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

Chapter 281
Chapter 280

In this era of Ming Dynasty, most cities were black and white, gloomy, and shrouded in gray smog, just like this weird and ever-changing world, making it unclear where the future lies.

However, Jingjing Town is different, this town is more lively and bright.Different from many cities, Jingjing Town has tall street lamps. This kind of street lamp is like a simple lighthouse, with a height of three feet and six feet. Each street lamp has a huge three-pillar wick burning whale oil. .

Every night, a special person comes to light the lamps. During the day, someone will be responsible for maintaining these street lamps. Because of the existence of these street lamps, Jingjing Town is also a city that never sleeps.

Even though Liaodong is very rich now, Cheng Shijie did not have the extravagance to install street lights in every city, so under the bright moonlight, the lights of the city and the bright Milky Way complement each other, which makes Cheng Jialong feel very fulfilled.

Of course, in Gao Jie's eyes, although Cheng Jialong can make money, he is also very good at prodigal. A small town needs to burn nearly 3000 taels of lamp oil in one night. This is not counting the construction of these street lamps. The cost, in order to light up the town, spent more than 50 taels of silver.

Looking at the whole world, I am afraid that only the eldest son Long Cheng of the Cheng family has the courage to be so prodigal.

These street lights brought not only light to the competitive city, but also the night economy of the competitive city, such as the snacks on the food street, and the business of the tavern was extremely hot.

Today’s people in Liaodong, especially the first group of residents who arrived in Liaodong, have gone through the most difficult period of food and clothing. After solving the basic food and clothing problems, they also began to pursue the enjoyment of life, but the problem is that during the day Need to go to work, at night, many shops in Jinzhou City are closed, and Jinzhou City is not like Zhenhai City, Zhenhai City has a red light district.

But Jinzhou City doesn't have it. Once it's evening, Jinzhou City has no business premises except restaurants and restaurants for eating and drinking.The emergence of the competitive city is really convenient for the people living in Jinzhou.

Although it takes half an hour to drive from Jinzhou to Sports City, the problem is that it is too lively here, and you can drink until dawn. In addition to ordinary white wine, there are rice wine, rice wine, fruit wine, red wine, and there are people from all over the world. gourmet food.

Bring your wife and children to Arena City, and have a meal with your family, or buy some clothes for your wife and children, or watch entertainment performances.

This competition in the competitive city has attracted a lot of performers. These reckless people flock to the competitive city, and it is inevitable that there will be drunken riots.

Alcohol is strong and cowardly. Drinking too much will always do some unbelievable things. The riots in the streets are because of a hero who drank too much and went crazy with the help of alcohol, and molested a tavern maid. , the owner of this tavern is an outstanding talent, as a tavern maid, no matter what her appearance is, her figure will be quite wow.

Liaodong is not allowed to keep servants. Even Cheng Shijie's General Military Mansion uses maids, and they sign formal employment contracts with maids. Although there are high and low occupations, everyone is equal in personality, so this hero His behavior was immediately criticized by others.

Accused by the people around him, the hero, who was flushed from drinking, hurriedly explained: "Sorry, I don't know what happened just now, I drank a little too much."

"You did it on purpose. Don't use drinking too much as an excuse. Your behavior is really disgusting..."

Although the owner of the tavern wanted to calm things down, the people of Liaodong were unwilling. They came out and accused the hero of drinking too much.

The hero was forced to panic, and pulled out the saber on his body with a clang: "What do you want to do?"

Seeing the hero move the knife, although he didn't hurt anyone, the drinkers around him started to get scared and retreated one after another.

Cheng Jialong stepped forward and said, "Put down the knife!"

This hero has sharp eyesight, Cheng Jialong is accompanied by Kong Wu's powerful Gao Jie, four companions, and more than a dozen retinues, so he naturally has a certain status.

However, they were not stupid, they could tell at a glance that Cheng Jialong's identity was different, he immediately changed his mind and argued: "It's fine to put down the knife, you must give me an explanation today!"

"Oh, what do you want to explain?"

"This store relies on locals to bully us outsiders. He asked the maid to deliberately hit my arm with her body and slander me for molesting. This is blackmail!"

"nonsense!"

When Cheng Jialong saw this scene, he immediately laughed. He had already arrived at the scene when the incident happened, but he just kept silent.

"It's not a scam, a chicken costs [-] renminbi, and in restaurants in the capital, a chicken doesn't cost [-] renminbi, right?"

"that is!"

The high level of consumption in the competitive city really attracted the resentment of the people around them. An ordinary sweet potato would dare to charge three pennies for cooking.A plate of beef and mutton costs [-] yuan, which is barely enough for a day's wages for ordinary Liaodong people.

"And this wine, it only sells for [-] yuan for a jug in other places, and you are paying [-] yuan for a catty. It's too dark!"

"If you don't give me a satisfactory explanation, I will smash this black shop today!"

"Smash him!"

People who didn't know the truth began to boo, and the whole scene was in chaos.

"Guest officer, let's forget about today's affairs."

The boss still wants to keep things quiet, anyway, the maid who is touched will not lose a piece of meat, what they do is to serve people, what kind of swearing has not been seen?
The hero is about to take the opportunity to leave.

Cheng Jialong said: "Wait a minute!"

"What's wrong? A kid who hasn't fully grown hair is still trying to save the beauty like a hero?"

It's not that the hero didn't put Cheng Jialong in his eyes, but he was preparing to be bullied by a gentleman. He has been around for many years and knows that the children of real rich families have strict management.

From the hero's point of view, Cheng Jialong is gold and jade, and he is a tile. Once this contradiction is aroused, it will not be good for Cheng Jialong.

"presumptuous!"

Gao Jie watched this hero speak rudely to Cheng Jialong, and was about to stand out.

Cheng Jialong smiled faintly, took off his coat slowly, and handed it to Zheng Sen beside him, while Shi Lang, Li Zaiyang, and Zhao Yingkui were ready to make a move at any time.

Cheng Jialong walked towards the hero: "Come on, let's have a duel between men..."

In fact, when Cheng Jialong stepped forward, the hero had already lost. There was a kind of temperament called controlling the field. Stupid.

Gao Jie, on the other hand, admired Cheng Jialong. The City of Arena was Cheng Jialong's home court. Not to mention the hero in front of him, if there were ten people like him, Gao Jie could knock them down with one hand.

The problem is, Cheng Jialong knows how to use power to overwhelm others.

This is the means of the master.

Although Cheng Jialong is not as tall as Cheng Shijie, his height of more than 1.7 meters is considered tall in Daming, and Cheng Jialong has been practicing Sanda all the time, no matter whether he can play or not, he looks very strong.

As the so-called poor man is rich in martial arts, even if this hero was given three guts, he would not dare to fight Cheng Jialong.

The hero simply apologized and admitted his cowardice, paid the bill and left.

This incident made Cheng Jialong a little regretful, but he wanted to try his own skills.

……

When Cheng Shijie walked towards the pier, Han Shi felt a little bit reluctant.Cheng Shijie was in Chibi City, and the Han family had a backing to rely on. Neither the generals of the Ning Navy nor the leaders of the bandits dared to blow their hair in front of her.

But the problem is that when Cheng Shijie left this time, he still took Ning Haijun with him. Of course, Ning Haijun did not withdraw completely, but the cavalry and artillery withdrew, leaving less than [-] infantry.

Even though Han Shi was very reluctant, she had no choice but to use all available means, but the problem was that Cheng Shijie obviously had no other ideas for her.

It's not that Han is too thin-skinned, but she knows that with Cheng Shijie's status, he can have any kind of woman he wants, not to mention, she has already lost her will, and she has no qualifications at all.

Anyone who knows Cheng Shijie's situation knows that Princess Zhu Weiti of Chongming is Cheng Shijie's first wife. Besides Zhu Weiti, Cheng Shijie also has another wife, Xiang Shi.

In addition, there is another rumor that Yang Yunniang is Cheng Shijie's concubine. Yang Yunniang followed Cheng Shijie when Cheng Shijie did not make a fortune. People who know the situation must dismiss such rumors. There are more people who gossip.

It is also because the image of most nobles in this aspect is actually not very good. The image of nobles in the eyes of the public seems to be like hungry ghosts in sex. They salivate when they see outstanding opposite sex, and sometimes even He is so hungry that he will not let go of sex.

Just when Cheng Shijie boarded the Zhili, Sun Kewang walked over from the deck and said happily, "Commander, Zhang Xianzhong has recruited!"

"Recruited!"

Cheng Shijie reached out to take the confession from Sun Kewang, only to see several place names written on it, which were very vague, and the amount of silver deposited was as high as more than 540 million taels.

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "Do you believe this is all of Zhang Xianzhong's Tibetan silver?"

"This one……"

Sun Kewang shook his head and said, "I don't know how much money Zhang Xianzhong stole from his humble position, maybe there is!"

Cheng Shijie said indifferently: "Seven locations, six are in Guanzhong, Fengyang Lost Wolf Valley, and Jiushan Cave, hum, Zhang Xianzhong is still playing tricks, you are not good at extorting confessions!"

"Also ask the commander-in-chief to show you!"

"Use your brain!"

Cheng Shijie said seriously: "There are always more ways to solve problems than there are problems! Let's take torture as an example. It doesn't necessarily mean that the other party's body is bloody and bloody every time you use torture. Cruel? And extorting a confession by torture is not a good thing, and if it spreads out, you don’t look good, don’t you? Use your brains more!”

Sun Kewang said: "Then what should I do to make him confess without hurting him?"

"At this time, a little skill is needed. It is impossible not to injure him at all, but try not to leave a wound on his body that is difficult to heal, but it can be done..."

Cheng Shijie laughed and said, "You can let him sit on the tiger stool!"

"Tiger stool?"

"This tiger stool is easy to learn, low in cost, and has extremely fast results. At most three or four bricks can make him die of pain, and if it is used well, it will not cause any substantial harm to the prisoner!"

Cheng Shijie laughed and said, "Tie Zhang Xianzhong to the mast..."

Sun Kewang followed suit immediately.

Zhang Xianzhong sneered again and again, children's tricks, what can I do?
But after only four bricks were placed, his face turned pale from the pain, and he was sweating violently. When the fifth brick was placed, he couldn't bear it anymore, and screamed like a pig being slaughtered.

Sun Kewang was also ruthless, so he picked up the sixth brick.

Cheng Shijie clapped his hands, let him howl without adding bricks, and looked at Sun Kewang with a proud face: "How is it, isn't the effect very good!"

Sun Kewang nodded repeatedly and said: "It's wonderful! It's a thousand times better than the clamp! Once the clamp is used, the prisoner will be disabled even if he doesn't die, but with this, he is only in pain and nothing happens!"

"You can't say it like this. If you act too hastily, his knee will be dislocated, or even his leg will be broken, and he will be disabled for life. You must use the torture with love, think more about the prisoner, and don't hurt him. If you can't do it once, you can do it twice. , three times, you broke his leg, and his life will be ruined!"

Zhang Xianzhong almost spat out a mouthful of blood. Everyone said he was ruthless. Compared with Cheng Shijie, he was nothing.

Cheng Shijie waited for Zhang Xianzhong to howl for a stick of incense time, and directly caused Zhang Xianzhong to pass out from the pain.

Cheng Shijie had all the bricks removed and Zhang Xianzhong was helped up.

Cheng Shijie continued to teach Sun Kewang: "...After the brick is removed, it is best to run him twice. First, it can avoid leg bruises and cause the root cause of the disease, and second, it will aggravate the pain. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Of course, Zhang Xianzhong is not Our enemy, we don't have to be so ruthless, you carry him up and slowly walk around twice, let him relax, and then we move on to the next lesson."

Zhang Xianzhong felt a chill all over his body!
"A careless tiger stool will still cripple the prisoner, so it must be used with caution. And this kind of punishment will not have such concerns, even if it is a novice, there will be no danger."

"how should I do it?"

"Pour chili water into the nostrils!"

Gao Qiqian came over and said: "Miao, Miao, Miao, you should also learn from it!"

Jin Yiwei and Dongchang fanzi behind Gao Qi's ambush looked at Cheng Shijie in an instant.

"General Cheng is indeed an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs. Our family also wants to know what else you don't know!"

"This is all pediatrics!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "There are also laughter torture and water torture. It's okay. We have plenty of time, so we can play slowly!"

Zhang Xianzhong yelled at Tao with tears and snot, "Marshal, Xianzhong is recruited, Xianzhong is recruited!"

An hour later, Cheng Shijie took Zhang Xianzhong's confession.

Cheng Shijie thought about it, Zhang Xianzhong's most of these Tibetan silver locations are actually in Anqing.rather than in Guanzhong.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhang Xianzhong and said, "You better confess this time to be true, otherwise you will definitely regret it!"

……

In Liaodong, Empress Zhou, Empress Zhang, and the prince all dressed lightly, accompanied by only 100 civilian guards in plain clothes, and more than [-] maids and eunuchs who were in charge of serving. The group arrived in Liaodong silently.

After landing at Lushunkou, Sun Zhichen from the Liaoning Management Committee did not come to greet them, but Yang Yunniang and Zhu Weiti did come to greet them, but did not hold a large-scale welcoming ceremony, and came to Liaodong quietly.

"Meet the emperor's wife, and the prince!"

"Family, you're welcome!"

After arriving in Lushun, after Zhu Weiti paid homage to Queen Zhou and Queen Zhang, the group boarded Zhu Weiti's carriage, which was a luxurious four-wheeled carriage. The four daughters and the five princes are still not too crowded.

Yang Yunniang was like a little daughter-in-law, taking care of her by the side.

This spacious carriage, walking on the concrete road from Lushun to Jinzhou, felt no bumps at all, and even the tea poured into the cup would not spill out.

Acting as an unqualified tour guide, Zhu Weiti introduced the development of Liaodong to Empress Zhou, which was an eye-opener for Empress Zhou.The flat cement road leads in all directions, factories are one after another, and the traffic on the cement road is like running water and horses. What surprised Queen Zhou most was that she didn't see a single beggar along the way. Very ruddy, not colored.

Finally, when she entered Jinzhou City in a carriage, she looked at the densely packed pedestrians, carriages, and tall buildings on the street, and Queen Zhou was in a trance for a while.

Seeing the young men and women passing by hand in hand holding hands, she frowned and wanted to say something, but she didn't say it.

(End of this chapter)