Drink and talk freely, and eventually we will say goodbye.
The next day, Wang Yaliang headed towards Tianjin along the coastline of Laizhou and returned to Shuntianfu.
A patrol censor like him has a term of patrolling and supervising a place for about one year. After expiration, he must return to Beijing to join the team of supervisory censors in the capital.
The convoy of Zhu Yipai and Zheng Haizhu continued eastward and arrived in Dengzhou successfully in less than two days.
Dengzhou is the Yantai of later generations.
As a modern tourist, Zheng Haizhu knows Dengzhou as the hometown of Qi Jiguang.
As a history traveler, Zheng Haizhu understands that this seaside town has an extremely important military status.
With Nurhachi's overwhelming attack in Liaodong, the Ming court will establish a "Denglai governor" during the Tianqi period. Dengzhou will become the frontier for transporting strategic materials and even troops to Liaodong.
Sun Yuanhua, who was invited to Songjiang by Zheng Haizhu in advance to guide Lu Xiangsheng in artillery research and development, was the most lamentable among the successive governors.
In real history, at the end of the Apocalypse, Sun Yuanhua, with the support of the famous minister Sun Chengzong, mounted artillery on Ningyuan City and helped Yuan Chonghuan create a "Ningyuan Victory" for the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Empire, which was beaten by Nurhachi, saved some face.
During the Chongzhen period, Sun Yuanhua was even more important and was appointed governor of Denglai. He armed the coast of Dengzhou with various artillery.
After Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong in Pidao, it was Sun Yuanhua who came as governor and advocated that Liao generals be available. He stepped forward and accepted Mao Wenlong's old generals - Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others.
However, the imperial court treated Liao generals harshly and even served as mule envoys without paying them.
When the Liao generals were marching, they were extremely cold and exhausted, and were humiliated and bullied by the wealthy Jin gentry along the way. In the end, Kong Youde and others rebelled at Wuqiao, fought back to Dengzhou, kidnapped Sun Yuanhua and various artillery pieces, and defected to Huang Taiji.
Sun Yuan was about to die, but he still tried to persuade Kong Youde to return to his lost ways and accept the second recruitment of the imperial court. Unfortunately, the intrigues between different factions in the court severely damaged Sun Yuanhua's recruitment plan, and Kong Youde and others still fell into the arms of the Jin army.
Finally, Kong Youde cherished Sun Yuanhua's kindness in taking him in, and hoped that Sun Yuanhua would return to the capital to explain Mao Wenlong's injustice and the truth about the rebellion of the old generals in Pidao.
However, Sun Yuanhua, who was unable to defend himself despite the frantic slander and frame-up by a group of young people in the court, was finally beheaded by Chongzhen in Caishikou, Beijing.
In Zheng Haizhu's previous life, every time she read this paragraph, her lungs hurt.
Sun Yuanhua, obviously the most considerate, brave and pragmatic person in the whole incident, became the last person to be unjustly killed to vent his anger.
Therefore, Zheng Haizhu was deeply impressed by Sun Yuanhua's tragic "come as governor".
As for the current governor of Dengzhou, Tao Langxian, he was actually the first governor of Denglai in the future. He came to Dengli several years earlier than Sun Yuanhua, but Zheng Haizhu didn't know it.
However, when he was still in Yanzhou, Zhang Yaofang had already introduced Tao Langxian, who had a good official reputation and won the first place in the performance evaluation.
At the Yexian Station the day before yesterday, when Zhu Yipai praised Zheng Haizhu's business success, Wang Yushi also seriously mentioned: "If Miss Zheng makes cannons, can you give two to Dengzhou? It is not easy to Dengzhou. I bought a lot this year." Xuetian, there is no money left in the account."
At that time, Zheng Haizhu agreed wholeheartedly, while thinking over Wang Yushi's words several times in his heart.
It's a good thing that the censor can say such things. First of all, it should be explained that Wang Yaliang deliberately regarded her as Zheng Haizhu as someone who could do things for her. Secondly, it is obvious that Wang Yushi recognized the prefect Tao Langxian and gave him a very useful message: Prefect Tao valued education.
"Your Highness, this time, in theory, although Magistrate Tao should be grateful to Lu Fan for helping capture the thief, in the future, people must always come from Dengzhou, and they must not disturb the palace."
On the carriage, Zheng Haizhu and Zhu Yipai said.
Zhu Yipai was also very knowledgeable. Along the way, Miss Zheng instilled many powerful skills of Ming Dynasty civil servants. He was not afraid just because his surname was "Zhu", so he said cheerfully: "Don't worry, don't worry. , in the small place of Ye County, in order to win the favor of Wang Yushi, this general was willing to spend money, but he did not get the rightful master of Dengzhou, and instead he was stingy. In the name of annihilating the Wenxiang Sect, is five hundred gold enough?"
Zheng Haizhu smiled and said: "Five hundred gold is too much, but it cannot be used as an excuse to suppress bandits. The capital may have some ideas. Three hundred gold, people from Confucius' hometown will come to help build the academy."
Zhu Yipai thought the same thing. As a relative of the Lu vassal, if he went outside the vassal territory and handed money to local officials to suppress bandits, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of the court? It would be the safest reason to donate money for education.
"Okay, just three hundred gold. I'll talk to Magistrate Tao later and provide some convenience for your trading company to leave the port from Dengzhou."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zheng Haizhu and Guo with strange expressions.
"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"
Zheng Haizhu was slightly embarrassed, and Mrs. Guo spoke for her: "My husband spent money to listen to more noises. There is nothing wrong with it. But the prefect is not the only yamen in Dengzhou. When Lord Jiajing was here, the court had a special yamen Xunhaidao, Miss Zheng’s goods were shipped out through connections in Xunhaidao.”
Only then did Zhu Yipai react.
The father-in-law was a military commander from Shandong, so his wife Guo was familiar with military equipment.
The prefect of Dengzhou is not the governor of Shandong and has no control over the Denglai sea patrol route.
He then nodded to Zheng Haizhu and said, "You have another way, just go and take care of it yourself."
Zheng Haizhu said bluntly: "To be honest with you, Your Highness and Madam, this is how our previous shipment left Dengzhou. On the Liao Sea, there are many ships patrolling the Dengzhou sea route, and our merchants have even more ships. We need to pay some money." , our goods will be able to pass through.”
Zhu Yipai didn't understand that this was smuggling, but along the way, he had been taught by Zheng Haizhu many of the drawbacks of the maritime ban, and he understood that this was a path that maritime merchants had no choice but to choose.
Therefore, he did not feel guilty, and only said with a hint of teasing: "My Ming Dynasty owes the military salary to the navy of the Guard, and in the end it was you traders who paid it back."
…
At the end of the afternoon, Zheng Haizhu and Guo stood side by side at Penglai Pavilion on Danya Mountain near the sea in Dengzhou, overlooking the Liaohai Sea.
The fresh wind is like a knife, and frost can be seen everywhere on the mountain roads. However, the sea outside the breakwater has not yet seen the gray-white ice, and is still blue.
If you look wider, you can even see the sails on the vast expanse of blue waves, sometimes near and sometimes far away, sometimes hidden and sometimes visible.
"Miss Zheng, my father said that in the Song Dynasty, this place was called Daoyu Village, and it was already quite famous as a water village. After Taizu became emperor, he paid more attention to building coastal defenses to prevent Japanese pirates. Qi Shaobao trained here as a water village. Military."
Guo pointed to the various buildings and barracks on Danya and between the breakwater, and talked to Zheng Haizhu.
Today, Zhu Yipai went to the Yamen to meet with Tao Langxian, the magistrate of Dengzhou. Zheng Haizhu, because of his inner calculations, asked Zhu Yipai to talk about the eradication of the Wenxiang Sect first. In the evening, when the Yamen held a banquet, he was there again and told Magistrate Tao talked about his idea of transporting miners along the Liaohai Road.
In this way, during the day, Zheng Haizhu accompanied Guo family to Penglai Pavilion.
As Zheng Haizhu expected, the Guo family, who is a tiger girl in general, has a strong personality. She first relied on her family background to explain the secrets of navy warfare to Zheng Haizhu.
Zheng Haizhu looked at the sea defense city wall and said solemnly: "Madam, please see, the Danya Mountain we are standing on is indeed a dangerous terrain. However, as artillery will be used more and more in offensive and defensive formations in the future, only Danya Mountain can control the sea." The enemy troops that invaded Shuicheng will definitely not be able to do it.”
Guo was a woman who loved both red makeup and weapons. When she was in her boudoir, whenever her father came home, she and her two brothers would gather in front of her father to listen to the art of war.
But when his father went to the southwest to fight the rebellion, he never used artillery. Guo's knowledge of Western firearms was completely blank.
She then asked out of curiosity: "Miss Zheng, Danya Mountain is so high that arrows are raining down from it, and Dengzhou City has water and land walls, both of which are covered with bricks. Where can it not work?"
Zheng Haizhu said: "It is no longer the time of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The enemy troops coming up from the water have cannons. They use the cannons to directly blast open the water wall and enter the naval training ground where Qi Shaobao trained troops. Then they go forward and destroy the land wall. We can win Dengzhou. Therefore, from now on, this water city should be overhauled, just like us women embroidering on silk, with many cross-fire points embroidered on it."
"How to embroider?" Guo asked staring at it.
Zheng Haizhu walked out of the pavilion, bent down to pick up a tree stick, and demonstrated to Guo on the ground: "At least four places must be embroidered. The first place, where we are standing on Danya Mountain, is to build a zigzag-shaped city wall under the cliff, with each bend The protruding horse-faced walls are all a fort. The second place is the water city wall with the water gate. The third place is naturally the land city wall. And the most important place should be outside the breakwater. A dragon-head-like barbican fortress stretches out, with forts on all sides."
Guo looked and thought, and soon understood.
Although she had never seen how the artillery was fired, the direction of the firepower was not difficult to understand.
"Miss Zheng, in this way, cannonballs can be fired in eight directions, just like the flowers in Lu embroidery, there are no blind spots."
Zheng Haizhu smiled and said: "Ma'am, that's a good analogy. That's exactly what it is. If you want to lure the enemy deep into the enemy's stratagem, you must leave a blank space like our Songjiang Gu embroidery and Han Yuan embroidery. This majestic fortress is placed in front of us. Here, leaving something blank is courting death. Of course, the more detailed and detailed the arrangement, the better.”
Mrs. Guo was convinced: "Miss Zheng, do you also like to read military books?"
Zheng Haizhu said bluntly: "I don't understand much about reading, but I am lucky enough to get to know many talented people who know military skills. I usually benefit a lot from listening to their talks."
In fact, what Zheng Haizhu mentioned can be seen by modern people who visit Yantai. Those forts were originally used by Sun Yuanhua when he was the governor of Denglai, and he learned the Portuguese military thinking of deploying bunker firepower. Based on the transformation.
It's just that in the early winter of the last year of Wanli, there is no "cross-fire" fort community in Dengzhou Water City, which is just for Zheng Haizhu to dangle his golden finger as a descendant.
If she wanted to establish a "knowledge of soldiers" character for herself, after she returned to Songjiang and met Sun Yuanhua, she would talk about it in detail and appeal to these civil servants who advocated Western learning.
Mrs. Guo stood up, returned to the pavilion, looked around in several directions, and a complicated smile suddenly appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"Miss Zheng, it would be great if I were a man like my father. After a battle, I was transferred from the general to the guerrillas, from the general to the general, and transferred to a military town like Dengzhou. I want you to buy it. A bunch of artillery, build it up well."
In Guo's eyes, there were three parts yearning and seven parts melancholy.
The latter overwhelmed the former, causing her to quickly fall into silence and stop talking.
Zheng Haizhu shook his head decisively: "Madam, there is no need to be disappointed. I am not a man, I can also run a ship, do business, build a school, and build artillery. General Qin, the chieftain of Shidi, who calls me "little friend", is not a man, but he can also lead the army in war. , go into battle and kill the enemy. Madam, the path for us women is not given by God, nor determined by men. We have to walk out on our own."
Guo's wife Qi Ran: "I am already the wife of Lu Fan's clan."
Zheng Haizhu said: "So what? Taijun She is also a first-class imperial edict, and he is still not imprisoned in the back house. Madam, even this vast world will be changed. Why should our future destiny be limited by the current situation?"
Zheng Haizhu was indeed moved when he said this.
After spending more than half a month with Guo, Zheng Haizhu has gradually fallen in love with this woman who has not left a trace in her history.
Like Han Ximeng and Yao, this Guo's ability and temperament also show that she is not willing to be a daughter-in-law with small feet trapped in the back house. Fortunately, her husband, like Gu Shouqian and Huang Zunsu, is willing to give She has a fair amount of freedom.
Besides, she comes from a family of military generals.
It would be a pity for such a talent not to fuel the unquenched fire in her heart!
"Madam," Zheng Haizhu said softly and calmly, "the double-combination muskets I have seen on the sea in Fujian do not require the brute force of a man to be loaded and fired. My subordinates went to Haojing to see the red muskets. It is not necessary to have brute force to clear the barrel, press the bomb, ignite the gun, and calculate the angle. A boy of twelve or thirteen years old can do it. How can a young and strong woman like us not be able to do it? General Qin can do it with his husband Together, we can bring out the world-famous Shidao and White Lancers, Madam and your Highness, Luan Feng Heming, and maybe they can not only train cavalry, but also train a female artillery army."
Mrs. Guo turned her head, and the look of admiration and sigh on her face quickly receded.
She stared at Zheng Haizhu, thoughtfully.
But Zheng Haizhu doesn't need to make rapid progress. He just needs to take advantage of today's opportunity.
She rubbed her fingers that were stiff from the cold and said, "To be honest with you, madam, to the southeast of Danya Mountain is the small port where we ship goods. The goods here are all high-quality brocade. The common people are afraid that the shipment will not be meticulous, so I want to Go and have a look.”
Guo looked at the sun: "Then go quickly, can you ride a horse?"
Zheng Haizhu knew that the transportation in the Ming Dynasty was "boats in the south and horses in the north", so before going north, he learned to ride horses in Songjiang and Zhenjiang. He could not gallop and trot.
Besides, based on her calculations today, she naturally wanted to ask the palace for a horse.
Seeing Zheng Haizhu nodding, Mrs. Guo immediately ordered Fan Bin, the chief guard standing outside the pavilion: "Give Chi Ruyi to Miss Zheng. Chi Ruyi has an easy-going temperament and does not bully students."
The horse was brought over, and Zheng Haizhu took a look at the horse's butt. Yes, it only has the monogram of the Zhenguo General's Mansion.
