Chapter 58 What should we be afraid of when we have hostages?

Chapter 057

Sun Yuanhua preconceived the idea that there was a misunderstanding between Cheng Shijie and the Laiyang Zhang family, but this was actually wrong.

There really was no misunderstanding between Cheng Shijie and the Zhang family of Laiyang. No one knew that Zhang Huairen of Zhensanshan was born in the Zhang family of Laiyang. Cheng Shijie knew about it and didn't care.

Cheng Shijie believed that Zhang Huairen was just incompetent to intimidate him.

When annihilating Zhang Huairen's troops in Zhensanshan, Cheng Shijie led Ning Haijun soldiers to capture all the troops in Zhensanshan, and no one escaped.

But the problem lies with the women Cheng Shijie sent home. Liu Yuer, whose hometown is in Huang County, is actually a widower. Liu Yuer was married by her father three years ago with a betrothal gift of twenty taels of silver and a cow.

She married Feng Shaodong, the young master of Feng's Buzhuang.

Feng Shaodong was a tuberculosis patient. When he married Liu Yuer, he heard that Liu Yuer had good horoscopes and was handsome, so he asked someone to propose marriage to the Liu family. As a result, Feng Shaodong died three days after the marriage. The Feng family attributed Feng Shaodong's death to Liu Yuer.

Drive Liu Yue'er back to her parents' home.

After Liu Yue'er returned to her parents' home, she helped her brother's wine and food shop. With Liu Yuer's help, the business of Liu's wine and food shop also improved a lot. By chance, Zhang Huairen met Huang County and took some elites to check out the place.

Liu Yue'er, Zhang Huairen fell in love with Liu Yue'er at first sight, so he had a wrong idea and snatched Liu Yue'er away.

Zhang Huairen did not bother to take Liu Yuer with him when he had time, so he put Liu Yuer in the Zhang family's pawn shop in Huang County. As a result, Zhang Huairen turned around and forgot about Liu Yuer. Xiao Xuan, the owner of the Zhang family's pawn shop, kept Liu Yuer in captivity for six years.

More than a month ago, by chance, I met Zhang Huairen again.

Mentioning Liu Yue'er, Zhang Huairen remembered it. He took Liu Yue'er back to his hometown in Zhangzhuang Village. This Liu Yue'er was born as a widow and worked as a waiter in Liu's wine and restaurant shop for more than three years. He was good at observing people's emotions and cooking. Zhang Huairen was

Income room.

When Cheng Shijie led his people to occupy Zhangzhuang Village, Liu Yuer was actually ready to run away. Zhang Huairen trusted her very much. She took the opportunity to secretly hide some gold and silver jewelry, especially Zhang Huairen who didn't know where to get a piece of gold silk.

Xieyi, this piece of clothing weighing more than twenty taels, was worn on Liu Yue'er at that time.

Naturally, the Ning Haijun soldiers under Cheng Shijie might search her, so Liu Yue'er took the dry food that Cheng Shijie rewarded her with, and she returned to her hometown in Huang County without incident.

Liu Yue'er was already well-known in Huang County. Not long after she returned home, she was discovered by Xiao Xuan, Zhang Ji's typical store manager. This Xiao Xuan naturally knew his young master's temperament. Even if Zhang Huairen got tired of playing with Liu Yue'er, he would not let her go.

The most likely possibility is to put Liu Yue'er in a dog pen and kill her alive, or to torture her to death.

The pawn shop originally kept thugs, so Xiao Xuan ordered the thugs to rob Liu Yue'er. After some threats, Liu Yue'er led Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun to annihilate Zhen Sanshan. Xiao Xuan didn't believe it at first, so he sent people to Zhangzhuang Village to check.

It was discovered that Zhangzhuang Village had become Ning Haijun's Tuntian Village.

After inquiring, they learned that these bandits were killed. After searching everywhere, no one of Zhang Huairen's men was found. Xiao Xuan hurried to Zhang Huairen's father, Zhang Sicheng.

Because Zhang Huairen is not only Zhang Sicheng's old son, but also an evil son. Zhang Huairen's biological mother is Zhang Sicheng's fourth brother Zhang Siliang's side wife. Although concubines are not as high-status as wives, it is very common to transfer gifts to each other. But there are three types of concubines, one is

There are two kinds of noble concubines, one is good concubine, and the other is bad concubine. Concubine, side wife, auxiliary wife, belongs to noble concubine. Side house belongs to good concubine. Accompanying concubine, serving concubine, maid concubine, and common room are bad concubines.

Usually the gifts given by friends' houses to each other are concubines, or concubines at home, or concubines bought from brothels, and Zhang Huairen's biological mother was Zhang Siliang's concubine. Once drunk, Zhang Sicheng took possession of his younger brother Zhang Siliang's concubine.

In the side room, this matter was planned to happen without anyone noticing.

But the problem is, if nothing else, there was an accident. At that time, Zhang Siliang was studying in Nanjing, and Zhang Huairen's biological mother was pregnant. This was a scandal for the Zhang family. In order to cover up the scandal, Zhang Sicheng claimed that Zhang Huairen was him.

's nephew.

Of course, within the Zhang family, everyone who should know about this matter knows it, and those who don't know will never know it.

After all, Zhang Huairen was his biological son. In addition to not being able to enter the Zhang family's genealogy, Zhang Huairen was given all kinds of treatment as a young master of the Zhang family. It was precisely because of connivance that Zhang Huairen developed a violent character.

Zhang Sicheng was still in Shanxi and could not receive any news for a while, but the Zhang family's revenge soon followed. First, they openly and openly falsely accused Cheng Shijie of massacring good people and taking credit for his crimes to the governor's office.

From now on, even Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, will betray the Zhang family and deal with Cheng Shijie. As long as the official position of Ning Haijun garrison is gone, if the Zhang family wants to make Cheng Shijie round, he will become round.

If Cheng Shijie becomes flat, he will become flat.

Laiyang's Zhang family has such strength, how can it be enough to deal with a military attache, just like Zhang Fei eating bean sprouts?

What's more, Zhang's energy is not comparable to that of Wang Xiangchun. If Wang Xiangchun is a star entrepreneur in Wuqiao County, then Zhang is a star entrepreneur in Shandong.

The gap between the two sides is almost equivalent to the gap between the richest man in the county and the richest man in the province.

…

Dengzhou is 240 miles away from Ninghai City, and it would take almost four days to walk normally.

Just when Sun Yuanhua sent a messenger to inform him to go to Dengzhou to confront the Zhang family in Laiyang, Cheng Shijie was at the gun bureau and received a set of equipment sent by Sun Yuanhua. Sun Yuanhua was also worried that Cheng Shijie had not seen the market and his craftsmen would not know how to do it.

Using these advanced equipment, more than 20 craftsmen were sent along.

The foreman is a Portuguese named Joao. This is a Portuguese phonetic translation, which means God’s beloved. This name is a common expression among the Portuguese, and is probably equivalent to the Ming Dynasty’s Wang Ergou, or Da Zhuang.

Qiao Ao speaks Chinese very fluently. If it weren't for his appearance, just listening to him speak, it would seem that the other person is a Dengzhou native, and his accent is even more authentic than Cheng Shijie's.

"Dear Lord Guard, don't think this is just a machine made of wood and steel. This is a boring machine, specially used to polish the inner chamber of cannons... Dear Lord Guard, don't doubt its power. As long as water power is used,

It's enough, it only takes six hours to grind the inner bore of any cannon so smooth that even a fly will fall over if it lands on it!"

Qiaoao excitedly introduced another machine to Cheng Shijie: "This is a drilling machine, specially used to drill gun barrels. If the water power is sufficient, it can drill a three-foot-long gun barrel in only two hours."

, and the scrap rate is extremely low!”

Even though Qiaoao was so confident, the moment he saw these machines, Cheng Shijie thought of a hundred ways to improve them. Using wood as the frame is indeed trouble-free, but the problem is that the wood is not hard enough, which will cause vibration during the rotation of the tool.

As the saying goes, a slight difference can make a huge difference. The vibration of the machine tool itself will cause huge errors, which is not even as good as Cheng Shijie's solution of vertical cold casting.

However, if these mechanical equipment were developed and copied by Ming craftsmen, they would definitely be able to make better ones. Sun Yuanhua, a technocrat, also made a mistake that most bureaucrats in later generations would make.

That is the superstitious belief in Europa. Europa was indeed ahead of the Ming Dynasty in some aspects of technology. However, the problem was that they had been lagging behind in many aspects, such as blast furnace steelmaking. Until 1707, which was the forty-sixth year of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Europe

Only then was the large 50-cubic-meter blast furnace invented, and according to the 44-cubic meter blast furnace unearthed in Xingyang, it was a product of the Western Han Dynasty.

This is the difference.

These mechanical equipment are not only rough, but also have poor precision. They only use hydraulic power, and that's all. The Ming Dynasty only restricted the use of mechanical equipment institutionally, rather than lacking the ability.

The craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the imperial court and the guards were craftsmen in their days. Inventing equipment would not bring them any profit, but would cause them to lose their jobs. Will the craftsmen improve their tools?

The answer is yes, absolutely not.

You would only do this if you have water in your head.

Very politely, he asked Western expert Qiao O to take a break. Without wasting any words, Cheng Shijie handed over this set of boring machines, vertical lathes, milling machines and planers to the measuring tape department.

Yes, this is a new department of Ning Haijun, which is responsible for the local production of important equipment and tools in the Ming Dynasty, such as dog-leg knives, crossbows, and four-wheeled carriages, and bearing imitations. With the improvement of steel-making technology,

High carbon steel, steel and manganese steel were successfully produced, and many things could be industrialized in the late Ming Dynasty.

Just when Cheng Shijie and the craftsmen from the tape measure department were preparing to improve these equipment with full steel, Cheng Hu said: "Father, someone is coming from Dengzhou!"

"Let him come over!"

Cheng Shijie discovered that the people who came were actually acquaintances. It turned out that the governor of Dengzhou, Biao Qinjun Primary School, didn't know it before, but now he knows that his name is Peng Jian. He is not tall and slightly dark. There is no one like him in Shandong.

There are also nine thousand in ten thousand.

"Brother Peng, it's hard work coming from afar!"

Cheng Shijie raised his hand towards Peng Jianhong, and then handed him a dog-leg knife.

Peng Jianhong said that this was an embarrassing thing, but he took the dog-leg knife with his body honestly. At first glance, he knew that this knife was not an ordinary knife, but was made of high-manganese steel by the Ordnance Bureau. After double-liquid treatment, the hardness should be as high as 100%.

It has almost caught up with the industrial products of later generations, but the production efficiency is far behind.

"Master Cheng, Master Futai asked you to receive the news and go to Dengzhou City!"

"I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing!"

Peng Jianhong also showed his professional ethics: "Master Cheng, when did you provoke the Zhang family in Laiyang?"

Cheng Shijie frowned slightly: "Laiyang Zhang family?"

"It's no big deal. You are now a popular figure in front of Mr. Futai. Among the eight generals of the Denglai New Army, who has seen Mr. Futai's good expression? This is a confrontation with the Zhang family in Laiyang. There should be nothing wrong with him.

Trouble, the Zhang family is not easy to mess with, but Mr. Futai also wants to save face!"

Cheng Shijie didn't think too much. His confidence was that Zhang Huairen was still in his hands, and there were more than 200 people under Zhen Sanshan in his hands. They were all hostages.

We have a hostage in hand, so we're scared as hell.

Leaving the tape measure department, Cheng Shijie took the fifty personal guards of the Guards, as well as Cheng Hu and Chen Guodong, and headed for Dengzhou City in a carriage and trailer.

The cold wind is howling and snowflakes are falling.

Cheng Shijie's carriage house was still as warm as spring. As the vehicle swayed, Cheng Shijie closed his eyes and fell asleep.

"Master Guards, Dengzhou City has arrived!"

"Enter the city!"
Chapter completed!