I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 150
Chapter 149

If it's just a competition of numbers, Daming's has an absolute advantage.The population of Daming was a hundred times larger than that of Jiannu.

But the problem is that the fighting power of the slave army is actually quite terrifying.

The nature of Jiannu's army is very similar to that of Ming Dynasty's Tianxiong Army. The basic unit of its army is Niulu. The people in the record have blood relatives and family relations with the people around them.Therefore, as a grassroots combat unit, Niulu's strong cohesion can be imagined.

Because everyone has a relationship of "one prospers, one loses all", so they tend to work harder on the battlefield, and there will be no such situation of "you do what you do first".In addition, in terms of logistics, each cow is responsible for the supplies of its own cow.Since everyone in the same Niulu is relatives and friends, we will naturally spare no effort to provide the best material support for relatives who are fighting on the front line.In this way, a very close connection between the front line and the rear is formed, which greatly improves the efficiency of warfare.

From the battle of Sarhu, 11 Jiannu fought against [-] Ming army. The Ming army's combat effectiveness during this period was actually not weak.

Before the Battle of Hunhe, the Zhejiang Army and the Sichuan Army of the Ming Dynasty fought in Tongzhou. They fired guns at each other in the urban area. Ji Liao's soldiers fought violently.At that time, the three most effective armies in the Ming Dynasty were the Shizhuchuan Army, the Zhejiang Army (Qi Family Army) left by Qi Jiguang, and the Jizhen Frontier Army (which can also be regarded as the army led by Qi Jiguang). Because of internal discord, they fought on their own. , so they were defeated by Jiannu one by one.

From then on, Daming basically had no battles that could be fought, only Guan Ningjun, who was just a tall guy pulled out of a dwarf, just like a student with very average grades transferred to an ordinary school, even in the original school , he can only score [-] points in the exam, and in the new ordinary school, he can also enter the top ten of the school.

Qin Buhui's Jinyiwei is hereditary. His father, Qin You, was seriously ill in Tianqi for three years. At that time, Qin Buhui took over his mantle from his father, Qin You, and officially became Jinyiwei.

From the third year of Apocalypse to the fifth year of Chongzhen, in the ten years, what Qin Buhui saw and heard was the defeat of the Ming army, and what he saw and heard was the great defeat of the Ming army, and it was all about Jiannu straddling his horse and showing off his power.

Originally, Jiannu was used to bragging. In Shenyang, the capital of the later Jin Dynasty, Jiannu said that the Ming army was vulnerable...

This made Qin Buhui feel a little unbelievable. How come it is completely different in Fuzhou?

The officers and men of Ning’s navy were not afraid of Jiannu at all. Almost all the troops wanted to fight and asked to be transferred to the front line to fight Jiannu. Is Jiannu so easy to fight?
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Cheng Shijie is very concerned about the research and development of the Gunpowder Bureau. After more than a year of research and development, the gunpowder in Cheng Shijie's hands has been completely granulated and standardized. The former makes the black powder burn more efficiently, and the latter makes it a kind of Weapons can be used more quantitatively.

Grenades are usually separated from the gunpowder and the shell casing. This kind of black powder specially used to assemble the grenade is processed into a pack of black powder powder paper bags, each pack is [-] grams. When using it, just pick up a piece and put it in Inside the shell of the grenade, then install the fuze device and work directly.

Not only efficient, but also very safe.

As for the shells of Feilei Cannon, that kind of gunpowder is processed into black powder cakes of two specifications. When firing, you only need to put a small piece of black powder powder cake into the firing barrel, and then put a larger piece, which is a large powder cake packed in thirty kilograms.

In this way, the calculation work of Ning Haijun's flying thunder shells has become more concise and efficient, and it has also made the transportation and counting work easier.

This standardization was soon introduced to the entire army, there were custom-made gunpowder packs for Thunderbolt guns, gunpowder packs for firecrackers, and gunpowder packs for Frangler cannons.

Customization and standardization make the use of gunpowder in Ning Haijun safer and more efficient.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie has no golden touch, nor does he know how to touch gold, and the production of concentrated sulfuric acid has not yet made breakthrough progress. Without sulfuric acid, there would be no nitric acid. Explosives in the modern sense still belong to the realm of gods.

It's just that this problem changed completely on the third day of September in the fifth year of Chongzhen.

Cheng Shijie came back from the industrial area in his four-wheeled carriage, and it was almost time to turn on the lights. When the carriage arrived at the Ning Navy General Mansion, he suddenly found a figure on the side of the road.

When the figure rushed towards Cheng Shijie's carriage, several of Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers were not polite, stepped forward very skillfully, and knocked the black figure to the ground.

"Caomin asks to see the commander, Caomin asks to see the commander!"

It wasn't until now that Wu Sheng discovered that this black shadow was not an assassin, because the "assassin" had a foul smell, and he was so scared that he peed.

"who are you?"

"Grassman Wu Daqiang, please see the commander-in-chief!"

Wu Sheng pointed to several soldiers and said, "Clean him up, and then ask what's going on?"

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie has always liked to be clean, if Cheng Shijie saw this scene, wouldn't it make Cheng Shijie sick?

Naturally, Cheng Shijie did not meet this person of unknown origin directly, no matter how serious his grievances were, it was impossible for Cheng Shijie to meet him directly.

Cheng Shijie returned to the mansion, had a quick meal, and then received a report from Chen Guodong: "Marshal, the matter has been investigated!"

"Speak!"

"Yes!"

"This man's name is Zhang Daqiang. He is 41 years old. He is the eldest son of Zhang Bingsheng, a former military household of Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu. His son Zhang Erqiang inherited it, and after Zhang Erqiang died, let his son Zhang Dongfang succeed him!"

When Cheng Shijie heard the name, he asked: "This commander remembers that we have a martyr in Ning Haijun, could it be..."

"It's this Zhang Dongfang!"

Chen Guodong smiled bitterly and said: "After Zhang Dongfang's death, his wife Zhang Chen was bold and careful, daring to think and act, and soon became a well-known rich woman in southern Liaoning. Because of good food and adequate nutrition, Zhang Chen, who was originally sallow and emaciated, More and more mature and charming..."

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the Zhang Chen family is very rich. Along with Zhang Chen's late husband, Zhang Dongfang's cousins ​​Zhang Dongliang, Zhang Dongming, and Zhang Dongfang's uncle Zhang Daqiang, and other fifteen relatives, I heard that Zhang Dongfang's widow has become a well-known rich man in southern Liaoning.

As a result, the fifteen relatives of the Zhang family came to join the Zhang Chen family. After the Zhang family came to southern Liaoning, they had actually allocated a hundred households in the village according to the allocation, which was located in Zhangmiao Town, southeast of Weicheng, Gaizhou.

However, there are regulations for immigrants in southern Liaoning. As long as the immigrants have relatives in southern Liaoning, they can be given priority and let them go to their relatives. In this way, Zhang Daqiang brought a 15-year-old member of the Zhang clan to join Zhang Chen.

The Zhang Chen family did not treat the members of the Zhang family harshly, and arranged relatively easy jobs for Zhang Daqiang and others. They worked as stewards in the warehouse under the Dongfang Company.You don't have to work hard, you still get money every month, you eat well, and you dress well.

But the human heart is the most complicated thing.

Zhang Daqiang is greedy for Zhang Chen's Wanguan family wealth. According to their knowledge, these wealth should belong to the Zhang family. His younger brother Zhang Dongyuan, now 21 years old, went to Jinan Prefecture to seek a living.

Zhang Daqiang has some skills, he can play the suona, and with his son and nephew, he formed a suona troupe of the Zhang family, specializing in playing suona for some people who have weddings and funerals, and they can live well.

At least much stronger than the original Zhang Dongfang.

Therefore, Zhang Daqiang paid attention to his nephew, and he came up with the most ingenious plan, let Zhang Dongyuan's younger brother Zhang Dongyuan marry his sister-in-law Zhang Chen as his wife, and Zhang Chen would no longer be able to marry him. Wan Guan's family wealth has been collected.

This suggestion was approved by Zhang Dongyuan. Although Zhang Chenshi was seven years older than Zhang Dongyuan, the problem was that Zhang Chenshi was rich, not to mention seven years older, even if he was 17 years older, he had no objections at 27 years old.

Zhang Daqiang raised this matter with Zhang Chenshi, but the problem is that Zhang Chenshi disagreed.

Mrs. Zhang Chen disagreed, so Zhang Daqiang brought Zhang's family to the Dongfang Company, trying hard and hard, but the problem is that Mrs. Zhang and Chen are now determined and absolutely do not agree to this marriage.

Zhang Dongyuan has been fascinated by the wealth of Dongfang Company, he is no longer satisfied with the three melons and dates given to him by Zhang Chenshi, he decided to use strong, raw rice to cook mature rice.

But the problem is, Zhang Chenshi is no longer a pretty widow who is bullied by others. She has guards and a large number of servants around her. Zhang Dongyuan has no chance to get close to Zhang Chenshi.

Especially in Zhang's new house, there are more than a dozen servants and more than a dozen servants. The key is that Zhang Chen's son brought a Shandong fine dog with him when he arrived in southern Liaoning. There were five small dogs, and these five small dogs were very powerful. There were more than a dozen of them in the Zhang family, including Zhang Daqiang, who were all driven to heaven and earth by these five small dogs.

If Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Chen didn't drink the five dogs, it would be a problem whether they could escape from Mrs. Zhang's new house.

Seeing that it was inconvenient to do anything in Zhang's house, Zhang Dongyuan decided to block the way.Mrs. Zhang Chen now has a four-wheeled carriage, a coachman, and two maids who look like women.

Three of the four were women, and the driver was a little old man in his fifties who was very easy to deal with.

So Zhang Dongyuan, Zhang Dongliang, and Zhang Dongming decided to block the road and rob Mrs. Chen. Although the two women next to Ms. Zhang were of lower background, they looked pretty good, and they reluctantly accepted them as concubines.

Zhang Dongyuan promised several cousins ​​that as long as he successfully married Mrs. Zhang Chen, each cousin would be rewarded with 1000 taels of silver...

On August 27th of last month, Zhang Dongyuan and others saw Zhang Chen's carriage returning from the farm outside the city after it was dark. The potatoes and sweet potatoes in the farm also had a bumper harvest.

Zhang Chen was a little tired after a busy day.Sitting in the carriage and taking a nap, her bodyguard Hao Wuniang sat at the door, and another servant named Feng Huiyun.

This is a very silent woman. She was separated from her husband when she fled. She took a 12-year-old son with her. Because she can read and count, she is Zhang Chen's accountant and part-time teacher.

Whether it is Hao Wuniang or Feng Huiyun in the Zhang family, their status is detached, even better than that of the young master Zhang Saihu. Zhang Saihu usually goes to school and lives by himself when he goes home.The food and daily life are all taken care of by Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen is very busy, so it is naturally Zhang Saihu who does his own thing.

Hao Wuniang's child is still young and needs the help of a nanny to take care of her, while Feng Huiyun's son is older, but she is busier and sometimes has no time to eat, so Zhang Chen, the boss, assigned them separately A rough envoy woman is responsible for taking care of the daily life and life of the two of them.

There were four lanterns in the carriage, and Feng Huiyun was holding an abacus and facing the account book.

When it was less than ten miles away from Jinzhou City, the carriage suddenly stopped.

Hao Wuniang asked, "Uncle Zhou, what's going on?"

"I don't know which bastard it is, it blocked the branch on the road!"

Hao Wuniang immediately drew out the mother-in-law knife and blocked the road with branches. This routine was too familiar, and it was originally a standard routine for beating sap and robbing roads.

Before Hao Wuniang could make a move, Zhou Bo, the coachman, cried out in surprise: "Hero, spare your life!"

"Shut up, or I'll kill you!"

Zhang Chenshi also woke up, and she heard that the person outside was his brother-in-law Zhang Dongyuan.Before he could respond, the car door was violently pulled open from the outside, and a black figure jumped onto the carriage and rushed towards Zhang Chenshi.

Hao Wuniang almost didn't hesitate, and instinctively shot.

"Pu Chi Pu Chi..."

She swung three swords and killed the black shadow directly, and the black shadow fell into a pool of blood.After seeing the person who was killed clearly, Hao Wuniang felt as if she was in an ice cellar. This was actually Zhang Dongfang's brother Zhang Dongyuan.

"Poison woman, how dare you murder your uncle!"

After Zhang Dongliang saw Hao Wuniang killed Zhang Dongyuan, he immediately pointed at Zhang Chen and cursed: "I'm going to sue the officials..."

"do not want!"

Although Hao Wuniang killed Zhang Dongyuan, Zhang Dongliang and the others were not afraid. Those who run the rivers and lakes are very courageous. Besides, it is good if Zhang Dongyuan is dead, but it is a good thing for them to seize Zhang Chen's weakness.

Zhang Dongliang stared at the mature and charming Zhang Chenshi and said: "As long as you obey me, I will reluctantly..."

As he said that, Zhang Dongliang didn't know what to do, and reached out to touch Zhang Chen's face.

As Zhang Chenshi's guard, Hao Wuniang was so anxious that she didn't have time to listen to Zhang Chenshi's order, so she swung her knife up and chopped off Zhang Dongliang's arm with one knife, and Zhang Dongliang's head was chopped off with the second knife.Several other people wanted to run away at this time, Hao Wuniang kept on doing nothing, and swung a knife to kill Zhang Dongliang and others. After some fighting, the two were captured alive, and six people, including Zhang Dongyuan and Zhang Dongliang, were killed on the spot.

"What should we do now?"

No matter how strong Zhang Chen is, she is still a woman, and she is already in chaos.

Feng Huiyun, who had been taciturn all this time, said: "There is no proof of death!"

Hao Wuniang listened to Zhang Chen's orders.

Mrs. Zhang Chen naturally knew what kind of goods these exiled family members were, and said with some hesitation: "Is this not good?"

Feng Huiyun said: "What if they sue the officials?"

Daming law, to be fair, Daming law is very double standard, very tolerant towards the rich and powerful, but not very friendly towards women, besides, none of the eight people carried a murder weapon, the only murder weapon was in Zhang Dongming's hands, but he was only using it to chop down trees.

In this case, once the official is sued, regardless of whether the lawsuit wins or loses, it will affect Zhang Saihu, Zhang Chen's son.

For the sake of her son, she could only take this measure.

Eight people were killed by Hao Wuniang three times, five times, five times and two times. Facing the eight corpses, Zhang Chen said, "What should we do now?"

"Go back to my room, there is a jar of green vitriol under the bed, bring it here!"

Green vitriol oil is actually ancient sulfuric acid.From 650 to 683 A.D. (the time of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty), Gu Gangzi, an alchemist, recorded in Volume [-] of his "Huangdi Jiuding Shendan Jingjue" "the method of refining stone gallbladder to extract the essence", that is, dry distillation of stone gallbladder (bile alum) ) to obtain sulfuric acid.

But this kind of green alum oil, except that it can be applied in a small amount on the blade to remove the rust of the blade, has very little use. Another important function is actually in a special field, that is, it is used to destroy corpses and eliminate traces.

When Hao Wuniang returned to Zhang's house, she brought Feng Huiyun's so-called green vitriol oil. After she took it, she took off the ceramic cover and sprinkled the green vitriol oil on the eight corpses, followed by a scorching smell. , these eight corpses decomposed rapidly, not even bones left...

But the problem is that this matter was eventually reported, because Zhang Dongyuan and the others went to nine people, as well as Zhang Daqiang's youngest son Zhang Donglin.

When Zhang Dongliang was cutting the tree, the sawdust splashed into Zhang Donglin's eyes, Zhang Donglin's eyes shed a lot of tears at that time, so he didn't approach.

After several people were killed one after another, he was terrified, covered his mouth, lay in the ditch by the side of the road, did not dare to move, and Hao Wuniang and the others left, and then he dragged his legs full of feces and urine back home .

When Zhang Daqiang learned that eight of his son and nephew had been killed, but the bodies were gone, he searched around the scene and found only black stains, but neither the bodies nor the new burying bodies. pit……

Besides, when the court under the management committee accepted the case, Zhang Donglin, the plaintiff and the only survivor, actually told all the plans in detail, and implemented the plan of blocking the road with branches. Zhang Dongliang and Zhang Dongming Responsible for subduing the coachman Lao Zhou.

This is a case of a strong woman with a bad nature and extremely bad influence. As for Hao Wuniang killing eight people in a row, in Zhang Ruyi's eyes, even if he killed 80 people, it would be nothing.Zhang Ruyi gave a positive attitude.

If you dare not fight back, or say you can't fight back, in the face of robbers blocking the road, then what's the point of the law?

Could it be said that the law should protect criminals?

As Zhang Chen's bodyguard, Hao Wuniang can have unlimited self-defense and counterattack power. It is not an exaggeration to kill eight people, even if she kills 80 people.

It is conceivable that the three women faced nine men at that time, if they did not fight back, how terrible the consequences would be.

Cheng Shijie's focus is obviously different from other Zhang Ruyi's. He discovered the so-called destruction of corpses, leaving only a cloud of stains, and he could faintly smell the smell of burnt...

This seems to be...

Cheng Shijie sent someone to find Zhang Ruyi: "Has the crime scene been investigated?"

"Report to the commander-in-chief!"

"No body found"

"no!"

"In Zhang Donglin's confession, it was said that the body disappeared after a cloud of smoke passed. Has this matter been investigated clearly?"

"The door thought..."

"Why?"

Zhang Ruyi said, "Marshal, isn't this a bit too much..."

"pass?"

Cheng Shijie sneered and said, "Don't sit crooked on your butt, so I'm asking you to put yourself in another place, and replace Mrs. Zhang Chen with your wife. If Mrs. Sun was stopped by nine murderers in a carriage, what would you do?"

"No, Marshal, the meaning of the sect is that this matter is not easy to say..."

"No, on the contrary, this matter should be tried!"

In Cheng Shijie's view, there were three big mountains on the heads of the people in the late Ming Dynasty, the government, the gentry, and the clan.

What Zhang Ruyi meant was that the reputation of Zhang Chen, a martyr, needed to be protected.

However, in Cheng Shijie's view, this is a good opportunity.

In the past, the family was very large, with tens of thousands of people, or even 10,000+ people. It was completely a country within a country. In order to restrain the behavior of family members and protect the family's reputation and culture, each family would establish its own rules. In the past Call it "family law."In the past, people's behavior must be bound by the family law, and they must not violate the family law, otherwise they will be judged by the respected members of the family and served by the family law.

If an ancestral hall does not allow anyone to participate in family sacrifices, it means that this person has violated the family law, and he will never be able to hang out in the family in this life.This is family culture.Violating the family law is equivalent to cutting oneself off from the rivers and lakes.

This culture and customs have both good and bad sides.When the interests of the family conflict with the interests of the country, many people's choices are based on putting the family first and then the country.

There are many widows like Zhang Chen in southern Liaoning, and there are not a few rich ones. Why does Zhang Daqiang dare to attack Zhang Chen, but not others?Of course, this is because they have their own family law as their confidence.

The real purpose of Cheng Shijie's decision to try this case is to amend the Daming Law. As mentioned earlier, the Daming Law is very unfair. The law established in the patriarchal society, on the basis of prioritizing the protection of imperial power, then protects the gentry class, and finally protects As for men, as for women, even their basic interests are not protected.

Why did Zhang Daqiang dare to be unscrupulous?

It is because, in their eyes, the Zhang family is respected, and the Zhang Chen family is just the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family. She herself, including everything about her, belongs to the Zhang family.

Because Zhang Daqiang has family law as his confidence, he dared to block the road and rob, openly raped women, and cooked raw rice. This is a serious illegal act.

Cheng Shijie, as a person of later generations, will never agree to the existence of such filth, he should resolutely crack down on it, and must not condone it.

At the same time, there is another important reason. In this case, traces of sulfuric acid appeared, because sulfuric acid can be used to make fertilizers, medicines, explosives, pigments, detergents, batteries, etc. It is also widely used in purification of petroleum, metal smelting and dyes and other industries.Sulfuric acid is the foundation of the chemical industry, and it is not an exaggeration to call it industrial blood.

Cheng Shijie needs such a talent.

(End of this chapter)