Daming Yinghua

Chapter 137 Dengzhou City

Talk about wine, there will be a farewell.

The next day, Wang Yaliang followed the coastline of Laizhou towards Tianjin and returned to Shuntianfu.

For a patrolling censor like him, the time limit for patrolling and monitoring a place is about one year. After the expiration, he must return to Beijing for a job, and return to the array of monitoring censors in the capital.

Zhu Yipai and Zheng Haizhu's convoy continued eastward, and within two days they arrived in Dengzhou smoothly.

Dengzhou is Yantai for later generations.

As a modern tourist, Zheng Haizhu knows Dengzhou as Qi Jiguang's hometown.

And Zheng Haizhu, who is a professional historical traveler, knows better that this small seaside town has an extremely important military status.

With Nurhachi's overwhelming offensive in Liaodong, the Ming court will set up a "Denglai governor" in the reign of Tianqi. Dengzhou will become the frontier for transporting strategic materials and even troops to Liaodong.

And Sun Yuanhua, who was invited by Zheng Haizhu to Songjiang in advance to guide Lu Xiangsheng in the research and development of artillery, is the most embarrassing one among the previous governors of Denglai.

In the real history, at the end of the apocalypse, Sun Yuanhua, with the support of the famous minister Sun Chengzong, put the artillery on Ningyuan City and helped Yuan Chonghuan create a "Ningyuan Great Victory" for the Ming court. The Ming Empire, which was beaten by Nurhachi, saved a little face.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Sun Yuanhua was even more important. He was appointed governor of Denglai and armed the coast of Dengzhou with various artillery.

After Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong in Pidao, it was Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, who advocated that Liao generals be available, and stepped forward to accept Mao Wenlong's old generals-Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others.

However, the imperial court treated the Liao generals harshly, and did not pay him when he was a mule envoy.

When General Liao was marching, he was terribly cold and hungry, and was humiliated and bullied by wealthy gentry along the way. In the end, Kong Youde and others rebelled in Wuqiao, returned to Dengzhou, captured Sun Yuanhua and all kinds of artillery, and went to Huang Taiji.

With his life at stake, Sun Yuanhua was still trying to persuade Kong Youde to return from the wrong path and accept the second summons from the imperial court.It's a pity that different factions in the imperial court fought against each other and severely damaged Sun Yuanhua's appeasement plan. Kong Youde and others still fell into the arms of the Hou Jin army.

Finally, Kong Youde cherishes the kindness Sun Yuanhua took him in at the beginning, and hopes that Sun Yuanhua will return to the capital to explain Mao Wenlong's grievances and the truth about the mutiny of Pidao.

However, all the young people in the court frantically slandered and framed Sun Yuanhua, who couldn't argue with anything, and was finally beheaded by Chongzhen in Caishikou, Beijing.

In Zheng Haizhu's previous life, every time he read this paragraph, he felt lung pain.

Sun Yuanhua, who was obviously the most considerate, brave and pragmatic person in the whole incident, became the last person who was unjustly killed to vent his anger.

Therefore, Zheng Haizhu was deeply impressed by Sun Yuanhua's tragic "Governor Denglai".

As for the current Dengzhou prefect, Tao Langxian, he is actually the first governor of Denglai in the future, and Zheng Haizhu didn't know about it a few years earlier than Sun Yuanhua.

However, when he was still in Yanzhou, Zhang Yaofang had already introduced Mr. Tao Lang, who had a good official reputation and won the first place in the performance appraisal.

At the post station in Yexian County the day before yesterday, when Zhu Yipai boasted that Zheng Haizhu's business was growing, Wang Yushi also seriously mentioned: "If Miss Zheng makes cannons, can she give two of them to Dengzhou? It's not easy in Dengzhou. I bought a lot this year. Xuetian, there is no money in the account."

At that time, Zheng Haizhu agreed wholeheartedly, while thinking over Wang Yushi's words several times in his heart.

It is a good thing that the inspector censor can say such a thing.First of all, Wang Yaliang intentionally regarded her, Zheng Haizhu, as someone who could be dispatched.Secondly, it is clear that Wang Yushi agrees with Tao Langxian, the prefect, and he also gave a very useful message: the prefect Tao attaches great importance to education.

"Your Highness, this time, in principle, Tao Zhifu should be grateful to Lu Fan for helping to capture the thief, but in the future, people will always come in from Dengzhou, and they must disturb the place of the government."

On the carriage, Zheng Haizhu and Zhu Yipai said.

Zhu Yipai was also very clear, and was instilled by Miss Zheng in the powerful skills of many civil servants of the Ming Dynasty along the way. He didn't feel fearless just because his surname was "Zhu", so he said bluntly: "Don't worry, don't worry!" , In that small place in Ye County, in order to win the favor of Wang Yushi, this general was willing to spend money, but instead of getting the rightful master of Dengzhou, he was stingy. In the name of destroying the Wenxiang Sect, is five hundred gold enough?"

Zheng Haizhu said with a smile: "Five hundred gold is too much, and it can't be used as an excuse to suppress bandits. The capital may have ideas. Three hundred gold, people from Confucius' hometown came to help build the academy."

Zhu Yipai thought the same thing. As a relative of the Lu clan, if he went outside the clan to give money to the local officials to suppress the bandits, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of the court? Donating to help students is the safest reason.

"Okay, it's only three hundred gold, and I'll tell Tao Zhifu later that in the future, your trading company will also give you some convenience when leaving the port from Dengzhou."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zheng Haizhu and Guo Shi with strange expressions on their faces.

"What's wrong? Am I wrong?"

Zheng Haizhu was a little embarrassed, and Mrs. Guo spoke for her: "My husband spent money, so there is nothing wrong with listening to more noises. But Dengzhou is not the only yamen in the magistrate. During the time of Lord Jiajing, the court set up a special yamen. Xunhaidao, Miss Zheng's goods were shipped out through contacts in Xunhaidao."

Only then did Zhu Yipai react.

Father-in-law is a general from Shandong, so his wife Guo is familiar with military equipment.

The prefect of Dengzhou is not the governor of Shandong, so he has no control over the Denglai sea patrol.

He then nodded to Zheng Haizhu and said, "You have another way, just go and do it yourself."

Zheng Haizhu said bluntly: "Your Highness and Madam, this is how our previous shipment left Dengzhou. On the Liaohai Sea, there are many boats in Dengzhou patrolling the sea, and our merchants have more boats. Pay some money. , our goods can go through.”

How can Zhu Yipai not understand that this is smuggling, but along the way, he has been instilled by Zheng Haizhu a lot of disadvantages of the maritime prohibition, and he already understands that this is the way that maritime merchants have no choice but to choose.

Therefore, he didn't think he was guilty, and only teased: "My court of Ming Dynasty owed the military salary to the sailors of the guard, and in the end it was you merchants who paid it back."

……

At the turn of the afternoon, Zheng Haizhu and Guo Shi stood side by side on the Penglai Pavilion on Danya Mountain near the sea in Dengzhou, overlooking the Liaohai Sea.

The new wind is like a knife, and frost can be seen everywhere on the mountain roads, but the sea outside the breakwater has not yet seen the gray-white ice surface, and is still blue.

If the line of sight is wider, you can see the sails on the vast hectares of blue waves, which are near and far, and appear and disappear.

"Miss Zheng, my father said that in the Song Dynasty, this place was called Daoyu Village, and it was quite popular as a water village. After Taizu became emperor, he paid more attention to building coastal defenses in order to prevent the Japanese. Qi Shaobao used to train water here. Military."

Guo pointed to the buildings and barracks on Danya and between the breakwaters, and talked to Zheng Haizhu.

Today, Zhu Yipai went to the yamen to meet Tao Langxian, the magistrate of Dengzhou. Zheng Haizhu proposed to ask Zhu Yipai to talk about the elimination of the Wenxiang Sect first because of his own calculations. Tao Zhifu talked about his idea of ​​transporting miners along the Dengliao sea route.

In this way, Zheng Haizhu accompanied Mrs. Guo to visit Penglai Pavilion during the day.

As expected by Zheng Haizhu, the Guo family, who was a tiger girl, was very interested, and first explained to Zheng Haizhu the way of naval warfare based on his family background.

Zheng Haizhu looked around the coastal defense city wall and said solemnly: "Madam, please look at the Danya Mountain we are standing on. The enemy army invading Shuicheng must not."

Guo Shi is a woman who loves both red makeup and armed forces. When she was in her boudoir, whenever her father came home, she and her two older brothers would gather in front of her father to listen to the art of war.

But when his father went to the Southwest to suppress the rebellion, He ever used artillery, and Guo's knowledge of Western firearms was blank.

So she asked curiously: "Miss Zheng, Danya Mountain is condescending, arrows are raining, and Dengzhou City has two walls of water and land, all of which are covered with bricks. Where can I not?"

Zheng Haizhu said: "Now is not the time of Song and Yuan Dynasties. The enemy troops coming from the water have cannons. They use the cannons to directly blast the water wall, enter the former naval drill site where Qi Shaobao trained soldiers, and then blast forward to collapse the land wall. Dengzhou can be taken down. Therefore, in the future, this water city should be overhauled, just like we women embroider on silk, embroidering many crossfire points."

"How to embroider?" Guo stared and asked.

Zheng Haizhu walked out of the pavilion, bent down to pick up a stick, and showed it to Guo on the ground: "At least four places should be embroidered. The first place is Danya Mountain where we are standing. A zigzag city wall should be built under the cliff. The first protruding horse-faced wall is a fort. The second place is the water city wall with sluice gates, and the third place is naturally the Lu city wall. The most important one should be outside the breakwater. A urn castle protruding like a dragon's head, with forts on all sides."

Guo looked and thought again, and soon understood.

Although she hadn't seen how the artillery was fired, it was not difficult to understand the direction of the fire.

"Miss Zheng, in this way, there are eight directions in which the cannon balls can be fired, just like the flowers of Lu embroidery, there is no dead angle."

Zheng Haizhu smiled and said: "Ma'am, it's a good example, that's exactly it. If you want to lure the enemy deep into the strategy of suspicious soldiers, you must leave a blank like our Songjiang Guxiu and Han Yuanxiu. This majestic fortress is placed Here, leaving blank is courting death, of course, the more careful and detailed the arrangement, the better."

Mrs. Guo was convinced: "Miss Zheng, do you usually like to read military books?"

Zheng Haizhu said bluntly: "I don't understand much, but I have the honor to meet many talented people, and there are many people who know soldiers. I benefit a lot from listening to them more often."

In fact, what Zheng Haizhu said can be seen by modern people who visit Yantai. Those forts were originally built by Sun Yuanhua when he was the governor of Denglai. Based on the transformation.

It's just that in the early winter of the last year of Wanli, Dengzhou Water City did not yet have a group of "crossfire" forts, which just made Zheng Haizhu shake his golden finger as a future generation.

After she returned to Songjiang and met Sun Yuanhua, she would talk about it in detail, and voted for these civil servants who advocated Western learning.

Mrs. Guo stood up, went back to the pavilion, looked around in several directions, and a complex smile suddenly crossed the corner of her mouth.

"Miss Zheng, it would be great if I were a man. Like my father, I have won battles, from the general to the guerrilla, from the general to the general, and transferred to a military town like Dengzhou. I ask you to buy it." A bunch of artillery, build it well."

In Guo's eyes, there are three points of longing and seven points of melancholy.

The latter overwhelmed the former, causing her to quickly fall into silence, without further speaking.

Zheng Haizhu shook his head resolutely: "Madam, don't be sad. I am not a man, but I can run a ship, do business, build a school, and build artillery. General Qin Qin, chieftain of Shijie, who called me "little friend", is not a man, but he can also lead an army to fight , go into battle to kill the enemy. Madame, our women's way is not given by God, not determined by men, but by ourselves."

Qi Ran of the Guo family: "I am already the wife of the clan of Lu Fan."

Zheng Haizhu said: "So what? Madam She is also a first-rank imperial order, so she has not been imprisoned in the back house. Madam, even this vast world will undergo vicissitudes. Why should our future destiny be limited by the current situation?"

When Zheng Haizhu said this, he was indeed moved.

After getting along with Guo Shi for more than half a month, Zheng Haizhu has gradually fallen in love with this woman who has not left a word in her history.

Like Han Ximeng and Yao Shi, this Guo Shi's ability and character also show that she is unwilling to be a little-footed daughter-in-law trapped in the back house. Fortunately, her husband, like Gu Shouqian and Huang Zunsu, is willing to give She has a fair degree of freedom.

Besides, she was also from a family of generals.

It's a pity that such a talent doesn't help ignite the flames in her heart that have never been extinguished!
"Ma'am," Zheng Haizhu said softly, "I have seen the mother-of-pearl blunderbuss in the sea of ​​Fujian, which can be loaded and fired without the brute force of a man. My subordinates went to Haojing to see the red blunderbuss It is not necessary to have brute force to clear the gun, clear the chamber, suppress the bomb, ignite the fire, and measure the angle. A boy of twelve or thirteen years old can do it. How can a young woman like us not be able to do it? General Qin can fight with her husband Together, we can bring out the world-renowned Shi Jiebai spear cavalry, Madam and His Royal Highness Luanfeng and Ming, maybe not only can we train cavalry, but we can also train a women's artillery army."

Guo Shi turned her head, and the look of looking at the ocean and sighing on her face quickly faded away.

She stared at Zheng Haizhu thoughtfully.

But Zheng Haizhu doesn't need to make rapid progress. Today's opportunity is as good as it gets.

She rubbed her fingers that were a little stiff from the cold, and confessed: "To tell you the truth, madam, the southeast of Danya Mountain is the small port where we ship the goods. Go and see."

Mrs. Guo looked at the sun: "Then go quickly, can you ride a horse?"

Zheng Haizhu knew that the traffic in Ming Dynasty was "ships from south to horses from north", so before going north, he had learned how to ride a horse in Songjiang and Zhenjiang.

Besides, based on her plan today, she naturally wanted to ask the palace for a horse.

Seeing Zheng Haizhu nodding, Guo Shi immediately ordered the chief guard Fan Bin standing outside the pavilion: "Give Chi Ruyi to Miss Zheng. Chi Ruyi is easy-going and will not bully you."

The horse was brought over, Zheng Haizhu glanced at the horse's buttocks, yes, as long as it has the monogram of the General Zhen Guo's mansion.

(End of this chapter)