accompanied by Xu Xiancheng, Xu Dazhu, 16-year-old younger brother Xu Erzhu, and third younger brother Xu Sanzhu, they headed for Dahe Town. That is, Xu Dazhu's uncle's family visit.

Xu Dazhu fell asleep sitting on the carriage. Before arriving in the town, he was having a nightmare and shouted: "Kill Jianu!"

Maktu thought he had been spotted, so he ordered an attack.

But when Xu Dazhu found that Jiannu was rushing towards them, he realized that something was wrong. He immediately took out the firework used by Ning Haijun soldiers for emergency communication. Although this firework did not save the lives of Xu Dazhu's family, it successfully warned.

Ning Haijun mobilized more than a thousand soldiers from the Fuzhou Garrison Bureau. Finally, with the cooperation of Ning Haijun, it took one and a half months before Maktu and his group of 67 slaves were arrested.

But the problem is, this tragedy has reminded Cheng Shijie.War will promote people's rapid growth and flexibility. If Jiannu adopts the method of breaking up and harassing southern Liaoning from time to time, the spring plowing work in southern Liaoning will be greatly affected.

It can be said that there is no way to prevent it. Under this urgent need, Cheng Shijie can only adjust the inspections in southern Liaoning and the search work in mountains and forests.

I don’t know if I don’t check. It’s really shocking to check. During this period of time, Ning Haijun spent a lot of manpower and material resources through a dragnet search. A total of more than [-] people.

Facing the harsh public security environment in southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie could only strengthen the armed forces of the people. Although the power of the firecrackers is acceptable, the problem is that the firecrackers are not convenient to carry and difficult to load. The Ninghai Gun Bureau has not completely solved the rifling problem. It is unrealistic and wasteful to equip civilian firecrackers on a large scale.

Secondly, Cheng Shijie plans to implement the castle law and non-concession law in southern Liaoning. The so-called castle law means that a person breaks into the owner's house by mistake or premeditatedly without being invited by the owner. When threatened personally, you can shoot and kill the opponent immediately.

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

The other is the non-concession bill, which is also to cultivate the martial spirit of the people in southern Liaoning. If you encounter threats to your own safety, don't be cowardly, just go back.

The implementation of this bill is actually an insurance policy for ordinary people.The people of Ming Dynasty were bullied by officials and gentry. Generally speaking, the people would not dare to resist.Cheng Shijie does not have enough talents now, nor does it mean that if officials from poor children are promoted, they will do practical things for the common people.

In fact, the integrity of officials is similar to that of prostitutes. It is more difficult for them not to bully the common people than for prostitutes to be good. Although officials can be restrained institutionally, the problem is that this also requires the spirit of resistance from the common people.

In Cheng Shijie's mind, the tax law he implemented in southern Liaoning, if some officials of the tax office still imagined that they were in Daming and forcibly collected taxes from the people, they would need to go to the people's homes.

However, Cheng Shijie would demand that ordinary people, anyone, including yamen servants, tax collectors, and officials, have no right to search the homes of ordinary people without a search warrant, but also, if they break in by force, they can fight back in self-defense.

Cheng Shijie will formulate laws and strictly control the issuance of search warrants, so it is impossible to bring a few dog legs to the township to exercise authority.

The basis of a battle is firearms, flexible and light firearms.

In fact, the revolver is not complicated, and the manufacturing process is extremely simple. A barrel is nothing more than six inches long. It is cast by direct cold casting. Roots, after cutting, can form, 360 roots.

Even the most core component, the left wheel, is cast.

Cheng Shijie took the revolver, loaded the cardboard bullets, and pulled the trigger at a target not far away.

"Bang bang bang bang..."

With the sound of gunfire popping beans, this round of rapid fire passed, and nine bullets knocked the target upside down.

Only then did Gao Qiqian discover the difference in this pistol: "This..."

"Gao Gonggong, how is it? This gun is not bad, right? You just need to hold this gun, and when you see Wang Zhixin, you can shoot at him quickly. I can guarantee that Wang Zhixin is useless even if he knows the Sunflower Book!"

Only then did Gao Qiqian take over the pistol. Of course, he would never use it against Wang Zhixin, but for self-defense.

"This gift is too heavy, I absolutely cannot accept it!"

"No matter how precious it is, how much love is there with you and me? Accept it! If you don't want it, I'll throw it away!"

Gao Qiqian thanked him again and again before accepting it.

Both sides bid farewell.

Only then did Cheng Shijie decide to set off. Since Hou Xun did not dare to rebel, even if he wanted to, it would be useless, because although gentry like Hou Xun have influence in the local area, the problem is that they are too bad, and the common people will not Follow them to rebel, besides, relying on Hou Xun's thousands of untrained servants, if it happens, Cheng Shijie doesn't mind, and destroys them casually.

In fact, as Cheng Shijie expected, until Wang Zhixin copied Hou Xun's house, the Hou family didn't even have a fart, and how much money was copied is not something Cheng Shijie knew. Money will not be given to Cheng Shijie either.

On March 24th of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie boarded the big ship and set off for southern Liaoning. There are still many things waiting for him to do in southern Liaoning.

It was Zhu Weiti's first time on a boat, and she was very curious when she saw everything on the boat.

This is the second batch of large ships produced by Lushun Shipyard. It uses 810 materials. If converted into displacement, it is equivalent to [-] [-] tons. However, there is only one ship in this batch.

Moreover, it is a transitional warship of Lushun Shipyard. Since it is not safe to launch a large ship with [-] materials at one time, it is [-] materials, which is [-] materials short.

But the problem is, it is very embarrassing to be short of these five hundred materials.If it is the same as the original Four King Kong, equipped with 24 three-inch smoothbore guns, the displacement of 36 materials is a bit wasteful, but it cannot fit [-] ​​guns.As for the newer guns, they have not yet been produced.

After several months of sailing training, the Four King Kongs have also undergone supplementary optimization. After actual testing, this two-thousand-material warship can serve as a light frigate for the Ning Navy and perform maritime patrol tasks.

And it can enter inland rivers, which is much better than the [-]-material battleship. The shipyard plans to build a [-]-material main battleship, and needs to enter the exploratory experiment.

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

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhu Weiti and smiled, "Do you like it?"

"like!"

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

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

"naming?"

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

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "Because I gave you this boat."

"Give it to me?"

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

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

Zhu Weiti understood that this was Cheng Shijie's compensation to her.

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

Later, he basically stopped meeting Zhu Weiti with the excuse that he was tired and had things to do, and later, Cheng Shijie directly talked to Zhu Weiti directly.

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

Zhu Weiti understands Cheng Shijie, because she knows that her marriage with Cheng Shijie has a strong political connection, that is, Concubine Li Kang has already vaccinated her in advance, if Cheng Shijie cannot accept her, her life will be very sad.

Zhu Weiti 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 boat, Zhu Weiti didn't think too much about it, and said with a smile, "Let's call it Le'an!"

Le'an is Zhu Weiti's title, which was given to her by Emperor Chongzhen, but she didn't like what Chongzhen gave her. After thinking about it, she changed her mind and said, "Then it's called Eight Princesses!"

"Eight Princesses!"

What Cheng Shijie gave Zhu Weiti was only a ship, but it was not a warship in the true sense, because the ship was not equipped with artillery or soldiers.

The ships and sailors are all workers from Lushun Shipyard, and they are temporarily controlled by Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers.

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

Zhu Weiti shook her head: "Let my husband's people come!"

She is more willing to trust Cheng Shijie's people who were given to her by Emperor Chongzhen.

(End of this chapter)