Chapter 198 Zhu Weiti’s Eighth Princess

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 198 Zhu Weiti’s Eighth Princess

Chapter 197

Hou Fangyu can be regarded as one of the cheaters. After all, he is young and energetic. After being manipulated by Wen Tiren, an old fox, Hou Fangyu was easily included.

When Hou Xun was demoted and imprisoned, he was not actually nervous or panicked. In fact, it was normal for an official to be imprisoned in the Ming Dynasty. Not only would he not be embarrassed, but it would also make a big mark on his resume.

What's more, Hou Xun is also a frequent visitor to Jinyiwei's prison. As early as Tianqi II, Hou Xun, his father Hou Zhipu, and his younger brother Hou Ke were both rescued by Shulun because of the "Relocation Case" and the "Hongwan Case".

Wang Ji, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, was hated by the traitors in the court at that time. Later, his father and three sons were dismissed from office, and Hou Xun was imprisoned for the first time in the fourth year of Tianqi.

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 there is no question of right and wrong. It is not because Hou Xun is a good person because he opposes the Eunuch Party. There is actually nothing in the officialdom.

Good people.

If he is really a good person, how did Hou Bancheng's reputation come from? Needless to say, the Hou family's Beiyuan ancestral home in Guide Mansion can be said to have been accumulated by the ancestors. However, Hou Fangyu's South Park is also known as Zhuangmei Garden.

, this was built in Guide Mansion in the first year of Chongzhen, after Hou Xun resurrected.

If Huang Taiji were allowed to see Hou Fangyu's Zhuangmei Garden, Huang Taiji would want to die. His Shenyang Palace is simply a pigsty. This is not a random writing by the author. In fact, if later generations had not rebuilt the Shenyang Forbidden City, this palace would not even be connected to the landlord.

Even the big courtyard can't compare.

This is of course not because Huang Taiji and Nurhachi were frugal and frugal, but because the weather in the Northeast is too cold. It is not that they cannot build tall and majestic palaces, but because it is easy to build such a palace, but the problem is that it is too cold to live in them.

The palace built by Huang Taiji and Nurhachi was based on heating and practical considerations, so they built the palace short and narrow. Of course, another reason is that the Eight Banners political system has very few people who can participate, that is, the Eight Banners

The leader plus eight small banner leaders, if it is an enlarged meeting, there will be sixteen banner leaders plus forty Jia La E Zhen, the total number of people is not one hundred.

But the Ming Dynasty was different. The Ming Dynasty's court meetings were generally held in Fengtian Hall, Huagai Hall, and Jinshen Hall. The author does not know the specific personnel who participated in the court meetings in the Ming Dynasty. Generally speaking, officials of seventh rank or above in the capital would participate, but

On August 12, the fifteenth year of Hongzhi (1502), the number of absentees reached 1160, and the person with the highest official position was Chen Xuan, Marquis of Taining. Even unofficial historians said that when the morning bell rang, more than ten thousand crows flew up, and people laughed and called it "crow".

towards".

The system of establishing slaves was simple and naturally did not require so many spacious palaces. However, the Ming Dynasty was different. There were too many officials. Of course, compared with later generations, it was a child's play. In later generations, the number of officials in a county was almost equivalent to that of the Ming Dynasty.

All Beijing officials.

Just like spring has begun to bloom in Dengzhou, and flowers are blooming in Guide Prefecture, but it is still very cold in southern Liaoning, so you need to wear thick cotton clothes.

Hou Xun built the plum garden for his son, and the main contributors were actually the Guide Guards of Guide Prefecture. Guide Guards could mobilize tens of thousands of Guard Guard soldiers as free labor, and the city of Guide Prefecture was in the middle of a lake.

It can be said that in the island city, every inch of land is very expensive, but the Hou family built such a huge mansion.

Originally, the people of Guide Mansion were angry and dared not speak out against the Hou family, but now it's better. Hou Fangyu showed off his wealth by showing off his own father.

As soon as Cheng Shijie arrived in Dengzhou, Gao Qiqian followed him. Of course, this time Gao Qiqian was not showing off his wealth to Cheng Shijie, but complaining.

The good job was snatched away by Wang Zhixin, and Wang Zhixin got the good job of going south to Guide Mansion to raid 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 this? Taking someone's money is like killing your parents. This is absolutely intolerable. Let's do this. I'll give you a try.

Treasure Sword, go and destroy the king’s heart!”

"Gah?"

Gao Qiqian didn't understand what Cheng Shijie meant.

Cheng Shijie made a gesture of wiping his neck, and then Gao Qiqian understood.

"General Cheng is joking, how could you..."

"Of course I'm joking!"

Cheng Shijie said calmly: "Eunuch Gao, given the relationship between us, if you plunder the Hou family, why should you have Cheng's share?"

"Who says it's not the case? This bastard Wang Zhixin must have eaten so much that his mouth is full of oil!"

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Eunuch Gao can just find a young eunuch and make the king's heart break, that's it!"

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

Gao Qiqian asked in confusion: "This is..."

"Eunuch Gao, given our relationship, can I not help you? As the saying goes, sharpening the knife will not waste time chopping wood. If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen the tool. If you want to kill someone, how can you do it without someone who can take advantage of it?

!”

Cheng Shijie reached out and opened the small box, revealing a pistol. This was a revolver. Of course, it was not the same as a revolver in the later sense. It was a flint gun that used nitrocellulose as a propellant.

Historically, in 1718, eighty-five years later, British lawyer James Puckle invented the Puckle Gun, which was loaded with nine rounds.

This was actually an opportunity that Cheng Shijie had in later generations. He saw a shooting case that happened in the beautiful country. After the Chinese "Sister Hua" killed the gangster with five shots, he came up with an idea. For a long time in the future, Cheng Shijie will have no power.

After purging the lowly slaves in Liaodong, the people who farmed in Liaodong were always attacked by slaves and bandits.

Although Cheng Shijie copied a large number of soft-gang repeating crossbows from Jinyiwei's Zhuge Liannu, this kind of Zhuge Liannu has a crossbow made of soft wood.

Trigger, when the user pulls the trigger, the crossbow is pulled open, and at the same time the crossbow arrow falls into the arrow trough. After firing an arrow, the user repeats this action again until all arrows are shot.

Although the Zhuge Crossbow can fire continuously, the crossbow is weak and has a range of only twenty steps. It is a weapon used by the people to prevent theft and is rarely used by the army. The Jinyiwei can use it because their targets are people without armor, so there is still a certain limit.

But the problem is that this kind of Zhuge Liannu is too heavy, weighing about five kilograms and seven taels, and the winding force is about sixty kilograms.

If they are old, weak, women and children, there is no way to use it like Sister Hua. Of course, Ning Haijun's muskets are powerful enough at this stage, but the problem is that if such muskets flow into the private sector, they will easily be sold, and eventually fall to

In the hands of slaves.

In this case, Ning Haijun's gun bureau manufactured a revolver based on the principles provided by Cheng Shijie. This revolver fired non-metal bullets. Since mercury fulminate had not been invented, it could only adopt such a manufacturing process.

With the advanced technology, the bullets produced are wrapped in paper, and the warhead part is also a lead head. They are packed in nine bullets. The range can reach 30 steps, and they have super strong penetrating power.

If within a dozen steps, even the white-armored soldiers of the slave establishment can shoot a hole, and the power is quite good. Of course, since this kind of revolver has no rifling, the bullet will not be accurate when it is far away. Of course, paper bullets have difficulty

The problem solved is that the combustion is insufficient and dust will form in the barrel, but it will be no problem after cleaning it.

Cheng Shijie's real purpose in inventing this more powerful and easy-to-carry revolver has two aspects. The first is to guard against the establishment of slaves. The threat of establishment of slaves is still huge. Now Ning Haijun is not afraid of the decisive battle of the establishment of slaves, but is afraid of the decisive battle of the establishment of slaves.

The guerrilla tactics of the slave builders.

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

This vicious case was led by a Niulu Ezhen named Maketu. In the Battle of Bali Bay, Maketu's Niulu Ezhen was defeated by the Ning Navy. Maketu himself was also severely wounded. Later, Jiannu retreated.

Several of Maketu's coated slaves fled with Maketu, and were later separated from the slave-building army.

This Maketu was very lucky and escaped Ning Haijun's pursuit. At that time, there was a blizzard, which covered up the traces of Maketu and others. Later, Maketu hid in the mountainous area of ​​​​Maokui Mountain for nearly a month.

Minions are good at hunting and have strong survival abilities in the wild.

But the problem is that after the wound healed, Maketu did not dare to run to Shenyang. He knew that a deserter like him would not be able to escape being punished even if he ran back to Shenyang. Therefore, he decided to occupy the king and become the king himself.

King Caotou, he actually found dozens of surviving Jiannu soldiers.

The experience of these defeated troops was similar to that of Maketu. They all had homes and could not return. Especially after the great victory in Liaoyang, Ning Haijun also relaxed his vigilance. After all, it was approaching the end of the year and most of them had worked hard for a year. They should enjoy the fruits of their labor. That's it.

, Maketu and other sixty-seven people stayed in bed during the day and went out at night, exploring all the way to southern Liaoning.

In the Daling Mountains of Fuzhou, they hid themselves. While the soldiers and civilians of southern Liaoning were busy celebrating the New Year, sixty-seven of them broke into Dahe Town in Fuzhou, which is an immigrant settlement and was newly established in southern Liaoning.

This town had less than 200 people. Since Fuzhou already belonged to the internal area of ​​southern Liaoning at this time, the defense was not rigorous. Moreover, the time for establishing the town was short, and the town fort was not established or built.

At this time, the town was only one person tall, and the weather was cold, so there was no further construction. This gave Maketu and others the opportunity. So on New Year's Eve, the sixty-seven slaves broke up and, under the leadership of Maketu,

, stormed into this town, and massacred all 207 people in Dahe Town, including the children.

Afterwards, they buried the bodies and prepared to grab some votes after the New Year. It was a pity that after the New Year, there was a tradition of visiting relatives. Although there were not many people in Dahe Town, they all fled together from the same hometown and clan.

Yes, it will only disrupt the dispersed arrangements and avoid the formation of stubborn clan forces.

If Maketu was bold and careful, he could also deceive these people visiting relatives. After all, immigration resettlement can be disrupted at any time, and dispersed resettlement is normal. But the problem is that in order to avoid discovery, Maketu decided to take a preemptive strike and prepare to visit relatives when these people come to visit them.

The people were put into the town and killed.

Mark had calculated everything, but he failed to realize that this commoner who came to visit his relatives was actually Xu Dazhu, a soldier of the Ning Navy and a veteran with rich combat experience. Xu Dazhu was an ordinary soldier of the Guards Division of the Ning Navy. He was in Bali Bay

During the battle, he was shot three arrows in the chest by Jiannu, but the problem was not serious. The most serious injury was his arm, which was broken by a white-armored soldier.

Ning Haijun's wounded soldiers were allowed to go home to spend the New Year with their families. Xu Dazhu was promoted to Chief Hundred because of his bravery in combat. In the eyes of Xu Dazhu's father, Xu Xiancheng, this was a matter of honor for his ancestors.

As the saying goes, wealth never returns to its hometown, just like walking at night in brocade. Now that his son has been promoted to CEO, he naturally has to show off in front of his relatives. Accompanied by Xu Dazhu, his sixteen-year-old brother Xu Erzhu, and his third brother Xu Sanzhu, Xu Xiancheng went to Dahe Town

, that is, Xu Dazhu’s uncle’s house visiting relatives.

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

Maktu thought he had been discovered and ordered an attack.

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

Ning Haijun dispatched more than a thousand soldiers from the Fuzhou Garrison Bureau. Finally, with the cooperation of Ning Haijun, it took a month and a half to capture Maketu's group of 67 slaves.

But the problem is that this tragedy gave Cheng Shijie a wake-up call. War will promote people's rapid growth and flexibility. If the slaves are divided into parts and harass southern Liaoning from time to time, the spring plowing work in southern Liaoning will be ruined.

will be greatly affected.

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

You wouldn't know if you didn't check, but you would be really shocked if you check. During this period of time, Ning Haijun spent a lot of manpower and material resources through a dragnet search, and found a lot of Jiannu defeated troops. Lin Lin Zongzong together,
To be continued...