Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 147 Assassination
On the morning of the sixth day of September, there was a sea of ​​people on the edge of the Yellow River outside the city of Xiazhou.

Everyone looked up at the new chain bridge over the Yellow River.

After thousands of years, a bridge connecting the two sides of the Yellow River finally appeared.

The bridge is composed of 26 iron cables with a length of 200 meters. The whole bridge consists of three parts: the bridge pavilion, the bridge abutment and the bridge pile.

The east and west bridge pavilions are wooden structures, with unique features and cornices, simple and elegant; there are still blank plaques on the east bridge pavilion, and the two bridge pavilions will be used as toll gates for crossing the bridge.

The bridge abutment is used to fix the iron cables. Wang Jiajian and Diao Sanyi cooperated to build a furnace by the Yellow River, and cast steel on site to cast the abutment base.

Then, in winter, when the water volume of the Yellow River was the smallest and the sandbar in the middle of the river leaked out, the foundation of the bridge pile was surrounded by bricks and stones on the sandbar. When the weather was warmer, the bridge pile was built with cement and steel bars.

After the bridge piles are built, the forged iron locks are fixed on the bridge piles and then connected to the bridge abutments on both sides.

The iron chain bridge is 400 meters long and three meters wide; the bridge body is composed of thirteen iron chains, two iron chains on the bridge railings on both sides, and nine iron chains on the bridge deck;

The deck of the bridge is paved with wooden planks, each plank is three meters long and ten centimeters wide, the main walkway in the middle of the bridge is 75 centimeters wide, and the auxiliary walkway at the handrails on both sides of the bridge is [-] centimeters wide.

每根铁链由1720至1982个铁环相扣构成，总共有48656个铁环相扣；整座桥用铁量达到20万斤，造价近7万两白银。

Originally, the Wang family had an ambitious plan to build three such bridges at once, but after all, the cost was too high, so they concentrated their efforts to build one.

Zhang Zongxian deliberately chose to build the bridge on the day of Zhu Youxiao's enthronement, just to flatter Zhu Youxiao, and when the bridge trial operation is no problem today, he will ask for credit from the capital.It also gave Zhu Youxiao an excuse to promote him.

The prefect of Yan'an also came to the scene today. The prefect didn't want to miss such a rare opportunity to leave his name in history.In fact, the governor also wanted to come, but because of his guilty conscience, he didn't dare to come rashly.

After the cutting ceremony of Qiaoting was completed, the prefect, who was quite literary, wanted to nominate Qiao, but was stopped by Zhang Zongxian. The naming right was left to the emperor.

Although the magistrate was a little unhappy, he didn't dare to compete with the emperor. Of course, he didn't know that the emperor Zhang Zongxian said was actually Zhu Youxiao, so he thought it was Zhu Youxiao's father.

Then there is the acceptance process. First, ten fully loaded four-wheeled carriages with a load of [-] catties and a total weight of no more than [-] catties will pass first.After the carriage passed smoothly, the people on both sides of the Yellow River burst into applause like a tsunami.

After the carriage passed safely, the magistrate of Yan'an took the lead and led officials of all sizes to worship the god of the river together at the bridge pile in the middle.

It was only here that I fully realized the greatness of the bridge. The endlessly flowing Yellow River passed under the bridge, and the bridge piles erected in the middle of the river split the Yellow River like a sharp sword.

After sacrificing the river god, the two sides praised each other for a while, and not long after, the prefect of Yan'an, the magistrate of Lin County and other officials got together and began to write poems for the bridge.

Zhang Zongxian knew that these people looked down on him as a supervisor, thinking that he was not an official through the imperial examination, and he was not on the same path as them.

Zhang Zongxian was not angry with these people, but instead called his disciples to his side, pointed at those officials and said without hesitation:
"Look at these self-righteous scholars who want to leave their names on this bridge so that they can boast of their achievements to future generations, as if they built this bridge with their own hands.
However, real builders are looked down upon by these scholars.They are proud that their fingers do not touch the spring water. How can such an official be a good parent official?How can you love the people?

Before the bridge was built, they didn't even believe that the bridge could be built. The county magistrate on the other side even called Wei Shi a fool, because Wei Shi gave him 2000 taels of silver notes for him to cooperate with the bridge construction.

Now that the bridge has been built and they can't wait to come here to make great achievements, this is the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, and it has been rotten to the bone.But what our school pays most attention to is practice, what we hate the most is self-righteous exaggeration,

My legislative faction is to drive out these bureaucrats and replace them to do practical things for the people.You must remember that practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

Follow along as your teacher to see the builders of this bridge. "

Then he took his disciples down the bridge and walked to the iron furnace that was originally built for the bridge. The craftsmen who built the bridge here were packing up their tools, and they were going to participate in the construction of the next bridge.

Old Wangtou is also here at the moment, and now he is a wealthy member of staff. He is still on the first-line construction site. When Zhang Zongxian came to see them, he hurriedly brought the craftsmen to salute Zhang Zongxian.

Zhang Zongxian had already prepared commemorative medals and asked his disciples to distribute them to the craftsmen who participated in the construction of the bridge. He could not reward these craftsmen in the name of the court, so he could only issue commemorative medals to them and reward them in the future.

After distributing the medals, Zhang Zongxian also said that he would record the names of all craftsmen, and then engrave them all on the bridge pile, including of course the disciples who participated in the calculation and design.Let future generations know who built the first bridge over the Yellow River.

Then the craftsmen were encouraged to make persistent efforts and strive to build a railway bridge across the Yellow River as soon as possible.

After completing the acceptance ceremony of the Yellow River Bridge, Zhang Zongxian excused himself from being unwell, so he did not attend the celebration banquet organized by the yamen, and took his disciples to the college.

The slayer who had been suffering from no chance to strike finally got his chance. It was predicted that Zhang Zongxian would return to the academy, and he had already ambushed Zhang Zongxian on his way back to the academy.

Due to the large number of people watching the excitement today, there are always people on the road, which makes it impossible for them to plant landmines directly on the road.He could only hold the flintlock blunderbuss bought at a high price, pretend to be resting on the side of the road, and wait for Zhang Zongxian's convoy to come over, and then attack violently.

Zhang Zongxian always keeps things simple when traveling on weekdays, but today the magistrate came over, so he had to put on the airs of magistrate, and arranged for the yamen servant to open the way in front of him holding a sign to avoid silence.

However, Zhang Zongxian didn't sit in the sedan chair. As a traveler, he really didn't think there was anything good about sitting in the sedan chair, so he asked the yamen's bearer to carry the empty sedan chair to the college.He rode a horse and mixed with his disciples.

Because of Zhang Zongxian's instructions, the yamen servants who opened the road did not drive away the people on purpose, and naturally they did not drive away the dead soldiers squatting on both sides of the road pretending to watch the excitement.

When Zhang Zongxian's sedan chair passed by them, the dead man on the left took out a grenade and ignited it and threw it at the sedan chair, and the dead man on the right took out a gun and shot it at the sedan chair.Smoke and flames instantly flooded the sedan chair.

Zhang Zongxian, who was following behind, also realized that someone wanted to assassinate him. When the surrounding guards rushed towards the dead soldiers, Zhang Zongxian led his disciples to turn their horses and ran towards the government office.

After entering the city wall, the battle on that side was also over. All the attacking soldiers were killed on the spot, and the remaining cavalry in the academy also sent a company of troops to check the situation.

After confirming that all the attackers were killed, Zhang Zongxian returned to the academy under the escort of the cavalry company.

After receiving the news of Zhang Zongxian's assassination, the celebration banquet couldn't go on. Qian Tongzhi didn't know that the government was also there, so he hurried to the assassination scene. When he arrived at the scene, he only saw bloodstains, corpses and ashes all over the ground. Sitting in a sedan chair.

After asking the yamen servant, I learned that Zhizhou had already returned to the academy.As for whether Shou was injured or not, they didn't know, they also came from behind, and the yamen servants who were on the scene had already been taken away by the people from the tax class.

After arriving at the college, Qian Tongzhi didn't see Zhang Zongxian, but only saw the medical women in white clothes coming in and out of the college's medical hall with bloody water in their hands.

Zhang Zongxian's disciple Liang Chengyuan received him.Liang Chengyuan, with tears all over his face, told Qian Tongzhi that his master was stabbed and seriously injured, and is now being treated for treatment.

After Qian Tongzhi learned that Zhang Zongxian had been seriously injured, he was not in a hurry but rather happy.I wonder if my chance has come.If Zhang Zongxian died, would his property be his?

As for his son and wife, orphans and widows can't afford any disturbances.He also thought that he would not be able to afford such a large property, so he would definitely distribute the bulk of it. It happened that the magistrate was also in Jiazhou, so he would burn more incense for the magistrate in a while.

Thinking of this, Qian Tongzhi hurriedly arranged for his men to inform the magistrate of the news that Zhang Zongxian was seriously injured and rescued.I stayed in the academy to wait for the result.

After the magistrate learned that Zhang Zongxian was seriously injured, he immediately arranged for his subordinates to report to the governor's yamen, and then took over the Jiazhou yamen under the pretense that Zhizhou was injured and unable to govern.

On the eighth day of the eighth day, after learning that Zhang Zongxian was seriously injured, Wang Zongbing immediately ordered to attack Qingshuiying and Huangpu Chuanbao.

The troops in these two fortresses have all been transferred to the forward base of Shuofang City, and the defense here are all young men recruited from Jiazhou County.Wang Zongbing led the Ming army again, and gave up the fort without resisting.

After easily taking down the two fortresses, Wang Zongbing immediately sealed off this section of the side wall under the pretext that the Tartars had buckled the side wall. Anyone who violated the order was punished as collaborating with the enemy.

Immediately afterwards, the magistrate of Yan'an, who was still in Jiazhou, asked Taiping to hand over the accounts immediately on the pretext that the Jiazhou government treasury was unclear, and the public treasury and private treasury were mixed.

At this moment, Zhang Zongxian already knew who was going to assassinate him. It turned out that on the day of the assassination, Zhang Zongxian thought that someone from the palace had come to kill him to silence him.

In fact, when he came out of the palace that day, Zhang Zongxian regretted that he had said too much. Since ancient times, emperors have always been ruthless and ungrateful, threatening the people and things they ruled. These emperors will never show mercy.

So Zhang Zongxian has always been afraid that Zhu Youxiao will turn his face and be ruthless after he becomes the emperor.After returning from the capital, he has been living in seclusion.Until the bridge was built and had to be checked and accepted, fortunately, I didn't like to sit in a sedan chair, otherwise I would really burp.

So in order to confuse the audience, Zhang Zongxian asked people from the investigation department to bring all the people on the scene to the academy. The rescue scene that Qian Tongzhi saw was rescuing the injured bearer.

Then let Yunong investigate where these dead men came from as soon as possible. If they really came from the palace, Zhang Zongxian would directly fake death and run out of the side wall.

When Yu Nong reported that the Yansui General Soldier led the governor's standard battalion and his pro-army, they had already occupied Qingshui Camp and Huangpu Chuanbao.At this moment, Zhang Zongxian already understood that it was the one who wanted his life.

Fortunately, after more than half a year of construction, Shuofang City can barely produce most of the arms, and there is no shortage of food in the settlements after the autumn harvest.

Besides, with the current strength of the Legislative Army, they can break into the side wall at any time, but since the palace didn't want his life, there is no need to turn their faces and rebel now.

After telling Liang Chen that he was fine, and let them prepare for the battle with peace of mind, Zhang Zongxian decided to pretend to be injured and recuperate, deal with them for a while, and wait for news from the capital.

When the prefect of Yan'an asked for the accounts of Taiping, Zhang Zongxian felt that he should show his face instead of pretending to be sick all the time. Otherwise, if they seized Taiping, it would affect the credibility of the bill too much.

This is also the purpose of the prefect of Yan'an to test whether Zhang Zongxian is still alive and whether he still has the power to fight back.

In fact, after Zhang Zongxian was injured, many merchants have already exchanged the bills for silver, but the run effect has not yet formed.

Zhang Zongxian first asked Zhao's staff to find the magistrate, and then he pretended to drag his injured body and met with the chairman of the Jiazhou Chamber of Commerce.

The Jiazhou Chamber of Commerce was established with the support of Zhang Zongxian. Now that Zhang Zongxian was assassinated and injured, they were very anxious, fearing that Zhang Zongxian's backer would fall, and they would become fish again.

Moreover, they hold a large amount of bills in their hands. Once they lose confidence and start to run, Taiping's bank can't last for a few days.

After seeing that Zhang Zongxian was fine, everyone in the chamber of commerce was relieved. Not only the members of the chamber of commerce were concerned, but the people of Jiazhou were also very concerned. Many ordinary people had Zhang Zongxian's new words at home.

There were also many common people who went to the major temples in Jiazhou, Taoist temples prayed for Zhang Zongxian, the common people knew who was good to them, and they all hoped that Master Zhizhou was safe and well.

After seeing the prefect of Yan'an in the lobby of the Yamen in Jiazhou, Zhao's staff followed Zhang Zongxian's instructions and directly and unceremoniously issued an ultimatum to the prefect of Yan'an.

"My master asked me to tell Fu Zun that some matters are too deep, so Fu Zun should not get involved. For Master Ma's sake, my master will not care about the previous matters.

But if Fu Zun doesn't go back home, then my master can only think that Fu Zun wants to be an enemy of my master. "

As soon as these words were said, the magistrate was immediately irritated. An aide of the magistrate dared to speak like this, and he became impatient.Immediately ordered:
"Come here, give this lunatic out to me, and give him another fifty blows."

Fifty big boards are going to kill people!No matter what, Zhao's staff had also been mixed with the supervising army.This kind of scene did not scare him, and after the magistrate shouted, the yamen servants in the yamen did not come out.

The yamen servants naturally knew that this staff member was a confidant of Zhizhou, and everyone in the yamen now enjoyed the dividends from the wool workshop, so how could they touch Zhizhou's confidant!
They knew that Zhizhou was still alive, and they had seen Zhizhou's methods before, so they didn't want to know Zhizhou the most.

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