Let's talk freely over wine, and we'll finally see each other.
The next day, Wang Yaliang headed towards Tianjin along the coastline of Laizhou and returned to Shuntianfu.
A patrol censor like him is allowed to patrol and supervise 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 successfully arrived in Dengzhou in less than two days.
Dengzhou is the Yantai of later generations.
As a modern tourist, Zheng Haizhu's understanding of Dengzhou is Qi Jiguang's hometown.
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 court, which led to the victory in the battles of Sarhu and Hunhe.
The Ming Empire, which was head-banged and 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 urged the Liao generals to be used. 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 messengers without paying them.
When the Liao generals were marching, they were extremely cold and exhausted, and were humiliated and bullied by the rich 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 Yuanhua was about to die, but he still tried to persuade Kong Youde to return from his lost way and accept the second recruitment of the imperial court. Unfortunately, the intrigues between different factions in the imperial 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 being frantically slandered and framed 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 was obviously the most courageous and pragmatic person who had the most national and social considerations in the whole incident, but he 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 future governor of Denglai. 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, and at the same time thought over Wang Yushi's words several times in his heart.
It is a good thing that the patrol censor can say such a thing. First of all, it means that Wang Yaliang intentionally regards her as Zheng Haizhu as someone who can dispatch work. Secondly, it is obvious that Wang Censor approves of the prefect Tao Langxian and gives a very useful information.
:Zhifu Tao attaches great importance to education.
"Your Highness, this time, in theory, although Magistrate Tao should be grateful to Lu Fan for helping capture the thieves, 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. He did not get the rightful master of Dengzhou, but instead he was stingy. In the name of annihilating the Wenxiang Sect, is it enough to give him five hundred gold?"
Zheng Haizhu said with a smile: "Five hundred gold is too much, but it can't be used as an excuse to suppress bandits. I'm afraid the capital has some ideas. Three hundred gold, people from Confucius' hometown will come to help build the academy."
Zhu Yipai thought the same thing. He was a relative of the Lu vassal. If he went outside the vassal territory and gave 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 to support students.
"Okay, just three hundred gold. I will tell Magistrate Tao later that we will provide some convenience for your trading company to leave the port from Dengzhou in the future."
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 set up 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 of goods left Dengzhou. On the Liao Sea, there are many ships on the Dengzhou patrol road, and our merchants have even more ships. We need to pay some money."
, our goods will be able to pass through.”
How could Zhu Yipai not understand that this was smuggling? However, along the way, he had been taught by Zheng Haizhu many of the disadvantages 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 court owes the military salary to the navy of the Guards Station, 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 the 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, which sometimes appear and disappear.
"Miss Zheng, my father said that in the Song Dynasty, this place was called Daoyu Village, and it was quite famous as a water village. After Taizu became the emperor, he paid more attention to building coastal defenses to prevent Japanese pirates. Qi Shaobao trained here as a water village.
Military."
Mrs. Guo pointed to 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 calculation, 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 to Zheng Haizhu the secrets of navy warfare.
Zheng Haizhu glanced at the sea defense city wall and said solemnly: "Madam, please see, the Danya Mountain we are standing on is indeed a dangerous terrain, but as artillery will be used more and more in offensive and defensive formations in the future, we will only rely on Danya Mountain to control the sea."
The enemy troops that invade Shuicheng will definitely not be able to do so."
Guo was a woman who loved red makeup and weapons. When she was in the 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 curiously asked: "Miss Zheng, Danya Mountain is so high up, arrows are raining down, there is water in Dengzhou City, and the land and land walls are all covered with bricks. Where can it be?"
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 blow down the land wall.
We can capture 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 is Danya Mountain where we are standing. A zigzag city wall should be built under the cliff, with each bend
The protruding horse-faced walls are all forts. 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-shaped barbican fortress stretches out, with forts on all sides."
Mrs. 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, there are eight directions in which cannonballs can be fired, just like the flowers in Lu embroidery that are not exposed to the ground, 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 listen to their talks and benefit a lot."
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 was no "cross-fire" fort community in Dengzhou Water City, which was just the opportunity 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, let’s build it up.”
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, you don't have to be disappointed. I am not a man, but I can also run ships, do business, build schools, and build artillery. General Qin, the chieftain of Shideng who calls me "little friend," is not a man, but he can also lead the army in war."
, go into battle to 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 said: "I am already the wife of Lu Fan's clan."
Zheng Haizhu said: "So what? Taijun She is also a first-class imperial edict, so he is not imprisoned in the back house. Madam, even this vast world is going to change, so 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 Mrs. Guo, Zheng Haizhu has gradually fallen in love with this woman who has not left a single word 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 considerable degree 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 fire a cannon, clear the barrel, press the bomb, ignite the fire, 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 Luanfeng Heming, and perhaps 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 faded away.
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 stiff fingers 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
Come and have a look."
Mrs. Guo looked at the sun: "Then go quickly, can you ride a horse?"
Zheng Haizhu knew that the transportation system 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 couldn't gallop, and he couldn't 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 just has the monogram of the Zhenguo General's Mansion.