Chapter 192 If the weasel pays New Year greetings to the chicken, good things will come of it

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 192 If the weasel pays New Year greetings to the chicken, good things will come of it

Chapter 191

The queen Zhang Yan has a good reputation in history and is even described as a white lotus by some people. Of course, this is impossible. If she were really a white lotus, she would not be alive until now.

Even Emperor Tianqi could die suddenly, let alone her. This place in the palace has the most people in the world, and those who can persevere are outstanding.

As Zhang Jin explained the whole story.

Zhang Yan was stunned.

How stupid could someone be fooled by this?

Zhang Jin said with an aggrieved look: "Sister, I really didn't mean to harm anyone... I just wanted to throw your carriage in Cheng Shijie's courtyard and have the Jinyi guards come and search his mansion to embarrass him!"

Queen Zhang is very speechless now.

Was it Cheng Shijie’s face that was embarrassed?

Is this the face of Zhang Yan, the queen, that is being dishonored?

If this matter is too low-level, what kind of trouble can it cause Cheng Shijie?

Even if it was a simple matter to deal with Cheng Shijie, let the coachman drive the carriage and directly hit Cheng Shijie's carriage, or an out-of-control carriage hit the gate of Cheng's mansion, what else could Cheng Shijie do as Queen Zhang Yan?

Can Cheng Shijie still get Zhang Yan to come and apologize?

Don't say whether Cheng Shijie dared or not. Even if he dared, it was Emperor Chongzhen who had to apologize, not Zhang Yan.

It's better now, because her stupid brother made things worse.

With her disappearance, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to dig deep. Now all the civil and military officials knew everything they should know, and they should also know what they shouldn't know.

I'm afraid many people also knew the inside story. Zhang Yan, the queen's younger brother, was jealous of Cheng Shijie's unparalleled achievements and retaliated against him.

Let’s not talk about how much impact this incident had on Zhang Yan, the queen. The key is how Zhang Yan will gain a foothold in the palace in the future. This is a sign of lax imperial control and poor discipline. Her father Zhang Guoji cannot escape this crime.

Lost.

What to do now, Zhang Yan is also in chaos. Of course, if she reports directly to Emperor Chongzhen, Zhang Jin, a bastard, will be ruined for the rest of his life even if he doesn't die.

But let Zhang Guoji...

Zhang Yan could only think about how to deal with the difficulties in front of her.

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Cheng Shijie did not pay too much attention to the disappearance of Queen Zhang Yan, because he knew very well that this issue was actually very simple, and could be big or small, or make a big fuss about it.

The key depends on Emperor Chongzhen's attitude. Soon, Emperor Chongzhen's attitude was revealed. First of all, Emperor Chongzhen never agreed to Cheng Shijie's request to restore the Twenty-Five Guards Memorial of Liaodong. It was not until now that Emperor Chongzhen agreed.

Since the Twenty-Five Guards of Liaodong had long been decommissioned, the Ministry of War transferred the Five Guards of Henan, the Five Guards of Shandong, and the Five Guards of Beizhili from the Fifth Army Governor's Office, a total of fifteen Guards and eight independent thousand-household stations, with a total of one hundred and eight thousand troops.

People began to be assigned and transferred to Liaonan.

Rebuild Jinzhou Guard, Jinzhou Left Guard, Jinzhou Forward Guard, Jinzhou Right Guard, Gaizhou Guard, Lushun Guard, Haizhou Guard, Fuzhou Guard, Guangning Guard, Liaozhong Guard, Liaoyang Left Guard, Liaoyang Right Guard, Liaoyang

Zuotunwei, Liaoyang Zuotunwei, Anshanwei.

This imperial decree was made known to the world, and Emperor Chongzhen used it to prove that he still trusted Cheng Shijie. If he didn't trust him, how could he give Cheng Shijie more than 100,000 troops at once?

Although it was said that the guardsmen were no longer useful, Emperor Chongzhen had no intention of throwing away the burden, but the problem was that this signal represented trust.

Following the promulgation of this imperial edict, Emperor Chongzhen asked officials from the Ministry of Etiquette to come and guide Cheng Shijie in royal etiquette to prevent any mistakes during the wedding.

Cheng Shijie actually felt quite guilty about getting married in the Ming Dynasty. Women were said to be very sensitive, and he was also worried that Xiang Hui would find out about the problem.

However, Cheng Shijie was not idle during this period of time in the capital.

Because Cheng Shijie knows that a modern army can't just shoot guns. Artillery is a technical branch. There are actually many scholars in the Ming Dynasty. Cheng Shijie cannot trust these scholars who are influenced by official-oriented thinking. However, artillery requires calculation and a certain level of education, but

Ning Haijun still has a huge gap in cultivating qualified artillery.

In the past, there were more people than cannons, but now with the increase in the production capacity of the Gun Bureau, the production of three-inch cannons has reached 36 guns a month, and on average more than one cannon can be produced in a day.

This speed is obviously sufficient for the development of Ning Haijun's artillery, but the problem is that there are too few qualified artillerymen. In order to solve this problem, Cheng Shijie had to retire the original Folang cannon. In fact, the Folan cannon

Machine artillery is still very advanced in this era. It would be a pity to retire it.

In the future, the Ning Navy will need to deal with rogue bandits. Unlike the Jiannu slaves, the rogue bandits do not have a strong will to fight. They only need a cannon blast to kill or injure dozens or hundreds of people or tens of thousands of horses. They will collapse immediately. In this case, the Franco machine artillery must

Keep it in mind, you can't use explosive bombs that can kill dozens or hundreds of people in one shot to fight against rogues.

After all, the bandits are ordinary people who cannot survive. Cheng Shijie is not willing to kill the bandits in large numbers. Therefore, even if Ning Haijun has produced enough artillery, he still wants to keep the Folan machine artillery and a large number of crossbows.

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Unlike firearms, lead is highly toxic. Once shot, in the era of lack of antibiotics, once shot, it is basically hopeless. But the crossbow is different. Even if the target does not have armor, as long as it does not hit the vital part, it will

If an arrow pierces the thigh or arm, as long as the bones are not damaged, there is still a chance of survival and no disability.

But the problem is that even if a shot from a musket hits non-vital parts such as limbs, it is not easy to survive. When dealing with Jiannu, Cheng Shijie was afraid that the weapons were not poisonous enough. When facing rogue bandits in the future, he was afraid that the weapons would be too poisonous.

This is a typical double standard of Cheng Shijie.

For this reason, recruiting manpower and recruiting manpower with a certain level of education has become an urgent problem for Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie does not consider recruiting from traditional scholars. There is only one group of people who can meet the demand, and that is the men trained by merchants. These men can read.

Able to read and calculate.

Of course, they also have problems, such as being cunning and cunning. This is actually not a big problem. If they are trained in Ning Haijun, their bad habits will be removed and cultivated slowly, and they will have a certain cultural foundation.

It's easier to start from scratch than to start from scratch.

Even if training is started from scratch, Ning Haijun faces a serious shortage of teachers.

Sun Zhiwan was doing this. Cheng Shijie was quite satisfied with Sun Chengzong's grandson, who knew how to advance and retreat, had a good eye, and was very capable.

"Meet the Duke!"

"Yongyan, you're out of sight!"

“The etiquette cannot be discarded!”

Sun Zhiwan also knew that Cheng Shijie liked to get straight to the point, and when he had something to say, he said directly: "What the Duke asked me to do has been done. After this period of recruitment, a total of 857 people have been recruited.

These people can read more than 2,000 words and understand certain calculations. If some conditions are relaxed, more than 2,000 people can be recruited. This is the roster!"

Cheng Shijie held the thick roster and couldn't help but sigh that the demographic dividend of the Ming Dynasty was indeed unrivaled. If the prosperous Tang Dynasty had the population of the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that Europe is still speaking Tang dialect.

The literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty is not high. Compared with later generations, it is definitely the highest in the world. According to Evelyn Sakakida Rawski (Evelyn Sakakida Rawski) conducted a special study, she concluded that in the mid-19th century

By late stage, about 30% to 45% of men and 2% to 10% of women are literate. Thus, the lower limit averages 16.6% to 20.5% and the higher limit is 24% to 28%.

Luo Youzhi's main reasons are: First, lower-level civil servants can read and write, and there are at least a hundred such clerks in small cities, and at most more than 3,000 in big cities, so there are about three million grass-roots civil servants in the country (

The term of office of grass-roots civil servants is five years, and the number of conservative candidates is approximately twice the number of positions). This does not include officials working in counties, provinces, and the central government, as well as officials employed by the government to assist in handling government affairs.

Secondly, most businessmen are also literate, because accounting in commercial activities, keeping transaction history records, reporting to the government, etc. all require basic reading and writing skills. Thirdly, workers at ports and docks and ship owners traveling to various places need to sign contracts during trade.

Contracts can also be read and written. Finally, ordinary people need contracts, or at least ghostwriters, to purchase, mortgage property, lease land, hire labor, borrow money, and even buy and sell children.

As the center of written communication, the literacy rate in cities is certainly very high, and the literacy rate in rural areas is also higher than we imagined. The main driving force for the spread of literacy is the development of printing after the thirteenth century. This view is almost universal

The common conclusion of cultural historians is that the reasoning process is as follows: In the Ming Dynasty, not only book printing continued to develop, but also publishing was highly commercialized, and popular books were published in large numbers.

Southern Liaoning is a special phenomenon. This group mainly comes from two aspects. The first is Dongjiang Army soldiers and soldiers and civilians who are mainly the surviving people in Liaodong. The refugees who cannot survive are mainly from Henan and Shandong. The third part is the source.

Yu Dengzhou Wei.

The more than 10,000 people in the Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Office, where Cheng Shijie started his career, have now become a minority group in southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie put down the roster and said calmly: "Yongyan, I want these people. The army adopts a elimination system for selection. Unqualified people can be brushed off. Now it's not just the artillery that is short of people, the supply troops also need a lot of people."

Talents who can calculate and read and write, let's say, the conditions are relaxed, people who can read and write 1,500 words, and people who can add and subtract within 10,000 words are all recruited."

“It’s not a small number for these two thousand people to eat and drink!”

"If you don't have enough money, then ask Zheng Qi for it!"

At this time, Zheng Qi followed Cheng Shijie to the capital and was mainly responsible for Cheng Shijie's accounts. However, what made Cheng Shijie very angry was that Zheng Qi looked sloppy.

Except for the first time when Zheng Jian, Zheng Qi and his daughter came to see Cheng Shijie under the recommendation of Yang Yunniang, Zheng Qi was already married and the son-in-law was hired as a door-to-door son-in-law.

Working with Yang Yunniang had no impact, but when he came to the capital, Zheng Qi suddenly became sloppy.

Of course Cheng Shijie understood what she meant, pointed at Zheng Qi and said angrily: "I said you can't comb your hair? Can't you change into clean clothes? You have disheveled hair all day long, wearing men's clothes, and don't wash your face. It's a shame.

Is it smeared with soy sauce? You smeared it on purpose, right? Who are you guarding against? If I wanted to bully you, could you still hide until today?"

Living in troubled times, being beautiful is a sin for women.

Zheng Qi must have understood this, so when he stayed with Cheng Shijie, he looked slovenly and unkempt all day long. His clothes had not been washed for who knows how long, and his body still smelled a bit moldy.

It is good for women to have the awareness to protect themselves, but to this extent, it is a bit too much.

Apart from anything else, Zheng Qi is now Cheng Shijie's accountant. Not only does he have to deal with Cheng Shijie, the boss, he will also have to deal with all kinds of gods and Buddhas in the future. His own people also have to say that if outsiders see Zheng Qi, they will say something or

If I don’t say it, I might be complaining about Cheng Shijie’s offbeat hobbies in my heart.

What's more, a beautiful woman turns herself into such a ghost all day long. Does this reflect that Cheng Shijie is a pervert?
To be continued...