back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 753
A few days later, on a dark and windy night, a residential house in Jinyang City caught fire, and the fire spread widely.Fortunately, a shop soldier saw it early, knocked on the clapper, and dispatched fire-diving soldiers, who successfully extinguished the fire.In every important state capital of Dashun, there will be a military patrol shop within [-] steps of each lane.There are five soldiers in the shop, patrolling at night, and collecting official duties.There is also a brick watchtower on a high place, and there are people watching on the upper floor.

As soon as you find a fire somewhere, report it immediately, and the leaders of the army, the horse infantry, the three yamen in front of the palace, and the Kaifeng mansion will draw water to put it out without bothering the people to contribute.These soldiers responsible for putting out the fire are the "submerged fire soldiers" of the "submarine fire team", and they are professionally trained firefighting officers and soldiers.

As for the patrol captain, there is a patrol captain in each county, who is in charge of archers, suppressing rape and prohibiting violence.At the first level of the city, a "compartment" is set up to deal with fireworks and thieves; a "patrol shop" is placed under the compartment. Solve the state's Chen lawsuit.At night, the official residence and the house of fame are hidden on both sides of the street to prevent thieves.

The "Military Patrol Shop" is also responsible for fire alarms. The shop soldiers watch the fire tower every day, and report immediately when they find a fire.And those soldiers who are responsible for putting out the fire are the "submarine fire soldiers" of the "submarine fire team".These submerged soldiers have a variety of fire extinguishing equipment, including barrel ropes, flags, axes and saws, lanterns, fire vests and other equipment, all of which are provided by the branch officials with money from the lawsuit.In addition to these conventional utensils, there is also a cloud ladder, with a big wooden bed, six wheels on the bottom, two ladders standing on it, each more than ten feet long, with a rotating shaft in the middle, which can be used for fire fighting in high-rise buildings; The long bamboo is opened at the bottom, and the water pole is wrapped with cotton wool. Once the water is drawn, it can be sprayed out, just like the spray canister of later generations.There is also a water bag, which is a bag made of cattle, horses, and livestock skins, and three or four stones of water are stored, and a ten-foot-long bamboo is used to remove the joints and put it at the mouth of the bag.If the fire reaches the building shed, use three or five submerged fire soldiers to hold bamboo poles, turn the mouth of the bag, and pour water at the fire source.

Jinyang City is a big city, so there will naturally be such submerged fire soldiers. If they are discovered early, it is normal to put out the fire.

After the fire was extinguished, no one noticed that many people had sneaked into the palace that was sealed off by the imperial court two streets away.Relying on the sound of firefighters putting out the fire, they ping-ping-pong-pong for a while, and then walked away.The yamen guards guarding the gate of the Wangfu ran off to watch the excitement at some point, so naturally they didn't know what happened in the Wangfu.

A few days later, according to the internal argument of the Supervision Department, the supervisors of Jinyang City returned to Beijing to report on their duties, and everything was as usual.

What kind of tricks are hidden inside, it has been burned in a fire on a summer night, and there is no clue.

In Chang'an City, Lu Chengqi was finally willing to put aside his busy government affairs for the time being, almost all drafted by the cabinet, but he accompanied Zhou Zhiruo to play outside the newly built pool and three mountains.

The accompanying servants set up bamboo mats in the gazebo outside the pool, and then put a few square futons on the stone benches, then stepped back, and some maids brought cakes, fruits and melons, etc. also retreated.Only Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo were left playing chess and drinking tea in the gazebo, enjoying themselves happily.

Sitting upright, facing the scenery full of flowers, next to it is clear pool water that can see the bottom. The transparent channel water flows down slowly, constantly washing the stones and gravel at the bottom of the water. Under the sunlight, the sand and gravel are stained Layers of shimmering waves, shining like gems, and small golden fishes swimming leisurely, playing back and forth in the pool, reflecting each other with gems, shining brilliantly.There are a few water lilies lying on the surface of the water, which look like buds, which are really beautiful.

Lu Chengqi devoted himself to admiring the beautiful scenery, and felt extremely moved in his heart, it only took a few days to become like this, it's good to be an emperor.As long as you move your mouth, someone will help you with everything.

Zhou Zhiruo held the white at the side and said with a light smile, "Your Majesty, it's your turn!"

It was rare for Lu Chengqi to "blush in the face". Who doesn't know that he is a stinky chess basket, it is okay for him to play backgammon, but it is difficult for him to play Go.Originally, she wanted to "pretend to be stupid" to see if she could fish in troubled waters, but Zhou Zhiruo was so shrewd that she was impeccable.

"Your Majesty, the courtiers and concubines made you ten sons, why can't you still win?" Seeing that there was no one around, Zhou Zhiruo "mercilessly" revealed the true face of Lu Chengqi's stinky chess.

Lu Chengqi was very embarrassed, smiled, and said: "Don't talk about me, even the champion Su Shi, his chess skills are also average." This is not Lu Chengqi's nonsense, Su Shi's articles and poems are well written, but he is really not good at chess.But he is also a chess fan. He can watch people play chess all day without feeling tired or hungry.Later, he wrote the first "Guanqi", in which there is a sentence "Victory is gratifying, and defeat is also joyful". , Hearing the sound of chess alone among the ancient pines and flowing water, I am delighted." It can be seen that his level is indeed not good.

Some people wonder why Su Shi is so smart but doesn't know how to play Go?It turns out that a game of Go requires a lot of energy and talent, and it takes learning from an early age to become a national player.Su Shi's ambition is not here, and he hasn't worked hard at Go, so it's normal for him not to be good at it.

Not to mention Lu Chengqi, except for backgammon and chess, he doesn't know anything about Go, and Zhou Zhiruo taught him a little bit.Even so, there are many mistakes and omissions when playing chess, and Zhou Zhiruo often suffers big defeats and loses face.The unlucky Zhou Zhiruo likes to play with him, so a man can't say no, can he?Then I had to bite the bullet...

"Your Majesty can't win, do you want to play tricks?"

Lu Chengqi wanted to play tricks, but he didn't even know how to win chess, otherwise he could have played with Zhou Zhiruo like Su Dongpo.That is, Zhou Zhiruo's next step, he is also the next step in the corresponding position.This allusion, called "Dongpo Chess", is indeed a cheating method.

Although Lu Chengqi knew the allusion, he couldn't even count as a stinky chess basket, let alone win a chess game, so he had to push the scales and admit defeat, and changed the subject: "Zitong, this pool cost a hundred thousand yuan, so it's pretty good, but I don't know if it's worth it..."

Zhou Zhiruo also knew the role of one pond and three mountains.She sighed faintly and said: "If you can add a son and a half to your majesty, let alone a hundred thousand guan, so what if a million guan? By the way, your majesty hasn't named this pool yet, why don't your majesty give it a name?" Chizi give me a name?"

Once Lu Chengqi thought about it, he called Gao Hao to fetch the Four Treasures of the Study, planning to name the pool.

(End of this chapter)