Chapter 123
"Pull into the woods, you woman, don't do it..."
"Commander, let's listen to what this woman has to say. It's not too late to draw a conclusion!"
Chen Zilong spoke up.
Cheng Shijie naturally "gave" him face: "What happened next?"
"Those three people entered the woods and couldn't wait to tear off the clothes of the women..."
Yang Hua choked up and told the truth of the incident. Yang Hua's eloquence was excellent. As she spoke, everyone present seemed to have listened to a vivid and erotic performance.
Cheng Shijie looked at Yang Hua, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying: "You say you have no proof, do you have any evidence?"
Yang Hua shook her head: "No!"
"Since there is no evidence, I will also..."
Before Cheng Shijie finished speaking, Chen Zilong, a flatterer, immediately took over the conversation: "You said those three people tore your clothes, what about those clothes?"
Yang Hua subconsciously covered her clothes.
Chen Zilong took a closer look and found that Yang Hua's clothes were densely covered with stitches, restoring the tattered parts to their original state.
Chen Zilong said: "Your clothes and the scars on your body are evidence!"
Yang Hua was so frightened that her face turned pale.
Chen Zilong winked at Miss Xu Si, Mardina. Mardina understood and took Yang Hua to the carriage with his mother-in-law.
After a short time, the woman reported to Martina: "According to the slave's inspection, Yang's body does have multiple bruises, and..."
Chen Zilong said: "Shuai Cheng, there is no government office in southern Liaoning yet, but the marshal is the person with the highest official position in southern Liaoning, so he should accept the case!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Yang Hua and said, "Who are the three people you mentioned? Whose last name is that?"
Yang Hua shook her head and said, "I don't know!"
Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "This is not easy to handle!"
Yang Hua said angrily: "But there is one person, even if he turns into ashes, I can still recognize him!"
Yang Hua is a smart person, she actually knows it very well. Risks often breed opportunities. The greater the risk, the greater the opportunity, and the greater the reward.
From the moment she agreed to Yang Yuniang's promise, she was not only relieved, but also felt suddenly enlightened. Due to the pressure of life, she had to rely on the door to show off her laughter. However, as her son got older and older, the rumors became more and more intense. Because the son had a mother who half-hidden the door, it was difficult for him to hold his head up and lead a life.
She decided to withdraw and also decided to be a good person. But no matter what you do, the stains of the past cannot be washed away.
However, there is such a good opportunity now. If she seizes it, it will not only wash away the stains of the past, but it will also be a great help to her son's life.
It was done, and she had great success.
Even if the matter failed, Cheng Shijie would take care of everything, and she would have no loss.
Cheng Shijie said: "Ma Shilin!"
"The humble position is here!"
"Go and investigate. From three days ago until now, how many people have left Jinzhou City. But three days ago, there was no way to prove the time of the crime, where they were, and what they did. Let's gather them all together. Yang recognizes someone!”
Only then did Cheng Shijie know how big the flow of people is in Jinzhou today. The number of people leaving the city every day is between 12,000 and 19,000. The number entering the city is about the same as the number leaving the city, 15,000. Between a thousand and twenty thousand people.
This means that the daily flow of people in Jinzhou City is around 30,000 to 40,000 people.
However, because there was no witness to prove what he did at the time of the crime, under a probability screening, in fact, there were less than 2,000 people without witnesses.
These two thousand people were recognized one by one by Yang Hua.
Chen Zilong was very angry at this time, and all the rich men also subconsciously believed that these three lewd thieves should be from Ning Haijun.
Chen Zilong said: "Shuai Cheng, in order to show fairness, we should also pull out all the soldiers under the commander's command. Let the Yang family recognize them."
"That's fine!"
Excluding Ning Haijun's soldiers who were not out of the camp, plus the military personnel who were on duty, there were less than 800 people allowed to be out of the camp.
It takes a long time to recognize people. It takes a long time for a person to recognize more than 6,000 people. It cannot be done in a while, especially the soldiers of Ning Haijun. They have the same military uniform and the same temperament. It is not easy to recognize one person. easy.
The impact of the incident of "Ning Navy soldiers beating up scholars" and "civilian women being dragged into the woods" continues to ferment. The influence is getting bigger and bigger. Liaonan Weekly even published a reward notice in the newspaper to find witnesses.
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The resettlement camps in southern Liaoning were completely transformed in April. They were no longer dens, but rows of red-brick and red-tiled houses.
"Name!"
"Yang Qingyun!"
"Profession!"
"Mr. Langzhong!"
After the staff heard the word "Mr. Zhong", they immediately looked up at Yang Qingyun. Yang Qingyun is in his thirties, has a calm attitude, is gentle, has a gentle temperament, and has a "moderate" temperament.
"How many people are in the family?"
Yang Qingyun bowed and said: "Nine people!"
"Come here and arrange the resettlement area for No. 15."
The staff didn't say much. Yang Qingyun followed the staff to the courtyard of No. 15. This is a room very similar to the Central Plains Poverty Home. There are five houses in a row, four of which are bedrooms. It is divided into two rooms for men and women. When you enter the room, there are three beds, three small tables, and a row of cabinets.
If I had to say that the layout of this room is a bit like a hospital ward in later generations.
After living in the resettlement site for three days, people came to observe the Yang Qingyun family every day. Until the fourth day, they were assigned a four-wheeled carriage and started to go to Jinzhou City and directly entered the Ning Haijun Field Hospital to work.
The standard capacity of a four-wheeled passenger carriage is twelve people. Of course, twelve adult men would be somewhat crowded, but Yang Qingyun's family of nine would feel a little empty.
Yang Qingyun's wife said worriedly: "Dad, where are they taking us?"
"When it comes to this, you can go anywhere!"
Yang Qingyun's father was Yang Qinian, the imperial physician in the capital. Emperor Tianqi fell into the water in the seventh year of Tianqi, and then fell ill. The imperial doctor diagnosed him many times, but the treatment was ineffective. On August 22, the seventh year of Tianqi, Emperor Tianqi died. As one of the imperial doctors who diagnosed and treated Emperor Tianqi, Yang Qinian was beheaded.
Yang Qingyun's family fled the capital in a hurry. They originally planned to return to their hometown of Nanjing, but they never expected that they would be reported before they stabilized in Nanjing.
Therefore, Yang Qingyun had no choice but to flee to Suizhou together and join his brother-in-law. Fortunately, Yang Qingyun's brother-in-law is a kind man. With his help, Yang Qingyun returned to his old business of conducting consultations in Guidefu City. If there are no accidents, with the medical skills that Yang Qingyun has learned from his father for more than 20 years, there will be no problem for the Yang family to rise again.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. Last winter, one of Yang Qingyun's patients died of illness, which brought a huge disaster to Yang Qingyun's family.
Hou Shu (Hou Xun's third brother) from the Hou family in Guide Fucheng took too much medicine at that time, so he asked Yang Qingyun to diagnose and treat him. This was not considered to be Yang Qingyun's poor medical skills, but after Hou Shu died, the Hou family would not let it go.
At that time, the Hou family, a three-level Jinshi family, was unparalleled in Guide Mansion. In desperation, the Yang's Pharmacy, which had just established its family, and Yang Qingyun's brother-in-law's family sold their properties. I heard that Cheng Shijie was recruiting in southern Liaoning. As refugees, they used their last money to buy boat tickets and came to Liaonan.
Yang Qingyun, who was sitting in the carriage, listened to the driver chatting with the driver of another four-wheel carriage running parallel to him.
Through their chat, we learned that apart from two major cases in Liaonan recently, there was actually only one case.
First, Ning Haijun's soldiers beat three scholars, and the scholars surrounded Cheng Shijie's military headquarters gate. Later, things took a dramatic turn. Originally, it was not Ning Haijun who beat General Liu Qingsong and others, but he saw justice. promising. It turns out that at that time, the three intellectuals Jiang Shizhong, Su Xian, and Gu Wenming were attracted by their lust, and they raped a commoner woman named Yang.
Liu Qingsong then became angry and beat Jiang Shizhong, Su Xian and Gu Wenming.
At this time, Yang Qingyun discovered that there was a newspaper in the cloth bag of the carriage. The front page of the newspaper actually printed "Ning Haijun Chief Cheng Shijie's Letter to the People". In fact, this was a public apology letter.
In this public letter of apology, Cheng Shijie wrote: "...the reason why they bravely sacrifice themselves in critical moments without worrying about their future is because they believe that there is a high wall of protection behind them and the strength to rely on. If this behavior is let down or even deceived, , that will be a shame for the entire society and will chill everyone. If there is a next time, who will be willing to act bravely? Those who work for everyone are most afraid of freezing to death in the snow. We have never lacked mortals who stepped forward. , there is no shortage of brave men who have no hesitation, but they just lack the respect and feedback they deserve. Brave people cannot be fooled, and good people cannot be bullied. We must not let heroes bleed and shed tears!"
"A brave man cannot be fooled, and a kind man cannot be deceived!"
Yang Qingyun exclaimed: "That's so right!"
Yang Qingyun was originally a doctor who saved lives and healed the wounded, but the problem was that it was obviously not his problem, but he caused his family to be destroyed. His father once left a secret letter stating that Emperor Tianqi was poisoned by lead.
As for who poisoned him?
Yang Qinian didn't know either, but he was silenced.
What happened to his father happened to him again. It is the most basic common sense that medicines are 30% poisonous and pungent. Do not talk nonsense and do not take medicines indiscriminately.
Hou Shu took an overdose of tiger and wolf medicine for a moment of pleasure. He was not able to replenish his weakness, and he replenished himself to death. What does it have to do with him?
…
There was already a sea of people in front of the Yamen of the General Military Mansion. Cheng Shijie formally merged the case of "Ning Haijun soldiers beating up the scholar" and "the civilian woman was dragged into the woods" and tried them in public.
At this time, tens of thousands of people in Jinzhou City were crowded on Gulou Street in front of the General Military Mansion. Hundreds of urban management personnel were dispatched to maintain order on the streets.
"Commander, the students are wronged!"
Jiang Shizhong himself was arrogant, which angered Liu Qingsong, and a fight broke out. The three of them were beaten up, which was bearable, but the problem was that they were thrown into the septic tank, and almost even the gall came out.
Jiang Shizhong glared at Yang Hua: "Vicious woman, Jiang and you had no grudges in the past and have no grudges in recent times. Why are you slandering Jiang!"
Yang Hua's acting skills were outstanding. She choked up and said, "You and I are strangers to each other. We had no grudges in the past and have no grudges in the recent days. Why do you want to slander you?"
Everyone also thought about it, Yang Hua made sense, why would he slander them if he had no hatred?
"A common woman... was ruined by beasts... A common woman has now lost her virginity... She wanted to die to keep her integrity, but the second son in the family is still young!"
Yang Hua knelt down and said to everyone present: "...please help the kind-hearted people here to help the women adopt their second son. The women will bless the kind-hearted people in heaven..."
Having said this, Yang Hua hit the horse stake in front of the General Military Mansion.
"don't want!"
"Stop her!"
Wu Sheng, who was beside Cheng Shijie, immediately took action and reached out to grab Yang Hua's clothes.
"Stab it..."
Half of Yang's clothes were torn apart by the huge force, and her head hit the horse post firmly. Her head was bleeding. After Wu Sheng's pull, most of the impact was reduced. Yang closed her eyes. Unconscious.
Seeing this scene, the current military and civilians in Liaonan were angry.
"Commander, please kill these criminals!"
"Commander, please kill this beast!"
"Commander..."
When Cheng Shijie saw this, he knew that the result was no longer important. He waved his hand and said: "Commander... First of all, I want to apologize to Admiral Ning who has been wronged. I should not doubt Liu Qingsong or listen to rumors. I should apologize to Liu Qingsong!"
Cheng Shijie bowed to Liu Qingsong.
Liu Qingsong quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Cheng Shijie in return.
Because Liu Qingsong knew what the truth was.
"Although I have no authority to deal with famous scholars, Jiang Shizhong, Su Xian, and Gu Wenming are from far away from each other. I don't know if these three people have personal relationships with Tixue!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Your Majesty has given me the power to act expediently in battle. He has given Cheng Shangfang's sword, which can be used to kill court officials below the fourth rank. Jiang Shizhong, Su Xian, and Gu Wenming have committed unforgivable crimes. Please use Shangfang's sword to kill them!"
“The students were wronged!”
"Commander, spare your life!"
"The students were wronged..."
Cheng Shijie picked up Shang Fang's sword and walked towards Jiang Shizhong, Su Xian and Gu Wenming. The sword flashed and a head fell to the ground.
Cheng Shijie struck again, and after three strikes, three heads were placed neatly on the case.
"The handsome and wise man!"
"The handsome man is mighty!"
"The handsome man is victorious!"
"The handsome prince Wandai!"
The matter finally came to an end, and all the rich men also despised these three heads and expressed that they were ashamed to be associated with them.
Among the crowd, the elegant Fang Yizhi looked at Chen Zilong: "Brother among men!"
"Brother Mi!"
Fang Yizhi lowered his voice and said, "Why did you stop Fang? You clearly know..."
Chen Zilong smiled bitterly and said: "Your reason is just speculation. You said that Su Xian is a heavenly eunuch and cannot be human. What evidence is there? Su Xian has a wife at home, and his wife has a son!"
"That son belongs to his younger brother. He is just fostering him. He is just trying to deceive others. It is absolutely impossible..."
"You do not understand!"
Chen Zilong finally understood at this time that Cheng Shijie was protecting his subordinates, and there might be a deeper conspiracy in this matter.
This is actually not important. Cheng Shijie gave him a city, 5,000 military households, and more than 2 million acres of land to serve as an experimental base for improved seeds. He also allocated 30,000 taels of silver every year to fund the Agricultural Research Institute.
These things are really important to the West French Party.
The butt determines the head, and the head determines thinking, where he stands and what kind of thinking he makes.
Chen Zilong is not a pedantic person, he is a pragmatic person. Not to mention that he and Jiang Shizhong are not close friends. Even if they are close relatives, in the face of interests, the first thing to consider is always the interests.
Although Chen Zilong is the most prestigious rising star of the Donglin Party and is almost the leader of several societies, his perspective on issues can never be on the same track as Fang Yizhi's.
Amid the cheers of everyone, Cheng Shijie returned to the General Military Mansion with satisfaction.
Finally solved this problem.
As the commander-in-chief of an army, he naturally has to protect his soldiers. If he does not protect his soldiers, there will inevitably be complaints, especially in the case of Ning Haijun.
In later generations, news media in many countries have called for attention to human rights, including the human rights of criminal suspects, and to limit the excessive use of violence by government law enforcement officials to avoid unnecessary casualties.
Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong with this idea, and it can even be said to be quite correct. However, under the promotion of certain political groups and social figures, the police in these countries do not even dare to use normal law enforcement powers.
The result is that the criminals who should have been stopped cannot be stopped in time, the casualties of police officers and innocent people have skyrocketed, and social security has extremely deteriorated. Then the unscrupulous media began to criticize the police department for their inability to enforce the law.
The current Ning Haijun group is actually a very sensitive and fragile group. Although Cheng Shijie has used the experience of later generations to set up many insurances, it is not actually safe because of the basic quality of the personnel.
Just like the current incident, if Cheng Shijie takes advantage of the justice of the law in order to please those superior privileged classes, Officer Ning Haijun will no longer be able to straighten his back when facing these privileged classes.
Although some small tricks were used, there was no way. If Cheng Shijie was not afraid of scaring away these scholars, Cheng Shijie would have dared to be unreasonable and let them see what it means to be a scholar when he meets a soldier.
"Commander!"
When Cheng Shijie just sat down, the guard reported to him: "Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi wants to see you!"
"What?"
Cheng Shijie's head is as big as a bucket. What good things can come from these two great gods?
But he couldn't avoid it forever.
"Let them wait in the front room while I take a bath and come back later!"
After half an hour, Cheng Shijie took a shower and met Chen Dalong and Fang Yizhi in the front hall. He looked at a huge box placed at Chen Zilong's feet.
Cheng Shijie thought Chen Zilong had come to give a gift.
"Meet Cheng Shuai!"
"Mr. Chen and Mr. Fang are very polite, please sit down!"
Chen Zilong pointed to the big box at his feet and said: "Cheng Shuai is busy with military affairs. Chen will make a long story short. These are all the brainchild of the teacher. He devoted his life to Western research and wrote many books. However, the Chinese people do not pay attention to Western learning and it is difficult to find close friends. He was very happy to hear that the commander-in-chief was promoting Western learning in southern Liaoning and applying what he learned with fruitful results, so he gave me some manuscripts he had written in his early years to bring over to see if the commander-in-chief could find any use."
It's not that Cheng Shijie was arrogant. In the late Ming Dynasty, there were really few people who could make Cheng Shijie like him. Sun Yuanhua could only laugh... Sun Yuanhua was too nerdy, a bit like a newly graduated college student, pretentious, but high-minded but low-handed.
One is Sun Chengzong and the other is Xu Guangqi. The former was a rare great strategist in the late Ming Dynasty, who was proud and upright, while the latter was a rare scientist in the late Ming Dynasty. He devoted his life to scientific research and excelled in astronomy, geography, water conservancy, physics, geometry, mathematics and other subjects. They all have profound attainments and are decent people. Such people naturally deserve his respect.
Cheng Shijie owned a printing factory, and because of Sun Yuanhua's contribution, he had many general-purpose mechanical equipment. Sun Yuanhua's achievements in Dengzhou for more than two years directly benefited Cheng Shijie.
Even though Cheng Shijie had not been in Liaonan for a long time, the foundation was laid by Sun Yuanhua. A large number of hydraulic machinery could be used because of the melting of ice and snow. Just like the ball mill in the cement factory, the principle is actually the same as that of animal-powered machinery.
It is no exaggeration to say that Sun Yuanhua built a simplified and elementary version of the industrial empire in Dengzhou in the name of cannon casting. This industrial empire was like the five small industries of later generations. It was not large in scale, but it had quite complete categories. .
There is a complete set of mining equipment, smelting equipment, purification equipment, and a large number of skilled craftsmen, and even the skills of these craftsmen can crush the capital.
I heard that it was a manuscript written by Xu Guangqi, and Cheng Shijie's eyes could shine. If this were left to future generations, any copy could be sold for more than hundreds of thousands. If it can be hyped up, it can even be sold for a higher value, especially in academic circles. boundary.
Chen Zilong opened the huge box with his own hands, picked it up and put it away one by one.
Cheng Shijie took it and took a look. It was densely packed with small characters. Each one was straight and beautiful. It was like printing, without smearing, and the font size was the same. He turned over more than a dozen pages in a row, and every word was like this. He I couldn't help but sigh: "Mr. Xu really vomited out all his hard work."
Chen Zilong brought Xu Guangqi's manuscript to Cheng Shijie because he really did not have money for printing and agricultural research, which also required a lot of money. Chen Zilong's family background and Xu Guangqi's family background were both well off.
But the problem is that for academic research, personal wealth is really not enough. Of course, if you are in Xu Guangqi's position as an official, it is actually easy to make money.
However, Xu Guangqi was one of the few honest officials in the late Ming Dynasty.
Cheng Shijie naturally knew that Chen Zilong borrowed his chicken to lay eggs. To put it bluntly, he was being taken advantage of, but the problem was, Cheng Shijie was really willing to be taken advantage of.
Publishing a book is probably every reader's dream. If you can publish a best-selling book, you will make a lot of money. Even with the lowest royalties, you can earn tens of thousands of dollars from a book.
But this was not the case three hundred years ago. The cost of publishing a book was borne by the author alone. The more books he sold, the more money he had to make. Not only did he not make a dime, he also had to pay for it. Pay a huge sum of money.
Therefore, publishing a book these days is a chore. Except for the wealthy, eager to become famous, or want to support some high-ranking person, ordinary small people do not have the financial resources to publish a book.
Xu Guangqi cooperated with the Western missionary Matteo Ricci to translate the first six volumes of "Elements of Geometry". It can be said that he spent a lot of effort. Chinese terms such as right angles, acute angles, obtuse angles, parallel lines, triangles, diagonals, etc. were all created by him. After repeated deliberation, it was determined that he had the first copyright on the word "geometry".
However, this masterpiece was not popular in the Ming Dynasty. Since the fall of the Song Dynasty, China's scientific research has been in a steady decline. Astronomy, mathematics, chemistry and other subjects that were once extremely brilliant and beyond the reach of the world have gradually been forgotten. , countless works that embody the wisdom of the ancients have been abandoned, even if their own things are like this, let alone those from the West!
Xu Guangqi could only look to the future, hoping that "this glorious mathematical work will become a must-read book for students all over the world in the next hundred years." But history was even sadder than he expected. After the founding of the Qing Dynasty, China Civilization continues on its retrograde path, roaring toward the abyss.
Cheng Shijie took the manuscript and went directly to the printing factory.
Yang Yuniang looked at Cheng Shijie's back and smiled bitterly at the three people around her: an old man, a young man, and a woman: "Cheng Shuai is like this, he does everything vigorously and resolutely!"
The leader of the old man smiled lightly and said: "The little old man has nothing to do and wrote something. Why don't you give it to Cheng Shuai for a look first?"
Yang Yuniang said: "Please give me some thanks, Mr. Zheng!"
This little old man's name is Zheng Jian. He is actually only forty-five years old, but he looks a little anxious. He was originally from the Zheng family in Henan. If placed in the Tang Dynasty, he would have belonged to the Zheng family, one of the five families.
It's a pity that although Zheng is here, it is already yesterday's flower.
Zheng Jian started working as a bank waiter at the age of twelve. He has been working in the bank business for thirty-three years and has accumulated rich experience in bank operation and management.
The Zheng family originally ran a bank, but the problem was that the head of the family had a useless son. The bank with a principal of more than 100,000 taels of silver was wiped out in just five years. Moreover, Zheng Jian was also blamed. In desperation, he had no choice but to take his son Zheng Ji and daughter Zheng Qi to Shandong to seek life.
But the problem is that the current employment situation is not like that of later generations. Generally speaking, banks train their own waiters, clerks, and shopkeepers. These professionals are generally not used by banks at all. No matter how much they pay, the effect is the same. Same.
There are too many ways for banks to manipulate things, and no one dares to use them without knowing the root cause.
Fortunately, Zheng Jian was lucky. Because she took the wrong boat, she accidentally came to Liaonan and met Yang Yunniang unexpectedly.
As a professional, Zheng Jian could tell at a glance that Cheng Shijie's banking business philosophy was far more advanced than that of a bank. However, there were also many loopholes and problems in this mechanism.
If you can solve these problems yourself, wouldn't it solve the problem of feeding the whole family and give you a thick thigh?
Cheng Shijie arrived at Ning Haijun's printing factory and immediately summoned the printing factory's craftsmen.
"Meet the Marshal!"
Cheng Shijie directly ordered: "Except for "Liaonan Weekly", other printing work should be stopped first, use the best paper, use the best ink, regardless of cost, print one thousand...not ten thousand copies per volume! "
Chen Zilong was stunned. His original plan was to steal a thousand or five hundred volumes from Cheng Shijie. What he didn't expect was that Cheng Shijie waved his hand and asked for ten thousand volumes, and every volume.
Chen Zilong breathed a sigh of relief, Xu Guangqi was really good at judging people, and Cheng Shijie was indeed worth investing in.
PS: Please ask for a guaranteed monthly pass. It was written down and I forgot to check the time.
(End of chapter)
