Chapter 348 I have something I don’t know whether to say or not.
When Zhu Di and others rushed to Shangyuan County.
The county magistrate looked miserable.
This county magistrate was originally just the chief bookkeeper of the county, but Shangyuan County Magistrate committed an offense and the county magistrate was forced to resign, so he directly replaced him.
These days, he has been busy clearing his land. Who knows... disaster is coming.
He saluted Zhu Di and said with trembling fear: "This explosion happened in a no-man's land. It was a land leased by a group of people called the Thirteen Taibao. There... there were no people there, it was just an explosion.
The power of the fire was very powerful... The huts of many farmers within a few hundred meters of the radius collapsed. In addition... it also caused a fire... and injured many people..."
"Fortunately, the area has been cleared of people, and the troublemakers... seem to have been on guard, so... no one died. The farmers have already sent many of the perpetrators to the county government. The official wanted to interrogate them.
, but I heard that they were people from the Qixia Military Workshop, and they felt that the matter was not simple, so they were only temporarily detained and asked for the reason first."
His organization was quite clear, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that no one had died.
Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi: "Thirteen Taibao?"
Zhang Anshi has slowly calmed down. In fact, he is really afraid that something will happen. There are too many things to take care of now. He can't escape the blame for anything that goes wrong.
It is no joke that with greater ability comes greater responsibility.
However, some people actually think that Zhang Anshi is cold-blooded and shirks responsibility when things happen.
It's a pity that there are tens of thousands of imperial guards, thousands of model camps, and tens of thousands of officials, not to mention, there are countless workshops under the rule. If you take everything on yourself, call him if something goes wrong.
Zhang Anshi is responsible. If Zhang Anshi still refuses to shirk, isn't this a lunatic?
What's more, things in military workshops are inherently dangerous. Even if many safety measures are formulated, if they are closely guarded, any accident is possible with this thing, because many people themselves don't know what they are tinkering with. God knows you.
If you add one thing to another substance and you use fire to burn it, will it blow someone up to the sky directly? Or will the volatile stuff knock down a whole room of people?
You want to say cruel, but the problem is... He is like this with everything in this world. Any progress is made through blood and sweat. There is no good thing that is safe and does not require paying a price.
If pie could fall from the sky, I would be crazy to plow the fields.
Zhang Anshi was also very confused when he heard about the Thirteen Taibao. He couldn't help but look at Yang Rong: "Mr. Yang... you are well-informed, have you heard of it?"
Yang Rong smiled bitterly and said: "The Taibao is an official position, one of the three princes, but... the thirteen Taibao... was actually Li Keyong, the governor of the late Tang Dynasty at that time. This man adopted many adopted sons, a total of thirteen people.
They fought very bravely, so people at that time called them the Thirteen Taibao. Since then... many people have regarded the word Taibao as the title of a brave man."
Zhang Anshi said: "That's it."
Zhu Di said: "I didn't decree the title of Taibao, but they dare to designate themselves. It's really unreasonable."
Zhang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, please calm down and understand the situation first before speaking."
At that moment, people called the craftsmen again.
These craftsmen were detained. They thought they were being interrogated and heard that His Majesty was coming in person. Their faces turned pale with fear. Only when they heard that Duke Wei was also here did they feel slightly relieved.
Asked the whole story.
The Marquis of Baoding, who had been howling just now, suddenly became wilted and hid behind the crowd for fear that someone would look at him.
Zhu Di looked at Baoding Hou Mengshan and said coldly: "Okay, your son... is incredible. Not to mention that he is so bold that he did such an earth-shattering thing. He actually dares to call himself Taibao. If he dares to claim to be the Third Duke today, then tomorrow
...Don’t you still want to make yourself the emperor?”
Mengshan, Marquis of Baoding, felt like the world was spinning. He cursed himself in his heart for giving birth to such a little beast. He prostrated himself and cried, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... This child was fine before, but since he was taken away by Duke Wei, I have no choice but to give birth to such a little beast."
Thinking of it, it turned out to be like this... The sinner will die... Ten thousand deaths..."
Zhang Anshi: "..."
Zhu Di said coldly: "I dared to cause such a thing in Shangyuan County. I originally thought that these boys would be able to keep their peace after taking Qixia with them. Who would have expected that they would be so arrogant? They are really daring.
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Zhang Anshi immediately said: "Your Majesty...I have never taught them this. I think they are self-taught."
Zhu Di waved his hand: "Come here...come with me. If I...don't show them some color today, this Ming Dynasty will really become a place without king's law."
At that moment, he left the county government office, got on his horse, and galloped away.
All the guards followed in large numbers.
The Marquis of Baoding stood up angrily, with a mixture of joy and sorrow on his face.
Fortunately, my son is still alive.
The bad news is that this son should have drowned in a bucket of urine when he was born. How could he let the Meng family confiscate and exterminate their family?
Zhang Anshi took advantage of His Majesty's advance, stepped forward, and said with a wry smile: "Marquis Baoding... I really didn't teach him..."
Meng Shandao: "It's you, it's you, it's you! I am such a good son. In the past, I only beat people, scolded people, and at most I only followed Ding Guogong to steal chickens and dogs. How could I dare to do such a thing as beheading?"
Zhang Anshi saw that he was chattering endlessly and still reading, so he ran away in a hurry.
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A group of people quickly surrounded the workshop.
Then, dozens of Han generals moved forward with their swords in hand and opened the thick door of the workshop.
A eunuch rushed in quickly and shouted: "Your Majesty is here... everyone... go and check first to see if there is anything that can be exploded."
So, another group of guards in uniform rushed in.
Zhu Di couldn't help but be speechless when he looked at the high walls of this workshop. He had been to Qixia many times, and this was the first time he came to a place like this. The defense here was even tighter than the Forbidden City.
No wonder those guys, who are the kings and hegemons here, don't make any noise. I thought it had been changed, but who would have expected... they just suppressed the news.
Xu Jingchang and others...were driven out.
When they saw that the emperor was coming in person and that many people were holding open fire, they were already stunned with fear.
Xu Jingchang hurriedly brought people to see him.
Zhu Di was riding on a horse, waving a whip in his hand. When he saw Xu Jingchang, he was furious. He pointed the whip at him condescendingly and said: "But Taibao Xu..."
Xu Jingchang: "..."
Xu Jingchang didn't respond.
Zhu Di said angrily: "I see, asking the Taibao to look down on you is too disrespectful. You should be the Taishi."
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."
"Do you know what you committed?"
"Chen...Chen...no..."
Zhu Di began to count people: "One, two...three...twelve...thirteen...fourteen..."
"Why fourteen people?"
Xu Jingchang said: "Your Majesty... I have been wronged... They call themselves the Thirteen Taibao, and I have been wronged..."
Xu Jingchang roared heartbreakingly.
The thirteen people behind them lowered their heads, not daring to express their anger.
Zhang Anshi sounded a little familiar, and was actually a little dumbfounded.
It's just...many people looked at Zhang Anshi.
Especially the Duke of Cheng, Zhu Neng, and the Duke of Qi, Qiu Fu.
When the Baoding Marquis Mengshan saw this, he had already dismounted, rushed towards the crowd, picked up his son, and slapped him several times: "Fuck you, mother, you dare to do such a thing, why don't you plead guilty."
The child was beaten until he was knocked unconscious and said, "Dad, I don't care about you."
Meng Shan got even angrier and raised his hands to fight. He was extremely sad and angry. Isn't he a huge fool? Zhang Anshi fooled Xu Jingchang, and Xu Jingchang fooled you brainless guys.
Zhu Di said angrily: "It is a national law. Are Meng Qing's family going to lynching?"
After hearing this, Meng Shan hurriedly bowed down and said that he would die. "
Zhu Di was also aroused at this time. He said angrily: "At the beginning, I expected that the descendants of honorable ministers would be ruined if they were pampered. I thought... you can still remember the merits of your fathers. It is not easy to start a business.
There is always some conscience left, not so evil, at most, it is... difficult to bear the heavy responsibility. Who would have expected that you are so bad, your wings have grown hard, you have appointed yourself to official positions, and disturbed the people, how dare you?
This kind of thinking, especially for you...you are Duke Dingguo, and your father...died for Jingnan. As a son, you should know how difficult it is for your deceased father to inherit his legacy. Why do you dare to do such a thing?
thing?"
Xu Jingchang, Duke of Dingguo, was so frightened that he didn't say a word. He just buried his head and prostrated on the ground. He knew Zhu Di well and must not contradict him at this time. His Majesty would stop scolding him when he was tired of scolding him.
Zhu Di looked sideways at Zhang Anshi: "Zhang Qing's family...didn't you say that by imprisoning them here, they would become talented?"
Zhang Anshi had a wry smile on his face. What could he say? Could it be that this is the worst class of students I have ever brought up? These bitches, they were not good people when they were born in the womb and cannot be brought up?
Zhu Di said angrily: "Do you know... what is the crime of secretly manufacturing gunpowder?"
After Xu Jingchang heard this, he quickly denied it: "Your Majesty, this is not private manufacturing, this is a military workshop, which makes all kinds of..."
"Shut up, I told you to be who you are!"
Xu Jingchang said: "Yes, yes, I am dead because I made gunpowder privately... No, I didn't make gunpowder privately. It's an injustice, a huge injustice."
Zhu Di: "..."
Zhu Di didn't expect this guy to dare to talk back.
Xu Jingchang said: "This is... this is according to... according to brother-in-law's method..."
Zhang Anshi immediately interrupted him: "Okay, let's talk about your own problems, don't rely on others for everything!"
Xu Jingchang said: "Brother-in-law, let me tell you the truth, we...we are doing an experiment."
"Experiment..." Zhu Di couldn't help but laugh angrily: "What kind of experiment is this?"
"Power...power..." Xu Jingchang said.
Zhu Di didn't understand.
The rest of the people were also confused.
Only Zhang Anshi could probably understand a little bit, but...seeing these crooked melons and cracked dates, he didn't want to speak.
Xu Jingchang said quickly: "Your Majesty... this dynamic experiment... you know, it is to boil water... boiling water produces gas, and then uses piston and other principles to make it move."
Zhu Di: "..."
Zhu Di generally understood every word here, but if he connected them all, Zhu Di felt that he had become illiterate.
Xu Jingchang said: "I... used this to burn steam, and it was quite successful, but... this thing... is still too weak, but as the saying goes, now that you know this principle, then you can burn other things...
...Maybe it can have greater power, so... I thought of a way, if I use kerosene... plus gunpowder, add them together, and burn it... This power,
Can't it be doubled? So...I and others...experimented. Who would have expected...maybe they wanted to achieve it in one go, so...the gunpowder and kerosene...were added a little more..."
"A little bit……"
Zhu Di was furious. Not to mention, just a little bit from this guy's mouth and the sound of the explosion had already reached the Forbidden City.
Zhu Di stepped forward to hit the horse and wanted to give him a whip, shouting: "Now, I still want to deceive you. If it weren't for your late father's sake, I would have killed you, you bastard."
Snap...
After Xu Jingchang received a whip, he immediately became honest and cried loudly: "It's unfair, it's unfair..."
Seeing that he was making such a loud noise, Zhu Di finally relented. He was about to whip him down, but the whip in his hand stopped abruptly. He finally sighed: "The second emperor of Qin died, so did the Sui Dynasty.
It's because my descendants are unworthy. I am blessed, and my descendants are finally up to par. As for your family, your father and brother worked so hard back then. Now, we have finally earned the family fortune. Who would have thought...
It’s because of you bastards. Here comes...an order..."
He stirred his horse with an angry look on his face: "Lock them up, and their titles... will be inherited from their sons..."
Xu Jingchang and others... were scared to death.
Xu Jingchang said: "I am the only son in my family."
Zhu Di glanced at him: "Then let your brother-in-law's son inherit. If you don't open your mouth, you will be your brother-in-law."
Xu Jingchang: "..."
Zhang Anshi: "..."
Is there such a good thing?
Zhang Anshi paused for a moment, then hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, no, no... I..."
Zhu Di said: "I'm talking about his brother-in-law."
"Oh." Zhang Anshi lowered his head and hesitated to speak.
Yang Rong and others were standing aside, already eager to give it a try.
Obviously, although I knew that what His Majesty said was angry, no matter how I said it, it was against etiquette and law to say it.
Just kidding, even if it is inherited by a concubine, or even by an uncle's cousins, I have never heard of... giving it to a nephew.
If this is the case, wouldn't Zhang Anshi also become the heir to the royal family?
Before anyone could try to persuade him, Zhu Di waved his hand and said, "There is no need to persuade me. What I said was angry. Then we should depose the Duke of Dingguo first and see what the consequences are. This kid didn't say a word of truth in his mouth. I'm so angry."
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Xu Jingchang said: "Your Majesty, I did not... did not deceive you... I was really doing an experiment."
Zhu Di said angrily: "What kind of bird experiment are you doing? Don't use this as a cover."
"I...I...all listen to my brother-in-law. It was my brother-in-law who taught me what to do..."
Zhang Anshi immediately began to move his legs back unconsciously. After moving a few steps, someone ouched and stepped on Jin Zhong's foot behind him: "Ah, no wonder I said there will be a bloody disaster today."
Zhang Anshi had no choice but to hide at this time, so he had to say: "Your Majesty, there really is such an experiment, I dare not deceive it."
Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi: "You don't have to hide it for him."
"Your Majesty, this motivation... is really a great subject. If you learn it well, it can change the world's structure..."
Zhu Di: "..."
Zhang Anshi said: "It's just that they are stupid. They only know what is happening but don't know why. They are messing around. I have given them the best solution, but they don't follow it, but just stare at the gunpowder and kerosene.
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"Really?" Zhu Di looked suspicious.
At this time, Zhang Anshi had no choice but to scold Xu Jingchang to vent his anger on Zhu Di. Maybe Zhu Di would decide to forgive them later, so he angrily said to Xu Jingchang: "You bastard, the good things you did, teach me
When you are away from home, don’t call me by my name, you insist on doing this..."
Then he scolded: "I asked you to study in the direction of steam, but you just chose to mess with that."
"Brother-in-law..." Xu Jingchang said with red eyes: "I have studied it. Steam... has been researched, but it is too simple... doesn't it just build a boiler, burn coal in it, and then boil water? Even fools understand."
Zhang Anshi said: "Hey, you dare to talk back, don't you? It's one thing to understand its principle, and it's another thing to produce a finished product. There is no such easy thing in the world. I have never taught you. In the world,
Are all things easier said than done? A bunch of bastards who don't want to learn from anyone but want to imitate those damn scholars. They only know how to talk and talk about their hearts and minds, but in fact they don't understand anything.
"
Hu Guang, standing next to Yang Rong: "..."
Then Xu Jingchang said: "The finished product is also out, but it's too weak and not very powerful... We don't think it's interesting."
Zhang Anshi was stunned: "What kind of finished product?"
"My brother-in-law wrote the principles and outline of steam engines himself..."
Zhang Anshi looked surprised and said: "Really? Don't lie to me, I am not your Majesty. Your Majesty is a sharp-tongued man with a soft heart. Today he said that he would imprison you and take away your title. Tomorrow he would release you and restore your title."
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Zhu Di's face twitched.
Xu Jingchang said: "How dare you lie? This guy is bulky, so...in another test site, we reported it at the beginning, saying that there were great results. Unfortunately, my brother-in-law ignored us, so we still said...
My brother-in-law was not satisfied with this and was thinking about how to change the way of boiling water. Then..."
Zhang Anshi looked surprised and was speechless.
"Can you move?"
"able."
"you sure?"
"I'm sure, I've tried it many times."
When Zhu Di saw the two of them talking to each other, he found that his words were confused, so he angrily asked Zhang Anshi, "What are you talking about?"
At this time, Zhang Anshi became proud. He put his hands on his waist, raised his nostrils to the sky, and said proudly: "Your Majesty, I have something I don't know whether to say or not!"
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Staying up late every day has indeed slowed down my efficiency. Sorry, Tiger will continue to adjust.