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

Chapter 286 Isn’t Fire Bull a Steam Engine?
Chapter 285

"Cheng Qing is free!"

In the other courtyard of Xicheng, when they learned that Cheng Shijie was coming, Queen Zhang and Queen Zhou met Cheng Shijie together.After all, Empress Zhou is a lady, if she meets foreign ministers alone, and she is a mature man, she should avoid suspicion to some extent.

In all fairness, Cheng Shijie had never met Queen Zhang.When we met for the first time, I saw that although Queen Zhang was dressed in casual clothes, without makeup, and did not deliberately dress up, she couldn't hide her graceful and luxurious demeanor.

"I don't know why the empress came to Liaodong?"

Empress Zhou smiled and said: "I want to visit Liaodong, can't I?"

"Yes, of course!"

Empress Zhou looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Your Majesty has long heard that Liaodong is developing well. Unfortunately, he can't leave the palace to come to Liaodong, so let me take a look at Liaodong on behalf of His Majesty, and bring the prince here casually to study with Cheng Qing." study!"

"How can my minister He De be the teacher of the prince, my minister..."

Before Cheng Shijie could finish speaking, Empress Zhou interrupted: "This is the holy order!"

"Can't refuse?"

"Can't refuse!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Your Majesty is setting this minister on fire. If this news gets out, those feathered ministers will still neigh me!"

"Cheng Qing, you are now the crown prince's chief protector, you must pay attention to your words and deeds, and you will spoil the crown prince!"

Cheng Shijie also knew that he could be the prince's grand protector if he didn't want to. Fortunately, he was not asked to be the prince's grand master. Of course, the prince's grand master needs a famous minister to serve as the prince's grand master.The emperor has never been a reasonable creature, you have to do what you are asked to do, there is no room for bargaining.

"Prince, come and pay respects to the Taibao!"

Zhu Cihong came over and saluted Cheng Shijie.

It can be seen that the prince Zhu Cihong is a timid person, and he is a little afraid of Cheng Shijie. When he walked towards Cheng Shijie, he kept his eyes on Queen Zhou, for fear that Queen Zhou would not see him at a glance.

"Greetings to see the crown prince and Taibao!"

"Prince, you are welcome!"

Cheng Shijie touched his body, but he was not carrying anything, and the only Mauser pistol could not be given to the prince, so he had to take out his own dagger. This kind of dagger is a product of later generations. About one foot three inches.The total weight is 580 grams, which is very suitable for children like Zhu Cihong.

However, what Cheng Shijie did not expect was that Zhu Cihong did not reach out to receive Cheng Shijie's dagger, but instead asked, "The Taibao..."

Cheng Shijie patted Zhu Cihong's head lightly: "Call me teacher!"

The term "Prince Taibao" is not a good meaning in later generations. It is the name of punks and spies, such as the Gestapo.

Zhu Cihong was angry: "You are so bold, how dare you face the lonely king..."

Cheng Shijie actually didn't want to be the prince's teacher. He taught the prince that this is the private land of the civil servant group. Now that he became the prince's teacher, the civil servant group would bite him like a mad dog and spare no effort to deal with him.Of course, Cheng Shijie wasn't afraid of the civil society, but he didn't want to cause trouble.

For a brat like Zhu Cihong, the best way is to make him quit.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie didn't get used to Zhu Cihong, but gave Zhu Cihong another blow to his little head.

This time, Cheng Shijie pulled back his strength, but it still made Zhu Cihong so painful that tears almost came out.

"you……"

Cheng Shijie said angrily: "A kid with a big fart, a lonely king, how can you fight that old fox in the future when you are so rigid? Who taught you this way? Rules are dead, people are alive, when will you fight?" , on what occasion, what status, on relatives, I am your uncle, on logic, I am your teacher, from now on in front of me, you and I are commensurate, don’t call me a widow, it will be annoying!"

Zhu Cihong's tears rolled in his eyes, he looked at Queen Zhou, but Queen Zhou didn't yell at Cheng Shijie, he remembered what Queen Zhou had explained to him when he was in the Forbidden City.

Queen Zhou told him that if he got along with Cheng Shijie, he would stay in Liaodong for a period of time and learn something from Cheng Shijie. This was an irresistible temptation for this six or seven-year-old child.

From Beijing to Liaodong, this child who was born in a deep palace and grew up in the hands of a woman tasted the taste of freedom for the first time. He really didn't want to go back so soon, and continue to live through the stinky rules, as if he had been born in the past. Live like a string puppet!

His father asked him to study among Cheng Shijie, the greatest military and political all-rounder in the Ming Dynasty. This was his only chance to leave the Forbidden City. In order to stay in Liaodong for a year or two, what is it to suffer a few popcorns?
Zhu Cihong rubbed his head that hurt from the knock, bowed and said, "I'm sorry, I was wrong, teacher... ouch!"

Cheng Shijie knocked Zhu Cihong on the head again and said, "Do you know why you hit you?"

Zhu Cihong shook his head in a daze.

Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang looked at Cheng Shijie and Zhu Cihong quietly, neither of them said anything. Judging from Cheng Shijie's behavior, Cheng Shijie was completely different from the teachers in the palace. They are all modest and gentlemen, but the atmosphere of literati is too heavy.

The first time Cheng Shijie taught Zhu Cihong was to let him learn to break out of the way of thinking. As a prince who grew up in the palace, he began to learn etiquette since he could speak.

What is etiquette?
Simply put, if you can't do this, you can't do that.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhu Cihong and said, "Because you are too weak!"

"weak?"

Zhu Cihong was very puzzled.

"You have to remember, if someone slaps you for no reason, the first thing you have to do is never admit your mistake, don't give up, but fight back, and then ask him why he slapped you, this is the true nature of a man! "

Zhu Cihong was even more puzzled at this moment.

Daming is a country that pays attention to respect and inferiority. He was educated to respect his teachers, to be filial to his elders, and to obey the rules. Cheng Shijie is his teacher and his uncle. No matter which dimension, Zhu Cihong should not Fight back.

This is the wisdom of Confucianism. Although the emperor is supreme, there are people who can control the emperor, that is, the emperor's mother, elders, and teachers.

One more thing to say here is that the most ruthless person in the Tang Dynasty was actually Wu Zetian. In history, Wu Zetian's mother Li was the niece of Hongnong Yang's Guan Guogong Yang Xiong, the daughter of General Youwuwei and Zuo Guanglu doctor Yang Da However, this Yang family, like Wu Zetian, has a very long life, and he is still very healthy after living in his 80s.

This is the only person who can use the name of his elders to suppress Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian directly pulled out the bottom line and concocted the scandal of Mrs. Yang's affair with He Lanmin, thus blocking the only possibility for Yang to interfere with Wu Zetian.

Zhu Cihong asked puzzledly: "The teacher can't do it either?"

"The teacher must also be reasonable, and His Majesty must also be reasonable!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Your royal father can't do whatever he wants, and some ministers refuse to implement his imperial decree, and the six departments and the cabinet can refute it. Therefore, in this world, everyone has to be reasonable. You You can punish anyone without guilt, but of course, no one can hit you unscrupulously and for no reason!"

Zhu Cihong still didn't quite understand.

But Empress Zhou understood Cheng Shijie's words. It was precisely because of Cheng Shijie's teaching Cheng Jialong that after Hu Liang'an scolded Cheng Jiayue, Cheng Jialong led his troops to the Xicheng Bieyuan in order to vent his anger on the wronged Cheng Jiayue, even if the Xicheng Bieyuan Cheng Jialong has no scruples about living in the house as his own queen.

Finally, Zhu Cihong seemed to understand, and he punched Cheng Shijie cautiously.

Of course, the punch seemed to tickle an itch.

"Didn't you eat? Use your strength!!"

Zhu Cihong's face turned red, and he kicked Cheng Shijie's calf hard with all his might, but it felt like he had kicked a pillar, and the pain made him jump with his feet hugged, and tears came out.

"That's right. You are the one who wants to be the king of a country in the future. If you can't fight back when you hit him or scold you, what kind of king do you want to be? You should just be a sandbag or a spittoon."

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Whoever teaches you to repay grievances with kindness, whoever makes you generous, you throw his child into the well, and see if he can repay grievances with kindness, whether he can be magnanimous, and whoever gives you magnanimity for no reason A slap in the face, and you retaliate with a knife!"

With that said, Cheng Shijie handed the dagger in his hand to Zhu Cihong.

"Thank you teacher!"

Zhu Cihong thought for a while and said, "Teacher, are you trying to encourage students to be brave and ruthless?"

"Isn't it good to be brave and ruthless?"

"If everyone is brave and ruthless, wouldn't the gentle and simple ethos that our Han people have cultivated for thousands of years be corrupted?"

"Who told you that our Han family children are gentle and honest?"

"Is not it?"

"If the children of the Han family are gentle and honest, how can we defeat the Xiongnu? If the children of the Han family are gentle, why do they have the heroism to offend me even if they are far away? If the children of the Han family are gentle, why would they say that whatever the sun and moon shine, Wherever the rivers and rivers go, they are all the courtiers and concubines of the great man?"

Zhu Cihong nodded again and again, thinking that this General Cheng was good, and his reasoning was completely different from that of the great Confucians who accompanied him. He really liked to hear it, and Zhu Cihong asked, "What if we can't beat him?"

"Come back to practice if you can't beat him, and fight again after practice, or get a group of people to beat him up, anyway, you can't bear it anyway, understand?"

Cheng Shijie left, leaving Queen Zhang and Queen Zhou stunned.

Empress Zhang looked at Cheng Shijie's back and said, "Empress, let the crown prince learn from General Cheng, I'm afraid that fortune and misfortune will be unpredictable!"

Empress Zhou shook her head and said, "Actually, what General Cheng said was unreasonable? When Emperor Taizu Hongwu was alive, he was not without defeat. How did he ever shrink back? And Emperor Sejongwen Wuzheng Mobei , Seven voyages to the Western Seas, totaling ten thousand countries, but now, Mongolia is rebellious, slavery is rebellious, Shaanxi, Henan, including Huguang, how can there be any pure land in the world?"

Queen Zhang opened her mouth, but did not refute Queen Zhou.

What Empress Zhou said was unreasonable, how fierce was it to build slaves in the past?But in the past few years, when did Jiannu dare to commit crimes?Because Cheng Shijie clearly told Jiannu that as long as he dared to cross the Hun River, Cheng Shijie would lead the Ning Navy and Jiannu to live forever, and the Jiannu cavalry never invaded Datong, Xuanfu and Ningjin defense lines again.

When Cheng Shijie returned to Ninghai General Mansion, Cheng Jiayue was flying a kite. When she heard that Cheng Shijie was back, her eyes lit up, she dropped the thread in her hand, and ran directly towards Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Jiayue cheered: "Dad is back! Dad is back!"

Cheng Jiayue opened her small arms and rushed forward, Cheng Shijie jumped off the horse and took a step forward to pick her up, turned around several times, and asked, "How about it, have Jiayue been obedient to me these few months when I'm not at home?" ?”

Cheng Jiayue nodded happily and said: "Jiayue is obedient, eats obediently, sleeps obediently, does not go to the river or well to play, no matter where she goes, she always finds Sun Pu and Mao Yu as companions... But, father is not at home, No one tells Jiayue a story, so I can't sleep at night!"

Seeing Cheng Shijie's return, Zhu Weiti also breathed a sigh of relief: "Sister-in-law, you are back. During your absence, she clings to me all day and asks me to tell her stories. I almost make her worry." died!"

Cheng Jiayue said aggrievedly: "People like to listen to stories, if you don't listen to stories, you can't fall asleep..."

Cheng Shijie laughed and said, "Okay, tonight, Dad will tell you a story!"

Cheng Jiayue clapped her hands and cheered, "Great, I want to hear the story of Cinderella!"

With Cheng Shijie's return, the entire Ning Naval General Mansion seemed to come to life in an instant, and all the servants showed happy smiles, those who served tea served tea, those who served snacks served snacks, and the servants were eager to arrange meals.

Cheng Shijie asked, "Where's Jialong?"

Zhu Weiti said without hesitation: "If he's not in the mansion, he must be in Jingjing Town!"

"Sports Town?"

It was only then that Cheng Shijie remembered that Chen Guodong had already reported to him about the Jingjing Town, and he also guessed that Cheng Jialong must have known about himself and had already gone into hiding.

In fact, Cheng Jialong did hide.

Because he knew that Cheng Shijie would be very busy when he came back. Sure enough, as Cheng Jialong guessed, the food had just been served here, and Sun Zhichen, the second director of the Liaoguan Management Committee, came to report on his work.

"Yongyan, you came just in time, have you eaten yet?"

"not yet!"

"Then let's eat together and talk while eating!"

Just as Sun Zhichen picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of mutton, the servant here reported that Sun Chengzong had come.

Sun Chengzong came to look for Cheng Shijie because of the visit of Queen Zhou and Queen Zhang to Liaodong. He was afraid that Cheng Shijie would say or do wrong things.

Cheng Shijie put down his chopsticks, stood up and greeted Sun Chengzong, the teacher: "Students greet the teacher!"

"Come here to eat for the teacher!"

"Then eat together, come and add food!"

Just as Sun Chengzong sat down, Yang Yunniang also came over.

Although Yang Yunniang is the deputy director of the management committee and the president of Liaodong Bank, at home, Yang Yunniang is Cheng Shijie's nominal concubine, and her status is much higher than that of a concubine who has no name or title.

This time, when Empress Zhou came over, she also brought several imperial edicts, not only conferring Cheng Jiayue as Princess Changping, but also conferring Yang Yunniang and Jin Qiaoer as the second-rank wives. If Ti is a mother, she can enjoy the treatment of a son and a daughter.

Yang Yunniang was serving wine, not long after, Chen Zilong, Song Yingxing, Xie Zongze, Xie Jinglin, Zhou Yandong, Zhang Yu, Shen Mingyu and others arrived one after another.

Cheng Shijie had no choice but to eat and chat with everyone.

Through conversations with everyone, Cheng Shijie knew that Liaodong no longer needed his guidance, and the Ning Navy Group began to drive forward on its own.

Since four years ago, Cheng Shijie, with the help of Sun Yuanhua, established Ning Haijun and established Ning Haijun, an interest group. Now this interest group has hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land and a population of more than 1000 million. There are more than 2000 million indigenous people in Upper Luzon.

It's just that neither Cheng Shijie nor Liu Qingsong in Luzon, including everyone in the Ninghai Group, think that the natives of Luzon are human beings. not human.

The development of Liaodong is getting better and better, especially in the 36 counties of the seven prefectures in Liaodong. The cement roads between the counties have basically been built, and the fertile land cultivated is slightly lower than last year. There are more than 500 million mu of cotton and flax, which are cash crops, but the real grain field is only about [-] million mu.There are more than [-] million mu of vegetables.

Liaodong has gone through the most difficult time. Every household has food in stock. You can find problems from the dogs in Liaodong. Nowadays, almost everyone in Liaodong owns a dog. Because there is more food, they can raise dogs.

More than [-]% of the people have horses in their homes. The biggest problem in Jinzhou now is to deal with horse manure and cow manure. Tens of millions of catties of horse manure can be piled up into a hill every day.At this time, the avenue has become an extremely dense "minefield". When walking on it, it is very difficult for you not to let your feet step on the things pulled down by those beasts.Those who had already prepared their baskets and dung forks were ready to pick up the dung.

However, Liaodong is currently very short of human resources. Many factories are unable to expand their production capacity due to a shortage of workers, especially the salt field. Converted into refined salt for sale.

The biggest problem is that there are too few potato and sweet potato processing factories in Liaodong. Because the processing is not timely, tens of millions of sweet potatoes and potatoes are lost every year.

Hearing this, Cheng Shijie said: "Stupid, why don't you raise pigs? We in Liaodong can't even eat pork now, can we?"

"Pork can definitely be eaten up, and pigs are raised..."

Chen Zilong smiled and said, "Commander, you don't know that this pig has grown faster and fatter after eating spoiled sweet potatoes and potatoes!"

Chen Zilong is not a zoologist. What he said is actually not accurate. Pigs will be poisoned if they eat spoiled sweet potatoes and potatoes. Fermented together, the fermented sweet potatoes and potatoes may look broken, but the problem is that the fermented sweet potatoes and potatoes actually promote the growth of pigs.

Sun Zhichen said: "Commander, thanks to Wang Zheng, if it wasn't for the fire bull he invented, Liaodong..."

"What fire bull?"

Sun Zhichen said and gestured, and Cheng Shijie finally understood.

What kind of fire cow is this? Isn't this a steam engine?
Many people say that it was the machine guns that forced the cavalry to lose their living space. In fact, it was not the machine guns that really made the cavalry withdraw from the stage of history, but the steam engine trains and railways.

Although cavalry has advantages in mobility, they are completely inadequate in front of steam engine trains.

Cheng Shijie put down his chopsticks and said, "Come on, let's go see the Fire Bull!"

(End of this chapter)